San Deigo

We arrived safely on Friday evening. The kids climbed the rock climbing wall and had a good time playing with Zoe. 

Saturday we woke up and took our time getting ready to head to the beach. Once wel climbed down the huge cliff the beach was ours. Not very many people at all. Just surfers. 

Both boys tested out the surf boards and jackson went out more times than Jacob. We built sand castles and dug for sand crabs.

Had a wonderful arugula chop salad with red wine for dinner. Pam, Jodi's mom stopped by and joined us! 

Zoe and jenny

The boys rock wall climbing: 

Below is the harder climb. Chris tilted the board so you were literally hanging. Jacob rocked it! 

Beach fun! 

Thursday - vacation

Best parts of thier day!

Jackson:

Getting new legos and building them. Feeding the cows, treehouse, zip line. Helping Adam build his train set. Archery time! 

Jacob:

Ok I got it mom, I got it... The best part of my day was seeing the baby calves. Petting the cat and letting hi

 Sniff my hand and staying by me. 

Mama: 

Being home to celebrate Andrews birthday. Drinking coffee in the tree house. Helping the kids with all thier chores. Oh and skyping with Robert.

Friday....

Well today jackson was under the weather... Severe hives... So off to the dr we went.... TWICE!!

My poor muffin.., but besides that... The best part of our day...

Jackson:

Playing legos, campfire, watching Andrew fly his new remote control airplane. 

Jacob:

Camp fire, ice cream for breakfast, hex bug maze building, watching Andrew with his new plane. 

Wednesday vacation

The best part of our day!!

Jacob:

Helicopter war with the big robot that brother shot. Zip line, being in the treehouse and punching the water bag

Jackson:

Nerf gun battle with Adam, Jacob and Alex. Helicopter battle. Zip line. And the hopes that kitty Irene will sleep with us.

Jenny;

Haircut with Pam. Seeing my niece and nephews! Love the joy on there faces when we arrive! Oh and my sister!! Excited for our days ahead on the Wilwerding farm!

Vacation - first few days

Love love being back in MN. Got on the road to Harmony at 12:45 am on Friday morning. Rolled into the farm at 3 something....got a few hours of sleep and headed to Hokah for my friend Anne's wedding.

Just a few shots with me and my BFF's.  It was an amazing time and I am so fortunate that I was able to be home for her special day! 

Saturday I made it home by lunh to find my kids very well entertained on the farm.     They had climbed hay bails, bunny hunted, had a fire and were having a great time! 

Chris and Derrick rolled in in the afternoon. Boys were excited to have cousins to play with. 

Sunday CH and DH ran their marathon relay. They finished 9th I think out of over 100 teams. They came back and we helped dad fiddle with the boat . Oh and we grilled steaks! Yummo! I was hoping to head out for my buddy Lakins 2nd birthday party, but Jacob had a hard day and ended up with a not so good tummy so weisswd it :( . Everyone went to bed early and therefor woke their mama up waaaaay to early. 

Now I think I'm going to head out for a walk. Enjoy the nice MN morning...  

last day of vacation!

well my wonderful boss give me the week off. Just for me. And it was exactly what I needed.  I'm going to spend my last day without the boys. Having lunch with a good friend. Scrapbooking. Then having dinner with another set a fabulous friends!  God has blessed me in so many ways. And I just need to be still and shine His light.  and remember that he has a plan for me. Weather I know what it is or not. He will  provide and bring me the fruitful life that I deserve. 

Catch Up

Well I guess my update is long overdue. Lots have happened since I last wrote. So we will start off with June:

June:
Well I finely finished up my contract work with FMP. So I was relived to be finely done with that place. Jamie and I took Jackson to San Diego for 4 days of fun in the sun. We saw Shamu several times and went to the beach. I think my son would be a beach bum if I would have let him. But we had a great time and it felt so very good to get away. The rest of the month I relaxed and just hung out at home.

On the 24th I headed with Jackson to MN. We first went to the Zoo with Sophie and Aunt Chris and then we spent days on the farm with grandpa and grandma. Jackson LOVED, LOVED, feeding the horses and hanging out outside in the cool temps. G & G also set up a sand box and that boy was in heaven!! We had Sand from one end to another. But by golly it was so much fun watching him just play with no worries! Friday (27th) we headed back up to the cities. It was mom and Dad’s 40th wedding anniversary so we kids had a few plans. Saturday we went out to a nice supper club for dinner with the gang and Sunday took them to the Twins Brewers game. Where I might add we had their names put up on the JUMBO TRON!!! Plus we made silly signs for them to hold up every chance we could get. We all had blast.

