Our crazy weekend!

Saying this past weekend was busy is an understatement!  One day consisted of shopping!  We went to Lowe's to order our new flooring for the house.  We shopped for the kids school supplies.  Shopping for two kids was crazy there supply lists were so different not to mention how different there taste in backpacks/lunch boxes.  Allison and I went on a mother daughter date to get our nails done and buy another pair of shoes.  My lil princess was so exhausted from the busy day while she was waiting to get her nails done she fell asleep!!

Also my mom came into town Friday and we got spend a few hours with her.  She got to see the new house and give me plenty of ideas on how to arrange furniture.  We even got to go to lunch together!  It was such a special treat to see her I didn't want to let her go back!

Friday night we took the kids to drive in for some family time!  It was nice and stress free, I had so much fun with the kids.  We left Beckett with Richards parents and just spent time with the big kids. We bought a ton of junk food and enjoyed every second together.  We even let them play at the playground while watching the movie.

One of the days we had to drive back to Hobbs to load up the U-Haul, it took us several hours!!  We even had to drive back another day with my brother in laws truck to pick up a load of our out door stuff.  The second time we went we took Allison so she could say good bye to her friend our neighbors daughter.

Also through all this chaos Beckett was sick.  My poor baby had diarrhea for 4 days, he even threw up twice! He was fussy, clingy, and unhappy!  His doctor wasn't to concerned because there was a nasty bug going around.  He seems to be feeling better and slowly back to his normal self.  Expect B is not happy that he cant find his daddy, words can not explain what a daddy's boy he is gez!  The next ten days with out Richard are going to be tough!!

Meet the teacher night!

Thursday we left Hobbs with a car load and drove into Midland for meet the teacher night.  I was a little sad driving away knowing the kids wouldn't be back in Hobbs again.  Meet the teacher night was CRAZY.  There were so many people I was so glad my mother in law watched Beckett for me.  The school is large and I didn't know my way around it.  Finding each kids classroom was a bit overwhelming in between a ton of people.  Both kids classrooms are far from each other.  Allison class is the last hall and the last room.  This year Allison will have two teachers.  She will go to one in the morning and one in the afternoon.  Both her teachers seem really nice and she only has 17 kids in her class compared to the 29 in Hobbs.  Cooper's teacher Mrs. M is super nice and will have her hands full with a classroom with a majority of boys.  Cooper seemed totally chill the whole time.  The only time he perked up was when I let them play at the playground when we were done.  Cant believe both kids will be at school all day!

Saying good bye

 

 

We have definitely field our last few weeks with spending time with friends here in Hobbs.  We have gone back to the Carlsbad beach, met for dinner with Allison's friend from school, several play dates, girls dinner/baby shower, a road trip, and a good bye lunch!!  I wasn't always to fond of Hobbs but I have meet a ton of wonderful people and even made a few life long friends.  I am sure going to miss our daily walks with my friend Dana.  I know I've said it before but Hobbs would not have been livable with out her!  I know Allison and Cooper are going to miss a few of there special little friends the have made.  Plus I still have to come back every 4-6 weeks to tighten my braces for the next 12 months!  I cant believe its been two years since we moved here (August 6th of 2011) , time went by so quick!  Although I am ready to settle into our new home in Midland and get involved in another busy school year with my kiddos!

 

11 years..

Today Richard and I celebrated our eleven year wedding anniversary.  Another year we didn't really get to celebrate we had big plans to go to this resort in Canyon TX this past weekend but instead we packed up the house.  Last year we wanted to go to Hawaii to celebrated the big 10 years but we had a newborn.  Maybe next year we will actually get to celebrate.  As for this year we were able to send the big kids to a friends house.  Richard grilled steaks.  We watched a movie and at cake, while Beckett took a nap.  Richard even surprised me with flowers, I told him not to buy any since we are moving in like a week!  But this morning when I woke up I saw these beautiful flowers and a very sweet card.  All I have to say is 11 years of marriage is not enough time, I cant wait and see what the next 11 years bring us!

Here is a little flash back to 2002, I found our wedding album while packing and thought it would be fun to load a few of these pictures.

