Election Day

Election Day..... what a big ball of emotion that wells up in me.  After Eric got home yesterday we drove to Lebanon County to vote.  We're not registered to vote here yet but we're still registered in Annville.  Eric was already planning on meeting the hoof trimmer at the Gingrichs to get his cows all trimmed up that evening as well.  We headed out to Pizza hut (fail on no spend november), then off to vote.  We then dropped Eric off and went to hang out with some friends from our old ward.  I was really grateful to reconnect with them and we had a good time talking and hanging out. 

 

As we waited for results to come in, I was really nervous!!!  I kept thinking about this statement that was made...

“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.” Valerie Jarrett. A senior Obama Adviser. Quoted 5 days ago.

 

After results came in, I'm still nervous.... then I read this posted by a friend on facebook

 

Remember, friends, "God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." -2 Timothy 1:7. Now, more than ever will the adversary use fear as a tool to destroy. Our nation is divided, almost in half. We are seeing what prophets have foretold of our nation's values and faith in God disintegrating, the very faith that made this a blessed country in the first place. Regardless of what anyone else chooses, let us not weaken in our personal resolve to follow the example of the Savior, to love those around us, and to live with courage in God's great power, not fear or contempt toward mankind.

 

I will be praying for President Obama do what's best for this country.  And I will be praying for a sound mind and greater love for everyone! 

A picture

Let me take a few minutes and paint you a picture of my day yesterday......

Sadie woke me up at 6am.... bright and early.  I didn't mind since I went to bed so early the night before.  While watching the sun rise out my window I read my scriptures and watched Sadie as she tried scooting around on her little blanket.  We then went downstairs and I did a P90X dvd while Sadie chilled in her bumbo.  Does this not sound liek a fantastic start to a day??? 

Sadie had a doc appt at 9:10 so I planned to leave the house at 8:30.  We were running a few minutes early so I figured we'd all get in the car and take a nice leisurely drive to the doctor through some pretty back country roads.  As we walked out to the car.... my hands loaded down with Sadie in her carseat in one hand, and the diaper bag and my breakfast smoothie in the other I was feeling pretty good.  Mom of the year award definitely in order..... then mayhem erupted.  Instead of walking on the sidewalk to teh car, Peyton was walking to the car via the grass..... breakfast smoothie in one of his hands.  Well, unfortunately we still have a lot of debris from tropical storm Sandy and there went Peyton.  Tripped on a very large stick.... He landed straight on his belly, smoothie landing perfectly square all over his head and face. 

Peyton let out a howl of death (only way I can describe it).  Peyton had dark green/brown smoothie everywhere.  It was a freezing day so I took off like a rocket yelling the whole time to Peyton that, "MOMMY IS COMINGGG!!! I'LL HELP YOU.... HAVE TO PUT SADIE IN CAR!!!"  I threw Sadie inside, turned the car on and blasted the heater so she wouldn't freeze her fritters off and ran back to help Peyton.  At the time, Peyton had stood up and was toddling toward me, mouth wide open just howling.  Running definitely did not do him any favors when it came to keeping the smoothie localized where it already had been.   If it hadn't been allllll over the kid, it definitely was then. 

So much for our early start, so much for the darn cute outfit Peyton had been in.  I stripped him down lickety split, baby wiped him down and threw him in the car.  I ran inside as fast as possible, grabbing him an extra outfit and changing myself.  That smoothie had gone airborne and now covered my jeans and cardigan as well. 

As we traipsed into the doctor 45 minutes later (we were only 3 minutes late) I noticed the smoothie on Sadie's carseat, and how Peyton's hair had gone all crusty on one side from dried smoothie that the wet wipes just couldnt' completely get.  I sighed but was just thankful we were there.  This appointment had been cancelled the previous week due to the storm Sandy.  This was her 4 month well child visit and she was already 5 1/2 months.  I was quite anxious to see how her weight had progressed and such.

Despite the hub bub of that morning, as I sat in the room I felt so blessed!  Sadie has jumped quite a bit in weight percentiles, she's on point developmentally and she's perfectly healthy.  What a great day..... what a lucky mom I am to have these two raga muffins to call my own! 

