Feeling like home now :)

Our house is finally starting to feel like a home now. Granite was installed on Monday and dishwasher and kitchen sink were hooked up yesterday afteroon. I cooked our first meal last night, although Brayden and I were sad daddy didn't get to enjoy it with us. I made poppyseed chicken casserole with a side of green beans! It was yummooo!!! I'll be cooking it again, and a plus was Brayden LOVED LOVED it. He ate 2 plates of it :) Anyway, really all we like now on the house is having the outside painted and a few touchups on paint on the inside, buy gas logs and get gas tanked moved from my in-laws house. They've had a tank for several years that they haven't even used, and so graciously are giving us the tank :) Which by the way is saving us a ton of money for having to rent one each year and or trying to find a used one for decent money which can take a while to find. So thank you Sandra and Victor! We do appreciate it so very much :) So I just now realized that I never blogged about our trailer AKA pull behind!
We sold it on August 10th and the movers came and picked it up on August 20th. It was a very bittersweet day. Brayden watched the guys through the whole process of getting it moved. I didn't cry, I wanted too very badly but I didn't. I know we had outgrown it, but its just the fact that its the first place we ever lived together, Brayden's first home... :'( It just makes me sad to think that we won't ever see it again. I'm glad that we sold it, I was really scared that we weren't. God took care of us after many many prayers! I think about it all the time, I'm weird I know. I mean we have more room in this house than we know what to do with, we aren't stepping on each other, everything has a place to go, AND that red furniture is gone!!! Tad and I to this day have no idea why in the world we wanted red microfiber furniture! A little piece of advice, microfiber and kids DO NOT mix!!!!

 

 

That's about it for tonight :) Brayden and I are super excited about watching Eli tomorrow at the football game, he gets to start :)
I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week and weekend :)

We are Here, There and Everywhere!

So, its catch up time once again... I've became a slacker once again. :( Here we go..

We are in the house!! Wohoo, the kitchen isn't finished yet, but will hopefully be done tomorrow ;) I'm so excited about seeing the granite around the fireplace. We still have lots of things that aren't in the house. Like our dressers are still at my mommas house and all of Tad's clothes and the majority of mine..Brayden's clothes are all in the house. I think the painter is going to start on the outside sometime this week! I can't wait to see it, its yellow.. Tad picked it out :)


Brayden is growing so fast! He now prays for every meal for the family, if you have a conversation with him he'll say "you think thats a good idea?" I'm like whoa! Where are you learning all this new stuff?? He has FINALLY learned how to ride his bicycle that we got him for his birthday. He's gotten really good about saying Thank you and Your Welcome.

I pick up the Russell kiddos Monday through Thursday from school and keep them until Aunt Sam picks them up. Brayden and I enjoy it, we love to spend time with those kids! :) I went to the Dot Mom conference this weekend, had a good time... I did tear up twice because I missed Brayden. I've never been anywhere without tadpole or my momma. So this was a little out of my comfort zone. I had anxiety about it all last week, but wouldn't let myself back out of it because I knew God wanted me to go hear all the great things that I learned. I made it through and I'm glad that I went! Tad and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on September 5th. We enjoyed our day together in Prattville, Montgomery, Troy and Enterprise :) We traveled all over that day. We had a wonderful day, despite the awful looks we got in Jim N Nicks in Prattville. The people eating there stared us down the whole time we were there, we ate and got OUT!

Brayden and Sophie, I love these 2 kids! They crack me up, They say they are boyfriend/girlfriend. Tad, Brayden and I LOVE us some Sophie now! If Toyia and Kyle would give her to us, we would take her no questions asked :)) Soph decided that she wanted to go home with Brayden and I one day and of course I let her:) She also told me this morning that she was going home with me after church! I might just have to get her one afternoon soon:) *cough*cough* Toyia! *L*

 

My momma bought an underwater camera for her diving trips and you know us, we HAD to try it out on one of our Saturday pool days!

 

 

Dot Mom

 

Our living room as of this afternoon :)

What a day! Whew...

