This day is never going to end

I don't know why, but today is going by so slow. I feel like it is never going to end. Maybe it's because I am so bored. I don't have anything to do. The kids and I went to Target this morning and we were in and out of there in less than 20 minutes. I didn't have to get much. On Saturday Eric, the kids and I went to the mall so that I could take Jaidyn's earrings in to get them fixed, get my ring resized and get my new Betsey Johnson watch Sam got me resized also. I went to Zales to get Jaidyn's earrings fixed. I ordered her some pearl earrings from Zales for Christmas and when I went to take the earring out of the box, the pearl fell off the earring. So I took them to Zales and they told me that without a receipt, it would cost $30. Well I wasn't about to pay $30 to get it fixed when the earrings already cost me $40. I printed out the receipt and I will take them back another day and get it done for free. I also wanted to get my ring resized while I was there. The lady helping us was so stupid. It usually takes alot for me to actually be rude to someone I don't know, but believe me. I had no problem being rude to this lady. She was trying to tell me that without my warranty paperwork, I couldn't get my ring resized for free. Why in the crap would I need my paperwork. They have my name and info in the system. Well apparently she couldn't find my name or Eric's name in the system so she wanted to charge me to get my ring resized. It was so irritating because I wasn't about to pay to get it resized when they are supposed to do that for free under the warranty. So anyways she kept asking us how much we paid for it and all that. Well of course Eric couldn't remember. Plus I don't see why she needed to know that anyways. Well she finally called the fashion show mall because that is where eric bought the ring from. They got it straightened out somehow and about 20 minutes later, she told me she could do it for free. I was just confused why our info wasn't in the computer in the first place. We both have accounts through them and we bought both rings from them. I have to wait until next Monday before I can even pick up my ring. Then we headed over to another place in the mall( I can't remember the name of it) but they took the links out of my watch and had that done in 15 minutes. We came home after the mall and Eric's parents came over to babysit the kids while Eric and I went and ate lunch at The Olive Garden. Then we headed to Wal Mart to get a couple of things and then went to order Colin's birthday cakes from Albertson's. His birthday is on Sunday and we are having a party in Alamo with my family on Saturday and a party on Sunday with Eric's family, so we ordered two cakes. The theme's are sesame street and cars. For both cakes it cost $60. I couldn't believe how expensive it was. Eric's mom insisted on paying for the cakes. I thought that was really nice that she did that. On Saturday night I was feeling sad that noone got me the Betsey Johnson perfume I wanted for Christmas, so Eric told me I could order myself some. He felt bad because he didn't know how badly I really wanted some, or else he would have gotten me some for Christmas. I ordered the perfume and with shipping it only cost me $35. That is a great deal for Betsey Johnson perfume. Good thing I bought it right after Christmas when they were still having good sales. Well we don't really have anything fun planned for New Years. Eric's parents offered to babysit tomorrow night so we could go out. I don't really like going out though, so I don't think we will do anything. In fact I am sure I will be in bed by 10:00.lol I know, I am such a loser!! Eric's whole family is coming over for dinner on Thursday. Thats about all we have planned for this week.

A wondeful Christmas

I would have to say that this Christmas was probably the best Christmas I have ever had. The kids and I drove up to Alamo on Sunday afternoon and stayed until yesterday. Eric came up on Wednesday morning and stayed the night on Wednesday night. Then we all drove home together yesterday morning. We were up at 4:30 on Christmas morning. I couldn't sleep that well on Christmas Eve night anyways, but then Colin started crying at 4:30 and wouldn't go back to sleep. So I took him out into the living room and gave him some cheerios. A few minutes later, my mom and Jamie woke up. Then a few minutes after that, my dad and my grandma woke up. We figured it was too early to call Sam to come over to open presents, so we figured we would wait a little while. Jaidyn and Eric were still asleep so I figured I would let them sleep a little longer. A few minutes later, we heard a truck outside and it was Sam. She was just sitting in her truck because she wasn't sure if everyone was awake and she didn't want to wake us up. So we called her and told her to get her butt inside the house.lol I woke up Eric and Jaidyn. Jaidyn came out of the room and she was so excited to see that Santa had eaten all the cookies she left. He even left her a note saying that he only left one present for Jaidyn and Colin in Alamo and left the rest at our house. We opened all of our presents at my moms and by the time we were all done, we had to pack up everything and head home to Vegas. The weather was pretty bad the whole way home, so we had to drive much slower than we normally would. We got home and as soon as Jaidyn walked in the door and saw her bike from Santa, she took off running towards it.lol It was so cute. Colin also enjoyed the mickey race track Santa left and his ride on toy. Eric got me the wii fit and the ugg slippers I really wanted. I was so excited because the slippers are so comfy and they have the hard bottom on them, so you can still wear them outside. My mom had actually gotten me a similar pair that are skecher slippers and they are gray. My mom got me TONS of clothes and they are all so cute. I was so excited for everything I got. We cleaned up our mess from opening all the presents and about an hour later, Eric's family got here. We ate about an hour after that and then just visited for a while until we opened all the presents from his family. Jaidyn was so excited, she couldn't wait her turn to open her presents. Uncle Alex got her the skates that she really wanted for Christmas, so she was very excited. Here is a picture of her in her new skates.
Colin got this new chair from grandma and grandpa and he loves it. Jaidyn has a princess one and Colin loves to sit in it, so they bought him his own. Here is a picture of him sitting in it. It just cracks me up how he will just hang out in the chair and watch tv. We had such a good Christmas and I am so sad that it is over. I love spending time with my whole family. I really need to take down our Christmas tree today, but I just feel too lazy to do it.

The last one.

I wanted to get Eric the GPS from Target. They had them on sale for a really good price and it got really good reviews. I was finally able to go to Target on Thursday night and when I got there, there was only one left of the kind I wanted. I got it right away before anyone else could come and grab it. I was so excited to get it. I mean of course they had others there that I could have gotten, but this one was within my price range and is supposed to be really good. Today has been a lazy day for us. We haven't really gone anywhere or done anything. I got the house cleaned up really good yesterday, so that I wouldn't have to do it today. Tomorrow I am going to clean the bathrooms and do laundry so we can leave early Monday morning for Alamo. It is supposed to rain/snow in Alamo on Monday, so I really hope it does snow alot so that Jaidyn can play in it. Eric is going to drive up by himself on Wednesday morning. I can't wait for this next week. My mom and Andrea don't have to work, so we can hang out with them for a couple of days and then Eric will be up in Alamo on Wednesday morning. Sam, Jamie and my dad will be coming up later that evening. Eric and I have to come home first thing on Christmas morning after we open presents, so that we can open all the presents at our house and then his family is coming over for dinner and we will exchange gifts with them. I wish we could stay in Alamo longer to spend more time with my family.

