3 children for sale

Today for lunch we had left over spaghetti. We were all sitting down and eating nicely. The phone rang it was my brother trying to come up with a date idea. I left the room to talk where it was quiet. We talked at the most 5 minutes. I came back to spaghetti decorated children and kitchen. The children where covered head to toe. Jakob literally had to scrub it off his feet. So I dragged the kids to the bathroom. I probably should of put them in the bath tub. But that would of been something they enjoyed, so one by one I scrubbed them down at the sink. Did I scrub a little to hard? Probably. Then off to bed they went. Iwent back to the kitchen to survey the damage, man it is every where. My table was covered.
my floor was covered
The back of our nice chair was covered.
And of course the walls.
I decided that I should probably get the mess cleaned up before Colin got home, which was in a few minutes, because the kids needed one parent to love them today. And it certainly wasn't going to be me. Maybe we will try again tomorrow, if they are not sold by then.

And a Bahumbug to you to.

It is our tradition to get family pictures this time of year. When we lived in Seattle We went to picture people to get our pictures. We always had a good experience with them and always got great pictures. Well of course there is nothing like that here in rexburg, or Idaho for that matter. Our only choices for pictures is jcpennys or sears. I looked into both. jcp charged $9.99 for a sitting fee person. I found a coupons but they all were for only one free sitting fee. So we would still have to pay $40 just to sit down. Not good enough. So sears it was with only a $14.99 sitting fee for the whole family. They day comes of our appointment, we get all spiffed up. Once we get there we wait and wait.Were they busy? No, there was only one other family there but they were viewing their pictures. There were 2 studios open and one of the workers was available but she was on her cell talking. Finally she got off and called us back. Our appointment was at 7pm finally at about 7: 35 we get in. And off we go, she gets us settled in our spots and starts taking the pictures. Now any of you with children know that in order for your kids to look at the camera and smile you have to have a photographer who will basically make a fool of them self and be totally silly. This was not happening for us, she would just yell at the kids to look at he camera. Didn't work of course. After about 4-5 poses the kids were done and frankly so was I. My husband gave me a look that told me he was thinking the same thing I was. " I don't think we are getting any of these picuters. " So we told the yelling lady that "I think we were done". But she informed us that she needed to have 9 poses so 4 more. Ok what ever just hurry and snap some pictures, we are so done and just don't care anymore. When we were finally done taking the pictures we were ready to view them. But our lovely photographer informed us that they had closed at 8, it was now 8:35( funny that its the same time we waited while she talked on her cell) and that we would have to come back the next day to view them. We then told her that we lived in rexburg( a 30-40 minute drive away) and that we didn't want to come back tomorrow we just wanted to see the pictures. We already knew what package we wanted. and that we were only going to get one pose for all the pictures that we needed. She wasn't having it. So we went out to make our appointment to come back. But there was 2 other families out there waiting to view there pictures. We brought that to her attention but she just said "sorry we are closed". Now let me just say that Colin was pretty mad at this point and I knew we just had to get out of there so he, we could vent. The next morning we called the place to talk to the manager, but we were told that she wasn't in yet. So we talked to the sears big store manager who9o apologized and told us that she would have the studio manager call us. Never happened. We called a couple of other times but she was never in. So when we went in at 6:30 to view our pictures we were told that the manager got off at 6. Which mean that she was there the times we called. We were then told to wait. Of course the workers were in the empty studio just chatting and laughing. Finally they called us up and asked our name again said they were having a hard time locating our file of pictures. After another 20 minute wait they call us back. The pictures were just like our whole experience with sears. Horrible. Most of them the kids weren't looking. There were a few that had majors shadows over a few faces. But 1 did turn out. It was the one where we told the kids to make funny faces so that we could get another pose to get to the 9. It was cute enough to not pass up. But not what we were looking for in a family pictures to give to family members. So on the way home Colin and I decided to just wait till we get home to Seattle to get anymore pictures, at the place we know and love!!! We will never be back to Sears.

