No more 9 to 5...

So I did it! I put in my two weeks! I'm so going to miss all of my friends at work, but it will be so much easier (and cheaper) for me to stay at home!

I was a little afraid that my boss was going to bar the doors and never let me leave, but he "said" he understood... lol

So now I have to train my replacement... it's so weird to think I won't be driving here in just a few short weeks...

Well I'm off to my second (non-paying but SOOOO worth it) job! HA!

xoxo

OH fall! How I loooooove thee!

So I can't really tell you what it is about fall that I love so much! Is it the crisp clean air? Or the color of the trees? Or the really awesome frizz free hair days? Yeah it's probably that last one!

I know a lot of people would love to live on a sunny warm beach year around, but if I could bottle up fall weather and keep it year around it would be like Heaven! I love the warm colors all the wonderful smells! I bought my first fall candle this weekend and have it on my warmer at home! I just love coming through the front door and smelling the pumpkin and spice!

The girls have all but decided exactly what they want to be for Halloween... they keep switching back and forth back and forth at a dizzying pace! I told them yesterday they need to put the for sures on it already so I can get to sewing!

This isn't "our" Halloween this year :( but I still want to do all the fun stuff with them anyway! Plus I'm sure that Torrie and Maryiah's costumes will fall on us anyway since Ex-BM (you can think BOTH meanings on this one...) still hasn't said anything about even taking them Trick-or-Treating...

We also have Lil Miss Joycie's fifth birthday to plan!!!! We are going to have a costume party this year!!! (Anther reason on the rush for the costumes!) We are going to have all kinds of games, like putting your hand in different boxes trying to guess the gross stuff inside! YAY! Best Costume and making Carmel apples to name a few! I'm so stoked for this! I swear I wish we had birthday parties every month!- Oh wait! We kinda do! Ha!

Another fun fall thing is the fair!!! I HEART the fair! I love eating my way (and weight) through the fairways... and then rolling all the way home! I'm hoping that everything works out to where we can take all the girls! Last year it rained on the day we had planned to go and six wet whinny wittle ones is no fun! So I'm hoping this year everything works out! Of course it's gonna cost an arm and a leg just to get us all in there! And I hope everyone is well rested cause we are going to get our moneys worth! :)

Happy Fall to All!

XOXO

Another week another $3?!?!

So Lovie and I started looking at our finances... which I do all the time since I'm the bill payer in the house, a.k.a The Banker, but we wanted to look at our debit to income ratio and low and behold after daycare, my land payment and gas to get to work I bring home an estimated $3.00 a week... yes, that was not a typo let me spell it out for you THREE DOLLARS A WEEK, which it $12 dollars a month... WOW! So rich! :)
So we've deiced to sell the land (know anyone who might be interested???) and I'm going to stay home! YAY! It just seems so moronic for us to pay a thousand dollars a month for someone else to watch our children! I know that seems cheap for six, but trust me when you have parents who don't pay support like they are court ordered to do, it is NOT an easy feat! Some people seem to forget that you also must FEED your children!
Also another issue we have run into is sick days... When you have one or two children sick days can often take a toll on your income, but let's multiply that by six. Because you know illness is like a domino affect in a home with children. Maybe one will end up with a little tummy bug and by the following week everyone around them is dropping like flies! And by the time I get it my sick days are way long gone!
So we have been praying about the whole situation and we are hoping to be able to make this life change by the end of the year! I haven't been a stay at home in about 7 years so it will be a big change for me! I'm a very social person and will probably end up talking lil Katie Bug's ears off all day long! Or calling all my besties and bugging them every second!
But I am so excited to be able to get ready to go back to school! I'm hoping to be able to have more time to apply for scholarships and grants! By next fall Joycie will be in Kindergarten and Katie will be ready for Pre-K!
So keep us in your prayers!
xoxo

Ramsey is HERE!

My beautiful, wonderful "little" cousin Megan is a mommy!!! YAY! She has waited patiently for just the right time to plan and have her perfect little baby and here she is!!!

