Happy New Year!

I wish everyone a wonderful and safe New Years Eve!  I will not be posting for a year soooo...  Well I guess thats tomorrow.  Again Happy New Year.

Sick Sunday

Guess what we are doing.  Watching Meet the Robinsons.  I am still amazed at our over flowing DVD collection, and as we continue to follow our tradition of watching new movies received at Christmas for New Years Eve Eve and New Years Eve and New Years Day.  Did I mention the kids received a ridiculous 27 movies for Christmas yes you read that right 27 still not a mistake 27.  I woke up at around 3am with a pain in my throat feeling like someone was trying to tenderise a steak with my uvula.  Motrin did no good....  At 5 baby girl came into bed with Daddy and I. She was coughing and said "I on fire fire" and guess what - she had a fever again this makes day 3 for fever and she has now so graciously given her illness to Me, Me the one who is supposed to take care of the kids clean the kitchen make the food and so on...  Around 6 Luke strolls in and informs us I am sick really sick, soon to follow a sneeze boy Bo who really never gets sick.  I begged Daddy PLEASE DO NOT GO TO CHURCH PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE ME WITH THESE SICK AND I KNOW SOON TO BE WHINY CHILDREN PLEASE OH PLEASE TAKE CARE OF ME MAKE ME COFFEE I THINK I AM WHINING....

Sooooo  he stayed home and is now cuddling the sicklings as I type this.  

I am going to make a pot of greens today and some BBQ chicken, even the sick must eat so I must push on beyond the stuffy nose and sore thoat, it's a hard job but I LOVE IT!  

Protection

So I am not real sure how I feel about giving out your real name on the Internet...

I always have given my real name being careful not to give my last name or my city or state.  I had a friend ask me today if I really felt safe giving my  children's real names...  I said I don't tell where we live, they said if you read long enough you can figure it out.  So in light of this conversation and after checking a few other blogs I see it's about 50/50 some give names others don't.  I will be editing and changing up this blog in the next few days and will no longer be giving real names.  I would like to air on the side of caution.  I think I have the most beautiful children in the world and I want to protect them at all cost so that's that.  Husband will be called "Daddy" I will be Happy Mommy and my oldest son will be called" Luke" My second son will be called "Bo" and My daughter will be called "Daisy" Because she is our little flower. Do you see a theme here????

If you know me personally this may confuse you at first, but if you know me, you know my children come first and so we are making some changes.

We Did It!

Ok today was so big!  Really Really Big!  We refinanced our home in order to buy the land we want to build our new home on.  We have owned 3 homes now and will be building our 4th...  The greatest part about the whole thing is we have found a wonderful Christian Doctor in TX to do Daddy's vasectomy reversal.  It looks like we will be able to close on the refinance in late January and hopefully have the reversal done in February.  We have never had a get away like this before or at least since we have had children.  We will go for a long weekend starting on a Thurs-Tues.  I am just so excited!  What seemed like might take forever is coming together quite quickly!  I am so thankful to Daddy for first of all being able to contract and build our new home he is just The most handy smart and handsome man I have ever known!  I am Thankful he loves me enough to forgive me for asking and pushing him to have a vasectomy in the first place!  I am Thankful he wants more children and is willing to go through a not so pleasant experience to have one with me!  I am just very pleased today Very Blessed....

Christmas Day

Pictures are of Christmas day,  I was unable to get a picture of Reese and Dasiy together but as you look through you will see they have matching dresses and I hope someday they think it is as cute as Dana and I do!  Merry Christmas!