Mayley Marie Martin & More

On June 4th, Mayley made her appearance. Lacey fell on the steps to the deck in the afternoon, went to the ER where they monitored her for a while. She wanted to go home and did, but returned later that night because she was bleeding. This time when they hooked her up, her uterus was bouncing all over, so they did an emergency C-section. 7#15 oz, 21 inches long :) Lots of dark hair, as you can see, and I saw a dimple on the right check when she yawned. Lacey is TIRED, and sore. Riley has been with her both times I stopped in. Clay was there tonight.



Jesse came over on Mother's Day and helped with finish the fountain I had worked on the day before. I hadn't been able to level it. "Let's just put some rocks in it," he says. Wala!

Made a trip to California with Darren and Caitlyn and met Alysha and Kane in Montery. Saw the acquariam and played on the beach. FUN and WARM, NICE :)

Spring Work Day #2

Well, I have had a BUG, GERM, NASTY, in my computer, and so I had to get it fixed. Now I can finish this post :)

Of course, we did lots of work, and had lots of fun. You can see Matt and Mayme hard at work on Uncle Aaron's new 4-wheeler with the harrow on behind. He would pull up beside Sara and I, we would lift the thing off of the brush he had accumulated, and then we would burn it while he went around the pasture and accumulated some more. On one go round he accidentally hooked a corner of the burn pile with the harrow. I looked up and saw Matt making like a pyromaniac with the whole field behind him on fire. He was rather startled also, but we decided it worked out well. Sara and I quit managing the burn pile and headed over to protect the trees--we made like firemen, with rakes instead of polaskis.

We started out early with the burning, then went to the pruning...When Jesse showed up, he helped with the pruning.

Matt and I were trained by my Menonite friend to walk around the tree, carefully looking and deciding what should come off, then we lop a little and do it all over again. Along comes Jesse, climbs the tree, lopping as he goes, takes off 3 big main branches, aske if we want any more... Our jaws are hanging. Nope, we say. That looks just perfect--and it was!!

One of the days tragedies was when I discovered I was missing my cell phone. I started looking everywhere I had been--in despair because the harrow had also been there...Matt also started looking on the other end of the field. Asking as he went, "How many cell phones is that for this year, Mom?" (The answer would be three--and these are blackberries, not cheopos....and provided by my place of employment...) Sara called on her cell phone--and Matt yelled that he could hear it. Sara got there first and he told her it was in the fire, he could hear it--she's doing a little oooohing and scrambling. I'm thinking, "If my phone were in the fire and ringing, Matt would be getting it out, not standing there." So I get closer and say you can hear it--yes, where is it? In the fire...Hmmmmmmmmm, I walk over and say I don't think so....and he picks up his foot and there it is. RELIEF!!!

We headed over to see Lacey Jean, 8 months pregnant, packing a cute 2 yr old Tucker around, with Clay close by--they were branding (other family and neighbors) while Lace watched the kids.

Then the Halibut Feed at North Powder, and then Darren showed up and we played games.

On Sun am we went to the 9 am Church, and then headed to Hermiston to see Jesse and his new home and ranch he is managing. He built this fence post pounder for Matt. I call it Mad Molly (actually, it should take a lot of the Mad out of Matt--) it's a heavy honker. He was pleased and we had a great day. Now I need to paint the house, who wants to come and help????? :)

Spring Break

I didn't know that I would get to have spring breaks when I quit school--California beach, Disneyland, Clark County Fair, but nothing compares to time spent with family. It was wonderbar!

I flew into Las Vegas on Sat afternoon and Tami and Dillon and Garrett and Wyatt picked me up and we drove to Los Angeles. Whoooeeee! Two country girls in a truck that has a dirty windshield and blind spots on the side--Thanks to some expert coaching from Alysha we made it. Sunday we watched conference. This is the tree outside the window where I was supposed to be watching Conference. See the heart? See the 2 hearts??

That night we went on a hike. Wyatt held my hand and told me that he wanted a girlfriend like me--tough enough to go hiking with--see me flex and grin!!

Tami was sooo smart. She brought a red shirt for each of the boys--they say welcome to Las Vegas and have a Mickey Mouse on the front. It was easy to spot those little wiggle monkeys all day long.

We stood in line a LOT. We had some fantastic rides, and lots of family time. Kane and Alysha are awsome hosts.

That's Alysha--eating an utterly great corn dog--so
she says...

Tami took gate duty at the Fair so the rest of us could get in free. The boys had a friend (Morgan Aikele) who had a 4-H pig, so we went and watched that. Tami asked Dillon if he wanted to do a pig next year. "NO." So, we watched, and I told him how much money was to be made in this venture. When we left his Mom asked him again if he would like to do a pig-- "YES." Hmmm, I don't know if either of them is up to that project :).