Yesterday, what can I say....it was a LONG day and a busy day at that. I got up first thing and got ready and dropped B off at school and I headed to Dothan. I had to go register for school :( I so did NOT want to be doing that. Anyway, once I got to school..everything started off wrong, of course I don't have patience for stuff like that. Especially when its something that I really don't want to be doing. The highlight of the morning, was seeing my advisor! (Aunt Sam will understand) :))haha. I finally left school around 11 something. Then I made a visit to see April at work. I then attempted to go to sherwin williams to pick out a stain for the cabinets for the house.... Unaccomplished I might add, I am still very overwhelmed! I went a couple of weeks ago to pick up some samples of the colors we wanted for the house and while I was waiting for the samples, I looked at the different colors of stains, well..... I think I stood there for 10 minutes LOST OUT OF MY MIND!!!!! I have absolutley no idea of what I want. So, now I have the stain samples with me at home...and I am still undecided...and I have to give my contractor a color TODAY! OMG! I know, I have no idea what to do. The guys got finished yesterday afternoon doing the sheetrock for the house and the electric guys are out there now hooking up power! WooHoo! :) Of course the windows didn't come in yesterday like they were supposed too, supposed to be here tomorrow around lunch now...so we will see! Highlight of the afternoon was somebody called about the trailor, they sounded very interested in it. Maybe something good will come about that. :) A little off subject, but I've been "rug" shopping for the house online and at some stores in Destin, did you know rugs are ridiculously expensive??? Its crazy how much rugs cost... with that said...I have yet to purchase a area rug for any room of the house! I don't have any pictures for this blog, I actuall probably do...but I'm to lazy to go find my cord to upload them :) Happy Thursday to everyone!!!!

House Ideas

I thought I would do a post of ideas and things we have for the house!

This is the granite that Tad and I picked out for the kitchen and the fireplace. Its called Hurricane Gold...

These are the lights that will hang over the kitchen island and over the kitchen sink. 2 will be over island and 1 over sink. They will hang down, so it'll be like the second light!

These are a few pieces of tile that we've been looking at for the bathrooms and laundry room...pretty much all have the same color scheme...

This is the shower curtain for Brayden's bathroom

This is the china cabinet that I have picked out, and our contractor is building us one just like it :) My grandmother's china is going to look awesome in it!

This is our frig.

My stainless steel farmhouse sink for the kitchen! my favorite part of the house :)

Pictures of the house from this afternoon, they started of the sheetrock today :)

The rest of the windows are supposed to be in tomorrow! Say a prayer that they will.

Family Beach Trip 2012

We had our annual Family Beach Trip a couple weeks ago. We normally stay in Destin on the beach, but everything was pretty much booked up. We stayed in SeaCrest between Destin and PCB. It was soooo nice! Very quite and relaxing...not alot of people on the beach but we did catch a wedding at the end of the week :) It was about a 30 minute drive into Destin, which I only made 2 trips there anyway. PCB was much more closer, maybe took 5-10 minutes to get there. I love PCB, I miss our annual PCB trip we used to take everyear before I graduated high school. Anyhow, we had a great time of course, although it does get crazy with 6 families under 1 roof for a whole week. Seaweed was awful :( Sunday we went to St. Andrews Park and seaweed was awful there too. Brayden of course didn't mind and loved diving into the water.

Aunt Sam and I sent all the kiddos with Uncle Wayne and Tadpole at the Commons! :) We took the picture and ran!!HAHAHA

Momma and Uncle Rusty found this during their dive on Sunday at St. Andrew's. They saved it because it was empty and so neat looking. It was really cool in person, well until the crab started to come out!!!! Nope...not empty! I had it on my leg and it started moving around...scared me to death!!! Not cooL!

 Eli rode with us into Destin on that Tuesday. He was watching Open Season 2 and was cracking me up how into the movie he was. I just had to have a picture of him all into it!

 This station wagon was at the outlets when we got there... I immediatly took a picture and sent it to my daddy. We used to always make fun of paneling cars... This one is def. in the top of my list with the blue painters tape! :) bahahaha

 Thursday night, Brayden started running fever :( It was a rough night for us. Friday, no fever that morning so we tried to go out on the beach and he didn't even want to play.. He sat in his chair for a little bit that got in my lap with his towel over him... Made this mommy sad!!! You can tell in this picture that he doesn't feel good at all.

We had a great vacation, but its always nice to come home! We missed our "new" house all week and were very anxious to see it the Saturday we came home.

