New "Job?"

So as with any typical Farmer's wife, I believe almost everyone of them, (unless they make 6 ish digits) feels remorse about not pulling their own weight or their weight compared to their husbands job. I cut hair, and I <3 my job & what I do but obviously I make no where near what my husband does. I am not saying that we are rich by any means but everyone knows a good farmer can make a good living. Well I have been carrying this burden on me for sometime now about not making near what Farmer does. He doesn't feel I should, and maybe it's a power thing? I don't know but anyway, on this past Monday. {{Note- The following was all Farmer's idea}} We traveled to the big city, and bought us one of them fancy typing machines, aka: Computer, also we bought Quickbooks, with all intentions that at next tax season there would be no more panicking and scrambling to find receipts and scrapes of papers with numbers on them to hand to the CPA.  So yup, I was hired by the boss man, to be Farmer's Wife: Official Book Keeper of All! So on my days off Mondays & Thursdays, (don't judge I work Saturdays so I work 5 days like everyone else, funky hours but I am at the salon at least 5 days a week!) :) I am to sit at this computer (which is amazing!) and plug number and receipts into the system, them file them neatly into the cabinet, then when the year rolls around for taxes, it is a simple , CLICK:: PRINT:: BOX::& STORE. Simple right?! Have you ever looked at Quickbooks? Or Farmer's old way of "filing" and "organizing". HA! Well simply put, I have my work cut out for me!
On the bright side my new "Job" has some perks,
1.) I choose my hours
2.) I can take a nap at work if needed
3.) required dress code: PJ's and Hair up!
4.) I can do my laundry between loads (see below)

5.) Well... lets just say sucking up to the boss isn't frowned upon in my new establishment. :)

My Office. :)

Dell inspiron one, huge and touchscreen moniter, cordless keyboard and mouse, Jealous?

Yup, unfortunatly, I share my "office" with dumb and dumber.

Wish me luck!! Untill next time, Keep on Farmin'!

Honeymoon N' Such

Ok as always I will start my blog with an apology, so I am sorry I haven't written for awhile!! I will try wayyyy better!

 The Farmer and I finally took our HONEYMOON!! :D yup! With God as our witness we traveled to Cancun, Mexico and back, without being jailed or dieing in the process. Farmer had a wonderful time, although you may have a hard time getting that exact answer out of him I can assure you while laying on the beach he was loving it! Only being married for almost 6 months, it was fantastic to get away! Sometimes with the farm life we tend to lose each other or just get busy to take time to bond and go out without anything else on our minds. The entire trip was wonderful, but one of my favorite days was Monday February, 14th (best Valentines gift ever!) We went snorkeling on the Reef! The fish were squirmy and nasty when they were a little to close for comfort, but after calming me down from some, possibly unnecessary, screaming, Farmer convinced me to go further and closer to the reef! It was like a being in Finding Nemo, AMAZING! Not to mention my heart  would flutter while Farmer would grab my hand to get my attention to see another, almost glowing fish. I melted into a puddle of mushy love all over again with him. As we were hand in hand it was like a scene from a movie, except we looked ridiculously goofy in our goggles and flippers.

How can you not LOVE that face??

Let me assure you this is not zoomed in and those fish were out to get me!!

Attractive right!?

Butt shot, couldn't help myself :) 

 My Second favorite day was the 15th, the day after our snorkel adventure, Our schedule for the day looked this this:                                        

                                                     Today's List of Things to do
        ---- Play in the ocean                                                                        CHECK
        ---- Get Sun                                                                                     CHECK
      ----- Lose Sunglasses in Ocean                                                          CHECK
      ------ Swallow salt water & burn eyes from salt water in contacts     CHECK
  -- Drink Mango Tangos & laugh at how orange each others tongues are  CHECK
-- Fall in LOVE all over again with each other                          DOUBLE CHECK

Like I said, sounds cheesey, but it was like a movie scene, an out of body experience, While doing nothing but playing in the ocean with Farmer all day, it was perfect, the sun was coming and going and waves were so soothing. We would sit for a while then go and play in the waves. The waves were high and hard when they hit! We would wade out about chest high,(on me), in the ocean and push our way though the waves, to reach a sandbar, which was then about thigh high. There farmer and I would jump on, over, in and under the waves, It was quite the workout actually, but my favorite part is when the farmer would have to hold on to me so the waves wouldn't knock me off the sandbar. ***WARNING EXTREME CHEESEYNESS*** There on that sand bar, in the beautiful Cancun, being held by the one I absolutely adore more than anyone on earth I fell completely head over heals, " reach for the stars,over the fence, world series kinda stuff", giggling like a highschooler, blushing like a schoolgirl, in LOVE all over again with farmer! It was like the whole scene had a surreal meaning to it, like him holding me so I couldn't be washed away was like our life holding on to each other trying not to be washed away by the busy hustle bustle of life. Being on the sandbar with him, I felt like we had no worry in the world, no pigs, no cows, no crops, no hay, NO NOTHING! Just US. It was a great to just be us and not think about things at home and really re-remember why we fell in love in the first place, not that I had doubts, but at home there are distractions and you don't seem to put the biggest things in perspective when you are so so SO surrounded by the little things that seem to cloud the big vision of life.
 Like I said Cheesy but someday, if not already, I hope everyone will get that feeling, it's like describing the taste of water and air, completely impossible!

