And I signed up for this?

Its been one of those summers. I really wish I had one thing to do each day... or every other day, and just enjoy the rest. My biggest complaint is that I feel like I run 4 soon to be 5 lives. Now I'm not saying the Evan doesn't do anything but his job is mapped out for him. He wakes up, goes to work, comes home, does a few things to help out, eats dinner, and goes to bed. I get up and feed everyone, bathe and dress everyone, get everyones hair done. My day varies from that point on. I make and go to all of our dr appts, clean, grocery shop, fix meals, pay bills, get the loans and vehicle tags, take care of the garden and animals (new puppies remember?) Organize the birthday parties, do the invites, buy the gifts, make the cakes, do a little side job for extra money, prepare for my church calling, do visiting teaching, take the girls swimming....AND SO ON all...while pregnant. Guess what? I don't get paid for any of this (except my side job of course)! Now I knew what I was getting into having kids and all but, wow, some days I just want to lock myself in a room and turn out the lights.

It has been a little stressful but I'm slowly working through everything bit by bit. July 10 our dog delivered 8 precious puppies. Last Saturday we had to leave town to go to the Wyo Rodeo in Sheridan so that I could sell some of my stuff. We were gone a little over 24 hours and had Evans family take over on the puppies and dogs. A few hours before we arrived home we were told that Dinky (the mother) killed two of her puppies. I think she was mad that we left her and decided to not take care of her puppies. When I got the other 6 puppies they were bloated (from not being relieved) and starving! I had to stay up all night Sunday night making sure Dinky was doing her job and letting her in and out of the house to give her a break. Well now she has decided that she doesn't want to nurse at all. I have to hold her down and let the puppies nurse or else she'll just sit up and they will only be able to get to the bottom half of her or she will just walk around looking for a spot to lay down by herself. Not fun. Then We found a spot on 3 of the puppies that looked like they had something dripped on them. It would not clean off and was crusty so we put some peroxide on it and it bubbled like crazy. I brought them into the vet today and found out they have a mild form of staph but it won't transfer to the other dogs or to humans. So now I've got to give them meds twice a day. Dinky also has mastitis on the upper half from not laying down for the pups to nurse so she gets meds too. Kimi has her Bday party this weekend so I have to bake the cake today decorate tomorrow and have everything ready on Saturday.

Baby Update: So I went to my appt this morning, I am 26 weeks and measuring at 31 weeks. Yeah I'm not further along thats for sure. They told me that I have to go in for another ultrasound because one of the babys kidneys was borderline abnormal. Great. I asked what that meant for us and the baby and they said that in a month they will see how things develop and if it looks worse then they will do an ultrasound on the baby after he/she is born. It could lead to lots of bladder infections and other little inconveniences for this baby throughout their life. So I'm crossing my fingers that whatever the problem is, it will develop out of it and nothing will be wrong.

Kiddo Updates: Takara is such a jabber box. She says some of the funniest things. Lately if we are doing something that doesn't interest her she will look at me and say, are you coming or what? She loves to sing and tell stories and have them read to her. Takara also love love loves animals. Any and every kind. Thankfully we have a lot around for her to love on. She and Kimi have been fighting a lot lately. It starts out with a little dissagreement, one may have a toy the other wants, then screaming, then it turns into pushing, then hitting, then Takara will pinch and Kimi will bite. Its hard to break them up especially when we are in a store or something where I can't get them away from each other. If we are in the car they will just scream at each other and it goes back and forth. Kimi has also been talking ALOT. She will ask a question, what are you doing? is her favorite. Then after you tell her she has to confirm and repeat. For example she poked her head into the shower and asked me what I was doing and I told her I was shaving my legs. Oh, shaving you legs? Kimi love to eat. She is such a peanut so I don't know where she puts it but she will eat breakfast 3 times. She always wakes up first between 6 but not later than 7:30. I will feed her breakfast and when Takara wakes up (between 8:30 and 9:30) she will eat again with her. Then around 10:30 she will usually want another bowl of cereal or something to eat on. Then between noon and 1 we will have lunch and so on.

I haven't been very good at posting pictures but here are a few of our summer so far and of course they are backwards in order so starting from the most recent here they are!

Here is Kimi ready to go to the 4th of July Parade in Cody

Takara on 4th of July. She has been into the whole picture taking thing lately. She always asks to get her picture taken or she will want to take pictures herself with the camera. This is a complete turn around since we couldn't get her to even look at the camera before.

Here is Takara with her horses Roy and Sweet. I'm so glad they are gentle because I've caught Takara in with them a couple of times and its completely freaked me out. Shes still too young to know the rules of horses like not walking behind their rear ends. But this is where she spends most of her time when she's outside.

Here is Kimi walking around, she is a litte explorer and will try to take off on me when I get out to the garden. She will go over to the pigs and likes to go for little walks by herself. She is a little stinker and goes where ever she thinks shes not supposed to.

The girls at the Lovells Day parade. Kimi was a little confused since we had been having a lot of trouble with her staying out of the street. We would yell for them to run to get the candy...in the street.