Still no bites on the house, which I am rather bummed about. It has only been two week, but I can still hope right? This is proving to be a great challenge for Doug and I to decide what to do if our house sells. You think it would be easy, but we are not finding that to be the case! I think we would both love to build again, and we have a great house plan picked out, but we are trying to decide if that is the best way to go. We are going to try and look in to some forclosures, but not sure if we will find what we are looking for. This whole area of my life is something I need great patience in right now!

Why is it that one morning you wake up and you have a sick kid. The next morning you wake up and the other one is sick as well!! AHHHHH. Both of my boys have a runny nose and bad cough. I just hope that something more doesn't come of it!!

On a better note, we had our first open house this week Sunday. It went extremely well! We had 8 couples that walked through. Unfortunatly we have no idea if any of them are interested or not. We will wait and see!! Doug and I drove around a little bit that afternoon and looked at houses/lots that are for sale. We are really going to struggle agreeing on something I think!! The only way to get close to what we both want is going to be to build, I think. We don't want to sell our house and be stuck with no ideas, but it is really hard for me to focus on that, when I am not very positive our house will sell. We will see. In the mean time, we'll keep praying!!

Well, our house is officially up for sale. We went to a dinner at church on Monday night and came home to a for sale sign in the yard!! Very excited. Although I am trying hard not to get too excited do to the fact that it is for sure a buyers market and we very well could sit on it for a while! :( We are already having our first open house this week Sunday and I am beginning to think there is no way I am going to have my house clean enough. I pick something up and the boys make an even bigger mess!! Not to mention this leaves no time for actually cleaning things. We will see. Pray it all goes well and things can move quickly for us!!

It seems as though on the days that I am feeling lazy and not wanting to do anything, those are the days my boys are CRAZY!!!! Austin has been in to "Mine" or "My Turn" lately. It is not easy to explain to an 18 month old, why it is his brothers turn for something. For the most part, Mason has been extremely good with this. He usually lets Austin have the toy, but some times (rightfully so) he tends to just screem back at him. Today seems to be one of those days.

I never realized how much more quickly Austin would want to do things because his brother is doing them. For instance. We have a little booster chair that we can still strap Austin in at the dinner table. OH NO, not any more. Austin has to sit in a big chair. And by sit, I mean stand up because he can't reach the table otherwise. :)

Also on my heart today is so many people in the Tiemeyer family! My grandpa was recently hospitalized again with dizziness among other things. He is currently in a rehab facility but struggling with depression. My grandma has alzeimers which he had confessed has gotten much worse in the week and a half leading up to him being hospitalized. He is worried that she will not be able to live back with him at their apartment and will have to stay in the alzeimers unit she is currently staying in. My cousin Jill is having another iodine treatment today for her thyroid cancer that she was diagnosed with about a year or so ago. She is such a strong women. I am so proud to call her family!! My cousin Rebecca has been having some health issues and all the tests that have been run have come back negative. So, this Friday, she is having surgery to see if they can figure out what is going on. My cousin Todd is getting snipped this Friday! I think we should all send him a bag of frozen peas!! lol

God is so good and I know he is with each of these people through all these difficult times! Today's verse on my computer is Psalm 100:2 "Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs"

Today the sun is shining and I thank God for all the wonderful things in my life. I have a great husband (with whom I tend to take for granted) two beautiful boys, and the greatest family in the world. I have to admit that lately I have been needing some boosts in my personal relationship with God. I find myself forgetting the simple facts of things that I learned so long ago. I pray that God will reveal himself to me in ways I have not yet seen but also remind me of all the things I already know about him!

Well, summer is coming to a close and we are starting to look ahead to the busy holiday season at work. The more I think about it, the harder time I am having with have to leave my boys more during such an important time of year. I am currently working Thursday and Friday and for five weeks I will have to be working Monday and Tuesday evening, three of those weeks I will have to work Saturday and one of those weeks I will have to add Wednesday night as well. I understand the extra need but it is so much harder for me with my young kids. Please pray for my family as we will have to adjust to this busy schedule!!!

Mason's first breathing treatment

Well last week Thursday, I had a bit of a scary time. Mason was having difficulty breathing and the nurse told me to take him in to the ER. I was super stressed because Mason started crying, then Austin started crying and I couldn't get a hold of Doug. Go Figure. Anyway, it turns out that when we got there his oxygen levels were down to 87. They put him on 3ml of oxygen but that only bumped him up to 92. He got his first breathing treatment in the ER and that seemed to help. After about 2 hours they tried to take him of the oxygen and he dropped back down again so they ended up admitting him. At this point I am worried about him and trying to figure out what we are going to do about the vacation/family reunion we were supposed to be leaving for at 4am the next morning. My parents gladly took Austin overnight and from there it was a waiting game. I stay the night with Mason but by about 3:30 I had still not slept between nurses coming in to check on him or to give him treatments and from the fact that he kept itching his nose and pulling out his oxygen. So I called Doug at 3:50 am (sorry honey!!) and told him that I needed him to come and stay with him for a while because I needed to sleep and was not feeling well. (yep by the time Doug had gotten there, I had thrown up) So I went home and slept for 3 hours and was back to the hospital by 9. They took him off oxygen at 10:30 and he was doing extremely well. Finally by 3 in the afternoon, they let us go. We headed straight for Wisconsin with an oral steroid and breathing treatments. What a trooper Mason was. He did SOOOO well all weekend. Praise God for taking care of us and our children!!

He Finally made it in to a room

He was very limited to where he could go with

oxygen on.

He loved the swing with Aunt Kelly!!!