It's Almost Christmas!

I cannot believe it but Christmas is almost here! We have all the shopping done, well except for mine and Joe's, but other

than that we are ready! Right now we all have a cold. Love bug woke up Monday morning with a pretty high fever and Joe had to take her to the doctor. For the first time in 2 years she was prescribed antibiotics and her fever broke by

Wednesday. We attended the Christmas party for Joe's work and it was very nice and I got a my filet mignon-yeah me! The car I have been driving isn't working great and is

leaking water horribly. We are having my car checked tomorrow and hopefully it will be on the road by Saturday. Tonight we decorated a gingerbread house. I bought a kit because after all people, I am entirely too busy to make it from scratch. Love bug got to decorate a gingerbread house and I didn't get the headache of making it! Love bug's Christmas program was last week for her school and she was adorable as always! The children did a great job and fun was had by all. Well I will leave you with some pictures and a promise to blog again before Christmas.

Up to Date

Update: We moved into a great house that we found in Deltona and we love it! Love bug started preschool and she is having a blast. She loves her teacher and so do I 8) Her very 1st school play is this weekend and it's of course for Thanksgiving. We are all super excited about watching our little drama queen flex her acting muscles ha ha. A few months ago Joe and I both changed jobs and we love where we work. His boss is an answer to many prayers for him as is mine. Love bug has been a little sick for about a week and a half but she seems to be getting better. I had a tooth ache last week that resulted in me breaking down and going to the dentist and yesterday I had a tooth pulled. Joe got sick this weekend and currently I have the whole family on a regimen of vitamin c and zinc daily. We are all looking forward to Thanksgiving next week. I even have a four day weekend which is a first in many many years. I am just really looking forward to the holiday season and spending quality time with family, friends and lots of good food. Well I have to go for now. I promise it won't be so long in between posts next time 8)

Moving? Maybe...

So for a long time we have been looking for a place to move as our current residence is in foreclosure. These things happen when you have a landlord that stopped paying their mortgage the month you move in. Today we received finalization in the foreclosure proceedings that the property would be sold December 2nd. There were quite a few homes we were going to view today and one of them was in Deltona. It looked promising, but again they all do on the internet and then you see it in person and realize that pictures do not tell the whole story. So the home in Deltona is all that it seems and tomorrow Joe will be going to see the home with us (he was at Promise Keepers today). In other news love bug wants to start dance classes. I am hoping to get her enrolled in either dancing or gymnastics after we move. If all goes well with the house tomorrow we may be moving as early as the next few weeks or as late as the 1st of October. I am so excited about this house! I am just trying to not be so excited. If it is in God's will then it will happen and if not, we will find another home. There, I said it and hopefully it will sink in shortly.
I started a new job this week and I LOVE IT! It is back in the car industry and once you have been in the car industry you can never truly escape. The work is fast paced and you always have a ton of it to do. Crazy I know, but it's in my blood at this point. Seriously I think if you took a dna sample there would be little cars floating around with the genomes.
Love bug is still loving school and is also enjoying riding her bike now. She has gone through another growth spurt and I need to get her some new clothes. I just got her a new outfit and she decided to get into my nail polish the other night and try to paint her own nails. She got some polish on the new shirt and it is officially play clothes now. I might try to find a few new ones tomorrow if I can. Well it is time for the bed as church is tomorrow and the morning will be here quickly. Have a good night and pray for us to find a home!

School...Already?!

Last Friday the Gaylord Palms held a promotion for Friday the 13th (crazy huh) where the first 13 callers to call at 1:13pm would get a room for $13.00. My loco hubby heard about it on the news and called and was the 1st of the 13! So Friday night we stayed at the Gaylord Palms. It is gorgeous! There are tons of water features (it's a huge atrium with streams winding everywhere) and in the water love bug got to see huge coi as well as turtles and alligators. She had a blast! If that were not enough we went to the pool Saturday morning and they have several different pools-one specifically for families. The marine pool had an octopus slide as well as a little dry play area with a snail slide and the two splash pads. We had almost as much fun as love bug did and of course she didn't want to leave but we had to not only because of the check out but love bug had an appointment for her first hair cut. Don't freak out-it was only a trim. My wonderful hairdresser Trish trimmed about 3 inches off of love bug's hair and it looks much tamer now and nothing detracts from her gorgeous mane (biased much-yes I am). Then there was some school shopping and Wal-Mart made me very happy by having everything that we needed and enough cashier's on hand for a change.
So we had a very nice weekend and yet I am sitting here very sad. Our love bug starts preschool in the morning and while I am happy and excited for all that she will learn and the thrill of starting her education this means many other things. My love bug, my baby is growing up and growing up fast. I cherish every wonderful moment and have enjoyed all the stages of her growth, but it is still going to fast. Everyone says children grow up so quickly so enjoy every moment you can. I have done that and still, I need more time. She is my love bug, the little blessing we got to keep. I cannot have children easily and she is the only one we get-why can't I get more time??? My little one is indeed growing up to quickly, and that makes me sad. I am trying very hard to look at all the wonderful things to look forward to with this new chapter and I am happy for them, but at this moment I am feeling quite sad. Just wait until tomorrow morning-I will be a blubbering idiot.
That is all for now. I will post pictures of the new hair as soon as I can and if love bug's first day of school. Goodnight all!

