4 Months later!

So as life would have it 4 months later I am finally getting a minute to blog. I guess that's what happens when you have a husband, almost 5 year old, a 2 year old, a great idea to start a new job all while restoring a 100 year old house! I have to say it's been a crazy but great ride. Josh and I have really loved it ( even those moments when we wanted to kill each other!) just kidding but there have been some fun but stressful moments with this great house :)

I decided not to go back and try to blog about everything that has happened but here are a few of the big things that did:

- we survived living with my parents for 4 months even through the Holiday season
- we all had a great Christmas this year and the kids see at such a great age. WK did not love Santa but other than that she loved Christmas!
-we had a horrible cold winter (still having it in March) and it slowed down some of the house stuff
- I turned 32 this year in February and two days later my wild woman tuned 2!
- I decided to stop working weekends and got a new job in Cary in a great Women's center working one day a week on a mother/baby unit. My mom watches them one day a week when I work or josh has them if it's a weekend day.
- I really have enjoyed getting out of the house one day each week.
-WK started a MMO one morning a week and I don't know what to do with myself having three hours of alone time on Thursday mornings!
-Wade is loving preschool and doing great going 5 days a week.
-Finally finished all of the house stuff and on March 1st 2014 we moved!! Such a fun time and a crazy one too.

I have had SO many people ask me about the house and actually if I would blog about it so I am going to do just that. I am going to start a new blog all about our house but also it will be our family blog too. As soon as I get it going I will post the website on here. I promise it won't be four months :)

And this is still how you will find these two...they started sleeping together at my parents house and they are still doing it at the new house! They have the best love hate relationship going on... They play so well one minute and the next they are driving each other crazy! 

Holidays!!

Well I am happy to say that a month has not gone by this time. Things are fun and busy but we just love this Holiday season. The house is well....taking forever! At this rate I feel like we will be in by Christmas next year. I have to say though even if it is crazy at my parents house it is nice to be there for Christmas and not worrying about decorating. It is a nice break this year and we are able to slow down and enjoy things a little more.

We had a great Thanksgiving and we have so much to be Thankful for. We spent lunch with my parents, sister and her family and my cousin and her daughter. It was fun having a one week old baby around too! Hayes is still so sweet and they are all doing well and I love being an Aunt again. I really miss my niece and nephews that live in Clemmons, NC and it has been nice to have a new nephew just 5 minutes down the road. Josh and I have been loving the fact that we hold him and play with him and give him back when he needs to eat. It is so fun having a little baby around but we are thankful it is not us doing it this time.

We packed up and headed to Winston after lunch time and had the best time with Josh's family. We always do lunch with my side and dinner with his side and it works out so nice. The kids nap in the car so we have a quiet car ride every year. One day they will grow out of those naps and we will be so sad. Wade doesn't nap much at home but he will fall asleep in the car. It was loud and crazy with 5 kids under the age of 6 but it is always fun. Josh's mom cooks the best meal and we just enjoy playing and eating. We put the kids to bed and Josh and I went out shopping. The stores opened up at 8pm this year on Thursday so we shopped from 9p-12a and actually got most of our shopping done. I only have one more present to buy!

Friday and Saturday we spent a lot of time playing and relaxing and visiting the great grandparents. Wade also had his first sleep over at his cousins house. Kendal has been wanting to have him over and he LOVES them especially Peyton and was so excited. We wanted to try it when we were close for the first time in case he did get scared and need us. He did great. Besides his grandparents he has never spent the night anywhere so this was a big deal for us :) I had to leave Saturday afternoon to get to work but Josh and the kids stayed and had a blast. I was SO sad because I missed the train ride with Santa. They took all 5 of the kids to Spencer, NC and they had a train ride with Santa and his elves. Wade loved the hot chocolate and cookies best. I was just glad Josh got a picture of both kids with Santa. The mall did not go well this year our little one did not cooperate and not only that she was HORRIBLE at the picture place and we could not even get one picture of the two of them. So this year the Foltz family will not be sending Christmas cards. She screamed and cried (in her defense she did not feel well) and we couldn't even sit her down with Wade. Wade of course did great and smiled so nicely. I am going to try to take one of them at our new house soon and maybe mail those out??

