Saturday, January 2009

Yes, please don't faint . . . I am actually writing on my blog. It has been a rough summer and fall. On my birthday, June 13, Brian lost his job with NOVAK. It was all a nasty affair, but the short story is that we were all summer without a job. I worked a couple of jobs to keep us in food and diapers and Brian applied to about 150 jobs over a three month period. We were praying hard that we could stay in Logan where all of our wonderful friends are. I guess it took us three months to decide that we would go anywhere . . . please just let us get a job. Soooooo here we are, back in Kemmerer, Wy. For now we are living with Brians parents while Brian works as a welders helper for ExxonMobil. I'm not going to lie and say that it was an easy move. We are losers living with our parents, but our children are happy and we are slowly getting out of debt. I was a real weenie about leaving Logan. We have good friends there who took really good care of us. I am adjusting to life in Kemmerer now. We have been here for 5 months and I am making friends, getting involved in as many things as I can, and hosting scrapbooking twice a week. My mother in law Karen as a dream kitchen with a bar that will fit 6 scrapbookers at once. He He He. I am enjoying that.
Well Brooklyn is in pre-school at KCDC here and is loving it. She gets to go with her cousin, Cyndi, and that helped the transition a little bit. She still talks about her friend Lexi all the time. She misses how busy we were in Logan. She is sharing a room with Kaden here and they have both been wonderful. Of course, having Grandma Karen here to spoil them has made a big difference.
Kaden is loving being here and helping Grandpa Ron build the new bathroom. He is good at handing nails and tools to Grandpa and sweeping up the dust. Kaden is sooo ready to go to school. He has a hard time on the days we drop Brooklyn off at preschool. He wants to stay and play with her. He gets lonely when she is gone and I have to get creative with entertaining him. My sweet sister in law describes him as a "blender with no lid". He is always busy and taking things apart to see how they work. He is a good kid, if you can think to tell him "NO" before he can think up new ways to be destructive.
I have been focusing on being mommy and loving every minute of it. Brooklyn and Kaden are really good and well adjusted kids, they make my life so full and happy. Brooklyn starts Kindergarden in the fall and it is all day here. You can probably guess how bad I am panicking about that. She will be gone all day!!!! I don't want her to grow up this fast. Kaden will start preschool too and I think he will do wonderfully.
I really hope you all will forgive me for being so negligent in my blogging. I promise to do better from now on. I hope you all are doing well and please let me know what your blog addresses are so I can read yours.