Everything is Growing!

Hooray...I am past the halfway mark of my pregnancy. Just over 20 weeks. Here is what my belly looks like.

Our garden is also growing. We have harvested peas, lettuce, spinach and beets. Our corn is getting tall, and the melons are starting to grow too. Hopefully we will have tomatoes soon! Yum. The kids are starting to see the rewards for our hard work, but I still think they like the worms and frogs better than the plants.

Weekend in Tamarack

For the fourth of July weekend we went up to Tamarack Resort, just a couple hours north of us, for a few days. We rented a little cabin on the mountain and had a blast. Here is what we did....

1. Went Fishing...Tim and I are complete fishing novices, so selecting and putting on bait was sort of a gong show...but the kids didn't care. Josh even mananged to catch one fish!

2. The kids swam...mostly in the hot tub on our back deck, but in the resort pool too.

3. We went golfing...had the course to ourselves, well we did share it with about a million mosquitoes, but it was still fun.

4. We rode the chairlift up, and had a beautiful view of Lake Cascade...my kids thought it was the world's greatest merry-go-round.

Ahhh.... the view from the top!

5. We ate smores, hot dogs, candy, and just generally had a great time together enjoying the fresh mountain air, and each other!

Tagged

Laura tagged me: I don't exactly know what that means, but I think I am supposed to tell everyone 10 random things about me

1. I HATE spiders...I mean loathe, detest, and am totally creeped out by them.
2. I am very handy...I have tiled my kitchen and bathrooms myself, installed sinks, toilets, and drip lines.
3. I aspire to be a really good photographer.
4. I love food...love to eat... and consequently, love to cook.
5. I like to write poems, and stories.
6. I want to be a great painter, but I hardly ever paint because it is so messy and hard to do with kids around....sigh.
7. I love to read, anything...but can be quite a research nerd if something interests me.
8. I am terrible at keeping up with laundry...I detest it.
9. I played the clarinet for 5 years...the violin for 2, and gave them both up for sports...not my best move...or maybe it was...
10. I have given birth to all our kids at home with a midwife, and no drugs.

A Quickie

Yes...it's true, my husband is an old man. This past weekend we took a quickie trip up to Canada for Tim's 20 year high school reunion. We left Thursday night, drove all night, and returned on Sunday. We did manage to cram a whole lot of fun into our 2 days in Raymond though.

On Friday, after sleeping in until 10:00, Tim went golfing and I went over to Susie's and took the kids swimming in her pool. Okay...I didn't take them swimming, I let the cousins and Auntie Susie take them swimming. That water was only 74 degrees...no thanks. The kids loved it

anyway, and somehow managed to avoid hypothermia.

Then we went for slurpees...our favorite.

That evening we had a rodeo out at the land with Uncle Kevin, Aunt Monette, Aunt Susie, Grandpa and Grandma, and some of the cousins. The kids rode calves...Piper screamed the whole time, Josh loved it, and won the buckle. They also did wild horse races...with the shetland of course. It was all pretty funny, and they had oodles of fun and mosquito bites by the end of

of the night.

Saturday, Tatym decided to run the 5K road race in Raymond. She did great, and came in witha little help from Uncle Kevin. I went up to Lethbridge and met my 2 bestest Barnwell friends, Cindy and Jennifer. It is pretty rare that we all end up in southern Alberta at the same time, so we had to take advantage. We haven't seen each other for Years, so it was really fun. We had lunch, and tried to catch up a bit. I then picked up KfC and rushed back to the family picnic for Tim's reunion.

We had fun there, and the kids enjoyed the bouncy house...thank goodness we had that. Then later that night it was an adult dinner night, out at chinese food. All in all, it was a great weekend,

until Tim rolled into a car on the off ramp in Helena on the way home...grrrr.

Fire!

So I was laying in bed reading last night when I heard what sounded a lot like someone shooting off fireworks. Idiots! That is what I thought, but went back to my bed. Then a couple minutes later I heard a siren and Tim came bounding up the stairs and told me that there was a massive fire, right across the street! I ran out, in my pajamas, and it was a frenzy. Fire trucks were showing up all over the place, trying to hook into hydrants that could reach the foothills behind the houses, neighbors were turning on sprinklers and running with hoses to water down the hill.

Tim judiciously went back in the house and put on some pants and then went and played fire man for a couple hours. He and our neighbor Phil were dragging hoses to the house right across from us and trying to shoot water down the hill. It finally occurred to me to get my camera, so I got a couple of pictures of the fire blazing. It was pretty scary, especially for the people whose homes back up to this open space. The wind was blowing and whipped the fire around pretty good, but all firemen in the county were here I think, and they finally got it under control. Anyway...it was exciting. A channel six reporter tried to put me on the news for an interview, but I was too embarrassed...wearing my curious george pajamas, so I told him I would email the pictures I took instead, and today they

were all over the news...wow, I am practically famous.