What to update?...

Well hmm, don't know what to update as of now. You know when you have a whole list and can't compartmentalize anything so all you see is the massive pile that is our life and don't know where to start?! I'm there for sure.

So with our settlement we definitely had to pay bills and balances, but there were things we did need so we had to set some aside for those things. One was a camera, our kids broke our other camera around Christmas of 2008! Yay it's been THAT long since we've had a camera. I have my cell phone, but it only does certain things and it's without a flash. Funny thing is when we bought our other camera it was when 6 mega pixels was outstanding - and that was at the whopping price of about $500! Now you can get a nice one for around $100 and it's 10 to 12 mega pixels, that was a relief. So, I'm excited for that - WE HAVE A CAMERA! With 5 kids it's something really hard to be without.

Second we've been borrowing my brother's computer for about 3 years and let's face it, he needs to get it back. So, the end of last year he said he was really needing it back. Doing Lia Sophia and school with the girls (like Leah doing a report on the Arctic Fox while the school's computer lab is under construction) we had to buy a computer, we decided on a laptop. I feel so privileged! This I hope will also help with the updating, I can open our computer other than at the computer desk. I can sit next to my kids on the couch and help them with their homework AND check email - how cool is that?!!

The last major purchase was a couch that finally fits our whole family. We'd try to sit and watch a movie as a family and it was a dog pile situation. Complaining from all sides - "There's no where for me to sit, they're squishing me, why does so and so get to sit there, I can't fit, I don't want to sit on the floor"!! Then there was my response - "Ugh you can't sit on me, Mommy is SO hot it's making me sick" (compliments of my hormone imbalance), it really does make me feel sick and nauseous when I get feeling that hot. So, we have a sectional that actually fits in our family room and fits our whole family!

It feels awesome - small things impress us what can I say, but they are really huge! That's it for now, Caden is in the bathroom sink and is not listening to me. He flooded the bathroom a few months ago which went into the other room next to the bathroom. We had to pull the carpet up and everything. He plugged the sink with toilet paper and then left the sink on a very small drip and over time it filled a total of 3 rooms in the end. That's another story to update, like I said...it's never dull :)!