More snow

So last night on our way to Rangers it started snowing and snowing. We got a good dump of it, suppose to snow all weekend =( I finally had to retire my flip flops for the winter. Josh had speech today, he is doing SO good! He is at the stage of asking why all the time, thats not frustrating at all lol. Patrick starts speech next week! YAY!! His mouth is really hurting him today, poor guy. So I went and bought him soft stuff that will be easy for him to eat. Here are some pics of the house, I'm going to retake them of the boys' room since they are really clean now, thanks to me! My room is still not done but thats ok, its getting there. Were not going over this weekend, just too much snow, everywhere. So Amanda and my mom are going to come over and bake cookies. Thats always fun and fattening. Anyway, gotta jet, the boys are going to get out of school soon and i have got to make my grocery list!! Have a good Thursday. Tonight we are having movie night and watching Charlie Browns Christmas!!

Patricks braces

He did so good and he looks so darn cute! They colors he chose are black and orange, for Odessa Tiger colors!! It was 10 when we left today, yes 10 degrees. I thought I was going to freeze to death! Not ready for winter!!

Let it snow Let it snow, let it GO AWAY!!

Well we got hit with snow last night, I will post a picture a little later, its to cold to go outside lol! Were suppose to get more most of the week. I love the snow because its so beautiful but then it can go away after the first time cause I have places to go people to see! Jared slept in his OWN bed ALL night long! I slept pretty good, was up alot but what else is new. My leg is better today, dont know what I did but it sure hurt. Patrick is home today, he was coughing and just sick, he slept on the couch all night =( Well Jared is emptying the snack cupboard so I better go!!

Happy Birthday Don!!

I know its been a few days, and I"m sorry! They have been busy. First off Happy Birthday to my sweet husband Don! He turns 28 today! He is so wonderful and thoughtful and loving and an amazing daddy and husband. I would truly be lost without him.

Thanksgiving was GREAT! I made my first dinner with Amandas help of course. Everyone loved the turkey. We had a lot of fun that day. Patrick gets his braces in 2 days. He is so excited for them for some reason. Parker also has an appt that same morning for an xray and consultation, just to see what were up against with his teeth. Don has been working alot of overtime lately, which is good I guess, but I miss him. We had his birthday dinner last night at China Buffet 2, it was SO yummy!! We did take him lunch today and some doughnuts for the guys, I'm sure they all love me now. I've put up a couple pictures and got everything (except our room) unpacked, it looks good and feels like home. I love it here! Parker and Patrick spent most of the weekend with Andrew, they of course had fun. I freaked my leg up last night, so I was in pain most of the night and didn't get to finally sleep until 5:30 AM, so I am tired and going to bed early tonight. I made Don a cake so we'll have cake and ice cream after dinner. Today I've been doing laundry of course, it is never ending. Well I better go and change diapers, another never ending thing! Once again, Happy Birthday my Love!

Wednesday

So things are going good. Patrick slept with us all night long. His stomach was killing him, so I just held him and today he is much better. On Monday I went to Ephrata to run errands, mind you its 45 minutes away. We had just got to the resturant to eat when the school called for me to come get Patrick cause his tummy hurt. I had not done any of my errands so I ate and went to grab him. So then yesterday I had to go back to Ephrata so I could do my errands. Got all the food for thanksgiving. My living room is DONE, well except for hanging pictures but I need Don for that. Josh and Jareds room is done, my bedroom is coming along, my kitchen is done, still a couple box's in the dining area, but were SO almost done! YAY for me lol!! We wont move again, we will die in this house, well hopefully not inside this house, but you know what I mean. I dont think Im going to make it out on friday which really depresses me =( I have the stupid dish guy coming back. He put the dish at Patricks level on the back of our house and then he didn't ground the wires, hello idiot! Plus I'm not getting any emails so I have to call them idiots back ggrrrrrrr. I think Dons sis is going to stop by and see us, she will be a couple blocks over so she better =) Oh well, I am trying to post pictures but for some reason my computer is not taking my camera disk thing, but I will keep trying!! I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!! Here are some things I'm thankful for:

*How forgiving God is
* My sweet husband Don and his love and patience for me
* My boys and how they keep me on my toes all the time
*My family, I wouldnt be where I am without them
*My friends, they are amazing!
*My doggie Mona, she really is the closest thing I will have to a daughter =)
*My health, although I'm over weight, I'm still so thankful I'm healthy
*My daddy, I dont know what I would of done this summer if I had lost him, I love him so much!
*A roof over my head, food, clothes, running water, heat and paychecks!!

Were HOME!

