Tractors!!!

I got a note from a good friend saying something was coming for Zane.  It arrived today and Zane was so excited when I told him the package was for him!  He said, I hope it's tractors and trailers!  That's always his wish.  Oh may it be tractors and trailers!  Well, I knew he was going to be sooo happy today!  He opened it and all his dreams finally came true!!!!  There sat three red tractors and a red trailer!!!  Oh boy!  You can imagine his excitement.  He was sooooo excited.

Anticipation!

Sister helps!

Red tractors!

And a trailer!

All lined up and ready to work!

Come to find out, these were Mr. Terry's when he was a little boy!  Thanks for sharing Mr. Terry and Mrs. Ellen! 

Zane Goes To Play

A couple weeks ago, three girls came and knocked on our back door and asked if Zane could come out and play.  I had already talked with our neighbor and said it was fine, so off he went, holding hands with his friends.  It was hard to see him go!  I was supposed to be cleaning windows, but I couldn't help but look out the window every 3 seconds to make sure he was okay.  Of course he was and I could hear his squeals of delight all the way from the neighbors driveway and into my house.  So, I couldn't stand it anymore and fed Rachel and we went over there too.  We didn't want to miss out on the fun.  :)

Weekend Guests!

What a fun, fabulous weekend we had!  We got to have two guests that are dear to my heart, Ellen and Terry!  Zane had so much fun doing maitenance on his chain saw with Mr. Terry, and decorating his first pumpkin with Ms. Ellen.  And Rachel enjoyed being held and loved on by both!

Devo Friday night

Checking out the progress on the house. 

Cheese and popcorn!  :)

Jeff and his helper.

Rachel and Ms. Ellen

Craft time!

He had to do Rachel's too!

Cutest pumpkin ever!

Making salad for supper.

Devo on Saturday night.

Friends!

So glad y'all stopped by for the weekend! 

Company Came!

We had company this last weekend!  Our good friends, Terry and Ellen, came to see us because they were sort-of nearby!  I am so happy they came by.  Ellen and I had a wonderfully long visit, and Terry and Jeff got to catch fish!  They also both got to get to know Zane a little better.  Enjoy the pictures!

Thanks for coming Terry and Ellen!  Come back anytime!

Special Visit

While we were in Midland, I was thrilled to get to visit my adopted grandmother and introduce her to Zane.  We both used to live in North Dakota and growing up when they had grandparents day at school, she would come because mine lived so far away!  Her late husband baptized me 19 years ago this month.  I always enjoy our visits when I go to Midland, but this time I was especially excited because she would get to love on Zane.  She had him smiling and cooing!

Love this one!

Fishing with my hubby!

A week ago, last Thursday, my Jeff and I got to go fishing!  I wanted it to last a long time because it is the last one before our son is born, but we had to come in early because I got really tired.  It worked out just fine though because we had our last prenatal class to go to that night.   

It was a gorgeous day.  We couldn't have asked for a better one.  There were hardly any boats out either, which made it really nice because the fish weren't disturbed.  One of the places we went to were some no name lakes in the bay-boy were the fish in there!  Since it didn't have a name and I was catching the fish, we named it Amy Lake.  (Jeff already has a lake named after him.  :-)).  Oh, we had such a good time. 

Not such a flattering pic, but hey! that's pregnancy for you!

With my best fishing buddy ever!

Rose Garden

When my friend Stefanie and her little girl were visiting us, we went to the park one day and had a picnic while the little girl played.  It was a beautiful day, although it was pretty hot and humid.  I've never been to the rose garden that they have at this park and thought it would be a great time to look at it because they were all in bloom.  It was really really neat.  I was surprised though, they didn't have many of the roses labeled with what kind they were! 

Stefanie wanted some belly pictures, so here's some she took along with a picture of a really pretty yellow rose that I took.

Pretty roses.

I liked the yellow.  They were really bright!

It smelled good too!

He pulled it off!

We have been looking forward to going camping for several weeks now.  At first, we were going to go to Big Bend National Park, but sickness came here and a mountain lion attack came there and it just didn't work out.  So, we started talking about going camping President's Day weekend since he would have Monday off.  We decided that would be a great idea!  And I was really excited because we were going to rent a camper!  Jeff grew up going on vacation in Colorado in their families camper and was really excited about it too.  My job to get ready was the food.  Jeff told me that we were going to eat lots of hotdogs and hamburgers.  Two days of hotdogs, two days of hamburgers.  GREAT!  I really liked hamburgers and hotdogs cooked over the fire, so I was excited.  He also said that we should always take sandwich fixings because we never know when we might run out of food and to get two of the same boxes of complete hamburger helper which comes with the meat.  That was strange I thought because I didn't know why in the world we would need the same exact box.  But he's been camping and I haven't!  I really wanted to bring jalapeno poppers and he said "Sure, bring a bunch!"  Oh, I was so excited at that because we could have those for every meal!  And bring a bunch I did!

So we got all packed up and drove to San Antonio to the camper rental place and while Jeff was in there, I thought that I'd send some texts out and see who would write back to kill some time.  I sent one to my friend Stef and one to my friend Ellen.  Stef wrote back after a few minutes and it was fun to talk with her.  Ellen wrote back too although I thought it was a little strange because it was only 4:30 and she gets off at 5.  But, it was Friday and I figured she just had her phone by her desk.  I told her I was thinking of her because we were going camping!  We'd been camping with them before back in November of 2010.  She said she was SO JEALOUS and that their camper had broken down.  That made me feel really bad because I know how much she loves to go camping.  So, Jeff came back and we got the camper and headed out.  We were on our way to Inks Lake State Park!!!!

It was about 2 hours away and it was pouring, drizzling, and just plain raining pretty much the whole way.  Plus it was getting very dark.  Jeff did a great job driving in all of it.  We got to the state park around 7 pm and Jeff ran in ahead of four or five other people that got there the same time we did!  I told him that was really fast and he said yep, and something like they just gave me a site on the water!  Wow!  I was so excited we would be on the water!  It was going to be so pretty-when I could see it.  So we had to drive around for site 263, me trying to follow where we were on the map.  That was pathetic, I couldn't navigate well.  Anyway, here we go, winding around all these campsites and we see where our site should be.  I was a little dismayed because there was another camper in the spot right beside it.  Rats!  Oh well.  And what?  There was someone standing shining a light on our number!  I thought, that person is in the wrong campsite!  I looked out the window and it was Terry and Ellen!!!!!!!!!!!  I couldn't believe it!!!!!!!!  What?!  Jeff had pulled it off completely!  I have never really been able to be surprised because even one little hint gets my mind a-whirling, but he did it and had told no one!  They had left early that morning and driven 5 hours and had gotten there about 3, got campsites together-on the water-and even had a campfire going for us!  I just couldn't believe it.  Jeff just loved it.  Later, Jeff and I were playing cards in the camper and he showed me his and Terry's scheming in texts.  They had planned it all in texts and I got to read all of them, including what we were bringing, what meals we were fixing, and what they were fixing-and that what the campsite number was and that we were only 30 minutes away!  It just makes me smile right now thinking about it.  We had such a wonderful time!  Oh, and their camper HAD broken down-and they'd gotten it fixed Thursday night!  :)

Ducks coming to visit us!

Saturday morning still sleepy!

Our setup

Inks Lake

Canada Goose

Good friends!

Walking to Devil's Waterhole

Waterfall

Enjoying each others company

Beautiful day after driving to Buchannan Dam for services

My wonderful schemer! 

22 weeks!