Breed 'em big

Man, I just let Hercules out fo rhis nitetime potty break and saw 2 BIG roach/palmetto bugs playing tag on my driveway under the carport. They are so nasty. I sprayed em even though they were outside. They were coming too darn close to my laudry room door. I hate having my laudry room outside. What a stupid idea.
We went to the park today. Fed the geese and the giant fish in the pond. It was so stinking hot. Somewhere in all the fun, I managed to lose Sammy's binky. UGH! And I didn't realize it until tonight when I was putting him to bed. I looked everywhere!! Hopefully he will sleep good tonight anyways and it won't be a problem. I have been telling myself for weeks now that I needed to buy a backup. Guess I will tomorrow. Ugh.
Went walking tonight. Felt good. David ran his little heart out with us. We took his bike but he was really struggling with it for some reason so I put it back in Tori's truck and he ran instead. He fell down once. Scraped his elbow pretty good but survived.
That's it for today. Miss Honey lots. Lots.

Some more pics

Big Dude

Ike Ike

Sleepy Sam w/ Giraffey

Wet Dudes

New Sprinkler from PopPop n Kaye

A video made on a boring day

Fun with Photo Booth

Yikes

Stick Boy and Tubby

Muscle Boy

Giant Ike Little David Head

NityNite

So I just got my 3 little sweet ones to bed. They are so cute and so different. David likes lots of cuddles and I have to say, "Snug as a bug in a rug" and Isaac doesn't mind a peck or two but really just wants his monkey Toes and a sippy of milk and Sammy must have his binky and has recently discovered a stuffed giraffe that Isaac got last year when he was in the hospital. I put the giraffe into Sammy's clenched little arm and he snuggles his face down into the giraffes neck. It's terribly cute. If I get a chance, I'll take a pic and post it. We had our Family Home Evening earlier. We talked about how Heavenly Father created us in His image and we are his spirit children. And how we have bodies. They made paper doll cut outs of themselves. :) Isaac didn't want his to have clothes....go figure.
Today was pretty boring. Didn't do anything really. A total waste of a day. We just kinda sat around. I didn't even take a shower! Tomorrow I think I will take the boys to the park and probably work on the laundry. Aren't you glad I shared that!? Such an interesting life I lead.
Well, we did make a few videos on the computer today. Perhaps I will edit one and post it....that'll give me something to do. I can't seem to sleep with daddy gone. Silly, since I should be used to him being gone. Oh well.
Let's see....what else....oh well....guess that's it.

Just another day...

So Dad n Kaye left this morning. It was nice to have them here. They came in on Saturday night and had Tony and TJ with them. I know the boys would have liked them to stay longer but they were passing through on their way to FL. It was nice to see them. We got to show them around the post and swim in their hotel pool, which was nice cause it has been so stinking hot! Saturday night, after Dad n crew went back to their hotel, Tori from next door came over and got me cause 2 other girls whose hubbies/significant other are out doing stuff were over her place visiting and my kids were all in bed, so I went over and chatted with them till almost 1 am. It was nice. I needed some girl talk! :P
Anyhow, now we are just gonna hang out this week. I was thinking of going over to Dothan one day and just exploring the area a little. Mom may come in this week so that would be nice too.
More soon.

8 Ball

We were just having family prayer and we can hear the helicopters overhead. There are a lot of them tonight. So I just, for fun, clicked the magic 8 ball and asked it if Honey was "happy" wherever he is...it said, 'Better not tell you.' Hmm...
:P

oh yeah...

While we were out on the lake, several (we're talking like 9 or 10) helicopters flew over us within like a half an hour. David said "it's a helicopter parade"!! Well, this is THE Army Aviation Center... for helicopters..... go figure.
:)

Our fun Lake Tholocco (sp?)

Sigh...

