House Hunting sooo much fun

We have really started to out grow our little but not so little two bedroom duplex.. i love it i have a yard a basement a garage its great.. its just two bedrooms though. so i love living in valmeyer and i love the school and/or monroe county schools.. so i do not want to move form the county. i would rather not move from my little town at all. we have an apt to go look at two story spacious three bedroom house for rent her in my town yay!!! but the only catch is the rent is very steep... like 3 hundred more than what we pay here! yikes and not to mention its a two story two and half bath so my utlities will prolly go up as well. but it was built only two years ago so its a little more effeicent i'm sure. plus i can deal with windows open and space heaters a little to cut back on costs.. i know how be thirfty but damn i don't want to be strugglin in the winter when the tattoo shp slows down.. but its rent with opition to buy which is awesome since our credit needs some work and it gives us alittle time to get things in order..which is perfect for us right now. it has the space we need really bad.. i'm just really on the fence about it. i'm scared of bitting of more than i can chew.. baby will be here in july so we are going to cramped.. can't get a homeowner loan just yet.. and i can't really find too many rental propeties in my area or that are much cheaper any way.. pretty much going rate for any 3 bedroom or bigger house is about the same in rent anywhere........ aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh i'm confused..... Help need advice please!!!

oops

so it looks like we are thinking pink after all.. after monday's 20 week ultrasound and pretty clear shot of a vagina we are proudly having our 2nd (but 4th) girl horray for us! i really wanted a boy and was kinda bummed but then i realized how blessed i was for being healthy and able to have children of my own.. the baby is healty too.. so that is all that matters.. whats crazy is my husband and i decided that we are still not done.. we know we know we are crazy..we have heard it all trust me.. but neither one of wants to get fixed lol so we will one day try again.. who know when but we will..no names picked out at all so we are going to be trying to find one we have 19 weeks to go... and i know time goes by so fast!!! we need a bigger house badly we rent a two bedrom duplex which is nice but we really need more space.. we have been looking around at houses we found one we liked and it got sold then we found out from our lender that we can not get aproved for very much right now.. thanks to good old self employment and the way file our taxes we try to catch a break but unfourtanley (can't spell sorry) when trying to buy a home it does not look good on paper so we have some credit to clean up and credit scores to raise and we might be able to pulll through by this fall and still end up getting the $8,000 tax credit if not we have file our taxes straight up for 2009 and let them see what we really make and get a better loan after next year.. i'm not sure what we are going to do in this little place with all these kids...

keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we we make it through all this stuff.. i'm happy we have our buisness and his job i'm thakfull for my family and our health i pray each day i can be here growing old for my kids.. life is great not perfect.. so i'll sit back and enjoy it all..

its been awhile

its been awhile since i have been on here. been very tired and drained with this pregnancy and trying to keep up with my almost 3 year old.. her birthday is in april.. i can't beleive she is already going to be three.. we are pretty sure the baby is a boy i had an ultrasound at 16 weeks and the tech said thats what it looked like to her.. i have another ultrasound in march so i will know for sure for sue then.. i'm excited that is a boy.. we have three girls.. so i will be going crazy with four kids yikes......... so school has been put on the back burner again.. one of these days i will finish.. i'm thinking about radiology but still not ready to give up my dreams of being a nurse.. but with owning our own business and all these darn kids i don't know i might have to wait till the kids are a little older.. kinda sucks i miss being at school and work.. i miss having somewhat of a social life.. now i'm a soccer girl scout house mom.. i guess it could be worse..

EXCITED!!

Well kinda had that old feeling that something was going on in my body and Marina had been acting really strange.. she has been very clingy and wants me to do everthing with her or for her.. now she is a big time daddy's girl and usually daddy is her first choice..she has wanted nothing to with him lately.. i stopped taking my pill in oct. and started taking the prenatal vitamins that my obgyn gave me because i told him we wanted to try again at the end of the year or Jan.. so i figured after two and a half years of being on the pill i needed to stop them a little early to give it time to get out of my system..so i would be ready to go for when we had planned on trying.. well we got our wish a little early.. i took three tests to make sure cuz the line was faint on one so i got the one with the words.. and sure enough its true.. we are going to have another one.. i am done after this no matter what wether boy or girl!! i hope for a boy but i hope most of all the baby is healthy and that everything turns out ok.. i'm really anxious and nervous all at the same time.. i misscarried before marina so i'm just hoping that won't happen again.. i see Dr.Colon tuesday at 9am. i'm sure i'm very early maybe four weeks if that.. i was not even late yet but after four pregnancies you don't need to wait for a missed period you pretty much know...

People are Crazy!

My husband and i opened our own business finally! We opned on oct. 1st and all has been well so far but there is one small problem.. there is another tattoo shop right across the highway which is not really that big of problem because Jason is a really good artist and from the website and the fact that people already are coming in to have jason fix there work they are not very good at what they do. When the other tattoo shop found out that jason was there they came to visit our shop after they had started talking crap to people and it got back to jason anyway... bottom line is jason is good and they are scared of losing business so anyway yesterday morning at 7 am we get a phone call from the owner of the building.. 4 bricks were thrown through our big (big) windows two of them were busted out and one of our signs were broken.. nothing was stolen or touched.. just the windows busted out. so now utill the glass man comes to fix it everything is borded up and looks like we are closed... the police went down to question the other shop but they played like they did not know what he was talking about. the police say they cannot prove anything therfore they can not do anything about it.... so no we don't know for sure if they did it...but it just seams a little supiscous to me.... it makes so mad that people are that immature and ignornat.. jason is the only one who works in our house he pays all the bills and for everything.. he has a family to take care of and does not have time for some little punks messing up making money for us! people are jealous because he is very talnted and has alot of clintel that will vouch for that.. i wish people could just be adults about this and realize that all he is trying to do is make money for his family and be a good artist..

Taking a trip but not a fun one

So more sad news around here. A family friend's son was hit by a drunk driver and killed this weekend. very sad and horrible he lived in arkansas we are leaving wednesday night and staying the night and the funeral and wake are on thursday. i'm not looking forward to this trip. funerals are very sad and i know the family is really tore up about it. sometimes its hard to find the right words for someone when they are in a situation like this. the morris family is in my prayers

Halloween was a bust!

so halloween was a little bit of bust for the kids this year. The kids were adorable though. Alicia (5) was Hannah Montana, Kayla(5) was a pretty gueen,and little Marina (2 and half) was a little white kitty cat. We went with family to go trick or treating in Dupo instead of staying around here so we all could be togheter well..... the kids really did not get a whole lot of candy at all, which hey i guess i can't complain to much cuz i won't have to worry about their teeth rotting out before christmas but there were just so many kids and cars going up and down the road houses ran out of candy early so we ended up calling it a night kinda early. i guess it was not so bad but i would have rather stayed here in town the kids would have got alot more candy and we would have been closer to home with less traffic and the crowd. Better luck next year i guess..