6 Years



Stephen checking to see why my brother Ben is back there looking suspicious.





Cake cutting time! My Grandma Rose made the cakes, and Grandma Kathy made my dress!

 



Stephen doesn't like this picture because he's making a goofy face, but I like it. :)

  So on May 28th Stephen and I celebrated 6 years of marriage. It has been a wonderful, fun, love filled 6 years too! We're pretty much still like newlyweds, in fact I consider 6 years still newly wed... I mean really, 6 years isn't THAT long, it has gone by in a flash. We were but wee babes at a mere 18 and 19 years old. Now here we are 6 years older with 2.4 children and just as in love as ever. I love you Stephen and look forward to the next 6 years and beyond!

God's Grace and Mother's Day

A little after midnight I believe it was, so a little after mother's day, my brother Tommy fell asleep at the wheel a half a mile from WalMart where he works the night shift and rolled his pickup. He called Stephen to see if it was okay to leave his pickup at the office in town, and then he went to stay the night with a friend in town. I am SO glad that he is okay.

 As far as I know other than being sore he was not hurt at all, Praise God!

 I just saw his pickup for the first time today, when I went into town. I almost cried when I saw it. His pickup was much prayed and saved and waited for. Tommy always said that God gave him a purple pickup, so he would be clothed in purple. :)


Aren't you glad he didn't have a passenger?

  He also used to sing a song I've heard on K-Love before TO his pickup. Something along the lines of. "God gave me you for the ups and downs, God gave me you for the days of doubt" So when I saw it, that was all I thought of.

 So yeah, his pickup is now totalled, but I am SO thankful that he is fine, and nobody else was even involved in the wreck. My brothers all have a saying they always say to each other which is "Do a barrel roll", just because they do I guess. Tommy now says he has DONE a barrel roll and it's not all it's cracked up to be.

In the picture below, I noticed that the cups are still in the cupholder, which I thought was kinda neat.

 On a completely different note, today my SIL and I went and had a pedicure for Mother's Day. I had never done anything like that before. It was fun. Thanks Crystal!

Happenings

We have the first fruits of our labors! After THREE years of trying to grow a garden, and one thing or another killing it. Be it cows, peacocks, chickens, etc... anyways, this year, a few days ago, we got our first food from our garden! Three cherry tomatoes. Stephen and the kids said they were good. (Shh, I don't like tomatoes....I like many things you can make with tomatoes, but I don't like to just eat them plain.) But so far our tomato plants, corn and onions are all coming along fine! I still need to plant okra, green beans, watermelon and cantaloupe. I hope to grow some greens when it cools off in the fall. It gets too hot for them to do well here in the summer.

Lets see what else. Oh yes. A few weeks ago a friend of ours gave Tyrel a 6 months old miniature donkey. An albino miniature donkey no less. He was rather stand offish at first, but in the past few days he has warmed up to us. You can often find Tyrel hanging off his back out in the yard. Yesterday Tyrel asked if he could ride Ice (he named him himself!) I told him that he might get bucked off and he was okay with that. I set him on Ice's back and Ice just stood there for about 2 minutes. I went to get a handful of feed and he started to follow. He took one step, went hop hop, and Tyrel went splat! He got the wind knocked out of him, but he was fine. He cried a little, but mostly he was proud of being 'bucked off' and that he is a REAL cowboy now because of it. :)

Kimber has been going to the potty a few times a day. I am not even really potty training yet, but if she's interested then hey, go for it! She has also started saying quite a few words. DADDY being her favorite. She will sometimes say Mama. She says apple, happy, please, hi, bye, donkey, cow, goat, up. water bottle, chickies, drink and NO. Most things she says, she says with great enthusiasm. NO! DONKEY! APPLE! BYE! Oh and she calls the swing in our tree a "wheee" because that's what you say when you swing right?



shhhhhhh



I have been feeling a lot better most days. I still get kinda sickish or tired some days, but mostly a lot better. My first prenatal appt. is on the 21st. I accidentally said I was at the beginning of my third trimester in my last post. I meant the beginning of the second! I am due early Novemberish.