I guess I'llo go ahead and post even though there's not too much to talk about. I spent the day yesterday taking Isaac to the doctor and then trying to get all this silly military paperwork insurance type stuff taken care of. Isaac burned his finger on the oven rack last week when I was making cookies. We put Neosporin on it and it blistered and popped but we thought it was getting better till we realized on sunday that it was swollen red and hard. I was gonna take him to the dr. on monday but I was watching a friends little girl. Monday night he woke up scremaing and crying and inconsolable. I even gave him a midnight bath and he was just so upset. No fever, just upset. So I gave him some tylenol and held a hot compress to his thumb. He kept crying "hot, hot!". Even though I know it was only warm. I know it hurt him so bad...after the 2 boughts with mastitis in the last 3 months that were so painful I know it hurt. But after holding the compresses on (which had to be done, the sore had a huge swollen head on it) it finally opened. I put a bandaid on it and then tues he finally got to see a dr. She said she was gonna have to cut it open and drain it. I just wanted to cry for him, but she put the iodine on it to clean it and left the room while it dried. By the time she came back in, the sore had opened on it's own again and she didn't have to cut him! Hallelujah! She did squeeze it though to get all the nastiness out. He did not like that one bit. He is on 2 antibiotics and I have to change his bandage at least 2 xs a day. Getting him to take his meds is a major struggle. I literally have to hold him down. I have tried bribery, coersion, begging...nothing doing. It's such a pain. But he has to have it. :(
Today, against my better judgement, I took them to playgroup at the lake here on post. It is really nice with water trampolines and 2 water slides. I was worried about putting Isaac's little thumb in the lake water but oh well. David had a blast. I rented him a lifejacket and he just doggy paddled himself all over the place! It was a good workout for him and really helped him be more confident. He even went down the waterslide without me. We were supposed to be there with people from church but I didn't recognize anyone. It was ok though. We had a good time just me and my boys. It wasn't even that traumatic or hectic. Very relaxing actually...except trying to keep Isaac from drinking the nasty lake water. I mean, I have been in some lakes and this one was really brown and you could see the (yick) mosquito larvae floating in it. He wanted to put it in his mouth and spit it on Sammy. I was struggling to get him to stop doing that! Good thing he's on antibiotics, right!?
I have seen 2 BIG cucarachas (sp?) in my house today, the big palmetto bug ones...so I called the office tonight to see if the pest guys could come tomorrow (they come on thursdays). Nice to have a landlord who actually thinks pest control is their responsibility. So hopefully they can come. I have issues with my Tourettes Syndrom when I see them. I start cussing like a sailor and my eyes roll back in my head like a shark and my mind says only one thing..."kill!". Come on out you nasty *&%$ of a *%^&. Come on you little ^&*%. DIe you *&^^*(&5. etc etc.
It's pretty bad.
Well, Honey's been gone only 3 1/2 days and I'm missing him...I know....awwwwwwww....but I just got him back and then we turn around and he has to go again. Ugh. At least I'll have visitors to keep me company. Dad is coming this weekend and possibly mom next week. David is very excited.
We got his welcome packet from the school today in the mail. It had all his bus info. I asked him if he wanted mommy to drive him to school and pick him up or if he wanted to ride the bus. Of course he wants to ride the bus!! I was having visions of Forest Gump. It will be hard for me to send him off on a school bus. I know he is excited. I hope I have prepared him ok.
Anyhow, I guess I had more to talk about than I thought. I really wanna go see HP Order of the Phoenix again. Oh well...too bad there aren't any good movies on video....are there?

Fresh...

I needed a facelift for my blog, you know, a few new widgets etc....
And I just read that Drew Carey is gonna be the next host of Price is Right.....Interesting...

Done...

Well, that was a good book. :P
Honey left last night. I'm not looking forward to being just me and the boys for the next 3 weeks but it'll be fine. Not like I haven't been there before. Though, it was nice having friends etc and here we don't really know anyone. My neighbor's hubby is gone too. I watched her 10 month old daughter today so she could go to some training for work.
Isaac burned his finger on the oven rack last week and now it is all swollen and red and has an ugly head on it. I didn't think burns could get infected that easily but appartently they can. I am trying to get him into the clinic here tomorrow but our insurance stuff hasn't gone through and we're getting the major run around on that. Hello! I have the paperwork, just let him be seen! Ugh.
I'll have to fight that in the morning.
Anyways, that boys have been crabby all day and mommy was this morning as she was trying desperately to finish her book. Neville rocks.
It was good. I was pleased. I liked the Epilogue even though I thought it was slightly corny. I was pleased to have the important questions answered. So, will there be a series called "Albus Potter"? :)He finds the ring, etc etc....

