Pics from yesterday......

Here are some of the pics from yesterday. First here's Zachie at the gun range, this boy hates loud noises.

One our way to find good hunting areas.
Looking up from where they will be hunting at. I love it out there so beautiful and peaceful.
Where we first went put the hillside was to steep.
Another view on our way.

Out hunting for a hunting spot......

I'll keep this short, it's late and I'm real tired. Since hunting season opens this Friday Dave thought it would be a good thing to go out and find a place to hunt before this Sunday. That's the day that he is taking our oldest to go hunting for the first time. I don't know who's more excited, Dave or Tristian??? It's pretty funny. My parents will be in town this Friday for the weekend and Grandpa bought Tristian his first rifle which he doesn't know of yet. I can't wait to see his face expression. So meanwhile while we were out driving out in the mountains it was so beautiful I took many pictures those I will post on here soon to show everyone. It made me just want to have my hubby build us a house out there away from everyone. It was so nice!!! We also found a new gun range or at least new to us. And we spoke to the owner got all the info we need to become a member so I'm sure we'll be doing that soon. It was so cute cause our youngest Zachie does not like loud noises well they had the swat team from here out there practicing so I turned to check on him and he was just fine...with his hands over his ears, which I got a great picture of that as well and I'll put it on here too.
So that's all that I have been up to today besides putting away all the yard toys and do our final yard work before the snow comes which we might be getting by the end of the week. It is down to the 20's at night now so here comes Mr. Frost.
Off to bed for the night and I'll get pics on here tomorrow....

Camera fun......

This is what we do when we're bored and having to get ready for bed. Yes the kids are great with stalling. So I decided to put some of the silly pics on here for you to see.

This first one is Sierra giving the camera a kiss and trying to wink for Grandma to see.

Here's Zachie giving his kisses too.
Savannah thrilled and excited about reading this book all in one evening.
Here is all 5 lining up for me....this was a fun one.
Sierra giving another kiss with her big ol' lips..

More of the same....

Well there isn't much to write about except that my ex husband is here in town. He just moved here from Oklahoma to spend more time with the kids. I am happy and worried at the same time if that makes any sense. The kids have spent the last two days with him and they have been very happy, which I love to see. My oldest son has another football game tomorrow morning in Silver Valley and it's the first game that is real dad will see so he's excited about that.

We are going to be getting pumpkins hopefully this next week and I will have pics of those to show off their great works of art....lol. Once I find my cord for my camera I will be able to put alot more pics on here but until then it will just be me typing.

Where's the Maid.....

Well with the nasty cold going through our home I was bound to get it. So needless to say it found me. So between the sneezing, blowing my nose, eyes watering terribly and coughing. I was able to vacuum and do up all our laundry. Now before you say oh just vacuum...hahaha with having four levels to this house its alot to do, and as for the laundry well seven loads..and still going about one left. I really am considering or you could say wishing for a maid. If I can only talk my husband into it wish me luck with that.
Now as for the rest of my day it went pretty uneventful until the kids got home from school and my oldest asked if they all could have some hot coco. I said sure which she boils the water in the tea kettle. Well last time (just the other day) they made it for all five of them they used warm tap water for the younger two being that they are 2yr and 4yr. Well I thought wrong dd mistakenly made my 4yr old daughter a boiling hot coco which she spilt onto her tummy and legs as she sat at the kitchen table. She let out this scream and cry that I will never forget, I jumped up so fast and ran into the dining room to find her soaked in that hot coco. Her older brother was trying to get her up from the table but was having trouble. I grabbed her and ripped her clothes off of her and discovered the blisters on her upper leg and lower stomach. So my sister and I wrapped her up in cold towels. My poor baby girl was hurting so bad. I gave her some Motrin and covered her up good as she shook with chills. But by now she is doing pretty good, the neighbor came with meds and gauze for me to wrap her up and she is now walking around and a matter of fact is in bed sleeping now as is all the kids. There was so much emotions running high that now I am exhausted as well.
Now I sit and wait for my hubby to come home from work and then off to bed we go. Now you can probably see why I say there's never a dull moment in this house..... But I love it and wouldn't want it any other way except that none of my kids hurt.
Until next time........

Loving Autumn

You know summer is saying her final goodbye when the leaves turn from green to yellow and then others turn into orange, red or even purple. You breathe in the crisp air and notice the sweet aroma of summer has turned into the smell of autumn rain still trapped within the skin of clouds and lovers. One senses that this scent of dew will soon become the silent snowflake seeking refuge on your nose. Autumn has arrived and turns your head with her unmasking of a palette so bright as she begins to paint the landscape in hues unimaginable. As if waking from a languid dream you notice that life is in abundant change around you and preparing her creatures for the long cold days of winter.
Soon thoughts turn to pumpkins, homemade pies, raking leaves, crackling fires and steamy hot cider. Autumn is the perfect time for love. No other season comes dressed for the backdrop of a love play like Autumn. With Autumn comes the sense of urgency to get things done quickly before all becomes enveloped in the hush of winter white.
Walking through Autumn leaves with your love brings back a memory of a magic to time as a child when a pile of leaves was so much more than a nuisance. This is a wonderful opportunity to be that child again and play! Invite your sweetheart to hold you tight and just fall into those leaves together and you will find yourself falling in love, perhaps for the first time or the first time this Autumn.
Turn your head and everywhere couples are nestled into each other with soft whispers and their breaths captured in the icy air. Breathe in each others breath and become one. Slip your arms around each other and just take time to notice the days growing shorter and life being lived to the fullest. Harvest these fruits of Autumn and cherish the cycles of our seasons.

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.