Sundays

This is a normal Sunday for us. Greyson is being crazy, we are starting a book, and Garett is asleep because he didn't have a nap. (This was a Sunday in August before Greyson started school 8/28/2016).

Life Lately

This has been our life lately...

Jeep out and being used everyday, wagon out for walks and bikes available for riding when Mom gets home from work.  We have had fun playing outside! (And now I can't park in the garage because we have so much stuff in the way.  Our next project is to reorganize the garage for all the boys outside toys!)

Changes

Wow...How life changes in a few short weeks. Here are a couple of ours...Just from the last couple weeks.

*Mike got a new job. He started working at Larry H. Miller Honda as a Mechanic on May 9th. We now gets every Sunday off (except Drill weekends). Yay for going to church!

*I am offically back to work as of today:( We will get through it though.

*We have decided to take our house off the market & stay in Eagle Mountain for a while longer. We don't know how long or what the future holds for us, but we feel good about this decision at this time!

Other then that, we are excited to see what other changes will be coming to our family in the future.

New Big Changes

Our lives are about to change as we know it. I have been wanting to write this post for a while, but also dreading it at the same time. We had the appraisal done on the house yesterday, so now it just needs to be sent to the bank for funding & then we will get our closing date! (as long as the bank is willing to fund the loan) We have been looking for places to live, but since we don't know when we can move & are still paying our mortgage just in case, we can't put $ down for a deposit yet. We are batting around the idea of maybe not staying in Utah. Mike would love nothing more then to move back to AZ & we could end up in a coastal state or HI if Navy Full Time is an option for us. Mike is putting in for a different rate this weekend at Drill! He is a Construction Mechanic right now & wants to change to an MA (Military Authority) which is Military Police. So if he gets that, then we might consider putting in for full time, then he will have to get his training, so another 13+ weeks of A school for him. But we both have stable jobs in Utah! There are just so many options for us. Mike is also in the Managment program at Home Depot now & is training to become a Department Head. As soon as we get things stabilized, we will solidify plans & let everyone know!

Another big change. We also sold our doggie yesterday! We get to keep him until we move out or go on Vacation in September, which ever comes first. It hasn't really hit me yet, but it will! It is for the best though, it will be so much easier to move without a dog to have to worry about. I didn't have a dog growing up & I always wanted one, so when Mike & I got married we said that we wanted at least a little dog around for our kids to play with & learn a little bit of responsibility. It will be different, but it is what needs to happen for our little family right now. That is the update as of today...Will continue to keep you posted!

Mother's Day

Yesterday I had the day to actually sit back & ponder & think about what Mother's Day means to me. It isn't my first Mother's day, but last year I was in such a fog I feel like from the lack of sleep that I really didn't get to enjoy it.

First off I would like to tell my momma how much I love her! I am sorry for any of the bad times we had or for all the hard things I put you through! I love you very much & am so grateful for the great relationship we have now! I so wish you lived closer, I miss you deeply!

Then thinking of this great gift I have now been given to be a mother, it is spectacular! I am so amazing & in awe of this life that I have been entrusted with to care for and raise. What an awesome responsibility! I am eternally grateful to my Heavenly Father for loving us enough to give us the gift of a child!

I hope all you wonderful Mothers had the BEST day yesterday, I hope that you were spoiled rotten, because you deserve it & that you had the chance to reflect on what your children mean to you!

Today

Today I am grateful for a LOT of things:

I am thankful for a baby boy who will be 1 soon. I am thankful that he is healthy & did TWO new things today! He pulled himself up on something other then Mike or I (the couch! YAY!) and he pull himself into the sitting position from laying! Oh my, I am so PROUD if my little guy! He is AMAZING.

I am thankful for a husband who can make a cake look like a Monkey, because some of us (me) stink at decorating cakes!

I am thankful for a sister in law who is willing to take time out of her busy life to teach Mike photo shop so that he can in turn teach me so that I could make Gavin's 1st birthday party invitations & start making digital scrapbook pages for him! & for us! Thanks Michelle, can't wait to learn more from you!

I am thankful for a GREAT DEAL at Toys R Us today & a $5 off coupon to finish off Gavin's birthday shopping! $50 worth of toys for $21 bones! AWESOME!

I am thankful for the fact that we are getting a GREAT Tax refund back!

I am grateful for Parents who love me & look out for us & our best interests!

Today I am grateful for a busy life, I have been on the go all day, but we have a stocked up & we are enjoying life. Tell me what you are grateful for today!

Picked on

Okay. I am feeling a little picked on. This has not been the best year for Mike & I & lets just say that the last 24 hours have been HELL for us. We have had several members of our family & some friends pass away this year as well as the loss of a baby. For the last month, we have been trying to put it all together, it had been 2 deaths & a miscarriage. Then we had another death at the end of May. What a year!

Mike & I haven't really been on the same page since the miscarriage & we have slowly been "crumbling" I guess you can say. Don't get me wrong, we are still really close & still love each other more then the day we got married, or met, but we have been going down our own "paths" & dealing with things by ourselves & not together when the time deems worthy. Lets just say that we had a break down of Communication yesterday about some "choices" he has made recently that I have either asked him to wait on or not to do at all. We finally talked about everything that we have been dealing with the last month or so & worked on it together. By the time we were "over ourselves" & communicating finally.

In the middle of all this Bear has been getting worse. If you remember, or haven't read that far back in the blog, Bear has Kidney failure since March, but had been dealing with it EXTREMELY well. He held his bladder all day & all night, until this weekend. He has been having to go outside about every hour & he had 3 accidents on the bed yesterday & last night. I didn't get to sleep until about midnight & Bear woke me up at 4:30am because he peed in the bed. I couldn't get back to sleep last night. I just don't know if Bear will make it very much further.

Anyway, I just needed to vent about my life this last year, it has not really turned out how we planned, but does it ever?