Happy 11th B-day Kayla--late

I always try and post something special along w/old pics of each one of my girls' b-days. Well, with the fair, vacation, etc. I am a little late putting Kayla's on here. Kayla Renee Abel came into this world July 12, 1998 after deciding to break my water in church!!!! They say it's really rare to actually have your bag of water break in public, but mine did!!! We all (me, Eric, mom, dad & Josh) quietly left the pew one by one with everyone knowing what was going on:) I labored for a few hours when they noticed trouble on one of the monitors, actually drew blood from her head while still inside of me for an oxygen count on her & gave me the dreaded news of a c-section! Oh my! I had not prepared for a c-section at all! I had went thru all the birthing classes, breathing, etc. After sobbing for awhile, Dr. Hawkins (he has since moved), calmly told me it was best for the baby & me. Then I was fine! She came out screaming & has been causing drama ever since!!!! Ha. This first picture is me (not looking so wonderful) w/ Kayla right after she was born. I was still coming out of my spinal...
This is Kayla Renee at 2 wks old....


This is Kayla meeting her new sister Danielle for the first time on June 12, 2001 w/ my brother Josh & the nurse trying to explain things to Kayla. She wanted to know why she had pink hair! My brother took over as her protector from there. He's still very watchful over the girls. He stayed with us the whole time when Kayla was born & up to the first week after & also w/ Danielle. He loved being w/ us when they were born. Times I'll never forget.


This is Kayla Bug feeding her 3 day old sister Danielle w/ Josh & me looking on. She always held her forehead back w/ one hand and shoved the bottle in w/ the other.


Kayla Renee's 1st day of the 1st grade! Tiger is in every picture of her 1st day of school for every year--funny!



Kayla holding her baby sister #2 Olivia Jean on February 12, 2008. Her & Danielle both are great big sisters. Somedays I don't know what I'd do without them!

This is Kayla on her actual b-day this year w/ her nail gift certificate:) She's in a wedding August 22nd and wants to make her nails beautiful!

Kayla is my very inquisitive, passionate & dramatic daughter. She is caring, has a tendency to be lazy (like everybody), hates Math, loves babies, loves to eat pizza, spaghetti & cottage cheese. She has always cared an extreme much about what her clothes & hair looks like! She has always matched her clothes to her socks, to her hair thingy, etc. If I want to run on a Saturday morning to the Dollar Store & she wants to go then she has to run back in the house, comb her hair, change her clothes, grab money, etc. She will never leave the house w/o doing all those. Her nickname is "Aunt Jude" by her Dad most times because his Aunt Judy is always late and extremely slow. Anyway, thank you Kayla Bug for making me a Mommy. This is what life is all about. Not money, big houses, nametags on your clothes, but being a parent & watching your daughter mature & blossom into a young lady. I love you forever.

4H Fair 2009

We've been very busy this past week and a half w/ the Martin Co. 4H fair. The girls turned in projects & we had rabbits to show. I'm trying to get caught up so here's a few pics...The first one is Olivia checking on the sheep. It's hard work being a farmer!

Here she's telling the sheep what to do...
Kayla won the Clean Pen Award from Bob & Diane Dages. Bob made her a wooden carrying box, put a big water bottle in, rabbit magazine & really nice feeder. We were all super excited & very appreciative!!!
Kayla auctioning her rabbit Sugar last night....

