Ha Ha Ha...

I saw this a few minutes ago on some site I happened upon. I couldn't help but post it. It made me laugh. Enjoy the remainder of your week everyone.

lions and tigers and BEARS....OH MY!!!

Yesterday Jon went down the Rowlands Ranch to do some bear hunting. He came home with a HUGE grin spread across his face, and this story to tell.....
Jon and Ryan were sitting in the bushes along the tree line on the hill watching the oat field below them, because they'd been told the bears love that field. They sat there for an hour or so, dead silent and just watching, when all of a sudden a big black bear stood up in the middle of the field. It had been bedded down in the field that whole time. He was about 300 yards away from them, which was farther than Jon would have liked, so he belly crawled down the hill and into the oat field. It took him probably 30 minutes to do this slowly and quietly so the bear wouldn't see him. He got to be about 100 yards away from the bear and was trying to get a shot at him. By the way...when the bear was on all fours his head, neck and the tops of his shoulders were above the oats. When Jon stood up in this field the oats were up to his chest. (That means this bear was 6 feet tall on all 4's....YIKES!). The only time Jon got even the slightest chance at a shot at this bear was when the bear stuck his head out once, but Jon didn't take the shot. He was hoping for a better opportunity. When it was just about dark and getting to be past the legal shooting time, Jon stood up and yelled...."HEY BEAR!!!!!" Now if you know Jon, you know that he can yell extremely loud. However, the bear completely ignored him and laid back down in the oats. Since it wasn't legal to shoot anymore, Jon headed back up the hill to where he left Ryan. Once back at Ryan, Ryan asked Jon if he'd seen the second bear that was coming down the fence line, saw Jon and took off.
Needless to say....I'm going to be husbandless on weekends until he gets this bear. :)

I have sat down numerous times in the last few weeks, planning on updating my blog and writing something new for you. But every time I try....nothing comes of it. I have many thoughts on what to tell you but I'm horrible at putting my thoughts into words, I even wrote and deleted the "title" for this post 3 times before giving up and leaving it blank. One post I attempted in the last few weeks was about how quickly B's growing up, and how different it is for kids these days.....laptops and cell phones. Those were only in futuristic movies when I was her age. Others were about my summer. How quickly it flew by. Isaiah...how gigantic he his, and how quickly he too is changing. But since I'm no good at saying all these things, I'll just show you in pictures.
Enjoy!

Jon and Micah going duck hunting.

Home from duck hunting....all tuckered out.

B and Hayden....first day of school.

Isaiah. Getting so big.

The event of the day....

As I was putting supper together this evening. The kids were playing in the living room. I had a thermarest out (that I use as a mat for working out on) and the kids were pretending that it was a boat. They were happily playing until I heard a loud bang followed by Micah's crying. I had a hot cookie sheet in my hand that I quickly put on the stove top and just as I started to walk away I saw Isaiah out of the corner of my eye reaching for the cookie sheet (He was sitting in his Bumbo chair watching me make supper....his new "milestone" is that he grabs EVERYTHING within his reach). I went running back and grabbed Isaiah out of his bumbo chair then went tearing off to see what happened to Micah......
What I saw next is NOT something that a mother wants to see. Micah was laying on the floor under about 3 large shards of glass and blood starting to pool around him. The first words out of my mouth were "Don't Move!!!". I quickly put a screaming Isaiah down on the living room floor and proceeded to dig my child out of the glass while also yelling for B to get me the phone. I carried Micah upstairs and sat him on the counter with his feet in the sink, grabbed a washcloth and started to try to figure out where he was bleeding from the worst. After wiping his arm off I saw blood streaming down his neck so I pressed the cloth to the back of his head and called Jon.
"You need to come home now!" is all I said to him, and his response was "OK" within 1 minute he was running up the stairs (thank God he was working in Okotoks only 3-4 blocks away). We dumped B off at the neighbors and went straight to Urgent Care....pulling a Brittney Spears. Micah sat on my lap all the way there, much to his delight. :)
After the nurse cleaned him up 3 tiny cuts were revealed on his head. Not even stitch worthy. He also has 5-7 cuts on his back and legs. I'm thankful to say he's doing just fine. Playing and fighting with B again as I type. Now I can breath once again....

