More pics and just some jabber/emergency room visit.

Hey everyone!  Your saying! WHAT? another entry so soon!?  YUP I had some time.  Cory had to work late and then my daughter called and said she was not feeling good at all and had pain in her legs and arms.  She wanted to go to the emergency room so luckily Cory was still in town and is picking her up and taking her there.  I will update tomorrow on how that went. 

In other news...my dad said he would like to pay for cable here.  He misses his news channels.  So we will get the cheapest deal we can. Anything would be better then this box we have!  I'm happy about that!  We would have dealt with it but it's going to be nice to get the dish back again. 

The last two nights Nic tried sleeping at Grandmas house just to come home right before bed saying he was scared and wanted mommy!  AWWW  He's so sweet.  He only slept at Grandma's one night in his life and that's only because he fell asleep lol.  He was pretty tired tonight..he spent all day with grandpa clearing some land over on our property.  My FIL wants to make a park in between our properties so they are working on that a little at a time.  Nic is learning how to drive the big tractors and bulldozers.  I will have to take some pics of that next time. He sits in the cab with grandpa...once he fell asleep on grandpas lap in the tractor lol. 

Well that's it for now but I will leave you with these pictures :) 

Baby Jack enjoying some sun! 




Nic trying on Marissa's glasses lol. I don't think I shared this the other day. 

Trying to think...

I have to keep up a little better on this journal.  I can't remember what has been going on! lol  First I will start with a Great Friend of mine.  A lot of you know her...Lori (she has a private journal or I would link it here).  Last week she sent me a really nice bread knife!  It works SUPER!  Thank you Lori!  We of course use it every day because we don't eat any bread but home made bread :)



Then the next day a friend from BYC sent me a really cool looking Alpaca hat from a swap thread they do there :)  It's the cutest thing! 





Nic has been a crazy boy lately.  He wants to run, run, run.  He has a million mosquito bites and last night he cried most of the night until I realized I hadn't given him is Zyteck.  Once I gave him a dose of that, 1/2 hour later he was sound asleep!  He is so allergic or something to those darn Mosquito's.  Poor kid has been miserable.  All he wants to do is run to grandma's house and help grandpa run the tractor but it's all in the woods where the mosquito's are the worst!  I tried to keep him in yesterday but that didn't work so well. 

We got our little white grocery getter (his white station wagon looking thing) fixed yesterday (his dad fixed it, and after MANY parts ordered...300 bucks worth, and lots of work, finally got it going) so last night was one heck of a night for us too.  I will tell you why...We decided at 6pm that we would run to Fleet farm and Mendards for a few things we needed. We got to Fleet Farm and got what we needed there and head back on the freeway when all of a sudden a huge CLUMP come from the tire!  It freaked me out because it jerked the whole car and we thought we could hear something dragging from the car.  Cory pulls over in my son's high school parking lot...we were right next to that exit.  Gets out...nothing...can't see anything.  Call his dad and he said it was prob the emergency brake broke lose in the hub of the tire.  He said it had rusted on and he could not break it lose.  SO Cory started taking the tire off BUT we did not have a screw driver lol.  So his mom and dad drove 1/2 hour to help him out.  By this time Nic and I had to go potty pretty bad lol. 
After about an hour they got it fixed and put back together...that's what it was...the emergency brake.  Good news for us!  I sure did SOUND a lot worse then it really was. 

My dad is doing fine here...he seems to really enjoy the outdoors!  He is outside most of the day.  He loves sitting in his lazyboy out in the garage.  And he will run into our little town not to far from here and buy his lottery tickets.  He also walks up to my inlaws and talks with my FIL...or my FIL will walk over here.  They seem to enjoy each others company. 

