Our Little Blessing

Yep it's true, Jonathan and I are expecting a baby in November. We are so excited to be parents and to start this next stage of life. Thank heavens for school insurance though! We pray every day that everything will go well and that we can have a healthy baby. Jonathan and I already love this little blessing and we can't keep the smiles off our faces as we think about our tiny miracle that is growing. Jonathan is going to be a great daddy because he is already a fantastic husband and I love him. He has been understanding with my morning sickness that tends to hit during the middle of the day and he tells me to take naps (which is easy to do when he is in class). He has dreams of having kids following him around in boots and coveralls helping him feed the cows, chickens, and pigs. And I have in my mind's eye the thought of lots of children playing in the yard with eachother and having picnics. It will be a while until then, but right now we will have eachother and improve our relationship with eachother for our family and future kids. Our plans are to have the baby in Rexburg, Idaho (...cuz thats where the school insurance is...) and go from there. Jonathan will graduate in December with an Animal Science degree...at long last! So we are very excited for the future and all the blessing that are entailed with it. Plus the Thompson parents are finally going to be GRANDPARENTS and all my brothers and sisters will be uncles and aunts. And on the Bush side, it will be the second grandbaby for all of them. We just hope everything goes well and positive for the next 8 months. Stay tuned for more updates!

Jonathan designed and built these hen boxes for a chicken coop at the Cook Farm where we work every now and then. With the help of Jonathan's brother Matt, they put the boxes together in no time. Now the chickens love them!

Jonathan has been working with our new percheron draft horses. This colt is only 8 months but is the size of a normal sized horse! Jonathan is halter breaking this little...big guy in this picture. These big ponies are usually gentle giants and docile, however I caught this rare moment on camera. We thought it was an awsome picture.

These are the horses that we went to get in North Dakota. We had planned to camp during the night so we didn't have to rent a hotel. While looking for a place to camp we came across a county road so we took it and ended up getting stuck in the mud at the bottom of a gully where the road was very narrow. It took us four hours of shoveling mud, cutting and hauling brush, and then laying the trailor matts down in the tracks for us to get out. We back the trailor up the hill and back about a mile till we found a spot we could turn around. It was a memorable experience.

Brittani made some cute skirts which she is very proud of. Her first one is the red one and just yesterday with her sister in-law Jennifer, they made some more skirts. It was so much fun. Hopefully they can continue to find sewing projects.