Baby update

Went last Thursday to the doctors. Everything seems too be going just fine. My ultrasound went well a couple of weeks ago too. Baby measured fine. I am now 32 weeks along and measuring at 30 weeks. The doc said the baby may just be tiny but everything else is fine so far. Besides my ankles swelling up. Still trying to decide on some names. You would think we would already have some but without knowing the sex you have to come up with a boy and girl name. Can be difficult when you don't agree.

Egg Hunt

Just some cute pics of the kids out in the cold cold weather picking up their eggs. Just like last year we had to wear mittens and boots. I even had his snow pants on him. I hope next year the weather can be alot warmer for easter. Devin picked up 6 eggs and one with a dollar coin taped to it.

What to do when your bored?!?

Since we had a foot of snow on the ground and I was stuck at home. I usually bake when I'm bored. David loves to eat all my baked goods only chocolate of course. Anything else I have to eat. So I decided to put a big pot of chili on bake a cake and make some homemade peach cobbler. Our friends even came out in the cold snowy weather and ate with us. I made a marble cake for David(just a box mix.) If you look real good you can see finger prints in my cake. Wonder which little boy in this household was the culprit. I did get a pic of the snitcher. David and I thought it was pretty funny.

Blizzard of 2008

This was the big one of 2008. Last weekend we got record snowfall around Ohio. Columbus got around 20 inches or so. I beleive we got around 14-16. That is alot of snow. We were under a level 3 for about 28 hours. Churchs were canceled along with most businesses too. I got alittle antsy being stuck in the house. It was neat to see that much snow, but now I can say I'm ready for winter to go away and spring can come anytime. These are just a few pics to show you how much snow we got in our area.

Bedroom ready!

I have been harping on David to get the room ready for both kids, since we only have two bedrooms. They will have to share a room till we get a bigger house someday. So for now somebody gave us a set of bunkbeds. The bottom is a full size bed and the top a twin. We already had a full mattress so we just need to get the twin. I took pictures of the final results. I think it looks pretty nice. My mom was so nice to order a bed set to match the room for the bunks. We changed the curtains and added curtains on my closet and rearranged. Chels, Dan and my mom helped me. I am thankful they were able to help. Now we will try the real test and put Devin in the bed at night. I will keep you updated on he sleeps at night!

I will also update this week on my doc appt. I start going every two weeks now. The Doc figured we would do a ultrasound cause I was measuring small. Hopefully the baby is just a petite little thing and everything is just fine. I am starting to get tired alot easier than before when I was pregnant. Now I have Devin to chase after too. Time does seem to be flying by.

Hiler Get-Together 3-2-08

We had our annual Hiler party this past weekend. It was nice to see all the family and share all the good news of engagements and babies. As always we had a bunch of yummy food also. We always try to get a few pics of all the kiddos together. We did not have as many cousins as last year but we were able to get a few decent pics.

Swimming 2-26-08

What a witner!

While Danell and the kids were down over the weekend she decided to leave Darren here. He has been staying with the shells. We snatched him up last night. Thought maybe Devin and Darren would have fun playing together. Since we had so much snow we figured darren would like to ride on the snowmobile. Well that did not pan out so well, but Devin still loves it. He had a blast. So after they were outside we took them swimming in the midst of about 8 inches of snow on the ground. As you can see by the pics Darren would only wear the helmet in the house on the tractor instead of on the snowmobile.

Hanging with Darren and Cassie

Over the weekend Darren and Cassie came down for a visit. We had not seen them since Devin's b-day party the end of Dec. We had a blast with them. We took them swimming Sat night after Aunt Debbie had a fish fry potluck. We all had fun Aunt Chels and Dan-Dan even came out. From the pics you can see we had a blast. Then Sun morning Grammy and Poppy took us all out to breakfast 10 of us. We had fun!!

More pics of Louisville

1st pic thumbs up dad.





Wed night winning family photo.
Still can sleep with all the noise!
Aren't we two of a kind!!

