Unemployed!

It's official! Kurt is unemployed! This is a big thing for us!. After working for the same car dealership for 7 1/2 years Kurt finally decided that he's sick of the hours and needs to spend more time with his family. I personally have been sick of the hours since he became a manager. He sold cars for the first two years and after that has been one of their finance managers. Don't get me wrong, we are very grateful that he has had a good, stable job for so many years. It has allowed us to get into our home, and for me to be a stay at home mom. I have to say that we owe a lot to this job. It just got to a point were Kurt would go two of three days without even seeing the girls because he would leave before they were awake and come home at 10:00 or 11:00 at night after they were in bed. He has had to come early from vacations because he wasn't allowed to take a Saturday off and has had to work every holiday. I have to say that I'm excited that part of our lives is over. Although the unknown is scary and we have no idea what job he's going to get.

Don't worry we didn't make this decision to quit without much prayer and preparation financially. We've known that this day was going to come for months now and we have been setting ourselves up just in case Kurt doesn't find a job right away. He doesn't want to jump into the first thing that comes his way unless it's something he wants to do the rest of his life. Now is the time to find a job that he will be happy with forever. I'm not sure how long it will take him to find this amazing job, but I know without a doubt that him quitting his job is the right thing. Why it's the right thing is the question. Maybe it's right because we need some sort of trial in our lives, and he won't find a job right away. I know that when people go through major trials they are always grateful for them when they're over, but this doesn't mean that I exactly want this trial, although Kurt and I are probably due for a challenge, we've been so blessed in our lives. Or maybe (this is the one we hope for) he finds his dream job within the month and we live happily ever after, with time together on Saturdays, holidays, nights and maybe he'll be able to see our children grow up and won't be missing their lives like he has been. Kurt wasn't even able to take an hour off to see Raegans preschool program. It saddens me to think about all the time Kurt was missing out on. I think that spending time as a family, and my girls having a dad around, is far more important then living in a fancy house, having new cars, boats, and all thoses other things that are temporary and in the long run will mean nothing.

We did the right thing, now we just wait to see what the next step in our lives is going to be. So far I'm excited to have my husband around and he'll have some time to get his "honey do" list done!!! I'm sure I won't be feeling this way if he's still around jobless in two months. If you hear of any dream jobs opening up let us know!

Picture Tagged!

My darling niece Abbie tagged me a bit ago and I have been a tagged, blogging, slacker. So anyway, here it goes:

The rules are to take pictures of these things without preparation. Just go for it, so I did!

1. My favorite room. This was a toss up because I do like my girls rooms, but since those rooms are NEVER clean, toys galore in them I decided that my favorite room is the one that I can keep fairly clean most of the time which is my family room.

2. My laundry pile. I've never been great about keeping up on my laundry, however I've made improvements in the past couple months and I now do 1 load a day, which includes folding and putting it away.

3. Self portrait: I'm just not photogenic.

4. My fridge. Now I feel like I'm on MTV Cribs. Here it is folks, left over lasagna and all.

5. My sink. I can't stand to have dishes in my sink, it does happen but the second I get a chance to clean them I do.

6. My closet. Another thing that I'm not the greatest at keeping clean, I figure no one sees it but me so why bother. Now all of you are seeing it.

7. Favorite shoes. I go with totally practical and comfortable when it comes to shoes, so these aren't my cutest pair, but my favorite in the summer.

8. What my children are doing right now. Eating the dinner that I slaved over all day.

9. My dream vacation is: anywhere that I can lay in the sun, drink virgin pina coladas and eat at wonderful buffets. I do like to sight see, but probably wouldn't qualify as my dream vacation.

10. My toilet. I skipped this one because I thought it was weird. My toilet however is clean.

Now for the tagging. I tag Stormi, Haley, Alyssa S., and anyone else who has a burning desire to do this, it was actually kind of a fun one.

