The Saddest week of my life!

Well this was the middle of the week, but I hope everyone else had a good Valentines day, I however thought mine was going okay despite waking up to Orange Jello in my new carpet! I was not a happy camper with two little boys. And then to top all of that off i got the worse phone call of my life up to this point, they called to tell me my papa had passed away:( That just broke my heart. So we have been on the go this week, we had to do visitation on tuesday night and then we had the funeral on wed! The saddest saddest day i have ever had to face. I am hoping that all of my family will be okay and i know that hes in a better place it will just be hard at the holiday times, I am beginning to come to peace with it all, but its hard and i dont want it to be real anymore, I just want to be able to see him again, i have the pics and the memories and i will forver have them, i now have to open up my memories to my kids, they got to see him for a little bit of his life and although he has been sick for most of my life you wouldnt know it by the way he has always teased us kids and picked on us and joked around! he was very fun loving! My grandma is one very STRONG woman and i look up to her for that, i am not sure i could handle all she has in the past! I love you both mama and papa, and to you papa i will one day be your little girl again!

Let the fun begin!

Okay so the first pic here is actually the after!
This is the before but i forgot how it loaded them on here:)

Well it seems the time has come for us to start the clean up! A week went by with alot of people out of power and water and many other things. I know for us personally we were part of the VERY FEW LUCKY ones that only lost power for a few hours. However my hubby's grandma was without from Tuesday to Saturday and she is 83! so we made her come stay with us for a few days and then she went to the brother-in-laws house! We well some of the kids went over to her house on Sunday and started the clean up, I will post some before and after pics at the end or the beginning wherever it decides to put them:) She has some very large trees in her yard and very big at that. The back yard was much worse than the front yard so we are still working on it and probably will be in the weeks to come. The kids finally got to return to school yesterday:) I think they were as happy about it as i was. It was also the 100th day of school for them. So they got do lots of fun activities i think. During the storm our roof started letting water leak in the closet by the front door. Water got all the way into the living room floor and covered about 3/4 of it. But on the good side we are now getting new carpet and we don't have to pay for it! Really excited about that one. We have lived in this same apartment now for 6 years, we moved in in November of 2002 and we don't plan on moving until we can build the house that we want! Hopefully within the next 5 years sometime. Have to, well need to get both of our vehicles paid for first! Okay well that's about all i have for today!

wordless wednesday

This poor tree will have to be cut down and everyone will be able to see our porch!

This is a tree right outside our apt its about 7 years old!

This is on the way from my dads house in Tontitown!

This was on Backus Street! Made for a good Pic!

These were in Johnson by the carwash!

The fun has begun......well kinda

Okay so i am now in my third semester of college. Not to bad all and all, I try to do at least 3 courses and hope to eventually be up to 4 sometime soon. I took Cost Acct this semester and I have a big feeling it is going to be quite the hard class for me, I did okay in my other two acct classes but for some reason this one seems to be way more work, I also took analysis of excel which i seem to be liking so far, and then of course my beginning algebra, i hate math but unfortunately you have to take them with all of the degrees so, the fun has begun for me and i just hope that i do okay this semester and get all A's but i will take a B if need be.

Boys and their Toys

Ahhh the joy of buying a new vehichle! Okay well its not sooo new but for us its new, my hubby decided that since his truck broke down on Sunday he would go out and find him a different vehicle. He was originally looking for something under $5000, yeah well he found one, a nice one but its about double the price, on the up side its an '06 Chevy Silverado, extended cab (the whole family can ride in it), has only 50000 miles and has had only one other owner, we saw the carfax and all was well with it, no problems were reported! Plus he can work on this one, I am a little worried about the payments on the thing but we will only be financing about 9600 so hopefully the payments will stay below 200.00 a month on it and then we will be putting our tax return towards paying it off! We are going to TRY and have it paid off before the end of the year for sure! I will eventually get a pic on here of it if i can remember! Hopefully they will let us refinance our HHR in there with it and make that payment lower as well and get rid of our OUTRAGEOUS intrest rate we are paying on it! well just wanted to let everyone know, so will keep you updated! Cross your fingers for us!:)

ahhh, back to school we go!

Its time to return to school! I think my children have had enough of each other for the past two and a half weeks. They have not had to spend that much time cooped up together in a long time. I am really not sure what i am going to do this summer. I do know that if it goes like the past few weeks i may just lose my mind:) On a happier note I think were gonna get a new truck! My hubby went today to look because his 86 toyota crapped out on him this past Sunday! We went to Fayetteville Auto Park and the dude let us drive off in a 2006 Chevy Silverado, we can actually all fit in it too. Thats a plus for us, i am not real sure how were going to like the payment but we do plan on putting our whole tax refund down on the loan, so that should help but he had to have something as i have to have the car to take the kids to school. Well not much else has happened, the kids and john return to school tomorrow and i get to start my online classes next week as the college is back in on the 12th, dont actually have to return to the school until friday the 16th for my algebra class, ahhh the glory in going to school. But i seem to enjoy it more now than i ever did, mostly cuz i get free time to myself....:) well just thought i would check in on the blog world so that i kept to my word and blog at least twice a week, well talk to all of you later in the week!

Happy New Year!!!!

Okay so its a new year and a new start for many! I for one am so glad its finally here:) The kids had a blast and I well lets just say i made myself stay awake for the new year to get here. We didnt do anything to exciting, just hung out at with some family! I did however vow to not drink pop or soda as some may say for the year that was my major thing that i am giving up this year. I for one drink it way to often and our kids think its okay to drink so were going to be more of a water drinking family this year, I am also going to try to get back down to about 175lbs, I sooo want to be there again, i know for some that is still alot buy i am 6 feet tall and my hips have birthed 3 children so for me a size 12*14 would be awesome as i am in the plus size now:( I love taking pics so i am going to use my nice new camera that i got for xmas from my mommy(canon rebel xs) everyday for the next year and just see how many pics i can take of our kids and our everyday life, i have been telling myself i will blog more so that should probably be a good goal as well at least once or twice a week and not just monthly....lol I do love to read the blogs tho. i am not real sure as to how exciting my life is, its just me and the little one at home all day as the older two are in school! But i will have lots of pics to post i guess:) So on that note I hope everyone had a safe and Happy New Year and i will get to posting some pics!