did any one call for a taxi??????

I have been a taxi for hugh for the past couple of days. i ahve been picking up one of the hired hands and i have been the taxi that is full of little kids who thinks it is so cool to go to the field to pick people up. all i need now is a sign that says Hughs taxi service. as i am the driver but he is the boss. so the past couple of days i have been to grassy lake ,to bow island to burdett and then back home and then to the field about four times last night. which the kids had fun but my house looked like a stamped went through it and i have nto cleaned it today either but for the kichten because i needed to make snacks for the kidsa nd i cant wait unitl school starts holly will get some good naps then and i will beable to get things done that i normal dont get done. but i need to get the house clean for sunday so there is not much to do and it is only 4pm. at least most of my laundry is done and i dont have to worry about that. the baby is very active today and it is hitting my blatter like it is a punching bad for her. i have been going to the bath room alot more. well nothing else is new. been workign on some baby blankets which i need to get on it again so i can give it to the person who is going to be at church on sunday. i cant believe that the summer is over. where did it go and the weather today is so nice because it is so fall like. i cant wait to wear sweaters and all that. i will take a photo of my baby blankets and then i will post them so all can see what i have been making and also the cute girls outfits that i made a week before summer vacation is over. have a wonderful fall day. did any one need a taxi??????

got all the school stuff...............

Now that i did the big buy and got all my three school age kids their supplies for school i am ready for school to start and to have some time to my self before the baby comes and then i will ahve not time at all for my self that is why i am sewing stuff right now and getting the house in order so that i can do as little a possible so that i can enjoy my last baby in my arms.

yesturday i had a wonderful surprise before i went to lethbridge of a doctors appt. a lady who is dear to me did some laundry for me and the kids and you now what she got it all done and the laundry has never looked or smelt as clean as i have ever had. what a wonderful lady she is. she hangs her laundry out side to dry and i htink that whats makes the difference how i love that. she even made my whites look whiter. anyways she got it all done. she loves to do laundry. i don't mind it but she loves it. so she has been doing some for me and i think i am going to get her to do more. it is wonderful. so when i came home from lethbridge all i had to do was put it a way. and i was so nice. it was like my mom had done my laundry when i was a kid. and then she left some cookies for us and they where the best tastings cookies ever. they where so soft and delicious. how i love them. well sad to say they are all gone and i need to make more. and find out how she gets hers to be so wonderful. she even had a house full of grand kids come to visit her and she got my laundry done. so i am going to get her something even special for all the love she gives me and my young family.

the kids where watching sesame street and the word of the day was hughmongous i think i spelt that wrong but i did try to use spell check and it was no help to me. anyways we thought that could be their dads new nickname. hugh mongous anyways we laugh and if you are not oh well i guess you had to be there.

it will be nice when school is in and the kids will see their friends and get to have fun. we have already planned to have a holiday in sept. in drumheller cant wait. but i will let you know what we might do. so all to those moms out there getting ready for school or getting your kids ready for school i understand. its sad to see them go but happy at the same time becasue then you dont have to entertain them anymore during the day.

so this is what i have been working on............

i have been working on cleaning my house and also i have been working on my kids shorts becasue i had got all the stuff before the summer and now the summer is over so i need to get it done so i can have them for next year. so i have been working on katelyns shirt and hers is the hardest. but i have made one like it before which is karlas but i have been making mistakes with katelyns or i would have been made already made so i would have pictures of it but right now i dont. i am taking a break because i know iwould make more mistakes with it and then it will not turn out and that would not be good because all the girls match. the boys match but they only got shorts because i dont have time to make shirts for them but they want ones so i think this christmas they will get some western shirts. hugh will get one too .. but dont hold that to close to me it all depends on how busy i willbe. but i think i canget it done. well i will blog later i just had to post my little fustration on the sewing and all of you out there who like to sew will understand where i am coming from. my only suggestion is if you getfustrated let it sit for a couple of hours or a couple of days it depends on how fustrated you are. so take your time and enjoy what you have made when it is all done and looks perfect to you. which it should look good to everyone else.

This is what i have been up too............

Monday i was cleaning the house like a mad woman and my kids couldsay that too. wegot their room all cleaned out and orgainzed and so that it will be neat when they got to school which is in 6 days. yah. and i baked some blue berry muffins, made puff wheat squares, and chocolate chip cookies. well i can say the muffins are still here and so are the puff wheat squares but the cookies not so much gone before lunch time. and i only got one. i better make some more tonight. with out the kids.

then today which is tuesday i cleaned the back enterance been doing some landry and been sewing too. i finished make hollys top that matches her shorts. she look cute and she might wear it to church because it looks like adress on her. it is a little big but she will have lots of time to wear ti next summer. and i have been cleaning the kitchen too. the living room got done tomorrrow and if i had more energy the whole house would have been cleaned yesturday but i was burned out around 4 pm and so i made supper had family home evening and then i made cookies withthe kids and putthem to bed but before that we read our scriptures and then they brushed their teeth. what great kids i have then they went ot sleep right away and so did holly and then i was able to go to sleep early which was 9pm. it was so nice. and then they slept in until 730am. well better run. and get some food out to hugh because they are still harvesting. now we are in the rush of things. yah. soon it will be over and the baby will be here too.

