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Wendesday

Jenae wanted her picture taken with Buster. He is such a good dog!!
One thing you are likely to see if you stop by my house is Aubree in her swimsuit. She loves to wear it even if she has no intention to go swimming. I loved the pink boots on the wrong feet while wearing her swimsuit look so much I thought I should capture it with a picture.



We had a nice day yesterday. I am still trying to get used to not having Jenae home on my day off. Aubree does not seem to mind Jenae being gone. She has free rein of the house and all the toys! She loves to watch for the school bus to come. I think she likes to wave at the bus driver :-)She kept busy playing toys all morning while I made another batch of salsa and baked some banana bread.

I think Jenae is liking school. She does not say a whole lot when she gets home. She did tell me about a little boy that rides her bus. She said he is always trying to kiss her and one of the other little girls on the bus. She said he will walk up to them and say "hellooooo ladies!" it cracked me up when she told me this. Seems crazy it all starts so young! Right now school is still dismissing at 2:00 so it is nice to have her home a little earlier.

The girls and I went for a ride in the afternoon. We did not ride real long I was afraid Aubree would fall asleep while we were on the horse. She had skipped her afternoon nap and I really did not want her to fall asleep at 5:00 in the afternoon. Aubree rode with me and she giggled and giggled when we loped. She said "I want to rope again, I mean lope again" For those of you that have not tried to ride with a kiddo in front of you it can be a tad uncomfortable for both riders from time to time and going much faster then a walk can have its challenges.

We went home and made pancakes for supper and called it a night. The girls were both exhausted. It amazes me how much school can tucker Jenae out!

Lessons Learned

I learned 2 very random things last night. The first one being, never walk in to a pen full of hungry chickens while wearing flip flops. They seem to mistake toes for grain! When I went into feed my chickens last night they attacked my feet. Chickens pecking on bare toes does not feel so good!!

The 2nd lesson I learned is when the lady at the blood bank tells you to drink plenty of fluids after giving blood it is a good idea to listen to her! I did not feel real great after I gave blood yesterday but I went back to work and just felt a little off the rest of the day. I went home and got my girls picked up from Chip and Marilyn's and did my chores. I got the girls supper, gave them their baths and got them ready for bed. All the while I was feeling a little light headed but still functional. We sat down to read a book together and Aubree fell asleep on my lap. I put her to bed and Jenae & I were going to work on her spelling words. I got to the table and I thought I was going to be sick to my stomach. I made my way to the bathroom and laid down on the floor before I fell down. I have never fainted or passed out, but I am guessing I was pretty darn close. I was really light headed and got really hot & weak. Once I laid down my stomach felt better. I laid there for a bit while my concerned little Jenae Grace stood over me. I had not drank anything since giving blood (pretty stupid I now know:-). I told Jenae that she just needed to go to bed that mommy did not feel good enough to do her spelling words. She is really into listening to Little House on the Prairie audio books before she goes to bed. I gathered up enough energy to go to her room and put the CD in CD player and made it back to the chair in the living room just before I think almost passing out again. I asked Jenae to get me some water. She found a water bottle and filled it completely up with cold water from the refrigerator and added 2 ice cubes. It was so cute how she took such good care of me. She is growing up so fast. She kept coming out of her room to check on me. I assured her I was fine. Finally at 9:30 I told her she needed to go in and go to sleep. She said "ok mommy, I just wanted to check on you one more time before I went to sleep" I checked her 10 minutes later and she was sound to sleep in her bed. I still do not feel 100% today, hopefully by tomorrow I will be all better! I for sure learned my lesson!! I have made donating blood a priority after Chip's last heart surgery. I saw first hand how donated blood really does save lives. I feel if there were not blood donors out there that took the time to donate their blood Chip may not be with us today.

Speaking of Chip's surgery is was one year ago today that he underwent his 3rd heart valve replacement. When I think back to a year ago and how grim everything looked for Chip and our family I am in total amazement of where we are today. We are so thankful for the blessings that God has blessed us with this past year.

Today also happens to be my wonderful husband's birthday :-) So Kyle if you are reading this Happy Birthday to you!!!

Relaxing Weekend

Out for supper at the Main Street Cafe in Chambers.




Aubree loved the Dessert!!!!





Jenae & Aubree were sure they needed to ride Grandpa's new horses. They did not seem to understand that yearlings that are not broke are not ready for little girls to ride them. So Grandpa was a good sport and let then sit on them. The horses did really well and you can see by the look on the girls faces they are pretty excited to the new additions to the ranch.




