More sleep PLEASE!

I don't remember being this exhausted with Ryan. I do remember being sleepy with Jade but seriously I'm EXHAUSTED. Yes I'm sure having an almost 3 year old and an almost 2 year old will wear a person out but Come on! Wow! I'm sure no one cares about any of this crap that I write about but quite frankly no one wants to hear me talk about it either so I will just put it in writing and read if you like or just pass on.

Geez I feel like such a hag today. Blah.

On to more interesting things... today I had to run to the Senior Center to pick up the key for our Pampered Chef Mega Party tonight. My ex boyfriend's mom was working there and I of course had the kids with me. We are neighbors now and everytime I see her son on the road I want to run him off of it. (why does that make me laugh out loud?) Anyways she tells the kids how I was always up at their house and that they need to come and play on their playground sometime. Seriously? (As I'm sitting there with a forced grin on my face) Seriously?!! Oh geez it's not like Kenny is worried about me running off with this scum (he is married after all FINALLY) but Lord. That's just what I want my daughter (who is quite brilliant if I do say so myself) to be going around telling people (Which she does ALL the time. i.e. "My baby sister is my daddy's fault!" Yes, that's my daughter! Geez!). Anyways, never a dull moment is saying it mildly.

Interesting Fact for the day: I'm officially 23 weeks fat, I mean pregnant today. She's the size of a Papaya and kicks me constantly. Funny pregnancy moment: Jade laying down on the couch with me and Kinley kicking her on her tummy. "Momma, (with a very serious face) is my baby sister in my Belly??" "No Jade she just kicked you!" "Oh! Tickle, Tickle Baby Sister!" Melts my heart! In other pregnancy related news, Tomorrow is my glucose test. I'm so stinkin' excited about it - said no woman ever! Hopefully that will work out just fine. I really do look forward to going to my obgyn. She's AMAZING! We've seriously been blessed with a great doctor!

Best Day EVER! Ha!

Yesterday was very eventful. I noticed on Friday that I was having a terrible cramp in my stomach that lasted for just a little while and would come and go. They actually got so painful at one point though that I was getting sick and ended up being sick all night long with them.

I ended up calling the doctor's office and they told me to get to labor and delivery ASAP! I failed to mention that My husband was 45 mintues away in a tree stand so I had to call him (he wasn't upset though thankfully) and he rushed home to get me there. Blood tests, a lovely cervix check by a female and her tag a long 20ish year old buddy, multiple blood tests and urinalysis later we find out that I have a UTI (being a woman ROCKS!) that is double the amount a normal one is which is causing my contractions. Ugh. Dehydration also was partially the cause of it all too.

Anyways as soon as I got out of the ER we had to book it back to Marble to meet the dealer with our new ranger. Could the day have been any better?

Geez. Needless to say we stayed home from church today so I could rest/drink as much water as possible/clean my house. I'm sure the doctor wouldn't mind. Thankfully Kenny has done all the heavy lifting and has promised to watch the kids so I can take a nap this afternoon. We will see how the last bit goes.

The BEST part of yesterday... being so knocked out by my meds from the doctor that I slept through the WHOLE HOGS GAME. So glad that happened! Wow!

Oh My Oh My...

Geez... Seeing as I haven't posted in almost a year lots and LOTS of things have changed. I did successfully lose 100 pounds like I was blogging about! Then 2 months later I found out I was pregnant with baby #3! Nice right? I guess I should have had better control over my new found "self-esteem." Anyways, we are very excited (finally after crying, worrying, panicking, etc) to be welcoming Miss Kinley into our lives this January.

We are buying more land and hopefully breaking ground very VERY soon on a new house! Obviously we are going to need more room with this little miracle joining our clan!

I have felt like this past year I was needing to be super woman. I was trying to keep my family together through the loss of my Grandpa, everyone was depressed and stressed and it literally felt like everything was falling apart. Life obviously isn't easy without Gramps here any more and I miss him like crazy every single day still but I know he is in a better place.

This was the last picture I ever took with my Gramps. This was Christmas day and I literally wish I could go back to this time so much.

We also Celebrated Ryan's 1st Birthday the day before Gramps passed away so I suppose when I prayed to God that he would allow Gramps to see Ryan's 1st year of life he took me very literal. I dread seeing his birthday come around this year but I know we will have another special blessing to look forward to around that time as well. Maybe God knew our family needed Kinley to bring some joy in our lives in January.

