Sept 24 & 25th

This weekend was fun filled constant chaos; thats usually the best way to describe most of our days though! Bubba started crawling....... just thought I would get the BIG news out first!
Saturday we started out looking for garage sales (of course) then enjoyed the OSU game... which was at 11:30 am here :-) We went over to 'The Peanut Farm' which is a local restaurant that has pretty good food and has tons of TVs so people can watch the games. The kids did so good; they are OSU super fans.... well at least Laela is. We happened to be in the back watching on a huge projector with like 30 A&M fans and 8 OSU fans; we were happy we won to say the least! Laela loved the fact the everyone else in the restaurant could yell so she took advantage of it; she yelled "Go Pokes, Theres Mr Pete (aka Pistol Pete), Go Cowboys, and I wanna see Bullet" the entire time... everyone LOVED it :-) 
We wrapped up our day with a trip to the park, Lowes, and Wal Mart. 
Sunday we took our time getting up and about; we did breakfast then worked on organizing the house some. Matt left for 'The Slope' so we spent time doing laundry and getting him packed. He will be gone till Friday which is a short trip... it will give us some time to adjust. Speaking of adjusting; Laela was showing absolutely no signs of anything bothering her until Sunday night. After a full day of playing at the park, playing in the back yard, coloring, painting, helping me cook and clean, and acting completely normal she kinda had a melt down at bedtime. As most of you know, Laela is the best sleeper I have ever seen. She usually goes down so easy with no objection and sleeps around 12 hours every night. BUT something upset her terribly; she was so upset it broke my heart. Her Daddy came to the rescue though... a phone call later she finally went to sleep. Its hard being a mom at times like that; you want to help so bad but no matter what you do it doesn't seem to make anything better. Its just so hard seeing her upset; mommy had a bit of a breakdown herself... again, Daddy was there to rescue me :-) 
Overall the weekend was a success and we are all doing just fine..... Im guessing Laela will be okay; she has just had so much happening all at one time, its so much for everyone to process! 


Ill post pictures tomorrow... its late :-) Night! 

Sept. 16th - Sept 22

Sept. 16
Wow. We made it! Yesterday (Sept. 15) was incredibly busy to say the least. We got up and started the day pretty normal with breakfast and baths then took the pups for a walk. At about 10am all the fun started. We loaded up the truck with everything and before we finished it started to rain; so. .  I made a mad dash to the store for huge trash bags to put over our bags (all 10 of them). Once we made it to the airport (thanks to my dad) we had to get tags made for 8 carry ons, get 10 bags checked, 2 Dogs checked in for carry ons, and get our boarding passes which sounds like no biggy, but took forever! We made it through security and to our gate in time for bathroom breaks and to grab some food; we loaded up and headed to Dallas. Once we got to Dallas we had just enough time to run to our connecting gate... we jumped on that plane and headed to Anchorage.  

Sept 17
Second day in Alaksa, we took a LONG trip down to Homer, AK. Next time we will make it a weekend trip instead of a day trip. We left out around 9am and will be back in Anchorage around 2am. We did get to see some very pretty views though. We went to see Portage Glacier, saw a Moose (Jeron spotted it), drove out on the Homer Spit, ate some amazing doughnuts at 'The Moose is Loose', ate at 'Cafe Cup' probably wont do that again :-) lol, and drove over 10 hours in one day... Now thats a trip! I think it was worth it; we got some amazing pictures and the kids did really well on the drive. 

Sept 18
RECOVERY DAY... after the air plane ride the day before and the car ride yesterday we are sticking around Anchorage today, going to eat at some local restaurants and show Jeron and Annette around the town. 
Afternoon -
So... we enjoyed Anchorage today... We went to the Zoo for a few hours which was super fun, its completely different from the OKC Zoo. The Zoo here has a lot less, but has a much more natural setting. The polar bears were really awesome! 
After the Zoo we headed downtown to eat at 'Glacier Brewhouse' - Matt and I had been there before so we wanted to take Jeron, Annette, Dave, and Karen. Everyone really enjoyed dinner and dessert. 

Sept 19 - 21
Move, unpack, organize, repeat.... im exhausted!


Sept 22
Today marks the first day of semi normalcy! Annette and Jeron had to head back to OK last night so we are on our own. I got up this morning and made breakfast; Matt was very happy to get his egg white and bacon sandwich!!! We were all so happy to start the day off around the dinning room table together; Matt said the blessing and we started to eat when Laela started choking. Matt and I both jumped up, he did the 'pat' her on the back a few times... she was turning red so I ran for my phone while yelling "get it out" - Matt did just that, he stuck his fingers down her throat and pulled out a piece of . . .... bacon. Yep, thats right... Bacon. She just about gave Matt and I a heart attack. Once it was all over and she realized she was okay she leaned over and kissed her daddy, it was so sweet.. a sort of silent Thank You :-) 
Once I stopped shaking I almost cried, I didn't have time to cry while it was happening - So Scary! 
You would think after all of that drama we wouldn't have anything else to talk about BUT of course there is more. We finished breakfast, then we played and cleaned till lunch. After lunch I put Laela and Colt down for a nap; their dad followed suite so I organized. I was a busy busy bee putting things away as fast as possible trying to get stuff done while I didn't have kiddos to watch. I got about 2 hours to work in peace (that rarely happens). Once everyone woke up I asked Matt where the pups where... I thought they were sleeping with him. He proceeded to tell me that he hadn't seen them, "Remember I was sleeping" he reminded me. 
I immediately panicked because I remembered looking out the back door several times and not seeing them laying there. Matt jumped in the Tahoe and I gathered the kids so we could search the neighborhood. We looked and looked; I called the animal shelter and they had no news. After about an hour of searching... I was panicking, and Matt was driving all over South West Anchorage we finally caught a break. Matt talked with some guy that gave him a number to the animal control in Anchorage; he called and at first they said there had been no reports of 2 missing pups. A few minutes later... they called back and said that a lady just called to report that she found them :-) uhhhh we were so happy to see those mischievous dogs. 
Dinner was good; I made Taco Soup. We sure were missing home cooked meals! 
Overall we had a good/ stressful day...  

August and September Happenings

Alaska Adventure.

Well about every few months Matt would come home and say 

"what do you think about moving to _____"

 Then I would say "whatever you think babe." It's been everywhere from New Mexico and Texas to Canada and Australia! The day he came home and said "what do you think about Alaska"  i said "it's so cold there, but whatever you think" in the back of my mind I just assumed it was small talk. . . Well, I was wrong. 

August 23rd
Leaving Elk City. .
It was very emotional! We had build a nice little life in our nice little home in Elk. We met amazing people and were very content with how everything was going. For me it was hard leaving the home that I brought both of my babies home to! The hardest things though was saying goodbye to some amazing friends. It wasn't a true goodbye though; just a 'see you later' BUT it was still hard! We are very excited to start a new adventure but equally sad to leave. 

August 24th
 Today was the first day living back in Lexington; only 23 more days till our family will be Alaska residence in our new house. So crazy!

August 29th
Being in Lexington has abled us to see lots of family! The kids and I are staying in Annette and Jerrys basement and it's working out great. Thinking about Alaska and knowing that we only have 18 days left is strange. It's coming fast; before we know it we will be on a plane headed North till Christmas. I'm excited to see what Alaska has in store for the Hamm family. ;-)

Sept 5th
Matt is on his way to Alaska!
It is crazy to think. . . He is actually on his way home. Anchorage AK I hope you are ready for the Hamm Fam! We will all be there the 15th to start our new adventure; it's all happening so fast.