Catch up!

Time for another catch up post! haha! All I have time for!

I mentioned in the last post that we have moved! Hubs was feeling cramped in the old house. Everyone had their own room except for Mia and Reece who shared a room. But we just needed more space! We found a house not too far from where the other one was and it has TONS of space. Everyone has their own room, the littles have a playroom and the teenagers have their own den AND THEIR OWN WASHER AND DRYER! AMEN. We are pretty much moved except for the animals, y'all know they are coming with me anywhere I go! The chicken coop and goat pen are under construction and hopefully they can join us soon!

I WILL DIE IN THAT HOUSE. NEVER moving again!!! Josh agrees.

While packing for the move Brooks decided to slice his thumb wide open with a pocket knife. He snuck and got it from Josh's things. We were about to leave to head to one of Peyton's football games, Josh wasn't even at home. It was so bad I could see bone. I threw him in the car, sat Griffin beside him to hold pressure and got us to the doctor as fast as I could. I forgot my shoes in the process. oops. Josh met us there. It took 4 people to hold him down. He got himself 6 stitches. This is the second time he has had to have stitches. But, who is counting.

We recently celebrated Big Mama's 90th birthday!! We had a party for her and there ended up being 100+ people there! We only invited immediate family and church family! She is so loved! She loves so many people!!

Chickens and Pinterest

First of all, I LOVE me some Pinterest! I think it’s just fabulous! For those of you who haven’t heard about it, it’s a website where you can “pin” different things you find around the internet. That way, when you find an idea for something you won’t forget about it or where you found it! PLUS you follow all your friends and even people you don’t know and get all their ideas too! You have different “boards” to pin things on so you can keep organized! Love!

About chickens. Hubs We eat ALOT of eggs at our house. And so we decided when we were moved into the country we would get chickens! Then once we moved Hubs decided that we would wait until spring. I didn’t really want to wait because it takes several months for the chicks to grow and start laying eggs plus when I want something I want it NOW but he wants to get the coop built and have it ready for them, which makes sense.

And that’s where chickens and pinterest come together! I found the cutest, most fabulous chicken coop on there! Isn’t it so cute?!?!And here’s the blog it came from http://www.therachelberryblog.com/

Ours won’t look exactly like this but it will be very similar! It will probably be early spring before we get chickens. I want at least one “furry” one! Like Tori Spellings..

Image from People.com

I doubt very seriously that I’ll be dressing mine up! haha!

House decorating: Reece’s Room!

Let the decorating begin! :)

I’m pretty much done with Reece’s room. For me, that was the easiest room in the house. She’s at an easy age to decorate for and girly things are not hard to find! I already mentioned that her room was done in owls and we finished her mural last night so now I can post pics! When I bought her bedding at Target they had these sticky wall decals that matched the bedding. I usually don’t go for that sort of thing but the owls were just too cute to pass up…so I bought it.

Here’s what we started with… And a fresh out of the tub princess to help… Hubs did most of it on his own..go figure.

Sleepy little helper… She was SO excited to help him! And the finished wall Close up of the SUPER cute lamp! The mushroom pull sold me!

Sweet girls ready for bed! Daisy is yawning, not screaming! haha Chippie chip helped too, but she STILL hates my camera…

I still have little things to do around the room but for the most part it’s done and the princess LOVES it!

Oh the joys of a new house…

Oh geeze! I have a mess! Let me start out by saying that when I said we were redoing our house that we were moving into I mean we redid pretty much everything! New roof, new heat/cool system, added a bathroom, new paint, new flooring, new cabinets…lots of stuff. Pretty much the only thing we left alone was the hot water heater because it seemed to be fine.

This morning I woke up, showered, took the little dogs outside to potty and started putting on my make-up. Chippie went back to bed and Daisy was running around the house like a maniac trying to see which kid she could wake up. Everybody else in the house was still asleep when all of a sudden I heard a really loud noise and then a gush of water and then just water water water…

Scared the bejesus outta me!

