"Twins!? Oh My God, Are You Serious" first reponse

Matthew and I has announced to everyone that we are having twins! They are both boys and are fraternal. It will make it a little easier to tell them apart I hope! :) There is just so much more to do and think about. Like first we will be delivering in Omaha instead of Creston. They just dont have the team to deal with multiple births in smaller towns. This is fine as all of my appointments will be in Corning. I will just have to deliver in Omaha. The next will be may be a different vehical so I can easily get everyone in and out of it with out climbing over seats. I have my sister-in-law who is a ob nurse checking in on price of diapers by the "truck" load. HA HA! First and foremost I need to talk to the dr. that my dr. refered me to, and get his idea on our goal to get the twins. Im shooting for 38 weeks. Sooner will make me wet myself! lol! I just need to know to make arrangements with work and daycare. Lets face it, I try to be to organized. Life as we know will be bissful caos! So looking forward to it! Last night we set up both cribs after we cleaned out closets. Its just makes it more real. The babies moves alot; especially baby B whom Im calling Matthew's twin:) Im excited for the day to day adventures and hoping it wont slow us down to much with camping anyways;) Well, thats all for now.

This last weekend we had gone camping. It wasnt so bad until Saturday night. There we were fixing and eatting our camp fire pizza and the neighbor across the way says "There is a storm coming with 60 mph winds" and there we sat still eatting. Then as soon as some of our extra people were leaving it started to sprinkle and the wind picks up. Now we are scrabbling to get the chairs, strollers and the toys picked up and put away. Then I had to help Matthew put the awning up. I've never helped with the awning let alone to do it in the dark, but it got up and out of the way. I only broke a fingernail. oh well. Just when I thought I had everything picked up, I remembered the life vest and towels hanging on the boat, so I quickly grab them. I was a little concerned about the fire spitting sparks towards my table cloth, but I thought its damp it wont hurt it too bad. I was right. The older kids did great; they were asleep. Makenna Grace had never gone to sleep, but she didnt care. Oh to be oblivious to what going on.
So to the point of my story is this. For those of you who would remember. Camping at Lynn Valley Lake in the summer. We always had a tent. First a crappy canvas tent that leaked all the time no matter how many cans of spray my poor dad put on it. The stupid thing would leak from Lisa touching the side, (not on purpose) but I was the only one with a slick sleeping bag and had to give it up to Lisa and Brandon because they were soaked. Then we up graded to a more modern tent. The last time I remember camping with my family and those of you, it stormed more then before. With 50 or 60 mph winds and hard rain. I remember I put my foot up a half foot off the ground when the tent felt as it was rippling over us and could feel it. Scary. About that time Betty came and told us to get into the camper. So there we were about 10 of us sleeping in the camper. Well ok that was the story, but the point is this. Im glad I have a camper to sleep in and not some bag with sticks. Especially when there is a storm. I do miss the camping strip to Kansas.
Oh the memories!

Children's Museum in Lincoln, NE

We had gone to visit with Dad, Jane, Bert, Chuck, Derek, Michele, Seville, and Emmit in Lincoln. We ate some lunch together then went to the Children's Museum. The kids had so much fun playing with thier cousins. When we were done we went to the Dairy Store and had some very yummy ice cream made with real cream from the cows milked in the next room over. Megan was so sad she didnt get to spend some more time with Seville. She really enjoyed her; and from the picture of the two of them they looked liked they could be sisters. Hope everyone enjoyed themselves; I know we had a great time. I cant wait to see everyone in October.

More tubing and skiing with Matthew's aunt, uncle, and cousin. We had gone camping that weekend and it was HOT! So that made for a great cool down.

At the fair

We entered Makenna in the baby contest. She got first in the costume! She was in the contest also with Ciara and her other cousin Allison. Megan did the pedal pull that night and so did Michael, but I got to involved and forgot to take a picture :( They had so much fun. Megan showed a calf from Ryan's (her cousin) cow-calf. She did very good. She got a halter for it too.

We are swimming off our friend Todd Crill's pontoon. In the later pictures we are tubing and swimming off our boat with Matthew's aunt, uncle, and cousin.

Kids having fun and Makenna's 1st Birthday

Matthew got stuck with the mower so Megan to the rescue and she got to drive the four-wheeler back to the house. The kids are having a fun cool down. Makenna's 1st birthday, and as you can see she liked her cake and ice cream very much.

kids Megan's preschool grad cake

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Christmas.
So Merry Christmas to all and to all and good night!

Megan's 5th Birthday

I can't beleive that my little Megan is five years old. Where has the time gone? She had a wonderful day celebrating as you can see. She really liked my idea of a barbie cake. Michael actually blew the candle out first so I had to relight it. All the little kids enjoyed playing together. Now she tells me she is ready for Christmas. She is always looking ahead towards the next big event.

