True Story

Ryan was in New Mexico for bomb training from Sunday-Thursday. While he was away, I was watching my two year old nephew Jake all day. Jaxon had a blast playing with his cousin all day long. That same day I had to meet a couple different guys at our new home to get some estimates on a few things we need done around the house before we move in. I was downstairs talking with the floor and window covering guys. My realtor, Sharon said she would keep an eye on the boys for a minute. Jaxon and Jake ran upstairs and I thought nothing of it, since Jaxon knows where the balls are hiddens in this house. So I thought they would just run around and find a ball or two. Well, I was busy talking with the guys and Sharon got to talking to them also and Jax and Jake were unattended for about 5 minutes. My mom came to see the house for the first time and went upstairs to look around and yelled down the stairs, "Cali get up here now." I ran upstairs and had found that Jax and Jake had thrown 3 shoeboxes full of tiny, plastic jewelry beads all over the gameroom. The floor was cover with thousands and thousands of tiny beads. My mom and I started cleaning handfuls of beads up when Sharon and the blinds guy came upstairs to see the mess. All four of us spend at least 45 minutes picking up beads while Jax and Jake thought it would be funny to keep throwing them up in the air. So my mom put them in timeout on the couch and the blind guy put a movie on his ipad for them to watch. It was so annoying. I learned two things that day. One, don't ever let your daughter have tiny jewelry beads and second, don't leave 2 two years old unattended in someone else's home.

Emri will be the best dressed lil' girl...if only I knew how to sew

I was looking on my friend's facebook page and she had a link to this website. I fell in love with this little girl's outfit. I would love Emri to have the entire thing. The only probably is...I suck at sewing. Everytime I need the littlest thing done, I have my Mom do it for me. So, if anyone wants to make this outfit or anything as cute as this for baby Emri...feel free. I added 2 more links from the same blog, but just to give you an idea of what I want Emri to wear.
http://seekatesew.blogspot.com/2012/01/project-run-play-week-1.html
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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2sSzYo1OzJY/TxOfxC-UlmI/AAAAAAAAHBA/MtgPFM9_SDE/s1600/liltwiggy.jpg

Changes and surprises!

Ryan and I have had a crazy last few weeks of changes and surprises. First we found out we are having a baby girl in June. Her name will be Emri. I like "Emri" but Ryan doesn't like that spelling, so the spelling could possibly change. Then we bought a new house in Hidden Springs. It is perfect. We are so excited to start our lives out in the boonies. It is actually so far away that my phone didn't get coverage. So Ryan bought me an Iphone with a new carrier. Thank you Ryan. We still had not sold our home and I was kind of nervous spending a lot of money on a new house knowing that we had payments on our house now. But the Lord does hear our prayers and I think He answers mine more quickly than most people, knowing that I am not patient and can't sleep because of worry. So He was nice enough to answer my prayer about finding a buyer for our house within the week. Needless to say, we got a full price offer yesterday. By the end of the month we will be in our new home. We are all very excited. Everytime we have gone to our new house, Jaxon says, "my house". It will be fabulous. He will have so much fun playing in the big yard, swimming, exploring in the foothills, riding his bike all over the neighborhood and much more.