Hair Cut

I did it. I have been saying for a while that I was going to get my hair cut, and yesterday I had some time to waste so I was visiting Tammy at her work (she works at a hair salon) and I had her cut it off. I had 13 inches cut off and will send it to Lock of Love.

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Ellie

Our Ellie is growing up so fast. Here are some new pictures of her.

This week Melanie and Laurie's husband were going to be out of town and my husband is always gone during the week, so we decided to get together and spend a few days to help the time go by faster. Chanae, mom and Cali (and kids) joined us at Laurie's house for some fun.

We had 14 kids (all but 3 under the age of 6) and 6 adults. The cousins had a great time together. It was good for my kids because they have never really had that much to do with their cousins.

While the kids were playing we spent some time making crafts. We made bows for the girls hair and beaded braclets and necklaces.

It was a fun time to spend hanging out with my sisters. We did miss those that were not there, Lynnette, Venita, Becca and Kami. We will have to do it again when you can join us as well.

Real Cowboy

A couple of weeks ago we went to Joels parents to spend the weekend. My Devin loves to ride horses with his grandpa (whom he belives is a real cowboy). Aunt Elisa had a riding lesson while we were there and Devin went along. While at the arena grandma let Devin ride one of the horses. The horse started to run and because Devin hasn't had very much experience and because he is only 6 he tummbled off the horse. His grandma told him that he was now a real cowboy because all real cowboys have fallen off their horse before. Devin was pretty proud to be in the same catagory as his grandpa. When they got back Joel asked Devin if he was ready to be done riding horses. Devins response was "No, I just need more practice".

Move Update

We are in the process of a large move and have been in this transition for almost 6 months. If I had known that this move was going to work out like this there is no way we would have done it. We have known since we moved to Ohio that the day would come when we would want to be closer to our families. That day came about a year ago. Joel and I decided that our boys did not know their grandparents, cousins, or other family members very well, and that we were missing out on so many things. So we decided that it was time to move. There was several things that I wanted to do in Ohio and in the East before we left the area, so I did not let Joel look for a job right away. By the end of summer we had done some neat things with our family and friends that I was ready to go.
Joel applied and was offered a job in Utah in a perfect spot, right between our families. We would be about 2 hours from both of our parents. We were excited. We went right to work and put our house on the market. This was the end of Sept. What we discovered was that this was not the best time to try to sell our house.
Come Nov. Joel had to be in Utah to start his new job, I decided to stay in Ohio to try to sell the house, so I did not have to pull Devin from school, and because living in a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 little boys did not sound like fun. This was not a fun time for us or for Joel, he did get to fly back for Thanksgiving and then again at Christmas time. It was then that we decided that we were done being separated and moved our family to Utah. We did move in to an apartment, I did pull Devin from school and we still had not sold our house.
I knew that this apartment living was only temporary and so I did not put Devin back in school. We began homeschooling. What an adventure. And to add to all of this our baby was due the 12 of March. I was looking for a new doctor and having to hassle with new insurance. Added to all this the relocation company told us our time in the apartment would be up on March 9th and we needed to find other accommodations for our family (our home in Ohio had still not sold, so we could not buy a new one). What stress!
I was able to chat with my doctor and convince him that I needed the baby to be a little early because we would be moving to Idaho to live with my parents until we were able to buy a house. He was very good to start us and as you can see from previous posts we were blessed with a beautiful healthy baby girl. And when she was 6 days old we move in with grandma and grandpa Wilson (thanks for the room).
Our home in Ohio did finally sell in Feb. and so now we were able to go ahead and make plans to buy a home in Utah. The home we found and negotiated a price on was sold while we were in the hospital to somebody else. So we began our search all over again. Now the boys and I were living in Idaho with my parents and Joel was living with his sister near his job. We were seperated again. Joel did join us on the week ends.
As we were getting closer to making an offer on another home the relocation company let us know that they were no longer paying for our things to be in storage and that we were now responsible for that expence. This move has not hardly had any thing good about it. During this time both of our vehicles were wrecked as well. I've spent many days and nights wishing that we had not left Ohio.
On Sat we finally signed papers for a home and so hopfully will be able to move in by the end of the month. Things are looking up.