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LIFE
Chapter 45
I woke up very warm, and toasty. I was wrapped in Edward's arms, and this is how I wanted to wake every morning. I know it wasn't feasible every morning, but I'd take all I could get. I turned over watching him wake up,, with a flash of his beautiful green eyes greeting mine. He didn't speak, he just pulled me close proceeding to kiss the daylights out of me.
"Morning, little mama," with a big smirky grin on his face.
"Morning yourself, big daddy. I can't wait to see that in actuality."
"Me either, love. How are you feeling? No morning sickness? No dizziness?"
"Actually I feel pretty good. Let me try getting up to know about being dizzy. I need to get up anyway," and I'm hit with some slight dizziness as I sit up, but just take my time.
"Love?" coming around to my side of the bed.
"I'm alright. Just got to sit for a minute, then I'm fine. Go on, I'll be alright," trying to shoo him away. Not happening...as he continues to hover close by. "I'm fine, Edward. I just need to go to the bathroom, and get dressed. We got a lot to do today."
"Yes, one, going to see Carlisle. Second, I'm not doing anything today, but spending it with you. Now, besides that, what else do we have to get done?"
I'm sitting there looking at him like he's gone totally crazy. I just shake my head, and head towards the bathroom. I shut the door in his face, as he's not following me into the bathroom. I do my morning ablutions, and come out gathering some clothes. I proceed to get dressed while Edward sits on the end of the bed watching me.
"Are you sitting there all day?" looking at him like he has totally lost it.
"Actually, no. I was waiting on you." He goes to the bathroom, and then comes out getting dressed. We head towards the kitchen, where Angela has us a wonderful breakfast. She has fixed me a cup of herbal tea, orange juice, scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast. She has fixed Edward his usual breakfast enough for two people. Nothing slowing down his appetite.
Once breakfast is over, we head towards the barn. We are fixing to plan our trip to Anchorage to pick up the cattle, and the dog I'm buying. Lise, and Baxter are right on our heels. Edward reaches down picking up Lise, as Baxter just about ran all over her. Poor baby, big bully. To cute.
They are letting about fifteen of the newer horses out in the pasture. There are still four men walking along the fencing with rifles. I'm hoping we get some of those horses to be used by the employees.
Woah, who is this coming to the ranch? Alright, we got some horses coming. I go about dispensing some men to opening some new stalls, and getting ready for the new horses.
They pull up with what looks like around a ten horse hauler. Now, let's see what we got. We walk out towards the trailer, which has pulled up pretty close to the barn. About three men come out of the truck introducing themselves from one of the ranches we had been in contact with in Fairbanks.
They walk around to the back of the trailer, and one to the side ramp. A few of my men walk up to help unload the horses. It looks to be a variety of horses, and from what is on the paperwork none older than four years old. That is a good range to me, and they look to be very healthy. I got Sean and Paul doing a cursory exam as they come off the trailer.
They will do a more thorough one once they get them settled in their stalls. We got Sean's Morgan, Paul's Painted black & white, and quite a few more painted horses. We also got a Chestnut Thoroughbred, an Appaloosa, a couple American Quarters, a Caspian, a Haflinger, and a Rocky Mountain horse. We are now at sixty eight horses, and still got room for about seven more. I'm happy with what we got, and might need the extra space when we get to breeding.
Next spring is definitely going to be busy in a lot of ways. We get all the horses settled, Sean and Paul are doing their exams, and I get the information for a bank transfer of funds paying for the horses. I call Jenks, and he get's the transfer immediately processed.
I walk back out to the barn, and look over the new horses. They look good, and their getting hay, feed, an water put in their stalls. I'll give them a couple days to settle into their new homes, and then we can start using them for patrolling the fences.
I need to talk to Rose about the cattle haulers, to see if they are ready to hit the road. I need to get everything ready to make this trip to Anchorage. We got about forty to fifty head of cattle, plus the Samoyed puppy I'm buying to pick up. I've already got the dog named, Sam Neve Swan-Masen. To cute!
I walk over to the longhouse to get me a bottle of water, and to see what they are cooking for dinner. Just as I reach in the frig for some water someone pulls me into them as they slip their arms around my waist. Now, I know no one else is crazy enough to do something like that, so it has to be my Edward. I turn around, and he has the biggest smile on his face. He leans in giving me a kiss, and asking how I feel.
Actually, I feel pretty good. He's glad to hear that, and said Carlisle is quite ready to give me my exam. I however, am not. I've got so much to do, and not enough time to play patient. I grab his hand, and we walk into the kitchen. It seems they are preparing spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, small salads, peach cobbler, chocolate cake, and coconut cake for dessert. Edward is drooling at the mention of the cake, naturally.
Edward then mentioned we were going to see Carlisle for my first check-up, and Esme comes around grabbing my hand heading for the looked as if I didn't have a choice.
