Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Bowling season is over

So my women's bowling is over after tonight. We have our banquet next wed but tonight was it. My team finished in 5th place. We took all 7 points tonight. I bowled really well and I almost got my goal of 175. I had a 152 in the first game. A 118 in the second and a 162 in the third. I got 4 strikes in a row for the first time ever tonight. If I had bowled anything the first 5 frames in game 3 I would have had my 175. But I had 5 open frames to start the game then I bowled 4 strikes a 9 and spared it and a strike to close.

Now when next wed is over I can be done planing that for the year to. As my team is putting on the banquet this year. Summer league starts the end of May. Dennis will be bowling with me. Should be fun as I can not let him beat me don't you know.

Goofy man



Yea so i know where those 2 young ones get the I look innocent I must be innocent look from. Their father! Now I know growing up even I knew if someone was on a step ladder you stay off. Not Dennis he felt the need to see what I was looking at up on the ladder so he came up with me. The box fell. Where on my hand! Thankfully my left hand so I could bowl well tonight. But it is black and blue and looks like a box fell on it.

I love him but told him to get off my ladder and stop being a dork. But like a puppy how can you stay mad at him!? And he did move the boxes for me so I could go through them tomorrow.

My list grew





So I always keep a list of things I need to do on the machine. What shirts for who and all that. Well I was so very proud of me I had it down to only 3 things. Then Lisa came and I had her make a list of the towels that she wanted and then Larry and Nancy had me add a few shirts. Then I added 2 for Mark and then 1 for Jim and 1 or 2 for Dad. Well then Dennis wants one from the wild and I need another one. Well you get the idea.

My list is now 2 pages long. In the last 2 days I have managed to knock out one page. The list for Lisa is done as of tonight. I will start work on the other page tomorrow when the shirts all come in that I ordered. The towels were a big project for me as they were almost all 90 minutes a piece. So yesterday I worked 16 hours on the machine but they turned out really nice. I did 3 day that are not in the picture.

What do you do while the machine runs? Well i made Mini three dresses. She loves them as they are dancing dresses. She has wore 2 of them now and I am sure the next one will go on tomorrow. But it is nice to see the list moving in the right direction again. I have 6 small projects to do in the morning then my shirts will be in and I can start on those. By tomorrow night I should have a good dent in the first page to. Dennis shakes his head at me but I really do like it.

Mini and Matthew



Now I know these two look so very innocent but not so much so is the answer we are looking for here.

So Lisa is going to take these pans I am collecting back to MI with her. One lid has been missing. I mean gone no one can find the dang thing. And I looked and looked! And the kids play with the pans daily so I figured it would turn up. Dennis found the lid for me today. It is back with the set but guess where it was. Just guess....





OUTSIDE! Yes outside in the garage. I am sure they had it out there for a reason. I hope a good one but no one is sharing it with me at the moment.

getting ready for soccer


So the kids start soccer next week. Samantha and Matthew start on Monday and Stephen on tuesday of next week. SO the kids are running 20 minutes a nigth to get ready. As starting to run for a whole game is hard on the kids. So Dennis has them conditioning now.

I must say Stephen runs for 20 minutes and I mean runs! If I ran like that I would fall off and never get on again! Samantha managed to run 20 minutes or move for 20 minutes and never break a sweat! Now you all know she moves at her pace so the start of soccer will be eye opening for her once more. Tonight she ran her twenty minutes again but managed to fall off the machine! I swear why this girl wants ot play soccer is beyond me!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Mom home



Here she is at home and doing good! She sewed yesterday while I was there and played dice just like Mom always does!

Hanging out at the hospital



The waiting room is not fun to hang out in but we had lots of us there on friday. Shorty came up and Lisa and I and Nancy and Kristie and Dad. Jim and kay came up later to. I brought my wild blankets and food for everyone. We hung out there for 7 hours in that room and it was not bad really. Long but with all of us the time moved along. And once the surgeon came out with good news we all got to take a good deep breath to yet! And sent up our thanks. Of course it started to snow by time we left which made it impossible to go the next day without a 4x4 truck which I do not happen to own!

