Speaking of our horrible society...

Does anyone else get disgusted when watching this commercial FOR CHILDREN!?!? I make my children fast forward or just not watch this. I honestly can't believe that Burger King and Spongebob did this:

We're almost there!

This last month has been nothing less than complete chaos in my life. This move has been by far the WORST move ever for us. We've had issue upon issue, trial upon trial during it. It started off okay, but we've had a few delays. First of all, Steve's passing (which I can't believe was almost one month ago), and we've had a lot of weather issues that slowed down our move AND the transmission went out in our van. So we have been without it for about 3 weeks now, and I'm realizing just how much I need it! The only other vehicle we have is a very small pickup that really can only hold 3 people (and our family has 4) so we HAVE to drive around with Blake laying on our laps. We don't really go anywhere as a family, except church. But it has been a pain anyway. Oh well, I'm just thankful that we do at least have the truck. I'm just hoping we can get our van fixed, I know it is going to be a VERY EXPENSIVE thing to fix though. But back to the move, we are SO close to being done, I think one more day at the old house and we will be DONE!!! And of course the unpacking at this new place, but still, we are almost done!!! WHOO HOO! I don't want to even THINK of moving for a long time! Lord willing.

And today is one of those days that I just think of my Dad all day, because it has been 4 years ago that we lost him. Last year I made a slideshow of him and I cried all day. Today, I've been okay, as far as the emotions go, but I still miss him so much.

I just can't believe how this last year has flown by, it seems like I JUST made the slideshow of my dad, and it seems like Ryan and I JUST went to Dallas for our 9th anniversary. And it is that time of the year again. Our 10th anniversary is just around the corner (in like 2-3 weeks). Ryan wants to go back to Dallas, but our money situation isn't great, so I don't know what will actually happen. And speaking of time flying, I can't BELIEVE that we have been married 10 years!!! Wow.

And last but not least, I wanted to post a picture of my sweet little niece, gosh I just adore her!!! She is the most precious baby!!!

Me and my little ♥ Madison ♥

Moving stinks!!!

Ugh! We are still not fully moved! We have been trying to move for close to a month now. Half of our items are in the old house and half in the new house. We have had 2 setbacks during this move, first Steve passed away and we took a few days to go to his funeral, and now the weather is preventing us from moving. On Thursday, I was working on getting the last few things packed, I am ALMOST done packing up there, and then the weather got bad. So I headed down to the new house and it is a good thing, because this morning I woke up to a LOT of snow. All of Oklahoma has a ton of snow. I'm going to be working all this next week on getting the last stuff packed and getting ready for a yard sale. I'm going to sell as much as I can up there, and then have one down at the new place. So again, I'm so sorry that I haven't been on here a lot, but my life is absolutely crazy right now.

I haven't been able to upload any pictures of my new sweetie, Madison, but I will as SOON as I can. I have my cords from my camera packed, and that's the reason I haven't been able to. But I do have a picture of Steve that I wanted to share, so everyone could see what he looked like. It is a picture that I will treasure forever. It is a picture of me and Steve in 1986, I was 5 and Steve was 30. He had a beautiful funeral. It couldn't have been a more perfect funeral. There were Elvis songs (Steve was a HUGE Elvis fan). The songs were beautiful, the talks about Steve were perfect, then at the burial, they had a bagpiper, because Steve liked bagpipes. The song choices were: "Daddy's Hands", "I can only Imagine","Milky White Way(Elvis)","Amazing Grace (bagpipes)", "The Way that he Loves (Steve's favorite gospel song)." Like I said, it was a beautiful service, Steve would have been so happy. I think there were between 600-700 people. There were people in the basement, standing room only, there were even people outside. He was loved by SO many people. He was very outgoing, and anyone who had ever met him, has never forgotten him, he was quite a guy!

I sure do hope everyone is doing good, I am ready for life to get back to normal for me so I can keep up with every one's blogs. :)

I gained a new family member, then lost one.

Hell0, my emotions have been all over the place in the last week. I have been working super hard on moving (mainly packing). We have more than half of our belongings at the new residence, but still have quite a bit at the old home.

I was blessed with getting to see the birth of my new niece, Madison Dawn. I'm sure that Melissa will post on her blog about Madison, but I also know that you all have been waiting to hear that Melissa had the baby. It was truly an amazing experience to witness a birth. I rejoiced so much!!! Anyway, she was born on March 16th at 4:31 pm. She weighed 6 pounds 3 oz. and is 21 1/2 inches long. She is a perfect, beautiful baby!!!

Then yesterday, I packed some more and at almost 10:00 pm, I got a phone call from my niece, Stephanie. She said that her dad, Steve, had collapsed and was having a heart attack and asked for my prayers. I immediately started praying, and within 2 minutes, I got the dreaded phone call that he didn't make it. So I'm actually headed back to Colorado for his funeral. Steve was 52 years old, and had been married to my sister, Sue for almost 23 years. In my previous blog about the wedding on the way, that is Steve's only son that is getting married, so it is going to be hard to know that Steve won't get to see that. Also, in older blogs, I have had 2 nieces get married, and they are both his daughters, and there may be a picture of Steve in those blogs. Steve was a VERY outgoing person, a lot of times that I introduced myself, I said "I'm Steve P...'s sister-in-law." My heart is aching right now, I just can't believe he is gone. So please remember my sister, Sue, and her family, Stephanie, Shane and Savanna, this is a very hard time for all of them, and we all are hurting so much!

We're moving...again :(

Hello again. Sorry again that it has been a while since I was on blogger. I wanted to let everyone know that for the next month, we will be in the process of moving to another town in Oklahoma. For my safety, I am not going to disclose where it is, but I will tell you that it is one hour away from where we live right now. It is MUCH cheaper to live in this little town that we are moving to, and I hope that we can get back on our feet while living there. We both have been praying about what to do, and we both feel that this move is what we should do. So I won't be on blogger very much for the next month. Then after that I am REALLY going to TRY to be on blogger regularly again.

On a sad note, there is a sister from the panhandle of Oklahoma that was in a car accident and died the next day. She was either a teenager or early 20s. I think she was a teen. It is so sad, so please remember her family and friends in your prayers. Her name was Charity.

I am also getting ready to be an auntie again. Melissa is due in just a few days. She has asked me to be with her in her delivery, which is such an honor to me. I'm nervous and excited at the same time. So please keep her in your prayers also. I will make it a point to post a picture of her baby (more than likely on her blog), as soon as possible.

Until next time, I hope everyone is doing well :)