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I know you’re all dying for an update on us! Well here goes: In December, we moved into a cute little rental house in Ryan’s hometown. It’s a 2 bed, 1 bath older home with a lot of character and we love it! I just wish we owned it because there is so much I want to do to it…like completely overhaul the kitchen. Dreams! In December, we found out we’re having a baby BOY! We’re super excited

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On Wednesday, there was still a lot of snow on the ground from a big snowstorm we got a couple days earlier. I thought it would be fun to take Harper outside and let her play in the snow for her first time. Unfortunately, after her afternoon nap most of the snow had melted. But we still ventured outside as promised. When she first got outside, she wasn’t exactly sure what to think of it…

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We spent New Year’s Eve with all of Ryan’s family. We had a smorgasbord of amazingly delicious appetizers for dinner and played games. I lacked in the picture taking department that night, but here’s what I got: The food: we had a cheese ball, chip dip, bean dip, sushi, stuffed jalapeno peppers, bruschetta, deviled eggs, stuffed tomatoes, beanie weenies, spanakopita, sweet&sour meatballs, and

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I got a new camera just before Christmas and was testing it out on Harper.  She’s by far the prettiest subject around!

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On Christmas morning, we opened gifts at our house {did I mention that we’ve been living in our own place as of December?!?}. Harper’s most favorite part was her stocking. We had to keep her interested in the gift unwrapping, but she did great and loved all of her gifts. After Christmas at our house and before church, we went to Grandpa & Grandma Bedke’s for the favorite Christmas morning

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I forced Harper to sit on Santa’s lap at our ward Christmas party. This was the sequence of her emotions: It makes me laugh every time I look at these. Silly girl!

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I can not believe my baby is 1! I suppose I can’t even really call her my baby anymore, since the actual baby of the family is nesting in my uterus. Where in the world has this last year gone?!?! For Harper’s birthday, we decided to go with a pumpkin theme since she loves pumpkins so much and it was fitting for the season {note: easy, inexpensive decorations}. This is the invite I made: We

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For Halloween this year we took Harper to the local trunk-or-treat. She wasn’t quite sure what to think at first {I think she was thoroughly confused why everyone was dressed weird and people kept putting something in her pumpkin bucket} but started getting excited after awhile. She loved picking out the candy she wanted and putting it in her lil pumpkin bucket. After the trunk-or-treat, we

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Instead of carving pumpkins this year, I gave Harper the liberty of painting her very own pumpkin. It took her a second to get the hang of it {since she’s never been around paint before} but once she figured it out, she was loving it! Loving it so much that she decided she wanted to taste it {luckily it was non-toxic!}. She was so proud of her lil pumpkin!

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we took Harper to the local pumpkin patch yesterday. i knew she would enjoy it but I didn’t realize she would like it as much as she did. she smiled and laughed the entire time we were there. the pumpkin patch is geared toward little kids and has a little straw maze, games, corn maze, goats, a haunted house and hayrides through the pumpkin patch. i took SO many pictures because Harper was being

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Harper is going to be a…   And she’s been practicing with her very own baby… Our new addition is to arrive somewhere around April 27th, 2012. More details to come…

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My parents made a trip down in September to visit us. We hadn’t seen them since February when Harper & I went to Canada. It was so fun to have them here and Harper LOVED being with them. She warmed up perfectly. We had so much fun spending time with my family.   We took my parents and brother up to the ranch with us to experience our life for a couple days. We had so much fun, we didn’t

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{THIS POST WAS WRITTEN AT THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER. I’LL DO ANOTHER UPDATE POST SOON BECAUSE SHE DOES SO MUCH MORE NOW!} she discovered how to open and close drawers.   just this week she finally figured out how to walk in her walker {she could only go backwards until now…she’s our moonwalkin’ girl}   she is VERY ticklish. she even starts laughing like this when I’m just washing her belly

