Well, I have been informed time and time again that it has been over a month now since I have posted anything. I have actually been reminded about it fairly consistently since about two weeks after my last post by my wonderful younger sisters, Olivia and Tessa. So thank you both for the reminders and I am FINALLY getting around to it after Tessa's umpteenth reminder last night on the phone that it has been a whole 5 weeks. My how time flies. I have thought about it quite often, sit down to post and end up looking at everyone else's blogs and by the time I am updated on everyone else's lives I have no more time left to update my own--usually because Tel only allows me so much computer time per day without some major screaming and I often use my allotment before I get to my own blog.


Anyway, after that novel of an explanation (excuse) for my procrastination and laziness I will go ahead with an update. We have been quite busy with our addition this past month, though progress is slow because Casey's schedule is quite hectic with football practices and games, masters classes 2 nights a week and a little pre-season wrestling practices and responsibilities getting thrown in there. We are getting closer and will hopefully finish up quickly once the plumbing for the bathroom is done. The bedroom portion of the addition is all done except for the flooring and trim and we will hopefully get most all of that and the tile in the bathroom done this week. Then we will be at a standstill until we can get the plumbing done and go ahead with sheetrocking the bathroom.


As for our social life, we were lucky enough to have my sister Taffy and her two kids, Connor and Mylie visit us for a couple days. We enjoyed having them here and spent some time at the park and up Sinks Canyon. We were lucky on their visit and got to see a couple of BIG Big Horn Sheep very close up (probably about 10-15 feet away). We also had the pleasure of having my mom, Aunt Linda, and Grandma and Grandpa Oberg spend a couple days here with us on their fall road trip this year. Boy was that a lot of fun. I was not ready to say goodbye when they left. I rather enjoyed having them here to entertain Tel so well, help prepare meals and clean them up, as well as just to visit with. We drove up Sinks Canyon and showed them it's wonder and beauty (though we didn't spot the Big Horn Sheep we were hoping to), watched Conference, and had a dutch oven dinner on Saturday afternoon/evening. We also had some friends from Riverton join us for that (the McCormick's--the new head football coach and his family). It was very good food--thanks to Casey--and we had a good time.


This past weekend we spent a little bit of time in Casper for a foreign language teacher's conference. The school put us up in a nice hotel and we just got to hang out all day Friday. We drove down on Thursday night after Casey's football game, spent Friday there and then came back Saturday morning. Tel and I were able to go swimming at the hotel, which he enjoyed as long as he didn't have to get more than his toes in the cold pool water. He did enjoy the hot tub though, which was more like warm bath water than a hot tub, which we were both thankful for since he, nor I, are supposed to be getting into too hot of water right now. After Casey was done with his meeting for the day on Friday we got to do some shopping at Home Depot and the mall. I even broke down and bought myself some "pregnancy pants", you know, with the elastic panel waist. I only had 3 pairs of pants left that I could button up and only one of the three didn't have a hole in the knee or something of that sort, so I am glad to have another pair of pants, even if they are a sign that my belly is getting bigger by the day.


We had a "wonderful" surprise in the weather this week with an early fall snowstorm. That is one reason we left early on Saturday morning instead of spending part of the day in Casper. We were thinking it was only going to be a couple of inches, like we had seen the whole drive home, even up through Riverton we were thinking it wasn't going to be as bad as the news had said (6-12 inches), well, we were very wrong. When we got into Lander and pulled up to the front of our house we were sick at the sight. There was probably over a foot of snow, a branch had fallen and been hauled away by a kind neighbor in our ward (we have now found out it was James Whiting--thank you for doing that) and the branch had absolutely flattened our mailbox. We were just glad it missed our car. I wish I had gotten a picture of our mailbox before Casey bent it back into shape, but I missed out on that. So right now, as a I write, I look out our window and have the view of a couple feet of snow in our yard, which is melting slowly since we are in the low 30s today (happy that it's melting, but it is somewhat depressing none the less). I was rather enjoying our beautiful fall weather and colors. I have some pictures posted of what it looked like when we got home, but then it continued to snow all afternoon, evening, and last night, so now there is quite a bit more out there than what these pictures show.


Well, I think I have given an update on our most exciting events of the past month, and I will try to do a better job at posting more often, but I am not making any promises until we are done with this addition, but then of course we will have a new baby and things will be still be somewhat crazy, so don't hold me to anything. All of you keep it up though because I love reading your posts.

Just a couple of smaller bucks that are frequent visitors to our yard.

