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June

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July 8, 2012

I know this is a little late, but we were a little busy the last couple weeks. For most of the month of June, we stayed home and found ways to cope with the loss of our son. We had a couple occasions where we got out of the house and did other things.

A week after we lost Pixel, we went to dinner with some dear friends the Hartley’s. They have been there with us from the beginning and know the pain involved with Infertility.

 

 

 

Darrell also had a gig with the Pipers for the Dr. Suess Parade that was going on in Downtown Abilene. He was excited for it because it was the first parade where they let him play the bagpipes and didn’t make him play the drums. It was only like a 3 block parade and it was for the Childrens Art and Literacy Festival (CALF). They did a good job and it was fun seeing a lot of downtown in Suess colors with Suess statues all around. I am mildly interested in seeing what they have planned for next year if we are still here.

 

 

 

They even had the cops wearing Cat in the Hat hats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other than those two events, we spent a good portion of our time just sitting in our backyard and enjoying the little bit of nice weather we had been having. The cats enjoyed the fact that we spent a lot of time outside and they were always out there chasing and catching the bugs and grasshoppers. Zedd caught a grasshopper and tried to take it into the house. Darrell noticed and we closed the door before he got there and he dropped the grasshopper and looked at us like “what did you go and do that for?”. I watched a lot of my Netflix and then D played a lot of his computer game (We bought him Skyrim). The cats did a lot of little funny things and I believe that it helped us cope by giving us something else to focus on.

The only other thing we did in June was to prepare for our trip to California. Darrell’s sister, Kendra, got married on June 30 in Boonville. I am working on some posts for that and I will get them posted in the next couple days. There are a lot of post ideas in my head and I am slowly working on them. Since we just got back late on Friday night, it might take me about a week to get them all posted. So keep an eye out. 🙂

~S

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Smorgasbord – part 2

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May 24, 2012

Here is part 2 of our month of May. The Second half of the Month was busy, but it wasn’t quite as busy as the first half. It just seems that way. 🙂

Darrell had a couple of gigs with the Abilene Pipers, so we went to those. One of them was playing for the Illumination ceremony for the Breckenridge Relay for Life. The photos didn’t turn out all that great, so, no photos for that. The next day, the Pipers played for the Abilene Zoo’s Zoolute to Dyess. It was pretty fun walking around the Zoo and seeing all of the families there. It was probably the most crowded I had seen the zoo with the exception of Spring Break. The picture of the Flamingo’s is in there because the Flamingo in the middle has a baby under it. The other ones are sitting on eggs.

 

Then I can’t go a month without adding at least one photo of each of the cats. Zedd has always liked laying down with his feet crossed and Darrell finally got a good picture of him. It might just end up on the Christmas card (if there is room after all Baby’s photos are on there. :P). And then for the longest time, our towels kept being pulled off of their racks onto the floor and we knew who was doing it, but we couldn’t prove it. I finally got proof that he was pulling them down and then getting them situated for himself. He is always dragging clothes around the house. He really likes to help when it comes to Laundry day. Just the other day, Darrell noticed that their towel from the bookcase was missing and we spent a long time looking for it. We found it when I finally took out the last load of laundry that I had done. I never took it off the shelf, so the only other option was that Poleeko decided it was time to clean it, so he took it to where I would pick it up and throw it in the laundry. They sure are funny cats. 🙂

 

Last but definitely not least: As many of you know, I have quit my job. Today was the last day of the school year, and my last day at work. I am going to just be a stay at home Mommy. I might go back occasionally just to keep my license up and help out when they are desperate. But, since I was leaving, the lovely ladies and gentleman at the bus barn threw me a surprise going away party/Baby Shower. I truly felt loved and appreciated. They did a wonderful job and Baby got some needed items. Many of the girls gave me a hard time because they didn’t know the sex, so they had to pick neutral items. We loved everything they came up with! One of the girls I talk to the most found the cutest little ride along/push School Bus. I absolutely love it and can’t wait until Baby is old enough. There weren’t many photos taken as it was just a get some food after your route kind of deal. It did make me a little sad that I was leaving, and I didn’t get enough time to write thank-yous for everyone, but I will get them out at the beginning of next school year. They just said that I needed to bring Baby by so they could see him/her.

 

So that is what we have been up to this month. I am glad that it is almost over, but our preparation for Baby has just begun. 🙂 I do have Nursery photos of the painting we have been doing, but I think that shall wait till tomorrow.

~S

 

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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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