Mom got her tree up and the kids are loving it. WK is being really good and has not messed with it very much at all. Our elf Jack Frost "Jack" is back and Wade is really excited about him. I just hope we remember to move him!! Wade had a Thanksgiving program at school and they got to pick their own Indian names and you will never guess what he picked...."Steaming Fast Red Fox!!" We just laughed and laughed when he told us his name that he picked. He sang great and we were so proud. He is also having a nativity program and they got to pick their character and our outgoing boy picked Joseph. He looks so cute in his pillow case costume. He is having that next week and we can't wait to go watch. Wade LOVES his sister so much and she has not been very nice to him lately and he was so sad the other day. He asked me "mom can you put her in time out and then give me a hug!" Some days she says "Wade" all day and loves him and some days she does not want him around. She will say "No" and try to hit him. Wade is so sweet and sensitive and Westin Kate is not at all.

WK is talking so much more and saying a lot of things. Today she said "hat on" and she says "oh me" all the time. Sometimes when we tell her "no" she will say "oh me" in the cutest little voice. She actually went poop on the potty today but I think it was an accident. I saw she was getting ready to go and we ran into the bathroom and she did it. She is not a big fan of the potty yet and at 22 months I am not going to push it yet. She says "I stink" when she is wet or dirty and its really funny. She also yells "UN UH" all the time if she doesn't want to do something. Some days though she is as good as gold and I could just eat her up. Then we have other days where I can just imagine what our teenage years are going to be like.

This weekend Wade has his second basketball game and he is pumped. He made 7 baskets at his last game and he was so proud of himself. We also have the downtown Apex tree lighting on Friday night with Santa and the Christmas parade on Saturday. We love that we can sit on our front porch this year and watch the parade. Sunday is the tour of homes and Dad and I are going to go. They have asked us to do it next year so I wanted to go this year and see the houses. Its a busy weekend but such a fun one. Christmas is so fun when you have two little kiddos to enjoy it with. I promise I am putting pictures up soon!

Life!!

I am trying not to let a month (or two!!) go by without blogging. I still won't have any pictures yet since life has been crazy and I am SO behind on pictures etc. One day I will get it all together. One day many years from now :)

The kids had a great Halloween and have really been enjoying this Fall weather. Wade was Batman this year and WK was a cupcake. She was so proud of herself and her little bucket. Wade says Halloween is his most favorite time of the year because of the candy. WK was a big fan as well. We made it downtown this year and walked around for there "trick or treat" day. All the stores pass out candy to the kids. My kids loved it but it was actually really crowded this year. It was so nice though that we got to walk downtown from our house. We also took them trick or treating to our old street and it was so good to see all of our old neighbors. WK tried to walk right into our old house- it made us a little sad. We have really missed our neighbors so it was great to see them some. The kids were worn out by 8pm but they had a great time.

Wade is finishing up soccer and actually starts basketball this week. He like soccer but I would not say he loved it. Bless his sweet heart he is not aggressive at all. He is great with the ball and can dribble so well but he will NOT go after the ball or try to take it away from anyone. He is such a sweet spirit and doesn't think it would be "nice" to take the ball away. Oh Josh just hates this, ha ha!! He would rather just wait for the ball to come to him! He is excited for basketball and is excited that he is playing with his best friend Chase. We are going to try soccer again in the Spring but we are doing it with the Town because he is finally old enough. I think he will like it better because it is outside this time.

WK well she is just Westin-Kate and she should have been a boy she is so crazy. My mom found her up on the island in the kitchen this week. She climbed the bar stool and got up there all alone. My mom calls her a "walking tornado" and that is pretty much the truth. This child pretty much destroys every room every day. She is still so smiley and sweet (most of the time!!) She is finally getting a little more hair and I don't even want to say it but it looks like it is curling up on the sides and around the back. It is a dirty blond color. She has much darker hair than Wade. Wade was white blond and curly but now he has lost his curls and his is turning much darker too. Its funny because I always wanted her to have blue eyes like Wade because I always wanted blue eyes growing up :) I have to admit though I LOVE her big brown eyes. She may not have much hair but she has these great big brown eyes that are so sweet.

