Waiting...

We are still waiting for Baby Wagner! April 30th is almost here and I am hoping this baby wants to make his appearance soon! My Mom got here a week ago and I've been keeping her busy with cleaning and organizing even more than I had already done! We have our weekly doctor appt tomorrow at 2:00, and we are hoping for good news! So far everything is right on track and I can't complain about being uncomfortable, except for a couple times. I've been having small contractions for over a week, and last Wed I was dilated 2 cm and 80% effaced..so let's get this show on the road already!! We'll be packing the Explorer with everything we need just in case they want to keep us, which is exciting and nerve wracking at the same time!
The weather has been keeping us on our toes too. From getting snow and rain on Thursday and Sunday to the cool temps and wind, we're ready for nice spring temps! The snow has made us nervous, but thank goodness for technology and up to date weather reports, otherwise we would've packed up and left for the Hills since Nathan doesn't feel like delivering his own son! haha...
We'll keep you updated on this babe! If he's anything like his Dad, he'll be stubborn and want to come on his own time :) Maybe a little bit like his mama too..

It's the Simple Things in Life...

It's the simple things in life that make us happy, at least that's what we believe. Nathan & I had a wonderful day spent together, laughing at each other and loving our life.
Spring Turkey season is open, so Nathan had to work yesterday and today. I had been wanting to go to Shadehill, the reservoir we love to camp, fish, and go hunting at which is 100 miles East of here. The water is the highest it's ever been and I had only gotten to see pictures, not the real deal, so at noon today we took off for Shadehill. I got the cooler packed with everything we needed for a picnic, and Nathan got the Explorer loaded to go. We love camping but decided that with a new baby coming, and a busy summer of weddings, along with our garden we are going to try to plant, horses to ride, and visitors, we are taking this summer off from camping. We also don't have a camper, and we some how always pick the weekends that it storms, so I don't feel like putting my newborn inside a bathroom shelter with strangers at midnight! We've been there, done that route, and needless to say will be purchasing a pop up camper within the next year or two! Anyway, Shadehill has a place in our hearts, and I was SO excited to have our romantic picnic together...and then there was the water...over the road blocking the way to Shadehill! I was very hungry at this point, and very disappointed, but we did take our chance and drove across the water that was crossing the road! We both puckered up a bit and let a sigh of relief out when we were crossed! Needless to say down the road and into the park a little ways the water was way to high to cross and we had to turn around! SO, off we went to the camping area along the highway, pulled out our little grill and had our little picnic! I had thought of everything, but had forgot one thing...plates! Good thing we had finger food and a sense of humor, because now that's the big joke! All in all, a wonderful meal in the campground, and we'll never forget how simple little things, such as our picnic, touches our hearts and shapes us into the couple we are.
After our picnic and looking at ALL the water that has done a lot of damage, we headed North to Lemmon. I was in the mood for ice cream, so we stopped quick for ice cream and then headed back West! We got home around 5:30 and needed to go check cows. Nathan goes North while I go South, then we meet up and discuss how many new calves, how things went, etc...Well tonight it was beautiful out besides the wind, so I took my camera with. As I got up to the top of the biggest butte on my four wheeler I see Nathan on his little motorcycle waving at me, so I waved back! Little did I know, we had a cow down with her baby's head hanging out of her. Not the site I needed to see. Anyway, the calf was dead already, but we needed to get her to the barn to pull it. Knowing that I'm 11 days away from having our baby, I'm not much help in the sense of muscle or quickness right now, so Nathan called over to Painter's hired men and they headed over while I tried pushing the cow to the barn. After a long haul of getting her into the barn, it took 3 grown men to get this huge heifer calf pulled out of her. A dead calf, but a live cow.

Here's the view from the top of the butte I was on. You can see we are still melting snow, but spring is in the air! This is looking North to our house with a handful of cows grazing. After all of that excitement, we took our nightly walk, now that it's nice out, down the road with the girls. They get to run, swim, and chase birds while we enjoy beautiful sunsets and talks together.

