INTERNET, FINALLY!!!

YAY! We finally have the internet! We TRIED to go without and just to use the computer at the library when needed but with doing so much online (bills, emails, blogs :) it took too much time away from my family and hubby in the evenings so we decided to just get it! I think it'll be worth it! So that also means that I can finally start updating my blog more!! I plan to try to start tonight after the little munchkins go to bed! And way to vote on my boy/girl poll! At first the girl votes WAY out numbered the boy votes but now boys are starting to catch up!! If you haven't voted, do it!! :)

Pics

Well, we are settled and it feels great! We are loving being back and having more space!! Here are some pics from our time in St Cloud. Notice I put up a poll on my site to the right, so you have to participate, I want to see what people think!! :)

Tiernan riding the horse at Coborns :)

This is how Caedmon fell asleep one night after we moved

Caedmon showing his muscles...this is something you HAVE to see in person, it's so cute!

My Three Boys!

Where's Tiernan??

Careful Uncle Jonathan!...Don't drop Caedmon!

Careful Uncle Jonathan, don't drop Tiernan!!

Caedmon and Brayan lookin' at the cows

Tiernan and younger cousin Mercy. (Funny story about Mercy....she's only a couple months older than Caedmon but like her mom says 'she came out talking' so she talks in complete full sentences and sounds WAY older than 2. Anyway, she came up to me when we first saw her and I said 'Do you know what my name is?' And since I've only seen her a couple times in her life (they live in Texas), I told her "I'm Auntie Dawn" She just stares at me and SO seriously (and matter-of-factly) goes "What's your FULL name?!" HA! Gotta love those kids!

Changes!!

WOW! I know it's been a LONG time since I've been on here, but I just wanted to update everyone real quick!

We were in St Cloud waiting in between jobs from Oct 7th until yesterday! We FINALLY got a call (After thinking we'd might need to change careers!) on Thursday and we were able to move back to LUVERNE last night!! We are in the same apt building as we were before, just a different apt. The apt that we are in now is the same set up as our other one though, so coming from our apt in garner, we fell as though we are living like KINGS! :) So we are settling back in here and trying to get everything unpacked and put away. We went from st cloud to garner (packed, cleaned and moved out) and then from garner to luverne (unloaded everything) all within about 13 hours! It was a packed day and we couldn't have done it without the help of my dad and his truck!! THANKS DAD!!

Oh, the other thing that is exciting in our lives is that we are adding another little blessing to our family!!! We are expecting baby #4 in March and are very excited! Even though I'm almost half way done with the pregnancy, I'm still waiting for my belly to 'pop' out! I have a tiny little bump but no one would even be able to tell I'm pregnant :) I do feel the baby move though and have heard it's heartbeat a couple times, so I know it's in there! :) (And don't feel bad if this is the first time you've heard anything...we didn't tell anyone until I was 15 weeks along (now 18)...that was a LONG wait for me! :)

Hope all is well with everyone and, again, I'm sorry this is so short, but once we get the internet in our apt, I'll be able to update the blog more and post a bunch of pics, etc! Until next time...!

Welcome to October!!

Ok, I know I did a post yesterday, but I thought I'd do another one today!! It's been a long time since I posted often but now that I feel like our lives are getting exciting again, there's more to post :)

So we thought Nathan working 293 hours in August was a lot....WRONG! In September he put in a WHOPPIN' 347.5 hours!!!! Wowzers!! Keeping in mind that most "normal" people worked around 168. But, then again, if you haven't caught on yet, WE'RE NOT NORMAL!! :) But that's okay cause 'normal' is boring...hehe :)

ONE MORE WEEK!!!! The deadline for the job is Oct 8th, a week from today!!! They are going to be trying as hard as they can to be done by the 6th though because if they get done then, they get a bonus. Nathan thinks that they will actually make it!! As long as we don't get any rain that slows them down, it should be alright! A few nights ago it rained the whole night and we got about an inch. Nathan said the next day was just spent getting unstuck so they didn't progress much. Now that it's dried up, they are back at it! He still starts at 7am and gets off at 8pm. I'm glad that its started to get dark earlier and earlier so the foreman is tempted to keep them their any longer than 8...it's too dark!! We are looking forward to having Nathan off work for a little while (maybe a week or two??) until the next job starts....we ALL need a break!!