OH, a little rant...you know were all going digital come feb of 2009...well we got our $40 coupons in the mail so we used those the other day and got some digital receivers for the tv.  They work now already so we plugged ours in (it's a Sansonic brand)  Well it SUCKS...our tv goes in and out and keeps changing channels back to PBS!  It does get 10 channels here (we only used to get five) but 5 of those are PBS channels and not a lot on them.  AND we no longer get a channel I usually watched during the day...it was a bit fuzzy but we got it.  Now we don't!  I hate this thing!  END RANT

Movie reviews:  I have a few

"The bucket list"  We LOVED it.  I have hear some other mixed reviews from others who have seen it tho.  My FIL thought it was slow in the middle.  We enjoyed the whole movie and give it two thumbs up.  Starring: Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman...both did a great job in this movie. 

"National Treasure 2"  This was an AWESOME movie.  I recommend this movie to everyone!   Starring:  Nicolas Cage

We have not been watching many movies lately...we have four more to watch yetsitting here for the last week.  We used to watch movies A LOT but now that summer is here I have the yard work, garden, chickens, house cleaning, brooder, egg incubator, and the boys to take care of. That takes up most of my day.. PLUS they are hooked on WOW lately and I don't like watching movies by myself.  So Nic and I go out and spend time with the chickens while they play games :)  It works for me! 

Yesterday we had a surprise visitor...a best friend of the kids since they were all like 2 yrs old!  She is now 16!~ They moved to Denver years ago and the kids don't get to spend time together only when they happen to come over to WI OR once we went there to Denver to visit them. She come over here by herself and is staying with her other friend here in town.  She called Alex and her, Alex and Stefan went to a movie together.  Then she spent the rest of the day with Stefan.  She stopped over to say hi to me.  It was SO nice to see her.  I got a pic of her and Stefan together.







I can't think of anything else that has been going on this past week.  I think I touched a little on everything.  I am going to do an entry in Hangin Wit My Peeps here in a bit so stop over and check that out in a bit :)  Hope everyone has a great day today!

Here are a few extra pics from last week that I hadn't added yet.

We went to that going away party last week...here is a couple pics of that day: Nic with his cousins and their great dane puppy.  The brown  haired little girl just got a kidney transplant and is doing SO well.  Cory's cousins adopted her...her mother never took her to the doctor and she almost died.  Her mother is no longer allowed to see her at all.  The adoption is final now :) Nic gets to see her again the end of July for family reunion.  They were just inseparable...it was so cute. 







Our cat Aspen always has to be center of attention! lol 

I'm getting it back :)

Other then being a BAD chicken mommy <---(SEE WHY HERE)! I got some news...my camera should be home to me today! I will take some pictures.  I've got so many things to take pictures of.  I have been without my camera for 1/2 week now. It's driving me insane!  I also have the good by party pics on there too. I didn't take many but I got of Nic and his "friend" he called her.  She was his cousin.  She just went through a liver transplant but I will tell you that  whole story later.  Alex and I both have eye apt's today at 10.  Fun Fun Fun...I never get to stay home a whole day anymore! 

Whats been going on?

Well, to tell you the truth NOT MUCH...but alot at the same time!  We have 'busy' work lately with trying to get chicken houses build and painted and now we just made an indoor Serama house for my little girls and guy. 
Were really enjoying my dad being here.  Nic is loving it...although he still wants to spend 24/7 with grandma...and right now with grandma being sick, I let him spend as much time with her as she can handle.  I want him to know her. 
My dad is 81 yrs old and he has a heart problem and is considering getting the surgery he needs now...but still not sure.  His thought is, "i'm 81 and I lived my life!" Well, were not done with him yet so he has to stick around for a while ;)  He has the easy life here with us.  We don't let him work at all...he can't lift anything although he does try!  He doesn't get away with it for long. 
Stefan has a new girlfriend ;o Surprise there right? lol  I just posted his last girlfriend and now he has a new one!  The old one broke up with him tho.  We will see how long this new girl lasts.  Anyway, been home bodies lately...Cory has off Fridays now so that's really nice.  I forgot my camera at a going away party we went to yesterday!  THREE hours away!   I hope to get it sent back to me. I can't wait till the end of July!  I can't NOT take pics for that long.  I did take some with my phone camera but its not always the best quality.  OH we now added movie night to our weekly plan.  And we took out one Tech night because we were never watching our movies we paid for. Now NO tech night is on Mondays and Movie night is on Thursday at least for the summer cuz cory is off work Friday.  We can stay up late.  Were thinking of adding a game night...but maybe not till Nic gets a little older and can enjoy it.  Well, I think that's if for now ;) I'm WAY behind on alerts and I think I'm going to start over tomorrow.  So I may delete my incoming but those I read all the time I will eventually read back!  Good night all! It's 12:30 am and i'm tired!

