The good parts of advertisement:)

Jennifer, I just read your email to my family, we all had a pretty good laugh.  I remember very plainly dad taking pictures and then driving 60 miles over to Cedar to get them developed, waiting the hour it took to process them and then going through them in the car and rushing to making copies of the ones he wanted then hurrying to get them overnighted to all the different publications.  My bedroom growing up was right by my dad's office, one of my favorite sounds was waking up to his typewriter.  He still types on it and then we retype everything, it's amazing how much I cherish those pieces of paper now.   He just said this morning what a lovely lady you are and told us all about you being an FFA officer, how you met your husband and even into your college.  He appreciates your friendship so much, he has me do most of the calling on advertisement but you are one of the few that he really enjoys calling and visiting with. Maggie is doing wonderful, she is almost a year old.  It is amazing to me where the year has gone.  She is ready to be done with advertisement!  We have been able to be out in Utah while we have been working on this so it's been nice so she has someone to play with her. Thanks again for everything! Jeannie --- On Tue, 1/15/13, Jennifer Dahl <dahl@xmission.com> wrote: From: Jennifer Dahl <dahl@xmission.com> Subject: RE: Yardley Ad To: "'Jeannie Yardley'" <jeannieyardley@yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 7:58 PM Jeannie Thanks so much for getting the ad over before you leave.  The ad looks awesome!  I remember the very first year I did the ad for your dad.  He faxed me a typed list of bulls and mailed me an envelope of pictures for me to match up.  I was so nervous to get it right for him.  We kept faxing things back and forth.  When I pulled up your beautiful ad just now, I thought of that first ad I did for him 13 years ago and I marvel at how technology has helped us all.  You do a great job. Hope things go well for you.  How’s your little one doing? Thanks, Jennifer From: Jeannie Yardley [mailto:jeannieyardley@yahoo.com]  Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:10 PM To: Jenifer Dahl Subject: Yardley Ad Jenifer,  Here is our ad for the upcoming issue:) Thanks so much for everything, Jeannie

My little piece of paradise

Well it’s four in the morning, I just had my first and probably one of my only night checks.  We had our first little baby here at home tonight.  How familiar I am with that walk out to the barn, pushing open that old sliding door, flipping on the light just inside the door, quietly walking up to see if the new calf has sucked so you don’t make her mother to nervous.   Walking through the other heifers who at this point are still a little skittish, after about four or five nights they start to realize the are heavy enough bred, they are going to get checked anyway and it’s not worth the effort to get up, it’s to hard and to uncomfortable.  They grunt and groan, after being pregnant I realize why. 

            I was going to turn the heat lamp off of the poor little thing but it’s below zero so we opted to leave it on.  It went -19 the other night with a high of about five, yes that is way to stinking cold, and yes you can imagine dad HATES it:)  It was a Final Answer out of L53 that calved, (Maternal sister to Mahogany). The little thing was just up and sucking, wagging it’s little tail, how glad I was to see that.   A1 how crazy is that, it was just yesterday that we had all our old A cows, I still remember the old A1, pretty darn well in fact, I remember her calving several times, A144, A84, B78, Z100, X93, in fact L60 was one of our very best old cows, we still have a heavy influence in our herd out of her, I remember she died up in 9 when she was about 11 or 12 or so and for some reason dad saw she still had every tooth in her head, she had been babied pretty good and never spent any time out on the desert, I had him pull one out of her head for a good luck charm, yes I know rather morbid, I do though wish I still had that tooth:)  Those cows that are forever stamped in my memory, how fast the years have flown.  The girls of my childhood are being replaced by the Girls of Maggie’s childhood now.  I pray they can offer her so many good memories. 

            The ditches are swollen and frozen and have filled all of the corrals with ice, there is still quite a little bit of snow and more out on the dessert.  They have been taking out hay everyday, I’ve really wanted to go out but it’s been to cold to take Maggie out in the elements and then both of us got sick:( ya big yuck, it was terrible.  Poor Emily is in bed now with about ten layers and the heat turned up to 100 degree’s because she is chilling and freezing to death.  I was between her and Maggie in bed and I thought I was going to roast, literally.  Em is doing good, she is so much more of my old Emily I can’t even put words to it.  She laughs a lot more and talks a lot more, she’s just Emily again.  I hope and pray with all my heart that she can find someone that will just let her be Emily, someone that she doesn’t feel she has to mold to what they want that she can be now what they want.    

