Number FIVE!

Teeth that is!! Laci has sprouted her 5th tooth!!! Holy Moley!!! I guessed she would have 6 teeth by her first birthday, and I think I may be correct!!

She also stood alone again today...maybe she will start at least doing that a little more now too!

First Night in the new beds...

Well the first night started out great...

The guys *finally* got to the house at 5pm to put the beds together. They finished at close to 7:30pm!! I made the beds up and they are both awesome!! The kids both played in the beds for a while and then we got laci's new room bright enough with 2 nightlights and attached her mommy bear to one of the pieces and I layed down with her amd within maybe 20 minutes she was out cold. (she kept getting exited with the netting and was having trouble settling down but she finally did)

Topher was so excited and had even wanted to go to bed early.

Well...that didnt last...

Laci woke up 2 times as expected for her and she took her milk and went back to sleep, and ended up sleeping til almost 8:30!!!

Christopher on the other hand...not so well. He was up like 6 or 7 times crying and howling and throwing a fit all night long and was awful! I seriously thought I was going crazy! How is the almost 4 year old worse off than the 11 month old?!?!?

Oh well, hopefully tonight will be better for christopher and just as good if not better for laci!! Wish us luck!

New beds!

We got the kids new beds yesterday at Rooms To Go Kids, because we REALLY need to get Laci out of our bed and the loft is a perfect room for Topher. So we have the rooms all switched around now and some time today the beds will be delivered!

I am excited to go back to my room, lol, as I have been on the couch for almost 2 weeks now!!! It is kind of sad but at the same time its better to just get this part done so that we arent struggling with this moving laci out of the bed at that awful 15-18 month age! That is the worst! And hopefully she will be used to sleeping in her own space by this summer so when we go to Florida, she isnt in the bed with us the whole time!!! (yeah, not too romantic!)

So I guess this is the beginning of likely a long frustrating journey, but in the end it will benefit everyone involved. Me and brian can start to sleep in a bed like husband and wife again, Laci will learn to love her own space and room, and Topher gets a new bed out of the deal! LOL

As soon as I get a way to post some pictures I will, but for now, my camera card reader thing on my computer is broken and so is my camera card reader!! EEK! So bare with us! ha ha

Hope everyone has a good thursday!! Wish us luck for our first night switching laci to her own room!!!

yay!

I had dinner with Felicia last night and it was SOOOOO great!! It was like we never missed a beat! We had fajitas and margaritas at On The Border on barrett parkway. I was so sad to see the evening end! It was so nice to reconnect and just be silly and goofy like the old days! I even felt younger again!

Other than that today has been warm and sunny and the kids are enjoying some much needed outside time. No word on any feedback from our showing on saturday but thats ok. I didnt think we would sell to the first person to look at the house.

Not much to report on anything else now though....so until later!

A pretty great Saturday!

Yesterday was a pretty great day considering the mad rush it became in the afternoon.

First I went to run some errands in the morning, then when we got home we got a phone call from a realtor...saying she wanted to show our house in the afternoon!!! Um yeah we were SO not ready to show the house as we gave up the idea for this weekend considering the weather!! So we flipped out running around trying to get stuff back in showing ability and I had to finally leave because me and Topher had to go to my friend Jesse's daugters birthday party! So we went there and Brian stayed home with Laci to work on the house some more. The realtor then calls and bumps up the viewing my an HOUR! So I left the party and came home to help brian finish and get him and Laci out of the house before they got here! I was so excited to actually have a showing...but its almost 11 in the morning so I guess we arent getting an offer, but thats ok, I am just happy someone seen it!!!

So then I get the kids in bed and I was messing around on Myspace when I realized that I had a new friend...one that I had been searching for for 9 YEARS!!!

My very best friend in the whole world that I had as a teenager had gotten on myspace and seen my friend request after not being on there ever again after creating her account 2 years ago!!!!! So I sent her a message giving her my phone number and so ecstatic I was giddy...and then...at 10:50 my cell phone rings! AND IT WAS HER!!!

We talked and laughed and caught up til almost 2am!!!! And we might meet today and have lunch! I am so happy today and excited and just beside myself with the joy of finding my long lost friend after all these years!!! I cant wait to see her!!!!

So that was my saturday, today I might be having lunch and going to the grocery store, but for now I am resting as I am VERY tired and still very sick. I will try and post pics if I meet her!!! :)

11 Months...

Thats how long its been since I was sitting in a hospital room with my 3 hour old baby snoozing in a little plastic bassinet next to my hospital bed...wow...this year has sure flown by at lightening speed. I want to get Laci's professional pics done for her birthday coming up soon but she hates people, she has separation anxiety, and she cries with strangers. I am thinking next month we will just get some family pictures done so at least I can hold her and have some done professionally of her for the year. Its so sad, Christopher had his done religiously every 3 months as a baby, and Laci has only had them done ONCE since birth!! How awful is that?!?!

