Are you listening to me?

Chasen and I made Easter sugar cookies yesterday!

making cookies with him is messy and his not even big enough to help make the mess!
my kitchen is covered in flour, between holding him and tripping over Kevin i made quite the mess :) it was fun though!
Chasen almost rolled from his back to his tummy and he scooted 1/4th of a circle on his tummy!
Its 7am on a monday and im up posting...Chasen is up playing..mommy doesnt like to play so early.
still can't upload videos...maybe i saved them in a weird format..?

2 year anniversary of the barn fire

So I looked back at the pictures and articles and realized the barn frie was 2 years ago today....wow!
here is the story
around 3:30 that day I was sitting at the computer kevin kept barking (we had only had kevin for a week at this point and he barked all the time) then I heard what sounded like a flag flapping in the wind and I got up to look out (we don't have a flag) and I saw the barn on fire. I ran to the white fence because I was going to let the goats out, but once i got to the fence it was about 90-100 degrees and I knew I couldn't go over there. It was at least 80 on the porch by the house and the roaring sound of the fire is something i will never forget. ( I didnt notice at that point but there were people standing in my front lawn, i didnt notice them until later)
What I saw was flames on the roof of the barn and flames coming out of the windows where the goats were. I ran inside grabbed my phone and called 911, it was the first time I have ever called 911. I don't remember much of what I did after that but I called Ean then my mom, who said I was not making much sense when I called her. I was pretty much a mess bawling on the porch when one of my neighbors came up to me and hugged me, thats when I realized there were about 20 random people parked in the road by my house all standing in my front yard.
Ean was working in marion, where you could see the fire he followed the fire trucks all the way to our house going about 85mph...I dont even remember what I said to him on the phone but I must have sucked for him to drive home being able to see the fire from 30 miles away, knowing it must be pretty bad.
So me and the neighbor lady came to the house and we were going to try to move the 3 trucks that were by the barn but we saw the power line was down on one of them so we couldn't go out there. Then the truck (eans truck with the flames on it that he loved and had in high school.) started to smoke so she helped me get the dog and 2 cats out of the house. At this time the fire personal were not here yet and we were scared the trucks would blow up and set the house on fire.
By the time eand and the firemen got here all you could see was the frame of the barn. It took only 5-10min before the whole thing was gone. The volunteer firemen who got called in from all directions said they could see the smoke in Solon and Marion, which is about 30 miles away. They thought something blew up because of a mushroom cloud, but that was just when the roof caved in.
Not only did we loose a historic 150 year old barn but we lost 30 goats who to us were like dogs. we also lost about 600 bales of hay and 3 or 4 vehicles...i dont remember.
We still do not know what caused the fire and we were tied up in legal battles with our insurance company ( im not gonna go into it its a long story) for a little over a year. The rubble is still there because Its gonna cost quite a bit to clear it. Ean tried to clear it on his own but couldn't. And we keep finding other things to spend our money on!
So this post is in memory of Oreo and the rest of the goats we loved so much!

here are the rest of the pictures http://documented.smugmug.com/gallery/2616086

Random Signs of Spring

he looks like a little boy!
I noticed several random signs of spring yesterday as chasen and I were out and about:
squirls
all the parking lots of major stores are full of bags of mulch, fertilizer and they are putting up those big white tents....
and my least favorite sign of spring.
Smoke
from all the people burning ditches and fields, ever since the barn fire I get really nervous and anxious when I see all that smoke, the other night I swore it was coming from our house and convinced myself our house was on fire. It was NOT. We are approaching the 2year anniversary of that awful fire, i will post on it later this week.
Chasen and I had a very busy day yesterday
we met daddy for lunch at fireside grill in north liberty then i took chasen ALONE to the mall and as soon as i was half undressed trying on a baptism/easter outfit he starts crying....but I managed to get an outfit and go to another store for some shirts, I had to carry him and push the stroller the whole time, my left bicep is going to be buff!!
I also noticed something I never would have noticed had I not been a mom, non automatic doors SUCK!
After shopping we came home loaded up the jogger stroller (which was hard, I think the wheel comes off but i couldn't figure it out) and Kevin and went to Mt.Vernon and walked all around campus and that side of town, down to the house ean and I used to live in, I told Chasen all kids of stories about his mommy and daddy, that he probably didnt need to hear lol, just wanted him to know that his mama and dada were crazy cats back in the day;) mit was hard waling both of them, kevin kept wanting to chase squirls. Silly pup!
then we came home grilled with grammie and crashed!
I got absolutely nothing accomplished and it was GREAT!!! I guess Ill be busy this week.
Today we slept in and are about to head out to the grocery store for eggs so we can make bunny shaped sugar cookies!!
today will be a lazy day,
mama is sore from all the walking and carrying yesterday.

Happy Belated.....

St. Patty's Day and Birthday to Kevin! AND happy first day of spring!! Im so excited for spring and could jump right into summer :) Chasen is defiantly teething, he is drooling more...if that's possible, and his nose is constantly running and his cheeks are red...he also chews and chews. I wonder when he will actually get his first tooth!?! He has also been on a bad sleep schedule, not napping at daycare and getting up at 5am every morning and sometimes 1am and 5am.....never after 5am though, which sucks and makes me really tired which is why i dont post much...just to tired. I think he needs to nap more during the day (if that makes any sense) but today and yesterday he slept 2.5hrs at DC and took a 2hr nap at home and then last night he slept through the night till 6:30! He ate a bowl of rice cereal tonight and was actually interested in it and seems to be grasping the concept, we have tried it 3 times and was just kinda waiting till he was interested in the video that wont upload(grrrr) you can see chasen opening his mouth unlike last time where he just pushed it away. tomorrow i get my hair cut and im going shopping for a new outfit...maybe, im nervous to take chasen alone to the mall, i guess i shouldn't worry...all the other kids are screaming:)

my crazy kid!

this pretty much sums up our life....its crazy....good crazy!
We are busy
running

farming

eating

playing and visiting with grandmas and grandpas
oh and Ean and I are trying to fix up the house and move upstairs ...its a slow process.
im super tired so i dont have much time to update ... its quicker to upload pics...which im sure you enjoy ;)

Don't spill the beans

Did you ever play this game as a kid?
My sister and I played it all the time!
I have been trying really hard for about 2 weeks NOT to spill the beans about our best friends, Britton and Jordan....They are expecting their first BABY on their due date is none other then Chasen's birhtday Nov 4Th :)
We are so so so excited!!!
Britton was also the first person I told, after Ean of course, its kind of a funny story, I called her several times in a row because she wasnt answering and I thought maybe she was in the shower because it was kinda early, should have known she was in the library, any way I called her so many times in a row that her phone made a siren noise. she had it on silent at the library and everyone looked at her all mad....but once i told her she was super happy!

Ean and I are so excited, ( i think i mentioned that)and we are so happy to have close friends to share the expirence with!! they are only a year behind so I feel like we kinda get to do it together...all though it would have been sweet to be pregnant at the same time!...maybe next time!??
I also think its funny that we are all grown up and having kids, I mean look at how responsible we are... ;) atleast you can see a progression to responsibility!!

Here we are in college---at our peak of responsibility!

OUR WEDDINGS

Jordan is gonna be a great dad--pushing those kids down :)

and one more i couldint resist....its staged dont worry