My little helpers!

The kids love to "help" me cook....yesterday we made homemade banana pudding. I made the pudding and then gave each (including Everett) a pile of vanilla wafers and some sliced bananas. So when we were ready to put the cookies down they were throwing them in there, then came the bananas and then mommy put the hot pudding on...Everett is just growing too fast! He slid the chair right up to the counter and helped just a "good" as the other two...the pudding turned out really yummy....lots of cookies but that is how I like it...a big thanks to my big helpers!

Tattoo and other things...

Well here are some pictures of Edwin's tattoo...The swelling has gone down a lot so it is not "quite" as big as when he first got home! We are both still trying to get used to it! I guess we have no choice right?!

Evan dressed Everett up in his pirate stuff and Everett came out saying "ARG!" It was so cute!

This is what are front ditch looked like last night with all of the rain from Hurricane Fay...I wish Edwin would have taken a picture of our neighbor's house...he had a river on both sides of his house! Thank goodness the rain has stopped!

And this picture is of Everett watching his favorite show Yo Gabba Gabba...I vowed never to let my kids watch it, not because it has anything bad but because it is more annoying then Barney if you can only imagine! But he LOVES it! He asks for it by name and gets so exited! He climbs up on our bed lays down on the pillow and starts saying "gabba gabba"...it's just too cute, I can't resist!

6 kids 5 and under!!!!

Yes that was my day today!!! They canceled school today for a "hurricane day" which didn't really start till about 5pm but whatever! Anyway a girl Edwin works with has a two year old and they canceled her daycare so she showed up at 6am with Riley. Of course I would watch her...it is the worst feeling to be stranded not knowing what to do with your kids...and then I had another friend with 3 and 4 year old boys that I watched for a couple hours also...PRETTY CRAZY!!! I mean that is a 5,4,3,another 3, 2 and 1 year old!!! You have to remember that it is raining so there is no taking the kids outside! To those of you who have known me all my life must be getting a good laugh...I mean I never did any babysitting or even wanted kids period! And now I can handle that! How much I have grown! They were all pretty good it just was a lot of kids in one house! My thoughts go out to the Wright's and the Rusch's who always had many more than that (and keep getting MORE)!!!! Seriously...I think I would go crazy! At least my most wonderful husband got home and sent me to my room to take a nap! My head was about to explode by the end of the day! Can he get any BETTER????? I love him and his new tattoo! Pictures of that will post soon :) Oh yeah you must be praying because Edwin and I both are feeling much more at ease the last couple of days :) Thanks!!!

Sooner than we thought...

Well we found out today that we actually get out October 2nd! I just don't know what to think about that...we have so much to do and don't even know where we are going!! At least we get paid through December! We still havn't heard either way on the Marietta job and I don't think my body can take much more of not knowing! I am usually really good about not stressing things that I don't have any control over but this is taking a lot! I didn't even realize I was stressed until I looked back on the week and realized I had been really short with Edwin and the kids, had a lot more gray hair (seriously...not kidding! They are actually white :( ) and my face keeps breaking out which never happens! I know I need to be trusting that God has made a place for us and we just need to be patient while we wait to see what He has in store...I am just realizing that my head has not told my body that yet!

In the mean time my kids keep doing little things that keep me laughing...well they keep me yelling sometimes too but today was just kind of funny! I was on my way home from work and I called my house trying to get Edwin and the answering machine came on. But it wasn't the usual message. Ellie or Evan must have pushed the record button at some point and the whole message was Everett screaming and the others whining about something...if anyone called I guess they just got a moment of my crazy life on tape! It was quite funny!

Anyway...keep praying for us...that through this time our trust in God will only grow and pray my body will get the message also! I mean I am only 28 and have gone gray!!!

Weekend without Edwin OVER : )

Here are some pictures I took over the weekend. One is of our dining room now that we painted the green paneling beige...it looks so much better! We put our house up officially this week so we are praying someone falls in love with it like we did!


The second picture is of the kids...I walked in on them like that! It was too cute...they were actually all getting along for the moment :) Look how big Everett is getting!!


And then I thought this was so cute of Edwin and Everett eating their corn together...I guess it is just an example of how I find the joy in the little things right now!

Handsome Boy Shirt

Evan calls his shirts with collars "handsome boy shirts." And now that he has started school he wants to where nothing but those...All summer long he wore BB shorts and tshirts but every morning I lay them out and he tells me "Mommy I have to wear a handsome boy shirt to school!" I guess I will have to invest in a few more since he won't where any of the 30 tshirts he owns!!

