Updates

Sorry no pictures with this blog update, don't have time or the right equipment to update at my house so you just get to read. Sorry if that bores you I did give you fair warning. I thought I would up date on how we are doing.

~ Kaydence is almost four, I can't believe it. She gets smarter everyday, and says some of the funniest things. She turns four on Sept 12 and then she will be starting pre school a Roy High. We are very excited so she will have more interaction with kids than adults hopefully that means she will pick up less swear words ( she learns them from grandma) and she will make new friends. She cannot wait and she tells me she is going to school everyday. She got a new rolling back pack from Grandma Peggy that goes with her everywhere. Josh liked the idea of her going to Roy because he knows the teacher, plus she will get plenty of one on one attention which she needs.

~We are getting new windows, I know how excited you are so try to calm down. We have needed 3 new windows since we moved in and I can't wait to have a bathroom window that is frosted not clear, thank goodness when do not have back yard neighbors, I only flash the Gardner when he is out weeding ;)

~Along with windows we are going to attempt some DIY projects like painting and refinishing our cupboards, it doesn't sound too hard but we will see. We just want to increase the value of our house when it comes time to sale. Any tips let me know

~We are currently working on getting the baby making machine working properly. I have become BFFs with my ob/gyn the past week and a half visiting him 5 times, trying to find out the exact time the ball is going to drop. We hope that we will get positive results soon, it gets exhausting working over time.

~Josh's brother and sister in law are back in the state and we have been spending a lot of time with them. We are glad they made it home safely and are excited to see where they will be placed for recruiting. We had a rough summer last year and are glad to be off to a new start with them.

Josh continues to do well at his job and really enjoys it. He is such a people person and seems to draw others to him. This comes in handy in many areas of our life. I am very proud of how hard he works for us and all he accomplishes. Thats about it for updates nothing too exciting I know I will post more pictures soon.

Roy Days and a Weekend Picnic

Yesterday was the last day of Roy days and since we love the city we live in so much we thought we would participate. Make sure the fees I pay and Roy city trying to violate me on my yard goes to good use. I met up with Josh and Kaydence at the Roy parade. I was working so I packed up the state van with 5 kids and we headed to the parade. Kaydence loved the other kids and really loved getting all the candy! I swear this was the longest parade I have ever been too. It started at 9:30 am and I was packing up the van to head back to work at 11:30 and the parade was still going. After work we went over to the carnival and booths. They had more booths than rides this year. Kaydence kept asking for moneys so she could go in the blow up toys and buy treats. After meeting up with both grand parents she wanted to go in the bubble area. It was a big blown up ring with a bubble machine for the kids to run and get soaked in.

After she was done her poor eyes were burning and was freaking out when Josh tried to clean her off with the hose, it was nap time. The funny thing is that she runs around our yard soaking herself with our hose. After grabbing some lunch we headed home for nap time. That night we had Ash and Cal over with the girls for dinner. Which I never got any pictures of them. The girls had so much fun we will definitely have to do it again.

Last weekend Josh and I decided we should go on a picnic with his parents. After almost running into the back of another car on our way up the Mountains, Joshs dad luckily got us there in one piece. Kaydence barely let me get her picture before she wanted to explore. We were right by the river so we had to hurry and get lunch so she could go jump in. Daddy is such a

good sport to get in with her. At first she wanted to get out because it was really cold, but after awhile she enjoyed throwing rocks down the river with daddy. We left the camping area and headed back down to Huntsville park. She wanted to play on the slides after her adventure in the river. The Huntsville park is really nice and has tons of toys for the kids to play on. Even Josh had a fun time. I also climbed up but Joshs butt looks so much better on camera than mine.

We found the weirdest slide at the park. It was long and straight down but at the top there was two large humps with about ten inches in between to squeeze yourself through, plus it was very oddly shaped, you can only image what Josh thought it looked like. I know what you are thinking... exactly it looks like a banana right. On the way home we had a very tired girl but she was able to stay awake for some ice cream, yum! Thanks Stan and Kaye for going with us we had a lot of fun!

