The Dark Night

Last night we lost one of the most special women to ever walk on this earth. She was a woman who did everything out of love...a generous woman to her core. She was many things to many people. Many called her a friend, some called her sister or aunt, four called her momma....I called her Grandma.

I LOVE IT!!!

Ok so several things have happened lately to make me say those wonderful words.

• We got Matthew's W2s earlier than we thought we might, so we have already filed our taxes. We also got a significant amount more than we thought we were going to get.
• We bought our new van, got the payments to stay the same as our old car, and will only add one payment.
• We found out in buying our car that our credit has actually improved quite a bit since moving in with my grandma so there is hope that it will be "acceptable" soon.
• Matthew's end of year bonus is going to be about $800 more than we thought it might be.
• I am actually getting packed and ready and it isn't even the week we are leaving. Gotta love being prepared.
• We don't have a house lined up to rent yet.

Ok so that last one was not supposed to be there....all in good time...we still have a couple weeks and we have a couple good leads on rental houses.

A New Car!!!

As my post about the bad day expresses, we have had some issues with our current vehicle. We decided that we needed to get rid of it sooner rather than later, so we went to the local Ford dealership and looked into buying a bigger car. Now, I will be the first to say that minivans and my vanity are not close friends. I do NOT see myself as a minivan kinda girl, but a minivan is the practical solution to our problem of having outgrown our vehicle. We are hopefully going to bring our new used Dodge Grand Caravan (2008) home tomorrow.

FOUR weeks and counting...

We will be packing up a moving truck to move across the country in exactly FOUR weeks....the time is going pretty quickly!! I CANNOT believe that we will be on our own and in another state in less than a month!! WOOO HOOO!!

I have started packing the non-essential items in our house...there don't seem to be many. Soon I will be starting to pack the kids' toys and some of our clothes. We even moved Quinn's bed into the girls' room so I could take over his room as packing central!!!

Today Was A Really Bad Day

I can't even come up with a witty title right now. I usually TRY to only blog the positive (notice the lack of posts over the last wek....yeah it's been THAT kind of week...) BUT I needed to post this so that I can pound out my frustrations...take them out on the keyboard, ya know.

So last April the computer in our GMC Envoy was messed up. It would just lose all power while driving down the street....it was under warranty then (not any more tho) so we got it fixed and went on our way....fast forward to this past Saturday. We were sitting in the parking lot of Marshall's and the car freaking dies....so we call the dealership today to see if maybe, just maybe they will fix it since it is the same issue that they just fixed 8 months ago. They say we have to bring it in so they can look at it before they tell us if they will pay to fix it. Well that is all well and good if the dealership wasn't 45 minutes away with no traffic and my car wasn't dieing every 1-1.5 miles. Needless to say, we had to nurse our car all the way...it dies, you turn it off for 2-3 minutes, it starts again and goes a little ways and dies...then repeat...took us almost 3 hours to get the thing there for them to tell us that they couldn't even look at it till tomorrow. SO off we go to the ERAC to rent a car....they put us in a little Chevy Cobalt and tell us it will be $45 a day.....if that wasn't enough, my phone died so I decided to go ahead and buy the FM transmitter I have been wanting so I can listen to the iPhone in the car while it is charging....spent $72 on that and it doesn't freaking work.

It is pretty sad when the high point in your day is filing your taxes.....

We are a go for launch

Matthew had his phone interview with the manager up in Indiana today and she said she would find a spot for him up there. We will know for sure which branch he will be going to on Tuesday at the latest. There is so much to be done and not that much time to do it....but we are all SOOO excited!!!

Trinity the Cute

This was a really cute thing Trinity said...I know I know....if I write everything cute she does, I will have a lot of blogs...but bare with me.

Today Trinity came in with a rather serious look on her face. She said "Mommy, can I skip my next 2 birthdays?" Well, I took her to mean that she wanted to go straight from age 5, skip 6 and 7, and go to 8, but NO...she wanted to stay 5 for 2 more years and let Quinn catch up to her. Ok now tell me that wasn't blog worthy!