Goodbyes and Updates

I'm going to try and make this brief as I have to get the car packed and then pick up Josh from the airport here in Ft.Wayne. We got an offer on the hosue,and after negotiations and inspections we will be ready to close at the end of June! It has kept us busy making phone calls, signing papers, resigning, faxing, etc. Thankfully I've been able to fax things at my Mom's work. (thanks Mom!)
We have had a good time here visiting my parents. We visited the zoo and science central, and even went to Chuck E. Cheese yesterday.We saw Josh's grandparents, Aunt Deb, and Great Aunt Sue while here. We also got a visit in with my friends Josh and Melissa, Juanita, and Roger and Judy (all people I knew from High School). And got to go to the park with friends Michelle and Anna from church I knew growing up and from Ball State. It's fun to see friends all grown up! The time we spent here really flew by, especially this week.
We are scheduled to move into our house in San Diego on June 27th. I'm excited to get there and unpacked. We have a long drive ahead of us. Here are some pictures the first one was taken a few days ago here at my Mom's of Wyatt, I think he looks like he's getting so big already! The others are from before we left Norfolk me and my some of the wonderful friends I made there (some of my other good friends have moved away before me so aren't in this picture),(Jonas with his Kindergarden teacher), the girls at the beach at their friend Emily's birthday party, pic of the kids on our porch,our moving truck as it drove away, Wyatt and Great Grandpa Hensley, The kids on my friends Josh and Melissa's hammock with own of their daughters Nora, Jonas on the horse at the zoo, Eliza at Science Central. Sorry they are random, but at least you get pictures! Enjoy!

Road Trippin'

We're officially on the road to spend a little time in Indiana. Somewhere a big semi-truck has almost all our our worldly possessions on it. That's a little scary to watch a complete stranger drive off with everything you own, but trust that they'll do their job in getting it to where it needs to go safely. I felt sad to leave our home of 4 years, I didn't think I'd care to leave a house. I felt a bit silly crying as I looked around at our home of 4 years. It was our first home we ever owned and we put a lot of love into making that our own, with help from family and others we don't know in getting it to where it is now. A lot of stuff happend there, Two of our children were brought home from the hospital in that house, we had a lot of firsts too. First climbs of stairs, first steps, first lost teeth. Lots of gatherings with friends, late night scrapbook nights, birthday parties, first days of school. Walking around my house for probably the last time I had all these thoughts going around in my head of all the stuff that happend there. I will miss Virginia, my home and all of my friends. We have hopes of an offer possibly coming next week, if not we'll rent our house and then of course I'm sure I'll see it again, if we sell it when we ever go back it will be someone else's house. So that's the update... I'll post pictures later... maybe I'll try and post some at my parents house. Until then we're living out of the suitcases.

flying by...

Our time in Norfolk is quickly diminishing. We will be getting packed on Thursday and all then they load the truck on Friday. So you can imagine that I haven't been dilly dallying these past few weeks, we've been very very busy. We're also still trying to sell our house, which we are now faced with if we don't sell soon we're going to rent it. We don't really want to do this, but we don't have a choice unfortunately!
At the beginning of the month we celebrated my friend Jenn's birthday with a karaoke and dance dance revolution at our friend Nicole's house, it was also an optional Sleepover which I did! We were up until the wee hours of the morning doing American Idol Karoke on the Playstation 2 (soo much fun!) and the theme was New Kids on the Block since Jenn is and always will be their biggest fan! So we decorated with New Kids stuff that our friend Jenna found on e-bay, it was so much fun! The other baby in the picture with Wyatt is my friend Nicole's son Gabriel. (she and I were both pregnant at the same time) He's definately a LOT heftier than Wyatt. Isn't it a sweet photo though? They look like they are holding hands, soo cute!
We had Maddie's birthday party on May 17th with her friends from school and a few church friends, then the next day on Sunday we blessed Wyatt. My parents, and my Grandma, and Josh's Mom were all able to come. It was such a sweet blessing of Wyatt, and he did fairly well. (only cried a little bit during!) My parents spent a few days with us, and we had fun going to the zoo and the childrens museum. Wyatt surprised us all by rolling over (both ways!) this week, and he just turned 4 months! Maddie had her last day of preschool, and the day after turned 5! Wow!So here's some phots and hopefully if I can get it going the video of Wyatt rolling over. Eliza is still busy being 2, and the funny thing she's been doing lately is she'll say "your funny Mommy," and I will then say, No, Eliza your funny, and then she says NOOO your funny and starts giggling, and we go back and forth for a minute. It's funnier in person, you'll have to trust me on this! Jonas is ready for summer vacation, and has a school concert Tuesday evening, so that should be fun! And some friends are throwing a little goodbye party for us at their house, so I'm sure I'll post pictures of that, I will miss all of my friends here.

3 months old, loose tooth, and no toothand goofy sunglasses pictures

Signed, sealed, delivered... almost...

