So much is going on I do not have a fitting place to start. Things would be a lot simpler if I would update more often, but yet I wait until so much is filling my brain that I throw it all up here.





Cooper asked me to take this picture of them. We have been living without a kitchen table for the past seven months. We use our coffee table that sits in the living room in front of the TV. Cooper sits in a lawn chair & Wyatt takes the patio furniture chair. Apartment living at it's finest for sure! I usually separate the boys at each end and hover over them as they eat reminding them to sit in their chairs and to finish eating. The routine has improved as the boys have been threatened getting older and wiser to my ruling. In this particular picture the dinner was so enjoyable that they were able to sit beside one another and eat. Priceless! On the menu: Tacos, chips and a fruit of their choice. One of their favorite meals of the month.





Yes, they are already in their PJ's. Thanks to daylight savings time it gets dark early so after dinner we have enough time to read some books together and off to bed. 7:00 bedtime, I love it!





Our house is coming along nicely, although I wished it were completed last month. Someone is out working on it each day, but it still seems to be taking to long. My not-so-upbeat-attitude is rubbing off on my 4 year old. The other day he comes moping into the kitchen only to say, "I miss my car bed and all my toys, I want to move already." I try to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the cold, yucky weather only feeds my attitude.





Painting is completed, lights are installed and half of the driveway is poured. The tile guy started last week and he should be finished by the end of next week and our counters are being installed on Tuesday. What we have left: carpet, hard wood floors, all hardware on the doors and cabinets, completion of the driveway and then the appliances! It is getting close.

We will be giving our 30 day notice in THREE days. Oh, what joy fills my heart! We have two or three couples that live a couple of miles away from us from our church and even one of those families has a little boy that is the same age as Cooper. They will be going to public PreK together this fall.

Hopefully we will be moving before the end of February, the sooner the better! The house has went very smoothly and it has been a wonderful experience. I feel overwhelmed as I look at the almost finished product. Our builder(s) have been the best! Our original contract has the date of completion being the beginning of May, exactly 9 months from the start of the building process of September 1st. They have been very proactive and made everything run very smoothly and they we have finished in 6 months. Yeah!

If you are ever in need of a builder, I have the perfect recommendation!