SOLD!

As of today around 1 o'clock our Hooper house was officially sold! What a crazy month we have had. Everything went according to plan and we closed on our house yesterday, and everything funded today.  We loved living in Hooper. Even though it was so far west! We loved our house, our ward, the wonderful people that we became friends with, Jaycee's kindergarten teacher, and so many other things.
It was pretty much my idea to sell, Mike could have stayed in Hooper forever (he's not thrilled about moving back to South Weber).  While we were packing and packing and packing, I was having a hard time. I kept telling Mike "Can you believe we are really doing this?" He kept telling me "This was your idea!" There has been lot of tears, but I have seen the Lords hand in all of this. I feel things have worked out so perfectly that there is no way this could be wrong.  Things have gone so smoothly, hopefully as we start the process of building our new home things will continue to go smoothly.
We are planning on staying with Mike's parents (for a undetermined amount of time) to save up some money, then build the home of our dreams! I have had a house plan that I love since before we built our last house, we are hoping to be able to build it.
Jaycee has been so excited to start her new school.  She wasn't even sad to leave Country View, until she had her first day at her new school.  She said she didn't know what she was supposed to do, so she cried. :( And to make things worse, she has to sit by two boys! I told her she could be friends with boys...she does not agree.  She told me she didn't want to go back.  Well yesterday was much better, no tears.  She did give me a scare when I went to get her off the bus and she wasn't there.  She decided to get off with her cousins and go to my Moms.  I was a little scared that she got off at the wrong stop all by herself.  Luckily she was with her cousins and not scared at all.  Today she promised me she would wait and get off at the right stop.   It was funny when I went to get her Paige and Mae (cousins) told me that they told Jaycee she had to stay on the bus, so they got off and when they turned around Jaycee had followed them off.  They tried to get her back on but the bus driver drove away. So they did try. Oh and Paige and Mae are in her class.
Funny side note: Jaime recently went through her girls clothes and gave some away. Well, Jaycee's first day of school Paige and Mae came to ride the bus with her from her stop, so she wouldn't be scared (Jaycee has never had to  ride a bus) and they were wearing matching clothes from Jaime's girls. We are talking from head to boot. :) So she started off a little mad that she didn't have matching clothes. Later that day we had to go to my mom's for something and Jaycee said "I sure hope Mae isn't wearing that shirt!" Luck for us she wasn't.
On Monday night me and Mike spent a good chunk of the night in the ER.  I woke up early Monday morning with some chest pressure. Then the rest of the day I had a major head ache. At 7 pm the chest pressure came back, so I went to my mom's to check my pulse and oxygen levels. I had tried to do it myself but I thought I must be doing it wrong, because according to my calculations it was only 42 beats per minute.  She has one of those finger pulse oximeters.  It was 44 bpm went I checked there.   After being in the ER for about 4 hours, having an EKG, chest x-ray, and some blood tests, with a heart rate between 40 to 45 bpm.  He said my heart was fine it is just beating slow. My blood pressure was fine. I was asked several times if I work out a lot and do a lot of cardio. They should have known by looking at me that that was obviously not the case! :) Anyway, after 4 hours he said it could be heart burn (I know what heart burn is and this was not it) or asthma. ASTHMA. I haven't had an asthma attack for so long! I don't know why it didn't occure to me that it could be asthma.  I had told Mike early that the pressure felt like when you try to swim across the pool without coming up for air. You know the burning in your chest. That's what it felt like.  I've never had my heart rate drop low with asthma, and my oxygen levels were good.  So who knows what it really was.  My heart rate is back up in the 50's today. I think it is normally in the 60's, so I'm getting back to normal.
Now if everything else could get back to normal.  We are almost all settled at Mikes parents. We have way too much stuff. I hate moving and hope to only have to do it one more time. We are so grateful for Mikes parents kindness and generosity in letting us stay with them. I have to best In-laws ever!
I guess that's all for now.

 

Happy Valentines!

Kind of...yesterday was Valentines Day and me and Wesley were sick with the flu! We still had heart pizza with juice.  It was sad, Wesley has been wanting heart pizza and to light our heart candles since the day I got them out, and I kept telling him we would light them on Valentines day.  Well, he was so sick that while we ate he laid on the couch sick and sad. So we will have to do a redo dinner.

