February 2012 Highlights

February felt like a marathon of packing. A few boxes every day.

  Other highlights:

- Journey's 5th birthday party. Her birthday fell in the middle of the week, so we held her birthday party the first weekend of the month. It was so much fun to plan, and turned out just as cute as I was hoping. I can't believe my baby girl, the one I hoped and prayed so much for is already five. She is such a sweet, loving girl.

- potty training Willow. I had been putting this off for the last 4 months. She showed signs of wanting to before I had teague, but I didnt want to. And I was worried I would put all the effort into it, and then she would regress. Let it be said that I hate potty training. But I sucked it up, and got started.

- getting Teague allergy tested. Not a highlight, but it was a big part of my month. He tested positive to wheat, dairy, almonds, peanuts and coconuts. That lead to me being put on a horrible elimination diet of rice and chicken. Ugh. This was really hard on me. I hadn't realized how much enjoyment in life is tied to food and drink! I was also feeling SO guilty for possibly causing him to have the eczema.

- boys weekend at Nana and Papa's house. Aspen got to spend Presidents Day weekend with his cousins at Nana and Papa's house. He had a blast playing outside in the snow, playing the wii, staying up late, and trying out skiing + a lesson on Mt. Hood for the first time.

- dinner out with Grammi and Papa at Hopworks Pizza. It's very rare that we take the whole family out to dinner, and equally rare that we go out with my mom and dad. Such a fun night!

January 2012 Highlights

So life has a way of getting away from me now that I am the mother of four, (4!) kids. Sometimes it still blows my mind that I have four sweet, adorable, maddening, fun, stressful, crazy busy kids. This month held a lot of adjustment and stretching for me. In non-sugar coated terms, one word: overwhelmed!

Here are the hightlights from the month of January:

- teague sleeping through the night! Starting around 7 weeks he was sleeping 8 hours straight. This slowly increased each week till he would often sleep from 7pm to 6, even 7am. Amazing! None of my kids have ever slept through the night on their own. God is so good to me.

- started a Bible study with my friend Michelle from high school. Honestly, this was not my idea (been feeling overwhelmed adjusting to 4 kids and all the driving with aspen's school), but I wanted to do it with her.

- dropped Journey's ballet class. I just couldn't make it work schedule wise with Aspen's school schedule.

- just days after I committed to the Thursday morning Bible study, I found out that Aspen's carpooling schedule needed to change, having me doing much more driving than I had been. Feeling just a little overwhelmed! Then Mark called me about a property on mt. Tabor that he ran across on craigslist. The next day we went to look at it and the house adjacent....and made an offer. All this happened the first week of January....

- the next couple weeks were a waiting game with offers and counter offers being exchanged, and me stressing about whether I should start packing the house, how the heck we would move our family of 6, and how I was going to find the time to pack on top of normal life.

- girls stay at Nana and Papa's house.  Diana took Journey, Willow, Ava and Zoe up to her house for 3 days.   The girls had so much fun playing outside in the snow, sharing beds (or bedrooms) at night, and making special memories together.  We are so blessed to have grandparents on both sides so involved in our lives!

- the end of the month, offer accepted, we are moving for sure! Eeeks! Let the packing begin.