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does anybody else feel like their summer came and left and didn’t invite them? i’ve been trying to figure out what happened. and then i realized… my summer consisted of me hanging out in the kitchen all day and chasing Harper around. no, i didn’t take a job as head chef at the local restaurant. although, it kind of felt like that. i was busy carrying on the Bedke wife tradition…and filling

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we’ve been lucky to have more visitors lately {yes…if you haven’t noticed, having visitors is completely blog worthy in our world…don’t judge}. in fact, 2 weeks in a row! first was our ever so favorite Stokes clan. we neglected to take pictures because really we just sat around and stuffed our faces and chased children and watched movies and hung out. it was absolute bliss! we loved having

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we took Harper to the county fair to see all of the animals. she loved most of them, but wasn’t exactly sure what to think of the piggies {they were kinda loud and in your face, especially this one} - Harper just patiently waiting… …while we were waiting for this fried fair beauty {yes, I cropped myself out because, let’s face it, I looked TERRIBLE!} And a lil family photo op to finish

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About two month ago while it was still summer {yes, I know. this is LONG overdue!} Harper and I loaded up our stroller and took a 2 mile trek to go see daddy while he was working. We love taking walks around the ranch because, really, where else can you take a stroll with surroundings like this? But mostly, we just love to ride the tractor with daddy. Harper loves sitting on daddy’s lap,

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Did you notice any special visitors in the last post? Ya…that’s right. Our besties Jeff and Kapri totally joined us for pioneer days. They were visiting Idaho from California during Jeff’s dental school break and were sweet enough to journey a couple hours to come see us. It was so fun to hang out with them for 24hrs and catch up after a long year and a half of being apart. Over a year ago,

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here in civilization, they celebrate pioneer days every year. ry has always raved about what a party it is and we were lucky to get in on the action this year. they have stuff going on all week and I’m pretty sure the small population in this town more than quadruples. we celebrated pioneer days with a bump n rub race, a pioneer program where one of the bedke relatives was honored, some deep

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we took a few pictures after church today. now that I look at them, her headband is on crooked and weird. oh well! she can still put it off cuz she’s so darn cute!

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Harper and I helped daddy feed the motherless calves a couple weeks ago. Harper loved it {although you can’t really tell by her face}! Here are a few pics I took of our little adventure:

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a couple of weeks ago i looked down and realized i had snot all over my shoulders and puke down my shirt and pants from my sick little girl. i almost got emotional. not because my clothes were gross and i didn’t look very attractive. but because i had this overcoming sensation that…i’m finally a mom. there i stood in that very moment with everything i had ever wanted.

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we bought harper a lil pool to have up here for the summer. it’s mostly an excuse for me to put her in the adorable swimsuit i bought before she was born. i figured i should get my $5 worth out of it. we put her in it this week for the first time and she just loved it! notice the awesome sunscreen mohawk she’s sportin’. i took more pictures than i would like to admit. so here are just a few

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remember duke? this is ryan riding duke OUTSIDE of the corral. he’s been riding him like this all week and duke has been awesome! ry also started working with dixie and another 2 yr old colt {that is yet to be named} this week. he’s had time to spend almost all day with the colts so they’re making a lot of progress quickly. got any ideas for a name for the unnamed colt? ry is open to

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Our 4th of July celebrations consisted of the 4 F’s – Family, Friends, Food and Fireworks. We spent a lot of time at Grandma Bedke’s visiting family from out of town {and in town} and eating ridiculously good food {as always}. On Saturday night, we watched fireworks courtesy of Grandma and Ry’s cousin Derek. Harper LOVED them. She did not squawk once. She just kicked her feet and watched them

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If you’ve ever wondered what 20 dozen cookies looks like, feast your eyes on this: {the tupperwares are full of non-iced cookies} Yes, Mom Bedke and I made 20 dozen cookies. No, not really on purpose. It’s actually pretty funny – Ryan’s sister had called Grandma Bedke for her marshmallow cookie recipe a couple months back. Turns out Addie had written down 1 and 1/2 cups instead of one 1/2

