Nydegger Pets Update

Sometimes I feel like I'm running a pet store at my house and these picture display the 8 reasons why. We have our Gigantor dog Diesel -he's not even full grown- and he's still kenneled in the basement.Don't mind the smell when you come over, just plug your nose ; ) eewww!!! He's such a good dog, we love him. He is so mild tempered with the kids. He never really barks and he loves to play. The kids really do a good job taking care of him. They even pitch in on poop duty.
Next, we have Mama Kitty, Christina. She just became a mother yesterday. I knew it was going to happen anytime, she was getting huge and I saw her when she was romping around with the stray cat a couple of months ago. Well, yesterday morning she was meowing really strangely and I knew it was the day.We tried to find a dark quiet place for her out in the garage where she lives. I felt this great sense of empathy for the pain I sensed she was going through. She ended up making her way back to the garage door into the house where she normally sleeps . The kids and I had been checking on her often to see if anything had happened, but nothing was happening. I went out to water some plants and Christian came out to tell me that there were two little legs hanging out of kitty. Sure enough she was pushing out her first little kitten. It was such a neat thing to watch. Even though it was just kittens the miracle of birth and life was a beautiful thing to see again. She ended up having five kittens. I can't even believe it. What are we going to do with 5 kittens- Walmart here we come.
Lastly, we can't forget about Spiky our pet Tarantuala. No we don;t have two of them. We came up last night to tuck Christian in and this is what we found in his cage. I had no idea they shed their skin, and really I'm only assuming that's what I'm seeing. I have not researched the matter, but it kind of creeped us out. Our pets had quite the day yesterday.

Lazy Days!!!

This is how I found Faith the last two days in a row. We have been loving the sunshine and spending a lot of time out in it working in the yard and apparently it's been wearing her right out. How come no one told me how much work a yard is?NO, I love it, I can't complain for one second!!! Finding Faith like this made me think I really need to get some smaller chairs, shorter falling distance if she rolls. Maybe I can use this to talk Kurt into those new kitchen chairs I've been wanting!!! :) I promise she does have a bed, but since she sent her binkis to heaven on a bunch of balloons for the new babies, she's vetoed the whole fall asleep in your bed routine. Ya, I was afraid for awhile there she was going to have a resentment towards Jesus for taking her binkis away. She kept saying for like two weeks "I just want Jesus to send my binkis back"...so sweet. She would say a prayer each night saying she knew she was too big for a binki...really trying to convince herself of it as she said it. It's an interesting thing watching your children hit milestones like getting rid of the binki. My emotions tend to range on so many levels over things like this. She has been seeming so old to me lately. Time for another one I keep telling Kurt, but he;s not hearing any of that! :) Well, I couldn't help but share these photos, I absolutely love moments like those!

Easter fun!

We had a great Easter weekend. It was Grandma Nydegger's 60th birthday so all of the cousins came up to celebrate. They love being with all of their cousins so it was a real treat for them.
The Easter egg hunt this year for Nikki was full of fear and anxiety after a failed attempt of finding any eggs at her dance easter egg hunt. She had written off ever doing an easter egg hunt again. Oh my cute Nikki!!! We were finally able to convince her to participate but truly I think she was more excited when it was all over, no more pressure!
Faith was a little more excited this year for the festivities and loved running around after the eggs. She probably ended up with more eggs than the older kids. :)
This is them in their cute little Easter outfits. This was the last Sunday Christian or Kurt had hair. Christian has been begging to shave it off and I finally gave in. Of course, Kurt couldn't keep hair when Christian didn't have any. :)

I love my Family and love all the fun memories we get to make together.

"Because that REALLY BAD rude"

So You know I just love the things that come out of Faith's mouth and this was one she came up with the other day. I was asking her not to do something and she told me that was rude. Why was that rude? Her answer, because that really bad rude. OK... And can you even imagine anything rude coming out of her mouth?!?! NEVER :)

I Sink My Can

Interpreted "I think I can". This is a new phrase we've been trying to teach Faith as she's been learning to ride her bike. She would get on her bike and immediately say I can't do it. So we pumped her up with positive thinking and she actually does quite well on her bike and you can often here her chanting to herself. I sink my can, I sink my can. What a lesson for me sometimes I want to just say, I can't do it. I can't run another step. I can't clean another floor etc... Life on some days seems daunting for one reason or another, but I can look at my cute little girlie on her bike and tell myself I sink my can too!!! Thanks Faith for the inspiration. :)
P.S. I'm typing this as I am supposed to be at the gym already come on Ang I think I can!

Good Bye Christmas Tree

For many of you who know Nikki well this will come as no surprise to you but I had to write this story down for myself. I get such a kick out of her. We were taking down the tree the other day. That night when we were tucking the kids into bed I told them to say good bye to the Christmas tree because when they woke up it would be gone. So Nikki asks me to lay with her to fall asleep. As we are laying there she says "Mom I'm really sad." So I ask her why. "At night I would love to look at the tree just one last time before I went upstairs to bed and it was so beautiful and I'm just so sad that we have to take it down." Saying this all while she's doing this fake sniffley sound. Oh Nikki you cute little drama Queen. So from all of the Nydegger clan here Good Bye Christmas tree, good bye!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

WE hope you all had a Beautiful Christmas Holiday! Merry Christmas from the Nydeggers