Posting

Well it has been awhile since updating. It is not that I dont get on the computer most days, I just am not sure what I want to update about..Alot goes on everyday. Yesterday was our first day without people here working in our house.My first day to walk around my house, just me and my kids. I could nurse without a blanket, I could sing outloud, etc...It was nice. Alot has been done to our house and i look forward to showing you the pictures. Right now we are still working on painting the downstairs and today just finished striping the last room of old wallpaper...we ended up paying someone (alot!) to paint the new upstairs, so atleast it would be done and the girls could get into their rooms. Feeling so broke with house expenditures it is crazy. I cant believe the amount of money we have spent in such a short time...

Jacobs sister Zarah came out to help us as we survived or tried to survive these weeks of camping out (still have not unpacked anything from our garage, including furniture to sit on, like a couch)

To add to our craziness (incase we wanted to add to it-and we didnt)...we found out we are pregnant again (This time TOTALLY counts as a SURPRISE!)......so...yeah......dont even know what to say...this may be appropriate..AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Our kids are thrilled and have no concept of how this was so not on the radar. Jane and this baby will be 16mts apart. crazy days indeed!

On a another note, I have been blessed (and I express gratitude for this every night) with not having my normal (throw up every day, lay on the bed all day, cant stand up, etc..sickness)..I am just utterly and severly exhausted, till around 3pm...then i perk up and feel great the rest of the day..but before that...watch out :) oh, and because some may ask, due date is around Dec 2nd-9th....

Here

We are Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes folks....our mattresses (beds) have been moved to their new floor destination and all three girls are sleeping on them..so far so good. Jacob is off at work, he left around noon. I have been home (so nice to say those words....our home...it does feel different and i am not sad at all to leave our rental (normally I am, about leaving any of our homes) most of the afternoon, unpacking, taking care of the girls and trying to keep them out of the workers way (they were priming the upstairs today. I dont have much food in the house, so I am munching on bread and butter..not to bad, it could be worse, I could be out of butter :)

I already love my kitchen, so much room and cupboard/counter space. I have finally decided on a color...it is a shade of blue, cant wait to show the pics...

Thanks to some great friends our old house is empty and spotless!!!!!!!!!!!! With all that has been 'hard' this week, the burden has been lightened a ton through this family and others who have either watched the girls or feed us or packed us or cleaned up after our mess. I dont remember who said it and I didnt get to hear much during conference, but this I remember: We are His hands....

Alrighty. Wish us luck! We are moving over the rest of our junk in the morning, you know, from basecamp#1 to Basecamp#2..to continue our camping experience of course, just different scenery. The upstairs will be primed tomorrow, doors up, carpet laid, and ready for little girls by Friday. As for the rest of the house....time heals all wounds right????

No..seriously...it will get done at some point. We seriously are doing as much to a house that most do in the time they own a home over 20years...and we will get it done in 2mts...pretty good and pretty crazy...and pretty expensive...i think that about covers it...will post the 'pretty 'pics soon

camping

Alrighty......so.....looks like camping will be the theme of the month. Went over to new house today to start cleaning up and unpacking and realized...um, the workers are not as close to being done as we were told they would be (supposed to be done Wednesday), so we assessed the situation (power tools all over the place, piles of saw dust, sheetrock in the hallway, half painted walls, etc......) and we realized there is no way we could even make it work in this house with the children. So we are gonna be camping at our rental for another week. I say camping because all we have over here now are our mattresses on the floor, one bucket of toys, one thing of books, a few laundry baskets of clothes and our toiletries, alot of my kitchen stuff is already packed, even my washer/dryer are over at the new house....We eat sitting on our kitchen floor, i mean we have nothing to sit on here..it is crazy....anyway......worst things have happened. I am just thankful our house had not been rented out yet or we would be at a hotel, although staying at a hotel might be cheaper than paying to rent our house on top of paying for the mortgage at our new house (which we were not planing on overlapping those two) Anyway wish us luck, pray for us that we will and the workers will get everything done. Let me know if anyone wants to have my big girls over to play for abit, they sure miss their toys that are all packed.

Moving Day

I cant stand moving....moving just plain stinks. and moving with small kids stinks even more bbbnmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjggggggggggggggg(these letters were types by mattie as she got out of bed for the 20th time (no joke) while I was trying to deal with Jane crying)....I think my two fave reasons for moving out o this house are:

1. the door handles in this house dont lock......my kids are free to open and get out and my toddler has never had to be put in her room, hear the door shut and know she just cant get out so she might as well go to sleep. Nope, instead she knew she could always just run right out squealing in delight at her escape. So jacob or I (usually me, as he is usually not around for bed time) have to stand and hold the door handle as she tries to open it and I am soooooooooo done with that. I can not wait till we shut the door and she comes to it and learns for hte first time that, yes indeed she will be staying in her room....

You know, the problem is not with my kids. Even though they are abit out of sorts and abit acting up from spending so much time away from here and me, as they have been over a different persons house every day for a week now. I know it is because I need sleep and I need to see an end to the chaos known as moving. I know it doesnt help that we are moving into a house we cant unpack into right away due to major things still needing to be done, like painting and flooring. not to mention none of the closets have any of the shelving up yet so cant unpack hardly anything but beds and dressers till that gets done.

and jacob is working overnights for the next 5 weeks, so he comes home at breakfast time and has all this stuff to do but anyway....

back to the other thing i loathe about this rental house. The upstairs toilet, just about everytime we flush we have to plunge the heck out of it. you may wonder why we dont ask the landlord to fix it. Well, we have a property manager and he could care less about the house as he is not the owner and the owner has already made it clear that she doesnt have money to deal with anything here, not to mention this is how the toilet was on day one of living here so it must have been something she was living with and therefore wouldnt care that we have to live with it as well.

There are loads of things we have struggled with in this rental which has only fueled our desire to get out of rentals. We are really so happy to own a home and we can see what it will be like when all these things get done in the next few weeks but in the meantime, i may loose it. Just so you know. I just hope I can 'find it' when it is all over with

more house

here are some more pics of the house work.So in these you will see some framed out areas upstairs. One of the little areas is a built in cabinet into the eves with framing around it where I will hang a curtain as a little clubhouse for the girls in their room. I think there is also a picture of the rest of the mst bedroom with its current lovely wallpaper...we have taken quite alot of that stuff off the walls but this rooms wont come off so it will be painted over......still doing last minute decisions on the colors..anyone have a favorite to recommend????? Your color just may be chosen:)

house

Here are some outside and inside pics of house so far....In these pics you will see the mudroom area, or part of it, it connects our garage and house, which is so great. You will see part of the new construction, our mst bdr closet and bath area and new stairs going to the upstairs. You will see the thing with the bars, which will be a walk in pantry. I think they used it as a little dinette area.