Mylie, Tel and Connor going for a wagon ride, pulled by Casey.The front of our house after some shoveling yesterday afternoon (Oct. 11).

Tel was not prepared for how cold the snow was. He wasn't happy about his cold hands.How high the snow was on our deck railing when we got home. We cleared this off and then had atleast this much more on our railing again this morning when we woke up.

It's a Boy!

Well, we finally decided to go and find out what we are having and without question, it is a boy. He wasn't quite as immodest in his pictures as Tel was in his, but still didn't hesitate to let us know. We are so excited to have another little boy, although we would have loved a girl as well. It will be fun to watch Tel and this new little one grow up together being so close in age (19 mos.). I'm sure it won't always seem like so much fun, but when they are all grown up, hopefully they and Casey and I will look back on it with fond memories. Anyway, Tel will now have a wrestling buddy during his growing up years.
I am beginning to get more and more concerned about having two. Tel seems to be more of a handful all the time. He is just so busy, as I'm sure most 15 month old little boys are, but he has me wondering how I'm going to keep track of him and take care of a baby. I suppose I will just have to start taking on more of those "slacker mom" traits when the next one comes. I have plenty already but am not sure I should share since I only have one child and the others that have shared have atleast 2.
I know I am one of those bloggers that post only once a month, and that's when I'm doing well, but hopefully I will start to be more consistent. I have quite a few things that I want to post about but have not taken the time to get the pictures up, so they will have to wait a few more days. Just thought I'd share our news with everyone who reads.

The Weekend

This post is pretty much going to be a travelogue of the last few days so probably wont' be all that interesting to most as I am not the skilled writer as some others are on their blogs. Anyway...last Thursday Casey and I drove down to Salt Lake to drop him off at the airport for a 12 day trip to AK. On my way back I went to Cokeville and picked up Olivia and Tessa. We got back to Lander Friday afternoon and got to work painting the two bedrooms posted on my last post. They were great help. I never would have gotten that done without them here. Painting with Tel around and no help is practically impossible unless you don't care if he knocks the paint over and is covered in it himself and prancing around on the carpet. Anyway, I was so glad to have that done. On Sunday after church we all headed to Mt. View where we went to Taffy's house and had dinner with my parents, Grandma Teichert, and Sullivan and Tyson. It was nice to just sit back and visit and have aunts and uncles to watch Tel and cousins for him to play with (Connor and Mylie). My parents, grandma and brothers headed back to Cokeville that night and then on Monday we headed to Bear Lake for the day. It was a lot of fun. Tel played in the water some, but was a much bigger fan of digging and playing in the sand. Tyson was the hit with Connor and Mylie as he gave them motor boat rides by running through the water and pulling them on a floatie. It looked like a lot of fun...for Connor and Mylie anyway. That night Tel and I went back to Mt. View with Taffy and the others all returned to Cokeville. We had a barbecue at Tony's parents' house which was good and then headed for bed. I made it back to Lander Tuesday afternoon. It was a great 5 days except for the part where we had to say goodbye to Casey though I am excited he got to go.

It was funny to watch Tel and Mylie interact. They didn't get along very well, but as they get older, hopefully they will enjoy eachother. Mylie is still a little possessive of her toys and would take some of them away from Tel (not to say that Tel didn't steal a few things from her as well), but Tel would not let go easily. Before too long, anytime Mylie would even come near him in passing he was swinging at her to defend what he thought was his. One time he almost hit her in the head with a little shovel. Thank goodness he missed since the shovel did have a point and a metal end. It was a good opportunity to begin teaching him to be nice, though I think he is still too young to really understand. It was also interesting to watch Mylie become very concerned about being with her Mom. If Taffy gave Tel much attention at all, Mylie immediately wanted her mom to hold her, not Tel. I came back from a run on Tuesday morning and Taffy was in the bedroom with Tel and Mylie was in the living room because Tel was sad about something and Mylie didn't like seeing her mom holding Tel. Taffy soon found out that Mylie had a bit fo jealousy and si now thinking she has some preparing to do to get Mylie ready to have a baby brother or sister. She took Mylie running with her when I got back from my run and talked to her about jealousy. She asked Mylie what was going to happen when the new baby came and Mom had to hold the baby alot. Mylie said something like, no, you hold me. I hope Tel does not get too jealous when his new brother or sister arrives. He gets that way now if I hold another baby and he sees me, but we will see.

Tel watching his Uncle Tyson give motor boat rides to Connor and Mylie.

