Yuck.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I have been having the worst morning sickness I have ever had in my life. It is horribly debilitating and I am exhausted on top of that. I am trying to still be a mom to my girls and hoping that everything is fine with the baby. I don't know anything yet because I have yet to see a doctor because the Military is exceptionally slow. I am really hoping that there is only ONE in there. I do have appointments scheduled finally and I am looking forward to getting some relief from these horrible symptoms. If you have been on facebook at all then you know that I have been trying everything under the sun and nothing seems to help for very long. I feel the worst for Brady though. He has been working long days and then picking up the slack at home as well. I know he is exhausted but he hasn't complained once and I am so grateful for him. He has made or picked up dinner every night for the last three weeks. He does laundry, changes sheets, gives baths, plays games, and brings me anything I ask for. I am so very lucky to have him but I really want to get back to doing my job!

Anyway, other than my all day sickness, things here are going well. We have planned a trip home at the end of September to celebrate Rory and Aidric's birthday's together again. I am really looking forward to seeing everyone and staying for a week. As of right now I am flying alone with both girls which could be interesting. They are excellent flyers which is very good. They both love planes and get beyond excited for take offs and landings, but I still have to get all of us in the airport, checked in, through security, and then on the plane by myself. All while getting dirty looks and snide remarks from other passengers for daring to bring two children on a plane with me. Should be super fun. :o)

Well thats all for now. I hope that everyone is having a great summer!

I traded dry heat for...

...flies. I have never seen more flies than I have in the two-ish weeks we have lived here. It is ridiculous. Every. Time. I open a door they invade and despite searching Walmart from top to bottom I haven't been able to find a fly swatter.

Thank goodness for Bonnie the Wonder Dog. By the end of every day, BTWD has found and annihilated every fly that has invaded my house. Not joking! She is fast and relentless. It's like cats with and a laser pointer! She stalks them and takes them out. It is for this reason alone that I can forgive her for peeing on the carpet a few times since we moved in. :o)

Other than the flies things are good. The girls and I are gradually adjusting to the time change (2 hours ahead of Vegas) and I am slowly unpacking the rest of our stuff as I go. Thankfully I haven't been sick with this pregnancy yet and I am holding out hope that I will get lucky and not be sick at all. It would be very nice.

So...PICTURES! I took some of the house and I am finally now getting them up. So here you go! (Please ignore the insane mess that is my house. #1 We just moved in, and #2 I have small children and a husband which make it always look like we just moved in.)

Below: Our living room with our new TV Stand/entertainment center (because our old one was broken in the move). It's beautiful. I know.

Our new couch. We left our old, broken down couch behind.

The rest of the living room including Cady and our insanely old recliner that still works like a dream. There is a powder/half bath to the right there and a under the stairs storage closet to the left.

My craft/brady's computer room and the dining room. Still lots of unpacking to do.

The Dining room and the door to the back yard. We had to get a new kitchen table. Our old one was round and it was impossible to get around it and open the door to the back or get to the kitchen...it was just crazy so my mom hauled the table and chairs back with her and we found this beauty at the Nebraska Furniture Mart. More on that later.

One half of the kitchen...

...and the other half.

The laundry room, which houses my furnace, ducting, and other stuff that I have no clue about...

...and it also houses my washer and dryer that we had to buy the day we moved in...cause the house didn't come with them...my mom and I put in the shelves on our own as well.

Upstairs we find the master bed room. This is easily the BIGGEST room in the house. It is insane how big it is. There is a closet with shelves in the room, a postage stamp of a bathroom and then a walk-in closet as well. Plenty of room for the new little one to share with us for a bit though.

Cady's room.

The view of the back yard from the spare room. I'll take more of the back yard later.

The spare bedroom...or the "we don't know where to put this stuff yet" room.

The kids/guest bathroom.

Rory's room.

And now for the best room in the house. There is a linen closet in the upstairs area as well as a little computer nook/desk. Next to the master there is another door. We were confused at first, but it is a...closet...with it's own window. Yeah. Really. It is at least 10 feet deep and 5 feet wide. My sister named it "Harry Potter's Nook" and I think I will stick with that. All the kids toys that we don't want crowding their rooms and the rest of the house are in here.

And thats about it for the house. We really like it, though I think the downstairs could be a bit better in layout. It will certainly do for the next two years at least. You will notice that we had to pick up a few pieces of new furniture. Not everything survived the move but thankfully everything that was important did. We get reimbursed for the stuff they moved that didn't make it so we didn't feel to bad about having to replace it. We got the TV stand, bookshelf and table and chairs at the Nebraska Furniture Mart. The Nebraska Furniture Mart is INSANE. They claim to be the biggest furniture outlet in the USA and I believe them. I thought Ikea was big. This place is like five Ikea's. No I am not kidding. There are at least five HUGE warehouses filled with furniture, electronics, computers, etc. We got really good deals on everything as well. They are very organized and have one whole warehouse dedicated to pickup. It was awesome. You can check them out online too. It's totally an experience.