The house is still a work in progress. Things have been moving pretty fast. We finally found an electrician and we decided to have the entire house re-wired to get rid of all the old nob and tooth wiring. It took forever to find someone to do the work but we are so happy with this one. He has 4-5 guys that work for him and they have all been there working together which makes it go so much faster. It is pretty expensive but it is so worth it to us to have it up to code and have all new switches and outlets. Once they are finished we will finish with the wall and painting and then start on the floors and kitchen. The kitchen is all gutted and we have ordered our cabinets and counter tops. We can't wait to see it finished. We had a ton of landscaping done and it is a huge dirty mess but it looks so much better having all those old bushes and weeds pulled. We even found a really big stone patio under all the yard mess. We were pretty excited about that because now we have a place for our table and for a fire pit. We still don't know when we will finally get into the house but we are hoping by January at the latest. We added to our fence and now it goes almost all around our yard. We just have a  small part in the front yard to fence in. We can't wait to see the finished project one day. It may be years from now but hopefully it will all be worth it!!

And last but not least baby Hayes is here. Ashley had sweet Hayes early Friday morning. She actually worked all day and went in after work and they sent her home and told her she wasn't in labor. Well she proved them wrong because she came back in and had a baby in less than two hours. She did it natural because she labored at home so long she didn't have time for her epidural when she finally came back in. He is so cute and so quiet. I know he may not always be this way but the child has not cried for more than 5 seconds total. He is the most content baby I have ever been around.  He is really cute and looks so different than my kids. He is little and skinny and has a lot of hair. Mine were both chubby and big with hardly any hair. I am trying not to be a baby hog but he is so sweet you just want to cuddle him all the time. Hoping he stays this quiet for them all the time.

Hoarders

I felt like I needed to dedicate an entire post on this subject. I have NEVER in my ENTIRE life seen so much stuff in one house except on TV on the show Hoarders. I feel like our life the past months could have been a reality show. We never imagined that buying this great big house would mean we had to move the older couple out and deal with EVERYTHING else that they left for us. Every room was full and every closet was full. Every barn and shed (all 5 of them) were full. I mean floor to ceiling full in most of them. Boxes and stuff everywhere. I just can't even explain except that it has taken us a month and a half to clean out this house. We could have never ever done it without my parents. They have helped so much!! They have helped with moving everything, cleaning and watching the kids so much. We are so thankful!

We also could not have done it without Mr. Carl and his family/workers. He was the one who did the auction for us and he did so much. I don't think his 30% was nearly enough. It took his guys 3-4 days just to clean out 3 of the sheds/barns. Pictures don't even do it justice but I will tell you we are on our 5th dumpster and these are HUGE 40 ft dumpsters and that is just for the "trash." Josh took a large trailer full to Goodwill and we sold a lot at the auction/yard sale. They made a decent amount of money. They got out the best...they didn't have to do any work and still made money, haha. They were the smart one's in all of this. Of course we don't mind helping them because they just can't do it but it was a long long weekend. You just don't know how happy it makes me seeing our yard clean. We had tents and stuff everywhere that entire week.

We also have had a problem with people coming onto the property and trying to take things or even coming into the house. We had to hang a Private sign on the front door to try to keep people out. People have been trying to come in and buy stuff that is not for sale. I think because we had a three day sale there people just thought everything was for sale and that they could just come take things that were in the yard. Thankfully now everything is locked up outside and we head over there every night and lock the house once all the workers leave. We have painted the upstairs and done a lot of the trim work already and the plumbers finished last week. Now we are just trying to find an electrician to re-wire the house so we can finish up the upstairs. This weekend we pretty much got the back room done that we are using for our attic and started moving stuff in there. After we get the upstairs lighting done and the bathroom done we will be all ready to have the floors done and then we can start moving stuff up there. We still have a few inspection type things to get done and I am hoping we can do that this week sometime. We are also working on the kitchen now and that has been the most fun getting to pick all of that out. I can't wait to post some before and after pictures soon!!

Some old one's from our last lake weekend of the Summer!!

Back Again!!!

