Video of the our new home

Dad, This is for you!

My dad has been patiently waiting for a video of our new place. Everytime i talk to him i tell him... when the house is clean i will take a video. Inspite of my daily efforts of cleaning and having my house almost perfectly clean... i just came to the realization that it may never be perfectly clean. It is always deep cleaned but when Ann is big enough to grab out book and toys it is unfair to tell your children they can't play with something because you want the house clean. How is that helping her grow and learn and discover? So this is our place almost perfect.

The Philippi Mummy

Here is Philippi's claim to fame. THE MUMMY.

These mummies have been in national geographic and all sorts of newspaper. They are kind of creepy but... it was cool to see them!

Eric(brother in law) and Jaime (scott's sister) came to see us. It was SO fun to see them and also to see Ann with her cousins. She doesn't get to see them very much. It was the first time someone with kids came and stayed with us. I thought Ann would have a hard time sharing her toys but she did ok. There weren't any tantrums but a few times she would just sit on top of a toy if they were playing with it or hawk eye the toy until they were done. there was her rocking chair that she LOVES and she wasn't a fan if someone else sits on it. How do you teach an only child to share? at 15 month even? It's hard but like any body we are working on it :-)

BARBOUR COUNTY FAIR

We went with our new friends from the philippi branch (church). We could not miss the county fair with it's derby (V8 cars and trucks), animals, hog weigh in and MUCH MUCH more with all walks of life coming out of the wood work. If i could have taken a picture for future generations i would have of a women with a she-mullet down to her butt, a see threw tank top without a bra (she was like 60) with stretch pants that were jean material...

pop 1$ pizza 2$ she mullet and stretch pants... priceless!

Ann loved the animals!!! When we went into the barn we looked at all the cows and i said Ann it's a cow. A cow says Moo. Than right after i said that the cow moo-ed a super loud moo and she was SOOO excited! She moo-ed and moo-ed again! It was like all the books of animal sound were coming to life and she REALLY got it!

She loved the animals so much she was so sad to leave them! Needless to say we spent a lot of time at the barn. She loved the cows and sheep. The pigs she didn't want any part of. I don't blame her they we so big and smelly and a little ugly :-)

It was a trip to go to the fair. i decided i think next year i am going to enter something for sewing!