Wow.. a lot has been going on! Wyatt is 3 months old! Jonas lost his first tooth, and then he lost his second tooth today! Josh and I (and Wyatt) took a quick trip Weds.-Saturday to San Diego last week,(thanks Jenn for watching the older 3 kids!) and found a great home to rent in a nice area. Josh's favorite part is the 3 car garage, which is nice since we own 4 cars and a utility trailer! Josh officially got his orders, we also officially have our pack and move date set for June 5th to pack and June 6th. In the military depending on your home size that's how they pack you, I can recall a time when we were packed and moved the same day, but we are officially too big for that. =) I of course will post pictures soon!

harrassed by a 6 year old. who wasn't mine!

A few weeks ago while Maddie was in her creative dance class Jonas,Eliza, Wyatt and I were at the park next to the building she was at. It was a gorgeous day, and I thought the kids would enjoy playing outside for awhile. (they did) Jonas has taken to wearing this black pirate hat and pretending his light saber is a gun, like one used in the revolutionary war. He'll sit there and pretend to pack the gun powder down and then shoot, and then reload it and pack it down again. He's taken his light saber to the park without incident several times, so I wasn't thinking anything of it when he asked to bring it, I said sure. We were there only a short time when Jonas makes a friend with a boy who's a few years older. He lets the boy play with his light saber, and they play happily. Then a boy who's the same age as Jonas wants to play with him, but Jonas doesn't want to play with him. So the little boy came over and says to me:"Your son isn't sharing his light saber with me." I told him I was sorry, but he had to ask Jonas if he could play with it and that I wasn't going to force Jonas to share it. (I don't even know this kid!) Well he apparently asks, and Jonas says no. The little boy talks to me again, and again I tell him sorry if he doesn't want you to play with it, I'm not going to force him to give it to you. Then he mopes around for awhile, and here's the kicker, he sits down next to me on the bench (I'm breastfeeding Wyatt under the hooter hider thing I have) and sits there with this pouty look on his face. He says, your son is hurting my feelings! When he did that my first thought was WHY ME!? I came to the park to get a little break from the kids, and here's this little boy I did not know and he's HARRASSING ME! I tried to keep my cool, asked him questions to maybe make him forget about it, but no it didn't work. He eventually was called by his mother, otherwise I might have gone over to her myself to tell her to get her pitbull son off my back and buy her son his own light saber next time... geesh!

Happy with 4

I keep forgetting to post funny things the kids will say to me, so before I forget I wanted to share a funny conversation Maddie and I had the other day. I don't recall how it started but Maddie said, Mommy when you have another little girl... and before she even finished I interrupted with, uh Maddie, Mommy's not having anymore babies. Maddie says, why Mommy? My answer, because I'm happy with the four of you! I think she was disappointed, but hopefully she'll realize one sister is probably all she can handle! =)

Confession time...

For years I've prided myself on not getting sucked into a lot of the reality t.v. shows on. (but I did enjoy the 1st ever season of the Real World, after that it was never original in my opinion)
But I have several friends who only watch such shows. One of those is American Idol. I started walking recently in the morning with some of my friends and I kept hearing them talk about this person and that person so finally I had to watch and see who the heck they were talking about. And now I'm addicted to American Idol,
I was even surprised when Michael Johns got booted off the show last week!! 2 months ago I wouldn't have known who that was!

Tick tock, tick tock

No that's not my biological clock ticking... it's the start of the countdown to our leaving Norfolk, VA. Yesterday Josh calls me to tell me that the timing we had planned to move before wouldn't work, so now we are moving EARLIER! Josh sure knows how to make a girl panicky!
So we are going to be preparing to move at the beginning of June to head to SanDiego!Unfortunately Josh will be staying for a little longer for his job. Hopefully we'll get our house sold. Its been 4 years since we've moved, and this time we have 4 children instead of 2 which means more stuff to pack. YIKES! I'm already feeling stressed! Let the countdown to our move begin!

pictures, pictures and more pictures....

These are pictures from when my sister came down for Spring Break we had fun! Then the funny face picture of the kids with their friend Emily was during our srping break when we went bowling. Then the picture of Wyatt at 2 months. His shirt says 50% mom + 50% dad= 100% cute (so true huh!?) Then the other one I loved this shirt and had to buy it and of course got his picture in it, it says My Mom ROCKS me to sleep. Cute huh? Then the picture of Wyatt looking at Maddie, doesn't his expression say it all... he loves her so much!

An oldie but a goodie...

I had to post this picture I came across today. I happend to be just looking back for fun at pictures of the kids and saw this one and could not stop laughing!
Maddie has a look like yep she's crying because of me, and yep I'm digging for gold! Eliza looks like she's saying why do I have to always put up with this! And the funny thing is their relationship is pretty much the same as in this picture, well at times it is.

