GRACIE......Funny story!

So, I have a funny story about Gracie. Her very most favorite thing to do in the house is answer the phone. Well, she's been getting in a little bit of trouble lately because she talks to EVERYONE! I have to inform you that I HATE HATE HATE telemarketers. They are my biggest pet peeve! Well, little miss Gracie will carry on a whole conversation with them or anyone else that calls, but neglect to remember who it was that called. So if any of those phone calls were you and we never got your message....Gracie took the liberties on the phone.

I've got into this habit of either yelling at the stupid telemarketers or just hanging up on them. And Holy Bagonia's! WE'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF THEM! And it irks me silly when they call on Sunday's, so.....not all the time do we answer the phone on Sunday's. And I'll give someone TWO hello's, if they haven't answered by the second one, I hang up on them. I guess I need to break down and sign up for caller ID. I've been too cheap to buy it.

So here's how the story starts. Last Tuesday I was feeling horrible! I went home from work early and went straight to bed. Well, when Tyle got home I was in so much pain that I was bawling. And I'm not a cryer either. So he knew something was up. So he took me into the hospital where the nurse thought I had a bladder infection with mild contractions. They felt worse than mild!!! So they hooked me up to an IV and put some heavy antibiotics and a bunch of fluid through me and I was feeling better, but I still had this really bad pain on the right side in my back. Anyway, they discharged me and told me if I spiked a fever or had chills to come back in. SO THAT WAS THE FIRST DAY.

NOW........Gracie didn't have school Monday - Wednesday of last week so she was home to be my little nurse. She was watching cartoons in the front room and I hear the phone ring and she answered it. I didn't hear anything else. Then the phone rings again right after that. Then I didn't hear anything else again. Then the phone rings AGAIN and I hear, "MOM, DR. SHAMO'S ON THE PHONE! HURRY UP AND GET OUT OF BED MOM, DR. SHAMO'S ON THE PHONE! MOM! DID YOU HEAR ME? DR. SHAMO'S ON THE PHONE!" I could only imagine that that screaming was going directly into Dr. Shamo's ear. So I was tootling out there as fast as I could waddle. Well, long story short, I ended up BACK in the hospital and this was the story that Dr. Shamo told me......He said, "My, you have quite the little secretary at home don't you?" me - "Oh yes she is!" he said when he called this was how the conversation went:
Dr. Shamo: Hi, can I talk to your mom?
Gracie: Click!
Dr. Shamo on his SECOND phone call: Hi, can I talk to your mom?
Gracie: You're stupid! Click!
Dr. Shamo on his THIRD phone call: Hi, this is Dr. Shamo, is your mom home?
Gracie: The above mentioned screaming in his ear!

GO AHEAD.....ASK ME IF I WAS EMBARRASSED!!!! Ahhh, but it makes for a funny story anyway!

CONGRATS TO SYDNEY WIDDISON!!!

I just have to give a little HONK HONK shout out to Sydney Widdison from Logandale, NV. She bought pigs from us for the Clark County Stockshow and rocked the house! She won Grand Champion with her gilt! Congrats to Sydney and good job on finishing her and taking care of her! SHE LOOKED FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!

AND....on a side note, that was AWESOME advertisement and a GREAT show for our pigs to win for a little podunk farm like ours!!! We're going to St. George on Thursday, Spanish Fork next week, Delta the end of May, World Pork Expo in Iowa and Vernal the week after Delta. Hopefully the pig fairies and pig angels will stay with us and help us continue to do awesome!!!

THE EASTER BUNNY DIDN'T SHOW UP AT OUR HOUSE!

Oops! My kids thought they were bad kids and that the Easter Bunny just skipped by our house! Well, let me preface this first by saying....I worked like 24 hours straight! On Saturday, I worked an overtime shift at IPP from 7 am to 5:30 pm and then I ran home for a little less than an hour and then went to work for my mom from 7 pm to 7 am. I told Tyle that he had to put the Easter stuff out and he said he was watering the fields all night long. I thought that it wouldn't be a big deal because I'll get home by about 7:30 and I'll put it out before the kids are awake. WRONG!!! I forget that Easter is kind of like Christmas and they were up and at em' early. They even called my mom at about 7:30, feeling very bad for themselves, explained that the Easter Bunny never showed up at our house. Mom....thinking fast, told them that He came, he probably just hid it so good they couldn't even find it yet.

