Whew!
We took a big/little break around here!
My last entry was in March!
Since March, we have looked at close to 50 houses and prepared our house to sell it. This meant packing, painting and purging. At the very end of May we made an offer on a new house. Four days later, we listed our house for sale.
The Thursday before we were going to take the house off the market (maybe?) and while we were in Yellowstone national park, we accepted an offer on our house.
In July, we traveled to through Iowa to Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and through Kansas to home again.
More packing and packing.
John had the opportunity to travel via aircraft carrier in August. He flew out on a Wednesday and returned home the following Thursday. Friday morning, the movers arrived. We were supposed to close on Monday, but it got pushed until Tuesday. The movers arrived with our belongings on Thursday. We left to attend John's brother's wedding the next day.
The big kids started a new school while John was in Hawaii. G started a new preschool school the day we closed on our house.
To say it has been busy is an understatement. Sadly the blog has had to take a backseat to the craziness. Now that things are settled down a little, it is my hope to spend a little more time updating here again.
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Monday, August 29, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Goodbye sweet Mudd
4/2/03-3/14/16
She and her brother were our first babies. We simply adored them. She slept on my pillow most nights with her paws on my hair. She was there to greet us when we came home and she loved to play.
It was harder with the human babies around. It was just more to manage. But, she was still there everyday. She was a great companion- at least until the baby started to cry and then she hit the road.
As she (and her brother) got older the health issues started piling up. This made juggling the needs of cats and kids even more tricky. I'm not always sure we handled it right, but we sure did try hard. In mid February, we were told our sweet girl had inoperable stomach cancer. She had dropped from a 10.5 lb cat to just 4.5 lbs. figuring out how to treat something in an animal who doesn't speak is so difficult. She couldn't tell us if she was in pain or if something was wrong. Although we knew the end was near, we did have a few more precious weeks with our girl. We spoiled her a little extra and gave her some extra love. William offered his life savings to save her life. This broke my heart in hundreds of ways because there just wasn't a way to explain to him that there wasn't going to be a permanent fix for her problem. Anything we could do was going to be a very temporary fix for a growing cancer problem.
So, with a very heavy heart we said goodbye to our little black cat with a great big heart.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Mom and dad Halloween
Halloween chaos
This would explain why I have only 1 or 2 pictures of all the 3 kids dressed up and ready to go this Halloween.
William decided he wanted to be a dragon/dinosaur.
Amelia was Elsa from frozen and Gemma was Anna from frozen.
Amelia's costume parties
Gemma's Halloween library party
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Family fun night
Amelia's school hosted a family game night in October. I'm sad to say we almost didn't go (after a long, busy week I like to just sit on my couch). At the last minute, Amelia and I snuck out for some one on one time.
One of the game stations was a "minute to win it" game. Each game was less than a minute in length and when your number was called, you weren't sure what you were going to be asked to do.
Here is brave Amelia playing minute to win it against a much bigger girl (spoiler: and winning!)
(She won a pencil)
One of the game stations was a "minute to win it" game. Each game was less than a minute in length and when your number was called, you weren't sure what you were going to be asked to do.
Here is brave Amelia playing minute to win it against a much bigger girl (spoiler: and winning!)
(She won a pencil)
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