The River Calls

Ok, so we spent saturday night on the river and had an awesome time partying with some friends of our friend Jim. A couple of doctors and the construction mgr. at University of Missouri, so they were some interesting dudes. They have been coming for annual and frequent trips to  the Buffalo for years, and love the river like we do. We stayed across from Jim Bluff and had a great campsite, there were hundreds of people on the river. The weather was incredible and the water was coooold! Matt is really starting to look like a paddler, getting more comfortable and confident in boats by himself, and of course him and Cooper did some cliff jumping. Those two boys really love the river, and get so excited when we are going, and get sad when we leave. I can relate. Oh, I don't want to leave out litle Lucy, who was really helping her dad get down river with some powerful paddling herself. You know, it just does'nt get any better than this, and it looks like we have instilled the love of this great river, and of the great outdoors in these kids. Oh yea, I am building this house and the rock mason is starting today. Yippee, I can't wait to see the first rock go up. We are close to ordering cabinets and countertops and it's always hard saying no to the people who we are NOT buying from. But , this means we are 3-4 weeks away from a huge step, we just got to get the hardwood flooring done first. Man I am ready to live here, I started doing the actual framing of the  house last april 25th, and I need to be very close to finished on the first anniversary. Got to go meet the mason, so SYOTRS and have a glorious day. RJ