tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25141259958159683232024-03-12T21:55:27.828-07:00Ranch LifeFultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-58093174502877427562015-05-09T23:34:00.000-07:002015-05-09T23:34:47.470-07:00MomsMOM<br />
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What a word! To have a Mom. To grow up with a Mom. A beautiful, loving, influential Mom. To witness other great Moms. To then become a Mom. To then be oh so grateful to other dear friends, sisters, aunts, Moms, grandmas, uncles, cousins.... who give your Mom-self the much needed respite from the dear put energy sapping little ones just when you NEED it the most!!!<br />
Lately I had the fortunate experience of meeting, in person, my dear college rowing friends' kiddos, and re-visiting ALL my old teammates, whether they have kids or not! As we all know, those that DONT have kids are SO influential in our lives. MY life! Just the different but wonderful person, the needed distraction. The connection to our past lives, Pre-Mom. Pre-Marriage. That is so awesome!<br />
And....I had the unfortunate experience recently of loosing a dear cousin. Donny was only 29 and meant the world to my husband, my little boys, and I. Our loss is enormous, but to think of his parents' loss, his Mom's loss, is unimaginable.<br />
Being a Mother, we can fathom it. But cannot really grasp, even imagine it. All we can do is try to support her, and all of us Mothers, Mom's friends, Aunts, Granny's, Grandmas, cousins, and, yes DAD's and uncles and Grandpas out there that support us in being a Mother. <br />
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So, this is a post to all of the Mom's, and our support system!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From left to right----Tammy! Pregnant here with baby number 3 and just days later gave birth! You're a stud, Tammy! Emily, with a newborn, kiddo number two, in tow! I loved meeting your husband and family....:-) Jody! Your amazing sense of self and friendship helps all of us rowing mama's live viraciously though you! Keep at it! And we WILL to a tri, or relay tri together!--- Jenny! IronWoman! Amazing friend to many of our little kiddos! You rock! You are my inspiration. Keep giving us something to strive for! --Alison, awesome nurse and amazing Mama to Quinn and Grey! I had so much fun getting to know Quinn :-) And Ashley. Uh Oh. Our oldest kiddos, from my sister's impression, sound like hubby and wife already. Get ready!. And the wonderful guys in the background. Somethings never change. You rock! And there are SO many Mom's not in this picture. This is just an Inkling of who our epic College Crew team has become. We All ROCK!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aunt Megan! Let's hear it for the Aunties! THEY ROCK!!!! I love you, Sisters!!!!! What life savers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another shout out to the Aunties! What a special relationship! Here is Forrest and Aunt Megan on the bike, giving Talin some much needed separation time from his brother. So important!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Granny's! And Great Aunts! These kiddos were running amuck and my wonderful Mom pulled out just one of the tricks up her sleeve, a tuppaware with sand and hidden objects, and BAM! Happy, CALM, little boys for a LONG time!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Grandmother. My Dad's Mother. The Matriarch of our family. SO blessed to have this role model and friend in my life!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To see my little boy act so kindly towards an old PA school friends first kiddo! So amazing! Talin is such a sweet guy, (At times!). </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What being a Mom is about, encorporating the kids into a chore you DON'T want to do. And guess what. THEY make it better! What can be better than bailing out spunk water from a pool that needs to be cleaned? Why catching tadpoles with a 6 year old, of course! Through a child's eyes...all is better....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My little dude. Will be 4 in two days! Dirty faced, ALWAYS! (It seems!) such a little sweet heart though!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this Mama! And her adopted kiddo, Thomas, just turned 6. Such a great friend to my boys. And FAST! Can outrun anyone! This Mom just finished FNP school! All the while being the loving supportive Mother to her kiddo who deals with cleft palate amongst other things. Wow! You rock!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Mothering brothers, who made me so proud. Forrest used his OWN money to buy Talin a super cool Tiger book WITH 3D glasses from his school book fair, for his birthday. Forrest's idea! That is the best!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And enjoying moment's like these. Having your OWN Mom, in your presence, making your experience with your kiddo's all the better. I'm so lucky! Priceless!</td></tr>
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And SO many more here that aren't mentioned. It TRULY takes a village, in my world, to be a Mother! And I thank everysingle person I involve my life with, because you all truly make a difference! Make my word better!<br />
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Happy Mothers Day!Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-54904067247959961842015-04-06T00:03:00.002-07:002015-04-06T00:03:30.830-07:00Catch up post of all time....March<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Take Two...<br />
So lets wrap up March of 2015 in 1 word. Shall we?<br />
BUSY!<br />
