my husband...

so here he is... my better half... hmmm... eating a coconut cupcake... advertising for crumbs bake shop... why do people say better half - do they really think their partner is better than them???
i see quite often women bragging about their husbands, how great they are, how thoughtful, how lucky they are to have them in their lives... makes me sick... hehe... like seriouly - i don't want to hear it... i don't think your husband is that amazing - i think mine is... who are you trying to convince??? if you think he is... that's great - that's probably why you married him... but i didn't marry him and i don't want to hear how hot he is... it's ackward (?? spell check please)... it's almost like i should say, 'yes he is'...
maybe i would consider gushing about jason if i thought for one moment he gushed about me... you know what he gushes about??? the STEELERS... that's about it... he seems to think that marrying me and treating me well every day is enough... (and by well, let me tell you, WELL... ladies you know what i'm saying.... WELL TO THE L) see, this just got wierd...
now don't get me wrong (cuz i know it could seem at this point that i don't really like him)... i have always felt from the moment i first met jason at college - talking on the stairs - that he was the man i'd marry and live happily ever after with... i feel like we don't have a boring love, it's full of excitement, fights, making up, challenging each other, making each other better, falling more in love, and enjoying evenings together...
but will you ever hear me gush about him??? nope... and if i do slap me - right across the face, preferably with a glove... cuz that's just gross... no one wants to hear that you got the best man on the planet... you just go ahead and have him...
(oh i'm so cynical... - i really was giggling as i wrote this)
lucky for me he's too busy checking his fantasy football team to ever read my blog... hehe...

why i haven't blogged in forever...

so - last entry it looks like was in 2007... it's now 2009 - so much for this being my diary... alot has happened... and really - i write this for myself... so i can look back and remember and laugh at the stages of life i go through - and then when early alzhiemers sets in it will be like a little story book...

so i had a daughter - her name is sienna rain - i held her for the first month without letting her go... it was a unbelieveable experience going into the hospital that morning - may 22 2008 - and then two hours later ... and a third c-section later... seeing her in jason's arms... you just can't stop looking at her face and trying to figure out whose nose her nose is like...

so at christmas time, we are at my parents house - showing her off... and my grandpa said after studying her fat little legs, "you know the neat thing Catherine, God has a plan for her..." i guess he was a little worried about her fattness...

since i haven't been blogging - there was a new president elected... Barak Obama... on Jan.20, 2009 - it was the inaguration of him... i ask Ethan who the president is and he says, "micheal phelps"... why not...

the same supper - and this is really why we don't usually talk to the kids - brandon asks jason if he likes swimming or running more... jason says swimming and brandon says, "but aren't you too big for that?" nice...

then came st.patrick's day - i usually make a big deal out of that - with asparagus or pea soup and green everything - ethan had drank a blue powerade and had proceeded to go to the bathroom... and calls to me from the bathroom, "well... i had some st.patrick's day poop"... once again, whoever said that you can learn alot from a child maybe never was around a child... i've learnt very little... other than blue powerade makes green poop... not a very useful bit of information...

i've found that having a baby has slowed me down alot... didn't realize how easy life was getting with the boys until sienna came along and everything seems more complicated now... she has her two naps a day that i try to be home for - so my outtings consist of going to the post office/bank... and that's about it... i could keep her up and visit someone, but then she screams and claws at me and i get frustrated and sweaty and i figure i should have just stayed home...

so i haven't figured out quite why anyone thinks having a baby is great... i think they should come out about 2 years old... i'm just hanging on every day, looking for signs of her growing up - so i can feel sane again and like i can go somewhere and not have it be a big deal...

i agree with colin cowherd (i think that's the right spelling) when he says, 'life is 10% what happens to you and 90% your reaction"... some days are better than other's for my reaction... i've also realized that everyone has their own life and their own problems to face and no one really cares about my daily battle to try to find some sort of enjoyment out of motherhood... no one wants to hear your sob story... i know i don't want to hear someone else's sob story constantly... like my brother ryan said, "i don't feel bad for people with kids... they chose to have kids, now deal with it and stop sighing and looking all exhausted" (i might have taken some liberties on his original statement)

so i started running - sometime last november... it wasn't to loose weight - it was to have something that i do and that is 'my' time... and then a friend of mine, jen, asked me to do a 10k and i decided to do it and try to train pretty hard for it... and can't say i enjoyed it, but i did it.. and i enjoyed that it helped me just to enjoy running now... so now i run every other day - ususally 5 or 6 miles - and it's so a part of what i do it's easy now - never thought that was possible... so this november will be a year of running and i've never felt better...

well... better go do some motherly chores such as cleaning out the dishwasher, making bran muffins, having my lemon green tea... and perhaps update my little online diary more than every two years...

pros and cons of pregnancy...

pros...

1) slow down... think more... read more... possibly blog more...

2) only heightens my love for food... even if it's coming up after i devour it...

3) amazement and creepiness of something good growing in you...

4) makes me want to be healthy

cons...

