Patience

Patience is a wonderful word that I remind myself to use quite often as a mother and wife. I am constantly asking God to guide me and give me lots of patience. This last week we have had the last one year molar coming through and that was torcher on Elly. The other three seem to be fine coming in but this one gave her lots of grief. So we were a little bit more whiny and very clingy. We have finally gotten it through and life is better in Little Missy's world until her parents decided that we needed to take sippy away at nap time and bedtime. This has been a little hard on her as she used her sippy along with lovey to comfort her to sleep. Now she only has lovey. Sometimes lovey just doesn't make the cut. The first night she cried for 30 minutes but now we are down to about 5 minutes. We are slowly gaining sucess and this. We were told that taking sippy to bed can be bad on their teeth as the milk stays on the teeth and could be bad as they might get an overbight or something like that. Plus I am looking down the road to when we want to potty train...we would have to take it away then and it would be one less thing we would have to deal with when the time arises. I know she is only 14 months. I am not trying to put the cart before the horse...I just want to be ready.

As always I try to provide you with at least one picture of Little Missy. Here is her first ponytail...it only lasted for about 5 minutes but at least I got the picture. :)

Guidance

Being brought up in a christian home I have heard more than once before to trust in the Lord and he will guide you. Growing up and sometimes still today I think I know better or am too impatient to wait on the Lord. This week I have had two great experiences of watching the Lord guide my family.

With my dad taking on a new job and them redoing their roof on their house things were looking a little iffy financially. But the Lord guided them and has been providing for them financially through this rough but exciting period on my parents lives. What a big burden that has been lifted off my parents shoulders.

Yesterday I received a phone call from my sister. Her wish was finally granted. She accepted a position at Iowa-Grant school district teaching elementary students with reading difficulties. She will be teaching 2nd-4th grade students. This is also an increase from 50% to 75% position with all benefits included. At Rivervalley she did not receive benefits so this is a huge guidance from the Lord.

Along with her great news their family will be hosting a foreign exchange student for the fall semister. Her name is Laurance from Switzerland. She will arrive the weekend of Aug. 16th and be with them through May 26th. Maddie is very excited to have a big sister. She will be attending UW-Richland and is 19 years old.

Jerod will be leaving Aug. 1st for his AT training for the guards. He will be at Fort McCoy for three weeks training for when he goes over to Iraq as a prison guard. Then in Jan. he will be going to Florida or Texas for two weeks training and this will also be for prison guard training. At Jerod's AT training in Aug. he will be accepting Sargent position for his platoon. We are very proud of him.

The Lord provides for us and guides us each and every day but sometimes we get too busy and overlook his generosity. But his guidance and love is there with us each and every day. I am just so thankful that we have the Lord guiding us and our families. What a blessing we have in Jesus.

Pictures!

Harry is enjoying his new truck. He says it is almost like being on vacation. Elly is getting a great vocabulary. Right now her favorite word is YUCKY. I am doing good.

Here are some random pictures that I have taken in the last couple of days...Elly & daddy playing in Grama & Papa's pond.
Elly riding tractor with Grandpa Harry at the farm
Elly sitting in the toy box
Elly being silly in daddy's shirt

Harry's Peterbuilt

As promised here are pictures of Harry's new milk truck. Of course, when I went out to take pictures the battery on my camera was almost dead. So we only got a couple of pictures. The tank is from his old milk truck. They sent it to Walker to have the dents taken out (which I don't like by the way; since now I don't know it is him) and they looked it over and fixed anything that needed fixing. Hopefully this will help him be home a little more as he won't have to work on it everynight when he gets home and/or take it into the shop to have it fixed.


Also, on Tuesday Grama, Elly & I went to Verona to visit with Laurie, Mikaila, Reece & Naomi. Unfortunately Todd was at work. We had a wonderful time with them but of course the time went by too fast...
And of course, best for last (Grandpa Harry - you will get a kick out of this) Elly wearing daddy's workboots....Harry was getting ready to leave for work and Elly was determined to get his boots on. She needed some help but she was so proud when she finally got them on.

NEWS!

Good morning~

So news today on the home front....

Harry...is FINALLY getting his new 2009 Peterbuilt milk truck today. YEAH!!!!! We are so excited. No more breakdowns, no more fixing it every night after hauling, no more going into the shop to have it worked on. Well I know there will be some of that but you know what I mean....less of it, I guess I should have said. I will put pictures of the truck up soon. Harry will get it after hauling milk today. So tomorrow will be his first official day of driving it.

JoEllen....there really isn't anything new to share. I have been feeling ok. Not spectacular but holding my own. No news is good news; I guess.

