In a blink of an eye

Holy Moses! We are near the end of July already! Wow. It has been a couple very crazy busy months. We sold our house and moved in to a new 2100 square foot 2 storey just up the road on June 15. April celebrated her 1st birthday on the 7th of June and we had her party on June 27 because we wanted to wait until after the move. Joel turned 6 on July 15 and we went to Vancouver Island for a week between July 13 to the 20th. Its been a blast but its hard to find enough time to do much blogging amidst all of that.

April took her first steps on July 11th and has been getting braver every day. Nathan said she walked across the living room while i was at work last night. It really is bitter sweet. I am so proud of her and happy that I won't have to tote her 24 pound body around much longer but it also means she is growing up and becoming more independent and that is so sad to me. I can hardly believe how the time flies, and I just wish for a few moments I could slow it down and just enjoy every sweet second of my kids lives.. and just freeze them the way they are right now if only for a few months longer. I can't believe it has been 6 years since Nathan and I entered into this journey of parenthood. 6 years! That is a substantial amount of time.. and that is the magic number. The school aged number where my big boy goes to school for a whole day, with a lunch in tow and becomes his own person with his own life. Part of me can't wait! It means he will learn to read and make his own friends, but part of me is so so sad that we have gotten here so very fast. A blink of an eye really. I here it only gets faster from here, so if the first 6 years went by this fast how much quicker will the next 12 go? Dear God.. please slow this life down! I only get one!

This Time Last Year....

I was 35 weeks pregnant! Crazy! It feels like just yesterday but at the same time a world away. Check out the video I made on May 4th last year! Just don't forget to pause the music at the bottom of the page.

Christmas in May

Oh my word.. the weather here is INSANE today. I thought we were going to enjoy an early spring for once, but oh no.. old man winter decided to rear his ugly head once again, in MAY for goodness sake! Its hideously awful out there, but the one up side is that I get to enjoy a lazy day inside with the kiddos and my mama because they canceled her work today. I will have to take some pictures and post them later... it is really something else!

Not much else to report. We still have not sold our house. We had a showing last night, and a couple more expected this coming weekend. Hopefully one of them will result in a sale, but we shall see. I am not too worried. I believe the man upstairs has us covered! I just hope we don't have to pay 2 mortgages for very long.. if at all! I am getting pretty excited about the thought of moving into our forever home! (or LONG time home), plus we won't have to hang our stockings on the wall anymore at Christmas time as we will have an actual fireplace and numerous spots that a Christmas tree can go! Man all this snow apparently makes me think of Christmas!

I also think I should get a pat on the back for how frequently I have blogged lately! I believe (if I have counted correctly) I have posted 5 entries in the span of a month! Yay me!

Letter of the Day

Dearest Colin,
I love you to bits but today you are trying my patience. This morning I was woken up by your brother who informed me that you had dumped an entire bottle of glue on our love seat. You had also pulled out a roll of double sided tape that you unrolled and left in a pile. Toys were strewn from one corner of the living room to the other. Your ears also seem to be broken today as your listening skills seem to not be working. I know one day that I will appreciate your creative nature and your silly antics, but today I just don't have the patience for it.

sincerely,
your worn out Mommy

New Home

Well its official! We will be moving to a new house June 15! I am ecstatic! I cannot wait to live somewhere and make memories in a new home! Now we just need to sell this house. We had all intentions of selling this place before removing all our conditions on the new house but unfortunately that wasn't possible because the other house got another offer and we got served with a 24 hour time line or we lost the house. I am so very excited! I just hope this place sells FAST!

In other news the boys started soccer this week. It was freezing cold but Joel seems to really be enjoying it! We just need to work on his sportsmanship because he is a bit of a poor sport but he is doing 200% better from last year. Colin has his first game on Friday night. He is more athletic than Joel and I think he will really enjoy himself. Will post pics soon.

Bummed!

I am sad today. We found out yesterday that we won't be getting our house after all and it makes me really sad! But we just can't do it.. it will be way too much money and Nathan and I aren't willing to put ourselves into that much debt! We would basically be house broke and I don't want that at all. So from here I don't really know what our next step would be. I would kind of like to contact a realtor and have them keep their eye out for the perfect house for us. I just don't know at this point. I am bummed and thats all I know.

Busy Busy Busy

Okay so it is always my excuse.. I am a busy mama of 3 beautiful crazy children. It takes up most of my time and I generally don't feel like taking the time to blog. But here I am. I am not going to apologize. It just isn't my top priority. :) Things are even more hectic now that I am back to work 2 nights a week and every 2nd Saturday. Which is going amazingly well, thank you for asking! I am enjoying the break, and the extra pay check is an added bonus. We are saving it so that once Nathan's lease is up we can afford to buy another car without payments. And we are also in the midst of hopefully building a new house. We are currently working on all the financing issues. I am very excited about the prospect of a bigger house more suitable to our family, and the house we are looking at building will be a nice big bilevel finished on both levels. It's a house we hope to be able to stay in until our kids are grown up, if not beyond then.

In other news my smallest babe turned 10 months old yesterday! Holy moly! That is insane! Wasn't it only yesterday that I was griping about still being pregnant? Wasn't it just last week that I took that pregnancy test and saw 2 lines instead of 1? Wasn't it only a year ago I brought Colin home from the hospital.. and the year before that that I found out at the young age of 18 that I was going to be a mommy for the 1st time? How did so much time get away from me? I do not understand how the days can sometimes feel so long but the years so short? This life passes too quickly!

Well I suppose I should get back to the grind and get lunch started before Joel walks in the door from school. I hope everyone is doing amazingly.. and hopefully I will be back to post again before next Christmas rolls around :)