Mommy, baby AND daddy are all doing great!!!

Ramsey Katelyn Hurt

8lbs 6oz

21"

Miss Megan is the one who introduced me to the world of Blogging! So you all have her to thank! :) Here's the link to her blog http://hurthomesweethome.blogspot.com/ (I'm not sure how to do all those cute little hidden links!)

Thank God for all his beautiful miracles he gives us in life!

Dressin up!

So tonight we have our annual Employee Appreciation Banquet. And I'm super excited to get to dress up! The theme is 50's Homecoming. So we bought these really cute dresses to fit the theme! Mine is black with black polka-dots and I even purchased Bump-it's! It's going to be fantastic!
I can't wait to get all dressed up and put all those 50's beehives to shame!
Sadly my lovie has to stay at home with the girls since it is for employees only :(... but he will get to enjoy my "homecoming" later tonight! LOL
I'm so excited that I can't even begin to stay focused today! I swear I need a job that is full of fun and exciting things everyday! :)
Where oh where is THAT job?!?!?!

For shame....

OK so sorry it's been a crazy week but I wanted to update you with what happened last week... well I'd actually LOVE to update you with something but there is really nothing to update :(. We go back October 8th and our lawyer will finish his line of questioning with her, which is where it was left off...
So until then no news is good news I guess... right? Well she has still stopped paying child support so that should be a feather in our hat (I hope!)...
And nothing else has changed with her behavior towards the girls either which is sad for them :(
Oh on another note she has been looking a little round in the middle if you know what I mean... guess we'll see if there is any news on that one in a few weeks.....

Praying for a good out come...

So some of you know the whole sorted story of Jordan and his ex wife... some of you do not. I don't really want to go into much detail so I'll give you a small condensed version, and yes this IS the condensed version...

Ex had an affair (moved a guy in) while Jordan was serving his country in Iraq and became pregnant, all unknown to him (they were still happily married or so HE thought) and assumed when he came home all would be the same...
Well of course it wasn't.

She gave her last baby up... well more like gave it to a couple she knew... no legal adoption or guardianship or anything, in hopes Jordan would change his mind and trust her again (which obviously didn't happen). And no baby's daddy has no idea she even exists, go figure.

Jordan immediately got a house when he returned home and got the girls from Ex. There they had beds and rooms and everything a little girl needs. She on the other hand was at this point sleeping on her mother's couch and the girls were sleeping on the floor... all because she didn't make a house payment for an entire year and the house went back to the bank... oh... yes she is that special...

Jordan filed for divorce and full custody of the girls and things were fine...

Until, after a year and a half, (and only after child support was garnished from her paycheck) she decided she wants custody of the girls! But the kicker is that she only wants "joint custody with primary care"... and why you might ask? Well because she can apply for Section 8 and food stamps and all of the other wonderful things our government set up with the intention of helping people in need... not really for allowing them to just live off of it for the rest of their lives.

So here we are the day before court and still running around gathering more stuff! Wow you would think since this whole fiasco has been on going since February we would have all of our stuff together but it seems like more and more stuff is coming out even now at this late of a date.
Bless his heart Jordan is so nervous! :( I hate to see him so anxious, but then so am I. I truly think that the judge will see everything for what is honestly is. I just can't bare to think of losing our girls! :(

We are all such a perfect fit... and it breaks my heart to think of them having to live in the same situations they were put in three years ago. No child should ever have to live like that. Ever.
So please pray for us! I think we are going to have the out come we've been praying for. We have so many in our community on our side, our pastor, teachers, old neighbors (from their old neighborhood), doctors and police officers (who had to go to the old house and pull out a convicted felon) friends and family and even the girls themselves.

I know we have done everything in our power to make sure that we have everything to prove that the girls are right where they belong. But I still can't help but to worry...

**Of course I did receive a message today that my aunt passed The Bar Exam!!!! So I guess if this becomes an even bigger issue we may just hire TWO lawyers!!! :) Way to go Cindy!!! (: