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Back in the game?!?!?

It has been a LONG time since I posted, but I'm thinking that it is time to start again!!!  Especially with all of the Christmas presents that I'm working on and would love to share!  So look for a few new posts in the future and if you know me IRL, remind to me keep it up!

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Emotions…

I know it has been a long time since I was on here, but I just can’t get my head into the whole blogging thing anymore…  I think it is because I spent too much time on here before, and God is trying to help me manage my time better.  Anyways, I had to write out some of my feelings and it doesn’t sound right when I write it to myself, so I am sharing with whoever reads this.

Most of you that do read the blog know that we had a miscarriage last September.  I was only three or four weeks pregnant and only knew about the pregnancy for a couple of days, but it was VERY real to in that short amount of time.  I figured out when we conceived, when I was due, when my c-section would be scheduled (for the most part…) and had new baby names running through my head. 

Two close friends of mine were already pregnant when we found out we were, Tiff a couple of months, and Kelly a few weeks more than me.  When we had the miscarriage it was hard then, knowing that they were going to look more and more pregnant and get to feel all the stuff that a pregnant woman enjoys, and I wasn’t.  But that was nothing compared to seeing them hold their babies when they were born.  Both had adorable baby girls and I am super excited for them, but it is hard.

So on to why I am writing this in the first place!  Since having kids my cramps are almost non-existent, compared to before kids, when I would curl up in a ball and cry sometimes they were so bad.  I don’t get that anymore, fantastic!!!  I don’t get moody during that time of the month, but I do get very moody before.  The only way I know it is coming.  This is the hardest time of the month for me.  Knowing that once again we didn’t get pregnant.  This is the first time in our marriage that we haven’t been using the birth control pill, and we haven’t been able to get pregnant.  Anyways, I can feel the crabbies coming on.  And it hurts so much that I can’t stand it.  All I do is holler at the kids, the hubby, I can’t get motivated, all I want to do is be by my self, and ignore everything going on around me.  I just want to through a pity party for my self. 

I have three wonderful kids already, I have a great family, enough that I should be happy with what I have.  Not this upset about what we lost. 

So please pray for my emotions, my healing, our family, my heart…  I know that there are many people out there that have lost much more that I have, and I feel guilty about how upset I am about something that in the world’s eye I never even had.  But in my heart I have 4 children that I love  with all that I am.  Pray that this gets better, that God will take away the desire to have more children if he isn’t going to fulfill that desire, or that he will lessen it for the time being, pray that if something is wrong with my body after the IUD that I had put in and taken out would heal if needed.

 

His life wasn’t taken, it was given in love,

Sharalee

Sleigh’s, skating, swinging, and sliding!!!

Last week I found out about something fun, and cheap, to do on Saturday, so we bundled up and headed to an antique farm for some sleigh rides! We met some friends there, and the kids had a ton of fun on this hill! John, Nevaeh and Aubrie on our first rid of the day.  Nevaeh enjoying some of the scenery! Wyatte had a ton of fun!!! The horse on the left of the picture is Bud and the one on the right is Mic.  I asked how they could tell them apart, and the driver told me they had different last names… (Bud) Weiser and (Mic) Aelob!!!  All joking aside, he said one of them has a dark mark on his shoulder. Wyatte was looking at the horses bums, and talking to one of the drivers. Our friends were on this sleigh Nevaeh checking out Bud and Mic. Aubrie had to get in on it too! Don’t forget Wyatte!!! Then the Barton’s all checked out the horses that drove them around. Then it was on to the games inside.  This was by far the most favorite!!! Look how steamy they are!

Aren’t they beautiful!  Huge too!!!

I know I have been gone for a very long time, but hopefully I am back now.  You would think with the new camera that I got for Christmas that I would have been taking tons and tons of pictures, but the opposite is actually true.  I don’t know how to use it enough to get good pics, so I don’t use it at all…  Hopefully that will change soon and I will get back in the game!  Here are a few pics that I have taken though. 

