MIA

Ok, I know!!!!!!!! We have been MIA for quite a while. This is the longest I have ever gone without some kind of update. I have been harassed by quite a few people, and we are moving this Friday so I may be MIA for a while again, so I figured I would hurry and post so you all know we are alive. For those who don't know (which I think everyone does) back in March we started the long process of searching for a home. Our plan originally was to buy a home already built. We spent till May looking through house after house after house. We really weren't finding anything we liked that we could afford. The process became quite frustrating. We have a good family friend who is a builder and he came to us and told us he was starting a new subdivision in Saratoga Springs, and offered to build us a home in our price range. Believe it or not, it wasn't the easiest decision we ever made. We knew building a home would be great because it has never been lived in, and we get to pick everything. But building would be more of a long process, and a lot of decisions and hassle. After a lot of prayer and thought we went ahead and decided to build. So the last 2 months we have been building a home. We are way excited, and can't wait until the process is over. I am really bad, and haven't taken pic's along the way. So I really don't have any pic's of the house to this point to post. I will have to post some once the house is done and we get moved in. Our lease for our apartment is up this Friday, so we have to move out. The builder says the house and final inspection will be this Friday, and that is cutting it really close. Tomorrow we are supposed to know if we can close Friday or not. If we don't close Friday we are hoping they will let us move our things into the garage and we will go stay with my Grandpa for a couple days. On top of building a home I am trying to start up a preschool. It has made my life so stressful and overwhelming, but I am hoping in the long run it will be a blessing. This is part of the reason it has taken me so long to post anything. Any spare time I have I have been planning out the preschool year, and buying supplies, and furniture for the classroom. I really am excited I just hope it all turns out well. By the way if anyone has family or friends that live in the area, and they need a preschool, please send them my way. It is really difficult to try and start a preschool when I am not even in the area yet. Thanks to those of you that have referred people to me.

Over the course of the past few months that I haven't blogged, a lot has happened. I have waited way too long to try and catch up, so I will try to remember what I can. Manda came home from Southern Virginia for the summer. It has been so fun and nice to have her around. I love her sooooo much. She will be leaving back to school in like 3-4 weeks, and I can't believe it has already gone by soo fast. Sydnee has had a couple check ups and she is still little for her age. She is in the 20th percentile for weight and 70th for height. She has been a little slow at most things, but is coming along ok. She is almost 16 months and still doesn't walk around everywhere. She is sooooo close, but still chooses to crawl. Wyatt lost his first tooth a couple days ago. He is only four and he is already loosing teeth. I didn't think he was old enough yet so I took him to the dentist to have an x-ray done to see if he is really loosing them and other teeth are growing up to take their place, or if something weird and abnormal is going on. Of course the x-rays showed that he was just loosing them early. There are other teeth growing in right behind them. He got teeth really early as a baby, I guess that should have been my first clue! Oh well it was worth the x-rays cause now I know for sure. This update is getting too long and I know I have lost your interest by this point. So I will leave it at those few things for now, and I will have to try and play catch up later. Although I have let it go for so long now I will be catching up for months. Hopefully once we get moved I will have a little time to update here and there. I have tried to attach a couple pic's so you can see some recent pics of the kids. I really have a ton of pic's that have accumulated since I last blogged, so I will have to post them slowly over time.

One last thing...... I recently found out I have major nose problems (my septum is deviated, one of my sinuses has dropped out of place, I have nasal polyps and a ton of extra tissue and fluid that should not be there) so I am having surgery August 31st. So not looking forward to this, but hopefully it will take care of all the problems. I get so stuffy sometimes I can't smell or taste my food. It really is miserable.

Hopefully this post will hold some of you over until the next time. We are moving Friday and I'm really not sure when we will get Internet set up.

Sydnee at Matt's High School Graduation

Wyatt wearing his 76ers beanie that Matt brought back from his trip to Philadelphia.

This is a pic of Wyatt and Sydnee in Jer's gym at the school. Back when school was in the kids loved to go visit daddy at work. Jer is pulling them around on these cart things with a jump rope. They loved it! I couldn't believe how good Syd was.