What's next?

So we have gotten everything moved to our new house. We are still living out of boxes, which I'm sure we will be for a while. I hate that feeling, and so I try to get everything done all in just a couple of days. That is not good on anyone. I work myself so hard that my body is now in shut down mode. Today was a pretty bad day. I got a lot accomplished but I think I might have hurt a few peoples' feelings. For that I am sorry. I think I am just trying to take on too much at once. Please forgive me!

So pretty much all we have done is pack and move and unpack and move and clean and pack and unpack and clean. It's a vicious cycle. But we have had help from our family, thank goodness! We also had a lot of family members pass away in the past couple of weeks and so in between funeral plans and funerals they have all been very helpful! Thank you to everyone who helped! I love you all!

THE DAY HAS COME!!!

We are signing papers tomorrow for our house, but we won't be able to move in until probably Friday, because it takes a day or two to fund. But still...we are almost done. YAY!!! I am so excited now. It's actually happening. The next week or so is going to be hard though, getting kids off to school, getting boxes moved over, getting big heavy things moved. It's just a lot of work....but WELL worth it.

Jeremy has been so tough through all of this. He has stayed right on top of everyone getting all the paperwork done. He has been nothing but possitive when I had all the doubts in the world. I thought it was never going to happen and he kept telling me yes it will work, just be patient. He kept telling me not to stress about it it will all work out. I'm not a very good listener...I was not patient and I stressed about everything, but finally it's all coming together. We are SO excited. Nobody understands how excited we are!!!!

FINALLY

I finally got rid of all the head lice!!! But then Bryton got sick. We spent all morning in the emergency room yesterday. We thought it might be his appendix but it turned out to just be a viral infection...so far. They told us to keep a close watch on him. He's been acting like he is feeling better, so I am ok with that.

We still haven't heard when our closing date on the house will be, but one good sign they told our insurance agent to start the home insurance for May 20th. So at least by Friday. (I hope)

Laurie took me to "Wicked". It was phenominal...well I'm not sure I spelled that right, but the show was GREAT! It was above all my expectations. But even before the play she took us out to dinner. We went to Bajos. Ok, my new favorite place. I had never been there before but it was so yummy. It kind of reminded me of New York Burrito or Taco del Mar. I am going to have to take Jeremy there on our next date night. Then we were on our way to the show and we saw a candy shop...we had to stop, after all we don't have girls' night very often. :) Laurie bought each of us something including all the family members who were home (the kids and the husbands). Then off to the show.

We got there at about 6:00. Laurie thought the show started at 7. They made us wait to go into the auditorium. It was like 6:45 and we were like how come they aren't letting us in. Yeah, it didn't start until 7:30. But we had a great time waiting. We were all laughing and having a good time. Until the dreaded phone call. Laurie got a call and come to find out she lost a very important person in her life. She had a hard time dealing with it, but I thought she held it together very well, considering.

Laurie, I just want you to know how important you are to me and Jeremy, and our family. You are so helpful no matter what you have going on in your own life you make us priority. I know you would drop anything for us at any time. I love you for that! I love the fact that you have always treating me like your own daughter, not the daughter-in-law that I am. It makes me feel special. Thank you for letting me have your son. Jeremy is a wonderful person, just like you. He's a lot like you in many ways. Thank you for teaching him the way you did. You're a wonderful mom! I love you Laurie!

Good week or bad week?

Well this week is either going to be a good week or a bad week. We are suppose to sign the papers on Wednesday for our house. It will be a good week if come Wednesday things are ready to go. And then we will be moving in the rest of the week. Which is a good thing, but a lot of work.

Today we spent the day at my mom's house. We kind of did our mother's day thing with her today. I'm not sure if she was too happy about that idea. We made a lot of extra work for her. We opened the swimming pool so it could be getting warm faster and I made her cook. I love my mom's fried chicken, so I told her I would bring everything over if she would cook it...and she went for it. YUM! Then we let her relax and just snuggle on her grandbabies. And tomorrow we will be with Jeremy's mom.