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Ryan has been working with a colt {Duke} whenever he gets a chance {which wasn’t very much until recently} over the last couple of months. This is Ry with Duke: When Ry first started with Duke he wouldn’t even let Ry up to him. Now he pretty much comes up to Ry and cuddles him - nibbling on his shirt and putting his face right up to Ryan’s. It’s pretty darn cute! It’s been really fun to watch

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Holding her her bottle. I couldn’t get a normal shot of her doing it. She kept wanting to turn and smile for the camera. That’s my girl! Drinking from a sippy cup: The one-sided army crawl: Just this week she’s started getting up on all fours and rocking, so I don’t think it will be long before she’s for real crawling. She’s also started using the pincer grasp and picking up small

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Happy Canada Day {yesterday}!   Love, Harper

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FOOD Harper will seriously eat anything edible {and inedible, including paper}. There is nothing we’ve fed her that she doesn’t love {including lemons and vinegar}… Some of her very favorites are Sunday’s roast beef dinners {taking after her dad} and anything sweet {taking after her mom}, including suckers {she did not like when we took it away} and especially chocolate.   ANIMALS She

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Last week we had ryan’s mom’s family reunion up at the ranch. It was so much fun visiting with aunts, uncles and cousins that we don’t see very often. Our agenda was jam packed over 2.5 days. I think the best part though was all of the ridiculously good food we ate. Here’s a lil summary of some of the other excellent parts of the reunion: 1 – VISITING. Just hanging out in the shade watching

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Ryan turned 28 this year. It’s so wild to me that we’re fast approaching 30. I always used to think 30 was OLD! Turns out , I was wrong. I’ve decided anything over 90 is OLD…and we have a lot of years in us before it gets to that point. For ry’s birthday, his mom made delicious marinated steak. And his sister made his all-time favorite peanut chocolate cake. And, well, Harper and I decorated

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my two favorite people {with bedhead} enjoying breakfast in bed on father’s day… we made daddy breakfast in bed again this year. Harper was as much help this year as she was last year! We also made him a little candygram that said: Daddy I love you mounds and mounds. Thank you for always feeding me your food and then cleaning my goobers. Thank you for always making me snicker, especially

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Ryan brought home this bouquet of flowers after work a few weeks ago. He stopped at the local floral shop {aka the top of the mountains} and got me the biggest, most beautiful bouquet of wildflowers ever! I suggested that he become a florist because he did such a great job. Maybe we can start a little side business up here…

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since the cattle have been released into the mountains to graze, ry has started irrigating the hay fields. this is a pic of him setting siphon tubes. you can see in the mirror, the little orange spot…that’s the dam. he’s quite the irrigator man.   he is also quite the pyro man. sometimes he likes to set fires and dance around yelling “burn baby burn”. ok, just kidding. this tree was in the way

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Harper has grown so much this week! I still can’t believe how quickly she changes. I’ll update you next week {when we’re back from “the middle of nowhere”} on her new developments. I just want to keep you on your toes {because obviously that’s what’s going to happen} Stay tuned!

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last sunday we looked out the window and saw this: i’m pretty sure it’s the most vivid, bright rainbow i’ve seen in my life. this pic really doesn’t do it justice. just thought you’d enjoy.

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Ryan’s family has an awesome Memorial Day tradition and we were lucky enough to be here to be a part of it this year. Our day went a little like this: At 10am, we headed over to the cemetery to clean up the Bedke lot. We weeded and raked and left flowers and raked again. It was a lot of fun and the final product {the top left picture} looked awesome. Really…you should have seen the “before”.