We headed over to their cabin, and was met by Carlisle. Once we were inside he sat me down telling me some of the things we were going to do today. The blood work came back confirming I was pregnant, at which I thought Edward was going to burst. Esme took my blood pressure, checked my temperature, and my weight. I then laid back on the table, and Carlisle began palpating my abdomen, and said everything felt fine. They were estimating me to be about nine weeks pregnant.
He then came out with an ultrasound machine hooking it up to a laptop computer so we could see the pictures. He told us of ordering a bigger ultrasound machine, as we were going to need it. I told him I was in the market for three of them in case.
He turned it on, squirted some gel on my stomach, and started moving the adductor across my abdomen, and after a bit I was wondering if he could see anything. Finally he stopped, and then asked if we would like to hear it's heartbeat. We nodded, and he turned on the sound. It took my breath away. Edward was squeezing my hand, and I turned to look at him. He had tears running down his face.
I pulled him over to me wiping his face, and kissed him. Carlisle then turned the computer around to show us pictures. It was entirely to cute. Our little bean. It had a long ways to grow, but it was safe, and sound for now.
He was sending us pics through our email, and then I could print them out in my office. I got dressed after he told us everything looked good, and he wanted to see me in four weeks.
We left heading to the house, and then to our office. I know we were both eager to print out pics from the ultrasound. Once we pulled up the email we sent the documents to the printer, and in nothing flat they came pouring out. I already had a baby book coming, along with some other books on pregnancy we both wanted to read.
Now, we were going to decide on the room for the nursery, and I think we both want the room across from us. We got baby furniture, clothes, diapers, etc, etc.. HELP!
We have plenty of time though. I'm only nine weeks, and there is plenty of time to panic. LOL
We still have a lot of things to get handled on the ranch before anything else. We both walk outside holding hands, and looking at each other laughing. We walk over where Emmett is working on the greenhouse. It's going a lot faster than I thought, but the way Emmett puts it it is mostly just metal frames, and plexi-glass. I felt that was maybe a bit more costly, but in the end I just felt it was a lot better. They just about had the frame work totally up. Once they got done with the greenhouse, we were working on both medical buildings for Carlisle, and the veterinarians offices.
The foundations had done been poured for them, along with the blacksmith shop. That was coming in a prefab building, and wouldn't take maybe two days to get constructed. It was going to be close to the garbage incinerator.
Victoria was working with Alexander this afternoon, and I wanted to watch. I still needed to find Rose, and talk to her about our trip.
Edward was going to stay, and help out on the greenhouse. I went back to the barn looking for Rose. She was standing there talking to, and watching Victoria. She had Alexander out putting a bridle, and lead rope on him. I had a special bridle ordered for him. Since I have seen him I am ordering some more, as he is a beautiful horse. I can see what Max meant by his regal heritage coming through. He was very majestic.
I talked to Rose a bit about the cattle haulers, and she said they were ready. She had also gone over both semi-trucks, and had changed the oil. Everything was ready for the trip. We stood, and watched Victoria work with Alexander. I really liked her methods. Alexander was responding very well. I waited for her to bring him back in, and right before I got her to let him loose in the field with the other horses for a bit.
I still wanted her to watch him, and his interacting with the other horses. I also wanted him washed, and brushed when she brought him inside. I was almost ready for her to work with another one of the horses...the Dragon Kiss dapple. I loved that horse, too.
I would wait, and see what Sean, Paul, and Victoria thought before we started her training.
It was getting later in the evening, so I headed towards the longhouse. I was getting kind of tired, and hungry. I went inside, and they made me a small plate of cut fruit, cheese, crackers, and some deli meats. They got me a glass of sweet tea, and made me sit down. I handed them a copy of the ultrasound, and there were uh's, and ah's going around.
Seth had apparently came in, and they got him to take me to lay down on the couch out front. Apparently I had fell asleep while trying to eat my snack. He covered me with a throw, and I was off to sleep again.
Edward came in, and I woke to his lightly running his fingers through my hair. He helped me up, and I went to get ready for dinner. I was starving. Edward helped me get seated, and went to get us our plates. I talked to Angela, Gianna, Leah, and Maggie about Angela helping out in the kitchen here until things changed. We would just continue to have dinner in here, as it made more sense. They needed the help, and like I said, just made more sense.
After dinner, and Edward's second helping of chocolate cake we headed towards the house for the night. I know we were both tired, and had a lot to do tomorrow.
After a joint shower, some nice tender loving we finished getting ready for bed. I barely remember crawling under the covers, Edward pulling me close, and telling him I loved him, we were both gone to sleep.
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Alright people, we are slowly winding down. They are getting things just about finished, and in working order. We will continue to follow them along for about another 5 or 10 chapters at the most.
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