Hello

Hey there, I hope that everyone is enjoying the fall so far. The weather has certainly been kind of funky around here lately.

I know it has been a while since I've posted anything, life has felt so crazy for me and I'm just wore out.

As you may or may not know, my dad passed away Sept 8th, so Bill and I have been working on getting his house cleaned out so that we can get it ready to sell. It has been a lot of work. We are currently just getting bids on painting and flooring and then we will decide who all we will go with and what we will have done.

We are all doing ok.
Hailey is loving kindergarten, and I love it too. We walk to and from school everyday so that has been and good exercise...and I can have that parent/teacher connection every day vs just at parent teacher conferences and stuff, so thats nice. I also volunteer, once a month for now and I'm hoping to up that here soon. We are in a small school and it just feels very homey to me so thats good.
Joshua is being your typical boy, into everything and testing his limits. He looks forward to walking with me to get his sissy. He is such a big boy and amazes us everyday with everything that he does. He's very smart.
Bill is working hard. He worked from home for almost a month, with a few visits into the office...while we were going through the care process for my dad. It was nice that his job allows him to do that and that his boss supported both of us through it all. He hasn't had to take any business trips in a few years so that has been nice.
I'm hangin in there. I am tired majority of the time and trying really hard to get caught up on my own stuff here at home. Hopefully I can get there soon. I just feel super busy all the time even if nothing is going on..does that make sense? It's just crazy.

Thats about it in a nutshell for now. I"m gonna try to post more often, I know I"ve said that before, but I really am going to try. Maybe, just maybe it will help to clear my mind sometimes.

Have a great day!

Life's curveballs!

Hey everyone, I promise that I"m not trying to skip out on you. Our family just got thrown the biggest curveball ever and so I"ve been a little busy.

Please send us some prayers for us and my dad. Please help me to stay strong and do what I have to do to make this easy for him. I will go into more details about all that at a later time.

Thank you for your patience with me, as right now with the remodel, which is a whole other story and then my dad....life is just a blur right now.

Much love
xoxo

Checking in

I haven't disappeared quite yet, we have been busy. I need to do some asking around on how I can get more than one picture on here at a time. I have some I want to post, but can only get one on here....so if you can help me out, let me know.

Not much going on here, yes we are busy doing some home projects but thats about it. So far so good and we are having fun so that helps.

We are not going to take a big vacation this year so that has kind of been a relief. We might try to get away as a family for a weekend, but we haven't decided yet. Right now we have a few other things that we would like to get done, we are motivated right now....so we are just going to jump in and get them done.

I hope that everyone is having an awesome July so far...I can't believe its half over already. Only 6 more weeks before my little girl enters big girl school, and the day before I have a little boy who will be turning 3. Yikes!!!!! I'm excited about it all though.

The 4th of July

I hope that everyone had a great but safe time over the 4th. We had family in from California for a few days so that was fun. We lit off some fireworks and bbq'd so everything was nice.

However, my daughter, freaks out at every loud noise she hears. Not sure why, but she has done this since day one. So she did not enjoy any part of the fireworks display.

And as much as I miss my puppies, Squirt and JitterBug, I'm sooo glad they don't have to be afraid of the noise anymore.

Hope your week is going well.

June is over

Wow I can't believe that today is the last day of June....where did it go?

We have gotten a few things done this month so that is good, I"m anxious to see what July will be like.

We went Cherry picking a couple weeks ago, that was fun. The kids seemed to have a great time as well. The orchard was HUGE and just had a peaceful feeling to it.

Just a quick note

I didn't want to leave those hanging who actually come here and read. It's been a heck of a week so I haven't been able to post very much.

I will try and get a few pictures up this weekend.
But for now I really really need to get some sleep, I"m hoping the kids will sleep in some cause they have wore me out this week.

Anywho, I'm outta here for now

Scentsy Party

I"m going to be having a Scentsy Party in the next couple of weeks and I'm sooooo excited. The consultant is a friend of mine who I recently reconnected with. I have known her since Kindergarten, ya thats right we were 5.....if you do the math that is 29 years. Wow!

I am hoping to have an awesome turn out and to have a bunch of our classmates join us. It will be like a mini reunion.

Scentsy is awesome too...I love mine. So you should come and join in on the fun :0) Even if you are out of town you can still order....I don't mind shipping.

Picture of the day

A shot of our 90 gallon salt water tank. We started the tank up about a year and a half ago and just love watching everything grow in there. The corals are amazing, and the fish have such great personalities. The tank is currently empty of the fish because a couple of them had ich, which is a parasite...so we had to take all the fish out and put them in another tank for awhile. The corals can't get ich, so they are still in there. Hopefully soon we can move the fish back to their home and then we will start setting up our 55 gallon tank as a salt tank as well. Yea I get my Puffer..woo hoo! We do like our tanks although they take a lot of time to maintain. Having salt water tanks was a dream that we had when we got together and we finally made it come true.

Facebook

I have to say that I'm a VERY big fan of Facebook and Myspace. I have found so many friends and family that its unreal. I have loved getting in touch with everyone.

You would not believe how many classmates I have found either..wow! Some of the classmates I've known since I was 5...same age as my daughter now. Just amazing that after all these years we are still able to keep in touch. It has been fun sharing stories and looking at pictures. I would love to set up a playdate at the park with everyone sometime...a lot of us do have kids around the same age.

And for finding family....wow! I didn't grow up around my cousins so it has been nice "getting" to know them all.

So if you are reading this and have a myspace or facebook, look me up....I'd love to keep in contact with you.

A few pics of the kids

This is where an actual webpage would probably work better....but hopefully I can get this to look nice enough. I"m still learning the ins and outs of this so please bear with me. I"ll post a few pics here and then be done for now. This will at least give you a start.

Look Who is 5!!!!!!

Yep its true, our little girl turned 5. On June 11, 2004 we welcomed Hailey into our family and what a joy she has been.

I can't believe that she is 5 and will be going to Kindergarden this fall...where has the time gone?

She loves to scrapbook, play with her barbies and petshops. She attends gymnastics once a week and has decided that she will get a gold medal in the Olympics. Quite a dream to fulfill, but knowing her personality, it may just be one that comes true. We will support her in whatever she decides to do.

I hope that all her dreams come true in life. I think that school will be a breeze for her, as she is very bright and learns quickly.

I look forward to watching her grow up, she warms the hearts of everyone who meets her.

Hello Everyone

Hey everyone, I thought I would give this blogging thing another try and hopefully keep up better with it. We have always had a webpage, but sometimes it's such a pain to keep updated, so I thought this would be easier and faster.

So I will leave this post for now and maybe write up a couple more and then send them out.