Life and all it's challenges

Well it has been a while since I have been on here so I figured we would do a quick update.  Savannah Grace and I went to Nashville a couple weekends ago to meet the Brubaker side of the family. She got to meet her great grandparents, second cousins, my aunt, uncles and cousin. It was great to have the whole family together.  We even did a little house hunting, lol. Well I wouldn't say that but we got to know the area and looked at some real estate. My parents really like the area too because it is just a nice place to live. Anywho, it was a quick trip because we were back in one night. That was when Savannah decided not to sleep. It started that Saturday and for about a week she had rough nights were she was up and down 2 times. I thought for sure she would get teeth out of it. NOPE....I was wrong. We are still all gummy! However, she is catching up on her sleep at night now. She has been doing 11 hour nights lately and I love the sleep.


So there have been quite a few people asking me if we are going to try again soon for another baby. We found out last week that our friends who had a baby the same time we had Savannah are having another baby this August. We are super excited for them! We want another one and we want them close. I would prefer to have a baby at the end of the school year again so we aren't trying right now.  I am happy with my little peanut and blessed that we have such a great baby. I have friends who are trying and unable to get pregnant with their first child. If GOD only gives us the gift of one baby, I consider myself truely blessed. God gave us one blessing and I won't be selfish if a second is not in our future. I would rather have my friends get the gift of their first child then for me to have two children. I want them to be able to experience what we have with our daughter. I wish there was some way for me to cash in my baby card to someone else. Anyway, I hope all of my friends gets news that they are pregnant with a little blessing.


We also have started some GREAT financial decisions.  We are doing Dave Ramsey but modified. We have been doing our version since Jan 21 and it has been working out great. The only problem is the unknown expenses. I just found out we will need new tires for the Pilot probably by the summer. Not to mention our AC unit is pretty much done so we will need to drop about 4 grand on a new one. Yeah, that sucks but we are trying to work it into our current money system. Seriously, you would be amazed how aware you are when you spend from envelopes.  I am so much more aware of what we spend and I can see how much I have left for the week doing it that way.


The weather has turned beautiful!! We visited the zoo on Sunday and Savannah Grace had a great time! I am hoping to take her back again this Sunday as it is supposed to be 70 that day. We have a family pass to the zoo so we are using it as much as possible this year. I have a feeling our summer will consist of the pool at Mimi's house and trips to the zoo . Notice that both are free :)