            They are going to come and clean out the barn a little tomorrow and then bed it down heavier, it’s pretty dang nippley for anything to come into this world.  It has been so good to be home, I love everything about it minus one fact, my one true love isn’t here with me and because of that I’ll leave:) I’ve came to a realization that my happiness is tied close to his heart strings and where he is.  I never thought I would be able to make a life anywhere else, I NEVER wanted to.  Yet I’ve found how happy I am, how content with a man that is beyond words more suited for me than I ever could have dreamed.  They broke the mold after they made my Johnny G, there really isn’t anyone in the world like him and for him I would travel to the ends of the world (South Dakota just about fits that bill).  I have loved being home so much yet I’m yearning for him, all the little memories made, Maggie walking and laughing, sunsets and sunrises, new calves, just everything I want him there to share it.  I spent so many years alone, wondering why I couldn’t find someone.  There was a lot of cold bitter nights that I remember coming in from that barn and going back to a cold empty bed.  It was a pretty worthy thing to pray for, and I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working out, why I was still single, alone checking heifers in the middle of the night by myself.  I have since came to the realization that I had to be old enough that society wouldn’t think it was any bigger of a scandle then they did when I married the man that Heavenly Father had sent to this earth for me to find.  Everything that’s happened that was heartache led me to my greatest joy.  We fly into Denver to meet up with John tomorrow and even though I’m going to miss home like mad I’m like a giddy little school girl that I get to see him.

            Maggie has went from little baby steps to bigger toddling steps, how crazy is it that a year has passed?  She got the flu while we were here and has been so sick, poor little thing.  Being sick has made her rather cranky and clingy.  She has bit one of my nipples until it’s so stinken sore I can’t hardly stand to let her nurse.  My dad always said there was nothing that made him more mad then a heifer that kicked her calf, he has never breastfed.  It is getting time to wean her but it about breaks my heart to think of the poor little thing and how sad she is going to be, nursing is her greatest comfort and I’m not sure what we are going to replace it with.  While she was sick pretty much all she would do was nurse, she wouldn’t take any solids.  I was glad that I could at least still get something in her tummy. 

            Dad has been wonderful while I have been home, everyone has.  I come more and more everyday to the realization of how lucky I was to grow up in the home I did, to know right from wrong.  Everyday it becomes more and more black and white how that they way you live is in direct correspondence with your happiness, I will forever be grateful for my parents for setting that example for me.   Dad is so cute with Maggie, he coos to her and smiles at her, I pray she will be able to get to know him well, that is one of my greatest wishes, that is perhaps the hardest part of not living here at home.   Everyone has been good with our little Maggie, she squaks quite loud though when ANYONE tries to take her to far from me.  She does love Jessica and remembers her.  She played with her so stinken cute yesterday I wish I could just capture those moments and push pause in my life.  She has turned into the bossy little thing and has a way of getting her way.  Mom has been great here at home to, she is the mom that I knew growing up.  For awhile I don’t know what was all going on but our relationship was stressed to the point that I didn’t know if it would ever heal.  She is truly and Angel woman and I’m so proud to call her my mother. 

            Well I better get after a little advertisement while I’m still fresh enough to do it my eyes are starting to get heavy again. 

Many smiles and laughter,

Jeannie

Life is Good!

My little princess peach, where has this past year gone?  I get all teary eyed thinking about how fast my little baby has grown.  You are learning how to toddle around right now, your a pro at crawling and soon you will no longer creep across the floor but run.  I wish that I could just freeze these days and keep you my little precious baby forever.  When I think of happiness i think of you:) You are saying  “YAH” and you are quite the little copy cat, you love to copy breathing heavily and sometimes I can get you to say mamma, and dadda, those where officially your first two words.  You love to be chased right now and be played with, you giggle as we chase you from room to room and you try your hardest to make us play.  Your favorite book is Jamberry, you will sit perfect while we read it to you and both your dad and I have it pretty well memorized.  Your little hair is coming in more and more but it is quite the little fuzz and sticks straight out:)  You are just cutting your eigth teeth and you bite me while you nurse quite often.  You still have yet to spend a night away from my bed, it almost makes me anxious not to have you near me when I sleep.  You demand to be carried facing forward and you are quite the little tornado if we try to face you towards us.  You love to empty out everything and anything from the wet ones, to the suitcase, to grandma’s drawers.  You are so perfect. I never envisioned just how much I would love you, I can’t even quite explain how deeply in love I am with little perfect you.  Your daddy is crazy about you, he calls you about eight times a day just to hear your voice.  We put you on speaker and you smile and jabber just a bit every morning when you wake up.  We are in Utah right now and Johnny G is missing us pretty bad.  We read you Jamberry over the phone and he would tell you every other line from memory.  You are his get away and his happiness.  We have both said how complete you have made our family, and we never really knew happiness until we knew you.  Your grandparents on both sides think you are quite wonderful.  Grandpa Joe always says “Hello Girl” Grandpa Yardley calls you his little princess.  You are bossy right now and say “eh” loudly and forcfully and get you way, you can communicate quite efficiently like that.  You hate socks, you can take them off faster than anyone I know.  Your daddy is sure you need them on every night and you lose them as fast as you can:)  You demand that we take your pants all the way off when we change your diaper and that in itself is turning into quite the little challenge because you love to see what is going on around you and you wiggle and worm.  You love to shower and your daddy is sure that you get one everynight.  You look up at the water and try to poke the little holes shut with your finger.  You balance with one leg on your dad’s tummy.  You nurse like a little monkey, you have to stand and crawl over the top of me, you are quite the little goose.  You want to be near me, it makes me feel so loved:)  You are a cover kicker, you can’t stand them on you and you will wake up in the night just to kick them off, they drive you crazy.