My dad is here :)

He moved in Thursday the 12th?  I think the 12th was thursday.  LOL  ANyway...have a few quick pictures to show you.  Then I have to scoot. I had my nephews graduation party to go to and now have to get down to play with the chicks for a while but I will leave you with these pics.

My dad and Nic going to check the mail:



My dad and  Nic going to grandma's house to visit:





My adorable great niece Jenna B (I call her that anyhow) Her middle name is paige



My sister:  Her son is the one who graduated. It's the only pictures I got!  I could not believe I didn't take more! 



Nic loves having another grandpa around.  Now I have to make sure he doesn't drive him nuts! lol

Here is a couple extras I found: Nic and baby Jack





YA chicken poo and all! 

A little Stefan Story/He's gunna kill me!

Ok let me share this story with you now after feeling SO mean I needed to get something comical in here. 

Here is what happened...Stefan has been playing WOW alot lately and I will not allow him to play all night and sleep all day when he has chores to do now that school is finished...so the night before last he DID stay up all night without my knowlege.  I went down stairs to take care of the chicks and there he was on the computer. I asked him "did you stay up all night".  Knowing I would be mad he says "NO"  I said "well, good cuz we have lots of cleaning to do today and your going to help"  So I went back upstairs to start my normal stuff and Nic comes up and says "MOM, Stefam (that is what Nic calls him)  is asleep.  I Hitail it down there and wake him up...tell him.  IF you do not get up now you WILL get a cup of water over your head next time.  He gets up, goes to the bathroom and eats something.  I go back downstairs to change cat litter and stir brooder box and some other things and I am not hearing any movement upstairs.  I tell Nic...Go up and see if stefan is sleeping.  He does and he comes running down saying "YUP, Stefam is sleepin again"  HEHE  NOW watch the fun we had! Sometimes I LOVE being a mother!  MWAHAHAHA  

 Now Stefan is deaf so if you can't understand what he said it was this "WHAT?WHAT?WHAT? MOM! MOMMY! Are you, Are you crazy!? NO!"  hehe yes, I suppose sometimes I am ;)







Now that wasn't ALOT of water but I told him if he fell asleep again he would have a whole glass of water over the head.  He didn't fall asleep again!  AND he never pulled an all nighter that night either ;)  He was WAY to tired after staying up all night and being forced to stay up all day too.  I told him he could not go to bed until 7pm.  He knows my rules, he knew them before he did this.  I wonder how long before he pulls another all nighter??  I always tell him...if you decide to stay up all night be prepared to stay up all day too. 

So after that stunt he had his chores to do....here are a few of him hard at work ;)  I LOVE HIM!  He is a good kid but sometimes he needs just a little discipline ;)

 A couple  of his chores today were to take out the garbage...here he is coming in from that...shirt still wet from the water ;)




And to scrub the floors. he did a fantastic job too :)





Here is a  fun picture of Nic and Max:  Nic said he was all ready to go to grandma's  Notice he still was in his undies!  LOL  he's asking Max if he wants to go too. 

OMG I am SO mean~! SO SAD

OH Man I did something awful and I feel terrible!  Remember last week sometime when we took mommy groundhog away and brought her to a new home in the woods?  Well today I spotted FIVE baby grounhogs in our pole shed.  STILL alive but small.  AWWWWWW I feel just so crappy and I wished I would have listened to my gut and keep her here for a while longer.  I just knew this would happen!  UGH!  I don't know if you can see them clearly but here they are:  OH WAIT..I just realized that I hadn't shared the trapped groundhog with you yet.  Well we will start with mommy groundhog (we didn't know she was a mommy at that time) 






Now I will share with you the reason WHY we had to re home her...She  had dug SEVERAL holes all over our pole shed. 