We are very anxious to get out of this place as well. I have 12 boxes already packed and sitting by the door and continue to get a couple boxes packed per day. We won't have much time to move when we find out where we are going since they usually call him for a job on a friday and they want him to start the next monday, so I'm trying to get as much ready as I can now.

I'm SO ready to have FOUR WHOLE BURNERS to cook on! :) instead of just 2! That's one thing I'm looking forward to. There's not too much about this place that we will miss....although the two things that have been nice are 1)my clothes line right outside my door...i LOVE that!!! and 2) Donna!! She's been such a sweetheart and loves us so much. I know we will be missed by her.

Some things I won't miss? Hearing the marching band start practice a block away at 7:00 AM EVERY weekday!! Hearing the music/walking/digging in cupboards/coughing of our neighbor. Smelling the constant smoke of our new neighbors that moved in downstairs. actually, there were two apts (one next to donna and one in the basement) that were moved in to a few days ago and they all smoke so it tends to just float right up here when we have our windows open. Having our landlord not fix ANYTHING that he said he was going to or that we've asked him to. The CREEKY-NESS of our floor!! It's so horrible! The stove not working, the cupboards in the bathroom falling off, the bathtub being tilted so all the water by the faucet runs down onto the floor, no light in our fridge, having to push the fridge with our legs in order to shut it, no roller thingys in our drawers just wood on wood, NO light in our living room!! Our living room is seperated from the other rooms so light from the kitchen or something doesn't just flow into the living room and the other day the kids broke our lamp that was in there so now we have NO light in our living room....So, after like 7:15, no going into the living room if you need something...good thing Brayan sleeps in there, at least it's dark! :)

But despite all that stuff that, I know we've been blessed. We have a wonderful lady who lives below us, neighbors behind us that gave us cucumbers from her garden, and another neighbor who let us pick apples off their tree. A safe town to live in where I could walk the kids everyday. A huge park a block away. And we actually found an apt in Garner (which is where we wanted to move based on where Nathan was going to show up for work) that let us pay month to month so we didn't get caught up in a lease when it was just going to be short-term. Oh, AND we were 10 minutes from our milk farmer! THAT has been SUPER nice!! So I try to focus on those things and not the other stuff :)

Now I'm just excited to see where the Lord leads us next! Where do you think we'll end up??

Caedmon

I thought I would do a post about each of my kids, telling highlights of what they are doing, etc. I'm going to start with Caedmon!

All smiles!

The two things that DEFINE Caedmon: a book and his red tupperware "hat"!! (which he wears ALL the time!! :)

Smelling Hilda's (next door neighbor) flowers

Not too excited about Tiernan's kiss

Cheese!

Caedmon turned 2 on Sept 4th.


He weighs 24.6 lbs and is 2 ft. 9-7/8 inches tall. (I know, skinny little guy! :)


His favorite thing to do is read books. Next favorites would be to line up his matchbox cars in a row, and the same with his farm animals.


He's obsessed with hats and will put anything on his head and call it a hat!

He goes to bed around 8pm, sleeps through the night and will get up around 8am.

He'll (usually) nap for a couple hours during the late morning/early afternoon.

He doesn't have that big of vocabulary yet but he does say 'mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, baby, hat, up, bee, me, cup, go, ball, please, hi, all done (which sounds like 'ah dah', so cute!)....and i'm probably forgetting a bunch but that is what I can think of now!

He uses signs for milk, please, more, book, open and whatever else I show him the sign for, he will copy.

He LOVES to play in the tub, which is quite a difference from a few months ago! If you remember, it was Caedmon who was DEATHLY afraid of water, even the SIGHT of water! Now, I can't keep him out of it!

Breakfast is probably his best eating time of the day. He'll easily put down 2-3 eggs, a couple bananas, and a piece of toast; or 5-6 pancakes.