Changes

It's A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. what a few small changes can make in a day..... in life!  Peyton has started to like watching a couple episodes of Thomas the Train.  This is a big deal!  Finally I can use the TV as a babysitter for about a half an hour.  I don't mind how horrible this sounds but I'm pumped.  Up until now, he has to be in the same room as me at all times.  I have to be entertaining him the whole time he's been awake.  And seriously, it's just exhausting some days.  I finally have the luxury to turn Thomas on and go do a load of laundry... or blog! 

I can put Sadie down in her pack n play and she'll put herself to sleep.  This is a big change around here too.  It has been such a stress for me to want this to happen soooooo much but the bottom line is.... I couldn't handle listening to her cry it out.  It just breaks my heart in half.  I know people have been doing the cry it out method for ages but i just don't have it in me.  So all I can attribute this awesome change in Sadie is...... prayer.  I have been seriously praying that I will know what to do to help Sadie sleep well, and easily so I don't have to walk around like a zombie anymore.  She's been waking up 4-5 times a night.....naptimes were battles around here.  Happy to say that she doesn't fight naps anymore and she only woke up ONCE last night.  HUGE BIG DEAL!!  I can't believe how much brighter and better the day seems today to be well rested. 

We now have an official bedtime.  Took us long enough right?  Sadie has been going down at around seven and without much fuss.  But Peyton...... he's never had a bedtime.  We've half heartedly given numerous bedtimes to him before this but nothing stuck.  I think it mostly has to do with Eric's old work schedule.  He'd be out at the barns till 7:30.  I really wanted him to have some time with Eric before bed so we'd eat dinner and play for awhile.  Peyton has just gone to bed with us when we go.  That's just been the way it is.  And he sleeps in our bed.  Touchy subject with lots of people but I'll just admit it.... I like it that way!  Well last night we had a bedtime.... and routine.  We started at six...... took both babes for their baths, brushed teeth, read books, read scriptures, family prayer, then some primary songs.  The minute Peyton's head hit his pillow, he was out.  Then Eric and I had 2 1/2 hours before we went to bed as well.  Woah........ seriously awesome!!! 

Peyton doesn't take naps anymore.  This detail has been ruling our lives lately.  When out to friend's houses, we'll leave before naps.  I schedule grocery shopping, and everything around the nap.  Well, for the last 3 days Peyton has been fighting those naps tooth and nail.  It has literally taken me 2 hours every day to get him to sleep.  Finally I decided it just isn't worth that fight anymore.  Yesterday was the first day without a nap and it was great!  There wasn't 2 hours of utter stress to get him asleep..... he wasn't grumpy AT ALL, all day long and putting him to bed at night was a piece of cake.  AND, he slept in a lot longer. SCORE, SCORE, and SCORE!  Have been dreading the day that there was not a nap but I've actually really loved this change!!

Last but not least change around here..... we've converted to healthier eating.  Let me just say what a new lifestyle this is for us.  But it's amazing the changes that have come from it.  I have so much more energy.... I have ZERO anxiety, Sadie doesn't spit up that much anymore.  And so many more awesome side effects of this choice!!!

November is a month of change for us and I'm so grateful that they've all been positive!!

No spend November

Here we go my peeps.  I've declared it a NO SPEND NOVEMBER!  Totally going to make it work.  First saw the idea on another blog but didn't think twice about it.  Then we moved...... our free time increased, our salary increased, etc etc and I'm totally ashamed of how frivolously I've spent the past month.  Sheesh!  You know the saying, "You spend what you make."  Well, it's totally true.  If you have less money, you'll spend less. (for most cases anyway) 

I had always told myself that when our salary increased we would still spend as little as we could so we could save the rest.  Ha...... but it didn't happen. 

So for the whole month of November I'm going to spend as little as possible.  So it's technically not going to be a "no spend."  I will still do the grocery shopping...... but hoping to hold off for at least two weeks.  We figured we'll probably have to buy one tank of gas because I go to mutual every Wednesday and that makes two trips to the church a week.  40 minutes away.  But other than that.... nothing.  No clothes, not lots of extracurricular activites that cost, going to make a bunch of fun things to do at home instead of driving everywhere. 

I'll let you know how it goes..... I'm excited!

Mud Run 2012

So the mud run...... it was pretty much awesome!!  Thank you Amber for doin it with me!!!!  We are totally going to do it again.  There were walls we climbed, holes we had to jump in and climb out, creeks to cross, tunnels to crawl through, barbed wire we had to crawl under, slip and slide and lots more. 


