Our sweet little one was born on January 22. He weighed 8, 10. It's been 6 weeks already. I can't believe it. I am starting school on April 1st. I'm going to be a teacher. It's something I think I will love doing and even might be pretty good at. I think I'm going to try to teach 2nd grade but will probably have to settle for whatever is available when I graduate.
Well I guess this picture doesn't illustrate the boring part but this is pretty normal around my house. Don't you love the rust stains in the toilet too? YUCK!!! I got some stuff for that I hope it works. I'm so grateful for Christmas break to be over and to have a little time to get ready for this baby to come. I have two and a half weeks left unless I actually go into labor which hasn't happened before so we'll see. I was starting to go a little crazy with all the festivities since I don't get much sleep at the moment due to my pelvic joint being separated by about 2 centimeters wich I have been told by my doctor is because I have had five kids fairly close togeather. He also told me so kindly that there is nothing I can do to make the pain go away. I went to the chiropractor for the first time and he pretty much said the same thing. I guess I will just have to stick it out until the end. I will be trading getting no sleep because of pain to getting no sleep because of a hungry baby. I'll take the hungry baby any day.
We are not moving at the moment. Suprisingly Man#1 didn't get either job which has never happened before so I guess the timing is not right yet. I can't say that I'm too dissapointed I wasn't looking forward to moving right after having a baby. Been there done that. I'm excited to stay put for a little while so we can save money. I'm a little worried about fitting six boys in our three bedroom place but at least most of them are still little enough that they don't care about sharing rooms.
Why is it that every picture of this little guy is of him getting very messy?
I guess we'll never know. We did manage to have Christmas through all our craziness. Here are a couple of cute shots. The one of the tree is before the baby got to it. The bottom third of the tree was bare most of the time it was up. That's pretty normal. 
The only time our tree looks pretty is the first moments after we put it up and the first moments on Christmas morning after Santa has fixed it and put candy canes on it. I am looking forward to a day when I can get glass ornaments again only to get rid of them again once we have grandkids which won't be that far away considering Boy #1 is 16. It could be as soon as like 7 years. Could you imagine me a grandma at 35? Wow, How fun!
Let me tell you about what we have been up to lately.
Man #1 has had two interviews and it looks promising that one of them will stick. We found a house that just got put on short sale so if we get it it would be one heck of a deal! It is five bedrooms three bathrooms, 2500 square feet with a huge backyard. I even has a little playhouse in the back. If the bank accepts our offer we would get it for 160,000. The owners first listed the house for 267,000. I really hope we get it. It just means we of course will be moving again. 
Man #1 also just got in a car accident so we aren't selling the other car we have anymore because his car is totaled. He is very lucky it wasn't worse than it was. An older lady came out from a side street and plowed into him because she hit her gas intead of her brake. Both his airbags deployed and his window was smashed out. The front of it is pretty crunched. He missed a pole by about three inches. It took out his side mirror. She wasn't hurt as far as we know. We luckily got back the money we just put into that car because we had a reciept for the work that was just done to it. Man #1's back is completly out and he has been bedridden for about a week. He has been going to a chiropractor for the last four days and it seems to be helping. He was determined to get some work done this week so he decided to go to work today for a few hours even though I very much tried to talk him out of it. He is still in a lot of pain.
We have decided that this will be more temporary than we had previously thought. A new baby will be just what splits the seams in this house. 
The house itself is great overall. The size makes it a whole lot easier to keep clean and we have ironed out the few kinks that we're keeping the smallest of our clan from sleeping.
Mainly putting the T.V. in the front room away from his door. The water is not good so we bought an industrial strength filter. The water from that is so good!
I am almost done getting the old house ready for our renters. They will be here tomorrow or Thursday. Our dogs are happier with a fence and a dog house. We also inherited a chicken from our last renters. It lays eggs but we need to contain it to find them. The boys are planning to build a tree house when things calm down and Man #1 has decited to take a break from school until January. Thank goodness!!! I was starting to feel like a single mom. 
Aren't they cute? 
I love flag football because they don't get hurt. In a couple of years they will probably want to play with full pads. YIKES! They haven't won a game but they have so much fun.
So we are moving the week after next into our rental house. I'm excited because it's a lot cheaper than the house we're in now and it's next door. I can just grab some stuff and walk it over there. No truck no packing no movers. It's a bit smaller than the place we're in now but it has a family room. The renters for our house came last week and they are so cool! I'm so glad that we are always so blessed to have such awesome renters. They have two little girls so maybe I'll get to have tea parties with them!
I reluctantly taught my older boys to play Monopoly last Sunday because we had some time to kill. Three hours later we were still playing and no one was even winning yet. I could stand it no longer and told them the game was over. We counted up all our money and property and boy #2 won of course! They have been asking me to play again but I think I will wait a while before diving into that endless game again. 
Thats right for all of you well wishers keeping my hopes up for that coveted girl I'm still lost in the sea of testosterone. That's right we are having another boy! This is my fifth boy and our sixth boy togeather. Help Me!! All of you that could use a break now and then fixing hair and playing tea party send your girls my way. I need the reminder. Maybe I will just buy myself some princess dressups and make my boys rescue me from now on. I deserve it!
Here is the party. We had a lot of fun! Sis and fam and other Sis came. Boy #1 got an Ipod. The Monday after I went to his house to help him ask a girl to Homecoming. We got her favorite color roses (pink and orange not easy to find) and put little papers in them asking her to the dance. It was so much fun! It was also his idea which I thought was awesome. 
He really didn't want me to document it (as you can see by his face) but I did anyway. What kind of mom or stepmom would I be if I didn't embarass him every once and awhile.
While he was here we went to see Grandma who is doing so much better. She got to go home yesterday so she is glad to be out of hospitals. She still has a long road to recovery but at least she gets to do it at home.
