MOVING to Georgia?!?!?!?!?

Last weeks miscarriage was difficult but we are fine. I have had geat comfort through everything. I know there is a reason that it happened. I know that our Father in Heaven has a plan for us and he is looking out for us. I am allready starting to see the peices of the "big picture". Tim came home from work on Friday and told me that his company is moving to Georgia no later than July 1st. I thought "Oh great, he needs to start job hunting" Which would be so sad because he LOVES his job. (He is the Manager of the Training and Certification department. He trains Doctors and re-sellers on how to use their medical billing software. And he gets them certified. He LOVES teaching them and he loves signing those certificates. He even has a special pen for it. :o) He is cute) Then he told me 11 people out of his company were asked to go along, and Tim is one of them. We havent decided to go yet. Tim had a bunch of questions for them before we decide either way. Like job position and compensation. If it is a good enuf offer, we will go. They have allready given us some great benifits. Tim will get a great bonus just for staying with the company until May 1st. Weather we stay or go to Georgia, he gets that money for staying with the company until May. They will also give him an allowance if we decide to move. They will pay for us to take two "Home buying" trips. They will pay for someone to come in and completely pack up our house and move it along with our cars so we don't have to drive to Georgia. Yay! I don't like to travel for more than 8 hours. We have been fasting and praying about it and we feel like no matter what happens that everything will work out fine. We have felt great comfort about whatever happens. My mom really doesn't want us to go. My sister Shawntel, moved to Holland in June and my mom is still having a hard time with them being away. She is afraid of what our kids will learn over there. We have a cousin in Arkansas that we saw this summer and they were laughing about how screwed up their school system is there. Some of their spelling words are like, you-ins and we-ins. (I don't know how to spell it cuz they arent even words :o) But anyway, it is funny. Hopefully Georgia's schools are better. But who knows, it is the South and East. Tim's company is moving to a town called Alpharetta. It is about 27 miles North of Atlanta. It is soo beautiful! We would be living in a near by town since we would not be able to afford a house in Alpharetta. We are looking in Sugar Hill (Forsyth County) and Cumming. Another really cool thing is that two of our friends that live out here, work with Tim and they were also asked to move. Tony and Monika Peterson and Tim and Beth Jackson. They are really cool. The guys have so much fun together. We really hope that if we go, that they will go too. I think it would be fun if we all moved together. I would miss all my great friends here but thank goodness for e-mail right???? :o)

I miscarried :o(

Well...I miscarried today. But I am doing ok. I called the Dr., they said when I go in tomorrow for the blood test, they will schedule a D & C if needed. Oh what fun! :o( I think the hardest part was telling the kids. They have been so excited about this baby. Kenna stared to cry a little, she had little tears. It was so sad. She gave me a geat big hug. She said "so, we are not going to have a baby boy anymore?" I told her we would try again in a few months and probably be able to get pregnant again and have a healthy baby boy. That made her feel a little better. Tyler was sad too. He is such a sweet boy. He asked if I was going to be ok. I told him I would because I have them.

I am probably having a miscarriage...

Well....I had my long awaited ultrasound today. I should be almost 11 weeks. It measured me at 5 1/2 weeks. She couldn't even hardly see the baby or babies. She couldn't see if there was twins. She could see the sack and that is it. No heart beat. I had my blood drawn today and I have to go back in on Wednesday to get it drawn again. If my Hormone level is higher on Wednesday than it was today then I am still pregnant but if it drops on Wednesday from today then I am Miscarrying. She said my uterus was not measuring large anymore. So..... I don't know. I am trying to think positive but it is really hard when this has happened before. And I know I should be farther along than 5 weeks. I took my pregnancy test 4 weeks ago. So, all signs are pointing twoards a miscarriage. :o( If I find out everything is ok on Wednesday then I will let you know. I acutally wont know until Thursday because it takes a day to get the results back from the lab they said. Im a little bummed out, but I am trying to not think about it too much. I don't want to go into tears and then find out Thursday that everything is fine. So for now, I am trying to stay positive. I will let you know Thursday.

TWINS!???

Well, here we go again! I went to the Dr. She said there is a possibility that it is twins! I have an "oversized uterus" I have 4 choices. 1.) A Molar Pregnancy, it is a fake pregnancy. Your body thinks you are pregnant but it is just a rapidly growing growth and makes your uterus larger. I doubt it is that because I feel pregnant for real. 2.) Another kind of growth along with the baby, like a syst or fibroids. That can make it larger. 3.) Extra Amniotic fluid. I could just have more fluid than normal. This is typically not a bad thing. OR 4.) TWINS! Call me crazy, but I am rooting for twins. I have an Ultrasound Scheduled for Monday the 24th. We will find out then, what is going on.

It's FINALLY DONE!!!!

Tim worked ALL DAY SATURDAY to get this done for me. He is amazing!

