We have been super busy around here. The weed population got way out of control very quickly with the nice weather we have been having. So I feel like that is all I have been doing. Barry has been busy with projects. Yesterday he widened the gravel driveway and added new gravel. It looks nice. Now I see I need to trim the bushes in front. That's the way it is. One project leads to another.
We have a broody hen. She keeps laying on the other hens eggs. Sometimes breaking them. We have been trying to break her of the intuition. They say to dunk her in cold water or isolate her. We have tried both and neither has worked so far. So we have to check the nest boxes often and retrieve the eggs as soon as they are layed.
Cooper and Wyatt got their haircuts! This was Wyatts first time having in cut by a professional. Much to my relief. I loved his long hair but now he looks like a little boy. I need to get a pic to post.
With the new chicken pen we will be getting more chickens. Cooper is very excited. I just need to decide what age would be good for us. Now that one of ours is broody and not laying, I may need to get one or two of laying age and then 2 that are teenagers.
I have a riding lesson this afternoon. Looking forward to that. Barry is back to work on the night shift tomorrow. We have enjoyed a staycation this last week.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Max's Day
12 years ago today Max was born! It is so fun remembering the events of that day. Scary because he was so early. But as you can see everything turned out just wonderful!
Happy Birthday Son! We love you!!!!
Friday, May 27, 2011
My little guy!
Wyatt is done with preschool! It was his class picnic yesterday. The sun was shining but it was very windy and cold. He had a great time despite his shyness. He is going through another phase . It is hard for me to watch him struggle with his emotions. I think the only reason he went to the picnic was to drink the root beer that they had made in class. He had two full bottles! Anyway, he settled in and played with his school friends. So he is off to Kindergarten next year!!!!! All three of the boys will officially be in school 5 days a week. Wyatt for a half day but....Yea! The preschool has been so very good to us. Very kind and understanding. A good foundation for the boys I think. Co-op preschool is hard work!!!! But as I look back it really was the best for our boys. There were many times I considered switching to more of a drop off school. Especially when Coop started going and Wyatt was a baby. Things would have been easier. But I am glad I stuck it out. Many friendships have been formed for all of us through our participation there. So a little bittersweet. But I am very excited for our next step :)
I have been battling the crud since May 3rd!!!!!!!! Finally, went to the doctor last Friday and found out I had a sinus infection and bronchitis. I had a fever of 101 and didn't even know it. How whacked is that?!?! I just kept plugging along telling myself that I would get better. So what I did in the end is make it difficult to shake even with antibiotics but I think they are starting to finally work.
The weather....Ugh! I really need some heat!!! Usually by now it is strictly shorts and sandals weather. But not this year :(
Big weekend. Barry's birthday on Saturday. His present is all wrapped! My Mom is taking a break from cleaning Grandmas house to come spend some time over here. The boys have a 4 day weekend. I have a riding lesson and hoping to spend some time working on some projects inside and out. Hope everyone has a safe Memorial weekend!!!!!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Art by Cooper
The above is a picture of my birthday card! My Cooper loves to draw. Every time I walk by this it makes me smile.
My Grandma passed away on April 16th. Peacefully in her sleep. It all got pretty bad for her in the end. I miss her deeply. She was never the same after Gramps passed away. So in a way I have been preparing for it since then. I cherish my memories and will honor her every way that I can. I need to learn how to bake berry pies before the Fourth of July.
We have been really busy. We had to find some place to board the dogs before the funeral which required some quick vaccines for the both of them. They still managed to get kennel cough and Lucy has conjunctivitis and now the neighbor dog is coughing. So some meds for Lucy and I think we are done spending money on them for awhile. There is a good side in that now I know we have some place to take them so we can go somewhere for a couple of days.
Cooper's bunny has some kind of fur mite that we are treating! Yikes! I am so glad we saw it early because Coop couldn't handle another animal loss.
The chickens are enjoying the spring weather. Recently, the wasps have started trying to build nests. One was really close to the nests box prompting them to find someplace else to lay. I think we got it figured out so that they can relax again.
