Monthly update!

Well I am so behind on here that I feel like it would be impossible for me to go day by day and catch up.  I would be catching up the rest of my life!  So, all that to say, I am going to give a monthly report and then I will be caught up and hopefully able to cover the day to day again!

I left off with Aunt Rin's wedding which is pretty hard to follow, maybe that's why I got so far behind.  Anyways, after Rin's wedding we had another full day of vacation and then we headed home on Saturday.  We were going to stop halfway on our way home and make the trip two days but we decided we wanted to make it back for church so we did it all at once and I was glad that we did.  The girls both did well traveling in the car and we made pretty good time, although I don't remember what that time was.  When we got home the Feenstras were at our house.  Julianne Feenstra was my roommate in college and she and her husband Todd were in the process of moving to Longview.  Todd was already working full time in Longview so Julianne and her two kids came down for a visit while we were out of town.  They ended up staying until Wednesday morning and then they headed out.  I remember the morning that they left I got my haircut, just a trim though.

The next two weeks were spent enjoying the last days of summer before things like Bible study, MOPs, and Bible study Fellowship started up.  One weekend we went to the Smith's and swam and had dinner with them and the Creech's.  We had a couple game nights with those couples from church that like to play games.  Todd was around for one weekend and the next weekend he went up to Tennessee to bring some of their stuff back on a trailer.  David worked a lot but didn't have very many overnights if any.  David also had an MRI and found out that he has a herniated disc in his back.  His doctor prescribed steroid shots in his back but after talking to another doctor it was recommended that he do physical therapy instead which he has not started yet.

I went to several storage auctions but didn't end up buying anything because there is this guy named Kenny who is on Texas Storage Wars who has started coming to all of the auctions whether they are taped or not and buying everything.  It's actually pretty annoying.  There was one unit I really wanted that had a Baldwin piano in it but it went for a lot.  The guy that bought it knew I wanted it because I was bidding against him and he said I could have piano for $200.  I knew that piano was worth more than that so I took him up on it and it is currently in our living room waiting to be sold.  I haven't posted it on craigslist or anything because there is a couple form our church who is interested and keep saying that they want to come see it but they still haven't!  For now it's kind of nice because the kids don't have to share the piano, they each have their own, haha.

On Sunday, September 8th, Julianne came down with Jay and Carrington to stay at our house with Todd.  Her parents ended up coming out and visiting and taking their dog back with them to Plainview which is about six hours away.  We had their black lab Barron with us until Tuesday and I think it was really good for Haley because by Tuesday she was not scared of him at all and was petting him regularly.  He is a pretty laid back dog and didn't hardly ever even look at Haley so I think that's why she was okay with him.

The Tuesday after they arrived we had our first meeting of MOPS which went really well and the Wednesday after we had our first meeting of Bible study Fellowship and that next Thursday morning the women's Bible study from church started up again.  We don't usually have anything going on Mondays or Fridays.  So far I've gotten Julianne signed up for Mops and BSF so we've been going around together in a little herd, it's kind of fun.  Haley and Jay are getting along pretty well, they have some rough spots throughout the day.  I've never seen Haley get as mad as she's gotten at times, it is actually kind of funny.  Haley and Emily are both too rough with baby Carrington, Haley is actually not allowed to touch her at all because one time she was kind of pushing her face into the carpet, oh my.  Jay and Haley almost always want the same toy, today they have been fighting over the Christmas book that Grandma and Grandpa recorded for Haley back in 2012.

Emily is not walking yet but she has gotten better at communicating.  Both of the girls have been eating a ton, they must both be having growth spurts.  Emily goes in for her 12 month well-check on Monday so we'll get her one year stats then.  Haley has gotten slightly obsessed with princesses and dresses.  She usually asks to wear dresses when it's time to get dressed.  Haley has gotten better at holding her pee during the night.  She wears panties during her naps and usually has a dry diaper in the mornings.  The only downside is that if I give her liquid in the evening at all then she wakes up during the night to go.

Okay, that is my mid-August through mid-September update.  I will try to get back on day to day tomorrow.  Also I am going to make a huge Birthday tribute for everyone's Birthday that I missed in the past month, including Emily's!