State Fair

Here are some fun pictures from last month at the Kansas State Fair. We went to celebrate Tyler's Birthday. Eve had a great time. One of her favorite things was going through some RVs and seeing the "mini houses".

Trying to milk the pretend cow

On the Merry-Go-Round

On the giant slide with Daddy - They actually got airborne

Pig Farmers

It's a ....

So thanks everyne who voted in our little pole. It seems like most of you were right on guessing that baby #2 is a GIRL! We are very excited that Eve can be blessed with a sister to share her life with. I think when the tech lady told her it was a girl she didn't quite understand that we weren't just theorizing and maybe it still hasn't sunk in. I guess now me and Tyler will have to start thinking about names. Eve has had one for the baby the whole time and we are strongly considering using her name and letting her name her sister, but are not sure yet. I guess you will have to wait until after shes born to see if we went with Eve's name or not.

Finally An Update

So, I am definitly embarassed that I let our blog go for so long without an update. June was such a busy month with Eve's 2nd birthday and then wheat harvest. And then we got the exciting news that we were finally expecting baby #2 and with it came the hardest sickest 12 weeks of my life. I was definitly sick about 5 times worse than I ever was with Eve and I was running on survival mode for July and Aug especially. In Sept. thing started to slowly get better and I can say that know I feel back to normal. We are excited that we now made it past the 1/2 way mark (well maybe) and are going on Wed. to have an ultrasound and find out what we are having. And we are taking Eve with us and can't wait to see her face when she finds out if its a brother or sister, although she has always said sister. And I think we all kinda hope she is right because we hope (God willing) that we can have more children and it will be fun for her to have a sister. So please everyone take a quick second to vote in our little pole to quess what we are having.

And here are some quick summer pics to show what Eve was up to.

Fun with Visitors

Last Week we were so lucky to have my dad and grandmother come from PA for a visit. It was my grandmother's first visit to KS and I hope she had as much fun as we did. We took them to a ranch rodeo where we saw local cowboys from local feedlots compete and we were interviewed and I was even quoted in the newspaper. We also spent time at the farm and showed them the great expanse of the land around here. It was a great time and we have a week here to prepare for our next visitor, my mom who is coming next week for mine and Eve's birthday.

Country Girl

I love taking Eve to just go and try new experiences and see whats around us. Well last weekend we went to our local 4-H animal show. The kids were showing all their different animals. We saw goats, sheep, cows, and horses. Eve loved seeing all the animals by was a little nervous to really touch most of them. She slowly warmed up to the horses and enjoyed getting to sit on one of them. But she wasn't so happy with the sheep. They were all getting sheared and prepped when we got there and made a lot of noise. Now whenever you ask her about sheep all she says is "Sheep are so so loud".

Pigtails

Kansas is by far the windiest place you could ever live. It doesn't help when I am trying to let Eve's hair grow, but it is constantly getting in her face and mouth. At least now it is long enough for ponytails and pigtails. I took these the other day and just thought they were too fun to not share.

Old Fashion Fun

Last week we had some really nice weather, not as hot as normal, but not cold either. I went to work finishing off my gardening work and restaining our deck. I tried to find some new things for Eve to enjoy. While I was working on the garden I let Eve do some of the fun things that my Grammy always had us do at her house. First she got to have some fun with water. Grammy always used dish washing tubs, but I didn't havc any so I just used a plastic container and some kitchen stuff. The first day she played in the water without getting in, but by the second day she just felt like she had to get in the water. Well, I didn't want to get out all her bathing suits yet, so she got to go in her birthday suit. She had a great time with the funnels and she loved using the ladle. The next day I worked more on the staining, so Eve wanted to help me paint, but there was no way I was going to let her use the stuff. So Grammy inspired me again and Eve got to work with a paintbrush and a big bowl of water. She would laugh and tell me all about the animals she was painting. I was able to get a lot done and she had lots of fun with new experiences.