Thursday

     I am beat. The traffic here in the Seattle area has been something else.
My husband finally received his formal job offer. He is awaiting for the employer to verify his military background. He should be starting the end of November, beginning of December. The only downside is, it is in Utah at Hill Air Force Base.
    My foster kiddos should be leaving in December or January. Once that happens, I have a few house repairs to make then the house goes on the market. I have been trying to go thru things, to make the move easier. My sister will take my couches. The boys went thru all their jackets in the coat closet. Anything that was too small went into a basket. I will take that to the next foster parent meeting to see if there are any teens that may be interested in them. I am hoping this weekend to get into the crawl space and go through the items in there. I know I have snow pants that the kids have also outgrown.
I already told my boss my plans, so that it also taken care of. I'm not looking forward to packing the house up and having to change my nursing license over. Then there is the task of finding another job. Grr. We will see what comes up.
My kids are excited. Epic asked if he could get a dirt bike, the younger two asked for a swimming pool. Those seem like reasonable requests.
I just want a four bedroom home, with a gas range and a pantry. And a garden space and to be able to have my hens.

waiting

I am not a patient person.
I admit this.
I really dislike not knowing what is going on.
Hubby has a job offer in the works, they were hoping to have his official job offer today, but it didn't come.
There will be some major life changing things coming about.

My blue spruce is still standing. The poor tree people had a job in Seattle and got stuck in the traffic. All I could do was laugh. Seattle traffic stinks on a good day. It was too bad. Today was great weather wise.
My tree gets to "live" another day.
Hopefully, it comes down tomorrow.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have some better news to share.

Pumpkin patch and Blue spruce

We went to the pumpkin patch this past weekend.
The little kids had a great time.
The pumpkin patch we went to is located in the valley.
It was grey and very breezy

 

 

Epic was a good sport, he offered to push around the wheelbarrow.

FK #2 had quite the time picking out the "right" pumpkin.

As for my blue spruce..
Its in my front yard, not to far from my house. The roots stretch towards the front..

As much as I like the tree, hubby and I have decided to have it taken down. Whats crazy, I have called several tree removal places ( got the names of the BBB. Many aren't licensed and bonded.)
Only two have called me back. Only one has given me an estimate. The other is suppose to come by today. We will see.

Monday was really nice here, I raked up two big brown bags worth of leaves.
Cant tell I did looking at my yard today, lol.

Sunday

Well, quite a bit has been in the works the last couple weeks.

Hubby got a job. It's a temporary position, there's no benefits; but it's better than nothing. He has an 8 week contract that will probably last longer than that. He worked 60 hours this week. He figured work all he can now, to get us a little bit ahead. Hubby put in for a job in Utah. He is suppose to know in the next couple weeks if he gets the position. I don't really want to move, as two are in high school and my family lives in the area. My grandmothers health isn't improving, I don't want to leave to turn around and come home. I also have great neighbors. They are the best. We all watch out for each other's stuff, and help if needed. Everyone is kind and the kids get along too.

I finally got ahold of my foster kiddos grandmother. She sounds like a sweet lady. She told me that the plan is for the kids to move in December. We both feel it should happen before Christmas. Considering how slow the state moves, we shall see. I finally got our renewal packet filled out. I have to take it to the post office tomorrow.

I am off tomorrow, I have tons of stuff to do. We are going to take down the blue spruce out front. The roots are coming towards the house. I don't want to wait until my foundation is messed up to do something about it. I like the tree, but like my house better, ha ha ha.

Starting the beginning of November my hours will be cut. I am looking forward to it,nas I'll have more time to take care of things here around the house.

This weekend i unburied my desk, filed bills, and shredded lots of papers. I cleaned up my room. I went thru my books. I have a small pile for goodwill. I got all the laundry done too! Today it was nice outside for a bit, so the kids were outside playing. It's weird, last weekend it was 80 out. This weekend it was in the mid sixties. Last nite was a little odd. We had lightening for over an hour. The clouds were super dark. Not a good time to get gas, lol. It was odd to look towards the west and the sky was bright ( the sun was setting) yet in the east it was black.

I am going to try download my pics tomorrow. We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday morning and had a great time.

Thursday 18th

Hubby got hired for a "temp" job. It is for at least 8 weeks, maybe longer. He was told to expect OT. The employees have been working 10 hour shifts, and if one chooses they can do weekends too.

Hubby says at least he can "get experience",as he waits for his applications to be processed.

I noticed today at work that the trees are starting to change colors.

My maple out front is beginning to turn red. My dream for that tree is to put up a tire swing. I just have to wait for it to get big enough.

Foster kiddo #2 turns 3 on Sunday. We got his birthday presents the other day. I am excited. I am going to make m&m cupcakes. He doesn't like ice cream, and really isn't into store bought cake. I know he likes cupcakes though.

Andrew and Ryan have started football. They both seem to be enjoying it. Their next game is Thursday. The bad thing is that their games are at different schools. 

 

I am glad the weather has cooled down slightly. I got down some of my fall decor.

I got these on clearance last year. I think I paid under $10 for both these guys.

I found some cute decoration ideas on Pinterest, but will probably wait until next year before doing any of them.

Saturday project

So, several weeks ago hubby built a planter around our blue spruce out front.

It ended being more work than he expected.

He and the other boys went camping last nite and I knew were going to be gone most of today. That left me with my oldest boy and the two little boys. Last night, the little ones were asleep by 8. 

They awoke around 730. I knew today was going to be really warm, so I began working on filling in this planter. I got it done. My one day lily was hard to dig up, luckily oldest came out and dug it up for me.

Here's the finished project:

I worked on some of the planters that are on our property line

It's hard to see, I planted 4 mums...

And spread red cedar mulch. It smells so good...

Hope you've had a great Saturday!

September

Things continue to be chaotic here.

All the kids start school tomorrow. They objected when hubby kicked them out of bed this morning. He told them he wanted to make sure they were prepared to be ready on time tomorrow, lol.

Hubby had an interview today, he will be contacted within two days to let him know whether or not he got the job.

I canned 70 pounds of tomatoes and 125 pounds of peaches. By Saturday, I was tired of canning. It was so warm here Tuesday and Wednesday, I was scared that i may not get it all done in time. I spread the peaches out on my dining room table, I only had a few that were bad ( they were given to the hens). 

I worked out in my garden a bit.

These are the strawberry plants that volunteered themselves. I have a friend coming over tomorrow to get some. I think I may dig up what I can and free cycle the rest.

My garden is a mess. My lettuce bolted after the heat last week. My tomatoe plants are full though.

I picked a big bowl of tomatoes yesterday.

It rained all say Saturday. We purchased a rain barrel a couple weeks ago. It was full in a few hours.

 The crazy thing is out upper roof drains to the lower roof. So we will need to figure out how many containers we will need.

That can add up to a lot of water for the plants for next summer.

These are my newest projects. I am working on making the little kids finger puppets and a quiet book to play with in the car when we are on the road.