Partys Over...Snows here again!!

We had a break from the snow for a little while.....little while!!! Troy had to plow snow at 430am this morning. Our driveway was blown shut, as was the renters across the road. It's 18 degrees so far. Yesterday we were to go to the Higbee's to play,and see them off for their trip Saturday to Disney....I was a little disappointed. All schools around the area were CLOSED! But I was stuck at home. bummer! We made due w/what we were dealt. Making homemade pizza for lunch, playing, napping, cleaning,etc filled our day and evening. Troy was in late last night. The accountant got stuck in the driveway at the farm, so that was Troy's 2nd pull me out of the day.

Today, I am unsure if I want to brave the cold with the children. But desperately need to make it to the bank and store, and tackle laundry today. We're having taco chicken in the crock tonight for dinner. Yummy. Need to figure out what Owen's going to eat.

Lydia turned in a circle yesterday. She kept doing it....and got dizzy. It was so cute to see her figure out something new. She's constantly climbing up the kitchen table chairs and standing on the table. I am unsure what to do....a few swats havent worked!!!!! She said "DA DA" Saturday nightorSunday night,I can't remember which. She's discovered Owen's old bouncy Zebra that the Higbee's got him for his 2nd Christmas. She LOVES IT!!!

We are loving our new floor. It's beautiful! I sweep it every other day and need to mop it today. The living room carpet looks great as well and needs swept today. I've got lots of to do's and little energy. It seems like the kids are just draining my energy lately.

Owen's into things. Pushing his sister. Moving his bed in front of his door. Taking food to his room. Leaving things lay around that Lydia should'nt have. I just can't wait for Preschool to start in September. I mentioned school for fall to him yesterday adn that mommy wouldn't be attending with him....he wasn't sure about that. I think we're going to have seperation anxiety with him. ohh well. We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Yesterday Owen let mommy take a nap while Lydia napped as well. He did do very well!!!

Lydia's birthday was a great sucess!!!! With lots attending.....29 people. I had just enough food. A friend made a pretzel salad and an aunt came early w/her sons to help and made BBQ pulled pork for sandwhiches. Everything was yummy!!! Oh mom made Chili, too. I even got extra and froze some for later. Troy doesnt' care for chili. Lydia picked at her cake first, then dove in, cried because she was a mess and had a blast. She had help opening gifts from 2 friends, which was fun!! Owen unbelievably didn't want to help. We had lots of help cleaning up.

I am hoping the weather calms down so my mom can come visit Saturday afternoon while Troy's at a meeting. I miss her, and spending time w/just her. Next week is our friend's anniversary....they were married 02/02/2002, how neat!!! And then our friend Cheryl's 40th birthday and then our anniversary all in a week!!! We'll be married 5 years. It's unreal. I feel like it has been longer.

Well I guess that's all new for now. Hope you enjoyed reading about our family.

Take care until next time.

Getting Ready To Party

So all week long i've been cleaning and preparing for Lydia's party. The things we do for our children and to get our house ready for presentation. Yesterday my mohter-in-law came over for 5 hrs to help me....well she did most of the work yesterday. She just WANTED to polish the furniture and shampoo the Living Room carpet. Which turned into the 2 chairs and desk chair getting shampooed. The landing rug getting shampooed this morning and a few more spots in living room done on the floor. OH MY! I do think it looks alot nicer. It's just hassle when your trying to get ready for a party.

So the kitchen floor is laid and looks FABULOUS! We're trying to convince his parents to get the supplies to do the hallway and bathroom. Makes the kitchen look so nice.

Today I am sending the children to the farm to play for a while. I need to clean Owen's room top to bottom, mop 3 rooms and clean the basement. WHEW I hope I have enough energy. Then Troy will bring the tables and chairs over later on today.

Sure has warmed up last few days, which is nice. But I dont' like the slush that comes w/it.

Owen got a new curtain in his room and just isn't real sure about it. He's anxious to have daddy set up his train table again. Lydia destroyed it, knocking it all over. So his treat tonight is having his train track put back together.

I am anxious to see how Lydia's going to be at the party tomorrow.

I think that's all that's new til tomorrow.

