My "new" country pup.

It's tough learning how to be a country dog.

This is what happens when you play and run all afternoon!
She is snoring as loud as a human!

Only my daughter.

 Out of all the fabulous colors of polish my daughter has to choose from, she picks SPARKLE ORANGE! 

Really?

It's her favorite right now and has me repolish daily!

Home Sweet Home

Here we are on week 2 at our new house.  Sorry it's been so long for an update, but now that we are Country folk again we have been having some troubles with getting Internet!!  I thought my life was going to end! ;)  hehe   I have to admit it was pretty nice to not have the distraction while I was needing to unpack and settle in.  I can't believe how fast this place has become "home" to us all.  The kids and dogs have been playing outside daily even with our crappy weather we have been having!  

Lets get back to the beginning...

Our plans were to fully move everything Saturday ( a week and half ago ) and as I sat at work the Friday before watching a nasty snow/wind storm flurry outside, panic came over me!  How in the world were we supposed to move in this type of weather!!  We woke up Saturday morning to partly sunny skies and felt so lucky.  Justin and I started getting the trailer loaded only to figure out that one of his friends that helped us move some stuff earlier in the week had dropped the hitch we needed off at the new house!  So we got a hold of my brother who was watching my sisters 3 youngest for the weekend and had her rig, and we got him to come over to help us get the trailer out to the new house.  that is how our move stared..  It actually went really smooth and with in only 2 trips had the house fully moved (it's great not being a pack rat!) and only the garage left.  with hungry kids and men fluttering around the house I stopped on the way back out and grab some stuff to BBQ and we ended our night with good food and surrounded by boxes.  Sunday came to fast and we headed back to the house.  I got a little cleaning done while Justin loaded up the garage.  For some reason our Sunday just got away from us?  We got back and again it was evening, got dinner going and I managed to get half the kitchen and the bathroom unpacked (the necessities, due to me having to be at work by 9 am the next morning)  Usually I would be freaking out about Justin being slow at work, but it was SO SO wonderful having him home for the last couple weeks!  I have been overly busy at work and with moving it just has helped so much.  Anyways....  I worked an almost 12 hour shift on Monday came home to the hubby and kids just goofing around all day, and exploring the new surroundings.  I couldn't be mad at them cause really that is all I wanted to do too!  Finally Tuesday came and I was thinking we would get a little done around the house, BUT....  The dog had to be at the vet by 8 am to get fixed and we thought since we were in town we might as well get the old house clean and done, that way we could turn in the keys and wash our hands of it..  I was so lucky to have a wonderful brother and best friend come help with all the cleaning and although it took all day it felt so good to be done with it!  When we got back to the house Katie helped me unpack the rest of the kitchen and Ryder's room.  All he wanted was his room out of boxes and set up, he was so excited about his room! Wednesday finally came and I got to wake up and breath....  We had no plans and from the moment I woke up I started making our new house our home.  By that night I had the whole house unpacked and decorated!!!  Felt so good.  But I crashed that night and didn't get to fully enjoy it until Thursday, which was my brothers birthday so we had to be in Bend by 10 for breakfast!!  I swear the last week and half is a total blur!  Come Friday I was back to work and worked all weekend.  Monday...  Oh Monday...  I FINALLY got to just wake up and get back in to our "normal" routine!  Felt so good to drop Ry off at school and just come home and sip on my coffee!  And the last few days have just been that.  Relaxing and getting back in to routine.  

We all have fallen in love with our new house.  I thought it would be a little adjusting having a split level house.  Down stairs is 2 bedrooms (the kids), the kitchen, dining room, and bathroom.  Upstairs is the master and living room.  Strange set up, but absolutely love it!  My mom came last weekend to see the new place and while the guys were upstairs watching March Madness, my mom and I sat down stairs at the kitchen table and enjoyed our quiet time to just catch up.  The kids have had no problems with their rooms down stairs.  I do have a baby monitor in Averee's room (hiding) just so I can hear them at night if they need us.  :)  But when they play we can't hear them, AND the best part, their toys actually stay in their rooms for the most part!!  not all over the living room!

I think that is really all I have to report for now.

I don't really have to many pictures of the house right now, but this weekend I will try and post some of the house all decorated.  :)

 Averee and I were sitting at the kitchen table when we looked out our window and saw a total of 14 deer just walkin through our yard. She was in awww!

This was moving day. 

The puppies, kids, cat, and myself love looking out our big windows!  They look out to all the mountains on a clear day.  So pretty!  Oh ya did I mention it's snowed just about everyday since we moved?  Ugh...

I'll post more soon!

The Hubby is in Heaven!

We not only have moved to a place with a gorgeous golf coarse (so I hear, I don't actually or will never golf) but it got even better for my husband this weekend when I came across this driving around.

In the picture you can only see a few golf carts. 

BUT 

there were actually like 7 all parked outside the little saloon with all their clubs in the back yet no golfers?

LOL

I'm in trouble!

What I love about Spring

The one and only thing I miss dearly about the valley!

Spring flowers!!!

Thank you mommy for bringing me these beautiful flowers!

holding back the tears.

