Oops!

OK, I guess I really suck at this blogging thing. :) It's been quite a while since I have wrote... we moved into our new house and we love it. So nice to be able to do whatever we want to it and not have to worry! It's also great to not have someone living right next to you and be able to hear their tv or yelling through the walls!!

Otherwise... just living life I guess. My new job is going awesome, I love it. So much better to have some variety in my day than just being a teller. I also really like the girls I work with, we get along really well.

I guess the only thing "new" really is that Rocky and I have started trying to have another baby. We are hoping for a boy this time, but we will take whatever we can get as long as it's healthy! Hopefully Paige will adjust to the change and be a great big sister. I am sure she will. By the time we have another one she will be at least 3 so hopefully she will be able to help out some. I am hoping it doesn't take us real long to get pregnant either. We got Paige on the first try so we are hoping for a speedy one this time too!
I would also like to give a "congrats" to Alissa and Ben, they are having a girl!!

I will try and update more regularly from now on, and for sure will update lots when I get pregnant! Have a great weekend! I know I will, it's River Falls days! Lindsey and Megan are meeting us in RF and I am sure it will be a fun, crazy time!!

Catchin' up!

Wow, it's been a long time since I have written anything on here! Sorry!
I guess catching up from where we were a month ago... we are buying a house! That is probably the biggest thing. We found a perfect 3 bedroom 1 bathroom story and a half house that we absolutly loved. It has been recently totally redone so it looks like a brand new house when you walk in! It's just awesome! There was a lot of interest in it so we hurried and got an offer in after Mom and Dad came and took a look at it and gave their approval. We had a little scare here a couple days ago when the appraisial came back to the bank on the house and it was appraised $3400 less than what we had agreed to pay for it, so we went back to the seller and told him we weren't going to pay any more for it than what it is worth (duh!). He agreed to sell for the appraised price and we now have a new house!!!! Super excited! We close on the 31st of March and will move in sometime after that. We have to be in our townhome until the end of April, so it will be nice to be able to slowly move the small stuff and boxes over there, even though I would like to move in right away on April 1st!

In other news, we had daycare orientation for Paige yesterday. We are just doing "drop in" with her when Rocky has to do an interview or what not for work while I am working. It will be on a very limited basis, but she will like being there I am sure. She didn't want to leave yesterday and said "Bye, friends!!" when we were leaving the classroom where she was playing with the other kids. It was really cute.

Otherwise... super excited for this weekend. We are having a birthday get together for my sister Steph's birthday at my parents. Paige and I are making the trek there by ourselves this time as Rocky has play off basketball to go to this weekend. I am taking a day of vacation on Friday so we can get to Mom and Dad's on Friday afternoon and spend a little extra time there. Yay!! Friday night I will be going to Pinz' place for a "slumber party" and then we are going down town in Rapids. Should be an excellent time! Mom is going to watch Paige, so they should have lots of fun!

Have a great rest of the week and weekend!

House!

Rocky Paige and I are going to go look at 5 houses tomorrow in Austin. We are meething the realtor lady at 9:30am. SO EXCITED! We weren't sure we wanted to buy in Austin since we would rather live somewhere in Wisconsin closer to our families, but we thought as long as the rates are so low and there is so much out there on the market that we might as well. With the economy being so bad right now it looks like we won't be going anywhere for a while anyway and better just be happy with the jobs we have since it seems like so many people are being laid off right now. This will be our first home buying experience, so it's kind of scary but exciting all at once. We are paying a crazy amount for renting our townhome right now and actually if we stay in our price range we will be saving money by buying. It will be nice to have a little extra money, though I am sure after all the money that goes into taking care of a house we won't have a whole lot left, but thats ok. It will be nice to be able to do what we want with it and not have to worry about having to pay for a stain on the carpet like we do now. I will write again soon and let you know if we find anything we like!

PICTURES!!!!

Finally!!! Yay!! So excited!! I am really happy with how they turned out, and we even got a DVD with her pictures on that is set to music and files through all the pictures. How cute. I went to Walmart this afternoon and got them printed out for family and friends, which was more expensive than I thought it was going to be, but at least we didn't spend almost $200 like we did last year on them! Here are a couple of my favorites, enjoy!!

tomorrow!

I am going to pick Paige's pictures up tomorrow morning! Yay! The wait is finally over. When I get them tomorrow I will for sure post some on here for you to see. I hope they turned out cute!

Had a fun weekend. It was awesome getting to hang out with Liss and Grange, we had a really fun time. Barkers food was awesome, the 45 minute wait for a table, not so much. :) It really didn't seem all that long but I got super hungry while we were standing there. Oh well, it was worth the wait, and actually once we got seated our food came in like 15 mintues so that was nice. Liss and I got my Pampered Chef party closed and the stuff ordered and it will hopefully be here by the end of the week. Excited to get all my fun new gadgets!

Paige is talking up a storm these days. Not that she wasn't before, but now you can actually understand a lot of what she says and she is putting 2 and 3 words together! My baby is growing up so fast... soon it will be kindergarten... then proms, graduation, marriage, grandkids.... oh gosh, guess I shouldn't get ahead of myself and just cherish everyday with her now while she is still little!! :)

Anyway, she is jumping up and down in her bed right now so I suppose I should go stop her and see if she will go to sleep. I will for sure post those new pics of her tomorrow morning right after I get them!!! Night!

No pictures yet..

STILL haven't seen Paige's pictures... gettin a little upset!!!

Not much going on with us right now. Getting super excited for the weekend to hang out with Grange and Liss. Grange is for sure a yes now, so thats exciting too! We are planning on going to eat at Barkers in Hudson for dinner where I will get to try my first Great White Hope sandwich. Liss and Grange always rave about this sandwich so I decided I must try it. Grange also informed me that there is karoke at Mainstreeters bar that night, so we can go sing our hearts out! Woohoo!!!

Otherwise.... thats about it!!! Started working out again now.. so hopefully I can get these last 30 lbs off that I need to lose, hopefully it doesn't take too long!

2 year pictures

We had Paiges 2 yr pictures taken on Saturday... what an adventure. We went to Kelly B. Photography. Kelly is the wife of a guy I work with. She has a full time job with Hormel and just does photography on the side. Paige being the 2 year old that she is didn't want to sit still. Why did I think this was going to be easy? We were there for 2 hours and I chased Paige around pretty much the whole time trying to get her in front of the camera to at least get a couple good shots. 3 or 4 nice pictures is all I could ask for and Kelly said she thinks she got about 6 or 8 "really good ones". I hope she's right, because I sure don't want to go back and try again! It's exhausting trying to chase Paige around like that!!!! She had some blocks there that Paige was playing with so I think she got a few good ones then. We will see. She was supposed to edit a couple and send me them over email to see what I thought, but I haven't seen them yet. Hopefully tomorrow. She said it should take about a week to get them all edited and get the CD to me, so I am really hoping it doesn't take any longer than that! I am really anxious to see these pics!! When I get them I will for sure post a couple on here for you all to see!

Otherwise... going to Prescott/River Falls this weekend. Rocky is playing basketball with his buddies and I will be going to dinner and out to DTRF with Alissa to celebrate our birthdays. Liss' big day is next month, but since she HOPEFULLY won't be able to drink by then we just decided to celebrate when I come up this weekend. Should be a good time! Hopefully Granger can come out and celebrate with us also, but she wasn't sure yet as she had some tentitive plans for the weekend that she wasn't sure were going to pan out. I am excited to see my girls again!