Weeks Just Fly By

Seems like each and every time I think to type in here weeks have flown by!!!!

This past weekend oour family attended a birthday party for a friend's child's birthday party. She turned 3 the same day Lydia turned 1. So her mommy was thinking the same thing....waiting until the christmas high was over to celebrate. It's also easier on the family. Owen was pretty good. Shy at first and constantlyhad to go potty! Troy was the wonderful one that got the privledge to take him each time....as it was Owen's preference. ha ha ha

Then mommy and Tara headed to an AWESOME open house for Stampin Up, Creative Memories and Pampered Chef. Mommy purchased a few things for herself,as she has been making cards and pondering scrapbooking. It's my passion to be crafy and preserve memories.

Lydia's 1st Birthday party is coming up this weekend. Today I've been checking things off the list, doing laundry, cleaning, etc. AND we're getting a new kitchen floor on Wednesday. My brother-in-law Tom is going to be helping Troy....Well I think he'll do most of the work. But we're so excited. I'm nervous as to it getting done in 1 day. While that is getting done the children will play at Grandma's while mommy cleans and does her grocery shopping alone, quickly and hopefull hassle free. (high hopes I know).

It is so unbelieveable the amount of snow that we have gotten in a week and a half. We did get stuck w/the tracker yesterday in the driveway. So....at 4:30 this morning Troy was plowing w/the skid loader and blew a hydrolic line and only got 1/4 of it done :-( I did make it out today to go to town to get some groceries. unfortunately because of the temps I haven't been able to take the children out to play. Saturday my cousin's (mike & zach) will take Owen out to play.

Lydia hasn't been sleeping well. She's getting her molars. It's awful!!! So her and I haven't been getting much sleep. She's starting to try to run a little. She follows Owen around, it is so priceless. She moves to music, likes to watch Spot, Blue's Clues and Seasame Street. Not for very long, but they do catch her eye. She is always laughing at Owen. Falling down, and trying to hold her own. Guess when you have a big brother you have to be tough!! Lydia is as busy as ever...if you look at 2 pictures above, she likes to help with the dishwasher and getting into the fridge. We've had to child proof my plastics cupboard. One day I thought daddy was watching her and came out to the kitchen and EVERYTHING was all over the kitchen floor (bowls, lids, etc).

Owen is doing alright with Lydia tagging along. When he does get tired of it, he shuts his bedroom door. I said to Troy, I wonder what he's going to do when she moves in there!!!!! Won't be just his room anymore. But we'll cross that bridge when the time comes. He is always playing w/his toy tractors, trains, bikes. He's a very busy toddler. We're soooo looking forward to sending him to preschool in the fall to Jubilee. I think he'll do fine, but I have my worries. Im just excited about running errands w/only 1 child!!!! Owen is pretty well potty trained. We do wear a diaper at night and he wakes up soaked! So we're not ready for that step yet. But if he falls asleep for a nap he does awake dry!

Troy's been busy dealing with the cold, feeding cows, milking cows, delivering hay, setting cows up to breed and his big excitement recently was flushing Autumn a Guernsey Heifer. She had 10 good embryos and 6 bad! He was quite satisfied.

I've been busy making cards, cleaning, being a mom,etc. But the card thing....I LOVE MAKING THEM. And the new friends I've met.

Well I think that's allfor now. Back to cleaning for me......

Snow, Seasame Street and Shopping!!!! sssssss

Yesterday we awoke to a complete white out. As we stepped out the door there were 6" at least on the ground. We really got dumped on. But....we had tickets to take Owen to see SEASAME STREET LIVE! (thanks Joanne & Tom). So we packed in the truck,dropped Lydia off at Grandma's with the her basic needs and headed south to Pittsburgh. It took us 1/2 hr longer to get to Cranberry to grab some lunch. In the 20 minutes we were parked the roads were almost bare!!!! We saw 1 snowplow the whole way to Cranberry Twp,and he was getting ready to get on the turnpike. It was AWFUL! I think that I prayed the whole way there and home.

Once we got closer and closer to Mellon Arena it started to rain and the snow was no more! YEAHHHHHH. Owen stayed right with Daddy and kept needing to go potty (mommy didn't even give him lots to drink). So we weren't real sure what Owen's thoughts of the show were. He watched. Got a toy and was ready to get back in the truck. He was asleep within 10 minutes of being back in the truck. Mommy thought WONDERFUL!

