Long time/I am Back

I know its been two months since my last post. We have been a busy family.
End of April:
Since our last post Tyler was in his first wedding as a ring bearer at the end of April. He was in Dan's brothers wedding. Dan was also in the wedding as the best man. The wedding was fun and interesting.

May:

The month of may we were busy with odds and ends. My father was here from Rapid City over memorial day. It was a great time seeing and spending time with him. Tyler and us were sure sad to see him go. Tyler was his buddy while he was here. They read lots of books. This month were also looking for a place to live in Brookings. House hunting isn't the most fun thing to do, especially when your not finding anything.

June:

We found a place to live in Brookings. We decided to go with a trailer. Its cheaper and its only temporary. We found a nice 3 bedroom 2 bath trailer. Dan wasn't sold on living in a trailer, but he is dealing with it. We get to start moving next week. This month Dan helped his aunt and uncle with landscaping by building a retaining wall. He is a talented person. We also took Tyler to the races in Hartford for the first time. Tyler sure enjoyed them. He loves cars. He is so obsessed with the movie "Cars" he is collecting all the cars from the movie. He even has pajama's that are cars. He won't give them up for anything. This month also brought problems to me. I did something to my knee, not sure how I did it, but who knows. I dislocated my knee cap. I have been dealing with this little over a month. I have been going to the chiropractic to figure out what is going on. She is the one that saw my knee cap is not in its right spot. So she tried putting it in, but it didn't stay. I must say its painful. Well, sure referred me to a orthopedic specialist and I just saw them yesterday (Tuesday). I have surgery this Friday to fix my knee. He told me what he is going to do, but all I got out of it was taking a ligament out to make my knee cap sit where its suppose to. Then possible release a band on the other side of the knee. I will be laid up for awhile. Tomorrow (Thursday) is Tyler's and my last day at work. I think by not working there I won't be under so much stress. Other than that we have been busy with packing everything up. Packing and moving is not my favorite thing to do. I feel so bad since I won't be able to help that much.

Tyler is continuing to grow and talk non stop. There are times we are not sure what he is saying, but we finally figure it out. I just can't believe how much he growing. At daycare this last couple of weeks he has shown interest on going potty on the toilet. He goes in the toilet at daycare, but just sits on it at home. He will do it when he is ready. I hope everybody has a wonderful rest of the week. I will from now on try and post every night. I will sure post after my surgery when I feel up to it to let everyone know how it went and what they did.

Busy!!!

So I haven't posted for awhile. This last week has been busy. I made it through my first week of work and thinking oh my this may be interesting. We did have a good Easter, we were at my grandparents in Winona, MN. We enjoyed our time visiting and seeing family that I haven't seen since I was like 12. This weekend we have just been relaxing and doing some cleaning and trying to study. Sunday, it was just Tyler and I spending time together, Dan was at a cattle show with a friend in Nebraska somewhere. This morning Tyler and I went grocery shopping in Brookings and then came home and did some cleaning. We didn't do much today. Trying to get ready for the busy week. I hope everybody has a great week.

News!

Well, I know my last post was talking about my last day at work. Well, that has changed now. I have this week off and will start working on Monday April 9. I took a FULL TIME position as a head teacher in the room I was working in. I was really happy because now I can do what I want and have fun activities for the children to do. It will be a challenge at first, but hopefully it will get better. This month will be a little stressful for me because I have to study for my Elementary board test that I take on the 28th. I have been studying, but you never know what the test is going to be like. Every test is different. Enough of that!!

Over Easter we are going to Winona, Minnesota to see my grandpa and grandma. We are leaving Thursday night. We are riding with my mom, so it will be a fun trip because its never a dull moment with my mom. We are excited to see them because we haven's since Tyler turned 1. We are also going to help celebrate grandma's 75th birthday. It will be a great time.

I hope everybody has a great week and a Happy Easter!!

Catching up!

Its been awhile since I last posted. Just a few things that I am going to share with everybody. This Friday is my last day at work, so I am excited to stay home with Tyler for awhile. I also have a test coming up, so I need to study for that. This last weekend we went back to Dan's parents place for a bridal shower and then later that day we headed to Huron to see my mom. We haven't been to Huron, since Christmas. My mom just got back from a cruise with a bunch of friends, so I wanted to hear about her trip and see her pictures. I was jealous that I didn't get to go and be in a sunny warm place.

