Thankful- day 3

Today I'm thankful for my 3rd baby. What a blessing he is to our family.

Oh my little man, how you complete our perfect little family. You and your dark hair and long dark eyelashes. Your such a handsome little guy. Your smile is piercing. Everytime you look at me with a smile on your face, It makes what I do every day worth it. I love to hear you coo and talk. I can't wait till you get a little bigger and I get to see you and your sisters running around playing. I love you my stetsy boy. I'm so thankful to be your momma!

Thankful- day 2

Today I am thankful for this girl:

My sweet little middle child. How I relate to you more than your brother or your sister. Your like me. The middle child, quiet, an introvert, to the point, sweet and cautious. Not to mention you and me are the blankie queens!! Sometimes I wann grab you up and lay in bed with you and your blankie all day. Your slowly starting to come around and talk and I have enjoyed finally hearing you say momma. Your perfect little smile with your adorable round teeth, I love your teeth. I love to see you smile because I know when you smile, you are truly HAPPY. People like you and me don't walk around smiling all day long so your smile means alot to me. Love you my P-bug... and I'm so thankful to be your momma.

Thankful- day 1

As we approach thanksgiving, my goal is to write a "thankful" post each day until then.

I've been feeling so grateful for my kids lately... and I know that its a given that I'm thankful for my kids.. but serisouly, honestly, I have 3 perfect, HEALTHY, wonderful babies. Today I am thankful for my 2 year old.


My big girl. So sweet. Your 2 years old... going on 25. You strut when you walk, your my little Ms. Priss. You make me smile with your precious little smile. Its contagious, and your sweet little girly laugh. You're passioinate about what you love.. if your gonna do something, its gonna be with your whole heart. I love that about you. You come up to me and say "I love you, my momma" and it makes my heart so happy. That makes all the bad days and nights worth it. You tell everyone that I am your momma. I'm so thankful to be your momma. Love you big sis.

Whew! Excuse while I stop my head from spinning. I just wanna stand at the top of a mountain and yell at the top of my lungs.

But.. I shall refrain,

a.) there are no mountains close by.

b.) Just gotta man up and do what I gotta do.

Ok, so in a nut shell, I went to NM to look at houses. Went one place the first day and found one we liked (but not loved)... went to another place the next day and found one we loved for cheaper. Talked to guy from day 1 house told him we were gonna go with a different home. Day 1 guy said: send me the floor plan and I will work something up for you for the same price. blah blah BLAH! Can we run into any more bumps in the road?? I mean really. At this point I'm willing to pay any amount of money to get us a house and get us moved down there ASAP! Seriously, people are telling us to "shop around" and don't make hasty decisions (and we did, and we don't think we are at this point). But man alive! So... really I have no new answers, YES we found a house that we loved that is more in our price range... but now were waiting to see if day 1 guy can offer us what we are wanting. We would prefer to go with day 1 guy cuz 1.)we are 1 step ahead of the game in the financing dept. 2.) He is closer so we won't be driving an hour and a half to sign, look, decide on stuff. and 3.) He is saying he can get us in quicker than day 2 guy. Got all that?? Not that you probably care about our house drama...

Just scroll on down and see my handsome little man in all his 3 month old glory.

3 months!

Wow!! It is totally ridiculous the things that change after child #1... or even #2. Not a day went by that I couldn't tell you EXACTLY how old Madelynn was. I would celebrate the "month" milestones... this time around, I am only reminded when someone tells me that my son is 3 months old that day. LAM-O!!! I feel neglectful. I know, thats seems a little silly to say, but I just never thought I would forget!!

I will give myself slack in the brain loss-ness that has occured since Stetson was born. People ask me when he was born, and how much he weighed and I honestly sometimes cannot remember and have to seriously think about it. Losing as much blood as I did and being anemic (which means that your blood levels are low so there is less oxygen going to your brain... which results in not being able to think) I don't remember much about that day... and I still struggle to remember things like how much he weighed, and the day he was born. Make sense??

