Happenings

I realize it has been some time since I posted anything. The last week in August my grandma passed away after having arthiritis for about 35 years and knowing she had cancer for just less than a month. She was ready to go and her health declined fast in the last month but despite the inenvitable it was still sad to see her go. It is so wonderful to have the knowledge of life after death and knowing that she can be with my grandpa who she has missed for the last 17 years. We were able to attend her funeral over the labor day weekend and it was fun to see all of our family. There were 19 of the 21 grandchildren in attendance which was really fun to see some family we haven't see in some time and meet some of the new great grandkids we hadn't see before.
This past week was a hard one for me the reality of having the kids back in school hit me hard. The kids were both behind on homework due to the couple of days we had to take off to go to the funeral the week before and then with the holiday on Monday we had a short week anyways. Sierra had two weeks worth of homework to do in three days and she is supposed to read 150 minutes a week. Basically the kids got home from school each afternoon and we worked on homework until the time we had dinner and then after that till bedtime and they didn't get in bed on time any of the nights either. Steve and I were both exhausted so I can imagine that the kids were too. Sierra's homework was finished Friday morning before school and she only finished her reading last night at 9 o'clock (an hour after bedtime).
On Friday Steve and I spent some time in our storage shed finding baby clothes and things we will need and getting some of our food storage out to use. I think it took us about 1 1/2 hours or so to find the things we needed. I got the clothes all washed up and I have to get them all folded and put away today. Over the weekend we saw some friends and went to the state fair and to a rodeo for the first time. I will post some pictures from the rodeo later. The kids had fun but we didn't get home until 10:30 p.m. which made Sunday a little more of a rush than I normally like to have since we needed to get more baths than normal and more hair dried etc.
I don't know where the time goes I have just less than six weeks before this new baby is due and I am ready to have the aches and pains gone but a little bit nervous to actually have this baby. We are excited to have her whenever she gets here though. I told Briana she needs to help me fold the clothes and she is marveling right now about how tiny they are and she wants to know if the babies feet will be the size of the little socks and the head the size of a head hole in a jammie outfit she likes. Well that is what we have been up to for now I will try to keep more updated.