Playing in the waves <3

Last Day on the Beach (notice the Pioneer hat only came off when we were in the water!)

 

 

                                          Our Resort  ^ ^ ^

All of our plans went perfectly while gone, and the plans when we got back have gone great too! When we got back we, as scheduled, we started calving! && we since then have increased our herd by 15 ready to pop cows, so that makes the count just over 100 cows! which means hopefully, & God willing, just over 100 calves! My temporary babies in life.

Spring is coming which means, ripping and planting, and lawn mowing, I am sure I will have some exciting updates coming because Farmer wants to teach me to run the tractor this spring, and we are looking at sheep for MY, project.I doubt we actually go through with it but, we will see what happens!!
 Hope you enjoyed, untill next time!! keep on farming!! ;)

Venting and Excitment!

I feel I should warn you about this blog. It may get deep.

I also feel I should apologize for not writing for so long. I also need to be honest that at one point I had a blog written out ready to post, and I deleted it. Click, DELETE. The whole thing. SO I have decided that I have not been able to come up with a new blog because this old deleted blog is still in the back of my mind.so here it is.

In life lately I have been stressed, maybe not stressed as much as stressing. I stress over everything, money, weight, babies, other people who I feel are only hurting themselves in life. Don't get me wrong I am very happy, more happy than I have ever been in my life. but sometimes the stressors of life get to me. When I start on one subject, its like a whirlwind of emotions and it all spirals downward. That is all I will be saying on those subjects enough to get it off my chest.

On a more uplifting note I am going to give you three guess and the first two don't count about the latest news in my family with the clue of the following pictures.......

Yeppppp!! you guessed it!! I am going to be an aunt!! (pressure is on!!) I can't wait to hype the little booger up on sugar and buy them a puppy and send them home with worms in the monster's pockets!!! Ok ok I pry won't be that mean, but I am completely stoked. Husband is too he just doesn't show it like I do. Over Christmas we were both playing with the kiddos and I couldn't help but do the whole, tilt my head sideways, smirk and get lost in day thoughts of being pregnant and going to the movies together, running to late night ice cream shops, the first moment we both realize there is a little one of us, first steps, birthday parties, t-ball games, siblings, and complete chaos at the end of the day, but knowing it's all worth it. But back to my brother and wonderful sister in-law who both may or may not have fueled the fire of my baby fever. Our time will come and some are already joking that we do everything together, (my brother and I were married 2 months apart and have always been the two peas growing up) but our time will come I am sure of it! For now I am super excited for them and to spoil a little someone. I have wonderful Aunts and at times I wish I was closer to them or remember doing more things with them from when I was little. So here it is, my vow to be the most awesome aunt ever and def. the coolest one, someone the child can come to no matter what! :) Someday I will be that kind of mom too..... someday! ;)

Flatbread?

So you know you have been around a farmer a little too long when......


You go to Subway and ask for Flatbread, and end-up spitting out FlatBED instead, embarrassing? Ya, awesome :)

Close right?? mmmm...kinda

All you are is MEAN !

Ok sooooo some people diss Miss Taylor Swift. I like her, I am envious of her locks of flowing hair, her homeliness, and her fun she puts in songs, ya ya ya she's no Reba or George and her "country" really isn't sooo country, but she can relate to alot of happenings in my life. Some old and some new. Like today, I wasn't in that great of a mood and after listening to my T-Swift CD all the way to and from work, I had it on my mind. So someone was particularity cruel to me at Scooter's while waitressing my little tail off. It doesn't help that I despise waiting tables in the first place and I was tired and haven't seen my husband in forever and that happen to be the subject this person was taunting at. Needless to say I cried to Wes, (on the phone of course, cause he's working) when I got off work and then I sang "All you are is Mean" from her new Album Speak Now. Yep I bought the album. It's pretty good if you have had some rough times and maybe some unhappy endings that had great and better effects in your life. Or you could be like me and find a new scenario every other day to match one of her songs. Needless to say Miss Taylor Swift can be a bit of therapy after a rough day! :) I like her. She's the storyteller of my life some days. So you should buy her Album, and reflect of her songs.

 Her are the lyrics to "All you are is Mean"  you can only imagine the day I had.... awesome.

You, with your words like knives
And swords and weapons that you use against me,
You, have knocked me off my feet again,
Got me feeling like I'm nothing.
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard
Calling me out when I'm wounded.
You, pickin' on the weaker man.


Well you can take me down,
With just one single blow.
But you don't know, what you don't know,


Someday, I'll be living in a big old city,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Why you gotta be so mean?


