Long time no See

I saw a dear friend of mine, Traci Hammond at Kid's Fun and Fitness yesterday and she reminded me that I haven't updated my blog in forever. So I thought I'd do that really quickly. I get on facebook so often now that I have a hard time keeping up with my blog. Anyway, here's a few things I've worked on recently that will help update you on our lives. Go ahead and comment if you even read my blog. I figured no one reads my blog anymore, so if I get enough comments, I may start blogging again :)

Wow, lots to update on

Well, its been since November 2010 since I last updated my blog. That's crazy. Since then, we've had a great Thanksgiving and Christmas in Dallas, changed jobs and moved to Kentucky in February, had some close calls with Tornadoes in Kentucky, went to the Kentucky Derby, then Brad's job transferred us back to Washington. Most of you already know this, and I'm much more faithful to facebook now than my blog, so I apologize to all the bloggers out there that still think I'm chillin at home in Dallas semi-retired :) We're excited to be back in Washington and we're really happy here :) Life is good!!

Semi-Retired

Yep, I am. I'm Semi-Retired. I quit my full time/over time job and now I'm Semi-Retired. I never thought it would be a difficult transition but I struggled there for a few weeks. Trying to figure out what to do with my time. I started cleaning my house but that wasn't very fun, so I gave that up pretty quick. I did recently unpack my office, that feels really good because I can now reach my computer with my eyes closed without tripping over something. So that was really productive. I decided I should start doing our laundry instead of picking the "less dirty" out of the dirty pile, and that has helped our family hygiene immensely. For real though, I'm really enjoying being a Mom again. Being there emotionally for my kids when they get home from school. Helping them with their homework and interacting with them. It takes working full time to enjoy those little things that most get sick of after doing them every day.

It's cold and rainy today. High of 61, low of 47. I turned on the heater and oddly enough I love the smell of a heater that hasn't been run in 9 months. It's like the sure sign that Fall is here. If I could I'd go to Hobby Lobby and spend hundreds of dollars on Autumn decorations and decorate my house all up for Thanksgiving. I don't think we're going to do anything for Thanksgiving this year, just stay in Dallas. We recently went on a Cruise to Mexico with the whole family and my parents, and before that we went to Las Vegas and Cancun, just Brad and I. So it's been a super busy year, lots of traveling. So I think we'll stay close to home.

Now that I'm Semi-Retired I'm sure I'll get back into blogging, so feel free to check up on my blog again. I'll post some super cute pictures from Tori's Baptism on here soon. That was October 9th in Washington. I forgot we went to Washington in October too. Man, we've been all over the place! But it's been an incredible year!

J. Hilburn's New Video-This is why we moved to Dallas...

Sorry it's been so long

This was definitely blogworthy:

Abbie- "There is a boy in my class that has a crush on me. He likes me even more today than he did yesterday"

Tori- "How do you know he likes you?"

Abbie-" He keeps hitting me and smiling at me. And I don't like it. I wanted to tell him to stop liking me, but I don't want to hurt his feelings."

Me- Tell him you just want to be friends, but you don't want to be his girlfriend."

Abbie- "I don't think that will work. He likes another girl too."

Tori- "That means he's cheating on you!"

Abbie- "Hmmm, he IS cheating on me."

Me- (trying to hold in my laugh) Tell him he has to choose between you and the other girl. That's how I got your father to make up his mind, he's gotta choose one or the other. Then hope that he'll choose the other girl so you'll be off the hook :)

Happy Anniversary $2500 later!

Brad and I had our 9th anniversary on 5/11/10, we went to go see a movie from about 5:30-8:00. Dropped kids off at some good friends of ours that have kids their age to babysit. Came back and Abbie was on the couch crying with an ice pack on her head. Our friend said she fell but she's okay. Tori convinced me to come outside to see where she fell. She fell off of the trampoline, hit her head on their ladder and then the concrete. Abbie's headache got increasingly worse so I called our pediatrician and went to the Urgent Care Clinic. Both places said to take her to ER. So we went to the ER, they did a catscan, came back with "She has a decent size fracture in her skull, we need to send her by ambulance to Children's Hospital, then she'll stay overnight over there for observation. That way if anything gets worse they have the ability to operate if they need to there, but right now its just for observation." So they gave her an IV, strapped her down on one of those board things with the neck brace and all and I rode with her in the ambulance, went to Primary Children's hospital and upon arrival about 20 doctors/nurses/etc. were all in the room surrounding her. It was pretty crazy. In about 5 minutes they realized she was fine, no need to even send her there, they were kind of annoyed because she didn't have any bad symptoms like passing out, or dizziness, or nausea, so they unstrapped her from the board thingy, took off her neck brace, gave her a Popsicle, and she hopped and skipped out of the hospital at about 1:30am. So THANKFULLY she is fine, but sucks that we have to pay for two ER visits AND an ambulance ride, but I'd pay that in a heartbeat if it meant she was okay. At least we have insurance. Holy cow it was scary though, and I'm VERY tired. :) I'm thinking we'll hit our Out of Pocket Max for the bill $2500, what do you think?

Happy 9th Anniversary Brad!