The big reveal!

So as you guys know i've had a secret but I didn't want to tell it till I had all the information. Well I finally have all of my information. I am finally moving forward on a new way of life and a new me. On Dec 1st I'm going to have gastric bypass surgery, as I have had weight issues all of my life well I'm sick of it and need a clean slate to start with. I'm very excited and scared a little nervous etc. I had to lose between 25 and 30lbs to be able to get my dates and I've finally come down that far and now it's time for me to get ready for my surgery! So I know some people will probably think it's a radical thing to do but I know how to diet, I've dieted my entire life and i go up and down. So now I'm going to have a new slate to start my new eating habits! I have to give huge thanks to Jody, Windy and April for helping me research, answering my questions and just being there to listen to me bitch. So thanks ladies! So wish me luck and pray that my surgery goes smooth. I just want to be able to enjoy my kids and have a better way of life! I'm so excited! Sorry if the secret wasn't as great as some thought but man this is huge for me!!! love you guys!!!

Fun Foto Meme

So Anna tagged me for this fun photo game.
The rules are to choose the sixth photo from your sixth album and post it with a brief description and/or the story behind it. So here is my photo:

This is Billy with Lore when she was just a year old. It was just us having some fun in our back yard soon after we moved to Wichita. I just can't believe how little she is here. so sweet! Thanks for making me look at my old photos! so sweet to remember!

So now my 6 being tagged:

Christie

Marissa

Chantel

Jen L

Sara

Hannah

Well Well Well...

So here it is tuesday, three days before my first born is gonna turn 4, and we are planning the menu for her party. It's a little sad realizing how big your baby is getting, and that they actually aren't your baby anymore but a little girl instead. So it looks like her birthday is gonna be a ton of fun filled with family (mostly grown ups) none of the class has rsvp'd yet, well except for Lucas he can't come due to his grandma is getting married. Oh well, apparently he thinks of Loralie as his Girlfriend, and she calls him her "best friend". It's kinda sweet. well billy doesn't think so...lol

So not much is going on here. I started going to MOPS and the kids can go with me as they have a moppetts thingy that takes care of them so I can have a little me time. I went for the first time yesterday and loved it. Miranda however started crying about 5 minutes before i picked her up because she missed me. That made me pretty sad. Loralie of course loved it. Tripp had to stay home due to the fact that he is still getting over his illness. He's doing much better and finishes his antibiotic on thurs. Thank goodness, and it has really helped he's looking and feeling much better probably the best he's felt in a month.

I know everyone wants to know my surprise however I don't want to tell it until I get all my information so I can tell you everything. It's not that I'm trying to be mean, it's just i want to be able to tell you everything not just part of it and say I'm still waiting to hear blah blah blah. So I'm sorry and I will tell you all soon! It probably won't be that big of a thing for ya'll but it is huge for me!

BTW I can't wait for billy to get the all clear because my birth control pills are driving me insane!!!!!!!!

Memories

So today I was looking for a fall picture of Miranda and ran across some pictures that actually made tears well up in my eyes. There were pictures of Last years pumpkin patch adventures with my wichita peeps, and of Birthday parties for the girls with my wichita mommas and the girls friends. It made me sad when I realized that none of lores friends that she's had most of her life (even though it's only been a short one) won't be able to be at her party this year. While I'm happy we are here with all of our family, I'm also sad because I miss my friends back in Wichita. I'm miss going to the dairy farm, and pumpkin patch and all the fun parties and get togethers we had. I miss seeing Lores face light up when I'm talking going to the park or zoo to meet her friends. I know I've been here 4 months but I really miss all the fun I had with my wichita family. They are a great group of women and it makes me sad I can't be there with them this year for all of the fall fun they are having.

I've been looking at pumpkin patches here and have found a couple but i know it just won't be the same without all of our friends. I have made a few friends here but everyone is so spread out that I doubt it would be a huge get together like I'm used to. I haven't found a mommy group, as I guess I'm picky, trendy moms and stroller mommas (a group for fit mommys) isn't my cup of tea. I need my beer drinking, shot taking, wine drinking, bunco playing, sex talking, differing opinons, fun loving, get together to eat mommy group. So anyway I'm gonna keep looking for a group I have faith i will find one but i don't think anyone will ever compare to my Wichita Mommys!