Finally!

I was finally able to figure out a good present to get Eric for Christmas. I already bought him a couple of things, but of course last minute I decided that wasn't enough and I wanted to find one more thing to give him that he wouldn't be expecting, but that I knew he would like. Well after thinking about it, all I could come up with was a new game for his xbox 360. The only problem is, he hardly ever plays it. This morning I was looking around on walmart.com and saw they have a GPS for a really good price. I am too scared to order anything online this close to Christmas, but I saw Target also has some on sale for a VERY good price. Andrea called there for me this morning and they have 2 left. Of course I can't run over there and get it now because Eric took the truck today and it has the car seats inside. He never takes the truck, but he did this morning because of the roads. So I can't go out with the kids today with no carseats. I am going to go to Target as soon as Eric gets home and I really hope they will still have one left. If not, it shows they have them available at some other Target stores around Vegas. I am hoping I can find one tonight. I really don't want to have to go anywhere over the weekend and the kids and I will probably leave for Alamo early Monday, so I don't have much time. I don't know why I didn't think about getting him one of those sooner. We could really use it for when we go to Cali, plus it will be nice to have just to go around town. I can't believe how sunny it is outside today and you wouldn't even know that it snowed here yesterday like it did. The snow in our yard is already melted. It was really nice to watch it snow for hours yesterday. I am glad I didn't have to go out in it though. Eric got to come home early from work because of the snow. I am just waiting for UPS to deliver 2 packages today. They were supposed to be delivered yesterday, but because of the snow, they didn't deliver them. I am hoping they get here today.

What day is it?

I have been so confused on my days since the weekend. All day Saturday I kept thinking it was Sunday and from then on I was confused. Well now today I am confused because Eric had the whole weekend and Monday and Tuesday off of work. Well since he went to work today, I keep thinking it is Monday. I am so glad it is Wednesday though. When I checked the weather on Saturday, it said it was going to rain in Anaheim on Monday and Tuesday. So we decided to go to Disneyland on Sunday. We left here at 5 in the morning and headed straight there. We were there by 8:40. I couldn't believe how fast we got there. I went about 80 or 85 most of the way, but I usually drive that fast. There was no traffic that early in the morning and we only made one quick stop to pee and that was it. We had a really good time at Disneyland. It was crowded, just as we expected, but Jaidyn got to go on all of the rides that she wanted too. I think we only had to wait in line about 10 minutes for each ride. We didn't get to go on Pirate's of the Caribbean though. That is our favorite ride. By the time we went to go on it, the line was pretty long. Plus Jaidyn had peed through her pants and she was so tired. So we decided it was probably time to go. Good thing we did because Jaidyn fell asleep a few minutes later. I really don't think she would have done so well standing in line for that long. We had a good time though. I love being at Disneyland and so does jaidyn. Here is a picture of us at Disneyland.
After that, we went back to our hotel. We rested for a bit and then went and got Red Robin for dinner. It was so good. After that, we went back to the hotel and went to bed soon after. We were all so exhausted. Jaidyn was asleep by 7:30 and Jamie and I fell asleep shortly after. We slept in until 7 on Monday morning. I was feeling sad without Colin, so I was wanting to come home even though we had a room for Monday night too. So after talking to Jamie, we decided to come home. Even though we knew we would be stuck in the rain most of the way. We headed home and as we were passing Fontana, we saw a sign that said Cajon Pass was closed. So we got off in Fontana. We decided to shop at Target to pass time and then we went and got lunch at Chili's. We figured we would see what happened with the weather and if it came down to it, we would have to get a hotel room in Fontana. Jamie and I were really sad because all we wanted was to be home. Well by the time we were done eating at Chili's, the weather didn't say that that Cajon pass was closed anymore, so we decided to just keep going and if it was closed, then they would just have us turn around. Well thankfully when we got to Cajon Pass, it wasn't closed. Traffic was moving very slow because there were snow plows in front of us. I didn't even care how long it took us to get home, as long as we could come home on Monday. It did rain on us alot of the way, but it wasn't anything we couldn't handle. We passed lots of snow on the way home and Jaidyn was excited about that. We finally made it home around 5 or so. I was so glad to be back at my own house. Yesterday Eric, the kids and I met Jamie at the Galleria mall to do some shopping. I was looking for Eric one more present, but I couldn't really find anything. We were there for a few hours. We ate in the food court and then Eric and Jaidyn went and shopped while Jamie, Colin and I went and shopped. Then we stopped and watched the singing bears. The kids and I don't have anything planned for today. We won't even be leaving the house today. Tomorrow we will probably go to Target so I can look for Eric a new game for his xbox 360 for Christmas. I am trying to get Eric to let me go to Alamo on Monday. My mom and Andrea will be off of work the whole week, so I wanted to go up and visit. Then Eric can drive up after work on Tuesday or on Wednesday morning. I really hope the kids and I can go up early and spend more time there.

Thursday

Yesterday I met my dad at the mall to walk around. I had gotten a coupon for $10 off at JCPenney's the night before. I really needed some new pajama pants, so I decided to go see what JCPenney's had. I was able to get 2 pairs of pajama pants and a really cute sweater for just $30. Then I headed to Anchor Blue to look for some jeans. The night before, I was folding my jeans and I noticed that there was a tiny hole in the butt of them for wearing them too much. I have had them for about 2 or 3 years now. They are my favorite jeans. So I went to Anchor Blue to see if I could find the same pair of jeans, but they didn't have them. I am going to go to a different Anchor Blue to see if I can find them somewhere else. After that, we went to the food court to get Jaidyn a happy meal. When I told her we were going to the mall, she asked if she could get a happy meal. So her and I ate lunch there and visited with my dad. Last night after Eric got home I started to tell him how I was nervous that it was going to be raining on us the whole way to cali. It is supposed to rain here and in Anaheim on Monday. So he told me that we should get a room for Sunday night and head up a day early, that way we wouldn't have to drive in the rain. Plus we could get a good nights sleep on Sunday and head to disneyland. Instead of leaving here at 5 in the morning on Monday to get there when Disneyland opens. I looked up the weather and it is supposed to be nice and not rainy in Cali or Vegas on Sunday. So I asked Jamie what she thought and she said that would be fine with her. It makes me nervous to go a day early. I have to have everything planned out very well and since staying an extra night was not part of our original plan it makes me a little stressed out. I think that is part of my anxiety problems.lol I was able to get the same hotel we had already booked at the same price I had booked it for originally. I figured that we could just go to the beach on Sunday. Jaidyn loves the beach and last time she didn't really get to play much. It is going to be very cold, but I figure I will take a bucket and shovel for her to play in the sand with. I haven't decided yet which beach we are going to go to. Then on Tuesday morning, we will wake up and head straight home. I am really going to miss Colin. I have never been away from him overnight before and now he will have to go a couple of days without seeing me. Eric told me that him and Colin were going to go do some stuff. Eric has some christmas shopping to finish up, so they will probably just go do that. I am so sad because I have had to wrap everyone's presents in front of Jaidyn(except hers and Colin's) anyways she has been very good about not telling anyone what they are getting. Well last night she told Eric that he was getting the new batman movie. I felt bad that he knows what one of his gifts are. I told her she couldn't do that because now she ruined the surprise for him. She felt really bad and later told him that she was sorry for ruining his present. Hopefully she won't decide to tell anyone else what they are getting.

