Life on the farm...

I've decided to try and start this blog back up again. I wanted to write about what I experience every day on the farm. We moved from a smaller house in the "big city" to a big house on a farm stead in a much smaller city last fall. If I had any idea how many acres the farm is on I surly would tell you all, but I don't. The farm has two houses on it. One house is located farther up the driveway and then there is our house, the old farm house. Did I mention the other house is my in-laws? Gasp, I know what you all are thinking and so far I actually love having them so close! my father in-law grew up in the house we are in and my husband grew up in my in-laws house. Confused yet? Anyways, I grew up in the country but we didn't farm or have animals. Well, my brother and I did receive rabbits one Easter but neither one of us ever wanted to touch or hold them so that didn't last long.

Now I have chickens and baby chicks, cats one of whom is pregnant and due any day, a 9 week old puppy and my father in-laws cows right in my front yard! Last weekend the family and I went to an exotic bird auction looking for a different variety of chickens and there was a baby lamb that I really wanted and the only thing that stopped me from getting it was the fact that I have no idea what to do with them.

I have no idea what I'm doing on this farm, but if you wish to follow along on my blog feel free and we can learn together.

Finally something new....

Abby and Matthew got bunk-beds in February and they have been a big hit!

Grandpa and Grandma Omodt bought a coffee shop in town, so the kids have been busy "working" there and loving it. They get paid in hot chocolate and cookies.

 Sarah is 6 months now.

 She is rolling.....

and can sit up on her own now!

January is over....

 Sarah had a mini Valentine/I'm almost 5 months old photo shoot the other day!

Abby had her 4th birthday in January. She had some friends and family over and a party wouldn't be complete without cake made by Grandma Wanda!

Abby also finished the first half of preschool with a great little program. She is now on a little break till march! Less running around for mom too!!!

And a picture of the girls just because!

A bunch of everything

Yes, I am still here but find I mainly have been using the blog as a place to go to look at all the other blogs I look at. Anyhoo, we are still alive. Here is a little update. Sarah is growing, growing, growing. Last time she was weighed she was 12 pounds, and I'm sure she is closer to 13 now. She is really smiley and will crack a smile for Abby anytime. Both Matthew and Abby are still liking school. Matthew told me that he likes school more than being at home! Not sure how I feel about that! 

It was a little more difficult to take pictures of Sarah now than it was when she was 2 weeks old. Now she moves more and isn't sleeping the whole time like she did then. I did manage to get a few though and may try again when Todd can be home to get her to smile.

For Christmas this year we went to my mom and dad's on Christmas Eve and stayed over till Chrsitmas morning. We opened our stalkings had breakfast and then headed to Todd's mom and dad's. When we got there we had the usual Lasagna Christmas meal and then opened presents. Here are a few shots from both places.

The other day the kids and I were driving somewhere and Matthew guilted me into taking them sledding! He asked me "mom, how come you never want me to be active? Me, "what do you mean buddy?" Matthew, "Well, you always have jobs for us to do instead of doing active things like sledding." Seriously?!?!? So of course I felt bad and took them sledding, after all I wouldn't want to contribute to childhood obesity by making my kids help out around the house and stuff!!!!

 

Sarah's 2 week pictures

Introducing....

Introducing Sarah Christine Tungseth

 Born ~ Friday, September 24 @ 6:35 A.M
Weight ~ 7lbs 2 oz
Height ~ 20.5 inches

Very proud Big Sister Abby holding Sarah!

Matthew and Abby holding Baby Sarah. There may be a little bit of a hard time getting to hold baby Sarah at our house, because these two will be holding her all the time!

Very proud big brother Matthew getting to hold Baby Sarah!

1st Day of Kindergarten!

Well the day has come and gone where I had to take my little baby boy to kindergarten! Yep, Matthew started school yesterday. 

 

He seemed pretty excited as he was getting ready yesterday morning. He even had to cheer Abby up a little as she got kind of sad when she realized he wouldn't be here with her all day. Whatever he said seemed to work.  We drove to the school and Abby and I walked Matthew to his classroom. 

We stopped for a picture right outside of his room. Then we went in and got all checked in with his teacher, and she made sure I was the one that was going to be picking him up that day. 

He got his pencil box out of his backpack and hung that up in his spot. 

Then he found his spot at the table and the teacher had a picture they could color while they waited for the day to start. We also took a picture with his teacher. I didn't realize till I got home that Matthew had weird eyes in the picture, but oh well. 

I asked Matthew that morning what kind of special snack he wanted when he got home from school and first he said nothing then he thought chocolate chip cookies sounded good. Abby and I had to those all ready when he got home. When I picked him up from school he looked as though he was ready to cry. I asked what was wrong and he said he had a headache. I think he gets them when he is very tired. Then I questioned him more while he was eating his cookies. He seemed to like the actual school part of the day, but other parts such as lunch and recess didn't sound to good. He claims he didn't have a sandwich in his lunch bag. I know that I made on and put it in there so we are thinking that it slid out when he unzipped the bag or something. Then he said he just played by himself at recess and started to cry when he was telling me this. We are pretty sure that he was just extremely overwhelmed by the amount of kids out at recess and didn't really know what to do with that many kids. Usually when we go to parks and such he has no problem asking kids to play and stuff so that was really strange. He is very excited about doing math and playing on the computer, which I think from what he told me they do the math on the computer also. He also sounded a little excited about music class, but was wanting to play the bongos! All in all I think he was very overwhelmed and completely exhausted by the end of the day. We talked about trying to ask someone to play at  recess while getting ready this morning and he agreed to try and ask someone. He still seemed excited about going back this morning so I guess that's something.