HP7

So this is gonna be quick cause I'm in the thick of the deathly hallows. :)
Went out and got my copy this morning. Mom had preordered me a copy at BarnesNoble but since I couldn't wait that long to get it from Houston and she hadn't actually paid for it...I went to the PX and bought it when they opened this a.m. Kind of a stick in the mud once you have kids and don't wanna drive all the way to Dothan and wait with all the other people for the book at midnight. In my younger days perhaps... :)
(or if it was closer....)
Anywho....finally got my pictures up on the walls which means the majority of my unpacking is done. A lot of boxes we won't even open cause they're just full of books. I now feel like instead of trying to create a home all I have to do now is keep it clean! Not an easy task with 3 boys a dog and a ...hubby. :)
So, we're driving around the other day and our van has "stow-n-go" seats right? Which means that you can pull certain cords and the seats will fold down certain ways and one of those ways is that it will unlock the front of the seat so that it flips back, so you can sit on the back of the seat and lean on the seat of the seat, for tailgating....you follow...well, anyhow, we were driving around and apparently david had been playing with one of the cords on his side of the back seat and when Nathan accelerated from a red light we heard a large "thumP". We both turned around to look and all we could see were David's little feet sticking up over his seat!! HAHAHAHA!!! Heehee! He had flipped right onto his back when Nathan accelerated. "David, are you ok?!" His little voice answered, "yea". Heehee I couldn't stop laughing for a while after that. Nathan pulled over and sat him upright again. :)

OK...

So I posted my address on here and then decided that I probably shouldn't put such personal info on here. Duh, me, get a grip!! So if you want it, call me or email me!

Oh yeah.. I gotta tell you this...

Our Sunday school teacher today was doing all sorts of her own interpretations of the gospel. Very interesting. And she kept referring to it as the Garden of Gethseminary. :) I am sure many teenagers have felt like they suffered through early morning gethseminary.

And the other day a dj on the radio was giving away a Netflix subscription to a caller and she told her, "I just rented this New British Movie called Flushed Away . It was the funniest animated movie I have ever seen." There are so many things wrong with that comment....

Here goes...

I'm not sure even where to begin! It has been a very busy week...mostly with boring stuff like unpacking...Monday we had some errands to do and first on the list was to call the transportation office and tell them that we were here so they could let the movers know where to find us, whenever they might get here. Well, at 8:05 monday morning, the transport office called us and told us that the movers had been in town since Saturday night and wanted to come drop our stuff! That was fast! So we checked out of our temporary housing super fast and dropped Nathan at all of his inprocessing stuff and got to the house about 9:00. The movers got here shortly after and were here till about 2:00 unloading the truck. According to the paperwork, they were supposed to unpack the boxes too, or at least send someone to help with that, but they didn't offer and I didn't ask. There were boxes EVERYWHERE and I knew it was gonna take me some time to figure out where everything should even go! At least they put the beds up so we could sleep but we may have to file a claim on the crib. One of the movers put it together wrong and now the drawer underneath doesn't open right....I have only 2...well maybe 3...pieces of furniture in my house that are nice and that I actually care anything about...and one of them was the crib! I'm not too happy about it. Honey sort of fixed it but the drawer scratches the wood all up when you try to open it and you have to fiddle with the side of the crib to make it stay up. Ugh. Anyhow...so we unpacked the boys room monday afternoon. I wanted them to get back to some sense of normalcy so it was important to me to get their things set up. I am thrilled that their little bedroom is big enough that all 3 boys, their beds, and all their toys fit in their room and their closet! We ate out monday night since the kitchen was a shambles! Tuesday, we ran a few errands and then I went to the grocery store since we had no food. It was my first attempt at grocery shopping with all 3 kids without my mom or anyone else going with...and it was a disaster....Sammy screamed the entire time and kept arching his back to get out of his seat and Isaac was going Kamakaze out the side of the cart which was full of groceries that David kept adding to! It was nuts. I had 2 seperate ladies offer to help me. I took one lady up on her offer cause David had just announced that he had to go potty. So she went with and watched Isaac while I took David in and carried Sammy, since he wouldn't let me even think about putting him down. I've never attempted to push a cart with my elbows before. It's not easy. He is teething really bad. He is practically living on tylenol, which I hate! But I have to relieve his pain! Anyhow, I texted a message to Honey with 1 word....HELP. He was next door finishing some stuff and so he came over when he was done and helped check out. It was nuts!
