Whoa. 2 posts in 2 weeks? Unheard of!!
I'm really trying to get better at this documenting our lives business so I'm going to attempt to start doing this blogging thing again every Sunday night. Wish me luck!
So let's recap this past week. Trey has been working nights on his ED rotation (Emergency Dept.) which totally stunk! We weren't big fans. I'm glad he's back to swings and normal days this week and then he'll be done with this rotation and back to an Anesthesia rotation. He can't wait! He's really excited to be done with ED. This has probably been his least favorite rotation so far.
It snowed. Twice. Yep. I wish spring would stop teasing us and just show up and kick this good-for-nothing winter's booty out of here!! Can you tell I'm fed up? It's just getting ridiculous.
We switched Lucy to the Monday dance class so now she goes Monday afternoons instead of Saturdays. All so we could make it to her final performance before we leave to Utah the next morning. I haven't booked our flights yet because I'm hoping for a killer sale to pop up. Flying is expensive-o! Rubes will be 2 by June so we'll have to pay for her (dang it!). Although I think her having her own seat will be nice. She's quite the busy body these days. I'm usually exhausted by the end of sacrament meeting trying to keep the crazy at bay. :)
I currently have 2 callings in church, assistant nursery leader and visiting teaching supervisor. Trey just got released from teaching Sunday School to the youth and is now a teacher in the Elders Quorum. Being a nursery leader is a busy calling for sure but I kind of love it. I'm definitely tired when I get home from church because I'm running around most of the time helping out all the nurseries and rotating toys, etc.
Trey had Thursday, Friday, and Saturday off after his week long string of nights so on Friday we went to the I-X Indoor Amusement Park (thank you HSSA). It was awesome!!! The place was ginormous!! It had tons of rides and games and carnival food. The girls had a blast. I think Ruby's favorite part was the sheep you could feed and pet. Lucy said her favorite part was the roller coaster and the "squish Daddy" ride.
Then that night we had tickets to Jim Gaffigan at the State Theater (awesome place btw!). I was pretty proud of the seats I scored, right in the middle 10 rows back. I was giddy! And Jim was hilarious. That man has a gift. Trey and I were laughing so hard. It was all new stuff we hadn't heard and it was golden. Oh it was so good. Laughter is definitely good for my soul.
On Saturday we just hung around (because it was freezing outside), Trey removed all the old shrubbery in the front yard, and then it began to rain/snow. Trey found an awesome table and chairs + antique buffet for a screamin' deal so he rented a van and picked it up during the awful snow storm. We have been looking for a cool buffet to go with our dining room and we found this set and decided this table was better than the one we already have so we'll sell that one and keep this. It's beautiful and it's 100 years old!
We're getting ready to redo our upstairs bathroom. We bought an old dresser + mirror and we're going to change it into a vanity to put in the bathroom upstairs. I'm so excited, it should be a fun project. We have so many projects we want to do this spring/summer, I hope we can get them all done before we get too burnt out. It's been super frustrating because we want to get started on all the sanding and painting but it's just too stinkin' cold! We're just waiting for the weather to cooperate so we can start all our projects.
I've started babysitting our friend's little boy Rowan on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's been so great. The girls love him and he is a pretty chill little guy so it really works out well. It's nice to have a little extra $ too. :)
Lucy will be starting soccer in a month. A lady in our ward organized a little soccer league of her own, I guess she's been doing it for years. It's genius! It's 6 weeks long and it's all volunteer-based. We just had to pay for a jersey and a medal for the end. It'll be great just to introduce Lucy to soccer so she can learn how it works without forking out the dough. I'm interested to see if Lucy likes it.
It sounds like my sweet Grandma Darley's health is continuing to decline. It makes me sad that she is slowly slipping away and I'm so far away that I can't be there for her. My mom said she is down to 94 lbs. I hope she'll still be around when we are there in June. The doctor gave her a year at most. She has cancer in her blood, if Trey was here he could tell me the fancy name for it. But it's affecting other parts of her body, as to be expected when they've decided not to fight it (given her age). At this point I kind of hope Heavenly Father decides to take her sooner than later. She's lived a wonderful life. She just celebrated her 90th birthday this past February. She is such a remarkable lady, always so full of life and love for everyone. And so young at heart! I remember her always kissing me on the cheek whenever I would see her and it would always leave a big lipstick mark. :) I really feel honored to call her my grandma. I bet she can't wait to see her dear Archie. Oh the thought of that reunion just makes my heart sing.
Well let's pray that this was the last snowstorm of the season and we can move on to warmer days. It snowed like 7-8 inches here (not kidding) and I would say about half of it melted today. I bet the other half will be gone by tomorrow.
