Welcome to the neighborhood

Welcome to the neighborhood....yup, that's what we are thinking now that someone stole from us! Someone stole stuff from our car Sunday night/Monday morning. So sad and disappointing because they stole mostly from our kids. They took all the money in the boys wallets, stole the dvd player and stole Tim's Ipod. The cops think it was a kid because they didn't steal the GPS nor did they take the actual wallets (just the money not even the gift cards) It makes me sick. I don't understand why people can't keep their hands to themselves. We didn't tell the boys though, we told them that we took the dvd players out of the car. I don't know if it was the right decision for sure because could we have taught the kids a lesson as to WHY you never ever take something that doesn't belong to you? But we chose not to tell them and hopefully we can replace the dvd player soon. As for the money, we will replace that and they won't know either. In a way we just want to keep them inocent feeling. If that makes sense. I wish parent's would teach their kids right and wrong. We live in a gated community so therefore, it's most likely one of our neighbors. Another question is....wouldn't you notice if your kid all of a sudden had a dvd player or an ipod? I mean money yea a parent might not but the others....I dunno. And if it wasn't a kid and someone else well....all I can say is KARMA. Hopefully if the stuff is pawned we'll get it back. We also found out that a few houses down from us got hit too. So, atleast it wasn't just us.....and that house....a cop lives there! How sad.

A lil Different

I just made out invitations for Alex's 4th birthday. Not only was it a lil sad thinking my lil guy is gonna be 4 years old already but this was the first time I've written so little invites. Yup, we're sending out 5 invites. Poor lil guy says "Mommy, I want a pinata" and I had to explain to him that it will only be him, Eric, and Ivy at his party. He's being a trooper, but hopefully we'll have some family come to his party and then on his birthday we take him somewhere special. Hard to believe he's going to be 4 years old already! How time flies!

Some updates

We found a home! No, we're not were we thought we were gonna be initially but we are hoping that this is for the better! We found a nice house and are beginning the joyful process of unpacking. Currently we feel as we may be living out of boxes forever, but it will all come at time.

Eric started 2nd grade on Friday, September 10, 2010. The school district down here started on August 23. So, he's a couple weeks behind but he'll catch up just fine. He said his first day of school was perfect. So that's awesome! I have to either walk or drive Eric to school as we live pretty close. I don't mind the walk it's fine in the morning but for now until the weather cools off a little bit, I will be picking him up by car in the afternoon. He's to be at school about 8:15am. and M,T,TH,F he goes till 3pm. On Wednesday's they get out at 2pm. Not sure why but that's how it goes. Eric is doing pretty good with everything going on. Very glad to be starting school and getting to meet some friends.

Unfortanetely Alex is not going to be able to go to preschool this year:( We both are very sad about that. He doesn't make the age cut off for the school district, he has to be 4 by Sept. 1st, and his birthday isnt' until October. Bummer. And with the move and everything, we haven't found a preschool that is affordable either. I looked into 2 so far and the one was $300 a month and the other one was $170 a month. Ummmm yea just a lil out of our price range currently. Alex is pretty bummed about no school though. But he seems to like the house and has been a real trooper thru this all!

Which brings me also to Ivy. Since Alex will be home with us we are looking into activities to get involved with and have found a mom's group so we will see about some playdates and such. Ivy is doing pretty good with everything. She seems to be happy to have some of her belongings back! She's been a handful to say as well, nothing bad. Just starting to really have a personality and getting into things and knowing when and what she really wants.

Tim's still on leave, which has been really helpful, and looking forward to his help unpacking all the boxes. So glad I don't have to do it all myself! I'm sure he'll be happy to start work tho to get into a routine. Well, maybe happy isn't the proper word, but he'll be ready for a break from us I'm sure lol.

Me....well....what can I say...It's hot! Not used to the heat! Going to definatly miss the seasons changing. I love fall and well, my palm trees out front just are not going to make for a good leaf pile :( O well....gotta look at the bright side of things, my kids won't have to wear snow suits under their Halloween costumes!

I'll try to post some pictures of the house soon! We appreciate all the thoughts and prayers!!

Always on our toes....

that's what is seems like anyway....for the past 2 months we were planning on living in St. Petersburg, FL. Tim had gotten orders for there and so the search began....where to live, good neighborhoods/bad, schools, mom's groups, things to do, his work stuff and the list goes on. THEN on Thursday he got an email saying he's going to Lake Wales, FL. GRRRR so then we begin looking into there a lil. But weren't positive because the guy in charge of all that stuff was on leave until Tuesday. So....we were up in the air. THEN we called on Tuesday and the guy told him o no...you're not going to Lake Wales, AND you're not going to St. Petersburg....we don't know where you are going....WHAT!!! Yea so this has been very stressful because we haven't been able to look for a place to live or anything. thankfully we are able to stay at my Grandma's house till we can find a place. But we are ready to start getting settled in. It's crazy. We don't really know where to start looking for housing. But we're going tomorrow to drive around to see some areas....I dunno. Keep us in your prayers that we find something nice soon. I want to get Eric enrolled in school asap!!!