Mike's sister Sarah had baby Elsie on January 17 (I think).  She is so cute and everything went as planned.  That's always nice.

That makes me a Aunt for the 25th time!

 We need to get us one of these. :)

 She is so cute, and we are glad to welcome her to the family.

We took Emily (Mikes little sister) to the MTC on February 6.  She is going to be such an amazing missionary. She is going to Birmingham Alabama, Spanish speaking.  She has such a strong testimony, and she is so good at talking to other people. 

 The kids are sure going to miss her.

 Maybe almost as much as Mike is going to miss her.  They like to have salsa parties. While they talk about politics and school work. I think Mikes going to miss all the Math homework he used to help her with. :)

I don't think anyone will miss her as much as her Mama. They are so close...it's cute.

We put our house up for sale on Monday, February 11. We had one person come through that same day.  Then on Tuesday we had 3 different families come through. After the last family came through Mike called me and said that he had a really good feeling about them.That night their Realtor text Mike and said his clients wanted to make an offer. So on Wednesday morning we accepted a full price offer!

 We are pretty excited.   Today they came through and did their inspection.  Everything went well.  We are going to keep our fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly.  It's bitter sweet.  We have loved this house, and all the amazing people we have met here.

We feel extremely blessed.  I know that the Lord is watching over us, and that he answers prayers.

 

Hats, House and Holidays

It's been awhile since I last posted. Christmas time is so crazy and I've been making hats like a mad woman! I was finally able to get a picture of Wesley with his owl on...he's so cute!

And I've got a few more to show: A monkey, a Kitty in hot pink and a red hat with a flower. I'm working on a Hello Kitty for Jaycee, hopefully she likes it. She always tells me she wants an owl. I guess if she doesn't like it I can always make her a owl.
We got our blank wall finished...actually we did it back in October but I just got around to taking pictures of it and our house all festive.
We are almost ready for Christmas, me and Mike were wrapping everything last week and Jaycee had a mountain of presents and Wesley only had 4. In all reality, I think he will have more fun with the paper and boxes. So I don't feel that bad. I don't know if it is girls are more fun to buy for or that I know what she likes. She's just easier.
I sometimes wonder if I should continue with the blog then I find my kids like this and it's all worth it.

Well, until next time Merry Christmas!

Sod

We have grass!!! Mike put in a lot of hours but it was worth it. Here's a before picture.

Taking a lunch break. :)

The Morning of Sod. Mike told everyone that he was starting at 9 am...this was at 7:30. Notice the mow strip and some of the front yard done. I think he was out there by 6. He's so funny.
We had a lot of help and it went down a lot faster then we thought it was going to. I think most people showed up around 9, and we were done by 11. So a big thanks to those who came and helped. It's not the funnest job in the world. And here it is a couple of days later.
A guy that Mike works with gave us some transplants, we are hoping they don't all die. We got a great deal on flowers. I bought 4 FLATS for 20 bucks! That's a lot of flowers! We also got mulch and some bushes. Hopefully in the fall we will get a couple trees.
And my mom let me have her bench. Thanks mom. And there you have it. Mike's already looking for another project to start working on. He always has to fixing something. I'm trying to talk him into a fixer up camper. We'll see.

Sleeping Beauties

So I'm averaging about one post a month, that's pretty good compared to some...right?
I took this cute picture this morning of the kids and thought it was blog worthy. I don't always let them in bed with me, but sometimes when Mike has already gone to work and it's cold, and I'm lazy they get to sleep in our bed. They slept in late which was nice, I was able to get up and get ready. That hardly ever happens. Wesley was sitting up on my pillow when I went to get ready, when I came back in the room he had slid down next to Jaycee. I swear, I have the cutest kids in the world. If only they were always so cute and peaceful. I think it's funny how they are sleeping in the same position. Anyway, I just had to post this picture.
We got what I consider to be good news today. They are going to start digging the hole for the house on Monday! I am super excited, Mike is a little nervous. He was hoping for a little more time to save, I just want in. We've been keeping a pretty close watch on some of the houses going up in our neighborhood. Two of them are the same house plan as ours. It's been fun to see how fast they build them. We seriously make the trip out to Hooper at least once a week. I can't wait until we can actually see our house. That I'm sure will be much more exciting. I'll make sure to put some pictures up as soon as I get them.
Oh yeah, one more thing...Happy Thanksgiving!