That Monday we hung with Aunt Chrissy and Sophie. Jackson Loved being outside and playing basketball. On Tuesday we headed in the afternoon to the airport to head to Aberdeen. We landed safe and sound. We spent the next day just vegging. Daddy arrived the next day and Jackson was SO very excited to see him. We spent the next day’s seeing family that was in for the Rieker reunion. We really had a blast. I flew home that Sunday and Jamie came home on Tuesday. It was a long day for them but they made it home safe and sound.
So I guess we are in July now…. Well July 8th I started a new job. 7 miles from home!! I work for a staffing company that puts traveling nurses in Federal hospitals across the United States. I will be doing all the housing for these Nurses along with a variety of other tasks. They first week was slow, but I am now in my second week and starting to get the hang of things.
I am starting now to help out my friend Laura with the BizeMoms networking group that I belong to. One of our officers received some bad news about her 3 year old daughter. She was diagnosis with Cancer. Here is her website. Feel free to visit and offers up your prayers. I know it really means a lot to hem during this difficult time. http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/maliahight

So I guess that brings me to today. In a few moments we are off to the ENT Dr with Jackson to check out his tonsils. We are hoping we can put off getting them out after the 1st of the year.
Oh I guess I forgot the most important news of all!!! We are PREGNANT!!! I am due Feb 2nd. More than likely they will take the baby the week before Jackson birthday. So I a day short of 12 weeks right now. So pray for a healthy successful pregnancy. All my Love, Jenny

Vacation and Catch Up!

Well this may be a long post. So go grab a cup of coffee, a donut and sit back, relax and enjoy our Blog!

Well last week we headed out Aberdeen SD. We arrived on Thursday when it was -40. Yes that is not a typo. We were glad to have finely arrived after a long night in the ariport. Shall I elaborate? Good glad you would like to hear.

So we landed in MPLS and all was good. WE had checked into hotels before we left and I was CONFIDENT that I could find a REASONABLE hotel for us to spend the night. But a bazillion phone calls later there was no such luck. The average room would be $120 and for 5 hours I was JUST NOT GOING to spend that!! So off to pick up our bag, have the US AIR folks lock them up and hunker down in the airport. We foudn our place to sleep and we settled in. Well a young man, who shall remain nameless, decided that he was ready to explore and be UP!! While the rest of us wanted to get at least a few hours of shut eye. Well FINELY at 3 am that little stinker fell asleep. So mama got some shut eye then too.

We then woke up with the kinks in our necks and headed off to collect our bags and check into our flight to Aberdeen. All looked well and we should be on the plane no probelm. We ended up arriving at about 10:45 to the above -40 degrees. So we gather our bags and load up the van and head out.

Friday I spent part of my day buying supplies for the big PARTY!! Jackson you know was turning 2. I picked up everything I needed and we headed back to nan's. But wait. Another funny story. Would you like me to elbaorate? Good I am so glad!!

So checking out in Wal-Mart and I get RAMMED by somthing. I see out of the corner of my eye that is was a DORA 4 wheeler. You know one of those cars the kids drive. I am thinking to myself, who is NOT watching there kid! My goodness can't they see I have a cart full of STUFF!!! Well the boy who was ridining, again shall remain nameless along with his father. Purely to protect them. He had gotten on this DORA thing and had a foot on the gas and one leg in the air as if he just wanted to sit on it. But ub known to him the side he placed his foot was the GAS so he ran into his mama!! NOTE TO SELF: Don't EVER buy one of those.

So Saturday was the big party day. My family had arrived the night before and I was anxious to get over there and say hi. So Jamie, Jack and I bundled up and went over to the super 8 to see them. We ate some waffles and headed out. By the afternoon I had picked up the balloons and headed to the hotel.

We got all set up and we were ready for our guests to arrive! Jackson cake was SO TOTALLY AWESOME!!! It was a nemo cake that my sister Chris made. She TOTALLY out did herself and it was the best stinkin cake EVER!!! I have like a bazillion pictures and those will just have to be posted later. So we swam and opened up presents and really just had a good time hanging out with family. Poor Jackson was exhausted.

Sunday we said goodbye to my family and simply hung out. The rest of our trip was just relaxing, sleeping in and EATING WAY TOOOO MUCH!!! I did enjoy one night out with my sister in law Shanda and we had a great time. $20 can buy you A LOT of Limo and cokes. I got hit on my some dude in his hunting gear and one other strange dude. Made for a good laugh for us.

But we have now returned to the wonderful warm AZ weather. I will take this over the -25 we left on Tuesday. So it was back to work for me..

Speaking of work. I only have 60 more days left after today. (this does include the weekends folks) so I am anxious to be done and close this work chapter of my life. Its been one rollercoaster ride but I have met some WONDERFUL people along the way. I have been looking for a new job, but nothing that fits me has popped up. But I KNOW that HE has it allplanned out for me. So I shall not worry about it. My path has already been decided. So I will see what happens.

I willpost pictures of the party as soon as I dump my cards from the camera. I hope everyone is well. I am not quite sure if anyone even reads this, but I certainly enjoy writing it.

PS: Please lift up my friend Sharon. She is recovering from an illness and could use your prayers.

Rest in his Hands,
Jenny