New couch for the farm

Today, Chris and I went to Peterson's Furniture in town and Matt Furniture in Spencer and looked at couches (and bought one). I talked to Pat ahead of time and said we were all going in together and getting them a new couch for their anniversary. I thought I had better say something, because I wanted to ask if she still wanted the motion couch, a particular color, etc... After she said something like, "Oh, you all are doing too much....but I know we really need a couch....bless your souls..." or something to that effect! She said she really would like the 'motion' type couch...and laughed and said because she sits at that one end of the couch alot and she knew she'd use it. :) She said she no preference on color, other than something that didn't show dirt. :) She was perfectly fine with having us pick it out...didn't have a desire to go look herself. So with that in mind, we had a couple of nice ones to choose from...they were both a dark khaki color. We chose the microfiber one that looks like suede. The sales clerk said it's sturdier than the fabric type material, and that spills wipe up easily, and doesn't puncture easy either. They knew it was a gift, and said they would put a gigantic big red bow wrapped on the couch. :) They'll deliver it (for free) on Monday morning and take the other one away (for free). I was a little short on $$$, so we may need to throw a little more in for that and for other costs during the weekend. I think you'll like the couch, and it will definitely have room for the pile of cousins that it usually holds over the holidays. :) The living room with the new paint and super duper cleaning by Chris, Margaret and Joe looks great....and you'd never guess how much room there is in that front porch now (where the pies and candy are kept at Christmas). It looks great. Joe is planning on doing some additional painting in the kitchen and other places, and hopefully I'll be feeling better in a couple of days (have had some 'food borne illness' for 8 days---today was the first food I've eaten that has stayed where it's supposed to!) and I will be doing some more cleaning and washing windows, etc. I planned on helping Margaret and Chris but I was out of commission, so to say. I'm probably the only person who would be disappointed that I couldn't go out and clean... must be a cleaning gene in me, because I was looking forward to it...
One other thing....the article and picture (about the anniversary) were in the E'burg paper today. I took the picture of Bob, Pat,the 5 boys and Margaret in front of the hay bails and had that resized to 4 x6...but the paper enlarged it bigger than that. I thought they might make it smaller, but they made it bigger. It looks really nice and the article is just as I wrote it...which I was glad they didn't change that. One person already saw it, and was working down the road, and so he drove his tractor to the farm, just to say that he saw it in the paper and he just wanted to wish them Happy Anniversary. I know they'll get lots of cards and I think they'll really enjoy them when they come.
See everyone NEXT week! YEA!!!!!!!! How'd we get such a great family anyway?! How many people do you know that are so excited and anxious to spend time together?! Way to go Nearys!