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Spring Break and Easter

Category: Wife and Mommy | Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:10 am

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Hope everyone had a great Easter and Spring Break!

We had James's sister and her boyfriend up for spring break, we had a great time. Both James and I agree it's like looking back in time to when we first started dating, it did us alot of good to remember life before work and bills and a new baby, and I think it did them alot of good to see what the future could hold, and if they want it haha. We did alot of fishing and some hunting and a whole lot of laughing and hanging out. I only got to get out to the garden once the whole visit, the young couple always had to be moving and going and rushing around for some reason, and I got the banana, bell, and cayenne peppers transplanted. I would have got more done but I got a call from the deer lease informing me that my dear husband had buried his truck up to the doors (and he has one of those lifted trucks so that's pretty deep!) and that I needed to come rescue them. That was an all day affair involving multiple tow trucks telling us that they couldn't even come close to pulling him out, then finally a large tractor coming to the rescue to get him free.

When Sarah and Justin headed for Houston Saturday we weren't far behind and we spent all weekend with "Grandma" (my mother in law) and the family, we dyed 4 dozen Easter eggs and put togeather baskets (I can't remember how many) for all the nieces nephews cousins and grandkids plus quite a few nieghborhood kids and family friends that were schedualed to come over Sunday. That was the easy part! Sunday morning was Emily's first Easter, we all went to meet Great Grandma at church, where Emily was a huge star, (Grandma's church is small and there were exactly 2 babies in the service and the other "baby" was nearly 2 years old) once we managed to escape, poor Emily was covered in lipstick of every shade and grandma beamed like she had invented the lightbulb, we got to hurry home to hide the eggs.
It's become a tradition at my moth in law's house that the new mom or moms get to be the big bunny on Easter and hide the eggs, last year we had 4 new moms, this year only I brought home a bundle of joy, so James and I got to be the bunny(s). We had almost 2 dozen hid when the first kids arrived and by the time we finished the whole house was full of kids (who were full of candy) and it was time for the real show. All of you crafter will enjoy this.
Long before I came around, Emily Benter (may she rest in piece), the wonderful woman who Emily Perry (my daughter) was named for, sewed up "The Easter Bunny" for my husbands family. I didn't have time to take pictures but it's very simple really, a football helmet with white fleece and big floppy ears, doll-eyes, and wire wiskers with a pink marble nose glued on it all the way to that wire teeth saver thingy, where there are two big teeth and a stuffed carrot hanging down, the bottom is covered in fleece and it hangs all the way down over the sholders. This has been "The Easter Bunny" since my husband's older brother was born, long after most children had given up my husband and his brother and sister were arguing that they had reaally seen the Easter bunny and he was real! I was proud as can be to be the Easter bunny this year. Well being the bunny ain't no easy thing I'm tellin you, you gotta be in shape! First the Easter bunny comes past the back windows a few times until enough kids have seen to spark an intrest, and for an adult to draw all the eyes to the bunny hurring by the window then the Easter bunny has to hot foot it all the way around the house before the first kid makes it out the back door, then that bunny gots to peek around the corner so they get a glimpse of it's floppy ears disappearing to go hide eggs for the rest of the world. Once that's done you gotta shimmy out of the helmet, hide it, fix yourself up again, and blend back into the grown up crowd without anyone missing you! It was great, other than letting every dog in the back yard out along with myself it went off without a hitch, too bad the kids all thought the dogs chased off the Easter bunny and were none to happy with any of them. Everyone got plenty of eggs and then plenty of potato salad and deviled eggs, and of course ham and beans and all the goodies that go along with Easter. We ended up leaving late into the night full and tired and ready for home, but we had a blast and I can't wait til next year when Emily is big enough to really get into the fun.
Thanks for reading everyone, again I hope you all had a great Easter and a wonderful spring break.

