Ashlynn Mae Black 10/23/12

Yeah, I may be a dork for this post.  It is not like I am related to the Black family, but they are close friends.  I love new babies, and holding everyone else's helps me to be not so baby hungry.  I can't handle my two, but yet I always want another.  :D

With my kids I didn't get to have them on time, but late.  Nikki had hers 9 days early, she is lucky.  Excited to have a baby around to hold and
snuggle...

Stress

Did I mention that I joined a biggest loser FB club?  Yeah, and so far we have been doing it 5 weeks, 3 left in the time I have been doing it I have lost 15 pounds!  I have been in 1st place the last 2 weeks...so maybe I will actually  win the $230 prize.  I will keep my fingers crossed, and keep off the chocolate.

These are my before pictures....except I took them about 2 weeks after I started.  These are motivating because they remind me of my maternity pictures I took, what a belly!   

I don't look any better and it discourages me because all I have done to lose weight is have my appendix out, stayed sick for 2 weeks following that, and cut out most of my sugar.  :D

I wasn't going to post about it at all but I got excited that I am in the lead 2 weeks in a row!

Apart from procrastinating my midterms in school, we have been moving a lot lately   Kade doesn't get off of work until six and it only stays light for an hour after that.  So, every time we go to move and get stuff done, we don't get a lot done.   We are out of the little white house in Mud Lake, all of that stuff is in boxes in the new house in Mud Lake.  We went last night to the house in IF and the upstairs got cleaned, and the downstairs got pushed into a corner???  Yeah, Kade's alternator went out in his truck so we were unable to pull a trailer to haul the rest of our stuff.

His alternator? In his new truck?  Yes, that is our luck.

But he can replace it himself so it will be about $120 for a new one :( but that is all it will cost and that is with his parts discount....at least we wont have to replace the batteries as well.  It would have been 400 for new batteries  whooo, good thing we didn't need to replace those.


On a happy last note, because not much is happy on this post, my friends Brad and Nikki Black are in the hospital right now having baby number 2!

Family Pictures Oct 2012

Okay, I set out to get my family pictures done today...I am going to have to have them done again.  My kids would not look where I needed them too.  Anyway we got some okay ones.  I am hoping to find some beautiful fall trees and do another session.

Another Move

Kade and I purchased our house before we were married, so before a few months ago I had never moved with him....we have so much stuff.

Well I know I posted about how sick I have been, to top it off everyone has been sick.  I honestly think it is the house we are living in.  GOOD NEWS, a rental opened up.  We have been in limbo waiting to move in so we have been staying with Kade's parents again.

Steph and Dan moved into Kade's parents house with their three kids tonight, and even though it could be fun I am looking for some space :D

The little house we were renting was to small.  So small that we had to rent 2 storage units to fit "other stuff in".  Yes, we could downsize, but we are hoping to eventually buy a house that was as big as our other one.

We are going to have renters move in week to the house in I.F. we don't know them, but they want to rent our house.  And it will only cover our mortgage payment but I am sick of making double house payments TOO stressful.  Looking back at this last few months we could have made smarter decisions had we known all that would happen, but things are how they are and we are just excited for a change.

Anyway, the rental that opened has 5 bedrooms, yeah a little bigger then the last place.  We don't need that much space, but I rather have too much then too little.  It is wood heated, and Kade seems excited but I don't want to put in that much work...although it will be WAY cheaper.  ALSO, there is 3 acres....a place for all of Kade's projects.  No animals other then dogs for now.

DOWNSIDE the house is for sale, and out of our price range   SO, if they sell the house we won't have a ton of warning, but hey you never know if they will sell it, they are asking a lot for home in these parts.

FUN FACT  Kade works at a parts store, he replaced the owners son Jason, and that is who's house we are renting.....

PICTURE TIME,

you can see in this picture there is an upstairs and two storage sheds in back :)

2 car garage!

Mud room when you walk in from garage 

from mud room to kitchen

kitchen

dinning room

going from kitchen you can go to dinning room, front room (right) or down the hall to the bathrooms or bedrooms

front room

another shot of the front room

bathroom

1st bedroom

2nd bedroom

den or computer room

now there is a split entry at the end of the hall going down

family room

family room facing the downstairs door

storage room next to the downstairs door

1/2 bathroom and laundry room next to downstairs door

if you go upstairs instead of down

3rd bedroom this will be DRAKE'S 

4th bedroom, this will be ADDY's

5th room (MASTER)

big walk in closet, same size as the room we use to sleep in :D

then this is our master bathroom

there are things like carpet that could be updated and the kitchen and I would change some wall colors but other then that I am happy with EVERYTHING....


So the upstairs is decided for, like who's room is who's and you have the den...now what to do with the 2 extra rooms??? I'm thinking craft room for me and maybe Kade will want one for him??? Maybe an exercise room? Na I think it will be a guest room!  Who knows! I'm excited.

Hard times

I feel like I complain too much!  The last few weeks have been really hard on our family.  I am so lucky that Kade and Drake have not been sick (knock on wood).  After I had surgery, like a few days after, Addyson wouldn't sleep.  She would cry and fever...some of 102.  Once I got her to the Dr. they told me it was an ear infection, but when I went back for her 9 month check up we found that she had hand, foot, and mouth.  That is what was causing her fevers.  It is only supposed to last 10 days but it was a virus that you had to fight through.  I blame my weak immunity on my surgery, because exactly a week ago I started running a fever of 102.  Most adults don't get this sick from hand, foot, and mouth...but I was weakened    I kept this fever all week.  If i didn't constantly take ibuprofen and Tylenol my fever would come back strong, I would get chills and i was unable to function.

So, thank you all who have helped babysit and take care of me and my kids.

When Addyson was still sick, she would scream all night for the week and a half and you had to FORCE her to take a bottle.  She would cry and cry and only drink a little.  I knew she was starving and she had sores all over her mouth so I figured it hurt....Now i know how much it really hurt.

Yes, I will admit this is one of the worst sicknesses ever, probably because it doesn't want to end.  I am hungry all the time, so I am also grumpy.  I can't swallow at all hardly because my throat is so swollen.  In the last two weeks I have lost over ten pounds!  In a way it is cool, because since I had Addy I have not been able to lose ANY weight.  But another part of me misses food and water so much.  I feel like I am starving to death.  And it hurts to talk even.  I am thinking this is going away but this morning I found 2 more sores on my lips...so who knows.  As long as the ones on my tongue and throat go away I will be able to eat at least.

I now know how much I always took my health for granted.  This family has not had much sleep the last few weeks...I hope things start to look up.

Just remember, ALWAYS wash your hands :D