Rasmussen Family: September 2009

World Records

Okay, so it is official - this baby is past due!! My due date was yesterday and I am thinking that I need to contact the Guiness Book of World Records and be the first woman to be pregnant FOREVER!!! :) J/K! All three of our other kids were early so this is just plain torture for me. Grant was 9 days early, McKinley was 14 and Jackie was 6. So naturally when I hit the 14 day mark, I start thinking, "Any day now". Plus with this one I have been having the mean contractions for about 2 weeks now and I am more than ready. So needless to say, when my doctor comes back from his vacation next Friday - IIIFFF I am still pregnant, and he doesn't start me - I will be the first woman to give herself a c-section. So I guess either way I will need the Guiness peoples number. Actually, this week I have been trying to be patient because I know the baby will come when it is ready. Soooooo - here is hoping it comes tomorrow. :)

Got Milk?

This past Tuesday, McKinley's preschool class went on a fieldtrip to a dairy farm. It had rained - okay poured the night before and so it was a little cool and humid. Plus, there was a lot of mud. I normally hate driving past a dairy because I can smell it and I didn't think about it until we got there and then I remembered my dislike for the smell. The rain from the night before made it even more unbearable, but we survived. Actually it was a lot of fun. We got to see the milking barn (STINKY).

Rebecca, Jaxon, McKinley & Grant

Chloe thought the barn stunk worse than I did and wouldn't even come in at first.

The kids got to look in the huge tanks and see where they put the milk after it came from the cows and before it got hauled away in a milk truck.

We got to see a bottle that some of the calves eat from.

Then we got to go see all the calves - the kids loved to run around and see them. We loved that we were in a barn and not in the mud (YUCK).

It's kind of hard to see everyone, but just for an FYI - Grant, Chloe, Brighton, Jackie, Megan, Jaxon, Quentin (The little boy from the dairy), & McKinley

McKinley's Class + 1
Jaxon, Quentin, Megan, McKinley & Chloe

How Cute!!!

After playing around with the calves, we went to see some of the bigger cows. We got to see what they eat. (Hay with corn and other stuff - I wasn't listening as well as the kids were.)

After we were done, we went back and had a snack of . . . . . . . milk and crackers (YUM).

Got Milk?

Row, Row, Row Your Boat . . . .

On the 29th of August we went down the Green River with my aunt and her family. It was quite fun. The kids had a blast. Jackie wasn't so sure the first half of the trip. When we went throught the rapids she would wimper and hold on to me like crazy. Then after we stopped for lunch I couldn't get her to sit down. She wanted to stand in the front of the raft and hold on to the rope. Luckily the raft is higher in the front and came up to her chest when she was standing.

We did get into a few mild water fights with everyone, and Grant kept us on task by yelling, "FIRE", when it was time to shoot the other rafts.

McKinley was a little sneakier and would whisper to me who to shoot with our water gun.

Swimming Lessons

So I am a little late on posting about swimming lessons since they happened over a month ago, better late than never right?! It was pretty sad that these two weeks were the only time we had gone to our pool all summer (Just to clarify, we had gone swimming in Moab, Vernal, and Price, just not our pool). Now when we drive past the pool, McKinley says, "look there is swimming lessons".

Anyway, McKinley was my little fish and loved to be under water. I think the instructors were annoyed that she never knew what was going on because she always had her head under water when they were explaining what they were going to do next.

Grant had fun just being in the water, but he wasn't as much of a fish as McKinley was.