Life Raising 7

waiting waiting waitng..

2010-02-10T13:50:00.000-08:00

So jim is still in washington still waiting and trying to make the best of it. Trying to get as much done on the house as i can while he is gone all the while taking care of kids and morning sickness.. one thing i always wished this thing had was a spell checker for my typing. oh well. So alex is starting school next year and I really feel that he could have benifited from some preschool. I know he gets to play with other kids like zane is also close to his age but i wanted him to be in the group setting with the other kids. They are having a dinner for the kids at the school to introduce them to it soon. that will be fun for him. I am waiting for 3 preschools to call back and thinking its not going to work to get him into school. I know that in church he wont sit in the chidrens class as he is supposed to when doing activitys he leaves often. I am not as much worried about the academics as I am tha the is nto potty trained completly and that he is not able to sit through anythign for very long with out leaving. church might help get him ready to go to school but i dont think its enough. I really think that when i did not put troy is preschool it made it hard in kindergarten from the start. school has changed since i have been a kid. not goign to preschool was ok then as not many went and the critera was diffrent . these days it is hard to fit in form the start if you are behind from not going to preschool. they help get them ready. so I got one call back and alex is to old for the program that I wanted to get him into however they are going to enroll the babies and then he can do it with them. lol.. they have a play group one time a month where they play with a group of kids in a class room setting and work on things. that will be good for him. again i let this sit all day while i never finished typign it and i have to go .. get kids ready for church if i am goign uggghh.. morning sickness and sinus infection im not sure i shouldgo

Let the Week Begin...

2010-02-08T16:31:00.000-08:00

Lots to do this week . today I got a fridge.. I am going to teach the girls n boys how to make acorn squash in the oven. Im sure they will like to stick there hands in the squash and get the seeds out.. It is troys day to cook. je is making burger but i have to get the squash cooked before it goes bad. bathroom is getting redone finally this weekend if all goes as planned he is coming to work on friday morning. it will have all new floor walls toliet and electric and tub surround. I like the tub we have at this point as it is old and big and I seen that you can not find one that big for cheap. I figure we can keep it and put a new tub surround.. any ways... I took this picture and scanned it this week. I wanted to add it. That is me holding my brothers hand and the other kid on the left is my cousin Stevie. I got that table not to long ago from my aunt. so it has to be at least 30 years old. We are already going to out grow it although it has two leaves in it but it is so heavy made and I dont want to give it up. I love it that I can see grandma bernice in the back ground crocheting. I always would go over there and talk to grandma while she crocheted or knited? and my mom was in the kitchen gossiping or what ever it was that the grown ups did. It was pretty boring to go over there after she passed away cause the corner in the living room was empty ... anyway..... more later

Trying to be more postive

2010-02-07T16:45:00.000-08:00

So tuesday we we will find out how many babies were having. lol.. no matter how many there are it is all we are having. I seen a book titled "would you trust god to choose how many kids you have?" well my husbaand said he would however i said i no. I will have to change my thing to life raising ?. This week the kids were pretty good aboout chores. they love to help cook and made valentine sugar cookies, blueberry muffins, (We had them for breakfast sunday and also they were going to take them for a snack for school monday however they have no school monday) .. oh well.

on saturday nights I put meat in the crockpot put it on low and then on sunday morning I add the potaotes turn it up and sunday dinner is done after church.
I always loved sunday dinner growing up. I have been craving lots of foods from when I was a kid. things I always hated and if i tryed would not like still like prune juice I was thirsty for .. ewwwwww... macaroni salad made the way my mom made it, baked mac and cheese, and the   oddest thing corn flakes with hot homemade milk. you know powdered milk we used to have to use that for our cereal.. lol...so tonight we made peanut butter fudge. it is cooling right now but seems to have turned out. i think it i wil be to sweet for me not like it used to taste good with all that sugar and now it might be to sweet we will see i guess.

Original Recipe Yield 1 - 8x8 inch pan

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
2 1/4 cups brown sugar

1/2 cup milk
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

Directions

Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar and milk. Bring to a boil and boil for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter and vanilla. Pour over confectioners' sugar in a large mixing bowl. Beat until smooth; pour into an 8x8 inch dish. Chill until firm and cut into squares.

  I had to look all over to find a recipie that did not take marshmallow cream.

Oh and btw i have alergies to things and when I take a bite of anything with peanut butter in it my mouth itches. i think that means that i am gettign an alergy to it but  I love pb so wish me luck I'm eating the peanut butter fudge. ok   so yes it tastes like SUGAR ugggh lol...i mean its peanut buttery but dang it is sweet . yummy...   it is no wonder you only make a 8 by 8 pan and not a cake pan full.. you can't eat too much fudge and   you had your sugar for the day lol...

Well.. I love that I can leave the blog and come back to finish it. I missed   what he said for most of church as james was crying and had to go out.  I did hear how he said it is so hard when you try to make things better and someone fights you on it and makes it hard on you. That happens to me all the time. with   everyone. I say "I want to do this to make this better they say no you cant or they want things another way and there negative about my choices. or if im trying to help some one in my family they fight me the whole time and treat me like crap about it lately .. he said you have to tell them ppl stop im trying to help you but will i do that? and the next thing I know it's the same and there complaining about my choices to make things better.. so annoying to me... oh well... I'm done   for now... must be the hormones   honesty is out in me... again ...

Today feels like monday! Although it is Wednesday

2010-01-06T19:24:00.000-08:00

I actually like mondays as it is a new start. Today is the first day without Jim here again and we have to get back to normal. He told me last night that he woudl be gettign back to washington by 11 44 so i waited up not remembering that they were off by 4 hours. oh man i got barley any sleep by the time i realized the time diffrence it was after midnight and then i woke at 3 30 his time when he called ... silly me..oh well i slept in and its back to the daily life alone. Todayi got my calendar ready so i know whats going on this week and i wrote the kids stuff on the board so they knowwhat to do when they get home.. so today i had this big list of things that i had put off and had to complete. First of all i forgot to pay the heat bill and it made a fee of like 20 extra bucks. WELL THE LADY TOOK THE FEE OFF WITHOUT ME ASKING HER.. SO NICE darn it was on caps again.. any ways then today i called to tell the vfw that i did not want the money they wre offerign toaward a bill as we were overly blessed and they said they were goign to give it to this family that lost there mommy this weekend to a drunk driver.. how awesome is that im gald i didnt take it.. i feel so bad for them babies she had 3 of them and a husband..

fergie the company dog

2010-01-05T21:55:00.000-08:00

Repostign this pic of Fergie the company dog so i can link to it.. while jim was deployed they somehow got a do that another troop left. i have more pics of it even soem with stitch but cant find then all.. anyways. the dog really seemed to boost the moral of the guys and when i was readign somone elses blog i seen a post abotu puppies for the military i thought was cool. this dog had all its shots and such i haev bno clue where it came from but it sure did put a smiel on the guys faces..

tithes

2010-01-05T21:26:00.000-08:00

this year at times of surprise we suddenly were bombarded i might say with gifts and gift cards. After christmas even a few days we found gift cards in our mail box from some organization.I am not used to that much and felt a bit overwhelmed all of a sudden. I have to be honest We were offered to pay one of our bills from the vfw and i will be telling them to please give it to someone else. we have been so blessed this year we honestly took gift cards that were sent home with him form the army and bought new tires for the van had tires put on my dads front of his truck and he gave some to his neice as he felt her tires needed changed. i knwo that it would seem unfair that things were given to us and we gave them away but We are both that way that we felt we got too much already and that it was better to Pay it forward i guess you would say. it was pretty cool taht the other daythos ladies showed up again from teh vfw and dropped off access potatoes that they had. I honestly get stuff given to me all the time. not to brag but i think it has to do with how i help out everyone. If i have a few bucks i would give you half. if i have too much food i woudl let you go in my freezer and take some for your self. That it seems is something that jim and i have in common. oh dont worry i haev had my share of being used becasuse of it but once i got those grays of wisdom (older is smarter lol) any ways one time i was in the parkinglot and a lady gave me a winnie the pooh comforter set complete and some pom poms. The next day i went back to that store to get somethign and a totaly diffrent woman gave me pants that were brand new cords for zane 2 pair of them. right in the parking lot.. i think that is crazy to happen 2 times in one day .. and one time i went to a garage sale and this lady loaded me up with free stuff that she had that was nice things she said she jsut loved me and wanted to give me stuff for some reason... i was like oh my gosh... wow.. all i bought was a 5 doallar angel pic that is huge.. any ways... thats kind of liek the guy that gave me 10 bucks a while back at that garage sale. it was in a earlier post he said it was from jesus... anyways.. so there i rambled on and on again.. i was gettign to a point... so you are supposed to go on faith when you tithe.. you give 10 % even if you dont have it and your bills are always taken care of some how as god provides.. well if you lost your house it was meant to be and so on.. i mean i gave my house up rather than pay that high payment a few yers back and look where i ended up better off for sure.. so... i know how people think of tithing. they dont want to give up 10% they need that money and so on. well jim and i have been lookign for a church and katie and meg and zane all hav been going to first baptist where i went for so long since they been able to go. Zane since he was in a car seat...
Troy tried it and switched to rez where he seems to go more than any.and i was also going to family of god and the victory checking them out. well we have decided that we are all goign to go to the same church now and picked victory. thsi is where we got married. i was really surprised to hear that jim was not apposed to me giving 10% of his money away while he is gone .. i thought he woudl be but he was not as most people are... tha ti know anyways ... i remember at one time thinking it was crazy myself... thought i dont have it how can i give it away.. but it all works out. i know that it almsot seems like i shoudl have given those cards back to them when i recieved so many but i know that where they went is deserving and they were given to us and i felt better about helping soemone out with them as we were already overly blessed this year.. i am so thank ful for the great christmas.. the gifts to yes mostly getting to have jim here for the babies first christmas... even his ticket home got paid for.. AND HE BROGHT HOME THIS REALLY COOL QUILT.. I LOVE IT OOPS CAPS IS ON OHWELL lol

so what do you think if you some how got blessed with a bunch of gifts and then a bunch of cards came like that and stuff i mean what woudl you do? you cant give it back...i know that wehre it went was a good cause .. and food too .. i gave away some cards that t i got in acces to buy food with to a family that woudl not have had christmas dinner... i mean we had food here and they woudk have had none.. and i gave them some cards to buy there kids presents with at the last minute. all the help that i never expected helped out 4 families that are hard working families... that at the last minute were able to have christmas they were not going to have.. i even got soem tears out of it from someone he he ... or 2 i guess i kind of feel bad cause i got so much given to us i did nto expect it but it happened and before i knew it it was christmas and stuff poured in and i said ... honey i got this given to me what do i do such and such could use it there nto having christmas and then he came to me and said honey such and such has bald tires and these cards came in the mail can i give them to them to help them out and i said yes like he did.. were so much alike when it comes to that.. lol so i was goign to save my cards to get a cool camera that takes better pics but jim left me his and took mine. this way i can take videos with his.. he he ok so that is enough on that post i guess im rambling trying to stay up as jim is going to call me and wake me when he gets in wa of the plane soooo there it is over all the access helped out 4 families, 3 vetrans 13 kids i think... total and 3 vehicles have soem new tires.. which reminds me jim says i need a front end alignment i better get one..

more pics from this week

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daddys boy a pic from this past week

2010-01-05T20:29:00.000-08:00

cheese

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1 05 09 pics

2010-01-05T20:26:00.000-08:00

chuckie cheese and taking jim to the airport

Sierras mri pics

2010-01-05T20:17:00.000-08:00

This is the bag they put her in then they have a hose that sucks it tight around her and vaccum packs her in as she sleeps so she dont move. it sounds cruel but it avoids having her get sedated as i have heard tha tsoem babies dont wake up from that and i wont let my children get sedated unless it is a dire emergecy and we haev failed all other trys at other means ..

GOOD NEWS

2010-01-05T20:12:00.000-08:00

At birth: Me being high with medication from an emergency c section I looked up to see the doc with a magnifying glass in hand looking at my babies butts. “Wow” I exclaimed “they are really good at this hospital talk about looking them over with a fine tooth comb they are checking them over with a magnifying glass” little did I know they were born with a sacral dimple on their butt. They were checking to see if it had a bottom or if it went all the way through to their spine and was open as in with the worst case of spin bifida.

Hours later; Doc explained that was what they had been doing. They also did an ultra sounbd of James to see if it was spinabifida. They were looking for a teathered spinal cord which would cause him to be crippled later on in life. They did not find it and so assumed that Sierra was ok as well.

Months later: the babies regular doctor ordered that Sierra be checked as well being that they are not identical twins she may have the problem even though he did not.

Months ago: After the ultra sound on sierra , Doc in Grant explained to me a few months back that sierra had a small meningocele and that it may not cause any problems. I even had a health nurse that comes to house go on the system at Gerber and read and explain the findings of the ultrasound to me. she said the same thing that she has it although it may not affect her. They said more tests are going to be needed. the doc set me up with an appointment to consult with a neurosurgeon and find out what the options are and how they will or may affect sierra.

Appointment with the neurosurgeon New years EVE

We got there with our disc from Gerber in hand of the ultra sound. The surgeon looked at sierras back and said

1. from what he could see it was not anything to worry about however the ultrasound was Not clear and we needed to get her an MRI. we were given the option to sedate sierra and give her a MRI which they said would have to involve sedation.

2. Also that her feet were not overly arched wrong and so that meant she most likely has no complications with this saccorogial pit as he called it.

3. That it would normally be up higher if it were to be one that would cause problems

4. That we had to get a mri to rule out complications

5. If complications were found surgery would be the next week but he was sure it was not a problem

6. Diagnosis by the ultrasound was not a good diagnosis and that he could not even clearly read the ultrasound to make a diagnosis so most ultrasounds are misdiagnosed.