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have you ever had wild asparagus? neither had i. until ryan introduced me to a whole new world of asparagus hunting. it grows here along some of the canals…kind of randomly. unfortunately, we were a little late in the season and I think most of it was picked over or dead or something. but we found about 10 asparagus on our hike along the canal. we fried them up in a little concoction of olive

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we took a mini family getaway up to Boise to visit our friends, the Stokes, and watch Ryan’s sister run in state track. it was a much needed lil getaway and we had a ton of fun! Harper had so much fun with Kerrigan and Tucker. it’s so adorable how much she lights up when she’s around other kiddos. she’s always so smitten by little people. i thought this video was super cute: we loved

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Harper is 6 months today! How did this happen? While Jaden was here, it was so hard for me to even picture her being as little as he is. I’ve already forgotten! It’s horrible. She’s just growing too quickly. Although, I’ll admit, I wouldn’t change it. She just gets more and more fun everyday. But I’m still voting for that pause button every once in awhile. Here are a few pictures I took this

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Watch this video to find out what makes Harper laugh hysterically: And one more just because it’s so darn cute! She seriously laughs like this {if not harder} every single time she sees someone shooting hoops. Who knew basketball was so stinkin’ funny?

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We’ve been in civilization for about 2 weeks, although you’d never know by my lack of online presence. We’ve just been mighty busy and having too much fun to get on the computer. The last couple weeks have consisted of: meeting Harper’s new cousin (see this post) attending lots of Aunt Addie and Uncle Curtis’s track meets hanging out with family watching the branding (see this

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Harper finally met her first little cousin last week. She was quite fascinated with him and loved to give him very slobbery wet kisses on his head {that involved a lot of licking}. Jaden’s parents were brave enough to let her at him. This was the result: {Warning: It’s about 3 minutes long…so kinda long but HILARIOUS!}

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I was able to get in on some branding action last week. Are you confused? Wondering what the heck I’m talking about? Well, let me explain: This winter, Ryan has been feeding the cattle and keeping tabs on the births as you’ve read about several times. Well, when spring rolls around it’s time to process the calves and then turn all of the cows loose to graze in the mountains until next fall. The

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this is what it looks like at our place at 7am:   a little snuggling during scriptures. not to mention the awesome bedhead. love it!

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We had a great time celebrating Easter with the Bedkes this year. We’ve never been home for the weekend long festivities because we’re usually living somewhere across the country so it was so fun to get in on it. On Saturday, we decorated Easter eggs and had an Easter egg hunt. Grandma hardboiled a dozen eggs for each of her grandchildren and great grandchildren for decorating {note: that is A

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Harper has been very silly lately when we feed her. You’ll just have to see for yourself how ridiculously cute she is… And here is a little smiling and giggling… Oh, she is just so dang cute. I can not get enough of this girl! ENJOY!

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Last weekend our friends Thayne and MaryAnne came to visit with their 2 kiddos {no…they didn’t come all the way out to the ranch. we met up at my in-law’s place in “civilization”. the ranch roads aren’t the friendliest this time of year). It was SO fun to visit with them for a couple hours and catch up on life.   And Harper made a cute new friend: I’m not gonna lie, it stinks that all of

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Do you ever wish you could just hit the pause button on your child? So maybe, just maybe, they would stop growing up for like 2.3 seconds. This girl will not slow down! One minute she’s rolling over like a crazy girl, next minute she’s sitting up on her own {not to mention, she’s started swimming to her toys a little}.  Don’t get me wrong, one of my absolute favorite things is watching Harper

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This girl may or may not have decided to smear rice cereal and bananas all over her face. You decide.

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When my grandma passed away a couple of months ago, I was able to look through some of her journal/keepsakes while I was home for the funeral. I learned SO much that I never knew about her and her parents. In fact, I realized I knew absolutely nothing about my grandparents and great grandparents. I was always a little embarrassed when Ryan would know a ton about his family and I could list the

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We finally caught one of those dirty rascals! Lucky for us we caught this lil guy’s girlfriend the night after. 2 down; only A LOT more to go…  

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Here’s just a small glimpse of what the hubby {aka my sexy cowboy} has been up to lately: And while daddy is out working hard, mommy and Harper just play in the truck and cheer him on: Or poop our clothes. But only one of us is guilty of that: Gotta love it!