Anyhow,we are all sick, Brian is home early from work, and I will be going to my friends daughters Bday party alone with Christopher tomorrow because I know Laci and brian will be too sick to go but I dont want to cancel on her.

I am hoping that maybe sometime this next week we may get a showing, I was really gung-ho and now I am losing my motivation...I even went two days this week and didnt bother making beds or doing dishes during the day! We will have our guy put the signs out at least for the weekend, and see if that brings in traffic at least.

Tonight Brian is also going to get his sisters Chevy S-1o blazer for us to drive for a week and if we like it we are going to keep it and either sell the truck and give her 5k for it or give her the truck (with a kelly blue book value of 11k) to trade in on her new car. I am kinda excited but I dont know if I will like the SUV until I drive it so I am not letting myself get too excited yet. I will keep you all posted on how that goes.

Hope you all have a fabulous friday night! :)

denied...

Again...

Its ok, i was more upset yesterday but maybe that house just wasnt meant to be. Maybe there is a reason our dream home in kennesaw is still available on the market. Maybe there is an even BETTER house waiting for us...maybe...maybe...bleh!

Anyhow, Its getting ready to rain...again...and will do so til tomorrow night, so no showings for sure the rest of the week. But MAYBE (i am starting to dislike this word) someone will come see it this weekend.

I am sick...and going to rest.

::: grumble grumble :::

Need I say more? I mean really....this entire thing is getting on my nerves...

One...had **I** been listened to a WEEK ago we would have had the ONLY bid on that big house in marietta...but nooooo, lets let the MEN get together and talk about it for 5 days first. So *finally* the bid goes in this MORNING, and there are now TWO other bids on it!!! UGH!!! So needless to say, in my VERY realistic mind I know its a loss....which SUCKS because I was VERY excited and now I just want to strangle people...namely Brian and Christian.

Two....I am getting sick....AGAIN...and now I am scared I may be getting the Flu....damn! So I am feeling just effin' PEACHY right now and I cant even shop or drink to feel better!!!

ARGGGGGG!!

I am *so* done with the looking at homes right now, I just want to *somehow* sell ours and THEN finally buy one...because its hard to see our original dream home STILL active on the market and know there is no way to buy it and know it will be long gone by the time we sell ours. Last night I let our realtor know I wanted signs up leading people to our home for sale at LEAST during the weekend, and that we need to set up an open house which I guess we will do in about 2 weeks...Thank God!

So until tomorrow...have a good night....i am sure it will be better than mine.

Another contingency!

Today we are putting another offer in and a contingency request on a home that is going to be almost a complete demo inside to make livable...but the house is 10 minutes from my moms door and the SIZE of the home is amazing!!!

the house is listed at 139,900 but thats a crazy price considering the work that needs to be put in. We will need to drop 20-25k right off the bat before we can even move our kids in!!! But the house is a forclosure, about 5 bedrooms and 3 bath and HUGE!!! The other comparable homes in that neighborhood sell between 175 and 190,000!! So we are offering 118, 000 and we wont pay more than 122, 000 because there really is so much work that has to be put into it. Me and brian are not only up for the challenge, we are actually excited about it!!! So lets hope that they agree to the contingency and dont try to get us to pay too much for it, because even though we love the house, we are not stupid...we will walk away...and I almost promise they will come back! LOL

here is a link to the home :
http://www.realtor.com/search/listingdetail.aspx?mlslid=3645422&source=a15697&ml=3&typ=7&sid=bfbb00890ea849a7b669892fa2c12af7&lid=1095231534&lsn=1&srcnt=1#Detail

Being a forclosure, there is only the one picture...but if we get it I will post more of the 100 pics we took of it last weekend...and then no one will see it again until its done!! :D

Well, i gotta go get kids together for the doctors today and get a shower in.

Have a nice day!

ah sunday...

So it's sunday again...already. This weekend was very busy and I guess thats why it seemed to go by so fast. We spend most of today out and about getting some errands done like we always do on sunday. We got the grocery shopping done, some stuff for Noel at petsmart, went to the Butcher shop for meat, and the coolest part of all? We went to Lowes and had a great time pricing stuff and getting some ideas for our future home (considering we actually GET the big house we are looking at)It was so fun though to look at fans, light fixtures, appliances, and cabinets and pick out carpet and colors!! It dawned on me that even though I am in rush mode right now and it seems like nothing is happening...I will be decorating a brand new home for christmas next year, and that is a very cool fact..and I am not in a rush to get to christmas...its hard enough getting ready for March and Laci...my last baby...turning ONE! So christmas can wait...and now I know that christmas will be new and exciting as I will be celebrating and decorating in our new home...so I am more content now.

