Almost finished

Tomorrow is my last day to get everything done and I am nowhere near finished...I have about 60% of the packing done....AHHHH! Logan's potty training didn't go so well today. I guess you can't really call it "training" considering I haven't done anything to actually "train" him. One day he just started peeing in his little toilet. OF course, I introduced it to him, and I spent about 5 days repeating, "do you need to potty" about a million times, but one day I just took off his diaper and said lets see what happens....I cleaned quite a few messes but he has gotten to the point that he always pees in the potty. Pooping is another story. He has yet to do it, but I have been taking him in the bathroom and letting him sit on the toilet...I keep him company, but after a while I take him off the potty, and inevitably he ends up pooping on the floor pretty soon afterwards! What kills me is that he knows enough to take off his underwear first....WTF? I dont get it. So I have dealt with that all week but today was the worst 3 times in one freakin day! plus Landry hit her little head...she was sitting on the floor while I was packing and somehow she managed to turn around and fall backwards....I have no idea how it happened...I put her on the floor with the boppy around her (behind her and on her sides) and somewhow she managed to turn facing the back of the boppy and then fall backwards. I felt and still feel aweful.
My patience is COMPLETELY gone.....I am hoping that when I wake up tomorrow, I will have a little more...but at this point I am exhausted. I am ready for JR to come help me, unfortunately he wont be here until around 9:00 tomorrow night. The kids have actually been pretty good - until today I really haven't had many problems. But today was hell. Anyway, I need to get the rest of this done, but I am so sleepy. I dont know whether to keep going or get some sleep...the one good thing - JR has promised me a spa day next week! Probably next Saturday once we have gotten settled in. I plan to take full advantage...I checked out some of the packages, and I think I am going full throttle - massage, pedicure, mud bath or thermal rock therapy, herbal body wrap, and a sit in the tropical hot tub!!!! I think I may deserve it! ehhhh....I am off to bed....sleep will be better for me and my kids, plus if I get some sleep I may be able to accomplish more tomorrow!

Packing it up...

So I am trying to get everything packed up...but I just DONT WANT TO. I have so much to do this week, and I have both kids by myself. I will have an extremely busy week and I honestly I am just trying to not stress about it too much. I am pretty much a wreck. I put JR in charge of setting up the U-haul...plus the trailer, plus the movers, so- that is a few less things that I have to do...however, I am in charge of changing the address, I have to take Landry to the doctor, get everything in boxes, get the house as clean as possible, and SOOOOOO much more. I have no idea how I will get it done, but I will! We are scheduled to move on Saturday! Geez - I have a little more than 5 days! AHHHHH

the Hunt continues

So, still nothing. I found a house yesterday, but once the realtor called to tell them we were interested she found out that it had been leased that morning....Grrr....honestly I am not to upset about it because I wasn't exactly in LOVE with the house in the first place. I am headed back tomorrow to pack up our house... I am going to look at a few more today and if I can't find something then we will be putting everything in storage and staying with my parents. HOPEFULLY it will only be for a week or two, but at least it gives us a little more time to find the "right" house. I told my mom we would give them some money for letting us stay. I am a little concerned..as most of you know, my older sister and her two kids already live with my parents, so this house will have 5 adults and 4 children - ages 7 - 4 - nearly 3 - and 4 months - It will be CRAZY! On the up side - I will have more time to find the perfect house, and we will be able to save a big chunk of money! Anyway....I hopeI can find something today, but if not at least I wont be so stressed. This ought to be a very interesting month! Packing up next week will be hard enough...thankfully we are hiring movers for the loading and unloading....I just wish we had enough in savings to hire people to pack too! LOL At least my family will be able to help us unload and unpack everything!

another day of looking...