You, with your switching sides,
And your walk by lies and your humiliation
You, have pointed out my flaws again,
As if I don't already see them.
I walk with my head down,
Trying to block you out cause I'll never impress you
I just wanna feel okay again.


I bet you got pushed around,
Somebody made you cold,
But the cycle ends right now,
You can't lead me down that road,
You don't know, what you don't know


Someday, I'll be, living in a big old city,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Why you gotta be so mean?


And I can see you years from now in a bar,
Talking over a football game,
With that same big loud opinion but,
Nobody's listening,
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things,
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing.


But all you are is mean,
All you are is mean.
And a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life,
And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean


But someday, I'll be, living in a big old city,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean. Yeah,
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Why you gotta be so?
Someday, I'll be, living in a big old city,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean. Yeah,
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me,
And all you're ever gonna be is mean.
Why you gotta be so mean?

Whatever happend to cooking, cleaning and laundry??

Well again it has been forever since I've blogged....... I apologize really :)
The latest farmer' wife's duties have included:

Duty #1 Feeding the boys in the field, which leads to... (Duty #1.A)Helping move equipment which leads to me, driving Wes' clutch diesel pickup, (which I am still quite rusty at). Needless to say considering what the worst thing could have been, I made it, and didn't even kill it once. Ok so I thought I was going to twice but I didn't and I thought I was going to get ran off the road by another truck... but I didn't :).


Duty #2 Helping Wes in the field. Well the guy who usually would be helping on this particular day had better things to do, like watching the birth of his child, you would have thought it was something important that he would be gone for. :) Anywhoooo longs story short I was the only one around to help. Yep me! I was shocked he asked me. First I was given the duty of taking the Ranger, (kinda like a 4 wheeler with a cab) and checking the hose, yep, the hose full of poo. Also to check the pump, yep, at the hog building, also filled with poo. So I was covered with dust, dirt, cornstalks, and the continuous smell of poo in my nose,  but I toughed it out and helped all day. I helped the boss man move a wagon, made lunch (of course), and kept him company in the tractor. All done with minimal complaining :) Besides Wes said and I quote, "Gosh you look so pretty with cornstalks in your hair"( at that point in the day it was hard to tell his real thinkings from the sarcastic ones, but in a way it was still sweet) :)




Duty #3 ROAD TRIP!!!!!!........... to Missouri, to ......(drum roll please!)...... look at cows :)
Yeppers Wes asked me to ride with him, just across the boarder to MO. Surprisingly enough, Missouri is actually kinda pretty, if you look beyond the fireworks stands and small shacks, its not that bad. So..... we went and met Mr. H, and his cows. Wes was in Heaven needless to say. This guy has been in the cow "bizz" for quite sometime now. His pastures are perfect and HUGE, and his cows, well for cows, are beautiful. As we pull up towards Mr. H's "ranch" There is a beautiful, log cabin home, basically a dream home. Pond in the yard, fence leading to it, well landscaped, and of course cows.  Butttttt that was the neighbors house. :)
H's house was just as nice, chickens, cats, geese, Amish people working,  cows and calves, and donkeys. H was a kind, older man, who would have talked our legs off if we let him, but a real "wheel and dealer". You see it and put a price on it, it's for sale!
As we were waiting for H to pick us up to show us the cows, I couldn't help but to be observant. H's wife came out of the house. She looked like a sweet lady, gum boots, baggy sweatpants and matching sweatshirt, and shaggy hair in need of some color and style? O boy you could only imagine the thoughts of my future that ran through my head,  Wes was mesmerized by the whole trip, he would love to move there and be Mr. H Jr.,his life would be complete and I would be Mrs. H...H... H... O NO, I don't think so, I'll stick with doing hair, and trying to be as cute as possible with pig smell on me. :)

Sperry Topsiders :)

Its been a while since I have last posted, sorry :) we have yet to get the internet at our house so that would be my reasoning.
Not a whole lot has happened since I last wrote. It was rainy one of those weeks that I didn't write so Wes and I played some Mario and got pictures hung. It was great to see him for longer than 10 mins.He is back to work now but I have rode with him a few times.
Last night after riding in the tractor with him, I showed my true colors, yep I slipped on some poo and fell out of the tractor. It hurt like the dickens and I don't even have a bruise! :(

Over the weekend while Weslee was working my best friend and I did some much needed retail therapy. I got some good deals and some new fall/cold weather items! Joslin and I were looking at new shoes something practical and comfortable, she convinced me and I convinced her after seeing them on each other that they were adorable, don't be too quick to make judgments. At first glance they may look like grandpa golf shoes (that came from one of my high school cheerleaders I coach) or your grandmothers loafers, but they are very practical and can be worn with a number of outfits! They have a look like a target moccasin but have a better sole and wont look like crud if you get stuck in the rain with them! Soooo here they are.........go ahead and say your two cents worth but I LOVE THEM! :)
 Ladies and Gents may I introduce to you the Sperry Topsiders