cloth

I have started to go back to cloth diapers. Virginia doesn't like it too much right now. They definitely feel different to her.
I was just tired of feeling sick every time we filled a trash bag full of dirty diapers. Plus, she needs to start potty training and I figured cloth will make it a bit easier for her. We will see.

My goal with the new baby is to do cloth 95% of the time. The downside to this is that it is so expensive to start out. I didn't start V in cloth until she was about 9 months old.

John has been able to feel the baby kicking. It is amazing to me that he and I can feel it so soon. With V it was 20 weeks to the day when I started feeling her kick and not for another month until John could. I started feeling this one at about 15 weeks and John at about 17. Weird!

So far the weight gain has been good. I gained 60 pounds with V and my goal for this one is 35. I think it is doable, it is just going to be hard work. So far I have only gained 11 pounds and I am at 18 weeks. I don't think that is too bad, considering.

All Hallow's Eve

A few Halloween pics.

back to the grindstone

We are officially back at work now after being off for 16 days. I think the boys are in for a rude awakening here tonight and the next few nights. As we predicted, they were terrible while we were gone. I don't think it will take them long to conform back to our rules though.
V has been in a terrible mood today. She woke up at 6:30am wide awake. I got her out of bed and we laid on the couch together for awhile while I tried to go back to sleep. She has been fussy ever since. She hasn't even wanted to play with the boys.
It is incredibly cold here today. I got online to check the temp and was astounded to find that it said it was 32 degrees at 8:30am. It hasn't gotten any warmer either. Just a few minutes ago it started to lightly snow on John and I while we were walking back to the house. I am not ready for this kind of weather!
Here are some pics I took of V this morning. I have her all "chiefed" out today (maybe that's why she has been in a foul mood today).

finally finally

We went to MC Sports clearance sale and found two Bears onsies. Of course, we had to get them!

V "helping" Vance play Need for Speed.

Libby, V, Lilly, Gus and Payton having fun on the porch swing

V with her Uncle Goober at the Maple Leaf Parade

V having a tea party at her Oma and Opa's


I now can post more often like I have wanted to! John bought me a MacBook for Christmas 09 and Birthday '10!

We just got back from vacation. We departed on a two day trip back to Missouri. We first spent some time in KC with John's folks and then stayed in Webb City for the duration. The amazing Eden's let us bombard their guest room for the week.
We had a fun filled and packed schedule. We arrived on Friday and had dinner with my family since my Aunt, Uncle and cousins were in town for Maple Leaf. We then attended Maple Leaf where V loved the horses! Unfortunately we were rained out towards the end but V got to see the Clydesdale's and the marching cobras.
Sunday we then went to Mystery and had an amazing lunch with the Karnes and Edens. The rest of the week we were busy but relaxed.

We arrived back in Idaho Monday at 3am. John decided to drive straight through the night. Virginia didn't much care for that idea but we made it and because of that we have had all day to unwind and relax before starting back at it tomorrow morning.

bad,bad,bad

I haven't posted in so long!!
I do have a good excuse though, I am with the boys for 15 hours a day and our Mac crashed. We are hoping to go to Salt Lake in a couple of weeks and pick up a new one.

Well, 4H fair came and went and was the longest week of my life!!! Virginia had fun the first day of it but by Tuesday I had to take her home in the afternoon for a nap. It was nice though, it meant that I got a nap too!

Right now the boys are watching a movie and John is outside getting the fire pit ready to make smores. It has been a pretty nice day. Jason and Jim took the boys to the golf tournament so John and I got the morning off. The boys have been in a tournament for the last two days. They are amazingly good at golf. None of them had played before but they are loving it. The boys (and staff) have had private lessons from pros. It has been very informative and I can't wait to go out to the course and play 9.

Virginia has been growing like crazy. She jabbers constantly. She is getting so tall and her hair is getting pretty thick. I was excited that I had to go and buy de-tangler for her.

I was going to post a ton of pics to here and facebook but the lodge computer won't let me. When we pick up our iMac I will post them.

good news and bad news

The good news is that we bought a Flip camera on clearance and took some funny videos of V with it.
The bad news is that our Mac crashed and the PC here in the lodge dosen't recognize the Flip.
It looks like we might be going camping now after all from Tuesday to Thursday. The boys have to get a lot done on their 4H books before then though. We worked on them for about 2 hours straight today. I am hoping that they will get enough done so that we can go. I was really looking forward to camping.
We have a boy visiting right now. He is a carni kid. That made us laugh so hard when we found out. The really funny thing is that there is a carnival in town too! I wondered if his dad was working it. I am going to vote that he dosen't come back to stay. He is TERRIBLE and we already have our hands full with one bad kids I don't think we can handle two right now.
We have a cherry tree on ranch that is ripe right now. Me and some of the boys picked some cherries off of it. I am hoping to make them a pie for tomorrow.
We had our four days off four days ago. We just came back on at 9am today and I am already ready for our next 9 days. It is not fun to come back to full chaos!

so very tired

V rode her first horse the other day. She did great. She didn't act scared, just like it was natural for her. She loves all the animals here. Everytime we go by the pigs or even go anywhere near their pen she starts to grunt like the pigs. It's cute. She dosen't say 'oink' because our pigs don't say 'oink'.
Today we took the four boys we have left (the other 5 are on home passes right now) and went to the towns july 4th parade. It was pretty nice. There weren't any long pauses like in Maple Leaf so that was nice. After the parade we headed to the park and had a sack lunch. We got back around 1:30 and I took the boys to the arena to ride horses until 4:30. I was asked to ride a horse named Arrowhead because it is a 4H horse and the girl that has been working with him requested that he be riden. So, I obliged and now I know that I will never ride that horse again! I am going back to Sassy! Arrowhead kept trying to run off with me on him and tryed bucking me at one point. He was being a pain!
After the horses we started dinner. The girls went the the rodeo and then to fireworks in a nearby town so we had the ranch to ourselves. So we decided to have a fire pit and cook hobo dinner packs, eat some jello cake and roast marshmallows. It was fun. Of course we had the usual complainers but once they started roasting marshmallows or finding out how good the dinner was, they stopped the complaining. The boys are now watching Drowning Mona and are cracking up!
These past few days have worn me out! I am looking forward to my 4 days off that are coming up on Tuesday.
Oh yeah, I am now a lifeguard. I passed! 6 of us started and only 4 of us finished.
I am hoping to purchase a camera soon so that I can take some pics of V on her horses.