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Waskally Wabbit

Category: Wife and Mommy | Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:28 am

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Blue Bell was up to no good last night I am very angry with him.
This (the middle)is what my collard green transplants USED to look like:


And this morning they were:


It was my own danged fault I suppose, he has always been very smart, I just didn't relise that he was athletic, as well as smart.
These were on top of the deep freezer chest with the germinating seeds (thankfully in mini green houses with lids). He and Gracy were sharing the laundry room due to freezing temps outside for him and her unwillingness to potty outside. The closest I can fathom is that he must have climbed over the ice chest that I used to seperate him from Gracy, climbed the storage tower, which is really difficult to imagine as it's plastic, then jumped or climbed over HIS food bag and onto the chest freezer, to devour all the leaves on my transplant. Gets around good for a bunny with only 3 paws wouldn't you say? And don't even get me started on Gracy, who must have simply watched him do it.
*Sigh*
Just another day in paradise...

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Hard Day to be Mommy

Category: Wife and Mommy | Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:24 am

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Today was a hard day to be "Mommy". I think today I would gladly have traded and been, Daddy, Grandma, anyonelse.
Today was the two month check-up at the doctor for Emily and it was the day for her to recieve her imunizations, shots. I've never had much trouble getting shots or giving blood myself, other than a bit of lightheadedness here and there. Today those needles looked massive after the doctor's appointment my husband assured me that they were normal size, but I'm still not wholly convinced. I held her throughout the whole process and it was by far the hardest thing I've had to do with her, she was so miserable. I know how important the vaccines are and I'm very glad that they are available but I surely do wish they didn't have to be administed as shots.
Since we got home and she woke up I've been monitoring her fever (which they say is normal) and holding and cuddling her as she is not feeling well at all, and Mommy is all that she wants. Hopefully she'll be feeling better soon.

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Pictures of me and my family.

Category: Wife and Mommy | Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:27 am

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First of all a group photo, taken the first day home with Emily, 12-31-07, we were kinda scruffy after the hospital stay.

Then some of just me, this is last week at the deer lease (we were actually stuck in the mud when I took these HA HA!



A few of James...



And Emily






And last but not least the animals...
Lucky

Lucy

Blue Bell in my inbox, he's a workin bunny!


And our newest edition, Grace!

That's the family!


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Lily's First Blog - Just another day in paradise....

Category: Wife and Mommy | Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:53 am

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My first blog, I figure it oughta be about me and what's important to me.
I'm 21 years old and I live in the Piney Woods of East Texas on 10 beautiful acres with my husband James, my new daughter (12-29-08) Emily, and my animals, Lucky (German Shepard Mix), Lucy (Black Lab), and Blue Bell (Silly Rabbit who thinks he's a Dog). We moved from Houston last winter where we had what the new builders there call a yard that wouldn't even support grass most of the time.
We hunt October-February for deer and year round for hogs, predetors, rabbit and squirrels. I didn't start hunting til I met James and I still haven't decided weather I can kill a deer yet but the rest are already under the belt. We also enjoy fishing in the warm monthes and though we moved near Lake Livingston we go over 100 miles to Madagorda Bay to fish the salty gulf more than we go the 15 miles to the lake. I really enjoy being outdoors and though the hunting is more to please James, I rather enjoy fishing the bay and have since I was little.
My life revolves around my family and latly it revolves around my new daughter and her every need, but I'm happy that way and so are they for now.
I am a very silly person when you look at it. On one hand I will turn my home into a farm if my husband doesn't keep me in check by bringing in every stray, injured, or unwanted animal that crosses my drive, and then turn around on the weekends and shoot hogs, rabbits, and squirrels for dinner with only a tiny bit of guilt. I suppose it came with marrying a deer hunter.
We aren't fanatical about living off nature or eating only what we grow or kill, please don't mis-understand, we simply get alot of joy and ful-fillment from knowing that we worked hard and hunted hard to get what we're eating, besides that it saves us an amazing amount of money when we don't have to buy any meat from the grocery store. I think that may have been the main reason that I chose to start a garden here, I have always enjoyed working on the yard, but I've never grown a real vegetable garden and with so much land and all the benifits it presented I couldn't see any reason not to. I hope that if it's not a raging failure this year, I'll learn how to make it successful for next year so eventually I can eliminate produce from the grocery list as well as meat. With any luck at all Emily will pick up the passion for nature and the outdoors from James and I, giving her healthy and safe hobbies that will last a lifetime.
Anyways I hope to add more interesting blogs in the future, maybe post a gardening blog later after I get it all started up too.
Until next time, healthy harvests, -Lily-

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