So I ran around the house trying to figure out what was going on. I got to the laundry room, flung the door open to a room FULL of water and water was gushing I mean GUSHING from the top of the hot water heater. I screamed for Josh, he came running and turned it off.

The plumbers were there within the hour and now it is fixed.

Thank goodness because I HATE cold showers!!!

And now let me tell you how flippin fabulous my husband is! You know how I talked about allllll those boxes yesterday? Well, when I got home from work, the kids rooms were unpacked! I heart him. I honestly would rather him do the unpacking, especially the kids rooms because he is a really good organizer and yours truly is NOT. I wish wish wish I was but I’m just not an organized person…don’t get me wrong, I LOVE for things to have a place…I just have issues finding the best way for them to have a place. Does that even make sense?

And speaking of Officer Hubby, he goes back to work tonight. Boo. He’s been off for a little over a week and I think he should be a stay at home dad! I kid.

Boxes, Boxes, BOXES!!

We’re all moved in!!! But we are MOST definitely not unpacked! I’m just going to take my time and have everything exactly where I want it…even if it’s the garbage can! Everywhere you turn there’s a box. I have the kitchen unpacked but that’s the only room I’m good with right now! How cute are they?!

First Night!

Yesterday was CRAZY! The first Thursday of every month is usually my SUPER busy day…and it was! PLUS I had to visit my OB/GYN for my yearly check up so that threw things off. OH and about an hour before my appointment Allison and I were coming back to the office after lunch and heard a noise in my car. We looked and there was a big chunk of metal in my tire..so I had to drop off my car at the tire place to be fixed and take her car to my appointment! Not to mention that that yearly appointment is just not fun.

My afternoon got a little more exciting when Officer Hubby called to tell me that we would be spending the night in our new house! He has worked his butt off all week getting things moved!(With the help of my Daddy, Brother and his Dad!)

Most of our things are moved in and we spent a little time putting things away. Josh was in the laundry room and heard the breaker for the hot water heater flip…then we smelled smoke!!! Freaked my freak! So we turned it off and the smoke smell went away. Then poor hubs had to spend about an hour convincing me that the house was NOT going to burn down last night and that it was ok for us to stay there!

We were SO excited about being in our new house! Maybe a little too excited because none of us could wind down enough to get to sleep at a decent hour. It was probably close to 11 when the kids and I crashed on the couch watching The Jungle Book! Sometime around 11:30ish Josh put all the kids in bed and woke me up so that we could get in bed. Then we tossed and turned for a while and maybe drifted off to sleep a little when I heard Reece crying. I jumped out of bed and couldn’t see a dang thing!!!!

The country is freakin’ dark folks!

DARK!

So I felt my way around until I found a light switch and ran to check on her. She was kind of crying in her sleep so I laid with her until she was asleep good again. I don’t really want to start a habit of sleeping with her so I went back to our bed. About an hour later she was crying again. And again I made my way to her room and she was shaking and crying!!!! :( Apparently she was having a bad dream so I took her to our bed where we all slept peacefully for the few hours that were left of the night.

Judge me if you want, I don’t care! My sleep is IMPORTANT! :)

This morning I woke up to get ready for work and had to take a cold shower because of the hot water heater being jacked up. That was fun.

Reece woke up and came in the bathroom where I was showering and was just talking about random things and then she said, “I hope those mens who shot us are gone!”

ohhh emmm geee!!!!

She WAS having a nightmare!!! Poor baby! I felt so bad for her! And I am even more glad that I just let her sleep with us last night.

Our sweet baby nephew is spending the night tonight! Here’s to it being WAY less stressful than last night!!!

House Stuff!

Looks like we’re officially moving the 9th! This week has been pretty stressful trying to make sure people are doing their jobs.

Don’t you worry your pretty little heads though!

I communicated.

Things will be done MY way. The end.

We are SO excited to move, but I am going to miss our little house we’re in now! There were SO many memories made there! I know there will be new memories to make but still!

And speaking of new memories I was looking at Josh’s notes for the blinds and noticed this…

We’re already calling the spare bedroom the “baby’s room”!

LOVE!

