Well we are getting closer to the date of moving. Crazy, times flies. I am getting excited to be in VA just to get my husband back. He flies to TX on Thursday and we leave for Vegas Friday morning. We will stay there until Dec. 1 and he will go back to VA and the girls and I will return to TX for 5 days and then VA is our new home for who knows how long. I have posted a map onto my blog to all the places we have lived or have been to and it is not 1/2 full yet but to me it feels like it. I am excited to be close to Maine though. I hear that it is beautiful there. I think Derrick and I will be going there soon. Just the 2 of us and get a little get away for some sea food and for us. We love traveling. So today after church the girls and I went to down town Frisco. It is not all that but it was cute in some ways. I took some pictures of the girls at some places but to get the picture of what I wanted did not turn out so well. My kids are lost in the photos we will say.

I forgot to let everyone know that Rylee is finally crawling!! It is mostly my fault since she is the last baby, I did not want her to grow up real fast, so no tummy time for her. Well my wonderful husband came home for Halloween and she started crawling at Ashlee's soccer game. Now he thinks it was all because he was home and she was waiting for him. Men, take all the credit! It has been almost a week now and she is room to room now. We think she will be walking by the end of the year. 81/2 months to crawl and the maybe at 10 months she will be walking. AH AH AH!!!

Talk about not with it lately. It has been forever since I have been on here. I remembered when I was walking this morning and this crazy thing happened and I had to tell someone. My husband is working in VA and I could not tell him and in Vegas it is only 5 in the morning there so I could not call. Holy is not home because she is with her hubby in New Mexico so I need to tell everyone now since I thought blog, I need to tell all of you. So I was walking my girls to school and I was walking all the way around my neighborhood .Getting to a street where it was not a four way stop but just a 2 way stop sign. the people going from east to west did not have to stop and the north to south did. so I stopped walking so these cars could go and a guy started to go which he was going west and did not have to stop, decided to slow down at tell me that I could walk across the street and I told him to go ahead. The there were 2 cars going south and the first car got rear ended by the car behind her. The first car got out ant told the car the hit her that I was going because that car was talking to the girl which was me. It was a brief second and he did not make a full stop he was going. So I just kept walking and not worrying about the lady's that where getting info from each other. I was up a block and I hear this old lady yelling out her window saying" My dear friend I want you to know that that was not a fender bender, if that person did not talk to you this would not have happened. I told her that she should have stopped and should not been in such a hurry to go and it would not have happened. She said that You should not have talked to that person and you would not have cause this to happen. I hope this is not confusing but all together I got blamed for a fender bender that I did nothing and got accused. What a start to the day.

Today was an exciting day for the girls. We had a street party. The city of Frisco puts on street parties so you get to know your neighbors just in case there is an unexpected guess. Well anyways the girls got to decorate their bikes and we had dinner with the people that live on our street. We had a lot of fun.

Well it has been 3 days since I have not had my wondeful husband home, He lives in VA until we go out there in Dec. I know that he checks this sometimes but I want him to know what a wonderful, caring ,thoughtful, loving husband he is. I love him so very much. He is a very hard working man. Provides very well for our family. We(the girls and I) are missing him very much. We love you Derrick.

Ashlee has broken her left thumb. Not that it helps that she is a lefty!!! Ok how to start this story.... On Oct. 2 I get a call from Aubree from school" Mom can Victoria come over and play"? I say homework is done first then you have to help me clean then that will be ok. Homework is finished and I tell all the girls including Victoria that we need to clean so we can have the realtors take pictures of the house. I saw that Aubree was cleaning and Sydnee was cleaning but where is Ashlee and victoria? I yell at them down stairs and told them to help clean or Victoria will have to go home. My thought was ok they heard me and they will listen and so I went to my closet and started going through things. All of the sudden Ashlee comes upsatirs and told me that her thumb hurt. I asked what did you do? she says,me and Victoria were playing a game and she rolled over my hand and hurt my thumb. It was swollen!! I wish I had the picture on my regular camera but her thumb look like a little sausage. I told her to ice it and we will see what it looks like in the morning. Well morning comes and I thought Ashlee is going to be hurting, Nope, she comes down stairs singing I;m not going to school today,I broke my finger. I said that we do not know if it is broken yet. She laughed and said I know. So we make an appointment leave @ 930am to go see the pediatrician after an hour we are sent down stairs to get x rays, 45 minutes later we go back to the pediatrician. She see's the x rays and tells us that it is broken. A fractured bone. Then all dr. are on lunch break now so you need to go to another hospital at 130 to go see an orthopedic. So we grab lunch and head straight over to the other hospital. Get her hand cast and are finally home @ 300 exactly. What an exhausting day!! She will have her cast on for 2 weeks to go back get it re x-rayed then casted again for another 2 weeks and we go to there. No soccer or P.E. for 2 weeks.