Also we decided to try and get photo Christmas cards this year, but that means that we needed to have a good family picture to put on them. here are a few of our attempts at getting a family shot

A New Favorite

This last Thanksgiving weekend we decided to rent some movies. I told Colin that if they had Hairspray to get it. I wanted to see what all the hype was about. So I started watching it while I was peeling potatoes for thanksgiving dinner, I got to watch about 20 minutes, but later that night after the kids were in bed and Colin and my brothers were playing video games i decided to finish watching it in my room. I loved it. It was funny and I love the music and the dancing. The next morning i made Colin and the kids watch it with me. They all loved it. Yes even Colin. Last night he was trying to down load the soundtrack, but I told him I want the CD from the store so that can read the words to the songs and learn the word quicker. This morning I woke up to him singing "Good morning Baltimore". I love my husband, what other guy would be into a musical with me. He even told my brothers that it was good and that they should watch it on a date!!! Yes I have trained him well!! Any ways back to the movie. I was blown away by the singing and dancing. Zac Efron is in it and I thought it was just a small roll, but man did he do a good job. He has a big part, he sings he dances. Its way better then highschool musical. All the other people in it were great. I loved it. Its already been added to my Christmas list along with the soundtrack!!! If you haven't seen it go rent it, If you love musicals like grease, you"ll love this. Then let me know what you think and be aware that you will get the songs stuck in your head, and you will feel like dancing!!!

I Love to See the Temple

The Rexburg Temple is beautiful. It sits on the only hill that is around for miles and there are no tress to block the view. So you can see if from everywhere. Walk out of Walmart there is the temple. Go out side and play there's the temple, anywhere on campus, any where in Rexburg you can see it. When coming back from Idaho falls you can see the temple miles before you get to Rexburg ( especially at night). Now let me tell you about Jakob. He is my worrier. He is very aware of his surroundings and what is going on, some times I think to much aware for a 4 year old. With that said our first week in Idaho we ventured to Idaho falls to see what kind of stores they had so we knew what we had to work with, you know checking out our new neighborhood so to speak. Of course having been our first time there we got lost, or should I say trying to find the freeway again. Jakob was very nervous. He even cried a little cause he didn't know how we were going to get home. We found the freeway but that didn't rest his worrying mind, not till 30 miles later and he spotted the temple up on that hill. Then he was fine. The temple let him know he was safe and back home, which is what Colin and I had been telling him the whole time, but we couldn't reassure him, just the Temple.
A week or two later when Colin had a job interview and the job was someplace that we had never been before, we decide to go take a drive and find it so the next morning he wouldn't get lost. Which was good because we found the place easily enough but it was a farm town which mean no lights any where and it was totally dark, so of course we missed the turn and drove around in circles for a while. Once again Jakob got very nervous and was very worried about things. And the same thing happened he wasn't ok until he found that Temple.
So now every time we go anywhere even out our front door I hear " Mom there's the temple". The other 2 have joined in and its now like a game, who can spot the temple first and how many time can they see it.
Maybe some day my kids will see the real irony of always having the temple in their sights to feel safe. Maybe then it wont be just a land mark for them, but an eternal destination. And a place to always feel safe and home again.
And yes we plan on taking him( maybe the other 2) to the open house. I think it will be something that he will remember forever.

Cinderella and her 2 Incredible body gaurds

We had a very fun Halloween. Conner screamed his head off when we put his costume on, I think he might of been scarred of it. But once we got it on him and he saw other kids wearing costumes he was fine. After we got home from trick or treating Colin noticed that he put Conner's mask on upside down. We are so bad that we didn't notice earlier in the night. Oh well. The kids had alot of fun trick or treating with there new friend and neighbor. Also it was lot of fun to all the other ward members out and about. Here are a few fun pictures.

like I said earlier Conner's mask is upside down.

Doing what she does best, making a mess



Before we got costumes on!!!

Well now its time to focus on fixing thanksgiving dinner and getting Christmas gifts. I love the holiday season. I just hope the weather cooperates so that we can drive home and be with family for Christmas. We saw our first Christmas commercial last night so i guess its officially that time of year. I am thankful that we only have like 3 channels and the one that the kids watch it PBS so not many toy commercials. So I don't have to hear " mom I want that for christmas" every 30 seconds. And maybe my kids won't realize that "Santa" doesn't have the money to get them all they want this year. If they only ask for 2 things then they will get all they asked for right!!! Well Happy shopping and baking to everyone!!