Now here is what I see today!  More then a week after we got rid of mommy.  Look under our stored blue lazyboy! 



This one is actually out eating but the others are not venturing out yet.  I got VERY close to this baby while placing the lettuce out for them and he/she didn't seem very scared at all.  The other four ran! 



Oh I feel JUST terrible!  TERRIBLE!  I feel SO mean.  My MIL was here and happened to see it first and she said CARRIE, YOU TOOK AWAY THEIR MOMMY!  I almost cried!~  She didn't mean it in a mean way but I felt terrible already :(  Were going to try to capture them today after Cory gets home and bring them to the wildlife center. I hope we can! :(( they are SOO very thin.  What do you think?  Fish net?? 

TOILET ON BALCONY?? OH THE LIFE :)

Well it's been over a week again since I posted in THIS journal.  As you may know I have gotten chickens and they keep us very busy.  If were not cleaning their water or filling their food were playing with them ;)  I LOVE my chickens.  SO that leaves less time to get an entry in.  Well I had to today because I have something FUNNY to tell you all!   I will leave that funny till the end of this entry...but for now I want to catch up on what we have been doing BESIDES chickens. 

The work on the coop is at a stand still with ALL THIS RAIN we have been getting lately but I do have a cute video to show you before the rain started.

It's not often you capture your kid throwing sand in HIS OWN hair.  Usually it's someone elses!  Check this out......And you also see grandpa hard at work on the coop.  Once Nic seen the camera then he had to start throwing sand at the truck!  GRRR




Now I have to see what pics I need to share yet...Oh I don't think I shared this little video...If I did I apologize!  We have  a regular visitor to our house....look at how cute he is ;)


And here we have Stefan and Kassie (his girlfriend)  Well I should say his "last" girlfriend.  They broke up now ALREADY!  She was really nice, I liked her. 



I heard all sorts of giggling and so had the camera in hand and walked into Nic's room to find THIS HUGE smile on his face.  Can you see why??



Here is a closer up picture of WHY.  Boy are we lucky that is a GOOD cat!  Nic would be scratched from head to toe if he weren't.  Nic is slowly learning he has to be NICE to the animals. Several time outs later he is "getting it". 
OR is he??



I know this is a chicken picture but I had to share...Izzy jumped on top of Aspen!  I quickly grabbed the cat not knowing what he would do and had Stefan grab the camera! LOL I don't think Aspen even cared! 



Ok now for the funny part....here are a few pics to start.  FIRST,  Lori!  Look, same shower curtain! lol


Then...well, we have had a clogged toilet now for two days and we just could NOT get it unclogged!  All I can say is thank god for a second bathroom!   So we tried snakes, plunging,  wire hangers, plastic hangers...you name it, we tried it!  We finally had to resort to this.....



As you can see...NO TOILET! lol  Hubby decided to just rip er out and see what he could see.  We knew it was a clog in the toilet itself as nothing else was effected at all.  Once we took the toilet out we had to get a seal...I ran to ace and got one and while I was there I found a nice toilet auger (the one we had was a sink one)  So I got it.  When I got home this is what I seen! LOL



Nic is having fun flushing it...it really did flush! LOL Hubby had water in the tank.  nic LOVED it. 



So anyway to make a long story short.  Hubby got tired of it and went hay wire on it and kept jabbing the hanger in like a mad man and guess what popped out!?  AN APPLE!  Or 1/2 of an apple!  I was so mad he didn't save this apple so I could take a picture LOL  He said (and I quote) "You have got to be kidding?"  HAHA  He has NO idea what some post on journals.  Hedidn't think our toilet on the balcony would be something anyone would post.  LOLOLOL SILLY  MAN!  Oh boy, I hope his friend doesn't see this entry!  He thought I was strange posting the top of my fridge! MWAHAHAHA 

Here is just a very short video to close up...I didn't realize I had it on video and got Nic asking why the toilet was up there lol  I meant to snap a still pic. lol