Call the Fire Department!

This is my birthday cake from last night (my birthday is officially today). Can you tell a man put the candles on? There are the right number, they are just clumped to form a towering inferno. It made me feel much older than I really am. LOL Ok, it really makes me laugh more than anything...I just had to have a picture! LOL

Another One Bites The Dust!

Just a couple of months ago, we had three of them. Our most recently acquired one, kicked the bucket about 1 month ago and this evening, the one we have had since Aug. 1990, died. Now we are down to one lonely, tiny one that is too old to hook anything "extra" up to. How will we survive? In this day and age, it may be a matter of addiction counseling to get over the loss. Things will not be "normal" around here for a long time, 'cause it is just too pricey to buy a new one anytime soon.

I miss my TV that worked with my VCR and DVD players.

9 months old...

I just can't get over how much she has grown up. 4 teeth with more on the way, constantly babbling dah-dah-bah-dah, and she is starting to test out getting on her knees. If everyone would quit holding her, I'm sure she would be crawling by now. We can't help it, we love to snuggle her.

She is looking older and older everyday. Time is just flying by...I hope I can truly cherish every moment I have with her. It is so different this time around, knowing she is the last. I really don't want her to grow up so fast. I'm really enjoying being her mom and seeing the world through her eyes.

(Beautiful dress given to us by a very good friend...I just LOVE it!)

Rabbits!

Sasha and baby update: I went into one of our local stores, did what they said, and then the next day Sasha had mauled the baby and we had to get rid of it. My dd has had a hard time with this, she was really looking forward to raising a baby rabbit. I'm sure it is for the best, I just have never seen my dd so broken up.

A couple of weeks ago I was talked into getting a rabbit. Her name is Sasha and she is the only thing my oldest dd is getting for Christmas and her birthday...it is all she wants anyway. Well Sasha is adorable and has been getting used to us and her new surroundings pretty well.

Well anyhow, things have been a little strange with Sasha the past few days and we were about to take her to the vet. We discovered tonight what was wrong...she was pregnant. Sometime today, she had 2 bunnies. OY! (She had been kept in a cage with her 2 sisters and 1 brother before we got her) Who knew rabbits could get pregnant so young? NOT ME!

My dd was sent to her room to clean it (and spend time with Sasha like she always does in the evening) and all of a sudden started screaming at me to come downstairs at once! Well I took my sweet time, it is nice to bug her a little. There were 2 black things, bunnies of course, in her cage. Unfortunately, one was dead...but so far the other is alive and so tiny. I'm not sure Sasha knows how to take care of them, she is only about 7 months old herself, I know I don't! LOL I'm hoping her instinct will kick in, 'cause it was almost too much to have to deal with the dead one. I'm not ready to do it again.

The things we mom's have to put up with sometimes...it is enough to make me want to scream...cry...pull my hair...etc. CALGON take me away!!!

Fabulous idea!

A friend sent me the link to a blog that has the best idea going on right now for any of you who are avid card makers. Heart to Heart Blog Candy is running a thank you card shower and giveaway. Please check it out at her blog. Here is my card and I'm going to get it sent off tomorrow. Good luck to all of you that choose to participate, but I really hope I win. ;) The stuff that was donated is truly incredible.

8 Months old and wiggly!

This is the first time she hasn't held pretty still for her photos...she was all over the place! I managed to get these (below) from the 30 I took and they really show her personality, and that is all I really wanted from her. It was kind of funny that I had to use my sports mode to get any good picts...she was such a crack-up that day. I love that she makes me smile! If only she would quite drooling/puking long enough to get a photo with a clean and dry outfit on! LOL

7 months old...I know, I know, I'm late again

They aren't very good pictures, but she is getting very wiggly these days and it's getting harder to get her to sit still. I also need to work on finding a better lighting solution. Nonetheless, she is still super adorable, atleast in my opinion.






