which is the bigger shock?

That we have moved and found a house or that I am updating my blog?????

We are now in the desert, out of the humidity (yay!). WE found a house on the end of the second day of looking....tried to get a house with a pool but what we found makes up for it, plus there is a community pool nearby!

We are on the side of the mountain, with a back view of a canyon and the front view that is gorgeous at night, with the lights of the city. I guess I need to post some pictures, but theh yare all currently on my phone and I am just lazy!

Updating my blog?????

Seriously, I have not had the time to update it! LOL!!!

How about a photo??? We had these taken as a gift for Ken's birthday...

Fourteen years old.... almost as tall as mom...

...and still eating! LOL!! Danged kids...they grow and eat and grow and eat...

If I stopped feeding them social services would juts show up on my doorstep, and that would only lead to more problems, it wouldn't solve the "eating and growing problem"...so I guess we'll just keep feeding them till they fly the coop!

Today I have taught a water aerobics class, taught a swim class, gone to the store, washed the laundry, helped the boys bake cookies (slice and bake, mind you!), made charitable donations for others for Christmas, finished the family Christmas letter, printed about 40 copies of the letter, (oh and had to go get ink for the printer before I could print them!) and tonight I hope to start on the wrapping o' presents. Can't do THAT till after everyone has gone to bed!

We had our Sunday School class party on Saturday night...GREAT food, lots of laughs! CAP party tomorrow night, the boys have the youth party at church on Wednesday night, and Ken's work party on Thursday night. Friday we get a break and then a neighborhood party on Saturday night (grownups only, I am SO excited!).

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My son Ryan needs to grow up and be a massage therapist. OMG, he gives the best back runs to his mommy!!!

It is raining (again) in SC and is a very blah day. We have the Chrsitmas tree up but it only has the lights on it so far. Too many other things going on to get it decorated. We wqould have finished it on sunday but I had to run Trey over to the dr. at FOrt Jackson...he slipped in the kitchen and fgell, hitting his arm on the edge of the counter as he went down. Not a big deal but last time he broke his arm, he had the similar "it hurts but it doesn't hurt" kind of a pain.

Since he wasn't feeling any better after an hour or so we went off to the dr. His arm was not broken, but it was a fright for a minute!

Sunday School class Christmas party this Saturday, neighborhood party next Saturday. YAY for babysitters!

We are also collecting food this Saturday for our homeschool support group food drive for Harvest Hope. I sure hope everyone on our block got thier flyers, and read them AND will leave us a donation.

the baby is 5 now!!!!!

Here is the big boy....what a great looking kid, if I do say so myself!!

Books a Million and Steve Doocy!

Grand Scheme

In the grand scheme, things have not been so bad...but last weekend I was up all night with a pukey kid. Missed church as well last Sunday. On the bright side, I was able to go to the Delta Zeta Founder's Day celebration at the chapter at USC, and received a lovely certificate for celebrating 25 years as an initiate.

The week was busy, and we had grand plans for the weekend but they went awry as well...Travis missed his soccer game last Saturday due to his illness, and with all the rain Friday, I had a feeling he would miss yesterday's game as well. I was correct, the games for his age group were ALL canceled yesterday. And late Friday night Trey made it 2 for 3 in the sick kid category, I think he had the same bug Travis had the weekend prior. Then our plans to see author/tv host Steve Doocy at Books A Million was in jeopardy, we didn't think it would be cool to give a national tv host the stomach bug!

Friday I noticed the ice in our freezer was melting but I thought the freezer door had just not closed properly. Friday night it appeared the meat was thawing out. Saturday seemed to be the same but I was so very tired I didn't think about the fridge/freezer being broken...I tried to call out property management company but since it was Sat. there was no one in the office and no "press this number if you have a maintenance emergency" on their voice mail. there was a number to call the owner of the company, so I did that but did not ever get an answer. I finally found some of the paperwork from when we moved in two years ago, and called the "emergency number" but OF COURSE got no response. Have I mentioned how much I do not like our property management company?????? They are fine if all you need to do is pay your rent.

Trey was feeling better by Saturday afternoon, and said he was hungry (always a good sign) so we let him have a few crackers and some 7-Up and went to BAM to see Steve Doocy. He spoke to the crowd for a few minutes then signed books and chatted a little as he was signing.

Trey was feeling poorly again this morning so here I am at home with him, missing church, curled up in my bed snuggling with my laptop and autographed Steve Doocy book, lol. I did clean out the freezer and refrigerator, salvaged what I could to the little freezer in the garage and threw out the rest, and added replacement food to my grocery list. I had to pour out THREE gallons of milk! Ken went to the store this morning to get milk so we could have breakfast and now we need to figure out what to do for lunch and dinner, and breakfast again tomorrow and pray we can get the refrigerator fixed SOON!!!

So, while it has all been frustrating, in the grand scheme it is not all that bad. I just wish I had been paying more attention to the appliances this weekend...