The 3 Roses


I have wanted this picture for 2 years 4 months but I finally got it! All three of us Rose's together in one place with someone other then me taking a picture!

Samantha and her gifts




The first picture is of Grandma and Grandpa and Samantha and then her flowers. She got 2 dozen roses for her birthday from Dennis and I and she was excited to get flowers for the first time. And then she is sitting with her horses she got for her birthday. She is trying hard for the webkinz horses. She is missing only a few now so she was really excited to get some for her birthday. She also got a check from grandpa A and cash from Grandma and Grandpa N so I am sure she is just planning away at what those will buy! Thank you everyone for the great gifts she really had a great night! Great grandma Alexander also sent her a card it finally got here in a post office envelope! It was beat up but she loved the card and it was fine just the outside got beat up! The kids just love to get mail from everywhere!

Stephen brought me home all his Oregon things and he was excited that he had so much! His teacher was excited to! So thanks to everyone who sent Oregon information out for him at school!

Samantha's birthday






I know I am slow on posting these but bear with me. It has been a long week here!

Samantha wanted a chocolate cake with flowers so off we went to go find one. And I can say costco makes the best cakes but the white cake with white frosting is a million times better then this cake was!

Shorty gave Samantha a singing card! Thanks so very much Shorty! Mini took it and to this day runs around with it making it sing all the time! Grandma and grandpa were here and so was aunty Lisa. Friends came by later for cake to though we still had half the cake left so it came with to the hospital the next day.

a few projects



Here are a few of my projects I did. The one is a picture of one of the birth announcments I made for the twins and the other is the dora blanket I made for the school. Mini did not like the fact that the dora blanket went out the door. Andn ot to her. Poor thing!

Monday, April 28, 2008

Home

Yes that too would be my Mom! She is home from the hospital and looking really really good! Lisa is staying at the farm today and will be there till Friday. I just got back from the farm.

Nancy left this morning to head home to Iowa and will return on Thur. to the farm. Linda will be here tomorrow at the farm to so Mom will have plenty of help. As will Dad. I will head back and forth between here and there as they need me.

Lisa is staying an extra 2 weeks which is awsome as then all of us can rotate back and forth with helping Mom in anyway we can.

I will update all my pictures here in a little bit and post some from the last few days. As I have lost to blog about I just have not sat down long enough to write it all up.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

An amazing woman

Yes that would be my Mom! She looked rough when we left last night but today she is walking around and watching TV with Dad and eating again. She sounds good and is sounding so much better then last night.

Of course here in MN we had snow! yes snow last night! So the roads were not made for me to drive on them. So tomorrow we will go see Mom in the morning.

Until then I will get my updates from Dad but it sounds like she is making a great recovery! And for this we are all so very thankful!

Friday, April 25, 2008

good news

So Mom had surgery today. She did good while in surgery and the guy said he could not see anything ovious in there so we will wait on the pathology report now which will be back on wed or so.

She looked rough after she got back but by time we left at a little after 6pm tonight so was looking much better. She was waking up a bit and looked way better. Lisa and I will head up again tomorrow. Tonight I will sleep. Sleep knowing she will be ok.

Thank you for the prayers and keep them coming that the pathology all comes back clear!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Samantha is 9





How she got from these to the beautiful young lady she is today amazes me sometimes! Though she still gets food all over herself when she eats! She is all excited for her birthday today. Grandma and grandpa are coming over this afternoon and will have supper here. I am planning a ham with potatoes and a veggie. And she will have cake with flowers on it.

You are growing so very fats on us and learning as you go. I can not believe that 9 years ago today I went into labor with you. You came out all wrinkled and pink and black hair and dark skintoned just like your older brother. To think we had 2 peas in a pod just shy of 2 years apart.

Happy birthday sweetheart!

see not so hard

See that was not so hard was it people?! So they finally called. Mom has to be there at 9am and surgery is at noon. I will update the blog for sure tomorrow night but I doubt I will be able to get on tomorrow during the day while we wait.