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Have you noticed that everything Harper owns is PINK? Yup, we love pink around here. Here’s a few recent pictures of Harper {and daddy and uncle josho}- Uncle Josho came to visit for a couple days before he headed to the Great White North to work his butt off this summer. We were glad he made the trip to spend some time with us before he vanished for a while. We love you Josho! ps – isn’t

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She can roll! This week Harper discovered the beauty of rolling over. It started Tuesday when Ryan put her on her tummy while he ran to do something. He came back and she was on her back. She did it a couple more times that night and the next day. Then Friday she was laying on her back playing with her rattle while I was doing dishes. I went in to check on her and she was on her stomach. Now she’

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It’s calving season and Harper and I went with Ry to check on all of the cows and their babies. He does a check everyday just to make sure there aren’t any problems. Lately he’s had a few problem cows/calves and has been coming home telling me how he’s an adoption counselor, obgyn, lactation consultant, etc. Next time I might just have him deliver our baby! Anyway, here’s a couple pictures from

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I was looking through my pictures the other day and came across some photos that were intentionally taken for a blog post but never happened. Why, you ask? Well I took them roughly 6 hours before I woke up to my water breaking. So ya, obviously this got neglected. Anyway, around here rocky mountain oysters are a delicacy. Ryan brought some home to cook up and was cleaning them when I took these

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Disclaimer: Contrary to what the above pictures might make you believe, Harper smiles ALL of the time and has the cutest smile I’ve ever seen. The only problem is when I pull out my camera to take a picture she makes the above face and just stares at it. Such a silly! One of these days, I’ll get a good smile. And a little bit of my recent journal entry on Harper’s development, if you’re

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  We went up to Rexburg at the beginning of the month to sell one of our houses. While we there, Josho {aka my brother}had a championship floor hockey game. We decided to go cheer him on. Harper was very content just watching everything going on around her {even though it was very past her bedtime}. And Josho’s team won. The score was 13-18 {or something like that}. ps – has anyone been to

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We threw a baby shower for my sis-in-law Brooke who is due in May. We took this picture while we were all together and I love it! Left to Right: Mom Bedke, Harper, Me, Brooke, Grandma Bedke, Addie (ryan’s sis)  

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  This is what static electricity does to Harper’s already crazy hair! Love it!

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I’ve been baking a lot lately. Here’s a few of the things I’ve made: Chocolate Chip Cookies Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Brownie Covered Oreos Buttermilk Cinnamon Bread Bread – picture below is prebaked Rolls – still working on perfecting these Cherry Pie – came out PERFECT! I’ve mastered the art of crust making – SO FLAKY! Chocolate Covered Strawberries

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I finally caught Harper’s giggling on camera. It hasn’t been a frequent occurrence, but is becoming progressively more frequent. Today she laughed more than I’ve ever heard her laugh. WARNING: The cuteness in this video is excessive. Proceed at your own risk!  

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You might think I’m bias, but I’m pretty confident Harper is the cutest baby EVER! No offense… {picture on right is with Harper’s crazy Aunt Addie}

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We have a mice problem at the ranch house. we’ve known it since we’ve moved in when we found little mouse droppings EVERYWHERE. I promptly cleaned the entire house and set some traps. For weeks we had NO evidence of them. I would look everyday to see if there was poop, but there was nothing. I was about convinced we had gotten rid of the problem… until we were sitting in the dark one night when

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Ryan’s family has a tradition of making homemade root beer every summer when they are up here at the ranch. We decided we’d try our hand at it… I was surprised at how simple it was to make. What’s in the root beer? It’s just water, sugar, root beer extract and yeast (to make it carbonated). However, it does require some careful measuring. One thing we learned the first time we made it:

