Rachel Gardening??????

Most of you that know me, know that I am not much of a gardener nor do I have a green thumb but that is all about to change.

LOOK AT ME NOW!!! Here is a picture of me and some of my co-workers putting in a garden for the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Yep, you heard me right, the Missouri Department of Agriculture officially has a vegatable garden and will also have a pumkin patch!!!

Thanks to Lane McConnell and Tony Anderson for helping us all become better gardeners!

Now the next chore is actually getting a small garden put in at out house. Yeah, I know, it is a scary thought.

HAPPY BELATED EASTER!!!!

I just wanted to stop in and wish everyone a Happy Easter!!!.

The Easter Bunny was very good to Jacob this year. Almost a little to good.

GOD Bless!!

Pictures to come soon....

Happy April!!!

Happy April Everyone!!!!!

Man, it is hard to believe that it is April already!!! Although I am not complaining about the nice warm weather.

Needless to say things have been a bit crazy around here. School is back in session. I have Statistics on Monday and Wednesday nights and then Consumer Behavior online. My graduation date has been pushed back till October 2009. UGGGG!!

Brad has been spending his weeks in Bowling Green working 12 hour days Monday thru Friday. We are all ready for this project to be complete. Him and Jacob are really having a hard time with it because they don't get to spend as much time with each other as usual.

We do have a surprise in the family......Brian and Trisha are having a BABY!!!!!! She is due somewhere around the beginning of November. YEAH!!!!!

Wedding plans have officially begun. I will keep everyone posted on the progress as we go. I think right now we are planning on making our own invitations and programs. YIKES!!! Trisha and I got together the other night and work on ideas for wedding flowers and bouquets.
This wedding thing is alot of work!.

School

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Things have been absolutely CRAZY!!!! I am at work 8 hours a day/5 days a week. Every waking minute that I don't have Jacob seems to be filled with doing school work. YUCK!!!

Right now I have 2 online classes: Business Finance and Advertising and Sales Promotions. Mom and I spend hours upon hours working on my Business Finance class and it is kicking our butt. Luckily we are now starting week 7 of a 8 week course. Thank goodness!!

The next 8 weeks I have: Statistics on campus 2 nights a week, and then Consumer Behavior and Western Civilization II online. Yeah, I am not for sure how I am going to pull this one off yet but after that I only have 3 more classes and I AM DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what I am going to do with myself once I graduate. PARTY!!!!!! (yeah right)

Well I better get back to the homework....

Loehner Crew on Christmas Morning!!

Better late than never!!

Here is the Loehner Crew plus Jacob on Christmorning. If you look really hard you can see dad in the back window. From left to right, me (Rachel) - 24, Robin - 22, Katie - 21, Sarah - 18, and the good ole brother John across the front at 14. Let me tell you, he is on heavy little man. And then of course Jacob - 3, on "Aunt" Katie's shoulders. He always has to be in on all the action.

I would like to think that we are a close family but if you would come down to mom and dad's when we are all together, you would never know it.

"Big Sister" has her work cut out for her and I think out of all 4 of them John has been the hardest to keep up with. Imagine that?!

Girls Weekend in St. Louis!!

Well the wedding planning has officially begun!! YIKES.

Angie (my maid of honor) and I went to a Bridal show in St. Louis a few weekends ago. It was HUGE!! There were so many ideas and booths. I even got a massage!! My first one and it was wonderful.

The above picture was taken at the bridal show in a photo booth that you can rent for your wedding. So didn't even know that was an option!

Needless to say, we sampled lots of goodies and got lots of freebies.

Of course, we made a full weekend out of it and did some shopping!!!!

Home for my Car!!

For the first time in 24 years of my life, I actually have a garage with working garage doors for my car. You have no idea how excited I am about this!!!!!!!!! No more scraping ice and snow off of my car, no more starting the car 30 minutes before I have to go to work, no more hussling to get things into the car when it is pouring down rain.


I LOVE IT!!!

Thank you so much Brad and Randy for putting them in for me!!!!!!!!!!!!