One last time.................. in Durham(for me)

I just thought that I would let ya all know that this will be the last time that I put a blog message up while I'm in Durham. Yep that's right I'm moving again. Only this time Lisa and the kids don't get to go with. So that means that I am getting deployed with the NC National Guard to go over to Iraq for a year or so. We leave around the January 2 to do some trainning in Mississippi and California and then off to the big dessert. This is a little faster than we had planned on but knew it was coming when we moved out here. We were hoping to go with a different unit but things fell through and I got stationed with this one and bam off I go. Please get often for updates and for those who have her number call Lisa and check up on her.

We would also like to wish everyone a happy New Year and to remind you to say that you love each other often you never know how so your love will be gone. Lucky for us it is only temporary and we can talk inbetween or visits. Thank you technology. What a wounderful thing cell phones and internet are. Just think of the distances that are covered by such devices so that we can see and hear each other so quickly. It such a waste that people use it for other distructing, mind numbing things. Anyways thanks for all your love and support. See ya soon.

Mac

Friends

I have not cried about moving until today. I had to say good-bye to my best friend. I have had two best friends in my life. I have a lot of friends but only two best friends. When I was growing up Sharon Drowns was my best friend. Sharon is everything I wish that I could be: athletic, outgoing, everyone loves her and she is beautiful. She is just a wonderful person. I missed her and her influence after I left North Carolina. Even after I got married and had kids we didn't have best friends. I think I have kept myself from getting too close to people because we were always moving. While we were in Cedar City we met Rick and Holly in SUU's ROTC. We really liked Rick and Holly but we never really had the chance to get too close to them in Cedar. Then Rick and Ken went to Oklahoma for OBC at the same time. They rode together and the kids and I followed. Holly decided to stay in UT. She came to visit and we got closer while she was there. It didn't hurt that Rick was always at our house studying, eating, playing with our kids, watching football, and taking home leftovers. :) When we came back here we were close enough to where they lived that we saw each other quite a bit. Our kids love them and we love their daughter Katie too. When we decided to move I was sad about not seeing them all the time. They might move back east too but not for a while and it will still not be in NC. We saw Holly and Katie for the last time today while we were packing. Suddenly I realized that I was going to cry so I got out of there. Ken laughed at me and sent texts to Holly teasing her. Evidently she was crying too. Holly is not like Sharon. Holly seems to be more like me. That is not a bad thing. I still wish that I was all the things that Sharon is but I have realized that I like who I am too. I can sit with Holly and admire her for the qualities that we share and just for the joy of spending time with her.

The point of telling all of you this is to say how much I appreciate their friendship and all that they have done for us and with us. I can't tell you how much their friendship has meant to us. We love you and your family and we hope to reunite with you soon. By the way Holly, I agree with you. It was like saying good-bye to a sister. Write often and call too.

One last time.....................in Utah

Today we would like to thank everyone for there love and support that they have given us especially over the last few months. Thanks to Mike and Elayne for letting stay with them when we had no where else to go on such short notice. Thanks a bunch to Matt and Kara for allowing us to invade their home for three months and putting up with the additional stress of a whole extra family in the house. We truely appreciate and love ya all for doing this. We never would have made it through these tough times with out the support of family. I am so glad that we are a close family and have the ability to help each other out in times of stress and need. We are also thankful for Gramama (Brona) for letting us come and stay at her house to start our next stage in life out in North Carolina. We are so excited about this move and step in our life. We are sure that everybody back east is excited too. They will finally be able to see little Reba in person and get love and cuddle her along with her brother and sister. The kids are way excited about going to Gramama's house and having a dog to play with again along with new cousins to play with. The worst part about this whole thing is leaving behind family and friends that we have grown close to and love. If we could move everybody out with us that would be great. Doesn't that sound like a good idea? Everyone could just move to North Carolina! Anyway, to top things off both of the units back east that I have talked about transferring to for guard are both being deployed to Iraq in the next few months. I am going to miss so much while I am gone but we have been waiting for this time to come and feel comfortable with the decision to go with either unit and get the experience over with while the kids are young. It will also help us out with the whole money situation and get us back on our feet. Hope all is well with everyone and hope to see ya soon.

WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO????

