Updates

It's Wednesday already, and I'm just getting to the weekend's updates! Last week I found myself cleaning, and cleaning, and doing some more cleaning. I have noticed one big change, besides my growing belly, and that is being tired! It frustrates me since I hate taking naps, and I'll do anything to fight off sleeping in the afternoon. We have a strict schedule of bedtime around here, and if you know me well enough, most people called me "Grandma" in college, because I like being in bed by 9:15 and having my alarm go off by 6:15. I finally got Nathan into this routine, and it's amazing when you follow a sleep schedule how much sleep you do get. This winter though, we've gotten off track and are hibernating hard! Most likely this is the last week of being off our schedule, since calving will be starting, and with the coming of the nice spring weather (hopefully) it will def make it easier to get up and get outside!
Friday night we stayed home, and watched Wild Hogs. That is a cute movie, and one we had gotten as a Christmas gift, so we were excited to watch it! Saturday morning we ran to town to get drinking water and run some errands. We took the girls and stopped out at the lake so they could run around, they had a blast. Saturday afternoon I had a honey do list for Nathan to work on. We had bought a ceiling fan for the nursery, and I wanted it put up! We don't have AC so we knew we needed to get a ceiling fan put in there. Nathan did great, especially since he was a little nervous about doing his first electrical job! We had a drum roll, flipped the switch, had the fire extinguisher ready-hah-and to our surprise, it worked! No, I had no doubt it would work and I was surprised how excited we got over a new ceiling fan! After that was conquered I knew Mall Cop was playing up in the Bowman Theater and asked Nathan if we wanted to go. We both agreed it was a movie we wanted to see, and headed on up for a wonderful date night!
Sunday started out rough. To make a LONG story short, the toilet overflowed and I freaked. I took everything out of the bathroom and started scrubbing. Trust me when I say my poor husband! I scrubbed on everything, and then proceeded to vacuum the basement steps, which led to Nathan helping me bring a few items to the basement, when he stood up though, he hit his head on the light bulb and it made this loud popping sound! We had light bulb everywhere! SO, good thing I vacuumed those steps, so then I could vacuum up light bulb! Anyway, after a long afternoon of cleaning, I laid on the couch to watch "Revenge of the Nerds" with Nathan, and fell asleep. I was a tuckered out girl. Nathan had play practice, and I finished putting away everything I had brought out.
Monday morning was an early one, we had a tax appt at 9:30 while I was off to my dr appt at 9:45! My checkup went great, with a 122/78 blood pressure reading, the babe's heartbeat at 140, and my belly measuring right on 31 cm! Weight gain, 16 lbs! But we're almost down to 60 days left to go, so we're getting there! At 1:00 I had a hair appt and ended up getting a lot more chopped off than I thought, but I do love it! I also found my baby shower outfit at Maurices, so that was a big check off the list! We're getting SO excited for all of our family and friends that are coming out to visit and celebrate!
Nathan leaves tomorrow for Rapid City meetings, and will be home on Friday. I'm nervous about a storm coming through, but Nathan says we shouldn't get hit TOO hard! Great, can't wait! When is spring here? We hope that everyone is getting rid of their colds and flu bugs and getting healthy again! As for us, we're doing great up in the NW corner!

Just kickin' it together

Another weekend here and gone, again! Plenty of sleeping in, and relaxing nights together. Friday night we stayed home, and just hung out on the couch while the snow quietly fell outside. I had made homemade heart sugar cookies, and homemade frosting in light and dark pink. They were delicious and gone in a matter of 24 hours!

Nathan brought me home a bouquet of red and white carnations, and while our flower has always been the orange rose, I was surprised for once on Valentine's Day! I guess the school had a fundraiser, and somehow Nathan got his order in without me knowing, and brought them home for me! And since I'm such a card person, I always have a special card that fits our life at the moment, so I had that ready with a candle lit on Friday night for Nathan. We both had our little Valentine moment for the weekend, and even though it wasn't on Saturday, it was still just as special. Saturday morning we woke up to another white morning from the snow the night before, and after sleeping in, we headed over to a ranch 15 miles West of us on the river, for a Pen of 3 heifer show, along with bulls and a few horses. It was a fun time, and inside a very nice barn, so we got to visit with a lot of the neighbors and friends of the community. We got home around 5 that afternoon, and had our wonderful Valentine's Supper, which consisted of steaks, pork chops, cheesy potatoes, bread, and yummy cookies!