You know when.................

You know when my hubby is happy when it comes to his crop. Right now we have just started on harvest which is at least three weeks late. Anyways we are right now harvesting on hughs and he is like a little kid at a candy store who can have what ever he wants. This year our crops have been doing really well and we are hoping that because they are have such a good year that the prices will come up and we can then build our dream home and stop renting because we are getting tired of not having the room and what we want out of our home.

My hubby is so excited that he had to call me and tell me how good his crop is. I just wish that i could ride the combine with him because with such a good crop i want to see him harvest it but when you have 5 kids who all want to go on the ocmbine and when you are 36 weeks pregant it just does not work. it will be nice when it is all done and sold or in the bin. and how excited i will be when we start on our house. we have been renting for the past nine years in the some house. yes hugh andi have not moved since we have been married and i think wewill only move one more time and that will be in our own home. Hugh has all the tools and so he can do pretty much everything but eletrical or plumming. so we have to leave that up to the experts.

Right as i am writing this hugh has the two boys out on the combine and they are having a fun time riding it. when i have to pick them up i am going to be taking pictures of hugh on the combine and hten iwill post it. becasue i am sure some of you arenot sure what a combine looks like. so our house is quite with just the girls. which my next time i post will be on how quiet my house will be when school starts. 2 girls and a baby home.

I like living the life of a farmers wife but my most special times are the end of seeding and the end of harvest because then i get a break of not having to run out to the feild or to town to get parts. those are the special moments of a farmers wife that we all celebrate. we like when everything is in the ground at seeding time because the farmer that we married is also happy too. and then we are both happy when the crops are in the bin and we have not had any hail. what a joy that is. then we both get excited when the prices get to where they are good and we can pay all our expenses off. and in our life right now that we can build our house. the kids are excited too but they still dont understand that they will be in a different school then they are in right now. but enough with me talking i justknow my hubby is excited about harvest and so i need to get the house clean and then he will be excited that the house is clean. both things he wants will be done. but it is sure a undertaking. yah for harvest and lets hope no hail. or at least it can come but after we have all the harvest done that goes for us and all the other farmers out there too.

what am i going to do?

i have not had a lot of sleep and it is partly in part to that i am 35 weeks and counting. this pregancy has been really fast. it might be because i have 5 other kids to run around, a house to keep clean, landry to do and put a way, a sundy school lessen to prepare, etc. you get the point but lately both my kids and my hubby feel that they need to wake me up almost everyhour. well it seems to me that it is everyhour. so i have been moving from bed to bed so that i can get a few hours of sleep but it seems that they still can find me and that is worse because there are no more hiding place but the van and that will not be very comfortable but it would be alot cooler then the house. but i just need to get some shut eye because when i dont which is been the past two nights i feel like a walking zombee and there is lots for me to do before this baby comes. like all that i have listed up. i thought last night that hugh was going to be nice and let me have our bed to my self but it was not so. he did fall asleep on the couch and then i thought yes i will be getting some sleep but my dreams where cut short but then jamie had towake me up and then holly woke up and then i finally got soem shut eye and the alarm went off and woke up holly again and she did not go to sleep at this was at 6am and then by 730 all the kids where up. which is good for school to start but i still have a week and 1/2 to sleep in. so i need to get all these guys on board about do not wake me up if you need to go to the bathroom because they all know hwere the bathroom is and they dont need me to hold there hands while they do their business and to my hubby please stop trying to cuddle i am in no mood and your body heat is way to hot for me right now. even if you stand infrount of the air conditioner before you come to bed. so please sleep on your side and i will cuddle when i want to. which will be after this baby is born. well just counting down the weeks and then the days. but rihgt now i am counting the hours until the kids cango to bed so ican go to bed. i sure do love bed time. dont you?

i just want to scream

i am not sure what to title this os that is why there is no title. we have been busy we started today swimming lessons and i had to run to town to get somethings. but have you has one of those days that are great in the morning and thatyou had a great sleep that night before and then when you think things go well we go shopping and nothing turns out. then you leave a store fustrated because no one is listening. then you get home and you just wantto scream. that is what i will title this blog. i just wis hthe people or children would listen but i guess i need to prepare my kids that when we go somewhere that they need to listen. but we just walked out and i did not buy anything which is nice becasue i saves money but when someone needs something out of there then it is not so good. hugh needs new pants. he has lost some weight and has gone down 4 pants sizes. so to say the least he pants do not fit and he only has a few that do. i need to wash his jeans. he has been watching what he eats and esspically at night not to have ice cream or honey toast. so he has lost weight. he has this thing that he is going to weigh less then me when i have this baby. well we have stayed pretty close toeach other right now he is weighing less then me but only by one or two pounds. i am not dieting but i have been eating a lot more fruit. well we all have. and i love to buy fruit.
i am now in need to get hugh some more jeans and i also need to clean my house. right now the house cleaning has to come first. but i also want to make the kids their shorts before summer vaction is over. as you can see i wrote vacation and not summer by it self because summer comes and then goes. it is supose to rain here tomorrow and on wednesy so i am not sure if there will be swimming lessons. they will call me and let me know. and then we will know. i would like to take them to the swimming pool one of these days which might be the thursday becasue one of the kids have a birhtday party that they get to go to and so i need to do somehting fun with the others . i need to go and make supper for the kids and so that they can all go to bed early.

