New House

So here are some pics of our new house incase you haven't seen them yet.

I'M BACK

So, where was I... Alot has changed for the Wilson's since my last post in 2009. We were FINALLY able to sell our townhome in Chester Springs after a year on the market. Steve was layed off from Pointroll a couple months before the sale so we were ready to take the house off the market. As it turned out we got a buyer for the house a week after taking it off and steve had a job interview at the same time so we told her if he got the job she could have the house. Our new house is really nice and in a great neighborhood. We have a dining rm that we don't even use yet i still have to clean it all the time for some reason. Alright so i don't clean it all the time! Anyway we have great neighbors here that are very friendly and some kids for my kids to play with. We live in a cul-de-sac which is great for the kids to ride bikes, plus our driveway is pretty long. We moved in on Dec 15th( I do not recommend) 2 weeks before xmas so we threw our tree up the next day. Maegan had to start at a new elementary school and she was pretty sad to leave her friends but she had a GREAT first day and loved it there. She will be in middle school this sept with Syd. They are in 6th and 7th grades this year. Syd starts her 5th year of cheer this monday and Maegan wants to do karate. Max goes to preschool and has fun there with his friends. He wants to have a sleepover like his sisters do but i told him he is too young so he says his friends parents can sleepover too. Ummmm... NO, so i just change the subject when he asks!

Back on Skype

Max asleep in his new snowsuit

So I fixed my problem with skype and was able to talk and see dad, bob and sarah, and lori. It was fun to be able to see them in person since it has been so long. I am glad i was able to fix the problem myself since i don't like to bug steve with all my computer problems, especailly when he has just gotten home from a 16hr work day. He is on vacation this week which is nice, although he almost had to go in yesterday because of work problems and he is actually on the phone with work now. This is usually how his "vacations" go, but at least he is at home working on it as oppossed to in his office. We had a nice relaxing christmas and it was fun to see the kids get sooo excited about their gifts. Max got alot of train stuff so he was very happy. Steve and the girls are off til January 4th and it has been so nice being able to sleep in late. Hope everyone had a good christmas and have a happy New Year!!!!

Gingerbread House

Lori wanted to see some pictures of the ginger bread house that syd and i (mostly me) made. I think it looks more like it was done by a 1st grader rather than 7th but oh well. Steve and the girls are headed out in a few mins to get our tree today. Yes mom our house is still on the market and will probably stay on til the spring at this point! I admit i am happy not to have showing right now though.

Alright already i will post again

I know it has been a while so i will fill you in. Where to begin, well first off i am typing this blog with my brand new Sony Vaio laptop that steve bought for me. I brought it with me to NH on our last trip and i had only had it for 1 day at that point, while we were up there i kept it on my MIL's table and a glass of wine was spilled near it and it sat in the wine for a little while before i noticed. Thank god it was fine! I didn't know weather to cry or throw up or both but i held it together. We put our townhome on the market 3 months ago and have had good feedback but no offers. Sydney had her big cheerleading comp in sept and they came in 3rd, she was pretty disappointed. Then she had the second comp last weekend and they placed 3rd again, she doesn't want to go to the next one but she doesn't have a choice! She is starting a tumble class next week that she is excited about because it focuses on backflips. Maegan made gingerbread houses with her girl scout troop last week that she thought was alot of fun and of course they got to eat candy while making them. Max has started speech lessons and he is improving with each session. He is still into Thomas the Tank Engine, BIG TIME! he can tell you what colors the trains are we are still working on the names. Steve is getting better since he went to the new herbal doctor and is happy to be able to breathe again and not feel like passing out because he climbed a flight of stairs. I am just thankful that he is getting better because i was pretty worried there for a while. other than that not much else going on here. i will try to keep this blog more updated from now on.

The Wilson's went camping.....YES again!

So as most of you probably know our first camping experience was eventfull to say the least! However this did not deter us from going again and this time we didn't have any problems to speak of, which is fine with me! We left friday afternoon and headed to the Poconos which is about 2hrs north of here. We were the first of the five families that we camped with last year to arrive. We set up our new teepee tent and the screen tent and then steve started a fire. we had dinner and then socialized a little bit then went to bed around 10pm. Max did great sleeping in the tent he didn't wake up once either night. I had a hard time sleeping as i could not help but think of snakes getting in my sleeping bag. I finally did fall asleep around 4am and was kinda tired the next day. I got up and started the fire and made the percolated coffee and made breakfast which was sausage patties and french toast made with texas toast. we hung around the campsite most of the day and the girls played with the other kids. Our teepee tent drew some onlookers and one guy even came over to ask us where we got it. It is really big so we had plenty of room. It did leak some on the seams but we also didn't waterproof it either. It rained pretty much all day saturday. Three of the five families left because there tents leaked and all their stuff had gotten wet. They hung around most of the day on saturday but left before dark. Sunday morning was my favorite part as i got up at 7am because my body couldn't handle sleeping on the hard ground any longer. It was really quiet(all the loud kids left the night before) and cloudy just the way i like it. I chopped some wood and started a fire and then made the coffee. So i was able to sit and relax, sipping my coffee and watching for bears! Steve and the kids got up around 8:30am and i made breakfast. The girls went on a hike with our friends and their kids as steve and i started to break down the camp. As you know Steve was hospitalized last weekend and was doing better during the week. He started having pain again on thursday night so i wasn't sure if we were even gonna get to go camping but he toughed it out and took loads of Tylenol! i will post pics as soon as i can figure out how to download them of my new phone. I remembered to bring my camera but forget to take the battery out of the charger!

Steve's Hospital Visit

So this morning steve was sleeping late which i like to let him do on the weekends because he gets up early during the week and works long hard days. However i needed to go to Home Depot to get supplies to paint the girls room and i didn't want to take max with me therefore i needed steve to be awake. At 11:30am i went to see if steve was awake yet and he was stirring but not really awake. He saw me so i asked him how he was doing and he was NOT WELL! He had a bad headache, back pain,bad chest tightness,sore throat and the chills. I took his temp and it was 100.4 which is high for him. Since he has been on prednisone for 2 years i didn't want to take and chances so i told him that he needed to go to the hospital. We got there about 12pm and i stayed for a while then took the kids to Mcdonald's to feed them and then back to the hospital to see if steve had been seen yet, but of course he was still sitting in the same spot and had not yet seen the nurse. So we waited a while longer and finally the nurse saw him, his blood ox was a little low and his fever was 102. because he was having the chest tightness they did an EKG to check for problems. Then from there they took him to a exam room, at this point i took the kids home. Since i had not heard from him by 6pm i called the hospital to check up on him. Of course he didn't want to spend the night but they admitted him anyway. We went to visit him or i should say we went to bring him his laptop! He was feeling much better and his fever was gone. They are giving him fluids and IV meds to take care of what they think is some sort of virus. So instead of painting the girls room today i spent the day worrying about steve!