May 2011

Since I missed a couple months of posting I am going to update about each month until the current month. My friend Alli explained how to do back dated posts so I think that's how I will do it! I'm going to do my best to remember what happened in each month lol

I spent most of May getting settled in our new house. I was painting, decorating and organizing everything! It's been hard work but completely worth it. Addie had a hard time adjusting to the move. The first night she cried and pulled on the front door because she wanted to "go home." We moved her toddler bed into our room and she slept there for a week or so. After that she was fine.

We have lots of birthday in May in our family...my Dad, my Brother, my Brother-in-law and some friends share birthdays in that month too. I think we went to 4 birthday parties in May! It was nuts!

On my Dad's birthday (May 17th) Addie I joined my parents for lunch at this great little local place called Wild West Steakhouse. The food was delicious and very reasonably priced. We all loved it!

Around my Brother's birthday (May 23rd) he found out that his girlfriend was carrying a boy! The first boy grandchild in our family. Very exciting! They decided to name him Kota Lot Blough.

We also had our first home owner stresses in May. We bought a used washer and dryer set and my Dad helped Andrew hook it up in our upstairs laundry room (dumbest thing EVER!) We ran it once without laundry in it to make sure it was hooked up correctly and then went about our business. I was painting Addie's playroom and Andrew was doing some laundry. All of the sudden I hear water hitting tile. I yelled to Andrew, "Is Addie peeing on the floor??" and the next thing I see is Andrew flying up the stairs and turning off the washer. The hose popped out of the washer and it flooded the laundry room...I mean A LOT of water! Even the carpet in the hallway was flooded. We have an emergency pipe that's supposed to direct the water out to the backyard but instead it directed the water to come pouring out of the light fixture in our kitchen! It was a big mess and very scary. Luckily we got it all handled and no permanent damage was done. We fixed the washer and now it works like a champ! I wanted to cry when all of this was happening lol.

In May we also did the 30 Hour Famine with our Church Youth Group. It's an amazing organization and gives us a chance to impact the world in our own Church. We ask people to donate to us while we go 30 hours without food (Almost like a walkathon, donate per hour) and then spend the 30 hours together at the Church doing community service projects, playing games, singing worship and doing Bible studies. We stay overnight at the Church and then break our fast with communion and a big BBQ. It's really a blessing to watch these teenagers not only dedicate two days of their time but also being HUNGRY (which is such a big deal for teens) so they can help feed people in need. $1 feeds a child for a day and we raised over $2000.00. It was amazing!

I think those were the big events for May!