Halloween

Hope everyone had a great Halloween. Ours was pretty broken up. We started last weekend at West Union getting that side of the family. By the way, congratulations to my sister for announcing that she was 10 weeks pregnant on that day!! On Friday evening, I stayed at the nursing home for the evening to help out with the trick or treating event while Kevin and the girls helped pass out candy at Grandma Schulte's house. Finally on Sunday evening, we went around Newton to a few places to finish up. We had planned on going to the Halloween parade on Saturday night but Kevin and Reagan ended up with the stomach flu in the middle of the night on Friday. Despite that part in the weekend, we still had a good holiday. Happy Halloween everyone! Now we can focus on Christmas:)

Finally!!

Well, anyone who is close to us knows that we've had goats since last April. We weren't exactly ready for them yet...no house, no fence, no hay. But Kevin convinced me that it would be okay to keep them with the chickens for a short time. Well that's just been a big mess. They poop and pee everywhere and are always jumping up on the fence around our coop which certainly was not meant to have goats leaning and pushing up on it. It had gotten so bad out in the coop that we just stopped going in there period. So for the first time in over a year, I had to start buying eggs from the store. We were just saying that we were suprised that none of the eggs have hatched out yet when last Tuesday, we found 10 baby chicks running around! To make things even better, our fence guy finally came out and installed the fence out across the pond (which Kevin has been working on endlessly for months to get ready for this). So Saturday was the move in day for the goats (one of the best days of my life). I had to get a picture of Kevin standing next to the fence that we, and Patrick, did...all by ourselves! We were quite proud of it along with the building that Kevin and Dad built over the summer. Then I got the chicken coop all cleaned out and we are back in the egg business!

First time for everything

I will have been married 8 years this year and believe it or not, I've never mowed a lawn since we've been married. I don't know why...I always mowed growing up and enjoyed doing it. When we rented our first house, all we had was a push mower. After a few laps around the yard the first time I tried a push mower, I was completely exhausted and decided push mowing definately wasn't my thing. Kevin and I have taken on the traditional household responsibilities...he does the outside work, I do the inside work. Well then of course we had kids so now I never have the opportunity to go out and mow because I watch the girls while Kevin is outside working. I was called in to work Sunday evening and decided to take Monday off. The girls went the the sitter and I spent the afternoon mowing and planting grass seed. I didn't get too crazy on making cool strips in the yard but I do have to admit, I should be mowing more often for as good as it looked!

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My girls

Here's my girls...aren't they adorable! Reagan still loves holding Reese and sitting by her in the chair. I absolutely love this picture of them together! Reese in almost 3 months old now. Where does the time go? We've had a few nights of her sleeping 7-8 hours but nothing consistent. I'm still adjusting to life at work. It's amazing how spoiled your body gets when you go 8 weeks without working and without anywhere to be. Is it too soon to be pregnant again just so I can have more time off work?