...and New Stories

I was cut off from cyberspace from Tuesday-Friday due to a bad modem. Ack. The good news is I was supposed to be off-line until sometime tomorrow morning, but my wonderful husband offered to take the modem to Fort Dodge to trade it in himself instead of waiting for the cable company to come to us...he's so sweet!

Giff and Betsy brought Bergen up to visit and meet Miss Mia this weekend. We had tons of fun, and the kids were great. They ate too much sugar and didn't get enough sleep, but they are great friends and had two great days. My house was pretty much a war zone for about 48 hours but it was worth it.

This is what happened when we left Giff alone with the kids! But the most fun seemed to be had by jumping on the air mattresses!

Mia had her first bottle this weekend - Betsy and I had gone for a walk and it seems Mia wasn't super excited mom wasn't here for a snack. Chris and Giff managed to get the milk out and ready, but couldn't find a bottle! Poor thing had to wait until we got back anyway, but still got her bottle. She did pretty well, ate a little over an ounce from the bottle...Ella was thrilled about it, and as you can see from the pictures was, as always, anxiuos to help!

I'm still running, and have managed to almost double my time since starting. I've also jumped up to two days in a row and one day off. It feels so great to be moving again. I was back mowing again this weekend - and crazy as it may seem while I was out there I thought to myself I'm ready to do it all again (Chris, thankfully is not....he makes sure I don't make super bad decisions). And scarry as it is, I actually thought to myself it wasn't that bad, and I think I could do the natural thing again...Chris assures me, it WAS that bad! :)

Turns out we've got some stellar neighbors. We live on a corner, and of the four houses we could call neighbors three are new since we moved in last October. The newest clan is a retired couple that just sold their farm. They rock. We've gotten fresh corn, cucumbers, onions and most recently a tub full of green beans, potatoes, a cantelope and more cucumbers. To top things off, I ran into the woman today at K-Mart while trying to buy flushable wipes for Ella....we chatted on our way out and mentioned they didn't have them so we'd run to Hy-Vee. We didn't run to Hy-Vee and it's a good thing cause she found them, bought them and brought them over to us! How sweet. This is the same woman whom I spotted running across our yard because it started raining and I had clothes on the line. Have I ever told you I love my little town?

We've got a busy few weeks ahead....mom and dad are coming Tuesday night and will be spending Wednesday with us, before dad ships off to the cities to do business (Mom will stay here until he comes back)...they officially head back on Friday. The next week Wednesday we're taking the fam to Lincoln for one month pics of Mia at Raders. We had planned to stay all weekend, but Chris was accepted into "THE" fantasy football league in Web. City (Yes there are more than one, he just happened to get an invite into the elite league - they think he's mister football here in central Iowa!), and his draft is Sunday so we'll be leaving Saturday night.

We're all ready for a new week - I love Mondays. I'm excited to see what's in store for us in the next seven days!