Good News!!!

Well after the last post, I thought that I should note that the mouse or shrew or whatever it was is now dead. Bernie checked the snap trap this morning and we had caught it. I know... I don't live in a dream world, there could be more, but it is nice to see one dead one go out the door.

The other piece of good news is that Bernie is now officially the manager at Pontrilas Community Pasture. This is really good news for us, because we don't have to move to Smoky Burn this summer, and it makes the last two that we did, worth while. The other manager has been moved to a rider position at another pasture, and they sort of just handed it to Bernie. This means that I get to bring my baby home to my house, not the pasture house at Smoky Burn. I was so excited I almost cried. Almost.

Things that rustle in the night

Well, it has finally started to warm up a bit. I haven't noticed too much except for when I have to go up to the front to get the next income tax file that I have to work on, I see less snow, and people wearing less than they were 2 weeks ago. I like it when it starts to warm up, but sometimes in April I wish that it would just stay cold, so that it wasn't so hard to have to go to work when you would rather stay home and enjoy the warm day.

I have been feeling good, and all of the doctors that I am seeing are still fairly happy with my numbers, and are still making some changes to my insulin dosages. But all in all I think that the pump is making a big difference in this pregnancy. I am feeling lots of movement now, but everytime I try to let Cache feel the baby kicking it stops. Sibling rivalry already?

I had quite a night last night. Bernie got home from roping at 1:45 a.m., and I woke up when he came in, so I started talking to him. Then I could not go back to sleep. I got up, went to the bathroom, came back to bed and read for about an hour, but knowing that I had to go to work in the morning I turned off my light and tried to go to sleep. I laid there for a while longer, and then all of the sudden I heard a sound like a chip bag rustling. I quickly jabbed Bernie and told him that there was a mouse in our room. He got up and went to get a trap from downstairs, and set it up in the hall closet, because we had seen the mouse run out of the room when we turned the light on. He climbed back into bed and promptly went back to sleep, but me... I was more awake than before, and a little scared that it might find it's way onto our bed (it happened to my friend) So I laid there in the dark a little while longer, and then again I heard the rustling sound. I jabbed Bernie again and yelled "There is still a mouse in my room!!!" Once again he turned on the light, and this time he went and got the trap and put it right in our room on my side of the bed, because that is where we had been hearing it. Then again he turned off the light and went back to sleep. By now the baby was doing a gymnastics routine and so was my heart, and I was even further from sleep than I had been before. Now not only was there a mouse in my room but it might find it's way into the live trap, and then it would be making frantic noises trying to get out of it, and that is a really annoying sound that I really didn't want to deal with in the night. I finally drifted to sleep, and by the time that my alarm went off in the morning I must have been dreaming about the budget that I was working on when I left work the night before, because every time I hit snooze I was just making a slight adjustment to the budget. Consequently I just kept making adjustments and ended up sleeping until 7:30 and I have to leave by 8:00. When I complained to Bernie about my poor night sleep, all he had to say was "Well, why were you still awake when I got home?" I don't think that it should take a rocket scientist to know that he woke me up, I wasn't waiting up for him.

Oh No, It's Officially April

Well, for most people April might mean various things, such as the beginning of spring, warmer weather, more time to spend outside, but for me it means that we are in the thick of Tax Season. I am very glad that there are only 4 Saturdays in April this year, as the last two years have had 5, and that does tend to be exhausting as we are required to work Saturdays in April. We do get to wear jeans though (as if that's supposed to make it all better).

The weather here has been so fickel, one is never sure how to dress or how to dress a 4 year old boy. Maybe a 4 year old girl would be easier because they would stay out of the mud more, wouldn't they? I'm actaully not sure about that but it sounds good in theory doesn't it.

We had our 4th and final horse sale for this season this weekend, and all in all I think that it went fairly well. As I said the weather has been funny, so when I went to the sale on Saturday with a neighbour I was really glad that he was driving a big dodge 4x4 because it had snowed on Friday night, and froze hard to the road, and there were cars in the ditch everywhere. Then as it started to warm up the snow turned to slush and as you can imagine at a rodeo and horse sale with big trucks and trailers and horses everywhere, everything turned to slime.

After the sale when Cache was unfortunately unattended by both of his parents, he and his wise cousin Jace decided to play outside in the Auction yard. This would have been a good idea on a warm sunny day, bun not yesterday considering it was so muddy that truck tires were actually sinking into the mud when they were parked. Below you will see pictures of what Cache and Jace looked like after they were discovered.

Bernie actually took his (I mean Cache's) socks, boots, and jeans off, and Cache had to sit there and wait while Auntie Maria ran to Tisdale to get the boys a new pair of pants. I am so much like my mother that I couldn't even look when Bernie brought him in from outside, and Bonnie had to take these pictures, because I couldn't bear to look, and I worried that I might have a fit on Cache in public if I saw how dirty he was.

Bernie sold a horse at the sale yesterday, and got what he wanted for it, and the other one passed, because the bid's on him didn't go high enough, and he thought that he was worth more.

Well, that's it for now.