I have started working until 2:00 am lately. It is normally pretty boring. I watch the door and ring up the employees that come through my line on their breaks. There are a few customers that don't work there but not too many. Anyway, tonight was the opposite of boring. It all started out normal and then this guy came through my line and he wanted to buy some phone cards, a shopping card and some gift cards and also a drink. On our registers if the total is over $100 it prompts us to check their ID. I have noticed a lot of employees skip this prompt but I never do. I have had check ID on my cards before and people don't check it. It is very frustrating. Soooo... since I am such a great employee I asked for his ID and his card. He then told me that it was his fiancee's and asked me if that was ok. I told him that I could not allow him to use her card. He told me that she lived right down the street so he would just go and get her but he would still buy the drink. When we have to check IDs it is already going to go onto the credit card. There is no way to back out of it. So I had to call another associate that also works in Customer Service. He called a CSM and by that time the guy said that he would just get it all when he came back with his fiancee. He had another bag that he bought in electronics that my co worker checked his receipt for. He had a receipt but he couldn't find it for a minute and he got really jittery. I know that most of you know where this is going but I am standing there just thinking that all is well and he really does have a fiancee that he is going to get. Silly, naive Lisa, huh? Even after my co-worker said that he wasn't coming back I still had the hope that he would be proven wrong. i just didn't want my rose colored glasses to be taken off. I finally gave it up when two minutes later another register needed the CSM's help with a credit card and the guy had the same story about the girl living down the street. The CSM looked directly at me and started walking over to ask me if it was the same guy (it wasn't) and the guy walked out. Of course we had to get the manager on duty and he had to call the cops. The guy in electronics checked this guys ID but he forgot to compare the names. Funny thing is that with all the people that dealt with these two guys and two separate cards, I was the only one who had to write a statement. The naive, willingly sheltered girl that wanted to believe that there was still good people who really did tell the truth when they said they would be back with their fiancee.

On my way home I was thinking about how I wanted to write about this and I just wanted to add that when I think about this world that my beautiful children are going to grow up in I am scared about how much worse it is going to get. That being said I also want to say how proud I am that I was brought up to see the best in people whether they deserve it or not. I am grateful to my parents for how I was raised. I also want to say that I am grateful and humbled to know that I have the channce to continue that legacy with my own children and I just hope that they can see the good in people too. I don't want them to be gullible or anything but I want them the be able to let things go and give others a second chance even when they are told that people don't change.

Now it is time to let this go and get some sleep. Just be aware this Christmas season that you watch out for people that may try to steal. This lady had come and bought groceries earlier today. I am not sure how these guys got her cards. I just don't want this to happen to any of you.

same old same old

I know that we haven't written in a while but nothing has really changed. We are all still doing the same things that we were doing the last time that we wrote. Reba and Jared do have pink eye. It started with Reba. It went from one eye to Jared's one eye and now they both have it in both eyes. We're not sure where Reba got it but now it is going through all of them. So far Chloe has escaped it but I am waiting for it.
Ken is still looking for another job. He applied at Wal-Mart. That could be good or bad. Good because we can work more hours and just trade off and bad because... ok there really isn't any bad except that we will not see each other but that is going to happen anyway with both of us having full time jobs.

Halloween was another same old, same old. The kids wore the same costumes as last year. I took them to the park and they got candy from the local businesses. Ken took them out later around the neighborhood. They had fun with their cousins and they got a lot of candy. At the park we saw Captain Jack Sparrow complete with his pirate ship. If you don't remember Jared was a pirate. He went straight up to him to get candy. Chloe was scared She clug to my hand and wouldn't let me push her up to him. The second time we saw him Chloe reluctantly went up to him by herself. It was kind of funny.

We are still trying to make it out to North Carolina. We are hoping that we can get out there fairly soon. We just need to save up some moolah. That seems to be the crux in our plan. We will get there. We believe that we are supposed to be there now but we need to be able to get there.

Anyway, we just wanted to keep you updated with us. Let us know how you are doing. By the way, I know that we are horrible at commenting on the blogs that we read but we have been wondering lately if it is even being read. Let us know that you are there and interested. We would love to hear from you.

Reba update

Reba can sit up now! She started sitting up really well at the begining of this week. She is balancing really well now but she still leans really far forward. Pictures will be coming soon.

October

I just thought I should let you all know what has been up with us lately. I got a job at Wal-Mart in American Fork part time. I do not enjoy being on my feet for several hours at a time but you do what you need to right? I am starting to get used to it I think.

Reba is starting to try to sit up by herself. She still has a problem balancing herself but she will sit up in the high chair. She drools all over the place. That is nothing new though. I wonder when she will get her teeth and if the excessive drooling will stop when they do. She is such a happy baby.