So I met with the NEW realtor today...looked at some more houses...and will finish up tomorrow. After tomorrow JR and I will make the final decision on which house we want and go from there. The great thing about where we are moving is that there really aren't any "bad" neighborhoods. This is suburbia! I love small town living! There are so many nice houses that I have seen so far, I just can't get exactly what I want...no carpet, a separate closet for me and JR, a standing shower and separate jacuzzi tub with double sinks in the master bath....great tile work would be appreciated! A bid backyard...plenty of counter space in the kitchen, and a large family room! LOL Oh, and it would be nice if all the rooms were a good size, with large closets - and a coat closet somewhere near the entry! I think the problem is that I may be too specific and the only way to get the exact house I want would be to build it! Hahaha Anyway, all these houses are nice, but I will have to make a compromise somewhere! Grrr...I dont really like compromise! This whole move has really set me back with my whole "stress less" resolution...but, I am doing better than usual! Next week will be the real challenge - when I am trying to pack up the house, and have both kids...JR will be here in Austin, so I wont be able to look forward to his help when he gets off work.....NOW THAT will be tough! Wish me luck...

In Wimberley

So we are here in Wimberley...I took JR to work this morning and he got his work truck. We got to my parents house about 7 last night. It was a long trip with the kids taking turns on crying! LOL Actually Logan slept for the most part and woke up about 30 minutes before getting there and cried the whole way. Then he was such a pain for another 30 minutes...and after I finally got him settled, he vomited all over the floor. I checke his temperature....101.4. I felt horrible. the poor ki is SICK. I checked it again this morning....103.2. He has been sleeping all morning, and I am giving him chilren's tylenol. If he isn't getting better by tonight I will take him to the doctor tomorrow. It is so strange....this is the first time he has been sick sick. He has vomited a few times before, but never accompanied by fever. My poor little guy. Anywho, I am leaving in an hour to meet with the realtor to go look at homes. I am hoping that it will be quick and easy. I am hoping like hell to get this over with in one day...but we will see! Anyway, wish me luck!

Moving again!

Two weeks from now we will be leaving the Houston area! I am incredibly nervous but even more excited! We will be moving to south Austin. JR starts his job on Monday - so things will be a little chaotic at first without him here. The whole family will be making the journey on Sunday, the kids and I will stay at my parents house for several days next week while we look at houses. I am hoping to have one picked out by Wednesday and come back on Thursday to start packing everything up! Hopefully I ill finish it all up the following week, because we ill be moving on the 27th of Feb. I can't believe this is all happening so soon, but we couldn't be more excited. I am sure that everything will work out - I just cant wait. I can only hope to find a home that is as amazing as the one we are in now! Please keep us in your prayers!

Ahhhh.... Boxes - NO!