Well I think the tired bug just bit me. Over and out.
The Banbiznass
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Yep we're alive.
Heeey! So it's March! How fast did that happen?! I can't believe we've already lived here for almost a year! I can't believe how big our girls are getting either. Lucy turns 5 and Ruby turns 2 in May! Sheesh, where does the time go.
Well I guess it's time for an update.
It's been a long winter. A very cold, loooong, and snowy winter. Everyone is blaming it on the Polar Vortex, which I'm not sure what that means exactly but sure, why not blame it on that! Dang PV!! I'm very grateful for a warm house and a working heater that has been keeping our little family nice and cozy. I'm so ready for some warmth from the sun though! Good news is the snow is all melted! But it did snow today, just a skiff so it's already melted. Spring is so close I can almost taste it!! I feel like Mother Nature is playing games with us in Cleveland. Just be done with winter already!! All our neighbors are saying they haven't seen a winter this bad in a long time, like 50 years! So I'm hoping we get the worst out of the way first and the rest of the winters we'll be pleasantly surprised with...let us pray.
Anyway, enough about the boring weather, let's talk about the good stuff! Trey is currently on his Emergency Med rotation and is not enjoying it. He does have some pretty good stories though, as you can imagine living in Cleveland. :) It's interesting to think that before he did a ED rotation in med school he was really considering choosing that career path. But after that 2-week rotation, he was like, "Shut it down." He really loves his job and thoroughly enjoys what he does (when he's on the anesthesia rotations of course) and his colleagues. It just further solidifies to us that Trey is where he needs to be and he definitely chose the specialty that is perfect for him and he excels at.
In other news, we're redoing our upstairs bathroom. It's kind of hideous. That was one of my conditions before we moved into this house was we had to redo that bathroom. The flesh colored tile mixed with tan and an ugly yellow just rubs this girl the wrong way. Trey's uncle who lives in Dayton is coming out to do it for us in April. I'm so excited!!
This spring/summer will be the time for all our projects. We're totally taking all of the old plants out and redoing all the front and back landscaping. We're finally going to finish our kitchen table and chairs. We're planning on painting a lot. And I would love to put in a little garden in and see if I can grow anything to eat this year. Lucy is pretty excited to help out.
Speaking of Lucy, the girl is starting Kindergarten in the Fall!!! What the what?! I'm kind of getting anxious about it. I can't believe she will be that old. And here all the schools do all-day Kindergarten. So she's going from school MWF 9:15-11:45am to M-F 8:30am-3:15pm!! I'm sending her off into the world all by herself. I hope by the time September rolls around I'll be more okay with this because now I'm having a rough time.
Ruby is hilarious. That girl just bounces from one thing to the next and always has a big smile on her face. I love to watch her play because everything she does and discovers brings her so much joy it just fills me up. She is also a little sneaky and mischievous, definitely more than her sister ever was. And she doesn't really care if we tell her no. She just smiles and keeps doing whatever she's doing and it drives me nuts because she's so stinking cute it's hard to be mad at her. Little stinker. :)
Lucy is loving her dance class and is super excited for her end of the year performance in June. We were able to swing it so we can make it to one of the performances and then we'll head out to Utah the next morning. Yay for going home!!! I feel like it's been forever but really it's only been a year. I guess a lot has happened in a year though so it feels like longer to me. I miss my family. I miss my old friends out there too. I miss good Mexican food and In-N-Out burgs. And boy do I miss those majestic mountains. I hope we can make it back there someday. If not there, then somewhere closer. Preferably with mountains. It will be fun to see how it all plays out. Trey and I have our plan on how we want our next move to go and how we'll work on paying down our mountain of debt but we all know how often Heavenly Father has something different (and better)in store for us so we'll see where we end up.
I feel like I'm still adjusting. Change is hard. Making new friends is hard. I just want to instantly be bffs with everyone but it doesn't really work that way. It takes time and I can be impatient. I want my house to look like our space but decorating and playing with things takes time. I need to be more patient and easy on myself for sure. Must try to be better at that. :)
We have some fun things planned for the next few months. We haven't really been anywhere since we moved here. I think the farthest we've traveled is Columbus for a temple trip, which was a whopping 2 hours away. :) So in April Trey took a week off so we could venture back to Hershey/Baltimore to visit our friends. Yay! I'm so excited, I miss that place. And the peeps too. Then in June we're heading to Utah for 2 weeks for my family's big reunion which will be in Zions National Park. Which leads to our other planned trip to NY to Trey's family reunion in August. I love vacations. I've missed them dearly.