Here are some pics of the race.... the picture above is of me and the few under it are random people in the obstacles!!!







It was awesome!!!!!!!  Amber and I had our own little cheering section.  Next year Eric said he'll do it too.  Can't wait.  I'm not gonna lie, it was tough.... real tough.  I didn't train as well as I should've and I sure felt it.  The walls were the hardest for me.  I don't have any upper body strength which was crucial to those since you have to hoist yourself up over them.  But we finished.... and it was fun! 

 Our before picture.  We totally didn't coordinate outfits but after we got out of our separate registration lines we realized we both chose teal shirts and black bandanas.  Ha, we must be related!!

 The fan section, minus Chin-chin.

 The start of the race, we were still bounding with energy and just excited to get started.

 These three guys were our running buddies.  We helped each other through.  They started with us, and ended with us.

 This is right after the finish line.... Peyton didn't know what to think at first.  But once he knew for sure, it really was his mommy, he gave me a big wet hug.

 That's what Sadie thought when she saw me at the finish line.

 After wading through a few creeks and walking through mud hole after mud hole, we had lots and lots of rocks in those shoes.  Felt great to take them off!!!!!

We survived!!!!!!

Sadie Mae

Well, Sadie is eating solid foods now..... ish.  She hated rice cereal, and carrots at the beginning.  So we tried apples and bananas.  She loved the bananas. 

Then she got sick this week.  She had a horrible cough and was super stuffed up.  Well, haven't been able to get her to eat solids again.  She is all better now but everytime I try, she turns her head away.  Oh well, we'll wait a couple more weeks. 

She is five months now!!  Has just a skiff of hair yet.  Boy, has she found her voice.  She loves to scream, just jabber away or just sit there and sigh over and over.  She sure cracks me up.  She still spits up like you wouldn't believe.  Baby food has helped a little........  we go to the doctor for her new stats. 

She can't crawl or anything like that but she sure does move.  We'll set her on the floor with some toys and when we come back she's clear across the room.  She can roll over back to stomach and stomach to back, along with scrooting herself backwards gradually. 

Man, I'm lucky to have her! 

Dreaming...

We've been perusing the auction/home for sales section of the newspaper and these are the top two houses we want......too bad we don't have a money tree growing in our backyard.

Fall Fun

We love a park near Eric's grandma's house.  They have a huge train that you can explore and play on.  Peyton lovessss it!  They have lots of fun walking trails, playgrounds, horseshoe court, sand volleyball court, and basketball courts. 

We went to a Fall Farm Festival a week ago and had a blast!  We always love events that have free icecream and all the chocolate milk you can drink! 

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I can cross one thing off my fall bucket list and that's a hay ride. 

 They drove us by an awesome barn with a flag on the roof.  Then we went to a compost barn.  I wish I'd taken lots of pictures to show my dad.  He woulda liked it. 

 They gave us worm poop there.  Just what I've always wanted.  It was a good day!!!

 Then Peyton and Eric took a few turns on the "train" while Sadie and I chilled, drinking some chocolate milk!!!

 Have I mentioned how much I love fall yet?  Ok,, just checking! 

Sadie is 4 months!

Baby Sadie is 4 months!!!  Boy, is she beautiful or what?  She is such a smiley happy baby!  She is soooooo ticklish!  She laughs and laughs and laughs!  She has found her hands and feet now.... obviously.  I do think she's teething though.... poor gal.  Don't see anything inside yet but she sure is fussier lately and always gnawing on her fingers or blankets/objects. 

She only goes to sleep by being swaddled tight, put her binky in, and walk/bounce around with her.  Then and ONLY then will she sleep.  Unless it's 8 p.m., then you just stick her in her crib/travel pen and she's out for the count. 

This month she's down to 17th percentile again but we are now seeing a really good pediatrician.  She is no longer on any reflux meds and I don't have to watch what I eat.  At her appointment a week and a half ago she was 11 lbs 14 oz.  So we've officially moved her into her 3-6 month clothes.  WAHOOOO!!!!  Grow Sadie, grow! 