uno,dos,tres,cuatro

Yesterday Jaidyn was over by the christmas tree and she was counting her presents in spanish. She could only count up to 4 in spanish and then she didn't know the rest. I couldn't even believe that she could count to 4 in spanish. She obviously learned it from Dora because I didn't teach it to her. It's just funny the things that she learns from her cartoons. Today we went over to TMA to visit and then Jamie, the kids and I went to lunch at The Olive Garden. It was so good, but I have felt sick to my stomach the whole afternoon. Both the kids fell asleep in the car and even after I moved them into the house, they both stayed asleep. So I had some quiet time for a while. Soon after they woke up, Ashlee came over to visit. We visited for a little bit and then she had to go back to work. When she came over, she brought both the kids ring pops. Colin sucked on it for a while and then I took it away. A little while later, I gave it to him again and he did not want to give it up. It was funny because his whole mouth and tongue was blue. I called my dad to see if he wanted to go to the mall tomorrow. I don't really have anything to buy, but I thought he might want to get out of the house. We are going to meet him there at 10. It will be nice for us to get out of the house and also for Jaidyn and Colin to see their grandpa. On Friday Andrea, Jeremy and the boys are coming to town for dentists appointments. Andrea and Jeremy have some shopping to finish up, so the boys are going to stay at my house for a while. Jaidyn will love to have them over. She loves playing with Tyson and Rynan.lol Jaidyn always calls Ryan, "Rynan". It is so funny. I am getting so excited for our trip to Disneyland. Jaidyn keeps asking if we can go on the tea cups. That is her favorite ride, so I am sure we will go on that one a few different times. I am going to miss Colin while I am gone. I have never been away from him overnight before. When Eric called the hotel to change the reservation to my name, he requested a room on one of the lower floors.lol I asked him if he could do that because I really don't know if I can handle riding the elevator too far up. I just emailed the credit union today to find out about a loan for sean and kate's house in Alamo. Eric finally said we will try and buy it. I really hope it all works out because I want to move up there really bad.

What is it?

That's what Jaidyn keeps asking me about all of her presents under the tree. She knows which ones are hers because they are all wrapped in dora christmas paper. Ever since I put them under the tree, she has been asking me what they are. I got all of the kids presents wrapped yesterday. Now I only have a few other presents to wrap and I am all done. It doesn't seem like we have near as many presents this year as we did last year. I think its because last year we went way overboard with presents for Jaidyn. Plus, Eric hasn't put any of my presents under the tree yet. We went to Alamo on Saturday morning. We had a good time. My mom and I made sugar cookies. They are SOOO good. My mom made enough dough for 6 dozen cookies. So she sent a few dozen home with Andrea and we got to bring a few dozen home with us. Colin went down for a nap, so Eric and I took Jaidyn, Ryan and Tyson to the park. We were there for over an hour and the kids had a good time. Tyson played with his friends most the time, but Ryan and Jaidyn played together. We didn't do much else at my moms because we were too tired. We woke up on Sunday and my mom fixed us a big breakfast and then we headed home. When we got into town, we went straight to Wal Mart. I wanted to get Colin some more warm pajamas and I love getting them from Wal Mart. They have the Carter's brand which is the brand I like and they are only $7. I weighed myself last night and I lost 3 more lbs. I guess that is the 5 lbs I wanted to lose.lol I lost the other 2 a while back and never gained them back. It's weird how I lost 5 lbs when all I do is eat junk food constantly. Lets see if I can keep those 3 lbs off. We have tons of sugar cookies in there and I know I will be eating them until they are all gone. I have already eaten like 5 of them since Saturday. We are going to be switching Colin to milk instead of formula in just a couple of weeks. So last night I started mixing half formula, half milk in his bottle to get him used to the milk. He seems to like it. Hopefully he will like the milk by itself.

Disneyland Again!

We already have a room booked right by Disneyland for December 15th. We booked it through priceline, so we can't get a refund if we don't use the room. I didn't want the room to go to waste, so I told Eric that we should go to Disneyland again on the 15th like we had originally planned. He said he didn't want to go again since we were just there last week. I asked if I could take Jaidyn and have Jamie go with me. He said that was fine. He already has the 15th and 16th off of work, so he will stay home with Colin. I am excited for our girls trip. Jaidyn is going to be really excited to go back. I asked Andrea and my mom to go too, but neither of them can because of work. I didn't even ask Sam because she just got back from vacation so I know she wouldn't be able to miss work. We were going to go to Alamo next weekend, that is before we knew we were going back to Disneyland. Well I called my mom and asked if it was ok if we came up this weekend instead. That way next weekend I can wrap presents, do laundry and pack for our trip. She said of course. So we are going to leave on Friday after Eric's get off of work and we will probably come home on Saturday night. I like driving better at night, so we usually leave at night when we are coming home from Alamo. Jaidyn has been so good with using the potty lately. I really hope she will keep it up. She has a hard time telling me before she has to pee, but she has been really good about telling me that she needs to poop in the potty. Last night she finally told me she needed to pee. I was so proud of her and she was very proud of herself. I just hope she keeps it up because she has been really stubborn about potty training. I forgot to mention before that Eric never ended up going in for the interview for the dispatcher position. He couldn't get a typing certificate because he couldn't type fast enough. So he called to see if he could still go to the interview without a typing certificate and they told him no. Oh well, at least he didn't need the job. It was just something he wanted to do. Here is a picture of our Christmas tree. Sorry Andrea, I was too lazy to go outside last night to take a picture of the outside lights. I will soon though.

