Ya never know...

Madalyn is at that stage where you never know what she is going to come out with next.  This morning she took her pull-up off and went into her room to get some underwear.  Next thing I know she is coming out (without the underwear), holding her butt. "What are you doing Madalyn?"  "Do ya know I have a little butt?"  "Yes Madalyn you do have a little butt."  "I have little toes too, do you have little toes, oh wait you have BIG toes!"  LOL  I love it!  

This morning she requested "Box -n- the Hound".  So we are watching that and getting ready for church while we wait for Daddy to get home with his big helper.  I apologize for the lack of updated barn pictures.  Seems like either both girls don't want to go, or Madalyn doesn't and I end up staying home.  The few times this week we all went, I forgot!  OOPS!

Hope you all have a good day, and don't forget to smile!

LOVE

If this isn't love...

I don't know what is!

(Of course they don't have a clue what is going on because the TV is on, but still cute!)

Lemons and money

I'm starting to wonder about us.  Seems like no matter how frugal we try to be, whenever we purchase something we end up with lemons instead.  Is it just us?  3 years ago we bought a new heating system.  The house that we bought was Doug's grandmother's and had electric heat in the living room and dining room, leaving the rest of the house without any heat.  We put a space heater in the nursery and kept the heat settings in the house at 60.  We were freezing all the time from the house not being a consistent temperature throughout it.  The bill ran us about $650 a month.  It was awful.  So we decided to get a wood burning boiler and put in in-floor heat.  Doug did a lot of looking around at different makes and models.  We chose an indoor model and installed it in our basement.  This is our third winter with it and we have had countless chimney fire scares, and pieces breaking on the thing.  The company doesn't care that its still covered under warranty, they say its our problem.  So after another piece breaking 2 weeks ago, we seriously contemplated throwing it out the door.  We called a company that Doug is very interested in purchasing a new stove from and asked them if they would be willing to take our stove in on trade in.  They came and looked at it.  Although they were not interested they did comment on how its hooked up to our hot water for the house.  We are always running out and they said that shouldn't be happening.  So they explained how it should be hooked up.  Doug went and got all the pieces to change it around.  In the process we found out that the minerals and such in our VERY hard water had settled and was blocking up a pipe to the hot water tank.  Now not only do we have a piece of junk for a heating system and no money to replace it, but we also need a $400 water softener!  Doug got a piece to fix the stove and as of right now we are back loving it.  However this has happened in the past and within a month we have serious issues again.  We will see.  We did order the water softener and will be picking it up on Thursday.  Then yesterday, the desktop computer decided to go up.  Doug is pretty sure the hard drive is shot.  Its a Mac and we have only had it for 3 years.  I told him thats not speaking very well for Macs and he said, "well, like everything else, I can almost guarantee that we bought a lemon."  Grrrr.  Why is it as soon as I'm able to stash a little bit of money, something big goes up on us and a whole lot more goes back out.  Sometimes, I don't care what anyone says, I really wish we hadn't bought but were renting instead.  I know "its a waste of money", but at least all this stuff would be someone else's responsibility.  LOL  Oh well, I guess this is where trusting in God comes into play.  I know sometimes we get "too comfortable" and then we take our eyes off Him and all he does for us.  When stuff like this happens we have no choice but to put our total focus back on Him.  When you look at it that way its a blessing in disguise.  Ok, I'm done rambling now! 

Oh a good note...its Doug's week off again.  My goal this week is to get pictures of the girls in the barn feeding the cows.  They are soo cute!    

Farm Show pictures!

As promised here are the pictures from the farm show.  Grandma brought her camera and had her hands free...I had two kids and two dogs so it was harder than I thought to get my camera out and start shooting pictures.  So I just let her do it and then I stole pictures from her.  Some of them aren't the clearest, but you'll get the just!  

Meet "Lucy" (French Bulldog)

She belongs to Doug's brother and his wife

Trying my hardest to keep track of 4 kids and 3 dogs with Aunt Laurie's help!

Ashton on "his" tractor (Marissa and Madalyn's cousin)

Marissa has to pick the biggest

Jack, Case and Chloe

Madalyn found the one she wants!

So cute!

Great picture of Owen 

(Ashton's brother) 

Marissa's turn 

What a goof ball

Love this picture

This is like a yearly picture with the kids

Jack's turn...although he would have much rather been peeing on the tires!

This one makes me laugh!

Testing out the stalls

Girl time...

Last night was book club.  We all rode together to Fort Drum...about a 45 minute ride.  So we got to chit chat on the way down there.  We found Aubrey's new place in the dark and had no trouble getting in the gate.  Although honestly I don't think the guard on duty dared keep a van full of 7 women too long, LOL!  The food was great and the conversation was awesome!  When all 8 women are crying they are laughing so hard you know it was a good time.  What a blessing I have to call them all friends and to be able to confide in them and sound off on them.  What a privilege!  Countdown had begun for the next book club already!  HAHA  

On another note, Aubrey's husband has his departure date now.  Please prayer for Aubrey and her 4 kids as Michael is leaving on March 20th for Afghanistan for 12-18 months.        