Reece is SO ready for a baby sister! Hope she doesn’t mind too much if it’s a boy! :)

Life

Life right now for us is crazy busy! My job has been busy for the obvious reasons and so has Josh’s. He’s done working storm overtime though so that’s good! We missed him!

I don’t remember if I blogged about it or not but we did finally close on our house!!! :) So we’re busy getting things going with the upgrades! SUPER excited!! I have been really bad about getting things for the house…decorating wise, like bedding. The only room right now that I’m done with is Reece’s! Her room is going to be done in owls! It’s oh SO cute! I think we’re going to paint her room yellow! The boys and I can’t agree on bedding for their rooms…I’m about to use the “mom trump” and just get what I want.

While I was at work on Wednesday I found out that someone wanted to look at our house on Friday morning! We weren’t planning to put our house on the market until we moved out so we had to get it “show ready” in less than two days! That was NOT easy my friends! And it ended up being a big fat waste of time because the people failed to tell us that they can’t move until December!

Anyway, just wanted y’all to know that we haven’t fallen off the face of the earth!

Blog Funk

I guess I have bloggers block. Last night Josh said, “ I wish you and your sister would blog about something!” When the hubby notices you haven’t blogged, that’s pretty bad! I really just feel like I don’t have anything to write about right now!

That’s funny because three kids always give me something to write about!

I could talk about Griffin thinking he deserved $40 for a homerun he hit.

I could talk about the NIGHTMARE I had last night. I woke up sweating and in tears.

I could talk about Peyton talking about the dogs “utters”. bhahahahahahahaaaaa!

We’re still waiting to close on our house. Supposed to close by the 30th… I’m VERY anxious for that to happen. Once we close it will probably take us about two weeks to do the renovations we have planned. Lucky for us all the people needed to do that are all at my fingertips all the time! Word.

We’ve been packing a lot but we are really at the point right now that I don’t want to pack anything else until I know a more “for sure” date of closing!

I’m SO ready to be in our new house! It feels like it’s in the middle of nowhere but it’s only 10 minutes down the interstate. So peaceful and quiet and we’ll have FOUR acres of land to roam! :)

Ok, enough rambling for today! We have a busy jam packed weekend coming up!

House!

We had an offer accepted yesterday on a house that we LOVE! :) So exciting! I don’t want to say too much until I have the keys in my hands, but I don’t see any reason for this to not happen and I do this for a living! :)

This happened a year to the date of my Maw Maw E. passing away. I woke up sad and it was raining. I got the call just after lunch that it had been accepted. You can’t tell me that she didn’t have anything to do with that! After all we’ve been through with this house stuff! Months and months of searching, falling in love with something and nothing going through.

AND AND AND tomorrow is my birthday! So I got an early birthday present!

Spring Break!

It’s Spring Break around here! I won’t be off work the entire week but there is NO traffic in the mornings! LOVE IT! And I love that the boys get to sleep in every day!

We are heading to the beach for a few days later in the week and that can NOT come soon enough! Momma needs a break! Daddy needs a break! Mostly from stressing about our next house. FYI it’s WAY more stressful to buy/build your second home. We plan to get somewhere and STAY for a long time. That being said, if we stay for a while we need 5 bedrooms. That’s alot. Enough said.

Being stressed out makes me want to bake. And so I did! I made YUMMO Oreo cupcakes yesterday!!!

I put a half of an oreo in the bottom…Oh yes I did!

And then I put crushed up oreos in the batter! Oh yes I did!

And they turned out SUPER YUMMY!

Oh yes they did!

How cute is this?!

Click on the picture and you can see it better!

I've done the kids bathroom in monkeys...the most gender neutral cute thing I could figure out for now. I couldn't find anything I liked for the walls so, I dreamed this up one day! My long lost cousins wife(NOT our fault we're long lost!) has a little business so I told her what I dreamed up and she delivered EXACTLY what I wanted! :) Go here and see her stuff! You should be able to contact her through her blog, if not let me know and I will get you in touch!

Oh and we're not long lost anymore! :)

xoxo