So anyhow, after all that, I spent the rest of the day working on the house. I spent all of Wednesday working on the kitchen...I was not even going to think about taking the kids anywhere by myself after the fiasco at the commissary! So we finished the kitchen and thursday I finished the bathrooms and living room, and friday I spent most of the day on my bedroom. I have the extra room (craft, sewing, music, etc.) and the office left to do this week. I have to get David registered for school whcih is a pain cause they tell you that you must have a local emergency contact for your child and I know NO One! What am I to do!? Oh well...We'll figure it out. Anyhow, yesterday we went to the Museum here and had fun looking at all the helicpoters the they've used. Very cool. The boys had fun playing in the big Chinook (The great big ones). Then we went and priced dog runs and charcoal grills and patio furniture but decided not to buy anything. :)
So, the weather here has been nice. Kind of odd. They said they have been in a drought but we must have brought the rain with us! When it rains here, it pours!! We've thought we were gonna have tornadoes a few times already! It seems hotter here, like sunny hot, more than Houston but Houston was muggier and after it rains here, it actually cools down quite a bit whereas in Houston, it just gets hotter and muggier after the rain!
I was prepared for the big roaches. Niki told me not to think I was gonna get rid of those by moving here, but I was not prepared for the flies! They actually call August Housefly Month here. Lovely. And the gnats!!!!! Ugh!!! We tried to get into see Harry Potter on Wed night when it was playing free here on post and David and I stood outside in the heat with gnats just swarming around us! Ugh! I hate them! The tiny ones that get right in your face! And our neighbors across the street brough us brownines and told us that the black widows were real bad right now too. How nice.
Our neighbors next door are very nice too. He is in Honey's class and has given him a ride to stuff everyday this week. Honey has been doing inprocessing all week. He starts tomorrow. They strap him into a cage with all his gear on and toss him into a pool. :) This teaches them how to get out of the copter if it goes down over water. Ala Officer and a Gentleman. Lets see, what else? David starts school in less than 3 weeks. sniff....
We love our little house but are having a hard time not just letting Hercules outside by himself. We were spoiled with our last 2 nice big fenced yards! It's funny to think that we pay only slightly more for this house than we did for the house we rented in Houston, but all our utilities, except cable, phone, internet, are included in the rent!! Even landscaping! They mow our yard for us!!! Crazy! We really like living on post. I feel very safe here.
Last Sunday we went to the Enterprise Ward and we really liked it. But then Wed night they called us and told us that since we were on post, we were to go to the Ozark ward. Then our nighbors across the street brought us brownies yesterday and we had noticed their Utah license plates. Apparently they are LDS too
OK...so David and I braved the tornado last night to go and see HARRY POTTER!! I may be the biggest geek ever but Dumbledore rocks! #5 was my favorite book and now I have a new favorite movie!!! Loved it! So great and they really did the book justice!!! :) The only problem I had was not even related to the movie. It was pouring so hard when we got there that we got drenched running the entire length of the parking lot to get in and then the theater was FREEZING! We must have been right below a vent or something but we couldn't move cause the place was packed. David fell asleep before it got too scary but was on my lap with his arms in his hsirt the whole time cause he was so cold. We were so chilled when we got home. I thought I had frozen toes. My poor little dude was in shorts too. But the movie was worth it!
So, my little boys are adjusting pretty well. Isaac is super crabby but I think it's just his age. Man, the tantrums are so frustrating! And Sammy is such a good little dude, we have finally got him on some sort of schedule. And David is already making friends. Well, I am sure i've writtn plenty for now. I will write more later....

