Happy Birthday Reagan

We celebrated Reagan's big 4th birthday this last week. Her birthday was on Wed, May 19th. Kevin and I had really debated on whether or not to spend the money on this Barbie jeep....they're certainly not cheap. It comes with a working radio and everything! But we figured she's going to have a sister that can get enjoyment out of it too and with summer coming, Reagan is always outside so she'll get plenty of use out of it. Reagan loved her jeep and always has her baby doll as the passenger. On Saturday, we had the immediate family over for supper, gifts, and cake. I got this Barbie cake from Wal-Mart and have to say I was quite impressed. It took all I could do to keep Reagan out of it while it was sitting on the table half the day. Happy Birthday Reagan!

Happy Nurses Week

Happy Nurse's week to all my nurse friends out here. Hope you all celebrated in some way or another. I did a little spa hour for my nurses at the nursing home. We had a lot of Beauty Control products and did the whole foot soak thing, warm neck wrap, lip appeal, cucumber eye pads and relaxes to some music. Then we painted fingernails and toenails and indulged in some sweets! I even had a massage therapist lined up to come in but things sort of fell through on that. We also had gift basics made up with a bunch of bath and body type products. It was a nice day to kick back and relax. Right now we're overlapped with nursing home week so we have all kinds of activities going on this week.

Guttering finally

After 2 years, we finally got guttering put on our house. Yeah, I have to blog about this for lack of anything better:) Now we're just waiting for one of Kev's friends to come out and do some trenching so we can lay down some tile to get the water away from the house. THEN, next spring's project will be to do all of the landscaping around the house and in the circle drive. We had wanted to do that this year but with the deck and pation coming this summer, it wasn't going to happen. Not to mention I have this issue with my belly size increasing along with the decrease in ability to bend over.

Lucy and Ethel, our newest addition

Kevin's dreams of owning goats has finally come true! We went to the 4-H goat auction last weekend and bid on 1 goat but we didn't get it. But while we were there, a guy Kevin works with said he knew of a guy wanting to get rid of his two goats. So Kevin and his brother went to pick them up on Saturday. Their names are "Lucy and Ethel" named after the characters on the I Love Lucy show...supposedly because they are mischevious! The goats are beautiful and very friendly, and they loved being brushed. Right now we have them in the pen with the chickens while we're working on more permanent placement. The goats don't seem to mind being with the chickens but I don't think the chickens care for the intruders. We're still trying to figure out what kind of small shelter to make for them but I did find a hay feeder construction plan on the internet I felt that was do-able. Luckily it was raining and Kevin didn't have anything else to do so he offered to help. Worked out well for me to be his boss and tell him what to do and he did all the manual labor! It turned out really well, now we just need to find someone who has some hay they can sell to us....

Can't say I didn't try

I think I might be the last person on the earth that doesn't have a facebook account. After some convincing, I finally did this whole blog thing which suprisingly I've sort of kept up with. So all I wanted to do was get on facebook just to even see what it is. I was suprised that as soon as I logged in, who all showed up automatically...I guess they link it to your email account? I had people showing up that I didn't even know (a lot of dog customers). I did spend about an hour one night looking at things and was shocked at the faces I came across just by looking at some of my friends accounts that had 300 friends and then into their freinds! The whole time I'm thinking, how does a person keep up with all this?! I soon starting getting many emails regarding those wanting to be friends. Apparently you can't just get on facebook to see things, you're information is automatically posted out there for all to see. Tonight I just deactivated my account for now since I really don't plan on using it and didn't want anyone to think I didn't accept them as my friends. So sorry Jessica and all those others that have been pressuring me to enter the facebook world. Maybe some other day.

The Wizard of Oz

We went to the Newton High School's "The Wizard of Oz" play on Sunday afternoon. Reagan and I went with Kevin's mom and grandma, cousin Jaiden and Aunt Ashley. Reagan has watched the movie a few times so I was hopeful that she'd have interest in the play. She was really pumped up for it. It was difficult explaining what a "play" was. I think she thought that we were supposed to wear costumes! She did really enjoy it and behaved even better than what I would have hoped for. Of course it helped that her Great-Grandma was giving her candy most of the time! At intermission, we had a chance to stand with Dorothy and get pictures taken so her and her cousin happily stood next to her. It was another first for our little Reagy!

New improvements

Kev had a guy come out to our land this week to do some clearing and land leveling in the prospective goat land. He's been busy for months it seems like gradually getting the woods cleaned up so we can get some grass to grow and eventually get some fencing put up. We're hoping in the next week or so, we'll be getting our guttering put up on the house and garage finally! We're also making final arrangements on the patio to go back by our walkout basement. It's so exciting makin home improvements!