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Wowzers!

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April 17, 2012

We have been extremely busy these last two weeks. We have planted the garden for this year, cleaned out the nursery, set up the office/guest room, Scottish Heritage Day at Abilene State Park, and giving Zedd some antibiotics for his feline acne.

For our garden this year, we are hoping things grow and produce like they should. I don’t know if we are being optimistic or not, but we planted a lot of things. We have: 2 zucchini, 4 cucumbers, 2 broccoli, 6 cauliflower, 4 green beans, 6 sweet banana peppers, 6 cubano peppers, 4 cherry tomatoes, 4 yellow pear tomatoes, 4 cherokee purple tomatoes, 2 cabbage, 4 basil bunches, 8 pea bunches, and a thyme bush. We also bought some catnip, but we haven’t planted that yet. We are hoping for a lot of veggies and the ability to share with neighbors and friends. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have had a lot of really good weather, so we have all been spending a lot of time outside. I really like this time of year and the awesome weather we get. Glad we haven’t  gotten any of the nasty weather that areas around us have been getting.

We spent our Easter weekend moving the office to the front room so we have an empty room for the nursery. It was a lot of work, but we finally finished the moving part. We don’t quite have everything where we would like it in the new office/guest room, but we are working on it. I will put pictures up later after we get it finished. It might not be until June or so since we have a lot of things planned in the next couple weeks. But they will be up at some point.

Last weekend, Darrell had a gig with the Abilene Pipers at the Abilene State Park for Scottish Heritage Day. We had a lot of fun and it was a gorgeous day for it (even if a little windy :P)

I also realized that yesterday has been 2 years since we closed on the house! Boy does time fly when you actually have stuff to do 🙂

We can’t wait until August and are excited to meet our little Pixel. We still haven’t come up with names, but we still have a couple months. Everything has been looking good at the last couple appointments. I am currently measuring 2 weeks ahead, so who knows what the next few months will bring. We are about 23.5 weeks along with 16.5 to go. Here are some pictures we took in our backyard. The first two were taken on Friday, the last two were taken on Saturday (hence the two separate outfits).

Enjoy your spring!

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What we’ve been up to

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March 5, 2012

Hey y’all!

I know I have been quiet lately. Haven’t really had much going on. We have been busy doing things, but mostly just working.

We have started to clean out the office and move things into the front room so we can start the nursery. We are starting early so that we can go through things and get rid of stuff we don’t need. We have a really big pile in the garage already of stuff to get rid of. We are thinking of having a garage sale sometime in the next couple of months. After we go through more things.

Our neighbors pulled up their hedges in front of their house, so we got some new hedges and put them in our yard. We are waiting to see how they handle the transfer before we go ahead and buy more to put on the other side of the walkway. It’s a continuous project. 🙂

   

Another project we have done lately has been to move the recycling from the garage into the backyard and get it organized. We were tired of having a big pile blocking a section of the garage, so Darrell built some containers we could put trash cans in so the wind won’t blow them all over the backyard. It turned out really well.

  

We still have a couple projects we want to get done in the next month. We want to get the patio expanded so we have more space outside to hang out in. We are going to get that done as soon as we get our tax refund. Another project is to dig out and finish the second garden bed. We haven’t done anything with it since we went through the cable line last year. We want to finish that because we have heard it should be a good summer (not to hot) and so we are hoping for an awesome veggie abundance. Unlike last year where everything flowered, but nothing actually came of it.

As for baby, things have been going good. We have had a midwife appointment and another doctors appointment since the last post. Because we have the midwife and doctor, even though we only see each one once a month, we have them on opposite schedules so we see at least one of them every two weeks. At each of the last appointments, Pixel has been measuring right on schedule and has a heartbeat around 150 bpm. Everything is looking good so far. I have only gained about 10 pounds since the beginning of the drugs for the IUI cycle. I have finally grown out of my pants. Instead of purchasing Maternity clothes, we just went out and bought some dresses that will give me room for a growing tummy. I still fit into one pair of capris, but it has been to cold in the mornings to wear them. In the afternoon it has been warming up enough, but we still have occasional days where it is to cold all day.

   

<– Week 6 / Week 17 –>

I had really bad morning sickness from week 12-14. I could eat anything, but nothing seemed to want to stay down. It was bad. But since week 14, I have been fine. The flu went around the school district and many of my co-workers got sick and had to go get antibiotics. I got a small version, but mine wasn’t nearly as bad. I was just groggy and sleepy for 36 hours. However, I have been getting migraines off and on since then. It was about 4 days of full on migraines except when sleeping. Then it tapered off into just occasionally. I think it also had to do with the fact that we got some prescription prenatal samples from the doctor and the midwife said it would be okay if I mixed it up and took different ones occasionally. I took a different one right before I got sick and started getting all of the migraines. I stopped taking it and went back to my regular one and the migraines seem to be going away. Who knows exactly what it was.

