Happy Easter...He Is Risen!!

So today was our first Easter in Idaho....and I thought "I hope it doesn't rain, that's a WA thing." We awoke to the kids running down stairs to our bedroom and telling me that the Easter bunny left them baskets with goodies. Shortly afterwards I came upstairs and asked them what is the importance of this day?? And the older two (11 &10) said it's the day Jesus was risen. Very good I told them. So we all got ready for church and left. All looking so cute, they had no Sunday school so they all sat with me. Savannah had a really hard time sitting still. I thought I came prepared with blank paper and pens and pencils. But apparently not, she just wasn't very happy to day. I told her she needed to have a happy heart. We had company over with her daughter and we did the Easter egg hunt in our backyard. All was great we had a garden area that we used just the younger two. And it started to sprinkle then down right rain so they hurried up and we came inside to see what all the eggs had. Needless to say they we're all happy.

My parents are coming tomorrow (Monday) and might be staying for a week but not sure how long. They are bringing their 5Th wheel and staying next to our house. I miss them terribly and can't wait to see them. I truly wish they would retire and sell their house and move here, they have already told me they liked it here. We are going to have alot of company over the next few months. I am excited about it but worried at the same time. I have been praying that my husband will be getting a job and a job with insurance at best. I pray and the Lord will answer. I truly believe everything happens for a reason and he has a plan for our family. I have kinda been feeling a little weird lately but in a good way. I have been having this calming feeling, we struggle everyday because of fiances but who doesn't. But I still feel we'll be ok. As long as God is in our center of our family we will be ok. I love the humbling feeling that that gives me. I am so blessed with 5 healthy children and healthy husband and I good expect my headaches but I continue to pray for that. My Dr is sending me to a specialist in WA, so we'll see.

May God continue to Bless my family and our Home.........

Spring cleaning......

So this last weekend I got a bit of the cleaning bug. As a family we cleaned out all 5 bedrooms of unwanted toys, clothes that either don't fit or are worn out and all the garbage that tends to collect with having 5 kids. The only part of the house that was not touched was the garage and that's a weekend chore all to itself. When we moved we kind of unloaded the uhaul into the garage and then moved what we needed into the house. Needless to say there is still so much out there. We are going to be taking dump runs, and I am starting to make a pile for the yard sale that we are going to have in April. It's amazing how much stuff you accumulate over time. We have thrown and/or sold so much stuff over the last 3 years and there still is so much, it's crazy. I figured since the weather has been totally crazy here that I best get stuff done inside. Almost all of our snow was gone then two nights ago it snowed then it did it again last night. I really can't wait for Spring to arrive. I have two great garden areas in our backyard that I am excited to get working on. I plan on having a vegetable garden and flowers/plants as well. I look forward to my kids helping me with them. I am always looking for ways that the kids can learn from doing. We as a family have also found a new love that the kids really enjoy, oh yeah and Dad too and that is skating at the rink. We have been there this last Friday and Saturday and we are going again tonight. It's cheap entertainment when you have a family of 7. The older two are doing pretty good at it, they practice here at home all the time. And the younger three...yes including our 1 year old, well they love it too. Savannah our 7 yr old is the most scared of falling but she's getting the hang of it as for our 3 and 1 yr olds they want to go and go and go.

Feeling blah......

That's how I feel...blah. This day hasn't started like I wish it would have. As I wrote before my husband was trying to get on with the state well to say the least he didn't get offered that job. It is really upsetting and makes me even more worried about the future. This is because this month our insurance ends from the Army and I will no longer have any. I am in great deal of medical insurance because....here's the other blow. I had a CT scan done last friday do to frequent headaches, well they found a 1cm tumor on my right side of my brain. So yeah I'm nervous about that outcome. All I can do is pray that God has a better plan and that he will show it to us. My husband has had so much weight on his shoulders about this job. I have been a very understanding wife and I am not upset with him at all. I know he did his best. I just think I am loosing my faith, which scares me the most.........

