Kimber turned 5

Where has the time gone. I can not believe my little girl is 5!!!

She is so fun! Yesterday I sang to her when she woke up, and got "No Mom, I need my cake and decorations before you can sing." All day yesterday I heard "I am 5 so I can do...." She even informed me that she was read for school. "4 year olds go to joy school, and 5 year olds go to school." Is she really starting school this fall??? Wow. I am just so proud of her. She has truly grown up.

She folds her own laundry and even puts it away. She helps Sweep and Vacuum. she is even great and cleaning up her toy room. I am so amazed and this little girl.

She now stands 45 inches tall. and weighs almost a pound per inch (my scale has not been found in the unpacking... but I am sure she is just over 40 lbs now.)

I am so grateful for to chance to be a mother to her, and her sister. They are truly amazing children of God.

mornings...a simple joy

We have had a busy week/weekend. with unpacking, and trying to find a life so we wont go crazy with doing the SAME thing everyday (joys of getting settled.) But this weekend, my kids ended up being up until almost 10 every night. I was hopefully for them to sleep in, but they only gave me an extra 20 minuets instead of the 3 hours I hoped they would make up for. Today though after 3 late nights they actually slept until 9. True it is only 2 hours, and not the 3 I was hoping for. But I was able to get so much done and enjoy the peace and quiet. those extra 2 hours!!! YAY!! I love it when I can experience a simple joy like that!

Baby Number 3

So... I have been known to not tell people I am pregnant until I know what the sex is, and in my 3rd trimester. This time is a bit different.

I have known I wanted another baby for a while, it has seemed weird to have such a big gap. Well, with everything going on I was even beginning to think our family was complete. When we got to Nellis and moved into temporary housing I spent more then half my time in prayer. I was so confused. I knew we were where we needed to be... but everything else was a jumble. We were looking at renting and buying off base, Told if we moved on base we would have to wait MONTHS and then more then likely end up in old housing that was really run down. We also knew that we would get a 3 bedroom... which would be fine, except we knew if we had more kids we would have 2... and probably both in the next4 years. So... what the heck were we supposed to do???

I really felt like we needed to live on base, but I was horrified of the wait and being in limbo even longer. We pre-qualified for a loan and seriously started house hunting. Randy was given 8 days to house hunt, so we began our hunt. January 7th. This was only 10 days after we got here.

Well, The night before Randy started leave I was late... about a week, but I had decided I was moving, and stressed so I wasn't to worried. But we decided to check to make sure it wasn't the other... well, I took 2 test and passed them both. The next day we looked at 10 houses, with none of them feeling right, and that afternoon we walked into the military housing office just to see exactly how long the wait was.

We learned that there was NO wait. We could move into a 3 or 4 bedroom first thing Monday! We mentioned that we had JUST found out that we were pregnant and hadn't been to a doctor. They said that with no wait list they would take our word and move us into a 4 bedroom....

So, answers to 2 prayers: where to live, and what to do about our family size. I wanted to cry I felt so blessed. All these months of worry and confusion, but still knowing we were doing the right thing. And it worked out so well and easy. I was just so amazed.

Well, complete strangers were figuring out that with 2 kids the only way we would have gotten into a 4 bed room was if I had Killed a rabbit.... so That is why we are announcing so early. Not only are the people we care most about away from us, but it just doesn't seem fair that people we just met know and our friends didn't.

Now, my only worry is that Kimber has been praying for Twins, a boy and a girl.... still to be determined.

I am due sometime around September 7th... we think it would be fun to have the baby on 9-10-11... but by time I am that far along I know I wont care. So wish me luck!

Life in Las Vegas

We are getting closed to done unpacking. Some rooms are ready for me to think about hanging up pictures! It is getting so exciting. I thought I would list some highlights of what has been going on:

*Spent an hour driving around Las Vegas trying to find a particular store (it was only 15 miles away)

*Kimber is my big helper... she has started making her bed in the morning, and cleans up her toys when asked. She even folds her own laundry and puts it a way for me.

*Nikki is getting so BIG!! I cant believe how fast she is growing. She is officially in Size 4, and tries her hardest to stay caught up to Kimber when playing.

*Randy was a genius and built shelves over our "tech center" so we would not have to fit EVERYTHING in a small space! (I really used the word genius)

*Goal to have house done by Superbowl cause I invited people over (Smart right??)

*Randy likes to tell the girls we are going crazy, when they ask were we are going. He was not with us and I answered "the store." Nikkie corrected me, "No, Mommy, we are going crazy!"

*Kimber greets anyone in uniform, "Hi! You work with my Daddy!"

That is some.... I am trying to get better at blogging, so I apologize for lack of updates.