hello all

so it has been months since i have updated my blog. i am so bad i know. we have been at my mom's house since july. it is going ok. but getting stressful and oak and i are both very very ready to be in our own place again. hopefully it will be within the next couple months. we will see but i am keeping my fingers crossed. so lately i really have been wanting another baby. i am so crazy i know and oakley would kill me if he reads this. but i am pretty sure he knows. i am trying to be patient and talk him into next summer or fall but he wants to wait about 2 more years. ugh i can't wait that long. lol. i don't know what it is or why i am feeling this way but it is such a strong feeling. i am so insane with school and oakley's work and two young kids already but i am really feeling strong about it. we will see what happens.
i am really in shock that thanksgiving is here already this week! faith turned a year on october 21st and it has already been a month since then! she is so big and walking all over the place! maylee is a little terror and so cute all at the same time haha. how is that even possible!? they are both so big though. i am loving where they are at. it stresses me with my schedule right now though. school school and home in time to put them to bed. it is kinda sad and i totally live for the weekends. that is when we see oakley. i am really sad this week though. oakley is working every night. clear through sat. he won't be at thanksgiving with us. i know it is for a good reason but still i am really sad about it. he is so amazing though to work so hard for me and the girls. i love him so much. maybe soon he will be able to get off graveyards and i will actually see a little more of him! for now this is life though.

i am a slacker. i know it!

so we have been living at my mom's for over a month now. things are pretty good. i mean there are definitely hard times and some struggles, but it is not as bad as many people have it i am sure! it is nice to have help with the girls and people to entertain maylee haha. she is very crazy some days! but i think maylee really loves having so many people around to play with and a big backyard to jump and run around in. i love watching her. she could play by herself out there forever i think! so school is going awesome. i am still loving it! i feel like i am learning so much every day and i am still excited to continue learning. faith took a few steps today!!! she is totally standing on her own. she is gonna be walking well before her first bday i think. she is only 10 months right now. but she is so cranky cuz she is getting top teeth. poor girl. i know it must hurt so bad but it is hard to deal with sometimes lol. well it is late and this is all for now but i will blog more real soon i promise. plus some pics for sure!

it's been awhile.

wow so i haven't blogged in a really long time!!! our lives have been so incredibly crazy. we moved out of our apartment on the 2nd of july and then i cleaned it (with my amazing mother, couldn't have done it without her!) until the 9th of july when we checked out. they are so picky! i had to wipe down the window tracks and light fixtures AGAIN because they had a day or two worth of dust on them! ugh... then i don't even know how much we are getting from our deposit yet. but we won't even get it back because we broke our contract so we will owe them money... i just don't know how much until we know what our deposit is. haha. does that even make sense? so then we moved into my parents house, which still isn't unpacked all the way and is driving me crazy cuz i have no time to do it. then on thursday we went to oregon to help oak's aunt move back to utah, we left friday afternoon, stayed in boise overnight, then woke up to find out our trailer lights weren't working so oakley spent like 4 hours or more trying to fix them! he never got them fully working but we had some lights, so that was good. so we stopped in tremonton to change the girls diapers, stretch, and eat, and i was texting my sister (my phone was broken) so i ran in to get food and when i came back out it looked like it was gonna rain so we jumped in the truck and took off. well... i had left oak's phone on the side of the truck bed!!! oh he was so mad. so the next day, sunday, we drove clear back up there to look around the parking lot we had been in and the road leading up to the freeway. never could find it so we had to fork out the cash for a new phone. blah! so anyways this week oakley is helping another family move, actually he is doing that tonight. man i love him so much he is so good. but i know he is stressed, i am stressed, my parents are stressed. it doesn't make for a good combination. so anyways that is what has been going on with me the past few weeks. i really hope life settles down soon, but with school and work and my mom working and my dad doing what he is with work... i just don't know. but i will cross my fingers that it does!!!

