Kai, Aksel and Ruby

So lambing hell week had a major offset.  We had Kai, our oldest grandboy, Aksel, his brother, and Ruby, their sweet baby cousin girl, out over that weekend (this very last weekend hardly qualified as a weekend, Dirt worked for the school for both days, last Monday being a holiday on top of that, and I am lost calendar wise).

The boys, Kai and Aksel, came out on Thursday, cuz dad took mom to Portland to visit old friends for her birthday. They had a great time tagging along behind Auntie Bet, tuckers some folks out.

When our oldest daughter, their mama, brought them out to us and walked into our kitchen, she turned green at the smell of our chicken broth cooking on the stove, dead give away for the call that she would give Aksel the next day announcing that they had taken a test and it showed that mom and dad would be adding another Manley to the crowd.  Yippeee!  Kai looked very excited, not too surprised, but very excited to hear the news on the phone.

Ruby came out with Justin and Anna early Saturday morning, while her mom and dad went to the mountains for the day with a bunch of teenagers.  It had its rocky parts, a fairly new baby without her momma, but we all worked through it, well mostly Anna worked through it.

Ruby wore her legg toasters that I made her so we had to try on her matching hat.  It’s a bit big so I will be making her a new one, and she will love it even when she sits in her car seat. (She has issues with cap type hats when seated in her car seat.  But I’m thinking the bonnet type hat will be better and less likely to go over her eyes.)

It was a great Saturday and ended with our entire little family all together for some of Dirt’s slow bbq’d beef and cole slaw from the garden.  It was nice just before the bad week began the next day.