Ryan Turns 1!!!

 

Alright done with the depressing stuff now... We found out we were pregnant in May of this year and life has been pretty slow up until now. We just got back from taking the kids to Disney World a couple weeks ago! We had a BLAST!!!! Jade asked Kenny today if we could go back tomorrow! :) I see Disney being a yearly thing (or I hope so anyways!).

 We stopped at Daytona Beach the night before we checked in at Disney! The Kids LOVED it!

 Jade ate up the Princess dinners! She was so impressed!

 Merida from Brave or "Grave" as Jade calls it!

 Is this NOT the sweetest picture EVER!!!! Ahh I just LOVE it!



And of course there had to be a Mickey and Minnie picture right?!

 

We took several SEVERAL more but those I will save for another time. The next weeked back from Disney we went to Lake of the Ozarks for a golfing weekend/shopping weekend. Needless to say I'm pooped! Being pregnant (or looking like a fat cow in my pictures actually) is hard work especially while traveling! LOL!

 

I suppose that's enough rambling for the day and I know I live a very boring life but blogging is what is going to keep me sane while I deal with getting ready to become a Mommy to three sweeties, the stress of building a new home, and all of life's other ups and downs! :) Enjoy!

God is good ALL the time!

Wow things have been amazing lately in our crazy house! The kids are growing way too fast and I see it every single day! I sware they go to sleep and wake up 5" taller! :(

Our sweet Princess will be 2 in 2 weeks and it is killing me! What makes it worse is the next 2 weeks will fly by so fast because I am busy every single day. She has really started talking our ears off! Her new favorite thing to do is point out who is a girl or a boy on tv who is a papa a mommy and a daddy! Her baby brother is now Her Baby and the poor kid is treated like a baby doll! She drags him every where and he LOVES it! She is so smart and such a great big sister! But it kills me to see her grow up.

Ryan is learning something new every day too! He will be 8 months old in 2 weeks also. He is quite the talker. Dada, mama, papa, and baba are his favorites so far and he dies laughing at his crazy big sister! He is the sweetest baby and he is my little cuddle bug! :)

Well as many of you know I have been selling Pampered Chef since September 2009 I really love the products so I convinced Kenny it would be a great way to get the stuff for free or super discounted! :) I had not been very serious about it until June of this year. Tyson has been sucking us dry in the chicken business and I wanted to help supplement even more so I decided to up my game so to speak. The 8th of September I decided to hold a meeting just for people who I either thought would be great at selling pc or those who showed interest in it previously. I had 3 people show up and all 3 signed up to join my team. This morning I signed another awesome lady and I have currently 5 team members and am only 1 recruit away from Director! God has answered some serious prayers for us! I am going to be published in our national pc magazine next month also for recruiting 4 members in a month and not to mention the bonus of $200 worth of gift cards I will get which Bass Pro shops is one of the vendors and praise Jesus that is how I will take care of Kenny's Christmas present and my dad, gramps, and uncle Greg too if I can continue to share what an amazing company I work for! Also my income will grow a ton and I will be able to have leads sent to me from the home office! Doors are being opened and I am eternally grateful for these opportunities not to mention the wonderful women that I am being blessed with a team members! :)

As for me and Kenny well we are great! I have lost 75lbs officially now and only have another 30 to go! Kenny has been working his ears off with the chickens and I am thankful for a hard working hubs! Life is finally getting a little less stressful and we are excited for the holidays and the fall air that is finally in the Ozarks! :)

Oh my... where to begin.

