Some New Posts

Just in case you haven't jumped over to subscribe to our new blog...Here are some links to some of our recent posts! Hope you enjoy!

• Children and Cancer
• Residency and Stuff!
• Pugsley-the Puggle
• Felicity's First day of Kindergarten
• Jaicie's First day of 2nd Grade
• Angels and Families
• Kindergarten

Don't Forget!

Don't forget our blog is now located at:

http://jaidiandjustin.blogspot.com/

Hope to see you all there soon!

Needs

I feel the need, now that we are no longer in Lubbock to change my blog. I know we just left...but I have been awake since 1am this morning and can't sleep, so I have been messing around with a bunch of stuff!  Our blog title has always been LubbockClaytons. That was the address and everything. So, we are changing things up a little. Since my name is so unique It makes pretty much any blog address available, unless I have already used it! 

So please join me at our new Blog

http://jaidiandjustin.blogspot.com/

Where we will be adding new posts as soon as we get our computer up and running in our new home! 

We close on our house today and cable/internet/phone should be set up tomorrow morning. See our new blog for updates and pictures! I look forward to seeing you all at our new site! 

Don't forget to update your blog reader accounts if you want! :)

Before I was a Mom...

I got this in an email yesterday, but never got around to posting it. It is really sweet, and came with lots of pictures, but the pictures didn't copy over. Anyway, it is sweet! I LOVE BEING A MOM!



Before I was a Mom,

I never tripped over toys

or forgot words to a lullaby.

I didn't worry whether or not

my plants were poisonous.

I never thought about immunizations.



Before I was a Mom,

I had never been puked on.

Pooped on.

Chewed on.

Peed on.

I had complete control of my mind

and my thoughts.

I slept all night.



Before I was a Mom,

I never held down a screaming child

so doctors could do tests.

Or give shots.

I never looked into teary eyes and cried.

I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.

I never sat up late hours at night

watching a baby sleep.



Before I was a Mom,

I never held a sleeping baby just because

I didn't want to put her down.

I never felt my heart break into a million pieces

when I couldn't stop the hurt.

I never knew that something so small

could affect my life so much.

I never knew that I could love someone so much.

I never knew I would love being a Mom.





Before I was a Mom,

I didn't know the feeling of

having my heart outside my body..

I didn't know how special it could feel

to feed a hungry baby.

I didn't know that bond

between a mother and her child.

I didn't know that something so small

could make me feel so important and happy.



Before I was a Mom,

I had never gotten up in the middle of the night

every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.

I had never known the warmth,

the joy,

the love,

the heartache,

the wonderment

or the satisfaction of being a Mom.

I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much,

before I was a Mom

Goodbye Party/Birthday Party!

Our First House

Justin and I spent 2 days in Oklahoma this weekend. We were fortunate to have some wonderful friends who kept our kids here in Lubbock. We were house shopping. With our upcoming move we really wanted to have the chance to get into a house of our own. Well, we found the perfect house.



Our closing date is May 28, and most likely we will leave Lubbock on the 27th right after Jaicie and Felicity get out of school! Luckily Justin is done with training the end of this week. So we have all of May to de-junk and pack and get the house super clean!  It will be an adventure. We loved Edmond, and we are really excited to take our family there and learn to love it even more. It will be a big change, back to the big city life, but we are ready. The kids have a great school to go to and it will all be wonderful!

Anyway, I just wanted to share teh news!  Also, as a side note, we are sending out graduation announcements and need your address if you want one!  So email me your address so I can add it to the list.

:) Have a great day!

Hiatus Update

First of all, here is a recent family picture of us! Thanks to Michelle!

From Family PIctures March 2010

I had not intended on taking a prolonged hiatus from the Blog world. But in December I was put in as a supervisor at work and life has been crazy busy ever since!  There have been a lot of changes and a lot of things coming up that we are looking forward too. My dear friend Ann posted on her blog a fun Bullet Point list of the goings-on in her life. I am going to steal her idea today and avoid a huge really long post! 

• We spent Christmas at home in Lubbock.
• Collin FINALLY passed a hearing test yesterday!
• Collin is NOT going to have surgery for tubes!
• Jaicie 'competed' in the the schools Destination Imagination competition and had a blast and did so well!
• Felicity had to have a hearing test becasue she wasn't hearing well. She failed in one ear, they then pulled eraser size gobs of ear wax out of her ears and she since passed her test with flying colors!
• Justin matched to Oklahoma City at the University of Oklahoma Orthopedics Program
• Jaicie got a perfect report card--except for 1 absence.
• We have begun the dejunking process and recently carted an entire trunk full of clothes to Good Will.
• We have started packing...The process is a long one---Got any boxes to spare? Shoot me an email and I can take them off your hands!
• Collin has discovered cartoons and the TV.
• Collin learned a friends name and now constantly walks around saying Abby in the cutest way ever!
• Jaicie learned to ride a two-wheeler completely on her own!  FINALLY!
• Collin has started picking up on a few more words, but if he knows the sign for it, he refuses to say it.
• We have begun the Mortgage loan process!
• Our house was broken into in January and our TV stolen, along with the cable to connect our TV to the computer and a homemade hand crocheted blanket! ARGH I was so mad!
• Luckily we had renters insurance!
• Someone tried to break in again less than a month later! I was sitting on the couch with the TV on and they ran out when they heard me talking to a friend.
• Did I mention that we are moving to OKLAHOMA CITY!
• My baby brother got married last weekend in LAs Vegas, so we got to take a very fast trip to Vegas for the weekend.
• OH! I got an IPHONE! LOVE IT!
• Next week we are going to go house shopping in Edmond, OK, a subarb north of the city.
• Justin graduates and will be Dr. Justin Clayton in less than 2 months! 44 days to be exact~
• Justin's dad had a very successful liver transplant and is healing in San Francisco right now.
• Collin discovered Honey grahams...2 months early, not quite to the 2 year mark.
• Collin is 22 months now! 
• We are moving the last weekend of May or maybe the first week of June.
• We canceled our cruise---but we are going to take a trip to Sea World as a family instead!
• Our pet Rat Bella died of unknown causes. I only cried because Felicity cried! It was so sad!

I think I am going to call it good with that. This is list is longer than Iw as hoping. But I guess when you go from Dec 6 to April 7 without hardly a post that is what happens! 

Happy April to you all! Wish us luck on all the upcoming changes in our lives..especially the buying a home part next week!  :)

Below are some pictures that we have taken recently...or had taken recently!   Enjoy the slideshow.