Spring is here!!

It has been so nice lately especially for March. It was so nice that last weekend we FINALLY bought the kids a swing set.  It took us all weekend to put it together, we still aren't done though because we were missing some bolts. Once we got it to the point where the kids could play on it then the weather turned bad. The next two days it was super windy and then rained. They didn't get to play on the swing set until wednesday. Harper loved it!! She didn't want to get off the swing to go down the slide but then once we got her to go down the slide she didn't want to stop going down and wanted to climb up the slide the wrong way.

Since the weather has been so nice we have been able to get out the jogging stroller out and take Ollie on walks with us. This is part of Colby and I trying to get into shape and losing some weight to look our best at Jamie's wedding. I found this chart on pinterest and it is couch to 5K. I told Colby about it and he thought we should start running. We say an ad for the Brookings Marathon at the chiropractors office and Colby thought we could do the half marathon. I told him no way!! It is in May and there is no way either us of would be able to run that far that soon since neither of us have been running at all. Well I looked it up on the website and their is a 5K the night before so we are signing up for that. I will be the first long distance race I will run since high school when I ran cross country and track. We are doing really well with our chart and keeping up with our running schedule but we are doing a little more running then they suggest which is a good thing. The chart is for 10 weeks to get ready for the 5K but that would put us at the beginning of June and the 5K is May 12!! I am hoping we can get it done and actually run the whole thing.

So right now Austin and Nichole are living with us. Austin wasted his money staying at this crappy hotel for like 3 weeks and then ended up only having like $20 for a whole week. Colby and I were very upset that he blew off our suggestions for saving his money but when he ran out he turned to us to save him. Its very frustrating but now they have found a place to live and can more in on wednesday. I can't wait. I don't mind having Nichole around. It is nice to talk to a female that is about my age and know what it is like to deal with the crazy Seifert family. However, I don't like that Austin is always out in our shop/lean digging around and snooping at stuff. He also "organizes" stuff out there to, in his mind, help Colby out with his tool and shop. He isn't helping that much and the reason the shop looks the way it does is because all their stuff is sitting in there on a trailer. Another thing I don't like/approve of is he is always going out to his car/ the shop and smoking. What I'm not always sure. Colby said last week he was smoking a lot of cigarettes but we also know he is smoking weed a lot, Nichole does too. They just came  back in the house from being out in their car for like half an hour. They went straight into their room, which is right next to the living room, and I could totally smell weed.

Colby told Austin that I do not like that he smokes weed especially on our property. But Austin told Colby that he basically needs to smoke it everyday to help him calm down. He also told Colby that he didn't think I would of known he smoked weed if he didn't talk about it. I think that he is very naive to think people don't know he smokes weed unless he tells them. I know what weed smells like. One of our roommates from Manhattan used to smoke weed in the house all the time.

I guess the point to this whole thing is I'll be glad when they are in their own place and I can have my house back. I just hope once they are on their own they can start spending their money wisely and get their lives together on their own. I know Colby's father expects them to fail in more then one way. He expects them to move back to Kansas and in with them again. He doesn't think he can make it at this job or living on their own. He also told Colby that he doesn't think their marriage is going to last. What the hell!! How can your own father say that about you. He should be supporting them and wanting them to succeed at everything in life not expecting failure in their whole life. Austin thinks his father is the best man/father in the whole entire world so its a good thing he doesn't know what he really says/thinks about Austin.

So the rest of the night I will spend waiting for Colby to get home from working overtime at work. This weekend will be more like summer then spring but we will enjoy it all the same!!

Three Weeks

Three weeks doesn't seem like that long when you really think about it but in the last three-ish weeks since I last blogged a lot has happened. The biggest of those is Colby got his younger brother a job at the plant he works at. This is his second week working up here. We went down to Kansas two weeks ago and got all his stuff on my parents trailer and brought it back to SD. That was an interesting experience. Their father is so much different than mine. He obviously hasn't had the moving experience that my father has. The move was rough but we made it. Austin, his brother, was staying with us in the playroom. It was working fine as far as we were concerned because with with them working nights I hardly see them. However, when Austin went back to Kansas last weekend, his wife had her gallbladder removed monday, their father told him he should stay at a cheap hotel to get out of our way. No one even asked how we were feeling about him being here and just assumed it was a problem. Well Monday after work he came back to our house with Colby and then grabbed some clothes and stuff and went back into town to stay at a cheap hotel. He didn't tell Colby he was going that night only that their father suggested it. So when I got up he wasn't here and I had no idea where he was. Colby and I were both super pissed that he didn't even say anything to us. It made me feel like he was so ungrateful for us doing everything we have for him. It is pretty irresponsible too. He barely had anything left in his checking account and used all of it to pay for the weeks stay at the hotel. They get paid tomorrow but he still doesn't have anywhere to live. The place he put in an application for isn't available until the end of March. I found a house with the same company but he hasn't heard anything about either place.

Anyways that is the drama going about that. Waylon is growing so fast. He smiles and laughs and sleeps through the night almost all the time. If he does wake up it is usually about 5am. I am putting him in the bebepod some now to help him get into sitting up. Now that he is 3 1/2 months old we are considering when to start him on cereal and then baby food. With Harper we started her just before 3 months old because she was so small. But Waylon has been growing so well he doesn't need the extra calories.

Harper has been doing ok with the potty. These last few weeks she has had a few day where she will have no accidents and then she will have a couple of really bad days where she has 4 or 5 accidents then back to no accidents. I wish she would just have no accidents but she is getting there I think. The good thing is she doesn't have any accidents when we are in town. She always tells us when she has to go even says it when she doesn't have to go. But I think that is so she can get out of where ever we are like the table or the cart at the store. I don't know how to tell if she needs to go or not so we always take her. Another thing she does that can be super cute is she will repeat things we say. Her vocabulary is really expanding. She will repeat me when I tell her what shapes are what and when I saw "Oh Harper", which is so cute. She can also say uncle, grandpa and Waylon along with the normal words. We think she is super smart but we could be kind of biased.

I know this post has gotten really long!! But I just wanted to share my new obsession…pinterest. I know a lot of people are into it. I have gotten so many good ideas off of it. I will try to post some of the recipes I make and LOVE and some of the other money savers, gift ideas and party ideas I find. I am on almost everyday so I find a lot of GREAT stuff. Stay tuned.