Thanks

And a special thanks to my awesome smart friend Melissa for helping me fix my blog. Now it's only Christmas instead of Christmas and Owls!

Home for the Holidays

Ok, so before I start this post let me just say, I AM so thankful that we were fortunate enough to sell our house. AND I am also so thankful that we had a place to stay so that we aren't driving anyone crazy and we didn't have to rush into buying a house that we didn't really love. And I also know that there are people right now that have so many bigger things to worry about than this. That being said, I am SO READY to find a house that we can call our home. We've been here for about two months now and while it's a 'house', it isn't 'home'. I miss home. I miss having all my stuff in one place- including our dog, I miss knowing where said stuff is, and most of all right now I miss decorating for Christmas! We do have a tree, but that's about it. I was sure that we'd have a home before Christmas but that's looking less and less likely.

House hunting is extremely stressful. I think we've looked at about 20 houses so far and just haven't felt a love for any of them. People, including our realtor, ask us all the time what we're looking for, or what we haven't liked about anything we've looked at and that is a very hard question to answer. All we can say is that we will know when we find it and we just haven't felt that yet. I know that God has a plan and place for us. I know that because I KNOW that, and we wouldn't have sold our house in the first place if that wasn't the case. And I know it's all in His time, but boy I'm ready for that time to be now :-).

So, I just had to vent that to the internets and my friends. Thanks for listening.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know I have. We really have had a great day with family. Now we're getting ready to do a little shopping. Well, I am anyway. Chris and the kids will all be snoozing. Just wanted to list a few things that I'm thankful for.
-My Savior
-My husband and my sweet boys
-Our family
-Our health
-My kids' teachers and preschool
-My awesome friends who put up with me :-)
-That we sold our house and have a place to stay while we look for a new one
-Our realtor (seriously people)
-The fact that we weren't hurt in our little "accident" last week (which is a whole post itself)
-Sleep
-Our church family
-prayer
-Weight watchers ice cream bars
-Dr. Pepper Ten
-My job that lets me work from home and be with my kiddos
-My husband (I know I already mentioned him) who works super hard to allow me to have the job that lets me stay at home with my kiddos
So many other things that I know I'm forgetting right now.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Halloween Fun

We had a pretty fun Halloween weekend this year. Halloween was on Monday this year and we started our festivities with their first ever school party on Thursday. I even got to go and 'help' in their classrooms. It was so fun seeing Sam and Owen in a classroom!

On Friday, Chris and I went with the boys on their first field trip. We went to the Pumpkin Patch at Shadow Lake. It was really, really yucky weather but they still had fun. They had story time and made a class pumpkin painting. Then they each got to pick a pumpkin to bring home.

On Friday evening the big boys and I went to a Halloween party at their friend Mason's house. Mason's mommy had the whole place decorated. She had a place for the kids to color, yummy food, and games. The boys loved it. It was so cute! I wish I was half as creative as Melissa is!

Sunday night was Trunk or Treat at church and for the first time Chris and I had a "trunk". And we had the cutest little decoration!! Sawyer was originally supposed to be a chicken but once he saw the big boys train costumes he had to have one too.

And finally the big day! Monday night we did our annual Westwind trick or treating and finished that off by visiting a friends house. It's so much fun to see the boys getting into all of this stuff. I am loving every minute of it.