We just spent one week at the O.S.F. and we had a blast. I know I won't remember everything on here so here is a break down:
Visited:
Reptile exhibit
4H pavilion (played in the corn kernals with trucks and tractors)
the animal races
the cows
the tractors
Chinese Acrobats
Ate:
brick french fries
blt melt
elephant ear
sausage
fresh squeezed orange juice from oranges ripedend on the tree
and lots of Oregon Dairy women Ice cream
roasted nuts
a scone
peach raspberry pie
Bought:
a remote controlled helicopter (for Christmas)
a poncho/surape for Vernon when it got chilly
a sweater from Peru for Elani
M got me a nice bracelet
a puppet
spent a lot of time:
working the draft horse show.
Hitching
Riding
Unhitching
feeding
coraling children
feeding baby's
Didn't spend a lot of time sleeping.
Witnessed a runaway on the junior cart class. The girl was thrown from the cart when it caught a rail guard, was run over on her arm and cut her leg needing almost 40 stitches. V, E, and I where close to it. I had to pick V up and get him out of the way or he would have been hit. But it was not a close call. I saw that horse comeing from 24 feet away and moved FAST! He was scared and crying and people asked if he was ok. He was.
V now has a nickname. Poncho. Feel free to call him that. We do.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
One Week
I know there is a lot of time between June and August but with a new baby the blog falls to the wayside. But here I am again ready to fill you in on the Harper life. We had one interesting week (and a tuesday) in August.
To start it was a Wednesday and the day went great. Then late afternoon happened. I was alone at the house with the kids trying to get caught up on laundry for our trip to Oregon. I was feeding E and V slipped out the door. Now he is usually really good at staying by the house. And he never leaves the property. Until this day. Could not find him anywhere. He had gone down the road to a neighbors house (he had only been there twice and both times where in a car) walking the back way. The only foot prints we found where by the great big irrigation canal. Well my poor mother's heart and brain immediately went to "he fell in and has drowned" so I start praying please just let us find him alive. He was gone for 40 minutes before we found he had been over there the whole time. Needless to say it was stressfull. But we where happy he was alive and unharmed.
Thursday was a special day. My sister was graduating and getting her nursing pin. We went up to Reno early to do some shopping. First we hit Scheels and then we were going to go to Target, a bookstore, get my ring sized and sautered together, and then finish up with Cabela's well when we left Scheels to head over to Target our car quite on us. Would not turn over. It had gas and the check engine light had not been coming on. So it is the fuel pump. Dad was a Scheels too and he came and helped us. I sat with the kids in the truck and we decided to get a tow dolly and bring it home. We called around and reserved one from the Uhal. We made it to the pinning just before it started. But the rest of the day was wonderful.
Friday was V's 3rd Birthday the 19th. It was a success. He had a dirt birthday cake with trucks on it. Grandma had ordered 2 yards of cement sand to play and dig in. Friends came over had so much fun.
Saturday was not so great. At M and grandpa's lunch break we took down the shade from the party the day before. V was pushing a dump truck around on the grass and went to go on the cement. The truck got stuck at the cement and V went flying over the truck smacking his face on the edge of the cement. It cut his chin open good and shoved his tooth into his gums. So to the emergency room we went. It took 4 stitches. We also had a dentist look at it. His permanant tooth is starting to bud and it was uninjured. Thank goodness. The tooth itself is not loose and will come down and fall out normal. Oh double thank goodness. But for the stitches and being in the ER V was amazing. He held still really well and only cried a little for the numbing. It broke my heart because all I could do was stroke his hair and talk to him.
The rest of the weekend was fine. M and the dairy had been haying all this time and it was the last load of the day. M was going to dump it and go home. Well he was slowing down to make the turn into the pit off of the road when the truck grabbed to the left so he tried to get it out of gear and slow down more when it grabbed harder. He smacked into a power pole (and a garbage can hahaha) and came to a stop. Then the hay in back shifted and some dumped out over the cab causing M to slide out of his seat. He was uninjured! But the the truck was a wreck. So the sheriff comes out and because it is a highway a state officer comes out. They pull the truck off of the road because it was still blocking one side of traffic. There was no ticket given. Yay! The scary thing is V had been riding in the trucks all day and on that last load grampa tried to get him to go with M but he wanted to go with great grampa instead. He would have been hurt if he been in the truck with M.
I don't want another week like that.
To start it was a Wednesday and the day went great. Then late afternoon happened. I was alone at the house with the kids trying to get caught up on laundry for our trip to Oregon. I was feeding E and V slipped out the door. Now he is usually really good at staying by the house. And he never leaves the property. Until this day. Could not find him anywhere. He had gone down the road to a neighbors house (he had only been there twice and both times where in a car) walking the back way. The only foot prints we found where by the great big irrigation canal. Well my poor mother's heart and brain immediately went to "he fell in and has drowned" so I start praying please just let us find him alive. He was gone for 40 minutes before we found he had been over there the whole time. Needless to say it was stressfull. But we where happy he was alive and unharmed.
Thursday was a special day. My sister was graduating and getting her nursing pin. We went up to Reno early to do some shopping. First we hit Scheels and then we were going to go to Target, a bookstore, get my ring sized and sautered together, and then finish up with Cabela's well when we left Scheels to head over to Target our car quite on us. Would not turn over. It had gas and the check engine light had not been coming on. So it is the fuel pump. Dad was a Scheels too and he came and helped us. I sat with the kids in the truck and we decided to get a tow dolly and bring it home. We called around and reserved one from the Uhal. We made it to the pinning just before it started. But the rest of the day was wonderful.
Friday was V's 3rd Birthday the 19th. It was a success. He had a dirt birthday cake with trucks on it. Grandma had ordered 2 yards of cement sand to play and dig in. Friends came over had so much fun.
Saturday was not so great. At M and grandpa's lunch break we took down the shade from the party the day before. V was pushing a dump truck around on the grass and went to go on the cement. The truck got stuck at the cement and V went flying over the truck smacking his face on the edge of the cement. It cut his chin open good and shoved his tooth into his gums. So to the emergency room we went. It took 4 stitches. We also had a dentist look at it. His permanant tooth is starting to bud and it was uninjured. Thank goodness. The tooth itself is not loose and will come down and fall out normal. Oh double thank goodness. But for the stitches and being in the ER V was amazing. He held still really well and only cried a little for the numbing. It broke my heart because all I could do was stroke his hair and talk to him.
The rest of the weekend was fine. M and the dairy had been haying all this time and it was the last load of the day. M was going to dump it and go home. Well he was slowing down to make the turn into the pit off of the road when the truck grabbed to the left so he tried to get it out of gear and slow down more when it grabbed harder. He smacked into a power pole (and a garbage can hahaha) and came to a stop. Then the hay in back shifted and some dumped out over the cab causing M to slide out of his seat. He was uninjured! But the the truck was a wreck. So the sheriff comes out and because it is a highway a state officer comes out. They pull the truck off of the road because it was still blocking one side of traffic. There was no ticket given. Yay! The scary thing is V had been riding in the trucks all day and on that last load grampa tried to get him to go with M but he wanted to go with great grampa instead. He would have been hurt if he been in the truck with M.
I don't want another week like that.
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