But full of interesting, lovely, fishy, wonderful adventures. And a helluva lotta work--(no better way to put that!). Buuuut, then end is in sight, for this Mama, or at least a more normal schedule is in sight. And I can't wait!<br />
Here are a few pictures to capture the events, in REVERSE chronological order!<br />
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We take a day trip down the river with the boys! First time in a long time. It was so nice to let them play on the river bars, and rocks, while we fished and played. We found the cutest puppy and dogs and made friends quickly. Not so great in the end as they tried to follow up down river. Uhhohhh! We hope they made it back safe!<br />
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Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-52607961821021882932015-02-28T23:15:00.000-08:002015-04-05T23:17:26.580-07:00The catch up post of all catch up posts.....But not really. I can't minimize GRANNY'S TWO WEEK VISIT!!!!My wonderful newly retired Kindergarten teacher extroardinaire mother visited our home for two whole weeks this February. I meant to do a major catch up post to finally get in a real time blogging format but just couldn't gloss through her visit.<br />
It was so wonderful on so many levels!<br />
The initial plan HAD been to drive down to S. Cal, family in tow, to drop the kiddos off with the gandparents so Alex and I could have a few days alone. BUT, I backed out, majorly. I had a 4 day weekend, but both jobs were demanding more and I decided to ask if, by chance, my Mom could come up here?!<br />
And she came, superhero Granny extroardinare! She also volunteered in Forrest's K class, got to spend some key one on one time with him, and helped their teacher immensely with testing, which happened to be occuring while she was visiting. It really is amazing how much Forrest has improved during and since her visit, his letters, numbers, sounds, sight words. All of it.<br />
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Alex and I were lucky enough to take two great day trips. One for a great super long-would never do that with the kids- day hike. It was 16 miles round trip and we capitalized on the amazing but worrisome sunny beautiful February weather with a hike into the Trinity Alps. It was gorgeous!<br />
It was nice hiking that distance, talking as much as we wanted to, without being interrupted by our little Thing #'s 1 and 2. And it was nice picking a good distance to go, WITHOUT a big overnight pack! Neither of us are in backpacking shape, so that would have been a bit too much.<br />
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Our 2nd full day trip, a week later, was a great boating trip down a very remote section of river. This river, the S. Fork of the Trinity, is a big unknown to Alex, the fish guru. They can have amazingly big steelhead and salmon. But, alas, nothing for us except white water fun and great solo adventure time! Brrrrr!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of sandwiches for this trip!</td></tr>
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My Mom's trip was fantastic in so many ways. I can't thank her enough for the two wonderful weeks she gave to Alex and I, and the boys. I can't wait for the next time!Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-70468857646758759292014-12-30T20:34:00.000-08:002015-02-20T20:35:03.211-08:00Christmas 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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December is such a busy time for me, on the work front. Add in the usual
holiday work parties, fun neighborhood festivities, visits with family
and friends, and heck, where do I find time for presents?? But, Santa
did indeed come visit this year! Here is a brief pictage of our holiday at
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We FINALLY searched and cut down our Christmas tree!-Better late than never! Can you tell who wanted a bigger one!??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No white Christmas this year! Christmas Day was beautiful! I took a gorgeous run!</td></tr>
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And even growing Candy Canes!<br />
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He also got some good Grandpa time in with the coveted remote control motorcycle---though this mama wasn't able to get pictures of that one.....<br />
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Forrest is a pretty dang good traveler now, or perhaps I've just become the experienced parent with travel! Probably more of the latter. We had to deal with a late evening flight and a delayed plane, but a little hot chocolate and a Mom not afraid to take a bigger than normal toy on the plane led to a peaceful flight. Though it was only an hour ride! This mama is still a bit gun shy to take a longer flight! Though the flight attendant even gave me a free glass of wine...she must have sensed Forrest's feisty potential that was brewing...<br />
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Though the whirlwind trip for this 5 yearold kiddo was perfect. Keep him moving, that's my secret! Here's to more weekends of fun with Granny and Grandpa!<br /><br />Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-49496601003485035982014-12-05T23:13:00.000-08:002015-01-09T23:13:17.991-08:00Lots of fun with the litte guys!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This December we've had fun with the smaller version of the monster steelhead and salmon you often see in our pictures. These smaller, younger steelhead are called half-pounders, similar to a trout, and are usually around 14-18 inches, or at least the ones we keep are! They are good to eat and very fun to catch, both for kiddies and adults. And the fact you can just saunter out your front door, down the river trail, and catch 10 of these guys in 2 hours is amazing to say the least. It has been an amazing half pounder year this year! This particular day was on one of my more rare Friday's off. I had to work a week bit in the morning in the local clinic and then made it home for a 2 hour fish session prior to bus pick up time for Forrest for Kindergarten. <br />
