Our new house needs.....

......A dog!!!!

We went to the animal shelter earlier this week and fell in love with a chocolate lab. So, we deicded to get her! She comes home tomorrow afternoon!! The kids are so excited about getting a dog. It's our first family pet! Aww. I'll share pictures once she's here! :)

Things in the new house are finally settling down. We still have some unpacking to do but we'll get there. I love my new house!! :)

A new home!!

Rob and I went today and it's official! We are homeowners!!!! I'm so excited. I"ll be much more excited when we're all moved in!

A day at the patch!

My good friend A is in town and we were able to get together today and take the kids (all 7 of them) to the strawberry patch. It was so much fun! Boy did we get some looks tho--the two of us with all these kids. :D

what's a trip to the patch without a picture of the berries themselves!





Her girls loved feeding David strawberries (and he loved the attention)

Alexis figured out the big, dark red berries are the sweetest, and she was awesome at finding them!

Robby loooooooves strawberries. :)


Haley liked eating them too, but quickly grew tired of carrying her bucket.


And David mainly enjoyed eating them. As long as he had a berry, he was good to go!


After we were done picking, we had a picnic lunch, and then let the kids play at the playground.





And what's a few photos without some black n whites thrown in there :)



The kids had a blast and are already asking when we can go back to pick strawberries!

A letter of thanks.

Dear TUMS inventor,
I'm sure I speak for masses of women, both pregnant and not, when I say THANK YOU for inventing these:

Not only can I get relief from indigestion, now I can do it without feeling like I'm chewing chalk--something never good when you're already nauseous to start with!

And although I'm not willing to try certain flavors (the cocoa and cream just doesn't sound appealing) I'll stick with the berry flavors and I'm good to go.

So thanks. My insides say thank you too.

out of the mouths of babes

A couple days ago, the Robby and I were discussing what we should have for lunch.
(me) "What about tuna?".

(robby) "No, I'm allergic to tuna".

(me) "You're allergic to tuna?? Since when?"

(robby) "since forever."

(me) "Do you know what allergic means?"

(robby) "It means you don't like it"

(me) "No, if you're allergic to something you get sick...like itchy eyes and throat, or a rash, etc"

(robby) "oh, like allergies right?"
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Today the kids were picking out a movie to watch. Alexis was looking through the stack (the stack of "we're-too-lazy-to-put-them-back-in-their-cases" movies. She can sound out most words now so she was reading the title of one...

(alexis)"p-rrin-cess....... PRINCESS......di-a-rr-eee-as......DIARRHEAS. Mom! It's Princess Diarrheas!"

(me) "it's not diarrhea, it's diary............don't you know what diarrhea is??"

(alexis) "Ohh yeah...ewwwww." *blush and giggle*
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I love those weirdos!

You'd think by now I'd have the pregnancy thing down

With all my previous pregnancies, I've had little to ZERO morning sickness, nausea etc. Sure there was tiredness but I guess with 4 kids 5years old and under, tired doesn't really begin to describe things.
This time around, things have been very different. I'm nauseous constantly, I'm usually in bed and asleep by 9 (much to the dismay of all my online friends who I used to talk to at night) and nothing helps! I've tried eating smaller meals more often, tried all the ginger ale, saltine crackers...nothing. And if I even look at the toothbrush, the back of my throat starts to tingle like I'm gonna gag. *shudder* I guess I should look at the beauty of praying to the porcelain god so often....my toilets have never stayed so clean.
I'm really hoping that this morning sickness (or ALL DAY as in my case) will subside as I get into my second trimester. My poor family hopes so too, since I have a hatred for cooking because nothing ever sounds good and who wants to cook while you're nauseous!?!

We've also been actively looking for a house to buy, and have had some bad luck thus far. We actually liked 3 houses, but none of them worked out, for various reasons. But we press forward knowing that *the* house is out there for us. :)

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