1) nausea sets in

2) kinda turn into a hermit in my house

3) hubby has to deal with massive mood swings

4) the whole upcoming c-section/recovery thing... no big, right???

pregnancy is teaching me at this point though to really slow down, enjoy little things like reading to the boys, watching them play.... i seem to have time now to read and to think more... i'm really hoping that this will kick start a much more healthy, relaxed and peaceful version of me...

why the bible is so interesting...

so... as i'm tucking brandon in to bed tonight... he says, "you know why the bible is actually so interesting mom?"... i'm thinking something really neat is coming next and i say, "why?"... and he says, "because it tells all these cool stories that never happened.."

oh, i laughed... and very hard i might add - seriously, what was wrong with me as a child that i never wondered about someone coming back to life from the dead or a flood covering the earth??? i'm excited that he thinks - and that we can talk about what he's thinking about... ethan i'm sure will get to an age where the conversation doesn't always have to center on 'poop' or his 'pee-pee'...

difference between them....

so, before i had ethan, i thought that parenting was the major factor in the actions of a child... i still think it's about 60% or so, but there is definitely room for God-given personality in there...

such as - when given a box of tic-tacs, ethan polished his off in under three minutes and brandon still has his locked in his safe in his room today - five days later ....

ethan has always found it interesting to try to kiss girls - where as that thought would not even cross brandon's mind...

brandon will clean his room, brush his teeth, and tuck himself into bed... where as ethan will wander around saying 'poop' and 'pee -pee' until i walk him through our bedtime routine....

it's also amazing that i love them both equally - i could never dream of wanting their personalities to change at all.... but i do want them both to follow my rules... so they probably will see life very simularly... (is that a word??)

there... that's my thoughts on that...

the lake won the battle...

why do i suck???? these things tend to happen to me... my eye is almost swollen shut today and i have various bruises on my legs from my attempts at skiing and kneeboarding and my tubing experiences....

why can't i just relax ever and not come home sunburnt and aching sore all over from the lake????? other people do relax at the lake - but i grew up with constant action... we liked to schedule our days in 30 min. incriments and keep it going all day, from one sport to the next...

the one thing i could do at the lake was tube - and that's what i got the black eye from!!! i see brandon go kneeboarding... i see jason ski and wakeboard... i get excited and i try to ski... twice... not good... then i try to knee board - which looked more like glorified tubing, as i never got off my belly....

and the sad thing is... i will try again - why don't i give up???

fishing too... i suck at that as well... i caught my first fish, screaming and broke the line... then my second fish... screamed, and when jason was reaching to get it, it somehow got the hook off and swam away... brutal... and yes, both the boys caught fish - brandon caught three...

oh well, i do have a good time... just not good at anything....

ranger lake free for all...

the boys enjoyed a day of horse riding and wall climbing....

i think the girl bascially pulled brandon up the wall...

i don't have much to say about this... either than that they did it... and i will never own horses... or any animal...

who gets to go first?!?!?!

you might ask - what do these pictures have in common???? well, they are both in my story of last night...

so, i sit to enjoy a burger - and not just any burger - one with fried garlic, onion, mushrooms, and bacon then with melted cheese and a nice slice of tomato on it - on my newly built muskoka chair (which i did build!!!) and along comes my father-in-law with the sprayer... to do the field across from my house...

funny thing is jason and i were discussing and he's going to try to start doing this - telling people when he is spraying near their yard - like, real creepilly just going up and knocking on farm doors to tell them....

so, i'm eating supper, smelling spray in the air (the wind was going the other way)... and thinking, i could go inside, but really, why do i want to be as healthy as ever and jason is around this stuff all the time... kinda would like to exit this here earth at the same time as the ol' hubby... so, i ate my burger and smelled the spray...

the end...

what kind of sandwich

this is for cute girl ... and i could not for the life of me figure out how to put the actual quiz thingy on my blog... so i copied and pasted it... kinda boring i know... but i am boring - according to this quiz.... and according to cute girl's quiz, her mortal enemy is the ham sandwich which is my best friend... so where does this leave cute girl and myself???? very rocky relationship to say the least... it's funny how they nailed me to a tee in this personality quiz...

You Are a Turkey Sandwich
Conservative and a bit shy, you tend to stick with what you know and trust.You are very introverted, and you prefer to blend in whenever possible.Though you may be hard to know well, anyone who does know you considers you a true friend.Your best friend: The Ham SandwichYour mortal enemy: The Tuna Fish Sandwich

going green as they say...

so... over the past year i've been attempting to go green as i have quite the concerns about global warming... and also a sense like i need to make sure i'm raising the boys in a way that is taking care of their physical, spiritual, and emotional needs as well as teaching them to take care of what has been given to them to take care of...

so, i have done the usual composting, growing a garden, recycling everything i can, reusable shopping bags, keeping the house's temperature at a reasonable level, changing my lightbulbs... and now the latest - planting almost a hundred trees yesterday - now, i do have to say that this is more of a priority for shelter from the wind than going green, but never-the-less... it is trees...

also, not to sure how many of these trees will survive... i'm also getting the house evaluated by an energuide worker to see what improvements can be made through windows and such...

