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! :)

Stephen and Samantha’s Wedding

The wedding was perfect! Y’all just don’t know how worried I was about ALL THREE of my kids cooperating…well not necessarily “cooperating” but just making sure all three were where they were supposed to be at all times and whatnot. I was mostly worried about Reece because when she’s around strangers she is SO shy. I was the same way when I was little. But she did great! And so did my sweet boys!

I have no pictures of the reception, I took my camera and everything else to the car right before the wedding because I didn’t want to have to keep up with it. And it was so hot I didn’t want to go to the car and get it back out! ha!

When it came time for the father/daughter dance the bride requested that all the daddies and daughters join them…so Josh and Reece had a little dance. Then when it came time for the mother/son dance they requested that the mothers and sons dance. Griffin was sitting at my feet and looked up at me with those big blue eyes and asked me to dance with him. I immediately teared up and then he said, “But I’m too scared” and started crying! He felt SO bad that he was too scared. I, of course, told him it didn’t matter! And we had a pity party! hahah!

Later on he asked me to dance again, and this time he was FOR REAL! So we danced to Sweet Home Alabama! :)

My sweet baby girl and my sweet niece E! It’s SO hard to get four kids to look and smile at the same time! My sweet little fam! Josh’s oldest brother, his wife and baby girl! Griff and Pey with PawPaw H!

Josh with his parents, brothers and sister! Paw Paw and Granna with their grandbabies! Josh with his parents I’ll post reception pics when I find someone to borrow them from! hee hee!

Barnyard, Broke Leg and a Wedding! :)

Haha! How’s that for a title!

Last weekend we went to my cousin’s little girls birthday party at The Barnyard! So much fun! It was hot as blazes, but anything you do around here this time of year is hot!

Feeding the fish and ducks!

Me and Pamela, aka the birthday girls mommy!(totally cropped my ta-ta’s outta this one! You are welcome.)

Birthday girl, Malerie, feeding the fish and ducks…

Remember Roxie the baby goat from the last time we went? She’s grown… My little diva!

Wondering why there’s not a lot of pictures of PeyPey?? Halfway through the party he apparently got too hot and started throwing up! Not fun. So we had to bail on the party early. :( But we still had fun while we were there!

So about the broke leg. Saturday afternoon I was about to get dressed for a wedding shower when my cell phone started blowing up. My Daddy and sister Kelsie were calling. I called back and Kelsie was crying…my first thought was that Kelsie’s friend who had a really bad wreck the night before had died(more on that later)but, all I could get out of her was that Gigi had fallen out by their pool and was being taken by ambulance to the hospital and her leg was broken. eeek! So I threw on some clothes, ran by Kelsie’s work and picked her up and headed to the hospital. We were there before the ambulance arrived so we stood around until it got there. When they finally arrived and opened up the doors all we could see was her leg…and it was VERY apparent that it was broken.

The x-rays showed that both of the bones in her lower leg were broke, one of them in two places…so it was broken in THREE places total. :( Sooooo a plate and seven screws later, she’s on the mend!

The wedding I mentioned is Josh’s younger brother. All three kiddos are in it and this momma’s a little nervous! Reece doesn’t like strangers, doesn’t like being the center of attention and doesn’t like anyone but me or Josh taking her picture.

Yep, we’re in trouble!

Summer Fun!

Where have we been? EVERYWHERE! Since the storm on April 27th I really have just not had the time to blog. I have had a few breaks but then I’m too tired! If you don’t live in or around Tuscaloosa I really wish you could have seen the devastation and where this town is now. It’s amazing! We have come SO far in such a short time.

Griffin and Peyton are enjoying being out of school for the summer! They find water somewhere just about everyday whether it’s a pool or a splash pad!

Reece got her hair wacked off! I wanted it trimmed up so I asked her about getting it cut. To my surprise she wanted it as short as mine! She was pretty adamant about that but I just wasn’t ready. I like to be able to throw it up in a pony tail and go!

Before…

And several inches later.. After…

Sassy pants.

Oh and how cute is that outfit?!? My friend Donna made it. Lucky for me she makes Reece cute stuff all the time! I wish I could sew. If I had the time I would SO take that on!

I have to get to work but I still have to blog about a fun party we went to this weekend at the Barnyard! :)

Heaven is For Real!!

Oh my word! Have you read this book?!?

I read it cover to cover in two sittings! TWO. And I don't like to read. And I'm too ADD to read an entire book in two sittings! It was that good! Hubs read it all at once, I'm not that good.

It's about a little boy who had appendicitis and almost died....a few months later he starts talking about things he saw in Heaven...that's all I'm saying. Read it!

It definitely clarified some things for me about Heaven. I never had doubts about going to Heaven, but I've heard some pretty good arguements about whether or not we would "know" the same people we know here on earth. Like people who have died before us, did we really get to see them again?? I've always thought so but doubted after I heard some people talking. Babies that were lost to miscarrage...if you have lost a baby, read the book. I also wondered about animals and that was clarified for me too!

Go read it!