10-8-2009 - BIG UPDATE ON MY FAMILY

My mood while writing this blog: Blessed by God!

Well first of all HAPPY AUGUST! Its hard to believe that school will be starting back up, dance, sports, and all those fun things.

DAY CARE!

I'm so happy I had an interview with a family last week and I will have a new day care child coming starting on August 31st. That is also Clarissa's first day of school so thats exiting. She is 18 months old and is a little sweet heart. I'm so happy that they chose me to watch her.

WEIGHT LOSS!

I'm working hard and is proud to say I'm into my goal dress YAY it doesn't look the best and I still have room to loose more weight BUT hey I'm so exited about it. I'm doing several different things to get back into shape and loose at LEAST 50lbs. It allot but I would love to get rid of all my baby weight and then loose more after that. Its wonderful that my husband is so supportive of me trying to loose the weight. Hes always willing to watch the girls so I can work out. I've been trying to do several different things and it seems to be helping.

NIECE!

My newest niece Zoey Mikayla who was born on June 2, 2009 came up to Iowa to have her blessing. My brother and sister-in-law are only up for the weekend but I took ALLOT of pictures and hope to put a few of them on my page when I get them off my camera! She's a cutie pie and looks so much like my brother. He's one proud daddy too.

CREDIT CARD DEBT!

We are really exited because we had our third and final garage sale this year and made almost $100.00 and so total between all the garage sales we made... a little over $300.00! That will all be put towards debt. We will have at least one card paid off this year and since we have a 3rd day care child we will beable to have most or all of our second card paid off by the end of this year. I'm so exited because that is going to be wonderful. We are spending money wisely and only getting what we need. Its great when we look at different things and how we are doing and hardly spending anything. It makes you feel really good about yourself (I think).

FAMILY!

We are not pregnant and so we are happy because we won't have to move sooner than we wanted. I would love to be blessed with more children but right now isn't the best time for us. I'm doing lots of things and having a baby would be great but things would slow down. Clarissa starts school on the 31st. I will be taking her to school for her first week but then after that we have a public bus that will come and get her it costs $ but I won't have to load all 5 kids up four times a day to take Clarissa to school. She's really exited about riding the bus too. She has her new (Ebay) school cloths and loves them it only cost us $35.00 for several different outfits. In the store I would have spent WAY MORE. We are getting her school supplys soon but not buying any of the expensive things. Kimberly is doing good! She loves to sing songs, and play super hero (Super Why) and she is saying more words and putting them into sentences. She's going on the potty at least 1 or 2 times a day but I always ask her if she needs to go. I'm not pushing her be potty trained but I want her to know that its a good thing to go potty.

I think that covers all of my updates over the last few weeks. I'm happy to say that for once things are really looking up for my little family.