/Now he came off as a salesman to me first of all. I had talked to 2 people who already told me that yes she has this and now he is telling me “no it is probably nothing and he didn’t even know how they read it to say that to begin with a s the ultrasound results were not even clear enough to read, I thought the guy was nuts and I told Jim so. I mean Jim had not went through what I had went through with being told she has it and then now he is saying no she does not five seconds into meeting her.!!! Wow !! I was really skeptical and thought he was nuts after all I had gone there to see what we could do for this for a consultation any ways … apoinment was made for Monday jan 4th to get the mri without sedation.

Jan 4th appointment

We were not to feed her all day except breakfast and had to keep her awake so that when she came in to get the mri I could feed her and she would sleep well.

They had a blue vaccum pack that she went in and was suctioned up in after falling asleep so she could hold stil and try to get the mri that way. Zane had been one of the youngest to go with out a sedation after 6 months they sadate them.so I figured I would try this and hope it worked and it did. She drank 4 bottles of 2 ounces faster than I have ever seen her and she had a thing of sugar water from the baby dept as she was starving and passed out finally. She did great.

January 5th appointment with the neurosurgeon and he sad the same.. mri looked great she has a saccrogial pit and that is all. No teathering of the spine or any other abnormalities. He did however say the first thing he seen was how big her stomach was and realized that we did not allow her to get sedated and thought it was funny nce he realized why her stomach was enormous lol…

And so as it seems to be me complaing about the misdiagnosis or what ever it was it is not.. I am very happy that what ever they seen when they called and told me she had it was wrong. Our little princess will be fine and I am greatful, maybe it was the prayers that turned the diagnosis from yes she had it to no they were wrong what ever it is I am great ful to god for it none the less.. not only will she have no complications she doesn’t even have it to begin with.. thank you for all your prayers… I noticed when I was at the apoinment with the neurosurgeon that he said that if anything was found on the mri that they would operate next week and that really showed me how greatful I am as I was under al the wrong inpressions from the first doctor. What they were looking for was worse than I thought.. and today after the apoinment we took the babies to chuckie cheese and then we took jim to the airport.. ill be filling in our 11 days later on I suppose… lots top catch up on

ok so this one is a strange post..

2010-01-04T21:00:00.000-08:00

The kids made a red velvet cake for Jims birthdaywhich i will post soon. He is going back tommorrow and ill be able to post alot more for now i thought i waould add these silly pics of Kate tryign to be scarry with the red velvet. I can finsih my year a review and post it soon too since its back to beign alone again for who knows how long after tommorrow. WAH!!!

Happy New years Eve!!

2009-12-31T09:26:00.000-08:00

money saving recipies

I wonder if they work? There are also recipies for dinner some of which are the same as I already cook. I find it funny that the site came from the duggars. Who woudl haev thought I would have this many kids that I actually use these monster recipies. Last night while making 3 pans of lasagna i realized i don't know how to cook for a small group. Some of the kids were gone and we now have a few containers of lasagna to freeze for later. I love cookign too much so i can just take an already cooked meal out of the freezer and warm it up on a wednesday night. Church night they get home at 430 from school and have to leave at 630 not returning till 9 from church.It does not help the fact that our family goes to 4 diffrent church's. Anyways so tonight we are going to victory to play board games from 6-9. It seems to be ther earliest new years eve we have had yet. The girls asked if they can watch the ball drop on tv and play games at home so maybe we will play some of the board games they got for christmas. This year we were so blessed i feel liek we need to give back some where... yesterday we got the mail well maybe day before im not sure, anyways there were 200 dollars worth of gift cards in there. How did we get so blessed this year.. It was from an organization in washngton that those ladies must have given our information to..
Im going to save my cards to get a new camera that takes real photographs. I have always wanted one. This year we were blessed with many last minute surprises and honestly by the time we knew of one it was already that we had the other. Jim tryed to tell the ladies in washington no when they gave him things the night before he left and they would not take no for an answer. The thing is I have always donated my things to Love inc. as they help out families in our area that are in need and before i had kids I donated my time to helping hand out food and things but since i have had the kids I have not done these things. I can't wait for jim to get home so I can take our little army places to help donate time and get the true meaning of helping others. It is just easier to do with him home to help. That is one thing that jim and i have in common is helping others. Sometimes I think that god will bless you for helping others. not that it is a reason to do so. its just that if you do good good will come back to you!! Some call it Karma.. I don't believe in Karma I beliveve it is god blessing you!! Bless and Be Blessed!! Count Your Blessings, And thank god for them. Like I always say Everything on earth has came from god in one way or another...None of it is yours to keep.

TAgged

2009-12-28T21:07:00.000-08:00

So i been tagged.. by Jessica I have not really had time to read many blogs so i can't really tag anyone yet. I did jsu tfigure ou thow to add a link with the name of the link in it now woo hoo. im slowly figuring this out. so the thing is that you have to write 7 things about you that no one knows.. well i figure some one knows them but not from reading my blog and so here it goes..

So seven things you may not know about me. Wow she said this one was hard for her and i think it will be for me too.

1. When i divorced my first husband I was going to college for Auto Mechanics. I was doing quite well however was no longer able to attend and care for 5 children on my own. I Had no day care or support from anyone to help me out and had to drop my classes.
2. At 17 I was talking with an army recruiter and even took the test to join the Army. I did not want to defend my country. I had no clue about the extent of the army and would have gotten a rude awakening.   I wanted to travel and jump out of perfecly good airplanes. I then met my ex husband and got pregnant which put a stop to my completly signing up. I am now the Sargent of 7 little soldiers. LOL I sometimes feel like I would like to have been something else too but would not give this up for nothing.

3. My 1st real job was a janitor at the school when was I think 14?   I have made the donuts at 4 am, been a cashier, worked in factories, held the stop sign for construction, Drove a lunch truck and crashed it in gr by the airport. (lol) snipped carrots at vansingles (and quit the same day) worked in an antique shop, waitresed, bartended, cashiered, Worked in a deli, and maybe someother jobs i forgot about. I did well at all of them, except that lunch truck incident lol. Just had to quit for various reason due to being a mom.

4.being an army wife is not easy...

5. I did not used to support the troops as I think war is stupid. One day my brother told me   support the troops not the war. I thought about what he said and realized that they dont all want to be there either and they have families that don't want them there. I tried not to get attatcehd to jim because he was military and   it did not work as look where I am lol...
6. I have lost many loved ones in my life to drugs and alcohol. I have never done drugs other than drinking and weed. would never do any other .. i DID inhale the weed.. I have not drank for over a year and blame my best friends death and depression on drugs and alcohol which seems to be the reason i dont like to drink no more.
7. I will not leave my house without counting my kids and taking roll call.. lol.. yeah I have alot of them...

When i read some more blogs on this site i will link to them and tag them rigth now i dont have any that have nto been tagged already lol

playing with my new scarf your such a dork honey

2009-12-26T18:29:00.000-08:00

So soft and cuddly thank you santa...

Thats the scarf that santa brought me..

I think it looks better on me... lol

2009-12-26T18:24:00.000-08:00

Sierra WAitng to open presents.

Dad got a army shirt jim bought him. he said he wanted one..

This is the tool set i bought jim for christmas.

You need a screw driver to open it.. lol

Jim n daisy

2009-12-26T16:50:00.001-08:00

This is the Ice on teh windows at the airport. the plane took an additional 30 minutes to get over to the spot to unload due to ice on the runways. Thank god they landed ok.

Wishes come true... Daddys home and spending all his time with babies...bonding... what a great christmas.

The plane once it got there to drop him off.

Daisy seems to have missed him to she wanted to jump on him so he had to hold her stil for the pic..

home 2

2009-12-26T16:46:00.001-08:00

Daddys Home

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The news crew was there from fox 17 and here is one more news cast it was the top news story on there .. another news story on it

A few of the pics from the airport what a surprise.. i would blog about it but i would rather just add the news story up here GRAND RAPIDS - One family is getting the ultimate Christmas gift this year --- some precious time together. Specialist James Rogers was deployed to Iraq starting on Mother's Day. Now he's being treated for a back injury at Fort Lewis in Washingston.

His wife Missy and seven kids, including two infant twins, weren't sure they would get to see Rogers for the holiday. But Christmas Eve night, they got an early gift as he arrived at the airport. Although Missy expected her husband, she didn't tell her seven kids until they made their way to the airport.

"Forget about the presents, this is the best Christmas gift I could ever give my kids," she said.

Rogers will be in town for 10 days before going back for more physical therapy.

Copyright © 2009, FOX 17 - West Michigan's FOX

2009-12-26T16:42:00.000-08:00

This is what i got roxane for chrismas. She said i made her cry he he.. She had said her grandma had a set like it when she grew up and i found it at a gargae sale last summer, SAved it for her all year and she thought it was mine he he... roxane and Joyce are how i do this on my own with out Jim here. Thanks Granny. Love ya.. COuldnt do it with out you..

playing with the new photo uploader

2009-12-22T21:46:00.000-08:00

the bathroom floor needs repaired... GRRRR tht is under the tile...we bought the house knowing it needs repairs It is really a nice house just going t o have to do this sooner than i thought... know a floor repair man? lol...

jim and alex before he left

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It is times like these that i know why i married him. I think it takes the dedication of a soldier to be this good with 5 step children.

adopt a soldier programs

2009-12-22T01:18:00.000-08:00

I have some things to add to this post after christmas but for now... (cause my son may run across it and dont want to give away an surprises i might have lol) today jim went to the office of the lady that has been helping us with stuff.. and she had a bag there with clothes in it for the babies. 2 out fits a piece. it came from operaton baby something and some women at a church progam well there was a card in there as well that had 2 five dollar bills in it. he was so happy when he seen the baby clothes he said he got mushy .. well what ever his words were for it.. sorry honey i haveto make a strong point here.. he got teary eyed... it is so hard on the guys to leave there babies. jim has given up there whoel first year of live voluntaraly and anyone who knows him knows tha the is a great daddy to the kids. but he felt it was his duty .... and well
that is how these guys feel that there country has to come before there family to an extent i think beccause with out a country wehre woudl the kids be.. oh wow im gettign tired i better make my point faster lol... when a freind of mine got back form afgahnistan a few years back he came to personally thank me for talking to him while over seas (he came from 100s of miles) ky i think? where he lived and he told me you have no idea what it meant to me to have someone to talk to sometimes. i did not get it until jim i guess... sometimes it is liek they get forgotten over there.. familsy says how are they adn thats it never write never nothing and they feel forgotten (from what soldiers have told me ) that is why things like this are important for moral. thing tha thelp the soldiers faiy things that have penpals... i thought about it.. this guy was over there with death and evil all around him.... and he coudl come back to his chu after a hard week out seeing things no one should ever have to see and talk to someone who is from home.. although i was in michigan and he is not form michigan but home in the us.. where he is fighting for... to haev a few minutes to say what its like there and connect with the us.. i am very great ful for programs to help things like this...not as much for the monatary to soldiers but for the thought .. that one sodlier might have a better day or a smile after sitting over ther ein depression all day ... from a card or soemthing that takes a few minutes and is small...to you ... it is 430 am and i have not been to bed yet ill edit this later and stuff and well i haev things to add to it after christmas as well...once i wondered what he was so thankful for me all i did was send him an email here and there for a year... and then after this deployment i see now why it is that he was so gretfull and that when he said ti meant the world to him that it did..

www.soldiersangel.com

http://www.soldierswishlist.webs.com/

These are two places you can adopt a soldier.

waiting waiting waitng..

2009-12-18T14:57:00.000-08:00

Ugggh grrr i dont like waitng but the army motto hurry up and wait it seems that the wtb is good for jim... The lady there is excellent at making sure the family is communicating with them and knows whats going on. some times i think that Jim is under so much stress there with all the paper work that he cant think straight. I just talked to the lady at the family assaistance center there as she needed some soc numbers for the kids and she updated me on what they are trying to do. She said that not only are they trying to get him a leave from chirstmas eve through the 5th of january. I told her i really need him home for sierras apointment. It is at the devos ]childrens center on the 30th or 31st ansd i dont know what day it is exatctly .. I have to call back to find out.. lol i cant do that til monday but the neuro surgeon is going to let us know what can be done for sierra what tests they need to perform to see if she has other problems or complications due to the myelomeningocele. and what to expect. I have read that some children wil have no problems from this... I am praying that she is one of them and so far so good although as she grows is when we will see. I want the moral support of jim when we go there as it is stressfull.. I made the apoinment at that time due to the fact that we thougth eh woudl get the leave. anyways right now i sent hi a link and he has gotten his da 31 filled out and sent to his sargent and the sargent sent it up to the first sargent. they are also trying to get the ticket paid for as i was wating to pay our house insurance until i find out if i can get him home or not. every time icalled the ticket got higher it went from 500 to now gettign closer to 1000 to get a ticket home at chirstmas time. what a pain.. and i could not order it beign that we were unsure of rahter he could ge the leave and they wil nto refund the money even with insurance a plane ticket has to be cancelled in 24 hours they told me at expedia. I feel bad for a friend who went through so much of her childs health problem alone. As i sit here i think that my problem is not the most important in the world. That there are others who have it worse.. Others who have loved ones that can never make it home for chirstmas and here i am wanting my husband home for chirstmas and for that apoinment. I Have my baby boy sitting here with me. My friend who was there for me the day the babies were born and the next day her son passed away at 5 months old. Every time that i have a milestone like the babies reaching there 5 months old at thanksgiving time it was one more month that her baby boy had earned his wings. i rattled on and on and never posted this.. and by the time i got to the bottom they called and have his leave approved and a ticket home. he will be here chirstmas day at either 940 am or 2 in the after noon.. woo hoo... now i have lots of stuff to do this house is a mess. lol... my christmas shopping is not done.. oh man .... oh man... i think that on chirstmas I will take the kids to pick up jim at the airport and tell them that we have to go pick up a christmas gift before we are able to open them or something ,,, it may not be possibel to surprse them but im going to try.. it is 9 and i am freaking tired... uggghhh....man have jim and i been blessed this year.. as much of a pain as deployment is and the training the months before we sure have been blessed.... we have less than a week til hes home for a few days woohooo. the name of the place that got him the ticket home is called .... http://www.heartbeatforwarriors.org/default.aspx we very much appreciate them....they helped so jim can be here for the kids first christmas