Tyrel's picture of Kimber and I.



So.....

I know. It IS possible to post without pictures. Or I could take the time to actually get to where I CAN post pictures. But really I just have not been online a lot lately. After having two blissful, pretty much nothing even uncomfortable pregnancies (okay, so as I think about it there WERE times of discomfort in the previous ones, but not much at all), this one has caught me by surprise. It is really not bad at all compared to people I have heard about, but it's not overly pleasant so far. Don't get me wrong, I would put up with MUCH worse for my sweet baby, and am quite thankful that I do not have to endure more, but this isn't what I'm used to! Sleepy. VERY sleepy. Pretty much all day. I avoid going to town as much as possible, because I always want to nap while in town, or maybe while driving. We usually don't go to town more than once every week at the most, and right now about twice a month if I have to. I pretty much wake up tired, about 30 minutes later the on and off all day queasies start. The smell of my house has come really close to making me puke. (We live in an old trailer house, and it stinks horribly of mildew or something anymore.) I don't feel like eating most of the day, but if I DON'T eat, then I feel worse. Plus I need to feed baby. Not wanting to eat has never been a problem for me before. :) I like food. Sweets are my weakness. Which they seem to be what I most have to avoid.



Hey look, a picture! Maybe I fixed it. :)

 So yeah, I don't like whining on my blog, I'm just kinda letting ya'll know how things are going, and why I haven't been posting much. Since I finally got smart enough to find a due date guesstimator today, I found out that today should be the first day of my second trimester! So hopefully things will take a swing for the better!

Ho Hum

I was sitting here waiting for pictures to upload onto Shutterfly to make my Ma happy, having caught up on reading blogs after not being online for weeks, thinking..."Well now what? I would post on my blog, but all my recent pictures are on Stephen's computer at work. Then I remembered. I have something to blog about that doesn't need pictures. :)

Wanna guess?

Yep, Jones Baby #3 is on the way! Due in about November I am thinking. 11-11-11 would be really cool.

I didn't post right away when I found out because I was wanting to tell my brother Chris first. (after Stephen and kiddos) But I can only reach him by snail mail. So by the time I had decided he might have got the letter, told friends and family here, I had forgot to post about it. So now you know oh world of bloggyness.

I didn't even know I could do that!

Apparently I have reached my limit of how many pictures I can load on my blog. So now what do I do? start a new blog? I don't want to delete all the old pictures from my blog. I have thought about making some picture books from my old blog posts, I guess it is time to do that.....
If you have had this problem....what did you do?

A Day in the Park

With all of the beautiful weather we have been having we have been spending lots of time outside!

 Both at home, and in town. One of the towns near us has my favorite park ever! It is on the edge of town, right beside the river. Yet not set up where your kids will run over and fall in the river while your back is turned.
 It has big old fashioned slides, and some very big teeter totters. I like playing here as much as the kids do.

 Kimber climbed all the way up the slide by herself, with Uncle Ben just standing there to make sure she didn't fall backwards, or thru the rungs.

 I forgot to post a picture of how tall the slide was. At least twice as tall as Ben. So about 12 or so feet.

 Whheeeeee!

 Come one sister! Lets play over here!

 Ride em Benboy!

 Could somebody please help me on this turtle?

 I'll help ya sister!

 Why isn't this as fun as Uncle Ben made it look?

 I love this picture. Ben used to be the 'not baby person' in our family. As a teenager he would avoid holding babies as much as possible. Now he is a super sweet, playful and loving uncle!

 Who me?

 Walking some of the hiking trails.

 They posed like this all by themselves. They are such photographers children. Now if only I could learn to be a photographer and take better advantage of that. :)

 Kimber wanted to be put up there, then she looked at me like, "well, here I am, take my picture"

"I'm not so sure about this...."

You should head over to my family's food blog and see Tyrel's recipe...
http://cookingwiththecowcrew.blogspot.com/2011/03/spinach-salad-soup.html