Her big brother absolutely adores her.  Whatever he's playing with or doing he'll walk over to Sadie, get down on her level and tell her what he's doing.  He is also constantly asking to hold her.  It cracks me up when they are lying next to each other.  Sadie will flail her arms about and accidentally hit Peyton and he'll laugh and laugh.   

I love my kids like crazy!!!!!!!

Priorities

Ya know, sometimes I wonder if people think we're super poor.  I know it shouldn't matter one way or the other but I just want to say that I FEEL rich.  I feel like I have everything we need! 

It's also freaked me out last Sunday after talking to three families..... their stories are all the same.  They are the only member of their family living away from Utah and they hadn't been back for 5 years.  Another family said 8 years!!!  Say WHAAATTTT/?>>>!!!!!

So let me just sum up both thoughts above by saying....... we don't have a flat screen TV, or Ipads.  I can't afford all the new fashions.  Look at my house.  We don't even have a couch or entertainment center yet.  On first glance, no wonder people might think we're poor.  We spend our money on different things, that's all.

Last night we stayed up buying tickets for Utah.  About a grand later......... and I feel great.  We get to go to Utah as a family (first time in forever) and welcome my little brother Zach home from his mission!!!  We're buying memories..... we're doing everything we can to strengthen our relationships with family members... not letting them dim!! 

So come on over, take a seat on the floor to watch some football........ eat our outdated yet delicious treats from the scratch and dent discount grocery store and ignore the stink bugs that crawl through our old old old windows (that are still waiting for the pros to come replace them)! 

I'm not judging either.  These are our priorities..... what are yours?

Nepal

Today my little sister, Lacey leaves for Nepal!  I'm more than a little jealous!  By this time tomorrow she'll be looking at beautiful places like this.....

And this.........

Lacey is going with a charity organization with University of Utah for 3 months.  Boy, does she deserve it!  She's been working non-stop for money for this trip.  One day when we're rich, her and I will travel the world together!!  She's a traveller by heart and wants to see the world, and I'm the same way.  Mexico is as far away as I ever got though.  One day......

Let me just mention that I went physcho sister on her for the last week though.  I've just been so worried about her going and something happening to her.  Let me just blame it on anxiety issues.... but seriously.  Poor girl has had to listen to my incessant phonecalls and putting up with all my advice.  (DON'T wear makeup, cute clothes, be in before dark, don't go anywhere alone, and on and on and on).  There is great peace and comfort available through priesthood blessings though!  Hallelujah!!

Have fun Lacey Loo!!!!!  See you when you get back!

Nursery Success

After 9 months of Eric or I going to nursery with Peyton EVERY sunday, he is finally by himself now!  Is he happy about it? NO.  Do I feel bad for his leaders? YES.  Are we making him "suck it up?" YES. 

The nursery leaders are A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!  His old nursery leaders were awesome too but these leaders have been in this calling for 27 years!!  Yes, you heard me right.  The story goes, everytime the bishop approached this couple for another calling, he would say that if they released him, he'd leave the church.  I think he was just joking but that's how much he loves it!! 

We have tried EVERY approach to the whole nursery thing but finally settled on, sneaking out and letting him cry it out.  We're hoping that after a few weeks he'll be ok because he knows that we always come back for him!  We tried sneaking out before which resulted in teh poor kid waking up all night long with nightmares and screaming out for us.  I would have to hold him close and whisper over and over, "Mommy's here," till he fell back to sleep.  But I finally think that the timing is right! 

Eric and I sat together for the first timme in forever for Sunday school!!!!  So peace out nursery, I won't miss you!!!  Actually, I really do enjoy the snack time....

When Peyton got home from nursery this day and we were discussing what he learned, he kept pointing to the people and telling me who they were.  So we wrote, Ty-ty, Bun, and wee-wee!

Training

So, yesterday I started my training for the mud run in Philadephia, Oct 20!!!!



I sucked!  Sheesh, having babies sure does a number on a person.  I let Peyton come with me (pushed him in the jogging stroller) and he kept looking back at me like, "Mom, you ok?  Sounds like you're dying to me!"  I was a huffing and a puffing but I didn't die so that's good. 


My cousin is doing it with me, LOVE HER!  Amber used to live in Philadephia so she's getting us the hookup to spend the night on Friday with some friends and we'll run bright and early on Saturday!  I've always wanted to do one of these runs and I need some motivation to shake off the rest of this baby weight henceforth...... the mud run!!!!!!!  Truly, I can't wait!  The game plan is to get used to running the next week and a half then, upping "practices" to twice a day so I can be in shape!  BRING IT ON MUD!!!