Sunday we had another relaxing day, and at 2 Nathan had play practice, and at 5 I headed to town for my girls night, called Dresser Club. We had a wonderful time, ate great food, and watched 27 Dresses, a movie I hadn't seen yet. I got home around 9:30, and we were crashed in bed by 10:00! Our bodies must be preparing for a newborn, because we are sleeping so much harder and longer than ever before! It's that, or the fact that it's winter, our hibernation time! haha.

Today, Monday, was another sleepy morning, and since it is President's Day, Nathan had the day off-yeah! We haven't done too much, which is nice, but tomorrow will have reality biting us, since we'll have to get back on schedule! We left here at 1:00 to go ride Rex and Cheryl over at Painters. The next few pictures are over at their indoor arena, and I got to snuggle into my Rex, he was such a lover today!

Nathan & Cheryl, He looks so thrilled!

Rex looking all pretty, I brushed him up since they were both pretty scuzzy! He's such a sweetie! Rex had knocked these boots over, so as I kicked them out of my way, I saw a neat picture opportunity! A bunch of boots with spurs...all ready to go.

When we got home we took the girls out on fourwheeler run. The temp is only 23 out and while it feels great when working outside, to be on a fourwheeler, it was still too cold. We ended up kicking up a bunch of grouse, which I was watching, and Nathan was watching a fox. I love fox and it is a goal of mine to get one trapped one year. We turned around, not wanting the girls to catch scent and take off after the grouse OR fox, and I was ready to come back in the house to get warm. Tonight Nathan has play practice again, and then tomorrow is back to work. We hope every one's Valentine's weekend was great and spent with loved ones, and everyone has a great start to the shortened work week!

Stockshow Weekend 2009

This picture is taken in the Black Hills, at Pactola Lake.

Well, I am a little late on getting an update, but since I didn't take any pictures, and Mom did, I only have a few new pictures!

We left on Friday the 6th pretty early, so we could make our 7 month checkup in Spearfish! What a wonderful checkup we had, and we've been so blessed with this pregnancy so far. My blood pressure was the best it has ever been, and we got to have one last ultrasound of our little guy! He cooperated alright, and we got to see his "boy parts", which reassured us again! He is around 15 inches long, with a head measurement of a softball, thanks to his dad for figuring the numbers!! His heartbeat was his normal 151 bpm and he is sure to be born with strong leg and arm muscles, since his kicking is getting harder and stronger every day. He finally turned his head so we could see him!! We got an ultrasound picture of his mouth opening, and of his nose and chin, which is the most we've seen this whole time! Everything is looking great, and now we just sit back, grow some more, and wait! Tomorrow we have 11 weeks left until my due date! Our next appt is on February 23rd, and we'll continue on every two week appts until the end of March, then we're on to every week appts!

After our fun dr appt we met up with Mom and Dad in Rapid, and then headed to Keystone to the Roosevelt Inn, where we stayed. Friday night we went to the rodeo at the stock show, and since Painters have VIP seats, we all 4 had great 4th row seats! Painters daughter, Jessica ran barrels and we knew 4 or 5 others that participated, which makes it even more fun! After the rodeo, we went to Coldstone Creamery-YUM-at 11:00 at night, and then headed back to Keystone. Saturday morning came soon enough, and we all got ready to go walk the boothes at the stock show. We got to see lots of old friends, and familiar faces, and for my social butterfly of a husband, this made his day! At 1:00 we headed to the Ramkota where our friends, Lindsey and Trampus, were throwing a party for their one year old, Trinity! The water park was full of fun things, and we're thinking of copying that idea for next year, it's such a great place for a bday party! After getting stuffed with cake and sugar cookies, we headed to Hill City, stopping a few times for sightseeing and pictures, and letting the girls out to run around a bit. The weather was beautiful, but the wind made it cold...something we're used to! We ended up at Hill City by 4:30, so we could get in line at the Alpine Inn, one of our favorite places to eat! We ate here for our Anniversary weekend back in October, and we were just itching to get my parents there to experience it! The line was so long when we got inside the bar area, that place is a gold mine! The environment is something you won't find anywhere else, and the food is amazing, and don't forget the homemade dessert! All the yummy food left us full as ever, and we headed back to Keystone. We had the huge hotel to ourselves, so we all hung out in the entertainment room with a big screen TV, pool table, and Foosball. It was a blast just getting to hang out with my silly parents!

