Game Time!

 I thought I'd do something fun for this post! I'm going to list off several truths and one lie. Whoever can guess which one is the lie will get a mystery prize sent to them! (You'll want this I promise!) So NEXT Wednesday, the 9th I will choose a winner! Make sure you post your guesses! If people guess the same right answer I will draw a random winner from the correct guesses!
1. My favorite book series is "Harry Potter." I am beyond excited to share these books with my kids someday, watching their excitement and anticipation!

2. I have never made a pie.

3. I used to dream when I was little that I would become a famous gymnast. Every time I watched the olympics as a kid I dreamed that I could do flips and jumps and crazy stuff. But I only lasted in gymnastics class like three weeks before I pulled a muscle and had to quit.

4. I have a love/hate relationship with the idea of one day owning a kindle/or whatever similar thing it is. I would love to be able to take a thousand books with me everywhere I go without actually having to carry them but, I love being able to crack open a new book and just smell the pages, yes I know this is odd.

5. I love to bake. I don't really like cooking that much but, I loooove to bake. I would love to own a bakery/coffee shop. It would be a dream come true but, I'd probably end up weighing 1,000lbs because of it.

6. Tyler and I already have our names picked out for our next child.

7. I have about 5 friends that I actually talk to.

8. I have an insane fear of heights. My dad asked me to help clean off the garage roof of leaves and tree limbs once and I cried when I got up there until he finally let me get down.

9. I've only ever been on 3 real roller coasters. I freak out at the thought of them and I only go when absolutely forced.

10. I only use one eye at a time. When I was little I never learned how to focus with both eyes at the same time so, I have one dominate eye- the right eye.

One Debt Down, 4 to go!

Okay there is some seriously exciting stuff happening in the Montgomery house today!
Item number one: We are paying off our car! No more car payment!! Woohoo!
Item number two: We are paying off a portion of my student loan taking the principal down significantly!
Item number three: We are paying back a portion of our start up costs for Tyler's business!
and of course making another house payment (we're totally on the road to paying this one off too!)
I'm beyond excited about this. We are conquering our debts and believe it or not our goal is to be debt free by the time we are 30. Ambitious? YES. Doable? YES YES!
We are excited!

In other news, I got a fortune cookie last night when Tyler and I went out for Chinese that said I would be meeting someone new who would end up becoming a good friend. I don't really go for all the astrology, fortune cookie crap but it made me smile and reminded me that God can bring new people into our lives when we need them and on the friend front, I'm hurting.It seems like no one really has time or anything anymore and we're all on different life stages...I'm the first of my friends that I still talk to to get married and have a baby. I miss having friends I have things in common with...

I love when I can look at Lucy and smile and say hi. She gets the biggest grin on her face.
However, right now she's not too happy so I've got to go.
I'll give you an update about things happening in our lives that's more exciting tomorrow, I promise!
Hope you have a good day! Lucy and I get to hang out today and have fun and let me tell you, I'm looking forward to this mother-daughter day!

I want to go to there!

Oh...Life is too busy. I'm beyond ready for a vacation...

This is where I want to go:

Oh boy do I want to just go to a cabin and get away from everything with Tyler and Lucy and just relax for a week...(I'd take two weeks if I could!)
Where are your monday blues making you dream you are?

I'm not ready for this...

This weekend I will be taking my senior high students to a conference about two hours away. I'll be leaving Tyler and Lucy at home for the weekend...I'm not ready for this. I love picking up my baby and holding her, feeding her, talking to her, cuddling with her. I hate thinking I'll be missing out on her life this weekend.
I read a blog this morning The Staats that broke my heart. Today was quite possibly the worst day I could have read it. Kellie and James lost their four month old daughter to what sounds like SIDS. Lucy is 3 1/2 months and I'm leaving her this weekend. As I read Kellie and James words on missing their daughter I struggle thinking that I have to choose to leave her. They didn't get to choose, she's gone.
I love my daughter so very much, I don't know how I would ever be able to handle losing her. I know it's only friday night-sunday afternoon but it's not going to be easy. And, next weekend I'll be gone friday morning- monday evening for a conference in Chicago. I truly hate being away from my family. I know it will get easier, it will never be easy but, it will get easier...Pray for me this weekend...I need to be able to be strong and focus on my students and I know I'm going to struggle a great deal with thinking about my family... and please pray for the Staats. I couldn't imagine going through anything like that without having the strength of God supporting me and the support of others through prayer.

Would you like the good or the bad news first?