Ellaree...is a spitfire. Hilarious as she grows such a personality. She is learning slowly that what happens at daycare doesn't happen at home. The kids are there as school is not in session and therefore Elly is glued to someones hip all day long. But doesn't understand why that doesn't work at home. Her and daddy have had many discussions about life lately. You have to love daycare. Don't get me wrong, we are thankful that we have found a great daycare that loves and takes care of as they do and we would rather them treat her like this then neglect her but it is also hard to see that always. You are always going to things positive and negative anywhere you go. It is just the way it is. And Elly is learning too that not all things happen the same way at daycare as at home. :)

Well this has ended up to be longer then I thought it would be. I will post pictures as soon as I get them for you all to see Harry's pride & joy that he has waited 2 years to get. Have a great day.....

Sleeping Beauty

There are some times when I come home from work that Elly falls asleep. Not always but some of the time. Depends on how hard she played. So last night was one of those nights where I brought her in, put her on the couch and she slept for quite a while and through everything too. I came into the living room to check on her and this is what I found....
I couldn't resist taking a picture. Of course Harry says this will come back to haunt her in later life....around dating time. :)

Other news...Harry is finally getting his new truck. He should have it by middle of next week. Yeah! Grandma & Papa will keep Elly overnight next weekend so that I can get up with him and go. He wants me to be the first one to ride with him. We are hoping and praying that all goes well with his current truck until he gets the new one. Elly was helping him clean his current truck out last night. She was much help.

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July everyone!!!! Elly missed out on the fireworks this year. Maybe next year. We didn't really need to go anywhere as we had fireworks in our backyard. We could see LaCrosse, Westby & Cashton. After a while we went inside and from our recliner I could watch them out the window. Now that is the life. :) Yesterday, Elly & I went to my cousin Gloria and Jeff Joseph's for their annual 4th of July party. Today we are heading to the Turgasen's for Delaney's 2nd birthday party and then after that to Muscoda to celebrate Nick's birthday. Don't worry I won't spill the beans on how old he is. :) We have a very fun & eventful day planned. But come tomorrow there is more fun as in the morning Elly is going to the Korn's house to play with the kids while Jane & I leave to go shopping. And then in the afternoon our friends Nick & Sam are coming up from Mineral Point. How much fun Elly is going to have seeing everyone. Good thing we are taking a nice long nap right now. She use to only take one nap during the day but since I have started my new hours she has started taking a nap in the morning and afternoon. I think this is better for her. When she is at daycare she only takes one nap but I think that is b/c she is too busy playing with the kids. When she is at home it is just boring old mom. :) Anyway, this has gotten longer than I thought it would and I really didn't share anything extremely important. Oh well. Oh yeah, and I almost forgot the most fun part....yesterday we found the radio station that Uncle John, from Kentucky is on, on Fridays. So Elly & I got to start our day out right by listening to Uncle John. It was so cute b/c when I told her that was Uncle John on radio she started clapping. How sweet.

Pain, pain - Go away!

Well the doctors were right...the Clomid makes ovulation time harder and more painful. I have been home yesterday and today with pain. I was doing better this morning and then Elly came to sit on my lap. Not her fault by any means...but she pushed on my stomach and now I am back in pain. Harry only works until around 2 today so I kept Elly home with me. I kind of had to as Harry was already gone and in Blair when this happened.

Since going on this Clomid...Harry has had a dream of having sextuplets and I have had dreams of having twins. Coincidence or just scared it will actually happen. For me it wouldn't bother me to have twins as we would be done having children. Sextuplets - yes that scares me. Harry said he woke up in a sweat. I think I would too. I told him that I really don't think we have much to worry about as I am on a very low dosage. But it is still fun to tease him about it.

Tuesday Appointment

Well another doctor appointment. Tuesday I had an appointment to check to see if the Clomid is working. They do this by doing a vaginal ultrasound to see if I am ovulating. My right side is ovulating great. So we are hoping that is all good news. They can administer a shot that will guarantee you to ovulate within 36-48 hours after having the shot. But I figured I was not ready to go that far until we see if we can do this almost on our own. It is funny because out-of-pocket cost for the shot is $67 for the shot but then $42 for the nurse to administer the shot. But they can give me the needle and I can give it to myself and then I don't get charged the $42. Isn't that insane.

Also, after our appointment on Saturday, we received a letter from the insurance company stating that any doctors appointments with Dr. Silva was not covered due to infertility. But I am not completely infertile. Just one side. So we will see what happens. The funny part about this whole thing is, that Dr. Silva told us that the owner of the insurance company is on the board at Franciscan Skemp. So you would think that he would be for this. Dr. Silva is protesting these changes in the insurance - so hopefully things will change.

Here are some pictures that Aunt Kristi took on Father's day at my parents house.