Tyler is sure growing fast and I can't believe what he does some days. He is sure a character!

Last night I had to give Sammy (our dog) some medicine, so she didn't want anything do with me. She went to her next best friend, which I am amazed that she went to him because Tyler is so mean to her. Here are some pictures of them. I hope everybody has a great rest of the week and weekend!

Toddlers will be Toddlers!

I know it seems like forever since I last posted. Things have interesting around here. I think Tyler is entering the terrible two stage. This last week he has been so cranky and just the little things will throw him off and he will lay on the floor and start kicking and screaming. Throwing a tantrum. When he has his moments he will also find a corner and just stand there and cry. I did find him in things that he knows he shouldn't be into. I did take some pictures of him when he was caught in action and when he left his mess for his mommy to clean up.

Garbage Sacks Anyone?

Starting early.....toilet papering!!

Lately Tyler's favorite game is Peek-a-boo. When I got the camera out the other day he was playing peek-a-boo with me! Here are some pictures! Some of them may be blurry its because my camera and I don't get along.

Weekend Celebration!!

This last weekend on Saturday evening we headed to Dan's parents to go to a family function. Dan's grandparents had a party at a bar for there anniversary and Dan's brothers 21st birthday. Tyler had fun dancing to the band, he was busy dancing or running around he didn't want to sit down and eat. Then later that night I was a designated driver for Dan's brother and everybody else that went out for his birthday. It was pretty fun. Needless to say it was quite interesting. We didn't get much sleep that night!

Then Sunday we hung out at Dan's parents place. Tyler played and wanted to go see his cows! He is all about cows! He see's a window or a door he always points and says Cow's. We stayed for supper and then came home. I hope everybody enjoyed the warm weather this weekend! I hope everybody has a great week.

Blizzard-Fun in the Snow

This last week and weekend we were snowed in for the second time this year. This time the weather was so bad that it closed down the main interstates. My family and I were snowed in starting half of the day on Wednesday through Saturday. My husband was sick of being stuck in the house, so he thought he would be fun to go drive in the blizzard on Friday. We left in the afternoon to go to his friends where he has cows at. The drive usually only takes 20 minutes and it took us about 30-45 minutes. The snow drifts that we were going through were 3 feet high. The snow plows that they didn't have to come out until Saturday. Tyler had a great time watching and petting the baby calves. Then our friends asked us to stay for supper and Dan said it was up to me and I said I really wanted to get home before dark. Well, we stayed for supper and on our way home there were two people that were stuck in the middle of the road. The roads were awful from Dell Rapids to our place, which is Hwy 34. One guy helped the one person get out and then we helped another person get out because they were buried in the middle of the road. The funny thing was they were driving a car and thinking they were going to make it. Hehehehe :) remember 3 feet drifts. We finally made it home an hour later! Here is some pictures of the weather on Friday night and Saturday!

I know this picture is hard to see, but you can see the big snowflakes coming down.

Let it snow!

All the snow we got! We ended up getting between a foot and half to 2 feet.

On Saturday we took Tyler out to play in the snow for a little bit. He didn't know what to think. He didn't like it if he fell in it and he definitely didn't like it when he had snow on his glove. Lately when he gets his hands dirty or something is on them he goes and gets a towel or has Dan or me clean it off. We didn't have sled, but we made a home made sled. He liked it for a little bit, but that was it. Here are some pictures of Tyler playing in the snow!

What do I have on my hand? Gloves!!!

Help !!! I have fallen and I can't get up!

What is this stuff! Its snow!

Wee!!! Tyler didn't know what to think!

Get it off! What is on my glove?

On Sunday we went to church in Sioux Falls and then finally got some grocery's and ran some errands. We also went to the home show, which wasn't too bad. It seems like we seen the same thing last year. I think we will save our money and not go next year. We finally came home after making our usual trip to Wal-Mart. Hope everybody has a great week and is dug out! Hopefully most of the snow melts this week, but then we have to deal with mud and a big mess.