Cooper's swimming is done. Wyatt has just a few more days of school and he will be a kindergartner! The other two are officially done with this year on June 10th! No official plans for the summer. It always seems to work out.
Baseball is going really well for Max. First base and outfield are the positions he plays. He has great reach at first and is quick to cover home plate when needed too! His team the Angels are in second place! He has been so fortunate to be on two winning teams and that he has had a great coaching staff both seasons. There has been more volunteering on our part. I have learned to do the score book. It is fun participating but when you have two other kids with you it is hard to follow the game. I hired a sitter which worked out great for learning how to fill out the official book.
Barry and I went to Coeur d'alene for a supervisor meeting. My sister came and took care of everything around here. A huge job but she made it through. Barry and I had a great time. Despite the terrible head cold I had! It had been 13 years since we had a couple of days together and I had to catch a cold. If you drink enough you can't even tell you have a sore throat. :)
My Grandma passed away on April 16th. Peacefully in her sleep. It all got pretty bad for her in the end. I miss her deeply. She was never the same after Gramps passed away. So in a way I have been preparing for it since then. I cherish my memories and will honor her every way that I can. I need to learn how to bake berry pies before the Fourth of July.
We have been really busy. We had to find some place to board the dogs before the funeral which required some quick vaccines for the both of them. They still managed to get kennel cough and Lucy has conjunctivitis and now the neighbor dog is coughing. So some meds for Lucy and I think we are done spending money on them for awhile. There is a good side in that now I know we have some place to take them so we can go somewhere for a couple of days.
Cooper's bunny has some kind of fur mite that we are treating! Yikes! I am so glad we saw it early because Coop couldn't handle another animal loss.
The chickens are enjoying the spring weather. Recently, the wasps have started trying to build nests. One was really close to the nests box prompting them to find someplace else to lay. I think we got it figured out so that they can relax again.
Cooper's swimming is done. Wyatt has just a few more days of school and he will be a kindergartner! The other two are officially done with this year on June 10th! No official plans for the summer. It always seems to work out.
Baseball is going really well for Max. First base and outfield are the positions he plays. He has great reach at first and is quick to cover home plate when needed too! His team the Angels are in second place! He has been so fortunate to be on two winning teams and that he has had a great coaching staff both seasons. There has been more volunteering on our part. I have learned to do the score book. It is fun participating but when you have two other kids with you it is hard to follow the game. I hired a sitter which worked out great for learning how to fill out the official book.
Barry and I went to Coeur d'alene for a supervisor meeting. My sister came and took care of everything around here. A huge job but she made it through. Barry and I had a great time. Despite the terrible head cold I had! It had been 13 years since we had a couple of days together and I had to catch a cold. If you drink enough you can't even tell you have a sore throat. :)
Saturday, March 19, 2011
My Grandma
I made a trip to see my dear Grandma and family. My brave sister is her primary caregiver and keeps me in the loop as to her condition. Recently she has lost her will to live so there has been a quick decline. I timed it for Barry's days off and he stayed home with the boys so that I could have some quality one on one with Grandma and my sister. I had a nice relaxing drive over and the weather was nice and gave me no troubles. When I got there Niki had managed to get Grandma up and at the table for a bite to eat. Nik and I had cocktails. What I didn't know was that hospice was on their way over. A little awkward I suppose at 3:00 to be sitting there having happy hour :) The gals were so very nice and were very reassuring. Hospice is a very emotional transition. So much help is needed and welcome at this point but in your heart you know that your loved one will not be with you much longer.
On this trip I didn't have my boys preoccupying my mind. I noticed from the moment I walked in to the house how comforted I felt. I was the little girl sitting at the kitchen table drinking tea and reading magazines. Or coming down for lunch. Spending the night in the yellow bedroom reading my uncles old MAD magazines. I was always so close to my Grandparents. I slept in that yellow bedroom this trip and had a very restful sleep.
