The Chaos We Live In...

Its been about 2 weeks since I posted anything about our lives.

Is it that nothing is going on?

Ha.

Actually, the opposite.

We are busy busy busy.

Chad's soccer league through The Center kicked off last Sunday, to the tune of a team member from the opposing team snapping his leg.

I could go a VERY long time without hearing anything like that again.

They won the first game and lost the second, and then today they won again.

Chad has played goalie mostly, but today he got to run and scored!

I'm a proud wife.

I am working still (more).  I average about 27 hours weekly throughout the week, but I have weekends off.

This is nice, especially since I got booked to make 4 dozen cupcakes for a birthday party this upcoming weekend.

This weekend we went back to the lake to visit Chad's parents.

Man, we missed them.

It was weird going from seeing them daily to now seeing them monthly.

We had a lot of fun together.

Next weekend we join my family it STL.

We are babysitting the nephews while L&T are at a wedding.

That should be fun!

I have loads of things to do around this house.

But usually, I just want to come home from work and relax!

On an exciting note, I got an updated Ellie picture from Chenzhou.

That made my week!

She is growing and changing and SO beautiful!

Random post, due to random thoughts, but at least now you know!

Starting September

Wow. I have been failing at blogging.

Actually, I have just been WAY busy.

Well, we have been way busy.

Coordinating schedules with 2 jobs, 2 school schedules, Cru events, and an upcoming soccer season has us pretty well booked.

This weekend was  no different. Busy as usual, but in a very good way!

On Friday night, we went to see The Lion King at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis.

Wow. It was awesome.

Saturday, we went to Lauren and Dillon's wedding. 

I think we were especially excited because Lauren has been living with us up until the wedding, so we got to see her excitement for this day build up!

How Old Am I?!

Baby brother is playing high school football!

How old am I?!

Landon's Birthday

Its Done!!

We finally got our wedding photos so everything is up and looking great in our house!

Hello out there!

Yes,  we did make it through Landon’ s birthday weekend and back to Rolla!

we've just been a little busy with "O Week" on campus.

Which is the week that all the freshmen are here getting used to college before real classes start.

Cru has been tabling and getting surveys filled out.

And tonight we are serving free ice cream on campus.

As far as on the homefront things are pretty smooth.

Except we've decided our household has HORRIBLE luck with freezers.

After having one flooded out,  we went to get a new one thanks to insurance.

We plugged it in and it didn't work.

So we returned it to get a new one. And it doesn't work.

So after an hour and a half on hold with GE we are getting one shipped to us.

Within the next week or so. I want my new one. The old one is stuffed full and a mess to get into!

I fear for whoever picks up the phone if Chad has to report another non-working freezer.

It's just so frustrating!!

yay for grown up life,  right?

Yes, I'm still job hunting. boo.

She vs He, Part 3. Pest Control.

Yep, its about that time again.

She: fought jet lag for the first week being home.
He: had no idea how to handle a now nocturnal wife.

She: would get hungry in the middle of the night, with a belly still on China time.
He: would wake up sometimes to see her in the kitchen eating. At 3am.

She: would lay awake for part of the night.
He: had NO issues sleeping.

She: would swear she heard some kind of small creature crawling around their room.
He: would be asleep and not hear it.

She: woke him up in the middle of the night asking if he heard anything.
He: would tell her the sound was just her stomach growling and to go get a snack and go back to sleep.

She: KNEW it was not her stomach growling and once woke him up 3 times in a row when she heard the noise.
He: told her she was imagining it.

She: started to see certain small, black pellets around the house.
He: must have ignored them, because he said he didn't see any.

She: finally made her point enough by waking him up in the middle of the night that...
He: went and bought 4 traps and some poison and set them up.

She: went inside today and found a small gray mouse caught in a trap.
He: can now admit that she was right and it was not just her stomach growling.

She: left the mouse right where it was in the trap for him to take care of when he gets home from work.
He: has a pest to get rid of now.

She: can now say,

"I told you so, honey!"

 Yes, this really happened. Yes, he thought it was my stomach still on China time.

And Yes, I was RIGHT! :)