Getting the shelfs in.
Katrina has her shopping cart and is shopping in mommy's new pantry.
soo cute!
Tim's baby... He built this food rotation system for me. It holds 120 #10 cans. It works awesome!!! Where trina is sitting will be more shelfs and the freezer. I forgot he still has that to do. :o) So it is ALMOST done.

Chopped My Hair!!! Thursday, August 16th.

So, I got tired of it being long and went to my neighbor and had her chop it!!! Luckily, she used to work at Ralph's in Scottsdale and Tantrum's in Mesa. So I totally trusted her. She did a great job! I love it.

Getting closer to being done....

Busy working... doing what I can while Tim is at work.

Staining the floor was so much fun!

The new room/pantry outside
Inside the new room/pantry
Front room

Painted the front room.

We are PREGNANT!!!

DUE: April 20, 2008! Wow, that seems so far away! The kids say it's a boy, we think so too! We will find out in December.
Well, 5 days later, I had to take another test. And this time it said we are! I took another one to be sure and it said yes too! :o)
This was the test 5 days before when I suspected we were pregnant. It said Negitave.

FISHING!

The kids had so much fun fishing. I think we were there for 3 hours. It rained off and on but we were under some big pine trees so we didn't really get wet.


Below : OUCH!!!! Tyler got hooked by Kenna's hook.



Ok, so this is our only "real" catch. A crawdad. We were not trying to catch thes but they kept grabbing on to our bait when we would reel in the line. We got 5 of them and threw them back. This one was the biggest.

Ward Family Campout!!!

We went camping with our ward. It was so much fun! The kids loved it!

We had Dutch oven pizzas for dinner and peach cobbler with icecream YUMMY!!! The kids made alot of new friends and had fun getting dirty! Afterwards, on our way home, we went fishing. They LOVED it too!

Still Remodeling...

So, getting this all done is taking a while. I thought we would be done by the end of the week but here it is, 3 weeks later and it still isn't done. Accept for the shower, it is all done. :o) Here are some updated pictures. It is slowly coming along. I try to do what I can during the day while Tim is at work.

Our shower is all done. YAY!!!

Im painting the new room. It is a pale blue called "Waterfall" I really like the color.

Tim and Sean, installing our doors. YAY!!!

The doors are in, tim is cutting of the peices of wood sticking out.

REMODELING!!!

We have been very busy this last weekend. July 13th we started to remodel our house. Not that it really needs it. But, since we decided not to move to a bigger house, I told Tim we needed more storage space. Here are a few pictures of our Remodeling. They got alot done in the past two days!!! I will update with more when it is all pretty and painted.

This is what it looked like before we started. I loved the big open room but some of it was just wasted space to me.
Tim's out cutting wood for the Framing.
Tim and Sean had the walls up in about 45 min!!! I was so impressed!
Tim and Don (our neighbor) Tim's screwing in the drywall.

This is the room with all the dry wall up & it's first coat of tape and mud.

Tim and Sean putting on the second coat of mud.

while the boys were busy working on the other room, I came in the bathroom and started working on our other project. I riped out the walls around the tub. We currentlly have a seperate shower and tub. I decided the tub was wasted space too. So, we are going to rip out the shower and make it another closet and our tub will be a shower with two shower heads. I don't ever use my tub. I don't have time to sit and relax. Otherwise I would keep it.

We will have a shower head on each wall where the holes are.

What Tim will look like in a few years with a full head of Gray hair. Tim's covered in dust from sanding the walls. After you apply the first layer of mud and it dries you have to sand it and then apply another layer of mud and wait for it to dry and then sand it and then another layer of mud... you get the point. It is a long process.

What I will look like with gray hair. (in 30 years of course ;o))

Our bathroom before we ripped out the shower.
What a MESS!!! Getting the shower out was a BIG PAIN!!!
Applying the glue and tape. That glue really STINKS!

Sanding and getting ready for the second coat of mud. - This is where I have been spending most of my day for the past coupple days. Kenna came and asked me why Im always in here. I told her I am trying to get it done so I can have my shower and bathroom back. :o)

Arkansas Trip - June 2007

One of the Highlights of our trip was that Tim got a call from the VP at his company telling him that he is getting a promotin at work. (This is him on the phone at Disneyland) He did several Interviews over the past month for a job position at his work for the Product Manager of their Medical Billing software, Medisoft and Lytec. (His friend is the product manager of Medisoft he was applying to be the Manager of Lytec) But several times through the inerview process he was asked if he would be willing to take a position to be the Training and Certification Manager over both Medisoft and Lytec. He thought alot about it and decided that he might like that positon better. So he accepted the offer. He starts July 2nd - Monday. We are very excited!!! And most importantly Tim is excited. He will still do a little traveling, atleast once a quarter. But it's not alot. :o)
On our flight home from Arkansas we had a layover in Dallas, Texas. We enjoyed dinner at Chilies. Katrina is putting Crayons in her ears. I don't know why she has to put everything either up her nose or in her ears.
We had another stop in El Paso. Trina is trying to get her wiggles out before flying from El Paso, Texas to Arizona.