A 10 Yr. Anniversary To Always Remember - Like Non Other!

I don't think we can or anyone else will ever be able to repeat an anniversary like we had yesterday.

Rob started out going to work and was home after 2 hours. I think about 45 minutes of that was spent at the store picking me up a card and plant. He was feeling so bad at work, they sent him home.

The girls and I started out with a pretty good day. They had pancakes and chocolate milk for breakfast, while I had eggs and ham with a good latte. Then outside we went to pick some okra. Madison helped at cleaning the okra with me, that's one of her favorite jobs to help with, and then we all had some of that dirt cake I made after Rob came home. The girls spent a good part of the morning watching movies while Rob slept.

We all took a nap around noon although mine only lasted for 10 minutes with Rob telling the girls to lay down and then phones ringing like crazy. I finally gave up and fiddled around the house for a while. Then when the kids woke up, that's when the real fun started....

Rob was going to take the girls over to the park while I stayed home to work on some corn chowder for supper and to can. Rob told them to get ready, put their shoes on, but every time they made it to the door, he had to turn back around and head to the bathroom one more time. Needless to say, they never made it to the park.

In the middle of Rob's bathroom trips, he and I spent a good deal of time cleaning up after Kaylee. She smeared Balmex on the carpet, pulled out a ton of floss, poured about 2 1/2 oz of Avon body soap in the bathroom floor and Emma came running to tell me about it with a can of hairspray in her hand. As I go to inspect the "damage," I notice Emma has quiet a bit of hairspray in her hair and the can is nearly empty. And as I find Kaylee, her hair is sticking straight up in the air from all the hairspray! Kaylee somehow pushed the buttons on our home alarm keypad to send a silent alarm to the police and we had an officer to come to our home. She let about a gallon of water out of the drinking water filter onto the floor. Emma & Madison pestering each other all day while one of them (I think Madison) pulled off my curtain tie backs. Emma was into my glucose meter and dropped a bucket of butter in the floor. Thankfully it was nearly empty. Every time I heard "UH-OH" I just cringed while wondering "what now!" I slaved over the hot stove for hours while Rob spent the rest of his time in the bathroom or sleeping, not to mention I'm one week from having this baby.

Just as I was finishing up with canning the soup, I get a nice phone call from Sis. Tammi saying the Horne's were coming and asked if we wanted to come over. She was on the phone with me as I found the soap in the floor and hairspray in the girls hair. I'm laughing to keep my sanity and told her I would definitely come over to bring some of this chaos to her house!

Doesn't she look so sweet & innocent?

So at this point during the day, who cares what the girls look like. I take them over there all dirty just so we can leave. We left Rob home covered under 4 blankets and with the house already being at 85 degrees from cooking, he wanted the heater on too! I said no way! Poor guy!

We made it the Adam's house and the girls got busy right away playing with all the kids outside. About an hour later, Katie was caring Madison in her arms and said that something was in her pants. Madison was holding her pant leg up by her thigh and was very concerned with whatever it was in her pants. I asked if it was biting her, she said no. I asked if it was hurting, she said no. She told me with a very concerned voice, "It just tickles me and it's wet!" So I proceeded to take her to the bathroom and pull her pants down. There I found something that was a bit large, light & dark brown in her pants but couldn't make out what it was from her still squeezing it. I'm sure I showed a bit of concern as I tried to pull her pants off, but before I could get her pants off, Madison let go and a frog jumped out of her pants! I was dying of laughter, opened the door and yelled... "I think we need Joe in here to catch a frog!" Sis. Tammi and Becki come to inspect as I told them what happened in the midst of my laughter. Sis. Tammi says, "So does this mean there's a frog in my house?" LOL "YES, it does!" So off they go to get Sam and their camera's while I pull Madison's pants up. I'm sure Becki will post the picture when she's able to.

That sure was a good way to top off our anniversary. I did manage to get a nice massage from Sis. Tammi's foreign Japanese massage chair and it was nice visiting with the Horne family as they passed by.

I sure don't want a repeat of that day, but it is definitely an anniversary that we'll always remember. I have this strong feeling, that with Kaylee being a part of our family, we'll have many more of these types of memories to come. She's not even 2 yet!!!

The girls this morning waiting on their pancakes.

Update...

I've been having a few more contractions but I really don't foresee this little girl coming before next week. I'm beginning to measure a bit bigger now and I'm afraid she's going to be too large to deliver naturally after having two c-sections. So therefore, I've scheduled a c-section next week for Sept 4th.