Christmas tree and lights

On Saturday night, we put up our Christmas tree. It was so much fun and Jaidyn was so excited. She couldn't wait for us to get done putting the lights on the tree so that she could start putting ornaments on. It took a while with the lights because we kept ending up with too many or not enough, so we finally got the perfect amount of lights put on and then it was time for the ornaments. I let Jaidyn help me put them on. It was so funny because she kept trying to put all the ornaments right next to each other and she kept trying to put more than one on the same branch. I just let her do it and moved them around when she wasn't looking.lol I was a little worried about the kids messing with the tree all day everyday, but so far they haven't been bad at all. Colin doesn't even go over by the tree. Jaidyn has taken a few ornaments off so far, but she hasn't been too bad. Eric is always such a scrooge about Christmas. He never wants to put up the tree. Well this year I talked him into putting lights outside the house. Not around the whole house, but just some of it. Yesterday morning he put up the lights and when he was done, he wanted to go to Wal Mart and get even more decorations to go outside. I couldn't even believe it. I asked him when he got into putting up lights and he told me that after putting up some of the lights, he saw how nice they looked and he wanted to put up more. We went to Wal Mart and bought a few more things. I am worried about our plastic santa getting stolen. There are kids in this neighborhood that are always stealing things. Last year at Christmas time, I saw them steal one of our packages off our front porch. It just sucks that we have to worry about our christmas lights and decorations getting stolen. I forgot to mention in my post before that Jaidyn has been going poop in the potty. She went three days in a row last week. She would come and tell me everytime she had to go. Although I still can't get her to pee in the potty. I don't know why she won't. I gave her a reward everytime she went last week, so you would think she would go pee to get even more stuff, but she won't. I am excited because I had all of my Christmas shopping done except for Eric's mom. We wanted to buy her a digital photo frame, but we didn't want to spend too much money on one. Well Jamie and Sam decided they were going to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving, so they said they would look for one for me. They found a 7" digital photo frame for just $40. I couldn't even believe they found one for that cheap. So now I am all done with my shopping. Oh except for one more thing. Jaidyn kept telling us that Santa needs to bring her a helmet for the new bike he is bringing her. She told us that she can't ride a bike without a helmet. So it looks like I am going to have to find a helmet to go along with the bike santa is bringing her. Other than that, I am all finished.

Our fun trip

We left around 8:00 on Wednesday morning and headed towards California. When we left it was raining and it continued to rain for about 45 minutes. I was getting worried that it would be raining like that the whole time, so I tried to convince Eric to turn around and come home because I didn't want us to be stuck in that rain the whole way. Especially because I saw on the weather channel on Wednesday morning that it was also raining really hard in the part of California that we were heading too. He said we would be fine and kept going. I am glad we did because after 45 minutes of driving in the rain, it stopped raining and we didn't get rained on the whole rest of the trip. I was also a little worried because it said it was going to be raining at disneyland on Thursday. It was cloudy for most of the day, but didn't rain at all. On Wednesday we headed to the beach. It took us a while to get there because we couldn't figure out how to get there and Eric kept insisting that if we headed this way, that we would make it. Well after an hour of driving and not hitting the beach, I told him he better turn around and head back towards our hotel. We finally found Seal Beach. We didn't really care what beach we went to, but Jaidyn really wanted to go to the beach. It was pretty cold there, but it was still nice. We were there for about 45 minutes and then headed to our hotel. We got there and it was perfect. We had a kitchen that had a big fridge, a dishwasher and a microwave. What more could we ask for? They also gave you plates, cups and utensils. By the time we got there, it was already 5:00 so we decided to order pizza so that we didn't have to make the kids get back in the truck again. We woke up early on Thursday and got to Disneyland at 7:20. They opened at 8:00, but we wanted to be one of the first in line and we were. There was a huge line behind us, so I was thinking great it is going to be really crowded. Well it wasn't bad at all. We headed straight to It's A Small World and we didn't even have to wait in line at all. Then we went to all the small rides close by that we knew Jaidyn wanted to go on. We hardly had to wait in line for those either. The longest time we stood in line was about 10 minutes, which I didn't think was bad at all. Towards the afternoon they had a parade that we watched and it was really neat. The kids loved it and so did I. We decided to go see how bad the line was for Pirates Of The Caribbean. I love that ride, but I wasn't sure if it would be too busy. We got there and the wait time was 15 minutes, so we got in line and didn't even have to wait 15 minutes. We took Jaidyn on the tea cups one more time because she loved that ride and then decided to go shop outside the gates and get something to eat. We went to ESPN Zone and ate dinner. It was pretty good, but expensive! By that time it was 7:30. We decided to head back into the park one last time to go and see how long the line was for It's A Small World, so we could ride it one more time. On the way there, the kids fell asleep in their strollers. So we decided it was time to leave. We walked to and from the park from our hotel, it was only a 10 minute walk. We got back to the hotel and Jaidyn barely woke up to get her pj's on and went right back to sleep. We slept so good that night, that I didn't even hear the fireworks like I had the night before from Disneyland. We woke up early yesterday and headed home. We were home by about 12:00. We spent the rest of the day unpacking and doing laundry. Today Sam invited us to go to her house to have leftovers. My mom had left all of the leftovers from Thursday at Sam's house and there are tons. So we are going to head over around 12:00 and have a big lunch with them and also visit with my dad. He was able to get out of the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, so he was able to spend Thanksgiving with Sam, Jamie, my mom and my grandma. I have to say that at first I was a little sad that we were going to be spending Thanksgiving at Disneyland instead of with our family, but now I am so glad we went because we had a wonderful time!

