Summer's almost over!

Sorry it's been a while...really busy like ALL THE TIME!

Cole is very excited to start kindergarten in 2 weeks. He is also excited to start soccer again.
Lucy pretty much sleeps all night now. I am not sure she is over her ear infection, but her 4 month checkup and immunizations are tomorrow anyway, so I am going to ask him to check her ears. We ran out of her medicine, because we wasted some the first few days trying to get her to take it! She is persnickety.
But she is adorable and laughs so much and smiles any time
her big brother talks to her. It's pretty cute.
Wyatt is working all the time until they shut down paid overtime.
He is picking up t-posts today to set for fence for the goats.
We are going to raise goats now...lol.
Don't really know how that happened, but
we have 2 goats that a friend is keeping for us and
he is building fence to bring them home. Then he will start
to work on the chicken coops for chickens of course.
We eventually want a calf to fatten up and butcher,
might be next year on that.

I am getting ready to go back to work next Thursday!
Where did the summer go?
It turns out I was an elective short of graduation, so I
have to take one more class this fall, then graduate
with the Masters in December. I am also taking a 3
hour class from UT-Tyler and 3 hour Internship as
Principal while I do that. Fun, fun, fun! I don't really
want to be a Principal any time soon, and I will be a
librarian for a while, but to get a promotion I will
need mid-management certification and a Master's,
so now I will have both! I will finish the Principal
certificate next summer.

Here are more pics of the kids.
I know you want to see them!
Misty

Weekends...sigh...Not enough of them!

Just finished a week of Vacation Bible School at church. Cole loved it, he was ready to go every night. The kids learn songs and do crafts every night besides the bible lesson. Cole made up his own dance moves to one of the songs and performed it front and center stage this morning in church with all the other kids doing it 'a different way'. Much laughing ensued...lol.

Quiet week at home doing college work and getting ready for a garage sale Friday and Saturday. Figs are ready and I am going to attempt to make jam or jelly.
I made 14 jars of hot sauce/salsa yesterday from free tomatoes and peppers.

Lucy is sleeping all night most of the time now, at least until about 5 or 6 in the morning. Can't complain about that, sure beats 2 am. No kind of schedule in sight though. She just doesn't want to eat lately...unless SHE wants to! Sigh...just not like her brother.
I am going to give Cole a practice school lunch this week. Get him used to taking his lunch and eating it by himself, opening packages, etc. He hasn't had to do any of that.

More later. No real pics yet. Wyatt has been working all weekend on the dozer and clearing brush from our place. If you have seen it, it looks quite different right now! Will try to take pics tomorrow and post those.
Love to all,
Misty

Vacation

We had a great time in San Antonio. It was hot, but we all managed. Cole had an absolute blast at SeaWorld, even though there were so many people there! I never thought about other people being there on July 4th. But the fireworks were awesome!

We even stopped to buy Cole's school clothes in San Marcos. I LOVE SCHOOL UNIFORMS! Man, it was so easy. No fussing, pick up five shirts and five pairs of pants or shorts and we are done! Cole is enrolled and ready to go to Dixie Elementary in Tyler.

He is asking me already when does soccer start, so I guess we will do that again. Miss Tamme says she will coach one more time...but she is having a baby at Christmas time so that will be it.

This fall season they will actually begin keeping score and the coaches cannot be on the field anymore. Should make for good times!

We are loving our new house...obviously! We have loggers here right now, just taking down pine trees and dead trees. We are keeping all the oaks and such. Should make it a bit clearer though.

Lucy sleeps all night sporadically, but more often than not. She is one fussy baby when she gets sleepy, and I bought baby food today. She has taken a bottle every 2 hours all day. She won't take more than 4 oz. at a time. So I decided we are going to start baby food a couple of weeks early. I'll keep you posted how that goes. She is holding her head up all the time now, and loves to look around and be able to see. She loves for someone to talk to her too.

Hope you enjoy the pics. I don't know if I have any new ones of Lucy, so I will try to take some this week.

Misty

Back to Blogging!

Apparently our district has decided to only block stuff while we are at school, and I can now get into my favorite stuff from home again. I am buying my own laptop with recently earned Summer School money soon, so even if it becomes a problem again it won't affect me!

I have applied for library certification, and am finishing the last class for my MASTERS degree. That is so weird!

Lucy Kay and Cole are doing great! It's true what they say, no two kids are alike. Lucy is still waking up at least once during the night for a bottle, only sleeping all night sporadically. By 2 months Cole was sleeping from 10pm to 7am, so I was a little spoiled. I am hoping to get Lucy to that point by the time I go back to work in August.

But she is the cutest thing...smiling and laughing when you talk to her now. Absolutely Adorable!

