stealing internet AGAIN....

Heath will probably have a heart attack when he realizes that i'm blogging while we're at a company party...I'm stealing away a few momnts to update my peeps... :0)

So....life is good here in Colorado...Loving our town...the shopping here is AWESOME! We live right next to Flatiron Mall .... I'm literally less than 2 miles from tons of restaurants, walmart, target, mcdonalds, chick fil a, um...what else do i need to survive? I'm looooving the area.

As far as my sardine can that I now call home...we're settling in...I'm very happy with our decision to move into a smaller place...I feel like I'm decluttering my life and shedding all the junk that we seem to have accumulated over the last 5 years.

THE WEATHER....I'm actually liking it...not to be comfused with Loving it...I think I prefer to be able to wear my flats and flip flops everyday... in sunny CA or AZ. There is snow on the ground...and moving day wasn't too tuff with that...cause the walkways and such were shoveled.

OH MY>>>>> Get this...while we were unloading the truck my boy PULLED THE FIRE ALARM!!! Seriously, kill me. I was already stressed out cause I was tired, and at any moment would burst into tears cause of my new found loneliness in my new city, I was sad cause of the size of my new home, and my kids were little punks (and rightfully so considering the last month of chaos)...and my 4 year old decided to top it all off with ALARMING the entire complex of their new neighbors! Welcome!!! The fire truck came and everything! Oh my. They were totally understanding and nice about it. Jacob went straight to time out and didn't know anything about the fire truck cause he was in trouble... Totally a funny event...but totally made me want to die. The fire alarm pull thing is 2 feet outside our front door....we literally walk by it every single time we leave our home.

I was joking with my sister (who is here for the week helping me with the move :) ... I said that I had Jacob pull the fire alarm to see how many stay at home mom's are in my complex...they all came running out with their kids....poor moms.... I just wanted to see how many are around...what a way to make friends...eh?!

I'm missing my mom. I want to go to her warm loving home for dinner on sunday. I want Jacob and Lexi to go to McDonalds with their friends and cousins. Sad face. I want to get a diet coke for me at sonic and pick up and extra for a friend... : ( boo hoo. I miss everything.

When my princess sees the snow outside she yells, "Snowman!" Cutie...she calls snow...Snowman. Love it. She's such a cutie. She will NOT wear her cute boots...and she won't wear her new snow hat. dumb.

My sister chelsey goes home tomorrow....boo! I wish I could just have her, kacie, and my mom rotate every week....so I always have a friend, helper, and a hug....all month long!

Ok...I've been away from the partay for like 15 minutes now. PLUS, I'm now officially emotional and look it...shoot. People keep popping their head in heath's office to say hello to the bosses wife...and I'm looking like an emotional wreck. Ugh.

moving update...

Blogging from my heath's laptop mooching off my parents wifi...

Leaving for CO tomorrow!! Yay! Most of the hard work is done...Truck loaded...house clean... :)

Saaaweeeet. Thanks to all my amazing friends for their help this week ... for their babysitting help, hugs, words of encouragement, fun girls lunches... I'm so sad to leave all my girlfriends!

Thanks to MY FAMILY for all their love and support...and HARD work during the move! My mom and sister in law cleaned my bathrooms!!! (and lots of other stuff...) Aren't they totally amazing!! I'm so sad to be moving so far from my BLOOD! (hahaha...morbid...LOVE IT!)

Seriously my heart is so full right now and empty at the same time with my thoughts of leaving AZ, tear...

next blog will be from BROOMFIELD COLORADO! :D

never thought this day would come...

I need laundry soap...

yes...I'm out...What the stink!?

Today...in a laundry furry I started a load...water running...and didn't have SOAP for it! Ugh!

Me...the stockpiling...couponing...domestic goddess (ok...the last one is a stretch) doesn't have laundry soap. Gees!

I started to panic and everything...seriously, what's wrong with me? I used oxy clean instead...oh well...off to walmart during preschool tomorrow...

Let me just say...I hate that I'm currently using up all my stockpiles...not coupon shopping...and not watching the sales! Eeek. CAN'T wait til I have time for that again.

Deeeeep sigh. Going to walmart to pay whatever price they have for me...maybe I'll grab a coupon if I can make myself go to my dreaded coupon box...that I haven't touched for weeks. sad face. Oh my beloved coupon box...I miss you.

j

from a garage sale...

