Merry Christmas!

So, its almost Christmas!! and a new year! holy cow...2010 went by so fast! just wanted to say hi to all that read my blog!
few changes in life....
I am working part time now! making a few extra bucks!
Anna goes to pre school at ECA and she is loves it except nap time.
Jett comes to work with me and is now crawling all over
Ash is loving school and learning to read and so much more
Well, Mikel not much has changed with him that I can think of.

Hope to catch up after Christmas when life hopefully slows down a bit.
Until next time
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
Enjoy your families this holiday season!
Whitnee

So its August 31st...

So its August 31st, just one day before the beginning of September! As I sit here thinking of how its already almost September, I look back on this year so far and all I can say is that I am blessed!

At the beginning, back in January I remember feeling down and wanting so much and just trying to be patient and wait on the Lord's perfect timing. I was so very anxious to sell our house and move. April was getting close and we were still in the same house and my baby was going to come soon and would have no nursery. Ever since the shooting just a couple houses down the street and we were awake for it all, Mikel and I didn't really sleep one peaceful night again. I just felt scared and unsecured in that house/neighborhood from November until we finally got a offer on the house at the end of January! Praise the Lord. I look back and am SO very thankful because the way the housing market is right now we could have been still waiting to sell the house. I am so THANKFUL God provided a buyer for that house and we SOLD it without any problems! Although, I do miss my grandma just right around the corner.

Another thing, as I look back at this year so far. I remember looking for houses the next weekend after we got the offer. The price range we started looking in, I found NOTHING I would be happy with and thankful I didn't settle with one of those houses. After looking the whole weekend, I had an eye on 2 houses in my neighborhood now that at the time was over our budget. I decided I just wanted to go look at them so we did and the minute I walked into our house now, Mikel and I knew this was the house! Praise the Lord we were able to afford it and are loving it and still amazed at how God works because I would never imagine I would be living here. As a child, I lived in apartments, trailers, very small houses and so even through my house today isn't huge, I feel VERY blessed to be living here and my heart is so thankful because its in a great area and we are in a great school district!

Then soon after the move, my little baby boy came along! He is the BEST baby ever!! I am so thankful God gave him to Mikel and I as well! He completes our family!
So there you go, just a little bit of how thankful I am today as we begin the fall of the year. Thus far, God has blessed me and pray the rest of the year goes as great! I know its getting ready to get better too, cause its almost my birthday on Sept 7!! Yea, I will be 26! LOL
I can't wait to decorate for the fall in our new house!!! I love decorating for fall and Christmas! my 2 favorites!

Summer is Over....

Summer is offically over for Ashlee. She has now started kindergarten!! Her school has ALL DAY kindergarten! She is loving it. She has already made several new friends and seems to be adjusting to it well! She does have 2 small complaints...lol she doesn't like "brain break" or as she says it is "nap time" and she says the cafeteria food line smells so she won't eat in the cafeteria food and demands she take her own lunch everyday.
I am adjusting to Ash being gone the majority of the day. We leave for school at 8:30 and go to pick her up at 3:30 so pretty much I feel she is home for just a few hours before she has to go to bed :(
Anna and I both miss having our Ashlee around the house during the day. Although, it is nice not having the constant fighting and arguing between the sisters.
Jett is doing very well. He is 4 month already. Time really does pass so fast. At his 4 month check which was 2 weeks early he weighed 14 pounds and 2 ounces. He is doing well! He is now rolling over and reaching for things to put in his mouth. He is an amazing good baby! hardly ever does he really cry out. sleeps through the night....just a all around great baby. 3rd time is the CHARM! LOL

