not only is one of Justin and I's favorite shows on
(How I Meet Your Mother)
but they have now added this fabulous little show called
Mad Love
one of MY new favorites!
Monday, February 28, 2011
when stressed I...
rearrange furniture & everything that can be rearranged, decorate, sand furniture, paint, shop all the thrift stores, and redo my blog.
Anything creative!
is this strange for a stress reliever?
LOL
exactly what I needed!
My day started by making my list of things to do that is seriously a mile long! Between moving, a HUGE deal I'm running for work, my birthday, Averee's birthday, and all the other stuff that is going on right now I was feeling way over whelmed this morning and wishing the month of March would already be over with, when it hasn't even started yet...
Then I went and checked my mail
and found this
My wonderful beautiful friend in Colorado sent me a little birthday goodness!
I love you so much Molly, and wish we were closer to celebrate together!
Miss you SO SO MUCH!
Thanks for the smile it brought to my face, you don't know how much I truly needed it.
(sadly the horrible friend I am I have a whole pile of stuff sitting here to send to you! Seriously I'm such a bad friend.. I'm not taking it with me to the new house so you will get it with in the next 2 weeks!! LOL)
Promise!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Photo of the Day!
New little feature.
Every Monday I will post a Photo of the Day
(Thanks for the wonderful idea Molly!!)
made me smile yesterday as we were leaving my nephews basketball game and we drove past this!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
As much as I was dreading the idea of more snow this week. When we woke up this morning to find 10-12 inches outside I did get a little excited over it! It's just so pretty how can you not?
Although it's not our usual snow... It's wet and heavy! We already have tons of branches down, just this morning our power has gone out 3 times, and from what I hear in Bend 2300 people are out of power!
Should be a few interesting days coming this week, our forecast is rain/snow/wind ALL week!
Guess I need to just suck it up and enjoy it cause summer weather will be here before we know it! ;)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Who needs flowers on Valentines Day?
When you can get the BEST PRESENT EVER!!!
Thanks Babe!
Prepare for battle when you get home from work ;)
Thursday, February 10, 2011
When life gives you lemons.....
They say.... make lemonade! Really....
I guess this is after you cry, stress, freak out, and all of the above! haha.
Monday afternoon I went to check the mail, and while flipping through to see if there was anything good, I came across a letter from our property management so I opened it, thinking it was probably just a little winter newsletter? to my shock it was a letter stating our house was up for sale and has already been listed! Now in the letter it stated the real estate agent would like to have us contact her so she could come in take pictures and put a lock box on the door.
I know this is something that they have to do to do, to show the house. But this is not sitting well with me to have strangers come in to look at the house with all my stuff in it, and all of you mommies out there know what a pain in the ass it would be to always have my house spotless and then trying to go entertain the kids and dogs while they are here. This just isn't going to work for me.
So after Justin got home that night we sat down and decided we would try to move asap. I started the search for a house on Tuesday. I have found a few but a lot of the houses out there have tiny or no yards or the house is WAY smaller then the one we are in for the same price! So discouraging!
On to the next part of the story.
Ok so Tuesday afternoon I got a knock at the door it's the owner of the Property Management and she was here randomly cause they had to come in and put up a carbon monoxide detector.. anyways, We got to talking about the letter and what our next step is going to be. She was sweet enough to say she wants to just move us to another house. That is great but we are thinking we would like to head more out of town with a little property if possible, so we would just have to see what comes up. Then when I told her we didn't want to deal with the real estate agent coming in and out she said "well let me call your owner and talk to him, cause if he knows your going to move out he may decide to put his other house up for sale instead of this one, since you guys have been such great renters"
Really??
Did they really just expect us to stay here until the house sold?!!!!
I appreciate the gesture but I think we will still be looking for a new home! If he has decided to put it up once it's just a matter of time before it goes up again!
I have no hard feelings, I don't know why he has to put them up for sale or if he just wants to get out of it? It goes with renting. But it has sent panic through out my house this week! LOL What ever happens is whats meant to be. We will look at every option and do what's best for our little family. :)
With that said, this brings me to the next part.
On Tuesday I had posted an add on Craigslist, stating what kind of house we were looking for, and what has happened. Well I got an email from a lady that night about a house they haven't even put on the market yet and she stated she came across my add and thought she would send the info my way. We exchanged a few emails that night I got the address and decided I would drive by it the next morning to see if it's something we would like to make an appointment to look at the inside this weekend when they were there. Here was the catch to this house. It's in Crooked River Ranch. Now depending on where in CRR it sits it could be just an extra 10 min drive or an extra 40 minutes. Justin does a lot of work out there and knew approximately where it was at and thought it wasn't to far in to CRR. Wednesday morning Averee and I dropped Ryder off at school, stopped at Dutch Bros and headed out to find this house. I took us 12 mins to get there! Not bad at all!!! I fell in love with the character of this house. It sits on 5 acres, it's a 3 bed 2 bath, split level house. has a garage and storage shed, and the views are AMAZING!!! Best part about it... It's cheaper a month then what we pay, and could be some thing we could turn in to a rent to own if we wanted to down the road! Saturday we go look at the inside of the house and check it all out. Hopefully this falls in to the "meant to be" category and we have a new place to move to!