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So thanks to the little guys of our river for feeding our family and providing us with enjoyment to boot.<br />
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PS---As I write this we are STILL catching nothing but halfpounders, and it's 1 month later. I have a fish crazy hubby going nuts for the big guys! But we are still thankful, really, we are!Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-70090869217055774862014-12-01T14:41:00.000-08:002015-01-09T14:41:50.071-08:00A Thanksgiving Escape...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We've made it quite a tradition to go to S. Oregon over the Thanksgiving break. The fishing is generally outstanding and it's a nice gettaway as I often have some days off. This year our friends from Santa Rosa joined us. They have two boys, ages 5 and 2. So, 4 boys 5 and under ruled our holiday! It was awesome! The weather did not cooperate and it dumped buckets on us the whole time, blowing the river out. Before the river got too high Alex did manage to catch a nice bright salmon for our first dinner with our friends.<br />
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We had a great time playing, visiting the fish hatchery near by, endless legos, long baths, movies, forts, cooking, and lots and lots of little boy energy. Fellow boy mom Marla is amazing and it was very nice to compare and commiserate!<br />
Our friends left Saturday morning leaving us to have some alone time. Given the blown out river we headed for the Oregon coast and nailed a beautiful day!<br />
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It was an amazing trip and we're thankful for the great "gettaway" tradition we've started!Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-42283461918223070532014-10-26T22:38:00.002-07:002014-10-26T22:53:33.787-07:00The Katie update...for you Grandma!!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is for my Grandma Sheila. And it is NOT to replace a good, much needed phone call. My wonderful grandma left me a message yesterday while I was completing a Saturday at work, and I have yet to get back to her. That will happen tomorrow, (I promise, Grandma!) But, she mentioned my lack of blogging, as well as not knowing what the heck was going on with my job(s), life, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So here is an update!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am officially a part-timer at two jobs. I am officially a family practice PA in our local town of Willow Creek, as well as continuing on part time with my general and vascular surgical position in Eureka. This new schedule leaves me with many less hours on the road, and literally next door to Forrest's Kindergarten 2-3 days a week, with some Fridays off completely.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is amazing!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Family practice in a rural area is very challenging, in a good way! There is quite a bit of urgent care/ER in all of it, just given the fact that we are one of the closest medical facility of any type for 50 miles. I, thankfully, already know about 1/2 my patients through the surgical practice. I feel confident in my ability to suture and treat most urgent care type maladies. I also feel confident, through my ER experience, to be able to triage and "street", (call 911, send to the ER,) the complaints I know I cannot fully work up and treat in the clinic setting.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yes it is challenging. I am seeing week old newborns and 30 minutes later seeing the local cennitarian.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yikes!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I've had to really up my game with woman's health, (yes, of course made better by the fact I'm a woman and I've had two babies in the last 5 years). But, there is still a LOT more!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Peds, along the same line of thinking has been challenging, but again, easier, because of my kiddos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Overall it is really a win win. I feel challenged. I feel lucky to be able to give those patients that need it, a direct route to a surgical specialty, (as those in a rural area DO need it, and when</span> <span style="font-size: large;">they need it, in general, they really need it!)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I've also already treated my local friends. My Mom Friends, my Neighbors, my kid's friends, my kid's teachers! This is amazing, to be able to help those that need it, be it just a case of sinusitis, or a life threatening infection.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is also extremely hard.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I of course always try my damdnest to do the right thing, and for the most part, the 'right' thing is the best, and leads to healthy and happy bodies.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But not always.