Hello? Please call!

Yea that is what I want to say to Mom's doctor. She had blood work done tuesday they told her they would call that afternoon with the results and when surgery would be Friday. Now here we sit on Thur mid morning and still no word on the results or when surgery is tomorrow! TOMORROW! Do they not get that a time for surgery is a bit of importance to everyone involved? I am sure they too are busy but pick up the dang phone and call and if you have no clue on the results maybe you could still tell her when her surgery is!

Ok I got it off my chest. Don't feel better but maybe they will call soon.

Sewing away the time






Today I finished the third pig sweatshirt. And I took a picture of the other 2 plus the hockey sweatshirt I did last night. I made Mini her fleece blanket and then I am doing a dora blanket to give to the school for the carnival. This is the last thing I need to get done for the school. The hockey sweatshirt I dropped off there today and the blanket I am embroidering now will go in the morning. I also did another towel for Lisa. The ones in the picture are all 5 I have done the past few days for her. It is late once more tonight but my list is getting smaller. I only have 2 baby onsies on it now and a lady ordered a hockey sweatshirt when she seen the one I made for the school but she does not need it for a few months since hockey is done right now. So I can wait to do that one till I want to do it. I do need to add the name to the last pig sweatshirt yet as Nancy wants a name on the front yet. But that too will take just a minuteso it will wait till tomorrow. When dora finishes in 30 minutes I am off to bed.

But all this sewing makes the days go by faster. And tomorrow Samantha turns 9! Where has the time gone? Grandpa A Dennis and Samantha got their cards in the mail yesterday! They say thank you!! Samantha got her card from Great-Grandma A to! Though the post office delivered it in a different envelope so she will open that in the morning.

I can not imagine that 9 years has passed since she was born. Which means come the 4th of July we have been back in Minnesota for 9 years. So many things have changed since then. But she is still my little girl who looks just like her Daddy but with all Mommies attitude. I will post her birthday post in the morning sometime well most likely afternoon. I have to go to the school in the morning.

So until then Happy Birthday Samantha!!

My truck driver




Yea she plays with dolls too but she loves trucks and trains. She spends hours just filling this truck plump full of things then emptying it back out again. It amazes me how she can go from playing with her babies and feeding them to driving a train around in a circle and filling the cars full then emptying them out time after time.

And she chats the whole time with her made up stories! I love to listen to her play. She takes her animals and some are babies some are Mommies some are Daddies. They are always only babies I did notice! LOL But the Mommies feed the babies and the Daddies play with the babies. Then she jumps to the trucks and she is the boss and loves every minute of it. i just hope she always knows she cand o everything! But she is a very good little Mommy to her babies. Of course when she is done with them she throws them somewhere! Mostly down the steps. Remind me when I am old not to let her watch me!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Pretty hair



Mini had me do her hair today and she was dang cute too! Her hair is so fine it did not last all day but it was sure cute till she slept on it. Then it had to come out as the clips had worked their way down. but I love that it keeps her hair out of her eyes. I may just have to cut those bangs to keep them out of her face till she is a bit older when it is easier to do.

raking up willows





So the first picture makes you think they are small and there can not be that many oh but there were. I rake my back yard yesterday just the back line of the property to clean it up and those 2 piles is what I got for it! I only raked for 40-50 minutes and Matthew and I had 2 big piles. So he brought out the chairs and he and his rake took a break and waited for a fire to come to be. As who would work and then not light a fire?! Really Mom just start it now! Who cares that it is windy as all get out and rain is coming just lite the dang fire. I know he was thinking it!

But the wind did not die down till the rain came so today there are still 2 piles of wood that will get burnt the first chance we have. I too am ready to have the first fire of Spring. So the chairs sit there by the fire waiting the chance to sit and watch a fire.

Soon my little man soon! Maybe tomorrow will bring no wind. A daytime fire is not as good as an evening one but it will do to burn all the sticks as Dennis pruined all the Apple trees tonight so I have more to burn tomorrow. Though he told Stephen and Samantha to pick them up after school so that means I will have to burn those a different day.