Chloe is still too smart for her own good. She sees Connor got to school and she so wants to be going too. She still loves doing gymnastics. She sings all the time. I hate to do it but she drives us crazy with all of the singing so we have to tell her to be quieter.

Jared is still just an adorable little boy. He is so sweet to everyone. He is totally potty trained. It was a lot easier to potty train him than I thought it would be. He still has his days when he has accidents all day long but I think he is just too distracted by playing that he doesn't remember to go.

Ken's last day of school was yesterday. He was happy about that. He had a hard time with this last quarter. He doesn't believe in some of the things that they were teaching so he just learned those things in theory. Its a little hard to swallow that you can move the plates in someone's head or change their "aura". He is now going to work more and keep looking for massage jobs. I am working on getting him new clients.

So that's how we are right now. We'll write more later on when we have more for you all. We hope that everything is going well for all of you.

Rebakins rolls over!

Reba started to roll over for the first time last night. We were so excited. She is a stinker though. It took me 5 videos before she would actually roll over all the way for me. Jared was so mad at me because he couldn't understand why I wouldn't let him help her roll over. You can hear his voice in the background too.

The last few months in pictures

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What a crazy time!

In case you don't talk to us very often I thought I would give everyone an update on our family. We moved from the house in Spanish Fork. While we were packing up the U-Haul the house that we had set up to move into fell through. It was going to be a very bad situation for us so we decided we had enough stress in our lives without getting in the middle of a nasty divorce. That left us without a place to live. We stayed at Mike and Elayne's house for a while trying to find a house but we couldn't find anything either big enough or in our price range. While we were there we had Reba's baby blessing. She was beautiful. We had a great time seeing everyone. My dad was able to come out and spend a week with us. (In Mike and Elayne's house, which, I am sure was odd to him) but we had a great time. Jennifer and Tim were able to come down from Idaho and stay close by and spend some time with us too.

After a while we moved to Matt and Kara's house with them. We are renting the basement from them. Their kids are closer in age to ours and they seemed to have more room. We are so very grateful to have such a great family to help us while we can't seem to have much go right for us.

Right after we moved in here we had Chloe's birthday party. She was so excited to finally turn 5! She has been waiting so long. She thought that when she turned 5 she would be able to go to school so she was very disappointed to find out that her birthday was 8 days too late! She blames me for not letting her go to school.

Chloe got a bike with no training wheels for her birthday. We bought training wheels just in case she really needed them but Ken, Kara and I were able to teach her how to ride it in just one day. Okay so Ken and Kara did most of it while I was at school but I started teaching her earlier in the day. She still needs help getting started but she does really well otherwise. She only has one speed and that is FAST!

We are still in school and we are still looking for housing but we are starting to wonder what is going to happen in our life that we need to be homeless for. Maybe we just needed to be humbled. I don't know but we are still trying to get things in order.

I am looking for a job. I have been offered one at Walmart and I have orientation on Friday but I am still hoping that Home Depot will offer me a job and Ken and I will work at the same store just different hours.

Anyway, pictures are coming of some of these events and other times from this month or so. We are trying to stay positive and we are hoping to have better news soon.

School is FINISHED

I just thought that I would let everybody know that I am finished with school and passed the licensing exam and now I just have to go pay the state money and wait for them to send me my license. I am also starting another program on monday that will give me more experience and help me out in the long run. Just a note for those that live on the east coast, We know that we told you that we would be moving out there at the end of this year but with recent events we are not sure if we will be able to. This is because we need to find a new house and more than likely we will have to sign atleast a 6 month if not a year rental contract. We will be moving out there, it may just be a little bit later than planned so don't worry. We had a house set up but it fell through and now we are just rushing to find a house. We are staying with Mike and Elayne until we can find one. The kids love being around their cousins, so they are in heaven.

Goals

My sister had a post on her blog asking for help losing the rest of her baby weight. I thought it was a great idea. I told her I would do it with her. Her goal is to lose 14 lbs by Sept. 30th. I wanted to see if anyone that doesn't know Jen and read her blog would like to join us too. We can all help each other! I know that I need help staying away from chocolate and soda. If you see me with either tell me to cease and desist! Thanks.

Lisa

OOPS!

Just so you all know I did our posts out of order so there are actually 5 new ones. If you saw the balloons but not the videos of the kids keep on looking down. Enjoy. I'll try to do better next time.

Reba and Ryan

Can you believe that these two are just six weeks apart? In case you are not in the McArthur clan, this is Reba and Ryan. Ryan was 9 lbs. when he was born. Reba was only 4 ozs. more when he was born. I think Ryan is going to beat her fairly soon if he hasn't already. They sure are cute though.