Ok so we finally moved in. What a long butt week and a half! We finally signed on friday the 9th, Don worked his butt off and we started moving in on Monday the 12th. Well we didnt start loading the uhaul until like 4pm, so by the time we got back to odessa with the truck it was dark and SO cold, it was about 32 degrees. My mom kept the boys all night, thank goodness cause it would of been really hard to unload with them as it is we didn't stop that night until 3am. We woke up and finished it. I think we were both so darn tired that we were not sure what day it was lol. It was just Don and I unloading =() that was so not fun. But we did it, I'm almost done with box's now. The boys started school and had the best day ever, they couldn't wait to go back the next day. Everyone up there is so nice and of course they all know Don from when he went there. The little ones are so happy and never want to go anywhere except our "new home". Joshua started speech last week and Patrick was finally tested for his R's. His other school didn't see a problem, so I'm so happy that his teacher now saw a problem. So he will be going to speech as well. I will post some pictures as soon as the house is ready, right now its a cluster mess, but its getting better. The best part of it all?? Ryan and Amanda and the kids got here last friday night!! Andrew already stayed the night with us and they came over and saw the house, I think I'll kidnap him again tomorrow for a couple days =) The boys dont have school on wed for thanksgiving break, so they dont go back until Monday! Sit down everyone, I am having thanksgiving at my house this year!! Amanda is going to come and stay the night and were going to make dinner together, so it should be fun!! Yesterday was my Riley girls 5th birthday! I cant beleive she is 5! Thank you baby girl for waiting until I got home from my honeymoon to be born lol!! Anyway, thats about it, I will post pics soon, promise!!

We be movin

I will not be on the computer until thursday since were moving today! We got it all cleaned and the downstairs painted and carpeted, and I also painted the dining room and kitchen, or course I couldn't of done it without John and my mom! Don has been working his butt off downstairs, it looks amazing! I will post before and afters when I get my internet back up! The boys are so excited to move, they start school tomorrow and Ryan and Amanda and the kids get here in 4 DAYSSSS!! I am so excited! Well thats about it for now, I need to work =(

Cleaning SUCKS!!

Ok, so we were able to get into the house early so Don could start doing the downstairs, well the agreement was he would let us in if we cleaned the rest of the house. No problem until we saw it. He freakin didnt clean ANYTHING! So off we went, it took us about 3 hours and we had 27 50 gallon bags! The house itself isnt dirty, which is wonderful, but the crap he left was ridiculous! Don is doing really good downstairs, we will be painting on friday and laying carpet saturday. I went today with the two little ones and bleached the bathroom and cleaned the windows, the kitchen and swept floors and vaccumed. Tomorrow I'm going to shampoo the carpets and then come back to Ephrata and shampoo these carpets, thats alot of shampooing! Tomorrow is the boys' last day of school!! They are excited to skip Friday! They start their new school on tuesday since Monday is a holiday! So thats about it for the update. Yesterday not so good day, but after crying I figured it will be over soon, no big deal! We will have new email since qwest doesnt go to Odessa, but I always have my hotmail!! Have a good rest of the week!! So I wanted to tell you about a conversation we had with Parker, so the scenrio is were driving past the ephrata cemetary

Patrick: Look at the graveyard
Parker: Thats not a graveyard, thats a cemetary
Patrick: Whats the difference
Parker: well a graveyard is in the dirt, and a cemetary is in the grass, and a graveyard always has fog a cemetary doesnt.

I couldn't really respond to that so I just said oh, I didn't know that lol!!

AARRRGGG!

So we didn't close today. The paperwork didn't get to the office, but will be there tomorrow. We stopped by the boys' new school so I could turn in all the paperwork and fun stuff. Then we went down to the new house, the new roof looks great, but the inside, well thats another depressing story. The guy didnt clean ANYTHING OUT! He took a dresser some of his moms clothes and thats about it! There is christmas stuff in a closet, the washer/dryer is covered with stuff, there is still food in the panty and soap/shampoo in the bathroom. There is Sh*t everywhere! I was so upset I started crying! Don called our realtor (its in the agreement that he CLEANS everything out of there) told Larry what was going on and Larry was going to call him and tell him to get over there in the am and clean the place out. It was ridiculous. When we moved into this house it was beyond gross. It took me 3 weeks to clean it before we could even start painting! I see a dejavu coming! Of course the new house isnt dirty and gross like this one was, just crap everywhere!

On a better note, we had a good weekend. It went by SO fast! Saturday was Jordys 10th birthday! I took her to the mall for a manicure and lunch and we went to Claires to go shopping for jewerly. It was so much fun. Makes me really want a girl! Maybe in a couple years, we'll see. Sunday I took the boys' to their grandmas house where they played and made me a beautiful wreath. I love it and it smells SOOO good!! I cant wait to hang it on my door in my new house!!

Patrick is going to the dentist thursday, I think he will have to get braces on a couple teeth that are growing where they shouldn't be =( Well I have to get some boys in bed, they haven't quite adjusted to the time change!!