And so I cried

Sunday was a big day for Jakob. It was his first primary program. He was wearing his suit which he had set out for about 2 weeks for the big day. He had his part down. So when it was time for him to go up we were all so excited. When he got up there and sat in his chair behind the sacrament table with his scriptures in one had and his family picture in the other, he waved down to us and I cried. I cried because he looked like a missionary, he was so full of confidence, and he is just not my little baby anymore. I was so proud of him when he said his part, once again full of confidence, all by himself ( the only sunbeam that didn't need help). But I cried some more, he is just getting so big. I feel like Jakob has done alot of maturing lately. He is writing words, well copying words, but he can do it. He wrote his first letter to Santa this year. I wrote what he wanted to say then he copied it. He was so proud of himself. It just catches me off guard sometimes when he says something to me like what time it is. I have been doing preschool stuff with him since we moved here to late to get him into preschool. I am amazed each day with how easy it is for him and i love to see how his little mind works . He is my big boy now and he will be off to kindergarten next year. I cant believe it. And I'm sure i will cry that day as well.

DAD STOP THE CAR...

So I know that by the title of this blog some of you know what I am going to type about but at least you will get a good laugh at me. You guessed it I had another run in with a bee and it was not a pretty sight. NO I didn't get stung. For those of you that don't know, I for some reason ( well it could be because when I was little we went camping at sequoia national forest and there were thousands of bees that year it was horrible and I had one fly up my shorts and sting me so I'm sure that is where my fear comes from) have a horrible fear of bees. And I seriously over react when they get close to me or on me. When we were camping (a different time and place) as a family we had been at the lake and had got in the car, as my dad started to drive us back to our campsite I noticed a bee on the inside of my window, I panicked and yelled to my dad in my horrified voiced "Dad stop the car" and because I must of sounded scared to death my dad pulled right over and I flew out of the car before I told anybody what was going on. When I told my family it was because there was bee on my window, they laughed and then my dad got kinda mad( I think I really scared him and he thought something horrible had happened) that i made him pull over for a bee. Since then I have not lived that down and I always get "dad stop the car" . Now back to today, we are sitting at the table eating dinner, and out of the corner of my eye I see something come flying at me and hit my sweatshirt. I was about to yell at the kids to stop throwing food when I looked down to see a Bee climbing into the inside of my sweatshirt arm. And once again I let out a terrified squawk and was flailing allover the place. I was out of my chair and had the sweatshirt off in record time. When i finally settled down I looked at Colin and he had this look on his face that said "well its finally happened, shes lost her mind". When I told him there was a bee climbing into my sweatshirt, I could tell he didn't believe me. He thought I was over reacting to a piece of fuzz or something. But like the good husband that he is, he took my sweatshirt out side to do search. Of course he came back in finding nothing, and i had been looking in the house to see if I could find it. Then I had Colin do a search of me " is it in my hair, climbing up my back, inside my shirt" still no sign of it. So I kinda started doubting myself thinking maybe it had been a piece of broccoli that had been thrown. But I hear a familiar squawk come from the living room and there it was a WASP. It was promptly smooshed. Then I started the whole "how did it get in here, we don't have any windows open or doors. So once again my great husband chimes in to tell me that it probably landed on my when I was outside with the kids (3 hours earlier) and it has just been hanging out on my sweatshirt the whole time. You know how if you get a bug on you then every time you get an itch or a tickle you think its another bug and then your mind starts tricking to believe that there is a bug in your hair, your arm, your shirt, well that is where I am at now. Squeamish. I really hate bugs, I wish they all would just stay out of my house.

Boys to Men

Its weird, it happened over night really my brother Brian went from being a college boy to an Army man. That is right he joined the National Guard. He will be leaving for boot camp the beginning of February. Then after that he will be going to fireman training. I am so happy for him cause I know its something that he has always wanted to do, but I am also scared to death. I know that he will get to go and do tons of stuff that the rest of us will never get to do. Like when we went and watched him and the rest of the byu-i rotc squad get trained and then take off in a black hawk helicopter. My kids thought it was so cool.
This is something that I never thought I would be apart of, have a family member in the army. Right now we don't even have TV so I have no idea what is really going on in the world. But I now know why people are so passionate about getting the troops out of Iraq. It's personal now. There are so many good things that can come from him joining, like the training he will get as a fireman, and self discipline, and stuff like that. And I am excited for my brother to live his dream. All I can say now is "Bush bring those troops home now, and keep them safe for the next 6-10 years". Please, so my brother can stay close to home and finish his school and just do the "guard" 1 weekend a month and be safe. Please just keep him safe

Suggestions??

