New & Exciting things....

Well it's been a little while since I have updated this thing, I still haven't done much crafting lately I can't get to any of my stuff in storage but I have good news.......drum roll........ We had the inspection on the house, it went well there are a few things that need to be fixed they are small, and the owner is going to fix most of them. We are waiting on the appraisal for us to get the VA loan it has to be a VA appraiser and there are only 3 in the county. Once that is done, and the
appraiser says our offer is good we should be close to closing...If you listen really closely you can hear the angles singing hallelujah. :) Here is a picture of the front of the house that we are buying.

It a cute little house in a mature neighborhood, it's got two big trees, a cover patio, and a deck in the back. There is also a detached garage it the back, and has brand new real hardwood floors.

Since we have a house now that is almost ours, I have told my husband that if we ever had a house that had a fenced in back yard he could get a dog. Well this house has a complete dog run on the whole left side of the house. I let this little detail out at work and Kelly a lady I work with said oh I have 8 puppies that need homes so yesterday I found myself going to look at puppies. We picked out a little boy one that is brown and white and is a mixture of black lab, and some brown lab, and maybe some chow or husky the lady wasn't sure. I will say that he is pretty cute and we have named him Mick. Kelly is keeping him for us til we get into our house. I'll post pictures then of him.

Since my last post I have also had a birthday, yep that's right I'm the big 26 now! I don't feel as old as my body is trying to tell me I am. My knees and hip have been giving me a lot of problems lately. We didn't do a lot for my birthday, we were going to go to town and have a nice dinner and stuff we had a babysitter and everything and Casey got so sick the poor guy couldn't even move with out throwing up (which I am sure you were all dying to know) he did get me the Anne of Green Gables series on dvd (which are my favorite movies of all time!) and the I got myself a new outfit that is a cream, brown and coral color I think it is super cute!

We have gotten a lot of snow in the past two days, like 6 inches or a little more. And we have ahd some freezing rain.

This next weekend we are trying to make it back home for Adelyn's birthday we have all of the party stuff at my mom and dad's house except the cake (which I bought, I was gonna make it but I don't think I'll have time) the theme is ladybugs which I think will turn out really cute. I will post pictures when we get back home. :)

I saw this saying on pinterest and then I saw it on a friends blog and I decided to add a photo to it and I think it turned out really good. It is the most crafty thing I have done in a few months and I am going through withdrawals! I have seen quite a few things on pinterest that I really want to do so I am going to try and do some of them once we get moved. And I'll post my progress and I get stuff done.

Other than that everything is the same, I work and we sleep and that is about it til we can start working on the house and I'll do before and after pictures of the rooms in the house. Hopefully all is well with your families. Love to all.

Adelyn's 1st Christmas

So this has been a CRAZY year for us... Casey was in Iraq most of it, Adelyn was born, I quit my job to stay home with her, I've had 2 surgeries, Casey came home, Addi had her first Thanksgiving, Halloween, and now her first Christmas. For Christmas this year we celebrated it first in Moses Lake on the 23rd with just Casey, Addi and I and then my In laws rented a cabin in the mountains of Colorado and we celebrated there with the Unruh and Metzger families. It has been a great time so far, Adelyn got quite a few gifts, we went snow tubing today most of the family are going skiing tomorrow. We've had fabulous food, Coree's (Casey's older sister) husband Scott if a tremendous cook and he has cooked everything while we have been here. Adelyn has liked the snow and everything about the cabin.

Also right before Christmas the 23rd actually Casey and I put an offer in on a house in Moses Lake and they accepted it, it is pending inspection and everything which the inspection is on Wednesday but we love it. It is an older house needs some updating but has lots of potential. We are excited to have a home of our own.

As for the up coming days and month, my birthday is one week from today I will be turning 26 crazy how the years start to fly by the older you get. Adelyn turns one on the 27th which is totally crazy for me, I can't believe she is almost one. We will be going to my parents for her birthday, and I think I am gonna make her an owl cake we'll see how it turns out. We are excited for the new year and can't wait for it. Love to you all and we hope you had a great Christmas.

This was Adelyn's first time seeing Santa and she really didn't know what to think so she doesn't look to happy in this picture.

Adelyn got a rocking horse from Santa

She got a talking soccer ball from her Uncle Todd she loved it.

