February 2013

 

HAPPY 2nd Birthday, Augusta Laine! We love you......We are so proud of the little girl you are growing up to be.

 

 

 

We had birthday cake at DQ while we were down in Fal. Once again, it was another Aerial cake. When it came to cut the cake August didn’t want to share. She said it was her Aerial cake. All the ladies said just let her have her cake. So she stuck her fork in and started eating the icing. She did let you have a bite if you didn’t mind her feeding it to you. After she had a few bites, Trey was able to slice the cake and share it.

 

Trey also was able to shoot two does. So it’s sausage making time. We had a good visit in Fal. We stayed with Kirk and Mimi. Kirk cooked some delicious food, as he always does. We rode the golf cart all around and the girls enjoyed playing in the hay barn. Sherry let August pick out her birthday present. August selected Megan Bratt girl who is very gothic looking. We said August, she's a little scarry looking, August said No, she's pretty.

 

Tim and Raydell were bottle feeding two calves so the girls got to feed them, as well as, hay to the horse, and breeder cubes to the cows. 

 August three year check up was good. She was 39 ½ inches long and 38 lbs. She did have an ear infection so she is taking antibiotics and running fever. Her poor little nose is pouring out the snot. I just feel so bad for her.

My car radio went and my dash board lights stopped working after I hit a bump on 7th Street. The mechanic found a house key in the radio which was shortening out both of those items. I wonder which little fingers did that? I'm betting it was Auggie because she loves sticking cds in the cd player.

At a school gathering Dylan's mom said told us that Dylan just loves Kennedy. He made her a birthday card back in October she said and wrote I love you on it. When the Dylan’s dad asked why he loved her he said “She can read”! 

We made sausage on Saturday with the girls. It took until 10 pm and we still are completely done with the packaging. The girls enjoyed helping grind the meat. We put baggies on our hands to put the meat into the grinder. Several things happened, after we were done grinding we were going to do one more pass through to make the meat a little finer. Well, a piece of the grinder broke off so that eliminated the need for us to do that. Then when we were hanging the sausage in the garage to dry one of the hangers snapped and the sausage fell onto the floor and split several of the casings. To top of the evening, we noticed a couple of black chunks in the sausage stuffing. Well, some of the paint on the stuffer started coming off the inside.  Each year, we tackle this. Trey enjoys doing it, it’s a good family tradition to have,  it’s good bonding time, and it is a good process to teach the kiddos. Despite the tired backs from standing all day and the frustrations of things not quite going the way we plan….the tradition will continue. Each year, we say we need to recruit more people. Next year, we will do just that!

 

 

 

 

 

My sister bought this bride stuff for August for her birthday. She stayed it most of the evening.

 

 

Valentines the girls opened up their stuff before school. They got some candy,bubbles, and some stencils. At school, the children draw a name and make one valentine card for the person they drew. Here are the girls cards from their picks:

 

 

We went to Ft. Worth to attend Advocare's 20th Anniversary Success School.

 

 

 

August is learning how to spell her name. The other evening she was trying to use Abc stickers to spell out her name. She would look at me and make the sounds in her name. Auggie wore her vest to school today and the other day was admitit that she wear her flowery shoes.

Kennedy is doing so well with her reading. She has lately been reading the Dr. Seuss books to one of us at night.