Our New Favorite! (Thanks to my sister :) )

Check out the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC_hF31z130

FCCLA Carnival

The high school FCCLA group hosted their annual carnival. Jacob LOVED the balloon corner!

Koby liked throwing a baseball at some metal milk cans.

Brendon enjoysed the darts!

Easter Morning

Easter Part 1

The boys had fun decorating eggs. Jacob only got to do a couple because he kept biting them. :)

Koby wrote this letter to the Easter Bunny and taped it to the eggs in the fridge. I'm not sure if you can read it or not, so here is what it says:

Dear easter bunny. Can you hide some eggs pretty hard and some not because I have a Little brother that is one. I like you easter bunny. from Tony, Koby, Jacob, Brendon and Mary Jo. Can you get us somthing different than eggs?

I asked Koby what else he would want from the EB and he said a little sister or candy. :) Well.....we could do the candy thing. :)

Guess What Happened!

For the last couple weeks a pregnant kitty was sneaking into our house because the door doesn't shut fast. Yesterday the boys and I were cleaning their bookcase when we heard a tiny meow. YUP, you guessed it.............

..........................she snuck in and had five babies in Koby and Brendon's closet! (I have to say I'm not a big cat fan, but I actually saw one of the babies born and that was sooooo cool!)

Snowman!

Weekend Project That Took a Week!

Our bedroom. All I did was paint it, but it took me FOREVER. I had to try and find time when Jacob couldn't be in there. :)

This and That

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Life has been busy/crazy. The weather isn't helping things -- like calving!!

I have started going to WW meeting again. I'm at my prepregnancy weight, but this time things are totally different!! Maybe it's being three years older?!?!? Anyway, the weight isn't coming off very quickly. :( I have been busy with a college class that is due by the 15th of April (my goal is to have it in the mail by the 10th).

Jacob started running a fever a week ago Monday afternoon and it got to 105.2! I called the pediatrician and got a game plan. Well, Tuesday we were still in the blizzard and his fever was better so we didn’t take him to the dr. Around 4:00 Tuesday his fever spiked back up to 105 so Tony decided I should take him to the ER. He had to stay home and watch the cows because of the weather, so my mom went with me. I gave him Tylenol before we left and when we got to NP his temp was still 104.8. he has ear infection and his throat looked like strep. We came home last night and it took FOREVER to get his temp to come down, but he is doing much better now. It's amazing what a couple doses of antibiotic does! :)

Last Thursday our school was put in lock down because of three escaped fugitives were in the area. The boys ended up coming home on the bus and got here around 4:00. The fugitives were in Mullen all day! They got a room at the local motel and ate lunch at the cafe across the street. Around 5:00 they left town and our pastor (deputy sherrif) followed them on the chase to Alliance. It was excited news for a small town!!

That same day we received a letter in the mail that our pastor and his family would be moving! This devistated me!! You have to know they have been in Mullen 13 years and Mark just built a home with the plans on retiring here (but they are only in their 40's). On Sunday Pastor Mark read a statement to the church about why and where they would be going. He said usually if a pastor decides to leave a church it is on bad terms, but this was not the case. Mark and Cindy are missionaries associated with RHMA (Rural Home Missionary Alliance -- focusing on planting churches in rural areas). To make a long story short, Mark has been offered the position of Director of RHMA. He will be overseeing the missionay pastors of this organization. Tony said it well -- "What a God promotion!" This has been very hard for me. Our church lacks young christian couples and I have turned to Cindy for a friend, mentor and confidant. The only good thing about Mark's new position -- they will have to come back for visits.

Jacob is finally starting to walk around, although he still likes to crawl (faster). I got pictures taken at Walmart a couple weeks ago. They turned out really well!!

Hope you all have a great weekend!