Sisters

Chloe loves to read and sing to Reba. She is learning to actually read books so she took this opportunity to read to Reba while I was taking Jared to the bathroom. She is such a good sister. She kept picking her up without permission so we had to teach her the correct way to pick her up and hold her so that Reba was safe. That scares me but Chloe is a natural with her.

Fourth of July Balloon festival in Provo

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For the Fourth of July there is a three day balloon festival. Each mournig they launch around 6:30 am and fly around for awhile and then come back to the field that they left from and drop a bean bag on a big X and also try and pop other balloons that have been put up. Who ever gets the most points wins the competition. We forgot to ask what they win so we don't know. The kids had a fun time and so did the adults.

July 5 2008

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Reba's stories and smiles

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Introducing... Reba Michelle

On April 29th my doctor agreed to induce me. He broke my water at around 9:15 pm and at 10:40 we had our most recent miracle added to our beautiful family. Reba Michelle McArthur weighed 7 lbs 4 ozs. She was 20 inches long and she has a full head of dark hair. She is just beautiful and perfect, as you can see.

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Mom's Birthday

My mom sent the kids each a shirt for her birthday. They loved them. They didn't want to take them off. Jared didn't want to wear anything else. The train that Jared is holding is his birthday present from my mom. He loves it.

Another party

We had Rick and Holly over for another birthday party on Monday. Ken eventually had to just push Jared's face into the cake to get him messy. He even licked his fingers to get the icing all off.

Ken and Jared's Birthday

We had some of Ken's family come over on Sunday to celebrate both Ken and Jared's birthdays. We all had lots of fun. Here are some of the pictures. Notice how Ken had to "help" Jared eat his cake messily. Our little boy is so concerned about being clean.

Saturday Clinic

I just thought that I would let ya know a little bit about what I do for school. Every Saturday until I graduate from school I have a clinic shift that I get to pull. The shift is only 5 1/2 hours so I still have most of the day to go and do stuff with the family. The thing that sucks about it is that it starts at 7 am. Nice and early. The first couple of shifts were kinda scary realizing that you are working on clients that actually pay for the work that is done. Now that that is no longer bothersome I actually enjoy and look forward to this experience. I have always been told that I give a wonderful massage from people that I have practiced on and experimented on during high school but now to hear it from people that have been doing and receiving bodywork for many years. Today I was told by a client that the massage that I gave her was better than any massage that she has received including the ones the she has received at spas. Hearing these wonderful praises make me wish I was out in the field working already but all in due time. See ya later.

Lazy Bones

I know that it has been a long time since we posted anything. Honestly we are just trying to make it through this pregnancy and that seems to take a lot out of us. Ken is plugging away at school and I am plugging away at the military trying to get the money that they owe us for GI Bill and rent from Oklahoma. Not to mention trying to get forms that Utah needs and Oklahoma didn't complete. I swear that military is a full time job just because trying to get paid.

Chloe and Jared are having fun running the house during the day. They have some friends come over on some mornings for a while and they have a blast. They are so bored because Mommy can't get down and play everything that they want to play. They color and help me clean up around the house when I feel up to it.

Chloe is doing great in gymnastics. She loves to go and work out. She still misses Miss Jenny and Miss Ashley from Oklahoma and she talks about them often. Most of the girls in her class are about 2 years older than her. I am amazed that she can keep up with them as well as she does. They are all faster than her but she knows how to do most things better than several of the girls. She is still trying to learn the different terms that they use here like: instead of bridge they say back bend.

Reba and I are still trying to take it easy. On Monday I will be 36 weeks. Amazing. I think now that I am starting to feel better she will go all the way to 40 weeks. That's ok as long as I don't start having problems again or these contractions don't get worse. Anyway. We are hanging in there.

Ken still loves school and he is now looking for a job until he graduates. After he graduates we still have to decide where to go. He has made a lot of friends at school. He will have to tell you more another time.

I guess that puts you all up to date with us. We'll write again another time.

Having fun with Sarah and Isaac

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Mousercise

Sarah and Isaac came to visit and Sarah consented to do one of Chloe and Jared's favorite activities: Mousercise! I have a record and a record player and the kids want to do Moucercise daily. They had lots of fun. Isaac decided he didn't want to look silly with them.

