we are still here

almost a month since my last post. We have been so busy with moving and trying to settle in. I must addmit that it is tons of fun decorating. those that know me would know that decorating is such a girl thing that I would stray far from it. Gosh darn this married life. It really girlfies me. Just to prove my point I actually own 4 pink tops that I wear often and like it. Crazy! anyways, Thayne and Kaydee have adjusted very well with the house. We have alot more room and they have thier own rooms. This makes Mom happy!!!! Scott is loving taking care of 6 acres. It's like he Feels all grown up. O.k. well we both feel grown up. So to sum it up we are really loving our home.

This is our mud room / entrance to the house. I found the crates at an estate sale. they are old fruit crates, and the window panes at the same estate sale. I plan to put us holding the letters to "tennant" and have various size pictures spelling it out in the top window pane/ shutter thing. The side ones will have clay pots cut in half with flowers in them hot glued in the window opening. There is a window pane thing on both sides. They will also contain pictures on just the kids. The baskets we got at target to hold our stuff. Thayne's is the red one he picked it and kaydee is the khaki one. As this space comes together I love it more!

Our entertainment center. it's huge. 10 feet huge! I found it on Craigs list at a steal of a price. They were remodeling and needed to get rid of it. It is custom made and just beautiful! so much storage.

The photography business is doing awesome. I usually average two shoots a week. this Friday i am helping a friend shoot a wedding, and then on sat evening I will be shooting a huge dance. Next week I have a beauty pageant. Keep your fingers crossed on that one. If I do really well than they will let me do them all. I'm so excited for this opportunity.

scott has been flying regularly everyday. good thing cause we really need the money for house payments. He is so much happier when he is working...as is all men.

Kaydee is crawling...well she does more of an army crawl. so dang cute. And Thayne is a true brother by stepping and rolling all over her. He is in time out A LOT!!! a true big brother.

This is her newest trick. Getting on all fours.

The previous owners had this leopard here and when we came to look at the house Thayne loved it. So the realitor asked them if they would give it to Thayne. He goes everywhere in the house with it. Always hitting Kaydee with the tail.

We finally did it!!!

WE are the proud owners of a house. We are so excited that we can say it's our house.....yea...it's OUR HOUSE!!!!! but the sad part is it's alot more than rent. I don't remeber much about the closing. Just a bunch of signatures...ALOT!!!! and then tada...it's your house. Crazy how it works.
We move Sat. That's best for getting all the church members to come and help. So it's all done. i guess that's it and we are in a new debt. And we did this why? oh I remeber cause now we can say it's ours. It's an expensive word.
Pictures of the house are in an earlier post. Just scroll down to see it.

More Pictures....my poor children!

Yes! my poor kids. Most people do once or twice a year pictures of their kids....I tried for that goal but it's to hard when you have such CUTE kids! So one day between the horrible rain storms there was a break. Kaydee had such a cute outfit on I couldn't pass up the opp. and Thayne dressed himself so cute (mom did not have a hand in it) Pictures just had to happen. I had to bribe Thayne with candy to sit in the wagon. He is getting the hang of making mom give him candy. Extra candy to get him to smile. He is to smart, but I got great pictures.

So my problem with all these cute pictures is that I can't display them all. Help me choose three. Although I might just have to put them all up. kaydee's room will have so many pictures of her.

family updates

So Alot has happened in the last little while, but since we are so focused on the house and waiting for the loan I have forgotten about updating on the family. so he we go..... Kaydee's first hair style. So cute!!!!
She is almost crawling. She is at the stage where she rocks back and forth then lays flat.

Loves her swing. She is so cute!!!!

We had SO much rain! two days straight of Heavy...heavy down pour. Tornado's did touch but not near our house. They did affect some of the members homes but every one is o.k. You can see our yard is a river, the rivers filled up fast and there is a lot of flooding going on... we are on high ground so we're good. We let Thayne play in it cause it was fun.

Finally the sun came out so I took him to the ditch to "swim" This ditch never fills up. But it quickly filled up with two days of intense rain. It was a scary storm, I won't deny that.