I've been staying busy with the girls. Kaylee is always into something and today, she hooked herself with a fishing pole hook right in the elbow. I had to cut the hook off the pole with wire pliers and then she calmed down a lot. It had to be painful. I really thought we were gonna have to take her to the ER, but after setting her up on the table to exam it and looking to see how deep it was, I grabbed the end of the hook and it came right out of her arm! Thank you Lord!

Our 10 year anniversary is tomorrow. I can't believe it's been that long. I forgot about it until just now and now it's too late to go out and get a card for Rob. He came down sick yesterday, and tonight he's feeling rough again. I'm pretty sure going out to eat is out of the question. Maybe we can squeeze in a day next week after he's feeling better before baby comes and we can get a babysitter that's not sick as well. :)

I sure did cook some yummy homemade chicken noodle soup today and didn't even have a recipe for it. I've put 6 quarts up for a later time to eat for just after baby is born to make our lives easier around here.

That's about it for now. Got a kid wanting a donut now. :) Have a good day.

Camping Trip

GOING CAMPING!

The girls got new fishing poles and just HAD to hold them on the way to the camp site.

Our tent in the background and the girls got busy right away in the sand.

All the girls testing the tent out.

I didn't get many pictures taken. Why? I'm not sure, I never had my camera with me. I'll have to have Sis. Tammi (the camera queen) to give me what she took of my girls & us.

Just 15 miles down the road was a wonderful campsite for us. We had a great time at our first church camping trip. Well, I guess some of us had a rough time. I didn't stay the first night and came home close to 11pm before the girls were put to bed. That might have been a mistake. Rob finally got them all asleep around 12:30 am and they all woke up about 2 am and never went back to sleep. Kaylee cried the entire time and wanted me while the girls were asking all kinds of questions as Rob was losing his patience. I think he needed some sleep. :)

I got a phone call about 4:30 am with a threat of him coming home with all the kids. He didn't know what else to do. After all, this was the girls first time to camp. I told him to try driving Kaylee around and she might fall asleep. I'm not sure how long he tried it for, but it didn't work. Instead of her falling asleep, she perked up, looking out the window and looking all around. So he tried kids songs, and again, no success. Instead, she started bouncing around in her seat singing and clapping. He gave up, tried the tent thing again and before I knew it, there was knock on my garage door at 6 am. That scared me a bit. No phone call to let me know he was coming and then I'm having someone knocking on my door! I finally let the poor guy in who was exhausted, I kept the kids, had them sleep a few hours and let him go have some guy time out on the lake fishing.

We got back to the camp site close to 10 am and everyone seemed a bit tired from our girls keeping everyone up all night long. sorry.... the girl went swimming fully dressed. It was fun watching them play in the lake. We all went fishing just after lunch and then again in the evening. I actually caught a Crappy! Just one though and we kept it. Suppose that was more than some others got. :) Oh, I got a Blue Gill too, but we threw him back.

Madison lost her pole in the lake. Rob tried to scoop it up, but just missed it. Luckily, we had the bobber that was still attached, but because she has pushed the button just as it was going into the lake, Rob had to pull all the string out in order to get her pole out of the lake.

Saturday night was a better success at getting the girls to sleep. I put Kaylee to bed first at 9:30 then the girls fell asleep on Rob close to 10:30. Amazingly, they slept all night long. So did everyone else while Rob was out pulling down not just tree limbs for the fire, but tree BRANCHES on top of a gazebo and tubs of cookware making all kinds of noise close to midnight. I'm sure between the kids keeping everyone awake the night before and the warm sunny heat, everyone was out once they got to bed. I ended up staying that night. Slept just about as well as I do at home. After all, at 37 1/2 weeks pregnant, I'm not sure who sleeps well anywhere.

Sunday morning, we had a church service right outside in the middle of our community tent city. We had 6 tents and a sea of blue tarp with a fire pit in the middle. Rob and Rob did a great job at digging that thing out so we could have a camp fire. The kids sure did enjoy cooking over it while the adults enjoyed watching it.

After we loaded up & came home, we crashed and got some good rest then off to church we went Sunday night and had a great service.

We missed all that could have come or wished they could have come. Hopefully next year, you can join us. It was a great time of fellowship.

The Weekend, Gardening, & the Dr.

