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Payton Elizabeth.

I know I've said it before, but there's somethin special bout that girl. Nat and I often find ourselves sitting back and watching her as we shake our heads in amazement... wondering what were to do with this girl, and how we'll ever keep her safe enough to make it to her wedding day. We often joke about wrapping her in bubble wrap.

She's clumsy, trips over thin air approximately 6 times a day.

She runs into walls, tables and doors approximately 7 times a day.

She's a MESS when she eats.

She licks a battery, gets a little shock from it... and licks it again.

She's a daredevil... and pretty much has shown us no fear.

She loves to be NAKED and runs around diaper-less about 50% of the day... she just won't keep it on!

She loves life and takes it head on... and she scares us.

I, having stayed by her side pretty much 24/7 since the day she was born, have slowly become immune to her getting hurt. I know that sounds horrible, awful, and mean... but she gets hurt so many times in a day that half the time I don't even run to her side any more when I hear her cry. Horrible. I know, I even hate to admit that... but it is that bad and happens that many times a day!!

oh but I love her.

P.S.

To go along with my last post... since I forgot about half of the house. :)

Here is the other bathroom. Nat put a new sink in and fixed the toilet problem so now we have 2 fully functional bathrooms. (YAY!!!)

Its kinda smaller so kinda hard to get a good pic.. but you get the point. :)

This is the 2nd living area.

which has a (hideous) fireplace... but a fireplace none the less.

The other side. Pay no mind to the disaster of a desk in the corner. I have yet to bring myself back there to take care of it.

Kitchen

Outside

front of the house

Our back yard... bout as far as you can see is our property.

front yard

the huge ginormous round thing you see off in the distance is a huge ginormous storage shed. We put all of our "shed" stuff out there and it doesn't even put a dent in it! The little house you see to the right of the suburban is (was) like a tack room... but Nat has plans to make it like a real life doll house for the girls. I can't wait its gonna be so fun!!

side area with a picnic table.

....And as if we had any doubt about buyin this house... which we NEVER had .... this would for sure have sold it for us. We like to call this Daddy's house. Nat's always dreamed and talked about having a shop for him to work on his vehicles in so when we saw that this place had a shop it was another one of those things that makes this house made just for us!! He is thrilled about his shop, As am I.

The beast has made its way down to NM and with that, EVERYTHING we own is all here with us. Just to show how huge this shop is... blazer has a 6 in. lift on it and it doesn't even begin to take up too much space. (Don't mind the mess. We threw all boxes and trash in their and haven't yet taken it all to the dump.) (Plus Nat is still working on getting all his stuff where he wants it.)

HOME!

In a nutshell:
-Were here.

-Were in.

-Pictures are hung.

-Boxes are out of the house.

-Children are sleeping a million trillion times better in their own rooms.

*Stetson's room.

fun little fact. second shelf: the wood gun was Nat's toy that his dad made him when he was little and the rolled up belt has an "R" on it and it belonged to Nat's PawPaw.

*The girls room/play room

My sister painted these.

-I HAVE MY OWN ROOM AND BATHRROOM.

(do I sound like a 16 year old who has always wanted her own room???)

Master bathroom

Dogs are in heaven.

They (the pups) play play play all day long running around all over the property exploring and finding new things... then they come in and completely crash! Mitsy girl stays inside all day. Moving from room to room. I've decided something: there's nothing greater than an old dog who lays around all day and loves a family and doesn't pee in the house or chew on stuff. Thats our little mitsy.

-Internet and cable are hooked up and I am enjoying watching my shows that I haven't been able to watch in 7 months.... and my pictures are being uploaded 49 times faster than im used to (YAY!!!)

-We already made a trip to Lowes and the man in my life is currently doing some minor improvements... and thats why I adore him.

This is the other bathroom. It needed a new sink and some new toilet parts and now its like new! (Isn't my plumber cute????) ;)

Dining room.

(kitchen was a disaster mess at the moment of taking pictures... so pictures of kitchen will come later.)

