We're here...

I'm sorry for teh month long blog vacation...

We're here in our new lovely home...

We LOVE IT here!

We've been here 3 1/2 weeks and in between unpacking boxes, we've visited the urgent care in a town over, the base pediatrician and as of this morning the local ER. The local ER was GREAT...Later today Tommy goes for an ear check with his new civilian pediatrician. CHAOS!

So if that is not busy enough for you...I also chase around muddy kids, shoes and dogs and wash them everyday. This country living is awesome but busy!

Our horses are coming out in the morning....WOO-HOO.

Oh, all teh doctor viists...Tommy's ears...his one tube has fallen out and the other is not confirmed in place or not at this time. Hoping for answers later this afternoon. He had one ear infection and immediately after stopping first round of meds, he spiked a fever and was treated for an ongoing ear infection. Now we have a snotty nose and cough...and two stitches. I pray we don't scare our new doctor today!

Tommy after breakfast and SNACK decided as I was putting laundry away (Larry ran to the lumber store) that he was still hungry and needed a banana. He took a very nice and sharp Cutco steak knife to teh banana and got his finger too. The banana looks much worse- with all the ooohs, aaaahs and "this is much deeper than I thought at first" comments from the ER doc, Larry feels certain the doc saw the bone in Tommy's finger.

Two of my brothers are here visiting with their families...and one whom is a medic just happenes to be off 4-wheeling at some track an hour away. I'd say he picked a bad time to leave for the day.

Speaking of....we've had company all but one night since Larry graduated. His dad stayed out to give a hand with the horse's fence and then my brothers arrived. My brothers are here through Easter and we're thrilled to have them! Fun times. I'll overload you with pictures as soon as I'm not chasing a Trouble T or cleaning up mud....must run and get a few things done before the doctor's appt.

The door is open and the guest bed is a real bed -not an air bed in a cold basement anymore ;) We enjoy company....drop by sometime!

Please pray...

The kids and I are just 6 days from moving, we're moving a few days before Larry to get the kids settled in at soccer before the soccer games start. We are 1 week from regularly attending our new church...and this is what happened there today. Please pray for our new church family!
We enjoyed Pastor Fred's sermon on our visit and KNEW that first visit that this would be our new home church. He will be missed by many, even some who didn't get an opportunity to know him well.

Robby is ELEVEN!!!

Robby turned ELEVEN yesterday. We took him to dinner, he chose Long John Silvers. Then we came home and had yummy cake with our neighbors and let him open a few presents! Was a fun time!



His real party is tomorrow night at Laser tag place...he's very excited!

MARCH 5, 2009, the morning after ;)
This morning while I was chatting with my sister-in-law online, I heard a funny banging noise.

This is what I found....Erin, I told you he's a beast!


Don't you just love the "not me??" face he is sporting?!?!? Guessing his three animal crackers and cereal weren't enough today...he needed some cake too!

This week and then some...

Feb 23, 2009
Tommy sporting some Nance family Halloween jammies....these were Kaitlyn's, then Kimberlyn's....and yes....now Tommy's jammies! Tommy loves his train table...this is his favorite way to play --to sit on it and drive his cars/trains.



Then we have him being quite the helper boy- after unloading the bookshelf, he cleaned up very well as you see him here in the process of putting the books BACK :)

Feb 24, 2009
My favorite shot from our lunch date with good friends in Cincy...Casey and Tommy are just a few months apart in age and have been pals since before they could sit alone :)


Later that night at the school....Robby by his project at the Science Fair. He got an overall Excellent rating. We're so proud!


Kaitlyn and her project. She got an overall rating of Superior. They worked very hard and it paid off on these projects!



Back from Feb 4th...Tommy showing off his climbing skills. This would be why Tommy has a new train bed at our new house...no pictures of it yet...SOON :) No more crib in 15 more days! Ahhhh, what a sad moment that will be! He has not made it out of his crib, only threatened while I'm in the room with him. He's a true Nance child and LOVES his crib. Each of the older kids had been caught climbing INTO it, never out. Tommy isn't allowed in the room much alone as he likes Kaitlyn's perfumes too much...otherwise I bet he'd have already climbed in too!



Feb 25, 2009
Kaitlyn's last piano lesson with Miss Freda!




Lastly....today!!! Kaitlyn got her new glasses. She's not seeing a big difference yet. We'll see how the next few days go. Her eyes aren't that bad and I'm wondering if the eye doc was jumping the gun with prescribing glasses now....I don't know?!!?!??


She loves her glasses and looks just adorable in them!

World Famous Lipazzaner Stallions!

Kaitlyn and I enjoyed a nice dinner out together before going to the show a couple weeks ago. Here are a few of our favorite shots we got before the camera battery died.

Mom (hating her glasses for one last week) and Kaitlyn...front row seats!

We're here....

We've just been busy getting ready for the move and life! Since my camera battery charger is lost, yes the battery is D-E-A-D- I haven't been able to get recent pictures loaded up! My camera has many neat pictures from Kaitlyn's birthday (I gave her the tickets on her birthday) Lipazanner show.

After a few attempts, Tommy decided the snow IS fun as long as Dad and kids aren't in the middle of a snow ball fight :) He had Kimberlyn prompting him off the steps too...


He figured out this snow could be fun for sure. It helped that it was a "warm" day and it wasn't feeling below zero like the previous days...the kids missed almost a week of school over this earlier this month!




Then Mom got her new eyes last week. Seeing 20/20 for the first time w/o glasses or contacts in 20-something years!

Ironically, last night at the kids' eye exams we learned Kaitlyn is needing glasses- you know where we'll be after school today :) Robby got his glasses in third grade too...must be the year for our kids?

Lastly....Kaitlyn has a thing for participating in school fundraisers. She especially gets motivated for the good cause type ones. Her school is in the top ten fundraising schools in our state. If you'd like to help her out...I've finally gotten her online fundrasing site up this morning.


Kimberlyn's Snowman with PICKLE eyes and mouth!

Science Experiments....

So maybe our lil' chemist is on to something....trying to have his own science experiment...

Here we have Kaitlyn doing her's....testing the strength of paper towels.

And Robby doing something with magnetic stuff...I don't know. I'll have to have him help me explain it later.