Hectic!!

That word best describes life here!! Let's see about getting you all updated....

• Courtney is still in her cast but has only a little over a week left before it comes off (October 8th @ 2 pm to be exact!).


• Both kids have picked out what they are going to be for Halloween (yes early I know but with how things are in October - early is good for us). Courtney and her best friend Ashley are being identical bats that actually will match both Ashley's sisters - Emily will be a sweetheart bat and Taylor is being itsy bitsy spider. CJ is going to be Mater's Mechanic (unless he changes his mind AGAIN...LOL)


• Packing is going....and going slowly. We have officially ONE box packed!! Several others are started but not quite done.

The basement is moving right along! We have drywall up and all the outlets ready. Our home inspection is next Thursday in the morning.

You can see some of Jason standing in the doorway that will just have casing and will be the main entry into the basement area from the house, right off the entry stairs.


The back door area will be the door from the garage area (main reason of having it is to get furniture in and out of the basement room).

I'm forgetting where the light fixtures will be but they are suppose to be there too. I'm sure they'll get up before next Thursday.

Here's our entry way. They just did this too! It is really coming along and we are so excited.

I'll leave you all with a few more inside pictures of our house....

Don't faint...2 posts in 2 days...LOL

Well, we just have to share that this will be ours...















We will be closing on OUR house on October 16th :o) It all became definite today and just had to share. It's a 3/2 with a split foyer. What is nice is that we are having the builder finish the basement and that will add approx. 400 sq. ft. more to the house!! There is also approx. 14x14 wood deck in the back. Either on Saturday or Tuesday, I'll go back and take a few more pictures of the inside and share.

It's just the PERFECT deal for this house :o) I still can't believe we are doing it but we are truly excited!!!

It's Official!!!

I know we thought the day would never come but....just had to share that it's official....CJ is completely potty trained!!! Thanks to Misti for telling me about giving him loose change to go like Hunter's PopPop did during the summer - it works. CJ calls it 'Kinz Cash' just like on WebKinz. I am sure he is well over $10 in change but he is thrilled with every piece of change he gets - even if it's just pennies sometimes!!

Today he actually took off the smaller potty seat and just wants to sit on it normally. I can't believe this is complete. He now just wants to ride the bus with Courtney and go to school. His time will come and I'm already not looking forward to it. I definitely will miss him when he goes to school - he is truly a momma's boy :o)!

More softball pictures....

Here's some recent pictures from Sunday's first of two softball games...














Click on the picture of her swinging to see the softball :o)

So, the Moody Pink Rockets WON!!! Then they had about 1 1/2 hours to wait until their next game. All was good! We got back to the field and the girls started to chat and relax a bit more while the other game was going on. At about 4:10 (game at 4:30), the girls went into a different field to start to warm up. Of course, I was chatting with a teammate's (and classmates) dad and gramma when all of a sudden I heard someone crying. Yeap, I didn't even have to turn around to make sure - I KNEW it was Courtney. Coach Wendy was bringing her to me and yelling for the dugout mom to get the ice pack. She fell in the dugout. What basically happened since I didn't witness is this...

New ball field they have never played on - happens to be a baseball field. The entrance to the dugout - well, there is 2 - one is a ramp and one walks straight in BUT has steps to go to the field. No other field has steps that Courtney has been on. She had originally walked up the ramp like all the others but didn't realize steps into the dugout from the field. She fell with all her weight on her left arm.

So basically, we went from playing ball at the 1:30 game to going to the ER after her being in the outfield at the start of the second game since she really REALLY wanted to try and play!


Thank goodness for her teammate/classmate's mom - she works in the ER at St. Vincent's East in Trussville and got us in quickly!! She even followed us there to make sure we got in without waiting too long! She had x-rays and ended up with a wrist brace to go home in until getting to the Orthopedic for a cast. Yep....1, 2, 3 strikes your out but for Courtney - she is out for at least 4 weeks with a buckle fracture near her wrist. Not near the growth plate which is WONDERFUL news!!

Courtney is going to be the team's bat girl until she can get back out there and play. On Oct. 8th - we go back to the Dr. and take the cast off. We are keeping our fingers crossed and praying that she'll be able to play again before the end of the fall ball season (which is Oct. 28th).

They did play last night and lost. Their record is 2-2. She enjoyed getting all her teammates and coaches to sign her cast :o)

Thank goodness it's Friday!!!

We have been on the go all week!! Today is the first day NOTHING is planned during the day, after school or tonight!! I'm so thrilled!! But this will be considered our 'weekend' as Saturday and Sunday are packed!!

Courtney had her first softball game Tuesday night. Jason was able to attend too!! They played a team from Clay and did really well!! They won 5-4!! Courtney is close to the end of the lineup for hitting but she got to on their second time at bat. She had a ball and I believe a strike (due to a foul ball) and then of course, my child had to get hit by the pitcher! She got it right on her left elbow! She did get teary-eyed but went to walk onto first. Sore, yes but stayed in the game. After a few other batters, she made it home!!! She was thrilled!!

I promise to get better pictures next time but when it was her first game, I was just too busy watching and cheering for them that I just didn't get that great of pictures. Plus at least the next game, they will be wearing their uniform shirts since 3 were not ready by game time.

Talking about game time....we learned at Wednesday practice that Leeds added a team and now we will have 2 games on Sunday afternoon (1:30 and 4:30) and then our game on Monday night (7:30).

So as you can see, Sunday will be busy at the ball field. As far as tomorrow goes...I'm taking CJ to see Thomas the Train in the movie theater at 10am, he has a birthday party to go to at 1pm and Courtney has practice from 2-4 (which Jason will be taking her). Then the week continues to get busy!

On the good notes....Courtney no longer needs to wear glasses for school work or reading - her eye sight has improved!! Plus, she went to the dentist and has no cavaties (will go back in 6 months for a check up). The sad note...she'll need braces after her baby teeth come out due to her awful overbite! I'm blaming Jason for that...LOL