We have been officially potty training in our house for a little over a week now. Conner has been doing really good with going pee. No accidents since the first day, yea!! I knew he was ready cause every time he did anything in his diaper even just a drop he wanted his diaper changed, so i just told him ok tomorrow we are going to start going on the potty. Like i said hes done great with going pee. But going poop is a whole nother thing. The 2nd day he had a accident in his underwear. I feel like I didn't get to mad at him, just said that he needs to go poop in the big boy potty. And then I took him in there and we put the "no no" in the potty and flushed it. Then we wiped his bum like we would of if he went in the potty. Everything I have read says to do that. But now he wont even sit on the toilet. He pees standing up now, after watching Jakob of course he needs to be just like him. days 3 and 4 of potty training we could tell that he needed to poop but wouldn't. We tried sitting him on the potty and reading books, then we tried giving him his privacy. Nothing but crying cause he didn't want to be on the potty. so we put a pull up on him and tried to convince him to go in there, it took another day for that to happen. but finally he did that and we cheered, because I would rather him go in a diaper then have him be constipated and have to take care of that. So that is where we are now. I have been reading up on it, and everything I read says that if they show major resistance to stop and try again later. But Conner is doing great with the peeing. He tells me pretty much when he needs to poop, he just wont sit on the blues clue potty. Jakob has been taking him in the bathroom when he goes so Conner can see how its done, and I keep hoping that the want to be like his big brother will kick in and he will sit on the potty. So I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions, or ideas. Any help would be appreciated. I am so ready to stop the crying when he has to sit on the potty and just take care of business.

Stress Levels

As many of you know we have had a pretty crazy 6 months or even year. And with the craziness comes stress, at least for me and it so it takes a toll on my kids and husband. Trying to sell the house and packing and moving sure can stress you out. And to that all the house renovations we did created alot of stress. On top of that there always seemed to be something else going on, a major vacation where your kids vomit the whole plane ride, or funerals where you have to pack and be out the door in day. But I have come to realize that if we can survive those 6 months of craziness we can do anything. Now that we are here, and unpacked and settled, For the first time in who knows how long our stress levels are down. I have noticed it in our kids, they are not so uptight. I for the first time can take the time to really clean things and keep them clean, so I don't have to do a mass clean every few days. Its nice oh so nice. And the biggest thing for me is for the first time since Alexa has been born I DON'T feel overwhelmed by having 3 kids. I am actually enjoying it. Maybe its that the stress levels are down or maybe its because they are all in a "good" stage right now but either way I'll take it. When I told Colin the other night that I actually feel like having 3 kids isn't so bad and that I am enjoying it he said " uh oh" so of course I quickly told him that I am not baby hungry, I am just enjoying my kids and the low stress right now. Which he was so relived, and thankful that I wasn't getting any crazy thoughts. The other thing that I feel is a blessing is because we have been living with so much craziness and stress I feel like it has prepared me and Colin for the stresses of school and work. I know Colin has alot on his plate, and that he has more stress right now then I do with homework and all, but I feel like it's manageable (Colin might disagree on some days) compared to how overwhelmed we were feeling with trying to get everything done to sell our house and move. So I guess I just need to say Thank you to my Heavenly Father for all the blessings that he has poured upon us, and for the calmness in our lives right now. I am thankful to have a husband who listened to that little voice that told him it was time to go back to school, and for his bravery and faith to go forward with it. And I am oh so thankful for my 3 children, they are a handful but I'm loving just being able to be with them (stress free) and enjoy this new adventure that our family is on.

She's growing up!!

