Productive

Holy rain Batman. Why is it STILL raining?! Why won't it STOP raining? Haven't we had enough rain? Why is it barely 40 degrees today when it was near 70 yesterday? Do you know? Me either. All I DO know is that I am sick and tired of the rain. I'm tired of these cold temps. I am tired of the rain. Did I already say that?
I was a bit irritated with Dylan this morning. This happened to be the one morning Ethan decides to sleep past 7 am. Which also means that I get to stay in bed. Well, this morning, while we were sleeping, Dylan for some reason wakes up and decided to raise a little bit of hell. I hear him knock on something. I'm not sure if it was the window or door, but he is in his room making noise. I lay my head back down and ignore it. Then he does it again, only louder and longer. GRRR. I get up. Go down and tell him that he needs to be quiet because we are still sleeping. He knows to stay in his room until we come and get him in the mornings. It's never late by the way. So why he decided to be a turd this morning is beyond me. Ethan ended up sleeping until a little after 8! Man! I could have slept in a little!
Despite all of that I have been a little productive today. What else is there to do on a rainy cold day? Well, other than sleep. I finally got Dylan to clean his room right. Every 2 or 3 days I make him clean up the toys in his room and put everything back. Well lately he has just been throwing all of his little stuff into a large dump truck he has and says its clean. So today I dumped it all out, took out the dump truck and drilled it into his head that what I mean when I say clean is to put everything where it goes. After lots of frustration on his part, its done. It won't stay like that, but for now, its done.
Both boys seem to have a cold too. Ethan is a giant ball of snot. And Dylan has a cough. We had been cold free for a couple of weeks, and it was so nice. I hate colds. Blech.
Like I said yesterday, we have an open house at the preschool for Dylan tonight! I'm sure you will be hearing about it here, tomorrow!!

Mondays wear me out

I am so tired. Again. I don't know why I have felt so tired lately. It has rained all day today so that doesn't help at all. I wish I could get yesterday back. It was a nice day. We got a few things done, the kids were in a good mood. The weather was great. For dinner, Ryan grilled steaks for dinner. I roasted some potatoes and then made a french bread to go along with it all. The bread was great. Patting myself on the back! I would be glad to share the recipe, so feel free to contact me if you'd like it. It is an extremely easy recipe. The finished product! We don't have many plans for the week. Tomorrow though is an open house at the preschool Dylan will be attending in the fall. I'm nervous and excited all at the same time. Hopefully Dylan will be excited and not too shy when we go tomorrow evening. Oh no. I hear the sounds of Ethan waking up. I am so not ready for that kid to be awake yet.

Where do you want to go?

Last night during general conversation with Ryan some how my thoughts went to Montana. I don't know some how the word Butte came up, and I automatically thought of Butte Montana. Anyway, I got to thinking about how much I'd like to see Montana one day. Ya know, we have tried twice to plan a road trip out to see the Badlands. The first time we started talking about it, it was end of 2005, beginning of 2006. At the same time though, we decided we wanted to have a baby. Well, once we got serious about trip planning, BAM! Pregnant. So thinking that driving from Ohio to the Dakotas as a pregnant lady wouldn't be the best. Swelling, and bad for you food, and then hiking in the Badlands, just not a good idea. So we put it off. We started talking about it again before Ethan. Again, pregnant! So I'm kind of hesitant to bring it up again for fear of getting pregnant again, haha! No one day we will drive out west. I want to see it so bad. The pictures that I have seen of the area look so amazing, it can only be that much better in person.
I'd also like to see Hawaii. My ideal would be that one year Ryan and I go by ourselves. Then once both boys are older, can enjoy it and remember it, go back. I have no idea which island I would want to see though. They all seem special. I'd like to see the Gulf of Mexico one day. Although I'm not sure which state I'd like to see it from. I'm a big fan of the ocean. Any ocean. Italy. Love to see Italy. I would have no idea where to begin, so if I ever went to Italy, I'd want my visit to be apart of a tour group or something. There are so many amazing places in this world. I love gorgeous landscapes and historic ruins. Take me to a place that has one of those and I'd be a happy girl.
I want the boys to grow up with an appreciation of travel, and new things. We may not be able to travel the world, but even here in this state there are places we can go to show them that getting out and seeing new things can be fun.
Where would you go? I'd love to hear!