Updates on Stuff

I know that I haven't blogged in a long time and I have much to catch you all up on. Now that I have said that please understand that my love bug wants her mommy, so this will be relatively short but I promise I will post more soon (seriously). The latest and greatest news is that love bug is all set up for preschool (minus the physical and shots uh). She will be attending a church preschool and going 3 days a week for 5 hours a day. I cannot believe she is going to preschool! How did this happen? Where did the time go? She is growing and learning at such a rapid rate it makes my head spin. The only part she is excited about (and she doesn't even know about the shots yet) is that she will get a back pack. I am sure after a few weeks she will run right into her classroom but initially it's going to not be pleasant. I am nonetheless excited about all that our love bug will learn and the new friends she will make. I promise to update more soon and add pictures. That is all for now-I warned you 8)

Changing Templates and New Pics

So it's been awhile since my last post. So love bug is coming up on her 4th birthday and wants to go to the Daytona Beach for her birthday. I can't believe that she's going to be 4! She is getting sooo big and growing by leaps and bounds. There is not a day that goes by that she doesn't make me laugh-children are such a joy. I am pretty sure that we will be heading to the beach for her birthday as she has become quite fearless with the ocean. She can get a little wave roll in over her head and she wipes her eyes and heads out for more. Water in general is her new territory to conquer. More and more she wants to go under water and I am both proud and fiercely vigilant in keeping an eye on her due to that fact. Joe has switched jobs and now works where I work although he will be at another location. Therefore we need to find a house closer to that location so his commute isn't so horrible. We all had terrible burns due to our outing on Memorial weekend (by we I mean Joe and I-Love bug was coated thankfully). I had to go the doctor for mine and also the bronchitis and bad scrape that I had. A heavy dose of antibiotics and all was well. Our camera has gotten even worse and because of that I don't have any super new pictures with this post but I do have several from the past several months.

In other news we have found a church home that we love. The pastor is amazing and the members are equally awe inspiring. I try very hard to be more Christ like everyday but I fail quite often. This church doesn't look down on you for that and recognizes we have all come short of the glory of God and are merely humans trying to be more like Christ. It renews my spirit each week and has been a tremendous blessing to find this church. Well that is short and sweet, but it is getting late and tomorrow is Monday morning. Enjoy the pictures and I will try to blog again very soon.

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Don't Shoot Me-I'm Blogging

I know it's been three months since my last blog and I blame the holidays frankly. So the latest and the greatest. Christmas was great. Love bug kept asking to speak to Santa and luckily I had his number and was able to call him several times a week for her. She did great when she went to visit with Santa. Christmas morning she didn't even realize it was Christmas and came to wake us up just like usual. We had to lead her to the tree and show her the presents that Santa had left and it was beautiful. She squeeled with excitement and was beyond adorable.
Everything has been pretty status quo. We are looking for a new house as our lease is up at the end of March. The house we are in now was not "remodeled" properly and therefore we have had several issues. During the first two weeks in January when it was so cold we had the heat on and it only kept the temperature in the house at 50 degrees Farenheit. The a/c unit doesn't have a heat strip only a heat pump and can't take temperatures that low. Therefore it ran nonstop and my electric bill was two hundred more than I expected.
In other news my 33rd birthday is tomorrow and all week I have been looking back on birthdays and years past. One that stands out in my memory is my 10th birthday. My dad worked very hard to provide for us. That birthday in particular I asked my mom what kind of cake I would get. She explained that we didn't have money for a cake. I said, "we don't have money for the cakes that you buy and bake?" To which she responded we did not. I knew that if my parents could they would have given me a huge, beautiful cake and that it broke their hearts that they could not. That birthday my mom made a fabric heart made of purple velvet and pink lace on the trim and a small quilt for my dolls. I also got a bowl that had tuna fish and mayo in it and it had been shaped into a heart. I wanted a cake, but I was happy for the heart shaped tuna salad. One of the major things I always loved on my birthday were the cards from my daddy. My dad always picked out beautiful cards for me that said just the right thing. No matter how bad his memory got, he never forgot my birthday and always made it point to tell me the story of how I came to be and the joy he felt when I was born. I was talking to love bug today about how her grammy used to make my birthday cake in the shape of a heart and how her grandpa always made sure I had a pretty dress for my special day. She asked for me to show him to her. I have shown her pictures of her grandpa many times and I took her to the hall and showed her the picture of my family growing up. She said, I want to go see him. I choked up. I composed myself quickly and explained that her grandpa is with Jesus now and we can't go see him. She then wanted to call him to tell him about her pooping in the potty (she accomplished that today-yeah!). I choked up again and composed myself again and explained that we couldn't call grandpa but he knows she went poop in the potty and was very proud of her. I miss him. As I write this, I am crying. I am crying because I want my daddy. I want to sit on his lap and lean my head on his shoulder and give him a hug and kiss. I want him to tell me that I am getting old and that he doesn't like my hair color or how short it is. I want to open that card with that familiar writing and I want to watch John Wayne movies with him. My dad always made me feel special on my birthday and now I don't have that and I miss my daddy.