New addition to our family

So as you now know my parents have moved to Kansas. Well...there is one thing that they had to leave behind. Something that Maddox simply could not live with out; I mean they are the same age and have been raised together ALL of their lives. So...I my camera is dead at the moment but I have a picture of what he looks like...and by he I mean Griffey! Griffey (or Dude as everyone calls him) is a 4lb chocolate tea cup chiuaua...

He looks just like this only he has HUGE eyes...and that's an understatement! So there you have it...our knew addition Griffey! I will post pics of him when I can use my camera again. He is such a sweet heart and absolutely LOVES my kids! He's so protective..for example...when Mado was about 9mths old he was trying to sneak crawl out of the living room at my parents, and Griffey knew Mado wasn't supposed to leave that room by himself so he tried to pull Maddox back into the living room by his socks!!! It was too cute!

Five Year Plan

OK...I was wondering the other night Where is my life going? I finally have declared a major that I am going to stick with, I am married, own our own home,  and have two beautiful children! So what's next? So I sat down and figured out my five year plan as I like to call it.
Ok so here it is...

• Get my license as a LPN in December 2010
• Graduate with a degree in Nursing (RN) December 2011
• Find a job...shouldn't be too hard because nurses are in high demand.

Ok so there's 2 years so far...next:

• Work while Derek finishes his last year of college...he graduates with a IT degree in December 2012.
• Derek finds a good job

There's three years...

• Purchase some land in the country somewhere around Barren county or the outskirts of BG...
• Work with contractors on designing a new house to out on this land...put our house on the market
• Have this house built on our new land, just the way we want it!

Hopefully thats about four years or four and a half...

• We now want to try for another child...our kids will be 4 and 5 years old by now, and we will have a bigger home and have careers...

Side note: this time we will be hoping for a girl...we have picked the name Lexxi Grace...perfect!

So there you have it...that should take up the next five years of my life. I feel much better to see that I do have an interesting future if God willing it goes as planned!

Oh and we have a new member to our little family...there will be a post about that soon!

A few of my favorite things

Thats a few of MY favorite things!

Mado would like me to share a few of HIS favorite things:

BARNEY...yes this is my sons all time favorite! We watch Barney about and average of 5 times a day, but sometimes more!

TREATS! This his new favorite food I'd have to say. Now you have to know that I don't allow my kids to eat "treats" as maddox calls them all the time, but I do give him a treat when he goes potty, finishes his meal and so forth. So for him it is a treat, but I like to think of it as a reward.

COZY COUPE: We bought Maddox this for his 1st birthday, and he LOVES it. I often catch him in his room going for a "drive" and talking on his cell phone while singing to the radio. He has such a great imagination!

And last but definitely not all of his favs:

OREOS: Oh how he loves them...I only buy them every other time at the grocery otherwise that's all he would eat! He loves to pull them apart and only eat the side with the cream!

Well bye bye for now...I thought I'd share a few of our favorite things!

Wizard of OZ!

There you go! My beautiful boys on Halloween!

OK I'LL SAY IT!

Ok so I will start with a little background...
I was born in Granit City, IL in 1986. You see my family originates in the St. Louis area; we are one of those GM families...Anyway prior to my birth my loving granddad was transfered in 1981 to little 'ole Bowling Green, KY, and my dear dad missed him greatly. Well, a year after my baby brother was born in 1989, my parents decided that moving closer to my granddad would be a good idea and safer for us kids! So there you have it...I wasn't born here, but I have been raised here in BG since I was 3yrs old! Ok so...more history (because I know yor're are dying to know my family history!) well in 2002 my grandfather passed away which was very hard on me seeing that he and hhis wife were the only family that we had here in KY. Now last year his wife...my step-grandmother, passed away, so it was just my immediate family left.

Now down to the point...why did I tell you all of this you ask???!!! Well, just like my G-dad got transfered in 1981, MY DAD is getting tranfered to Kansas in 2 weeks!!! We are a very close family, and this is VERY hard for me. I can't be away from them, but I have my own little family so I can't just packed up and go to Kansas. I am so upset because my boys absolutely adore my dad [as do I], and now they won't even remember him because they won't get to see him much. It is heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking. I just can't stand the idea of being 8+ hours away from the only family I have left around here. I know my brother and sister are still here, but...not my parents! I guess I can do it, but I kinda don't want to, you know? I just hate that Maddox and Jakk won't get to see their grandparents but a couple time of year!

So there you have it...that's what I have been struggling with lately!