Ellen & Mike Dant of M&M Trucking purchased Sugar. Here they are together. Of course it's just a donation to the kids so we get to keep the rabbit & the money---nice!
Kayla watching cousin Carter & Olivia play with Sugar.
Seth G. pulling around Olivia & cousin Emma!
Kayla & Danielle posing before the big show....love this pic!
I think this one is my fave though!
Right before the show!
Lindsey L. w/ the girls before the show Sunday.
Lola made it to the finals but was not chosen for anything. That's okay though. We can't get a trophy every year!
Danielle during showmanship. She did great. The judge is wonderful & invited us to his house for workshops.
Danielle w/ her rabbit Bryan & her winnings for showmanship!
Time for the baby show. Pop holiding Olivia w/ Eric.
Eric, Pop w/ Olivia, grandma w/ Danielle. She won 2nd for Prettiest Eyes & nothing for Prettiest Girl because she squawled & bawled the whole time because I took her bag of chips away from her! The girls wanted her in the contest or I wouldn't have even entered her in it since she won last year!
Alot of the grand champions. I loved the display this year. It was the "Year of the Tomatoes".
Danielle's flowers & garden vegetables.

Our Grand Reserve guinea pig! Couldn't believe he got a big award! That's my boy--haha!

Alot Going On..........

It's been so long since I've posted that I don't know where to start!! There's been so much going on that I have to stop & think back to everything. First of all, we've had sickness in our house. Last Wed morning I awoke to the sound of Olivia gagging. I thought she was vomiting, but she was just gagging like she would any minute. I put her in bed w/ me and before you know it we were both covered! I had noticed a couple days prior she had been pulling at her ears really bad & my sitter said she had been really fussy which isn't like her at all. I decided to take her into the clinic where I work & have Cathy look at her. Good thing I did. She had a bilateral ear infection that was really bad. I decided to go ahead w/ the Rocephin shot to help her get better faster & an antibiotic was called in also. That kid will not take any kind of medicine by mouth at all & I'm not exaggerating any. It's like feeding a bull medicine. She has yet to take a full dose of it. Anyway, that night she proceded to get sick again, next day had diarrhea really bad,etc etc. It got passed on down to Kayla, then Danielle, then me & now Eric. I scrubbed this house top to bottom last night so much that my nose and throat were burning from bleach! As soon as I think it's completely gone, it starts over. I'm tired of it. I am really questioning now & wondering if Olivia had rotavirus. Yesterday my sitter called & said she had diarrhea so bad that she had to put her in the tub & that it smelled of rotten eggs. She had to actually scrub the smell off of her. She said she had watched other kids that had that smell and that's what it always was. Could be. I just hope we are all over it now.

Onto better news, the 4H fair starts this week. We've been working our butts off getting our projects ready, preparing the rabbits & helping at the fairgrounds. It takes alot of work & I'm proud of all the kids. We are showing 3 rabbits this year. Kayla is also exhibiting our guinea pig, Bandit! (if she gets a trophy it should belong to me--ha! I take care of him all the time:) Eric & I am working the gate Saturday night from 5-7 which should be hot & busy! Maybe time will pass quickly! Anyway, come out & support the 4H kids & take your kids out to ride the carnival rides, etc. It should be fun for all. A demo derby, tractor pull, all kinds of animals, baby show, etc.

I entered Olivia Jean in the baby show this Sunday @ 7 so of course last night she trips over her blankie (she's Linus) & falls flat on her face. I figured I'd for sure see blood oozing from somewhere but didn't. She cried so hard you could tell it really hurt. This morning she gets up and has a black bruise on her rt cheek! Poor thing. Danielle is beside herself w/ worry that she'll have a black eye for the baby show.

This will be Danielle's first year showing the rabbits & Kayla's 2nd. We are very excited. The rabbit show is this Sunday, July 12, which is also Kayla's 11th b-day. Where in the world has the time gone?? I remember trying to get pregnant w/ her, telling our family & now she's 2 yrs away from being a teenager. What the heck!!

Happy 4th of July too! We celebrated at my uncle Joe's farm. Danielle slipped and fell on the cabin steps in the rain wearing flip flops so I decided to show her up. I slid on the steps also, dropped my good glass cake pan & broke it, sliced my knee open, and had to end up going to Dr. Nonte Monday for a good back adjustment. I felt like I'd been in a car wreck!!!! I must be getting old if I can't handle a fall at my age!!!!!

I'll post pics after the rabbit show!
Jamie