....and God bless the internet =]

Hey all! We are officially back online. Not having internet the past two weeks has been quite the chore. It was amazing how much more time I had to do dishes, laundry, vacuum, sweep, mop...rofl. haha! I am extremely happy to be online again. I feel like I'm connected to the world (or family and friends I keep in touch with) again. It's GRAND!

We are loving our new house. Theron only got a small handful of days here in the new house before he was on the road again. We miss him tons. He'll be back after the weekend though for a couple days. It will be nice when his schedule has him home more often. Anyway, enough about his schedule and more about the house, eh? haha It's the biggest house we've ever lived in and we fit perfectly. The boys still gripe that they can't have their own room, but so it goes with a family of 4 boys and one girl....she'll always be the lucky one with her own room. :) She's loving it.

My camera has been dead and I haven't broken down and bought rechargeable batteries yet so I don't have any pictures to download tonight....sorry folks. =] I'll get on it.......in a day or so...haha

I was settling in with my little computer here tonight and going through the kazillion emails I had in my inbox after forever and my doorbell rang. (It's a very annoying doorbell that is more like a buzzer on a gameshow signaling that you've lost...anyway) and it startled me so I didn't want to go answer it alone so I dragged Ben out of bed and made him go with me to answer it. Pretty pathetic...kind of like when I took Paul with me to see what that loud noise was, right SheraLee? hahahaha! Anyway, it was a dozen or more young girls between the ages of 12 and 17 all bringing me dinner for tomorrow night. They'd made it at their activity earlier. It was really sweet. I was relieved it wasn't really the boogie man and they came with a plate of brownies in tow so that made my night (major brownie junkie). Anyway, we're good. I could keep rambling and rambling very easily so I'll quit and kick Michael off to bed since he's dragging out his homework. Hasta

new stuff...i tell ya

It's kind of weird being home owners. I can't believe how stressed out I made myself this morning before all 2,139 pages were signed this morning. LOL. I was literally sick to my stomach and nauseated and then went to the bank for an hour and signed my life away as well as my first born and then I was fine. =] hahahahaha! It was pretty funny. I've been more stressed out lately than ever and in the middle of packing up a bookshelf I came across a letter from my mom the last month of my mission. She asked me if I was stressed (since I'm such a fan of change) and then told me to lighten up and think of it as an adventure. Hello!! I could just picture her saying that to me too. It was a bittersweet moment. Anyway, it was a good little piece of advice brought to my remembrance again...............

................ok, Benjamin came in and did a little session of "who's on first, what's on second" with me and I lost my train of thought as well as lost a few inches on my fuse...heehee. Anyway, Theron got to see the house for the first time today. He'd never seen the inside. Talk about going on faith that my dad and I knew what we were talking about. ha! He liked it a lot and is excited to get in and make it home. The missionaries tracted into our house while I was hanging out with my folding chairs (for soccer and tball games) for furniture and will let the ward know we moved in. I guess we can't go into hiding this year...totally kidding. (wink wink) =] We'll be offline for about a week though so when we come back I'll have some new pictures. So I'll catch ya'll on the flip side. lol

state of shock...haha

WE GOT THE HOUSE! I'm so excited! We take possession of the house the 25th of this month. Crazy! So now the dejunking begins and the packing then the cleaning. I used to be a pro at all of that with how often we moved around there for a while. Now that we've been in the same town for the past 4 years I'm a little rusty...hahahahaha! Maybe it's like riding a bike and it will all come back. LOL! My dad is pretty excited as well. He'll be moving in with us and out of the house he's been living in with his sister and her husband. The kids start school at their new school on Tuesday and it's a half hour commute one way....fun fun. The school is only two blocks from our new house so it can't get better than that. They can walk and be there in like 5 minutes. Woohoo!

Darn it!

Ok, so apparently the dishwasher isn't included after all. The realtor got ahead of herself and just assumed there was one...sheesh. Anyway, I'm sure we'll remedy that one quickly or live with lots of paper plates, eh? hahahahaha! Ok ok, I suppose manual labor is a dying art so I might as well pass it on to my kids since some of my best memories were standing at the sink with a sibling and washing dishes.....although there was also the memory of a concussion from slipping on all the water I'd spilled on the floor. =]

WOOHOO!!

Our offer on the house was ACCEPTED! We start the loan process on Monday when (hopefully) Theron is home. Holy crap, that's exciting! (and nerve wracking at the same time). =] If all goes according to the papers we have drawn up at the moment then the new house is ours as of August 25th! Yeehaw!

...that's how the wind blows. =]

Hello everybody! This is a new thing that I've been hearing from all over that I ought to try. So here we are! :) Life is crazy as always. We've been looking off and on for a place big enough for our family. A family of 8 (plus my dad) isn't always the easiest thing to house comfortably. We stumbled across a house that seems almost too perfect to be true for all of us (knock on wood). It's 5 bedrooms and another one could easily be made up for a 6th and garage space, yard space, a DISHWASHER!!, lots of very cool things. I'm so excited. The only bummer....serious bummer too....is that it's not in Cowley. It's half an hour away in Greybull. So it's better than moving a state away from our friends here. Keep your fingers crossed with us.