Tara and Companions

Tara looks good in this photo.

She says the other Sisters are Sister Robinson, Sister Kuznetsova, Me, Sister Highland, and Sister Ozerova, who is her new greenie companion.

Our little mover

Mary has just started to do this. We think it's great. Maybe someday she'll walk all on her own. This is definitely one of the cutest things for me. I just can't get over how cute those little legs are.

Baby Jennings #2

It's a Boy!

We went to the doctor this morning and our next baby, to be born on or around April 26th, is a boy. The funny thing is that when we found out that Mary was a girl, I almost cried. I'd wanted a boy, and this time I almost cried too, guess I wanted another girl. We're very excited and pleased to find that everything looks healthy. What a little mover we have. This baby stuff is fun!

PS We'll take all the name suggestions we can. What do you call a boy?

Thanksgiving Stresses

Just in case anyone needs a little laugh, let me tell you about my Thanksgiving stresses. First, we had mice in our pantry. Yes mice. (Ok, maybe all you farmers are used to mice, but I am a domesticated city gal). After we realized it we bought traps and emptied out the contents of the pantry onto my kitchen table. I cleaned up more mouse droppings than I would care to think about, all the time thinking about the hantavirus and how I didn't want to catch it and DIE. Anyway, we ended up catching six mice. YES, SIX!
Well, since we had all the food out of our pantry and I hated the wire shelves we had in there and we had a guy coming to help us build some other shelves in our house, I decided to ask him to build new pantry shelves. He did a wonderful job, but I realized yesterday that I only had two more days until Thanksgiving and I had unpainted shelves in my pantry and a whole crapload of food on my table. So, last night I started priming my shelves. This is way more work than it should be (it might be easier if I didn't have to feed Claire every half an hour and the other kids weren't constantly begging me to make them food and Tim didn't need help hanging the Christmas lights and I had a terrible cold.) Anyway, the shelves will not be painted on time, but we are having dinner here tomorrow, so I will load my food into my pantry and then take it back out at a later time so that painting can be finished. Doesn't sound so bad, does it?
Well, because the kitchen table was full of food, we ate everywhere else in the house and once one thing in my house gets out of whack, everything goes south, so I now have an entire house to clean before tomorrow. Oh yeah, we have everything pulled out of our other closets and just stuffed in random places around the house so that this guy can build closet organizers in there, too.
I also went grocery shopping this morning (to beat the rush) and couldn't find half the ingredients for the food I was planning on cooking, so I have a new menu to plan. At least the turkey is purchased and thawed, now I just need to brine it.
Oh, and Claire had a doctor appointment this morning and got FOUR immunization shots. This is going to be a fun day!
Oh, and Tim is working nights, so he will be sleeping until dinnertime tomorrow and then he will head off to work while I think about cleaning the kitchen.
So - instead of kicking my butt into gear and getting all of this done, what am I doing? I am sitting at a computer whining about what I have to get done. Maybe tomorrow I will stop and think about all the wonderful blessings we have and I will feel guilty about today - but for right now, I just want to curl up in a corner and cry.

Hi everyone in the family

This is Howard and I just taught old Rodney how to turn his computer on. It is different than a horse you can't just cluck and make it go. He may never write on this but he can't say I never taught him anything. By the way he thinks computers are interesting and says hi to you all.

Weekend

Wow what a fun weekend. Cheyenne had two basketball games this weekend. She is playing on a city league with some of her friends. We had one game at 8:00 and one at 3:00 on Saturday. She has a lot of fun playing. They haven't won a game yet but that is not what matters. Between the games the ladies of the house went to an activity at the church while I stayed home and worked on work stuff. I have to evaluate all my employee's for the end of the year performance appraisals. Not a lot of fun. Anyway I did find time to saddle the horse for a while. He did ok with it but he still needs a lot of time under the saddle. Anyway we will be going to Melanie's family for Thanksgiving day. Can't wait. Hope you all enjoy the Holiday and drive safe.

Grandpa Bee

I dont think many of you have seen this picture. I thought that this was a pretty good picture of what grandpa looks like pretty much every day. I also liked the smile. In the background is the old cutter that he used to hook the horses to in the winter, Fun.

Mighty Fine

Hey, this is fun.
I think the only person who can invite others is the adminstrator. I'm just an author, but I will send to Howard some addresses.

Help A

Hey, I don't have all of the families email addresses. So I granted you admin rights so that you can invite your family. If that is not ok let me know by email. I have already invited David and Rodney. Thanks

Cate Dresses Herself

So - the picture is sideways and all messed up, but I am new to using this blog format. Just wanted to post something to encourage everyone else to post. To learn more about this picture, please visit my website.

Welcome

Hey there everyone. I wanted to get this started so we can all keep in touch. Amber and I talked about it the other day and so I am giving it a try. Be patient until I figure it out.