The mini week Pre Surgery

So the week was shorten due to Josh going in for Surgery. But we crammed a lot it. Monday Josh arranged for us to go on a date since it wouldn’t happen valentine’s weekend. He asked me on the date with flowers We had a great night out and the food was yummy. It was something we both needed.

I do have a picture of Josh and I , but not on the computer.

Tuesday was more of getting life ready to be gone for a week or so. Max also has speech which he screamed and cried during most of. Pretty sure he thought I  would leave him again. We also had the spaghetti supper at bella’s school. We saw a few friends and met up with Kara and tony.

They play so well together …sometime!

Wednesday was crazy busy. I’m not sure how anything got done or when it got done, but it got done. My mom came to be with the kids since we had to leave really early thursday morning. She got to see bella in gymanstics. THe kids and her had fun making markers with Bella’s new marker maker. I tried to enjoy the family time,but it was hard knowing all the stuff that didn’t get done.

Oh my wonderful husband

So forgive me dear blog, as I’m totally missing dates and events. I want to say the weekend went great and was normal. nothing really stands out other then we went to church on Sunday, then to run errands in Platteville, treated the kids to Country Kitchen were they did great before grocery shopping. I don’t want to come home to no food and have to go out with my kids or recovering husband. Oh yes Saturday we spend a lot of cleaning the basement, so I can take the kids down there to enjoy playing and being loud while Josh recovers. Sunday evening we spend it downstairs eating supper and watching the super bowl. it was fun for the 1./2 and then got kind of boring.  Overall it was just great to spend the time with my little family, doing family things and making memories. Of course can I call them memories if I can’t remember them. I’m pretty sure I have pictures to add to this from the weekend.

But Monday, I took Bella to school, it was PJ day to make up for missing it the week before. I spend the rest of the day just sort of bumming around the house. Max was kind of clingy and I’ll admit the upcoming task of getting ready to be gone for about a week was getting to me. Well Josh offered to pick up Bella from school, so I didn’t have to run to town again. He arrived home with Bella who was carrying pretty flowers. The card on the flowers asked if I would go out with him on a date tonight. Naturally I was game, only I wondered who was watching the kids. When he told me he invited kara over, I was like “crap, I have  house to clean” LOL Put I did a great job getting it to look presentable , myself presentable while Josh was milking.  

He made reservations at a local Italian restaurant. It was nice to go out to a nice place and not have to worry about kids. We actually saw some friends there who ended up picking up our bill for us, which was so nice of them. I got to bring some of my meal home and it turned into lunch today for me and max.   We then went to Farm and Fleet to get me a new windshield wiper for the back window of my car. it’s the little things that make me happy.  We arrived home to two sleeping kids who had a great time with their aunt.

Today has been a crazy busy day. First off Josh stayed with max, while I took Bella to school, then met up with my St. Clement's mommies. Those girls are awesome and I’m so glad I found them. I didn’t get to stay too long and visit though because Max has speech today.I feel so bad for Mrs. B. She tries so hard with max and he refused to do anything. He’s sure got his mommy and daddies stubborn streak. But she gave me some suggestions of what to do at home with him.. goal is to figure out what motivates him. this week it might not happen but hopefully the following week we can start to get some idea.

While Max was in speech Josh left for town and took my bracelet with him. I’ve had this sliver bracelet since I was around 16 or 17. It use to just have a heart on it. Kind of like a knock of the “return to tiffany’s “ bracelet. Well Sometime in October or November, I lost the heart on it. I was really sad. So Josh got me two little kids to add to my bracelet, but I still missed the heart. Also the little kids had legs on the charms which were getting stuck on stuff and I the little girl no longer has the legs because I lost one. Well when josh arrived back home he gave me my bracelet back with a new heart that says “Josh and Katie” on one side, and “Forever” on the other.He also got all the little parts sodered together, so they can’t come off. I was so happy. I don’t want to lose anymore off my bracelet.

We then did lunch, got Max down for a nap, worked on the last of our tax stuff  before it was time to go get Bella from school.

Dec 14: a nothing as planned day

Saturday we had a busy day planned, until it all seemed to change in a blink of an eye. First josh had issues with milk house so he wasn't able to start milking on time. That meant not leaving home until 9, which meant we missed elly's dance. Thankfully my sister got it on video. The drive to my moms went well. We all had lunch at my moms before, us girls all went last mintue shopping at shopkeeper and Max got to hang out with daddy. I finally decided to get a new phone, so I took mom and Bella with me. She played on an iPad at the store where I found out my phone was a penny and activation was waved!.

Next up was returning to moms to pick up Max before heading to my aunts to do a mini Christmas with her. Josh went off to do some Christmas shopping of his own. The kids and I were spoiled at my aunts and had a fun time. We enjoy spending time at her place. 

Once we were done there it was back to moms to meet up with josh for church and a date night! Mom watched the kids so off we went. We saw Josh's uncle and aunt in church. I enjoy sitting by people I know in church.  After church was off to beaver dam for supper at benvento's. It was really yummy and nice to go out just us two. 

Our after dinner plans got scrapped so we decided to hit up Applebee's for dessert before calling it a night.

Decorating cookies 

In Christmas shirts

Max handing aunt dear her present

Bella opening her gifts

He was in heaven!

Yummy food

My handsome husband and i

august 11th

My sister and her family came down to celebrate Bella's birthday. We also did a small celebration for my sister too.


Josh was outside helping, so I was distracting the kids with crackers for breakfast. I finally got a shot of Max’s teeth too.

Max loves Anners

Bella opening some of her gifts.. she got a wooden barn built by her uncle Andy.

She also got the doll house that was once Sara and elly’s ..just so happened to come on the same day we celebrated her birthday.

my sister with the cheeseburger cake

that night was Josh’s high school reunion. We weren’t sure how it would go since Josh couldn’t eat much, but we went and was able to have some food. We didn’t stay too long as my mom was watching the kiddos at the Lancaster house and it was nearing bedtime for them.

The fair night 3

So tonight the fair.wasn't as great. Silly us forgot jackets since it was below 70, dark and windy.
We got there and the polls hadn't even started due to the rain we had had about 2 hours earlier. So josh and I got a snack before finding seats.
Due to the rain and our busy day we were kind of laid back about doing anything quickly. So we ate supper as kara arrived. Then got ready to go while she entertained Bella.
We found good seats which is normally hard to do, and enjoyed the trucks pulling along with the antique tractors.
Around 9, I went down behind the grandstand to see Ty Herdon perform. There I ran into Jeremy and Kim. I listen to a couple songs before getting a snack ( dilly bar :) ) and heading back to the polls.
Naturally it started to rain again. By the time they took an intermission, both Josh and I were cold. So we went to get some hot food and listen to Ty again. It was kind of like our first trip to the fair. Ahh memories.
We went back to the polls for a buy before I was just to cold and sore to sit on the bleachers. Baby bee likes all the yummy food I"ve been eating thus my stomach hurts. Lol.

The fair day two

Josh and I were able to head to the fair sans Bella. She got to stay home with nana. Josh and I did supper at the fair, brats and hot dogs. Along with cheese cords, baked potato and funnel cake. I wanted to take a photo of all the yummy fair food, but we ate a lot of it while standing in line for other food.we spread our money around.;)
The big draw tonight was the tractor and truck pulls. We watched about 2 hours of them before we decided to head home. I think I over did it with fair food.:S
The pulling tractors and trucks are hard to get pictures of. They were going around 30 mph.