I showed the boys a picture of a fruit bouquet. Then we went to the store and bought what we needed--I hadn't even noticed that there were chocolate bunnies in it, but they did. We had great fun putting it together, and even more fun eating it.

Now I'm back to work--and have lots of good memories. Love to all, Mom

Another Day

Well, to contrast the last post, I am going to share a happy day. So, to start Mayme and I go for a walk--I wear snow pants, and layer up good and we walk while big white beautiful flakes of snow fall. It's nice because it's no longer dark at 7 am, so it's easier to get out and do something. Then, I feed the birds. As you can see, they are quite happy--I even had some Evening Grosbeaks this week!


















I received a letter from my most favorite almost 9-year old granddaughter, Brielle, who lives in Idaho Falls. She wants me to travel to Idaho Falls on Friday, Feb 28th, so that I will be with her the next day--which is her birthday! Sounds like fun to me!!!

Then after my shower I look out and laugh at Mayme playing "chicken" with a gopher. I watched her throw it--and it would run. I think it got away under the snow.

I think that the gopher probably thinks that it was a terribly horrifying start to his day (and here I was laughing); the darn things are invading the lawn. Of course, Mayme thinks it is her job to search out and destroy the little buggers. That means there are HOLES all over. I will have to take measures soon--but I don't know what they would be right now. There is a foot and a half of snow, and Mayme does this jump up in the air abt 2 feet, come down with all 4 feet and your head under the snow while you try to get them....

I also hauled wood--over the very icy driveway. It's quite a feat to carry wood on the ice :)

Matt and Darren and Jesse and Jamie and Sara have all contributed to keeping me warm. THANKS!

















Today I drove to Halfway to do a Nurse Competency Visit--that means I got to run away and drive and enjoy the beautimous world, and then visit with Jody and her patient. Heavenly Father is the GREATEST of artists.

Uncle Aaron made it back from his 5 week Police Academy detail last night. He says he's fat. I invited him to walk the 5 miler with me in the morning before church. I thought he would say no, but he said yes....I told him to bring his IPOD, so...now that Andrea has walked me through getting this thing together, I'll have to work on adding songs to my IPOD. Joy.

As you can see, for those of you who lived in Cambridge (Eve, too), Pine Eagle is still there...

The snow is piled high--5 to 15' in from of the buildings. The back streets are single lane only.

And it was so fun because every power pole had a different valentine on it to decorate the main street. I liked the one that said "to my Sweet Pea"

The road to and from winds along the river. One of my patients told me he had counted the curves, and there were 82. I told him I would never had been able tokeep track. He said he had his wife do it.

Just more fun sights along the drive--those cows were happy to get some hay today!

I now have a company car. This little dude sits on the dash--that's so I'll know which car is mine. Does he look like the bluebird of happiness?

Then home. Darren and Caitlyn brought over their new puppy in January. As you can see, he growls and barks at Mayme--NONSTOP.

She finally laid down so he would play with her. She stayed on her belly for hrs trying to win him over. She was, of course, successful--as she is a woman.


















This is their little Mister. He puked on the way over--and when they went back, too.... So, now you have another page in my life. Hope you enjoyed seeing a HAPPY DAY. My best days,
however, are when my family are here. I LOVE YOU GUYS!! When summer comes, we'll see if I do something more exciting.

Sometimes sad. . .

I love looking at the fun Christmas pictures--and I love the family picture at the top of this. We have a beautiful, fun, loving, wonderful family (was that fun, loving, or fun-loving?? or both?)

This morning I woke up thinking it would be so nice if Aunt LaVonne came through the door--and her leaving had all been a mistake. Not as much, as I'm sure her family wishes it!!

Then Alysha called me, and she is so devastated with her idiot boyfriend. I wish I had a magic wand to help. I wish that we could all learn the lessons we need to learn without it hurting so badly.

At work today I had a meeting with the Corporate team. In order to hire a high quality nurse, we are offering her $5 more /hour than I make-which is fine with the Corporate team. It makes me feel totally expendable and demoralized and sad because I love hospice work.

A family in our Ward has a 4 month old baby that they took to the hospital on Wed--life flighted to BOI on Thursday, Ventillator and ARDS then a high temp and 100 % ventillation last night.

So, good times, bad times. We will see what tomorrow brings. Meanwhile, prayers please for alysha and Gage. Love, Mom

Christmas Pics

Three months Mom?

Mom,

Do you check this page to get to all of our blogs? Will y0u notice that I changed it? Hee hee hee.

Matt, Darren, Alysha and Andrea all got to spend time with Mom for Christmas. We had a great time. We played games, made and ate great food, and just enjoyed being together. Thanks for everything Mom.