Yesterday Dan and Addi went fishing with Mom and Dad Terry and David and Ella. I stayed home with the little one and got to relax a little. Dan and Addi had a lot of fun. Too bad I was not thinking and didn't send a camera with cause this was Addi's first fishing trip. It was a little traumatizing due to the fact that she saw Dan take a bit of an unexpected swim and then she saw Dan whack the fish's head against a rock to kill it. She was very scared that her Daddy got hurt when he fell in the lake and even more scared cause she thought it was the fish's fault that Daddy fell in. It was a bit of a steep drop from where they were fishing down to the water and Dan slipped and went in up to his waist. Addi got over things and enjoyed fishing but would have nothing to do with touching the fish. My sister Annie came over and watched Xander for a little while so I could go to the gym. I was pretty good last week and made it all four times but I wasn't as successful in getting my entire routine completed. I think I'm in need of some new shoes cause my left foot just kills in the arch area when I walk or work out too long. That is what I get for buying walmart shoes. At least they lasted a year :) I had a bit of a melt down yesterday about the house thing and Dan was great about trying to help me get my mind of it. We ended up leaving the kids at my parent's house for a little while and going home to relax and talk without any interruptions. It was nice to connect and have an adult conversation. We talked about what I want to do for a hobby. I really want to refinish furniture. I want to learn how to reupholster and refinish old wood furniture. One of the requirements in the house we buy is a garage so that I can do that. We put another offer in on a home yesterday. It was kind of a weird experience. Months ago, like in decemberish, we found a house listed for 165,000 that we wanted to see. The situation was that there was a lady living there that was dying of heart failure. She was defaulting on her mortgage but she wanted to lease her property back from who ever bought it until she died (no one was sure how long that was going to take) we never got to go through it cause the realestate agent selling it said that someone else was going to buy it. Well we just gave up on it and moved on. Well. We went to see another property on Wednesday last week and I had no idea that it was even in the same neighborhood as that house that we had looked at months ago. Well. I accidentally turned down the wrong road and I immediately recognized it cause we had tried to go see that old lady's house about 3 times. What was even more crazy was that it was for sale. so. We went and looked at the other house and then took our realestate agent over to see the old lady's house. We couldn't get in cause he didn't have the lock box code but we looked through the windows and the person who had bought it went in and redid everything. It looked awesome so we went back on Friday and went through it and thought it was amazing. They guy ended up buying it for 155,000. We found out that the reason the selling agent didn't want us to look was because the person who was purchasing it was not a represented buyer which meant that the selling agent got 6% commission from selling it. Well. He bought it back in March so we think he has a construction loan on the properly since he isn't living in it which means he will have to have it sold withing the next 2 months so he doesn't have to refinance. Well. We offered on it yesterday. We offered 185,000 but are willing to go to 190,000. We found that we could use the money in or Roth IRA and we are going to use our 401K as well. That gives us about 12 thousand more to put down than we had originally. We aren't sure anything will come of this cause he is asking 205,000 and has put all new bathrooms all new kitchen and paint and carpet in. He did a great job but the home has a basement that is only 45% finished and it doesn't have central air either. It is also a little older. It was built in 1977. We will see if anything comes of it. We are still waiting to see if anything is happening with the other home we offered on down the road. It is still on the MLS so we know it hasn't sold yet but last we heard they were under contract. I wonder if the person who offered on it will be able to get financing. Right now we are just playing the waiting game. At least we will have a yes or no on the house we just offered on by tomorrow night cause it isn't a short sale. I just keep praying we will find the right house soon so I don't go bonkers in this little apartment. We are potty training Addi starting today. She has already peed her big girl pants and didn't even notice. She didn't even care she was wet. She did go pee on the potty when I put her on there just after I found she was wet. I hate this part. Potty training is the pits. It is so stinky too. I think I'm going to have a load of laundry going every minute of every day between Xander blowing through his diaper and spitting up on everything and Addi's accidents I'm sure the laundry will never end. I love this crazy kids though so it is all worth it :) Well. We are TVless now. They did the digital switch on the 12th so we don't have any channels until we go buy a converter box (the governments way of making more money off us I think) and I won't have time to do that till next week. I'll have to do it before the 25th though cause my coupon expires on the 25th.