Welcome Wesley

Well he's finally here!! He was born October 1 at 4:13 weighing in at 6 lbs. 13 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long. It was an experience! Different from the first. With Jaycee, labor was a breeze. Wesley was a whole other story. Things started off pretty normal. When I got to the hospital my contractions were 7 minutes apart. I got my epidural around 11. It was an intern that did it and she had to do it twice, painful. Around 12 o'clock I was still in quite a bit of pain so I got another epidural, which worked really well for a couple of hours. It wore off way faster than I wanted. I kept telling the nurse I was in pain, they gave me a lot of medicine, I shouldn't have been able to feel anything. However I was feeling a lot. Mike went and got the nurse, she checked me and I was ready. They called the Dr and about 5 minutes later she was there and I was pushing. After the second push my Dr. said "That's weird!" And I said "What's weird!?!" The cord was wrapped around his little neck. After that it was a blur. The Dr. kept telling me he was fine, I looked over at him and the nurses were doing CPR on his little body. I had a lot of family in with me and everyone was so quiet. It was very scary to see him just laying there not moving or making any noise. The Dr. kept assuring me he was fine. Finally we heard him make a little cry. I got to hold him for about 10 seconds and then he was whisked away to the NICU. Mike was able to go with him. They came back about 5 minutes later and said he was doing really good, breathing on his own, but they wanted to keep him and watch him for a couple hours. Mike was able to take our family member in to see him two at a time. I was the last to get to see him and it was about 2 hours after he was born. When I finally got to see him he was doing so good, I got to hold him. He is so perfect.
I am so grateful to be his mom. I am truly blessed. I think if any of the medicine had worked and I was numb I wouldn't have known when he was ready. Things happened so fast. If it had taken them any longer then it did I don't know if we would have our little guy today. Truly Blessed. He's so perfect.

On another note, Mike turned 32 on the 11th. So happy birthday Mike! I love you.

Also we are going to be moving to Hooper! Not for another 5 to 6 months, but it's nice knowing what we have to look forward to. We are really excited. And scared at the same time. We've had a busy couple of weeks.:)

House Update

Well, we put an offer in with Nelson Homes to build us a house! We offered pretty low of what they wanted...so now we just wait to see what they say. Scary stuff. Hopefully we will know on Monday weather they accepted our offer or not. Pretty exciting! If all goes to plan we could have a new house by the middle of March of beginning of April. Yeah!
On another note, I am completely in love with the weather we are having. I recently bought a rocker for outside. It's my new favorite thing to do. I could sit out there all day. Me and Mike usually go for a drive around this time every year, because I love to look at the leaves. Hopefully we will get to this year and take some more family pics, and get Jaycee and Wesley (yes, we decided on a name) in their Halloween costumes.
Anyway, the next time I post I'll have another kid! How crazy is that? And we will know about the house. So stay tuned...:)

Sold

For the most part everyone already knows that our house sold. Just thought I'd make it official. We are now living in my parents basement. Which is a little bit weird...I am extremely grateful for my parents generosity and for them letting us stay here so we can save a little bit more money. We still aren't exactly sure what we are going to do now...we are thinking of building. Nothing feels right yet. So time will tell.
The last time I went to the Dr. she said we would be having the baby around the first of October. I am super excited. I even bought the little guy a cute little pumpkin costume for his first Halloween. Which I am also super excited for. It will be a little sad, I won't have anywhere to put all my cute Halloween stuff. Oh well, I'm sure I'll live.
One last thing, why isn't anyone blogging anymore...I feel so alone. hint hint.

Sell Pending

Well, so much for July going by slower!! Not that I've been doing anything really productive. We got an offer on our house on the 20th! We are hoping all goes well and they go through with it, we are still waiting for an appraisal. Which was supposed to happen sometime this week, we'll see. We are staying optimistic. We've been packing up some of our stuff that we never use, like everything in the basement and garage. Anyway, not much is happening with us other then the whole house thing. I can't believe how fast this summer is going by. It's already August, how crazy is that! I am now almost 30 weeks pregnant, so 9 weeks left, since my Dr. said we could go at least one week early. We still don't have a name picked out. Maybe that is something we should start working on.