Happy Halloween

Megan the mermaid
Michael boo is Scooby-doo
Makenna the bunny
My niece Allison the elephant

Our pumpkins have a face

Tonight was a lot of fun.  Matthew and the kids had a good time carving out their pumpkins while Makenna and I watched.  Megan chose to have hers look like "kevin" in the first "home alone".  Michael just chose shapes, but it still looked cute.  They enjoyed getting their hands slimy.  When the were done and all kids in bed, I decided to bake the seed.  They are tasty.  I used regular salt on some and tastefully simple salt on the others.  (those were the best!)

From october '10

Makenna Grace's Baptism

Makenna Grace was baptised yesterday.  She was just a cheerful little girl.  She tried to suck on Fr. Tran's finger when he put the oil under her chin.  She must have thought he was funny cause she just kept cooing at him.  She must have tired herself by laughing so much; because when we got back to our seats it didn't take long and she fell asleep for the rest of mass.  We had family out  for lunch and took some pictures.  It was such a beautiful day for her.  Makenna must have known it was her day;  She just smiled all day long.   

Look whos three

I can't believe that my little man is three years old now.  I doesn't seem possible.  He is now potty trained during the day.  He definitly has the hang of it going outside, but he stills need to remember that we go poop inside;)  He is so proud of himself and is still working on the nap (ha ha) and bedtime potty trainning.  That will come soon I hope.  He was so excited about his red tractor.  He is pretty much pulling his own back there.  Michael was so cute he had me look at his tractor again before he went to bed. I dont think that smile could have gotten any bigger. 

The future 4-Her

This week has been fair week.  Megan was so excited cause she got to show a bottle buccaroo.  You have to be three to show.  Her cousin Ryan helped her learn how to show it.  She got kicked twice while practicing the day before, but got back up and went at it again.  The night of the show she got a number and a comb just like the big kids.  She did really good leading the calf until it got excited and got loose of her grip, but once again got up and took control.  She had so much fun doing it.  She got a ribbon and money  that was donated by the Adams County Cattlemen.  She is already to show again next year and so is Michael. 

My little twins

Camping with three

This last weekend was Makenna's first time camping.  We camped Friday through Sunday out at Lake Icaria.  Makenna slept all night both nights; mainly because she was awake more during the day. The kids had so much fun.  We took their bikes and there was a ladder game they enjoyed playing.  Matthew took the two older ones fishing.  From what I was told they didn't have the patients to sit and wait for the fish to bite.  Michael found a mud hole down the hill of the camper that was a result from a rain shower the night before.  Megan's  main concerns were S'mores, riding her bike, and Makenna.  Thank goodness for air conditioning; it was one hot and muggy weekend.  I'm glad that we can carry on the tradition of camping with family.  Those were the best times; fishing, paddle boatting, petting zoo, and the "bingo" song. The biggest difference for me is there is no tent!  I won't go back to that!  No more leaky tent and no more tent blowing down on me in a storm.  Just comfortable and relaxing camping.  Well some of the time. 

The newest member of the family

Makenna Grace Ramsey finally arrived June 7th at 12:57 p.m.  Weighing in at 7lb, 7 oz and 20 inches long.  She is such a good baby; about like her big sister was.  She is such a dainty little thing.  Her sister and brother love her alot.  They want to hold her all the time.  She a trooper and puts up with it.  Last night was our first night home and she slept really well, so mom and dad got their rest.  Megan, for some reason thinks her name should be Melissa.  We tell her she can't hold Makenna until she calls her by her name.  Michael is always wanting to know where she is if she isnt in mom's arms.  Its amazing how you forget how little they are when youre use to the older ones.  I hope you all enjoy the pictures and I will try to keep this up dated for everyone.

New Toy

Well, we happend opon a new toy we weren't planning on getting for awhile. A friend of ours called one day and said a person he was working for had a pool table they wanted to get rid of. It is a used pool table that was hardly used. So when we were in Altoona for Megan's friends birthday party, we decided to go look at it. After some debate we decided to buy it. We had talked to a guy at a pool table store about putting it together, and he didn't recommend us doing it ourselves. That may have been his opinion, but it didn't cost us $750 either. So when putting it toghter, we didn't relize that bees wax (used for the seams and the screw holes in the slate) was not a common thing to find. I did find some in a town north and west of here. Did you know not only is it hard to find but costly too? Matthew is definitly well rounded in about everything, because it didn't seem to be too difficult for him to put the table together. It turned out to be quite the stress reliever, and the kids make great spectators.

Nice day for sledding eh?

Matthew and the kids had a great time sledding down the hill in the pasture west of the house. The kids had it pretty easy. They just had to sit in the sled and Daddy would pulled them up the hill. They didn't usually make it to far if they had to walk; they would just lay down and roll back down. Matthew then got yet another workout by writting their names in the snow.