Long time no see!

Hello! Remember me?

It has been a LONG time since i've blogged. i've missed you all! (Though i'm friends on facebook with many of you, so i still kinda know what's going on with most of my bloggy friends. You're not friends with me on facebook? Click here!)

Quick overview of my life for the last...6? months.

• My mortgage refinancing still isn't worked through yet and we're months behind. However, we just got something from them yesterday, and we have a trial period of 3 months paying about 2/3  our original mortgage amount, then if we do that well we qualify to refinance or something. And the new refinanced amount should be a similar amount to the trial payments. So after starting this process in January, by October i think our mortgage will be worked out. And will be an amount we can pay. i just hope it works out: our  mortgage company has been less than prompt or helpful or efficient through all of this.
• David is the essence of 2 years old. He can climb over our safety gates and out of his high chair and over our deck fence. We had to bolt his bed to the wall because last week he pushed his bed to underneath his window, climbed on top of the bed frame, pushed the screen out of his window, and was sticking his head out his second story window, waving at Kris when he got home. Which was super scary. David is also talking a ton now, and is a very good big brother.
• Cadence is 9 months now! And she has 6 teeth and is crawling and pulling herself up and getting into  everything. She is a perfect baby and is hardly ever fussy, but is generally gurgly and coos and laughs at all times. All you have to do is make eye contact with her and she smiles and giggles. It's fantastic. She doesn't have much hair yet, which is a bummer, but she's got just enough so i can put a tiny clip in it, which she immediately pulls off. i keep finding Easter grass in her mouth, and have no clue where she gets it. The other day i found out Easter grass is not water-soluble, after finding a piece of it in her diaper. Crazy girl.
• In the summer, my church goes from 3 services to 1 service, and as i am paid hourly, my income also goes down to 1/3 the usual. It's tough, but really, i should plan better throughout the year. i'm also watching my friend's daughter 3 days a week which is really helping the financial situation. i've got some weddings to play coming up in August so those will be a big help.
• My laptop died on me. It got that worm thing that came out in April and is the major reason i haven't been blogging. (The worst thing about the computer dying? i still have $400 in payments to make on it.)
• Kris is still working at the same jobs, except he also has a part time job at a small construction-type company. He hasn't worked there in weeks though because they haven't needed many people lately. He's going to school again to get his Paramedic degree thing. Right now he's taking just one class, but because it's a summer class, it gets done in 2 months what other classes have 4.5 months to do. So he's been cramming. He's got finals on Wednesday. Then he'll be a full-time student again in August. Full-time student, full-time at Outback, and part-time at a rescue company. The boy stays busy, if nothing else:) He's fantastic though and the kids are absolutely in love with him. i love him more every day:)
• We did this experiment in the month of June- we only bought formula, diapers, bread, milk, eggs and water. That was it. We didn't buy clothes or other food or eat out or go to movies or do anything. i think we saved a lot of money. Plus we ended up eating all the old food out of the cupboards and the freezer, which was important. We had fun going to the free zoo and i planned ahead and brought sandwiches and drinks with us. Not eating out requires a lot of planning ahead, i learned. Ever since then, i've been cooking a lot more and it's nice. It's not so hard or time-consuming to cook, but it means doing a LOT of dishes!
• i read through the Harry Potter series for the first time. It's incredible! i thought Kris was a big dork for reading them, but he got so obsessed with them that i thought "i'd like a little summer reading" and then read through all 7 in 3 weeks. We're very excited for the 6th movie to come out this week- we're seeing it Friday.

i think that's the major stuff that's gone on with me. i plan on continuing Cadence's birth story soon...we'll see. i still remember what happened, so at least there's that.

Here's some pics!