We are gradually getting our bearings in the city as well. It's very green here and we don't have a sprinkler system. We had to get hoses and sprinklers and I have to remember to water the lawns, tree and flowers everyday. Well except the days it rains. Trash comes once a week and we have one whole can that is dedicated to "yard waste only." We had to buy a lawn mower. It's pretty awesome. :o) It got pretty hot today (100 degrees with some pretty crazy humidity) but for the most part it has been in the low 90s and 80s which feels like heaven to me after many a summer in Las Vegas. I have a feeling that I will be pretty cranky come winter though. Me and snow aren't exactly on "friendly" terms. Winter is gonna suck for me.

We are supposed to be here for at least two years, per Brady's orders, but we recently found out that most people in Brady's job end up here for a lot longer. So this could be our home for a good many years if we are lucky. I'm not looking forward to moving again anytime soon.

So far we really like it here in Nebraska. Well, minus the flies. The flies could go to...somewhere else. :o) Hope this post finds everyone happy and healthy and enjoying your summer!

Due March 2011

Brady is Home!

I can't tell you what a difference it makes to have him home. My girls have been plastered to him all weekend and I couldn't be happier!

Brady graduated, after passing his tests, on Thursday. He was a favorite of his instructors (this doesn't surprise me) and he also was awarded Top Graduate (I think I got that right I will have to double check) which is an optional award. He also has lots of letters saying nice things about how awesome he is in his file. :o) There is nothing better than knowing that we made the right decision. Joining the Air Force was a tough sell for me and it took a lot of praying and comfort from the Lord for me to agree that it was the right thing to do. Getting Brady in was a long and rough process and part of me felt that maybe we were wrong, but the Lord kept saying we were in the right place. In the end Brady got the job he wanted and has been soaring through training and tech school. I can see how much he loves what he has learned. He is in the right place and will have a job that he enjoys. The Lord has truly blessed us and we are so grateful that his steady guidance got us here.

Now we are gearing up for our move. I already have a plan, because I can't not have a plan, but I am making myself wait to start packing. Mostly because once I start I will pack everything and then we will have to unpack stuff just to make it through the next two weeks. :o)

I'm not sure that I will get much up on the blog before we move. I will promise that once we are settled and we have internet again that I will post pictures of our new house and tell you all about the fun we had getting to our new house!

We will miss everyone here! There is a big part of me that is in denial about moving away from my home. I have never lived anywhere else and I know it will be hard for me, but I also know that so long as we are together as a family we will be fine where ever we go. I am looking forward to meeting new people and learning a new city, but I know that I am going to miss everyone here very much. I am really going to miss my family being so close. I am sure that my girls will adapt well to life without both grandma's, but I'm not sure how well I am going to adapt.

Anyway, enough of the mushy. We are hoping that you all will keep in touch! I know I will be blog stalking most of you so I can see everyone's kids growing up and where life takes you!

The good news...

I am finally feeling like myself again!

The bad news?

We are moving in little over a month. :o(

Don't get me wrong. I do want to move. I am really looking forward to having my husband back and living like a family again and having a new adventure with my three favorite people. I really am!

But the closer our move date gets the more I realize what I am leaving behind and how much I am going to miss all you wonderful people here in Vegas. We will visit of course, but it isn't the same.

I'm really going to miss you all.

Where did we go?

I realize that I have been a slacker blog wise. I don't really have an excuse (well other than being a temporary single mom, three college classes, and preparing for our move half way across the country). I know plenty of other mom's who are just as busy as I am, if not more so, and so I am really trying not to complain about anything. But the truth is that I am tired. Really, really tired. I try not to show it much. I am usually one of those people that likes to go out and be busy and do things. Lately I don't even want to go outside when it is nice. I don't want to go room to room and make a list of things that we are taking or selling. I don't want to go grocery shopping. I don't even want to watch TV.

The odd thing is I'm not depressed about it. I just don't want to do anything. I suppose that is justifiable, but it is very not me. In defense I have only been feeling like this for about two weeks. Pretty much once we all finally got better after being sick for a month.

I'm starting to pull out of it a bit. Making lists again and getting the girls out of the house when it isn't nasty outside. But I still feel guilty. Like the last two weeks have been some kind of failure on my part. I know they were no such thing. It's not like I didn't do all the necessary things.

Everyone deserves to do nothing every now and then, right?

I hope so.

I think I will feel better after my little weekend trip to visit Brady in a couple of weeks. :o)

And I will have pictures of the girls in my next post. There is a lot to catch up on and I am determined to get things back to normal around here...

Good News

I'm sure that most of you already know this already, but we found out where we will be moving in June! Omaha, Nebraska! I'm still not sure how I feel about this but I do know that we are excited to be able to live together as a family again! Only 2.5 more months!! :o)