Jims address at the WTB and an update

2009-12-18T11:23:00.001-08:00

Update..
After a month in med hold with the 1st JMB in Ft Lewis Washignton they have finally transfered Jim to a diffrent unit.. the WTB which is a Warrior Transition Battalion. (still in ft lewis) He will Go through the Medical Review board there and they will be able to help him out with all his issues. They can get him medical help surgerys if needed and any medical things he needs. He has his own room there with internt acess and flat screen tv and acess to a kitchen. what he does not have is family and friends while he is on a misson to get healed and get home. In the evenings we cam and he can see the babies and kids sometimes we just keep our cams on and go about our day. Yesterday i met with some ladies from the VFW and they were telling me there stories . Although i did not have much time to talk with them the one who has Twins as well said that i think it was her husbad and brother was in vietnam and one was a prisoner of war. maybe her father was a poa in WWII im not sure which was which.. .. so forgive me ... and anyways they were saying how someone heard that there child was born through a news paper that came out monthy or something.. They read of it and seen them when they got home for the first time when the child was almost a year. These days i have to be greatfull that while jim was in iraq and kuwait there were few times that i did nto hav contact with hism for days. Those days were stressfull. I could never imagine the (old timers as jim calls them) having to wait for a year to hear if there soldeir was alive or not. although the technology gives us troubel sometiems we have to be greatful for what we have. communication, phones, internet, mail, and the way the base blocks communication when soethign happens so that they can notify the families first. (thank god he is in the us now so I dont have to worry about that but the other soldiers familes do still.)

SPC Rogers A Co Warrior Transition Battalion Mail Stop 114 339517 Ft. Lewis, WA 98433 used for letters ----------------------------- SPC Rogers A Co Warrior Transition Battalion Building 2021 MS 114 339517 Ft. Lewis, WA 98433 for packages
2:04 PM
12/18
if anyone is interested
2:06 PM
12/18
i'm not sure, but yo
2:06 PM
12/18
may need to add a box number, i will check to see

Stil no word on rather he wil get a leave for chirstmas or not.. i guess we will see... huh

pics

2009-12-17T22:30:00.000-08:00

our tree this one is the final one lol.. it turned out very pretty kate is by it decorating it and megan had decided that we will not have a topper unless jim comes home..
waiting for christmas
waiting a long time for santa

2009-12-17T22:22:00.000-08:00

daisy was sleeping and under the covers like a kid
this was our first tree this year but we wanted a bigger one and nana got us one at good wil.. this one never even got the lights lit on it lol..
what a cutie
Sierra i will have you for christmas.

some new pics from last weekend

2009-12-17T22:11:00.000-08:00

waiting for santa

decorating the tree.. alexs head zane and a very crazy kate...

my writers block is going away..

2009-12-17T20:46:00.000-08:00

The kids got to bed on time tonight woo hoo.. well it was there day with there bio dad so they cam home and ate and went right to bed like i asked.. the babies are laying next to me and I have my husband in my bedroom with me via web cam. he is working on some online classes he has to take in wa and we have the mics hooked up so we can chat and cam... its cold and i need to go turn the heat up. today was a great day over all. we found out that there is a woman in finance that said she wil work on trying to get him home for chirstmas and even help pay the ticket. I am used to the army ways by now and i dont count on it but it wil be nice if it did happen! well i have no time to write im trying to listen to a book on tape .. how relaxing. i got a bunch of them free from the army and i love books.... i never had one that was on cd before so relaxing i woudl love a kindle from amazon..

2009-12-17T19:44:00.000-08:00

Isn't this awesome . Jim took it while heading to iraq from the plane. some day i would love to have a good camera with those ends and oh to maybe go fly and take pics up in the sky lol.. seems to be the best way to get pics. pry be to chicken to fly though lol.. maybe leave it for the birds and take pics on the ground on second thought.

updates from washington

2009-12-11T09:27:00.000-08:00

Still not back from washington and i still haev had no time to update this ... he is stuck in paper work in med hold .. may be going to a wtu... i seems that the army would need to have a map of how these things work but they don't. Lots of stress.. i think it was better on us when he was in iraq and had more of a definate of what was goign on more and well he had internet service . it seems tha tonce a soldier is injured the army treats them like crap. i try not to put all the stresss on here and be postive but it is gettign hard lol... he put in for a leave for chirstmas but if he gets transfereed he wil haev to put in for the leave all over again and may not get it doen in time as there is onyl 2 weeks left to get the leave approved transfer and put in for another leave. then get a flight... the filghts get more expensive by the day...i constantly have ppl calling asking for updates and i say when i hear ill tell you but of course they keep calling anyways... ill try to update with some pics later .... we put the tree up.. kind of . i held off on it as i thought he was comign home and he wanted to be there finally did it alone.. which we would have anyways if he was stayign in iraq but i guess the point of not knowing sucks...

stress of army families....

2009-11-21T08:19:00.000-08:00

At first when jim deployed and i knew he was with mean people over there with guns (sorry honey Weapons) it was very hard every time you heard of an army casualty and had not talked to him for a while. I have been lucky in the fact that the whole time he was there i talked to him almost every day and it was only minimal when i didn't. So any ways I found the DOD (department of defense) web site wehre they give all teh news of the army and army casualties. I always looked at it to see how safe the area he was in was. After not talking to him for days and being stressed out i talked to the FRG leader and she told me.... Dont listen to the news it will stress you out more and that anythign on the website for casualties or on the news the families would already been notified by the time you read it. When something happens they balck out all communication on the base so no one can talk until the families are notified. Its to keep it so the families are given a proper notification. So I still read the DOD and have a live feed to it coming to my email when its updated and last week I got one that was in the area near his base. I also got an email letting the families know that there was a blackout. I have Noticed throughout the months reading the DOD website that the deaths in Afghanistan have been increasing. I realize that if Jim would have been sent to afghanistan I would not be able to sleep EVER!!!! I thank god that he is back in the US safe.... Although after the Texas shootings I think Fob Sykes was safer than Ft lewis where he is stationed now...I feel so bad for the Families of the men over there and soon Zanes Biological father will be heading over there. As much as I don't like him I do not wish that deployment on anyone... So I have found myself reading things i never woudl have before, and supporting the army Families way more than ever after having walked a mile in the shoes i see what its like. I do notice that vetrans are very supportive of our troops and know that i will be more suportive after having gotten a better understanding of what they go through.. I say they as if i am not one myself.. but knowing that I won't have to be much longer. As much stress as this has been there are families who have it worse. And I have noticed through this that there is an amazing amount of support for the army family that is at home as well. One of the wives told me that the rear detachment came and unclogged her pipes for her one time. I am of course to far away from the base for that kind of support as Jm transfered to Selfridge ARNG base which he deployed out of but thats ok im independent. I unclogged my own pipes.. he he that was in an earlier post and yes I was kind of girly about it and ended up with water sprayed all over me and it was more like a sit com... lol.. but in the end the sink drained...
so anyways.. im glad that jim was home before they had this blackout on his base being that i know i would have been stressed evethough jim was no longer leaving the base...

"DOD Identifies Army Casualty

s
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Staff Sgt. Ryan L. Zorn, 35, of Upton, Wyo., died Nov.16 in Tal Afar, Iraq, of injuries sustained during a vehicle roll-over. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.

For more information the media may contact the Fort Riley public affairs office at (785) 240-1893, (785) 239-3033, or after hours at (785) 210-8867."

Hello everyone,
SGM sent me an email this morning. They have been under a communication blackout (NOT related to our unit). They just had it lifted so communication is back up.
I am sorry if you received this more than once. I am have some technical difficulties. Google temporarily suspended my ability to send gmail. Google said I sent too many emails too fast when I was trying to get out the mid tour information, so I cannot send from gmail. I was grounded :) Their way of trying to prevent me from spamming you! It appears I am up and running again. I will get some pictures out tonight (hopefully).
Take care,Tammy

Good morning

2009-11-20T06:20:00.000-08:00

Not feeling like getting anything done today but it is morning and time to get started.... Dad has been staying here which is cool cause I hate staying here alone anyways.. lol....last night and half of yesterday Troy ,Jim and I all played on pogo (online games you can play against other people)... that was kind of fun. We got all our badges for the week in one day. I have not played it in a long time and troy kicked both our butts at bowling, some candy game and monopoly. Jim had to sit at the Aafes to get internet. Its like a mall there in washington on the base with shops and stuff inside of it. Its good he has good enough internet there to get on things like that now but it sucks that its uncomfortable for him to sit thre for hours. I think some of the guys had came and left again and came back while he sat there the whole time. lol... so today jim gets to drive the higher ups around again and wait for his phone call to come in saying his paperwork is through. we decided that if we have to pay for the ticket we will jsu thave to wait for him to come home in December. It realyl woudl be a waist of money for the ticket being that much and afterall he is realyl not supposed to be home until may so no matter what its earlier than expected and he still wont miss the babies first christmas. well i better get some work done today .....everythign i did in the past week is getting messed up again with all these kids lol... this is my weekend with no kids so all i have are the babies I should be able to do something..

oh wow

2009-11-19T11:45:00.000-08:00

So just from the time i wrote that blog and pressed send jim called to say that he was talking to a higher up of some kind while driving the sargent major and sargent whatever it was around and they are trying to get him a temporary leave so he can come home for thanksgiving. There is really no need for him to be there.. soooo. again of course we still wait... I never know how much time have for him to be home. In the mean time dad and i have been hanging out and he is staying here a few days...bad time to get your heart broken thats for sure..any one know any single women that know what they want..lol.... thats a big joke huh women can never make up there minds...wow that sounds like the army too... but jim may still make it home we will see i guess....well the babies are sleeping i may jsut go get something done. Oh and by the way the doc never got back with us on sierras paperwork to get into the neurologists about the spinabifida.. MRI and I called them to see what happend. Apparently they lost it and it has been taken care of now they say. they will be calling us with an apoinment for peats ? peatz? childrens center or something? I wonder how good that place is?... shit by the time i got this done let it set without pressing post he found out he would have to pay for his own ticket and we cant afford that so.... who knows we may just wait for him to get home.. he will get home eventually I'll go keep myself busy till then..hes online now.. he he

Army waiting game

2009-11-19T09:28:00.000-08:00

It took me only about one time of jim going to one of his weekends to work way back when for me to learn why Dad always says "hurry up and wait" Me coming from a family of a bunch of vetrans and such i kind of already knew about the army ways. Anyways We are at one of those points. They sent him all over for paper work for this and that and they told him he was going to get his flight after one more thing. Now he found out that he has to wait for a paper work to come in before he can leave and that the average on it is a 7 to 10 day wait .. i figure that is 7 to 10 business days so that woudl put 7 days on thanksgiving and 10 on december 1st. I am greatful that i am pretty sure he will be here for the babies first christmas. they dont tell you the pay that he will recieve but one thing i noticed is that god always provides. ALWAYS HAS ALWAYS WILL. if nothing else he will be watching babies while i get a job. I wont take a bartending job though i dont think that is good on marraiges or families. anyways like i said im cheap... i got what need to be done mostly while he has been gone. I was very cheap this year and had saved school clothes that some one gave e last year for the boys and they fit them this year so i didnt even buy much school clothes so that we could get this hosue and have a roof over our head. it has alot of work yet to be done to make it a house but it is feeling like a home and that is what counts. So the other day i got to go to walmart. i was planning on thanksgiving with jim here but if not i guess at least christmas... I got to hang out with jess the other day and yesterday christy cam and helped out with laundry. getting stuff done around here and in order from moving is not easy when your watching 7 kids lol so i always appreciate the help..pam and kelli and roxcane helped the other day too. they had the kids clean there rooms... (which is where all the laundry came from.... mostly clean but pulled onto the floor form monkeys hanging in the closet.. i took a load to the dump from cleaning the yard.. there was stuff here when we moved here and it was on my to do before jim gets home list...oh did i mention that they have jim driving around a brand new escalade or something escortign the sargent major and some other sargent around all day. Apparantly when they make e 8 or whatever it is they forget how to drive lol.... anyways he is happy about it and he is glad to have something to do besides sit in his trailer thing all day with 3 other guys bored out of there minds...in the mean time i have more things on my to do before jim gets home list.

Finally

2009-11-16T21:18:00.000-08:00

HES coming home...HES COMING HOME !!!!!!!!WOOO HOOOO!!! yeah he really is 6 months early but he is coming home.....he he ..I did not really want to spend christmas with out him and well thanksgiving either really....I was invited to tg dinner at my friend jess's and we will pry stop by there in the evening but he said he wants to have a quiet thanksgiving dinner this year with the fam.. Well i dont know about the quiet part lol... but any ways.. i mean there are 7 little ones... I was planning on going shopping on the day after tg so im gonna need to find a sitter i think it will be fun for jim and i to go shopping for the kids christmas together.. I got to go one other time but never had the money any other years so this will be fun. god seems to have perfect timign on everythign for us so far with him making it home to see babies and well loads of other stuff to i guess. tommorrow im going to get my hair cut finally. have not done that for a bit eventhough my MIL is a hair dresser. lol.. dont want to be a scrub when he comes home... ahhh i cant wait till he is here and i dotn haev to take beign able to take a shower and other simple things for granted.. thats not how i meant it lol.. but you get the point.....usually joyce watches the babies for me at night so i can take a shower and stuff.. lol...wow its late jsut wanted to blog and say WOOO HOOOO hes coming home.....yeah jess offered to watch kids a bit so we can have alone time lol..... but thats how these kids happened...lol

2009-11-14T15:08:00.000-08:00

Sierra is very happy to get her picture taken... Bailey came for her first visti with us today. She is now 7 pounds Sierra is james is 13 ..