I think the hardest thing for me right now is the house is SO empty its sterile and cold. It doesnt feel like home anymore to me. And it has been playing on my emotions. For the first time in my life I am SO ready for spring and summer because when its warmer and drier I can take the kids out more and get out of this cold empty shell of a home. Brian likes it being "clean" but to me its gross and I will be glad to say goodbye...even though I know when we move I will cry because there are a lot of happy new memories in this house including the place where both my brand new babies came home from the hospital...but there will be a million more memories in the new house, and there's always pictures!!

Well, I am at it again... I have been working on a special gift for a special friend and I am hoping to have it done tomorrow night and in the mail by tuesday! I will get a picture when I am done and she has it so I know the surprise isnt ruined! :P

I got to get some sleep now...Monday is almost here and considering our house has been looked at 255 times on realtor.com between wednesday and saturday morning I have a feeling we *may* have a showing or two this week! Wish us luck!!

Goodnight!!

FIRST BITE!

omg we are SOOOOOOOOO excited!!!!!

we had a guy call us about our house after we posted a link on craigslist for it just for the hell of it, and Brian thought it could be just someone curious but nothing serious so he referred him to our realtor. The guy lives with his wife and 2 kids in an apartment in kennesaw and supposedly loved the look of our house. Well Christian calls brian back a few hours later and tells him the guy went and got a pre-qualification letter after talking with brian and set up a showing TODAY at 11am!!!

I swore to myself I wouldnt Get this excited but I cant help it!! I am FREAKING out!!!


EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!

Everyone cross everything for us!!!

Be back later!



**UPDATE**

Well this pretty much sums up how I feel right now:


The morning was crazy getting everyone ready to go out to the house to look it over again and finish getting this one ready to show. Topher is sick...AGAIN! And he was having a hard time getting it together to leave, then we *finally* get out of here and get to the house (late) just to hear that the person looking at our house called and Cancelled the viewing this morning...ARGGGGG!!!

So here I am bored to DEATH, we didnt put the contingency in yet because we are waiting on some neighborhood stats to come in, and we didnt have anyone look at our house today and its supposed to rain like 6 or the next 7 days so chances are there will be NO showings this whole WEEK either!! ARGGGGG!!

So thats it...thats our lovely unproductive day...we got our house even MORE empty...seen a house for a second showing and STILL didnt do anything with it....and went to chuck e cheese with the kids (topher swore he was well enough to go and now him and laci are passed out in their rooms) and thats it....nothing more. And its only 2:38 so this is likely to be a VERY long boring day for me...I need retail therapy! LOL

Hope your weekend is more amazing than mine!!

Happy Valentines Day!!

HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A NICE VALENTINE'S DAY,

even if it is with your husband, wife, or children,
friends, alone reflecting on the good times in life,
visiting graves of passed loved ones,
or simply finding the joy of indulging in those
russell stover boxes and sipping wine...

Hope somehow, someway, you feel love today.

Without love this would be a very sad lonely world...

and even though love can give you the highest feelings of ecstacy,
and the hardest pain to handle...
Love is the magic of the world.

"All you need is Love"

Have a beautiful day!

we are....

LISTED!!!!!!!!!

http://www.realtor.com/search/searchresults.aspx?mlslid=3652241&ml=3&typ=7

ITS OFFICIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

some time to reflect....

On the very busy end of the week.

We were sick through thursday I think, and then like a miracle, we all woke up great on Friday. Me and Brian are do-ers and we made the decision that even though we lost a full week from sickness we were still going to meet our sunday deadline to list the house.

Friday I worked and worked and worked while brian was at work getting chewed out for being home with his vomiting and other unmentionable acts family for a day and a half. Friday night we kept on chugging along. Saturday we got the yard finished with flowers and worked a LOT in the house before meeting with christian and looking at some potential houses.

We found two that we liked...

One is a forclosure that is HUGE and in a great location...but right off the bat we would need to put in 10-20 thousand dollars in fixing the place up...but if we could low ball the bank and bring them down from 139 to 118, 000 we could do it and really turn the place into an amzing home.

and then we seen the house on deerfield...

one word i uttered from the time we walked in...

"wow"

I knew it was the one...just like my grandma said...I was stunned with the workmanship and beauty of this home. The yard was an acre of park like pasture, the rooms awesome, the whole house was hardwood floors...just...wow.

