IT'S A GIRL!

We went for our ultra sound yesterday and found out we are having a baby girl! We are so excited to add her to our little family. Nate still doesn't understand that we're having a baby, but we are excited b/c of how much he loves babies and know he will be a wonderful big brother. Everything looked good w/ the baby and she seems to be growing fairly well, although a little on the small side. Nate was really small though, so I am not worried. Other than that we are just waiting for Christmas. Sorry no pictures, I am in a hurry tonight. I'll try to update w/ some pictures later.

We're alive

So things have just been busy lately. We moved into our new house! We love it. The only thing is that Nate didn't adjust well. He is finally starting to sleep better for us, but it has been a challenge since the move. We are finally getting settled in though. A couple weeks after we moved in, Rice came to stay for a week. We really enjoyed her and all the things she did for us. If Nate woke up in the middle of the night, grandma got him and let us rest. Also she made dinner, did laundry, unpacked boxes. A HUGE thanks to Grandma Rice!

Nate is loving day care, he has a best friend there named Jacob who is about 6 months younger than him and Nate asked "where's Jacob" ALL THE TIME! Even when he is with Jacob. Nate is really starting to be quite the Chatty Kathy if you will. Sometimes that boy never stops talking. He loves animals and can make quite a few of the noises they make, he loves Handy Manny and Mickey Mouse too. I've decided that I can't take him shopping for presants anymore b/c we went and got Charlie a hat for his birthday and Nate tried to tell Daddy what it was. It's a good thing daddy doesn't know Nate language too well b/c he thought he was saying "hot" not "hat". So the surprise didn't get ruined after all! So the picture of the shoes is b/c I have apparently taught my son well, He puts his sock inside his shoes and then took them to his room and this is where they were "put away". I didn't tell him to put them away, he just did. Nate has a shoe fetish, he LOVES shoes. If they are off, he wants them on, if they are on, he wants them off. He wants to take your shoes off too. Also the pinata was something that my sister Vicky had, so when we went to my mom and dad's for a visit, we got the kids together and did the pinata, at first Nate didn't know what to do w/ it, but after he saw the other kids hit it, he was a little better at it. Luckily nobody got hurt either.

Charlie turned 30 last month. Happy belated B-day honey! I used to think 30 was so old, but I guess it really isn't. He is doing great at his job and already got the MVP award, amongst many others. In fact, they went to a little "award ceremony" for lack of better term, I can't remember what it really was, but anyway, Charlie went to it and when he walked back into work that day he had won/received like 4 prizes! The other bank assoc. that were with him said it was the "Chuck show". I am very proud of Charlie and the hard we he puts in for us.

So most of you should know by now that I am pregnant. About 15 weeks, I thought I was further along, but the Dr. moved my due date back to May 1, I thought I was due on April 20. Oh well, the baby will come when it comes. I haven't been too sick this time. I did get nausous, but not too bad. As long as I eat, I am okay. I feel like all I do is eat, and the weird thing is that last Friday at my appt. I had lost a pound! What? How did that happen, I am growing out of my clothes, I eat all the time....Nate does keep me running though. Anyway, we should find out what we're having in Dec sometime. It is really exciting b/c Charlie's sister Shoady is expecting their first child and is due around April 17th, I think is her due date. So these 2 will be really close in age and G&G Rice are just tickled pink about the babies.

New House!

Front of house
Master
Master Bath
Living room/ dining in back
Main Bath
Kitchen
Dining to living room
Kids room
Kids room

Back yard
Back yard

So we are buying a house! We signed the offer yesterday and if everything goes well we will close on Sept 25. It is 3 bed 2 bath 2 car garage and all brick. It has a beautiful yard that is privacy fenced and has a nice shed out back for all my junk! We are so excited!

Visitors

I don't know what is up with the pictures not moving, sorry. Enjoy them how they are, I guess...

So we have had quite a busy couple of weeks. Rodger, Charlie's dad, came to visit for a week. We had lots of fun with him. I got Charlie and Rodger to play Bananagrams with me. I love that game, it is kind of like scrabble, and Charlie doesn't care for it all that much, so it was a real treat to get to play for a few nights while he was here. Also Rodger took care of Nate most of the week while Charlie and I worked. They had lots of fun. Nate got a new chair from G&G Rice. Thanks! Nate loves it and we love watching him play and sit in it. He is just getting so big. Dad also spoiled Charlie and me by taking us out to dinner, buying Charlie a new DVD player, ours broke, and he got me a new skillet which I SO needed. Thanks for spoiling. We are glad you came to visit.

