The BIG news

This Wednesday will be my last day at DSW. It is time for me follow what I truly feel in my heart that I should be doing with my life. So...I will be taking a STNA course in a few weeks so that I can work as an STNA while I attend school to become a RN. I am SO excited and terified all at the same time! I have put all of this in God's hands so it may be a rough road but I know he will be walking with us! So friends if you have any connections and get help me get a job-please let me know!

Tomorrow is the day

Well tomorrow I head back to work and I am completely overwhlemed with emotions. I cannot believe that it has been 12 weeks already. I have cherished every minute I have been home with the kids. We have had some major transitions this summer and are about to have even more over the next few weeks. I know that I am blessed with a great husband and wonderful, healthy children. God is SO good and I am SO thankful that I have Him in my life. Life is never easy, but with my Faith I know that I will get through.

The next step...

Well yesterday the trial dates were set for Zach-October 1st and 2nd. My stomach is in knots at the mere thought of having to put my eyes on him. I cannot believe that it has been over a year and a half ago that we lost Don. Such a shame to lose someone SO important to so many people. I know that he is in a better place. I know that together we are going to get through this. I know that my life is forever changed because of my friendship with Don. I know that he touched the lives of so many people in an amazing way. I know that I have grown as a person through my loss of him. I know that I am thankful for Dan, Collin, Sheree and Don. I know that they will forever be a part of our family and us a part of theirs. I know that I treasure my friends even more since that fateful day. However, I still feel in the most bottom part of my heart that Don is sad and angry that he is no longer here. A very special, amazing and promising life cut way too short. Ahhh-my heart breaks just like it did when I heard the news. I wish for it to stop, but then again the pain makes me remember all of the memories of him that I will hold forever in my heart of hearts. Don-I still love you and miss you terribly-today, tomorrow and forever!

Family pictures are in!!!

A few years ago we started getting family pictures done in the summer along with individual pictures of Andy & Ashley. It seemed that we were never clued in on when school pictures were so we went 2 years without getting them. After spending a lot of time upset that we missed out we just decided to have them done ourselves. The great part is that they are more the kids because they are allowed to shoe their personality and be more comfortable. I LOVE pictures and so does Alex-as you can tell by our walls huh? (No smart comments) Picture day is ALWAYS an extremely stressful day for me because I get so tense and freaked out and then it ruins the day for everyone. Well this year I decided I didn't care enough to get all stressed and it totally worked. I was calm and the day was much more enjoyable-a novel idea huh? So here are our "fancy pictures" our Christmas card pictures were still taken by John and our theme this year was skulls-very traditional I know. We haven't got those yet so that will have to be for another post!

AARON & ANDY

PAPA & MACHO/CHOOCHIE/BUBBY
ADRIAN

ASHLEY

ANDY

Latest updates

cool dude

watch this adrian
clean baby

a late night snack of string cheese

bed time!

I have not been all that good at updating the blog lately huh? I guess I just haven't taken the time to sit down and ponder my thoughts other than for the boys journals. Man! I thought keeping one journal was rough, now that there is 2-oh my!!

Yesterday was Adrian's 2 month check up and he is all good! He was a little cranky from the shots but did well for the most part. He is 14.2 pounds already. He is still not sleeping all night, but that is quite OK. I have been enjoying more and more those middle of the night feedings as I know they are precious time. He was also circumcised last week so he has been through the ringer lately. He is cooing and making all kinds of noises and loves to smile and follow people. He will follow Alex all around-it is quite awesome! Most people are saying that he looks more like Alex than me, but we will see!

Aaron has been quite the pistol-still! I think he needs to get back into a routine and back to Denise. She has so much more patience than I do, but man have I learned a lot from her. He is such a great kid, but then he has his moments of terror. But, I guess we all have those-even at 32. I am really excited about his starting pre-school. Next week we go to orientaion to meet the teachers-YIKES!

Andy and Ashley are both home safe and sound which is a blessing. Andy starts school next week and Ash started last week. She will return on 12/18 for Christmas but I am not sure on Andy yet. This will be a crazy year with all 4 of them here! I cannot wait to watch Aaron's eyes light up. Andy has been going to football practice and Ash helping take care of Jackson. She is a really good sister and I am sure her Mom is loving how helpful she is! I guess she got some pretty good training with Aaron and Adrian huh? I am still hopeful that they are both going to fall madly in love with someone here and move at some point in their lives!

Other than that...I am going to be back to clogging in October, returing to work on the 14th and have started training for a 5K I am runnign with my friend Katie in October. Wow! Life is busy. Until next time...much love to you all!