Hello friends, family, strangers, world wide web... where to even begin? I feel so (there is not even a word for it.) I want to blog and record my little family's life on this little blog in this little corner of the internet...but the only thing on my mind...I don't really want to blog about. My husband lost his job at the end of May and we put our house up for sale. Trying to sell your house is depressing. Chris and I have put so much work into this house. Our first house. All the fixing up is finally done but I feel like I can't enjoy it because it's not my house anymore. It is someone else's. What is the point of hanging up pictures or decorating if I am just going to have to take it all down again?
We have had  four open houses each one more depressing than the last. This selling your house business is an emotional roller coaster. Each Saturday I think, "This is the day. We just need one person to like our house enough to want to buy it. This is going to be the day." Then the minutes tick by and no one comes. Not.one.single.person. Sitting in my house all alone for three hours waiting and watching is the most depressing past time I can think of. But each time I tell myself, "This is going to be the day!" Why do I set myself up for such massive disappointment? Why? I don't know what else to do.
And don't even get me started on the job search. Everyone knows that is depressing. Chris is so much stronger than I am in this regard. At first we thought maybe he could do the Air Force/Army route and be an officer but when it came right down to it..he just couldn't do it. Then we thought maybe he should just go back to school. He decided that if he is going to go back to school he is going to do something this time that is guaranteed to make lots of money. Dentistry. But do we really want to go through 7 more years of school? I think not! Now, he is so dedicated to getting a job in landscape architecture. Which is great but I feel like there is nothing out there. He has more faith than I do, I guess. I just hate not knowing anything! Not knowing where we are going to live. Not knowing if we will sell our house. Not knowing if my husband will get a job? What job? Where? When? I know that I just need to trust in my Heavenly Father and know that all will work out in the end. I do know that I have a loving Heavenly Father who knows what is best for me and my family and I will just have to trust in that.

Tap, tap...is this thing on?

Well, hello again. I know I haven't been the best blogger in the world lately and I don't make any promises to become better anytime soon but my little boy just turned three on Saturday and I think he deserves a post. Edison is in love with Toy Story (the only movie he will sit through) and he especially loves Buzz Lightyear. So, of course we had to do a Buzz Lightyear themed party for him! The cake didn't turn out quite as I was hoping but Edison loved it and that's all that matters. He was in the bath while I was frosting it so he didn't see it until it was complete and he was so excited, he wanted to eat it right then.

I don't know if you can see his devilish eyebrow very well in this picture but let me tell you--this guy is a little rascal!! He certainly keeps me on my toes.

Edison was delighted that so many people came to our house just for him. We had 19 family members at the party and he was just pleased as punch that everyone was there for him. He took center stage and had no problem with it.

I decorated the house with cardboard stars covered in tinfoil, green and purple streamers, and a glittery Happy Birthday banner. We have this spare room upstairs so we turned it into our "Space Ranger Training Camp." We filled the empty room with about 200 balloons and had the kids do target practice with some nerf guns and then we gave each of them a can of silly string and let them go at it. We are planning on replacing the carpet in that room so I didn't think it would be a big deal. Boy was I wrong! It made such a mess! But the older kids thought it was cool to pick up all the silly string and make a big ball so they did most of the cleaning for me. Anyway, the kids enjoyed themselves so that was good. We got Edison a Toy Story bike that he still needs to learn how to peddle by himself but we can't get much practice time with all this snow and cold weather we've been having. We Gordon also got him a Zhu Zhu pet so that they could play together (Gordon got one from his cousin for Christmas and the boys think they are the coolest thing to hit planet earth!)

I just cannot believe my baby boy is three. His speech has really taken off in the last couple of months (Oh, one of those things I forgot to blog about--he graduated from speech therapy!! Like back in October/November?!) He is quite the chatter box now. In fact his favorite word lately is a curse word he heard from someone of the male species in this house. It starts with a d. He also loves to argue with his brother non-stop and won't give up. He knows he is always right! His other favorite thing is to have me close my eyes before he gives me anything and then put it in my hand and say "surprise!" We sure do love this little  big boy!