I Really Didn't Want Seconds....

After you go through a trial have you ever thought to yourself, "Well, I'm glad that's over with. That was really hard, but I got through it." and then you move on remembering but no necessarily dwelling on it. I felt that way last summer and fall, as we dealt with the after affects of Shane having his seizure in June. I think I honestly thought that there really wasn't a possibility of him having another one. At least I had made myself believe it. Maybe it was a coping mechanism. Wednesday afternoon my sister-in-law called after school to let me know Shane had had another seizure. I was more than horrified as I sobbed in the office as I waited for Joni to pick me up. I was so scared for Shane, for my sweetheart and Colson's daddy. I had no details so of course I imagined the worst. Shane had been cleaning off the beet planter when it happened. He had been on his knees so he didn't drop too far, which is a blessing for him. The Lord I know was watching over him, because his cousin Blair was there with him and was able to keep his airways open after the seizure had happened. Blair also got on the radio to call for help. How blessed he was. He got released from the hospital, but had pain over every inch of his body. He's feeling much better now but his shoulder is still hurt and he can't move it certain ways without being in extreme pain. We go back to our Neurologist on Monday. We still don't know why the seizures have happened, but we're praying that we can find something soon. Until then we're just counting our blessings.

Simplicity

Simplicity. Oh how I love simplicity. I often feel like as I get older I make things more complicated than they need to be. I get wrapped up in the details when I should be looking at the big picture. I've recently felt an urgency to alleviate any unnecessary extras I have brought into my life; a Spring cleaning of sort. The simple things are the important things. Like me sitting in the middle of the lawn and Colson walking in big circles around me for 20 minutes talking to himself while muttering a few mamas every now and then. That is what I want. Joy through simplicity.

Greenie Beanies

Colson has been very insistant lately that I let him feed himself. So I'll feed him a good amount and then let him do the rest. He got so messy tonight. His green beans were everywhere. It was straight to the bath right after dinner!

Slimy green monster!

Our First House

Well, I can honestly say that I feel like we're "coming home". Shane and I have lived in 5 different places in our 2 years of being married. We've said over and over that we just never felt settled and never really felt like we were "Home". I believe that there are houses that are just houses to live in and houses that feel like your home. Shane and I feel like that right now. Even though we have yet to move into our home, and we won't until the end of May.

Here are a few "before" pictures we snapped when we went to go and measure for furniture. My favorite thing about the house is how much character it has. I really don't like cookie cutter houses that look all the same. So I absolutely fell in love with this 1933 house! I didn't include laundry room pictures, toy room, den or pictures of the little apartment over the garage, maybe later.

Front of the house. We're going to cut down the two trees in front of the house because we think they hid the curb appeal of the house.

The living room. The wallpaper in this room is not me. In fact the wallpaper pops up in several different places in the house. I've already coaxed my little brother to come down from school on a weekend and help me take it off. Any other takers!?

Bathroom. I don't think I'm going to do too much to the bathroom, I might just get a new mirror.

I'm not too big of a fan of the cupboards in the kitchen. I think we're going to redo all the cupboards. I really don't like the blue either. I hate blue paint. It will have to go too.

I love the little eating nook. It looks into our backyard. But once again the blue will have to go.

Spare bedroom. If you come visit this is where you will stay! :)



Our bedroom.

Colson's bedroom. I love the bookshelves! They are my favorite part of his room.

Looking out at our back porch from our eating nook.

We have an additional 2 car garage in the back of our house.

The side of our house. The chimney is black! I love it.

The back of the house. You can see the apartment over the garage from the back.

So I would just like to remind you that these are before pictures. I plan on doing a lot of work this summer. I'll post after pictures when everything is all done!

BOXEN and more BOXEN

For those of you who are Brian Regan fans my title of this post should make sense. Over the past few weeks it seems like our whole life has been put into boxes. (It took a little while longer than our last move because after I would get one box packed, I would come back and Colson had it all unpacked)Yes we're on the move again, and it won't be the last time either. We've moved out of our apartment and moved in with Grandma and Grandpa Polatis (Shane's parents) for the second time during our marriage. We do have a reason behind our current madness.... our first house. We picked over the Blackfoot housing market over and over again with our realtor and found our house only a few days after it had been on the market. We close on it the very end of May. It is the cutest little house. We did run into a few bumps. But those bumps are being smoothed out. I feel very blessed to be able to move into a home all of our own. Shane and I were talking the other day about how in 08 we got married 09 we had our sweet baby boy and now in 10 we're buying our first home. Who knows what 11 will bring, but I'm thinking Physical Therapy school... lol I only allow one big event per year. I'll try to post a picture of our house as soon as I can. At least an outside shot!

Nothing Runs like A Deere...

For Colson's first birthday Grandma and Grandpa Polatis gave him a John Deere ATV. It is one of his favorite toys. He's started to stand up on it and lean over putting him bum in the air making it look like he's doing tricks. It's pretty darn cute. When pressing one of the buttons there's a song that it plays. In the video Colson's kind of dancing to it while he sits on it, but you can really hear the words too well...so I typed them up!

I can push or pull all your heavy loads

Fast or slow start me up here we go!

Dirt and mud are no match for me...

'Cause I'm a rough and rugged John Deere ATV.

Colson Walks for Real!!!!

So when I posted that last video, it was sooooo the wrong video. That was from like October! It was late at night when I posted so I never really checked it. So I promise I'm not crazy. Hopefully this works!