A good day for a nap

I woke with a massive headache this morning. For about 5 hours now I have been in a world of hurt. Ouch. It's starting to lighten a bit, but it's not over yet. I would like to lay down for a while, but then I would fall asleep, and that wouldnt be good with the kiddos running around! We are supposed to get more rain and storms later. Hopefully it will all miss us though. No sun at all today. It looks cold and wet out. Yuck. We aren't getting into much today. Im hoping to feel better later and take the boys back out to play. Since the weather has gotten nicer, housework has taken a back seat. There is a lot I need to get done. I'll get to it. Sometime. My brother called us this morning on Skype and got to see Dylan. As always Dylan didn't have much to say, but at least they got to see each other. His interent connection wasn't the best. But thats kind of expected where he is. He seems to be doing good. I guess they haven't done much yet.

I messed around with a couple of the pictures I took the other day. All of the animals really enjoy looking out the door. At times there are fights over who gets to be in front of the door. Max and Chloe can manage to share. Diesel, the other kitty will NOT share. Notice you haven't seen many pictures of her. She's nocturnal. After the kids to go bed is when she comes out usually. Unless it is to lay in the sun in front of the door.

Weekend!

Yesterday was a nice day here. The sun was out and the breeze was warm. The boys and I spent most of the afternoon out on the screened in porch playing. I snapped tons of pictures. But I am only showing a few. I wouldn't want to bore you!

Ethan enjoyed pushing Dylan. And its much safer for Ethan to be the pusher.

Yes, I know. There's a hole in the screen on the porch. But isn't he cute!

Aww.

Today it feels much cooler. It's also windier. We've been getting little rain showers here and there too. But tomorrow and Sunday are supposed to be so warm! I can't wait. 80's finally! Oh, and during the noon news today, they told us that the DOW from the series "Storm Chasers" is at the Cincy museum center today and tomorrow! Why do I always find out about these things last minute? (If you don't know what I am talking about click HERE). Last weekend it was the TIV, and now the DOW. The DOW is going to be there today and tomorrow. Ryan is working late today so obviously we can't go today. We will see about tomorrow. I don't know what he needs to do. I can't imagine how busy that place will be though tomorrow. There are so many things at the museum center, so add this to what they already offer and I'm sure it will be busier than normal. From what they said today, the film Tornado Alley has been their biggest hit in 10 years. So they have been getting a lot of additional traffic from all of this. Oh well. The film itself runs through July, so we will get down there one day. Ryan just needs to stop being busy so we can go! Stupid jobs.

Friday!

I am linking up again and showing a shot I took earlier in the week. Made it black and white and then erased that layer over the flag to keep it colored.

I took quite a few pictures of the boys yesterday that I would like to share later when I get more time. So hopefully I will get around to that today.

Slump

I kind of feel like I have been in a blog slump. I just haven't felt like saying much. I also feel like I don't have much to say.
Ethan woke up this morning before the sun came up. Doesn't he know that it is against the rules? He was born a rule breaker. He was also born grumpy. So yeah, he's been up for a while now, and has been grumpy about it too.
I'm dreading the rest of the month. At some point Ryan is going to get busy with the spring work on top of everything that he is already doing. My only hope is that when they start, it stays dry and they can work straight through and just get it done. Get the ground plowed, and planted, and be done with it until wheat harvest. The long days of him being out are hard, but we get through it. It would be nice if he could take Dylan with him more this year. He was close to getting Dylan to drive the tractor last year. He taught him which buttons to push and how to turn. Ryan took a video of it one day, and I was surprised how well Dylan did. But Dylan is kind of obsessed with tractors. And trains. And trucks.
Remember last week that I mentioned my goal was to get the dining room straightened back up? A week later, and I am almost done. I still need to get a good cleaning on the floors. I will probably mop it a couple of times. It's been a while since it's had a good cleaning. Yes it has taken me a whole week to get one room clean. Kids. They have a tendency to un-do what I am finally able to do. That and Ethan's constant need for...well...everything it takes a while to get some things done around here. Am I the only one that seems to have THAT much trouble doing ONE thing? Is there anyone else out there?
Dinners have been so boring! Last night I cheated and did the Wanchia Ferry box stuff again. Click HERE if you want to read about that. The night before was home made pizza again. Click HERE for that post. Tonight is supposed to be meatloaf. I need new dinner ideas. Quick and easy dinner ideas. Things that don't take fancy and expensive ingredients. Grocery bills are high enough.
Anyone else using blogger having any trouble with thier posts posting right? I will type everything in nice paragraphs, and when I post it, its all one paragraph. I have to go back and edit it over and over before it finally listens to me and does what I tell it to do. I'm not very tech savvy, so if anyone knows why this keeps happening, will you help me? I'm getting irritated with it all.