LoOk WhO's WALKing!!!

Jhett took his first steps on Thursday May 28th!

Good News

So this is a couple of days late but...Jhett's doctor appointment on Friday went well! Horray! They did another eye test where they drop some neon dye in his eye then whip out a black light and if there are any cracks, the dye goes in them and thats how you see it. Well the doctor said that the scratch has gone down significantly in size and to finish out the drops and he should be just fine! What a relief!

Quotes for the Day

"Don't play with that or you'll Poke your eye out!"

Yesterday while I was at work, Jhett was taken to the doctor to have his right eye checked out. My mom called stating Jhett's eye was blood shot red, puffy, and had red bumps all around it and he had been screaming bloody murder for the last hour. Unfortunately I was working by myself so I couldn't leave so Austin met up with my mom. Later he called me to let me know that Jhett scratched his eye up pretty bad. The doctor was surprised to see Jhett even had his eye open for as bad as it was. Jhett has to take antiobiotic eye drops for the next week in hopes that an infection won't occur. We also have to keep him from rubbing/touching his eye. I have my work cut out for me.

By the time I got home his eye wasn't as bad... I guess. I had the camera in my purse so this is the picture we have. Poor Baby! He has a follow up appointment on Friday.

"Sleep tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs Bite!"

This morning while cleaning Jhett's room gathering up his dirty clothes I decided to throw his sheets and blanket in. When I went to take off the sheet I found a bunch of little bugs. I was like GROSS!!! WHERE THE HECK ARE THESE COMING FROM??!! Then I remembered we had some food storage under his crib. So I immediately started ripping everything out when I found the source... a bag of macaroni noodles full of these things!! So I spent the morning tearing apart his room, moving furniture and vacuuming over and over and over again. I still get the heebie jeebies thinking of it!

I had to know what these bugs were and I found it. Here it is. It's called a Red Flour Beetle and apparently they like pasta!

SICK!!!! I'M SO DISGUSTED!!!! The worst part about this whole thing is for the past week I've been noticing 1 or 2 of them and just thought with the heat you generally start seeing bugs in the house and never once thought to check the food. Now I wonder if Jhett has been getting bit by these things. So my mom called my dad right away and told him it was time that our house got sprayed! It's nice to have a bug man for a dad!!

House Hunting

Holy Cow!

I had NO idea that looking for homes was going to be so stressful!!!

For those of you that don't know, Austin, Jhett, and I have been living with my parents since right before Christmas. Things were getting pretty tough. Austin was in danger of getting layed off, hours had been cut from his other job and my job was super slow as well. We started paying bills on our credit card which we had NEVER done before and it was getting to a point where we were drowning. So my parents were kind enough to let us move in with them. Thankfully, Austin was NOT layed off and things picked up at his other job. There was a girl who quit at my work so I was able to pick up more hours and we got our credit card payed off in March. WAHOO!! So ever since then we have been saving our MONEY and we are finally in a position to get a home!!! Well a couple of weeks ago we got with a realtor who had a lender who we got prequalified through. WE QUALIFIED and are super excited. I was nervous since I have been hearing that is has been really hard to qualify. Anywho... yesterday we went out and started looking. We went through about 5 homes and wanted to make offers on 2 of them. The one we really wanted was a smokin deal. 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, wood floors, pool size backyard for $82,000. The only thing was the house had been stripped of light fixtures, door knobs, blinds and appliances. But Austin and I kind of liked the fact that we could pick those things out. BUT... of course EVERYONE and their MOM thought so as well. We found out that 17...you heard me right SEVENTEEN offers had been made on that house since Friday!!!! We were bummed :( The other house had all the upgrades, granite counter tops, tile throug out the whole house, corner lot, across from a park, nice light fixtures, single story. Asking price was $100,000 and we found out that someone placed a bid of $110,000. Well we don't want a mortgage over $100,000. Why should we??? There are way too many homes out there for under. I didn't realize the games we are going to have to play. We hope we will get a house by the end of summer.

Cross your fingers and wish us LUCK!!