My birthday

This was the first birthday in my life that I wasn't surrounded by my mom and sisters.  I knew I would be bummed about it so I decided to plan a fun day trip to Carlsbad.  We started out on the road early so we could fit all the things we had planned into one day.  As we pulled into town we stopped by a park.  There is basically an entire two story structure made of wood and covered.  It was very cool inside the structure, its almost like a maze inside.  We lost track of time there the kids had so much fun.  We even walked across the bridge which crosses the Pecos river.  It warmed up fast so we decided to go into Carlsbad and have lunch before we went to the Caverns!  After we spoiled are selves at lunch eating our meals and each of us enjoying a milkshake, we drove about 20 minutes to the Carlsbad Caverns. 

 

The Carlsbad Cavers was so beautiful.  I had so much fun walking down into the Caverns.  We made so many memories and learned so much about the different type of stalagmites, bats, limestone etc.  One of my favorite parts was when we entered the twilight zone and we learned that with out man made light from that point on it would be completely dark.  I walked the entire way down holding hands with Cooper.  Listening to the things we talked about will forever stay with me.  Once he told me "Mom I am holding your hand so you wont be scared."  We talked a lot about what Cooper thought the stalagmites looked like bat ears, popcorn, a finger.  Cooper thought that the path ways looked like a race car track.  He told me that he thought it would be fun to bring a remote control car down the path ways.  Richard wore Beckett the whole time and waked ahead of Cooper and I with Allison.  Allison was so interested in the Caverns and was full of questions, Richard and Allison literally talked the entire hour down.  If it were up to her we would have walked back up the trail!  I  had such a wonderful time and we definitely plan to go back!

We ended our time at the Carlsbad beach!  The kids and I have been a few times but Richard had never been.  It was perfect weather!  Not to hot but warm enough to swim.  The kids enjoyed Richard taking them out to the deep part of the river.  Beckett and I enjoyed playing in the sand.  Beckett loved putting sand in the bucket over and over again.  Richard and Allison had fun burying B's legs.  Hours seemed to fly by there!  We also rented a paddle boat and paddled down the river, such beautiful views.  I am determined to make my birthday every year similar to this one, I really enjoyed spending the day with my lil family doing something we had never down before.  My birthday this year definitely hits on my list of top birthdays!  I even got a new Nikon camera that comes in the mail next week!!!

Inspection, sleepovers, and packing!

 

This past weekend was CRAZY!  Thursday night we drove into Midland.  Friday we had the inspection on the house and a meeting with Lowe's to pick out the new flooring for the house.  We also dropped the big kids off with my sister.  We meet her half way between Midland and San Angelo, the big kids would stay with my sister until Sunday night.  Also we left Beckett with my mother/father in law.  Friday night we had our selves a little date night and went to the movies and out to dinner.  It was so nice to get away from kids and making decision about the house.  Plus the food at Osaka's was amazing, and the movie Wolverine was decent.  After dinner we even went for an hour walk around a park, the weather was so nice with a light breeze.  Then we drove back to Hobbs for the next couple of days to pack the house up.  Saturday flew by as we worked on the yard, packed the garage, packed each kids room, and our bedroom closet.  We literally only left a few toys and beds in the kids room.  I cant get over how much junk my kids had, we haven't filtered there toys since we moved to Hobbs.  We even made a few trips to the Salvation Army to donate a bunch of things!  Richard and I had three 30 gallon bags each of clothes we got rid of.  We also deep cleaned the house bathrooms and bath tubs.  I still need to pack the kitchen, hall closet, and all the décor but I still have two weeks tell we close.  While we did all the packing we still enjoyed each others company with out kiddos ordered pizza and watch the new GI Joe movie. 












After all the packing was done we drove back to Midland and had an early birthday celebration for me at dinner with Richards family at Olive Garden.  It was a delicious dinner with wonderful conversations, I even got to hold my sweet great nephew.  Plus I got some fun new fall décor for the new house.  We picked up the big kids and got to hear about there many adventures in San Angelo.  The kids went to a fair and got there faces painted, climbed a rock wall, saw fish.  They went swimming, enjoy jumping on the trampoline, and playing with there cousins.  That night when we were back in Hobbs I couldn't sleep I was just so happy to have all my kiddos back!  Its funny how much I missed them, I guess I was just meant to be a busy mommy with a full house!