Poor bailey she is jsut not as big as her cousins to sit up. shes doing good though. they are 4 months and baileyt is only a few weeks.
due to the flu season and every one beign sick it took us forever to meet her.. she looks like her mommy and daddy...

sierra bailey and james

2009-11-14T15:05:00.000-08:00

waiting

2009-11-13T14:20:00.000-08:00

so today jim got his mri and xrays and has a whole weekend off to do nothing. being a spur of the moment girl i would loved to have just got on a plane and flew out there to washington however I 1. dont fly and 2 dont have that kind of money lol.. .soooo... i guess ill be spending the weekend cleaning and arranging things around here that need arranged..he should know the results of the tests and what they plan on doing from here on monday? surgery? physical therapy? we have no clue. Im bored out of my mind and cant wait to get out and do something fun...some day soon I get to go to walmart shopping lol.. it will be a nice break for me from cleaning and stuff...I think im going to do it this next weekend. Who Knows maybe jim will be home by then or maybe it will be next christmas. who knows... grrrr... I told jim I wanted to go out and do something he said that I should go window shop. I told him women dont window shop together and asked jess do women window shop together and she says "yeah we can go window shop and not buy anything. And I said well I dont think he likes that.. lol .. sounded kind of like shopping for men... i guess you had to be there. and i pry said it all wrong lol.. it was funny anyways what ever it was... so i guess i better get off here and go do something like clean house AGAIN Zane is going with his gma for the weekend troy with his dad hunting tommorrow.. now i only have 5 kids for the weekend lol... ahhhh me never alone . and when i am bored with that anyways....

Katie james and james2

2009-11-12T20:32:00.000-08:00

Katie showing daddy to james.

few more pics

2009-11-12T17:12:00.000-08:00

picture updates

2009-11-12T17:05:00.000-08:00

update from iraq

2009-11-12T16:32:00.000-08:00

This is the last one with jim in it as he is back here now stil thought i would post them as we want to keep up on jims troop.. next update i will add the pics that were sent w this.

Friends and Family of Commo,
Things are still going smoothly and we are plugging along here

in
Northern Iraq. The population at Sykes has swelled and we had

to
consolidate our CHUs. Every bunk is now filled and we are

getting to
know each other real well again! My favorite new roommate

story is
when "grandpa" Bozarth shut the lights off at like 8:30 pm to go

to
bed and all the "young whippersnappers" in the CHU were like -

"What
the heck!" And to top it off the young whippersnappers claim

grandpa
Bozarth flips on his coffee pot and starts rummaging around the

CHU at
3:00 AM every morning!

We continue to get a couple guys at a time out for leave back to

the
States. SPC Webster has just returned and SGT Murdock, PFC

Williams,
and LT Szor are out now. It's good to see the men come back

refreshed
and ready to slug it out for the second half of the tour. We also
continue to rotate men into sector in support of the LRS teams,

HQ
(headquarters) convoys, and the Blackhawk helicopter mission.

Commo is
spread so many places I usually need help from my best NCOs

just to
keep track of where everyone is. :-) SGTs Nanni and Heiden also

just
completed a week long trip to Balad to get a bunch of our

Commo
equipment repaired. What takes the normal Army system 3

months to
accomplish they have found a way to do in 1 week - a huge

benefit for
the whole Company.

With the new fiscal year starting in October comes the required yearly
record PT test and weapons qualification. On the PT Test, not
everyone has taken it yet, but so far SGT Nick and SPC Davoren are the
high scorers with 275 and 276 points out of 300 - excellent work by
both. The really big news is SGT Heiden, who normally struggles with
the run portion passed the PT test with a 15 minute 39 second 2 mile
run! We dedicated November 8th as SGT Heiden Day "for all of eternity"
and took the afternoon off in his honor. Way to go SGT Heiden. We also
went to the range for our weapons qualification and so far SSG
Skabardis is the high scorer with 38 out of 40. He works law
enforcement as a civilian so we all think he has an unfair advantage.
While waiting for it to get dark so we could do our night fire, the
men got a chance to throw the new football around a little as well.

Mail has tapered off a bit but we had a big score provided by Mamma
William's and her work. 3 huge packages with tons of goodies. Thanks
from the entire platoon. Also thanks to Pops Bommersbach for the
donation of some tools - the men are trying to wear them out keeping
the truck Coms up. Some discouraging news - SPC Rogers who has had
some recurring health issues was sent back to Ft. Lewis so he could
get proper treatment. We wish him good luck getting fixed up right.

Six months down - thanks for all the continued support from home,
SFC Bommer

The real sargent isnt even the army..

2009-11-10T11:49:00.000-08:00

So with Jim being sent back we will have a sudden drop in pay which means that I have to rebudget everything i had planned. Well i am a very cheap frugal person anyways. I dont shop at malls, I prefer walmart or good will and i stock up on food every year at the sales etc etc. So this year I have managed to save enough money to put the down payment on our house and purchase some items that we needed to repair it. Last year before we bought it we had to get things in a workable condition as it was a bank repo that had been empty for a while. It had no water, water heater, furnace and such. It did not even have a tub that worked. The tub had a hole in it. So we did a good enough for now bought a used tub and put it in and now the floor needs redone in there. this year while jims been gone I bought flooring to redo the bathroom floor, (meaning the wood and beams) and then flooring to redo the living room kitchen and dining room with wood floors as the carpet and such is bad. I also bought new cabinets for the kitchen. It is all sitting in the plant room waitng for jim to come put it in. I am cheap so i got all of that for about 1400.00. I figured when jim gets home he can put the stuff in. Besides we need to do one room at a time and get this old electrical replaced. so really we wil need more stuff to finish this but now that he is sent home it will take us longer. no big deal i would live in an apartment with him as long as he is safe is what counts. I am not really sure if he will be able to do the work on the house anyways being that his back is messed up. anyways im greatful to have the stuff sitting there to be put in whenever we get to do it. So when you have something planned god changes it. Im sitting here thinkign we are wating in the army to decide whats gogin to happen and its really god who were waiting on as he controls everything. i keep telling jim that wehn he gets hoe i am the sargent and not the army but really even the army has no say in what god chooses to have happen. im gettign nervous i am sick with the flu and it sucks cause i have a milinon things to do if my husband is coming home soon.. lol...i realyl have a mess here from moving still... we moved in here last year back out and all around and now jsut moving back in.... I am greatful we finally have it in our name and it is ours though....well the payment and land taxes etc comes with it but still ours he he ...

Oh jim says that god would actually be the commander in chief lol so i can still be the sargent lol...

if only i could have kidnapped him... he he

2009-11-10T08:53:00.000-08:00

I finally got a call from jim after 2 days and he was in germany. He then went to texas and called me from there to say he was heading to seattle, washignton but would have a lay over in chicago. Yes how crazy to fly to chicago from texas and then head back east to washington. when i heard there was a 2 hour lay over in chicago I of course had to go there to see him for 2 hours. Im not a person who goes out of town. So first we went to mcdonalds then zane puked all over.. then we had to buy clothes .. and a few other thigns happened.. and eventually after i think 4 toll booths we made it. It was much easier than i knew. Im not a traveler so now i know how to go to chicago.. and well iowa and wisconsin lol...i bought an atlas... he he..so i was reading it on the way there and back.. it was not all i thought it woudl be after not seeign him for so long.... it kind of sucked.. i have heard its hard to adjust after not seeing eachother for so long. I did not get a big enough hug. lol...and he was so busy with the formalities of paper work that had to be done for his next flight. Also we got to go back in security to see him off since were military family and it took forever to get through security. A waste of all our time. So our 2 hours ended up one hour to really visit and alot of people were talking to us. so far nothign in the military life is normal. i would have liked a few minutes alone with my husband but it was nice to at least see him. He got to hold his babies also as i took zane and the babies with us. The rest of the kids did not get to go and that was hearbreaking for me. They did not complain too much though. Now we await to see if he is getting sent home or staying in washington. Through all of this i am greatfull that he is in the us and safe although he is stayign in a room by himself and bored out of his mind right now waitng to see what they do with him. he may be there for a few weeks or it may be a year to get surgery and recover. over all we were sure that it was worth the trip even thouh it ended in disapoinment that we got to see him and we could not take him home with us. We would have kidnapped him, if it were not for the whole a-wall thing they have in the military. ahh well after this there will be no more deployments for us. I know he is disapointed not to be able to stay with his guys in iraq and misses his family at the same time and I feel bad for that. I have learned to have alot more respect for the military familes and soldiers after living this life.

here fatty fatty fatty......

2009-11-07T21:51:00.000-08:00

lol i quit smoking and suddenly im a cow.. lol....moooooo!!!! holy cow can you pack on the pounds fast when you quit smoking. i was down to a sz 5/6 and i was 145. put it this way on march 2nd 09 part way through the preg i was... 167 lol... so i was... half way through the pregnancy actually... . June 26th 09 i had the twins... and on.... september 12 09 i was 150. my ideal weight is 145 well.. if i was tone and such it may be less... problay will be closer to 140 or at least 145 and alot toner... anyway... so liek is adi sept 12th 145 november 7 2 months later i weigh 165 that is 1 6 5 wtf.??? well i quit smoking.. and i dont move around as much.. nope it seems these little monsters want to have me sit with them all day one after another and not do anything else.. so its not to easy to get things done.. not smoking i got this new habit it was little debbies... chocolate cake and oh... i was down to 1 bag of popcorn a day from 5.. lol...dont eat the junk food it is bad for you... so in abotu 2 months i have gained 20 pounds. So this is my journey to lose the weight and tone up and eat healthier all while staying not smoking... every oen i know who quits gains a ton of weight and i realized that i either have smoke or im goign to gain too much weight.. i transferreed from a habit of smoking to a habit of choclate.. i haev never liekd chocolate... really im not kidding i am not a sweet eater and i started during the preg and realized there is not babies in here no more eating up the food.. lol.. well what ever the hell happens to it.. anyways my point is i knwo how to eat healthy so now im goign to try to lose this weight fast... i been tracking my weight since 2003 on yahoo.. weight tracker application... i looked up the weights and put them in here.. with 7 kids there is alot of pregnancy weights in here lol ..

9/18/03 169

12/02/03 155

9/7/2004 174

9/8/2004 165

9/12/2004 160

9/18/2004 155

10/01/2004 149

1/6/05 155

7/13/2005 155

9/27/05 161

11/14/05 166

1/23/06 145

4/23/06 166

9/29/08 155

3/2/09 167

9/12/09 150

11/07/09 165

so that is my weights for a but there.. wow i always drop the pounds right after a birth and then if i quit smoking i pack them on.. and really i am always sitting with the ebabeis lately and dont get tiem to move around as much as i want.. god i mean i clean house but soemtiems i feel liek one of those fat slobby girls that watches soaps all day and gets fat.... only i dont watch soaps... i watch babies and i have no time for me.. I cant wait for jim to baby sit....he he ....so i cna do somethign besides sit here... grrr...

2009-11-04T21:36:00.000-08:00

It is apparant that we are put through some tests in life.. i dont know at church the other week they were discussing it and said that we get put through these test... and we get through them and anohter comes. i have to be honest sometiems i thought it to be god punishing us however i have heard from many pastors that god does not punish us... sometimes im not so sure... who knows.. once there was this chic that left her husbadn for a woman and then when her daughter got cancer she thought maybe god was punishing her so she went back to her husband.. it didnt work for her but.. anyways.. i hear god dont punish but i question his judgment.. i wonder what the heck he is thinking.. i mean last night i went to bed and had perfectly normal healthy children. When i woke the phone rang and now... my little girl has this problem that i have not clue what will become of it. there is no cure just surgerys and prayers and hopes... depending on the extent... i knwo tha tgod knows tha ti woudl be a person that could handle this and that i have the love that it takes.. but gosh.. uggghhh.... i wish my husband was home...really .. grrrrr...i am awake and i dont knwo tht i wil sleep.. i cant wati to talk to that stupid dr. how dare he have his nurse who knows nothng cal and say your daughter has spinabifdia.. and needs an apoinment with a nureolgist and leave it at that.. grr..... When we were in the hopital they tested james back and said he was fine his ultrasound came back good so they didnt do one on sierra being that she prob didnt haev it if he didnt.. well.. that makes me mad to as we coudl haev known way back then and i aksed them for one too....grrrr. they are not identical so why woudl his tests have anythign to do with hers i dont haev a clue......any ways... enough venting.. ... tommorrow i will find out more... prayers for sierra.. and mommy too.... and daddy....

Good news bad news....galore...

2009-11-04T10:50:00.000-08:00

The good news is jim is coming back to the states "soon" who knows when so he can get care for his back injury... That comes with bad news as he don't want to leave his guys behind and i understand that....

More bad news good news is that my profile pic was of me and sierra in the waitng room over a month ago for her test of her spine due to a sacral dimple they wanted to rule out spina bifida.. They told us that if there was a problem we would hear in a few days and if not then within 7. WELL ITS been this long and today a call.. GRRRRR.. she has this >
http://nervous-system.emedtv.com/meningocele/meningocele.html

It can require surgery this that and the other and or she will be fine.... very stressful right now as she has to see a neurologist and see how bad this is on her.. all we know now is that she has a small fluid filled sac down there on her spine.. and any other details well the nurse did not know.. the doc handed her the paper on his way out and said call the mom with the results and that was it..