So we made the choice to put in a bid (although a very low one) and write up a contingency and see if there was a chance at this home of our dreams...

we waited all night....all day....and at 5:45 this afternoon...

it was denied. :( yup, denied. They dont want to do a contingency. So they said if we could buy the house we could but they dont want to do the contingency. Which is kind of dumb if you ask me because they can still take offers and sell the house even if they had agreed. All it means is they had a guarenteed sale pending...but nope.

And i was crushed...crushed crushed crushed.

But back to the weekend, somehow we mangaed to pull it all together and with seconds left on the clock we squeezed it out and got the house ready to list! And she is amazing I must say!!! I cant wait to see the house online! We have a sign in our yard and a lock box on the door and we are official!!

So at 3am MLS will update in the system and our house will be viewable to everyone. I iwll post a link tomorrow!

So I am going to bed...

Goodnight!

Getting better..

We were getting worried with all the sickness that we werent going to be able to list on Sunday as there is so much stuff left to do and we lost 3 days to the stomach flu. But Brian stayed home today to help us all get back to 100% and I must say I feel very close to it, and both kids are at 100% (or at least in the high 90's!) So he spot painted the bedrooms, painted the closet in the playroom, put up new hardware in the master bath, and took a load of stuff to my moms today on top of taking care of us all. I finally ate this afternoon (brian treated me to chinese...yes i am crazy i know), and after that I was ravenous! I ate more a few hours later and actually ate dinner too!! The kids both ate today too which is wonderful!!! Brian is very tired but he was a trooper and we are all very grateful to have had him take such great care of us!!! And luckily by the grace of God, he hasnt gotten this awful sickness.

So we are gonna keep plowing foward and try to get this house *finally* listed on Sunday!!!

Wish us luck!!!

sick, sick, sick

We all have the stomach flu....

'nuff said....

Havent been this sick in a looooooooooooong time. :(

We have had sick kids for almost 2 1/2 weeks now. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

Until a later date....

so extreamly exhausted

I dont think I have been this tired in a long time (except the weekend of my moms wedding). My back, arms, knees, hands, shoulder, neck and pelvis...on fire in pain. My head, swimmy and woozy from being tired, and I am overdrawn emotionally right now.

Friday, me and the kids go to home depot and get paint and supplies and primer for the kitchen...100.00 down the drain...we come home and for *some* unknown reason I decide to go ahead...*with* the kids alone start primering the walls in the kitchen....yeah, bad idea. So after a crazy 2 hours Brian comes home, and we end up staying up til 12:45 for me and 2:40 for him priming AND painting the kitchen and bathroom. We went from "Firecracker Orange" to "Calm Air" Oh brother, NOT my taste *at all* but its not me buying so I do know it looks great and clean and streamline and I am VERY impressed with our workmanship and the finished product is amazing. Then Saturday I make 4 trips to my moms to bring stuff to her garage for storage, go to home depot for 10 bales of pinestraw, look at the "dreamhouse" (ha! what a joke that was, and of course after being so excited I was stupid let down and way too emotional at the disapointment of finding a run down tiny half-arsed excuse for remodeling job home I have *ever* seen) and the me and Brian had my mom and steve babysit for us so we could go out to dinner and a movie. Well, a movie didnt happen. Dinner was great but Regions decided to SHUT DOWN its entire banking community with no warning thus shutting down debit cards and we were stuck at red lobster for 30 minutes (*after* brian drove to a regions, and wacovia, and publix trying to withdraw cash along with 5 other guys from surrounding resteraunts) waiting embarassed for the manager to call Visa who *finally* over rode the bank goofup and clear the card for withdrawal. So needless to say tomorrow morning someone at regions is getting cussed out and we are closing our accounts.
Then over night Laci started throwing up. And of *course* it was only on mom she needed to puke on. But I did feel bad because I know she felt bad as she would break out in the sweat and start dripping saliva before hurling. But it was only overnight and today she was much better. So I was in the shower at 3am, then up with her sleeping on me from about 3:30am til I was finally able to move into a spot where I could sleep at about 6:15, but she was up at 7:00 ready to go so I woke brian up in tophers room and gave her to him and went to sleep. BUT....from 7:00-8:15 when i finally said screw it, Topher felt it neccessary to wake me up FOUR times to ask me questions.
So I got up, had coffee, was going to eat pancakes but Topher decided he wanted them so I had a bagel, and got out in the yard doing yardwork/landscaping. I managed to tear open 3 fingers and stabbed myself 1000 times on pine needles and juniper and finally our yard is PERFECT!!!!!! I also made 2 trips to my moms hauling more stuff for storage (mind you ever trip is almost an hour round trip). And then *somehow* managed to go grocery shopping. And now...I am going to bed,thank GOD.

So goodnight, we love you,

DO NOT DISTURB!