For my mother's day my mother-in-law is taking me and my sister-in-laws to see Wicked. At first I wasn't too excited about it but then I looked it up online to see what it was and I think I'm going to like it. It is about the witches in The Wizard of Oz. That is on Tuesday this week, so I'll let you know how it is. :)

So Monday Jeremy will be working all day on his final paper for this semester. Then Tuesday I will go to Wicked and then HOPEFULLY Wednesday we will sign the papers and Thursday clean the new house and Friday start moving in. Hope everything goes as planned.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

I just wanted to take a minute and tell Jeremy that I love him. Today hits our 8 year anniversary. We were talking about anniversarys the other day with some family and someone said about only the big numbers like 10-15-20 are the years you really celebrate. Not for me. With having a big family and LOTS of little ones Jeremy and I struggle a lot and so any excuse we have to get out on our own we take it. So tonight we will celebrate by going to dinner together and then probably go grocery shopping. I know it probably sounds dumb, but it's time together just the two of us. We need that once in a while.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY JEREMY! I LOVE YOU!!

ABSOLUTELY WORST DAY EVER

So, I thought today was going to be a great day because I was going to spend the day with my sister and she was having her baby blessed today. Boy was I wrong...

Let's start at the beginning. I woke up really early, to make sure everyone got showered and dressed and we could get there on time. Well, Jeremy had no pants to wear because the suit I bought him didn't fit right. Well I don't sew. So we took it to my sister in law. She was my hero. She got it fixed enough for today. Then the gas light comes on in the car. REALLY?! We get gas and head to my sister's house. We get there and I try to take some pictures and my camera settings some how got changed. The first at least 10 pictures were all blurry. UGG! Not today. I wanted some cute pictures of me new little neice. Finally I figured out what had gotten changed and fixed it. Thank goodness. But then the baby was crying and didn't want any more pictures taken.

Finally we go to church. It was great. Nothing bad happened at church...imagine that. :)

We hung out at my sister's house for a while. I took the kids to play at the park and I tried to jump on the merry-go-round and hit my knee on the metal bar. I couldn't hardly walk. It's all bruised up and hurts like it's a deep bruise.
Then later at the park Tucker fell off the merry-go-round. Banged up his knee and bumped his head pretty bad.

Family time was great, just visiting with everyone. But everything must come to an end and so we headed home (well we were actually going to stop by the in-laws house). On the way home we were at a dead stop on the freeway. A car had caught fire. With a day like today I would have figured it was our car. But thank heavens it wasn't us. Those poor people probably think today was the worst day ever too.

So we finally get to the in-laws house and we eat dinner. Then we are all in the livingroom just visiting and Daisha comes up to me and says "I itch". My mother-in-law checked her and she has head lice. REALLY?! How in the world did she get that? My first thoughts: "Why right now? I have so much going on in my life right now. I can't handle this."

We immediately leave and I go to my mom's house, she has all the shampoos and stuff for lice from when my neices had it. Well she didn't have enough so I had to go to the store and get some more. Really on Sunday? Sorry everyone I am not a very good example. Had to have it though. We have to get rid of this. Luckily so far Daisha is the only one that has it. Ok, so I get back with more shampoo and then begins the combing...LONG process! I ended up trimming Daisha's hair. Poor girl! She gave me permission to though. So she's not upset about it. And it doesn't look terrible...:( Anyways, then we come home and I try to boil the hair brushes and combs that we have to kill the bugs. I forgot about them. They all burned up and burned up my pan and the house stinks like burnt plastic and yeah. Lots of smoke and the smoke detectors didn't even go off. That scares me just a little. We would all die if we had a fire in this house.

So now it's the end of a terrible day and I've cried my eyes out and I can't go to sleep. Too much on my mind. That's why I am writing this...got to get some of it out. Good night everyone. Pray tomorrow is better than today!