Ellie's 1st bus ride...LOST!!!

ok so Edwin and I had already decided that I would take and pick up Ellie from school...I mean it's the safest thing for a 5 year old right? But Ellie kept going on about how she wanted to be a "bus rider"...so i decided to let her ride home with her friend Kamri because she got dropped off SECOND...so what would happen right? Well Kamri's mom called me and Kamri got off the bus but Ellie didn't!! so I rush over to the school and they make a call to radio the bus driver and she said Ellie wasn't on her bus. So then they call Ellie's teacher and she said that she put Ellie and Kamri on the bus together, she was sure of it...so if Ellie got on the bus but wasn't on it now but didn't get off with Kamri where was she?????? Can you even imagine what was going thru my head?!! So they call the bus driver again (the bus driver just happened to be a sub yesterday of all days) and she rechecked and Ellie WAS on the bus...did she just want to give me a heart attack or what? So Ellie arrived back at the school safe and sound and that will be the end of her bus riding days for a long while!!!! Not knowing where your child is, is one of the scarriest feelings in the world! I don't know how I will ever handle her getting her drivers license and going on dates and such....how do people do it without God...I mean there is no peace like putting our kids in His hands....thank you Lord for keeping her safe!

TEETHING...the SCREAMING won't STOP!!!

Seriously...God has blessed us with an amazingly well behaved 3rd child...I mean he just blows us away everyday, until....he starts breaking a tooth!!! Then the screaming won't end :( We have tried everything! We even have tylonol with codine and that only breaks it for a little while! I thought he was just getting 3 but I was putting hurricane gel on his gums and realized he was breaking 3 molars also! Some of the points are already through and I didn't even know it...just pray I can get throught this without screaming MY head off :)

Getting the house ready...

So yesterday made our 2 month mark and this sell by owner deal is just not working! So Edwin and I have been scrubbing (I mean SCRUBBING, hand and knees...you know I never do that) the heck out of our carpet so we don't have to get new carpet...it is paying off but boy am I going to be sore tomorrow!! And we are calling a real estate agent tomorrow...we have got to get some help getting people in...even if we are going to have to fork out that real estate agent fees...YUCK!

Oh and you'll never believe what we did! We took all THREE of the kids to Red Lobster today!!! If you know me and you know my kids this was huge!! Ellie has been saying she wanted to go to Red Lobster for months now...Edwin and I are still trying to figure out how she even knows what it is...we VERY rarely go out to eat anywhere. But we finally decided to take them today and they were so good...for those of you who know my kids this may come as a complete shock I know! But they were just a joy to be around and made it enjoyable to do something special for them. If you don't know the kids you're probably wondering why Red Lobster would be so special but hey on a military salary and kids that are crazy it is a big deal :) And Everett loved the live lobsters...he was hilarious...he just kept going up to them smiling and laughing and then would run away screaming only to do it all over again...he is definitely in my very favorite stage...exception of the teething...well hope this makes up for my lack of posts!

BUSY BUSY BUSY!!

Wow, Evan hasn't even started school yet (next week) and my life has gotten crazy! Getting Ellie to and from school, packing her lunch, doing her homework, and getting them ready in the morning was a lot to add to my schedule! Not to mention keeping the house clean (we have it up for sale) and everything else that goes with that! She is loving it though! She just needs to get used to not taking naps! She is REALLY tired when she gets home...

Edwin's boss got a call from the people Edwin interviewed with last week! We are just so exited because it is where we want to be...I guess I can say right? It is in Marietta, ga and that is a really good compromise for us...close to home and friends but still near a city but Edwin won't have to commute inside Atlanta every day...anyway they told his boss that he was one of the best interviews! So we are just playing the waiting game but glad we are still in the running! Please keep praying! He actually got offered a really good job in Ablany, Ga today but we really want to wait on that as back up. We wanted to be a little more north than here...PLEASE!! It is SO HOTTTTTTTT!

Anyway so that is our update! Along with the fact that saturday is our 2 month mark!!! It is so hard to believe that in 2 more months we will be living somewhere else! This is going to go way too fast for me! But hey if we are moving to Marietta then bring it on!!

Kindergarten!!!!

Here are some pictures of Ellie on her first day of Kindergarten!!!

Ellie starts kindergarten tomorrow!

It is so hard to believe summer is already over and my little girl is starting kindergarten tomorrow! I thought I was so ready but now I feel like I have nothing ready for her! I did get everything on the supply list so that's good! I will post pictures of her first day...she is SO EXITED!

here are a couple pictures of my birthday with the girls last night...it was SO MUCH fun! But I missed Edwin so much! We have no babysitters here so he couldn't take me out so he did the next best thing and let me go out with my friends...so sweet right? The only thing is that it was like spending a holiday without him! I just felt like my best friend should have been there...in these past few years where our friends have come on gone our friendship only grows stronger...he is truly my best friend and it was weird not to celebrate with him! But don't get me wrong I did have tons of fun! We went to our favorite mexican restaurant and they started clapping and singing and brought me a sambrero (sp?) and put a PIE IN MY FACE!!! I have never had that happen before!!!

Birthday Girl

So it's my birthday today and Ellie is being so cute! I don't think she has called me mom all day...she just keeps calling me "birthday girl"! "Birthday girl can you make me a sandwich" and "birthday girl can I watch a movie" and so forth and so on...too cute! And I thought I was turning 29 today but come to find out I am only turning 28! I totally gained a year! And my wonderful husband is giving me the day off....it is only 1pm and I'm off with the girls for the rest of the day/night!