It's been awhile....

Yes, I am a flake. I don't deny this, I just wish I wasn't right! Life has a funny way of changing and keeping you on your toes. Our family has so much going on right now, and my blog has suffered the biggest from our ever changing life! So if I have any constant readers left, I am sorry. I will post when I can, but can make no promises other than that.

So what is new? Right now we are back in Nevada. We are visiting my in-laws and some friends while we are down here on more serious business regarding the custody of my step-daughter. Won't go into details, but all I know is that it is not finished, and the outcome can go any way at this point. Laws are not as cut and dry as you would hope. Hopefully we can get through this with minimal impact on Maddie. That is most important.

We left the majority of our things in storage here, as we rented a furnished house. We have decided to finally go through ALL of it and get rid of a ton of stuff. I mean, we are finding boxes that neither of us has seen since before we got married! Time to hang on to what is truly important. This will make our moves in the future so much easier as well! 

So each evening (after the temperature goes below 100), Allen and I go to our storage and get to work until we lose the light of the day. It is dirty, dusty, hot, and a lot of lifting. The funny thing is, we are really enjoying it! So far we have gotten to go kid free. We have some portable speakers for our iPod, and work to some good music. It is just us working together, looking through the past. It is nice to go down memory lane for awhile, but a little depressing to see how fast it all has gone. It has been a wild, hard ride for sure, but we have weathered it, together. We still have one another and two beautiful girls. What more is there but boxes of stuff? I am truly blessed.

So our days have been filled with legal stuff, visiting time, and trying to keep the kids from getting bored without a lot of stuff to keep them busy. Our evenings are filled with cleaning out the storage, putting the kids to bed when we get home, washing away the Nevada dirt, and sleeping hard! I can not promise I will post again before our trip back up to Oregon, but I will try!

Sadly, our eye patch art has slowly stopped. I have a few to post, but we are so out of whack and out of our element, a lot of routine things have fallen by the wayside. I do not know if we will ever pick it up again. We will see where our new start leads us. 

We are all missing the ocean quite a bit. We have been spoiled, and don't ever want to move away from the water for a long time! We are enjoying our visit, but all really want to get back and smell the salty air. We are excited to start this new chapter of our lives. I hope you are all here to follow my little family. And please, as always, feel free to share your thoughts, comments, stories, whatever! I would love to read them!

I hope life is a little less chaotic for you. May your memories and future be blessed and filled with love!