It was very hard to tell jim this over the internet and so im happy for him to get back in the states at least...

Even though he will be 600 miles away and not 6 thouseand or so... i have so much to accomplish before he gets home we had just moved into the house in may when he left.. so i had to do that without him and then have the babies and then we bought this houe and moved again... so im not done with anything yet and its such a mess.. maybe ill get it soon... grrr... lol... well thats all for now i have stuff to do.. pray for sierra .. i dont really understand this as she seems fine she is as smart a james and just a little bit smaller.. she coos.. giggles.. copies sounds... she can move her legs fine and she moves when i tickle her feet she even bats at toys and has eye coordination.. so i guess i have to wait to talk to the dr so i know more...thats about all ..

babies new blankies from auntie lisa

2009-10-31T18:43:00.000-07:00

2009-10-31T18:30:00.000-07:00

Mama

Zane salutes you.. its so cute when i tell him to do soemthing and he says yes mam... for the longest time he would say yes sir.. lol anyways he deided at the last minute to be Spc Rogers... for halloween...
Aunt kelli holding James and sierra.. they dressed for halloween and took pics they rode in the car...no trick or treating
closer up james and sierra

What a dork Mama july or august.. 2009

2009-10-31T18:27:00.000-07:00

True Deer hunter

2009-10-31T18:23:00.000-07:00

Hey honey show this one to some of the guys they will love it lol.. the deer is the hunter and he has some one tagged in the back of the car.. Happy Halloween Guys....This is from the trailer park where i used to live one of the Families that goes to the family of god had their car done up and in the drive way..

my dorky husband april 11th

2009-10-30T20:44:00.001-07:00

april 15th 2009

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2009-10-30T20:42:00.000-07:00

Nature

2009-10-28T20:16:00.000-07:00

Nature lets say we did evolve from monkeys .... well where did the monkeys come from then????

2009-10-28T18:30:00.000-07:00

Omg although this is ditorted and all that cause the baby would not hold still.. this is james and i can tell lol.. it looks a lil liek both of them

jubne 11th updates mountains in washsngton

2009-10-28T18:28:00.000-07:00

yakima training june 2009

2009-10-28T18:27:00.000-07:00

june 19 update washington

2009-10-28T18:25:00.000-07:00

mt ranier ft lewis july 19

2009-10-28T18:13:00.000-07:00

july 22 2009 last update from washington

2009-10-28T18:10:00.000-07:00

2009-10-28T17:56:00.000-07:00

This was the guys at the going away may 9th 2009... I would have loved to been the sargent to this... ......

National September 11 Memorial & Museum :

2009-10-25T22:24:00.000-07:00

National September 11 Memorial & Museum : this is so cool. this is a web cam that shows what ground zero construction is looking like on the september 11th memorial...

8 years ago
Nearly 3000 people lost their lives that day ... and here it is a memorial is finally in progress to build at ground zero
http://www.national911memorial.org/site/PageServer?pagename=New_Memorial_About

Can you imagaine being in your church and every one of the people being killed ... that would be what actaully 1/5th of all church members in newaygo county were to die at once that is how many people died seotember 11th. Next tiem your in church look around and think abotu that .. that would mean that 1 out of every 5 people you are looking at would be gone..Include in that thought the babies.... the little tots... the mommys.. daddys sisters aunts uncles... oh dont forget grandpa.. all gone at once ... we all know about September 11th but wow... now to think of something bigger with more people like the shopping mall.. or soemthing.. think of it this way... in newaygo county if you look there are apartments every where... there are 4 that i know of just in town of large apartment complexes...if all the dwellers from every apartment in the whole entire county of newaygo died at once it still would not equal the number of deaths from this tragic event... dont forget that kids and babies live in them apartments.. imagine all of them goign at once...or 1 out of every 16 people that live in newaygo county... remmebr in this thought that newaygo spans from south of grant all the way to way up pst white cloud and into brohman or waht ever that town is up there.. can imagine 1 out of every 16 people you seen in that whoel area dyign all at once... wow...
i never really thought of it as that many people until i read the article about the pools..(memorials are pools or sorts..) and how they plan to put the names of all vitims around the pools.. 20 per square apx and that you can look up the names at a koisk to find the right one..or you can look it up onlien befoer going there...

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how many names are on the vietnam wall... man it must be well what the heck illlook it up 58249 wow why do they bnot ahev a thing liek that too look those names up as well.. here is part of an article i just read about that ....Most of the people who come to The Moving Wall will not be coming to see a big wall of granite or painted aluminum, but will be looking for one or a few very special names. I have heard and believe that many make the trip to either Washington or a Moving Wall site but then don't find that very special name. They become overwhelmed with the vastness of the list of names, they may be afraid to speak for fear of breaking down, or the tears in their eyes may blur their vision. To persons already feeling emotional, the shock that the names are not in alphabetical order can make them give up. Don't let them go home disappointed. from this page http://www.themovingwall.org/docs/finding.htm
do they have anythign liek this for iraq fallen soldiers...or afgahanistan... im sure in time there will be if not.. and i wonder what those numbers wil look like they are not declining they are moving up every day.... in afgahnistan... thank god my husband is not in afgahnistan.....so after baisaclly writng this and readign about this while i wrote it... i notice some things abtou those numbers of people killed septmebr 11th and i realize for the first time why it was that my husabnd was among thousands of men who decided to join the military after the september 11th atacks..

Well put....

2009-10-24T21:46:00.000-07:00

I seen this on someones site and i thought cool that sounds like me... lol well put... so if you dont liek where i came from fuck off it made me who i am ....

"I have a past that would amaze many and disgust a few, and
I'm ok with that."

The answer is no....

2009-10-24T14:24:00.000-07:00

So I got mad at my kids and I posted this on the fridge........
THe answer is NO!
Whatever you want from me the answer is NO!
No I will not give you money.
No you may not go to church.
No I will not fold your laundry
No I do not know where your clothes went
No you may not have a toy
No you may not watch a movie; watch my TV or use my computer
No you may not play out side
No you may not play in your room with toys
No you may not watch a rated pg movie at school no im not signing the form..
No you may not go to Girl Scouts
No! I will not pick you up from school.
No you may not play a game.
No you may not read a book
No I will not let you help cook

No you cannot have oatmeal
No I will not get you a drink
No I will not help you with your homework
No I will not sign your book from your teacher
No you cannot go to your friends
No! You may not have candy.
No you may not have a snack
No I am not cooking dinner
No I am not doing dishes
No I am not washing laundry
No I will not drive you to the store
No you may not go to the store with me
No you may not have gum.
No I will not help you find your jimmy bear.
No you may not sit in my living room dining room or kitchen
No I don’t have a clean towel you can use
No I don’t not know where the hair brush is and I will not help you find it
No I will not take you to McDonalds.
No I will not take you to good will.
No we can not go to the Christmas walk.
No we can not carve pumpkins.
NO I will not buy you a Halloween costume
No I will not take you here or there I wil not take you any where ….
No NO no.. Wow this game is fun,, any other questions the answer is NO

The response I got from Megan was.... Mom will you not clean my room? and from Katelyn was.....Mom will you not let me come down stairs. grrrrr.. lol... guess i need to make soem amendments to that part this says any other questions the answer is no.. lol

WERE ALMOST TO THE HALF WAYPOINT...

2009-10-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

AND I HAVE A LIST OF THIINGS THAT NEED DONE THE SIZE OF MOUNT RANIER... LOL... HE HE ... YES THATS A PRETTY SMALL MOUNTIAN I THINK. LOL... COMPARED TO MT RUSHMORE.. BUT STILL A MOUNTAIN.. SO I CANT SEEM TO GET THAT STUFF DONE AND HOLD BABIES AT THE SAME TIME LOL.. AND I REALYL DONT NEED HELP HOLDIGN THE BABIES AS MUCH AS I NEED PHYSICAL HELP I MEAN THE GIRSL CAN HOLD BABIES AND WELL... THEY CAN SLEEP TOO. BUT THE HARDEST PART IS THAT I NEED HELP GETTING THE STUFF DONE... I MEAN YES I DO HOWVER NEED HELPO HOLDING BABIES TOO BUT IF I DONT HAVE PHYSICAK HELP THAN SOME OEN HOLDIGN BABIES IS NTO HELPFUL EXCEOT ONLY TO VISIT ANY WAYS THAT IS MY VENT FOR THE DAY LOL... HERE IS THE TIMER...

pics

2009-10-18T18:01:00.000-07:00

Today twizzlers makes jims mouth happy....

Amanda at her baby shower practicing

Here comes a thug .... steppin in on my girl let me take care of him babe!!

There...... now its just you and me babe.....

Jim.... if you decide you want a baby lets get a puppy... isn't this one cute..

Mr. Rogers....

2009-10-17T21:52:00.000-07:00

Im heading off to bed.. .. I miss you... bite me lol... i know you told me so... he he....so i put some songs on this profile for you i was starting to figure out how to personalize it.. while im up with babies.. they are both sick now but he is getting better.. I hope you had a good day at work and i love you... Can't wait for you to come home.... Mrs. Rogers.

last week actually but im late adding the pics

2009-10-14T20:14:00.001-07:00

Sierra and James tummy time

Aww hes tired of it

lol thats a funny face sierra...

Silly Nana what you doing to me?

Hmmm this is kinda strange but i guess i let you take the pic mommy...

Tummy time..

Ok this was weeks ago.. Sierra in her robe.. fast asleep

Mommy and Sierra in our robes.. he he bath time and bed time....

wah wah

2009-10-06T19:48:00.000-07:00

half the time when i update this thing it is late at night and im so tired... well its that again he he.. the babies are crying one then the other.. i may let them cry and go smoke ??? most likely... its kind of cute sometimes lately they are only 3 montsh old and already they want to to be held and held and held.. grr.. lol. its diffretn with twins.. today i was holdign her and she was content and so i look over and he is giving me the meanest look so i pick him up and put her down ans she began to cry and he was content... lol they look at me like why you got her and not me or him and not me? and his cry is so like a boy cry and hers is so like a girl cry.. wahhhh al high pitched girly she says and AGGGHHHHHHHH h says lol... to cute ... but tonight i want them to let mommy sleep its not so cute any more... he he .. im going to smoke...then im goign to bed even if they are crying he he .. yeah right .. lol...dream on mama....

Mrs Dork and the rest of the lil dorks

2009-10-06T18:17:00.000-07:00

This pic .. roxanes back there in the mirror takign the pic lol.. then it is James II Megan Zane
Alex and me Sierra and Kate Troy and part of grandma chris... way way in the back mirror i s nana

ME ME ME he he he... i know im a dork oh well gotta laugh..

This past week sept 27 to sunday oct 4th

2009-10-04T11:06:00.000-07:00

Monday September 28th
I guess this has been a busy week. I won at court. I got what i wanted which made me happy and sad at the same time. Sometiems i feel bad for dan not being able to get the kids and having to work 3rd shift. I sometimes think maybe it is his situation that makes it hard on him and the lack of help from his wife? not sure..
Tuesday september 29th
Well today i called and todl dan tha twe need to talk more openly and have better comunication concernign the kids. he said we could meet on friday and discuss possibly changing the court outcome to him having half again and he could show that he is able to do so and still let the hildren be involved in sports and school activities. He said maybe i coudl meet there new Nanny as they call her. but i am skeptical seing that he admited to meeting ehr online and has moved her in from there. it seems odd to me to have such a person watch my children when they are able to be here with me there biological mommy... anyways. i thought mayeb we need to send them in one outfit on fridays and that it shoudl come home on sunday with them and never take any other outfits back and forth. i also said maybe we need to have anote book to communicate with that will have there apoinments home work htye may be behind on and other things in it. we are to meet on friday i guess but im not sure. kate got signed up for after school program as she wil be with me full tiem and able to attend.

Wednesday september 3oth well today was dans evening his parentign time is from 6-8 on wed and every other weekend. when he failed to call i then had troy call and see if they need to eat before they go or if they were feeding them. he said he had to work and was unable to get them. of course he had not called to tell me this although he was alredy aware of it on tuesday night. it is this lack of communication that makes me aware that changing the parentign time to half time liek he wanted will not be a good idead .. I think it will be better to keep it with my full custody and then i am more aware of school things and stuff... i had not been aware that monday was picture day as the notes came on dans week.. so now the girls have to go to retake day to get any picture pakage. this realyl sucks.. i need to be sure om better organized. i got this big giant board to put all on and i also have microsoft out look with a claendar to keep it in.. this will be nice.. maybe ill send him somethign when they go with him to let him know whne apoinments are... like the school confrences are coming up...

