6 months!

6 TERRIBLY long months have passed by since our life was turned upside down between having a (metabolic condition diagnosed) baby, selling our house, husband working 3 hours away, drs appointments ryker starting preschool, my mom being diagnosed with cancer, being houseless for the last 3 months and not sleeping... just to name a few ;)

well in 18 days HOPEFULLY things can begin to get back to normal... that is until Blake has to come back to Fernie next summer... but atleast we will have a house! hah

i think i am most excited for the garage, weve never had a garage before!

Funny story about the house we bought. last march I contacted a lady who said on the buy and sell she was thinking about selling their house but it wasn't listed or anything so during Easter break we went to walk through it just to see it. Keep in mind they weren't planning on selling anytime soon and we weren't seriously looking so I didn't look into much depth more just step into the room look around and then leave...then we had Addie and with all her appointments and craziness and Blake being in fernie and there just were not any houses for sale in Magrath,we were leaning more towards that house.

We went and looked at another house that had been for sale for over a year.. and there was a reason for that! We decided maybe Heavenly Father was just making our choice ridiculously easy for us to make! Blake went back to look a little closer at the house on his way through to medicine hat for the may long weekend and took a few pictures but to be honest dont show much of the house. take this picture below for example; this apparently is the laundry room... haha thanks blake.. love you ;)

no cropping involved; this is all i got haha 

 We then put ours up for sale in medicine hat; and we let the potential sellers know we were doing it and were interested in their house but weren't committing to anything as it is a block away from my moms and we were hoping something else would come on the market. Come July our house sold and they wanted an august 2nd possession date, We had potentially talked with the seller of a September possession because Ryker was registered to start preschool; then they informed us they couldn't be out until November.. so that through off our plans and we thought maybe we weren't supposed to have this house. a few days later we saw them list their house up on kijij and got a little defensive and thought hey now thats OUR house- we had been communicating for 8 months on and off and although never committed by putting in an offer; hadn't looked at any other houses and we already sold ours so we felt a bit stuck. We called them a few hours later after some prayer and contemplation with an offer but they wouldn't budge on the November 1st possession date. So we bought a house that I've seen once for 10 minutes not wanting to invade their privacy as they were walking around the house with us... hah! So I vaguely can remember the floor plan but this will hopefully be our very long time house so I can make any changes I don't like over the next while. I dont want to ever move again. Especially not while I have little children who think they are the best helpers ;)

So we put all our stuff in storage and moved our essentials to fernie. We drove to magrath for 2 weeks for swimming lessons during the summer and for the last 2 months I have been travelling to magrath monday mornings for ryker to go to preschool monday and wed afternoons then driving back to fernie wed evenings to spend the rest of the week here with blake. On sundays we have to drive a half hour to Sparwood for church then a half hour home... we have put  A LOT of kms on our van in the last few months thats for sure!

because of all the craziness its been hard to enjoy all the moments with Addie.. with not sleeping i feel like im a permanent zombie and my boys are missing out on the mom they deserve; Addie has been given the okay to go 5 hours at night so i feed her between 10-11 at night when i go to bed then she makes it to about 2-3 and i "dream feed" her which means i just stick the bottle in her mouth without waking her up and then she eats again at 7-8amish. she has been given the okay to go 5 hours but lots of time only makes it to 4 because the last 6 months ive been training her to wake up to eat... which is super frustrating . poor girl .
its been REALLY hard living in Fernie. Blake leaves before i wake up and gets home and does computer work in the evening.He works 6 days a week and recently has been having to go in on sundays as well. i don't know anyone here as there is only 1 other older older couple here from fernie in our ward in sparwood. Which really isn't our ward so i feel like a perma-visitor there.
I go days without leaving the house and have no friends so i don't do anything with them or blake because we don't have any babysitters and i can't leave Addie with just anyone.
Its been tough adjustment. i had good friends in Medicine Hat; i played basketball once a week. we had girl nights we had mothers group i saw them weekly at church and now nothing. i love my kids but being cooped up in a house that isn't mine that i dont have anything familiar or comfortable around me is depressing.
but the good news is Addie is doing well. she had a blood test result come back not the best and the drs were concerned and wanted me to wake her more often to eat again which i didn't want to do, but she seems to be doing better now. she goes in once a month for blood tests and has ECGs and other cardio appointments every few months. She has started to eat some solids. not a fan of rice cereal but so far loves all the vegetables she has tried. She is starting to feel more like a "normal" baby. Everyone keeps reminding me how great she looks and how normal she looks that she doesn't look sick at all. thats what makes it the toughest as no one really comprehends how hard it is. or has been. I am VERY grateful however for Addies health, 6 months ago when i was doing my first initial google research because i had never heard of her condition i wasn't sure we would make it here. But here we are! happy and healthy and she fits so well into our family! Heres hoping we can make it through flu season unscathed!

I'll leave you with one of Addies newest tricks

ahh i just love her!