She turned 7 months old while on our vacation, though these photos weren't taken until a week later. She loves to look at her new Yellowstone shirt whenever she is wearing it, it is pretty funny to see her pull it out and stare at it. Hopefully I will be on the ball and get her 8 month photos up in just 9 short days...I can always dream. LOL

Summer vacation comes to an end...

I'm a little sad to see it end, all the while being thrilled too, yes I'm nutty. Even with all the financial stress, it has still been a good summer. I didnt' get everything done on my to do list, but we did a lot and manged to have fun too. My new background is just one of our pictures from Yellowstone Park. I have always loved looking at/taking pictures of clouds and my hubby thought I might like this one, he was right.

As for the last month or so, things have been busy around here. We have been cleaning out drawers and rooms and packing for our trip, then on the trip, then unpacking and recouperating.

Packing our camper trailer and ourselves for our trip took a week. We headed to Idaho Falls for a 50th Wedding anniversary party, then my hubby's family reunion in Swan Valley for a couple of days and then from there we were off to Yellowstone Park with my sis-in-law and one of our neices for another couple of days. We camped at Madison Campground, near the west entrance to Yellowstone. It was nicer than I expected and only lacked showers. We got in kind of late, so we set up camp, had sandwhiches for dinner and headed to bed. The next morning we hurried through breakfast, secured out campsite and then started exploring the park. Our first picture spot was just along the road on the Firehole River, between Madison and the Fountain Paint Pots. I LOVE this funky tree!

Our next stop was the Fountain Paint Pots. These are my favorite picts I took there.

After that little hike we climbed back in our truck and headed to Old Faithful. The only other two times I have seen Old Faithful were in August 1992 (when my oldest son was only 2 weeks old) and August 1995 (while on an insane motorcycle day trip). It was nice to bring all of my kids to see it. Here are some of our picts. We ate in the Yellowstone Lodge Cafeteria, pricey but not too pricey, 7 to 10 bucks per person. Then we let each of the kids spend $20 in the gift shop.

Our next stop was Yellowstone Lake along the West Thumb portion. We just had to stop, it was so beautiful there. I stayed in the truck while my hubby took these. He did a pretty good job.

Next we drove to Hayden Valley along the Yellowstone River. My hubby took control of the camera there too and got some nice shots. (I was in the truck with a sleeping baby.)

We saw a few Buffalo just before Hayden Valley, in Hayden Valley and on the way to Canyon Village. We thought for sure we would see more, but not many were out and about.

At Artist Point, one of the lookouts spots for Lower Falls, took some great shots. I LOVE waterfalls and I plan to blow some of these up for framing on my walls. The canyon it is in is pretty cool too, though I got a little woozy looking down into it.

Then we headed to Upper Falls View and got to see a couple more animals, up close and personal...they walked not 5 feet in front of us. The falls pictures are great too.

By this time, it had been sprinkling off and on for a while and right after we left the falls it started to pour off and on. It took us another hour or two to get back to camp and everything was too soaked (including our firewood) to deal with making dinner so we headed into West Yellowstone and found a little diner, it was good, but not cheap. I'm sure anywhere we went would have been the same, and at that point we were too tired and hungry to care. After we headed back to camp and went to bed...it poured most of the night, I should know...it leaked through the camper's roof onto me! The next morning we secured all the wettest stuff into the back of the truck and loaded all the drier stuff into my sis-in-law's car and the camper trailer.

Dead tired and dying to take a shower we headed back to my other sis-in-law's house. Luckily she has a good hot water heater, we used a lot of hot water that afternoon. Then we cooked dinner for everyone, we made what we were going to make while camping, chicken cordon bleu. It was yummy! We all got a good night's rest and headed home last Saturday. I didn't get any pictures, but we did stop in Twin Falls to go on the tour of the LDS Temple there. It is beautiful and I highly recommend it to anyone.

I was very grateful to get home and it has taken all this last week to get things unpacked and sort of back to normal. I still have a bit of laundry, but that never ends anyway. The kids are ready for school, atleast as far as I know of, and I'm just hoping to enjoy my kids this last week before school starts.

Now if I can just find a job... ;)