school

so tonight oakley had to be to work early so he dropped the girls off at school to me. i wasn't sure if i wanted them there or not. because, well maylee is a 2 year old, enough said. but my instructor and the other students assured me it was ok. so they came to school with me for an hour or so and we were doing glitter toes and nails and my instructor said she would do maylee's if that was ok. well maylee was so excited so she got her toes done. it was sooo cute! i think she did pretty well. it was sooo cute to see her watching and she kept saying pretty toes! and showing them off to everyone. then she wanted her nails done and that is when it got interesting. she didn't want to hold still anymore and for some reason didn't want her thumbs done haha. she rubbed her face and now has purple glitter all over her face, and in her hair and everywhere haha. it is ok though cuz it was worth it to watch her get so excited over it. i love it that she is into all the girly stuff! my instructor was really good about it too. she was so cute with my girls! thanks for being patient! and cleaning up the messes haha.

packing, packing, packing.

so this is my kitchen right now lol. it is filled with boxes and i cannot stand it anymore! i only have 2 more boxes left so i need to call a grocery store or my dad to get some more. i just thought i would share what i am living in right now. my sister marissa has been staying with me and entertaining my girls while i get things done. she has also been helping me pack. i don't know what i would do without my family. they are so so good to me. also i love my visiting teachers! they came over today and helped me finish packing my kitchen and packed while i took everything out from under my stairs. wow. so nice and i am so grateful! i feel like i am getting somewhere and then i find more stuff to fill another box with. why is that? haha. but i am definitely getting somewhere now. i am just excited to get done and moved and organized so i won't be living in the midst of all these boxes!

my brother

so my brother is on a mission down in Hermosillo Mexico. We get emails from him every monday and he is doing so amazing. it really makes me wish i had as strong a testimony as him. i really do think my testimony is growing and getting so strong but he is such an example to me and i love learning from him. my whole family is such a great example. my mom is so amazing and never questions or doubts, she just does what she knows she needs to and is so blessed because of it. i love her so much. my younger sister marissa is such a good teenager. i know i am who i am because of my past but sometimes i wish i could have went down a different path and enjoyed life more like she does. she has so much fun and is never super serious with anyone. i look up to all my younger siblings. they are amazing and i hope the world for them. i know they can do whatever they set their minds to. i just really wanted to share how i felt about my family publicly and just share that i have a testimony and it is growing stronger every day. i am so grateful for my husband and my daughters. i love them so much. i appreciate all my friends who are there for me and push me so i can become a better stronger person. thankyou to everyone in my life!

driving me crazy!

ok so i changed my background and i am happy with it but the color around my text is still pink! i don't know how to get rid of this. ugh. i feel like i have tried everything! any suggestions? i just am getting really frustrated haha. ok so i just realized today that we are moving in a week. wow! i feel like i have so much to get done but at the same time i can't get much done because we are still using so much of our stuff so how am i supposed to pack it in boxes? hmm.... i really need to clean again today. why is it that i can spend all day cleaning and that night or the next morning i realize it looks the same? i think i could vacuum every day and it would never look like i did lol. anyways, back to my original question, any help would be absolutely wonderful with my blog problem!

moving....

so it has been a very long time since i have posted anything on here. i forget! haha. i think it has to do with the fact that i am still rather new at blogging and i don't know what i am doing with my layout and it drives me crazy every time i get on here haha. anyways, we are moving in with my parents. blah! hopefully it will only be like till december or so. that is what we are trying for. i have learned so many lessons though by having to make this decision. don't ever rely on overtime as a source of income! we are now going to put any OT into savings! don't stretch all your income into payments either. ugh wow you would think i would be smarter but it is like oh we have room for that payment. well then OT gets cut and what happens? you have to move in with your parents for 6 months haha. Oakley is taking it harder than me. i think it is because he is the provider and the stress lays on him to provide for us. so life has been hard, but i am actually relieved to be moving in to a certain degree. no more financial stress for a little while. i think it will help me be a better mom too because my mom is the most organized and clean person i know and i think i can learn a lot from her and get into some good habits. also there will be a big yard for maylee to play in. she is gonna love it so much! i know it will be stressful in other ways but i can handle them i think. we are moving in on the 2nd or 3rd. not quite sure now because we need to figure out what days oakley has off for sure. i am actually looking forward to that because right now we are half packed and living in boxes and a mess and i might rip my hair out haha. other than that not much has happened. school is going great. maylee is getting 4 molars though and is struggling! i have to work very hard to be patient with her. her nap times are also disappearing but in some ways it is good because she goes to bed about 7:30 right now and wakes up about 7-7:30 so she is sleeping 12 hours! wow. today i am watching my two cousins. one is 6 months older than maylee and one is 3 months older than faith. both girls. haha i will have 4 girls today! i now i will know what it would be like to have 2 sets of twins haha. we will see how it goes but i think maylee and maddie will play awesome together. they are so good and get along great. faith and lizzie just stare at eachother, grab faces, and try to figure out what they are haha. so wish me luck. i gotta get back to cleaning now! yay!

