Sooo, I can't believe we are already coming up on the end of June! Where has all of this time gone to? We have 16 days until we close on our house and become home owners again. I have been soooo excited I just want to jump out of my skin!! There has been a lot going on in my life these past 6 months that seem like just a blink of an eye. We sold our beloved house in Abilene, we moved to Las Vegas and have been surviving in this apartment. A lot of strong women that I hold very dear to my heart are pregnant and have been popping out babies or will be giving birth within the next few months. It must be the year of babies!!! And NO, I am not one of the women who are pregnant. As much as I have had baby fever lately, I am content with my two munchkins for the time being.
I have finally made up my mind to go back to school and finish my RN. I have struggled with this decision because I know it is not going to be easy. With both kids, a husband with such a crazy schedule and a possible deployment looming in our life I know it will be a struggle. I have made this decision because I can't just sit around while he is gone and wait for him to come home. I will go insane! So I am starting to get all of my transcripts together and I plan on meeting with a counselor sometime in the next few weeks to see if there are any classes that I need to update before being accepted into the program. If all goes well I hope to start in January 2011 and Graduate in December 2011 then take and PASS my National Boards in January or February to become a Registered Nurse. It has always been a dream of mine that got interrupted when I got married and started having kiddos. So I'm going to force myself to get back on track and fulfill one of my major dreams. I've already married the man of my dreams, and we have created two wonderfully, amazing children. Well, now the baby factory will be shut down for the next two years. I want a year to finish my degree and a year of working before we have anymore kids. I figure the Abby Monster will be 3 or 4 when she becomes a big sister. Hopefully by then one if not both of my sisters will be hitched by then and hopefully have a baby or two. Who knows. So, sorry for the rant, I just had to get that out.So, back to the house. We close in 16 days, July 9. Then the restoration of the property will begin. Wood floors will replace the carpet and tile that is downstairs and the carpet will remain upstairs. We don't know who went in and cleaned the house after we found out someone was squatting in it, but it looks great and we appreciated the surprise greatly! We are taking everything out from the back yard and a leaning tree that was planted too close to the foundation and roof line from the front yard and starting from scratch. I am hoping that we can just reseed the yard instead of laying down sod. We will have kid and pet friendly plants and shrubs in the yard so that I won't have to worry about the kids getting poked by the dangerous plants back there now, or worry about the several leaning trees falling or pulling down the concrete wall in the backyard. I will cherish the sound of Charlie and the kids running around in the backyard and the smell of BBQ on the grill. Can you tell I'm anxious?!?!?!? Adding to the new yard and wood floors we will be painting just about the entire inside of the house. Right now the entire house is one plain beige color which I can't stand. We never painted our last house, except for the bed rooms, and I will NOT put up with that again. Color will grace the walls through-out this beautiful house. And no, we will not be painting all of this ourselves, I am looking into hiring a painter and letting his crew do all the work.
This past weekend my sister-in-law came into town with a small group of her friends for her bachelorette party. I never had one so I was going to live vicariously thru her. I can now say, I AM TOO OLD TO BE DOING ALL OF THAT!! Saturday Night is when all of the festivities were and it took me 3 days to recover from it! Our first stop of the night was Dicks Last Resort. Rude waiters, obscene sayings on large paper hats and ok food kicked off our evening. Then we headed back to the hotel to get the real party started. Chippendale's was the first stop of the night. 4th row from the front and dead center with great music, dance routines and who can forget the amazing hard bodies of the men of Chippendale? After we cooled off from our hot flashes we took a quick cab ride over to the Palms to hit up Moon, Ghost Bar, Playboy Club and Rain VIP Style! We made it back to Aria around 4:30 in the morning. I haven't done that in ages and my body definately felt it for the next few days. I hope all the ladies had a great time and are looking forward to Pete and Carolyn's wedding in October in Austin.
Well, I think this blog has gone on long enough. I hope all my friends who read this are doing well know that once everything is settled in the house...PLEASE COME OUT AND VISIT!!! WE WILL HAVE PLENTY OF ROOM AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE EVERYONE!