On a more serious note... after a long week of EVERYONE (including Wyatt) getting the fever/vomitting thing we are I think over it! (and crossing my fingers, knocking on wood and all that)
It was a rough week, especially with Josh being gone. Thank goodness he's home now! For a few days at least!
Oh and one more thing! We are moving to SanDiego this summer!!! Yep we found out for sure recently that Josh will be a flight instructor at a squadron out there. So at the beginning of May Wyatt and I will be going out with Josh to look for a place for us to live. My friend Jenn is risking her sanity to watch our older three kids for a few days! Thanks Jenn! (thankfully our kids enjoy being together, maybe they won't after this! lol!)

It never fails...

It never fails that when Josh goes away for work that someone or all of us tend to get sick. And I don't mean runny nose, coughing sick. I mean kind where you have fluids coming out both ends if you know what I mean. It all started Saturday night after a fun afternoon spent at Busch Gardens. We went to bed, and sometime around 2a.m. (why is it always in the middle of the night??!) Jonas comes in to tell us Eliza threw up, and then he ends up throwing up too!EEK! It was not a nice smelling room at all! So next day (Sunday) Jonas is layed up on the couch with a fever to go along with the vomitting, and Eliza is acting pefectly fine! Jonas misses school Monday and by mid day is fine. By the way, in the midst of all of this Josh left Monday to head to San Diego for work. So.... by Monday afternoon all is well everyone seems fine and I get the kids in bed last night thinking FINALLY tomorrow I will get to enjoy the kids being back at school as we had spring break last week. WRONG! I again was woken to the sound of someone throwing up in the bathroom, thinking great Jonas is still sick, but was wrong, it was Maddie this time. I gues everyone needs a turn right? She was then up every hour after throwing her guts up and not always making it to the toilet or into the bucket I'd given her. It was so fun to clean up, and then on top of it to have to get Wyatt back to sleep amongst all the chaos. Barring anyone else getting sick tonight and if Maddie is well she will go back to school tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed for me, and let's hope I can get their carpet in their room cleaned and smelling better than it does right now.
I will post some pictures tomorrow.. its been a long day and Josh is gone until Saturday night. (UGH!)

6 weeks gone by...

Its been officially 6 weeks since Wyatt has been born. Which means I'm officially able to return to life as "normal" I guess. I had my wonderful 6 week check up for myself at the doctor. All is well, and now I have no excuse to not begin exercising too! I sort of stopped all together the last month and a half, I was just too tired from waking up so much at night and decided my sleep was more important than getting up and trying to exercise at least for that short time.
I was hoping while at my appointment we'd see the doctor that delivered Wyatt so she could see him again, but she wasn't there. =( Hopefully we'll see her in a few weeks so I can get a picture of our her with Wyatt, she was the best! So I haven't taken a new picture of Wyatt today... but here are some pictures from the the past 5 weeks at least!

It's been busy around here...

We have the do some work on the house bug again. I guess it happend because we redid the living room dining room floor (will post this picture later!). Josh and I were talking about our house as we were staying at the hotel getting our floors redone, and Josh says he thinks he can get plumbing into the tiny room on the second floor to make it a laundry room. He spent all day Friday doing it, and Saturday we moved our washer and dryer upstairs! Why didn't we do this sooner!? Josh says he just never thought of it! Now I have no excuse to not get laundry done right!? Well I could make some excuses I'm sure! But HOORAY for not having to take clothes down to the basement to do laundry anymore, and it will be something I'm sure would make someone want to buy our house!
Since the now Laundry room was once Jonas' room, we bunked the beds (since he's been wanting to be in the girls room anyway). Jonas and Maddie have just decided to take turns on who gets to sleep on the top bunk. (we'll see how long it lasts!) For now the kids have been having fun getting on the top bunk and playing on the beds. It's almost like our own indoor playground.

Where are your clothes you were wearing??

This is the question that tends to be asked quite a bit lately at my house, and usually to just one person, Eliza. At 2 years old she can pretty much dress and undress herself. She does seem to need help getting some things off and on, but for the most part she does it all by herself. If you were to come over to my house you'd probably see her either in a dress up outfit or her bathing suit (even though it's not warm enough yet to go swimming!). She looks cute and sweet, but it's not so cute and sweet when you're only home for a short time and are planning to leave to pick up or take an older sibling to school when you realize Eliza has taken off her clothes and has on just a bathing suit or dress up outfit! Which is why I then have to say: "Eliza, where are your clothes you were wearing?"

Our last pregnant picture

This is a picture of my friend Nicole and I the day before she was induced to have her son Gabriel on Jan.7th. It was her third and my 4th. Can you tell who's older? I had to say that because it's what Nicole always says. (she's older than me by the way!)

a few pics to wet your appetite!

Pictures of when my Mom was in town,Jonas on his birthday, Girls on the beach with my mom (it was 67 degrees that day, it was great!),Wyatt at one month, then the last picture is of Wyatt at one week with Jonas and Maddie