Thanksgiving at Disneyland

Yesterday Eric called me and told me that he thought we should go to California this week and spend Thanksgiving there. He already had Wed, Thurs and Fri off this week, so it would be a good time to go. We had already planned on going to Disneyland on December 15th. I had already booked a hotel and everything. Well he said he thought we should go this week. I had first told him no because we got the hotel on priceline for Dec. 15th and you can't get a refund on it. I could tell he really wanted to go though. I looked up Disneyland and saw that they are open on Thanksgiving. We decided that would be a good day to go. It is going to be very crowded of course, but it would be on Dec. 15th too. The main reason I even had to think about whether or not we should go is because I felt bad thinking about all the food my mom had bought to make for thanksgiving dinner and I didn't want her to feel bad if we didn't eat with them. After I thought about it some more, i thought well it isn't like I am leaving my mom all alone on Thanksgiving. She is either going to stay in Alamo and spend Thanksgiving with Andrea and her family or she will come to Vegas and spend it with Sam, my dad and Jamie. They said my dad should be out of the hospital on Wed or Thurs of this week. I was just messing around on priceline to see if it would accept a very low offer I bid on and to my surprise it did. I had bid $45 for a 3 star hotel by disneyland and it actually accepted it. So total to stay there for 2 nights, it only cost us $109. I thought that was a great deal. The hotel we ended up getting is just 1/2 mile away from Disneyland. Every room is also a suite so it has a kitchen with a microwave and a sofa that pulls out into a bed just in case someone wanted to sleep there. It also has free parking. That is always good since parking is usually about $20 a day. The thing that made me the most happy is that there are only 2 floors and NO elevators. The thing I fear the most is riding in an elevator, so for me that was the best thing about the whole hotel. I figure even if the room doesn't turn out to be so nice. Who cares, not like we will be spending much time there. I read all the reviews and it got really good reviews, so I am thinking it won't be too bad. Since it is so close to disneyland, we will probably just walk. That way we won't have to pay for parking at Disneyland. We walked before when we stayed at a hotel even farther away and it really wasn't too bad. We told Jaidyn last night that we are going in a few days and she is really excited. She always says she wants to go to the beach. She hasn't been in a little over a year and last time we went, she loved it. It is going to be cold of course, but we told her we could go to play in the sand. We are thinking about going to Santa Monica Pier when we get to Cali tomorrow. We went there before and they have some games and stuff like that. We will spend all day at Disneyland on thursday and then come home on Friday. I think we will probably just head straight home on Friday morning. There really isn't anything else we want to do. Plus I would like to get home early so I can do all the laundry and everything. I am just praying Colin doesn't scream most of the way there and home.

Just as I predicted

Jaidyn was very naughty for our family pictures on Saturday. I had a feeling she would be because when we had hers and Colin's pictures done a couple of months ago, she wouldn't sit still and she kept running away from us. Well she did the same thing this time. It really sucks because not one picture turned out good of all of us. We ended up buying just one pose, but I don't even think it looks very good. After we got pictures done, I went over to Sam's house to meet Andrea and Jamie so that we could go to the hospital to see my dad. We spent a couple of hours there and thankfully while we were there, the doctor came in to talk to my dad. He said that it was cancer that they removed from his colon, but it hadn't spread anywhere else. He will have to have chemo though to get all of the cancer out of his blood. Chemo is going to be rough on him, but at least his cancer didn't spread anywhere else. After I got home from the hospital, Eric and I decided to get Little Caesars pizza for dinner. They just opened up a new one right by our house. We used to eat there all the time until they closed the other one that was close to our house. It was actually really good and the pizza is only $5. That's if you get just cheese or pepperoni. After dinner we decided we would take the kids to Town Square. They have snow there everynight that lasts for 5 minutes. We got there about 20 minutes before it was supposed to snow, so we walked around for a while. When it finally started snowing, both of the kids loved it. Jaidyn was so excited! Colin also liked it, he kept trying to grab at it. After we were all done there, we decided to drive through Sunset Park to see the lights. It was the perfect time to go because there were hardly any other vehicles there. The kids also enjoyed that. I think next weekend we are going to take them to Opportunity Village's Magical Forest. We have taken Jaidyn the last 2 years and she always enjoys it. So we still aren't sure if we are going to be spending Thanksgiving in Alamo or Vegas. Originally we were going to spend it in Alamo, but now that my dad is in the hospital we aren't sure. We thought he would be out by then and so we were thinking we might have to have Thanksgiving at our house and everyone would come down for it. Well Jamie went to the hospital today and they aren't sure if my dad will even be out by Thanksgiving. The doctor said there was another guy in there that had the same surgery as my dad and he was in there for 21 days. Pretty much they are waiting for my dad to pass gas and after he does that, he can have liquid and then I think he can leave the next day. Well my poor dad hasn't had anything to eat or drink since last Wednesday. He can't even have ice chips. It is a little hard to pass gas when you haven't eaten in that long.lol They took away his morphin, so he is in alot of pain today. I feel bad for him. I just hope he gets feeling better soon. Eric has his interview tomorrow for the dispatcher job. Hopefully it goes well. It is at 2:45 tomorrow, so after that he will be coming home. That will be nice because he will be home alot earlier than usual. Then he works Tuesday and has the whole rest of the week off. I am excited for that because I get really bored while he is at work, but at least this week he will be home with us. We will probably put up our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. That will be fun and I know the kids are going to love it.

Friday

I can't think of a better title than that. I got a call yesterday morning saying that my dad was in the hospital. He had gone in the night before because his side was hurting really bad. Well he had a colonoscopy the day before and they poked a hole in his colon. So that is what was causing him so much pain. They took him into surgery right away and fixed the hole and also removed the mass they had found. They supposedly found it the day before when they did the colonoscopy and told him he needed to have it removed that day, but he said he couldn't do it. I picked him up from his appointment and he said everything went fine. I wish he would have called one of us when he went into the hospital on Wednesday night. None of us even knew he was in there until Thursday morning. Now we are just waiting to see what they say about the mass, whether or not it is cancer. I went and saw my dad last night. He was so doped up that you can't really understand him too well. I feel really bad for him because you can tell he is in alot of pain. He is going to be in there for a few days, so I will go and visit him again tonight after Eric gets home from work to keep the kids. They told him he can't go back to work for a month. So after he gets out of the hospital, he is going to go stay at Sam's house and Sam and Jamie will take care of him. I wish I could do more to help him. On another note...we are getting our family pictures done tomorrow and I am nervous for that. Jaidyn was so naughty last time and I just fear she will be just as bad this time. Then Eric and I are going to take the kids to town square tomorrow night to watch the snow. Everynight they have snow for 10 minutes while they play christmas music. I am sure the kids will love that.