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And I'm working through the realization that that fact is a fact, and will happen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But, back to the pros. I don't have to leave my house till 8am. I can drop Forrest off at school, chat with his teacher if I need to, and be to work in plenty of time for my 9am patient. My job is then flexible enough to be able to have Forrest at my work every Monday for 2 hours, after school. I'm home by 5-6 every day. (This is contrasted to 7-8 with the other job!) My charting is always done, by the time I leave the office, as my volume in the family practice setting is much lower, (compared to never being done, in the surgical job.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So why keep the surgical job?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">For a lot of reasons, actually. #1-I love what I do. I love the speciality that has fallen in my lap, namely, the vein work. To treat a patient from start to finish, seeing improvement in their compliant, be it a huge leg ulcer, or just super swollen, achy legs, is great, as a mid-level provider, (a PA). It's so great, that I had an opportunity to talk about it at a surgical PA conference in SF this last week!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So amazing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">First off, to network with high level colleagues, all motivated to learn more, seek more, and very interested in what I had to say.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And secondly, to realize, that my crazy rural area has given my the opportunity to be this highly trained in</span> <span style="font-size: large;">vein work, to be asked to speak at a conference about what I do.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Amazing!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And nerve wracking. Public speaking is absolutely something you tend to lose after school. But I think the talk went fine, and I had a great mini whirlwind trip to San Francisco this past week! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the athletic front? She's currently just, well, running.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't been on my bike in months, actually.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just told my Dad that very fact.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I think he had an issue with it!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Competed in a local 5 K this past weekend. It was as somewhat refreshing to train for such a short event.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Also was HARD. Hard trying to go fast. That anaerobic threshold business is crazy, when you haven't trained for that in awhile!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll be talking to you shortly, Grandma! I love you! </span>Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-51988080648417936332014-10-26T21:57:00.001-07:002014-10-26T22:45:56.036-07:00Halloween is a comin'!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The boys were excited for Halloween early this year! October 12th, due to supremely good weather, was out first Pumpkin patch extravaganza. Forrest was dead set on carving THAT NIGHT!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So, we carved up our first two pumpkins that evening.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And yes, 5 days later we had a moldy mess on our hands!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ahhh, well, I'd rather sacrifice a few pumpkins pre-Halloween than just about anything else!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last weekend Forrest and I took a trip to the Halloween store. It was quite a scary, but funny experience! Our local Halloween store, is quite spooky, actually. There are a ton of the foot operated super scary ghosts, whitches, goblins, Chucky like babies, ghouls, headless horseman.....you get the drift! I was even a bit wigged out in the store.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Needless to say, our fiesty Forrest wanted to get the heck OUT of that Halloween store...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As soon as he had picked out his costume of course!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Upon laying eyes on the Ninja brother costumes, he had decided, THAT is what he and Talin were to be. Ninja brothers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(We'll see if Talin goes along with it, he's dead set on being Batman....!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Last year these brothers were SO cute in their super hero costumes. They played so nicely in them, out fighting bad guys and such.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This year, well, there's more of an uphill battle, I do believe. Being 3 1/2 and 5 1/2 vs. 2 and 4....well, a bit more sibling fighting going on.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Heck, a TON more sibling fightning going on.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's pretty awful, really!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But, truth be told, the costume tradition held up, and these brothers acted like true Ninja brothers should and even helped each other into their costumes, and went off to fight the bad guys, (Turkeys in our garden on this particular afternoon,) in wonderful fashion.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">For about 18 1/2 minutes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ahhh, well, at this stage you take what you can get!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking forward to some fun spooky times come Halloween!!!</span>Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-61141550105757898032014-10-12T21:26:00.000-07:002014-10-26T22:54:03.018-07:00Last big garden push...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-82050783972265028712014-09-29T22:33:00.000-07:002014-09-29T22:33:16.899-07:00Two Big Milestones...This boy got a haircut!<br />