Thursday october 1st .. today i was lost for where to start with organizing. we are moving in and nana is moving out all at the same time so we are overwhelemd with stuff. there is no way to organize with all this stuff... and i haveno clue how to do it so i held babies all day and the cabel guy came and put cable in...troy had a mix up with bussing and had to walk in the rain his choice as he could have gotten on the bus but didnt. i took his bike not seeign him at the school and well... his shoes got ruined aybe tha twas wed lol... im going throughj my mind to update that past week lol .. cabel was cheaper to have added with the deal as a pakage then im paying for phone and internet alone.. so i watched a movie today... i think it was hanna montana or no lizzy mcguire.. it was a good movie lol... i stressed all day abot where all my crap was goign to go as i had no way to move it and nana at the same time.. the kids and i watched a movie so i could show them how nice it is to sit and watch a movie and well now i can ground them from it if they dont do there chores .. he he we had popcorn and watched....kingdom of hevan... it was a good movie i had watched it before... oh during the day lisa took the babies...
Friday october 2nd.... today was another day of nothing this week we had gotten caught up on homework for the kids... yes they were all behind already.. lots of work getting caught up . ummmm... at night we watched a movie i think lots of movie watching going on...if nana gets he house we wil move her stuff and if she dont we will move it diffrently and rearange it so i will do that tommorrow... depending on what she finds .. i think she thinks we dont wnat her here but we do... so i told her not to get the hosue if it is not what she wants..

saturday october 3rd

Cleaned all day... and then we made a strawberry cake with chocolate frosting and ate popcorn and watched 2 movies... first was how to lose a guy in 10 days and then sweet home alabama.. sure is alot of movie watchign goign on.. the house is way more in order and the boxes of stuff from moving have all been moved form the rooms they dont belong.. still lots to do.. oh this week we got a heat vent ran to the upstairs this week tah twas friday.. its nice to have heat up there .......i been trying to get in order enough to take kids to church on sunday and i think we will make it finally .. lol with this many kids to get readythsi is a big accomplishiment.. with jsut moving so much

sunday today we are making cookies for a treat maybe and we made it to church... i took nana so she could tell me what she thoguht of the church.. its hard to decide on what one to go to but i really liek the way this one is about helpign the community more than anything.. well i have to clean today to make sure all teh work i did yesterday is not destroyed the boys hung on there clothign rack in the closet and pulled the rod down so i have to fix that and i packed alexs 4t's on accident with the 3 ts so i have to hang them up and all that stuff oh and cook... lol... i had a good day so far and dont want the kids to mess up all my work by makign messes when im on the computer... lol ... i didnt get much pics this week but will take some today and make a picture blog for the week with what i have.. liek the babu shower i went ot last saturday and things to... thats about all for now ... for us ill add updates from jim on the next blog to i guess.

Stitch had guard duty Mosul Iraq

2009-09-26T10:20:00.000-07:00

Now that he is back form his misson and at a safer base i got an update. See him up there what a good little soldier he has became i think he needs a weapon what do you think jim can you get him one issued... i mean i dont think that cat key is goign to help him much on guard duty

good days and bad days..

2009-09-25T16:05:00.000-07:00

i often wonder.. what should i write on this and what should i not? wasw it ok that i posted Zanes custody hearing on here? I think though that i am a real person. I am not a person who married my highschool sweetheart right out of school and lived happily ever after. All Of mine and jims children are ours in mind although technically we have to share the children with there biological father. We were blessed with two of our own in june. Technically 5 are jims step children. Don't tell him that though to him they are his. That i guess is the day and age we live in where divorces happen and you then have step children. I have made every attempt to raise my children so that there biological father gets to be as much a part as I and yet some how my oldest 3's father has come to a disagrement that will now have to go through court. I won't add details but court is on monday and its very stressful. I have contimplated taking him to court for 2 years now to get the ful custody back as i had let him have half custody thinkign it woudl be better on the chidren. Anyways that is enough of the details on that.. The point i have court on monday and it really sucks that My husbadn can not be there. He was the one to always help me make sure the kids made it to all there events and programs with school and it just sucks that he is somewhere in Iraq... and not here. That on top of the fact that he usually talkst o me at a set time everyday and had changed location recently so i didnt talk to him.. that with the things i seen about his new location that worry me. One of the rules the FRG tells me is DONT READ THE NEWS. that way you wont have to worry about your soldier when you hear things as much. Well i read everything... silly me.. I liek to read.. i read about all kinds of things on the net the economy, news stories, fallen soldiers, how to care for pets, How to cook, Gardening. lol if it is informational i will read it. I even read the origin of the PEACE sign yesterday. How to find your spiritual gifts and of all things i read about sleeper cells.. Last night I read about a butterfly that we are supposed to have at my house that is endangered. blue karney might have spelled it wrong i found diffrent spellings on the net. And the thing i cant stay away from is the news in Iraq. Bombings etc. I happen to see pictures of one of the places that jim had been that is very dirty. I felt really bad tha tmy husband is in places that are so filthy and evil...of course he may not be there anyways as excat locations are not always given.. lol but overall taht place is dirty. well Tongiht is the homecoming game and i am going to sneak off lol.. ill write more later..

It's Friday

2009-09-25T15:58:00.000-07:00

Sometimes i get to talk to Jim at a set time every day but then sometimes he just dont show up and i know he is off busy following orders to do wat ever it is he is doing over there. Of course this week I really felt like i needed a Husband and he was not there. ahhh no time to blog oh well

Ths week.. the good n the bad so far..

2009-09-23T19:58:00.000-07:00

This was the template i made.. and then a pic of part of the sign it is really to big to take a pic wiht out it hanging...

and if you look there are little legs up there of one of the babies lol

I created this for joyce to hang in her window at the beauty shop.. he he.. .. i surprised her with it today it is one of those things that usually has beer ads on it only it was made at build a sign and i made it say what i wanted.. i been waiting for it for a month with out telling her abou tit i jstu kept sayign i haev a surprise for you .. lol.. she loved it but UGGGGH i did the whole thing of course it had to have peace signs for the o's a few times. well she said that they are upside down crosses and satanic i said joyce they are not they are peace signs and any one you ask woudl say it is a peace sign.. thats just crazy ... now if oyu hang it in your window you cant take the peace signs off it and she said ooooook.... lol... i told her the cross went out like this and spread my arms out adn i said the peace sign goes liek this that is not a cross at all... lol....

Look mommy jimmy daddy is not in iraq he is right here .. he he jk sorry honey it was jsut too funny... Today i took roxane and Alex and james and sierra to the farm to see the animals..

If i got a goat i woudl want this one althogh blurry it was the cutest little black one.. every one knows the story about my poor pet goat... This is my favorite pet.. he he.

This morning i got a pic of jim on the web cam with his new flip flops they were donated by that soldiers wish list i mentioned above. oops below lol.. once i added the pics it put my writng below.. . it made his da he got quite a few pair and he gave them out to some of the other soldiers that were in need of some. im greatfull for them as i was not able to find any plain black ones around here...

So lets start with a postive I put jims name on a list. Soldiers wish list... A http://soldierswishlist.webs.com/ what a great site.. he said a few days later he got an email but has a hard time gettign to or replyign to emails.. the reason for me updating him on here. it is easy to post pics and updates all on one web page he has to load instead of lots. Anyways alot of the times he is able to only get into messangers which is ok as that is how we cam with him and he gets to watch the twins grow and talk to them and the other kids..

Ok so i got put into a program that helped me get a vehicle that seats enough and i jsut had to find it and they helped me pay a portion of it. so i found one and i didnt get a chance to take pics yet.. as i had a very busy day that turned to a pain in the butt about the time i got the mail..

Jim asked me to get h motorcycle brouht over horm his sisters and Chris DROVE it over here for him.. that was so nice of him seeing it had no isnurance i was unsure of rather i coud get someone to drie it over here or not to get it out of the rain.. but it is safe and sound and locked up.. finally.. jsut waht jim asked for as he had left it out in the rain at his sisters.. he he .. but chris has started it for him alot and made sure it stayted running.. so nice of him.. i think he is jims hero of the day .. lol..

hmmmmm i cant really put my bad part of my day here... i realyl do have a few things that i need privacy with my husband lol.... so over all though once i realize that God is always on MY side that is abotuall i can say on here on that matter if there was someoen who read this tey woudl haev to wonder althoguh i have yet to notice any one reading it cept my husaband who i created it for .. lol

my week sunday to sunday

2009-09-20T15:37:00.000-07:00

Sunday when Zanes birthday party was almost over .. i was takign pics of ariana and stopped to think .. ummm how did you get here didnt Chrissy bring you? yes she said... well he he chrissy left and forgot her and darrian.. he he too funny. there mommy came to get them ...

Troy came home with a shoe problem.. dan didnt wnt ot buy him new ones though so he sent him in these... then he bought him new ones that can only be worn at his house and not mine waht a jerk...

Sunday Jim was able to make it to Zanes 5th birthday party Via web cam.. it was pretty good he got to see the whoel thing and even talk to the fam.. it made his day but i think made him sad not to be here at the same time jsu tguessing..

jim is the 4th man over lol i think it goes williams <---- jim said that was actualy dickerson lol... itrich bommersbach then jim and some other guy ...

Jim is the guy on his knee in the front man he looks skinny i didnt know he was my husband he he . of course the sand storm dont help

lots of window shoppign it seems.. Went to the habitait for humanity store wehre they sell used items to fix homes up with and they have closet doors for 5 bucks a piece .. well i measured and found that they will fit but i woudl need to dirve back and buy them.. the thing is i was lookign forward to wood ones and not the white painted ones they had there. I coudl however paint them beige and they woudl still match the wood look i want.

Went to meanrds and lowes to find thigns for the hosue and found that i could put wood floors in the dining room kitchen and living room for 700 bucks with my military dsicount. I also found that you can buy a whole sheet of laminate that glues to your counter top for 4o bucks that wil fit both counters it may have been 46 im not sure.. but it was nice and came in colors that would match the wood floor.

I am undecided on spending that type of money ... that is for sure... then i found a van that seats 8 now and withthe seat the guy has will seat then 11. it is a chevy express 1999 but has 230,000 miles on it. it runs and drives good has a little bit of somethign in the brakes but he said it was from setting. It has also seems to not have any leakes under it nor does the tranny slip right now. it also seems to not hav any ticks or knocks in the motor. so over all i thinkit is a good deal..

the army will pay a portoion of the money and so i woudl not be out any money by buying it ...in the long run... for soem reason i have a hard time makign a major purchase liek that thouh as i am always afraid that the thing will break down.. and then there is the fact aht i want to be sure i got the money form the army before buyng it... cause if not then there goes the money i wanted to go toward the hosue... grrr.. any ways ... so that was all the window shoppign i done this week.

Besides that i was supposed to build another closet and didnt and I was supposed to do alot and didnt.. i had to take James to the hospital on thursday as he has bronchitis and all the kids ended up sick.. Thursday during the day Lisa took the babeis for me and that was when i went ot look at the stuff at the habitat store. she takes them alot... she even has her own diaper bag for them now lol..

So now i am stuck with wondering do i buy the van or not? i got an update this week and i coudl not tell by the pics if any of the guys were jim in the pic.. wow he is my husband bu yet i could not tell.. it was a pic in the middle of a sand storm and the guy looked like him but ewas by this sargent that i know jim dont get along with well and hd his arm around him and he was skinny so i cold not tell.. wow the army has really toned him up i guess.. lol.. or th pic was bad cause he said it was him.. he he.. ok so taht was my week in a nut shell i think.. oh alex had an asthma attack or somethign today i think because of the cold so i had to drag out the nebulizer adn give him a treatment and boy did it do wonders... cleared hi wheezing right up. I have to go to sleep and think about rather or not i want that van... im exhausted... love you honey good night ..... i know you read these lol

Court today..... Update...

2009-09-14T10:22:00.000-07:00

Yay i won... i know i am such a dork

Today was my court date for Zane. My biggest priority was to stop Bryan from takign him out of state. The last court date i missed. Yes that is how busy i am that i had 2 dentist apoiments that day for kids and an apoinment for James who was choking constantly. I could kick my self in the head for missing. I have since gotten my calendar set so i can remeber court dates and other dates lol... well any ways .. i won so he cant take him out of state and that is enough detail on that ...

Saturday night...

2009-09-12T20:21:00.000-07:00

Well i waited up for you to get online honey and chat and im tired im going to sleep... I love you honey good night... he he .... i cant stay up that late. i will talk to you when you get done for the day.... today i was thinking wow im excited that im married who would have ever thought? Me of all people? I cant wait till you come home even if i threaten to send you back when we get in an argument lol.... especially around pms time lol watch out for that i might even drive you to the airport at pms time lol.. HE HE any ways like i said im tired and rambling.. im going to bed....

War News Updates: U.S. Agrees To Direct Talks With North Korea. North Korea Announces A Third Nuclear Test Is Being Planned

2009-09-12T20:15:00.000-07:00

War News Updates: U.S. Agrees To Direct Talks With North Korea. North Korea Announces A Third Nuclear Test Is Being Planned I wonder.... What is the sense in nuculear weapons? is it for all the countries to have on hand just incase they need it. Why is it that i am noticing so many nuclear tests lately??? Is it becaue i jsut started watchng and reading news stories or what? And what is the waht is the north korean policy and what is a 6 party talk ... see how dumb i am when it comes to politics... lol... the pic of the loreans all standing there by some sort of rice field is pretty cool. Its almost scarry remember the movie about mao tse tung or what ever that dudes name is where they burried the guys up to there heads and then chopped there heads off.. I wonder what movie that was it was a good movie and true... killing fields i answered my own question.... welll that was where this paticular political news story led me... hey what can i say im tryign to figure out polititcs and i have never read about it before to have any clue... Ill have to keep reading.. lol.. i jstu hate when i do read somethign not knowing what the heck there talking about so if i keep reading eventually ill have it figured out Right ? Right!

Stitch Top Secret mission

2009-09-12T10:11:00.000-07:00

The Other Day at an undisclosed time and date. ( due to opsec) Stitch went on another mission. It was his first offical army mission. When he got back with Jim he let us know he had gone. We dont have details on his missions although it looks like he went to gaurd some goats. I doubt that was the mission nevertheless here is the pics of him and jim. Jim says stitch was unable to get out of the car due to the fact that jim feared stitch would eat the goats. I was a little upset about stitch going out where you need guns with you to survive as all he has is a cat key but he made it safe. One day the kids will be happy to have the pics from his mission. I dont know if i will show them this until he is safe on us soil. Stitch and Jim you are our Hero of the day! As you can see stitch had to sit in the window and was not allowed outside.