Jenae Grace on one fo Grandpa Chip's new horses.





Aubree Joy on one of Grandpa Chip's new horses.


The girls and I had a very relaxing weekend. Friday night Chip & Marilyn took us out to eat at the Main Street Cafe in Chambers. It was so good, as always!!

Saturday we got up and did some good ol' deep cleaning of our house. Ok it was mostly me doing the cleaning :-) Jenae & Aubree did a good job of entertaining themselves while I cleaned. They love to play with their toy horses. Jenae has one toy horse that is pretty fancy so she only gets to play with it on special occasions. This horse happens to be a stud horse. Most toy horses do not have male or female parts but this particular horse has ALL of the body parts to be a stud. Jenae asked me to get down her fancy horse because she needed him to breed her mares. I was a little curious to see how this would all play out so I went along with it. I stood back and watched. She had all the mares that needed bred around a circle of the stud horse. I heard a lot of whining and some neighing and then she brought back the stud horse to be put back on top of her dresser. Oh my little ranch girl!!! I would love to know some of the discussions she has with her classmates! I am sure she could give them all a little education.
I got the lawn mowed in the evening so I was feeling pretty good about what I had got done by the end of the day.

Sunday we were lazy. We even skipped church and have not good excuse why we did not go. Jenae told Hope that "we take the summers off from church" It seems that we have just had something going most Sundays this summer. We did some reading, watched a movie, gave Buster a bath pretty much just hung out at home. It was so nice! We did go over to see Chips new horses. The girls were really excited about them. They happen to still be studs and Jenae is trying to talk Grandpa into letting them run with Beauty. She things it would be great if she had a baby colt. I am thinking she is not going to get her way with this idea :-)

The only thing that could have made the weekend better is if Kyle could have been home. It seems that he has been gone more this summer than ever before. Maybe he hasn't it just feels that way. I think he will have only been home 6 days the whole month of August and July was pretty much the same way. Mostly I feel bad for the girls. I know they really miss Kyle when he is gone. He is such a good hands on Dad when he is home that it make them miss him more when he is gone. Kyle did do good this weekend. He was 7th at Moses Lake Washington in the steer wrestling and at Caldwell, Idaho he was 6th on his first steer, 5th in the short go and ended up 5th in the average.

It looks like we are in for some cooler weather. We are all really looking forward to that!

Back to school!

Aubree standing with Jenae on first day of school.



Jenae's first day of school.





Jenae's first day back was Wednesday. She was so excited to go back and see all her friends. She loves her teacher and I think it is going to be a great year :-)


Monday I was dragging from our big weekend we had. I think we all were to bed before 9:00 that night. I took Tuesday off to spend the day at home with the girls before Jenae was back to school. We had a really nice day. In the morning I took them over to ride their ponies. I know Jenae is really going to miss getting to ride every day once she goes back to school. In the afternoon we made a trip to O'Neill for haircuts. Thanks to Aunt Hope for being on the ball and making the appointment :-) Jenae just got a trim and Bree got a little more taken off. For being full sisters they have the most opposite hair. Jenae is so thick and almost blond in summer from the sun. Bree's hair is thin and so dark. The sun does not really affect her color.

Wednesday Aubree and I took Jenae into school. Jenae was pretty nervous/excited I do no think she hardly slept the night before. For the most part she had a good time at school. One of the girls in the 2nd grade seems to like to pick on Jenae and of course she started in on day one. I don't understand why kids have to be so mean. Jenae is a really tender hearted little girls and she gets her feeling hurt easily. It is hard as a mom to see your child hurting but I know it is all part of live. I tried to explain to her that there are always people in the world who are like that and I know in the end it will all be part of the character building process. I just can't believe it starts so early in life. Any of you moms who have any advise on this area I am open to suggestions!!! It makes me feel good to have Grammy Marilyn at school every day to keep an eye on things for me :-)

After I got Jenae dropped off at school Bree and I came home and made salsa. I canned 21 jars. I have made Wednesdays my canning day for the past 3 weeks. I am ready for a break from canning! Aubree was such a good little girl and entertained herself so well while I was up to my elbows in tomatoes!

We are looking forward to a nice quiet weekend. Hopefully I can get my house work and yard work caught up! fun fun!! Tonight we are going out to eat with Chip, Marilyn, Ben, Hope & Trey at the Main Street Cafe. I am looking forward to seeing what he is serving tonight! Whatever it is it will be good ;-)