Thayne loves to ride his bike so we take him to Scott's airstrip to ride. Our house only has dirt and grass and he gets stuck. so here he can ride with ease. (a week before the rains)

Earlier we sent out an e-mail about being accepted in an art show. This is my picture "Flint river sunset." We didn't win anything, but were still excited to be accepted in the show.

This is my other picture. "It's a long way to the top" I like this picture a lot.

This is Scott's picture "Twilight." Yes, he really took the picture, but I had to set up the camera and help him with the shot. He saw it and knew what he wanted.

we took Thayne to his first fair. Well, it was a parking lot (really safe) fair. He Loved it, I don't know any child who would hate it. I think we had the most fun. It is so much fun to take him to do things for the first time.

This picture cracks me up. Scott barely fits. It's Thayne's first ride.

This is My milk man. Scott loves acting, so he participates in the local theatre. It's called Swamp Gravy. They preform local stories about local people. They take the historical stories that they gathered from talking to the locals and put them altogether in a play. It is always so good. Look up the web site. www.swampgravy.com
Scott is always wanting the family to participate....I am not an actor. So I don't, and I haven't let Thayne participate because performances go until 10:00p.m. But next year I offered to do the pictures for the theatre and during performances I was going to Take pictures for the tourist. You know the whole souvenir thing. Stand in front of a backdrop that says "swamp gravy" maybe have a cast member stand in the picture. and charge them $7.50. I think I will do pretty good. so now the whole family will be involved.

Believe it or not but tour buses bring people in every performance. They come from all over.

So that's what's goning on!

Very high stress levels!!!

We got the O.K. for the house. So that's it right? wrong. Someone was absent from work the day the papers came through the offices for everyone to sign off on their part of t he loan. Well, that missing O.K. is causing us another week of delay. This person allows pools to be apart of the loan. Apparently this particular loan does not include a pool. WHAT!!! who ever heard of that. so it's a big deal that the person who was gone really needed to give an O.K. Sigh, so once again we are left waiting and waiting and waiting.........this is so annoying. we planned on having everyone from church help us this weekend. but I have not packed for fear it would be a "NO you are not approved " why pack if you get denied. the closing was suppose to be last Friday, but than this came about. SO our mortgage guy said we should know Tuesday by the latest. well, it's Tuesday night and no word. Buying a house is too hard!!!!!!!

we're buying a house

We have been waiting on getting approved for the loan. WE HAVE BEEN APPROVED!!!!! And so now I can post and tell everyone that we are buying a house! We are so excited. It's our first one. So the house has 4 bedroooms and two full baths. It's about 2,000 sq ft. The thing we like the most is it has 6 acres. WOW 6 acres. And i can garantee that the price we are paying for it will make all your mouths drop. It is such a deal. It's WAY less than 200,000. WAY WAY less. WAY WAY WAY less. I think my point is made. It is a sound house. It needs no repairs. The roof was just put on two years ago, the heating/ air cond is only two years old. all the windows are brand new. The barn that you will see in the pic is brand new. the kitchen has all been re-done. The pool was just converted to salt water. Seriously, it is such a deal. we are so excited. we will be moving in the last week of march.
Also the other thing we like or I like is in the front yard there is a 30' by 20' (maybe bigger) slab of concrete. An old house was there and then burned down. It's a perfect spot for a studio!!!!!! O.k so look at the pictures and drool over 6 acres.
p.s. this is not our furniture.....I wish!!!

front of house

The barn. Great pic opps for the business at the barn. Tons of storage space inside that barn.


Screened patio over looks the pool.

Kids bathroom. It has two sinks.

The pool. Thyane will have so much fun!!! and Kaydee.

New counter tops too!

still in the kitchen. I like how the living room is right next to the kitchen. as is in most homes.

I did not take pictures of everything but you get the gist of the house.

The living room. The little girl is our realitors daughter. right behind me is a mud room and next to that is the laundry room.

This is for you Evan

o.k evan you wanted it so these are for you.

For every one else Scott has been wanting this helicopter for a LONG time. after much waiting for the mail to bring it. It FINALLY arrived. You really can't tell but on this day we are under tornado watch. this is a small break between storms. enough to let scott fly his new toy. All day we had HIGH winds. Something you don't fly anything in.


First attempt.

First real attempt
last attempt before ordering parts to fix it.