Purple!

This picture makes me soooo happy!

What is it you ask? Those are the walls in my daughter's room. Leanna chose a beautiful light purple and a gorgeous dark purple for room. That white wall you see there will be dark purple the next photo I show.

It seems so silly now but I was crying painting those walls. I am so thankful for this house. So many things God lined up for us. Can't even begin to explain it. I am so excited to make my children rooms. I never got to set up a nursery for any of my babies really. Leanna we did a room but she never even slept in it. I lost my job and then we filed for bankruptcy and then it was gone. Hudson we were living in my parent's house in one room and with Nolan we had the mobile home but there wasn't any money or space really. We did get new bedding for each new small person and we fixed up there space with fun things but it was never really THEIR room.

I love that Leanna and I took a special trip to pick out paint colors and that she is so excited too.

Again so thankful. More than I can even say.

The day I was "The Best Mom Ever"

It doesn't happen often... but every so often the skies part and the sun shines down and a rainbow of unicorn sparkles appear and I am "the best mom ever". I love hearing those words.

Today provided me with the opportunity to just hang out.

First Leanna and I scurried out of the house this morning to FINALLY buy her paint. It was great. She ended up choosing purple! What a great choice.

Then we headed home to grab the boys and let Josh head out for a tux fitting and lunch with his best friend and other groomsmen. So I snagged my boys and the 4 of us headed out for a delicious lunch at IHOP. No pictures sadly but it was fun and everyone behaved so awesomely.

All of a sudden on the way home I decided to detour to the park. It was such a beautiful day! We had a great time!





And then we ended our day with a trip to Lowe's, purchasing some items for the new house and we decided to head to the new house to work on a few things.




It really was a GREAT day. I am beat.

Night!

Doctor Follow Up...

So my thyroid is jacked and I am waiting on blood work up for final answers but apparently I am severely anemic again (like iron injections may be necessary again anemic) as well...

Yep that pretty much answers my questions...

Now to work on fixing it.

On happier notes. Cute pictures of the girl coming soon. Super cute play pictures in fact. Funny Hudson anecdotes and a cute picture or two of Nolan. Well because I can.

Word. I'm tired ya'll. Night.

Blah...

I have been lacking serious amounts of motivation. SERIOUS. Like I am going to see the doctor about it tomorrow. Cause dude this is some serious blah going on. Not generally my typical attitude. Usually I can gun up some gusto and get it going... here lately? Not even a little bit. I am tired (some from lack of sleep for sure but most is also from lack of activity as well), I am fat (seems no matter the diet or the exercise the numbers stay the same or I lose a little and then gain it back) and I am grumpy. Like I said I am not super sure what is going on.

Blah... yep just Blah....

Back to the Gym

I have given myself a lot of leeway in teh working out department lately. It is amazing I am not back up MAJORLY! So I am back. If it kills me I am back again!

So last night (3-1-12 for records sake) I did two miles on the tread. While my first did have a lengthy warm up walk at a ridiculous incline my first mile time was UGLY.

The second wasn't AWFUL considering it has been almost two months since I worked out...


I have met some pretty big goals in my weight loss already. We are taking a mini vacation to Minnesota this summer (a childhood friend is getting married) and so the first goal is 20 more pounds by June.

The big goal? Josh's best friend (of forever and ever) is getting married in September and of course Josh is the best man and I would like to look fabulous on his arm if nothing else ;). So 30 more by my birthday August 31st. That will be a total of 50 pounds by the wedding. Here go again....

Meeting #1

So in about 8.2 hours I am going to meet with a group of people most of which I have never met before and begin discussing what will be the best options for my smallest boy. I have no idea what we will discuss if anything in this meeting. I am just praying for wisdom and peace regardless of what is discussed or decided.

I love that sweet boy with all that I am. I want absolutely everything in the world for him. The best we can do for him always. So it begins another new journey into another realm of the unknown. This past 2 years have been some of the most eventful and fun and crazy and confusing of my life. But I like to think we have come out on a better side. God knew exactly what he was doing when he gave Nolan to me. To us.

On to bigger and better things. Or at least the start of them.

X-Rays and Curls

So we closed on the house on that Thursday and we ran over there to collect the garage door openers and all of those fun things. Hudson thought to celebrate it would be a really fun idea to jump down some of the stairs. Well he hurt his foot pretty bad. I mean it is a good thing this kid is cute or man would he be dead already!

So on Friday while sissy was in school. Nolan and I took Hudson for X-rays of his foot. After that we stopped to get a haircut for Hudson (he has been asking for weeks). While we were there Nolan said he wanted his haircut too! So I sucked it up and let him, as he said, "Look ike Brubber". This is the result....


How big does this kid look? Where did my baby go? All those curls all gone. The haircut was a little traumatic... just because while we were sitting there the hair stylist next to us turned on her clippers... the rest of the hair cut had to be done while he was sitting on my lap with his cheek glued to mine :) Poor buddy. Poor all grown up, big boy haircut, all the curls gone buddy.

Love these boys!