Well I am going to try this blogging thing again. I am ashamed to admit that my new computer that Josh bought me this past June is still in the box. This weekend we are getting it out I promise. For now I will just try to blog some at work. Honestly though it has been a nice little break from blogging and Facebook. I don't have an I phone (so behind I know!!) so I don't have any internet access now during the day until Josh gets home. I can't believe it has been two months since I last blogged but it has been the craziest two months ever!!! Here is what we have been up to...

We have bought a new house, sold our old house, moved most of our house into storage, moved the rest of our things and ourselves into my parents house, moved an elderly couple into their new house, packed up 1 million items from their old house and tried so hard to find a place for ALL of their stuff. Cleaned our 4 of the 5 sheds/barns at our new house, had an auction/yard sell to get rid of everything they could not cram into their new house, had a baby shower for my sister, went to the fair, celebrated Halloween with a school party, went trick or treating whew I am tired just thinking about how busy this past month has been. Oh we also started renovating our new house which means meeting plumbers, contractors, painters, electricians you name it we have had them in our house!! We just love making ourselves crazy. Even with all this going on we have actually had a lot of fun too. Oh Josh also turned 32 in the midst of this busy October month. We love love Fall and October is my favorite month but I think that for some reason it is also one of our busiest month's too!!

We LOVE our new house. It is our dream house and one day it will be so worth it. Right now it is still a little overwhelming but slowly it is getting there. I am just so thankful that we have finally gotten almost everything out of it that was Ron and Anne's (the elderly couple that we bought it from!) I think we have on more trailer load to take them and we will have it all at their new house. The shed's look amazing-you could not walk into any of the barns/sheds before because they were so full-now they are organized and makes my type A personality happy.

I have seen more "stuff" this past month and a half than I ever care to see. If I see one more box of junk I think I would just scream. It is so fun seeing it empty. We really do love our new house and we will love it more once we are living there. It is going just fine living with my parents but you can imagine moving our entire family into their quiet house has been a big change for everyone. It is just a season and I know in a month or three we will be living there. The kids have really really done well with all the added stress.

Wade is loving school and loves going 5 days a week. He had his little song fest this past week for Halloween and it was so cute. They wore their costumes and sang a few songs for the parents. Wade was Batman this year for Halloween. He is really into Super Hero's still and Ninja Turtles. I was actually shocked that he wasn't a Ninja Turtle but he picked Batman. I was happy with it because we already had the costume. He is so funny at 4.5 year old. We had a 1/2 birthday party for him and he told me "mommy you ruin all the parties!" he told me this because I made him go to bed, Ha! Such a bad mommy! He loves his sister so much and tells her she is the cutest girl ever. He loves sharing a room with her and even today I found him napping in her bed with her. He really doesn't nap much these days but occasionally he will once or twice a week. Wade is at such a great age we can take him anywhere with us and we usually don't have any issues with his behavior. He is so sweet and gets so embarrassed when I want to sit and hug him and kiss on him. He loves to run around our new big yard and climb trees and pretend he is a ninja. He is really fun to watch and still keeps us laughing. He is funny and his sister really takes after him. He LOVES ropes and tying things up and playing on the big dumpsters we have. Gross I know, he is all boy for sure. He has seven girlfriends this year and is very proud of that.

Westin Kate is so cute and so crazy. She is going to be 21 months this week and she is WILD. She is sweet as pie one minute and hugging and kissing and she is saying "bite" and being mean the next minute. We literally laugh at her all the time. She still doesn't like to talk but she can talk. She said "I do it" this week and has started saying "oh me" and "oh Wade" and it is so funny. The other night they were taking a bath and Wade was telling her all about his new boo boo and I heard her say "Oh Me!" Josh and I died laughing. She climbs on everything and falls all the time. She doesn't sit still for one minute and still isn't into TV. She will watch it for a minute if she has a snack but other than that she does not sit down. She has this huge brown eyes and the longest eyelashes and is finally getting some hair. It is coming in think and crazy and maybe a little curly. I am still keeping my fingers crossed that it will be curly like Josh's. Everyone just loves her and makes a big deal over her and sometimes it really makes Wade sad. :( He will say "why didn't they tell me I am so cute!!" She is silly silly and her Sunday school teachers tell us every week that she just "runs the show" in her room. She is sassy and I am pretty sure a little bossy too. We just love her! Our favorite thing that she says is "Mo" "Mo" means "no" and she says it all the time. Its funny because I know she can so the N sound because she calls my mom "NiNi" instead of "Mimi" We always say, "Westin-Kate are you ready to go to bed?" Just to hear her say "Mo!!" She also says "Un-uh" all the time.