Finally some teeth

I was beginning to think that Colin was never going to get any teeth. Today I was holding him and he put his head back and smiled and I saw two teeth had come through on the bottom. They aren't all the way through yet, but you can see them and feel them. I took my dad to the hospital and dropped him off about two hours ago. I decided the kids and I would just come home and go back when he is done. I am glad I did because both the kids fell asleep on the way home from the hospital and they stayed asleep even after I moved them inside. I am going to leave here in about an hour to go pick up my dad. He said he would call when they are all done, but I figure I will leave by 3 if I haven't heard from him, that way he won't have to wait long for me to get there. I also have to take him to a different doctor on Thursday for some more tests. He is getting his colonoscopy done today and some blood work done on Thursday. I hope everything turns out ok. Colin had his flu shot about a month ago and since it was his first time getting one, he had to go back for another shot yesterday. You don't have to have an appointment, so I decided I would take him first thing when they open. I am so glad I did because we were in and out of there in less than 15 minutes. So this week has been busy compared to any normal week. Normally we don't leave the house in less it is a quick trip to Target or something like that. I am getting so excited for Thanksgiving. Not that I like Thanksgiving so much, but I like for the whole family to get together. I can't believe that it is next week. I am so glad because Eric took a couple of days off of work, so we will be able to spend a few days in Alamo. Eric got a call on Sunday to go back for an interview for the dispatcher position. He is very excited, but they told him he had to bring a typing certificate showing he can type 35 wpm and he doesn't think he can type that fast. If he can't type that fast, then there is no point him going to the interview. His interview isn't until Monday, so he has a few days to practice before he has to go get the certificate. We will see what happens I guess.

Pictures with Santa

My mom, Jamie, Jaidyn and I were going to be going shopping at the Meadows Mall today and I happened to see that it was going to be Santa's first day there. So I figured, I might as well get Jaidyn a picture with Santa now instead of waiting until closer to Christmas when it is going to be very busy. Eric wanted to go shopping to buy me some Christmas presents and he also needed a new shirt to wear for our family pics next Saturday. So him and Colin headed to the outdoor outlet mall and my mom, Jamie, Jaidyn and I headed to The Meadows Mall. We got there around 9:30 even though it doesn't open until 10 because I wanted to be one of the first people in line to see Santa so that we wouldn't have to wait forever. We got there and there was only two other people in front of us. So we waited for Santa and when Santa finally showed up, he walked down the line to see all the kids. Jaidyn wouldn't even look at him at first. Once it was time for Jaidyn's picture, she was excited to see Santa, but not so excited to sit on his lap. Here is the picture we got. She wouldn't smile at all.
So after Jaidyn got her picture with Santa, we did some shopping. My mom had to do some more Christmas shopping. I didn't really have anything I needed to buy. Although we went into the disney store and I wanted to buy almost everything in there. They had everything 25% off and they had tons of cute stuff. We ate some lunch at the mall and by the time we had left there, it had been 3.5 hours. It didn't seem to be too crowded though, so it was nice. My dad has been bleeding internally and they don't know where it is coming from. So he has to have some tests done this week to find out what is wrong. I hope everything turns out ok. He has to have a colonoscopy and some other tests done, so he won't be able to drive afterwards. He asked me to take him, which of course I don't mind. The only thing that sucks is that they said that it would take about 2.5 to 3 hours. It is clear across town from where I live, so I am not sure what to do while I am waiting. I am not sure if I should bother driving all the way home, just to be here for an hour and a half and then drive all the way back, or if we should go do some shopping. The only thing is, we don't need to buy anything, so it would really just be us walking around looking at stuff.lol We have an appointment to get our family pics done next Saturday. I am a little nervous because last time we had the kids pictures done, Jaidyn was very naughty. I just hope this time, both the kids will be good and smile for the camera.

Robin's tag

8 Things

8 TV Shows
1. Beverley Hills 90210
2. Third Watch
3. Jon and Kate Plus 8
4. The new 90210
5. The Real Housewives of Orange County
6. Keeping Up With The Kardashians
7. The Hills
8. Law And Order SVU

8 Restaurants
1. Macayos
2. The Outback
3. The Olive Garden
4. In-n-Out
5. Dominos Pizza
6. Red Robin
7. Taco Bell
8. ???

8 Things I Did Yesterday
1. Gave the kids a bath.
2. Laundry
3. Cleaned the house.
4. Dishes
5. Took a shower
6. Went through the kids closet to take out all of the clothes that don't fit anymore.
7. Made dinner
8.

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To
1. Thanksgiving
2. Disneyland
3. Christmas
4. Colin's birthday
5. My mom coming to stay with us tomorrow.
6. Going shopping tomorrow and Saturday.
7. When Colin starts walking.
8. Colin getting some teeth.

8 Things on My Wish List
1. A dodge durango
2. A new house in Alamo.
3. To have all of our bills paid off.
4. That Jaidyn and Colin would get to see Eric's parents more often.
5. For Jaidyn to be potty trained.
6. For Jaidyn to get rid of her pacifier.
7.
8.

8 People I Get to Tag
Anyone who wants to do this. :)

A long day!

This morning Colin, Jaidyn and I went to Target because I needed to get a few things and I took both the kids with me because Eric wanted to clean up the backyard a bit before his parents came over. After we got home from Target, Colin was so tired, but wouldn't take a nap. He finally took a VERY short nap and then woke up and was still so tired. So eventually I got him down for another nap and soon after that, Eric's parents and his brother came over. His mom was cooking dinner for all of us and invited Eric's sister and her husband over too. So anyways we sat around and visited and then we ate dinner around 1:00. When Eric's mom was putting some food down the garbage disposal, she put too much at a time and it got clogged up. So of course Eric was irritated and I looked over a minute later and his mom was crying. I felt so bad for her. Eric had no idea that she was crying or I am sure he would have felt really bad. After spending about an hour trying to fix that, they decided to get some drano. After putting drano in it, we were waiting for 15 minutes like it says you are supposed to, so we took some family pictures. Erics mom wanted to get a picture with everyone in it so she could send out with some Christmas cards. About 10 pictures later, she finally decided that one of them would be good enough. We couldn't get both the kids to sit still or look at the camera at the same time. So after that we checked back on the sink and it still wouldn't work so they messed around with it for a while and finally Eric's mom decided that tomorrow she was going to have a plumber come over here and put in a new garbage disposal. After that, we had all of the guys move our tv from the tv stand it was on to on top of the fireplace. It is a very heavy tv so even with all of them, they could barely get it up there. So we finally got everything cleaned up from that and everyone went home. About 5 minutes later, Colin went down for a nap and a few minutes after that, Jaidyn fell asleep in her chair watching a movie. So now I can relax a bit. Eric is watching the NASCAR race, so I don't really talk to him while he is watching it because I don't want to annoy him.lol Yesterday Eric and I got some Christmas shopping done. We were really only looking for a couple of small presents for Jaidyn just because I felt like she needed more, even though she was already getting some really good presents. So anyways we went to 4 different places and found 2 things that are perfect. We spent way more than I wanted to spend, but that was mostly because Eric really wanted to get her that stuff. We bought her a baby alive. It comes with a sippy cup that you put water in and then when it needs a diaper change it kicks its feet.lol It came with a few diapers. I told Eric that knowing Jaidyn she would give it water and then take off it's diaper and it would wet all over the floor. I know it's just water, but I don't want big puddles of water all over our house from that doll. We will see Eric's parents again tomorrow and then they are leaving early on Tuesday morning so we won't see them again until right before Christmas. My mom and Andrea are coming to town on Friday and we are going to do some shopping and my mom is staying the night, so I am very excited for that.