Sunday morning came, and we got packed up to go to Rapid. After a big breakfast at Perkins, and a bunch of tears and goodbyes, we all got on our way. Nathan and I had plenty of errands to run in Rapid, and Mom and Dad headed East to Iowa. We ended the day by getting home, getting somewhat unpacked, and crashing early. I still think we're trying to catch up on sleep, because when 8:00 hits, we're both ready for bed.

Nathan has been practicing for the community play, which will be held March 6-7-8th, the same weekend as my baby showers! So, on Friday March 6th, my Mom, Grandma Foreman, Aunt Marvie, and friend Megan Vostad from Brookings, will be coming to visit, celebrate at the showers, and watch our Nathan perform on stage! haha. I'm looking forward to visitors, before and after the baby!

We don't have too many plans for the weekend, but are planning on celebrating Valentine's Day with a good steak, and candlelight supper, nothing out of the ordinary for us, but maybe some beautiful flowers on the table will make the day more special! :) We'll be celebrating our 6th Valentine's Day together, which doesn't seem possible!

Enjoy the weekend snuggling with loved ones!

Something Stinks

Something stinks...and for once, it's not my husband! It's Libby! She decided to attack a skunk, got her teeth into it, and the stinky thing was none to happy, which led to Nathan and I screaming at Libby and at ourselves!
It was my idea after all, taking the girls up to the burn pit with us. They wanted to run all morning, and we had a few big boxes to get out of the way, so why not run the girls beside the pickup, like we always do, while getting rid of the boxes! Halfway there Nathan says "I'm surprised one of the girls hasn't found a jackrabbit to chase..." we both laughed and then he says "Our luck, she'll find another damn porcupine" which is what happened last year and 100+ quills later, she is now back to normal. Right after talking about the critters the girls find, we were at the burn pit, got our boxes out of the back, and I look over to Libby going nuts on this skunk. I screamed so hard at her, she quit biting it, it sprayed, and then she ran over to us. PEW!! That smell just gets into your nose and it stays put....yuck! We ran them back to the house and while Nathan is telling me about how rabid skunks are this time of year, I was a bawling mess. We put Libby in her kennel in the back of the pickup, while Jade got put in their regular kennel with their doghouse. Well, these two are never separated, so poor Jade was so confused and sad, whining for Libby. With Nathan on the phone to our vet, I was sitting in the kitchen bawling, trying to spray everything down with FeBreze, and lighting candles. We knew that Libby hadn't been bitten, just sprayed, and since she just had her yearly shots a few weeks ago, our vet said she was good to go. SO...on with the bath to deskunk her! Here is a few pictures of the fun Nathan got to have...

This is of Nathan getting his waders on, and getting ready to go outside and wash Libbers :(

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Scrubba Scrubba Libby Lou is getting a baking soda/peroxide/dishsoap bath...with warm water.

Nathan sniffing her...after this picture, I got the thumbs up sign! Good job hon! :)

All clean! She acted like a puppy after she was all clean. She was grabbing the rags and pouncing around like a goof. She got to go back in the kennel with Jade, and they were both happy again!

Before this Stinky Sunday, we had been having a wonderful weekend together. Friday night we went to Marley & Me, again! We had seen it over Christmas with my parents, but since it was in Bowman, only 50 miles away, we had a date night together! On Saturday we went on a cold and windy fourwheeler ride, relaxed a bit, and then took Rex and Cheryl the two red roans that we've been riding, over to Painters. Calving starts in a couple weeks for heifers at Painters, and in a month over here, and those two horses needed to be ridden! So for the next few weeks Nathan will be riding them over at Painters in their indoor arena, and hopefully he'll get a few roping lessons too! So after a fun afternoon of riding, and me just watching, which is still fun, we had a relaxing evening.

On Friday, February 6th we'll be heading down to Spearfish for our 7 month checkup and one last ultrasound, and then we'll be meeting my parents and staying in Keystone for a weekend spent at the stockshow! We're very excited for them to come out and visit! This will be the last time my dad sees me before I have the baby, since calving back home will be starting up soon too!

We took this before going out on Friday night!

Here we are! Almost 28 weeks (7 months) Everything is going good, and I'm excited for our last ultrasound on Friday! We will start our appts every two weeks after Friday! We have a little mover on our hands, always kicking at his mom! :)

We hope that everyone is enjoying this Superbowl Sunday! Nathan has play practice and then we're planning on eating steaks, homemade rolls, and a good dessert while watching football! Enjoy!