Military Send Off

It was a sad but proud day for our family and all the other military families. My two brothers, Shawn and Troy, left for their tour of duty to Iraq. They will first spend a couple of months in Mississippi and from there, go to Iraq until next September. We are very proud of what they are doing, yet very frightened. We pray everyday that they will return home safe.

Troy and my parents
Shawn and his family

Saying Goodbye

Getting ready to leave

Need to vent and clarify

Tyrel is a hard worker. I wouldn't have it any other way. He works long and late hours and it is hard for me to sit at home at take care of our children by myself all the time. It is hard for me to see him working out there alone because everone else has gone home. I get angry. It is hard when our kids are asking when daddy will be home and I have to tell them it will be very late and they probably won't see him until the next morning. We rarely see him. Pretty much from planting grain in the spring to working fields in the fall, I am a single mom. It is frustrating and I feel defeated a lot. Why am I telling you this? I don't know. The last couple weeks have brought me to a breaking point. I don't know why. Maybe it's the mono I am dealing with and the pure exhaustion. That is my venting. Now my clarification. I can deal with Tyrel working late hours but I can't deal with him doing it alone, knowing that he is out in the shop by himself late at night trying to equipment ready and everything else. That's what I can't deal with. People say he is crazy and doesn't need to work those late hours, it will get done. Here is the plain and simple fact: even with him working late hours, stuff STILL was not ready for spud harvest. So tell me how it would get done if he didn't stay late.
I am going to end this with saying that I am grateful for him being such a hardworker. When times get to be the hardest, I think about military families with spouses overseas or other single moms who are truly single moms. In reality, I have it pretty good with nothing to complain about but sometimes the weight of everything becomes to much to bear. That is why I vent.

Grain Harvest

It's time to play catch up. So grain harvest is over and now potato harvest has begun but I have a day off today so I am going to hurry and catch up on my blog.

These are some pictures of grain harvest in kind of a random order. We got to ride with Tyrel several times which the kids loved but Abby enjoyed it most of all because her daddy was using a fancy new red combine that had a seat/bed just for her.

Getting ready for a combine ride just her and dad

:)

And it's nap time. She spent nearly the whole day with him and that space was perfect for her to take a nap. She even made herself a blanket using his paper towels.
Jaiden gets to join in on the fun

Now random
Loved it. Both sitting on Tyrel's lap. They were fighting over who got to sit there, they both won.

Color of Grain

We went for a drive Sunday afternoon to visit Tyrel and Dallin's grain and pea fields in Rexburg. Apparently I haven't really walked through grain with Abby before because I was shocked when I saw that her hair is the exact same color as grain. That little stinker has the most beautful hair. (she knows it too, that's the problem....) :)

First Hair Cut

Since Abby has been born, I have never cut her hair. I figured since she is a big girl now going to school, I better at least get it trimmed. I wanted to take her where I get my hair done so I could explain to her that it is only okay to cut hair in a salon and not to cut her hair or her sisters at home!! (Dad's hair is okay to be cut at home) She was so excited. I got mine done first and she kept asking when I was going to be done so she could get her's cut!

Like I said, she just got it trimmed so it is still long and beautful just like she likes it. lol.


And I figured that while I was there, I should go blonde. What do you think? Tyrel sure likes it... (that kind of worries me...) :)

Abby is in School?!?!?

Abby started school on August 23!! Preschool that is, but still my little girl is going to school! Funny story to go along with that actually. When I had called the school to make sure she was enrolled in the morning class, they told me school started August 30. Well, when August 23 came I happened to be up and ready for the day early because of my morning piano lessons and my friend happened to call me around 9:00 because her little girl is in Abby's class and she was wondering if Abby was coming to school. Needless to say, I was surprised, hurried to get Abby ready, and rushed her down to the school. Not the type of first day of school I had always pictured for my kids but I got her there (an hour late). I didn't have time to be sad that my little girl was starting school already.... Oh well. She loved her first day (and every day since). When I went to pick her up started yelling "I DON'T WANT TO GO HOME!! SCHOOL IS NOT OVER!!" :)

Her picture before school. She really was excited to go, she just didn't want a picture...

I made her take a new one after school and told her to smile. Right... This is what she did.