My Alexa is growing up and it is so fun. She defintley is a girl, drama and all. She loves Cinderella, she loves shoes, dolls, painting her toe nails, and watching mommy put on makeup. She wont got to sleep with out her pink blanket with hearts on it, and one of her little princess books. I thought for a while it was any book, so I gave her a barney book before bed, nope it had to be a princess one. At disney land we bought her a tinkerbell wand that ligths up on the end, she walks around saying bibbity boppity boo to everything. It is so fun for me to watch and see how different she is from the boys. Now of course she also loves playing with her brothers and their games and toys. She has learned how to fight back pretty quickly, and can hold her own. She is my big helper and wants to do everything that I am doing. And how can you turn down her cute face.We recently bought her some boots, some hot pink ones and also some brown ones she looks so darn cute in them . But she wants to wear them everywhere. At least boots are really in style here. At least she will fit in.This last weekend we went to my sister inlaws house for a baby blessing, Alexa had so much fun playing her her little girl cousin, and it was so cute to see them both pack around their dollys. Also she was so sweet with her new baby cousin she wanted to hold and kiss him all the time.
Alexa has discovered that she can get a small chair from the boys room and drag it in the kitchen so she can help mommy with all the stuff that needs to be done. Here she is "helping" with the laundry.

I know that my mothers words will come true someday and that she will give me lots of attitude and sleepless nights. But right now I just love hearing Bibbity boppity boo amongst all the shooting noises coming from the boys. And I cant wait for all the fun adventures to come.

A Sad Goodbye

Well its official, we do Not own a house anymore. And its sad really. It might not have been the best house, the biggest, or even the nicest but it was ours and we have so many good memories there.We had 2 babies born while living there. 3 great Christmases, 3 fun Halloween parties, 3 loud 4th of July parties, and many sleepless nights. I think that house will always hold some of my best memories, of kids learning to walk and talk, and all of our crazy adventures. It also holds some pretty stressful memories like discovering I was pregnant with Alexa 3 months after Conner was born, or making the decision to come back to school and sell the house, and then of course everything that it took to get the house on the market, and moved out. But we said our sad goodbyes. The kids and I said goodbye to our bedrooms and down stairs, I said goodbye to our kitchen and bathroom. As we drove away for the last time I cried, it would of been different if we were moving up in the world and getting a bigger better house I might not have been so sad. But now that we are here, the house papers are signed, the money is in the bank, I can say my final goodbye to our great house Thanks for all the wonderful memories. We will never forget them!! Here are a few pictures of the big ol' truck that we got to move. It was really nice we load it, they drive it. So nice!!

the town of big hair, bugs and babies

Well to first catch everyone up to speed. We are moved. I know it was quick but everything just kinda fell into place and we went with it. Not to say that it wasn't crazy, but we made it and that is all the counts. Our apartment is nice but small. We realized very quickly that we would need a storage unit, and alot of creative shoving to get all our stuff to fit. we only have one box left to unpack so we did good in that aspect. Its just that I now need to go back and reorganize everything to get it all to fit with out looking to cluttered. So still lot of work to do.

Now on to the title of the blog. Holy cow do the girls have weird big hair here. I went to enrichment to night and the relief society president had big hair just poofed and sprayed to perfection. Her side burns were dyed a bright violet purple. she is in her 40-50 and was dressed regular, but her hair was just so very bad. I have seen big hair before But rexburg definitely takes the prize.

On to bugs they are huge, the 2ND night we were here we had the biggest beattle cock roach this i have ever seen it was like 2 inches long and like and inch wide. Gross and the spiders here are huge and poisnous. I hate bugs.

And let me just say babies, babies galour. everyone here is pregnant or has a new born or has like 4 little kids. And i am wondering what the car seat, seat belt laws are here. I have seen a few family with 3-4 kids all in a little 4 door car. No one has a minivan, its all trucks and little cars. and they just pile the kids in. So unsafe.
All right well I promise that I will get some pictures of the place and get them posted.so you can see how creative I have really had to be!!

