a little bit of March

Mark, Russ's dad, got engaged on March 8.  He proposed up at Daniel's summit lodge Saturday night. His fiancé is Jaris and she is from Wyoming and is the mother of wait for it... 9 boys! They seem like they are great together and very happy. The big day is still TBA but we are so excited for Mark, even though I secretly miss him hanging out with us all the time instead.

Russ went on his annual back east snow geese hunt the second weekend of March. They drive out to South Dakota in one day, hunt for 3 days then drive all the way home on the 5th day. He claims it's not a vacation because it's a lot of work throughout the day on no sleep, and comes home exhausted. But he had a great time and was glad he went. I had the weekend off he was gone and spent time hanging out with family and friends, as well as stalking our new house every single day (we normally have a once a week check rule but while Russ was gone I lost all self control)

pretending it was summer with my favorite little people

My dad got a new calf that weekend so we went down to the farm to meet it

I wasn't the only one who missed Russ while he was away

I thought I would be nice and let Lady and Remi sleep in the garage together Saturday night. To show me how much they
appreciated it they shredded Remi's blanket. I was not impressed.

I never know what I'm going to find when I get home from work in the mornings. Russ somehow always finds a way to use every single pillow off our bed and sleeps with them. I usually find some weird position but this morning I had to take a picture (he doesn't believe me so I had to show him I'm not crazy) since it looked like there was another person in my spot. Not to worry, it was just the pillows :)

Jake has been in Spain for the month and this past weekend Ashlee got the opportunity to go out and be with him. While she was gone we got the opportunity to have Kez come stay with us for a "Vacation". Her stay fell on the weekend I worked so we got to experience what it will be like to have kids with a working mom. Kez is so great and we had a blast, and I must say kudos to Russ because he was fantastic with her!

They sent me this Saturday night while I was working. To put it cheesy... melted my heart!

Not that it wasn't great having a kid in the house, but we won't be announcing anything anytime soon :)