the new table i bought off of costco .ca

here is the pictures that i have been meaning to put in eamil or on my blog and so the blog worked faster then anything else. so here they are.

doesnt the table and chairs nice the kids love it and have been using it lots. they know that they have to share the chairs and let their younger sister have a chair because she is the youngest.

i went shoppign today with all the kids. we went to childrens place because they where having a sale on their stuff. like jeans and shirts and better prices then walmart and other places that i normally buy. but when i got the email that they had a sale on those i knew i had to go. my mom has taught us girls that when there is a good sale that is when you buy school clothing. and whne i have three in school and 2 at home and one on the way i need all the savings i can get. the lady who served us said how well behaved the kids where. which i thougth that they where good too. but i did have problems with the third oldest which is jamie he still thinks he is 4 somtimes and so i need to buy size 4 but he is 5 and i want his pants to last for at least the year which i hope they last longer. katelyn who is the second oldest has a hard time with jeans because she is so slim that the waste is always to big and i have to use the elastic in them. so we found some jeans to fit her slim figure. which is size 5. the lengthe was good too. which was a plus. sheis almost 7 and she is in a size 5 . wow. so i got all my kids some new clothing even the kids that are not in shcool but the baby who has not graced our presence yeet. which is good. she has alesat 71/2 weeks left. the shirts where the most fun because they had such a great collection that i did not have to tell the kids to pick only one or htere was only one to pickfrom . there where lots. so they got two because i paid less then one shirts was at regular price. wow. i am doing so well now. then i got the three oldest their gym runners because the sale was now and i was there. the younger to got cheaper sandles and i got holly who is the youngest jellies. does anyone remember those. i do as a kid i wore them all the time. so i got her some of those and then some nice dress shoes because she is growing out of them . yes her feet are growing but i think that the rest is not. idid get a size 18 months for jeans because i wanted them to last which they because she is in 12 months now and she is almost 2. so that shows how small she is. so i spent a bit of money but it was worht every penny. my kids will have better quality clothing from the prices of cheaper clothing and they look good. we hopefully will have family photos fdone after the babyb is born so that we have some recent ones. when school starts it will be lots of fun. the kids will love their gym runners and i liked the price. and the service. well i better run. supper needs to be made and i need to put the kids school clothing a way so that they do not wear them. until school so i hope you like the table pictures because i sure love the table and chair.s katie

where has the summer gone..................

As i am writing this i am wondering where has the summer gone. the first week of august is all done and so is the first week of swimming lessons thatwe have. next week will be the older kids swimming and then we will hopefully will be in harvest. When will that start, i am not sure. The kids have been busy when we have swimming and been going to the library for the craft day. they have fun there and it gets them out of hte house. now i need to think of when i am going to be getting the school supplies. thats right i am thinking of that. some of you dont have to worry yet for your kids are not in school but for us moms who have now three full time kids in school is what i am thinking of now. because it is like three weeks away. or close to that. which will be coming up quick. right now there is a sale at the childrens place and i am goign to get the kids clothing now and then i can run to the city by my self and getthe school supplies and i also have to get new runners for all of them. i am goingto be a little more pricy this year becasue i am going to get the better runners they last longer and are about the same price as the cheap ones you can get at payless. which is not paying any less. i am looking for the best deal as i have three i need to buy for.

i have been busy trying to get my scrapbooking room in order again. and going through things i dont need. because i got the new idea book from close tomy heart and there is alot of things thati would and want to get. but i n eed to make sure i have the money and the kids stuff comes first always. so i am going to get hteir school clothing alot cheaper then last year or any other year. maybe i willget hugh a new pair of runners becasue he goes through runners like a kids with an icecream cone. fast. but i want my scrapbooking room clean so htati can go down there and make cards befroe the next trade fair. and then get things ready for workshops because i would like to start that up again. well enough with the scrapbooking stuff. but if anyone of the people who read my blog want a new book email me at kidsofvos@yahoo.ca and then i can send you one. there are some nice andexciting things.

i have not decided yet on when i am going to the city but i am sureit will be in the next couple of days. i jsut dont know when. either today like the afternoon or tomorrow. i jsut need to get off the computer and get working on the house and get it to be clean and then clean out the van and then i think i will be going. so i need to get cracken. well have a great rest of the summer. it has been busy for us and it will only get busier. anyways if anyone is counting how many weeks i have left with number 6 it is 7 1/2 weeks. and then we will have another special child in our family. cant wait. well ican and cant. but i will write about that later.