So I got a new job with Arvest Mortgage Company and I love it. I started on the 14 so I am almost done 2 weeks and I think it is going well. I am at a call center where people call in about their mortgages and I answer the questions. It has been a great learning experience since Charlie and I want to buy our first home soon. Now I understand a whole lot more than I did even last week. I like the people and the drive is only 7 minutes. Nate had to switch babysitters b/c our last one would be way out of the way. We were sad b/c we loved her so much, but the new girl seems good too. A great thing about the new daycare is it is right across the street from my work. So it takes no time to get him and get home.

Charlie is doing great at his job and he is really loving it. He has a customer base that only wants to see him and is making great strides in his sales. He was number 1 in sales last month and he is the newest one there! We are so proud of you Charlie.

Nate is doing great. He is now 20 months old! I can't believe how time flies. He is starting to make "sentances" with 2-3 words alot more often now. His favorite word right now is "look". He even got a lady to "look" when there was nothing to look at. It was really funny. His favorite thing lately is taking baths. Pretty much every night, unless we get home late. He loves bubbles in the bath and requests them every time. I now need to take up stock in bubble bath.

The Happenings of Life

So lately things have been a little stressful and hectic around here. As some of you know I have been doing temp work for Walmart since last July, well now my assignments are up and I have been looking for full time work for about 2 months now. I have had probably 8 interviews, and no job offers. It is stressful and depressing. This coming week, I do have a second job interview with Arvest Mortgage company. Charlie works for Arvest in a bank, he is a deposit counselor and he loves Arvest. So hopefully they will love me and I can have a job. I only have 2 weeks left of mine, so we are praying that I will get a job before then. Also I have a job interview for a teller position at Arvest this coming week, so please pray for me to get a full time job, time is running out FAST. I've been at this for over 10 weeks now. Finding a job is one of the hardest things to do, especially now days. So that is what I've been up to.

Charlie is doing great at his job, he told me he has opened cd's for people with thousands, I think like $100,000 or more and a couple this week. Arvest gives incentive pay and those accounts really bring in the money! We like that. Also, we get to see Charlie earlier in the evenings most evenings now that he has this job and not a teller, so we love that too!

Nate is getting so big! Some of his favorite new words are: No (who would have thought) I love, (he doesn't know how to say "you" yet, that puppy and alot more. He is now telling Tangent, the dog, "no" if he doesn't like him doing something. He also does this to mommy and daddy if they touch the ottoman, Nate has claimed that as his seat. In the pictures, you will see Nate eating. We have discovered that he LOVES sour cream. So he is eating Empanadas and sour cream in the one pictures. I tried to get him with a hat on, but he hates hats. It has been over 90 degrees for 2 weeks here, today it is only 84 degrees and we are thankful. Nate has been mad because I won't let him go outside, but it is just TOO HOT! I thought I moved out of the Sunshine State, maybe I took it with me.

Memorial Weekend

Grandpa and Nate

Nate at the zoo
G&G with Nate, Charlie, Alexis, and Spencer in the background

So as you can tell, I am not very good at blogging anymore. I just hate making time for it b/c I feel there isn't much time for making time. Anyway...For Memorial weekend we went to St. Louis with my parents and my sister Vicky's family. It was a fun weekend. We went to the temple, zoo, science center and an art museum that the kids didn't like b/c you couldn't touch anything. Nate loved the zoo. He liked the hippo's, there was a big hippo that liked the attention so he would go into the water and put his HUGE face against the glass where the kids were. I thought it was pretty awesome too. Then we went to the penguin house, which stunk really bad so I walked really fast through it and waited on the outside. Charlie and Nate stayed in there, it was FREEZING in there by the way, and Nate loved it. They watch the penguins jump and splash and swim and have a great time. We also watched some bears wrestling, that was pretty neat too. I am not very good at remembering to take pictures, sorry. So here is what I have. Below are the bears wrestling and the girls were trying to see the hippo in the tank. You can't see the hippo very well in the picture, but it was big.

Catch-up Time

Shoady and Juan



We have been busy here lately. We had Shoady & Juan come and visit at the end of April. (Charlie's sister and her husband). I have been busy trying to find a permanent job b/c I am temping at Walmart home office and that runs out in July. That will be here before I know it. So wish me luck on the job search. Charlie has been in training for his new position for the past 2 weeks and will have 1 more week with help and then be on his own, I think. Nate got last week and that was no fun at all. We did a good job of not spreading it around the house though. This week I got cold sores ALL over my lips. They looked like Angelina Jolie's lips, not exaggerating! They are still really sore, but are getting better. We too Nate's pacifier away exept for nap and night time, and church b/c he is SO LOUD! I don't know what to do about that. The picture right below this is from when he got Pink Eye. My poor baby!