I think the funniest thing about our situation is that 2 weeks ago when we got our couches, JR and I both made the comment that we were NOT going to be moving anytime soon. We both agreed that if it was possible, we would be purchasing our house at the end of the rental agreement. Of course the next day, we were talking about moving to Katy so that JR would be closer to work. Little did we know that a tremendous opportunity was right around the corner. I spent the entire day yesterday looking at houses online. Whew! The thing about the area we are moving to is that it is much more expensive - but better quality and usually much larger homes. Plus, I love the little neighborhoods. I love that there is no ghetto areas, however; there are hillbilly neighborhoods. This makes me SOOOOO happy because I feel like we are going to get to raise our children in the same manner that I was raised....small town up bringing. I am not saying it is better...only that it is what I am used to and therefore is somewhat comforting to me. I am so very excited about all this, plus, we will only be about 20 minutes from my parents...30 tops! I absolutely HATE that Logan wont be getting to see Davin as much...they have really become such wonderful friends and it will be heartbreaking to not have those playdates anymore. My only comfort is that he will be able to play with Isabella and Isaiah a lot more. Davin is only 71/2 months older than Logan, where as Isaiah is 15 months older than Logan. So, the age difference is a little harder, but maybe it will be a good thing. As it is, Logan has learned SO much from Davin, so maybe being with an even older friend, he will learn more! Who knows! I am hoping to go back to working for the school, although of course that wont be until August, so it will be nice to still be at home with the kids. Not to mention that by the time I go back to work, Landry will be 10 months old! Hopefully I can put Logan in the Early Start program at the elementary school. It sure would save on daycare cost!!!
Okay - so JR and I have been saying that we are going to get in shape for weeks...months really. So, I have done what I can as far as the foods we eat. I have stopped by sodas (and after 2 weeks I dropped 5 pounds!!!) I buy whole grain everything - flour, bread, pasta, etc. I cook from a weight watchers cook book. Anyway, I have done all that, then I started doing yoga and strength training, along with some cardio from the wii fit plus. Unfortunately, I stopped about 2 weeks ago. It is so hard to fit in to the day. I was getting up and doing it before the kids got up, but somehow they would always seem to wake up halfway through my routine. A couple of weeks ago, our friends Brian and Tina told us about this new workout they started call INSANITY. so JR and I decided to give it a try. We had to wait a bit in order to buy the dvd's...there are 13 of them. Anyway, we started on Monday...and it is just AWFUL! JR and I are in so much pain right now! LOL We cant even get all the way through the damn warm up! How sad is that. JR has much more will power than I do and he can push himself further than I can. He is doing a great job and I love that we are doing it together. We aren't hard on each other, but we really encourage one another to go just a little longer than we think we can! This workout is so incredibly hard...you have to see it and do it to believe it. When I first watched the workout, I was litterally scared to try it...and once I did it, I thought I was dying! I literally came so close to vomiting! Anyway, at this point, I am not really trying to lose any more weight. I just want to tone everything up. With my height and build, I really dont think I should weigh any less than 135. 140 is really ideal for me and I weigh 144 right now. So, I am sure that I will drop a few pounds during this process but I am hoping that I wont lose too much weight due to the muscle I will be gaining. So, my thing is to lose the fat! I have a feeling JR will lose quite a bit of weight if we stay strong and keep it up. It is a 60 day program...so we will see. The thing is.....we are about to be going to my parents, and JR will be in a hotel room - HOW are we going to keep up the program during this move??? Well, we may just have to take a hiatus, but stil stay active by going to the gym, or maybe doing the yoga and strength training...and then starting the process over at the new house....bummer....but we are going to try to do it!
Wish us Luck!

Relocating!

Well - I guess it has all fallen into place...in the next couple of weeks, we will be moving to the Austin area. We are very excited and now incredibly busy. We will be spending the next week at my parents house in order to look for a place to live. JR's company is paying for his hotel room and a per diem for food for the next two weeks, as a trial run, so that will be really difficult to not have his help and to not have him around. Which is why we are going to my parents....1 - so I dont have as much driving to do while I search for a new house...and (cross my fingers) get some help. And 2 - so that we aren't too far from JR and we can stay a couple of nights at the hotel with him!
Anyway, this is a very exciting time for us - please put us in your prayers - the move will be tough and I feel as though we just got out of a financial bind - and this will put us right back into one! Grrr...Hopefully it will all work out though!

Future opportunities

Well, this week has been wonderful and long at the same time. Due to all the rain, JR has been home for most of the week. This absolutely sucks as far as the paycheck is concerned - but I am not too concerned about it since we have some money put away for a rainy day...I just hoped we wouldn't have to dip into that account so soon. However, with his work, it is hit and miss- so when he works, he works ALOT and when he doesn't - well, he is home ALOT. Because he has been home all week, I sort of lost track of the days...but it has been wonderful to have him home and helping out so much. It has almost been like a week long staycation! LOL I am hoping to take the kids tomorrow to get some Valentines pictures...I need some more professional pictures of Landry for the house. Anyway, JR was told about a job opening in Austin...I dont think we will be taking it...for now. It would be a very quick decision as well as a quick move, but it is something that we have talked about for a while. We would like to move to the Austin area...I would really like to be closer to my parents, and then maybe go back to working for the school district. We are hoping to look in to it at the end of our lease. I would really love to move out of Houston and have the kids go to a school like I went to. Wimberley has a wonderful school district and I would love that for my kids. Anyway, I just think that it is awesome that JR's company has offices in Austin and San Antonio, as well as a few other cities - but those are the two that I am interested in. I am so excited about the future opportunities , although I wish that we could somehow move our house along with us....I LOVE LOVE LOVE our home and was hoping to never move again....but hopefully we can find another one that is just as wonderful...afterall it is six months from now - and we may wait even longer...we will just have to see!