Sam Man

sammy was laughing at himself on the computer!

First, some pics!!

Sammy had some sweet potatoes!!

Our new house!

In our own backyard!!

Our patio...with Hercules!

Oh man...

I have so much to share but we only just got our internet hooked up and I am beat. I promise I will write more this weekend, so check back. Things are going really good. We have been super busy getting settled in and all that goes with it. I have taken some pictures so I will post those too. I am jealous of all those of you who have already seen Harry Potter. It is killing me but we have just been so busy. Hopefully I can convince Honey that I need some me time and I can see it sans children!! Anyhow...I'm off to bed but I have so much to share ...tomorrowwww......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

Amabama...

So the movers came on thursday. They only sent one man to finish all the work that had to be done! Eventually a girl showed up to help but it was her first day, so she was slow. The driver and his movers and the truck got there about 1:00 and had to stand around and wait for them to finish packing. Ugh! They finally finished everything about 6:30. Then I had to run mom over to her new place and when I got back, my good friend Niki was there working on cleaning up our place. We were there till about 10:00 and then we had finished packing up our Penske and taking our keys and we were on our way. We went to get the Penske weighed and then realized that we were so exhausted, we couldn't go any further, so we stopped and got a hotel. Friday, we got up and hit the road. The boys did a great job traveling and we only had to stop a few times. David really enjoyed riding in the big truck with daddy. We got in about 9:30 friday night. We got to the turn that Mapquest told us to take and it ended up taking us about 30 minutes out of the way, which was very frustrating as we were so tired! As we were driving up the road I was getting VERY worried as it was taking us about 20 miles into the middle of NOWHERE!! But eventually we figured it out and we got into some temporary housing that Honey had reserved for us, good thing. It's just as nice as any hotel I've been in for a while. And it has a kitchenette so we don't have to eat out anymore unless we want to. We spent Saturday finishing up some things, like taking the Penske back and we got the keys to our house and paid our rent. It is such a cute little ranch style house. 4 bedrooms, hallelujah!, and 2 baths and the kitchen actually has cupboards!!! And counters!!! :) It has new carpet in it so we will have to be extra careful! But it is so nice and spacy for us. The only downfall is that the laundry is in a utility closet in the carport! And there is no fence, so we will have to take Hercules out when he has to go. But there is a playground right in the backyard. It is about 5-10 minutes from David's school. We will move in tomorrow but don't expect our things to arrive until later in the week. So we will spend the next few days on air mattresses probably...Enterprise is a cute little town. Not too big but it has everything you could need. We went to church today and met lots of nice people. Yesterday there were a bunch of tornado warnings so the sirens were going off. That was pretty interesting! Honey has to do his inprocessing tomorrow morning and we have lots of other things to do...find a bank, ID cards, Car registration for post, register boys at youth services so they can do classes like Karate, get Hercules microchipped, etc! We don't know exactly when his classes will start but we will find out more tomorrow. If i think of anything else, I'll be sure to update. We are all pretty tired, in fact David and I are the only ones not taking naps right now...I should be. Isaac has been sO crabby. I know it will be better when we are in our house and he has his things...anyhow, more later!

Hehee!

Your Famous Last Words Will Be:

"Nice doggy."

What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?

This was my mom's HAHAHAHAHA

Your Pimp Name Is...

Pimptastica Big Spenda

What's Your Pimp Name?

I DO pout if its sold out!! And this is my favorite!

You Are a Boston Creme Donut

You have a tough exterior. No one wants to mess with you. But on the inside, you're a total pushover and completely soft. You're a traditionalist, and you don't change easily. You're likely to eat the same doughnut every morning, and pout if it's sold out.

What Donut Are You?

Interesting....

Your 80s Theme Song Is:

Down Under by Men at Work

What's Your 80s Theme Song?

Google Me!

Ok, this is pretty funny! First of all, I love the internet! I have been able to reconnect with so many old, dear friends using this bad boy! And my good friend Leah did this thing where you go to Google and you type in your name followed by "needs". So I did this and here are my top ten!
1. Sara(h) needs a loving playful home.
2. Sara needs to quit whining...(What!)
3. Sara needs YOU.
4. Sara needs to date more apparently...?
5. Sara needs something more
6. Sara needs Sara time (!)
7. Sara needs humanity.
8. Sara needs a lawyer...
9. Sara needs our help.
10. Sara needs support in learning to make safe choices that more effectively reflect her goals and desired outcomes, including planning for special holidays .. (heehee)

I thought that was pretty amusing! Thanks, Leah!
Things are moving right along, literally. The movers came today and apparently did not anticipate how much work would need to be done and they only sent 2 people. They worked all day and didn't even finish packing the kitchen, office and half the livng room. But they say they can get it all done and on the truck on thursday. Which would be good cause we would really like to leave thurs night and get going! We are living amidst boxes for the next 2 days! Tomorrow for the 4th we may go to Splashtown with some friends if it stops raining. Tonight, my dear friends Jana and Niki threw us a going away party. I have had some really amazing friends here. I loved our last ward so much but moving to spring was really good for us too. The people have been so supportive while Nathan was gone all this last year. They took such good care of me and my boys. I have been so blessed.

Anyhow, I don't know if I will post again till Ammabama. See you soon! Ciao, Houston! Adios, H-Town! Au Revoir, Traffic-laden, over congested, crime-growing, roach infested, humid wonderful city!

stress, revisited

The movers cometoday to pack all our stuff and I'm laying awake at 4:30 this morning thinking of all the things i forgot to do...you know, like empty the lawnmower type of things...and hubby thinks we can get it all done this morning before they come...not so sure myself! disconnecting computers, cables, wash last minute things that I forgot to, etc etc. doesn't help that dishwasher decided not to work 2 days ago and I've had to do all dishes by hand. pain in the butt. will not lose it...will not lose it...
so much to do still. have to return borrowed bassinet, buy new bassinet cover since my 5 year old painted the borrowed one with red nailpolish in a fit of anger against "mommy the punisher".
that type of thing. and we have a huge pile of stuff that is going with us in a small rented truck that seems to keep growing. have to label all "do not pack-ables". just stressful. thats all.