Grocery Store

Please pick the correct ending to this sentence.....

Question:

When I go to the grocery store, I:

Answers:

1) don't get a lot of groceries at once because since the cart is full of kids, I have no where to put them,

2) have many people give me the 'Look at all those kids! You're insane, but they sure are cute!' smile,

3) race through the aisles before Caedmon and Brayan decide to throw stuff out of the cart

4) spend most of my time breaking up 'biting' fights between Caedmon and Brayan

5) tell Caedmon repeatedly to not lick the sides of the shopping cart

6) say to Tiernan about 50 million times "Please keep your hands off! Just look with your eyes!"

7) make faces at Ariella because she's so cute and smiles so easily

8) regret putting their winter coats on because they take up even more room in the carts!

9) wonder why I just didn't wait for Nathan to get home so I could go to the store by myself!

10) am constantly picking up the "dropped" smiley face sticker the walmart greeter just has to give my kids when they enter the building!

11) pray to God that they don't drop anything that is glass!

12) ask Tiernan to keep his eyes open while he walks because the tower of parmessan cheese almost tipped over when he walked into it.

13) All of the above.

If you chose answer #13, you were correct!!

Tape

Has anyone see my roll of masking tape????


Nevermind.....I think I found it!

Our "New" Home!

Here it is folks! This is what we will soon be living in! We are so excited to be "down sizing" into an RV!

This is a 2008 Dutchmen Monte Vista. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen, dining, living room, washer/dryer, ceiling fan with 4 slide outs...pretty much everything you need! It can sleep 10 comfortably, so us 6 should be just fine! It has the master bedroom with a queen bed and then the 2 bedrooms each have a bunk bed. Then the table makes a bed if needed and the couch folds out into a full size bed. Lots of sleeping space!!

So here are a few pics of the 'new' place! :)

Up the stairs beyond the sink is the master bedroom and the washer and dryer

Up the stairs, the bathroom door is on the left, the sink is straight ahead and the shower is on the right.

Notice the high ceilings... The closed door on the left is the other bedroom. The second bathroom is in between the two bedrooms.

So what'd ya think?

For Sale!

This is what I have been busy with in the past week or so!

I had a garage sale at our house last week Wed evening, Thursday, Fri afternoon and Saturday morning! Whew! I'm glad that's over! It went very very well and I was able to get rid of most everything I had out there! Even though the weather did not cooperate and it was in the low 30s, windy and raining almost everyday, people still came and my stuff still went!! I kept joking with the people that came....I'd say I didn't know who was more crazy; me for having the garage sale in this weather or you for coming to it!! :) But I am pleased to say now that we have nothing big to sell or get rid of before we move to the RV!

A family from church came over last week and they took our dressers, night stand, book shelf, lamps, tv, table, chairs and couch. Then someone from my MOPS group is buying our climber with the slides downstairs (which i'm totally going to miss!), and someone else is buying our freezer. Another family from church is even buying our bed frame! Then at the sale, I sold the changing table, a file cabinet, tons of totes and storage things, rugs, baby equipment, LOTS of clothes, and even our vacuum! It is such a blessing not to be able to have to deal with those things when it comes time to move!!

I was blessed with a few friends that came over each day to help out either with the sale or with the kids. Although since it was raining, Nathan was home each day as well, so he mostly hung out inside with the kids. He even 'manned' the sale when I went to MOPS on Friday morning! It wasn't technically 'open' since I advertised it on Friday from 1pm-6pm since I knew I'd be at MOPS, but because we had the sale in our carport and there is no door on it, people just assume they can come whenever they want. But he did a good job so I don't think it was that big of deal! :)

So anyway, the sale is over and the rest of the stuff was taken to the thrift store here in town. I actually had a lady stop by in the afternoon that was at the sale while I was packing stuff up earlier and she said for $10 she'd take the bag of the 'leftover' clothes off my hands! Perfect! So I got $10 and didn't have to load it up and she got a black garbage bag full of little boy clothes! Great deal for everyone!

So besides the sale, I've been busy filling orders for I Spy Bags and aprons. As Christmas draws near, people have been ordering more to give away as gifts! So if you want one, please let me know! The current sale I have going on for the month of October is buy 2, get 1 50% off! Well, better get going...have church to get ready for!

Proof

Ok, so these aren't the greatest pictures since holding her and taking her picture at the same time is kinda hard, but here is Ariella signing "Daddy!" It's so much cuter in person! :)

This time she got it a little more on the side of her head than in front...but I'll take it!

Cute AND Smart!!!

Ok...I've pretty much decided that we have, hands down, the cutest AND the smartest little 6 month old ever!

I mean...just look at that smile and those blue eyes!!

And talk about being smart....do you know what this little girl has been doing lately??? SIGNING DADDY!!! Yeah, that's right...using sign language to say Daddy...on command! For those of you who don't know what the sign for Daddy is, hold up your hand as if you counted to 5 on your hand, and then put your thumb on your forehead. Ariella will do this whenever we tell her to "say Daddy!" Most of the time she just puts her thumb on the front side of her head, not necessarily right on her forehead, but it's close enough!! It is absolutely the most adorable thing I think I've ever seen!!! A 6 MONTH OLD using sign language!! I wish I could get my video of it on my computer.....

Did I ever tell you that I think she's one smart little cookie???

Here It Is....

Ok...so I've kept everyone in suspense long enough....

I've gotten phone calls and emails asking what our family is planning to do that most families woudln't even consider....

So here it is....

We are selling all of our possessions and moving into a camper and traveling across the country!!

Yes, that's right...a camper. A 5th wheel to be exact. A 39 foot, 3 bedroom (4 bunks plus master), 2 bath, 4 slide out RV that will have plenty of room for our family of 6 to live. (It even has a washer and dryer!) It's a 2008 Dutchmen Monte Vista that an old couple had for 4 months before they traded it in for a class c camper. We got a great deal on it, saving over 50% off the new sticker price.

And since it already has a couch, table, beds, etc, we don't need anything except a few clothes and some dishes! Therefore I have been getting ready to have a huge garage sale this week! We have found a family from church who want most of our big stuff (couch, table and chairs, book shelf, dressers, lamps, fan, tv, etc) so that has been such a blessing!!

Another sweet thing about this is that we are going to the same job as our friends that we met in Seward (Matt and Meggan) and we are going to park our rvs right next to each other so it will be real nice. We've said it'll kinda be like we are on an extended vacation where Nathan just happens to go to work! We will be living in a campground, parked right next to our friends, we will be able to see the mountains out our windows and we're close enough to the coast so Matt and Nathan can try their hands at tuna fishing :)

As more loose ends get tied, I'll share more details, and as always, plans can always change last minute...but for now I have a garage sale to prepare before we become full-time RVers!!