Well, yesterday I started off having a bad day! Ugh... then as the day progressed it just got worse, along with my mood I might add. Anyways, it came time for bed and I was mad, mad at Kenny, mad that things just weren't going my way, mad that I just seem to have nothing but bad luck and that sometimes I just need to catch a break somewhere sometime. Well needless to say God made myself see this break very soon right as I was going to bed. I had already put my two sweet babies in bed with little fight at all out of them both! Kenny leaned over gave me a quick/pitty peck and said his usal goodnight,and I lay there just thinking and to be quite frank, feeling sorry for myself. Just as I started drifting off to sleep I learned real quick just how lucky I am. I started bawling. My heart ached, not for me anymore, but for all the families that I know/or have been following lately. One, my children are perfect in every way, health, happiness, you name it they have it. I'm lucky right there in so many more ways than many. I have been praying so very hard for the Woodruff Family lately, no I don't personally know them, but my friend Holly worked at the bank the Daddy works for. Anyways, their baby boy Miller passed away last week due to a muscualr disease. Oh dear Lord, Please just lay your healing hands upon that family. Reading her blog just breaks my heart. I know I could never handle something like that. I just couldn't. Realization number 1... Thank you dear God... thank you so VERY much for the health of my precious children. Please, never let me take one single second of that for granted. :( Also I am so quick to forget how healthy my children are. Our friends Jeff and Holly had to have their sweet little baby girl Emry born on March 21st... I remember that day because it was the week Ryan was in the hospital with RSV. She just got to come home a couple of weeks ago and is such a fighter. Sweet little Emry was born weighing a whopping 1 lb. 3oz. The doctors didn't give her much hope but look at what God can do! ANYTHING... even pevail when doctors say there is no chance! Realization number 2... I'm so very VERY sorry God. By this point and time I've cried what seems to be buckets of tears for these two families and buckets of tears to God for reminding me not to take a single day for granted. Father's day was rough this year, I didn't realize it at the time, but my Grandpa Holt was super super sick. He's had problems on and off since his first heart surgery which was back in 1993 I believe. January 2009 he almost passed away after his second heart surgery. We didn't know second by second if he was going to be with us at all. It's a good thing God answered our prayers because at the time I was pregnant with Jade after 28 months of trying for a baby and I know if he would have passed away I would have lost her. Well Father's day was just like January for us again, they didn't tell me until later in the week just how bad he was, because they know I'm the panicy princess of the family and I probably would have had a stroke but it was horrible. Thank God again, for answering prayers and for bringing my Grandpa back to health. He is still at Mercy and has a surgery for a pacemaker to be placed tomorrow morning. Please pray with us for this surgery.

Anyways, this post is a lot of rambling but all in all I realized just how blessed and lucky I am, maybe not lucky in things that happen in life, but TOTALLY lucky in family, faith, and love. That is all I need. I'm sorry lord for having a bad day, and I'm sorry for not opening my eyes far enough to see just how much I have!

Rain drops are falling on my head.... Literally!

So I'm sitting here listening to the rain for the 7th DAY IN A ROW!!!! Ugh! I'm thankful for the rain, because it was so dry here, but this is killing me! It's raining so much we now have 4 leaks in the main bathroom, one in the living room, and the bedroom through the lights.... Are you kidding me? I really don't mind rain but the tornadoes and all the HORRIBLE lightning is getting to me. These May flowers better be the size of GIANTS due to all the April Showers... :(

We had a great Easter despite the soggy weather. That better be all I write because it's starting to lightning really bad!

Crazy weekend...

This weekend was nutso! I had to finish finalizing all of my Rhea Lana stuff and deliver it on Sunday. Needless to say Kenny got some Daddy time with his 2 babies! :) I only had 20 things in this sale because most of my stuff sold at the Rogers sale. I was super excited for yesterday though because I didn't get to pre shop at the Rogers sale because of a death in the family. Needless to say I was very pleased with my shopping experience! I scored Jade a Little Tikes Slide for 6.00!!! It retails on the Little Tikes site for 49.99! :) I also got her a pair of Pink Chuck Taylor Converse for 4.00 and two pairs of super cute sandals for 3.00 a pair! Yes! She also got some play food for her kitchen for cheap! I got both of the kids some clothes also, but not very many. (I'll admit it, I would rather buy them new clothes!) Anyways, I also found a couple of double jogging strollers both for $100. I kicked myself all night last nigt for not buying one. So I suppose I will go back tomorrow and see if they still have at least one of them so I can get back running! I really miss it since it's been 8 days! :( My knees are still super sore and I've come to the conclusion that it is either my running "stride" or I've bruised the cartilage in them! Either way it stinks and I'm literally in tears by the end of the day! It's all good though, keep pressing on since that's what Momma's do!

In other news tomorrow is my official weekly weigh in but I did manage to weigh last night and I was officially to the 22 pound mark!!!! What better way to celebrate than buying that Jogging Stroller HUH? :)

No exciting news any where else, other than the fact that I am quite proud of myself for purchasing a million flowers at A to Z to make my own Memorial day decorations. It's so sad at the number of graves we have to decorate. :(

Hopefully I will have a dramatic weight loss by tomorrow to announce! LOL! Until then....