Update

I cannot believe it has been so long since I have blogged. Life has been so busy and gone by so quickly. Let's so if I can list some of them. Gabe has been busy with work. The company that he works for had really slowed down on business at the beginning of the year, so they cut off bonuses and work time by 10%. Luckily things started to improve over the summer and they are crazy busy now. Which is good for the bank account, but not so much when we don't have him around as much. I have been really busy with the three kids, work, working out, and trying to keep the house somewhat in order. Jackson started kindergarten this year. At the beginning he was really excited but now he doesn't like it as much because he and his best friend are on different schedules and they don't get to play as much. He is getting so tall and grown up I can't believe how fast it goes by. Hailey started preschool and absolutely loves it. Jack is always asking if he has school today and when I say yes he groans, Hailey will then ask do I have school, usually it is no because she only goes 2 days a week and she groans because she doesn't get to go. Lately if you see Hailey she will likely be dressed up like Cinderella. I cannot get her out of that thing. We went to Disneyland during the Halloween season so I went to the Disney Store before we went to get her the Cinderella dress. They had them 40% off I was so excited because if you get them at Disneyland they are like $65. Anyway she has the dress, light up "glass slippers", and a bracelet. From the second she wakes up she wants to get the whole get up on. I usually have to compromise if I want her to wear regular clothes by letting her wear the "glass slipper" and bracelet, but the second we get home she has to put on the dress. Because she only has school 2 days a week, I do a play group with 3 of my friends and we alternate having it at our house every Wednesday. That has been really nice so that she is not having to sit around while I do my work. Addison had her 1st birthday in July. She didn't walk until she was about 15 months. At first I thought that she might have something wrong with her foot because when she crawled it would turn out and when she would stand on it it would curve weird. Luckily now that she is really getting around it normal. She is all over the place now and I am glad now that she didn't walk earlier because now she wants to walk all over by herself and doesn't want to be held. Addison is getting really tall and starting to look more like a toddler. Her hair is finally starting to thicken up and hopefully I'll be able to put a piggy in it soon. She says mom, dad, jack, and dog.

We went to Hawaii in early September with Gabe's parents. They have a time share in Kauai. It was so beautiful. We all had a good time, but Jack would live there if he could. He is an absolute water bug. From the second he woke up he wanted to go swimming or snorkeling. We got him a youth set for snorkeling and he loved to put it on when he was swimming in the pool, the ocean kind of freaked him out because he got taken down by a large wave. The resort that we went to was amazing, it was right on the beach so you could sit by the pool and see the beach at the same time. We can't wait to go back in the future.

Then a month later we went to Disneyland. My very favorite place. We went during the Halloween season so it was all decked out with the fall decorations. It was so pretty. We went with most of Gabe's family (Luke and Anna we missed you) and my Mom. My Dad also met up with us for one day before they had to go to my brother Ed's graduation (Ed we are so proud of you). It was so much fun to be able to have both sets of grandparents with us. We went to Mickey Mouse's Trick-or-Treat party and the Minney Mouse breakfast buffet as extras while we were there. I would recommend both.

We have been looking around for the last couple of months at some houses. With all of the good deals going on we figure now is the time. We had put our house up for sale by owner because we weren't in a huge rush and we didn't want to have to pay the 6% commission. We actually ended up finding a really good deal on a house in October. It was an okay house , but something that would have needed a lot of work. We were under contract for it but the financing ended up falling through. They had changed the guidelines for mortgage insurance the month before and our mortgage guy didn't now about it. They also couldn't use my income at all to qualify us because we do a lot of ride offs on our taxes and it looked like I only made like $200 last year. So even though we had no credit card debt and my credit score is over 800 they couldn't do anything for us. Anyway it is really good that didn't end up working out because now we have found a different house that we really love and is move in ready. It is still close to where we are now, just on the East side of the freeway now, so Hailey will still be able to go to the same preschool and we love being close to Thanksgiving Point. Hopefully everything will work out with this one. It was a bank owned property so we got a really good deal on it. It has 2 levels, with 3 bedrooms, laundry room, master bathroom, kids bathroom, and loft on the 2nd level. A living room, combined kitchen, dining and family room, and 1/2 bath on the main level. And an unfinished basement. Gabe's favorite feature is the 3 car garage. We will hopefully close on it the 2nd week of December, just in time for Christmas. Once we found this new house we listed ours with OneRateRealEstate where you pay a base fee to get an MLS number. We are hoping to be able to sell it soon but if not we will rent it out.

So that is a little of what is going on. Here are some pictures that we have taken since the last time I posted.