Before and after of the laundry room!

Before After

Before

After I love the color! Its pine needle! Cant wait to get curtains for it!!

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

This is our barn and windmill, I cant wait until it works again!!

Nope, this isnt our Christmas picture, but it sure is cute! Its at our new house. Not all the land in the background is ours, just a little bit! We had a great thanksgiving! SO much to be thankful for this year, and every year! We went to my mom and johns, the ham was SOOOOOOOOOOO good! Friday Tara and I woke up at 5am to get ready to head to Spokane. Mom got there and off we went! First we hit target, then ShopKo, and onto the mall, walmart was last! Got a few gifts and stocking stuffers, we ate at Chilis which was so yum-o! It was a great great day! We got home about 4:45 that night. Don and Brad went to the Brewery for a little while for a break =) It was nice to have my sissy over this weekend, why cant she move here? I know what your going to say, it would be easier for us to move over there, but that aint going to happen! Well today is a day of rest and cleaning!! Have a good weekend!!

Its been 2,759 days since we fell in love!

I set out on a narrow way, many years ago

hoping I would find true love along the broken road

But I got lost a time or two wiped my brow and kept pushing through

I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you

Every long lost dream led me to where you are

Others who broke my heart, they were like northern stars pointing me on my way into your loving arms

This much I know is true that God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you

I think about the years I spent, just passing through I'd like to have the time I lost, and give it back to you

But you just smile and take my hand you've been there, you understand

It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true

But now I'm just rolling home into my lover's arms

This much I know is true That God blessed the broken road That led me straight to you!



Happy 7th Anniversary sweetie! Its been a rough first half of the year for us, but the second half has been the best we've ever had! We have had our ups and downs but there isnt anyone on this Earth I would rather go through any of it with than you! You are my world, my other half, my best friend! I was put on this Earth for you and the boys! I love you more than I ever have!

Ok, here it is!!

Here is our new farm house! We LOVE IT!!! I have not said much about it until now only because we didnt want to jinx it. But we signed on friday! It needs some work upstairs so this week I'm starting to paint and all that fun stuff! Trying to pick colors is SOO freakin hard! I'm not good at that stuff, but good thing i have some great friends who are!! So unless our house in town sells anytime soon, we are looking at moving out there in the spring. Its on 4 acres, 5 bedroom 2 bath, I am so excited to get out there. Off the front porch you look out to nothing!! I cant wait to put my porch swing up there and just watch NOTHING!! So thats why I have been kind of MIA lately, alot going on all at once. The daycare that I worked at closed, so trying to finish up all that stuff has been dragging on, I started my new job at Chiefs, its a fam resturant here in town, 2 days a week, love it!! We had a Halloween party on friday. It was so much stinkin fun, but really thats all I'm going to say about that lol!! Flag football ended this last weekend, my birthday was last week where i got a really nice nice camera from Don and my mom/john. I love it!!! I've already been asked to take some family pictures for my friend!! So I hope you all forgive me, but thats my last couple weeks in a nutshell!!!

Football season again!

Patrick jumping

Parker on his 4 wheeler and Josh on his dirtbike

New haircut and color, cant see the red

Yup, I got my nose pierced!

Well it started for us, football! Flag football that is. Patrick and Josh play and Don is Patricks coach. The weather has been so beautiful for it, really not wanting the cold to come =(

Its been busy here in Odessa. School, work, church, football, friends and of course laundry and our family. The boys are all doing great in school and they are all enjoying it alot. Don only has 2 more 3am-3pm shifts left then hes done! No more going to bed at 7pm! I am so excited, I'm sure he is too lol! Its about 3 more months until he gets saturdays AND sundays off! Life will be good!

The boys have been riding alot! Joshua is on a dirtbike now, he is amazing at it! Parker still doesnt want to try it..smart boy lol! Patrick is on a bigger one now and his favorite thing to do is jump, which of course stresses me out! Boys will be boys!!