I Know...It's been a while

Hello to everyone out there on the world wide web. I know it has been a while since I have posted, but I have been really busy. Last weekend Crystal and Louis and the girls came and we had a really nice time. They all went skiing at Wapiti, and I ended up being a gopher, but it was really nice. The kids were all tired out by the end of the day, and they all had red faces from wind burn. Even Crystal went skiing, which kindof surprised me, but she did really well and had a good time. She did manage to fall right in front of me one time, but pulled herself together by the time I was able to take the picture. Doesn't she just look like another ski bunny posing for a picture. I even managed to get a picture of all of the skiiers before we got in the vans to go home.

I am now in my 20th week of pregnancy, and I had an appointment to see an OB in Saskatoon on Tuesday. She is new to me, but I was much happier with her than I was with the one that I had seen in Prince Albert who didn't even know what a pump was, and actually thought that this was going to make my pregnancy more difficult. My numbers have been very good, but I have noticed them creeping up. The diabetes pregnancy clinic assures me that this is normal in this stage of pregnancy, and that it is due to changes that are going on with the baby. So for now we make adjustments to my rates and dosages about once a week as I communicate with the clinic over the phone. I also had my ultrasound yesterday, and no, I did not find out what I am having. Grandma Schellenberg thought that I was just not telling her, but I really didn't find out.

Work is busy too, with us being just about to April. The taxes are piling up, and I have still got some "priority" (my bosses words) jobs on my desk that must be finished up. He did hire a new girl this week, so it is nice to have someone to share the work load with for now.

Swimming Cowboys?

Nadine commented that it was hard to believe that we have skiing cowboys, how about swimming cowboys? That is what we did the next day. Bernie's dad is staying at Parkland in Melfort, for respite, while Mary goes away for a few days, so we all went swimming and brought him along to watch. I think that he slept most of the time, but that was okay, because I kept waking him to point out what the kids were doing now, or who was going down the slide etc etc. This is what cowboys do when they go to the pool, either that or sit in the hot tub, because that water is cold you know.





When we went to pick Russel up at Parkland, we stopped in the front and Maria and Bernie went in to get their dad. Cache, Rudy Otto and I were in the van and Cache asked what we were doing there. I told him that we were picking up Grandpa and had to explain that he was staying there while grandma went away for a few days. Cache said "Oh, so they have guns." I wasn't too sure what he meant by that so I said "WHAT?" He said "you know, to protect the grandpas." Rudy shook his head and told Cache "No Cache, they look after grandpa, they give him lunch and supper and give him his medicine." The whole thing was so funny. Russel got a kick out of it when he got into the van.


Now Cache is sitting here so patiently he wants to type something so here it is... CACHE and he typed that all by himself. He is a boy of the new millennium, because he can't write it with a pencil yet, but he can do that.

Skiing at Wapiti

Yesterday we went skiing. Actually Bernie and Cache went skiing, and I sat in and soaked up the rays. What a beautiful day. I was actually down to a t-shirt and my jeans, and it was really nice.

Cache has been going to the hill occasionally with Auntie Bonnie and the kids, but he wanted his dad to take him so that they could go up the chair lift. We started him out on the tow rope hill, and we couldn't believe how good he was. So when Bernie took him to the top on the chair lift he really enjoyed it.

I just showed Cache the picture of him and Granpa Ariss on Grandpa's BLOG and Cache said, "Mom, I miss Grandpa". I thought that was so sweet that I would post it here in case my dad ever looks at my blog.

HELP I CAN'T POST TO MY BLOG!!!

Well so far it seems that the sole purpose of this blog is to help my dad through a rough patch. So dad, when you go to your blog http://revrand100.blogspot.com and then it will show you what you have done. So far you have named it and added a comment, not a post. They are different. The comment will stay at the top until you decide to change it and when you post it will put the most recent post on top.

When you can see what you have done, then go to the top corner and sign in. I think that your sign in name (if it's the same as mine) will be your e-mail address, and then whatever password you picked. By the way you are probably a new blogger too, just like me, because we have set these up at roughly the same time.

Then there is a box that appears that has a green plus sign in the left bottom corner that says post. This is where you can add a post. This is where you will say something like...


"To my favorite daughter Amber,


Even though we are half a world away from you, my thoughts (and your mother's too) are with you as always. We miss you and your bright ray of sunshine personality, and your charming wit... etc etc etc."


Then when you have made a post, people who visit your blog can comment on it and say something like...


"Oh Revrand,


I am so glad to hear that you are all well, and it is a funny coincidence, but we are always thinking of your daughter also... etc, etc, etc."


Then when you are in the Compose screen there is a little icon that looks like a picture, and you click on that and it is how you add pictures to your post. Like this... Neat hey. For the record that is my husband and his brother team roping. Well, I think that you are well on your way to having a great time, and letting us keep in touch with you while you are away.

Getting Started

Dad if you want to start your own blog, go to http://www2.blogger.com/home . Or, in the top right hand corner of the screen there is a link to create blog. You could do that too. I just checked, and most of my pictures from my camera save as jpg files, so yours probably does too.

First time

I have decided to set up a blog!!

My mom and dad and my little sister are going on a trip to Malasia and I told him that it would be nice if he would set up a blog so that we can keep track of them while they are gone.

So in order to help him out I decided to set up my own and see how it works so that I can help him along with it.

See dad, I did learn something in school. and now I have even added a picture for your viewing enjoyment. I still can't believe that Louis was dumb enough to be caught holding that ball.