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).

Its a BOY!

I found out yesterday that we will be having a boy this coming August! I've been dieing to create something special for this baby, but I've been waiting to see what I'm having so it can be personalized accordingly. Thanks to pinterest I'll be stealing an idea for his blanket from thismamamakesstuff.com, she made an adorable minky blanket from large flannel shirts and some cream minky fabric. I ordered everything I need online from fabric.com, the minky material was the most costly but it was only $12 something a yard instead of $20, and they had a great selection of minky fabrics so if your looking for minky I would check them out. I ended up spending a little over $36 dollars so I wouldn't have to cough up shipping, but I also ordered some adorable fabric for a spring dress for Makayla. Its not super cheap, but it beats the $70 order for an infant blanket at a minky culture.

This is the fabric for Makaylas dress in case you weren't aware :)

Honey where are you?

At about tuesday in the week I look forward to the weekend when the parental demands get to be broken up between two adults. This weekend I feel like I'm running a marathon, Jared went to see a fight down in Orem yesterday right after work, which he doesn't get out much so I really don't feel to bad about not seeing him at all yesterday. But its an extended vacation away because at about 12:30 last night he called to say that the truck him and a buddy were riding in died in Draper, and they would have to wait till morning to see if they could figure out the problem when the auto stores are open. BUMMER! So last night the kids made sure i wasn't lonely and joined me in the early hours of the day for a sparce nights sleep in a queen bed. Someone needs to teach them that its illegal to wake up at 8 on saturday morning, nine would be nicer but ten makes for a better rested mom. Were all out of dish detergent and milk and I really don't want to take two kids to the grocery store for these things, Jared was suppost to be home so I wouldn't need to. If I'm lucky I'll get to see Jared around noon today. I need to get out, I miss my running and biking and swimming, its just so cotton picking hard with two kids to do these things, especially when Jared is never here. Gonna try not to loose it today, good luck to me.

My thoughts

My home is finally listed with pictures as of today! We've been working on the fence that was blown down and we'll have the east side of our fence finnished tomorrow because Jared doesn't have school tomorrow night with it being presidents day. I am so eager for the snow to go away again and for it all to warm up and green up, and I'm eager for pearwood (the condos next to us) to finally start on thier side of the fence that was totally trashed. I love fridays because its trash day and we have so much garbage were slowly getting rid of, it will make everything look so much better. There is a house I really want in N Ogden that needs a bunch of beautification but it has a two car garage and a huge yard with fruit trees (I really love my pear trees here) and enough room to grow for our growing family. Its currently under contract but the buyer is having a hard time getting financing so with a TON of luck it will fall thru and we can sell our place in time to snatch it up. If not I'll keep looking for something that is just right. Optimisum right? I really do love our home though and I don't mind living here until were able to get a sale. Ps, sorry if everything is spelled wrong I can't find the spell check with the new setting so you may have to sound out what I was trying to write :)