Okay I've got to get to bed. Here are a few pictures I've taken over the past few days. I don't really drag out our camera much with cameras on our smart phones these days I usually just snap photos that way.
Well I guess it's time for an update.
It's been a long winter. A very cold, loooong, and snowy winter. Everyone is blaming it on the Polar Vortex, which I'm not sure what that means exactly but sure, why not blame it on that! Dang PV!! I'm very grateful for a warm house and a working heater that has been keeping our little family nice and cozy. I'm so ready for some warmth from the sun though! Good news is the snow is all melted! But it did snow today, just a skiff so it's already melted. Spring is so close I can almost taste it!! I feel like Mother Nature is playing games with us in Cleveland. Just be done with winter already!! All our neighbors are saying they haven't seen a winter this bad in a long time, like 50 years! So I'm hoping we get the worst out of the way first and the rest of the winters we'll be pleasantly surprised with...let us pray.
Anyway, enough about the boring weather, let's talk about the good stuff! Trey is currently on his Emergency Med rotation and is not enjoying it. He does have some pretty good stories though, as you can imagine living in Cleveland. :) It's interesting to think that before he did a ED rotation in med school he was really considering choosing that career path. But after that 2-week rotation, he was like, "Shut it down." He really loves his job and thoroughly enjoys what he does (when he's on the anesthesia rotations of course) and his colleagues. It just further solidifies to us that Trey is where he needs to be and he definitely chose the specialty that is perfect for him and he excels at.
In other news, we're redoing our upstairs bathroom. It's kind of hideous. That was one of my conditions before we moved into this house was we had to redo that bathroom. The flesh colored tile mixed with tan and an ugly yellow just rubs this girl the wrong way. Trey's uncle who lives in Dayton is coming out to do it for us in April. I'm so excited!!
This spring/summer will be the time for all our projects. We're totally taking all of the old plants out and redoing all the front and back landscaping. We're finally going to finish our kitchen table and chairs. We're planning on painting a lot. And I would love to put in a little garden in and see if I can grow anything to eat this year. Lucy is pretty excited to help out.
Speaking of Lucy, the girl is starting Kindergarten in the Fall!!! What the what?! I'm kind of getting anxious about it. I can't believe she will be that old. And here all the schools do all-day Kindergarten. So she's going from school MWF 9:15-11:45am to M-F 8:30am-3:15pm!! I'm sending her off into the world all by herself. I hope by the time September rolls around I'll be more okay with this because now I'm having a rough time.
Ruby is hilarious. That girl just bounces from one thing to the next and always has a big smile on her face. I love to watch her play because everything she does and discovers brings her so much joy it just fills me up. She is also a little sneaky and mischievous, definitely more than her sister ever was. And she doesn't really care if we tell her no. She just smiles and keeps doing whatever she's doing and it drives me nuts because she's so stinking cute it's hard to be mad at her. Little stinker. :)
Lucy is loving her dance class and is super excited for her end of the year performance in June. We were able to swing it so we can make it to one of the performances and then we'll head out to Utah the next morning. Yay for going home!!! I feel like it's been forever but really it's only been a year. I guess a lot has happened in a year though so it feels like longer to me. I miss my family. I miss my old friends out there too. I miss good Mexican food and In-N-Out burgs. And boy do I miss those majestic mountains. I hope we can make it back there someday. If not there, then somewhere closer. Preferably with mountains. It will be fun to see how it all plays out. Trey and I have our plan on how we want our next move to go and how we'll work on paying down our mountain of debt but we all know how often Heavenly Father has something different (and better)in store for us so we'll see where we end up.
I feel like I'm still adjusting. Change is hard. Making new friends is hard. I just want to instantly be bffs with everyone but it doesn't really work that way. It takes time and I can be impatient. I want my house to look like our space but decorating and playing with things takes time. I need to be more patient and easy on myself for sure. Must try to be better at that. :)
We have some fun things planned for the next few months. We haven't really been anywhere since we moved here. I think the farthest we've traveled is Columbus for a temple trip, which was a whopping 2 hours away. :) So in April Trey took a week off so we could venture back to Hershey/Baltimore to visit our friends. Yay! I'm so excited, I miss that place. And the peeps too. Then in June we're heading to Utah for 2 weeks for my family's big reunion which will be in Zions National Park. Which leads to our other planned trip to NY to Trey's family reunion in August. I love vacations. I've missed them dearly.
Okay I've got to get to bed. Here are a few pictures I've taken over the past few days. I don't really drag out our camera much with cameras on our smart phones these days I usually just snap photos that way.
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