Aubrie has been pretty good about telling us when she goes potty (in her diaper) or if she is poopy, so I decided what the heck I am going to potty train her.  So my little baby is in panties some of the time.  So cute, and sad at the same time.  She will be 2 next month, a couple of weeks actually, so crazy is that!?!?!?  What is even weirder is the fact that I do not have a new baby, I am not even pregnant.  I can’t tell you how much fun this is, I feel like a whole new mom when i am with her because I notice so many more of the 1st, since she gets alot more attention now than the other two did.  And that brings us to these pictures.  With the other two I had to get them out of the crib because we needed it for the new baby.  So they were out by 16 or 17 months.  Aubrie was still in it at 23, so I decided that we were going to try the toddler bed and with out risking jinxing it, she stayed in it!!!  Isn’t she adorable!!! Pay no attention to the christmas tree that you see sitting in a couple of the pics…

 

My baby is no longer a baby :(

Valentines Craft!

Since I didn’t get my Christmas Crafts photographed for you all to see, I thought I better get my Valentines ones done!  I was blog surfing the other day, instead of cleaning (but my house is WAY cleaner than it was a few days ago, so it is ok!!!) and came across a super cute post by “tatertots and jello”

This is my version of what she made (sorry for the crooked pictures…)

 These are going to either sit on a shelf, after I move it from the entryway to the living room, or hang on the wall.  I really like the way the black, red, white, cream, and grey came together!

These are actually fake grapes that I had bought a while back for something, and never used them and when I pulled out the marbles I noticed the grapes were the same color and thought I would through them on a paper and see what it looked like.  I actually like that sheet the best! The love hanger is part of the scrapbook paper, and super glued in… I really wish I had some plain black ribbon for the bow on this “0”, but the black is white is ok too…

 

These next couple pics are my first ones, and they turned out a little more country, or folk, or something than I wanted, so I tried the black and red…  I still like these, but not for my house!  If anyone else wants them, let me know!!!

House…

This is another post about the roughness of my life right now, but then I am done!  For a while anyways. 

Some of you have heard me talk about how our basement is.  With the cement blocks cracking, and the walls are tipping…  Well today I went down stairs to put some clothes in the washer and hang up the load that was in there.  (We have a dryer, but not the right power hook up.  We are pretty sure we are going to have to redo all the wires to hook up the dryer, so for now it just sits in the middle of the basement and gathers soot, and dust, and junk…) I had to take the loads down that were dry, and while doing that I saw this… (Yes I did go grab my camera…) and YES THAT IS SNOW inside the house.  Not just ice crystals like we have seen before, but SNOW.  So then being the wonderful person that I am I went outside with the camera to show you the wall from another angle (take into consideration that it is –26 right now) This picture does a horrible job of showing just how indent this wall is.  What you can see is the wood wall is supposed to be sitting on the edge of the block, like a normal house.  Instead the board (pointed to by the yellow arrow) that supports the whole wall, is falling out.  Just another couple of views of the wall.     When facing the “snow” in the basement this window is about 3 feet to the left.  See how the board at the top of the window is crooked?  That is the board that was pointed out in the previous picture…This is another wall in the basement the back wall of the house.  The cracks are all at ground level and the top part is all leaning out. 

This is what you see when you come down the stairs.  The window and “snow” are on the wall at the end of this one.  This one just started to show a larger crack, but once it starts it has to go somewhere right???

The house was originally built by John’s Grandpa Russell.  John’s dad’s dad.  He built it in the lowest spot that he could on this part of their land.  Plus there are no gutters on it at all, and I have been told that is the majority of the problem…  After Russell passed away, Idella, John's grandma, sold the house to Linda and Lavern, John’s mom and dad.  They added plumbing, and electricity.  The outhouse turned into a shed, and is still in the back yard!  Anyways, they built a basement, jacked the house up after their kids got a little older and they needed some more room, and moved the house back about 20 feet (where they had dug and built the basement.)

We really want to build in a couple of years so we don’t really want to put much money into this house, but I don’t think these walls are going to take much more…  Any tips to get us by until we can afford to build???  Anyone want to come help us fix the problems with this house?!?!?!?