Annalee Joy Arkoudas

Here she is!

Annalee Joy Arkoudas

May 11, 2011

1:34 pm

5# 10 oz

19 inches long

Everyone is as pleased as punch with her!

We love her mucher!

Newest Attraction on the Farm...Ducks!

Just because...Noah's class had these two ducks as class pets. Noah has wanted ducks for a long time and when he asked his teacher what she was going to do with them, she said he could have them...Thanks! Just what we need. She is so thoughtful.( I am being sarcastic) Ducks are like the dog. They really have no purpose, except they are really stinking cute waddling around and it makes my heart all warm when I see the girls out chasing them around the yard trying to catch them. The kids asked if they could fill up the pool with water for them and when I went to see how the ducks liked it, I found all the kids sopping wet with them. Oh! Life on a farm. I don't know why it brings me such joy, it just does!

"Their so fluffy!" (Despicable Me)

Pheasant Anyone?

Last night I woke up because the baby was moving so much. Then I started to have contractions. Don't get too excited, they stopped completely. Still no baby. But while I was laying there, I heard sounds like the kids were opening their closet doors. It was a loud rumble and it happened more that once. I was a little scared to get out of bed to investigate, but really didn't want to wake up Ryan so I went in search. The closet doors were just as they had been when we went to bed and there were no intruders. Wierd, but I had a lot of other things on my mind, like am I in labor or is this going to stop, and e-mails that I needed to send... you know all those things that consume your mind. Then in the morning as I was fixing Sam's breakfast I heard it really loud again. (Ryan of course had left for work already) It was coming from the fireplace. It was so loud and so big I knew for sure it couldn't be a squirrel or a bird. I was pretty sure it was a cougar! It was that loud. Sam opened th fireplace to see if he could look up and see something stuck. I could just see some cat, or racoon or skunk jumping out at him. I promptly made him close the doors and just call his dad.
After all the kids had left for school, I saw in the fireplace this sight.....

Really a phesant. Are you kidding me. What am I supposed to do with that? At the moment he is trying to get out and making ashes fly all over my living room. Seriously! If I was a true pioneer I would totally see this as a blessing from heaven and cook it up for dinner tonight. But since I am really just a city girl who loves to pretend to farm, I just called Ryan and told him to come home and take care of it. I am getting week in my last stages of pregnancy...What can I say?

Update. I got tired of the phesant kicking ashes all over my living room, and at 10:00am Ryan still had not been able to come home. So I took matters into my own hands. Mara opened the front door. I dorned heavy leather gloves, opened the fireplace and after much grabbing and wrestling and spraying of ashes finally got hold of that little man and out the door he went. Emma said " And don't come down our chimney again!" If you happen to see a phesant with a few less tail feathers, that'd be the one that had a rondevous in our fireplace.

{National Junior Honor Society}

Last night Sam got inducted into the national junior honor society!

Way to go Sam! Receiving his card and certificate.

Swearing in.

"Divide and conquer" seems to be the theme of our lives lately
Max had a baseball game that Ryan had to coach, so I took the girls and Noah to Sam's induction.
Love that Sam of mine!
So proud of him!
And we can ask now! Will the baby ever come?

A "Suvvy" Girl One

Emma still has all of us calling soft, fluffy things "suvvy". click here So when I made the boy blanket with "suvvy" material on the back, everyone thought it was better than the girl one, so I had to make a girl "suvvy" one to be fair. I love the monkeys and so now the boy blanket and girl blankets are equally "suvvy" and there is no discrimination. Now to just get that baby here so we can see which one to use.

Really!

Things like this happen so often to me that I think they are common to all. I am just now starting to think that maybe it is just me.

I had to get pig food. They were completely out and Ryan is so so busy at work and the feed store where we get the food is only open until 5:00p.m. So yesterday I set out in my parents farm truck to get 1,000 lbs of pig food. After purchasing the food and having it loaded, I got in the truck to head for home. Only except the truck wouldn't start. Oh! Goody for me! It has this problem from time to time, and it can easily be fixed if you just crawl under the truck and bang on the starter. Easy enough if you are not more pregnant that you have ever been! I have to admit, I attempted. I got down on my knees and contemplated how I could shimmy on my back with a big ol' belly. Then I got a mental image of me stuck under the truck and unable to get back out! Really! It made me laugh. Then in desperation, I saw a man waiting for his animal food to be loaded. I walked over and with a tiny 1/2 inch cresent wrench (that's all I had) politely asked if he would crawl under my truck and bang on my starter! He looked at the wrench and laughed. Went to the back of his truck pulled out a massive monkey wrench and crawled under my truck to bang on the starter. She started right up. I think he was thinking "there is no way this is going to work" because the look of surprise on his face when it actually started was priceless.
I should also mention that his belly was not much smaller than mine, so maybe he was thinking "what the heck! why don't you just do it?"

Like I said...I am pretty sure these things only happen to me...I hope you laughed! Because I am still laughing about it!

To Baby...

Okay little one. The laundry is washed, folded and put away. The floors are swept and mopped. The bathrooms are all clean. The house completely vaccumed. The closets all cleaned and drawers all organized. The diapers are washed and folded awaiting your arrival. The blanket is made. The new outfit found. The kitchen is spotless, all countertops cleaned off and organized. Meals are made and put in the freezer. The chicken coop is cleaned. The barn is cleaned. The garden is planted with all that can be put in. The yard is raked and the patio table set up. Under the sunroom is all cleaned out and the winter dirt swept away. The pigs have food. The sun is shining. Please come before I have to redo all that work again!

Boy or Girl???

Just waiting to see if it is a boy or a girl!

The kids all think the boy blanket is cuter, so the baby should be a boy. I must admit I like the boy one better, but we will see! Soon!

Easter Sunday

Egg coloring!