The ladies




ok I lied this sweatshirt is not done yet so I went to send the pictures so I can do this tonight yet.

These are photos of my aunts on my Mom's side. Pauline is Ralph's wife and Isy is Mom's sister. The one in the background is Judy her youngest sister. And the last picture is of Caroline her older sister. These ladies get together every single tuesday and cook way too much food and they play cards roll dice and have a good time. My cousin Connie was there today too with her 2 youngest and Matthew had a great time playing with her son who is his age. The kids and I got home and took a good nap too this afternoon so all the way around it was a fun morning and afternoon for everyone.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

gang meeting today

Yep we had gang meeting today. i brought Lisa there and Mom and Dad took her home. I almost got to keep her for another day though as Mom threw up this morning. I think friday is starting weigh heavily on everyone and it is showing up in Mom. She had blood work done today. And before she went she threw up but seems to be feeling fine now.

No word on the blood work yet and so we still do not have a time for Friday. Really all this sitting and waiting is slowly driving me insane. I know I am not myself. But, I can not change it either. I am worried and I will be ready for Friday to come just so the wait is over for a bit. Though then a different wait starts. So remember Mom in your prayers on Friday and really until then as worry and nerves are starting to show in everyone and I can not imagine being Mom waiting.

I took some pictures of the girls I will have to upload them in the morning. I am working on my last Hockey sweatshirt so i will be done with them before bed tonight. I delivered the first one this evening and I will take a picture of the one I am doing soon. And then to bed.

I did 2 towels last night for Lisa and 2 towels this morning. So my machine has been busy today as I got these 2 sweatshirts done tonight now. And tomorrow there are a few on the agenda to. So it will be a busy machine for a bit yet. This weekend it can have a break!

Monday, April 21, 2008

Picking Lisa up

Ok I know many of you will laugh at this too so i will share it! So Lisa called me to say she was off the plane and getting her luggage and to pick her up at door 6. Ok so I call Dennis and tell him Lisa is at door 6 and she is ready so he runs to go get her.

He calls me back and says I don't know if she is waiting inside or not but she is not at door 6 so I call her back and tell her to step outside Dennis is there. Nope he is not she says so I call him. (mind you should have had her call him so i could stop call both of them) He said he was making another lap to see if she was at door 1 not 6 instead. Nope so he parks tells me to call her and have her wait by the baggage claim. So I call her back and have her wait at the baggage claim she said she is by the carribou coffee stand. So I call Dennis and tell where she is.

He calls me back a few minutes later and says Rose there is no Carribou on this side of security! Ok this is getting funnier by the minute. So I call her and ask her what she is doing? And she says I am in baggage claim by the carribou stand. I finally get a feeling of OMG she is not at MSP! I ask her and she says well yea I am in Minneapolis. I know you are but what airport are you at and she tells me well you only have 1!! Oh lord I know where this going to end already. So I get to ask someone what airport sure enough she is at HHH not MSP!

SO I call Dennis and he says HHH is the main one. No I am sure of this HHH is not the main one it is down the road so off he goes after paying parking to go find my sister! ANd there she was at door 6 by the carribou coffee stand just waiting for us to come get her.

Now in all this I go check her ticket as I find it odd since I was sure it said MSP on it and sure enough it does. But she is at HHH so when we return her to her airplane I will be sure to take her to the right airport!

That is our funny story of the day. Poor Lisa was all worked up and worried Dennis would be mad. He was not of course and I was just worried we would not find her before traffric hit. They are sitting in it right now as it took them an hour to find each other but they are almost home now so they are fine!

What Mini and Matthew do at a shower




After getting back from hanging out with Daddy and ordering a computer for someone they played in the mud! Imagine that!

The baby shower






Samantha had a good time at the shower and played the games and helped others play. Tia explained them all and the third picture is of Ann she looks great for having twins 4 weeks ago! And then there is Tammi Kent's sister. Samantha loves her and giggles everytime she is around her!