TMI

Ok just for the record this is a vent and anyone that doesn't want to read can stop now...You have been warned!  Being a woman SUCKS!  Ok I don't usually use that word, but I can't think of another word that is strong enough right now.  A week ago I went to the ER with a kidney infection.  Took 5 days before I felt any better.  Today I'm back at the doctor's office with a super bad yeast infection despite my strong efforts with yogurt.  I'm so done!  Did I mention that this is my third UTI/Kidney infection since May 2009?  So now my OB/GYN is talking about urologists.  YUCK!  I talked with her for a while today and we decided that I would make a follow up appointment with my family doctor on Monday to make sure my Kidney infection is really gone.  Then I will run all this by him.  My thoughts is one of two things...although I'm no doctor.  I only had one kidney infection before having Madalyn and that was while I was in Morrisville.  I was training a 2 year old filly and got thrown and kicked on my right side of my back, right around my kidney.  2 days later I was at the health center just about in tears and they diagnosed my first kidney infection or kidney stone...ended up not being a stone.  Then I was good to go.  Till I had Madalyn.  After her delivery, my uterus tilted.  I did some research and they mentioned that that could be the cause.  I don't know.  But I REALLY DON'T WANT TO GO TO ANOTHER DOCTOR!  LOL  I'm just going to repeat my statement for the day...being a woman sucks!    

Update on the big girls and some other stuff..

They are doing great in their new bedroom arrangement.  I asked them how they liked it and if they wanted to keep it that way and they said YES!  Its kinda bad because in one way I want to put it back and somehow force them to stay little (I'm fully aware that this will not work by the way!).  Then the other half of me likes the facet that they are showing more and more independence and their beds are WAY easier to make the way they are currently set up!  For now they are staying the way they are anyhow and as of right now no one has fallen out.  

We had an awesome day in Syracuse yesterday at the Farm show (pictures to come).  The kids tested out milking machines, cow mats, clipping stations, and lots more stuff.  The dogs were very well behaved and we had a blast hanging on with family.  We even met up with a mutual friend of mine and Doug's from Morrisville State College.  Afterwards we went to Olive Garden and enjoyed an awesome meal together.  It wasn't the best weather for traveling in the world, but we took it slow and steady and it was fine!

Still nothing on Chloe yet.  I'm guessing we are 1-2 days away from a cycle still.  I'll keep ya'll posted...HAHA  not that some of you may want to know but...well I have to have some place to talk!

"We are NOT babies anymore!"

Yesterday, in my hopes of finding Case's harness for our trip today, I ended up in the girls room.  You see, we have this naughty boy...his name is Sid.    

Maybe you have met him?  He is a THIEF!  So naturally when something goes missing in the house, its usually his fault.  And usually I'm right.  However, after pulling apart the kids beds, (did I mention that he is not only a thief but he hides what he takes?) I came up empty handed.  I began to put the room back together.  Marissa came in, asked what I was doing and proceeded to help me.  Then she informed me, "Do you know that Madalyn and I are NOT babies anymore?"  I assured her I did.  Then she asked why the side protectors were still on the bed.  It makes it look like a crib she told me.  So I asked her if she would like hers off.  She did so I started the process of removing hers when in walked the "shadow".  I knew what was coming next.  Madalyn wanted hers off too.  They also decided they wanted their beds separated versus being pushed right together and the crack filled with blankets.  I'm not entirely sure how long it will last.  I don't think they will want their sides back on, but it wouldn't surprise me if Marissa wants the beds pushed back together.  Time will tell.  Hopefully no one falls out tonight!

On another note, we are days away from Chloe's next cycle.  My guess is we have 12 days before we do the first breeding.  I'm scared! 

 If you havn't met the Daddy and Mommy yet, this is Jack (left) and Chloe (right).  They are Cairn Terriers and are both a little over 2.  This will be theirs and our first litter.  My sister-in-law, Laurie (she owns the male) is doing it with me so I'm not on my own.  We should be looking at puppies arriving sometime in May if all goes well.  I'll keep you posted!

Scrap booking

This month I went to my first ever scrap booking party. Something about scrap booking has always intrigued me, but I have never tried my hand at it. I'm still very clueless, but nonetheless, I ordered some stuff. We made this card at the party...it was simple and easy and cost about 33 cents. I can handle that!

I got to bring home the catalog which is packed full of fun ideas for cards and scrap book pages.

This is the paper that I ordered. I love pink and brown anything so when I saw it I knew it was calling my name...with the green in there too its prefect!

This is the company...

We had alot of fun and hopefully soon I will be able to try it all out. I'm a perfectionist, so I'm hoping my creative side comes out good, or else I have a feeling it won't work for me! LOL But I really want it to because it looks like so much fun. I guess they have a new end of it coming out where you can design your pages online and they print them out and ship them to you. That seems more up my alley, but I'm sure more expensive too. We will see!

Grandma and Grandpa Geiger came!

I'm horrible and totally forgot I even took these pictures! I was preparing the camera for tomorrow and found them. Figured late is better than never right?!

The girls love it when "Grandma Geiger" and "Grandpa" visit. Here are a couple pictures of their visit.

Just for the record...I have NOOOO idea why Grandpa got all the pictures with the girls minus this last one.

At one point in time everyone in the house was asleep...Yes even me, but good news is I woke up first so I was able to share this picture with all of you! You can see Grandpa's legs and feet there on the floor. We ran out of room on the couch...