As of Late...

Good new's of sorts... Our plan to move to Georgia has been put on hold (not sure for how long..). Our new plan, can go one of two ways. Danny just turned in his resume to a soil company. He was told about it from a friend, they are looking to hire a foreman and are ok with inexpirience. We aren't completly sure what his job would be, but he'd get paid prevailing wadge. We'd make alot of money! He handed in his resume, sometime this week and we are now waiting to hear back from them!
Plan B. He has had a few projects, here and there, but only has one more house, that should be coming up with in the next couple months, and after that, we have no work and haven't even heard of any. If we dont get the soil company job, we'll stay for a while and as soon as we can, we'll head out of here to GA! Right now we do not have an exact plan, other than sit and wait. It can be very stressfull, not knowing what tomorrow will bring.
I am excited to know that we will still be here for Thanksgiving! We have three baby's coming into the family, one in Aug, two in Sept. I was sad thinking that I probably wouldn't see them until they were 3, but now I get to see them at Thanksgiving time. I'm so excited about that!

My Baby is 13 Months Old!

My baby boy, Doos, is now 13 months!


The things he can do...
Crawl like a bear was chasing him!
Express his feelings (real well!)
He can say a few words, Mama, Dada, Yah, and he tries to say Dash (our cat)
Climb! He climbs everything he can!
He's only somewhat social. He usually just play's by himself, next to other kids.

Not mastered yet....
He has not mastered walking yet. He just started to try only a couple weeks ago. He has no desire to get up and go, because he can crawl like a crazy man!

Dislikes...
Most foods! He's the pickiest 13 month old I've ever seen!
Our new puppy, Sally!
When big brother annoys him.
When mommy leaves the room (he's going thru the whole seperation anxiety phase)
Hearing other little kids cry.

Meet Sally!!

Trying to get some sleep!
Dash is NOT too impressed by the addition!

Danny and Sally girl!

Growing up, I always had dogs and cats. Our dogs were rat type dogs and we had way too many cats, But i have so missed having a "biggish" animal family. I'm now very content with our 1 cat 1 dog animal family!

Sally's story of how she came to be is kinda funny! I've brought up getting a dog in the past to Danny but he always told me the same thing. Dogs are alot of work and you have children. So, his answer was always no! When Lara got Hank, they briefly thought about giving him to us because he was a stinker of a puppy! They decided to keep him (they are glad they did) but it made me really want a dog, bad! I was just happy to go vistit him over at his house. He's a really good dog! Well, 8 months later Nadja and Nathan got a puppy (Hank's baby brother) which made me so puppy hungry! He is so cute! I came up with a scheme to get a puppy without Danny knowing... (snicker snicker) I'd called the guy who had the puppy's and asked if he had any left. He said that they had two females left, and that was fine by me! I was excited all day! I couldn't take a nap! I went over to my moms house to pass the time and on my way to his house, he called and siad "can you come over at 6:30?" 6:30 was over an hour away, so I was very anxious and had no idea how I was going to sneak out of the house, because Danny was home and he knew nothing about the dog! I get home, make dinner quickly, i was too nervous to eat! 6:30 rolls around and I tell Danny I have to run over to my moms house real fast to pick something up! So, I sneak over to the guys house only with Alex (he knew where we were going!) and when I got there miss Sally was so cute and very sweet. I had to have her! She cost us $300.00, not very much money for a pure bred boxer! I pay the guy his money, load up Alex and the dog and I text Danny. I tell him I have a huge surprise for him that I'm super excited about, so he has to be excited too!He text's me back saying ok..... I told him to trust me! It was exciting! So I pull up, really nervous! I tell Alex to run in the house and tell Danny "SURPRISE!!" and he does it. I follow him in with the dog. Danny looked at me and said "what are we supposed to do with that" and I tell him "raise her as our own!" He just looks at me and shakes his head... Then he says "i thought you were going to come home and tell me that you were knocked up!" Nope, not that exciting, but very exciting still! Anyways, she warmed right up to Danny! She loves him! Follows him around, whimpers when he leaves the room. It wont be long until he loves her, too! I can just tell!

STRESS!!!

