Well sadly we weren't able to make a visit back home with my surgery and still recovering and deployment nearing so close but thankfully Bryans family was able to make it this way for a little visit for a few days.
They came in town on Saturday and we spent a few days doing a couple of fun things from swimming at the pool at their hotel, chucky cheese, dinner and more.
The kids were really excited to have their Mimi and Pa here!
Now it's time to crack down on the packing and get ready for our move in a few days!
Well over the last few weeks we have had a lot of changes going on. We are finally getting out of housing and finally moving back to where we wanted to live and loved living before.
The boys have been asking to go back to school all summer and really miss it and I was on the fence because I really wanted to finish out a full year of homeschool for this next school year and then us decide but since my oldest one hasn't stopped asking and seemed a lot happier in school and with us moving they will be in a much much better school district and a lot more benifits like buses again (which helps if I get sick) and no uniforms! Yay! So we've decided to let them go back. So I got them all enrolled and set up and thankfully my youngest son didn't loose his IEP by being pulled out when he did and will just start that back up.
We have also decided we may need to put our youngest son back in ABA as he's developing quit the attitude lately and become very rude. The day I had surgery he just really got thrown off so I think with some of the events coming up he would benifit.
I'm back and forth on considering sending my daughter to a little prek for one or two days a week. Her birthday is late so she missed the deadline for school but is so ready to go and would really benifit from it but I'm just not sure I can do it just yet. We will see though.
tonight we had a family outting with movies in the park with our village. We had fun on a bounce house, got face painting, hot dogs and hamburgers, popcorn, nachos, snickers, skittles, glow sticks, all for free!
We watched Planet 51!
Peytons finally starting to enjoy the water a lot more and enjoy the spray park. We finally made it to the spray park in Harker Heights and the girls had a lot of fun but the boys never left the pool on the other side lol
went to open gym time this afternoon to let the kids run out some energy. I jumped on the trampoline some and thinking there's probably a weight limit on that and I might want to not do it again haha The boys were all around there doing flips and everything else!
I've added and changed a few things from the original recipe. I have to leave out the peppers since hubby is a wuss lol
1 onion chopped
2 cans chili beans
1 can dark red kidney beans
1 can black beans
1 can corn
4 cans diced tomatoes (with peppers if you like spicey chili)
1 jar hot salsa
1 pack of chili powder
1 pack of taco seasoning
1/8 cup black pepper
1/8 cup garlic power
1/8 cup red pepper
1/8 cup ground cummin
4 chopped peppers (if you want it to be spicey)
2lbs of ground beef
In large pot over medium heat, combine all ingredients while browning meat. Once meat is browned, drain and add to chili mixture, cover and simmer one hour.
We've had a lot of first milestones over the last week here! Peyton started crawling in late May and would scoot around by doing almost like a push up and pull around the floor on her belly. She's been scooting on her back oddly since 2 months but this was her real scoot.
A few days ago she finally started moving her legs and really crawling like a true crawler!
Then she pulled herself up to a standing position one night and said "dadda" last night! My husband was just absolutely thrilled to hear that before he leaves!
She also started eating finger foods so she has been very happy to get some more variety in her diet!
She is just getting to big!