Once again, it's the simple things in life that make us so happy. Baby calves running around, waterfowl flying, and the new green green poking through...just a few of God's creations that we are so blessed with. We hope this finds everyone enjoying their family and the nice weather together.

These boots are made for walking...

Here are the new boots I got for my 25th Birthday today from Nathan! I'm not one for change, so my boots I have right now that I work outside in, ride horse, and then go to church and the doctors office in-ha-are OLD and worn in and are SO ME! After putting on the usual old boots that I've had for 4 years, Nathan said today you are getting new boots, it's time! So off we went to Spearfish around 2:00 and we got these mighty expensive, but wonderful new boots. They have a square toe, and a heel, two new features to get used to!

After shopping in Belle, we went to Spearfish, ran to Walmart and got all of our seeds since this year we are trying a garden! Right now our spot for our garden that needs tilled is still covered in snow, but we're thinking positive! When we lived in Iowa at my parent's place, we grew a great big garden, but then again we had humidity, rain, and a nice amount of sunshine. We'll see how a garden grows on the prairie! Anyway, after picking out our seeds we left the horribly busy Walmart and headed towards Belle so we could go eat at "The Branding Iron". We had eaten here once before, that day we had found out that we'd be having a baby, and I was 6 weeks along. So, all in all, it was sort of full circle eating here. The food was amazing, we both had ribeyes and we both left stuffed! Thanks to everyone who called, emailed, facebooked, or mailed me cards or messages, I enjoyed and appreciated every little bit of my 25th Birthday! I'll also add another belly picture, I can't believe how much I've grown in this last month-it's just crazy! 20 days to go...I can do this! :) Look at that belly!!

Getting Closer...

Good Morning! We are finally getting blessed with some SUNSHINE! It makes everyone's attitudes a little better when the sun is out and shining! The snow is slowly starting to shrink while my belly just keeps on growing! :) We had our weekly checkup on Monday April 6th and everything checked out great! Everything is progressing right on track, so now it's just our part to wait!! After a fun checkup we headed to Rapid City for a BIG shopping day of getting the last of our baby stuff we needed, a Sam's and Walmart run, and we even had time to purchase a new couch! My parents got us the couch we have right now, and while we loved it at first and appreciated them getting it for us, it was time for a new one that reclines! SO, our new one won't be here until May 12th, but it will be a nice treat for after the baby is born! We had a great day together, leaving around 7:30 that morning, and not getting home till about 10:00 that night....we are STILL tired!

Nathan is supposed to be in meetings at Custer State Park this week, but with us being 22 days away from our due date, he decided not to go...Thanks hon!! I know I would've been just fine, and that Painters would've checked in with me, but it's still nice to have my husband 20 minutes away in town instead of hours away!

Our Easter weekend consists of my 25th Birthday on Friday the 10th and Spring Turkey opener. Any other time I would be smiling away for spring turkey, counting the days until I could hunt. This year though, I'm being selfish and hoping that no one comes out to hunt, due to all the snow, so that my husband has nothing to do over the weekend! We bought a big Easter ham and will be doing our own little thing together, for one last time! Then, on Wednesday we'll be heading to Spearfish for our weekly Dr. appt. and we're anxious to see how much-if any-progress has been made!

This first picture is me getting ready to go outside. I'm wearing Nathan's bibs and as you can tell I'm almost done fitting in them! Good thing it's getting nicer out so that bibs won't be necessary!

Here's the cleaned-up version! This was taken on Monday April 6th-I'm almost 37 weeks!

Happy Easter to ALL of our family & friends. Easter is my favorite Holiday, it always has been and it breaks my heart that we can't be home in Iowa with my family. My mom is planning on coming around the 19th to help me get the last of the details in place, so that will be wonderful! It will be nice to have family visiting after this little guy is born too, I can't wait for visitors..so feel free to come and say HI, we would love for everyone to come visit! Happy Easter!