Memory Lane Monday: Remembering My Friends
Instead of spending my time on doing a "Memory Lane Monday" post today, I am going to take my time and walk down blog avenue and visit all my friends and leave LONG OVERDUE comments! It just may take me all day... So this will be my post for today. Cheers!
What's around the next corner on Memory Lane?
What's around the next corner on Memory Lane?
See you next Monday!
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Hospital Memories
Our hospital stay was wonderful but it's great to be home again as a family. Thanks to all the visitors and gifts! We are spoiled! :)
I spent this week adjusting to my "new" life. :) We're all having to do a little adjusting. :) One thing is for sure... we sure have a sweet, content little girl. I really plan on writing more about her later.
For now, I need to get ready to load up the entire family, including Dad, and head to town for some much needed groceries and things. I tried to do some on my own with Maya and Melita yesterday and it didn't work so well... lol! So yes, we are sloooowly adjusting to this new life...
Have a great weekend,
Fishing and Flying
These two collages are of Colter and what he's been doing lately. He's been fishing with Daddy several times this winter and more recently he got to go along with Daddy, Grandpa Steve and our buddies Loren and Justin. He caught his very first salmon (above). We ate them on Sunday-YUM!!! Keep up the good fishing Colter... your family enjoys them.Below is a collage of Colter's airplane project...
For any of you who have boys in your life, this little "lathe, jigsaw, sander, drill" is a super little tool for them. It's safe and fairly easy to use. So far it hasn't broken or hurt anyone in our house. You can buy them here.Randy's back at work, the kids are all back in school after a long weekend and baby and I are enjoying a quiet morning. Couldn't help but do some "scrapbook blogging" this morning. More collages of what Kyla's been up to and lots of baby pictures to come. Just fair warning!!!
Better get onto the laundry and housework that awaits...
Memory Lane Monday: Do You Know Your Babies?
Thanks everyone for participating! This was fun to see your answers. :) I guess Kyla was the real winner since Daddy admitted he probably wouldn't have gotten it without her help. *smile* It's amazing to us how they can all have their own look but yet they all look so much alike. Melita has darker hair, complextion and eyes like her brother Colter. We'll see if she remains that way. Colter is pretty pleased about that! :)
Thanks again and hope you all have a great week!!!
Alison and family
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Here is a collage of Daddy with his four new babies while still in the hospital. So... can you guess which baby is which? Anyone feel free to take a guess by leaving your answers in the comment section at the bottom of this post! That includes you grandparents, aunts, uncles, and yes... you too Randy!!! Do you know your babies?Whoever gets the first right answer on pictures 1 through 4 will receive a 10 dollar gift certificate to Starbucks, Borders, or another place of your choice. Please only 1 guess per person. Thanks!
A baby enters your life and fills a special place in your heart.
A place you never knew was empty.
~ Author Unknown
A place you never knew was empty.
~ Author Unknown
What's around the next corner on Memory Lane?
See you next Monday!
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Can We Keep Her?
These pictures are from Monday evening when Mom and Dad brought the kids up to the hospital to see Melita for the first time. They had waited SO patiently ALL day Sunday and ALL day Monday for their sister to arrive. Finally they got to come and meet her. Love these pictures!!!!!!!
And a special THANKS to my Mom and Dad for all they did to keep the kids in their school routine and making everything run so smoothly while we were "out of the picture" for a few days! We are SO lucky!!!
Yep, we all think she's a "keeper"!
On The Wings of Love
Last Saturday we worked on making Valentines but they turned out to be kinda "girly" and Colter wasn't to interested in them. Finally he got bored with them and ended up not finishing his. Instead he went to his room and finished cutting out his airplane (above) with his jigsaw. Later he and Randy glued it all together and then painted it.
All week I have been trying to come up with an idea for Valentine Cards for him. Finally I came up with this...
I think he'll be happy with them when he gets back from ice fishing with Daddy, Grandpa, Loren and Justin. He'll just have to put in his classmates names and stuff in the suckers.
Then we'll enjoy some salmon for supper (hopefully ;)...
All Seasons Timelapse
I'm glad the seasons don't pass this fast, although sometimes I wish Spring would come a little quicker to this cold north country.
Memory Lane Monday: Phantom Homes
The above picture is of my great grandparents and other relatives on their homestead in 1915 in Eastern Montana. I like how well the following book excerpt goes with the picture above... "Sometimes I walk up to the hill where my husband built that sod shanty and gaze about me at the wreckage of our dreams, wondering if I shall ever see anything here but phantom homes. Those of us who remain have lost the romantic vision, lost the dream that brought us here. I look less than seven miles from my old house and see seven phantom homes. Dry and deserted, I see the fields where plows have gone patiently up and down, now weed grown, and fences down. And I feel the hand of desolation.
"I look a little farther and see one tiny house. So small appears that fence field, but it is not small, except by comparison with the vastness of the untilled land about it. I look again, and in the immensity of the unbroken acres of range land, ... among the scattered bunches of cattle, beyond the sheep wagon, are horses.
"These horses are our only hope. We have no feed for them. They must fend for themselves... and they must be strong enough to pull sleds and wagons 18 miles to the nearest town. If our horses starve, and if the wild horses starve, we will starve...
"Through my tears I see them still, the phantom homes. Dear, painted, shingled houses... Stacks of grain... Trees tended by loving hands... Gardens loved and cared for... And fat, gentle, sheltered horses."
~excerpt from Montana Woman Homesteaders-A Field Of One's Own, Chapter 13- Life in the Badlands: Pearl Danniel (homesteader in Eastern Montana)
What's around the next corner on Memory Lane?
What's around the next corner on Memory Lane?
See you next Monday!
Grab my button and take your own walk down memory lane every Monday!
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Don't forget to leave me a comment so I can walk along with you!
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Anticipation!
The kids have started counting down the days until March 5th. Randy had the idea to make a baby chain so they could tear off a link each day until the due date. So here is the chain Kyla and I made. Do you think we'll make it through all those links? It's down to 28 today! Maybe that's not enough!? We shall see...Today, the kids and I had fun making Valentines for their classmates and teachers. We've been working on some other fun stuff around here too. Randy's been trimming the windows. Kyla's been working on a flannel rag quilt and doing her first Science Fair Project. Colter's been doing some woodworking. Maya and I have been busy nesting. I have a list called "TO DO BEFORE BABY"... wash baby clothes, reorganize kids closets, clean out fridge, wash inside windows, wash baby bedding and blankets, freeze meals, load up freezer with bread... We are slowly checking off our list!
And since today is 36 weeks here is a picture for the curious...
Expectantly Yours,
Maya Moments
I caught these pictures of Maya one day when she went out skiing after kindergarten. I have no idea why she decided to try and go over the fence but I had to run and get the camera and record the moment. Finally she gave up and went around the fence just a few feet away. I love how she's in her own little world... discovering... learning... thinking...
Hope all are having a great week!
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