Jaycee Ann is 3 years old!

I can't even believe my baby girl is 3! Is that really possible? She is such a blessing to us. I couldn't imagine my life without my little girl! I do have moments when I don't think I can handle another Why? question or to hear the words out of my mouth saying Jaycee turn your listening ears on or Jaycee Ann obey your mother! But she is our little princess I wouldn't change a thing about her! Her little smile can light up a room! She is a good helper and a great big sister! Its such a blessing to see how much she loves and cares for Jackson. She loves to laugh and loves trying to make others laugh. She loves playing with Zoe and Scooby! She loves life! She is thrilled that she has moved to a new class at church. She gets to go to a totally different building. They said she did wonderful her first time there, but I am sure it helped that they got ice cream sundaes too! This year for her birthday was lots of fun. She actually understood what was going on! She loved getting balloons from her Aunt Amy. She rushed through opening her presents like there was no tomorrow. She was excited to have her friends and family here to celebrate her day. Pretty much since the party, Nana has read every one of her birthday cards to her. SO I will probably get that job now! So here are some pictures from her special day!
Birthday Girl!

Jaycee's Balloons from Aunt A!

Havyn,Trentity,Jackson, Jaycee, and Ethan

Opening Presents!

Opening More Presents!

Jaycee and her Papa!

Havyn and Jaycee

Yummy Cake! A sneak swipe anyways!

Listening to everyone sing Happy Birthday to her!

The Princess Cake!

The Lohrer Family!

Havin' Fun in the Water!

Good Summer Fun!

Do I have to share on my birthday?

Jackson enjoying his own pool!

Finally!

We are back in business with the internet world! WOOHOO! I can't tell you how excited I am about this. I honestly was lost not having it for a month and half. I felt so out of touch with everyone and everything! Now, I am sure I will catch up fast with one and all! Things are going well for us! We had a wonderful time with Nana and Papa. We had a spectacular birthday celebration for Jaycee! I have lots of wonderful pictures to share with you all. We got a lot of things accomplished and completed on our to do list while Byron's parents were here. We are truly grateful that they are so willing to lend a helping hand. Byron and I are capable of doing these projects, but it would have taken a lot longer to get them all done! So we are so blessed to have wonderful parents that are willing to do a little work during their vacation time! Anyways! I am back to blogging, so getting ready for several blogs!

Quick update!

We are doing really well! Still loving our new home! Its official we no longer own a house in Washington! We got it closed yesterday! THANK YOU, JESUS! We are so thankful and blessed to have that over with! Finally, next week we will be up and running with internet. NO promises on pictures or blogs quite yet. Papa and Nana arrive on Wed. so we will be pretty busy. Look forward to many posts and pictures of the house, Jaycee's b-day party, the grandparents' visit, and all the fun in between! We love you all very much! Thank you so much for your continued prayers for the sale of the house! We serve a mighty God! Hope you all have a wonderful day! I can't wait to get back to my blogging life! :~)

Home Sweet Home!

What a wonderful sound those 3 words make! I can't even describe how awesome it is to have our own place. We are quite settled in our new home. We love every moment of being there. The first week of living there, we were gone 1 evening. The kids have adjusted beautifully. Jackson sleeps about 12 hours every night. Jaycee sleeps great too, but still tends to get up at least once during the night and roam into our room. The dogs are in "heaven". They love their freedom of coming and going in the house. Zoe LOVES all the attention from the kids. Scooby is Scooby, not really sure of the kids. Jaycee can get close to her, but not Jackson. Which I don't blame her at times! Byron and I love being able to relax in our own home. We are so thrilled and blessed to have such a wonderful place.

Other news, Jaycee is in potty training now! WOOHOO! She is doing quite well. She has an iron bladder. She can hold it like no other. That gives us more freedom to do things. I pretty much know when its getting close now and we sit on the potty until she does her business. She loves it when she does go. Marshmallows have been her choice of treats for now!

The house in Washington is moving into the last stages of paperwork. The inspection went well and the appraisal was on Monday. Everything is in place. So hopefully we will here soon that we can close. The closing date is May 15th, but I believe it will be sooner then that!

