Sunday Thanks

Each week I am going to try and record 10 things I am thankful for:

1. God - He is always there for me even when I am not there with him.
2. My hubby - He is my rock and my shield and always has been. He always knows how to help me even when I don't know I need help.
3. My kids - Even though they drive me crazy sometimes they always teach me something new.
4. My job - It is an outlet for me especially on bad days!
5. Friends - They always know what to say at just the right moments.
6. Health - My household has been fairly healthy this season and I am happy that we are not back and forth to the doctors offices.
7. My husbands job - Even though he works a lot he has not been laid off like a lot of others.
8. The weather - It has not been excessively cold this year and we have not had a ton of snow to shovel!!!
9. My kids school - They have really great schools this year and have taught them so much!!!
10. My extended family - there have been some hard times lately with them but they always are there for us.

Oh what a crazy night!

So since it has been a while since I posted...here is a quick recap of what has been going on. Zach turned 7 in November. We had a quiet Thanksgiving by ourselves. Christmas was good for the kids. They got tons of toys and we purged some of our others. Jacob turned 4 on January 6th. Katelynne is fully potty trained during the day!!! Thank you to Daddy for this. He has potty trained all of the kids on vacation from work. He usually takes the last couple of weeks of the year off from work and that is when each child has been potty trained. She still has a couple of accidents but is out of diapers during the day. She still wears one at night but 1 a day is better then 5-6!!!! And lastly Katelynne went into a big girl bed. We were given a head board and foot board from my coworker for free. Then Carol from church gave us the box spring and mattress for free. It is so great!! She loves her big girl bed and usually sleeps really well in it. Now on to our crazy night...

We always check on the kids before bed. Zach was sound asleep. Katelynne was sound asleep. Jacob was not in his bed. Now this is typical because for whatever reason he finds it better to sleep under the bed or in his closet. Ever since moving out of the crib he has done this. We will find him sleeping in the weirdest places. He even goes to sleep with Zach sometimes. So last night we could not find him anywhere. Well I knew he was in the house because the alarm was set and we had been up. Well after searching we found him in the playroom under the life-size Mickey Mouse that we have. This had recently become another favorite spot to sleep for him. So we get him in bed and go to bed ourselves. In the middle of the night Katelynne starts crying so she comes into our bed for a little bit to fall back asleep. Well I don't sleep when she is in there because she sleeps like a wild woman! Brett takes her back to her bed and all is well. I fall back asleep only to be awakened to Brett saying 'Andrea wake-up Katelynne is not in her bed!' PANIC!!! Well I know she has to be in the house somewhere because the alarm did not go off. We look EVERYWHERE and can not find her. Brett even went downstairs to see if she was there but no! So I am looking under the bed, in the closet, in the bathroom. I then start looking in the boys rooms. Check Jacob's room. Not there. Brett comes back up and says I already checked Jacob's room because the door was open. So I check Zach's room even though the door is closed. Sure enough there she is sleeping with her brother. WHEW!!! So I pick her up and put her back in her bed. That was so scary! So now I need to figure out a new way to keep her in her room because we have the door knob covers on there now and obviously that is not working!!!!!!!

Munchie Mug!!!

I have not posted in a while but was checking out another website and they are giving away a really cool snack cup! Check it out.

http://www.5minutesformom.com/4493/munchie-mug/#comment-861827

Blogs and Freebies

Well I have been doing some searching around and found some pretty cool blogs that have freebies on them. One of the ones I found was this one http://flbyu.blogspot.com/2008/08/flbyu-contest-giveaway-coupon.html that is giving away a really cool coupon organizer. She also had a link for a search site that seems pretty cool as well and I have been checking it out. http://luckysearch.com/asummers

Do you have any favorite coupon sites? Send them to me. Because with 3 growing kids we live for coupons!!!!

A few random things for the day!

Well from my last post you know that I had to take Jacob in for his haircut...they had to buzz it all off! I cried! I will have to get a picture up when I am feeling up to it.
Also I hate bill collectors. We had a bill that was not ours go into collections and we have been fighting it day after day. Even though each time we were told it was taken care of. Now we can't even get the stinking guy on the phone because he is dodging our phone calls. His receptionist is just as bad by putting us on hold to wait for him and then oops he left the building. Why do people have to ruin a great day? Then I just yelled at the stinking Windstream guy for calling me about my bill to see if I thought it was too high. WHAT??? So I yelled at him because I was already mad and then you ask me a dumb question like that? You should know what my bill is I pay you people every month for crappy service and then you ask me if my bill is too high? That was just the dumb question of the day.

Can I just go crawl into bed and start the afternoon over please!!!!!!!!

To cut or not to cut...

That will be that question tomorrow morning that I will be asking our favorite haircutting person Jennifer tomorrow. I guess Jacob decided today that he did not really like the haircut that Jennifer gave him on Wednesday. So he cut it himself today. He cut some pretty big chunks out and I tried to capture it with the camera but is just does not do it justice! I am so upset because I may have to get his hair buzzed now. I really was kidding earlier this week when I said I should just buzz it all off!!!!! That is what I get for joking around huh????

Awwww poor daddy!!!

Hubby had to go into the doctor today for his wrist. Back up a little bit to why he had to do this...Brett felt his wrist going numb about 4 or so months ago and it was also very painful. Doctor appointment after doctor appointment and nothing was helping. He finally went to the ortho doctor and they told him he has mild carpal tunnel and gave him a cortisone shot. That was about a month ago. Well about a week after that it started hurting worse. So he FINALLY made another appointment after my nagging him to do it. So today he went in and the doctor said another shot was not going to do him any good and that he needs to see the surgeon. So now he has another appointment in a week to see the surgeon to talk about having the surgery done to correct the carpal tunnel.
I feel so awful for him because I know the pain is killing him. He can not pick up the kids. He can not open jars. It is almost pitiful. He has to ask me to help him all the time and I know he hates that. He is so used to me asking him for the help that most of the time I just have to notice he needs help since he hates to ask. It really is a strike to his ego I think but I told him I did not care and that is what we are here for to help each other! So anyway I will update about that when it happens.
We are hoping maybe to have it done before vacation that way he can rest it while we are gone!!!!


Oh and since I have not updated in a little while here is a picture of the munchkins on the 4th of July!! They had fun despite K being really tired!!!!!