Tonight it finally hit that we were actually moving and won't be at this house past tonight. :(

As we took a load out to the new house tonight I have found myself with a little pit in my stomach and fighting back a few tears.  See I'm not your usual person..  I would live in one house my entire life and build as many memories as I possibly could!  I look back at my childhood and we lived in this tiny little house right on the edge of town and I grew up there.  I think we lived in that house for like 13 years.  It was my childhood.  I still look back at that place and drive by when I'm in Corvallis and can feel the love and memories flood over me with so much emotion.  The first time I moved out of my moms house, I moved in with my now husband, and we lived in that house for 8 years, then we moved here and have been here for almost 5 years! 

Today all the memories have come flooding over me.

back to when we first moved and Ryder was only 6 months old!  the thought of Averee wasn't even on the out skirts of our little minds!  I remember when we brought Averee home from the hospital, both kids taking their first steps, both kids first Christmas's, you know all the little memories any mommy would think about as they were moving out of their home.  Right?

Anyway I know it will be an emotional weekend for me, and I guess it really just hasn't hit because I have been to busy and stressed to have it sink in that we are actually moving!!

The new house is just going to bring a ton new memories, and the kids already hate leaving when we go out there.  I can't wait to see them explore and see what adventures they come up with at the new house.

Let the next chapter begin!

tear. tear. sniff, sniff.

Growing up...

where does the time go?  I feel like it wasn't that long ago that I was in high school and hangin out in the parking lot with all my "redneck" friends and the big ol trucks. LOL   I feel lucky I had a few great friends in High School..  Then I wonder what happened?  It's funny how life changes and people change.

When I was 17 I meet one of my best friends! We were from two different towns and COMPLETE opposites! We both worked at a little drive thru coffee shop and I still remember thinking wow she is way to girly, but it was one of those relationships that we just clicked and had the best friendship since.  I love her to pieces and don't know what I would do without her in my life!  She was there when I first meet Justin, my wedding, the birth of Ryder, and everything else.  for a while she was down in California and we would go months without talking, but it's one of those friendships that no matter how much time has gone by, we can pick up like it was just yesterday.

That little coffee shop brought me not one but 3 of my closest friends!  I feel so lucky to have worked there and have these girls in my life!  I love them all and talk with them all almost daily. talk about all being from different walks of life, yet you put us all in the same room and we could chat it up ALL night!  Now times have changed and it just might be a quick text or IM (Krystle I would die without our IMing everyday!! Love you and miss you tons!)  but either way we all still know whats going on and are here for each other anytime day or night.

High school seems like it was just a growing experience for me.  I was so determined to be "different" then everyone else I never actually focused on myself and figured out who I really was.  Maybe that is one of the reasons I really don't have to many or any actual "close" friends from high school?  I meet some great people in high school and still talk to them via FB or email, but I have to say I meet the people I want to be in my life and my kids lives in my mid 20's.  Is that strange?  I feel like I know so many people from high school who still are super close friends.  LOL  I don't have one person from high school who I still "hang out" with or consider one of my "besties" or even talk to monthly! I do feel lucky in some ways that I don't have any of that "drama" that could come up anytime from the past.  haha

  Then we move on to beauty school...  I know who the heck would I want to be friends with in beauty school!? right???

My MOLLY!!!

Talk about a friend that would be there through thick and thin, no matter what part of the country she lives in! I hate to say it, but it's been way to many years that we haven't actually seen each other, but we talk every other day, if not daily.  :)

There is really no reason I'm writing about these wonderful girls, I just have had an evening of talking with them ALL and feel so lucky to have them in my life.  Some people want to be life of the party (me 15 years ago) and friends with everyone.  But I have learned just a few GREAT, WONDERFUL, AMAZING women in my life work best and perfect for me!!

 

Thank you my BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL friends!

Guess I was feeling like I needed to give a little shout out to my great girlfriends!

My life would be crazy without you all and I don't know how I would get through all these crazy days in my life without you guys!

Thanks for everything you do for me.

A new little treasure.

Today we went on a little treasure hunt at the good'ol  Goodwill and

 THIS 

is what we found!

I'm in love....

Picture Perfect Monday

it's exhausting to be "mad at mommy"

my daughter threw the BIGGEST fit I have ever seen or heard come out of her in her short little 3 years of life today.

Then end result from a screaming, crying fit that lasted about 45 minutes total.

sound asleep with her face buried in her "ceecee"

after she woke up we were driving in the car and she said "I not crying anymore", I told her I was happy and it makes me sad to see her crying like that and not happy.  Her response.

"I crying, cause I mad at you mommy"

(but then in the same sentence, she informed me she wasn't mad at me anymore)

REALLY!  Your 3, you don't know when your mad at mommy!!! 

New House

Here it is!  The new home of the Kingsbury's.

It's not the bran new but has some great corks, and great character!

AND

it sits on 5 acres and has great views!

The cute little kitchen

My wall of windows in the living room

Looking one way in the living room

and the other way

Master bedroom

and my french doors in to my master bedroom.

:)

well well what did we find here?

Today was operation clean and pack up kitchen as best I could, leaving what we still use daily.

AND

I came across this "special" little mason jar in one of the cupboards.

hmmmmmm

Where'd you get this little bottle of moonshine from babe?

doesn't look like anything I'm brave enough to try!

LOL

I WANT THIS HAIR!!

my friend posted this picture in her Friday Favs, and I can't tell you how many times I have gone back to just stare at it! I WANT THIS HAIR!!! 

Love Love Love the cut and the color! 

Oh Caylen..... ;)

Picture Perfect Monday

Sand, Sun, and Relaxing

Exactly what I'm dreaming about right now