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~Wyatt~Brittney~Brecken~ said... I SO want to know what your doing with your time! Especially in the winter! Do you have movies you can watch or no TV at all?! I would go nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts without internet or phone! You’re so funny! Well, we do have a tv and xbox. I use it for doing workout videos and Ryan and I will occasionally watch a movie. Ryan uses it mostly

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This year I spent my 27th birthday flying home from Canada to Idaho. Left: Pointing to the sign that says Feb 6 – my birthday! Right: My sister bought me a funnel cake at the Chicago airport for my birthday cake.  It was very yummy! Since we got home so late that night, Ryan and his family celebrated my birthday the next day. They prepared a delicious dinner for me and Ryan’s sister made me

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I’m going to try something, but it requires your participation. We’ll see how it works. I know that the whole ranch lifestyle is foreign to a lot of people. {It was to me up until recently} So this is your opportunity to ask me a question you’ve been dying to know as you read our blog. Maybe you’re wondering how many acres we’re on or how many head of cow we run? Maybe you’re curious if I get

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sorry for the 2 week absence. my grandma sadly passed away on saturday jan. 29th. I flew home to canada last minute on  monday, jan. 31st and then returned to Idaho on sunday feb 6th, but I had so much of life to catch up on I decided my blog could wait. so, this week you get a little overload in posts. sorry! keep scrolling down because there are A LOT of new posts!

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Harper got to fly for her first time last week. She was such a good flying companion!   She was lucky to finally meet lots of canadian family and friends. I didn’t get pictures with half of them, but here are a few… She is one very loved girl!

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some recent pictures of our sweet little Harper…  

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Harper was blessed by her daddy on January 2, 2011. She looked gorgeous in her beautiful white dress.   All of the men in the blessing circle:   All of our family in attendance: Thank you to everyone who was able to make it. It was such a special day!

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now tell me this isn’t pure beauty?

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Next time you’re wondering what to do on a cold winter morning… blast a little michael buble and take your sweet little baby dancin’ in the kitchen. And always end with a dip and a kiss. It makes mommies and babies very happy!

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Harper and I went out for some fresh air and a walk a couple weeks ago and took a few pictures. Bottom left: the ranch house we live in. Bottom center: a dead cow…I’m always intrigued by dead cows and love to take pics of them for some strange reason. Bottom right: My cowboy on his well stacked load.

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Harper loves to carry on conversations with us these days. And we think it’s pretty darn adorable!

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Over the last week we’ve been doing some sleep training. We thought it was time that she learned to fall asleep in her bed and not need to be rocked to sleep. It has gotten progressively better, but last night {tues. jan. 19} rocked! We put her to bed at 9:30pm. She was wide awake when we put her down but there were no tears. {She’s been crying anywhere from 15 min to 1 hr until she’d fall

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My friend Lindsey and her family came to visit us during the holidays and I begged her to take a few family pictures for us with her new camera. She did such an amazing job. Here are some of our favorites:   The Mussons   The Bedkes   {Would you believe me if I told you these pictures were taken in Ry’s parents backyard? LOVE it!}   Mommy & Harper:   Just Harper: Thanks Linds! We

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Here is a picture summary of our holidays.   {Sorry for the collage overload lately. It’s just such an easy way too show lots of pictures}   Harper’s First Christmas:     Ringing in the New Year with AMAZING food, fun games and all of our family:  

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My parents came to visit us in Idaho for the holidays…mostly though to meet their first grandchild, obviously! It was so fun having them around. As you can see, they spoiled Harper like crazy! A BIG thanks to the Bedkes for letting the Mussons crash their holidays. It was great to be able to have both of our families together under one roof! We miss you and love you, Grandpa and Grandma!