He's in size 4 diapers and wears size 18-24 mo clothes (mostly). We sit him on the potty (which he likes!) but does nothing and just wants to play in the toilet, so we are not too actively pursuing potty training at this time!

His middle name is Graham, named after my paternal Grandma's maiden name.

He still doesn't have much hair! :) Although in the places where he does have it, it's super fine and gets long.

He's just starting to climb up onto the kitchen counters, looking for something he can get into!

He's still our 'squeeler' which we are constantly trying to stop!

He plays very well independently. Tiernan and Brayan will play together while Caedmon sits on our bed by himself and reads books or sits at the table and lines up his cars.

He loves to strum his 'air guitar' and flex his muscles :) (what a boy!)

He LOVES animals of all shapes and sizes!

Another New Niece!!

I talked with my brother-in-law Jonathan today (Nathan's youngest brother) and he told me that they are adopting their foster child!! It should be official at the beginning of November. They have had Savannah living with them for almost 3 years (I think) and are excited to finally make her an official part of the family! Savannah is 16 and we have met her twice during their visits to MN (they live in Texas). You'd think it might be a challenge to raise a 16 yr old teenager when you are only 25 yourselves, but Johnny and Becky are excelling at it!! (They also have 3 little girls that are 4, 2, and 5 mos--Grace, Mercy, & Faith). I will have pics of them when we visit St Cloud in a couple weeks and Jonathan and family will be there as well. I'll post them when we get back! Welcome to the Legatt family Savannah!!

Haircut Time!!

Okay, blogger would not let me sort my pics the way I wanted to but I guess it doesn't make too much difference anyway! Brayan has gotten his two front teeth and the two next to them are starting to poke through as well. Here are a few cute pics of him eating an apple! :)

Can't see his top teeth in this picture......

Yum!

Oh! There they are!! :)

Hopefully this following picture makes you laugh because it sure made me laugh!! It was time to give Brayan a haircut!! After being mistaken for a girl a few times in the last couple weeks, I said enough is enough! (The last time it was at the grocery store and he was even in a BLUE shirt!) I tell ya.....so anyway, here are the before pictures!

HAHAHA!!

(He's got oatmeal on his face, I let him eat/play with it while cutting his hair....)

Look at all that hair!

Here is the after picture! His hair sure couldn't stand up as high as before! He looks like a handsome little boy now!

As if working 12 hour days wasn't enough, Nathan now works 13 hour days, 7 days a week, including Sunday! They are really trying to push to get the job done on schedule (Oct 8th) so they are workin' the guys to the bones! A lot of guys left this job to go work on storm work with the hurricanes so they lost about 30-40 guys. They just brought in about 15 from MN and NE so hopefully they'll get it done on time. We are ready for Nathan to be done working on this job!!! We don't know where we will be moving but pray that it will be in MN. They say there's is 'plenty' of work in MN so that would be nice! Nathan gets home about 8:30pm, says good night to the boys and reads them a story (to who ever is still awake!) then he showers, eats, and does this....

.............poor guy! Just a couple more weeks!!

A week ago Friday, Tiernan was looking out the window and then came up to me and asked "Mom, can we go to the parade?" I said "parade? what parade?" So I looked outside and much to my surprise, there were people lined up in their lawn chairs out by the road! The two little ones were sleeping, so I took Tiernan outside to see what was going on. There were obviously people waiting for a parade to start, but I had no idea why! It was any other Friday afternoon! So I asked the lady that lives in a house behind us and she said it was homecoming! So I came back in to get a blanket and Tiernan and I sat on the curb right in front of our place and watched the parade, full with police cars, firetrucks, bands and CANDY! It was a fun time, especially since we've never lived on a parade route before!

OH! By the way....Go see the movie FIREPROOF this weekend, opening in theaters Sept 26th (Friday). From what I hear it is an AMAZING movie and you can learn more about it, see trailers, etc at www.fireproofthemovie.com Support this film (ESPECIALLY on opening weekend when all the 'numbers' count!) We need more like it!!