Do you shop garage sales? If not...then you might not enjoy this post...

Yes...I'm crazy. The weekend before I'm moving out of state...I went to garage sales...I HAD TO!! My sisters and I have a little tradition...most Saturdays we go around 7am to QT (gas station that I LOOOOVE) and get me a d.coke, donuts for all of us...and we go shopping!

Some Saturdays we're gone for 2 hours...some only an hour or so...I always bring Jacob and Lexi...they love/hate garage sales...and always get something by the end of the trip.

This week...

Jacob bought:
back massager (um...ok...he liked that it spun on the table while it vibrated...alrighty)
helicopter (like he doesn't have enough toys)
I think that's it...he spent $2

I Purchased:

drum roll please...

TONS of gap and old navy winter clothes for LEXI! yay! Like 12 pieces and 2 sweatsuits, 1 bathing suite and a bathing suite cover. Saweeeet...winter clothes for Colorado that will fit clear thorough next winter...and a cute suite to fit this summer! Price: $16 - um HELLO!? :) I LOVE name brand clothes for the kids cause they are do durable (thanks to my amazing friend Jen Kent that passes on AMAZING & expensive clothes to Jacob :)

Puddle Jumpers, pink $2 - to help with the snow for now...her current pair of boots aren't water proof...plus I would rather die than to have her walk in the dirt, snow, rain, mud...with her adorable black furry boots. haha.

SNOW SHOES!! for Jacob! Just his size...very nice pair that are totally new! $1 can you believe it! Bonus...they are black...so totally unisex for Lexi to wear in a while. yay.

Here's the deal...I was SICK about that fact that my cute boy would want to play in the snow when we get there...but that I wasn't prepared to let him do so cause snow stuff just isn't as available here as in Colorado....how sad...I'm transplanting him to a new place and he wouldn't even be about to explore the first few days there til I buy him boots...my son LOVES to play outside and dig in the dirt :) scroll down and you'll see a few pictures from previous posts. Now he can! (minus the parka he will need...anyone have one?)

SNOW SCRAPER! for my car! Seriously...I found a snow scraper in Arizona! It's cute...it has a fur mitten thing over the handle so your hands don't get covered in snow. LOVE IT! $.50

Another story...I had a bad dream Friday night that I was in my new home and sad to be in Colorado and all I wanted to do was to get a coke and go grocery shopping with my kids...but I was so unprepared for the snow that I couldn't even scrape the snow off my car...I was crying in my dream trying to get all that snow crap off my car to take my kids to the grocery store. Stupid...I know...but I worry about stupid stuff like that. And ... I found a snow scraper ... awwww .... He cares about the little stupid things in my life.

Um...what else...oh... a soap dispenser (dumb) but it was so pretty, child lock door handle thing, 3 books (I have an obsession with hardback books that are pretty colors...not the book cover part...the actual book...I'll take pictures sometime of my collection...) ... I think total I paid $4 for all that. ps...my book obsession doesn't even come CLOSE to my sister Chelsey's obsession...and she actually reads the books! what a concept!

So total we spent $25 but LOVED every minute of it...getting time to be with my sisters and getting WINTER stuff for COLORADO! Yay!

Broomfield COLORADO!

Heath and I jumped on a flight to Denver CO Tuesday morning and hunted for our new place all day...then grabbed a flight that night. The trip was very productive and I learned a lot about how I feel about snow...

I can handle having the sun out, snow on the ground, and a temp over 3 degrees....I can handle it with my new wool coat, layers, my cute new black boots, skinny jeans, and the super cute new scarf I wore...LOL. I had fun.

I'm not sure how I'll do the first time I drive in the snow, or when I have to get out of bed at 2am to a crying child FREEZING while I walk over there...or when my kids want to play in the snow and all I want to do is sit by a fire with hot chocolate. Oh well...I LOVE CHANGE! I'LL Love this! Right?!!

So...Broomfield is the city/county we'll be living in...

Here's the wikipedia stats on it...so interesting. I'm so excited!! More details as they come...

Currently packing my life...downsizing...trying to take only 1/2 of what we have...moving from this 2300 sq foot home to 1100 sq foot apartment...yikes!

Its painful to downsize...but at the end of this new lease term my savings will WOW me! I'm so excited for that part! Plus less to clean....yay. That will be great! Pictures? Umm...maybe after I get settled a little. :)

-j