Quick Update

wow so much has gone on....

1. Mom, dad and Patrick found a nice little house and have moved out. I'm sure they are VERY happy. lol. I love them and would definitely live with them again if it had to be done.. but I do think the place we are in is just too small for a family of 8 to peacefully coexist because no one had their own space!

2. With mom and dad leaving... Jesse and I had to find a more affordable place of our own. We found a house (a very, very small house) in our price range and were going to go for that. The guy that showed it to us was dead set on us seeing a condo he also had available. We weren't going to.. we were fine with renting the house (even though it meant fencing the backyard so the girls wouldn't get into the creek, buying cabinets for the kitchen because it had NONE, repainting the kitchen because it was a hideous yellow, and being squished into it.. it was as I said before.. very small). But the guy was persistent.. we should see this condo before we made a decision. We went to see the condo... and now... we are in the process of moving into it! It's perfect for us. So God looked out for us yet again! The moving is driving me up the freaking wall. I hate it. Hopefully by tomorrow we will be done.. but there's still so much left to do.

3. we found a car to buy.. a toyota avalon.. and we're getting an awesome deal! Im excited to be able to drive something besides that gas guzzler Chevy silverado Jesse bought....I'll be glad to get 30 mpg instead of 14! lol

I better get back to moving and cleaning. Just wanted to post a quick update!

Happy First Birthday Emmalyn Reese!!!

I knew it would be hard but I had no idea it would be THIS hard. My youngest... my baby... one year old. It's bittersweet. I love seeing her grow. I love seeing her learn. But as I've been packing away baby clothes, I'm realizing this is it. No more babies (unless God has other plans... but Jesse and I are pretty set in just having our three girls). But even as I'm sad that my baby is getting older, I'm also excited. She's doing so much and she's such a trip. Like her sisters, she never fails to make me crack up! She's still practically bald with no teeth.. lol... so she still looks very babyish even though she's been running around on her own two feet since she was 10 months old. I really need to take some recent pics and video. It's been so long since I've done that. Too long.

Happy First Birthday Princess!!!! We love you so much and are so glad you're a part of our lives!!!!

** Explicit **

Holy cow does this suck. It sucks! It sucks! It sucks!

I told you how last Friday we took Claire Bear to Urgent Care and they gave her an antibiotic for her ear and throat (if she had strep.. she wouldn't let them look in her mouth). 3 doses of antibiotics later (3 days) and she wasn't doing ANY better. Not in the least. She was sleeping non stop... she wouldn't eat or drink.... she would cry constantly when she was awake... it was MISERABLE. For her to feel & for me as a mom, to watch.

Off to the ER Jesse and I go. The nurse listens to her and is instantly alarmed. She said she sounded wheezy all the way down. We are whirled away to xray where they do two chest xrays on her (she did FABULOUS). She didn't have pneumonia as feared, but she did have bronchitis. Turns out the kid had bronchitis, strep throat, and a bad ear infection. Can you say poor baby?! OMG. The antibiotics urgent care prescribed just wasn't enough. So they gave her a shot in the henie **OUCH.. she loved that.. NOT**. And prescribed something different. It's just given once a day for five days. She'll be done tomorrow. By the next day there was a MAJOR change in her. Our baby was back! She has been a complete motor mouth and I can't complain. After not hearing her laugh or talk or even seeing a smile for over a week... we are thrilled. That was insanely scary. None of my kids have ever been THAT sick for THAT long.

Now I have been running a fever for a couple of days and today my throat feels so tight and sore that my ears hurt. Wonderful. I guess if I can't kick this in a day or two, my butt will have to go to Urgent Care. yippie.

I emptied out all the girls' toys and sanitized them all. I have got to get rid of this plague. It's awful. Hopefully Jesse (or anyone else) doesn't get it.

Ariel has been home the past two days. Snow days. It hit all around us. Three inches a few miles in one direction and up to half a foot in asheville. Did we get any? nope! Curse Winter! It can go away! I'm not a fan of the storms spring and summer bring by any means... but I'm ready for my family to be HEALTHY.