Catching up....

I can hardly believe that it’s been just over a month since my last post. Life is going by so fast. It’s crazy to think that summer is just around the corner. Savannah is so excited to be out for summer break and I am ready to sleep in. I am ready to go visit family this summer even though Chad will not be able to go with us. The past month has been chaotic like always. Chad is trying to wrap up Grad School by August and has been under a lot of stress. I have had my hands full with Payton, he has been busy as usual; his latest favorites are watching Dora the Explorer and putting together puzzles. Payton likes to be at home and complains anytime we run errands. He is getting so big and I am still totally amazed at his quick recovery this past year. Sometimes I wonder if Payton is so strong willed because he had to put up such a fight with his cancer. I can hardly believe that Payton’s 15 month scans are next month (June 12th). Again, where does the time go? As for me, I have been walking in the mornings to try and get more energy. I also had a really successful garage sale last weekend. I was thrilled we had such a great turn out. The biggest reason for the garage sale was to help my sister sell off some things before she gets ready to move. Yes, my sister got engaged and will be moving to Phoenix in 3 weeks and getting married on June the 19th. I have such mixed emotions about this. I am truly excited for her that she has finally found someone and that she can find happiness that she truly deserves and yet she is the only family that we have here and over the past a 6 years, we have grown extremely close. She has been such a great sister and friend to me and I will miss her a lot. It’s hard to believe that just 6 short years ago my little family, which at the time consisted of Chad, myself, and Savannah (just before her 2nd Birthday) moved from Indiana to Texas. I remember we arrived in Texas just two days before Christmas and moved in with my sister and her family to give us enough time to settle in and find a place. If somebody would have told me the events that would occur in the next six year of our life, I never would have believed them. Who would have guessed that my sister and I would be pregnant at the same time; our babies born 6 weeks apart? I would have a boy that would later on be diagnosed with cancer just after his 2nd Birthday. My sister’s husband would then walk out and leave her and her 3 kids. My sister would then go through her year of trials and then later find someone and move herself and her kids to Phoenix to be married. I mean really, did this all just happen? It seems like such a blur. If I would have heard all this as we pulled into Texas, six years ago, I just might have turned around. What a challenging, incredibly faith building, chaotic 6 years it has been. I am really hopeful that life will settle down. I am really excited for the future. I am really looking forward to Chad graduating and am nervous but hopeful that he will find a job. I am looking forward to not working for a bit (hopefully soon) and not having to see Chad just in passing, but I am realistic and know that life will always be busy. I am looking forward to finally being in a home of our own. We have been married for 11 years and I am really ready. We are still plugging away in the meantime and are making the best out of each moment we have. Here are a few recent pictures of the kids.