Happy Birthday to my Aunt Sam! I love you and hope your day has been absolutley wonderful. Hope you enjoyed your sushi tonight :)

 

Moving right along

June is coming to an end... which means my summer is getting shorter and shorter! :( I'm ready to start back to school but I've enjoyed not worrying about studying for class or doing homework. The house is coming along! We are so excited about it. Brayden asks every night when the guys leave if we can move in yet, lol. Bless his heart, he's ready to move in his new house! Its moving pretty fast, but I'm sure it'll slow down once they start working on the roof. My sink came in today, I haven't seen it yet in person. Our contractor took it home with him and is bringing it back tomorrow so I can check it out. April and I went shopping today and I got all the towel racks/ tp holders for all the bathrooms and also got the 2 half baths mirrors. I get more enjoyment out of buying that kind of stuff than I do buying clothes and such. We have made some changes this week to the house..mainly just finalized the back deck and extra slab for garage and front porch steps. We did add another closet to the master bedroom. I just felt like we needed some extra room! It is looking bigger! THANK GOODNESS, I'm not freaking out anymore, which I sure my momma and daddy are thankful for... Poor things had to hear me whine about it for 2 weeks. I have 1 more week of working full time, then its down to 2 days a week for me! I can't wait. I enjoy having the extra money, but I miss being home with my boys :( Sometimes I think I can do the whole stay at home mom thing, but those days when Brayden and I clash and get on each others nerves I don't think I can handle being a SAHM... What to do?? I have plenty of time to decide that tho :) Anyway, Its WAY WAY past my bedtime!

This was Oki and I on her birthday, She is 6 years old now... Where has the time gone too??? I love that little mini me to the moon and back.

My sweet overly confused momma! I guess she thought just because she had on her scuba wear that she would see some tropical fish in the pool.... *bahaha*

                        

Our sweet boy before church on Sunday morning!

This is what the house looked like when I got home this afternoon! I told ya, things were moving fast!!! I can't wait to be in it!

GOODNIGHT Y'ALL! :)

Lazy to Busy

Okay, I know I've become a huge slacker when it comes to blogging. I say each time I blog that I'll try to be better and blog soon....Well, lately I never do. Since I've started this job, I have found that I no time for the computer really. I get home around 5:30-5:45 each day, we eat supper, B gets a bath and we go to bed! Pretty boring huh? By Friday I am completely worn out. This week was VBS, so I didn't get home until 9-9:00 each night and got up bright and early every morning at 5:15. Tad finally got to call on Wednesday night on my way home from VBS, and I was the happiest girl ever! It was so good to hear his voice. He's been so patient with me this week because I know he's been dieing to know whats been going on with the house and I wasn't able to show him pictures until Wednesday. The house is coming along, its pretty much all blocked up now, waiting on  the plumber to run the pipes and all. It looks so small, it freaks me out.. I called my mom this afternoon and kept asking her if she thought it was going to be to small...haha... she of course laughed at me and said it will be fine! I've complained to Tad enough, that he finally just said that if its not big enough then we'll save some money and build on! *L*I know they all look small before the walls and all start going up, but I have been really freaking out about it.. Tad keeps saying, "Kayla, its bigger than what we live in now" Yes I know that! Brayden goes to the dentist on Thursday and I couldn't be more nervous about it. He hates to brush his teeth! I have to put him in a headlock almost every time. I've tried everything to get him not to scream and pitch a fit about brushing his teeth. Last Friday, I took some pictures to be framed and my momma picked them up yesterday since she had a class in Pensacola. She brought them to me tonight and they look amazing! I can't wait to hang them in the house. When Tad comes home we are going to start buying some of the things we will need for the house, like towel racks...the little things right now, nothing big. We are going to start pricing his grill though and find one he likes. My apron sink is on hold right now, since its so big we really don't have anywhere to store it. We're just going to wait until our contractor tells us he needs it in order to build the cabinet around and under it. My mom finally booked us a house at the beach for the end of July! WTG Mom!!! Good thing is she told me the other day that she's found a house for next year and she'll be booking in by November! *haha* We'll see.....  Our annual mother/daughter/Brayden trip hasn't been booked yet, I think we are just gonna go back to the beach again. I'm not sure when we are going to do it yet. Anyway, its way past my bedtime! Sorry, I just really don't feel like waiting for pictures to upload tonight... WIll do next time. :-)


I know this post is a little scatterbrained, but thats the way I've been for the past couple weeks :)