SPA in the woods

In the midst of all this cofuffle at our house here, I was able to get away for a weekend camping trip.  It was AWESOME!!!!  Spa in the woods.  I met a lot of wonderful people, left the stress and worry about my house behind, and was spiritually uplifted. 

The Friday evening that it started they had activities in four different areas.  A manicure cabin (with snacks), a facial/makeup cabin (with snacks), zumba cabin (with snacks, and a hairstyling/haircutting cabin.... you guessed it, with snacks.  The activities in and by themselves were awesome.  I didn't really participate because I had Sadie but oh boy....... did we have fun or what.  There was a few gals from my new ward that buddied around, going from station to station eating...... and eating.... and eating some more.  Good thing I hadn't eaten dinner before! 

After all the stations, there was a wonderful fireside.  The speaker just so happened to be from my new ward......... her name is Sis. Fernelius and she is my friend, Amy Olson's sister from Lebanon ward.  Small world eh?  So Amy just so happened to be there that weekend.  Sooooo good seeing her!  Sis. Fernelius spoke about SPA.... Satan's paralyzing Attacks, and how he will make you feel like you're not important and she did such a good job.

    Then, the party began.  Everyoe went to their own ward's campsite with their assigned cabins and "went to bed."  Ha, this new ward is party central!!!!  I checked out at midnight because I knew Sadie would be up bright and early, not to mention a feeding int he middle of the night.  Lots of ladies stayed up till three though.  Can I just say that I'm going to L-O-V-E this ward!

This weekend came at just the right time for me.  My mother in law was sweet enough to watch Peyton for me over night and Sadie was an angel camping.  It was soooo relaxing and really helped remind me to focus on the important things in life.  Lately it feels like I'm worrying all the time about this house and feeling anxious about unpacking everything quickly.  It will be ok, all the boxes will be there tomorrow.  I need to sit down and enjoy my kids, read my scriptures and take time to thank my Heavenly Father for all His blessings!! 

P.S. I love LOVE LOVEEEEE camping!!!  And I don't think I ever mentioned above that this was a relief society activity!

Fall!!!!!

I heart fall!!!!!!  SSSoooo excited for the sweaters, chill in the air, no more mosquitos, bonfires, caramel apples, changing leaves, halloween, snuggling in blankies, and MY BIRTHDAY!!  I serioulsy love birthdays! 

Putting together a bucket/to-do list for us in the month of October!  Can't wait for all the fun stuff I have planned.

In other news around here, our new flooring went in last week.  So we've FINALLlY started unpacking.  About dang time.  What a stressful month it's been for us.  This place is starting to resemble a house though and I'm sooo gratefull! 

I have a new love.  It's called B.B's scratch and dent grocery store!  Seriously....... i am using some serious self control to not go there every day.  It's wonderful, glorious, magnnificent!!  We got packages of 10 candybars (crunches, dove chocolate, nerds, musketeers, etc etc) for $1.50.  Yes, can you understand my love now!  Dang, I'm gonna get fat...... ok, fatter.  Still working ont hat baby weight! 

p.s.My birthday is on October 10th......... presents are welcomed!

Through thick and thin

We are here!!!!  Finally found the plugs to the computer and internet so wecould charge em' up.  I am soooo grateful to be here and oh boy, am I loving Eric's new job or what!  Which is why I'm ok dealing with some of the "not so ok" moments we've had lately.