So... like you came here to get all that crammed in your brain... here is my little mister at 3 months.

-Size 3 diapers

-Drinks 6 oz.'s every 3 hours

-Still the absolute most sweetest, angel faced, little man I ever laid eyes on. I didn't think It was possible, but every second I just love him more and more.

-He loves, loves LOVES to be held.

-Has the longest, fullest eyelashes I have ever seen on a 3 month old.

-Dis-likes tummy time... but I am convinced all babies do.

-Loves his sisters and smiles and laughs at them.

-Is losing his hair. He was definitely my most haired baby, but now it is slowly going away. He has little bald spots here and there on his head.

-VERY hot natured and is a personal heater, like his daddy.

-Stops and listens very carefully when he hears Nat's voice. He loves Nat to death... maybe possibly even more than he loves his momma. He will sit and stare and coo and laugh at Nat

-Loves to be swaddled.

-loves to take a bath.

oh... and did I mention he has stolen my heart?!?!

Think POSITIVE!

I'm gonna try and be as nice, and sweet, and loving as I can for this post.... So without spilling my guts and telling you what I REALLY think about all this, I will be the bigger person and not dwell on what I would love to sit here and dwell on. :)

After lots of advice and lots of talking to people, we have decided it would be best for us to just back outta the house. Looooooooooooooooong story short, were pretty much fed up with what we have endured these past 2 months, and were gonna do something about it. Not only that, but we just don't feel like its a good "starter" home for us. Took us 2 months, and $1000 we'll never see again to learn... but just as they say, "you live and you learn".

and thats that.

So tomorrow, we are heading back to NM to look for yet, another house. This time around we know more and are using a totally different person to help us. The plan as of now is that we are going to buy 3 acres of land Nat's brother owns, and we are going to buy a prefabricated home and stick 'er on the land. I'm really excited.. although it means starting this process all over again, I feel like this is what we should have done from the begining. In the end we are getting a brand new house, and I much bigger house that will suit our needs right now. So we shall see what tomorrow brings!! If you think about us, pray for us!!

Oh and, I have not forgotten!!! I do have a 3 months post for the little man in the works. Promise. (Im just saying this for myself... so I can hold myself accountable.) :)

Houzin bidness.

Welp, I know that your all so curious about why I am still living in Tehas. Right??? Ok, so maybe it hasn't even crossed your mind. BUT, I have had lots of people asking me about it so I figured I should fill you in. We thought we were maybe supposed to close on the 29th (Oct.). Turns out that was (obviously) a no go. So we have no earthly idea when were gonna close on the house and be able to (FINALLY) move. I wish I could sit down with a nice, informative realtor and have them tell me EVERYTHING and then some about buying a house.... cuz I'll just be honest here, its the most retarded thing I think I've ever done. Like why in the HECK did it take 2 months to do the inspection on the house. I'm just so confused and lost and have sooooooo many questions that I want answers to.

So we got the inspection report back the other day (literally 2 months after we told them we wanted to buy the house.. I'm no genius but shouldn't we be in the house 2 months later?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?).... and there are lots of things on the house that will NEED to be fixed before we will go through with buying a house.... and were just still WAITING to hear back from her to know of the seller is gonna agree to fix... blah blah blah. Needless to say I am T-O ed about how this has all gone and all I can say is I hope that I will get to spend Christmas with my husband and kids all under one roof, all under OUR roof with OUR Christmas tree.

We were/kinda still are/maybe/probably not, thinkin about just buying a new/different home and just be done with this so we can be together again. Who knows what will happen. Guess I'll fill ya in when I know somethin.

Wishful thinking.....

P.S. I would advise NOT clicking on the above photo and seeing how stupidly retarded I am...

P.S.S. Yes, I am holding my child like that. Careless?? No. Skilled?? You got it.

P.S.S.S. My dear sweet, wonderful, partner, lover of a husband is in town (AGAIN!!) so that's why you haven't heard from me in awhile.

Until he leaves.....

(like: until next time) (get it??)