Tayla's 2nd Birthday

We celebrated Tayla’s 2nd birthday by having a BBQ and inviting over friends and family! The theme for her party was a candy shop! Go figure…. She loves candy! Happy Birthday Tayla Renee, we love you!

Baking Cookies with Grammy

One of Tayla's favorite things to do is "cook, cook." While we were in Denver last weekend Grammy Debbie helped Tayla make sugar cookies. The unfortunate thing is that Grammy Debbie sent them home with us! Needless to say they were all pretty much gone before we got home. Tayla and Grammy Debbie make a mean sugar cookie!

RN's

Graduation! on May 14th Clay graduated with his RN for NCKTC. Also on the same day Chelle, my sister also graduated with her RN from Colby Community College. We are all so proud of both of them. It was a longgg stressful road but they both made it through and they will be wonderful nurses! Chelle has already started her job in Hill City at the hospital. She is working 12 hour shifts from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Clayton will start in the Cath Lab at the hospital in a few weeks.

Denver to see Ge Ge!

This past weekend we decided to go to Denver to visit grandma Head. Grandma had been having a rough spell with her health and had been in the hospital for over a week. Grandmas kidney funtion has declined and she was diagnosed with a high metasis cancer. Grandma was acctually discharged from the hospital on Friday, the day we arrived. We couldnt find a dog sitter for Ony so we stayed at my aunt Janets house. Very kind of the Wickenheisers to allow us to stay at there place. On Saturday morning we went over to grandmas place to visit for a few hours. Let me say she is a real trooper. She sounded and looked great. She does still have two nephrostomy tubes running from her kidneys and she has to drain them occasionally. She complianed of no pain and states she feels fine. She walked to open the door for me, allthough there was not much of a choice after I had broken the key off in her door. She did great. I visited with her for a long time and asked if she would enjoy some lunch. Being a nurse I know that a greasy hamburger from wendy's was probably not the best choice for her, but who can resist a grandma saying, "all I really want is a hamburger?" I love my grandma, we talked sports and about her health, as well as other family members. I am very proud of her, she has had two close calls and come out both times like a champ. It was a great trip and I am very glad that I had the opportunity to spend time with a lady we all love very much. We love you Ge Ge!




Also while we were in Denver we had the oppurtunity to go to the zoo! We had a great time and Tayla loved it. On the way home Tayla was saying, "Mommy, I need a tiger." I think the tiger has her favorite thing a the zoo!

Tayla's First Hunt

Today at daycare they had an Easter Egg hunt for the kids. Judy and Bob stuffed over 400 Easter Eggs and scattered them through out there backyard. The kids had a blast! Tayla collected ( with Mommy and Daddy's help) a full basket of eggs. We are blessed to have Judy (and Bob part-time) as Tayla's sitter!
Happy Easter Everyone!

Oink.. Oink!

One of Tayla’s favorite things to do is play outside! Since the weather is getting nice and Spring is in the air we have been spending lots of evening outside. The other night I picked up Tayla and we were getting ready to go in for the evening. She was covered in sand and was sweating like crazy. (She sweats really easy like her Daddy) When I picked her up I said “Wow Tayla you are sweating like a pig.” She looked at me with her dirt covered face and said “oink oink mommy.” It was hilarious! Below are pictures of her after we got inside… I striped her clothes because she was so hot. She was walking around the house saying … “I nakey Mommy (meaning naked)!”

Go Rockies !

Go Rookies!
On April 1th we headed to Denver to watch opening weekend for the Colorado Rockies! We all had great time and the rookies one by 2 runs! This is a family tradition that we have with the Hering side of the family and we have been going to opening weekend for three straight years now! Go Rookies!

Surprise Ge Ge!

Last weekend myself, Tayla and my mom traveled to Denver for the weekend to celebrate Ge Ge (Grandma Heads- Clay’s side) 85th Birthday party. It was a surprise party at Bob and Caryl’s house. We had a great time and Ge Ge was so excited. She is such a sweet lady and it was great to see the joy on her face just having the family together. Tayla enjoyed the time with her Papa and Grammy Hering.

I would have to say she has got it together and looks GREAT at 85. Happy 85th Birthday Ge Ge!

"Tayla… where is the screw?”

On Sunday afternoon, (a very snowing afternoon)Tayla and I decided to take apart her baby bed and turn it into a toddler bed. We took on this project while daddy was at the hospital doing clinicals. We took everything apart and started putting it back together, I then noticed I was missing a screw. Looking around Tayla’s room I could not find the screw so after about 20 minutes of looking I asked Tayla, “Tayla where is the screw, mommy needs it to finish putting together your bed.” Without saying a word (which is unusual for her) she marched out to the living room and over to the coffee table where she had placed the screw on a coaster. “here go mommy!” and she handed me the screw. She really enjoyed helping take apart and put together the bed. On the agenda for the next couple weeks is redoing her bedding. Oddly enough my inspiration for Tayla’s new bedding came for a pretty blue pillow from Wal-Mart. Currently I am working on sewing the curtains and the bed shirt… more to come! For first nap in her new toddler bed! :)

This is one of our*first* posts! I have been wanting to start a blog for over a year now... so finnaly hear we are. more to come!!

Happy 80th Grandpa!

On Saturday, January 29th the Pfannenstiel family gathered to celebrate Grandpa Meft’s 80th Birthday day! The weather was beautiful and the kids enjoyed playing outside. Grandpa looks and does great for 80. He is very active (sometimes too active) and enjoys fishing, working in the garden, cooking, watching sports on TV and working in his shop. One of his favorite places to be is outside on his back deck with a red beer enjoying the 100 degree weather. Grandpa is a great guy… I would say one of the important live lessons that I have learned from his is “always return things to there proper place and leave things better than you found them.” For those of you who know grandpa he is a neat freak and everything has a place. Happy 80th Birthday Grandpa, We love you!!