Update

I was tagged by Leslie, however in most of the categories I don't have 8 things to list: Favorite places to eat - for being in Vernal for the last 4 1/2 years, I don't even know! Seriously there are not good places here, service is horrible in Vernal and we don't get out much anywhere else. And tv shows? I don't really like watching tv, and what did I do yesterday? Nothing! I pretty much do nothing anymore but talk on the phone and lay down and read. What I am looking forward to though is everything falling into place on this move and what I wish for is a strong healthy baby! So there's about the best I can do on the tag right now, sorry Leslie! I kinda have a one-tracked mind right now until we are moved. We have been on a roller coaster with the house issue, for awhile things look really good and then all of the sudden everything is unpromising. On the house we are selling, the girl that wants to buy just requested an extra week on all of her deadlines, including closing. And the house we want to buy, just 2 days before we were wanting to close, we found out that the house didn't appraise for what was planned, it appraised for $16,000 less than the sale price! So our relocating company talked to the appraiser and found a few problems, so he was able to up the appraisal $5,000. The builder isn't really willing to let it go for much less than his sale price, so we've had to order a second appraisal. So I hope that this second appraisal is a little higher and the builder will go down on his price. The builder has to realize that if it appraises low twice, then what are the chances that anybody will be able to get a loan unless he comes down. So now our closing date is set for this Thursday. So I'm hopeful that we will be moving soon, but there is still a possibility that we won't ever be able to close on this house. It's hard not knowing what tomorrow will bring or even what today will bring. Am I moving this weekend or not, will I be moving into a home or a hotel? It drives me crazy not knowing these things!! I hope it all works out this week so that we can get moved. I am not very patient and it's hard to get it off my mind when I don't have much to do. Actually I have a lot to do, but I'm trying to be good and stay down as much as possible. I went to the doc on Friday and at 30 weeks, my cervix is 40% thinned. Just a week prior to that I was 20% thinned. I have been planning on having this baby early all along, but now it's looking like she might be earlier than I hoped. The good news is the stitches in my cervix are still doing their job, keeping it closed. But the more I thin, the greater chance I have of dilating. If I dilate at all, they have to cut the stitches, and when the stitches get cut, ready or not - here she comes! And I am not ready, and neither is she. If she comes while in Vernal, they will have to life flight her to Salt Lake, so I hope we get to Denver before she comes. I really hope that my body will surprise me and let her stay in. I really don't want her to spend her first few weeks in the hospital, I want her home with me.

SOOO Busy!

Yep, we have been so busy lately. Life is busy, but we especially have a lot going on right now. Chris has accepted a job transfer to the Denver, Colorado area so we are moving. My mom came out last week to stay with the boys while Chris and I went looking for a house. We found one that will be good for us, but more important to me - the location will be good for us. It's in a brand new area within walking distance to the elementary school, so I won't have the worry about Dusty being on a bus in a big city. I get to hand deliver and pick up my child which makes me feel so much better! We have visited his school, and we love it! Anyway, we put an offer on the house and they accepted. It's a new house, so as soon as it's finished we get to close, possibly even the end of next week. When we got back home here, we got this house listed and less than 24 hours we had an offer! After a few days of negotiating, we are in contract and hopefully will close on it by the end of this month. Things are finally moving quick, which is what we want and need, it's just hard to have everything happen at once. We were really hoping for all of this to take place a couple of months ago so that it wouldn't be right at the end of my pregnancy. This pregnancy is high risk and I don't want to be on bed rest when we're moving! But I also don't want her to come too early! So we will do whatever we have to do to keep in her in as long as possible. So we are selling a house, buying a house, getting a different job, new schools, different life-style, and a new precious addition to the family pretty much all at once! I'm excited for the adventure it will be for our family. It has been really stressful for us, but I think it will make us stronger and closer together. It's a really good opportunity and we figured now is the best time to do something like this, when they kids are still young. At the same time it will be hard to be even farther away from family. And it will be so hard for me to leave Vernal - I love it here, I could stay here for the rest of my life. Vernal has become home to me. And my house, how do I ever leave my house? My house is going to miss me too! It has never recieved so much love before. It desperately needed some TLC, and I gave it a lot of that! It went from something that I hated to something that I love. It is so hard to turn away and leave something that I have put so much of myself into. I made it just the way I like it! There are still a few things I was hoping to do down the road, but it has come such a long way from what it was. I feel like I'm leaving a piece of me behind. Chris thinks I should just be excited about getting into a brand new house, which I am greatful for. I could never turn around and do what I have done to this house all over again. I will always be fond of this old house. The house and I have been through a lot together! And it's mine, I made it mine and I love it now! Oh well! I guess what's really important is that I get to be together with my little family. Wherever we are - it can become home (I hope so anyway).