On my way home I passed Tyle pulled off the side of the road in his truck and he was all slumped over the steering wheel. I honked - he didn't move. Had I not known he was up watering all night long, I would have thought, "Holy Crap! He's dead!" Who knows how long he'd been up! So I get home and am starting to set stuff up and hear two little fellers talking in my bedroom. I walk in there and there's two little kids almost in tears. I was like, "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING AWAKE???" I mean, DUH! I've got stuff to do! They were like, "Mom, were we bad this year? The Easter Bunny didn't even come to our house." I felt like crap and combined with absolute exhaustion - I had no clue what to do next! I told them to go out in the front room for a minute. I laid down for a minute and tried to think, next thing I know Tyle woke me up and was like, "JEEZ! WHERE'S THE EASTER STUFF?!?!?!?" Ask me if I wanted to kill him right at that moment! So, he took the kids up to the Hinckley station with him to go get some milk and I hurried as fast as I could and put everything out. When they got home, we FINALLY had Easter at about 10:30! Hagen was like, "MOM, did YOU do this or did the Easter Bunny really come?" I told him that the Easter Bunny really did come and he just got a little late on his route! He doesn't have reindeer like Santa Clause to get him around, ya know! Luckily, he's still young enough that he bought it! Whew!!!

The Easter Bunny left them a wii. They were totally stoked about it! Now, in a REAL world where I wasn't mother of the year, they NEVER would have gotten a wii for Easter, BUT the only reason they did was because.....I really WAS the mother of the year at Christmas time. I got them a wii for Christmas and it was their big present.....well guess what, I FORGOT to give it to them. We're sitting at mom and dad's on Christmas day and Zane asks Hagen if he got a wii and Hagen's like, "ummm, No!" and then all of a sudden it dawned on me that I'm an idiot and forgot all about it! So the wii waited until Easter. And they got to look for empty fake eggs and I also hid the candy, because we didn't have time the night before to boil and color eggs! I KNOW - I'M A HUGE SLACKER!!!

Gracie just started playing soccer a few weeks ago. Not gonna lie, the first week she didn't have a clue what was going on. But this week she did awesome and scored her first goal! She thinks it's freakin' awesome that she gets to get in the middle of a bunch of kids and push and shove in the name of sports and not even get in trouble for it! Whew! wonder where that comes from....except seriously....who needs sports for that?!?! haha She is awesome and pretty darn aggressive for a first time soccer player! She also gets to start tee ball pretty soon too. She's been practicing with Hagen about every night and she's doing pretty darn good! She's also rockin' a new perm that is cuter than heck on her - when it's all done up cute and stuff!

AWESOME HAGEN!!!

So I don't really know how these pictures will come out, seeing as I'm still learning all this and stuff, but thought that I would do a couple posts about Hagen and another one on Gracie! I can brag if I want! It's my blog! So there!!!

This is Hagen wrestling in his little league tournament. He went undefeated this year in all his matches including the extra Bantam tournaments we took him to this year! Good job Hagen!!!

So, you have to hear this hilariously funny story about this kid that Hagen's wrestling! So the match starts off when the ref blows the whistle. Hagen's in his "stance" all crouched down and ready to pounce when the time is right, and all of a sudden this kid does a flying leap through the air and tries to land on Hagen's head. Hagen just sort of....steps to the side, gives the kid a weird look, and puts him in a head lock in about the first 10 seconds of the match. When he's on the ground he lets out this blood curdling scream that scared the heck out of Hagen. Hagen, not knowing what the heck he should do about this screaming kid underneath him, lets him up. Next, Hagen goes into make a move and puts a tight waist on this kid, he got him down and lands him in a cradle. So the kid starts kind of crying a little bit and the mom is telling him, "Roll, Jaden, Roll." and we hear this kid yell, "I'M ROLLING!" Then, Hagen's about got him pinned, and the mom tells him to roll again, and all of a sudden all you can see is this little feller's head sticking out from under Hagen, and he lets out another one of his blood curdling scream and then yells, "I'M ROLLING! QUIT YELLING AT ME!!!" We have this funny video that shows Hagen looking up at his dad and trying very hard not to bust out laughing, as was everyone on the sideline! When we got home that night, we took the video out and watched it, laughed our hiney's off, rewound it, watched it again, and laughed our hiney's off about 3 times! I felt kind of bad for the mom, cuz she was just trying to encourage him. But gosh! It sure made for a GREAT story!!!