Morning that is their favorite saying!

winning run 2-13-08

2008 Louisville KY farm show

I have been slacking in the blogging world. Guess we all have been busy doing this and that. Last week was the annual Farm show down in KY. I blogged last year about it also. Devin and I were able to go for 5 days this year. We had a blast and Devin was great. He sure loves his tractor pulls. David pulled on Wed night. So Kathy, Devin, and I headed down Tues night after I got off work. The weather was horrible. I never have driven that far in weather like that. We finally arrived at the hotel about 12:30 am. Woke up the next morning to find out David had caught the flu Devin and I had earlier in the week. Good thing he did not pull till 7:30 that night. So we stayed in the room all afternoon till pull time. We were excited for his time to come. He was about the 5th hook in the class. The video is the winning run of the night(If it works blogger is not letting me publish it). He did so well you can hear Kathy and I in the background screaming go baby go yahoo. He did place 1st that night which advanced him in the finals on Sat night. So since nothing broke on the tractor we were able to enjoy some of the time down there and watch the pulls in the evening. The Burger boys came down to help with the tractor also. Devin was all excited to know Chad, Ryan, and Tom were coming.
Sat night came around and we were all tense and stressed cause of the lack of sleep we had. They take the top 6 tractors of the class. There were 3 green ones and 3 red ones. So the green had a chance after all. David was the 4th hook of the class. Of course the king of smoke was winning after his run of 235.88. Gettingers pulled next they are big buddies with us so we were cheering them on too. He went out of bounds which disqualified them. Next to pull was us. Nervous and excited we were to close to the track to even video so I did not get that run at all. He pulled and went just three feet shy of Esdon 232.19. That placed him in second. The pull was not over there were still 2 red tractors to go. They did not beat us so we were excited to know we placed in the finals also. They recognize the top three. So we went out on the track to except our award with David. He was being interviewed and told the announcer that the guillotine on the turbo went shut during the run which meant less air to the motor. Or we would have beat Esdon. Oh well better luck next time. We were all satisfied with 2nd place. Can't do much better than a 1st and 2nd .

Ultrasound Pics

These may not be the clearest, but I think you get the picture. The first one is of the head and chest. The others were of a hand and a foot. Now everyone can take a guess at what we are having. Somedays Devin wants a brother and others he wants a sister. Guess we will find out in about 3 short months. The doc said everything looks good and it will probably be a small baby.

Devin had his toddler check-up today with Dr Nieset. He said he is very tall for his age 33 1\2 inches tall and 26lbs. Everything checked out good. Could not believe how well he could talk. Somedays I can't believe it either.

Memories

This was taken 2 years ago Christmas of Grandma and Grandpa Siefert. What a Christmas that was. Little did we know that would be the last Christmas spent as a family. The following year G-pa went into the nursing home and G-ma could always be found right there by his side everyday. They were a couple of strong faith and strong commitment to each other. Grandma got sick with her heart and lungs in the middle of December. Although she lived a good many years making her grace and presence of God on this earth, she past on to be with him Dec 11, 2007. We miss her dearly. Only now was the real trial trying to keep grandpa healthy and strong to live on without her by his side everyday. We know she was always with him in spirit.
We all have been trying to keep G-pa up in his spirits. He has been battling his sickness(alzheimers) in the nursing home for 16 months now. He was always a jolly man with a great big grin on his face. It saddens me to say he got sick too and died from pneumonia on Jan 7, 2008. Almost a month from the day of G-ma Siefert's passing. We all know they wanted nothing more but to be together in good health. Bet in heaven they are up there smiling down on us playing cards with there friends and having fun together. David and I know we will meet with them one day again.
I can only hope this year will bring better days ahead for all of the Siefert family. 2 funerals in 1 month is very hard. Something nobody wants to go through. David went from having 4 grandparents to just 2 very quickly. As I always told him cherish your grandparents as you will never no when something can happen. I only have one living. We will always tell Devin how proud his Great G-ma and G-pa Siefert were of him. G-ma always said that if they were ornery you know they were always normal. Will in fact Devin is very normal cause he is always ornery. Next time I hope to write more of a upbeat post. This year can only get better. Especially with a new little one coming in only a few months.

I decided to repaint my bathroom. I fell in love with blues and greens and found this awesome shower curtain. Nothing fancy but I liked it. Took a week to finish it since the paint would not stick. So my mom finished it in the midst of all the drama we've been put through this year already. Thanks mom looks awewsome. I don't think it looks to bad for being a old home.

Loren her boyfriend Brandon and Devin on New Year's Eve

Swimming!

Daddy and Devin!

2nd birthday (Dec 29)

This was Devin's birthday cake. He loves the digger and dump truck on it. The other is a pic of Devin opening many of his presents. Then came the big gift from Grammy and Poppy. The kids loved it so much they got inside and played. When I can't find Devin around the house I always know he is in the barn playing.