Kindergarten

Kaydence started kindergarten this week.  Here are a few pictures of her big day.  SHE LOVES SCHOOL!!!!!  And I love her being in school, all though since we haven't moved into our house yet I have to commute her everyday the 30 minutes which limits my "free time" but it has been nice to spend some one- on- one time with Soren.  He is such a good calm boy compared to Kaydence.

the many stages of canning corn!

First you go in and pick the corn (not pictured)

Then you have to fight of the flies as you husk the corn, we thought if we brought out the TV it wouldn't be so daunting but it was so bright we could barely see the black screen... but it did help a little bit :)

Then you take the corn and boil it a few minutes, and then place in cool water to cool down.

Here is a very early little pile of husked corn we were making.

After it's boiled we can then grade the corn off of the cob.  As you can tell this process is so messy and squirts corn juice all over the walls..so we put foil up to minimize the mess

Then we can bag up the corn....we filled about 240 bags.

NEWEST HOMEOWNERS!!!

We signed on our house wednesday morning and last night we got the keys... its officially ours!!!!  We went to home depot for some things the house needed but by the time we got to the house our brother in law was already there with his family....he broke in through a window (thats lovely to know)  Craig was sad only because they ruined our first open with the key experience. (not that sad)  We have actually had this house for months, even weeded, cleaned up and worked inside..so it really didn't feel any different actually being ours.  Just more of a relief all that work wasn't for nothing... We take our first load over tonight and are storing in garage till the carpet gets installed and floors refinished.  Hopefully when we move in next weekend it will feel more like ours.  I've been calling it the doll house and as of today it still only feels like a doll house I'm playing with rather than our home.

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Baby at 10 Weeks

Baby at 12 weeks (just 2 weeks later)

IM PREGNANT!!!!!

I haven't hid the fact that I have been pregnant but haven't posted anything about it because I wanted to wait until I went and confirmed with the doctor.  I had the ultrasound a few days ago and it's true....there's a little peanut inside me with a beating heart and everything.  According to my ultrasound I was 10.5 weeks along putting my due date in Feb.  But they stuck with my original due date of March 5th which was according to my last period.  This next part might be a little TMI for some people but I found out that I must ovulate a week later than most...and I have a tilted uterus!?!?! if anyone wanted to know :)  Which is why I am always a week past due.so really I am just spot on at 40 weeks.

This pregnancy has been way different then my previous 2 in that I have had symptoms.  I had none with the first two.  I have been sick all day and so tired and lazy with no desire to do anything productive.  Craig has been so frustrated with me because of it and I am hoping it won't last much longer....Because right now I am a big fat pile of useless space.

On another note...we finally heard word from the bank regarding our offer on the doll house and they ACCEPTED!!! We close on the 28th of this month and besides a few stressful hiccups the last few weeks, everything looks good to go.

so in a way a lot has seemed to happen and yet nothing has happened!!!!  But school is about to start for the kids and a new town with a house awaits us and things are about to happen wether we are ready for them or not.  wish us luck!!!

cali Trip

I made a quick trip to California this weekend to take some engagements of my little sister who is getting married in October.  I left the kiddos at home which is why the trip was so short but I enjoyed being able to relax and not have to worry about what wall they were drawing on.  It was nice to see everyone again and also to meet the newest member of the family...my little nephew Legend who was 3 weeks old...so cute.  My sisters took pictures so I will have to wait for those to be emailed to me but here are a few of the engagements I took of Shelby and Glenn.

4 wheeler

We went yard saleing on saturday and got a few little things for the kids and a bunch of fishing stuff for Craig.  The big ticket item was this 4 wheeler for the kids.  We have been looking at the electric battery ones but never got one due to their 300+ price tag....but when we came across this real gas powered one for the same price as the battery powered one we couldn't pass it up.