I'll keep everyone posted on what happens. This week has flown by and now I start my week at work today. Where does the time go? haha
Monday afternoon I went to check the mail, and while flipping through to see if there was anything good, I came across a letter from our property management so I opened it, thinking it was probably just a little winter newsletter? to my shock it was a letter stating our house was up for sale and has already been listed! Now in the letter it stated the real estate agent would like to have us contact her so she could come in take pictures and put a lock box on the door.
I know this is something that they have to do to do, to show the house. But this is not sitting well with me to have strangers come in to look at the house with all my stuff in it, and all of you mommies out there know what a pain in the ass it would be to always have my house spotless and then trying to go entertain the kids and dogs while they are here. This just isn't going to work for me.
So after Justin got home that night we sat down and decided we would try to move asap. I started the search for a house on Tuesday. I have found a few but a lot of the houses out there have tiny or no yards or the house is WAY smaller then the one we are in for the same price! So discouraging!
On to the next part of the story.
Ok so Tuesday afternoon I got a knock at the door it's the owner of the Property Management and she was here randomly cause they had to come in and put up a carbon monoxide detector.. anyways, We got to talking about the letter and what our next step is going to be. She was sweet enough to say she wants to just move us to another house. That is great but we are thinking we would like to head more out of town with a little property if possible, so we would just have to see what comes up. Then when I told her we didn't want to deal with the real estate agent coming in and out she said "well let me call your owner and talk to him, cause if he knows your going to move out he may decide to put his other house up for sale instead of this one, since you guys have been such great renters"
Really??
Did they really just expect us to stay here until the house sold?!!!!
I appreciate the gesture but I think we will still be looking for a new home! If he has decided to put it up once it's just a matter of time before it goes up again!
I have no hard feelings, I don't know why he has to put them up for sale or if he just wants to get out of it? It goes with renting. But it has sent panic through out my house this week! LOL What ever happens is whats meant to be. We will look at every option and do what's best for our little family. :)
With that said, this brings me to the next part.
On Tuesday I had posted an add on Craigslist, stating what kind of house we were looking for, and what has happened. Well I got an email from a lady that night about a house they haven't even put on the market yet and she stated she came across my add and thought she would send the info my way. We exchanged a few emails that night I got the address and decided I would drive by it the next morning to see if it's something we would like to make an appointment to look at the inside this weekend when they were there. Here was the catch to this house. It's in Crooked River Ranch. Now depending on where in CRR it sits it could be just an extra 10 min drive or an extra 40 minutes. Justin does a lot of work out there and knew approximately where it was at and thought it wasn't to far in to CRR. Wednesday morning Averee and I dropped Ryder off at school, stopped at Dutch Bros and headed out to find this house. I took us 12 mins to get there! Not bad at all!!! I fell in love with the character of this house. It sits on 5 acres, it's a 3 bed 2 bath, split level house. has a garage and storage shed, and the views are AMAZING!!! Best part about it... It's cheaper a month then what we pay, and could be some thing we could turn in to a rent to own if we wanted to down the road! Saturday we go look at the inside of the house and check it all out. Hopefully this falls in to the "meant to be" category and we have a new place to move to!
I'll keep everyone posted on what happens. This week has flown by and now I start my week at work today. Where does the time go? haha
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
A little chilly, but so worth the hike!
Even though the temp was only a high of 35 today, the sun was out and we meet up with the kids Uncle Derek, Aunt Katie, and cousin Hailey and headed up to Smith Rock for a hike around the beautiful surroundings! It was a little chilly in the shaded parts but over all the kids, puppy and just breathing that fresh air was exactly what we all needed! The kids played around and found tons of "caves" to crawl in, got a kick out of all the rock climbers up there, and Lucy discovered the water and the ducks! Just cause the water was probably 3 degrees it didn't stop her from having a hay day in the water. :)
Overall a wonderful way to spend the afternoon!!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
How did this happen?
The time has come and both my kids are getting signed up for school! How in the world did this happen so quickly? Ryder is off to "real" school, crossing my fingers I can get him in to a morning class but if not then that just means we will get a little extra "us" time when Averee is in class. :) He is SO excited to be going to a big school! I pulled up his school online to see when Kindergarten registration is and showed him some pictures of what it all looks like and his eyes got huge and the smile was bigger then his whole face! haha I love that I have nothing to worry about with him. He will fit in wonderfully no matter where he goes and makes friends the minute he walks in to a room! I think the most exciting part for him is he gets to ride the bus home from school. I'm not ready for him to be on the bus with all the older kids so for now he will only be riding it home from school. ;)
Then we move on to my youngest... Is she really going to be in preschool already!?
I'm a little torn with her cause I love the fact that if I put her in Ryder's school he's in now then she goes in knowing the teachers and is familiar with her surroundings, but on the flip side I don't know if that's where I want her to go? I would have loved Ryder to go to a non-church based preschool, but at the time I signed him up every where was full. Now I do love his school and he has LOVED his experience there but I'm thinking maybe doing some thing different with Averee. I'm looking in to a Coop Preschool for her. I called today and talked to them and they were so sweet on the phone and I'm very excited to go check it all out and see how Averee reacts to it. With Ryder I haven't really got the choice of going in and helping out in his classes, last year it was a little to much having a 1-2 year old and this year his teacher prefers not to have parents come in and help. With the Coop school I have to help out 12-14 times throughout the year. I love this!! With her being my last one I want to be the parent helper as much as I can!
So anyways that is where we are at right now. Both kids will be all signed up and ready to go for next year by the beginning of April! they grow so fast I can't believe it!!
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