I'm Still Alive!

We are all moved into our new house, and I survived the process! LOL! We just have a few more things to finish up at the old house (including getting our hot tub moved!), before the renters move in on Thursday.
It has been an exhausting couple of weeks, but the kids have done AMAZINGLY well, and as I said before, I survived, so I'm happy!
I'm looking forward to getting things unpacked and organized around here. We have SO much more space here then we did at our old house! Instead of trying to figure out where something will fit, I have to decide which is the best spot for it, since I have so many options!!
We don't have Internet set up yet, so I can't post all the pictures off my camera, but I will try to post a few from my phone.

Possession Day!!!

Possession day is finally here - I can't believe it!! LOL! Unfortunately, Gairod also has his 6 month CFD exam this afternoon too! Talk about crappy timing! We got our realtor to arrange with the other realtor, to let us do our walk through this morning. We won't "technically" get possession until this afternoon, but since Gairod will be in Calgary writing his exam, we wouldn't be able to do our walk-through. So in about an hour, we are heading out to our new house!!

Tomorrow the real work will begin. We have Gairod's cargo trailer loaded with garage stuff, and his utility trailer loaded with firewood. We plan on leaving this house at 8am tomorrow morning, taking both trailers out at once (we are borrowing Gairod's dad's truck), and unloading them. Then the kids and I will have to come back to Crossfield around 11:30am, drop off the utility trailer, and head into Airdrie for swimming lesson. Gairod will stay out at the new house for the afternoon, and hopefully get a fenced off area set up for our dog.

Gairod has to work days on Saturday and Sunday, so my mom is planning on coming out to the new house with me and the kids both those days, so we can get it all cleaned, and ready to start moving things into the house! :)

I am so excited for our new life to begin! :)

Happy 5th Birthday Kadance, Cole, and Hayden!

On Monday March 5th, Kadance, Cole, and Hayden turned 5 years old! They had a GREAT birthday!!

Gairod worked the night shift on Sunday, so he was already in Calgary on Monday morning. The kids and I got up and ready to go, and met him at Village Square Leisure Center, to go swimming for the morning! The kids were all excited, because we don't normally go to this pool, and it has a few waterslides. It was perfect. We were in the water by 9:30am, and aside from a few elderly people, we were the only ones in the whole place!

After we were done swimming, we went to Crossiron Mills mall, and had lunch in the food court. I should mention that we didn't tell the kids any of what we would be doing before hand, so the whole day was a surprise to them! :)

After we had lunch, we went to Toys R Us, and let Kadance, Cole, and Hayden each pick out a new bike for their birthday presents!! They were SO happy!! They LOVE riding bikes, and their current ones are too small, so it was a perfect birthday gift!

After we were done at the mall, we popped over to Costco to pick up a few things for their birthday party, and then into Airdrie to pick up Cole's cake. (He wanted a DQ ice cream cake, the other 2 wanted homemade cakes) Then we headed home to get ready for the party! :)

We decided to just have a really simple party this year, pizza and cake, and only family. Unfortunately half of our family ended up sick that day, so only half were able to make it to the party. My parents, Gairod's parents, and Gairod's brother Kody, his wife, and their little boy, were the only ones able to come. I was kind of disappointed at first, but to be honest, I am kind of getting used to it. We seem to have quite a few family members and friends who either back out at the last minute, or are never able to get together anymore. If they can't make the time for us when we only live 10 minutes away, I am SURE they won't make time for us when we are an hour away. Time to just cut our loses, and stop letting bad family members and friends drag us down!

ANYWAYS, back to the party. The kids had a great time, and that is ALL that really matters!


1 More Week!

One week from today, we get possession of our house!! I can't wait! I am SO ready to just get on with moving already!! I am up to 95 boxes packed, and I am trying to pack a few more each day, weeding out whatever we can live without for the next 2 weeks!! 

5.

I am feeling much better about the email thing. I opened up a hotmail account, and I now have almost all of my email stuff moved over - crisis averted! lol! Seriously though, I am trying to just stay calm, and take things in stride. I am sure there will be several things come up over the next few weeks, that will have the potential to send me over the edge. I am just going to try and remind myself that "this too shall pass", and try not to get TOO stressed out over stuff that I have no control over, or that won't really matter in the long run! Moving on.

Tomorrow, my three precious miracles, will be 5 years old! HOW did that happen?! How have they possibly grown from three tiny little 4 pound preemies, that fit in my belly, into the wonderful, precious "big kids" they are today!?

I'm having a hard time with "5". It's a big number for little kids. "5" bridges the gap from "preschool age" to "school age". 5 sounds old!

Kadance, Cole and Hayden are excited about turning 5. They have been counting down the number of sleeps until their birthday for the past week! This morning, as soon as Hayden woke up he said "Only 1 more sleep Mom!" :)

Since we are in the middle of packing and on the brink of moving, I decided not to do a big party this year. We simply don't have the money to spend, and I really didn't think it would be wise to add one more thing to my list of things to do and things to stress me out! Instead, I let each of them tell me exactly what they want for a cake, and we will have 3 separate, completely non-relating cakes! Gairod is off work tomorrow, so I think we will take the day off of school, and probably go swimming. Then we are having our families over for dinner and cake!

This will be our last get-together, and last birthday, in this house. Kadance, Cole, and Hayden have lived their entire first 5 years in this house. This house is FULL of memories.....*sniff, sniff*....

Technology.

For the past few weeks, I've been thinking of doing a post on spending less time on the computer. I know I waste way too much time on the computer each day, and I could get a lot more done around the house if I put a time limit on my computer time.

Right now, our computer is in our living room, which is a central place in our house. Basically, it's too conveniently placed! I can easily pop onto the computer for "a few minutes", at any time during the day or evening. When we move to our new house, our computer will be in a office, out of the way, and less "convenient". I am honestly looking forward to this, since like I said before, I know I spend too much time on the computer, and I know that this will encourage me to not waste so much time! :)

The ironic thing is, over the past few days, I have been totally stressed out over trying to figure out how to get internet and email at our new house. Since we will be on an acreage, we can't get the same high-speed internet through the same company that we do right now. We will have to get satellite internet, through a different company, which means I will be losing my email address, and to top it all off, it's going to cost more. I am kind of embarrassed about how much this is stressing me out. I've never really thought I was too reliant on technology (remember when I first got my iphone?), but over the past few days, I have realized that I am okay with less technology when it's on my terms, but not necessarily when I don't have a choice in the matter!

I know that ultimately, it all boils down to change. I've mentioned several times before, that I don't do well with change. Well, moving is a BIG change. I know that it will all be for the better, but all of the little changes that go along with it - new mailing address, new phone number, new email address - are completely stressing me out!! I don't like the idea of having to change ALL of my contact info at the same time. It's stupid, I know, but it's how I feel.