Tuesday, February 17, 2009

new stuff happening all the time....

Well our house that we put on the market early December is in escrow and we now have less than 30 days to find a new place to live, pack the house... both of them.... and move! I'm excited! Okay not really, I'm more nervous than anything. I envisioned a nice long escrow and not moving until May... now bam here it is in my face! I guess I thrive on challenge so I best stop complaining and get my butt in gear.

Just to make things easy I'm also looking for a job planning a birthday party for my mom making several trips with Oscar out of town over the next few months. Oh yes, I was going to stop complaining. 

I gave up writing multiple long posts about my trip. I will do just one in the next week or so. 

Jonathan called from Guam and is having a wonderful trip although he is anxiously awaiting the girl scout cookies to be shipped.

Oscar and I are now hosting the life group in our home while Steve and Amy take a hiatus for the birth of twins Garrett & Paige. For the first time in my life I like me own name.... Thank you Amy for bringing it to my attention. The twins are little beauties with a capital B. Of course we know the van Riessens make good looking little ones... Molly of course is also a stunner. 

Winter is moving fast these days. She says ma-ma-ma-ma and then looks for Suzanne so she is making the connection! She crawls like a speed demon for the dog water dish or food dish and then dazzles you with her chubby smiles before you can get the word "no" out of your mouth! Suz has started putting two little pigtails on the top of her head ans I swear she looks more like an elf than ever.... cute beyond description! She even has her own facebook account now with more friends than I have... I think that says something but don't' really want to take to close a look at that. We are hopelessly behind on her purple bunny monthly pictures. We took them I just haven't posted them!

Becca is still loving her new apartment although the lovely skunk spray odor from Blu has been a  pain in the behind! Last week he decided that skunks were fun to bark at....until he got hit right between the eyes! The house is smelling better but Blu does have a distinct lingering odor about him. Oh yes... best stuff on the market for skunk smell removal is BON-CC-41, available only online and a bit pricey but works the best so far! It's much less expensive than throwing away all of Becca's clothing and bed linens that had a light spray of wet skunk oil that blu shook off in her room after the first bath with only shampoo! 

Justin is off to work out of town for the next 3 weeks... between school, moving and single parenting Suzy will be tired for sure! Hopefully he will be back in time to help load the truck. 

I'm happy to be home this craziness is what I know and love....