stupid VAN!

Well we had a great adventure yesterday. We sold our car over the weekend and we used the money from it to buy Bills dads truck. Well Bill was a little excited so he insisted on going the FIRST day that we could. So we made the trip to his partents house yesterday to pick it up. Not a big deal we hadnt been up to see them in a while so we got sydney out of school and met them for lunch and spent the afternoon with them.

We were on our way home, I was driving the van full of kids (of course, i did want my children alive when i got home and with dad u never know... his patients in the car drys quickly) and bill was driving the truck behind me. I had not been feeling the best all day so he was following close behind me incase i needed to pull over. I get a call from him on my cell "pull over on this exit now, ur leaking something bad". GREAT! I made it to Big O tires, but barely. We open up the hood and there is antifreeze splashed all over the hood and all of the engine!!! GREAT! Anyway, we find out its the stupid water pump AGAIN...the exact same big o fixed it for us 2 years ago! I was thinking "if u think ur goin to fix it again ur crazy, we'll go somewhere else". But then bill comes out and tells me it is under lifetime warranty. So we just have to pay for the labor..... But it has to sit at Big o for a week and a half until we can make it back down to get it!!! GGGGRRRR!

The best part is still coming, please dont stop reading! All day long i had been having contractions, and they didnt feel like the normal braxton Hicks u usually get about this far along. They felt very much like the real thing, very painful. I was trying to ignore them or at least try not to make it look so bad, but once we got to big O i had had it, i wasnt pretending i was ok anymore. As i started paying more attention to them i noticed they were only 2 minutes apart! GREAT! Almost exactly 2 minutes, I was feeling it in my back, my lower stomach....everywhere ur not supposed to this early. And as i was sitting there thinking about the day and when they really started i realized they started the minute we got in the van that morning. And the more i thought about it the more i realized they had been about that consistant all day, i was just in denial. So then I start to get pretty worried, We just drove past the hospital i wanted to go to, and if we go all the way home its an hour to get back to that hospital. but at the same time, am i just getting a little too worried. AAAHHHH........ we got home, and they continued till about 11 when they started to go every 6 minutes, then 10. Until around 1230 it had gotten mild enough that i could sleep. Then i woke up this morning and noticed MY BELLY HAD DROPPED! It has never happened to me this early.... i guess the contractions did something, but at least the baby is still in its toasty warm place. ANYWAY..... theres my drama for the day.

No mommy ur the elephant!

well i knew it wouldnt take long for my kids to do or say something that would be blog worthy! We were sitting at dinner tonight and as always the kids are talking about cartoon characters and which one they are going to pretend to be. So Austin decided the pick for the night was Horton Hears a Who, and he wanted to be horton. Ally wanted to be the mommy kangaroo, Sydney was the Mayor, and Dad was the Volture..... Everyone was asking me who i wanted to be. I said i was the Who... they didnt like that answer and all 3 of them just staired at me. Then Ally Gets this "AhHa" look on her face and says "No mommy ur the elephant cuz ur real fat!" I look over at Bill who is laughing inwardly so hard hes dang near chocking on his food. Then i look back at ally and she has her belly stuck out and is rubbing it..... "yep ur the elephant cuz your belly is real fat!". Well that made me feel a little better knowing that she was talking about my baby belly, but u still have to wonder.

We created a new cleaning method today we'll see how it works. The kids have 3 jobs each day and every 3 days we change jobs. If they do their job without being told they get a smily face for the day. And with those smily faces they can earn things. For example ally wants a littlest pet shop stuffed animal, so i told her she has to earn 28 smily faces to get it. So in reality she has to do her jobs well for 28 days to get it, and if it is done poorly or if i have to tell them to do it I will cross one of their smily faces off. I got this idea from one of my new neighbors, and the kids are always asking for everything in the store when we go shopping... so now i can tell them they can use their family bucks (aka smily faces) to get it.

Here it Goes!

ok so i keep getting crap from everyone that i need a blog!! so here it is! Welcome to the burns nut house!!!! we have a club and meet every wednesday night at 6:30..... FYI if u live a life free of screaming yellling children, broken eggs on the floor, weird smells coming from the girls room, or feel ur going insane.... u need not attend our meeting!

to update the family situation..... Bill and i have been married for 8 years (hard to believe its been that long) and have 3 3/4 children. thats right 3/4....... we are having another baby in June that will make 4. Hey 8 years and 4 kids id say we're keeping it pretty steady if ya know what i mean. Anyway, Our oldest is Sydney she just turned 7. Allyson is our second she will be 5 in May. Austin is our baby for the moment and he will turn 3 in Aug. We are pretty lost on a name for our next baby which is a boy.... so if u have any ideas please let us know!