We took you to Beaver Oklahoma this past month for our cow sale.  The floors were tile and we had to push two beds together so you would have someplace to crawl.  We had raisons and goldfish all over that room by the time we left:)

You have been on 13 airplane rides so far and in 12 states.  You are sure that everyone in the world is made just for you, you talk, and yell, giggle, and smile, reverent is not your nature, you are Miss confidence and we wouldn’t have it any other way.  I just pray you can keep that confidence through your whole life.

I took you to Lori’s to see Whit, Little O, and the new little baby Bridger, you loved him, you would coo to him and look up at me and smile, you have such a kind little heart.

Your dad loves to take you with him, it doesn’t matter if it’s in the feed truck or on the four wheeler he is so proud of you.  He had such a hard time letting us leave to Utah, it makes me love him all the more at just how much he loves you.  He waited at the gate until he couldn’t see us anymore and cried a little because his girls were leaving.  He called when we got to my parents to make sure all the toilet lids were down.  He comes in the door and yell’s hello Pumpkin Pie, you hurry to crawl to him as fast as you can.  You do no wrong, you have officially broke two pairs of glasses, well the new pair he just ordered bends so that he can for sure let you still play with them:)  He is so proud of you, I can’t even quite tell you just how much he swells when he has you.  He bought you a little pink coat, pink hat, and quite a few little outfits.  He loves you in that pink hat.   You have the perfect Papa Maggie, don’t ever forget it. 

If you can’t tell I love my life, i love my baby girl, I love my husband.  I have awesome sisters, great parents and I live in the most blessed nation on earth.  Heaven truly has smiled down on me and i’m so thankful for all I have.  Life is good.

South Dakota

Well my little one it’s amazing to me that it’s been almost five months since you where born.  I’m laying here next to you and it is amazing just how much you have grown and changed, my little brand new baby is growing up.  I was just watching videos of when we brought you home from the hospital, you where so full of wonder and awe, you still are but now you smile and giggle and coo, I love you so much. 

            Some of your milestones are that you love to stand and have for about a month and a half, you would like it if we would just let you be on your feet all the time.  You are just starting baby food and for the most part you like it, prunes and bananas are on your favorite list although the only other thing we’ve tried are peaches:) You are rolling over by yourself and you know your such a big girl, you also screech and scream just to make sure that we don’t forget you.  You have some little toys that we put above your carseat that amaze and fascinate you.  Everyday you just get more and more fun and I fall deeper and deeper in love with you.

We are in South Dakota right now AIing cows, correct that John is in AIing, Maggie and I may go out for short little time frames and then we are in the house lol.  We’ve taken a few walks and played on the swing set at the schoolyard, we spend a lot of time playing peekaboo.  The first few days we where here Maggie was just plain pooped, she slept a lot and got caught up on her rest, that makes all the difference in the world on how happy she is!  The trip here wasn’t to bad, we did it over a three day time period, by about 7:30 Maggie is done for the night on traveling and is ready just to play.

            John is crazy about her.  As soon as he walks in the door he’s all about Maggie and is quite the little mother hen, he tells me often what I need to do for our little Pumpkin Pie!  We took a ride with Ken up to Thunder Butte last night, Maggie fell fast asleep in the truck.  It was hot about 100 degree’s and the truck wouldn’t stay cooled down, John still wanted to hold his little love bug and took her and put her over his shoulder.  She knows him and loves him.  How blessed I am to have this much love in our home.  I’ve come to the realization that nothing else really matters as long as I have my family.  Each day I want to live the best I can so I can teach Maggie all she needs to know and raise her to be a good person.  So much hope and promise lies in this little baby.  I really never realized how entwined my heart would be in loving her.