The piece of glass at the bottom of this picture was one of the two giant glass shards that I had to pick up off Micah to get him out of there.

Life is Busy

Wow. I can't believe that the summer is half over already. Being the heat lover that I am, I find that terribly sad. I'm going to enjoy every day of the warm weather that we have left and try to soak in the sun as much as possible. Maybe then the fall and winter won't be to terrible....oh who'm I kidding....
Our summer days so far have been filled with visiting family, playing at the beach, boating, picnics at the park, drinking real iced tea in the hot sun, stampeding, a surprise birthday party (Jen's 30th), a wedding (Kara and Rob...congrats), and VBS. We still have more family visiting to look forward to, some camping trips, and school to get ready for. THAT'S RIGHT I said SCHOOL. I can't believe I'm going to be one of those mom's that has to get their child ready for school. Brielle is going to start Kindergarten in the fall. The poor kid is going to be taught by me at home though. Along with my niece (I don't think my sister remembers my grades in school growing up, otherwise she probably wouldn't let me teach her child too). The last couple of weeks of August are going to be dedicated to getting ready for school. I am hoping to turn our basement into a classroom of sorts. We'll see if that happens or not, but regardless of whether or not I have a designated room...I'm teaching 2 children come September. I'm a little nervous about this. I have no idea where to start. What am I supposed to teach them every day? Is there a book I do stuff out of, or am I supposed to just make it up as I go along? These are all questions that I'm going to find the answers to in the next month. Yikes. Pray for B and Hayden...HaHaHa.

Mmm....Food

After weeks of having a screaming child at EVERY meal. I decided today to give him some food of his own. I know it's a bit early (he's 5 and a bit months old, you're not supposed to start them on solids until 6 months). However, I'm tired of trying to settle him while my food gets cold. So, while I was at the grocery store this afternoon I picked up a couple boxes of rice cereal. I have just finished giving him his first large tbsp of cereal. He loved it!!!!! I couldn't shovel it in his mouth fast enough. I actually had to pin his arms down while I brought the spoon to his mouth because he kept grabbing the spoon frantically, thinking I wasn't doing it quick enough.
I'm hoping this will stop the meal time fits.......we'll find out tonight. :)

????Anyone out there????

I was just wondering if I'm completely wasting my time, or if people are actually reading what I write on here. I don't really want to keep writing things on here if I'm the only one coming to this site. I know my thoughts, I don't need to write them and read them too. I know I don't write/post all that often but I'm just wondering if I should be stopping all together?
Any comments??????
Anyone???
Hello???
Oh...and who is anon e mouse? I have been wondering that for awhile now. You seem to know me, I'd like to know you too. :)

Funny Funny Stuff...

This was e-mailed to me (along with some other funny "kid" things). I thought this one was just too good. Kids can do/say some pretty funny things sometimes.

A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.
'Mama, look what I found,' the boy called out.
'What have you got there, dear?'
With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, 'I think it's Adam's underwear!'

Chub-a-lub

I realized that I haven't posted any pictures of Isaiah in quite awhile. He's now a giant...you'll all be shocked. I'm very used to my babies being in the 5th percentile for height/weight. Brielle was 5th for weight and 50th for height (she's always been tall and skinny) and Micah was 25th for weight and 5th for height. Isaiah however is just a big monster! He's in the 95th percentile for BOTH height and weight. He's 3 1/2 months old and over 17lbs, 26" long. He's our chub-a-lub. Here's a few pictures of our friendly giant. :)

Look at those cheeks...

Loving the swings.

Kinda looks like he has an elastic band around his cankle...oh I mean ankle :)

Sleeping beside his OLDER cousin (by 5 months) who he's now outgrowing.

Floods

It's that time of year again. I find it bittersweet. I know that a lot of people lose many of their possessions, and businesses during floods, but I also get kinda excited because I just love watching them. I love watching what they do, and watching the river grow to be 10+ times the size it usually is. Anyways, I took a few pictures last night as Jon and I were coming home from Jen's house. Enjoy!

Normally the river is around knee deep here and something like 15 feet wide.

This picture was taken from the parking lot of Smitty's.

This is underneath the car bridge

This is also under/beside the car bridge...the "new" pathway they built after the last flood 3 years ago. Looks like they're going to be rebuilding it.