Hopefully, in the next week or so I will have internet and will be able to do a better job at this! I FINALLY get some pictures up of our home!

Tonight is the night!

We will officially be in our house tonight! Byron and Dad had too much going on yesterday so we weren't able to get the beds up to the house. The plan today is that my dad and Byron should be finished with work around Noon today. After that we will get things moved. The house is coming along. Mom watched the kids all day yesterday, so I got all the boxes we had up at the house unpacked. My kitchen is all set up. I have most of our closet set up. We have the living room set up. So we are doing very well. The kids had fun last night hanging out at the house for a while. Jaycee didn't come out of her room for an hour! She discovered that her toy box was there. She had EVERYTHING out of it! It was so cute! She was loving it!

A few stories about the kids! We laugh a lot! They are so funny and their personalities are wonderful. The first story is Jackson being a pest to Jaycee. Mom was in her bathroom getting ready. Jackson was playing in there and Jaycee was in Mom's room watching cartoons. All of sudden, Jackson left the room and then came running to the back wall laughing. Jaycee comes running in there and hits Jackson and goes back to her cartoons. Jackson takes off again. So mom decides to watch this time. Jaycee is in front of the tv and Jackson walks up and hits Jaycee and takes off running. Jaycee turns to come get him and notices that my mom is watching so she turns back around to the tv. So Jackson goes in there again to hit Jaycee since she didn't come after him the last time. Mom said it was so funny.

Then yesterday, not that this is funny but I have to share. Jackson has figured out how to turn mom's faucets on her garden tub. Mom got on to him b/c it was the hot water he kept turning on. So once Jaycee realized that bubby could get hurt, she went into her Mother Hen mode. As Jackson was turning the faucet on, Jaycee was trying to pull him away and Jackson bit Jaycee. Mom said she was in total shock and it happened so fast. Jaycee was heart-broken and has pretty good imprints of bubby's teeth on her arm.

So that is our news! So this will probably be my last post for a few days! Enjoy!

Sorry!

I apologize for not getting pictures up yet. I took the camera and forgot. The house was very clean! Which is so nice. We got the make do fence up for now. We also cut in the dog door and put up the dog gate in the house. We unloaded a few more things and called it a night. As you can tell, we aren't moving right now. Byron and my dad are busy at work today and Byron hasn't been able to get away. So hopefully, we will make our goal of staying there tomorrow night, but I am not so sure. If Byron is able to get off tomorrow then we most definitely will. We will go over tonight and set up the washer, dryer, and the fridge. Maybe I will get some pictures. If I do, don't look too hard at the yard. It needs to be mowed and all the flower beds need to be clean. At least you will know what our house looks like. You probably won't get inside pictures until I have it all decorated! Anyways! Just letting you know our status!

Look for in a few weeks The difference of Oklahomans vs. the rest of the world! So thankful that I married someone outside the state of Oklahoma. My eyes have been opened! Don't get me wrong I LOVE my OKLAHOMA ROOTS, but its quite funny at times to see how they think!

WOOHOO!

That is how we are feeling around here today! In 3 hours we will be closing on our new home! WOW, what a wonderful feeling that will be! We are so excited to be moving forward again! After we sign today, Byron and I will head to our new place. We will survey the house to see how much cleaning needs to be done, and I will start on that. Byron will cut the dog door in and make the house and yard dog friendly! We will get a few things set up and then call it a night. Hopefully, we will be able to get the majority of the stuff moved tomorrow! Our goal is that Thursday will be our first night, but I think we really want to be there by tomorrow night! I am going to take the camera today. So I will have some pictures to post tonight.

Also, it will be a few weeks before we are up and running with internet. There is only one provider for high-speed in the Velma area.(The downfall of a small rural community) So they are behind about 3-4 weeks. Hopefully, we will get it sooner then what they are saying! I am sure we will be plenty busy we won't even miss the computer!

Our Nooksack house is going quite well. The inspection was on Saturday. We didn't hear anything from it, so I guess everything is good and moving along! We can't even explain how relieved we are to have that house sold. We know its totally a God thing! We are so grateful to the Lord and His perfect plan for our lives!

Check back later for pictures of our NEW HOUSE!