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Well, my daughter is back to normal now...the docs think she had a virus so after some pain pills she is doing ok. They did take tests that have not come back yet for lime's and some other things just to be safe. Results should be back this week or next. She is not taking the pain meds anymore so things seem to be looking up :)
Today will be a cleaning day...have lots to do including sheets and shower curtains to wash today. Stefan is cleaning the living room and taking out garbage and then he's off to his friends house prob to spend the night. My dad is out in his lazyboy taking a nap and Nic is at grandmas for lunch. Today will be a stay home day since I have eggs hatching today :) Good day to spend the day cleaning. I really need to go to the store but I have dinner planned for today so I can wait until tomorrow to go. I HOPE all 6 eggs hatch by tomorrow.
Our garden is really coming along and doing better then I expected. Of course ME who DID NOT want a garden is doing all the work. I KNEW that would happen lol. Cory wanted this garden and he and everyone else does like looking at it grow but do not pull weeds or water or fertilize. In his defense he has been working LONG hours and working on weekends for his business. If it were not for the expense of the food in the stores right now I would leave it go to weed! lol NO I prob wouldn't but I HATE gardens! HATE THEM! What I did do was put straw down so the weeds were not so plentiful ;) It has helped! Here are a few pictures of my garden...didn't take as many as I wanted to because I forgot my camera card. This is BEFORE weeding for the week too. So it does look pretty bad.
Note from hubby: Carrie conveniently forgets the FIVE times I tilled it just to be able to plant... and left out that I watered the garden yesterday before she posted this.
POLE BEANS
BROCCOLI...If anyone has experience with broccoli feel free to chim in here! broccoli has confused us...like I said, this is our first time gardening and some of our plants have flowers on and areare real tall and others have what looks like broccoli coming up with NO flowers?? Are these flowers plants going to seed BEFORE giving us veggies? AND WHY?
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CARROTS
TOMATOES
PEAS
We also have lettuce, cucumbers, beets, onions, kale and potatoes...will take pics of those later.
I had to take a picture of Jack....this is our umm I call it our foyer but Its not what it is literally...lol It's the middle of the steps...we have steps going up and down from this area. Jack likes sleeping next to my VERY heavy fox and I have no clue why lol Sometimes he cuddles right up next to him, it's so cute.
Alexandra is taking Nic swimming at the pool...turns out they get their, pay, and then the place closes down because they seen lightning! So she got a free day pass and Nic was not happy he didn't get to swim...Alex took him to a lake but he would NOT go in. He wanted the pool! LOL Here is NIc looking at ALex while I take the picture.
Nic eating breakfast before running off to grandma's house.
Here are a few of our chickens for those who don't read "Hangin Wit My Peeps".
Ok here is a cute video of Nic singing his ABC's...he knew his abc's for some time now...prob four months ago...maybe more, but today he wanted to sing them for you. He stopped at the lmnop part because he can't say that part very well fast! LOL he keeps asking me if it's right. </ahref="http:>
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.
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
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!
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!