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Yes, I know, it was sorely needed. But also oh so cute in my world. 3 + years without an official haircut is a long time for this baby, errr, BIG BOY to keep his cute infant locks! One of his last baby milestones to cross, I do believe.<br />
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But we were both ready for this day to come. The sylist was great with him, and Talin sat still and endured the ordeal quite well. It took about 25 minutes to get all that hair trimmed nice and short. An official big boy cut! <br />
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Every morning had been quite the struggle combing and brushing. And that is if we bothered with it. Most mornings, honestly we didn't. Short hair is just so much easier. And he looks so different! His facial features are so much more apparent, he looks so much more grown up, but also younger as well. <br />
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<br />We're quite happy with the whole shebang!<br />
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And Milestone #2-Forrest is nearing in on his first month of Kindergarten! For the most part this has been a smooth transition, with the class itself. We are still working out the kinks with the schedule. Last week was his first full 5 day week, and yes, I'd say he was a bit exhausted at the end. We have also tried, and quit, the afterschool program. It just was kind of awful, disorganized, and Forrest just wasn't getting anything good out of it. So we offically quit that last week, making our schedule change again. I'd honestly rather have him in my office for part of the day then go through the anxiety of wondering what he was doing, how he was doing, etc.<br />
His favorites I believe are still riding the school bus, which is does do 4 days a week, after school, and all things building and mechanical. He talks about his teacher in a positive light and so far we are very happy with her. Here is a picture she sent me of Forrest and his girl posse building a castle...<br />
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I'm lucky enough to be able to do the drop off and pick up 3 days a week, and it's so awesome to be able to feel at ease in the classroom, talk with his teacher, and check his pad out for a bit. Last week we celebrated a random Tuesday that was more challenging than most for myself with a special ice cream, (beer for me!) date at our local restaurant in Willow Creek after school and work! </div>
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My boys are growing up my leaps and bounds. HUGE leaps and bounds, seemingly!Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-88213527586544410872014-08-30T17:46:00.000-07:002014-08-30T17:46:10.484-07:00July and August, POOF be gone!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here it is, in no particular order, our summer in a few paragraphs. We've been a BUSY family over here in the woods. I've been buried in trying to work two jobs, Alex has been taking a huge load of work as well, and the boys, well, they're great! But OH SO BUSY! And full of energy. And full of yelling and screaming and talking...and did I say full of energy? Oh yes. But then I think of what we all accomplished this summer and I am quite amazed. We managed to finally finish a part of our addition. The boys each have their own room now. WAHOOO! Talin has spent the summer growing like crazy. He never stops talking, NEVER! And, he is finally pacifier free as of a week ago. DOUBLE WAHOO!!!! Go Talin! At 3 years 3 months my baby is truly on to boy status. Forrest spent the summer going to his first big kid Summer Camp. Blue Lake Summer Camp, ages 5-13 was amazing for Forrest. For the first time he was expected to behave like a big kid, and achieved this with flying colors. We never ever heard of any behavioral issues with him at this camp. They spent the summer going on field trips to fun places like the HSU natural history museum, park scavenger hunts, bowling, weekly trips to the roller rink where our big kid learned to skate! He's having his own experiences out their in the big word. Very awesome! T-Ball ended so-so this last June, a bit to slow for our engaged Forrest I think, but soccer just started up 2 weeks ago and so far he is loving it. And, the big milestone, KINDERGARTEN! September 10th can't come soon enough. He is SO ready for this!(And his parents are too!)</div>
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Alex has had a great and super busy summer as well. We both figure we'll sleep in the Winter time, perhaps. He's been fishing in the ocean several times, (actually is doing just that as I write!), but has primarily working his tail off. And myself, oh yes. This week marks my fist week as I'm officially a part-timer at TWO jobs, rather than a full timer at one, and a part timer at the other. This schedule gave me no time off this summer, which was a huge bummer, but one that I accepted as I knew it was short lived. We've had amazing help from both my parents and Alex's Mom, as well as our great neighbors. We love our village. I officially now am working only 15 minutes from my home two days a week, as a family practice PA. The other two-three days I'm still in Eureka over an hour away, working in vascular surgery. On those days Talin goes with me to go to a great Pre-school on the coast that he just started this past week, (and loved :-)</div>
