I had completely forgotten we even had a blog and stumbled across it during my lunch at work today. It was fun going back and reading what little we did post and seeing the photos. Made me sad that we didn't keep up with it. Since the last blog, we added Littlest Eash #5 and final, Adrian who is now 4 years old! I'm at work and don't have access to all my photos at home or I would add some. Maybe later. We have also since sold that camper, bought a different one and sold that one. Now we have no camper, but we still have the Suburban. We still plan on camping, just doing it old school with tents now. We finally got serious about paying off debt in August of 2012 and cut up our credit cards. For over a year now we have paid for everything with the money we have (with the exception of getting our basement finished) and have paid off around $20,000 of debt. We still have a lot of work to do, but we will get there. I went back to work full time in January of 2013 at a local mortgage company. I started out as the receptionist and have since moved up to processing and submitting USDA loans. It's a great job!
Matt is still working for Hewlett Packard from home. Nolan and Jillian are 11 years old and in sixth grade. Sullivan is 10 in fourth grade, Brendan is 6 in first grade and Adrian is 4 in preschool and daycare. Life is even busier and crazier than it was before! We still love our house...been there 5 years and almost have all the rooms painted....lol. As I mentioned earlier, we had the basement finished this August and that has been wonderful. That's about all I have time for right now. Maybe this weekend if I think about it I can add some photos and more updates. (Don't hold your breath)
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
the 'burban...
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| From Suburban |
What exciting news we have... ok, well maybe not that exciting to you. But as of last night we are the owners of a (new to us) 2003 Chevy Suburban.
It will be our new Tow vehicle for our Camping adventures. We are most excited that it is ours, no payments! We decided this year to save some money and use our tax return to purchase a vehicle. What a great feeling knowing you own the vehicle!
-matt-
Monday, March 9, 2009
Let the Planning begin...
As some of you know we love to go camping as a family. This year we've decided to embark on a journey of sorts.
This Spring break we will be taking the eashfamily on the road. The road to where, you ask? We are packing up the truck and the camper and heading to Florida. Never having done such a trip before I'm wondering if this will be the making of the next National Lampoons movie. I hope not but I suppose as long as all are safe and fun is had, it should not matter.
We are going to be spending 5 Nights in Sunny Sarasota Florida at Sun-N-Fun, From there we will be heading to Orlando to stay at the Walt Disney Wilderness Resort Campground. This year we've invited my wonderful Aunt Barb to join on our Disney Excursion, We all enjoy Disney so much and can't wait to share that time with her!
Ta-Ta for now, I'll keep you in the know...
-matt- (photos added by Rachelle)
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
I'm back!
I promised I would come back to post more later, so here I am. Let me see, after my birthday and Thanksgiving came Christmas preparations. We did the very traditional thing this year and drove to the local tree farm and trudged around in the mud searching for THE tree with our little ones. Luckily, we experienced some great weather that day and we didn't freeze our tootsies off. After at least 30-40 minutes of tree tracking, we finally settled on one. Daddy sawed it down and we dragged it off to the hay wagon. We burnt our mouths on hot cider while the tree was secured to the top of our minivan. I decided that next year we should pick one of those beautiful Douglas Firs that have already been cut down at the tree farm. They were spectacular! And no mud trudging required.
The kids were so much into the Christmas spirit that it was hard not to get into it as well. Their excitement about decorating the tree and the house was over the top. They were skipping around the house in their Santa hats singing Christmas songs and make believing Christmas morning everyday. They would "wrap" some of their toys in blankets and pretend to have Christmas day with each other opening presents. It was precious. Don't assume life in the Eash house is all pretend and lollipops. Yes, it's true there are some fun times. Those times are interspersed with lots of fighting between the kids. Mostly between two little boys in particular. As a matter of fact, I just sent those two precious boys to their room after Sullivan threw the Playstation remote (Busted! Yes, I let my kids play video games and they watch tv, too.) at Nolan and hit him square in the back because Nolan was going to delete his game. Ah, I can feel the love. Now I can hear Nolan spewing hateful comments about his brother from his room. Here, this will lighten the mood....some cute photos!
Christmas cookies! Remind me to read this blog next year before making cut-out cookies so I can prevent making the same mistakes. The dough recipe I used this year turned out quite nice for rolling and decorating, so that is a keeper. I used the Wilton recipe that I cut out from the back of one of the cookie cutters I bought. What I won't use again is the cookie icing for decorating. It dries hard, shiny and pretty but it is not kid friendly. I tried putting the icing in ziploc bags with a small hole snipped off one of the corners only to have the icing come out of the top or explode through the seams. Next year I think I will stick with my buttercream recipe for the cookies. It will easier for the kids to manage. Regardless, they thoroughly enjoyed making and decorating the cookies and I think Santa really liked them, too. I am still not done with the updates, but alas my children need me to provide nourishment so I must go. I shall return.
The kids were so much into the Christmas spirit that it was hard not to get into it as well. Their excitement about decorating the tree and the house was over the top. They were skipping around the house in their Santa hats singing Christmas songs and make believing Christmas morning everyday. They would "wrap" some of their toys in blankets and pretend to have Christmas day with each other opening presents. It was precious. Don't assume life in the Eash house is all pretend and lollipops. Yes, it's true there are some fun times. Those times are interspersed with lots of fighting between the kids. Mostly between two little boys in particular. As a matter of fact, I just sent those two precious boys to their room after Sullivan threw the Playstation remote (Busted! Yes, I let my kids play video games and they watch tv, too.) at Nolan and hit him square in the back because Nolan was going to delete his game. Ah, I can feel the love. Now I can hear Nolan spewing hateful comments about his brother from his room. Here, this will lighten the mood....some cute photos!