Stress!!

For the past 2 weeks my neck has felt like someone wound up and kicked it as hard as they could. I haven't been able to look to the left, then it switched to the right. Being a firm believer in God's gift to man (a.k.a the Chiropractor) I made an emergency appointment. Only to find out that my neck isn't actually out of place, but that the muscles are spasming because I'm stressed out. I didn't think I was stressed, I'm not usually one to panic or feel stressed about situations. I know that God'll take care of me and my family even if that means providing a cozy box for us to spend the night in :) However, apparently things have finally built up a little high and my neck has decided to express it's dislike for my current situation. Hopefully this'll pass after I pay the government the money they THINK they deserve, and Jon's truck is back in our possession. I know that years down the road I'll look back on these last few months and marvel in the ways that God always provides. But while we're in the midst of these days...it's hard to see the bigger picture. :)

I Suck!

For those of you that know me, you know this about me well....for those of you that don't....I'm not one to follow a recipe. I usually make it up or use a recipe as a guideline. I have never had something not turn out. My odd creations always taste alright if not pretty darn good (if I must say so myself). Until tonight. I started supper at 4:30. I was just going to do a type of goulash with random things thrown into it....sorta like a make-shift casserole. It started with brown rice, which I've made before without a problem. I actually follow the directions for rice. I decided to do it in broth instead of just water. I set the timer for 50 minutes, but checked on it about 40 minutes later. Good thing I did because my rice was stuck to the bottom of my pot. At this point things were still ok. It wasn't burnt, just very brown in some spots but still salvageable. So I proceeded to toss in my random things and let it simmer.....this is where I went wrong. 10 minutes later my rice sunk to the bottom and burnt to a crisp.
Good thing I caught Jon on his way home from work......tonight is Pizza Night! :)

Punk baby

Today while shopping in Costco Isaiah was in his car seat in the back of the cart. As we were walking towards a mom with her two boys, the older boy (who was maybe 5) was excitedly stating "Mommy, Mommy a BABY!" Then as we walked past his excitement changed to shock as he loudly proclaimed "MOMMY, THAT BABY HAS A MOHAWK!!!".

A lot of randomness

My Dad just informed me (via text message...my Dad's hilarious) that he won GOLD in the Friars Briar. Which is a curling tournament for those of you that are like me and don't really follow these things. Yay for him! I'm so proud.

Also, I'm enjoying really good hummus right now. Just thought I'd share the recipe.

2 cans garbanzo beans (a.k.a chick peas)

1/4 c. lemon juice

1/3 c. tahini paste (sesame seed paste, found near the peanut butter)

3 green onions, chopped

5-6 garlic cloves

2 tbsp soy sauce

Salt, Pepper and Cayenne pepper to taste

Add everything to a food processor and process until smooth. Enjoy!

In other news...Isaiah has been sick for 4 out of 5 weeks of his life so far. Not cool. It's really starting to wear on me (and him, I'm sure he's wishing he could be back in the womb right now). As far as we can tell he has reflux and a really bad cold at the moment. He's on medication for the Reflux (which is basically a fancy way of saying heartburn), which seems to have helped immensely. Although he's still waking up a million times a night and hacking up a lung. Hopefully he'll be better soon. I'd love to have more than an hour sleep at a time. Any breastfeeding moms out there that want to take him for a night? :)

For those of you that haven't joined the cult known as facebook. Here's an updated picture of my sick little baby.

My New Toy

Jon bought this for me yesterday....I am in love! Isaiah loves it as well. It's extremely comfortable and you can sit the baby in it in many different positions. If any of you are thinking about getting a baby carrier...I highly suggest this one! It's called an Ergo Baby Carrier. I bought it at Bo Bebe in Calgary.

Pictures as promised

Our family of 5.

Micah kissing Isaiah.

Brielle's turn to kiss Isaiah.

Our new bundle of joy...Isaiah Darrell Kehler

Yay for Babies!!