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Being so close to home, (and virtually next door to Forrest's soon to be school two days of the week!,) and able to volunteer in the K classroom on Friday mornings going to be perfect, I think, (I hope!) I'm super blessed to have an opportunity for local employment, given where I live.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Granny came and stayed! For 3 weeks! My newly retired Mom brought so many amazing and wonderful Kindergarten books and K supplies to pass on to my boys and to their new schools. They literally have over 100 new books for themselves and more than that to donate on her behalf. Here I am shucking our garden corn while she reads to the boys on our porch. What a great summer memory.</td></tr>
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And I'll leave you with one from TODAY! My new job participates in our local Big Foot Parade yearly. So, with the theme this year being Rock N' Roll I summoned up my parade courage and the boys and I rode on the parade. <br />
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...of watching with Amazement our garden grow under the terrific green thumb that is Alex...<br />
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...of exploring the excellence that is a wonderful broccoli and cauliflower crop, (I spy a cauliflower from above, do you?)<br />
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...of just SAVORING the lovely weather that is wonderfully warm, but not yet steamy HOT, and trying to soak up these long beautiful days before the endless heat of summer gets to us...<br />
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...of having several "Ahhh HA!" moments with our kids, feeling we are finally reaching, or at least glimpsing, admist the daily never-ending messes, yelling, chaos, and fights, that magical age where it all gets easier, and it all is super sweet.<br />
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But today, we had a couple momentous occasions.<br />
#1- We have a river swimmer!!!! First time sans life jacket for Forrest. This is a BIG deal!<br />
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#2 - Talin pees in the potty! His brother adorned him with underwear soon after the event. Pretty cute brother moment:-)<br />
Hurray for the Fulton boys. And to all a good night!Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-57490870573535674252014-06-21T22:48:00.000-07:002014-06-29T22:49:06.498-07:00A true Solstice birthday...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year for my birthday I got the itch to enjoy it...every last minute. Carpe Diem. So, a week ago I sent out the shout out to friends telling them of my plans, to see if any wanted to join for all or just a part of the start of my 34th year on this longest day of the year....</div>
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We started with coffee, tea, and breakfast treats at Solstice Sunrise at 5:43 a.m. (no pictures of the atendees here....we were still waiting for the coffee to start working!) My neighbor and friend Mary Beth and Karen and my WONDERFUL Alex and mother in law Gloria joined me!Soon after coffee and breakfast Mary Beth and I headed out for a beautiful ride along the South Fork of the Trinity. It was gorgeous :-)</div>
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Then we had a beach party with friends :-) Some good cold drinks, a GREAT cold watermelon, and lots of semi clothed cute kids helped the day get even better!</div>
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...what party is fully complete, no matter what your 30 something age is, without cupcakes! Yum :-)<br />
I am blessed with wonderful family and friends who put forth the effort to celebrate with me on my special Saturday birthday! Happy Solstice ALL! An exhausted 34 year old is down for the count.<br />
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This year marked my Mom's last year of teaching Kindergarten. 38 years of teaching is such a tremendous achievement, and as fellow teachers told her, she will NEVER stop being a teacher. It's in her blood to always teach.<br />
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Her "treetirement" party, in May, was amazing. Her long time teaching and family best friend Liz hosted and did a wonderful job!<br />
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Life size replicas of my Mom were in and outside of the house... in typical Elementary school teacher fashion! You tell school teachers to host a party and they go ALL OUT!<br />
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Family and friends came for the occasion. Megan was even lucky enough to have nearly ALL of her old Elementary school teachers in one spot! Now when does that ever happen???<br />
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Natalie was there in spirit....and actually in real life, at least in her 5 year old self :-)<br />
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Happy Retirement Mom! Welcome to your endless summer!</div>
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Forrest graduates Preschool!</div>
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Look at these four! What characters...and what a handful!</div>
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Thanks to super teachers Sheila and Kyle all four are heading to Kindergarten next year!</div>
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Their ceremony was super quick and cute, perfect :-)</div>
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We love you! Love, Katie, Forrest, and Talin </div>