My Dear Grandma

Well this summer has been crazy to say the least, with kids, putting our house on the market, and vacations. I feel like I haven't been home much, which I haven't really, and when we have been home we get phone calls that someone wants to come look through the house, so out we go. As all of this stuff has been going we been deal with some hard things with my grandma. Right before our California vacation we got a call from our dad who got a call from his family in Utah that grandma keeps falling and they have to call 911 to help her get up. They also said that they had a Dr. appointment for her to find out what was going on. To make a long story short she was diagnosed with Colan cancer that had spread to her lungs and liver. She was also give 4-8 months to live. And i was told that it is pretty painful. Of course the whole family was praying for the best out come and that she could be in no pain. We also decided to go ahead with the California vacation minus grandma and grandpa. Right before we left for vacation grandma was put into a care center because she was falling to much and grandpa was having a difficult time taking care of her. we got back from vacation on Saturday night and that following Tuesday we got a call saying that grandma was not doing good and that if we wanted to talk to her before she passed that we should get there asap. So my mom and dad brothers and sisters all decided that we would go and leave the next day. Unfortunately she passed away during the night. Of course every one was shocked. It had only been about 3 weeks from her diagnosis. The funeral was planned for Saturday , so we hopped in the car and headed to salt lake. The Mr. and I had decide that it probably wasn't such a good idea to take the munchkins to a viewing and funeral. We didn't think they would be very reverent. So the Mr. stayed home with the kids and i hitched a ride with my sisters. Which i must say was very fun, we drove through the night so we could be there for the Friday viewing. It was a sad weekend It was hard to walk into the viewing room and see grandma. It was hard to see grandpa and her 5 sons say their goodbyes before closing the casket. But through it all my grandpa was a trooper, his testimony was so strong and he was just so thankful that grandma was pain free. He truly lifted everyone else up, and really set the mood for every one else. Thank you grandpa. And Grandma I love you, but I'm sure you are enjoying your loved ones up there, and all thous unborn great grandchildren. Till we meet again!!!
On a lighter note that same weekend my sister in law had her little baby boy. I was lucky enough to get to visit him, them. It was kinda fun to see the begging of a new life at the same time of one just ending. So congrats to my sister in law and her family on their new little one!!

Priceless

Here are some pictures of our fun time at Disneyland

The kids loved the Tea cups

The kids were a little nervous to go into a whales mouth.

the buzz light year ride was a blast!!

Oh there you are peter!!!

My kids love aladdin, we saw 2 different plays of aladin while we were there.

so fun!!

Maybe later I will get hte rest of the pictures up of our vacation. Seaworld, the beach, all that fun stuff!!

Our Trip to the Magical Place!

We made it home. It was such a fun vacation. Of course it had its ups and downs, both figuratively and literally. We had a rough start. The morning that we left Little Miss Love Bug was sick and she threw up but we new the trip must go on. To much money was all ready spent to let a vomiting child stop us. Well how about 2 children? Nope that didn't stop us either. My little Picasso joined the club as we were driving to the airport. I had a feeling it was coming cause well he just had the look. Not only was it coming out the top end but the other end as well. So we had a throw up session in the security line, in the preboarding line and of course on the plane. But don't worry some how I was prepared we had my backpack full of changes of clothes, diapers and a last minute addition, thanks mom, small garbage bags. Even before the plane took off the Mr. had Picasso in the bathroom changing his diaper and pants. I also was stocked up with benadryl to make my kids mellow out. After the first 20 minutes or so they were all asleep, thank goodness. We had to change planes in Oakland Ca. ( anything for cheap tickets right) and that went smoothly. The worst was behind us and the 2nd flight went well. We met up with the rest of my family ( who managed to all get on the same flight with no layovers for the same price, there just wasn't room for my family of 5) and headed to baggage claim. I really wish I would of taken a picture of all of our luggage. We had to use 2 of those carts just for my family's luggage. It was crazy I was pushing the stroller with Lovebug in it, loaded down with all of our carry on stuff ( backpacks and blankets) and I was carrying Picasso. The Mr was pushing the cart with most of the luggage and Einstein was pushing the other cart. He did really good, and he loved it. So we set off to find the shuttle that took us to the car rental place. That was an adventure. But once we got the van the craziness was over, we headed over to the hotel that was one block down from Disney Land and tried to re group for our next few days there. The kids were miraclulously better the next morning( well still some diarrhea issues but that wasn't going to stop us. Disney land was everything I remembered and a whole lot more. I was so excited for my kids to see all of the characters of their favorite movies, and to just be part of the magic. Right off the bat we hit the peter pan ride and of course peter himself showed up, my boys were so excited. what a way to start off our adventure. We had 2 day park hopper tickets and let me just say not even close to enough time. We could of easily stayed 2 or 3 days at Disney land and then did a day at California adventure. but we managed to fit it all in. I will post pictures in my next blog, but let me just finish on this note, We will be going back some day and I cant wait!!!

