Headin BACK to Florida-Sooner than we thought!

Yep you read that right.

I came across an AMAZING airfare deal. We are flying out of Owensboro, KY flying to Sanford-Orlando the first week in January, these 4 roundtrip tickets are costing me-----ya ready------$192 TOTAL!!!!! We never thought we'd be going back this soon, but are super stoked. We are visting our friends the Basses and staying with them, we can't wait to see how miss Whitney has grown up!

Saturday night the girls had their first "real" sleepover. I say "real" since they've stayed with family before, but now they got to stay with friends for the night. They were so excited they started packing 2 days ahead of time. And had to pack half the house to stay one night. They had so much fun with Sadie and Maggie having popcorn fights, making cupcakes, painting their nails, (as you can tell their mommy is WAAAYYY cooler than I am), they were exhausted coming home sunday, but well worth it since mommy and daddy got some chill time saturday night while they were gone.

Christmas Lights are up at the Lee household. I was SOOO tempted to put the tree up, but held back since its sort of tradition to put it up the weekend after thanksgiving. Since this is our 4th christmas in our 4th residence its always a chore figuring out where to put stuff and what to leave packed away. I finally have a front porch though to wrap lights and garland around, I am so excited.

UPDATE on LIV'S APPT:

After thinking things were going to go okay, the minute the doctor got near her, she flipped and started screaming. There was no way the doctor was putting a scalpel to her back. So we are left with 2 options. #1 to leave the cyst and see if it grows bigger or gets infected, or #2 to have a surgery at the hospital where she'd be IV sedated, cyst removed and out in about 3 hours. The second option i am not too hip on, sedating her for such an elective surgery seems silly to me. So I think we are at the decision to hold out for awhile.

I've been sick the last couple days, no not swine flu. Nauseated, sinus pressure, awful low cough and hurts to breath, I was running a pretty good fever monday night, but am hopefully on the mend. We all know Mommy's don't have time to be sick. I start class again today so time to get moving on school again after my week off!

I spent all morning running errands today, CVS, Walgreens, Menards, Dollar Tree, and Walmart, ( i also tanned=) Sounds like a lot of places but had to find my best deals at the right stores!=) Hit up Kroger last night, so I am all shopped out.

Jas has still been working long hours and we can't wait for Harvest to be over. We are heading back to Iowa next week for Thanksgiving, I am ready for some yummy food!!

Crazy!

Lately things have been hectic here, between Jas working a ton of weird hours and me trying to finish a class and run the girls all over,I am exhausted all the time.

Alivia is full of emotions these days, she has always been very sensitive, but recently her mood swings are all over the place, can't seem to pinpoint anything specific that is causing it. She is doing really well in preschool and I am still questioning if its "enough" for her, she knows most of the things they are teaching, but has been excited anyways. We are having conferences next week, so I am ready with some questions about her behavior there, whether she's withdrawn or listening, or super sensitive there also.

Tomorrow she is finally having this cyst on her back removed, after numerous doctor appts to check the size, a ridiculous surgeon who wanted to knock her out at the hospital to remove it, we have finally found a great surgeon who will give her a local anesthetic and simply cut out the dime size cyst. Up until 2 weeks ago, it wasn't hurting her to touch it, just was uncomfortable to sleep. Recently though she won't even let me touch it. She's got some mixed emotions about tomorrow, but the doc assures me it will be a simple 5 minute procedure. Both Jas and I will be there, and have bribed her with her own Dairy Queen blizzard when she's done.

Addison is doing well in preschool also and really enjoys helping the teacher and doing library time. I still have to walk her to the class everyday but as soon as I get her to the door she's completely fine. We've really been working on her behavior lately, consistency is key is what I keep telling myself.

I have gotten into couponing lately and have cut our grocery bill in half, I've been watching some great websites for deals and coupons, and have gotten tons of FREE or almost free products and food from the combination of sales and coupons. Last week I went to Kroger and my total was $97, then after store sales and coupons, it was $37.13!!! Jas was sooo proud, and its my new "addiction". I have a nice little organizing system and watch the deals everyday.

I am also done christmas shopping for the girls, I found some great deals back in august, and then got all the Disney Princess costumes on sale at Toys R Us the day after halloween, so that was a great start. Sort of disappointed I won't NEED to shop Black Friday.

Our life isn't always fun and totally amazing, but its crazy, which I guess is a good thing. I'll do a quick update tomorrow night after Liv's appt.