Such wonderful memories. I am truly blessed to have so much from them. So many of my core values come from Grandma. It came time for me to leave and I woke her up to give her a kiss good bye. She gave be a big smile. It was hard to leave this time. Usually, I am anxious to get home and get back in to my routine here. Hard because I guess there is a possiblity that I won't see her again. You just don't know. It truly felt like there was a rubberband attached to my heart pulling on me as I drove farther away. Needless to say tears have been dripping down my face off and on. So do I hope she keeps on so that I can make it back over? I don't know. I just want her to be at peace.
I stopped at North Bend on my way home to go through the Starbucks for a latte. A very nice thing happened to me there. I noticed the car ahead of me was talking to the speaker and laughing and I thought to myself what a very happy person. I pulled up to the window and went to hand the "barista" my money and he said "your drink has been paid for" I said "no, I haven't paid yet" and he said " the gal in the car ahead of you paid for it" and I said "you mean like an act of random kindness" and he said "I guess so". Just when you think there isn't much kindness left in the world. I am hoping I can pass it along some day soon.
So today I am going to start some seeds indoors. Still haven't done that. Hopefully, I can rally a couple of kids to help. I saw on a web site that our area should have its last frost sometime in the middle of April.
Baseball has officially started. Max is loving it. I am trying to remember how I actually did have fun last year. We have some conflicts of schedules with Coop's swimming and Max's baseball. It will be interesting to see us pull it off.
On this trip I didn't have my boys preoccupying my mind. I noticed from the moment I walked in to the house how comforted I felt. I was the little girl sitting at the kitchen table drinking tea and reading magazines. Or coming down for lunch. Spending the night in the yellow bedroom reading my uncles old MAD magazines. I was always so close to my Grandparents. I slept in that yellow bedroom this trip and had a very restful sleep.
Such wonderful memories. I am truly blessed to have so much from them. So many of my core values come from Grandma. It came time for me to leave and I woke her up to give her a kiss good bye. She gave be a big smile. It was hard to leave this time. Usually, I am anxious to get home and get back in to my routine here. Hard because I guess there is a possiblity that I won't see her again. You just don't know. It truly felt like there was a rubberband attached to my heart pulling on me as I drove farther away. Needless to say tears have been dripping down my face off and on. So do I hope she keeps on so that I can make it back over? I don't know. I just want her to be at peace.
I stopped at North Bend on my way home to go through the Starbucks for a latte. A very nice thing happened to me there. I noticed the car ahead of me was talking to the speaker and laughing and I thought to myself what a very happy person. I pulled up to the window and went to hand the "barista" my money and he said "your drink has been paid for" I said "no, I haven't paid yet" and he said " the gal in the car ahead of you paid for it" and I said "you mean like an act of random kindness" and he said "I guess so". Just when you think there isn't much kindness left in the world. I am hoping I can pass it along some day soon.
So today I am going to start some seeds indoors. Still haven't done that. Hopefully, I can rally a couple of kids to help. I saw on a web site that our area should have its last frost sometime in the middle of April.
Baseball has officially started. Max is loving it. I am trying to remember how I actually did have fun last year. We have some conflicts of schedules with Coop's swimming and Max's baseball. It will be interesting to see us pull it off.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Bench
We are a house full of sickies!!!! Temps and runny noses and hacking coughs. Thats us :) All except Barry. Lucky guy. But we were able to do a project despite of it all. We had two of these benches with the rattan seats. The one that Wyatt sat on had started to break up and one side of the bench had no rattan anymore. So we replaced both sides with wood and upholstered the little wood seats. What is also great is that I have always wondered how long the benches were going to last and now we have a great solution. And we can easily replace the cusions as needed!!!
Had to throw in a new pic of Lucy and Max.
All for now.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
50 degrees!
Can I get an Amen!!????? I am so done with the frigid weather! I feel it in my bones that things should be turning around.