Our First Saturday

Saturday the 23rd we had a very fun filled day. It started off with me not being able to get to sleep until about 1:30 am. This is significant because I had to get up at 5:00 am. I was starting my first day at clinic. I guess I was a little bit nervous about the whole clinic thing. So I get ready for the day and leave the house around 6:00 am. I got to the school for clinic around 6:30 thinking that I would be able to check in and get started right away. For clinic I need to do five massages in a 5 1/2 hour shift and by doing so I will receive a high five award. My goal is to achieve the high five award every week during clinic. This is why I showed up at 6:30 to start my shift that ends at 12:30. Anyways I go to check in to get started but my name was not in the computer so I couldn't check in then. They asked me to wait while everybody else gets checked in and then they would find out what they needed to do with me because the clinic manager didn't come in until later. I didn't mind waiting for awhile because there was only about five people behind me. What I didn't know is that 40 therapists would show up that they needed to checked in. So I waited and waited and waited to get checked in. After an hour of waiting I finally get checked in. I go to my booth get things set up and go to get my first client at 7:45 or so. This being the last week that the classes before mine can make up shifts that they missed there were about 47 therapists at clinic when they normally have around 25. Needless to say when I went to get a client there wasn't any and to top things off I still wasn't in the computer and 10 therapists were ahead of me waiting. Because no clients were there they told us to do student trades. So I said "OK, I'm not in the computer and don't care if I get my five today so I'll receive a massage." So there goes another hour of my shift. The massage was a great relaxer and I learned from it but it definitely took me out of getting my five massages for the day. By the time I got my first client it was about 9:00. I was able to get in three massages and had a wonderful time finding out how clinic flows and what I need to do to get my five massages in next time. I hope that I remember because I have drill next weekend and then I will be back at clinic the following weekend.

After I got home Lisa wanted me to go through her skin care and color class for a Mary Kay party that she was doing later that night. Being the great husband that I am I complied so that she could get some experience going through everything and knowing what to say. I had a fun time doing that with her and I am sure she loved seeing me in makeup. NO, we didn't take any pictures so don't ask. Lisa went to her party at 6:30 to get things setup and ready. The party was to start at 7:00. When Lisa got to the hostess' house nothing was set or ready. She had to clear the table set everything up and be presentable when the guests show up. Needless to say she had plenty of time because no one showed up until 7:15 or later. After she got started the classes went pretty good. It was just really long. The hostess wanted both skin care and color classes done. I don't think Lisa will ever do both classes again. It was to draining on her and everybody started to lose focus after a while. The party went until 9:30 or so. At the end Lisa got a couple of sales from those that showed up and maybe a couple more from those that didn't show up. There also might be a party that comes out of it from a lady that didn't show up.

To sum it all up this was a very enlightening day for both of us. We both had high expectations and basically had them slammed in our faces. I guess we just need to be grateful that we both got something out of it and learn. Because as we all know life will roll on with or with out us. We are just along for the ride so enjoy every minute.

Ken's workout

One day we were all bored and Ken decided to play with the kids. Little did he know, he was going to get a good workout in the process. You can tell that the kids really love to help with daddy's workouts.

Yick

We told all of you about our friends Rick and Holly in a previous post. This is Rick (or Yick, as Jared calls him) being mauled by the kids. They are always climbing all over both him and Holly. If you can tell, the kids have makeup on and they had just finished putting makeup on Holly too.

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Makeovers

Chloe got a beauty shop for Christmas. When we got our stuff from Oklahoma she rediscovered her make-up. The kids come up to us every day and ask us if they are beautiful. Of course they are! Who could resist these two? Aren't they cute? I just hope that it shows up well enough for you to see it. By the way, yes we let Jared play in make-up. He has grown up playing with girl toys and we can't seem to get him away from them. He has a train set and dump trucks that he plays with too. Don't worry.

Reading Time

This is Holly Jones and our kids. I just have to tell you all how much my kids love Holly and her husband, Rick. They also love to read. Holly was just sitting there and got roped into reading stories for about 2o minutes. She finally asked if we could do something else so that she didn't have to read all night.

Rick was in Oklahoma with us and he got to be really good friends with the kids. Jared calls him Yick so Rick calls Jared Yared. They are all so cute together.

Now I have been tagged!

The rules of the game should be posted at the beginning of the post. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1- I love to sing. I don't do much of it anymore but I used to be in the church choir and in 2 show choir classes in high school.

2-I am a novice scrapbooker. I don't get to do much of it because of 2 little curious kids but I do enjoy doing it. The kids love to look at their books. They are kind of vain like that.