QUIRKY

I have been tagged to see how quirky I am:

1. It's not really a rule to take your shoes off when you enter my house, but all 3 boys of mine do so I put out a basket to collect the shoes. Now the basket overflows so I set a rug under the basket, which now most of the shoes end up on the rug. If the shoes are put in the basket, I don't really care how they are. But if they're put on the rug, I'm always arranging them so that the pairs are perfectly lined up, side by side and if they have laces, I tuck the laces inside the shoe. It drives me crazy! I notice it mostly when I'm at the table, and I will get out of my chair during dinner to straighten out the shoes.

2. I can't stand it when Chris pulls a shirt off a hanger and it leaves the hanger sticking up. I'll crawl out off bed to fix the hanger. Sometimes he purposely flips the hanger up just to drive me crazy (and it works!)

3. I don't know why but before I go to bed I like to make sure the upstairs doors that are inside the house are all the way open. I don't like them left half way open, because then I might run into them in the dark if I get up for something. I prefer the door knob to be touching the wall. (Once at college the phone rang during night hours, and I had been asleep. I heard the phone ring and I got up as fast as I could thinking I wouldn't get to the phone in time and ran into my closed bedroom door - hard!) On the other hand, I have to have all closet doors pushed shut completely!

4. I have to make sure the rugs on my floor are straight. The rug in the hallway moves a lot with us constantly walking through there. Sometimes one end of the rug will be touching the wall and the other end is several inches away. I am constantly straightening out the rugs, and I have Dusty do it for me too! Usually I don't even have to bend over to do it, I just grab a corner of the rug with my toes and pull it straight with my feet.

5. I am constantly putting lotion and chapstick on. If my hands even get wet, lotion comes next. But when I get out of the shower I run into a problem. All of the sudden my teeth feel like they need to be brushed, I need chapstick, and I need lotion on my hands and feet - all 3 need to be done instantly. Whichever of the 3 tasks I choose to do first, by body aches for the other 2. I guess if I brushed my teeth before my shower, that would eliminate 1 problem, then it would just be a war between getting chapstick or lotion first.

I tag: Cassi and Sothea

Losing teeth already?

So Dusty just came and found me and told me that one of his teeth felt wobbly. So I checked and sure enough, he has his first loose tooth! I can't believe it! I thought he seemed too young for this so I just got on the internet to check it out, and it said that children usually start losing their teeth at age 6. So I guess he is old enough, it just seems that things like this shouldn't be happening already. My kids are growing up way too fast! However he is very excited about the loose tooth and the tooth fairy. We just went to the dentist a few weeks ago and although he has beautiful perfect teeth now, the dentist said he'd probably have braces by the time he turns 8. His baby teeth are so close together and there's not much room for all of those big teeth. But I guess we have awhile to worry about that. Looks like he's going to start getting rich from the tooth fairy!

karody

I've been doing a lot of scrapbooking the last couple of weeks, and while I scrapbook the kids like to play with a bucket full of my foam alphabet letters. Dusty was arranging the letters, spelling little words like dog, run, and bag. I can hear him sounding out each letter to make words. All of the sudden, he got excited and said, "Mom I spelled karate - k a r o d y"! I was impressed that he tackled on such a big word, and he spelled it just like it sounds. He is just in his 3rd week of kindergarten and way smarter than I was at that age. I give credits to a little toy computer he has as well as the Leap Frog Movies, Letter Factory and Word Factory. That is how he has learned to sound out letters and blend them together. I love that he learns so much while having fun.

Happy Birthday to HAYDEN!!!