Summer

Just a little update on us.
We have been busy busy as usual! Lots of things going on and time passing by so very fast. We are getting used to being a family of 5! I didn't think it would slow me down as much, but in all honesty I believe it does. I used to leave the house in a drop of a hat, now I think twice about if I really need to go somewhere. It just seems like it takes forever to get all 3 kids dressed and around without wearing me out. LOL This summer we have added a small pop up swimming pool and a trampoline to our backyard! the girls are really enjoying them both! they were the girl's bday presents this year. Speaking of birthdays Ashlee just turned 5 on the 21 of June and Anna is turning 3 on the 21 of July. We just had their birthday party last week! This year we did a joint party and it turned out good. It sure was a lot easier and cheaper but I'm not sure Ashlee didn't steal the show. At Anna's age right now she really didn't care and actually doesn't really even realize much about birthdays yet. On Ashlee's actual bday we went out to frontier city with our family and had some birthday cookies and she enjoyed being the spotlight that day. Unfortunately, our church has VBS on Anna's actual birthday. I think we will go to the park and do something fun for her during the day so she will feel extra special on her day! I promised her a Yo Gabba Gabba cake on her actual bday so I will have to come up with something. If anyone of you have watched it, the show is a bit annoying. She wanted her party yo gabba gabba, but I convinced her to do something different for her party. The girls had a Jessie, Toy Story party! It turned out to be super cute! Rae did a great job with the cake!
Since Ashlee turned 5, she will start kindergarten at the end of Aug. I can't believe she will already be going to school. I feel like I just got out of school and shouldn't have a child already starting school. time really goes by so fast.
Our little boy, Jett is already almost 3 months old :( I cant believe how fast he has grown. I no longer have a little skinny boy. At his 2 month check up he weighed 12lbs 2ozs. He went from 5% at birth to 55% at 2 months! He definitely caught up and is a very healthy boy!! He will be rolling over soon! He moves around all over when he is in the floor! It wont be long!
Anna will get to go to VBS this year! She is getting so big! She is our family clown. she is constantly making us laugh! from sticking her head in the toilet to wash the soap, walking around target with a women shoe that's is huge on her and refuses to take off, and a new one tonight Jesus peed the bed. I dont know about the last one, but that's what she told us....LOL She is a handful! definitely the middle child.
One last thing, a prayer request. Please pray for Ashley Kate (she is the niece of Chuck and Rae, our assiocate pastor) She is in severe rejection of her transplanted organ and needs lots of prayers. Please pray for her family as well as they are separated while Ashley and her mom are in the hospital in NE and her dad, brother and sister are at home in TX. Here is her blog if you want to read more ashleyadamsjournal.blogspot.com

A Quick Post...

First of all, just looked at last date of last post and it was almost exactly a month ago. LOL

Well, in the last month, our lives have changed! We now have our precious little son...Jett Mikel! He was born on April 21st, 2010 at 6:19pm weighing 5 pounds 9 ounces, and 20 inches long! He is a little guy but oh so sweet! Just a little side note, all my children are born on the 21st of different months!

I will leave you with a picture of my little man...

2 months later...

Well, almost 2 months later, I finally decide to update my blog! So many things have happened in the last 2 months. It has went by so incredibly fast but all is good! As most of you know, we are moved into our new home in Edmond! We LOVE it! We love our house, neighborhood, everything. Well, maybe not the new payment on our new house...lol! Closing went well on our previous house. I'm oh so thankful to be out of that house and part of town. I feel so much secure and safer. We moved the weekend before our actual closing date due some work issues with Mikel and being during the week, so we stayed with my in laws for almost a week and were able to do some painting of the walls in our new house before we actually moved into the house. Every single wall in our home was white and I couldn't stand it so paint went on the walls right away. Overall, our move went very smoothly and we are loving our new house and couldn't be happier!