Finally got it figured out..

2009-09-10T08:19:00.001-07:00

I get so nervous in court that i hate speakign there. but monday is my court date and so I had to figure ou what to say to the court and how to put it.. I am not sure if ill be able to use this in court but i have it all typed and ready to go.. I am goign in to fight an order that i missed the sheduled date for. I was at the drs and dentist with the babies and did not evn know i wa ssupposed to be a court as im such an airhead. here is what i came up with for the court.. Boy is this stressful delaing with all that i deal with and jim being gone. Even if he ws here i haev always felt it better to go to court alone however as sometimes when other people speak at court for you they dont always say things that you want them to say and it sometiems looks bad on the person that is there.
This is kind of personal information to post on the net but like i have said before i dont care... How woudl any one reading my blogs get a true picture of me with me holding out the parts that are like this... My life is nt all roses.. and sunshine.
ok so i took the thing off that was below this as i am not sure rather details of court really need to be on here...

Things To Do Today: Wednesday 21st January 2009 > Daily Green, Crafty and Culinary Links and Tips

2009-09-10T08:19:00.000-07:00

Things To Do Today: Wednesday 21st January 2009 > Daily Green, Crafty and Culinary Links and Tips Wow wouldnt it be nice if i had a day i was so bored that i could do stuff like just type in the search engine "things to do today" and find something to do. oh well i have my list of things to do today paint the front of the house, Build another closet (as the other one is filled) LOL You were right honey. Laundry , put clothes away still unpacking, build a door for my bedroom, Oh and i have to go shopping for the supplies... busy busy hope to catch you online when i have a break babe.... hope your having a good day soldiering.. whatever it is your doing... In a dream world that pizza sounds yummy and the paper flowers would be fun to have the kids make to put in my vase you sent me...

THE ODDEST THING...

2009-09-10T06:06:00.000-07:00

YESTERDAY I GOT SIDE TRACKED GOING TO A GARAGE SALE. I WAS SUPPOSED TO ONLY GO TO LOVE INC AND SEE IF ThEY HAD HANGERS . instead I WENT WAY OUT OF MY WAY TO THIS SALE. i DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS SO FAR OUT BUT KEPT DRIVING AND DRIVING THEN I GOT TO IT FINALLY AND REALIZED I DID NT HAVE THAT MUCH CASH ON ME ANYWAYS. (DAD WAS WITH ME AND HE WAS THE ONE THAT WANTED ME TO GO TO IT) WELL I WANTED TO GO TO BUT HE TOLD ME TO.. ANYWAY... I'm going to get out of all caps now. He He... They had a swing for the babies and it was 10 bucks but they also had flannel sheets for 2 bucks for troys bed and 2 movies that were good for the boys... Veggie tales.. and strawberry short cake and they were a buck a piece .. and 2 baby toys for 25 cents each... well my point is that i did not have enough money on me to but all that i wanted. i was trying o figure out if i wanted to drive all that way back out there to get all that i wanted or just get the swing and nothing else or just get the sheets and movies and not the swing. when a guy walked up. Well He stood around for a bit listening to the lady show me a breast pump and he sat down in a rocking chair and tested it out. the man was listening to our conversation about how Jim got to see the twins before he went to Iraq . When the lady walked away from me after showing me the breast pump and talking to me the man walked up to me and seemed to be blind I thought at first. He looked right in to my eyes but yet he looked through me. so weird to me. he had beautiful blue eyes, Grey hair and looked like a construction worker that was old...and he was handing me 10 bucks.. he put it right in my hand and said here you go. i said oh I'm not the lady she is. He said no its for you. i said why are you giving me money.. he said I'm not its from Jesus. I overheard you when i walked up. I said well thank you.. He said no thank him not me. It was strange cause maybe a person would say hey i over heard you ill pay if you want me to. or something like that.. but he didn't.... i should have given it back to him i felt .. I kinda feel like sometimes maybe god wants you to see certain things or for certain things happen and then you have to learn form them or figure it out like puzzle... or I'm not really sure what he wants from it but... this was one of those things. like what is god trying to tell me here... to thank god for what I have? to give to charity? maybe since i really just did not have cash but had money in the bank and didn't need that he is telling me to not take things i don't need.. to say no.. i should have told him no take the money back but i could not say no to a gift from Jesus he would not have let me. the man would have insisted.. oh that is it.. you cant say no to a gift from Jesus.... so as soon as he told me it was a gift from Jesus i said yes... i kept it and said ... thank you... who knows just a weird thing that happened huh... maybe the guy was an angel... who knows... well he got in his rusty white pick up truck and drove off.. to leave me thinking...... and that was that. even if he was just a construction worker in a rusty truck.. lol...

SOME PICS OF OUR DAY...

2009-09-09T19:10:00.000-07:00

Sierra AND JAMES HAD A BATH.. LOL THERE SO CUTE... DON'T GET MAD AT THEM SHOWING THERE LITTLE NAKEDS ... LOL THERE JUST BABIES THERE CUTE

NOT IN THE CORRECT ORDER OF OUR DAY BUT I RAN OUT OF HANGERS ONCE I GOT THE CLOSET READY TO HANG CLOTHES. (YES IT STILL NEEDS THE OUTSIDE BOXED IN BUT I CAN DO THAT WITH STUFF HUNG UP BETTER THAN WITH IT ALL OVER THE FLOOR.. ANY WAYS I GOT TWO BOXES FOR A DOLLAR A PIECE AT A THRIFT STORE..

WHEN THE CLOSET WAS ALL DONE (EXCEPT THE PANELING TRIM ETC.. I MOVED MY BED OVER TO THE OTHER WALL.. TH ATS OUR BED LOL... IF JIMMY IS READING I KNOW I CALL EVERY THING MINE CAUSE HE IS NOT HERE... YOU ARE NOT HERE IF ITS YOU HONEY LOL ... OK SO I'M NOT SO SURE ABOUT THE BED BEING THIS WAY BUT .. YOU WEE RIGHT BABE I DID TAKE OVER MOST OF THE CLOSET... BUT THERE IS MORE ROOM FOR CLOTHES ITS JUST THAT THERE IS IS NO ROOM FOR OTHER STUFF... WELL... I MAY TOM MORROW BEGIN BUILDING A SECOND ONE ON THE OTHER WALL WHERE WE SAID WE WERE GOING TO .. I CAN PUT OTHER THINGS LIKE BOXES IN IT LOL.. .WHO KNOWS.. ACTUALLY I CAN USE ANOTHER ONE FOR HANGING STUFF TO BE HONEST YOU WERE RIGHT AGAIN HONEY ... HE HE..

ZANE GOT OFF THE BUS AND GOT HIS PICTURE TAKEN AFTER HIS FIRST SCHOOL BUS RIDE HOME. HE GOT PICKED UP YESTERDAY ..

Dad you are the hero for the day for telling me about those handy little brackets i needed to complete my closet frame.

Day one building a closet

2009-09-09T06:26:00.000-07:00

lOOK AT THE ARMPITS ... LOL IT WAS HOT AND LOTS OF LIFTING TO MOVE THE STUFF EVEN TO GET TO WEHE I WANTED TO BUILD THE THING LOL.. GOOD THING IM TOUGH....
sO THE PICTURES ARE NOT IN THE CORRECT ORDER BUT THIS WAS DAY ONE AND ALTHOGUH I DID HANG SOMETHGN AT THE END OF DAY ONE IT WAS NOT STURDY. nOW HOW THE HECK WILL I MAKE IT STURDY.. AHH HAAA BRACKETS I NEED BRACKETS TO PUT THE LAST FEW BOARDS UP. AND SOME MORE SUPPLIES BUT HEY THIS IS MY FIRST TIME BUILDING A CLOSET LOL.. THE THINGS I HAVE TO DO WHEN MY HUSBAND IS GONE WILL ONLY MAKE ME STRONGER.. SMELLIGN TOO BY THE LOOKS OF MY ARMPITS IN THAT PIC...

So when i shop and jim tells me if your gonna keep shopping you better learn how to build your own closet to put it all in... well here is my attempt. No he did not tell me to build a closet but he did say he thought that i needed to get rid of half of my clothes at least lol. why wont my pictures upload today.. uggghhh oh well i will put them on my myspace...and let him see them from there i guess...oh i know i said no dont allow when a thing popped up now i will have ti figure out how to take it back later to fix it.. it must be blocking. so i guess ill mes with this later .. I got to finish the closet today. It is going to be a long day again but im back on track with getign up early and going to bed as early as possible. I have some things i need done around here that i might need to pay some one to do. wood needs put on the front of the house and the closet needs to be enclosed and the otuside of the house needs some wood siding put on where windows were... what a mess.. oh yeah and the floor in the bathroom needs a stud or floor joist repaired whatever it is.. i may pay my dad to do it. Of course i have to ask my husband but he will say do what you have to ok gotta go...

What girl in her right mind would admit...

2009-09-09T05:48:00.001-07:00

that she has pms and that must be what made her so grumpy the whole past week. Lol... But like i said the good bad and the ugly.. i dont care ill post it all... so Jim gets to deal with my pms all the way in Iraq... How cool is that? Agghhh the technology these days. It used to be that a man left for way and then he jsut showed up one day carrying a ruck sack and knocked on the door. "Honey Im home" Now days we have technology to talk to the soldiers while they are there. We can see them on cam hear them on voice chat and all the good stuff. So while they are over there stressed to the max we can still bother them with our atitudes... but you have to take the good with the bad soldiers. At least you get to see us when were happy to. My poor dear husband happens to be the only one that doesn't have a wife that does naughty stuff for him on cam though. poor guy....

Obama open to 'sin tax' on fizzy drinks to stem obesity - Yahoo! News

2009-09-09T05:02:00.000-07:00

Obama open to 'sin tax' on fizzy drinks to stem obesity - Yahoo! News Oh come on is a tax on these drinks really going to stop people from drinking them... How is this a free country when the government wants to control such minor things in our every day lives. I understand that people are getting fat from drinking too much soft drinks but is that the governments right to stop them? Really it just seems to be a way to get more taxes out of the people. And on the other hand what about all the food stamps of the peoples money that goes for buying junk food. So many people I knew that got food stamps spend there food benefits on junk food and don't know how to budget it to make meals so that there kids can eat healthy all month long. I believe that taxing junk food would be the easiest way to get people to feed there kids healthy food instead of buying millions of dollars worth of pop with tax dollars. I am not a big pop drinker but i know i have bought pop with my food card and chips and all kinds of other snacks that i woudl not have bought with out it. Had i been spending my hard earned money i would have shopped more carefully. Maybe they need to give food stamp recipients mandatory budgeting classes also. Wic makes the people that get wic take classes on nutrition. Why can't they do it for food stamps? This sin tax as they call Well honey your goign to get alot of reading done whiel your there. I knwo how you love to read.. That was sarcastic.. I can say its safe to say he wont be much into reading when he gets back.. lol.. The funny part is that i believe him and i have such a diffrence in opinion when it comes to politics anyways im sure. He says we are like dharma and Greg... lol.. im not so sure about that totally beign true but it would be "Groovy" to have a trampoline in my room for a bed. LOL

thegood bad and the ugly

2009-09-08T14:39:00.000-07:00

ok so now i accidently posted that last blog that was from the other night and my husabnd was pissed.. but hey if your gonna blog why hide stuff midse well see the good and the bad... right??? i mean deployments are not pretty.. really thankfully he is on a deployment that is somewhat safe so i can still get mad at him and not have to worrry about you..ok so who am i talkign to here i said him and then you lol any ways my point i have the right to resent him for beign there and to be proud of him for it at the same time.. i have a right to feel what i feel and to not be happy that my husband is gone and im here.. jsut as he has a right to be upset that i am here and he is there and i get to see the babies and hold them and we all have a right to have a bad freaking day...

DROWNING MYSELF

2009-09-06T21:37:00.000-07:00

IN THE LOVE OF MY BABIES... it seems to help take the empty spot away... Sometimes i feel like My husband is such an asshole... like when I had a bad day a really bad day... he is not there... he is in some stupid foreign country and it feels like my first marriage all over again.. i used to look forward to talking to my ex husband at the end of the day when he got home from work only once he got there he was a dick.. and i wondered why i sat home alone waiting for him that whole time. Why did i cook his dinner and have it ready for him clean the house and be this good little wifey when once he got home he ate my food, didn't help clean up, stuck his head in TV and passed out... woo hoo that was what i looked forward too all day.. that was what i was waiting for?????YEEEE HAAAA... I that is what this is feeling like sometimes... and i don't like it.... its hard to have him there in Iraq and me here and i have this invisible husband that is tired and i cant have a real conversation with... it is like i Midas well talk to a wall and ask what do you think honey should i do this or that? should i go take out a loan and buy a new car? should i forget buying a house and just go shopping with all your money this year honey? well what do you think? oh do what ever i want cause you wont pay attention anyways.... OK i will... lol of course ill pay the stupid house off that is what I'm doing cause I'm responsible like that.... but that's not the point... what if i wanted some input on something? he would have to sleep... and if I'm having a really horrible day well then he would have to sleep worse.. he would be twice as tired... seems that way anyways.. even though he sleeps when I'm awake and sleeps when I'm sleeping... strange maybe you ever think maybe you get too much sleep? let me just put some sugar coating on it for you honey.. i am very happily married... the babies sleep all night and let me sleep... the kids are always good.... and my ex is the best father in the world... lol is any part of that true? ugggh men never get it really? nm i am happily married even though it sucks with him beign there and me being here...does that make one bit of sense?

my weekend was like a brand new tire popping...

