Life Goes On

We are all back from Maine, where we went the first part of June to have Donnie's burial services.  It was a nice day, and we had a great visit with friends and family!  Now it is back to normal life, or as normal as my life is now.

We are all excited that Donnie and his family now live in Boron.  We love having them so close by and being able to spend more time with them.  We get together every Sunday for family dinner and see each other several time during the week.  They are still getting settled in, but things are looking good.

Carol-Ann and family are doing well.  Dayton is getting so big, so fast and Dillon just had his 4th birthday!  The animals and work keep them busy but we see each other pretty much every day, since I live on the ranch.

I am adjusting to single life, as best I can.  I go to work, spend time with my kids and grandchildren and watch a lot of movies.  But I must say that there is a huge hole in my life.  I am very lonely although I am surrounded by people most of the time.  It is hard to be without something that you have had as long as I had my husband.  I miss him terribly and I'm sure I always will.  But I try to keep my chin up and move through life.  My back is healing and I have many more good days now than I did before the surgery.  I try to find things to keep me busy, but that isn't always easy.  Some days are better than others! 

Just a quick update on everyone, I will try to write more later and add some pictures of the grandchildren.  Hope all are doing well and having a great summer!

11/8/58 ~ 1/27/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Pictures

Here is the newest Family Photo of the Thomas'

The kids are getting so big!  I will post Easter pictures soon, we had a great day, with lots of fun, family and food! 

Dayton Jean Thomas . . . is Here

 Mom and a very proud big brother, Dillon with baby Dayton!

 A beautiful baby girl sleeping in Grampie's arms!

It doesn't get much sweeter than this...

Born: 1/8/11 @ 12:35

Weight:  6 lbs 14 oz

Length:  20 inches

Some Christmas Photos

 Dillon waving and saying "Merry Christmas everyone!"

 Zeb riding on his birthday present, that he didn't get until we got to Arizona.

 He doesn't look too thrilled with the lotion, does he?

 Eden loved her camera, she took about 450 pictures in two days!

 Funny how they both do the same thing as they zone out watching a movie!

Here is the little princess wearing her heals that she absolutely loves!

Happy New Year!

Just wanted to wish everyone a joyous and prosperous New Year!  We are hoping for good things in 2011 and will try to keep you all updated here on our blog page.  Currently, we are still awaiting the arrival of Dayton Jean Thomas, but will let everyone know as soon as she gets here.  I am currently preparing for back surgery on January 17th, so should have plenty of time to post some new pictures and current updates on the whole family once I start feeling better.

Donnie is selling pigs for upcoming fairs and we are headed to Fallon, NV this weekend for a pig auction, that he hopes to sell some more at.  It has been really cold here and we even got a little snow yesterday (1.5 inches), but it melted all away before I got home from work.

Hope all is well with everyone and I will post more later!

Update

Just a quick update on what is going on at the "new" Hewes Farm.  We moved back to Boron on a 5 acre lot, so we could have all the animals with us.  It has been a challenge, to say the least.  A lot of work, but worth it.  We are starting to get settled, I still have more unpacking to do, but that is on going. 

We had twin calves born on Oct. 17, a boy and a girl.  Mother and babies seem to be doing fine.  Then we had 8 baby pigs born on Oct. 24.  We lost the runt a couple of days later, but the other 7 are doing great!  We have 3 other sows due in the next 2 weeks, so much more work to do so as to get their pens ready for babies.

On the more human side... Carol-Ann and baby (Dayton) are doing well.  She is going to work until the end of the third week in November.  Then she is supposed to be home resting and trying to keep that baby in!!  We will see how that goes, she is actually not due until Jan. 23, but who knows!  We are hoping that she will last until after Christmas at least.  Donnie, Andrea and family are all doing good, they keep busy between work, school and soccer!  Oh ya, and gymnastics!  I am very sad that I will miss Eden's first gymnastics meet (I have a soft spot for gymnastics, go figure).  We hope to see them soon with the coming holidays.

That's about it for now, we are getting ready for trunk-or-treat tonight and then Halloween on Sunday!!  Hope everyone has a good one!

Happy Anniversary

Just wanted to take a moment to wish my wonderful husband a "Happy 32nd Anniversary" tomorrow!!  I love you so much, may we have many, many more!!

Love,
Your Eternal Mate

Christmas 2009 in California

All of the Grandchildren in their Christmas outfits

The Precious Girls

The Mighty Boys

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

WE HAD TWO FIRST CHRISTMASES THIS YEAR

Rachel Marie's first Christmas pictures...

Zebulun Malcolm's first Christmas pictures!

We are all blessed this Christmas season for many reasons, but most of all because of family!

Christmas is coming...and so is my family! We are very excited about Christmas coming and all of the kids are going to be here (even Zebulun who arrived 12/10/09)! I will have lots of pictures to post and update everyone with once they all get here.

I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It's been a while...

I know that I haven't been very good at posting things, sorry! Life is so busy. So many things have happened but I don't really know where to start. We are getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas, which means digging out all the houses and setting up the Christmas village. That is a lot of work in it's self, and we have lots of out side lights to hang up. Grampie's pigs are having babies, Donnie's wife is having a baby, Will is waiting on surgery for his knee, Carol-Ann is working at NASA now....and so on and so on. Not to mention the grand children...they are all so busy and growing so fast! I can't wait for Christmas to get together with everyone and get more pictures of them. My mom just had a hip replacement this week, my mother-in-law had a knee replacement in October and some days I'm just looking for a replacement in general...I am so done by the end of the day!