Christmas cookies! Remind me to read this blog next year before making cut-out cookies so I can prevent making the same mistakes. The dough recipe I used this year turned out quite nice for rolling and decorating, so that is a keeper. I used the Wilton recipe that I cut out from the back of one of the cookie cutters I bought. What I won't use again is the cookie icing for decorating. It dries hard, shiny and pretty but it is not kid friendly. I tried putting the icing in ziploc bags with a small hole snipped off one of the corners only to have the icing come out of the top or explode through the seams. Next year I think I will stick with my buttercream recipe for the cookies. It will easier for the kids to manage. Regardless, they thoroughly enjoyed making and decorating the cookies and I think Santa really liked them, too. I am still not done with the updates, but alas my children need me to provide nourishment so I must go. I shall return.
Monday, December 29, 2008
November/December 2008 Updates
I've totally been a slacker with this blog! November has flown by and now December is pretty much over as well. Let me back up to Thanksgiving, which is about as far as I can remember. (My memory is not what it used to be. I blame the kids. Isn't that what Moms are supposed to do?) My Aunt Mary (My Dad's sister) flew in from New Mexico and stayed with us for about 6 days and celebrated Thanksgiving with us. Our first Thanksgiving in our new home and we didn't have to rearrange furniture or anything to accommodate everyone. My grandma (Aunt Mary's mother) was able to join us for dinner and enjoy four hours of freedom from our local nursing home. My sister, Stephanie and her boys were here as well as Matt's mom, sister and sister's boyfriend. Dinner was yummy as usual.
Oh, wait....I did have a birthday in there, too. I turned 32 this year which is
hard to believe. That is a real grown-up age. You would think having four kids would make me feel like a grown up, but I still feel very young. We went out to dinner to celebrate and Matt made me a chocolate cake from scratch! It was deliciously rich and tasted like it was from a fancy restaurant. Not a bite of that cake went to waste.More to come, my computer is slow at putting pics on here!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Halloween 2008
Halloween 2008
Luckily a shot in the heiny was just what I needed to get out of my deathbed in time to celebrate Halloween with my little Goblins. I had been shot down with strep throat or something of the sort on Monday and after three days of antibiotics I was still very sick. Went back to the doc and you guessed it, they gave me a good old-fashioned shot in the booty. But enough about me (no pun intended)
, on to the festivites.
We decided to have a frugal Halloween this year....or maybe it was lazy.....take your pick. We picked out costumes from our stock of Halloweens Past. Nolan and Sullivan agreed to don the handmade clown outfits that were made by Matt's Grandma Miller for him and his sister years ago. I think those were the original wigs as well. Jillian and I put together an Angel for her using her Princess Laia gown from last year and her Tinkerbell wings from the year before. And Brendan's costume has been handed down from cousin Tristan, to brother Sullivan and now to him. Add a $0.99 halo from that Christmas aisle that's always up before Halloween and $3.99 for face paint and ta-da!!!!!!
What a couple of clowns! They each had artistic input in the design of their clown make-up. Sullivan's lips didn't make it past the first piece of candy he ate after the first house!
As you can see, the older three had a hard time waiting for their little bubby. Brendan wanted to eat everything as soon as it was put into his bucket. And if he saw a dog in the house, he would walk right in and say, "Puppy!" Oh, I forgot to add that the only way we could get Brendan in a costume was to tell him he looked cool. Then he would say, "Bubby, cool!" And when he saw other trick-or-treaters he would point to them and say, "Cool!"
Candy feast! We usually let them dig in that night and eat as much as they want. Then the candy goes into lock-up and used for bribery (Or Mommy's & Daddy's snack attacks). Jillian reported having so much fun this Halloween. Sullivan, as usual, lost steam early in the evening and sat out the last few houses. We were lucky to get the pumpkins carved and on the front step before 6pm tonight due to Matt's travels and my sickness. I guess it all came together and the important thing is they all had fun.
Luckily a shot in the heiny was just what I needed to get out of my deathbed in time to celebrate Halloween with my little Goblins. I had been shot down with strep throat or something of the sort on Monday and after three days of antibiotics I was still very sick. Went back to the doc and you guessed it, they gave me a good old-fashioned shot in the booty. But enough about me (no pun intended)
, on to the festivites.We decided to have a frugal Halloween this year....or maybe it was lazy.....take your pick. We picked out costumes from our stock of Halloweens Past. Nolan and Sullivan agreed to don the handmade clown outfits that were made by Matt's Grandma Miller for him and his sister years ago. I think those were the original wigs as well. Jillian and I put together an Angel for her using her Princess Laia gown from last year and her Tinkerbell wings from the year before. And Brendan's costume has been handed down from cousin Tristan, to brother Sullivan and now to him. Add a $0.99 halo from that Christmas aisle that's always up before Halloween and $3.99 for face paint and ta-da!!!!!!
What a couple of clowns! They each had artistic input in the design of their clown make-up. Sullivan's lips didn't make it past the first piece of candy he ate after the first house!
As you can see, the older three had a hard time waiting for their little bubby. Brendan wanted to eat everything as soon as it was put into his bucket. And if he saw a dog in the house, he would walk right in and say, "Puppy!" Oh, I forgot to add that the only way we could get Brendan in a costume was to tell him he looked cool. Then he would say, "Bubby, cool!" And when he saw other trick-or-treaters he would point to them and say, "Cool!"
Candy feast! We usually let them dig in that night and eat as much as they want. Then the candy goes into lock-up and used for bribery (Or Mommy's & Daddy's snack attacks). Jillian reported having so much fun this Halloween. Sullivan, as usual, lost steam early in the evening and sat out the last few houses. We were lucky to get the pumpkins carved and on the front step before 6pm tonight due to Matt's travels and my sickness. I guess it all came together and the important thing is they all had fun.
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