Keep on keepin' on

I have been thinking a lot about my life lately. I could have chosen a much different life, but that being said I'm very grateful for what I have. I'm grateful for a sweet loving husband who works hard both at his regular job and then comes home and works hard on projects around the house and helps with the kids. He is so supportive of me. He is patient when teaching our children. It's one of my favorite things to watch. No he's not perfect but neither am I. So far from it sometimes I wonder if I'll ever make it. Saturday was one of those really fun good days where I was feeling like a good mom and there wasn't too much fighting between the kids so to document it by putting some pictures on. We went to a free splash pad about 35 minutes from our home. I guess I figure all we can do is keep trying one moment at a time and hopefully we can have that peace come more fully in to our lives.

Back to normal

So... I had an awesome post already to go and Kaylee so wonderfully touched my screen and poof it was gone. November and December were challenging months for us trying to figure out where we were suppose to be and trusting the Lord that all would work out. It has and we had so many tender mercies I would be so ungrateful to not point out how taken care of we were by family, neighbors and friends during the 2mobths Tyler didn't have employment. Thankfully he had a severance package and the Lord's timing is always perfect although it felt chaotic at times we made it through. We are still in our home. We ended up not needing g to move after all. We feel like the Lord was seeing if we were willing to do what he wanted and in the process we ended up doing sooooooo many many projects big and little to make our home even better than it was. Just to document some things we did were: finish basement! Finish shed, including painting it, finished and painted half wall upstairs, patched and painted behind toilets, new face plates on some light switches upstairs, painted kitchen, painted masterbedroom, deep cleaned everything, put up boards undersigned (the plumbers had to cut the backs of the cabinets and behind the toilets when they updated the plumbing), contact paper in the cabinets, scrubbed refinishing stuff on the cupboards in kitchen, painted front and back doors and outside trim, touch up paint on all upstairs trim, painted posts on back porch. We did this all in about 4 weeks... Plus more little things that I can't remember... Wow it's making me tired thinking of all we did. In my next post all include some pictures of how now I've been making it ours again instead of getting it ready to sell. :) It's been lots of fun to do the kids rooms how they want with my own little touches. I still have lots of decorating to do but it's coming along.

Another major highlight was Addison's baptism and confirmation on Jan 7, 2017. We are so proud of her decision to join the Burch of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. She is a huge blessing in our lives. She obedient, kind, helpful and has a great attitude most of the time. :) We love her!