Okay pity party over, I just had to get that out because apparently billy thinks I'm crazy whenever I tear up over something like that. However these moms have been there through two of my kiddos births. Awesome ladies and if anyone ever moves to Wichita you have to meet these awesome women!

It's Wednesday...

What a boring day. Wednesday is just a day that has to be one of the worst days...it's just in the middle...okay anyway. Things here are good. Not much going on. Had an open house at Lores school it was mad chaos. Made it through that. Now I need to clean yet I'm not doing it yet. I just have no motivation to get it done. I am going to though as I need to make a ton of meatballs for a family reunion on Saturday. I'm excited about the reunion but also stressed. I have 3 kids now and in the past reunions I was kidless. it's been a few years since we've had a reunion. So now I probably wont' get to chat much, but oh well it'll be great to see everyone. However I am now pmsing and bloated so now I'm irritated and hormonal. bah.

so that's all that's going on here. I'm off to clean, I think...once tripp gets up I'm gonna have to gate them in the back part of the house so I can finish. Have a great rest of your week!

Monday, Monday...

So Billy's surgery went well. Well I guess it went as well as can be expected...lol. I have to say it's quite an interesting sight! So Thursday we took Lore to preschool went to the DMV. I have to say the DMV in the smaller town near me it so chatty. I went in there, there were two people ahead of me and 4 people working. So i think awesome this is gonna go fast. Well come to find out these chatty asses are too busy talking with the other customers not at their window about buying a new car (for themselves) or just talking in general that everything takes longer. So I wait and I wait to be called. Finally 30 mins in I get called. by the lady that is the information lady. so not only is she helping me but she's going to have to give numbers out to people as they come in. Freaking wonderful. So she starts filling out my crap and after we are almost done, she realizes she gave me an old form and I'll have to fill out a new one. WTF are you freaking kidding me? Anyway we finally get that done, and by now it's been 45 minutes. So now I get to wait for my picture to be taken. uggghhhh. After about 10 minutes my pic gets taken and then i get to wait for my license. So it freaking took me an hour but hey at least I'm registered to vote here now, there is no way I'm not gonna vote in this election! So we have an hour and some change to get billy's license and the waiting room has filled up! So I said hey why don't we go over to the next town (about a 15 minute drive) and see if we can get yours done before we have to pick up Lore. So I hot tail us over to Staunton, and pull up in the lot and i'm like shit it's busy but get Billy to go in anyway. He goes in and I see him sit down (after getting his number i guess) and then within 2 minutes he's getting up and I'm like holy crap that's fast. I swear he was out in 20 minutes flat! Well I guess that tells us what freaking dmv we should go to when/if we ever need to go to again. So now we are both registered to vote and have our VA drivers license! woo hooo.

So off to pick up lore and grab some lunch. we went to cracker barrell per Miranda's request. Then off to walmart to pick up a few groceries. Ran home to put my frozen stuff up and hopped in the car and took off to Charlottesville to drop Billyoff at the doctor. Dropped him off and we headed to Sams Club for Milk as it's the cheapest there. So got done there go back to pick up billy and in less than an hour and 25 dollar billy got the big "V" done. So That was pretty cool I mean who would have thought for 25 buck you can get the snippy snippy done and not have anymore kids...lol We made it home by 4:05 which we were 5 minutes late for direct tv peeps getting here to install our dvr. and I fixed dinner while billy sat around with peas on his balls all evening. So he had some discomfort but not much pain which is great. We watched movies that evening so he'd sit still.

Friday I took Ran to Walmart so we could have a little time together and we bought a ton of crap we didn't need. I got home and billy still was cooling the nuts so good for him he's listening to the docs orders. We sat around and watched movies and movies with the girls etc.

