Whew!

Ok here is the long and short of it.

First of all, we had this little sweet heart August 16th.  She is the happiest baby I've ever seen, except when she isn't.  Well, you know what I mean.

Then in October my husband, yes MY HUSBAND, added this to our lot.  My life has been flipped on it's head!

Hailey has had a birthday and is now 10!  Yep, you heard me right, 10!!!

Grandma moved in across the street the beginning of November.  That is actually a picture of her with Liliah (my great niece) when she was a baby.

To top the year off we will be receiving a new house December 21st.  YES, RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!!!  Um, needless to say I am NOT decorating for Christmas this year and hopefully we will survive the holidays this year without killing each other.

No, I'm serious, it will probably be our little Christmas miracle if we all survive unscathed!

If I don't make it back here before then, Happy Holidays!!!

P.S.  Did I tell you my computer crashed?  Haven't replaced it yet.....


Gentrie

SURPRISE!!!!

So I've been holding out on all of you, my blogging friends.  Do you know how things kind-of snow ball and next thing you know it has been months since you blogged?

Top that off with being exhausted and sick for about 4 months and, well, motivation was not real high.  So here is the incredible news.  I'm pregnant!  Holy Crap!  We were not planning it, or trying, or talking about it, or thinking about it, or, or, or, or, well.......anyway I am.

As someone told me, I'm not sure who as I have been in a daze for a few months, babbling incoherently, with utterances of baby leaving my lips here and there.  Anyway, as someone said to me, "Everything happens for a reason, even if we do not know that reason".  Huh!

Here is a 3-D shot of new baby Lemerond.

 

Well I can tell you I do NOT know the reason, but we are riding the wave.  Of course, because evidently some where along the line I got old, I am considered a high risk pregnancy.  So this means more doctors visits, tests, blood being drained from my body like I'm secretly supplying a vampire colony somewhere.  OK, maybe that last bit was a slight exaggeration.  Or not.

Then........we recently found out that not only is my niece pregnant again (due in October)......but my stepdaughter is pregnant also (due in December)!  WOW!!!!  We are dropping babies here like nobodies business!

This means that Mark and I will become new parents (in August), then great Aunt/Uncles again in October and THEN.....(drum roll please).......GRANDPARENTS in December!!!  WTH?!

Our family is so hodge podge and weird, you have to love it!

So, I feel old with this pregnancy.  The nausea has pretty much gone away, but I am very tired and so SORE!  It's another large baby.  Already 4.5cm head and 14oz at 20 weeks.  I am now 21 weeks along this week. 

What I want to know is where do the big a** babies come from?!  No one else in my family has these huge babies!  They all have nice little 6 and 7 pound babies!  Not me though, nooooooo, mine have to be 9lbs and head the size of watermelons!  You laugh, but my daughter's head was 15cm, a woman dilates to 10cm, you do the math!  OK, so maybe I'm a little jealous.  Rant over.  For now.

Daisy, you couldn't have said it better, this is exactly how I feel!!!

OK, so process, discuss, comment, do what you do.....

I'll be back again,

Gentrie

I'm still alive...

So since we last spoke we got horses moved from South Dakota, and my Mom moved from South Dakota.  It is great having her closer, I see her a minimum of once a month now, usually two.

If it is not too blizzardy out, that is......

I got to go riding a few times before it got cold...........

Rebel was excited to explore his new digs too.......

All in all, the boys were excited to be in a new place,

I think they like a little adventure too.  Don't you?

I love this photo from Mom's move...

It was warm...believe it or not both those trailers are half full. 

We spent Christmas at my Mom's new house to sart some new warm memories for her there.  Sometimes starting over is not easy.  We had a nice quiet holiday, watching movies, eating, and sharing wonderful gifts!

Hope your hoildays were also wonderful!

Gentrie

RIP Coco Bean

Coco Bean died during the night last night of old age.  He was about 33 years old (which is very old for a horse). 

He made it back to Montana and was happy as a clam.  Our family owned him for 21 years of his life.  He was a treasured member of our family, and we will miss him dearly.

Love you Coco!

Gentrie

I lied.....again.....

Ok, so it was unintentional, completely, really....

I am sitting here tonight listening to the booming and singing of the concert over at the fairgrounds.  Joe Nichols is who I think is here.  Of course, I have not really paid much attention to Fair goings on with everything else going on.

He's pretty good, but the booming base is a little annoying after a while.  I think the whole town can hear him.  Seriously, this is a small town.

My step daughter got married in Eureka the end of July.

This is one of my favorite pictures.  This was the end walking up the isle.  She forgot to grab her bouquet back.
It was absolutely gorgeous.  She had an amazingly short and fun wedding.  We fished, snorkled, ate and drove through Glaacier Park.  We hadn't been through Glacier Park in about 10 years, which means Hailey had never been, so we went while we were in that neck of the woods.

It was also gorgeous, and since the battery on my camera had died at the wedding reception and I did not have the charger for it with me, I had to use an old style disposable camera. 

I will post pictures from that trip later.

See you soon!

Gentrie