great day

ok so i am hoping it is working better. i got a new template for the blog so i hope it looks ok. i don't know if it is cutting of words or what not. anyways this weekend was awesome. oakley and i went to the larry h miller motorsports park and watched the world super bike race. it was sooo fun. those bikes went like 180 miles an hour! so crazy. my mom watched the girls for us so we just went and it was nice. then we moved in some couches and man i am out of shape! it was an interesting experience but i like them now that they are in haha! all i know is i need to work out. that is for sure. so that is gonna be my goal. get in shape and lose some weight! today we went to church. i think it has been atleast 3 months since we were all well enough to go to church all together and it was really nice to be able to all go. then we came home and had lunch, and all took naps. it was so nice. today was a really good day. i hated it when oakley had to go to work. hopefully he has a good night. the girls went down early though so it has been good to just keep relaxing. the dishes are everywhere though and i am trying really hard not to go in the kitchen so i don't freak out haha. i hope the night keeps going great and that the girls sleep good.

figured out!

ok so i think i got this figured out. post a comment if it is strange or looks weird or any tips on how to fix it. i think i am happy with the layout and background though.
so i really should get to bed. i have a sinus infection and maylee has an ear infection and faith has a really bad cold. ugh. my mom is the best mom in the whole entire world though. she is coming over tomorrow to help me watch the girls so i can clean my house. since our schedules are so crazy lately with oak on graves and me in school our house has suffered terribly! i need so desperately to clean it. my mom offered her help so i just want to publicly thank her! i love her so much. i hate asking for things like this so i never will. but for her to offer that is so great. she is however the cleanest person i know so having her see all the dirty places is rather embarrassing. i am just glad she understands. haha. i really need to go to bed and get some sleep for tomorrow. i hope the girls don't wake up at 430am like they did today. wish me luck

just testing

just trying to figure out this whole layout thing and see if this new one works. it might take me a few tries

houses

so we have been discussing getting a house. ugh it is so stressful and frustrating. it is like i want it sooo bad but i don't want to get my hopes up because then i will just be let down. i don't know what to do. we need to do is sell our trucks. yes plural, truckS. we have 2 of them. and that is where all our debt is. if we could sell them or figure something out we would have no issue with a house... but... the market sucks haha. especially for trucks. so that is my vent for now. i hope that it does work out. we are going to look into it anyways and just hope and pray for the best.

summer!

i am so excited that the weather is warming up and hopefully it is on a more permanent basis now. This winter has been horrible. i love the christmas season and everything, don't get me wrong, but my kids have been constantly sick. well, mostly maylee. she is always always sick. i am hoping the warm weather will change that! right now my two girls and oakley are all recovering from illnesses. Faith has had such a bad cold that she can barely breathe out of her nose, poor thing. maylee has had a cough, and a cold, and Oakley has had a very bad viral cold, fever, congestion, headache, etc. i feel bad for him. I really hope i don't get it because we are going camping to the dunes this weekend without the girls and i really want to enjoy myself. i will go no matter what! so needless to say i hope this weather stays good and that we all recover and stay healthy for the next little while!

finally started!

ok so i am finally starting a blog. Everyone has been bugging me to do it so here i am! Here is a little bit of history about our family. I am Whitney and my husband is Oakley, we have been married for 4 years and have two little girls. Maylee and Faith. Maylee is 2 and Faith is 6 months. i love them to death and i think they are the two most beautiful children i have ever seen. ( i am sure other mom's would fight me on that lol).

So this whole swine flu thing is freaking me out a bit. I can't believe it is in Utah. ugh. I don't want to take my kids anywhere! I just hope they get this all figured out soon. It is like what the black plague all over again? i don't understand why we can't fix it.