2009-09-06T20:52:00.001-07:00

Yep that sums it up. What a great weekend.. and then bam it popped... sunday Dan picked Kate meg and troy up.. how dumb i knew i should not have served him the court papers.. since he got them he decided to come get the kids today out of the blue.. I had plans for Zanes birthday party tommorrow. Had i known dan woudl pick the kids up i would have done the birthday party today instead. Then there is the fact that i have my girls all ready for school with there pretty dresses and hair stuff and they stillw ere goign to have there hair cut and styled tommorrow for school. and troy did not get to go get shoes yet. I told him i was sorry when he left cause we didnt get him shoes yet. He gave me a hug and said "its ok mom ill be fine. " Why dans wife picked now to have him get them is beyond me. Dan woudl haveleft them here but she is ...well oh well with where that convo was going... I am really bummed and can't wait for court cause it is plain to see that it is the money driving him. I am sure that he will fight the verdict if they give me full custody back when we go i too. So stupid.. I shoudl have kept it with hm payign minimal support and jsut had the full custody.. but no i fight the custody and he wants to start takign them cause he dont want the support up'd .. GRRRROOOOWWWWLLLLL... That was a lion GRowl... MOre like a ROOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! you know the one with the big open mouth that is going to eat you up if you come near it .. lol... Definitly not a Purrrr of a kitten.... lol...You ever get brand new tires on your car and drive down the road over a nail 2 days later and have it pop. Thats what im talking about..... The kids and I had alot of fun makign a cake this weekend.. the girls making eggs, It was so cute watching meg teach kate how to cook. Especially since Kate is 10 and Meg is 8. Alex did well with the mixer and it turned out to be katte who pulle dit out of the bowl too soon making it go on the cupboard a little lol. The cake was yummy.. The eggs were... something... not too bad not too good.. ANYWAYS IM BUMMED I WISH MY HUSBAND WAS HERE

Part of my day and weekend mostly in pictures...

2009-09-06T19:38:00.000-07:00

KATE PLUGGING HER EARS CAUSE OF THE LOUD TRUCKS HORN...

MegAN AND ALEX MIXING CAKE BATTER FOR THE CAKE.. YUMMY IT WAS sTRAWBERRY CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE FUDGE FROSTING AND SPRINKLES... MMMM MMMM

kIDS GOING THROUGH THERE CANDY FROM THE PARADE

ALEX YELLED DUCKS DUCKS AND BY THE TIME I GOT THERE TO TAKE THE PIC HE HAD SCARED OFF THE TURKEYS LOL...

Meg teaching kate to cook eggs.. Me talkign to jim on the net.. lol.. kate took my pic...
Megan tryign on a school dress Kate and alex posing with James II who jsut dont fit in preeemie clothes no more... Megan and kate in there school clothes and one of kate alone in her school outfit posing... such posers i have for kids... lol..

Swine flu vaccinations...

2009-09-06T11:48:00.000-07:00

http://kidshealth.org/Features.jsp?lic=1&feature=30# Waht does one do when it comes to vaccines? The swine flu has a vacine this year coming out in october. I'm wondering what to do??? do i get the kids the vaccine or wait until some other familys test it first. I really dont like vaccines but on the other hand the kids get them every year for things. even chicken pox has one now. I mean theydid not haevthem when we were kids. It was just inevitable that you would get exposed get them and never get them again. With this many kids a trip to the doctors office even can bring home some nasty bugs from the waiting room. I mean the toys there are played with all day with sick kids who don't wash there hands. Im jsut curious what the heck is the big deal about this swine flu vaccine that everyone don't want to get it? Is there somethign diffrent about it than any other flu virus? I know i read that people that are perfectly healthy otherwise get it and they can die from it but a vaccine is a vaccine right? Im sure the military will make the guys get the vaccine. Oh well i guess ill figure it out when the doc says hey its time to do this wha do you want to do? lol or when the school says get the vacine or dont send them lol...

Meet the jimmy bears...

2009-09-05T11:32:00.001-07:00

The kids each got a bear to cuddle with while Jim is deployed. They sleep with them sometimes when they miss him. They also play with them and take pictures arranging them doing this and that. like once meg arranged them all so they crashed a truck they were riding in after drinking and driving. They all had to go to the hospital. They have alot of fun with them. Recently while cleaning up the yard to move i found kates "Snowball" in a plastic bin of water. I saved him. poor thing the kids dont always take care fo there things even when they seem to mean so much. Maybe she wil take care of him from now on but i doubt it. I think that it will take one of them getitng ruined for them to actually learn to take care of there things. Thats sad to let happen but how else will they learn. I have no clue where the other kids bears are but im pretty sure that megan takes care of hers she seems to like to cuddle with it more than any of the other kids. I think it also has to do to the fact that she had a doll molly that was left outside and it got rained on and ruined. She learned from her mistake.

Air mail!!!!!!

2009-09-04T20:42:00.000-07:00

Now my kids. I have 7 of them remember. Sierra and James get all the attention they need from me. They make sure of it. In the night i always breast feed them all night long and even if i make them a bottle i usually dont end up giving them all of it if any. The other kids i let stay up with me one at a time to get some one on one mommy time. When jim was home he would watch all the kids while one kid came in my room at a time every day after school and got tiem alone with me. I would look over there backpack and things and get soem time with them. They got time with him by taking turns going to the store with him. He usually is the one who goes to the store for grocerys. That was because i worked bartending and i was tired. Now i dont work i stay home. So i noticed i really started this to keep up with jim and all i do is write odd things in it. I seem to get side tracked to. oh well its a place to reflect and vent. Today i did not find a pressure cooker but i found a 5 dollar bunk bed set, 2 antique plate sets 10 bucks for all (turns out it say microwave safe on one of the sets so it cant be to antique lol) cookie cutters, shelves for my canisters, More canisters, A neat light that hooks on my headboard, picture frames, a coffee pot that is like new for 2 bucks, and a shower head that removes so you can spray it. You know the hand held ones. 5 bucks brand new in the package. So those were things i mostly needed except for of course the picture frames, the neat light, the antique and not antique plate set, cookie cutters, well lol at least i got out of the house right. I never go anywhere any more. Today i told jim im tired of sitting home. The lady at the sale asked me no kids today? i said no i jsut have two. I had went to the same sale yesterday and today i went as i forgot to ask if they had a pressure cooker. I am that girl who likes to garden and can my own food, freeze it, save money on it and stock up all those things that they had to do back in the day to save money and eat good food. Well then i go garage saling and buy all those things that i dont need. the part where i got bunk beds for 5 bucks did save me about 100 bucks though so I guess the few bucks extra i spent was ok. oh on another note we are trying to pay the whole house off this year before jim gets back from iraq. well that was my idea anyways. all the money spent on junk i dont need could go to pay off the house lol.. not that I really spent alot today but still.. 30 bucks is 30 bucks. This week Troy got a mail box up for us. He made it deep enough in the ground that it should not get knocked over lol... It is also heavy steal....he is my mr fix it right now.. there is a song about a kid helping out mom while his dad is in the army. Troy is pretty much that kid sometimes.. lol when he is not beign naughty.. which he does that too .. lol... which reminds me i jsut started lettign him go with his friends out of the yard and some how he only went a few times and has not asked to go again since... im wondering whats up with that? the other day
I heard him say that he doesnt leave the yard cause its a bad idea to go hang out with kids cause they get in trouble. im glad to haev him sit home cause when the kids get on trouble Troy will too and im not into dealign with all that right now. ok im not into dealign with all that EVER.... Oh the picture behind Troy is my van which seats 7 total. lol i have 7 kids. If i woudl have not had twins this pregnancy i would have enough room for us all except jim... now I jsu tlain dont have enough room no matter how you look at it. I am looking for a suburban i think with a front seat that has 3 and then it would seat 9.... maybe any ways im tired goin to sleep . Hero of the day is my Mr Fixit Troy. he did a great job on putting the mail box in..

Nothing to report..

2009-09-03T19:29:00.000-07:00

lOl over all an uneventful day.. the kids are in bed on time tonight... its 1029 they been in bed a while all except troy that is. i would love a hot cup of coffee but the coffee pot is set for my mother inlaw for morning. i hate that as i like coffee all day and night and she sets it for moring... drives me nuts there is nothing to drink. maybe i shoudl get a new coffee pit for myself. lol.. good idea but i suppose she would get upset as she likes the control she has over me drinkign coffee late beign its her coffee pot.. she says "you cant drink coffee this late and sets it so i cant then use it. really a new one woudl be neat that way when hers is set i make my own lol... last night i made thera flu so i could have soemthng hot to drink as i am sick anyways.... lol .. thera flu always works wonders for me and makes me tired and sleep well.. Coffee seems to do the same thing a hot cup of coffee will make me sleepy and well awake at the same time. So this week i started a new thing with the kids they get a point everytime i have to discipline them. who ever has the most at the end of the day has to do dishes. They try so hard not to get points and have to be the one that does dishes. toda i traded the girls a bunch of chores for me doing dishes as they tied for most points. it also helps them see the bad things they did at the end of the day. i try all kinds of things with them and they all seem to work great as its not the thing your doing with them that counts it is the attention they are getting. it is beign consistent and keeping a schedule and routine that make them work. Speakign of routines i been lookign for a pressure cooker too i shoudl have checked that sale. I found a pressure cookign cook book there and still never though to look for a pressure cooker. Silly me. It takes so little tiem to cook a good meal with a pressure cooker and they range in price from 60 to 400 bucks.. just like that mixer normally 200 and it was only 4 bucks. ppl jsut buy them and never use them and they sit in there cupboards until they sell them so there is no sense in buying new. having 7 kids i need to save all teh time i can. it takes forever to give them all a bath at night every night lol.. one on one time with them is usually spent cooking with them or takign there turn goign to the store with me or they get to stay up late with me and watch a movie or play on the net. all of those things will be much eaiser when jim is home to help but now i need all the time i can get in a day and more to get the things done i need to do and have me time.

a compliment goes a long way...

2009-09-03T16:35:00.000-07:00

a few weeks ago i had to take the kids for a hour long drive to get id cards for the military and add the babies. I was worried they woudl eb naughty. they were suprisingly well behaved.. WOW! i took them into perkins to eat cause they got the kids eat free with every adult. They were very well behaved and we had a nice dinner. I was happy. People were all about the babies and we could not fit in a booth any more. lol.. it was way to small... They have these neat seats there that fit many the babies car seats right in them and they can sit at the table with us. They had a regular dinner table and it was nice to sit down and eat a good meal. Well we all chose to eat burgers...They were very tasty though and the kids liked the free cookies at the end and taking crayons home with them to color with them. (they needed more to write on the wall with) JK... they better not but it woudlnt surprise me... well enough about perkins the point was that the kids were so good. I sometimes go out in public and see that my kids are not the worst behaved. woo hoo... Today we went to a garage sale. Kate wanted to look for stuff with her birthday money and the rest had a few bucks to spend for helping me with stuff. We have to be cheap with this many kids. Michigan seems to be a great place to garage sale. Yet again today after leaving the sale my mother in law stopped by there on her way home and the lady at the sale tild her how well behaved my children were.. LOL they are not always that great... but it was nice to get complimented. I looked at an electric chain saw as i need to cut some bushes down that are blockign my view of the back yard. they are nice shade but i liketo see the deer come in and the turkeys. The squireels i noticed are gone. I wonder what happened to them as last year at this time they were busy gathering food for the winter and this year i see none. I bought a mixer its one of those that has bowls and a food proceser with it and you can put a blender on it. it is missing the bucket for the food processer part but i may be abel to find one at goodwill... I love good will ll these kids. I been wantign one of these but it costs 200 to buy one new and im so darn cheap its not worth it to me. I also bought a book on cooking with a pressure cooker and a book on cooking from better homes and gardens. Zane found some pokemon for 10 cents and kate found a christmas barbie still in the package for 10 bucks. Troy told her to save it and keep it it will be worth money but she opened it.. Waht fun is it if you cant play with it. all my army brats are my hero of the day for being good...

Finally...

2009-09-03T10:03:00.000-07:00

I am allmost moved from the old house to the new one. What a mess that was trying to take care of 7 kids and move all that stuff. i got a dumpster and threw all of the contents of my basement away. there was a water problem in there with moisture which destroyed a couch love seat table and chairs entertainment center and a tv and oak end tables. i also had a garage full of stuff form movign last time that i was goign to donate but eneded up puttign half of it in the dumpster. the dumpster wasw huge and it took a week to fill it. some other people had things to toss so we all shared it. I really loved that house but not the basement. it cost 330.00 for the dumpster alone and no insurace to cover the damage from the things i had to toss.. i don't have room for all those things anyways. I do but my mother in law lives in the room that is my second living room which is ok. it makes my husband happy to see her and i get along. I dont think he ever woudl have thought i woudl have moved into the same house as her while he was gone. I know that if he were here there would be more tension right now as i let things go as to not argue as they are only smal things that bug me sometimes. I think he would make a big deal out of them.??? maybe lol..plus 3 people discipling 7 kids (well 5 as the babies are little angels right now) It woudl be too many adult opinions under the same roof. we may all go nuts. the landlord of the other house we were renting was very sad to see us go and very happy with the job i did on cleaning it up. I was glad as i dont want a bad rep. he even said he will give me my deposit back which legally he dont have to cause i had ask him permisson to breal a year lease in order to buy the house. It was a good deal on this house and will help us out alot. One thing i noticed about young marraiges is that housign is a big issue and can cause alot of problems with the tension of not having your own home to stay in. my battery is about to die on the lap top. ill write more later besides im surprised these babies are sleeping so well.. oh in the middle of moving stuff and packing i took a few pictures of the flowers that i had planted this year there. The yard was always blooming somewhere. /i dug the gladiolus and other plants up that i had planted and took them with me as they are perineals and they are supposed to be dug up at the end of the year anyways.
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