Why I have been MIA

I have sat down at my computer daily for the last 10 days or so and just could not do an update. It's been a really long few weeks for me... for reasons I am not going to go into detail about. The short version is: I have been having a hard time keeping things together with Josh and Trevor. Both kids have had numerous problems going on and it just took it's toll on me. Things are going better now and here I am!

So now I have to do a catch up post!

This picture is from a couple weekends ago when my family celebrated my nephew Parker's third birthday. Since his birthday is the day before mine, we did a b-day party for both of us. My boys had been dying to hold their new cousin, Evelyn and finally got the green light. They were so excited and Trevor was mad at me for taking her back. It was so cute.



We got a new 'grandkid' picture since Evelyn arrived and we needed to get her in it too. It is always quite the process to get little ones to look at a camera. It was fun though and my dad got a couple really good ones.

My birthday fell on a saturday this year. Scott asked for it off like three weeks before so he could get me out of the house. We had a plan to go to a Go-Kart place and dinner, and my mom had Josh and my aunt was going to take Trevor and Jordan. We found out a few days before that Scott's great-grandma passed away and so we ended up attending her funeral instead.

Now the boys insisted I needed a cake since we did the family party a week before my actual birthday. I decided to let the kids pick one out at walmart since they asked a bazillion times. They were a little mad that I didn't agree on a deer hunting themed cake. LOL! But we finally agreed upon this one. I took a picture of them with it since it was the first time they had ever insisted I get to do something for my birthday.

Now onto a little bit about Josh. We have just had some bad days with him and a couple good ones in between. He has spent most of the time since before Christmas sick and not eating at all by mouth. Last week he broke out in hives all over his body the cause of which is still unknown. His skin is sooo stinking sensitive... I really despise it with all my heart. I took this picture tonight to show you what his skin looks like where we have to tape for his feeding tube. This is actually good for him. I just hate how miserable it makes him and I wish I could make it stop.

Now onto the last big project of what I have been insanely doing. We need a new bed. There is just no getting around that fact. We got a memory foam/temperpedic pad for it like 5 years ago..... and that is no longer working. So with our tax return we are going to buy a new bed and upgrade to a King size. Well.... once I started pricing headboards/footboards (which I have wanted our whole married life) I decided that since the cheapest we found was 699$ .... we were going to have to wait. Scott spent hours online at ksl.com looking for a deal on one. HE FOUND ONE!!!! We got a beautiful brand new headboard/footboard with rails... for 179$ at some matress dealer in SL. I was soooooooo excited! So he went and picked that up this week and we just decided to paint our room that day. It has been alot of work, but I absolutely love it! I just can't wait for our tax return so we can get the matress set.

This is the best 'before' picture I could find tonight. This is right before we moved in actually so my grandparents stuff was still in it. But you can see the horrid valance and the dull walls.

And here is the after! I love the brown... it makes our room not soooooo bright? I guess that is the best way to explain it. If you look close you can our new headboard/footboard behind our current one with blankets over it. I will post pictures when we get it all done. I love it!!!