Its all gonna be alright

I've had yet another crazy week and instead of sharing all of my fears and stress on here I've let things play themselves out over the week. Jared will be starting a new job yet again on April 9th, his current job is reducing its workforce to ten people and the rest of the postions will be covered by new employees in the Phillipines. He had an interview today at Wayfair in Ogden and it went well and Jared feels good about going there to work. I feel good that he will have a job right after this other one ends. We've had a bunch of showings lately (another one tonight too) and I think the count is now up to 6 in total, I'm greatful that people are interested to see the inside of the home. We'll see if we get any offers here in the near future. I am now at 21 weeks in this pregnancy so its all downhill from here right? I've been feeling really great, theres just more belly to me right now. Even with all of the craziness with Jareds work outsourcing, us selling our home, and my pregnancy I've been given a nice sense of calm, that we will be taken care of and that everything will all workout because the Lord is mindful of my little families needs.

What I really Want

To date we've had two showings of our home and another lady is interested in taking a look, I'm hoping that once things green up and warm up we'll get even more interest. With the chance that we may find someone interested sooner than later I've been thinking about what is really important for me to be happy with a home for a long time. I love that I can look up homes online and be specific about what I really want, it makes the job of finding a place easier. The big things I want in my next home are first over 2,000 square feet, preferably with at least 4 bedrooms. If that doesn't narrow the results my $150,000 cost limit and desire for at least .25 acre definately does. There are two homes that are really on my list and others I wouldn't object to visiting. What will really make me happy is if I can either have fruit trees already on the property or be able to add some trees to it when we move. I really have grown to love my pear tree's, my kids love the pears and I enjoy having more than enough to bottle and bake or cook with. The last thing I have on my list is being able to raise chickens, Jared isn't convinced yet that we will ever own chickens but I'm stubborn so thats to be determined. One of the homes I like is in N. Ogden and I know that an ordinance has been passed in N. Ogden allowing 6 chickens, the other home is in Clinton and I just read that chickens are also allowed in residential zones with the limit being 6 too. I went with my parents yesterday to pick up 13 baby chicks from IFA, they are adorable!! We chose 6 different breeds in total so it will be fun to see how they each grow up. In the past we've raise Road Island Red chickens and white Leghorns so in addition to those two breeds we have one plymouth rock and 3 other breeds that I can't remember :).

Time to drown my sorrows

Robert Montgomery is a prick. He was the one who called the animal control for both of my stupid tickets, and although they were able to ignore the second ticket, I got to pay $85 in court today for the stupid first one. I have such little faith in this judicial system, they don't care about what happened, all they want is for you to pay your huge fine for the pathetic ticket and move on to the next person. So I will be drowning my sorrows in chocolate and shopping tonight, we did get our tax return and since I never really feel like I can purchase $85 dollars of things I or my family needs but yet I can drop $85 on a fine after dropping $50 to license a pet, $13 dollars and stress in getting her a rabies shot. I need to run away.

Baby Boy Minky blanket and Street #

I've finnished the baby blanket tonight, I really love how it turned out, the tutorial did a great job of walking me thru the steps and maybe I'll make more blankets in the future...

I've been wanting to make my front porch and door welcoming, so the first step I thought would be to make a more attractive house number and this is what I came up with, i'd like attach a painted black board to the back of the sign to frame it in then put it close to my front door/ porch area.

My kids were amusing me, Konnor had taken out the dishwasher tray from thier kitchen and put a collection of toys he wanted to ride in the car with, and Makayla was drawing in her journal, I think she drew a picture of all of us at disney land riding the pinnocio ride (one of the few pictures I have of me at disney land is of us on a lame boat ride into the whales mouth, so she thinks its the best ride out there).