School Pictures

I took the boys' pictures again this year, I think they turned out great! Helps to have such cute subjects! Click on the link to view them: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=303027&id=553525323&l=46ce178ee4

Love

When we got married almost 7 years ago, I thought life would be perfect. Well on the honeymoon it was, then we came home to reality. One thing I've learned is that no marriage is perfect, no person is perfect. Marriage is hard work, we have to work on it daily, but the reward is so amazing! I had the pleasure of going on a truly needed date with my sweetie last night. I took the boys over to my moms for the night, came home and got ready. We went to Spokane and ate at Olive Garden, it was SO yummy and worth the 45 minute wait. Then we left and went to the Hampton Inn Hotel for the night. We stayed in the Executive Suite. OH MY GOSH! It was beautiful! I took pictures so I can re-decorate my house lol! I wont get into details, but there was a jacuzi tub. We talked and held each other and laughed. If I can say anything about my husband it is this: He amazes me with how much he loves me. It doesn't matter what were doing, wether I'm cooking, watching tv, he always is touching my back or telling me he loves me. The bond we have is stronger than when we were dating and first married. I can say I'm more in love with him now then I ever have, and I know its only going to get better. We have had a lot of obsticales in our marriage, we always get through them with a deeper love and bond than we had before. I love that man so much! I'm so excited that the boys have him at a Role Model as to how to treat a women and work hard and be honest and polite and be a great daddy! This man has my heart, I honestly dont know what I would do without him, with him my life is complete!

Long time no blog!

So ALL my boys are in school right now! Jared started preschool today, Josh and the other two started Monday! I am listening to music updating my blog. I already did ALL my floors and dusted! I'm not sad at all. I'm excited cause I know how excited Jared was to go to school. My boys are growing up so fast!

We had a great summer! We went camping at Belfair and had the best time. It was very hard for us to come back, Don is still not wanting to be back at work. We were at Splash Zone alot, Silverwood and to the lake and lots of fun. It was a wonderful summer!

Well I'm going to go do nothing!!

Weekend Re-cap!

It was a great weekend in all. Friday was rough. The boys were in rare form, so as soon as I knew Don was in town I left and went across the street to meet some girls for a couple drinks. I needed it so bad, not the drinks part, the not around children part. I love them SO much but man can they stress me out in under 2 minutes! So Saturday we woke up, this was our big shopping trip to Spokane for school clothes. We started at the dirt bike store, the picture above shows their new hats, Patrick got a new shirt. We were off to lunch at Chilies with Sheena and Kyle (dons sister) it was a lot of fun. I love visiting with her. I'm going to spend the day with her in a couple weeks. Chilies is attached to the mall so we just went right in. Sears was having a great sale, got parkers shoes and a bunch of shirts. I had a list of what everyone wanted and I actually stuck to it. Then we went into I dont know every store. We finally left the mall and we heading to Target, ooohh I so love target! But TJ Maxx was next to it, so we hit there first. I've never shopped in there before but there jeans were so nicely priced. So we walked out of there with 10 pairs for $110.00 so not bad at all! Then off to the shoe store where we got Jareds shoes. Big boy tie shoes, which he is learning to tie! Then off to target to get undies/socks, you know the leftovers! Came home ate and vegged the rest of the evening. It was a great day!! Today we are not doing anything...until later! We are going to meet our friends at Doxies in Wilbur for some dinner. I love it there! We are getting the trailer ready for our camping trip, we leave in 3 days and were SO excited. Got my bike rode last night to get use to it, its been a while since I've rode a bike! The boys were so excited! Now we get to go on bike rides! So I'm making lists of what we need to bring, grocery list and all that fun stuff! I dont work all week today! Well thats about it, I'm off to do nothing!

Rodeo and Joshuas 5th birthday!!

I cannot believe Joshua is 5 years old! That flew by so stinkin fast!! He has such a great heart. He is so much like Patrick, which is so much like me. He has brought nothing but joy to our lives. We had his party on Saturday at the bowling alley. It was fun, he had a good time! The cake was adorable. Sunday was his rodeo, his last one of the season. He had a bit of a lazy sheep, but thats ok, he rode to the buzzer! Today we didn't do much. He wanted Steak, noodles and green beans for his birthday dinner, it was actually good. So heres his video and some pictures! On another note, Jared is COMPLETLY potty trained! He is doing amazing at it!!