Life has been so stressfull! The closer we get to moving the more stressed/sad i become. I'm so excited to start a new life somewhere else, but so sad to leave everthing that I know. I really do know in my heart that everything will be ok. I just hope I can make it until then! I'm not a very good "stressed" person! Some people are stress eaters, well i'm a stress non-eater! By the time we leave i will have lost all my baby weight :) and then some :(.. That and I get short! I've been so cranky and irratable! I really dont mean to be, i just am. I've been trying to get stuff ready to pack up, papers organised to pack up. I got rid of most of my kid's toys and I have so much stuff to go thru! I hate moving! I've never moved halfway across country before, but I can imagine that it super sucks!! We have to leave alot of stuff behind because it would cost us way too much to get a trailer big enough to haul everything. Life is crazy right now!!

My Baby Is 1!!!

He is such a cheese ball! He LOVES getting his picture taken!

Loved the cake!

Bobby playing with Alex's dyson

Mattingly vacuuming

He has to "try" everything before he eats it

being bashful while everybody sang Happy Birthday

The cake (not that great, but you'll see why if you read)

the cake unlit

Today is the Doos' birthday! I certainly can not believe that it has gone by so fast!! It seems like just yesterday I was moving furniture around the living room trying to go into labor the day I went into the hospital to be induced. They grow way too fast!! I hate how fast they grow! I love watching them learn and grow, but I'm not to keen on them growing up! I wish that they stayed as young and inocent as they are right now! Anyways, back to the birthday boy! Today we went over to Grandma Shacks house for lunch. We then came home and took a nap. When Cam woke up, he was not such a happy camper! He scrame the entire time I was making his cake. He was screaming because he is quite spoiled! He is held, usually when he wants to be, and today I just couldn't! I guess that's my fault for spoiling him! I just love babies, and want to baby him for as long as he'll let me! Enough excuses, I know... I then made him some dinner, which he threw on the floor, not even eating a bite! I then had had it with him (I love you doos, but you can be quite a stinker sometimes!) Alex was also in rare form, refusing to eat his dinner, screaming and yelling. I wasn't such a happy camper by this point! So, I decided to sit down, eat some dinner, ignore my children and by the time I was done eating everybody was happy (including myself). Then the family started showing up and Alex became super happy and Cam did also. We had cake, opened presents then everybody left. What a great first birthday for my sweetheart! Happy Birthday, Doos! I love you!!

Georgia It Is.....

So, alot has happened in the last couple days. We have officially decided to move down to Georgia (hopefully Savannah area). We found a realator that wants to invest in a short sale to our house ( not quite sure what this means, but, cool!) I know what a short sale is, but not going thru a realator before the bank, Anyhoo... We really hope that works out for us! He told us that takes 90 days, then we'd be up to GA!! So, unless we have anything spectacular happen to us here, in about 4 months or so, we'll be in Goergia! I'm starting to get a little scared and antsy! I've never lived so faraway from home/family. It will be great, tho!! Hard, but great!! :)

Pros & Cons. Overton vs Atlanta!

Danny and I have been racking our brains trying to figure out what to do with our situation. The truth is, the cost of living here is just too much. It seems like the only people that are doing ok as far as work is police officers. Even firemen have been losing their homes! (with the excption of dr's, lawyers, indian chiefs , had to throw that one in there heehee) Anyhoo, the fact is that unless Danny gets a good steady job that pays up to 5,000.00 a month, we cant afford to stay... I would love to get a job, but there is no decent paying jobs anywhere around here hiring. I've come up with a list of pros and cons of staying and leaving....



Here it goes... Pros and cons of staying......
Pros..
1. Family, moving away from them would be sad :(
2. We worked so hard to buy our first house, leaving it would be devistating!
3.All my doctors (I know weird!) I finally found an OBGYN and Pediatrician that I LOVE!
4. We know everybody ;)


Cons...
1. Nosey people (if you've ever lived here you know what I'm talking about)
2.The thought of not having enough money to get by. Possibly losing our house (like everybody else)
3.Too expensive
4. Too expensive
5.Too expensive (so, you get where I'm going with this.)
6. Danny cant go to school, like he'd like to.
7. I couldnt go to school if i chose to.
8. Crappy school for the kids...


Pros of moving to Georgia...

1.Affordable living.
2.Danny could go back to school for a degree in architechture (he wants to do this)
3.Open up the doors for so many possabilities!
4.I could go to school (I've thought about it)
5. Better schools for the kids (school dist sucks here.)
6.The FOOD!
7. I can learn how to cook some yummy southern food!
8. Starting over, making new friends...



Cons..
1. Moving so far away from family
2. Starting over, making new friends....

As you can see, I'm torn!!