Moving on...so our baby boy is due in less than a MONTH. OMG, time has went by so fast and I can't believe I am going to be the mother of 3. Holy Moly! In the last couple of days, I think the reality of Jett almost being here has really sank in. Although, I'm excited to meet my baby boy, it makes me so sad that Anna is not going to be my baby anymore. She is still a baby to me! I feel like I am forcing her to grow up and become bigger. Which kinda scares me because I felt this same way with Ashlee right before Anna was born, so I know labor must be coming soon. For some reason, me being pregnant with our 3rd child, does not seem real. Even though I feel it, I just can't come to realization I am going to have an infant in less than a month and have 3 kids. I'm in denial. LOL! Like its not actually going to happen. I feel like I'm in a dream. I know I will adjust but I'm really having a hard time with this one. I don't know maybe just my pregnancy hormones kicking in.
Also, I begin to think about labor and I have to fight the tears back. Knowing that my mom is not going to be there coaching me through labor is heartbreaking. She was there at both of my girl's birth encouraging me to keep pushing...I can hear her now saying "come on Whitnee, she is almost out" "just one more push" Even though, it got a bit annoying at times when I heard it over and over again, I will miss it. I know its going to hurt, not being able to share that special occasion with her but I have faith that God will help me through the time just like the other times when I think how can I do this without a mom by my side. Thankfully, I have a wonderful husband and family that will be right by my side to share this birth of our son!

Today was my baby shower for Jett! We had a great outcome of people at my house and it was overly crowded but I'm so thankful for all that came and for the many gifts I received! I haven't had a chance yet to sit down and look through everything, so tomorrow that's what I will be doing! I know I got like 4 or so of the same line of this monkey stuff at target...lol so some of it will have to go back to target.

The girls are doing great! Tball season has started back up for the spring, so we just added that back into our busy schedule. Ash loves playing ball so its worth it! Anna will be playing in fall if we choose to let her...she loves to get out there and practice with her sister but I'm not quite sure I'm ready to have 2 children playing sports, but how can you let one and not the other. But maybe we will wait till next spring. Who knows...like we don't already have enough going on in our lives... Ashlee has kindergarten enrollment coming up the first week of April. We are so excited to get her enrolled and started in her new school. We are in Deer Creek school district which happens to be the #1 academic school district in Oklahoma. that was a big plus to buying our new home!

Ok, I think that's enough of my ramblings for right now......I'm guessing my next blog will be started with a picture of baby Jett........who knows I might actually blog more often but I wouldn't count on it!
Until a month or maybe 2, Hope everyone is doing great!
Whitnee

A Month Later..

Things have changed in our lives! About a week ago, we accepted a contract on our house! We are SUPER excited to sell our home and move to Edmond! It has been a long time coming and so glad its finally going to be here next month! I knew if I waited on God's perfect timing, it would eventually happen and it did! Our house was on the market for about 3 1/2 months, which isn't that long in today's economy but it felt like forever. Our scheduled closing date is Febuary 25!

This last weekend, we spent the ENTIRE weekend looking for homes in Edmond. After looking at numerous homes in weekend in a certain price range, I wasn't satisfied at all and didn't want to settle for something and be unhappy for the next several years. Thankfully, I didn't! We decided to move up to another price range and after looking at just a few houses I found this one...


I loved it from the minute I walked in the door, well actually I loved it when we pulled in the drive! So, after looking at it and then one more we decided that was the home we wanted. We both prayed about it and felt peace that this was the home we wanted and would be satisfied with for several years. So, the next day, we made an offer. We found out today that they accepted our offer and its OURS pending all the financing and such! We are thrilled and can't wait to move! We are scheduled to do back to back closing on the 25th! Please pray everything works out smoothly with the close of our current home and the new one!

Our baby boy will be here in less than 3 short months already! I can't believe this pregnancy has gone by so quick. I am doing really good and trying to enjoy this last part of my last pregnancy. We also just purchased the fabric for his OU crib bedding to be made! I can't wait to see it and begin working on his room, since now I know he will actually have a room. I was beginning to wonder for a while if he would be sharing one with mommy and daddy...LOL! Anyway, the girls are doing great!
Please keep us in your prayers as we make this adjustment and that all goes well!
Until next month....LOL I really wish I would take the time to update more often. Maybe one day...