We got to Cranberry again and I checked out the Party City Store there to get some things for Lydia's party. Got some dinner. And headed back home. This time via Rt 19. Got to see lots of new things....then we hit Mercer County and my praying BEGAN again! AWFUL Roads.

Once back to the farm all fears were gone. And Lydia was more excited to see Owen than I. Seems like Lydia's trying to wean herself in the past 12-24 hrs from me...which is okay!

Today we got a call from Troy's parents asking us to lunch and to go get our flooring. We whisked away yet again today. Roads weren't too bad. I wasn't much hungry today, but the kids and Grandma & Grandpa LOVE the Golden Corral. Then headed to Home Depot and purchased all the goods for replacing our kitchen floor. Guess we're going to wait to do the hallway, unless we have extra. But definately waiting to do the bathroom. It's not as bad as the kitchen and with the children it's going to continue to get wet.

Owen wants to play out in the snow, but I think he's entirely too tired today and it does need to get a little warmer than 25 degress for me to take Lydia out. Daddy's milking today and feeding cows, then will be home for a nice warm cozy evening. Hopefully the Steerler's win their game this evening.

We have no plans all week except EHS coming Wednesday. So I think I am going to start cleaning and getting ready for Lydia's party on the 24th.

Lydia's 1 yr check up

Today was Lydia's 1 year well baby check up. We got out the door on time and to the office ON TIME! Record for us. Guess goes to show if the boys aren't in tow then we can do it. Then we waited 20 minutes after our appointment time before we went back. Wasn't too bad with just Lydia and I. She's to get whole milk now and wean herself whenever she does or I feel like it. No bottles, but can have the rest of the formula we have for her in a sippy cup. Keep up what we're doing and use flouride daily. Here are her stats:

Lydia 1 year old: Height 31" (95th percentile), Weight 21 lbs 6 3/4 oz (90th)and her head 18".
She got 3 shots. Wasn't too happy and let the nurse know. It was like Lydia yelled at her. lol. Can't say as I blame her.

Owen went with Troy to deliver hay, get lunch and check on a corn bin at a farm down the road. So we beat them home. Owen had a great time with daddy.

We've decided upon Lydia's birthday party to be January 24th. These details keep swarming in my head what we're going to do, when, what I need to get accomplished, who I need to make calls to,etc.

Tomorrow Owen's friend Porter is coming to play for a bit. I'm excited! Owen needs to get more used to playing with others. We don't start back to Mommy & Me until Feb. 6.

Starting something new......

So Ive decided to start something new. A little something to get my thoughts out there. Let others know what we're up to, what's happening, what's going to happen, etc. I'm hoping everyone enjoys. As I enjoy reading what others are up to. Just some people aren't into that kind of stuff. ohh well. Poo on them.

So it's January 3rd. Today was a long day at home alone with the kids. But we made due. I've been under the weather the past 3 days,but it really hit me in the night. YUCK! Today I did accomplish cleaning the bathroom, taking the tree down and outside (what a mess...damn real trees), cleaning the living room, running the dishwasher twice (yes TWICE, GEEZ I didn't say I was ever super mom/housewife), sorted a huge mound of laundry, cleaned Owen's room, dressed 2 kids, made 2 cards, laundry, and swept! WHEW Im exhausted.

The kids did go to sleep very early tonight. So Im not looking forward to the early morning. I do need to make my bed w/fresh bedding. Its awaiting me downstairs, clean in a pile. A nice hot long peppermint bath also has been on my mind......

Getting into make my own cards with Stampin Up products has been fun. But finding time and patience to be interrupted is annoying me. I made myself a little spot in the corner of the living room. I need to find a little light to put there for lighting. The kids toys are in their own spots...I feel good now!

Tomorrow we are going to the farm for lunch. I am hoping to not stay too long. We were there Thursday 12:30p.m.to 8 p.m. long day. The kids love playing over there. I just don't get anything done when we go to visit.

Monday Lydia goes to the pediatrician for her 1 year well baby check up. AMAZING!