it's a little frustrating when you live on a farm and have to drive everywhere and your husband is a farmer and uses a crazy amount of gas and chemical... so, don't really know what we'll do about all that, but i do think that we will start to see some better inventions that will maybe help out a little?!?!?!

there you have it... call me a crackpot all you want... but brandon told me that he thinks he'll be living underground in tunnels someday and i really don't want him to, even though he thinks it'd be fun!!!

my birthday wish.... GRANTED!!!

soooo... a certain lady in the 'know' as we say in the industry... she gave this mag subscription to me for my birthday... and i'm very happy....

although, this does not help with my lil' shopping problem... but i do love it... happy birthday to me!!!

seeding is underway...

so, seeding began last week and now we are in full swing and jason just loves this time of year... although very stressful....

the boys seem to enjoy when we are moving vehicles and taking out suppers... they get semi and tractor rides so they are happy...

and i'm happy cuz i don't have a kid in diapers or a baby to be dragging around with me this year... it's crazy how easy suppers are to get ready when the boys can just go watch tv or play outside and then we just pack up and go... now that i said it's easy - i'm going to mess up next time i'm sure... but i am enjoying the boys older ages for this whole farming thing...

at the pace we are going right now, we'll be done seeding by harvest time!!! he,he... sometimes you do wonder how on earth you are going to get all the acres seeded, but then i just choose to forget and to just watch oprah or something...

top gun fans...

this is the lil' guy that went on a date with me last night.... i know ... poor ethan!!! i really need to let him go... but i'm having trouble..

he wore these glasses all day - inside the stores.. everywhere... almost like he had something to hide... very suspicious... hmmm....

ethan's third birthday party

ethan's second birthday party - he had a dress up party - he was a ninja turtle... i think that is michealangelo, but i'm not sure (i have seen the new movie twice now, i should know)...

a few kids couldn't make it... but the ones that did ranged from princesses to goalies... very cute... he really enjoyed his presents this year and the kids did get to go outside to play afterwards... which is nice for me...

i'm celebrating cuz this is the last 'kids' birthday party at my house... hopefully... i plan on the parties being in other places from now on...

now the only birthday left is mine... and it's during seeding... so i won't be celebrating it... and i've already bought myself a few birthday presents anyways... so i'm done until christmas now... feels good...

good times to be had...

so...
just started on http://www.facebook.com

really fun to find ol' pals on there or new pals...

check it out - lots of time well wasted or spent...

that's how we do it

so, i did pick this team to win... as i forementioned on my blog... and i was not dissapointed with the intelligent acceptance speaches... especially noah's .... 'we're going to do it all night and all day, that how we do it, you have no idea what i'm talking about, but gainsville (florida) does...' meanwhile, his coach trying to get the interviewer to put the mike on someone else... sooooo funny... in the past few days i've said to jason numerous times... 'you have no idea what i'm talking about, but gainsville does'.... he,he

mr. most improved!!!!

pretty cute seeing brandon get his award last night... his medal count has already surpassed that of my own... (which was including the medals my parents got made up for me, such as 'world's greatest daughter' or 'your teeth aren't that bad')

he was actually jealous of the runner up prize, which was a coupon for a movie rental... but then later on has come to enjoy this medal and wants a place for it in his room...

no nap for ethan...

so... one day ethan never got around to his nap... and around 4:30 this is where i found him... sleeping on the floor in my kitchen.. i have never had a child fall asleep anywhere other than in their bed or the vehicle... so this was very humorous for me and not so humorous for him when i woke him up...

new family picture

so, if you go to this website:
http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php
you can put in your picture and it'll come back with a list of celebrities that you look like...
mine came back with a 86% match to jessica alba!!!! unbelievable... but my brother, marcus, told me that it's not really fair when it's just face shots and that it should be the entire body - whatever, marcus, your first match was some crazy old, hairy man... it was also interesting that about half of my results were oriental...
jason's was fred durst.... he also had aretha franklin
then, we put the boys in and both of their number one results were oprah winfrey!!! well, look how that face did on tv... brandon was very upset...
anyways, thought you all could go and try it out and let me know what your results were...

pirate birthday party

happy birthday to you... brandon turned five!!!!

he got a party at the gym and we had pizza, pop, chips and cupcakes in the home ec. room and tag, races, floor hockey, soccer, and more floor hockey in the gym...

this pirates of the caribbean theme came from him seeing the first movie when jason and i were watching one evening and he had snuck out of his room and watched the entire movie without us knowing... the second one he saw on a hockey bus and just really loves it...

this year i actually have to throw ethan a party though - in the past i have gotten away with pretending like brandon's party was ethan's... when he says, 'when's my party?' i would say, 'oh, you don't remember that fun party we had for you' and then i'd turn the tv on and he'd forget...

actually, after the party i did have for ethan on his second birthday - which had around 10 two year olds here - i kinda decided smaller is better...

... and speaking of smaller is better, one might notice my cakes getting alot more.... lazier??? yes, i find that putting toys on a cake is very easy... and they like it!!!