•  We ordered a "too small" moving truck so had to enlist the help fo Eric's dad to run back and forth with his tiny pickup truck to finish moving all our stuff. (let me just clarify that it was Eric who ordered the too small truck.  He is horrible at that kinda stuff so why he did it without consulting me is just beyond me, ha) but serioulsy.....
• We have a roommate.  Yup, besides the mice, spiders, and stink bugs that seem to abound in the new place...... a gal named Hannah.  She's a really great girl, but........ it's awkward.  Don't know what else to say about that.  Yesterday was a celebration though because she found another place and signs her lease tomorrow!!  (this is really a super long story so I might have to post about this another day)
• The toilot doesn't work.  sigh...... i think going in an outhouse would be easier at this point.  We had horrible luck with the toilot in our old house and now this one.  Did I ever mention that a week before we moved, Barry called us at 1:30 am to tell us our toilot was running.  WHAT??!!!  So the water in that toilot was always running when it shouldn't, the toilot here doesn't even have a handle.  Oi....
• We found out the day we moved in that if we decide to use our own washer and dryer, we can't wash clothes and then run any other water in the house for at least an hour (kitchen sink, dishwasher, shower, etc) or the basement will flood.  awesome...
• That same day we also found out that the addition to the house, which includes a mud room and extra bathroom is totally disfunctional.  We can't use the outlets because they got fried in a flood and the plumbing has never worked out there.  cool.....
• I've already caught one mouse..... practically bare handed.  Saw a little mouse here for a couple days and boyyyyyy, do they ever gross me out.  I set up like a bajillion traps for the little bugger.  Well, yesterday as we came odwn the stairs, the mouse was right there.  It ran underneath a blanket and I ran over to stomp on it, right before I let my foot come down on that thing.... I got really grossed out.  I didn't want to feel it squish right under my foot.  I wanted to hit it with a hammer or something. (by the way, I'm throwing away that crazy blanket..... good thing it was just a cheap  knock off snuggie) So it ran in between the boxes.  I'm trying to work up the courage to squish it........ and the crazy thing runs into the vacuum hose attachment. (it wasn't hooked up to the vacuum itself, it was just the attachment on teh ground)  So I trapped it!!!!! mUAHaahhhaha!!!  But how in the heck are you supposed to kill a mouse inside one of those things.  Beats me, so I left it for Eric to take care of when he got home. fantastic......
• This house is like an animal refuge.  The second girl that lived here moved about 3 weeks ago and she had 7 cats.... our roommate now has 3 cats and a dog.  And Eric and I are really not animal lovers, let alone, INSIDE the house animal lovers.  Seriously grossed out by all the hair, etc etc.  It smells.  Wow......
• We were planning on painting all the walls, so we got started.  Have spent countless hours, patching holes, calking floor boards, scraping paint off, scraping wallpaper off, replastering walls, texturizing walls........... this my friend's, is a complete renovation.  A heck of a lot more than we bargained for.  Great...... 
• The paint color we chose for the whole entire house is not exactly what we had in mind.  I swear on the paint card it looks perfect...... but on our walls, it looks pink.  Sweet......
• All of our furniture and boxes are crammed into the middle of the rooms on the first floor so that we could paint, etc. My house looks like it could pass for a hoarding episode at this moment. Sick....
• The date for us to get all new carpet and linoleum was pushed back two weeks.  ugh...
• We are still living out of suitcases. ughh...
• No room to unpack anything since we have a roommate.  All bathrrom and kitchen cupboards are taken. mmore ughhh......
• My lil guy is bored to tears........ toys still packed up and climbing up and down stacks of boxes is only fun for so long. 
• Getting sick.....

It's been interesting.  We've had help all along though.  So many wonderful people showed up to help us move out and lots of people were here on this end when we arrived.  Sooooo grateful for that!!!  Eric's grandma let us stay at her house for the first week since she's moved into an apartment and her home was vacant.  She also made us all our meals everyday..... she's a saint!!  We actually have Eric to help us....... that in and of itself makes everything and more worth it to me!! 

We slept in with him for the very first time in such a long long time on Saturday.  We all took a sunday nap together and he got to hang out that whole day with us.  I could go on and on. 

Let me just say it's been sooooo worth it BUT, we are currently looking for a new house to move into.  So I'll keep u updated on that.......

Sadie Mae: 3months old

Sadie Mae is such a fun, beautiful, smart, perfect little baby!!  She turned three months old 3 days ago and what a couple of months it's been! 

She's had issues with reflux since she was born but the last couple of months it's seemed to just explode into a horrible, never ending battle.  I'll feed her and she'll spit EVERYTHING up and then some.  It's so frustrating to feed her and for it to be all over her and I, 30 seconds after she's full.  My shirt seems to always be covered in spit up and her outfits are always soaked.  We go through laudry like you wouldn't believe.