We have had a thief in our house for the last week. Poleeko is being a little devil and I think he is trying to get a ton of attention. He keeps taking the hand towels from all over the house and storing them under the bed. We use to keep our closet open and had all the extra handtowels and rags on a shelf in there. One morning I went in there and there wasn’t a single one left. They were all in a pile under the bed along with a stuffed animal from my mantle (no idea how he got that one). We are at our wit’s end trying to figure out what to do. We are about ready to find a ribbon and tie a towel to his tail so he has one with him constantly.

That is about all that is going on in our neck of the woods. I have 12 more weeks until summer break which I am looking forward to! Granted next week is spring break, but summer break is better. 🙂

~S

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Can you believe it?

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April 18, 2011

I was just looking at the Calendar and I realized that Saturday was one year. We bought this house a whole year ago! It doesn’t seem like it has been that long, but I guess that it has. Not much has changed with the house as we haven’t really had the money to do a whole lot to it, but it is our house. The big difference is that we have been putting in a garden bed

Garden 2011

It has been a lot of hard work as we have had to dig up a lot of different concrete scraps and rocks. But by the end, it will be worth it and we will have a small satisfaction knowing that we were able to put in a garden in West Texas with the crappy soil we have. 🙂 The cats have been enjoying the time outside as well.

Poleeko

Zeddicus

The Boys
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July 1-13

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July 13, 2010

Hey all

We’ve been really busy these first couple weeks. Darrell has finished his first year at Milsoft, we got a little bit of tropical storm Alex, and all in all just relaxed inside and hung out together.

Hope everyone had a great holiday! Darrell made me an apron for the kitchen. We’ve had the stuff, just never the room to do it. We finally have the room, so Darrell is totally taking advantage of the sewing machine. I love it! We spent the fourth inside playing video games since it was storming almost all day. It stopped just in time for people to light fireworks. There were a ton in our neighborhood! We walked out the front door and saw like 6 different firework shows! It was awesome. The downside was that since we have had so much moisture, the mosquito’s are out in force, so we spent a lot of time getting bit. No matter how much bug spray we put on.

We have had a lot of bugs visiting. There are a ton of grasshoppers in the backyard, some butterflies and then there are tons of flies that get in the house. The flies all swarmed the windowsill for some reason, so Darrell vacuumed them up. 😛 It’s all great!

We are loving our house and are waiting for people to come visit. Are you going to be the next?

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June 2010

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June 29, 2010

Howdy!

So June is upon us. We had a great anniversary. We stayed inside, relaxed, played video games & just enjoyed our new house.

We have been keeping very busy in the new house. We have finally finished unpacking all of our stuff, but we are still working on the little things. Like curtains, hardware for the bathrooms, and where some things are going to ultimately go.

The big thing we have been working on this month has been the backyard. Since we had basically neglected it for like two months, the weeds finally hit thigh high or higher, the sunflowers bloomed, and our backyard looked like a huge meadow. Since our ac unit is in the backyard, we have to keep the weeds trimmed around it, so we decided to just tackle it all. No weed whacker since we don’t have the funds and Darrell also wants to get one online since he can’t find one here to fit him. Nope.. I am cutting down all the weeds in the morning hours with garden shears. Ahh.. so much work!! Well.. I’m the one that wants it done. I am cutting around the sunflowers so that there is still something pretty to look at out there. I’m hoping that it will cut down on the crickets so that we can sleep with our bedroom windows open at night. Who knows!

We had a landscape company come by to see what we can do with the backyard. We kind of have an idea on what we would like to do, but no idea on if it would work in this area. They are going to draw up some plans and should let us know in the next month.

My little sister finally graduated from High School! Congrats Rachie! Now she just needs to figure out what she would like to do next. Darrell and I have offered to let her come out here and stay, but who knows.

I finally got tired of cutting the backyard with shears. The other day when Darrell was coming home for lunch, some kids were in the street stopping cars and passing out fliers for a lawn mowing service. We had about 1/3 of the backyard left to go, and it was all about 4 feet tall if not taller. So we called the kids up and had them come over and mow the backyard. I had them leave the two flowers (which I have now learned are black eyed susans.. not sunflowers) that are right outside the kitchen window.

That’s all that’s happened with us this month. I’m gonna try to now do an update once a week instead of once a month. We’ll see how that goes.

Hope y’all are doing good.

~The Ross’

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