Virginia Beach

I am back from Virginia Beach. What a beautiful place. It reminds me a lot of Kentucky, but there is a beach. We found a couple of homes but the one we are more interested in is 10 minutes form the beach. The housing is so different there than here in TX. Our home that is 3400 sqft and would sale around $280,000. There, a house this big would sale at $600,000 or more. So when we get a house it definitely will be a bit smaller due to prices, but that will be ok. We will pay it off quicker and have no house payment, NICE!!!I told Derrick plan on me being a beach bum already. It is beautiful. The fresh air from the ocean. AWWWW!!!! We have already planned our girls will be surfers. Well Ashlee will be a surfer Aubree, sand castles are her forte. We will keep everyone updated on our moving process. We will miss everyone but there is blogging still, Yeah!!!I forgot to tell you guys that the 22 hour drive up there was great. We took Rylee with us and being 7 months old and traveling that long we thought she would be terrible, WRONG!! She was terrific. She only cried when she had a dirty diaper and when she was hungry. Awesome. Then when we were flying home on the 1st, she was happy the whole time. Smiling at everyone, playing, and it helped that we had a whole row to our selves the whole time. We went from Norfolk, VA to Jacksonville, stopped, let people off and people on, then went from there to Tampa, did the same thing, then went to Houston, and then finally to Dallas. We were up at 530 and I am very thankful for a very happy child that flight home. The flight attendants told her that she should stay on all their flights to make them smile all day. Our little Rylee, hope she stays this good her whole life, cross our fingers. Ok I had to let everyone know what a great baby we have. Thanks!!

Daddy's Girls

I have taken some pictures of Derrick and the Girls before he is off to Virginia Beach. He is excited to start working there but very sad that we are not going with him right away. I had to take some pictures of him and the gilrs so he could see them every day. I would have been in them but it seemed like all our neighbors were gone and did not have anyone take the pictuers. Oh well, we are taking family pictures in Nov. so it gives me a little more time to lose some weight before you guys see me. Ha Ha!!!

What do you think?

Well I just painted my kitchen. I am loving it. The way it happens with the Udy's is that we like to ge the house just the way we like it and then we move. It stinks. What can we do about it, NOTHING!!! If you can see the picture let me know what you think.

Aubree's Birthday

Well we just had Aubree's 10 birthday. What a fun time we had. Her birthday fell on Wednesday so Derrick and I took her out of school at 12 and took her to lunch. She wanted to go to Olive Garden.What a wonderful lunch we had. After that we had to take Derrick to the airport. He told her that mom will take you shopping and she should get what she wanted. Well Heather is all alone with 4 girls and shopping just for Aubree, yeah right Will not do that again. What a night mare. Well she decided to have a slumber party on Friday and had 5 girls over. 3 came and she had her sisters. I decided to have them decorate face mask. I will tell you that I think they did very well. It is fun to see what kind of imagination they have with decorating. We had a blast. The girls stayed up till 1 in the morning watching Goonies and when it was over I told them it was time for bed and it took them 30 minutes longer. I am not a big fan of birthday parties but we will have them until they turn 12 I think I am not sure maybe sooner. What a fun mom I am!!

Sydnee's Arm

This is my poor little Syd. She climbed up on my t.v. table that is only 11 inches off the floor and I told her to get off of the table or you are going to get hurt. next thing I know is that Aubree is telling me that Syd is hurt and she is not moving and she is crying. I walk around the counter in the kitchen and she is just lying there not moving and really not crying just whining. I lift her up and notice that her arm is not hanging right. Holly had just left my house and I was not going to take 2 extra girls to the hospital with me. I call her and she came back while I went to the hospital. When I got there the x rays said that she had broke it straight through so we had to go to the children's hospital in Dallas. Derrick rode with her in the ambulance I I followed. we spent all night there or Derrick did and I went home to be with the other girls and the next morning I took them to school and went back to the hospital to find out that we have to have 2 screws put into her elbow to hold the bones together and wait to get it casted because of the swelling. We go back in 2 weeks and the get a cast put on. She had that cast on for 6 weeks and took her back to get another cast put on for 3 more weeks. This is what the out come is. It has been awhile since she had that happen and her arms works great and she does not get on the t.v. table any more.