We went tubing on Christmas and Casey and I took a picture on the hill

She was waiting to cut the Christmas tree, this was the first time she played in the snow.

Family Pictures

Well Casey and I had booked a family photo shoot before we knew we were moving and it just happen to be the day before we left. I had asked the photographer (Stacie C Photography check her out here....staciepictureit.blogspot.com) if we could make it a multi family shoot one of Casey and my family and one of my whole family we hadn't had a picture since Casey and I were married so it was definitely time. So here are the pictures we put the first one on our Christmas Card (don't be offended if you didn't get one we only sent out 6 and they were to family lol we were a little crunched for time this year)

Halloween post #2

Halloween was fun this year, but I am sure it will be a whole lot more fun next year when Adelyn actually gets into it. We went trick or treating to the church trunk or treat, people were really nice and were mindful of what Adelyn could eat, they gave her smarties, and taffy, and licorice. She really likes the smarties. This year Adelyn was a fairy, Casey was a construction worker and I was a jester. It was super cold so we didn't stay out long but it was still fun. My favorite costumes that I saw this year were a little girl dressed up like Marry Poppins, she had the exact coat and the hat and her trick or treat bag was the carpet bag Marry Poppins had. I think my mom took pictures so I might have to steal one to show you, my second was this little boy that

dressed up as a bull rider he had the whole outfit and he was about 5 maybe. It was so stinkin

cute!! Next year we think out family will be little Red Ridding Hood, the big bad wolf, and grandma. lol I think it will be cute!

We went out and took some pictures of our little Adelyn in a pumpkin. I had seen this somewhere else and I thought it was a cute idea so I asked if Casey could help me pull it off. I think that they turned out so cute!

Lately all we've been doing is packing and trying to get everything ready for the move. I think that once this move is over I will be able to relax a little. It will be nice. Hope all your Halloweens went well and that your Thanksgivings will go well too!

Halloween post #1

Tonight Casey and I decided that we were going to carve out pumpkins. A few days ago we went out to the pumpkin patch at purdums and picked out our very own pumpkins. I got a white one, Casey got a green one and Adelyn got an orange one. I was searching through all the free pumpkin carving templates on the internet and I decided to do Tinkerbell, Casey decided to do Frankenstein and I picked out a cute little puppy for Adelyn's pumpkin. Here are some pictures of us picking out the pumpkins and then a little collage of how they turned out. :)

Casey ridding with Adelyn on the hayride to get out to the pumpkin patch

Casey found his pumpkin

Then I found mine

Our family all together with Adelyn's pumpkin

And these are our pumpkins. :) I think they turned out cute!

Fall...

It seems like this year is just flying by! Casey and I have been so busy lately we have traveled at lot! I told you part of our traveling in the previous post but since then, we drove 13.5 hours to Colorado to see Coree, Casey's sister she was in a bad accident. Coree was driving on the freeway to go to school, and this little old man had pulled off to the side of the road and then pulled his truck and trailer out if front of her and she T-boned the truck. The people in the other car seem to be worse off than her, the little man was bleeding from the ears, the lady broke her pelvis, and shoulder and other things. Coree was lucky and just has cuts and bruises and some physical therapy. Scott and Coree had just bought a new Toyota highlander on Friday and she wrecked it on mon, but if she would have been in her old little car she would have died, so we are so lucky that she got a new car!

This is Coree highlander

This is the truck the man was in.

Adelyn is now 9 months old as of yesterday, she is doing so well. She crawls everywhere, loves to feed herself (she doesn't like baby food anymore so she just eats what we are eating) She is waving more, and the now reaches up when she wants you to pick her up. She has her 9 month appt next tues. she gets more shots, and we'll see where she falls in the %

of height and weight. She was sick so we went to the Dr. and she had actually lost 2 lbs since our last visit to the Dr. and it doesn't make sense cause she eats everything in sight. The other night we went to the pumpkin patch and had Adelyn pick out her own pumpkin. Casey picked out a green one, Adelyn has an orange one, and I got a white one. I think they will be cute on our porch.

She loves to feed herself and she actually eats more when she feeds herself.

When we were at Coree's she had her first egg roll and loved it!