Here's Dad showing off his cool new hairstyle. I don't know if you can see it very well in this picture, but it was pretty cool. :)

So this is going to be a real quick post, but I promised Casey I would put a couple pictures up today before I headed to Mt. View to see Taffy's family. Olivia and Tessa came up Friday afternoon to help me paint a couple bedrooms, so these are just some after shots of those rooms. I will do befores and afters after they are completely done. There is also a picture of Tel eating his lunch today. We tried to get one of him dipping his bread in the soup since that is a new thing discovered just yesterday and loves to do, but he wouldn't do it for the camera. Enjoy Casey! We love you and miss you. Hope you are having fun in AK! Catch us lots of fish!

Projects!

Well, I decided I would post today since it is Sunday and I am not allowing myself to go out and work in the yard. It also helps that Casey is gone and Tel is napping. But I am somewhat bummed because I wanted to post the pictures of our new home (yes we are first-time home owners) and of the projects that we are working on but just realized that Casey has the USB cord I need with him in Powell at the moment. So, pictures will just have to wait.
We moved into our new home on Saturday, June 28th, headed out for Jackson the next morning and were gone until Wednesday morning. We came home just long enough to remove a deck from the back of our house and prepare the ground to be dug up the following morning for an addition we are putting on to our cute little 3 bed, 1 bath home. We stayed that night, had the hole dug the next morning, and immediately headed down to Utah for the 4th of July weekend. We returned Sunday night and have been hard at it all this week working on the addition and the front yard.
We hired someone to dig the hole and pour the foundation for us, but Casey has since put in the subfloor and framed the walls. He has some guys from the ward coming on Tuesday this week to help put up the trusses. Once that is done he will be able to close it in. Yea!!! He is a maniac worker! I, on the other hand, seem to feel really busy all day long and try really hard to accomplish SOMETHING, but it rarely happens. I always get started but fail to ever finish in the time frame I would like. Have you ever felt that way? At the end of the day you are exhausted and feel like you have been going nonstop all day long and then you look back at what you have done and not one thing has been accomplished to completion? Well, that's how the front yard project is going for me. I am working on a garden spot to grow some salad stuff this fall and two rock gardens on the corners of the front yard, but I am still digging through the piles of dirt we had dumped and pulling out rocks and what I would call boulders. Not one section is completed. However, I have managed to keep Tel from getting run over, as he loves the road over the grass, pool, dirt (though he does enjoy the dirt for a while, especially eating it) and toys. What is so exciting about the middle of a paved road I have yet to figure out, but he cannot help himslef. I have also kept him out of Dad's way and kept him from falling into the big hole we had in the back of our yard up until just yesterday when they finally came to backfill. He has gotten some lunch every day, as well as breakfast and dinner, and has run quite a few errands with me for his dad. The only mishap we have had is that Tel fell of our front deck, which is only about 2-3 feet tall from where he fell and he landed in the soft flower bed and then rolled onto the grass, so no harm was done. He was a little wet because it was right where the sprinkler was on and a little scared, but that didn't last long. He still likes to throw things off the deck and then try to get down from wherever it went over the edge. I guess he didn't get scared enough to remember what happened the first time he tried it.
Well, this post is probably long enough, especially without any pictures to look at, so I will hopefully post those pictures before too long and call it good.

Baby #2

Well, I have finally decided to make the announcement. We are expecting baby #2 on December 27th, which makes me at about 13 weeks. This first trimester hasn't been bad. I have mostly just been tired. I feel for those of you who get sick. Anyway, we are excited even though I'm not sure how I'll have time for two when one takes every second of the day. I'm sure we will be fine. Somebody told me that no matter how many or how few kids you have, they will take every second of your time. I'm sure that is true.

Well, here are a couple pictures from our first ultrasound just this past Wednesday. It is amazing when you actually get to see that there is a baby in there.

Tel's 1st B-Day!

Tel's 1st birthday was celebrated over the Memorial Day weekend with Casey's family down in Mt. Pleasant, UT. We had a great time watching Tel make a mess of himself with his first big piece of cake. He seemed to enjoy it as well. We also enjoyed spending the time with family and watching Tel and his cousin William get aquainted. (They were born just two months apart.) These are just some pictures and a video (if I can figure out how to do videos) from the weekend. These first two pictures are at our house. Tel got a card and a little truck from his Teichert grandparents.

Tel really didn't eat the whole piece, although he came close. We took some of it away to prevent a belly ache.

Tel and William playing in Tel's new pool from his Aunt Kathy.