okay… so it is official that I stink at updating the blog anymore.  I promise to get better.  Can I make that my POST New Year’s Resolution?  LOL  At any rate… the last two weeks have been CRAZY to say the least.  It feels like it has been months but it’s only DAYS instead.  So… what have we been up to ?

Well lets see…

1) Had Ross’ Birthday Party at Kid’s Place (his favorite but he requests the GYM next time…)  It was (big surprise here…!!) Spongebob themed!  I was PLEASANTLY surprised when I picked up the Cake from Dairy Queen… I mean is it rockin or what?  The cupcake from Sam’s Club… not so much… I was sorely unimpressed.  (But more about that later… there is another post coming with tons of pics and VIDEO from his birthday!)

(I mean is that cake rockin or what????)

(Long after the last guest was gone… there was no bedtime for Ross… clearly!)

Ross’ one birthday request: “1 thousand million balloons…”  (er… more like 50… but it sufficed….LOL)

Then we sold our house…. errrrrrr.. backup.. we got TWO … count them TWO contract on the house and two waiting in the wings… we shall just say that the deal is STILL not done yet.

(Please pray that this is over soon… we just need the house gone, sold, done, get the money and move on!)

Then we traveled to Cincinnati… OIY.  I have to say that Urology is the LEAST favorite specialty that we deal with with Kyleigh.  Its not the doctor (nope… Alam I would bash you for other things but not for the fact that you ARE a Uro…) or the hospital (well this time it might have been a little about the hospital… Cincy Children’s is going downhill fast!) but just about the fact that Kyleigh is SO incredibly complicated!  No one really has any clue what to do with her.  And its hard to make these LIFE changing decisions FOR her when she is so young.  We are now being forced to decide on things that are IRREVERSIBLE and that scares the pants off of us.  At least until now its been “do or die” and then there is no thought… you just do it and worry later.  Now… we are in a very different position.  Sigh.  We got, possibly the BEST day of January 2010 to drive to Cincy in… it was AWESOME!  (Thank you Lord!) But the whole trip was very stressful and leads us down the path of our lives being, AGAIN altered dramatically in the near future.  (ONce again… a full post on this is coming soon!)

(Kyleigh accomplished her goal for the day… a bag of Doritos and a good nap!… She earned those Doritos… the Urology testing is VERY invasive and NOT nice for even an adult, let alone a child who is hard to explain things to!!!!  So yes, my child gets whatever she wants on Uro day…. call her spoiled… I call her miracle.)

So then we started moving things around in Mom and Dad’s house to get prepared for our move.  Timing is going to be tough with this Sale dragging on but we know that it will work out just according to the PERFECT plan.  I have to trust that.  SO… we sold a couch…

And then we sold another couch… my mother is doing AMAZINGLY well downsizing… she gets MAJOR props from me.  I don’t know that I will do as well when I have to start saying goodbye to this “stuff” that we have worked so hard for.  BUT… it is just that… stuff.  There is new stuff around every corner!!!

The we sold another couch… the Dog was free.  TOTALLY joking.  That is my younger sister’s Chihuahua who lives with my parents now.  He is the meanest, cutest, orneriest, dog I have ever met.  He was born in a puppy mill in Pennsylvania and then ended up the BAIT dog in dog fights.  He has issues… big ones.  So he is a bit, shall we say, neurotic.  But he has made up with me.  I think he thinks I am Tara… but at any rate.. the dog stayed.. the couch went.

And then we BOUGHT a fridge off Craigslist because my parents are taking theirs…

And the next day found an AMAZING industrial style STAINLESS STEEL one for $100 more… so we SOLD this fridge and bought the other one!  LOL  And even got the microhood to go with the other one.  (My parents still live in the dark days of a real microwave on the counter!)

THEN the “Noreaster” as Troy called it… hit Lexington.  Dropping close to 6 inches of snow on TOP of ice.  It was fun.  Actually I have SEEN and DRIVEN in worse in my lifetime so it was kind of fun…except Troy got stuck in the snow… WHILE I had a client at my house… and everyone was calling me “911″…sheesh.  So my Dad rescued him… LOL.  Would have been kind of funny if I had not had to drive ALL the way back across town for the THIRD time that day.

And NO I was not taking pics while driving… Owen was!  LOL  (Photographer JR… was ALL over it!)

So… moving on.  I ended up with a TERRIBLE toothache on last Saturday from my Broken molar that had been that way for a while but just NO budget for Dentists.  (No Dental insurance either… Troy’s plan at work is only a discount insurance not a REAL one.) So I ended up a UK at the emergency clinic on Monday morning, which was actually fabulous!  They were very attentive and got my whole head numb!  I was thankful because they ended up deciding to pull the tooth and put in an implant.  Then the guy who tried first to pull it was a complete NEWB!  He just about broke my jaw (I am STILL feeling it… trust me) and then he shot some numbing stuff into my MUSCLE… yeah that was fun too.  But the tooth is out and I am not in pain anymore.  Now… on to an implant.

NO… there is no picture of me looking much like Alvin the Chipmunk… one does not exist and WILL not!

Which leads up to this weekend… just a LOT of work going on at Mom’s house.  Lots of reworking of space to make it work for us.  Very tiring work and we are ALL busting hump trying to get it done ASAP!  Mom and I spend all day, cleaning, selling on CL, organizing and downsizing (oh yeah and cooking, laundry and KIDS!) and the guys are busy doing plumbing, electrical, studs, etc.  We will begin drywall soon… OIY… ( I mean where’s a drywalling cousin when you need him??? LOL- uh hmmm Burt and Sybil… its definitely time for a trip back to KY!)

I am almost afraid to ask what this week brings but it will come at me, with or without my permission so I am ready.  Its going to be a long road for the next few months but we are looking forward to the PEACE that will come after the storm is done!  If you are out there and still praying… pray that God would work mightily and that we would be able to TRUST in HIS perfect timing no matter how hard that might be.

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