Good food and some Christmas shopping too.

Eric's parents are in town and everytime they come to town, they offer to babysit so that Eric and I can go do something on our own. They are coming over today about 11 to babysit, so we decided that we would go eat at The Olive Garden(Eric and I both LOVE the food there) and then we will go do some christmas shopping. We have most of our christmas shopping done, but we decided to get a couple of more things for Jaidyn. I think we are going to go to the Toys R Us over in Green Valley and then we might go to the Galleria Mall. Colin has been waking up so early lately. The time change has really got him messed up. He has been waking up before 5 every morning this week. Yesterday he woke up at 4 in the morning and he hasn't been napping good lately either. Alivia wanted Jaidyn to come over and play so I took her over and dropped her off and visited with Robin for a bit. Then Colin and I came home and I put him up in his crib and he went right to sleep and slept for 2 hours. I was so happy that he finally got in a good nap because I knew that meant he wouldn't be so cranky when he woke up. It was also nice to have 2 hours all to myself. When Jaidyn came home, she fell right to sleep she was so tired. Eric's parents came over around 4 and Jaidyn was still sleeping. She finally woke up around 5 and didn't even want anything to do with grandma and grandpa, even though she has been asking for them all week. After a while Eric's brother got here and after that, Jaidyn was fine. She loves Uncle Alex more than anyone else. I think it's because he will do anything she wants him to do. Anyways Eric's mom cooked us dinner and then they all left around 7:30. It was a good night and I am glad Eric's parents are here in town. They are leaving on Tuesday morning though, so I am sure Jaidyn is going to be very sad once they are gone.

A broken toe??

Well I am not sure if my toe is broken, but I am pretty sure it is. This morning I was taking Colin up for a nap. In his room we also have a bed with a wooden bed frame. So anyways I was carrying him and not paying much attention to where I was going and I stubbed my little toe right on the corner of the bed frame. It hurt so bad that instantly there was a sharp pain shooting through my whole foot. I could barely walk. A little while later, my toe was swollen and purple. It seems to get more swollen as the day goes on and it is hard to walk. I am sure it is because I have been on my feet all day. The good thing is Eric has the day off tomorrow, so hopefully I won't have to be on my feet much. He has to go take that test for the dispatcher position and so he took the whole day off. The test is at 8 in the morning, so I am sure it won't take more than a couple of hours. He wants to go shopping, but I am not sure that I can walk that much. Jaidyn and Colin are watching Frosty The Snowman right now. Just hearing it playing is getting me so excited for christmas. I can't believe that it will be here in just a month and a half. I saw all the christmas decorations at Target and I wanted to buy some so bad, but I knew Eric would kill me. He thinks it is stupid to spend money on stuff like that. Although I did talk him into putting lights on the outside of our house this year. I am going to make him do it right after Thanksgiving. I am sure he will be thrilled.lol Eric's parents are coming to town on Thursday, but we won't see them until Friday. Jaidyn is so excited to see them. They offered to babysit for us so that we Eric and I could go to the movies or do something on Saturday. I am looking forward to that. It isn't often that Eric and I get to do things on our own.

Halloween

We had a great time trick or treating. Jaidyn didn't want to stop. She kept saying she wanted to go to more houses. After about 3 or 4 houses, Colin was too tired and didn't want to go anymore. So we took Colin and Jamie back to my mom's house and Eric, Sam and I took Jaidyn trick or treating some more. We went to tons of houses. I was surprised that Jaidyn actually said trick or treat everytime someone opened the door. It was raining for most of the time we were trick or treating, but it was still a good time. Here is a picture of Jaidyn as a pretty princess.

Here is Colin as spiderman.

I also have to post this picture of Colin in the funny glasses that Grandma Taylor gave him. It is too funny not to post.

Jaidyn had such a good time trick or treating that on Saturday, she told us she wanted to go trick or treating again.lol I told her that everyone was all out of candy from giving it away the night before. It was so much fun and I can't wait until next year when Colin will be older and can enjoy it more like Jaidyn did this year. We came home from Alamo yesterday afternoon. We got home about 5:00. Colin screamed for exactly one hour in the car. I guess the screaming had worn him out because after an hour, he fell right to sleep. Jaidyn slept through him screaming the whole time. She was so tired, she fell asleep after being in the car for just 5 minutes. Today I am going to clean up the house and dye Jamie's hair for her. Eric's parents will be here on Thursday and I want to make sure the house is VERY clean for when they get here. I also want to go to the bellz (not sure on spelling) outlet mall to go shopping. Sam had gone the other day and said they had some really cute shirts at Pac Sun for just $10, so I wanted to go check it out. We will see if I end up going though. I have to go to the store and we have to go to Sam's Club sometime today, so I am not sure if I will have time to go to the mall. It is supposed to be cooler this week, i really hope it is. I can't wait for it to get cold outside. I hate the heat!