We sure did have a wonderful weekend visiting with the Wilson's. We started out going to revival in Tulsa then headed over to the Wilson's to visit with their little adopted grandson. The girls and Landon hit it off real good and Sis. Connie and Bro. Johnny fixed an outstanding breakfast!!! YUMMY! Then Rob and Bro. Johnny went to the Jared's to pick some green beans. After a fun evening at Chuck-E-Cheese, we sat around the table and snapped beans. I haven't don't that in over 20 years. It was great. I even got to bring some home with us and cooked them with some potatoes & onions... Oh, it was so good along with some fried squash and ham. Tonight, I'm thinking fried okra, some sort of potatoes and a meatloaf (?) or maybe something else (?). I'll get the meat defrosted and think about it. :)

So gardening, our garden... WELL.... it's producing... some. We are getting enough okra to feed us a good helping about every other day. I LOVE okra. The tomato plants and the corn did nothing for us, but provided the bugs with some good eating. Our one little cucumber plant that survived has produced us some really good cucumbers, about 6 large ones and we have some small one on there, but I'm not sure how they will do. And our squash plants.... WELL.... they turned into what we thought was watermelons, and then the watermelons turned into cantaloupe and cantaloupe is what is really is. :)

I picked the first cantaloupe today, cut it up and tried it and it's not bad. I've had sweeter cantaloupe, but it still has a good flavor. We have another one about ready to pick and a few more that are growing still.

At least this garden did much better than last years garden which was a complete flop!

And my Dr... he doesn't think I'll have this baby on my own and was highly suggesting another c-section again. My desire has been to have this baby naturally so I can hold it just after delivery. I have some good things going for me, like measuring much smaller than what I was measuring with Kaylee. My sugars have been under control which I believe is a huge part of why I'm not as large. I'm not even swelling like I did with Kaylee, BUT... I'm almost 37 weeks and I've not dilated at all. I'm praying, and have been praying, that God would allow me to have this baby without a c-section. Anyone who would pray with me, please do so.

My hip is in a lot of pain and has been for over 2 months now. The farther along I get, the worse it is. That's really my only complaint which I'm very thankful for. But it's so bad at times that I sometimes just want to say I give in and go for the c-section. ????

So, I suppose that's about it for now. I best get back to getting the clothes prepared for Lydia's arrival, clean up Kaylee's room, make room for something to store the clothes in and pack away all the toys that are in the floor that never are played with, they are just taking up floor space for me trip over. :) Have a good day folks!

Frogs & Grasshoppers (or is it a cricket?)

PICTURES

35 Weeks

Emma

Madison

Kaylee

The girls had a princess party with their Daddy. I was the cook, but the picture of me is not worth putting in. It was after a swim then I came in to fix supper. I thought they all looked so nice all dressed up.

The girls had their first dentist appt. and they got funny sunglasses and new toothbrushes that they were VERY happy to receive.

Kaylee didn't have an appointment, but the techs could not resist giving her a toothbrush too.

Yes! This IS my Dad.

The grandparents with our kids.

Not so sure what was so funny, but it made for a great picture.

Short Post

We are still alive and I have 5 more weeks before my due date. I'm hoping and praying it's more like 3 weeks. HA!

So much has happened in the last month, I just haven't had time to post. I so bad would like to put a couple pictures up. The girls are growing so much. Maybe soon. I won't promise anything.

We did have a wonderful convention in AR in July. Rob's parents joined up again there and then came home with us for the week before going back to AR for youth camp.

While Rob's mom & dad was here, Emma had surgery to repair her umbilical cord hernia and the doctor even made her a belly button. She's really happy to no longer have a hernia and her belly button looks great.

Youth camp was awesome as always. I missed working in it again this year and looks like I won't be working again next year either due to having a baby. I did manage to make it to a service one night and Sis. Connie Wilson preached a really good message.

In some other news, during the convention, Oklahoma City was set forth as a new work and we've been averaging 14 in our services. Our first service we had 19 and we have the potential of having over 25 if everyone came at the same time! We did find a building to worship in just to get started and out of homes. God has really blessed. For such a large city, we are only having to pay $350/month. Our first service in the building will be this coming Sunday at 6pm. I'm happy with the evening service, that way, we won't have to feel pressured to get out within 2 hours of starting. Plus, we have access to a fellowship hall & I have this great idea that we can have fellowship/pot lucks just before church and we won't be hungry! We also have the option of having revivals in there, we just have to schedule the time. Bro. Ray has brought some outstanding messages and we are looking forward to more.

Rob is currently gone again, to Maryland, for another class. This will be his last trip for a while. Let's just say we are surviving. The girls have been really good this week unlike last week. Thanks for all those prayers people have been putting out for us! I feel for Rob when he gets home. I keep the dishes done and I'm working on the laundry, but if it falls on the floor, well.... well, I need to see if the girls will help me there. :) I sort of stop at a certain point when I try to bend over and squatting with bad hips doesn't work too well.

That's it's for now. I have to give orders and do the dishes. God bless.