Hmmm. I think Aileen won!

The family. Addi was surprised and excited by the coo coo clock that went off.

Side view of the tails.

Four Generations of Terry men.

Wow!!! What a day. Today we blessed Xander and then had a lunch after with our Family at mom Terry's house. He was sooooo Cute. We got him a little tux with tails. I just couldn't resist it!! Dan gave a wonderful beautiful blessing and Mom Terry was quick enough to write most of it down so I have it to put in his baby book. We both bore our testimonies during the meeting and I must admit I got a little teary eyed. I just love my two adorable, precious children. I am so blessed to have the opportunity to be a mother of such beautiful children. They teach me so much. As much as those teaching experiences drive me crazy sometimes, I truly am grateful for them. I count my blessings every day for the wonderful family I have. I was raised by amazing loving parents who I love and appreciate so much. I was also fortunate enough to marry into an amazing family as well. I love all my in-laws. I sure have adopted some amazing supportive brothers and the coolest sister-in-law in the world. I'm so glad we get along and can hang out together. I am truly blessed. We had a lot of fun visiting with all of our family at a lunch. They were kind enough to host the little get together since we don't have a place big enough to accommodate everyone. When Addi was blessed we did the lunch at my parents house and so we figured we would give them a break this time. Besides. I thought my niece and nephew (Ella and Coleman) would be much more comfortable playing in an environment that was familiar to them. We had a blast. Aunt Aileen and Thomas had a whipped cream fight and that was pretty entertaining to see. I only got to see the pictures that were taken and then the end result cause I was busy nursing Xander at the time but I'm going to post some pics. It was a memorable fight. Thomas got his butt kicked! After we relaxed a little at mom's and cleaned up the lunch we went over to visit uncle Steve and Aunt Lesa to see the house they just bought. We are so happy for them! Now. I was going to share my faith building experience that taught me patience. When we were trying to get pregnant for the first time we had a hard time. It took us about a year before we finally were pregnant with Addi. I remember getting soooooo frustrated every single week. I remember getting mad at the Lord and then finally coming to the "I just don't care" stage. At this point I decided that if I couldn't get pregnant I would make life better for my self and have as much fun as I could and stop worrying about it. So. Dan and I decided that we were in the perfect situation to go to France and visit his mission. We had a lot of money saved so we decided to go ahead and go. Well. We went and I thought it would be awesome to find out we were pregnant in France. Well no such luck. I was about 5 days late but I started my period on the Eiffel Tour the second to the last day we were there. I was sooooo mad! I hated that every month my period would come later and later. When we got home I decided that my job working for Cintas (a uniform rental company) as a customer service agent was way too stressful and they weren't paying me what I was worth so I decided it was time to find a job. I got a job about a month after we got back that payed about 3 dollars and hour more and the atmosphere was soooo much better and more relaxed. Well. I know the Lord as impeccable timing. I found out I was pregnant the day I quite my job and accepted the new one. I was able to keep working until I delivered because it was so low stress. It was perfect and my boss was extremely understanding. So. I got a awesome job that paid more and allowed us to save more and I was able to go see France before we had a baby. Had I gotten pregnant any earlier I would have missed out on so many blessings. We were also blessed to meet a wonderful couple that was having a much harder time than we were. They had been trying 7 years to have a baby and when they finally got pregnant with their son Chad, after several miscarriages, we were so excited for them, but so sad when she gave birth at 25 weeks. He lived for 5 days before returning home to our heavenly father. It was so heart breaking to watch them go through it but she had such faith and was always so positive. The Lord blessed us with some amazing friends who taught us a lot and made us grateful for all that we had and that we weren't going through all that horrible heartache. So I look to this experience as I deal with the trial of not being able to find a house right now and say, the Lord has perfect timing and I just need to be patient and do my part. I know it will happen sometime and when it does it will be amazing. I keep telling my self that the longer I'm here the more we can save and the nicer we can afford. So for now we just play the waiting game and try to do that waiting as patiently as possible.