Happy 4th of July everyone!

Any Guesses?

Tomorrow I find out if I'm having a Boy or a Girl. If you want to take a guess by commenting on this post I will put all of the winners into a drawing for a fun craft item (still don't know what I will make) I will announce the winner Tuesday evening....Good Luck.

Just a quick note.

What a CRAZY couple of weeks. I went to girls camp last week and had lots of fun. I came home but instead of resting up I kept working (big mistake) I probably would have accomplished more if I would have taken a day or 2 to rest. I've had lots of cramps and tummy aches and I'm VERY tired. But the days must go on. Chad changed the truck reservation to pick up tomorrow afternoon that way we will have it here when he gets off at 8 tomorrow we're going to start loading! We will still finish on Friday but getting a head start will hopefully give us more cleaning time and get to SLC sooner.

We decided to sell our couches. We figured that our 3rd bedroom in Idaho needs to bed a bedroom instead of a piano/ stamp room so we sold our 2 couches and when we get home we will replace it with 1 new couch doing this will give us room in the living room for our piano. (and more room in the moving truck)

On Monday we will take Carsyn in to get his eyes taken care of he's going to be such a cutie with glasses. Then on Tuesday I have my ultra sound appointment we will find out if we will add to our Army of boys, or go bankrupt buying lots of pink. Anyone care to take a guess???? Anyway I will post more next week after we get there, unloaded, and settled in a bit. I can't wait to be back home!

2 More Weeks.

I try really hard to not be negative on my blog. (although some times the frustrations get the better of me) Right now the time in my life, I have some things going on that if I wanted too, I could be a real downer. But tonight I'm going to choose not to do that. My Heavenly Father knows what I can and cannot handle. So I just need to take things 1 day at a time, love my boys and my hubby, and just roll with the punches. I'm looking forward to being back home. I know some people may have their own opinions about us moving back and as far as I'm concerned they can just keep them to themselves. But I've been talking with Chad and Carsyn about all of the fun things we will get to do again as a Family and we're so excited. We aren't going to take our home for granted again. We are going to live our lives to the fullest despite our trials. We're going to spend time with my Mom however much time we may have left. We're going to have a Baby this fall and love (him or her) just as much as we have our other boys. These next 2 weeks are going to be a bit stressful. I leave for girls camp on Tuesday returning on Saturday. Then we move on Friday so sometime in between there I have to finish packing and clean the apt. Although unpacking wont be too hard because I already know where everything goes lol. Anyway, Lots to do in the coming weeks so wish us luck.

Wow

I'm SOOO tired. Chad brought home a movie last night so we stayed up way too late. I have some cleaning I need to do today plus 3 kids. I guess I'd better get the tape for my eyelids. I feel it's going to be a struggle today.

Changes Good or Bad.

Ok, So I'm sure a lot of you have noticed that for the last few months I haven't really been myself. There has been so much to talk about but frankly I haven't had the emotional capacity to say things out loud. Let me start out with talking about the kids. I have such great kids. Carsyn is so smart and in some cases very thoughtful. Corbyn is..well lets just say he's 3. Cole finally started sleeping through the night, and apparently we will be having another. What ever happened to the fact that I have a hard time getting pregnant? Apparently things figured out how to work. I'm 17 weeks along I'm due end Oct early Nov.
Another aspect of life is, Chad and I have been trying to figure out for the last year or so where we're supposed to be. We've talked about moving back to Nampa, we've talked about staying here, going to St. George etc... right now we just feel kind of lost. meanwhile our kids are suffering. Since we're in the apt we feel that they are being held back. I can't let them go outside because of the canal, we have awful neighbors (talking about the drug store) and We have noticed it taking a toll on Carsyn. Back in Jan we had decided that we weren't going to do any traveling this year and that we were going to get the car paid off. well since I got pregnant we had to make a trip to Idaho to see the midwife and then we had to go to a family thing in St. George. And that brings me to another topic. While we were in Idaho we got to visit my Mom. It's obvious that she is struggling. She had been waiting for an appointment with a Neurologist. Well, about a week or so after we had come home Mom collapsed on Dad and was put in the ER they admitted her to the Boise Hospital where she finally got to see the Neurologist. The diagnoses was pretty grim. Mom was given 6 mo-1 year to live. They say she has a disease called CJD It's a brain killing disease. So Chad and I decided that we need to be back in Idaho for the time being. We are moving back into our house in Nampa on June 30th. We think Chad has a spot at the Mt. Home store. Yes it will be hard since it's over an hour commute. Our plan is to get a little camp trailer with a shower for him to just stay over there on the days that he works his 3 on. SO anyway things are a bit on edge right now with Moms diagnoses. She doesn't believe it she went to see her Kineseologist (most likely didn't spell that right) And she says the that Dr. is wrong. And that it's a parasite in the spinal fluid that is causing the brain problems. so we will see. My Dad is keeping a blog for my Mom's progress http://www.followpatsy.blogspot.com/ or you can also find it in my blog list under "Mom's Progress" Now I know that now I've put this out in the open I'm going to get lots of emails and phone calls of sympathy but before you do can I just say. I really don't want to talk about it. I know I'm loved and I know you care, but I have had so much hit all at the same time that right now I just want to keep my space. Just keep us in your prayers.

Stupid Cable Guys!

On the side of my building right out my bedroom window there is a box and the bottom had a small opening in it and a Momma birdie made a nest in there. For the last few weeks I've been hearing cute little baby birdie noises, and been watching the Momma bird. Well today there were some stupid Bresnan workers that were inside that box. it looked like they put the nest on top of the box. Later I saw the Momma bird back at the nest and I did see the babies but tonight at 10pm we were outside and it's cold and starting to rain. The wind had blown most of the nest on the ground 1 of the 3 babies was on the ground and Momma wasn't there =( Chad got a tube and scooped up the baby on the ground and put it back on top and put some more nest up there. I just hope Momma comes back.