I started worrying about her awhile ago when it seemed like all of my friends would comment how small she was and how it seemed like she wasn't growing at all.  Sure enough, her percentiles keep dropping and dropping and dropping.  She was 46th percentile at one month old, then 22nd, then 21st, down to 14th........ yikes. 

I must admit, our doctor isn't the most proactive lady you've seen.  She has not been any help at all.  So we've come up with a "fatten up Sadie plan"by ourselves.  She will sleep 8-12 hours at a time at night so I've been waking her up 2-3 times to eat.  She tried a reflux medicine for 3 weeks that didn't seem to help that much, so I've cut out all milk/dairy, and eggs from my diet.  I record everything that goes into my mouth so we can trace it back to her frequency of spit ups.  And you know what, slowly but surely it's working.  

She went from 14th to 17th in one week. (We go in for weekly weigh ins) Then onto 19th the next.  She's holding steady at 19th and we'll go in again on Tuesday before we move.  

It really is such a worry for us.  I'll do pretty much anything to have a healthy happy baby!  Other than that, she is such a FUN FUN baby.  

She's such a little talker, so social.  She can burp and fart like a grown man which cracks us up so much.  She is so smiley and now laughs at us.  She is as ticklish as they come.  She's an explosion waiting to happen.  She'll go 2 days w/o going #2 then we'll hear an explosion and it will be over everything!!!!!  Clothes, vibrator, swing, person... etc.  While sitting in her little chair she'll look around and get so excited about everything.  She'll kick, kick, kick with her little hands just shaking with excitement.  

Sadie is good at holding her head up, she's rolled over back to stomach and stomach to back, laughed, smiled, and hair is growing super fast this month.  She is still in all her 0-3 month clothes but hopefully soon we can graduate to 3-6.... it'll come with her "fatten up" plan.  

We love her like crazy!  Peyton loves his little Sadie and is so proud of her.  Praying for a good month and we'll keep on keeping on.    

This crazy life

*sigh* It feels so good justs to sit down for a couple minutes.  I've been on turbo speed the last couple of weeks!  But, my house is 95% packed!!  Hallelujah!!!  Now moving onto cleaning everything.  We go to the new house on Monday to pick out all new carpet and paint.  Looks like I'll be diving into Pinterest head first today to figure out some paint color ideas and such. 

There sure seems like a heck of a lot more to do with this move then there was with the last one.  Eric's been busy calling all kinds of cattle dealers and connections to sell all our cattle, we've been juggling trips to and from Shippensburg to get things transfered(bank accounts, etc) We've been taking loads to Goodwill and wherever to get rid of stuff, putting lots of stuff on Craigslist to get rid of, selling all our chickens. 

Same place, same story with Eric and working.  He's been working the same amount of hours which leaves me alone with all the packing... and the watching of the kids and such.  We've been really blessed with so many helpful people.  I've had a couple people come over this week to pack boxes from the kitchen. 

Sadie turned 3 months a couple days ago and oh boyyyyyyy, what a baby!!  This month has been filled with numerous doctor appointments to get everything straightened out with her health.  I will be posting a whole post on that itself later.  When I've got two more seconds to string together. 

There have been a couple fun dairy meetings to thank employees that we've gone to as well.  One at Mark Hershey farms that we brought our friend's the Sabey's to.  Yummy icecream, food, and train rides.  Then another one for Holstein Field night for Lebanon county a few days ago.  Yummy food again with lots of icecream and big blow up toys to jump on. 

  Have I mentioned that Peyton is addicted to chocolate icecream!  This was after Field Night!!  As we were leaving he needed an icecream cone to go. 

Eric took us out to our all time favorite restaurant one last time before we move...... mostly to get us out of the house.  (going stir-crazy a bit)

My cute kids!!  Peyton looked dashing in his sunday suit.  Love the flipflops with the suit.  Too bad I've already packed all kinds of things that we're missing lately.

Let me just say how great the hubs is to me!!!!!  Stress, lack of sleep, and worrying about Sadie has probably made me a bit grumpier than usual and he's put up with it all.  Well last night he told me he had a surprise for me.......... i love surprises!!!!  We drove to the outlets, he dropped me off with a wad of cash, told me to have fun and went to play on the playground with the chilluns.  Best guy ever!!!!!  Has been a long time since I went shopping!!! 

Eric has five days left of all day  work............ countdown starts now!!!!