Living Life to the fullest

" I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have and everything that happens." Phillipians 4:11
This is a scripture I read on a friends blog today, and I thought - WOW! That is truly wonderful. Many of you that know me know that I am not a very religious person. In a way it is kind of strange, because I was raised in the church. I believe in God, and I always have. My faith has been shaken a couple of times, but in the end I always return to my Christian roots. I want my children to be raised in the church. I believe that it can have an amazing impact on them and that it helps teach the fundamental lessons that we should all live by.
When I first met JR - I wasn't exactly living a Christian lifestyle - drinking and partying all night every night. I was living a college lifestyle I guess is what I would call it, although I was no longer in college. The most difficult part about raising our children in the church is that I was raised in the Baptist church and JR is Catholic. He even went to an all boys private Catholic high school. I think that we are going to start going to a non-denominational church - but finding a good church home can be difficult when our backgrounds are so different. The other difficult challenge is the kids being so young. Where Logan is old enough and could probably handle the situation better, Landry is so little and I am not sure how comfortable I am with her being taken care of by strangers. I think that once we find a place we really like and enjoy it wont be an issue, but all the moving around and "church testing" will be difficult.
Anyway, we are hoping to test a new church next Sunday. Unfortunately, this Sunday is a jam packed with activities. THe good news is, that a lot of churches today, broadcast the sermons on their own website...so I am hoping to view a few and get a better idea of which ones we can rule out, and which ones we would like to visit.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Hump day!

enjoying life

Last night as I was woken up by Landry at 3:33 in the morning I thought about how tired I was. After I got her changed and started feeding her, I started thinking. As I sat there in the rocking chair nursing my baby girl, I thought about how lucky I was. I have said many times that Landry is a great baby - and she really is. Of course, I also said this about Logan when he was an infant. My kids are so different. While Logan was sleeping through the night at about 4 weeks - and Landry is still working on it at 3 1/2 months...Logan was a much fussier baby. During the day, I felt like he would cry constantly - I could barely get him to take naps and even then is would sleep for about 30 minutes, and went back to crying. Now this only lasted a little while and there were days that I thought I wouldn't make it through it, but I did! And honestly, looking back at it now seems like it should have been harder. But I guess you just deal with life as it comes. At that time, I thought that is how all babies were....I couldn't even fathom the idea that he might be colicky. I realize now, that was what was wrong. Landry on the other hand takes great naps and rarely cries. In fact, she is kind of text book - when she cries, I can usually figure out EXACTLY what is wrong. She is either hungry, has a dirty diaper, bored, or she is sleepy. She smiles so much more than Logan did...I mean he smiled quite a bit...but it wasn't as early as Landry. Anyway, I was sitting there rocking and thinking how I am going to have to learn to treat each child differently but equally. They both have to know that I love them more than anything in the world and would do anything for them, but they are different and will have to deal with them differently. It sort of made me understand my mother a little better. She dealt with me and my sisters very differently, and yet I never felt equal to either of them. All I can hope is that I my kids dont feel that way. There are so many things that I want for my kids. I am so incredibly blessed in all aspects of my life, I look forward to the future and hope for more blessings!

Some pictures

Here are the kids on the new couches! I think we all love them! They are so beautiful, and even more comfortable.

I got to meet up with my little sister yesterday to watch a movie. It was so nice to get out without the husband or the kids. We got to eat dinner and go see When In Rome. It was pretty good - It was definitely a chick flick but it was also very funny. I really liked it. I really liked having some ME time! Anyway....hope everyone has a good week! Lunchtime!!! Yay