Entertainment center... and Nat's new "item". He sooo deserves it so I couldn't tell him no when he told me what size TV he wanted... Boys will be boys. But, like I said, if anyone deserves something like that its him! He's a hard workin man who asks for nothing in return.

My little corner...oh how I missed my chair!

Love seat and the beautiful bay windows.

Couch

Hallway... looking from our bedroom to the living room

WERE BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE!!!!

ITS OFFICIAL!

**WE ARE OFFICIALLY HOMEOWNERS!!!!!!!

Sorry, I pretty much did just yell that at you, cuz I pretty much can't believe it. I guess I'll start to believe it when we start making mortgage payments after not having to for 7 months now. :) We had a little wrench thrown into our excitement as soon as we signed the papers. We really weren't too sure how this was all gonna go down anyways cuz things have been up in the air with the matter... but the previous (ya know, cuz WERE the NEW) homeowners are having to rent the house from us for a week. The longest week of our lives will be this week!!!!!! Me and the kids are gonna spend the week in TX so I think it won't be so hard for us since we'll be havin fun.

Everything happens in Gods timing. No doubt about that! I love looking back and seeing things fall in place as God wanted them, and not us. So we are confident that this extra week is God's plan!

**We had to make another run back to TX for bank reasons... which was a fun little trip. I love that we are able to pick up and go whenever we want (on Nat's days off). I love to be sporadic, and we are pretty much professionals at it! We can pack up a family of 5... clothes, shoes, diapers, wipes, formula, toiletries AND now 2 dogs in a matter of a couple hours! I really just love doing crazy things like that. Yes, were crazy.

**My sweet little man turned 7 months old a few days ago!

-He is soooooo close to crawling its not even funny! Mostly when he is in his crib, or on a bed he is up on all 4's the whole time... not so much on the floor... guess its too hard for his little knees. I can't wait!!

-He definitely like real food a million times more than baby food. He will chow down if you feed him the real stuff. Both girls were like that too.

-FINALLY got his first little tooth. Thank the Good Lord above!

-Our sleep issues have been SOLVED!!!!!!! I kid you not, the night we got home with the puppies is the night he started sleeping better. So instead of being up with him, I've been up with the dogs! Couldn't have worked out any worse! I am so very thankful that he started sleeping better... better being only waking once for a bottle and waking up at 8:30. Anyways, he gets on his tummy and sticks his butt up in the air and has to have his face smothered in a blanket.... and since he's found this position, he's been sleeping like a champ!

-sweet, sweet little boy who is so absolutely loved and adored by all 3 females in the house that I feel sorry for his wife.

-Thinks his daddy hung the moon and the stars and loves him to death. Stares and stares at him like he's waiting for Nat's approval.

-Life, as we know it, has gotten 49 times easier.....

hooray for holding his own bottle!!

**The Dogs are doing great!! They're both so good and are doing great with everything! Including going out and pottying OUTSIDE! They did so amazing on our trip to TX. We definitely got 2 great dogs! We did some reading up on their breeds (australian shep/heeler mix) (lab/collie mix) and they both had amazing things said about them. We were feeling pretty confident in our buys after we read up on them. Just great dogs all around, and rare to find at that!!

Axel goes right into the crate when he is ready to sleep. We just leave the door open and he goes in as he pleases. He is an outside guy and hates to come in! Aussie is just a little sweet girl that loves the action. If your there, thats where she wants to be too....

including in the tub!! She was going bonkers to get in the tub with the kids so Nat threw her in. Once she realized what it was she was ready to get back out.

**The girlies are both doing great! Payton is coming along in her speech so well!! More in love with her blankie and "juuuuu" than ever. Blankie and juice is what gets us through the day with her. She is still pretty testy and hitting more 2 year old things everyday. Madelynn is still just a sweet, sweet little girl. She makes the start of my day every day by coming in my room and giving the biggest bear hug, and with the sweetest smile on her face she says: "I missed you mama.... I wuv you".... Ahhh, it melts my heart every time.