Hayden is now 4 years old! His birthday falls just 1 day after his brothers. He was born almost 5 weeks early but completely fine and HUGE!! I was greatful he was early, I can just imagine what another 5 weeks would have done to him. We have always combined the boys parties into one, but decided that starting this year they needed their own. Hayden was determined to have his birthday yesterday with his brother and even told me that his teacher said it is today (yesterday). I tried to convince him that I am his mom, and I was there when he was born, and I know when his birthday is. So he had a long wait. This morning I had to give him a breakfast surprise like we did yesterday for Dusty. He has been so excited, and lucky for him we didn't make him wait until after dinner to have his party. Chris took the day off work, so we took the boys to Wingers for lunch, then came home for presents and cake and ice cream. He also wanted to pick out a cake from Wal-mart, so I lucked out on baking. I'd ask him what he wants for his birthday and I got "Well, what do you want on your birthday mom?". So I was clueless, and used one of my sisters ideas. He got a book, coloring book, the Barnyard movie, and a gun that shoots cans off a log. He also got cards, letters, money and phonecalls. All he wants for dinner is CAKE, I can't get him to pick anything else so I guess we'll have pizza tonight. Then we're going to blow up the air beds, and watch his birthday movie and have a family sleep over in the living room. So that is our birthday excitement! I am so glad for Hayden to be in our family, and I'm greatful that I get to be his mother. He teaches us so much! He is totally a Daddy's Boy! He loves his dad, he looks like his dad, and acts like him as well. He is such a strong little boy. He isn't afraid of ANYTHING, including going out in the dark by himself. He thinks he has to grow up just as fast as his brother, and is always right beside Dusty doing the same thing. He is the best brother and friend one could ever ask for. He loves to sing and "get jiggy with it". He is also the sweetest thing there is, he just melts my heart at times. I have learned how much fun he is when his brother is at school and he will actually interact with me. He is totally different when it's just him and I love our time together. He might even be turning into a mommas boy (Chris doesn't agree with me!). It seems unreal that he joined us 4 years ago, time goes by fast when you're having fun and staying busy, and Hayden has for sure kept us busy! We love you Hayden, Happy Happy Birthday!

Dusty is 6 years old!

A few months ago Dusty said he wanted some kid kind of peanut butter and jam for kids to make their own sandwiches for his birthday, and then one day he showed me in the store what he was talking about. He has also wanted a "big bag of paper". He is always taking my paper out of the printer and one day opened the door on our computer desk and said "Wow, where did you get that big bag of paper? Maybe you could get one like that for me!" So what some exciting gifts he got this year! I decided to throw in some paint with all of that paper, a game, a Speed Racer car, and the Speed Racer movie. He also got some cards, letters, money, and phone calls. I think he had an exciting day!
Here he is with the cupcakes that he wanted. He has wanted cupcakes from Wal-mart with whistles on top like he saw once in the store. Unfortunaltely, they don't have the whistle packets anymore, so we bought cupcakes and added our own whistles.
Since I was going to make Dusty wait until after dinner to open his gifts, I didn't want him to feel that he had to go through most of the day without it feeling like his birthday, so we started the day with a breakfast surprise. After we got Hayden on the bus this afternoon, Dusty said that I had to wait in my room while he made ME a surprise lunch. He came and got me when it was ready, made me close my eyes, lead me to my chair, then let me open my eyes to see my surprise. He had opened a can of applesauce, dumped it in a bowl, and covered the top with animal crackers. He also had a piece of bread cut into the shape of a heart. I so wish I had taken a picture of my lunch. He made some for himself as well, and had to chow it down with only fifteen minutes left to eat and get ready for the bus. It was so cute! I love little things like this! I can hardly believe he came to us 6 years ago. He has been fun since day one! I never knew I could love like this. He has spoiled me and I am so greatful that he is mine. I can't imagine life without our Dusty Boy. He has been one of the cutest little boys ever. I'll never forget when he was just a few weeks old, we would lay him under the living room fan at my parents house and he would go! His arms would flap up and down and his skinny little legs would move like he was running a marathon. I swear that boy would run miles laying there! And as he got more mobile, he didn't run in place as much, but he still was constantly on the go. He is like the energizer bunny that just keeps going and going and going. His is my biggest best helper, my cuddle bug, and my comedian. He is growing up so fast! He gets chased by all the girls at school (I don't blame them, he is a cutie). He also let me know how embarassing it was that I waited for the bus with him with wet hair. How awful it would be to have the other kids see me that way!! We love our Dusty Boy! We have thouroughly enjoyed these last six years with him. Happy Birthday Dusty!