Drama, Drama, Drama...

I finally got the kids pictures taken at JCPenney's last wednesday, not the best photo shoot we've ever had as far as picture results but the kids were really realllly good. Jacey played along because she was earning a grape laffy taffy and Lucas was in a good mood, and Taylor slept. I got the smiles by wire so you can all view the lack of choices I had to choose from, but they won't be up for a while sooo I'll figure out how to link it so you can visit the site from my blog.

We blessed Taylor today and my little sister blessed Harley in our ward while we had family in town, we had a brunch at the house after sacrament which turned out pretty good. There was about 50 people who came, most of which was just family. I will have to make more food next time, everyone got some but they didn't get full which I guess is o.k. I will post some pictures when I get alllll of them organized. Check back soon. :)

still nothing going on I added some new music to our blog. The simon and garfunkel songs are a tribute to my dad, growing up I would get in his car to drive somewhere and often times this would be the tape playing, and come to think of it when we used to drive the "hair van" to seminary this is what we listened to. It was called the hair van because of the maroon flame stripes painted on the front, it was also the van we took camping with the boat. good times. so these songs take me back.

Someday I'm going to get Taylors pictures done, I'll post them when that happens. wish me luck, the other kids are due too, when Lucas doesn't have any bruises on his face maybe I'll take him in too. Well if I wait for that to happen I probably won't get him pictures until kindergarten.

Shooting myself in the foot.

Well I have been in contact with American Express for several days and several phone calls all after trying to do a good thing and pay off the balance of Justin's school loan that was on that card...We cancelled the card after I had made the final payment so that we could get the AmEx TruEarnings card that is linked to costco....yada yada...yada. None of it worked. They wanted a check to pay the balance, and the account I used doesn't have checks so THEY looked up the routing number of the bank to make the payment that way. In short, the account wasn't the right one or something and I got a letter in the mail saying basically the payment made was unsuccessful. AND on top of not paying off the card now no payment has been recorded. So I called again to make the payment and it was again unsuccessful, so I called today to talk to them and now my balance is 100 dollars more than when I started because they are considering the payments I tried to make "returned checks".....ahaahhhhhh. Now trying to be responsible has made me a really big headache, so much for trying to get debt free... Because we cancelled the card I can't log in online and I can't fix it because the card is only in Justin's name. So he gets to call them and give me authorization to manage the account just like I could before we cancelled the card. bla bla bla.... this is how my morning went... now it is 11am and we still haven't left the house for our other errands and this matter still hasn't been resolved and the kids are already melting down. yeah for our team. KIDS- 1 MOM-0

Taylor's birth certificate came in the mail yesterday and and Justin birthday is wrong on it so now I get to call them.... BIG SMILE.

And...We're back.

Well it seems impossible that not much is going on here, but it's the truth. we are just figuring out our routine and where we all belong in this family. Lucas is getting better at not being so angry at everything. he still really likes his new sister but he just takes out his frustration out on Jacey and me. There isn't much to report I just didn't want you to think we have forgotten you guys. Here are a couple of new pictures of Taylor.