Grampie is still waiting on more surgeries for his back and neck but tries to keep busy with his pigs and Dillon. He had some kids in the neighborhood show two of his pigs in the Ridgecrest fair and they did really well. Even with Will out of work waiting to have his knee fixed, Grampie still has Dillon as often as they will allow. He just can't seem to make it through the week without having him at least a couple of days and nights!


I seem to be in a rut of being so busy but not really doing anything! I work, I am taking classes on-line, I try to keep up with the housework and Grampie! Busy, busy, busy! Someday I will slow down, but I don't know when. I started my Christmas shopping, and even decorated my office at work already...do you think I am anxious for Christmas this year? I don't know I just love Christmas!


Ok, well hopefully next time I post I will actually have something to say...but it was fun to just think over what is going on right now in my life. I promise to post more recent pictures of everyone as soon as we get together and get some, but thought I would throw these ones in for now. Hope everyone is doing well!

ICE CREAM AT GRAMMIE AND GRAMPIE'S HOUSE!

Rachel's first ice cream cone...being assisted by Grampie! I think she liked it, don't you!

Eden eating her ice cream...with a little on her nose!

Asher enjoying his ice cream, but trying really hard not to get any on his hands!

I would say by the looks of her face...she enjoyed hers the best of all of them!!

Camping with Eden

We took Eden to Lake Isabella camping, and she had a ball. We had a fun time at camp and at the Lake. She made friends with the kids that were camping behind us and loved playing in the water!

Doesn't that look like a happy face! She was goofing off for the camera like Eden does. This was taken at our camp site after swimming!

This was our camp site...we had a really nice, big site. Grampie was getting ready to cook us some hot dogs for supper and boy were they good! :)

We thought this was really cool. Along the shore down at the lake we found this line of ledge sticking out of the ground. It was so cool, just a straight line sticking jaggedly out of the sand! We saw several places like this on our little walk up the beach.

Grampie spent most of his time at the water....panning for gold!! There were little gold flakes all over the place. It was floating in the water and washed up all over the sand. It was pretty cool!

Grammie and Eden got to play in the water for a while. It was nice and refreshing! The water was warm and you could walk out quite a ways, so Eden could play and swim by herself! We had a great time!

Kids Newest Summer Pictures!

Asher, Eden and Rachel came to help Dillon celebrate his second birthday this past weekend. We had great fun and of course had to have pictures done. They all just get cuter and cuter every year!

This picture here they just look like they are having way too much fun!!

We also threw in Rylee and Makayla to make the group complete! We are just one big happy family!! They make quite the crew, don't they?

Back from the beach...

There was lots of building going on...in the sand. This is the sand castle that Donnie built one day, which Asher later knocked down. We had fun playing in the sand!

Joanna is very carefully making a face out of sand! It was really cute!

Asher ran right into the water, he was so excited, but he found out that it was colder than he thought! It took some work to get him back in, but Livvy and Sonora got him to go back in!

They took him by the hands and talked him into going back in to play. Once he got wet he was fine and loved it!

This is one of the many creatures we found in the tide pools! They were so cool, lots of living creatures to touch and observe. We had a great time walking along the shore just looking for star fish and watching the dolphins.

Going to the beach...

Hey, we are off to the beach on Monday, I start vacation in about 1/2 an hour! We are going to El Capitan Beach camping with the Keys family for the week. We are taking Asher with us and he is very excited about going! I will have lots of pictures and hopefully good stories to post later. Still haven't got any pictures of Carol-Ann with her cast, but will before she gets it off. Donnie is off on another adventure to Utah for a load of hay, this time Will went with him. They are headed back right now, should be home later tonight. He is a very busy man. We are enjoying Asher's company for a few weeks and then get to swap children and keep Eden for a while. How great is it to be the grandparents? Love um, spoil um and then send um home!! Ok, just thought I would update everyone on what is going on out here! More photos when we get back from the beach!!

"Izzard Hunting"

Here we go off on another lizard hunt. Dillon was fascinated with the lizards. Will tried to catch one for him, but they are very fast. So we went on many, many "izzard hunts". Dillon had his stick in hand, to beat the bushes with to scare the lizards out and off we would go. He would go from bush to bush to find the lizards. Then he would say, "find another one, oh, there it goes in the hole". I don't really know if he actually saw any because they move pretty fast, but he sure had fun and it kept him pretty busy !


He even recruited Dustin to help him search for lizards. They each had their sticks and Dustin had to follow Dillon around and beat the bush too! It was a great way for us to get our exercise in since we had to walk along with them. This activity seem to make them happy and that is what the weekend was all about!!

Camping at Dove Springs

We went camping at Dove Springs over Memorial Day Weekend and had a blast. We rode quads, ate lots of great food and just relaxed! There were several different families there and we all had fun, even Carol-Ann who ended up with a broken leg. I will post a little story about that later! Dez and the boys came to play with us and I think they had a blast! The boys were very busy and Colton got to ride all he wanted. The little boys were only able to ride when someone wanted to take them in the big three seater with seat belts, but over all I think they enjoyed themselves.
I know Dillon had a blast riding quads (pretend style) and getting a quick ride with Grampie now and then. Dillon, Dusty and Rylee all had fun going from one quad to the other and pretending to race. Sometimes they would all climb onto one and ride together. There was no time for sitting still for them. However several adults sat around camp alot and just relaxed. That is what vacations are all about, right?
Dez got to drive a quad for the first time, and finally got underway after many instructions from Grampie. Then she went on a long ride with the group and had fun. Colton just rode and rode and rode!! We all look forward to many more outings this summer in Tex's new camper!! Thanks Tex!