Spring?

Liesl qnd Gavin have been hanging out a bit playing outside in the warm weather that has so abruptly left us. We were so excited to have our family over for St Pattys day earlier for shepherds pie and Irish fare. It was gorgeous out. We had to Windows open and everything airing out last week but had to turn the heat back on this week. I have tons of seeds started and growing in the window now. Have been bringing them in and out on cold days and nights. Hope they are getting heartier. Jim is going to majorly extend the garden to accomodate them hopefully making us more sustainable and self sufficient and not worrying about all those nasty chemicals. Liesl know what all my seedlings are, I am proud of her. We got a magnolia tree for the front yard which as pretty sad with the cold weather. She will bloom again. We are already into tulips, daffodils, hyacynth, crocuses all done. Everything is blooming so early. All my flower beds are ready for action.
Liesl is being quite the good big sister hugging and kissing my belly and saying age can't wait for Jeanie. Not too long now I M about to burst. My due date is fast approaching and I feel her moving around like crazy and she is poised to pop out. They didn't check me this last appt but I think I am getting effaced fast. I feel some Sharp java which I think are some short braxton hicks. We will see. Anytime now. Got all the chlothea cleaned, spot treated and pristine, sorted and put away. Am so excited to use them again. Just need to get the car seat out of the attic and cleaned and mommy, daddy and Liesl packed for
The hospital and we are ready to go. Happy birthday grandad. We love you.

Excellent week so far and more to come

<p>This week has been amazing weather outside and we have been taking advantage of it all. Have bbq'd tons and gardened some. Played in the Romeo park with Shannon and later with Heather and Gavin. Love that park and Liesl loves the climbing wall. We also visited Wolcott with Heather and Gavin which was super fun for everyone. All of the animals especially the goats and sheep were running to me because they knew I was pregnant and so were 9 of them. And due at the same time! The farm center store was open. First time ever for me and we took advantage of it buying special ice cream for dessert later. The kids were super excited. Afterwards we all went back to our house for bbq. It was so summertime out and we gwen wonderful grilled meats, veggies and the kids played on the swingset til past dark. We burned in our newish fire pit in the back and the kids "burned" marshmallows and called it camping. Perhaps we will camp out bqck before April. What a great week and especially great day it was. Hope the weather lasts. Then today Jim noticed my crocuses have bloomed. Yay spring. Thank god we had time to clean up the garden so they could emerge. Plus I think my other seeds have started themselves. I hope the poppies come up!

Rest of the weekend vacation

Well mom didn't really make it through unscathed from our adventure at the hill. She came back from the urgent care with a serious brace. Hope this doesn't last. She is wanting to get back on her bike and ride. we spent Monday night at the local movie theatere. If I knew that place was so cheap! The kids loved the weird atmosphere of all the taxidermied animals. Colton and Barb had already headed for home so we weren't such a big troupe anymore. We watched my favorite children's book the Lorax made to a movie and Liesl has told me it is now her favorite as well and can't wait for dvd. Tuesday we slowly made it out of the cottage. It was funny, every time we blinked those kids were worried we would be leaving. They had such a great time entertaining themselves and running around exploring. We slowly made our way home driving stopping at Zehnders for chicken dinner and a place called past tense. The kids really behaved themselves so well I am proud of them all. Great job!
Liesl really missed daddy and was so happy to be home. She was jumping around all over him all night. This morning we had to shop for Everything! We. Bought tons of groceries and she was such a good helper. No issues. Think she is getting out of her 3's craziness that lasted forever. They said 6 months. We shall see. Swim class tomorrow will be a good test for the week. Liesl and I cleaned up the garden in the back by tearing out that horrid rose bush to make room for out vegtables. It was a bear! I filled the whole yard waste container. Then we filled another cleaning out her rock garden and the lily patch. I found my lavender and was so excited. I thought that was a failure last year. I feel so accomplished I planted that from seed. Yay me! If it stays warm I can get the rest of this garden in shape before the little one comes. The inside of the house is another story. Thank you my wonderful child for a great day!

Up north again

Oma, Heather, Barb Gater and I brought the kids up to the cottage to go sledding because there has been some amazing snowfall out there. When we got up though the lake didn't seem to be frozen anymore so we created a barrier at the bottom but then the hill was not long enough. So today we called the chamber of commerce to find a sledding hill and drove to Roscommon and found the most amazing hill for the kids to go on. There were some serious sledding hills.
From steep to insane. Colton went down first with his grandma and Oma gabi and didn't aNy to go down anymore because he got so much snow in his face. The others took many more runs down the hills until Oma blew out her knee and needed to be taken to the urgent care. Hope she is ok