Rodeo

Every year for Kurts dad's birthday we go to the rodeo as a family. Raegan and Macy were both excited to go see the horses and the cowboys. After a few minutes Macy was no longer excited about the horses and was only interested in her snow cone, and lap jumping, which made me nervous because I just know that one of these rodeo days she's going to fall through that huge space under the seats in the bleachers. If you've been to the Round Up then you know what I'm talking about. Raegan's favorite part was the motorcycle dare-devils and she also told me that she wants to grow up to be a cowgirl. I think it was because she saw all of the Rodeo Queens sparkled up. All in all we had a fun time watching the cowboys get beat up. Here's a few pictures from this years event at the Round Up.

I Have a Header!

I have to thank Nichole for making me a cute header! She was so sweet to think of my sad headerless blog in her spare time. Thanks Nichole! You Rock!

It Finally Happened...

KURT CUT HIS HAIR!!! YAY! It took some convincing. In order for this to happen I did have to cut him a deal. But this is a family blog so I will spare you the details..ha ha. Just kidding....kind of. All that matters is that the hair is gone! Here it is, one fine looking army buzz. It doesn't get any fancier then this folks.Doesn't he look 10 pounds lighter? He did loose about 5 pounds of long, thinning, baby fine hair. Maybe thats it.

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day to all the incredible dads out there, including mine, and my husband. Kurt has always been a great dad to our girls and I feel so lucky to have him.
The highlight of Fathers Day this year was the tie that Raegan proudly made for her dad. I had all the co-op kids make Fathers Day ties and they were extremely excited, and I can't tell you how many times I heard, "My dad is going to looooovvve this!" They were so so cute about it. Kurt was such a good sport and wore it to church for Raegan.
Raegan also gave her very first talk in primary, called "My Fathers Day Tool Chest". She held up pictures of different tools and had a poem to go along with them that had to do with all the things our daddy's teach us. After her talk (which she did perfect, loud, and clear) she told her dad Happy Fathers Day and that she loved him in the microphone. It was really cute and I was so proud of her. I know that I was way more nervous for her to give a talk then she was. She beamed the entire time.

Fathers Day night we had my family over, my mom made turkey and brought it for dinner.

I love my dad, father-in-law and my husband! I've really got it good when it comes to the men in my life.

This is Raegan as she waits for Kurt to open his Fathers Day tie from her.

This is Raegan after Kurt opens the present and he gives approval and tells her how much he loves it.
One good lookin' tie, if I do say so myself.

My dad with my girls. They adore him and he adores them. Raegan follows her grandpa around like a little puppy, she doesn't leave his side.

Going, Going, Gone.

I just heard on the news there's a high wind warning in effect. Do ya think? Our tramp was on the completely other side of our yard, it blew over a tree to get here.

Don't be Jealous...

...that your husband doesn't have as long flowing, mushroom hair as Kurt these days. I promise you're not feeling as disgusted as I have been feeling for the past 4 months. Kurt had a bet with his dad to see who could go the longest without getting a haircut. Guess who won. Guess who won and still won't cut his hair because now he thinks it's fun. The winner receives a steak dinner... so not worth it. It's beyond gross and nothing I say or do can get him to trim his untamed, 70's mane. Do I buzz it while he's sleeping? Do I accidentally run into him with scissors from behind? Should I deny him any kind of lovin? Or maybe refuse to cook or clean. Any suggestions? I need help and quick, he's becoming the laughing stalk of the entire neighborhood and I'm embarrassed.

His unshaven face and mexi-stash doesn't help the situation.

Haley Visits From the Concert.

My girls are so lucky to have an aunt Haley who spoils them like crazy! Haley is my younger sister who is living in Wisconsin supporting her husband while he attends medical school. When Haley was first moving there Raegan would call it the concert, and ask when she was coming home from her concert, so we all still call Wisconsin the concert. She came to visit May 23rd for a few days and wanted to spend most of her time with my girls. She took them to the petting zoo, and we also spent one of the days at the zoo. It was so fun to be able to spend time with my sister. I keep warning my girls to live it up while Haley has no kids because their royal treatment might go away once aunt Haley has kids of her own to spoil. We love you Haley! Thanks for being so dang cute with my kids, they absolutely love you!

While Haley was here we had the family over for dinner, Raegan and Macy put on a fabulous puppet show for everyone. Here's Macy at her best. Haley and my mom were good sports and jumped on the tramp with the girls, they loved it.

See! Mom loves jumping on the tramp!

Haley showing off her moves.