I am really going to try harder to keep this up. I do love looking back at our blog books and I really want to document our house transformation on here. Hoping to finally get some picture post done as well. I have a lot of pictures to get on here one day.

Back to a routine-Wade's first week of 4yr preschool!

I have to say I was a little worried about getting back from the beach and starting school the next day but thankful things have gone pretty well this week. We left Friday evening for the beach and the kids were so excited. Josh and I were also very excited because our house sold on Friday. We are so thankful that is sold (again!!) Hopefully these people will not back out-they are probably in their 50's and moving from Tennesse and they loved this house. We are closing on October 14th. I am thankful we have another month to live here.  We still haven't closed on our new house but hopefully we will be able to close by October 1st. We have been waiting to see if interest rates will go back down a bit but of course it seems like they are still up.

We had a great time and the beach. Wade still loves the pool more than the beach but he got to go on a long bike ride with Nana and Poppy and had a great time. He did great and even rode over 5 miles-his little legs were worn out after that. WK is still as wild as ever and loves the ocean and playing in the waves. Still fearless and buys!! My family was also down for the weekend so we got to spend some time with them as well. The kids always love having both sets of grandparents around to spoil them. We came home Monday afternoon and I don't know why we didn't wait until evening because traffic was horrible and the kids of course sleep less than 2 hours. They did great though considering it took us 4.5 hours to get home.

School started that Tuesday and I just knew Wade was going to have a blast in the Duck class but I was wrong. There is a little boy named Caleb in his class who is picking on him. He told us he pushed him, stepped on his toe, called him two names, hit him twice, and put mulch in his hair. All this happened on the first two days of school :( Josh and I were furious and of course emailed the teachers right away. We are hoping they will handle it so we don't have to get involved but rest assured if they don't handle it we will have no problem at all getting involved. That is something we are not going to tolerate in 4 yr old preschool.

Caleb was not in school on Friday so of course Wade had a great day. I am a little anxious to see what happens next week. I really didn't want to show myself the first week of school but now we are into the 2nd week so I will not have an issue at all :) Wade of course is too worried he will get in trouble if he tells on him but his teachers had a talk with him yesterday and we are hoping if it happens again he will go and tell his teachers. Of course Josh told him to "punch him in the face" which isn't a bad idea but probably not the best idea for preschool. I have a feeling Caleb and I are going to become good friends in the near future if he keeps this up. I told my mom I would have no problem getting in a 4 year olds face and telling him to leave Wade alone. Wade is so tender hearted and this has made him so upset. Hopefully though it will all work out his teachers will handle everything so Josh and I don't have to.

We started packing a little bit this past week and oh my how did we ever get so much stuff. It is insane how much stuff you can have after six years of marriage and after having two kids.  I have alsmost finished the kitchen which will be a huge help. I did get the dining room all packed except the furniture. We are getting movers this time who will move us into a storage unit but it will save time and money if we have everything boxed up. My goal this weekend is to finish the downstairs and get the attic mostly done. The attic is going to be a nightmare but we need to go through it all and have a yardsale. I know after we finish packing this house we will be so thankful that we are moving into our "forever" home. I will not ever want to see another box again.

They started painting the outside of our new house this week and it looks so good. I can't wait to see it when they get it all done next week. At least the outside is going to look good even if the inside is a mess for awhile. The landscaper starts sometime next week and that is where we are going to see the biggest difference. The yard is so overgrown and I can't wait to see it all cleaned up. It will take them a long time to get it all done but I know it will be worth it. We still need to find a tree company to come cut some huge branches that hang down on the house. Josh's company is going to start replacing the gutters sometime in the next two weeks. They are not your normal gutters they are internal ones so it is going to be a big and expensive project but one that has to be done. I will be so glad when we get all the outside stuff done (and paid for) so we can start on the inside!! Can't wait to post pictures soon.