Yesterday we decided to buy a "new" Expedition. It is used. Some friends of ours from Nauvoo, Kelly and Mike Siegfried, were getting rid of theirs and we need a new one. I refuse to buy a really new car until the kids are all at least past the age of 10. So this one is a 2004 Eddie Bauer Ford Expedition. We don't have it yet but, will soon and I am excited. I am most excited about the 4 wheel drive because of the amount of snow we have had to deal with this year. Driving in a rear wheel drive vehicle in the snow sucks really bad. The new one also has a few more perks than our current one so I am excited. Now, that we have that figured out we can move on to our house project. I seriously am daunted by the thought of it all. I have no idea where to start. It is annoying and I wish someone would just come in and do it already. And then I keep having second thoughts about it all....like should we do it because I really want to move but, then there is no where to move to either. Like if we sold our house right now there isn't a single house in Nauvoo that we actually want to live in.
Eden is recovering nicely from the chicken pox....the natural way, the way the body is supposed to. She was a champ the whole time really. She is talking up a storm as well! She repeats everything I say and do. It is crazy! And wonderful!
The baby girl is growing really fast all of a sudden. I feel huge and can't move right anymore. And she is a mover and a shaker! I am starting to freak out a little that she will be here before I know it and I am not ready yet. I have some serious shopping to do. I might have to take a day and drive to the outlets in Iowa City. This Thursday is my ultrasound in Peoria to make sure all is well with her. I hope it all is. I am really starting to get EXCITED! More and more everyday. I bought her a few outfits this past week and forget how tiny she is going to be!
I started menu planning our meals out to help cut down on our grocery bill. And it helps with the whole "what are we having for supper tonight" debate every night too. So far, so good! Jeremy took Liam and went shopping this last Saturday morning. I sent a detailed list and they did a great job coming home with everything I needed.
I feel like I haven't seen anyone in years!! LOL! Since Christmas between celebrating the holidays, being sick, and bad weather, I feel like I haven't seen or talked to anyone in ages! It really hasn't been that long but, whatever. I still have a ton to catch up in with the blog but it is a task that seems so tedious and complicated right now! I WILL do it though.
I had another mother I know that has four boys email last night asking me if there was anything different that we tried to "get" girls!! BAhahahaha! It was really cute! I gave her what little advice I had which was none really but, Jeremy swears he has it figured out!! LOL!! He should write an article on it!! heehee!
Oh and I have to boast for minute! I am so darn proud of Asher!! This whole year he has brought home all A's every single report card. And his behavior is one of the best in his class! I am so happy that he could have Mrs. Winkler this year. It is just such a difference from last year in Carthage. I KNEW he needed a change!
Now, all the other kids have all or mostly all A's, and I am equally as proud of them but, Asher has come such a long way when last year the teacher was telling me he couldn't do certain things and I knew she just wasn't wanting to actually TEACH him the way he needed to be taught. Schools are so frustrating that way. And with the new common core standards it just makes it all the worse. Ugh. But, we will figure it all out.
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