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Okeee, I've been gone for awhile. Exactly a month in fact, so here we go, trying to play catch up with the incredibly busy and awesome events of May and June.<br />
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The kids LOVED the sweet broccoli. Our first heads were amazing, almost like a different vegetable entirely than the store bought stuff.<br />
Happy early summer!Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-32563918307879086762014-05-12T15:39:00.001-07:002014-05-14T20:22:01.560-07:00Goal Completed!<br />
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Oh boy oh boy. I'll spare much of the nitty gritty details but I finished my goal and survived to tell about it! The Tour of the Unknown Coast was Saturday May 10th and the weather gods were not exactly listening. 3 hours of rain to start off the day, crazy wind, freezing temps...plus the known hurdles, 100 miles and a ton of climbing.<br />
It was certainly an up and down day for me. I had thoughts of hatred, thoughts of total self doubt, crazy insane thoughts wondering what the heck my body was doing, and those same thoughts wondering WHY I was doing this to my body.<br />
And then I would catch a glimpse of a fantastic view, an awe inspiring valley, or another rider going through the same hell and Heaven I was, all in the same minute and it became all worth it. And to think of how few people even get the chance to witness some of the beauty I was given, or have the chance to complete what I did, made me ultimately love the day, (when I finished :-)<br />
What a day.<br />
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One TIRED lady here, the day after, but made my relaxing Mother's Day all the better though.<br />
Even though biking is not necessarily a team sport, this event WAS. We couldn't really draft off each other through the rain, unless you wanted a mouth or nose full of dirt and water, but there were more voices of encouragement than I've ever seen on a ride, plenty of drafting help for the sunny but crazy windy section, and that comradery that ONLY comes with an adventure that is dishing out the hurdles endlessly. <br />
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The bond you make with someone as you TRY to get that warm cup of coffee in your mouth, but fail due to the uncontrollable shakes, and watch as other people do the same thing, is something I can't describe.<br />
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But I succeeded! We all succeeded! I actually saw grown men, studly road biker racers, do a little happy dance complete with kicks and twirls, at the finish line, just so happy to make it :-)<br />
And, my true team member till the end, my wonderful hubby Alex. He made it all possible. Gave me the time every week to train, and ride, and ride some more, (and I needed every minute of that training on this ride!)<br />
I can't say I'm gunning to complete this one every year, but for now I'll coast a bit on the ultimate high of conquering what Saturday through at me. Heaven and Hell all in one moment. Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-74677597092143934402014-05-12T15:24:00.001-07:002014-05-12T15:24:13.499-07:00Happy Mother's Day!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-78662594978462952292014-05-12T15:21:00.000-07:002014-05-12T15:21:25.799-07:00Talin is THREE!<br />
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Amazing! This little one is no longer a toddler. Though really, it hasn't seemed as if he's been a toddler for awhile now, but he has now officially hit the big #3!<br />
This year he had a Mother's Day Birthday, so we had a little neighborhood dessert party on his birthday evening, complete with plenty of tasty sweet treats, super light up bracelets, and a campfire.<br />
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Happy of happiest number three to my Talin boy. Not a baby by any means anymore!Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-54764353800108672382014-05-05T23:40:00.001-07:002014-05-05T23:40:36.428-07:00Early May in the Garden...Things are coming along now, thanks to hard work from the hubby and a wee bit of bed raking and strawberry weeding from moi...<br />
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<br />Fultmeyer Clanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02544453641275152876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514125995815968323.post-63741114142238685842014-04-26T22:49:00.000-07:002014-04-26T22:49:06.511-07:00Change is a commin'We have a 5 year old in the house. What that means is Kindergarten. The beginning of his school career. A whole new ball of wax for this household.<br />
I don't think the meaning of that really hit home till we signed up for T-Ball this year.<br />
Insert 3x/week commitments, insert "soccer Mom" (and Dad) status. Insert a very excited and overly competitive 5 year old that we, as parents, have to be able to support. Able to shape. Able to mold.<br />
Insert a Mom who works an hour and 15 minutes away in a job that she can't exactly just drop if she is unexpectedly needed.<br />
This equals a problem.<br />
So there is change.<br />
Change is hard. It's uncomfortable.<br />
We're so excited there is a good school for Forrest in our area!<br />
Burnt Ranch School is K-8, 15 minutes from our house, and has a current class size of 8-13 kids per grade. WOW. What could really be better for our intense, super smart, super demanding, needing challenges at every corner kiddo? We really are blessed to have this option. Though this now puts me an hour and a half away from my kid for most of the week.<br />
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