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She even has a tail. I don’t think cows come much cuter than this! {Thanks for the very appropriate outfit Jeff & Kapri!}

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Harper and I went to work with Ryan one afternoon. Unfortunately, Harper slept the ENTIRE time, so she didn’t get to enjoy the cows and horses quite as much as I did. I don’t even think we were out of the driveway before she was sound asleep. I took some pictures to show you how the whole “feeding the cattle” thing works. Ryan loading hay on the pickup. He had it stacked 5 bails high by the time

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I’ve been waking up to this face for the last 2 months…. I can not believe it has been 2 months since Harper entered our world.  It seems like just yesterday it all happened but at the same time it feels like she’s been with us forever. Who knew you could have so much instant love for someone and that the love for your spouse would deepen even more than you could ever imagine? As promised

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We were supposed to go back up to the ranch this morning but the truck needed to go into the shop. Ryan and his dad went up to feed for the day and Harper and I are still in town trying to get my “to do” list done. We’ll head back up tomorrow as long as the truck is fixed. I’m hoping so. I ready to be back in paradise.   I took this video this morning while we were snuggling in bed. She is

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We moved up to our new home on Friday. This was the drive as we entered paradise (aka - the ranch in Nevada). Pretty, right?   And this, my friends, is what I get to look at every time I look out my front window. It’s even prettier when it’s sunny but I couldn’t get a good picture with the sun out. This picture really doesn’t do it justice. It’s so serene!   Let me give you a snapshot of

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Details on Harper’s arrival and such will come soon….I’ve been too busy snuggling her to want to blog! Sorry!

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Messing around with the Bedke’s Halloween costume box. I don’t even know what/who I am…maybe a prego Lady Gaga? PS I only have 5 weeks left!! AHH!! I’m so not ready. Please be obedient to your mother and stay cookin’ in there as long as you’d like little one!!  

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Here is a recap of our September. We extended our selling season for the month of September in order for Ryan to hit his sales goals {which might I add, he has done a mighty fine job doing. I’m so proud of you babe!!!}. It turned out to be quite the adventure.   MOVING We moved a total of 5 times: 1. Indianapolis, IN to Springfield, MO   2. Springfield, MO to Dodge City, KS

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It appears as though we have less than 100 days before we meet this lil munchkin! It’s so exciting how fast time is flying yet so scary all in one. I absolutely love being pregnant (minus the massive amounts of rib pain that have existed since week 12)!  Feeling our little girl move is the most amazing feeling in the world. We already love her so much…it’s crazy! Here are a few pictures of our

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Do you like free stuff? Because I sure do! It’s about time I share with you one of my favorite sites – (I’ve been keeping it secret way too long – it’s time to share the love!) Gina highlights businesses around the country by reviewing products and hosting giveaways every few days. There is always AWESOME stuff up for grabs! And there are several ways to enter each of the giveaways. It’s so

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We went home for a few days for my lil sister’s wedding. It was an exhausting week to say the least, but it was so fun to see all my family and friends (it had been over a year) and see my sis get married. Day of Decorating: being a slacker w/my aunt di. {my belly looks huge here. it’s definitely not!}   ry being mighty helpful   the end result. beautiful!   Day of Wedding:Introducing

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In less than 12 hrs we’ll be getting our 20 week ultrasound. AH! That means you only have about 2.5 hrs left to get in on the fun and vote here on whether you think it’s a boy or girl! So if you haven’t done so yet, go do it! To all those who have voted so far – YOU ROCK! Thanks for playing along :) I’ve started getting all nervous about the ultrasound lately. I mean, I’m still super excited,

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I’ll start! Blog music is kind of annoying {no offense to anyone}. I more often than not mute my computer when I land on a blog with music. I used to have a long playlist, but I got rid of it after I realized I hated always having to mute it when I went on my own blog. Just the other day when I revamped my blog I added it again. And I only added 1 song. Yes, I still mute it almost every time I

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Do you remember this post from October?  I briefly introduced you to The Total Money Makeover and I haven’t talked about it since. Well I’m here to tell you…   “WE’RE DEBT FREE!”   Wow! That felt good. Dave Ramsey always has people calling into his radio show sharing success stories and he has them yell “We’re Debt Free!”. We talk, eat, sleep, breathe and live The Total Money Makeover.

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