Reed Ranch- Cute & Tasty

Saturday September 9, 2006

Grandma, the Girls and I set out for Penn. in the early morning hours. I slept most of the way. It was great. It doesnt take long to get there when you can sleep most of the time. The girls watched Cinderella and Dumbo. Staying at Great Granma's house was a chore to keep the girls from touching everything. Especially the little one. She did finally end up breaking a snow globe. Sorry Great Grandma. She was very gracious about it breaking. There were nick nacks everywhere for the girls to get into.

Sunday September 10, 2006

We went to Margie's house. We got to see Camlins beautiful baby and their home they had been working on. They did a great job with their home and the baby. The baby is so cute and Camlin is a natural at being a Mom.

The girls got to meet Gavin and play with him. They really liked it at Aunt Margies. She had lots of toys and made great desserts.

Monday September 11, 2006

We took Great Grandma and the girls for pictures at Walmart where we saw Aunt Jean at work. She was able to take her break with us and unfortunately that is all the time we got to spend with her. The girls really liked her especially because she got them an ice cream cone from McDonalds.

Tuesday September 12, 2006

We went back up to Margies after having lunch with Ginny Kay and Great Grandma.
Through out all of the visiting we did a little shopping for clothes for our three year old. She gave us a fashion show one morning.

One night I was giving the girls a bath at Great Grandmas house and the oldest girl was done so she was behind me while the one year old was finishing her bath. I had my shirt off because I always get soaked. And my three year old unhooked the first two hooks of my bra and couldnt get the last two. She said "Man! I dont know how you were one of these every day!" It was very cute.

Wednesday September 13, 2006

The girls and I pakced up the car and drove out to my friend Michelle's house in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We were room mates in College and great friends. She has 4 girls of her own. They were all great. My girls loved hanging out at her house and with her kids. We went to the park and got Starbucks. Just having our kids hang out and play together was fun. Once the girls would go to sleep we would talk and talk and talk. We had a great time. I sure wish we lived closer.

Saturday September 16, 2006

The girls and I headed south to Indianapolis, Indiana to see my brother and for the girls to meet their cousins. He has four boys. The last time they saw each other our three year old was 3 months old. My girls took to their boys very quickly especially since they had dogs and cats. They have two very cool cats and two very cool dogs.
They had just gotten a rat terrier puppy a few weeks ago and it was so cute and tiny. The girls loved picking him up and carring him around. The other dog is also a rat terrier but a bigger version, his name was Ottis. They liked him too. He slept with our three year old the last night we were there and she loved it.

The first night we were there we had a camp fire, roasted marshmellows and camped out with uncle Jeff and Mark. Until I woke up in the middle of the night and notice Uncle Jeff had ditched us. Then Mark was soon gone too. Their air mattress had deflated. We had lots of fun.

The next day the girls spent lots of time on the trampoline which they loved and Uncle Jeff gave them a ride on the lawn mower. They liked that too. It is was a great visit. The girls loved their cousins and didnt want to leave. They said, after we had been driving for a while that they missed them.

We left Indianpolis about 5:30am and got to our home at 8:00pm. It was 788miles. Not too bad but a very long day with too girls. However they were so tired from playing with "those boys" which is what our three year old called them. They slept most of the way home and we didnt even get out the dvd player.

Monday September 18, 2006

Our return home. Asa had been living by himself for 10 days. YIKES! I was back to culture shock again. He forgot to go to the dump with the trash. He had made Grandmas room his gun cleaning/animal stalking room. He also put up another goat area for Happy Birthday which she got out of today. He purchased 5 buck purbred Boer goats. Which our three year old had two of them named before she even saw them. One is Silly Billy and the other is Jelly Belly.

Tuesday September 19, 2006

I was still in shock today. Asa keeps asking me if I am ok. You forget how dirty the house is when you leave and when you are here for a while it all blends together so you dont notice it. It is much easier if you never leave or if you just stay away. I tried to clean up today but every step forward was two steps back. For example bringing in the diaper bag should have been easy until the dog with his muddy feet jumped in the front seat walked all over it and then went to the passenger seat and back to the drivers seat before I could get him out of the vehicle. Our one year old throwing toys out of the basket quicker than I can pick them up to sweep.

They were blasting and digging the trenches for the water lines. That is good news. We should have City water by Spring. Yeah.