The last four months

It has been crazy round here. Since my last post we have had 3 birthdays

Lily turned 4-had a rainbow cake and friends over for dinner

Ari turned 6 -had a girly party with church and school friends and a butterfly cake

Jacob turned 10- had his first friends sleepover party

We hatched out 1 chick(long story) so I bought 21 more to keep it company but it only lived for a week. Due to dogs and other unknown causes of death we now have 17 chicks. (I am hoping that they are not all roosters.)

Our garden planting crew

We planted a large garden and have been picking buckets of cucumbers, zucchini, green beans and corn.

Jacob on stage!

Jacob starred in the regional dance festival. He did a solo dance in front of everyone. It only lasted about 20 seconds but it was awesome!

We went to Washington to attend two funeral services.

My sister's sweet baby-Angelica. You can find her story here. You must read it. My sister is inspiring and amazing.

Ari, my dad, Grandpa, sister Candice& husband Peter

We were grateful that we took the opportunity to visit my Grandpa while we were there because 2 months later he passed away.

We came back in July to attend his funeral. We got to see all my Aunts and Uncles and some other extended family. I will miss so much about him. So many memories-most of them involve Grandpa telling me to toughen up or work harder. He was one of the hardest workers I know next to my dad. He mowed his lawn the week before he died at 87, lost two of his fingers with a hydraulic post pounder at 83 years old and at 74 he joined the Mormon Trail reenactment from start to finish sleeping on a bedroll and driving a team of horses. Love ya Grandpa.

I guess that is just part 1 because I still got lots more...

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Tom and Jen Loveland Family said…

Great memories made, I can see.:) Love to hear how you are all doing.

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Speedy Gonzales and the Black Stretchy Pants

Tues April 6 started as any other day. We woke up and went to a doctors appointment for the girls. That afternoon when I got home I was starving. I ate way too much and then soon got a headache that I blamed on the chocolate dessert that I ate. After resting for a while the phone rang and it was a neighbor who started off the phone call saying "I was hoping that you wouldn't answer because you would be at the hospital. I laughed at her and said no way I have at least two more weeks left. After the phone call about 6:30 Dave told me our goat had had a baby but had died so we called all the kids out and told them about it and we buried it. Then we had a late dinner and put the kids to bed. About 5 minutes later I had a contraction. I thought weird and Dave told me it was just goat sympathy pains. So as I had a few more sporadic contractions I convinced myself that it was just braxton hicks because there was no way that they were "real." I sat down and watched AI ...

Yesterday the boys had a school holiday so Dave took a day off and we headed for the mountains. My awesome husband loves to ski and spent many hours on the slopes, but that was all before he married me. I would love for him to ski but life happens with a family and budgets exist and it makes skiing a hard hobby to maintain. Plus we spent about 3.5 yrs in Minnesota where you get lots of snow but not a single ski hill in sight-what a waste of snow. The last couple years, I have tried harder to give my husband chances to ski. We even went out about 3 years ago and purchased all the gear at a rental store going out of business. And I close my eyes as I see how much we pay, tell myself it is all worth it, and then smile. (Remember I am cheap so skiing just wouldn't naturally be on my radar.) This year for Christmas I gave my husband 2 lift tickets purchased for a great deal at Costco. First of all, I am used to spending lots of money at Costco and that way I wouldn't stress ...

Finally some pictures

Hooray we have new windows! The installers left this morning and we now have 5 beautiful vinyl windows and one of them is a bay window. We are taking advantage of the tax credit for energy efficient windows and hoping that we can stay a little warmer this winter. So all day yesterday we had no windows in our house and at the end of the day our house was full of flies. Thank goodness that global warming has taken a vacation in CA because it has been a burning 75 degrees the last 2 weeks. Of course it happens to be the weeks that my kids are in swimming lessons so they have been freezing. Yesterday one of Daves work colleagues came by to look at our goats. Seeing that we know nothing about them except what I have found googling, this guy is a definite expert. He told we should butcher them soon or sale them as they are ready. If it was a matter of me being ready they would have been butchered 2 weeks after we got them. They have been a real pain in the neck. I have gotten used ...

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