Sat was more of the same just watching movies i did some cleaning and stuff like that. Movies watched were Deja vu (awesome movie), Knocked up, 27 dresses, a mickey mouse storybook movie and fools gold, amoung other various shows. So see how wonderfully relaxing our day was? And billy had to ice on and off because he was having some swelling.

Sunday we watched our normal stuff and the race. Billy showed me the boys and I was like holy shit I've never seen balls that big! They had swollen almost twice the size. So I do my normal google stuff and find out it's pretty normal, just to keep icing. so that's what he did. As the swelling didn't have any pain, just some discomfort. Over night Miranda went into a coughing fit (cough left over from the cold) and i got her calmed down just in time as she had started to hyperventalate...that was freaking scary. Well all the comotion woke everyone up, and it took forever to get tripp back to sleep. Lore went back to sleep as soon as I brought Ran back into the room all calmed down and better.

So today I think Billy's balls are almost back down to normal size and he seem to be in a little less discomfort. I can't wait for us to get the all clear so I can try to live my life without birthcontrol pills. I'm also excited about all the big changes going on! So more to come on that really soon! It might not even be a month! but as soon as I know I promise I will pass it on to ya'll!

Sorry this was so long and it has a lot of references to balls and nuts but i couldn't tell the surgery info without referencing the "boys" lmao! so I'll catch up sometime soon! take care peeps!

So it's Sept...

So I have some huge life changes coming. I don't want to disclose exactly what's going on until everything is set. All I can say is it will be a huge life change. I want to tell but I feel better waiting until stuff is set in stone. But i can say one life change going on with us. Billy's getting the big "V" done tomorrow. So no more kids for us for sure! Don't get me wrong I love my kids, however three is enough for me.

So Lore started school last week and she loves it. She loves it so much that she doesn't tell us much about it. I'm guessing it's because it's her thing she gets to do by herself, so she keeps some of it to herself. She is behaving really well and I'm so proud of her. She has brought home her little pictures and frames she has painted and colored in class, it's so sweet! i need a way bigger fridge though...lol. She loves her brother and her sister. She's usually getting Miranda in trouble and has learned well that when we ask who did something she is way too quick to point out "Miranda" lol. I love her she's so awesome to watch interact with other kids. She is definately the social butterfly. She's got a lot of my wanting to do things right and gets aggrivated if she can't in her...i hate that because i know how frustrating it can be. I hope she grows out of it...lol

Miranda, well Miranda is Miranda. She is really her own person. She goes against the grain always. She always does stuff the hard way. If you tell her she shouldn't do that she could get hurt she's gonna do it just to prove she can do it even if she gets hurt. She is all me. She has my attitude all the way. I love her but man sometimes I could just shake her...lol. (of course I would never). She's super smart. She is growing like a weed, up not out, shes scrawny in a sense. Miranda at the ripe age of 2 and a half is a mini diva apparently. Her outfits have to match, she has to have things a certain way, and she is always right...lol. She's gonna drive me crazy.

Tripp is growing like a weed! He's cruising! gets up and wanders all around the furniture. He amazes me. He's got 4 teeth now and i can't believe he's already 8 mths old. I swear the time is flying by. He tries to mimic what we are saying. He of course knows the words Mama and dada, but he's also trying to spit out hello, loralie and Miranda....hahahah soooo funny when he tries to say Loralie and Miranda. He loves his big sisters, they always make him laugh, and he has this huge intoxicating belly laugh that makes you laugh because he's laughing. It's soooo funny even thinking about it. I love watching him look at his big sisters, you can really see howmuch he loves them. it's just awesome!

So that's whats up with us! I'm trying to keep up with everything but it's so hard to keep up with everyone well cleaning up behind everyone is more what i have trouble with. Billy and i have figured out that we have too many primetime shows we watch so we had to get another dvr. How sad is that. we are super tv junkies. But anyway Life is good and I thank God everyday that I was blessed with three super easy pregnancies and three awesome kids. I just feel it in my heart that my family is finally complete! Well I catch up with ya'll soon.