Stay Tuned Please...Randoms and Some Photos

Yes, I have been a bad blogger this past few weeks. But can ya blame me? A newborn, recovering, taking care of 3 very active 13 month olds and packing the entire house for our move this past weekend?!


Needless to say, it's been a crazy and hectic few weeks and I am so glad to be settling in to the new house!!!!


So thankful to have an awesome hubby, a great extended family and lots of wonderful friends that have been helping us out sooo much! I don't know what we would do without any of them! What a blessing each of them are...and you know who you are! I can't thank everyone enough for all the help this past weekend!


I don't think I have picked up my camera much in the past week, which is totally horrible, but I promise to get some photos of everyone and the new house, which has been painted in some parts. The girl's rooms look amazing, painted by their grandpa and auntie. Their bathroom looks great too, painted by Daddy! And Uncle Nate painted our master bathroom and Tim painted one of the downstairs bathrooms....so it was quite the painting party last weekend! It's hard for me to take photos when everything isn't perfect...LOL! I am trying to control my OCD to just "let things be" and be okay with everything on the wall and perfect in every corner. I am only giving myself a few weeks to get everything done! And trust me I will!


Oh and we haven't had snow since the weekend before Halloween, and of course Friday night and Saturday during our move it snowed/rained/was extremely windy and was FREEZING....lovely right, and it made for a bunch of mud! Yuck!


And Natalee had a fever all day on Saturday and she still isn't quite right. Thinking once again, she is starting to get an ear infection! Ugh! We're suppose to go get an ear check/shots/weight check for Em on Wednesday, but that might not happen if she is sick!


I started drinking coffee again after months and months of not drinking any and even though the first days were a little hard on my stomach, I am loving it once again!


Anyway, so stay tuned, I have a lot of posts that are started and maybe I will have time to finish everything sometime soon!


Here is our last bath in our old tub:

Reading our books! They love to jabber and read to each other, turning the pages...it's so cute!

For now here is a little update on Emily:


She is exclusively breast-feeding great and last Thursday at her 2 week check-up she was exactly 8lbs! Still a little peanut! She is sleeping from about 9pm to 4am, eating at 4am and then sleeping until 9am. I cannot thank her enough because it has helped me so much, especially since we have been so busy and so tired. She really is such an easy baby! And, she totally looks completely different than the other girls. She has Madelynn and Claire's skin color and I think Natalee's darker hair but I really think she looks just like I did when I was born. I'll have to post of photo of Tim and I as babys and see wehat ya'll think! I would say she looks the most like Madelynn and of course everyone says, well then she must look like Claire too, but Tim and I always thought they looked different even from birth. Months vary, they look alike some and then don't for some. We shall see as time goes on, but I am just thankful for a cute little peanut. I will save all my mushy stuff for another post!


Last Sunday I took a few photos of her:

Love those chubby little cheeks!

Wordless Wednesday: Eating lunch in our new kitchen!

Saturday while everyone was busy cleaning and organizing...these three little ladies were enjoying getting to eat lunch in our new kitchen! And yes, of course there will be a table by the day we move in!!

Our New Home!

The rest of this month and the beginning of next month, we will be packing up our house and moving! We found a beautiful home, with lots of SPACE and perks just about 30 minutes from our house now. Not to mention it is 5 minutes from Nana's house and 5 minutes from Aunt Kim and Uncle Roger's house!!!!!

The front yard needs some work, but of course it's the middle of winter, so what do you expect?! I can't wait to have some flowers blooming, grass and shrubs. Oh and of course my American Flag flying!

The space in our current house is just not enough and our electric bills are out of control, even though we have done everything to keep them down. There's nothing really that can be done because the house is just made cheaply, quickly and it's old (built in the early 70's), and even though it's renovated with lots of new updates, it still has been horrible. Our electric bills in the winter/summer months are somewhere between $450-650 dollars...for the past 4 years!! The new house has been $139 dollars each month for years....AH-MA-ZING!!

I know it's not the best timing for a move. It's freezing. The girls are just one. Oh yeah, and we're having a baby ANY day! But oh well. Luckily we have a great support system that is willing to help us pack, move and help with all four of the girls!

We honestly couldn't be more excited for our family!

Here are some photos I took on Saturday!

Also has walk-in closet!

Shower is on opposite side.

I love the molding...also will be the girl's room - being painted light purple, same as other room.

We will be painting one weekend before we move in - light purple for the girls!

Seriously it couldn't be more ME!

Love the space on tile (not carpet) we have coming in the door and storage for all of our strollers, boots, shoes, coats, ect, ect! Oh it is awesome to have SPACE!

Most likely my sister will be moving in with us (probably in March), while she works full-time and goes to school. It's the perfect opportunity for her to "move out" of our parent's home but still be with family and pay next to nothing for her own space! We are so excited for her! She's going to paint the room and has so many ideas already for decorating!

I din't get any photos of the kitchen, but I will. We are all standing in there talking so I didn't want to move everyone out just for a photo.

Seriously, to have a real backyard with grass, a patio and a deck, it is going to be awesome! To have cabinets under sinks for storage...something we don't have now which makes the linen closet very tight. To have brand new carpet, tile and hardwood floors...wonderful! To have our kitchen table and high chairs in the actual kitchen, with tile floors, and not on carpet in the dining room...awesome too!

We are literally so excited. We'll be moving on the 10th and 11th of February, but we're allowed to bring stuff up whenever we want in the next few weeks since it's already vacant.

Now we just are waiting for E to make her arrival, paint and clean it up (not much cleaning has to be done since everything is brand new practically), but I need to clean it myself and sanitize every inch before my babies start crawling around. 

(Oh - AND Miss Madelynn is practically walking now! I am sure by the time we move in, she will be a full-blown walking machine!)