Becoming a family of 6!

We became a family of 6 on Novemeber 1st 2012. Our kids are very close in age and normally when we add another child everything just flows into place, I thought this would happen when we added A4 to the group. Boy was I wrong. Adding A4 has been the biggest challenge we have encountered. Not in the fact of how are we going to love her? Will we have time for her? In the fact that we now need to adjust all of our schedules, money is tighter now with 2 kids in diapers, and we are getting less sleep (HA!) I was on maternity leave for almost 8 weeks with the christmas holiday in there, in those 8 weeks my family hit rock bottom, we struggled a lot. I beileve in order for us to figure out how to be a family of 6 and function right we had to hit rock bottom. I have made it my mission since going back to work that we will never be in that position again, this means we need to BUDGET! We need to figure out how to cut down on costs whereever we can. Pintrest has become my bestfriend in this department. I am starting this blog to hopefully reach out to other families who are in a tight spot and need to figure out a way to build themselfs back up!

A little bit about my family.

J - I am the mom :) I currently work at a mothers day out program and the nursery for a church. I love my job and being able to take my kids with me is an extra bonus. I dont have something that defines me as a woman, I feel my kids are who define me. I want to be able to raise my own kids and have them remember their mom be there for  them whenever they need me.

R - He's the daddy :) He has been in the Airforce for over 7 years now, he works with lots of weapons and trains everyone how to shoot those weapons. We both orignally come from Michigan and would love to go back. We spent almost 4 years stationed in Minot, ND and are going on over 3 years in Abilene, TX.

A1 - He is our oldest (5), he started Pre-K this year and that made me so sad, I did not like sending him to school every day of the week but I know he needs it. Do you know what they have to know before they go into kindergarten now a days?

A2 - Our biggest princess (4), She wants to start school so bad that has been our biggest challange about having our kids so close in age. A2 wants to do everything that A1 is doing at the same time. She is definatly our little drama queen. I never thought I would have a girly girl but she has gone against all my attempts and loves dresses, makeup and purses!

A3 - Our little fireball (2) this little one will get into anything and everything he can. We have locks on almost every door in our house, we have gates to prevent him getting into the kitchen without an adult but somehow this little monkey will get around it all and end up on the kitchen counter trying to get into the cupboard.

A4 - Our baby girl (3 months) Our smallest monkey and I have no doubt she will be our toughest....it seems to be a pattern the more kids we have the more they test us! She is still too small now to figure out her standing in our family but im sure with time she will find her place :)