Short version of my life

Well where do I start......I guess I will go back to when I met Dave my husband. This is my second marriage. I was married before and had 4 of my children with him, and yes they were all planned. I was with B since I was 17 years old till I was 27. Our relationship was well over by the end of 2004 when he told me he wanted a divorce in Nov. A friend of mine called Dec 11Th and wanted me to go out with her which was I think maybe the second time I went out to a bar that year. Well my life changed for the better that night and I was even looking for anything. All I did was walk into the bar and he was standing right there....... Paying for my way in that night and showing me what life was all about. He was in the Army which just one month before my mom and I were driving home from a Toby Keith concert and I said to her "I can never imagine being married with a soldier, and how hard it would be to have a family". Well never say never is all I have to say. Well we met that night and dance and dance some more he made me feel so good like I was the only one that mattered to him. Nothing that I have ever felt before it was like a fairy tail. We hung out off and on but at least as much as we could, I worked full time and he was in the Army training and getting ready to deploy over seas Jan. 13Th 2005. He helped me move out of my house into a new place in a new town about 4o mins away from my ex. He got me all settled, I was just praying to god that this would actually work out. I mean how many people do you know that this all works for..not very many. I at first just thought he was promising me the world but not sure why. He didn't have to but he did. He proposed to me Jan. 6Th on my mom's birthday, I will remember that forever it was a very special night. Of course I said yes, but was very scared. Remembering he was getting ready to leave to the sandbox not knowing if he would even come home to me. He made sure that if something was to happen to him that the kids and I were taking care of financially. So the big day came and we put him on a plane, that was a very sad day for me and for my kids, he gave them all so much attention. He taught my oldest son how to ride his bike, he would get down on the floor and play with them, he would help them with their homework. He is just truly an amazing man. Not many of those out there in this crazy world. So he was to be gone for 1 year and come home in July to get married and then return and be done there by Jan. 06 and be done with the army unless he re-enlisted again. Well that was the original plan but that's not quiet how it all worked out. During the first six months it was really hard for me, I felt pretty much like a single mom with four kids. I was planning our wedding for our July 9Th date, that date is very special to me it's also my parents anniversary day. Let me tell you planning a wedding was difficult to say the least with 6,000 miles in between us. Lot's of pictures, emails, texts, and letters back and forth. I was very thankful for the fact that he had Internet and a phone to use quiet often. I remember my mom telling me how lucky I was to have all this stuff at my finger tips because when my dad was in Vietnam it took weeks to get a letter to him or vise versa. With all that Dave has done for us, I felt like I won the lottery but I had to wait to collect my prize.

He ended up coming home on Father's Day June 05 because my youngest who was 9 months old when I met Dave, was in the hospital with some really bad lung infection so the Red Cross contacted his unit and they ok'd him to fly home early on leave. Everything with her got a lot better. We continued to get things ready for the wedding etc. It was such a beautiful day that we married. My Grandpa from Southern Oregon and my aunt and uncle came along with all of my sisters and nieces. I loved having them all together, that's doesn't happen very often. My father and my Grandpa walked me down the isle and I was about to start crying when I seen my dad that day for the first time. See with my first wedding we (B and I) just went down to Reno and got hitched, nothing fancy and no one there. So when I saw my dad all dressed up I couldn't believe it but my life is changing for the best. My Grandpa walked with broken ribs but it meant so much for both of us to have him there, he was 90 years old. Well at the end of the day when everyone left a friend of mine took our kids for the night so we could be kid free. We had a bonn fire party out at our house and my friends house that lived next door, out in the country with a total of five acres, I think. After lots of partying and drinking I was heading to our home and Dave took off to take a walk. Well he ended up stepping off the side of the road and rolled down a ravine and messing his knee up. So needless to say we spent our honeymoon in the ER. Well since his knee wasn't well enough to travel back to over seas I got to keep him home. We went to the ocean with the kids and friends of ours and about a month later we found out that I was pregnant with number five. Not exactly planned but we knew it could happen, if that makes any sense.... Baby Zach joined our family in June of 06 and a long story short he just got out of the Army after 2 1/2 years on med hold. We moved from Washington to Idaho, half way between his family in Boise and mine in Western WA. We got a house that fits our family perfect. The only thing missing is acres of land but that's it. The kids all love their school although I have my issues with it, their happy and that's all I want.

We have entered a new part of our life and that is trying to get into shape and be healthy. We joined a Gym and we now have a nutritionist and trainer. So there is no excuse for us now. Dave is trying to get on with the state which so far is going great. I am enjoying being able to stay home and being a mom. I want to be the best wife and mom that I can be, of course there will be challenges and I am willing to take them on.