A true gift from God

Today marks one of the hardest moments my family has every been through. God took one of the best men off the earth. My Papa was one of the best men you could ever meet. Loving, caring, hard working, there was not a bad bone in his body. He would do anything in the world for anyone.

Two months ago Papa got a bad case of pneumonia. After a month of not getting any betters the dr.'s decided to do some more test, only finding out it was much more than pneumonia. He was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. The dr.'s said there was still hope. He could start chemo and maybe have another year or two to live. A week later the pneumonia comes back and he is admitted into the hospital. From there on he never had a chance. They couldn't do the chemo with him having pneumonia. Within days the cancer had spread tremendously. On January 29, 2014 he passed going to a much better place. I am so glad he did not have to suffer months in that hospital but also wish I would have had more time with him. Loosing something is the only was to make you realize what you miss. 

I couldn't have asked for a better set of grandparents. But also could have never been blessed with a better set of great grandparents for Payton. That man loved Payton more than anyone could explain. And down to the worst days at the end all he could talk about was Payton. 

This isn't goodbye.. It's just see ya later.

Love you Papa.

Our winter wonderland!

So it has been a messy few weeks here! We finally have the water situation under control but have had some serious snow the past few days! We thought we would love the snow being from Texas but after a few days of it you get over it real fast. haha It's no fun when it takes double the time to get places and you fingers and toes always feel they have frost bite! Anyways we are making the best of it so here are our recent photos!

Aren't these gorgeous?

Welcome to West Virginia!

To get everyone caught up, we now officially live in Charleston, WV. We have been here about two weeks, and man it's ben a rough two weeks! We left home in Tx on Dec. 26th, with both my parents and Chads parents following along to help with the move. It was a full two day drive to get here but Payton (and everyone else) did very well! Lol.

Here are some pictures of our new home! It is a 3br 2.5 bath and 2 car garage!

We are so in love with it!! (Sorry for the brag post!)

This is our Living room. I took this picture when we first moved in.

This was before we really decorated.

Sorry for the mess but this is after we bought a few decorations

for the room! It's almost complete and I am loving it!

This is the kitchen. It is very spacious and has tons of cabinet space!

This is our "dinning room." I love the open floor plan of this floor.

This is our plain ole' bedroom.. It's one of the last on my list to 

decorate. I will eventually do something with it. Atleast thats what I keep telling 

myself. haha

This is Payton's bath. He absolutely loves it. I do have to agree, I 

think its one of the cutest rooms in the house(:

This is Payton man's room. Or as he will say "Payton's big 

boy room" I hope to find some more dinosaur things here and 

there down the road to add. He loves his dinosaurs.

He is also having so much fun with all the room for his toys 

now!

We thought he was going to be very hard to transition from the 

crib to the bed, and also being in a whole room by himself..

He is doing so great though!

This is while everyone was still here helping us move 

and settle in. It sure was nice having these last few days with everyone.

The first full weekend we were here, we had what they

were calling an "arctic freeze." Chad and I thought it was pretty and fun 

until we had to drive into it! Lol. 

It stayed anywhere from -1 to -5 for about three days.

Talk about a huge adjustment from TX!!

 Payton Loves the snow!! He sees it just as rain. He loves to just go out 

and kick in as if its a water puddle.. 

 I swear Payton is looking more and more like chad now that he's

getting older. He has definitely lost all his baby features! :(

We have met a few new friends here so far! Chad and 

I love getting dressed up to go to dinner with some of them! It is so nice to have 

made great friends with kids for Payton to play with! He doesn't know what to do with

all these kids! He was so used to being the only child back at home!! haha

Chad is doing an AMAZING job potty training Payton!

He has been such a great SAH Daddy! I'm so blessed to have married such a 

great guy!

So this is the just of our life right now.. I think we have settled in for the most part, and only have to use a gps maybe two days out of the week now. haha. Obviously WV is much different than TX but we are adjusting pretty well. Unfortunately, Chad was supposed to start a night class tomorrow but with this whole chemical spill (I'm sure everyone has heard!) they have post-poned class. Let me tell ya it is very hard to adjust to having no running water! I catch my self turning it on for various reasons a million times a day then hurrying to shut it off. For those that don't know, Thursday afternoon the American Water company caught a very foul oder in the lines of their water system. A leak from a local chemical plant had started running into the river that the water system gets their supply from. They immediately announced for no one to use their water for ANYTHING.. no showers no washing clothes/dishes nothing.. you can't even boil it.. We assumed it would last a day or so, but here we are four days later and they see no end in site. The scariest part is they have no idea how long it's been leaking and have no idea what it can do to our bodies if consumed! (So if we turn into zombies you know what happened!) Lol. It is crazy seeing CNN vans everyone. who knew our move would make national news so fast! lol Anyway, thats a huge welcoming mess we are dealing with right now but hey what can you do... Let's just hope it gets fixed soon and no one is harmed. I look forward to keeping everyone updated on our now interesting life!

Merry Christmas

So our Christmas came and gone in the blink of an eye. We spent the entire holiday packing a U-Haul from front to back. We did get to spend a little time with our family before we left. Payton got so many toys he still hasn't opened a few! Even though things were crazy and hectic we had a great last few days with the family.

Our first visit was with Grandma and Grandpa Sims. We had a great dinner together! We sure miss them.

On Christmas day we woke up and ate breakfast with Mom and Dad Sims (which we didn't get any pictures of:( Then we went over to My Aunt Peppy's house for our Christmas dinner. We had such a great time with everyone.

So we have been in WV for about 2 weeks now. I will update you all the details and pictures next! It was so hard leaving home and leaving all these amazing people. But so far we are doing great here! It sure has been an interesting two weeks!