Rylee's Popsicle

Rylee is going to town with this fruit pop cycle. She loves cold things when your teething. I swear she will teeth forever. she is now 7 months old and no teeth yet. She was teething 3 months ago it seems.

Aubree's Boo Boo

Aubree decided to swing on my counter tops one day and her arms gave out and she fell straight onto the tile floor in our kitchen. I took her to the quick care to make sure she did not fracture or brake her jaw. Everything turned out great. nothing broke or fractured, but a long time to heal.

Virginia Beach... here we come!

Just to let everyone know the Udy's are on the move again. Vegas to Kentucky, Kentucky to Texas. Now Texas to Virginia Beach. One day I think we will decide to settle down and find a place to stay. Derrick got a job offer out there that we can't turn down and so, we go. I am happy for him because this is were he has been wanting to go for awhile and the excitement I hear in his voice when he is there is awesome. I just hope I feel the same way too. The girls are excited for the beach, but here comes the fall and cooler weather. Not much beach this year but lots to come the following years. I am very sad to leave my sister and her family. I feel like I have become so close with her. She is a fun person to be around. It is going to be hard to leave knowing that she won't come with, HA, HA!! Really it will be hard! We have loved it here in Texas so much. The weather is beautiful here and everything is right here. We do not have to travel very far to do much. I(Heather) have never been to Virginia Beach, but a lot of people are telling me that is beautiful there and I will love it. Derrick will be off on Oct. 1 and the girls and I are staying behind hopefully until Thanksgiving, but we will see. I don't always get all the luck I want. Anyways we will miss everyone here in Texas and I will really miss living closer to home.

Our Trip to Las Vegas

OK I need to go back and tell you guys what a crazy idea Holly and I had!! You all know that Derrick and I went to New York, well our plane arrived home around 11:00 pm and we got home at 11:30 and Holly and me and all the kids decided to go to Vegas. At 12 midnight we left and drove straight through.We arrived at our parents house around 6 :30 - 7 the next night. CRAZY but we had a lot of fun. We stayed there for 8 days and the saddest thing was that our family went to the Montana cabin 5 days after we got there, we knew about it though, but we were sad to see them go but happy also. We know how much fun they were going to have. Skiing, jet skiing, fishing,tubing, you know all the fun stuff you do when you are at the cabin you grew up with and remembering everything. Fun times. I really do miss living near the whole family. Don't get me wrong I loved living near Holly and Scot, and Melly and her boys in Kentucky, but it is different when the whole family gets together and laugh over old times. Anyway not to make things depressing, but Yes I miss family.

Sydnee's First Day of Preschool

My day has started off with a emotional 4 year old,Sydnee. Today we start preschool, do you think she has been sooooo excited to start, oh yes!!! We get up and she is excited and a split second later she is crying and telling me that she does not want to go to preschool. We dont have a back pack and sparkly pencils for me to go to school, I dont want to go, then we are happy again and she wants to go, hold on now we don't. Ahhhh!!! I felt like pulling my hair out but I kept my cool and explained that preschool is so much fun , you get to make fun things and you learn how to write your name and #'s. She thought about it, i don't want to go. I say, I will take you to mcdonalds after you get out of school and I will let you play for along time. NO, I don't want to go. I just took her and as soon as we got there off she went with all the kids and has no more thoughts of not wanting to be there. Happy all day long now that she went and she got to do her first homework, she is all about it now, loving it!!!

Our Trip to New York

O.k. I am crazy. First I will start off with New York, so much fun!!! The weather was great breezy and cool. We got there early friday morning. We walked around and got to know what was around us and at 2:00 in the afternoon we had scheduled a boat tour. That was awesome. We saw the statue of Liberty, all the bridges, Brookland bridge, etc. Pictures will be coming still trying to get thm developed. We saw where the twin towers used to be. A man made waterfall. To me it was ok but not that exciting. I could go back to visit again and again but I could never live there. To busy. Saturday was busy. we got up at and at 9 was our appointment for the temple. WOW!! We did not see all the stories to the temple but i am sure it is 5 stories high. It looked like a big office building but haqd the moroni on the top. Pretty inside though. When we got done with that we had a broadway show at 1:00. We saw the phantom!! Loved it!! After that was done we had a mystery dinner at 7. If you ever go to New York you need to go to a mystery dinner.Dinner with the mob, lots of fun. Sunday we went with some friends to china town and little Italy. Big shopping places for cheap. It kind of reminded me of mexico, I could stay there all day looking around. Around 2:30 we had to get back and get ready to fly back to Texas.

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