Like a kid in a candy shop!

David had been eyeing a tractor like this for awhile, a long while actually. We had a tractor but it wasn't very dependable -- sometimes it would start/sometimes it wouldn't ~~ sometimes the tires would be flat/sometimes they'd be fine -- you just really never knew! And it never failed that when he actually needed to the tractor, he'd have to fix something on it first.

So when he found a good deal on a used one, we just had to go check it out. I stayed in the car with the kids (our 2 plus one extra loud foster baby) and David checked it out... and smiled... and drooled... and sat on it... and talked and talked and then talked more to the guy who was selling it. :) It turned out that they actually had a lot in common {construction/building manly talk}. This man also had a dream workshop that I think David just had to check out too. :) Thankfully I was finally able to drag him away from that tractor & dream shop -- whew, I was beginning to wonder if we'd ever leave there! ha ha

So, to make a long story short --> we had some money saved up for it... and the guy accepted our offer the next day... so my husband now had his dream tractor! Actually the nice man even ended up delivering the tractor right to the new house for us (about an hour drive one way for him)! And our neighbor is nice enough to let this tractor live with our other tractor in his extra barn space. :)

So here's the big day when the tractor became part of our family... ha ha.