Cole is all fired up to start at Dixie Elementary in the fall. He can't wait to learn to read! If I can just keep him motivated it will be great. His mamaw has been taking him to the library for storytime every week for me while I have been working summer school. Now I can start taking him myself. He loves it, and gets to check out books each week. He is also very into letter writing [thanks so much, Nana :-)] and wants me to help him write a letter every 10 minutes. He likes to draw pictures, and always draws the same thing...our family. It is the sweetest thing.

We are leaving for San Antonio Thursday, July 2 and returning home Sunday, July 5th or Monday, July 6th. We have tickets for the big fireworks show at SEAWORLD on July 4th. Fully expecting that to be awesome! We are dropping Lucy off at my mom's in Waco on the way and picking her up on the way home. Too hot for little babies! I think I have Wyatt talked into stopping at San Marcos to buy school clothes and shoes for Cole on the way. We'll see how that goes. Wyatt hates to shop, unless it's for himself.

Granny came and helped me can pinto beans and yellow squash and took back lots of cucumbers to make my favorite pickles. I am going to attempt to can by myself tomorrow. We picked loads of yellow squash again tonight. I am ready to make hot sauce soon with Tamme. I make her cut everything up...that takes forever!!!

I hope I can make weekly posts, so check back for updates.

Love to all,

Misty

The end is here!

Well, I have enjoyed blogging but the end is here. I just finished an Internet security training at work, and man is this stuff dangerous. Suffice it to say that anything you post on the Internet is there for anyone to not only view, but use in their own sick, twisted way. I will leave you one last post.

We are officially in the house, and have been for about 2 weeks. I am still steadily unpacking and planning to have one huge garage sale on March 7th all day.
Unless our plans change for bringing Lucy into the world, we will have a shower here at my house March 15th given by friends and family.
Cole is very excited and sooooo ready to meet Lucy. He said the other day, "Momma, I wish Lucy would come out so I could hug her." He says the sweetest things sometimes. I know, cherish the moments, right!

We love you all, and hope to see you soon.
Misty

Moving day is here!!

Well, everything is working out, and we plan to move in Saturday. My Uncle Ronnie has graciously made two trips down here to finish our plumbing, Uncle David finished the electrical. The painter is touching up, the shower door will be hung tomorrow. We will seal the floors Friday night and we are good to go! Wyatt is working on the mantle for the fireplace tonight.

We still have lots of little things to do, like hanging closet rods, and towel rods and cabinet pulls, but we can do that every night when we get home from work for awhile. It will be nice to take long, hot showers, sleep in real beds, and just have room to stretch out.

I swear Lucy has been completely sideways today. I can't get comfortable no matter what I do. I have been pushing and poking at her to get her to move, but she ain't budging. Stubborn I guess...don't know where that comes from.

Work is great, my classes are going, and planning a huge garage sale in a few weeks. Lots of baby boy clothes to get rid of, and a few other things as well.

Haven't worked my issues with uploading pics yet. Sorry, I know everyone wants to see them.
Will keep trying.
Love,
Misty

OK, maybe one more week...

Hello all! I know, you thought I forgot.

We had a snag with the painter that kind of put a halt on things for about a week. My black cabinets have suffered the brunt of it, and will have to be redone at some point. We settled with the painter, and he admits they aren't right. So for now, he is finishing touch up on the house next Monday hopefully, and we are at a draw with the cabinets. I imagine we will move in and I will worry about them later this summer or something when I have time. We did not pay him for painting them, since he has pretty much made a mess of them.

But on with the program...the icy weather today put my Uncle David, the electrician, in a bind, so he will have to come on Saturday instead of today. My Uncle Ronnie, the plumber, will come later this week and finish out that part of the house. Once they are finished, the painter comes in and touches up inside the house, we will be ready to seal the concrete floors, and then we are MOVING IN!
So hopefully for sure next weekend, Feb. 8th. We can sleep in the house maybe sometime during the week, and moving in officially on the weekend. I AM READY!

The only things left outside the house are pouring a bit of concrete for the entry to the carport, and a patio on the other side, and gutter, both of which can be finished next week as well.

Cole is ready too. I am posting some pics of him painting his wall in his new room. His Nana (My mom) came down last weekend for the 4D sonogram and brought her friend Ann, and they began painting the barnyard mural on his wall. He loved getting to paint too! Hopefully, they will be able to come and finish up this weekend.
Lucy is doing great. I forgot to bring her sono pic with me to post, but she is the cutest thing! Precious little perfect face. Can't wait to see her in real life.
I am definitely to that very uncomfortable stage. Not sleeping good, very tired all the time, I NEED MY RECLINER!!! My feet are swollen about 2 times a week, if I stay on them for too long, and heartburn and indigestion are part of daily life. The joys of being pregnant.

I am still trying to figure out why I have trouble loading pics from Patsy's computer. Here are pics of my black cabinets, which look great from far away...lol. The granite countertops look awesome. A pic of Cole's mural, him and Dad on New Year's Eve doing fireworks, Cole riding his new gator he got for Christmas.
Love to all,
Misty