Isaiah Darrell Kehler joined our family February 6th at 5:13am. He weighs 8lb 6oz, and was 21" long. The delivery went well. It was extreemly quick (which was good because I did it without so much as a tylenol). I started having contractions at 10pm Tuesday night. They were tolerable and 10 minutes apart for quite a long time. Then all of a sudden at 3am I was sitting on the living room floor, had a contraction and felt Isaiah moving downwards...kinda freaky...6 minutes later it happened again. Needless to say, Jon packed the kids into the car very quickly and 10 minutes later we were dropping them off on Jon's mom and dad's doorstep (which is normally a 25 minute drive). When we got to the hospital (at about 3:30) my contactions were back to 10 minutes apart and I was 6 cm dialated. The Dr. arrived at 5am and burst my membranes, I was 8 cm dialated at this point. She left the room only to be hauled back in literally seconds later because Isaiah was on his way out. 5:13am we were snuggling him in our arms. It was Quick but certainly NOT painless.
I'm being summoned by a hungry boy so I'll have to post pictures tomorrow.

24 hour bug

Wow! That was an intense 24 hours. I'm VERY thankful that that's ALL it was. Jon and I are the only ones that got sick (thank the Lord), and we're completely over it. I think I'm still catching up on sleep though. The one good thing that it did for us was it got me moving to get everything ready for when the baby arrives. (No more shoving stuff into the baby's car seat at the last possible moment). I now have a VERY cute diaper bag. Obviously not a picture of me, but it's the only picture I could find of the diaper bag I bought.

I was also able to pick out my rocking chair with Jen yesterday. I haven't set it up yet (or rather Jon hasn't), but it should be all put together tonight. So a HUGE thank-you to all of you who are pitching in for my rocking chair. I appreciate it like crazy. I sat in it in the store and I know that it's going to be way more comfortable at 3am than sitting up in my bed leaning against the wall trying to feed the baby. I'm very much looking forward to the luxury of a rocking chair. In case you're interested this is the one you all bought me....

It's slightly darker than this one. I love it and am very excited to use it. Now all we need is the baby. Any day now would be just great according to me. I still have 3(ish) weeks left, but hopefully it comes early (isn't that always the dream). I was 5-7 days late with my first 2 so I'm not actually counting on it....but a girl can dream can't she. :)

Fluids and Buckets

Here I sit. With a bucket on one side of me and a drink on the other not sure what to do, but I had to get away from the view of my room from my bed. Yesterday around supper time I started feeling achy, my back hurt, my stomach hurt, you get the picture. I have been attacked by the flu virus, actually everyone in my family except for Brielle is being attacked by it. Last night Jon and I ended up making a trip to the hospital because my throwing up made my body go into fits of contractions. We tried to wait it out, fully expecting that it wasn't going to be anything and they'd just send us home. 4-5 hours later Adam's at our house and Jon and I are on our way to the hospital because I was getting constant contractions that were now 2-3 minutes apart. As we predicted, we were sent home and I was told that I was just really dehydrated and needed to drink a bunch then they should go away. Which they did after another few hours. The puking however, never stopped. Jon was fine until a few hours ago, and Micah woke up sick this morning. Thankfully Micah hasn't been puking, he just slept ALL morning long and when he was awake would beg us to snuggle him. Now our very sweet 4 year old is basically babysitting our 2 year old. Jon and I were both confined to our bed (it's the closest to the bathroom) while I heard Micah saying "Mommy, I'm all done" (he was sitting at the table eating lunch) and then I promptly heard Brielle say "You need to ask me if you can get down". I just smiled and let her take care of her little brother. Thank the Lord for independent children, who don't get into trouble when they're left to fend for themselves for awhile.
Anyways, it's been almost 24 hours since I was first attacked and I'm starting to feel human again. Hopefully I haven't just jinxed myself.

How was everyone's Christmas?
Our Christmas was really good. We went to Manitoba for Christmas to spend it with Jon's extended family. All his Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins live in the Portage La Prairie area. It was fun. We stayed with his Uncle Arch and Auntie Dianne. Jon and the kids enjoyed playing in the snow (which was waist deep on the kids). They loved it, since we don't get snow like that out here. Jon built them a little fort, tossed them into the snow causing them to disappear in a puff of white and pulled them around on a GT snow racer. Jon also did a little bit of rabbit hunting :), sledding and quading.
It's nice to be home now though. We had a New Years eve party at our house, and enjoyed food and games until the wee hours of the morning.
What did you all do for your New Years?? And do you have any New Years resolutions?