Eat mor Chickin

So chick fil a had their cow appreciation day. You come with something cow themed and you get a free sandwich, come dressed horn to hoof as a cow and you get a full meal for free. And of course, free food is always a plus when you have children.

So Sarah and I spent our moornings making cow costumes. Hers were way cuter than mine cause she actually sewed them. I just used paper and tape...but I still got the free meal.

 Note the udder cuteness of lydia.

 And I seriously can't get enough of this kid...oh wait thats a baby goat...this calf...thats just weird.

 My boys in their cowstumes. Mikey was a texas longhorn, Gavin was a Zebu (he even used our mullet wig as the hump on his back (it fell off), Xander went as Babe, paul bunyons big blue ox. And Owen went as a Dead cow. hehehe. They never specified they had to be alive.

 Sarah and her monkies...cows....children....you know, those hoodlums running around.

 Danton and his bull nose ring.

 Sarah and Risa

me and owen just after we got home. My "pig tails" were suposed to be horns. They started out a little whiter than that, but most the flour fell out by the time we got home. Yes...I put flour in my hair. I've heard a little flour in your hair makes you look pretty. meh heh heh. All in all it was fun. I even had leftovers to take to daddy when we went home. Totally worth it.

4 Family Garage Sale

Yesterday was so much fun. I got to have some of my absolute favorite people stay at my house all day. My sister and her 3 kids, my cousin and her 4 kids, and my other cousin and her 3 kids. We decided to hold a garage sale to get rid of some of the stuff cluttering our house, and then decided to donate the proceeds to develop the willis family cemetery. Let me tell you, it was work, but it was so fun. The kids played in the hose ALL DAY, and us moms got to sit and talk and be together all day. It was fun. Not as good of a turn out as I would have liked, but we have plenty left overs and we're going to sell them again next week. Here are a few pictures from the day that I thefted from Kristin. Benny and Owen "selling" cookies at the garage sale. SOME of the kids eating pizza for lunch. It was a blast. We all sang primary songs while we waited for the pizza to cool off.

Camping Fail

Small children and camping don't mix. Enough said.

Camping Prep

That is IT! It's officially summer! Mikey got out of school yesterday. We decided the best way to kick off summer vacation is to go on a family camp out! We have a tent that hasn't seen much use for the past 3 years. We got it just after Mikey was born. We can probably count the number of times we've used it on one hand. I'm getting so stoked for this trip though. We set up the tent in the backyard to make sure it was in good working order. It's ready to go! We got it all folded back up and in the Garage until Daddy's weekend. His weekend is Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So the soonest we can camp out is next week. I just checked the weather forcast and it's going to be nice and sunny. Time to go dig out my camping gear. I'm PUMPED!

Resurrection Time

So....I haven't been able to get one any of my blogs because I have the worst memory in a million years...but I've now refound the password to this one so hopefully we'll get some bloggin done. I am quite tired of facebook. Yes, I realize the last post was ages ago so...here we go again. the Resurrection of my blog. lets get it started!

Drawing to a Close

Closing on the house is getting nearer. As far as I know, we have all of the paperwork we need turned in. I'll know by tomorrow if they need anything else. Then all we need is an inspection and to get the house appraised. It's so close I can almost taste it. Mike is finally up here in MO to stay. And he hadn't seen the house yet and neither had the kids, so Friday, we all went to look at the house together. It felt so good to be in that house with my little family.

I was going to post the pictures that I have, but I think I'll wait a little longer until we have our stuff in the house, they're still cleaning out parts of the house. The extra carpet was still in the garage when we looked at it. But everything is updated, new lights, new sinks, new tile (the ENTIRE basement) and it's just awesome. I already know where I want everything to go. It's just a matter of closing on the house. It's getting very exciting! I promise I will post pictures...or most likely I'll just have you come over and see it! WOO!

Buying a House

Well, we've felt like it's time to buy a house for a while, but we didn't want to buy a house in TX. We've always wanted to move to MO and Mike was finally able to get a job here, so we moved back. Well, we haven't moved yet. We're kinda in a state of limbo. Staying at my moms house while I do my research and draw up the paperwork and Mike is doing his training in dallas. It's hard being away from eachother, but he's not in Afghanistan this time so I'm ok with it. We get to talk several times a day, and he said when he gets totally processed, he'll get to fly to MO to come see us. He's got 2 more weeks. Then he'll be working up here full time.

In the meantime, rental housing just never went though. So I decided to look at housing. I figured on looking at things in the 75,000 range...but everything was really tiny and not very nice looking. I found one that looked promising, so I called the realtor and he gave us the key to go look at it. Small but still not quite right. So I told the realtor nevermind on that one. We need a little more space. Then he told me about another house that he had some guys working on right then. He said, it'll cost more in the low 90,000 range, but it's more what we're looking for. Mom and I went to look at it. IT"S WONDERFUL! the bedrooms are a little small, but there is a good sized kitchen and livingroom, and a FINISHED basement!!!!! NO WAY! The basement is the same size as the rest of the house. Perfect! Game room/tv room down stairs and keep the actual house part totally clean! Monday we go in to draw up a contract! I love the house, I just wish buying a house didn't take so long.

It's hard to live in someone elses house. I'm grateful for my parents because they are willing to let us stay here, but I'm sure gonna be glad when closing time comes on that house. So keep us in your prayers. And hope for us that it goes by quickly.