AND THE VERDICT IS...............................

So I have to start from the beginning of this whole story. It's pretty funny, I wish I had the video camera handy on a couple different occations! The first one was when we actually told the kids that we were having a baby. Gracie is a baby loving fool! She LOVES babies so logically I thought that they would be super duper excited. Boy was I wrong! Hagen's first reaction was, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh MOM!" Like I did something horribly wrong and then Gracie piped up - NOT quietly either - "I DON'T NEED NO MORE STINKIN' BROTHERS!" Well ok, thanks guys! But we don't know what it is yet! Then they perked up for a minute. After that the wait was on. Everyday they would ask, "So what is it mom, what is it?" Well we finally found out yesterday! I went to the school to get the kids since they were so excited to find out what it was that I thought they would be super excited to go to the ultrasound appointment. Well, when I got Hagen, he was right in the middle of recess so he said, "Oh just tell me what it is when you're done, I'm going to play football." OK, so I get Gracie and all the way over there she kept saying, "I know it's a girl, I know it's a girl!" So THE picture finally came up on the screen and the ultrasound feller said, "So, do you know what it is?" and I said, "HEY, IT'S A BOY!" Well, Gracie had some stuff in her hands and her face went immediately from happy to pissed off! She threw down whatever was in her hands on the floor got up off Tyle's lap and stomped out of the room. Tyle very patiently followed her out and said, "I guess we'll be back in a minute!" The ultrasound guy was like, "I take it she didn't want a brother, huh?" But WE were excited. We told Gracie she could be the one to tell Hagen and when we picked him up from school and Hagen asked a hundred times WHAT IS IT??? Gracie said in a very ticked off way and pouting all the while, "It's a freakin' BOY!"

I think we could've won $100,000 from Funniest Home Videos! Lesson for the day....always have a camera stocked and ready!

And the NEXT part of the story is....now that we know it's a boy, his name is Cope!!! Since we already have a Hagen we'll now have Cope and Hagen!!! AWESOME, HUH?!?!?! I told my mom that and she almost had a heart attack!!! COPE IT IS!!!!!!!!!

I "might" be getting the hang of this Blogging thing - thanks to Kristi!

Well, I'm a complete and utter blogging idiot! I had to take lessons from Kristi to learn how to do this crap! And......I'm still learning! Like for instance....how the heck do you ADD friends? WTF? Seriously, I need help!!! I LOVE to find blogs through a friends, sister's, neighbor's, sister-in-law's old high school friend and then go HOLY CRAP I KNOW THIS PERSON!!! My recent new blog that I have currently been spending the last 3 days now reading the absolute most hilarious stories are from Jessica Mecham (whatever her last name is now!) And seriously....I really have to go through like 6 different blog sites to get to hers, but I laugh my BUTT off at her posts! It's definitely worth all the effort it takes to get there!!!


I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one that actually reads this blog - mostly to pass the time at work when I'm totally bored- and maybe on the rare occasions that Kristi gets on here every other month or so! But seriously, it helps pass the time for me at work and I am A-O.K. with that! So, in honor of Kristi teaching me how to post a video, I decided I would post this one of Hagen when he first started roping off a horse! I couldn't believe it, he roped about 10 head right in a row by two feet. Not only am I a blogging idiot, but I also can not film that great either and it would be a great idea to press the mute button!

