Just an Update!

Not much new here, just waiting and waiting for these babies to pop out! Caitlyn is due in about a week and Kristin in another month. And of course now for those of you who haven't heard our little Lindsay is due November 4th! Exciting! By Thanksgiving our family will have expanded to 13, what a lucky number!
Jordan is finishing up his first year of college. I think over all it was a good year for him. The first semester he made the Dean's list! We aren't expecting that this semester as he has had trouble with one of his classes. Unfortunately this was a class he thought he needed for his major. After it was to late to drop the class the school changed this and he no longer needs to have it! Oh well, that's life, always changing in mid stream! I am excited to have him home this summer. Although if he follows the pattern of the girls this will be his last summer at home. They grow up, move away, come home and move away again! When they all move away for the last time we are buying a Winnebago and hitting the road!

This picture is from Easter morning. It was a pretty quiet holiday Caitlyn is to far along for any traveling so we had little egg hunt for Chaela out on the deck. She loved it I think she will be ready for the big time next year!

Moose Poop!

Yesterday during Primary, Becky and I were talking about our dinners. It turns out we were both having pot roast! Hers was already in the crock pot making her home smell delicious! I on the other hand had mine in the kitchen sink still defrosting because I forgot to take it out the night before.Becky was then telling me she was going home and making dinner rolls to go along with it. Mmm... sounds good to me! Her recipe is easy she says. She knows it because she makes it all the time so I write it down and think I will go home and make some homemade dinner for my family too!
I go home and get the pot roast cooking. I get out all the ingredients for the rolls. It doesn't take long, Becky is right! Soon t he dough is in a warm place rising (or so I thought!). After an hour I check the dough. What the??? It is still about the size it was when I put it in!!! So I wait about another 20 minutes. Still no change. What should I do? Start over? I waver, get the ingredients back out, but I really don't want to start over. So, I go ahead and make them up as if they had risen. I put 3 balls of dough in each muffin cup. They baked about 20 minutes and looked and smelled like they were done. I pulled them out of the oven and put them in a basket where some of them fell apart. Caitlyn looks in the basket and says "mom this looks like a basket of little turds!" Doug looks at it and says, " yeah, if you were in Canada this would look like a pile of moose poop!"

Thanks Family! And lets not forget the lesson learned, check the expiration date on your yeast!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentines Day my family! I love you all! Watch out for love potion #8!

Yay! A new background! Hooray for winter!

I am definitely technologically challenged! What is up with changing the background? I have done it before all by myself but today I am trying to put up a Christmas background and I cannot! Hurry and get home Caitlyn mommy needs you! Ha Ha! There are some cute ones too.
Oh well(sigh) on to other things.
It was good to see Lindsay and Nick over thanksgiving break. And Jordan too although I only saw him for about a minute!
Going down to see my mom with my siblings was great! Mom is doing okay.Missouri is very different in December than it is in July! Still worth going for! We did have great weather though, it was about in the 70's.
I am talking to Kristin while I type this! Hi Kristin! She doesn't know that though. Yay, school is almost over for her! Happy Graduation!

You know you love your child when...

This weekend was family weekend down at Morehead State. Doug and I went down to see Jordan and watch the football game. When we got there it wasn't raining to bad. Just a light sprinkle. It was doable to watch a football game in.


We sat there in our little 88 cent Wal-Mart disposable ponchos and were fairly comfortable.
Then came half-time.


It poured! And poured! And poured!


We stayed though for Jordan! We love him!

Apple Picking

Today Caitlyn, Chaela and I went to the Lynd Fruit Farm and picked apples! MMMMMMM...so good! I heard about it from Larissa Zitzman. She recommended the Honeycrisp variety and boy was she right! When Caitlyn took a bite I thought she was going to fall over from the impact of the flavor! We just got a 20 pound bag this time because we weren't sure what we were doing but I think we may go back and get more. Maybe even try a different variety. Chaela had fun but I think she really just wanted to walk around. She kept pointing out the bit of moon that was still visible.This is her eating an apple that is just about bigger than she is!


That farm had so much more than apples! We also got some sweet corn to try out. They had berries and melons and all kinds of things that looked so delicious! We will definitely be going back!

Chaela and Caitlyn Picking


Chaela and Grandma!