2 New Babies!

Yes, Kaydence finally has two new cousins on Josh's side of the family. This has seemed like such a long time coming but we are finally glad they are here! They were both born on Thursday July 16, Olivia Hoellein was born at 8:01 am to Joel and Bonnie, and Grayson William Hoellein was born at 1:05 pm to Jared and Camberly. They are both so cute and we are very glad to welcome them into the family. Kaydence has been very caring and loves to see the babies. She was a little worried about Camberly when we visited the hospital and had to call her that night before she went to bed. She was very excited to go to Carters and pick each baby out a musical stuffed animal just like she got when she was a baby. Kaydence also talks about her other new cousin Kalab, which she calls him "K-LOV" it is his rapper name, she misses him and enjoys talking to him on the phone. I wish I had some pictures to post, but will have to try a post them later this week from my parents house. We are so glad to have three wonderful babies in our big family and we are hoping and working very hard (trust me!) to add another one of our own by next year!

We finally did it!

Since Kaydence was born she has always had beautiful hair. I was putting pony tails in her hair by four months old. I loved how long it was but it started to become a big chore to fix, and keep clean. There would be days that I could not do anything to get a comb through it, half the time she would not let me. I have to admit she would go several days with out getting it washed or combed, and we would start singing Bob Marley songs to her. Congrats to all you who get your children bathed and hair combed daily you must be a super mom! I on the other hand enjoyed teaching my daughter the classic Bob Marley tunes.

After talking with Kaydence we decided we would cut her hair and donate it to lock for love. I explained to her for quite awhile because after everything I said came a WHY, wow how they could very easily rid that word from the English language now! Anyway, I got online and showed her picture of the website and the little girls she would be sending her hair to, and she became very excited. Here is a before picture with long, crazy but beautiful hair.

Aunt Bonnie was so nice to cut it for us, even though Kaydence was not the easiest person to cut.

Here she is with the pony tail! I don't have a good picture of the final results, but she looks super cute! We love it and it is so much easier to fix and we will definitely save money on conditioner. She was very excited and she woke up the next morning and told me how beautiful her hair cut looked. She really looks so grown up it made us realize that she is not my baby anymore, but such a big girl. So now would be a great time for number two, hopefully soon.

Congrats to my Wonderful Hubby!

Josh has been at his job for over a year now and has been working hard since the beginning. It has been a little different actually selling the food instead of cooking it, but he still manages to find many opportunities to cook. He had a sales meeting last week and he received rookie of the month (they are considered rookies for like the first 3 years). I was so excited for him he has a nice award to put in our office at home. He also found out he received fourth place in a sales promo they have been running for two months and is getting a nice bonus! I told him that I cant wait for one day in our life he will receive a bonus and we wont know what to use it for, instead of paying bills off, we can use it for fun! I love you Josh , thank you for working so hard for our family.

Attack of the licorice Part 2 well kind of....

So this story will take a little bit of explaining so bare with me. Josh's family all know this story very well and he was against me posting this, so please limit the amount of licorise bouquets you send to him :) When Josh was younger he hide a bag of licorice that his parents had bought in his room. Well it came back to haunt him, in the middle of the night he had a nightmare that the licorice was attacking him and ran out of his room screaming and crying. His parents got a good kick out of this and tell this story often. So you may be asking why I brought this story up, because last Sunday we were very lazy a stay home all day. (I know how horrible, such sinners) Anyway, I had set my chapstick down in random places and kept lossing it of course, I feel like I lose everything except weight that seems a little bit too attached. Well sometime during the day I had set my chapstick down within reach of Kaydence and she snuck it up to her room. I had mentioned through out the day I could not find my chapstick. So at about 4:50 am she runs in my room wakes me from a dead sleep yelling "Momma I found it! I found your chapstick!" Startled and confussed I took it from her and had to just laugh. She ran back to her room and quickly was back to sleep. I think the guilty got to her, just like it did her daddy, that she had to give it back to me. The funny thing is that about 10 minutes later as I lay there trying to go back to sleep I can hear her laughing in her sleep. So maybe she didn't feel as guilty as I thought she had. I rolled over to Josh and whispered to him it was Attack of the Licorice Part 2, he didn't think it was that funny.

6 years!

Wow, today is the day that Josh and I met six years ago! I cannot believe it has been that long. Of all the places to meet, we met at a wedding so of course it would have to work out right! I am so thankful for my husband and all the hard work he does for our family. He is an amazing man and I have loved every minute , even the bad ones, of the last six years. I love you Josh!