Oh hell!!! Never mind! I'm stickin' to the story that I'm a blogging idiot!!! It took me too dang long to try to get the video on my computer and it ain't goin'! I'll figure it out later and MAYBE post the stinkin' video! As for now....well, I better get back to work for at least a minute anyway!

GRACIE LOU AS A RODEO QUEEN

Here's my little Gracie Lou advertising for my little Jr. Rodeo for the fair last year! These are my favorite pics of her, so I thought I'd post! This was at the 4th of July parade in Delta last year. This is the one time she gets to dress up like a rodeo queen (and Oh Dear Lord, hopefully the only time she WANTS to!!! I don't know if I could handle that when she gets in high school! I think she's pretty tuff and she'll hopefully grow out of this stage!) Check out the awesome chaps Grandpa Draper made her! She gets to dress up like this and sit on the awesome saddles we give away during the Jr. Rodeo! THIS YEAR....I'm very exited that I will be about 10 months pregnant during my rodeo and am certainly hoping I don't calve DURING the rodeo!!! My due date is the next week after the rodeo! I'm taking offers now for help!!!

Hagen crossing the 5K finish line!

Snow Goose Festival:
After I saw Kristi's post about the "AWESOME" Snow Goose Festival, I decided I would post my own pic too. Hagen went early that morning with Grandma to watch Uncle Zane run the 10K. Which Uncle Zane did awesome and was like fourth. (Behind some little weenie fella in tiny shorts - we were lucky NOT to see his little weenie fella! that was apparently seriously into this running stuff!!!) Well, when they got there that morning Hagen decided what the heck, he'd run the 5K. And gosh almighty the kid ran the whole stinkin' way. Even though he got chased by a dog about half way through. He was second in the 12 and under category and got a medal and everything! Way to go Hagen! You're awesome! And you beat all those old ladies too!!! Maybe next year I won't be barfing that morning and be able to go with you! If my 8 year old can do it, I guess I can get my fat butt up and try it too!!!

MAYBE I'LL GET THE HANG OF THIS!

So, I started a blog probably 3 months ago with one lone little blog about, "How do you do this stuff?" I thought maybe I might give it another shot though. So I'll start out like this:
First is Tyle - He's a pig lovin' fool. Besides his day job at the county, he comes home and works another full days' worth of work at the farm. We have around 50 head of sows and about 100 little pig babies in the farrowing barn. So he's a busy fella. Around all that working he finds time to be an awesome dad and coach Hagen's wrestling team and take Gracie riding horses all the time. He's a great dad!

Then there's me....I currently just barf a lot lately. I'm extremely lazy and wish that I could pretty much just sleep all day long! But I work out to IPSC in the Purchasing department, which I like and it helps out a lot. I wish that I could be home with my cutie patooties but someday I'm gonna be a Dinillionaire and I will for sure get to stay home!!! We have two and half kids with the third one gracing us with 'it's' (we don't know what it is yet, but get to find next month! YEAH!) presence in the middle of August! HOLY COW shoot me dead! just kidding!

Hagen is our oldest and absolutely the most mature little 8 year old I've ever come acrossed! He is such a big help and is always helping his dad over to the farm and always watching out for his little sister. He absolutely loves to wrestle and he is pretty awesome at it too! He loves school, especially math! And he loves football, soccer, and basketball - pretty much any kind of sport there is. He is a really good little pig shower too! This is his first year he finally gets to show and he's really excited! He also loves to hang out with his friends and he is actually learning how to be quite the little roper! If I could ever figure out how to post the videos of him roping on this little blog thinger then I would. So if anyone wants to give me a How To: lesson, I'm up for suggestions!

Gracie is our youngest - for now! She is a very sweet little girl, but can be pretty mean too! She loves to show pigs and help dad at the farm. She also loves to help mom clean the house, play dress up and just stay busy! She LOVES babies, which will be great for mom because I'm sure she will be a HUGE help in a few months!!! She LOVES to ride horses and is so happy that it's starting to warm up so we can pull the horses out of pasture and start riding again! She's an awesome kid and we love to have fun!

When I figure this blogging thing out a little more, then I'll start to post some pictures of Hagen wrestling and Miss Gracie showing her little pigs!!!