            Utah is on fire right now, it’s so dry and we need rain so badly.  I can tell by dad’s voice that he’s over the top with worry.  Utah’s soil had only 5 % humidity about two weeks ago, that was the lowest in the Nation.  They have evacuated towns and are pushing cattle off of the forest.  We just went to the forest yesterday, I pray that the cattle will be watched over and protected.

            John has been crazy busy here, they leave every morning at about 4:30 and don’t get home until about nine, I don’t know how he’s still functioning.  One day they AI’d about 125, they where all zombies by the time they came in the house.  He stays my sweetheart John, I never realized just how happy I could be.  He’s my whole world.

            Maggie on the other hand sleeps till about 9:00 every morning and then wakes up as happy as can be but would like a nap shortly after that.

            We are going to go to Utah in a few weeks, I can’t wait!  It’s time just to be home in my beautiful Beaver valley, I’m so glad that I’ve got a husband that loves me otherwise there is no way in HELL that I would stay in South Dakota:) My hat goes off to the women that call this home year round!  Well I’m going to get the boys breakfast they are fixing to come in for a bit this morning to feed the hunger.  I’ll try and get back to this later,  Maggie is just waking up!

Jeannie

May 7th

Well you my little one are sound asleep, mornings is your time to snooze and you usually wake up about six to eat and then fall right back to sleep for a few hours.  This morning I am tempted to go snuggle back up with youJ Your dad and I made a video of you in the shower last night, he loves you so much, I’ll bet he’s watched it fifty times.  I always hope you feel how much love he and I have for you!

Another week has flown by, where does it go?  It seems like everything is moving at super speed and my little baby isn’t a baby anymore.  She is getting so big, she is just over three months right now and her legs are long enough that she can where six month clothes.  She’s filling out, with a little double chin and chubby little legs and the cutest little bum you ever did see.  I never realized you could love anything as much as I love her.

John is in love with her, she’s his girl and he has a hold of her every chance that we get.  I’m so grateful that I get to be his wife, he is such an awesome man, perfect husband and great father.  Maggie and I went out and helped him breed cows last night.  He holds her on the 4-Wheeler while he gets in the heifers, she cuddles into him as tight as she can and just takes it all in.  She is his little “Pumpkin Pie” and he tells me everyday almost that he’s going to kiss her a million times before she’s one.  He always says when he’s holding her “who is this crazy man that keeps kissing me:)” I love him more than anything.  We are best friends and lovers and I really never realized that life could be this perfect.  I’m happier right now then I have ever been and I thank my Heavenly Father everyday for giving me so many blessings.  John is the best thing that has ever happened in my life.

Maggie still sleeps with us every night.  We have got oodles of advice that we need to stop, but having her in bed with us has been one of the funnest things we’ve doneJ``

Tornados for real, who invented those?

Well my little Pumkin Pie, your laying asleep on my lap right now, you are so much fun.  I really never knew that my heart was capable of loving anything as much as I love you.  Your just starting to giggle and everyday is so knew and full of wonder.
Right now you are the boss, 100% I went to the city yesterday and you cried the whole way there and the whole way back, do not tell your dad:)  As soon as I got you out you where as happy as a meadow lark and all smiles.  You sleep with your dad and I every night and cuddle into me just as close as you possibly can.  We put you in the shower and you LOVE it!  Your smile just as big and as proud as you can.
All your aunties came out to see you, it was pretty darn hard to let them all go back home.  I miss my girls and would give anything in the world to live closer to them.  I tell John all the time it's a dang good thing I love him as much as I do or else I don't think I could stand to be away from all my family.  We hunted frogs, went to the zoo, laughed, giggled, and talked, I miss them...
We have now had both bull sales for the year, those are such a relief to have over and done.  A tornado came through Woodward the night after the sale, I was FREAKED out just a little, in case you don't know we don't have tornado's in Utah, a huge plus:) We spent a little time in the hotel lobby after John informed me everything was fine.....the power went out.....the police was running down the hall pounding on doors telling everyone to get to the first floor.....I grabbed maggie....my bra.....no shoes.....And we went to the Lobby.
John is just picking Maggie and I up to go and check bullers so I'm going to sign off, I'll try to write on this more often.

just so you all know I'm pretty goo goo in love with Maggie and John!