The good news:
Woo hoo! We are going to be paying off our car very soon! This makes me extremely happy! When Tyler and I got married we both owned our vehicles. I had my trusty ol' 95 chevy corsica- my first car and Tyler had a 99 Ford F150. We still have the truck but, about a year and a half ago my poor chevy started having some problems...we figure hey, we'll drive this puppy til she dies! Oh my lovely car had almost 200,000 miles. (I really miss it sometimes until I use the cd player and automatic windows and then I'm reminded that she was ready for "retirement." haha! Well one night I was driving home from work...I live six blocks away from the church I work at so just keep that fact in mind...and the poor ol' gal died 2 times on my way home. We decided that was it, we were talking about having a baby and wanted to make sure we would have a safe car that could actually get us across town and back so we traded her in for my 07 chrysler sebring touring. I LOVE this car! It's lovely! We had been looking at a lot of SUV's and such and then decided we really didn't need it with having the truck and went for the more economic car. We took out at $10,000 loan and have been "overpaying" our payment by a little bit each month and we're mucho mucho (that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge of spanish!) close to having it paid off so to save ourselves on interest goodbye tax return, we're using you to pay off the car. Which means we will be putting that lovely monthly payment back into our checking account each month to go toward student loans and hospital bills and eventually savings :) Step one onto conquering our debt- pay off car- check!
Step two greatly reduce student loans- in the process!
Step three pay off house- oh...that'll be awhile!
Step four pay off the business starting loan- on our way!
Those are our debts. We don't use credit cards, we pay only cash for what we get aside from our major purchases so, two student loans, one house loan, one business loan, a car loan and we'll be debt free! Luckily we're going from 5 debts down to 4!
And the bad...okay our mouse issue ended up being mice. :( this is one unhappy momma right now. Over the spring we installed a new tub in our master bathroom. Apparently there was a pipe that didn't get sealed off very well and it allowed mice to come and go into our bathroom...I'm beyond grossed out and freaked out. Every single item of clothing, bedding, towels, etc. will be gone through to be kept or gotten rid of. Seriously I was wanting to go through our clothes and get rid of a lot but seriously not with this kind of motivation. I'm disgusted and angry that it even happened. So until this mouse situation is under control we will be sleeping upstairs on an air mattress in the living room and Lucy will be sleeping in her playpen that we have in the living room. Oh Seriously I'm freaked out and grossed out and all I want to do is freak out at the thought of it. 3 mice down hopefully only 1 to go but seriously I can't help but keep cringing. They've been in our house for like a week or two and it's just gross. I realize the whole eco system would be screwed up but I really wish God would have gone with out rodents, snakes, bugs, and such when he made the earth...sigh.
So, there you have it our good and bad news of the evening, please pray we can get rid of these mice! I will be so grateful once my house can get back to feeling clean.

EEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKK! There's a mouse in our house!

Okay, there WAS a mouse in our house. I was going to the bathroom (trust me not the prime moment to notice a mouse is in your house you want to freak out and then realize you're still peeing...haha!) Also, keep in mind it was about 11:30 or so and Tyler was very very asleep... that will set you up with the following humor:

Okay, so I'm going to the bathroom and I hear something move in our bathroom closet, I figure hey, it's probably just something settling...then, I heard it again thought to myself hey wouldn't that be crazy if there was a mouse? Then...I glanced over...mid-pee and there he was (I don't really know if it was a boy or girl I was too freaked out to care so just go with me when I say he :) )
I screamed, TYLER! TYLER THERE IS A MOUSE IN THE CLOSET!!!!
"What? A mouse? What am I supposed to do about it?"
"Tyler!!!! Get in here! There's a mouse!!"
"I'm sleeping, what?"
"TYYYYLLER!! THERE IS A MOUSE!!!"
"Oh good grief what am I supposed to do about it?!"
"TYLER GET UP AND GET THE MOUSE!!!"
"Ugh" he finally rolls out of bed..."what are you talking about?"
"There is a freaking mouse in our bathroom closet."
"No there isn't."
"YES THERE IS I SAW IT!"
He glances down, "Holy shit! there's a mouse in the closet! How am I supposed to get it?"
"I don't know! Oh, Use a cup! trap it in the cup."
At this point the mouse is running trying to hide behind things and Tyler's slowly emptying the closet.
So he finally catches the mouse under the cup and we then have to figure out how to get the mouse out because the cup is on top of it...Tyler slides a piece of cardboard under the edge of the cup and shakes it up and down to make sure the mouse is really in there. Thennnn...he decides to debate on what to do with it, set it free or kill it? (Well it's little and kinda cute honestly so I tell him not to kill it!)  So we decide to go out the front porch and toss it off the side of the cliff (yes there really is a cliff next to our house (like 50ft drop off) and below are the river bottoms.)
Finally it's gone. Thank the Lord...however I then spent most of the night freaking out that there would be a mouse in our bed...And this morning our dog's tail skimmed over my arm and I freaked out! Haha!
So, now we are debating how the mouse got in and why we even had a mouse in the house...Here are the reasons we came up with:
#1- This is the first year we've lived here and haven't had any cats to keep them away.
#2- The river bottoms are flooding out with all the rain and melting snow so all the animals (including mice) have come up to avoid the water...
#3- Tyler left the patio door in our bedroom open the other night while he was trying out his goose call. It was only a couple mins but that's all the little guy needed.  Luckily he didn't find his way upstairs he stuck to our bedroom/bathroom...
So, I blame Tyler, our lack of ability to keep cats around this place, and mother nature for my late night mid-pee mouse freak-out.
And, thank you mouse for giving me a reason to deep clean my bathroom closet like I've been avoiding...
Well, I hope that made you laugh!

Overwhelming feelings...

Oh today was one of those days...last week I had the worst dream...I had a dream that Tyler had died, I woke up crying and every time I fell back asleep the dream started back up and I would wake up crying wondering if it was real. I HATE nights like that. Every time I would wake up I'd snuggle up close to Tyler and cry for a little bit until I could eventually fall asleep...only to have the same dream keep continuing.
Today for whatever reason I got that feeling in my head again and boy I was super close to breaking down. I really don't know why but I had the worst feeling. Do you ever have those days you just have a bad feeling and then your mind just runs wild with all the possibilities? I hate them. Because really you freak out for no reason. (I'm thinking it's all because I watched "Life as we know it" where the young parents die.) So, let me just say right now, how grateful I am to have Tyler and I hate that sometimes having those freak outs remind me just how much I really care about him and the fact that it's stupid that I argue with him over the dumbest things when what I should be doing is spending my time with him loving and building our relationship.
Well, that's it for today, I'll give you some more exciting news tomorrow. Lucy and I get two days off together this week and boy it's nice :)