Daddy's Boy

The older Garrison gets the more obvious it gets that he is not a Mama's boy. He is all boy! Everything he does is to mimic or be with his Dad. This weekend while we were putting cupboard locks on he just had to help. The funniest part was when Garrison kept getting in and trying to get soap out of the cupboard. Justen told him No No and wouldn't let him get in again. Then as Justen tried to put the lock up Garrison got extremely upset that Dad was in the offlimits cupboard and kept telling him No No and pulling his hand out and shutting the cupboard door just like Dad had done to him. Mabey it's one of those that you had to have been there things.

Finally Motivated!

I have to start out by thanking my sister-in-law Sarah. She inspired me to get started on my spring cleaning. I've been wanting to for a while. My house is driving me nuts, but where to start? Well I followed her link to the spring cleaning party and the routine put together by Simple Mom. It's awesome! I have to admit though I'm a bit behind. I can't keep up-my house is way messier and a bit bigger than her's appears in her blog. So while it is taking 10 days if you follow her routine, it will take me more like 10 weeks. But it is so worth it. I have already put together two full boxes for the DI. Justen and I are loving our new found space in our clutter free kitchen. I have also found my new favorite "toy" in all of this. For my birthday Justen got me a steam mop and a steam cleaner (similar to a sccunci but much cheaper). I have asthma and fibromyalgia and we've found both are irritated by most cleaning chemicals. I use the mop every week, but the cleaner hasn't been much use, until now. My kitchen has never been cleaner, and for the first time deep cleaning in years I haven't had an athsma attack. I will say though I used a tiny but of clorox cleanup when we pulled the stove out because I just couldn't resist, that was GROSS! We've steam cleaned all the cupboards inside and out. The last things left to finish the kitchen is to clean behind the fridge, wash the walls, and oil the wood cupboards. Then it's on to the bathrooms. So like I said I'm a few days behind because I should be onto Garrison's room but I'm not yet. But it feels so good to get things deep clean and the clutter we've collected out. I am absolutely loving her ebook and all the great tips-if you want to follow along just click on Simple Mom and it will take you there. Sarah I can't thank you enough for pointing me in the right direction!

This is how we feel!!

We have been running so hard the last few months that we are totally exhasted. It seems like everytime we think we are going to have a nice weekend to rest, we don't get any rest. Everyday I'm another day behind. We finally have Fremont's FFA banquet behind us, and next week will be my greenhouse sale. Then we still have Layton's banquet and a few other things and then summer. Which is of course time for summer Ag program visits, summer classes, county fairs, and everything else. Hopefully someday we will get a break.

Lambs, Lambs everywhere....

Garrison loves his lambs! He makes Justen take him out to check the sheep every day when they get home from daycare.

Birthday Boy

I'm slow at getting stuff up but here's some of the pictures from Garrison's birthday on March 14.

He walks, he talks, it's awesome!

It's awesome and scary all at the same time! Garrison's surgery was a success. They can't confirm whether or not he has any permanent hearing loss, but we've seen a huge difference. He's started walking all over and is really good at it. His evasive maneuvers to get around oncoming dogs is downright impressive. He also now climbs into the window sill (yikes) and waves at the neighbors. His "talking" is much improved too. He now jabbers constantly, tells you NO NO NO! if he doesn't like what you are doing, and "sings along" to the songs in church. All of this is new. His favorite new thing is of course LAMBS! We had a set of triplets born Monday and a set of twins at about 4 am this morning. Garrison loves them. He pounds on our back door constantly calling Tia and Abby and looking at Justen pleading to go see the "baas". It's pretty darn cute.

A Quick Update

I haven't had a whole lot of time these last few months. Between Garrison and I we've been to the ER 6 times in three months. We're both finally feeling better. Garrison is now up to 33 inches and 25 lbs, so he's gained back the weight he lost while he had RSV. He lost down to 20lbs so he's been slowly working it back up. He goes in for surgery on Monday on his ears. They will be removing scar tissue from the ear drums, and putting tubes in. They are hoping to restore his hearing completely. At his last test he was at 90% hearing loss, but they hope it is a temporary loss due to the pressure built up behind the ear drums and the amount of scar tissue he has built up from ruptured drums. They said Monday should be pretty routine and he'll be feeling back to normal and hopefully better than normal by that evening. Garrison started walking a few weeks ago, but then when his ears got bad he quit again. We are hoping he'll decide to walk again once his equalibrium and balance come back. I'm hoping to have time to post a little of what we've all been up to soon. Justen is getting pretty close to having the roof up on our new barn, Garrison has rearanged and "organized" all of my kitchen cupboards, and I've beem working with students on FFA proficiencies, state degrees, and science fair projects. It's a busy time for us. Justen and I call spring "FFA Season". We have all of our competitions coming up, and we are both training several teams. Our greenhouses are also in full swing and filling up for spring. Keep reminding me to get pictures up so I don't forget! So much exciting stuff, not to mention we start Lambing in two weeks. If I don't post for a while just know we are busy!