As for Casey and I, Casey is working on framing the new firehouse in New Plymouth, it is just a temp job for like 2 weeks. When we went to Washington, I took a tour of the hospital there and like a week later they called me and told me they had a position opening up and I should apply. Casey and I talked about it and we decided that we would apply and see where it went. I had two interviews one that was just a regular interview, and the other was a working interview I drew some people at a health fair they were hosting. I think I did well on both interviews, we won't know if I got the job til next week, they did call me and asked me about some stuff on my resume which means they are contacting my references. If we do get the job we'll be moving to Moses Lake Washington and we'll live with my aunt and uncle for a couple months til

we can afford a house. We are still trying to decide if we want to buy or rent.

Casey went on his first hunting trip with us two weekends ago. There were 4 of us that had tags, and all 4 of us killed something, nothing big but meat is meat. Then this last weekend Wendi and Bo went up and killed some really nice bucks.

I just went through gallbladder surgery. On night I was woke up by this horrible pain in my stomach, we went to the ER and they did an ultra sound and told me that I had gall stones and that my gallbladder had to be removed. I went to my interview and then we came back home and they took it out on Tues. I am still in pain and it's Friday but they said it would hurt for a little while. When he went to take it out, he said my gallbladder was connected abnormally, I

always have the weird stuff. I don't know why but I do. I have 4 incisions one is right in my belly button but the are all pretty small. Hopefully I will be back to normal as soon as I can be.

This is me waiting to go back for my surgery, they had a really hard time getting an IV in, they stuck me 6 times.

Casey and I were going through stuff in our garage, we are trying to get rid of a lot of our stuff, and saw a tub was falling I went to catch it and it smashed my wedding ring to my finger. Casey had to pry it off with some pliers.

We also have family pictures coming up on Nov. 12th. My whole family is gonna come and take one big family picture together and then just Casey and I will take some family pictures. We have a tutu and feather head piece for Adelyn and were gonna stick her in a pumpkin I think it is all going to be so cute! I think that is it for right now, I will try and make this daily or weekly thing so I don't have to do these big long catch up posts but I did have pictures this time so that makes it nice.

Finally and Update!!!

So I know that I haven't updated this in awhile so this is going to be a long post. Adelyn is now 8 months old, she is up on all 4's trying to crawl she hasn't quite got it yet but she is so close! She Loves to eat!!! And I mean loves! She eats off of Casey's and my plates all the time, and she eats her baby food too. She Loves bread, and she likes these things called rice husks, they are like adult rice cakes but for babies and she eats these yogurt bites that dissolve in her mouth, she loves those too, that is what kept her quiet on our most recent airplane ride to California. She is cooing more and she growls at everyone. At her last appointment that was this past week she weighed in at 18lbs 8 oz. She is doing better sleeping she goes to bed around 9pm and then she wakes up at 130am and 6am and then doesn't wake up for good until 9am or after that.

Casey finally got to come home from Iraq, he got home 2 1/2 weeks early even cause he didn't have to go to his training. He has been home for three weeks and it has been fabulous! He got home on a Monday and then on Wednesday we went to go visit my Uncle Clint and Aunt Connie in Washington for a week and it was a lot of fun we just relaxed. I sewed a little bit and that was about it. Then while we were there Casey's family called and asked if we'd meet them in Salt Lake City the next weekend. So we went and met them (Todd, Janet, and Dale) in Salt Lake and went to the wedding reception and then just hung out.

Then Casey and I went to my craft fair, we did pretty good. We handed out a lot of business cards, and sold some stuff and got to talk with a lot of people. We have another one coming up in November and I hope it goes as well.

Casey and I got to spend out anniversary together this year, it is our second but the first we have spent together. My mom watched Adelyn and Casey and I went to the Anniversary Inn I had a gift certificate so we stayed there two nights and had a really fabulous weekend! I am so happy to have him back, it is nice to be able to wake up to your best friend again. We are super excited to be a little family again. We have taken lots of pictures so I have lots to post. :)

This is Addi and her lovely Daddy. :)

Some of her expressions just kill me! She is so happy all the time

This was our little family picture at the wedding reception.

Adelyn's favorite spot to sleep is on her daddy her and daddy take quite a few naps with each other.

I love her face in this picture, her little crooked smile kills me!