My Birthday

 

 

 

Harvest Invaders!!

Caught two mice today with my bare hands! I am not kidding. Denver FAILS as a mouse hunter. I led him right to it. He got all excited to catch it but then he picked it up with his soft mouth and proceded to drop it right in front me. It was stunned so I grabbed it by the tail and picked it up. I'm thinking, "GREAT! NOW WHAT??"  I took it outside and let it go. I know...I'm a fool, because that mouse will probably make his way right back in here. In fact, he might even be the same mouse I saved from Scott (who wanted to stomp on it!) and made him release outside earlier today!

Zapped!!

To my horse-loving children,
Today while installing a hay feeder in your pony's pen, I accidentally backed into the electric fence. The wire touched the back of my neck and gave me the ZAP of a lifetime.  As you know, that fence is EXTREMELY strong for such a small area because it needed to contain Hayes when he was a stallion.  I've been shocked by it before but never up high, so close to my BRAIN!!!  I can't begin to explain the sensation and pain of this type of jolt!  So my dear children, when I am old and start losing my memory and you are tempted to make fun of me because I am repeating myself, I want you to remember this incident and how I tirelessly cared for your ponies and how this one incident probably fried half of my brain!

Brunching at The Metropolitan Club in the Willis (Sears) Tower

Visiting Santa in Chicago

My Parents

Had a nice visit with my parents in Ashtabula, Ohio in June

Ketta's New Baby

Ketta gave birth to "Bella" in the early morning the day of Luke's Kindergarten class field trip to the farm! It was quite a treat for all the kids to see a fresh new foal.

Shaggy Horse Show

Gracie competed in The Shaggy Horse Show with Teddy while mom worked in the show office. Gemma was sick this weekend and couldn't ride.

We're Dropping The "h" in Nylah

After 4 days of contemplation, just before leaving the hospital Scott and I decided to drop the "h" off of Nylah. So now, her official name is Nyla Nicole Seevers.  Here are some of our early favorite photos:

There's a 9 lb. baby in there!

Ready to go!

Danna is in good spirits as she readies for arrival of baby.  It doesn't hurt that this maternity center is more like a posh hotel than a hospital!

8 Weeks To Go!

In some ways I can't believe I only have 8 weeks to go, but in other ways it seems like a LONG way off! The official date has now been set for April 7th unless I go into labor sooner. They wanted to take the baby two weeks before the due date but I negotiated to just one week early instead. Now my goal is to grow an 8 lb. baby girl by 39 weeks-not an easy task! I was moving around pretty well until this past week when my low back pain suddenly increased several notches on the pain scale. So now the fun begins. The good news......baby is kicking like crazy, I'm still exercising and so far, no swelling in my legs and feet. Not bad for somebody "my age".

26 Weeks

I am 26 weeks pregnant in the photos below. C-section is tentatively scheduled for April 5, but final date will be set on Jan. 20. It's still hard for me to accept that the c-section is unavoidable. I'm hoping to get all my tears out about it well in advance so I can embrace the day without any sadness. The whole thing is such an assault on the body.....it's like knowing in advance you're going to have a car accident that will require major surgery and several weeks of recovery!! But hey, at least knowing in advance allows you to clear your calendar, right?

Happy Memorial Day!

We decided not to make the annual trip to Buckhannon, WV this year where my mother's family gathers for reunions and Memorial Day services. Instead, Scott caught up on yard work, played with the kids and today I harvested spinach and four different kinds of lettuce from the garden. Then, we all headed into town to our house for burgers and brats.....oh, and fresh salad of course! The garden is really starting to take off! Unfortunately, so are the weeds.

Here I am tasting my first picking of spinach and lettuce! Yum!

I caught this photo of Grandma's watering can hanging from a branch on a tree.