Restful weekend

I can't believe I am even going to confess this on the world wide web, but from the time I got home Friday night after work until I left for work this morning I only stepped foot outside one time.  That was only to go as far as my garage.

We had a very restful weekend.  I did not pick up my camera one time so I have no new photos to put on my blog. 

The girls were sick most of last week.  They both started running fevers Monday evening and lasted most of the week.  Aubree's fever finally broke Friday morning and Jenae's finally broke on Saturday morning.  I thought we should lay low and stay close to home and just try to get them over the crud. 

Kyle helped Brian & Corrine Duba move on Saturday morning and then helped Chip with the cattle in the afternoon.  Saturday night was the annual Chambers Fireman Prime Rib supper.  Kyle went in, but the girls and I stayed home.  I did not think it would be right to go in to town when Jenae had missed most of the week of school and that morning was the first that she had woke up with no fever.  Jenae was NOT happy that we did not get to go in for "crime rib"  She has called prime rib "crime rib" ever since she was a little girl. 
Hope was nice enough to drop off a prime rib dinner at our house on her way home for the girls and I to enjoy.  It was really good.

Sunday Kyle went into church.  I really hated to miss it, I knew the Preacher was starting a new series on marriage this week.  Both girls had such nasty sounding coughs that to take them to Church would have been a little disruptive. 

I spent much of the weekend working on Jenae's digital scrapbook.  Hope has got me started on doing digital scrap books and I am having a lot of fun with them.  I am working on Jenae's one year book. It has been fun to take a trip down memory lane in putting the book together.  It is crazy to me how young we all looked 7 years ago!

It is looking like the weather is going to be decent.  It should be in the 30's and 40's all week.  We are all happy to see the first of March tomorrow!

Bit by the flu bug!

My poor little girls have been home with fevers most of the week.  They started running temps on Monday night and have not been able to get over it yet.  Influenza B is making its way through the Chambers schools and it looks like we got it! 

Bless my father in law's heart, he kept the girls at his house on Tuesday.  We were really short handed at work and me missing the day was not much of an option.  I was so thankful he was able to help us out.  There are not many Grandpa's that would be willing to take on such a task!  I think they got a lot of cuddle time with the puppies.  I guess Aubree thought she should check one of the puppies temps and stuck her thermometer in the puppies mouth.  Jenae was not thrilled to see Aubree do that and had to call me at work to report what Aubree had done.  Aubree also apparently broke a couple toy horses.  She was a real fireball that day.  It is like the sickness turned her into a wild woman!

I was able to be home with them yesterday so that was nice.  We spent the day laying around and being very lazy.  It was nice to have a day that we did not have much going on so we could be lazy.

Kyle made it home last night about 8:00.  The girls were so happy to have him home!  He had been gone for 3 weeks.  It will be so nice to have him around for awhile. 

It is back to winter and they are calling for snow all weekend.  Calving has officially begun on the Whitaker Ranch so I imagine that Chip is happy to have Kyle home too!  The first 2 calves were born today :-)

A day on the ranch.

Today we got to help Chip vaccinate the heifers.  It was a great day work cattle I think it was almost 50 degrees again.  Hope &  I got demoted from riding.  Chip thought he and  Jenae could get them rounded up just fine.  All in all the project went well with no major problems.  

Marilyn kept Aubree & Trey and fixed dinner for all of us.  The kids got a chance to ride a little bit after dinner. 

It sounds like our nice weather is going to be changing.   We are currently in an ice storm warning from midnight to night  until noon tomorrow.  It seems hard to believe since the sun is still shinning.  Hopefully they are wrong and the storm will miss us.





Chip & Jenae rounding up the cattle.





Chip & Jenae riding.




Puppy love!  Aubree and a puppy.




Jenae giving Trey a ride on Beauty.




Jenae working on her trick riding.




Jenae doing one of her dismounts.



Aubree riding Beauty in her dress!!!

A great day for a ride!

I came home from work yesterday and found the girls riding with Chip.  They were all having a great time.  Aubree was riding with her pink mud boots and no socks.  The boots kept falling off and she would be trotting around barefoot.  She was really enjoying "going fast"  as she would say.  Beauty was feeling pretty good and even bucked a little bit with Aubree and Aubree just squeezed tight with her little legs and rode through it. 

Jenae wanted to run the barrels so Grandpa got them set up for her.  Speedster looked like he was feeling pretty good too!

It was 50 degrees and no wind.  A very nice day!

Jenae, Aubree & Chip riding around.

Chip & Aubree all smiles!

Chip taking Aubree around the barrels.

Jenae rounding the 3rd barrel on Speedster.

The 2011 melt down!!

Well we have had the best weather that I can ever remember having in February.  The last several days it has been in the 60's!!  We have all been enjoying this welcome break.  The snow has pretty much all melted and formed ponds as Jenae would say!  The last couple of days the frost has come out of the ground and most of the "ponds" have disappeared.  We were able to go out and enjoy the excess water.  Aubree who has to change her clothes every time she gets a drop of water on them was totally soaked & smiling the whole time. 

The puppies are growing everyday.  Hopefully this weekend I can get some good pictures of them.  The girls have been waiting for their eyes to open and yesterday one of them started to open their eyes.  Jenae is so excited! 



Aubree loves getting her hands dirty!!!

 Jenae and her classmate Elli have birthdays 2 days apart.  Elli's Mom and I had a party for the girls last Saturday.  They had so much fun!! 

Playing musical chairs.

Making pizzas

Elli & Jenae with their cake.