Coop started swimming lessons last night. He is going T/Th at 4:30! The other two didn't want to. Max is all signed up for little league. Try outs are this Saturday so he has been throwing the ball around. Our neighbor Joe who helped Max with the hunter safety course offered to practice baseball with Max. That is going to be so nice for Max to have an extra "glove" to practice with. I am no longer an option as he throws it way to hard for me :) Wyatt is giving me trouble. He doesn't want to go to school. It is almost embarrassing when I take him and he is mouthing off about how boring it is. But when I pick him up he has so many things to tell me. I am really starting to sweat about next year. I picked up his registration paperwork for kindergarten and I realized he still needs one more vaccine!!!! He hates shots. I am literally going to have to drag him in there screaming his head off. I am not above bribing him either. Why can't all the shots be those nose spray kind????
Barry has been very busy at work, gathering our tax info up and making a fabulous little shelter/shade for the chickens in the chicken yard. It turned out great and a lot how I imagined for them. I told Barry we are going to have to post our chicken set up on the Backyard Chickens boards. Next if the weather clears up we are going to somewhat duplicate the chicken yard fence around the gardens. It will provide the chickens with a safe area in the fall to clean up our garden. They are amazing at clearing out the beds.
With the weather the way it has been I have not been able to see Nicster. I was so spoiled with my friend Charlie's place in Olympia with the covered arena. I have scheduled a riding lesson for this Friday with a very nice young gal to polish up my skills. It is very exciting . She actually will give me a lesson on her horse or come down and give me a lesson on Nicci. It feels nice to expand a little bit more with my hobby.
My seeds came in the mail. I am hoping to start some indoors although I really don't know where. Maybe in the dining room/playroom/greenhouse :)
Foot Saga Update!!!!
It still sucks! Did I mention that while making a bed I kicked the metal frame while barefoot. It turned black and blue and hurt like a hell!!! Although it doesn't hurt any worse then it did. But it is still not getting better. I am considering going back to the doctor.
I have been making it to the pool. We even went as a family on Sunday. I really hate putting a swimsuit on but swimming seems to really help my joints.
And I have a question today. Why is everyone always yelling at me? Mom!!!!!!!
Coop started swimming lessons last night. He is going T/Th at 4:30! The other two didn't want to. Max is all signed up for little league. Try outs are this Saturday so he has been throwing the ball around. Our neighbor Joe who helped Max with the hunter safety course offered to practice baseball with Max. That is going to be so nice for Max to have an extra "glove" to practice with. I am no longer an option as he throws it way to hard for me :) Wyatt is giving me trouble. He doesn't want to go to school. It is almost embarrassing when I take him and he is mouthing off about how boring it is. But when I pick him up he has so many things to tell me. I am really starting to sweat about next year. I picked up his registration paperwork for kindergarten and I realized he still needs one more vaccine!!!! He hates shots. I am literally going to have to drag him in there screaming his head off. I am not above bribing him either. Why can't all the shots be those nose spray kind????
Barry has been very busy at work, gathering our tax info up and making a fabulous little shelter/shade for the chickens in the chicken yard. It turned out great and a lot how I imagined for them. I told Barry we are going to have to post our chicken set up on the Backyard Chickens boards. Next if the weather clears up we are going to somewhat duplicate the chicken yard fence around the gardens. It will provide the chickens with a safe area in the fall to clean up our garden. They are amazing at clearing out the beds.
With the weather the way it has been I have not been able to see Nicster. I was so spoiled with my friend Charlie's place in Olympia with the covered arena. I have scheduled a riding lesson for this Friday with a very nice young gal to polish up my skills. It is very exciting . She actually will give me a lesson on her horse or come down and give me a lesson on Nicci. It feels nice to expand a little bit more with my hobby.
My seeds came in the mail. I am hoping to start some indoors although I really don't know where. Maybe in the dining room/playroom/greenhouse :)
Foot Saga Update!!!!
It still sucks! Did I mention that while making a bed I kicked the metal frame while barefoot. It turned black and blue and hurt like a hell!!! Although it doesn't hurt any worse then it did. But it is still not getting better. I am considering going back to the doctor.
I have been making it to the pool. We even went as a family on Sunday. I really hate putting a swimsuit on but swimming seems to really help my joints.
And I have a question today. Why is everyone always yelling at me? Mom!!!!!!!
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