3- I love to read. I can sit down with a book and tune everything else out. It drives Ken crazy. I get so involved in the books that I read that it is like I am in the situation watching everything happen.

4- I hate looking at a computer for hours on end. Ken can surf the internet for hours. I can only look at it for a little while. I like to write papers but that only takes an hour or so for me to do.

5- I have to adorable kids and one that is on the way that is shaping up to be just as much of a handful as the other two. She likes to be up high and kick me in the ribs when I least expect it.

6- I have the best husband in the world. He is as calm as I am crazy. Ask him, he will tell you. He is always concerned about me and the kids. I love him more every day.

I would like to thank my mom for tagging me. I like to have to think about things in my life that make me happy. I also enjoy the opportunity to tell others things that they may not know about me. I know that the rules say that I am supposed to tag 6 other people but I think that either Ken has tagged everyone that has not tagged us. So I will just have to leave this post as an informational post only. Sorry if you don't like it.

I've been Tagged

The rules of the game should be posted at the beginning of the post. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. I have been in the guard for 10 years one year was on active duty after September 11. I have just received my commission as an officer on May 5. I am in the Field Artillery and love it.

2. I only knew Lisa for 4 months before we were married and the first year of our marriage was the year I was activated.

3. I have a BS Degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Military Science but plan on doing nothing with it. That is why I am going back to school to become a massage therapist.

4. I have always wanted to travel and enjoy the many aspects of the world. I hope now that I will be able to and make a little money while doing it.

5. I love to do anything that involves the mountains and the outdoors. I think this is because that is were I like to go to relax and get away from the hustle and bustle of life. I really like it we I get to spend time up at the cabin with my family.

6. This one is going to be a real shocker. I LOVE FOOD. I have a very hard time putting food down unless I am stuffed full and ready to pop. This is a real problem because the guard wants me to be skinny.

This is such a easy task to do I don't know why I have to make it so hard. I guess I want to have something cool posted and things that people may not know instead of the obvious things that everybody knows. I just read into things to much instead of taking it easy. I hope that Brona, Jen, Jenny, Malinda, Sylvia, and Tanielle enjoy this task.

Finally

I just thought that I would let ya all know that we finally got our household goods. We are so excited and can't wait to sleep on our bed. I think that is what I will enjoy the most for a while. Next will be the living room set. We have really missed our stuff. It is one thing to know that you don't have anything than to know you have something and just can't have it because it is somewhere in a truck or storage unit. Anyways We have our stuff and are way excited. We Love Ya and hope ya have fun.

Our new home

This is our new house. When we pulled up to see it for the first time, Ken and I were not so sure about it. After I saw the inside I decided that it would work for us. Ken wasn't with me to see the inside so I didn't notice how low the ceilings were in the basement (where our room is).

When I pulled up to the house with Chloe and Jared, the first words out of Chloe's mouth were: "Mom, it's green!" After I stopped laughing I told her that yes it was green but it was our new house.

It is a three bedroom house and it has 2 kitchens and 2 living areas. What are we going to do with all of that space? Well, the 2nd living area is going to be mine and Ken's. The 2nd kitchen is going to be a storage room for all of the things that we can't fit in the rest of the house. If we can we might set up our big table down there and play cards there with friends after the kids go to bed. Who knows?

We really like being in our own house again. If only we could get our stuff from Oklahoma to furnish it. That is a whole other can of worms better saved for another post. By the way, the driveway that you see used to be a solid sheet of ice. I guess the last tenants didn't shovel the snow and we had to pick all of the ice off. By we I mean Ken. I shoveled some but he did most of the work. It took 2 full days and 2 full big bags of ice melt to get rid of it all.

It's a girl!

We have told everyone what we are having but just in case you don't know yet for some reason, we are having a girl. We have a whole roll of pictures from the ultrasound but we aren't sure if you can scan ultrasound pictures. I don't want to ruin them. She is healthy and she is cute. We got to see her yawn. They said that my due date is May 12. Ken wants me to go over so that I can be finished with finals. We'll just have to wait and see about that. Her name will be Reba or Rebecca Michelle McArthur. Even if we name her Rebecca she will be called Reba. Most of you know that I am a country fan but I also just happen to like the name. Chloe and Jared are starting to talk to her. Tonight Chloe pushed on my stomach by accident and she asked if she should say sorry to the baby. I think it is cute. I'm not totally sure that they really understand that they are going to have another person in our house competing for attention. I think they will both love her but they will have a hard time with having to share Mom and Dad.