The House

Well we did it, we finally got the house on the market. It went up the day we left for Disney Land. I must say that I never seen my house so empty and so clean as it is, was, the day we left. And yes we finally got the bathroom done. I think it looks great. Here are the pictures of the final product.

Here is the new bathtub, notice the nice wall with no window. The Mr. did all the dry wall and everything himself. Not to mention all the re plumbing he had to do to make the new bathtub work. The Mr. and my dad worked long and hard on that!

Here's an over all view of the whole bathroom.

The new flooring!!

We put in new faucets and a new light fixture. Plus we decided to stain the wood darker. I think it looks nice!!!

Well it was alot of hard work but I think it turned out great. Thank you to all those who helped. We couldn't have done it without you.

It's Offical....

Well its offical, I've lost my mind. Ive been thinking I was losing it for a while now, but when I went to go change a load of laundry the other day and found my cell phone at the bottom all freshly washed, I knew my mind was gone. Now my phone is drying out. It has been for 2 days and I'm starting to realize that there is no hope for it. It doesn't do anything, so dont bother trying to call on my cell because its literally washed out.
The other thing that is offical is that the house will be on the market Thursday the 9th. We had the realitor over. And basically he bursted our bubble. The price to sell a house after you add in everyones commision, fees, and then of course all the goverment fees. Man oh man its out rageous. And then of course the market had kinda changed since we have started looking in to selling the house. So we wont be getting the money that we thought we would. The upside is that the realtor said he doesnt see the market changing much over then next few years, so maybe we can come back and buy a house for the same amount, that would be great.
Also the bathroom is nearly finished. Good job Mr. I will post pictures soon!!!

Can't believe it's over with

Ok so yes I have fallen into the Harry Potter craze. I have purchased the last 2 books on the day they came out. Yesterday I finished reading number 7, which I thought was really good, not to many slow parts. That is all I will say about that as to not give anything away for the other fans. The thing that is just weird is to think that there will be no more books, no more hogwarts adventures. And the other thing I would like to say is please someone eles read it soon( hint hint MR.) so that I can talk about it with somebody.

Oh a few other things that I have been meaning to post. I would like to welcome my sister, Laura, the the blogging world! She started a blog a few weeks ago! Welcome!! Also I wanted to say welcome home to my 2 brothers. It been so fun to have them home and watch them interact with the kids. I am excited to live closer to them in rexburg, and maybe be a small part of all the fun they are having!!!!!

The Plan

So our plan has changed a little bit so I thought I would catch you up to speed, for those of you who care. The Mr and I were really hoping to have the house on the market by now, but we seem to just keep running into snags with the bathroom. As of right now the plumbing needs to be redone for the shower and tub so we are in process of finding a reasonably price plumber to do the job quickly. Then we have to finish up the rest of the bathroom, and a few other odds and ends to a have it ready. So the plan is to put it on he market the day before we leave for our California vacation. So that we can have the house stay clean while people are walking through it. And if we are lucky we will have a buyer by the time we get home and then finish packing. Also we have found a place in rexburg. Its an apartment in a 4 plex, it's a 3 bed 1 bath. It's going to be hard going back to apartment living and not having control over wall colors and stuff like that. But it is really cheap and if it ends up just not working we will just move, again!! I think the Mr and I are both very anxious to just get the move behind us. This move has been looming over our heads for way to long now. So everyone pray that we an get our house sold in the 9 days we are partying at Disney land, sea world and the beach, and not while I am home with 3 small kids desperately trying to keep them from making a mess and having people showing up to look at my house at any given hour. Lets pray that for my sanity every thing goes according to plans. ANd that the hsoue can sell while we are having fun in the sun!!!!