What a great deal

I got today on a hotel. I went onto priceline.com and you can bid on how much you want to pay for a hotel room. We are going to Disneyland in December and I wanted to book the hotel now. I always start as low as I can and work my way up. So yesterday I bid $30 on a 3 star hotel and it didn't accept so I went to $40 and it didn't accept that either. So today I finally did $50 and it did accept it. With taxes and fees and everything else, it only came to $63 for a 3 star hotel. I thought that was pretty awesome. We never get rooms for that cheap. With priceline it doesn't tell you what hotel you have until after you bid. So when it finally showed me what hotel we are staying at, it is a Holiday Inn that is close to Disneyland. Eric and I stayed at that same hotel a couple of years ago when we went to Disneyland. It wasn't too far from Disneyland, we walked there one night. Although it took us a while.This time we will be driving since we are going straight to Disneyland when we get to Cali. Also the hotel has free parking. That is always a plus since parking is always expensive at hotels. Of course we have stayed at much nicer hotels by Disneyland, but I figured since we are only staying for one night and we won't be spending much time in our room besides to sleep, then we would just be a little cheaper and get one that isn't as nice. Both the kids have been sick for a couple of days. Well Jaidyn got sick in Alamo last weekend and I thought she was getting better, but today her nose is really stuffy and runny again. Colin hasn't been feeling good either. I am not sure why, but he has been sleeping alot and his forehead has felt so hot. I have been taking his temperature, but it says he doesn't have a fever. I have been giving him motrin though and that seems to help so his forehead isn't so warm. I feel bad for him because I can tell he really doesn't feel good. I wonder if maybe he is getting a tooth. I sure hope so. Poor little guy is almost 10 months old and still has no teeth. Eric got a call yesterday from the Nevada Highway Patrol. He had put a resume in a while back for the dispatcher position and they called him and want him to take the test. He says he is going to. I don't know why he would want to be a dispatcher, but I guess if that is what he wants to do, then fine by me. He is supposed to call them back though and he is really bad about stuff like that, so we will see if he ever even calls back. We are leaving for Alamo again on Friday. I can't wait. I love going up there. Jamie, the kids and I are leaving early on Friday and Eric and Samantha are leaving work early and riding up together. It should be fun to have everyone up there. Today the kids and I went over to TMA to visit and then went to The Olive Garden with Jamie for lunch. Colin was a little whiny, so we had to rush a bit. He was so tired though and him and Jaidyn both slept the whole way home.

Home Early

So we were supposed to be in Alamo right now and come home this evening.However, I decided yesterday that we would come home last night. That way the kids could see Eric last night and then I could get laundry done today while Eric is at work. He is doing inventory today so he will be gone most of the day. He left at 6:30 this morning, so Jaidyn didn't even get to see him before he left for work. We ended up going to Alamo on Wednesday instead of Thursday. I was bored and my mom had taken Thursday off of work, so I figured it would be nice to go up a day early and spend more time there. We left here around 11 on Wednesday, so by the time we got there, we only had a couple of hours until Andrea and my mom got off of work. On Thursday Andrea and I went and got our haircut by Jenna. Mine had gotten pretty long, so I decided to cut it shoulder length. It looks exactly how I wanted it to. Jenna does such an awesome job and she only charged $20 for the cut. She even styled it too. On Thursday night we went to Tyson's football game. We couldn't stay for the whole game because Colin was getting fussy because he was tired and it was really cold outside. His game didn't start until 7:00 and by that time it was freezing outside. Yesterday we just hung around my mom's house and didn't do a whole lot. Jaidyn and i were sick the whole time we were in Alamo and yesterday I just felt exhausted. Colin woke up before 5 on Thursday and he woke up barely after 5 yesterday, so not only was I tired from waking up so early, but being sick was also wearing me out. I got in a nice nap yesterday afternoon though. Colin fell asleep and Jaidyn was playing with my mom and grandma, so I took a nap in my mom's comfy bed. We left Alamo a little after 5 yesterday evening. Eric got home from work right before we got home. The kids were so glad to see him. I didn't get to really visit with him last night. As soon as we got home, I unpacked and by the time I was done doing that and cleaning up around here, it was time for bed. I guess today I will just be doing laundry and cleaning up the kitchen. I hope today goes by fast because I can't wait for Eric to get home.

Cupcakes...YUMMY!

So today I had to go to Target to get a few things for Colin. While I was there I decided I would get stuff to make cupcakes. I have been baking alot lately and I make either a cake or cookies at least once every two weeks. Well I haven't made cupcakes in a while so I decided it was about time. I got the package with some cute halloween decorations to go on them. Here is a picture of the cute cupcakes I made today, with Jaidyn's help of course.

I haven't had one yet, but they sure do look good. Last night I was sitting on the couch watching tv while Eric played with the kids in the playroom. Jaidyn came in and told me that she was going to the store to get a max and ruby movie. I asked Eric if he told her that he would take her and he hadn't. Well of course once I asked him that he said he would take her if she wanted to go get one. Talk about spoiled. All she had to say was that she wanted a new movie and of course Eric got right up and took her to best buy. Not like she doesn't have enough movies already. They were gone for a long time and when they finally got home, she had gotten 2 new movies. They couldn't find the Max and Ruby video she wanted, but they got a different one that is even better. It is a christmas one and it comes with 2 discs and a book. She also got a new wiggles movie that Eric said she insisted on having. The kids and I are leaving for Alamo on Thursday and I can't wait. We will be leaving early on Thursday and coming home on Saturday afternoon. I am going to get my hair cut while I am in Alamo. It is getting pretty long and so I think I am going to get it cut shoulder length.

Monday

I keep forgetting to mention that Colin has been crawling now. He just started crawling a couple of weeks ago. Now he is crawling all over the place. The kids and I went for a walk this morning. It was nice outside and the kids love going for walks. The weather said it was 64 degrees out because we went around 8:30 this morning. However it felt to me like it was MUCH warmer. We didn't do a whole lot this weekend. Jamie came over for dinner on Friday night and ended up staying the night. Then on Saturday her and I went over to TMA and I filed. I decided on Friday night that I didn't really want to do the filing anymore. I just figured it was going to be difficult because I will be gone the next two weekends and Eric's parents will be here the weekend after that. Well the weekend is the only time I can go in and file. Sam had told me in the beginning that if I didn't like doing it, then that was fine because she had some other people interested in doing it if I didn't want to. So I told her last Saturday would be my last day. It was nice to have the extra money, but it sucked to drive all the way across town every Saturday and that didn't leave a whole lot of time for Eric, the kids and I to do things together. While I was at work on Saturday Eric called me and told me he wanted us to carve pumpkins on Saturday night. I know Halloween isn't for 2 more weeks, but since the kids and I will be gone for the next two weekends, this last weekend was the only time to do it. So Jamie and I went to Wal Mart after work and picked up the pumpkins and a carving kit. She came over and we carved 2 huge pumpkins. Jamie and I pretty much did it all because Jaidyn wasn't interested and Eric just didn't want to do the carving. Here is a picture of the pumpkins we carved.

It isn't the best picture, but we took it with Jamie's phone. So anyways after we were all done with that, we were tired, so Jamie decided to stay the night again. On Sunday morning we woke up and got some donuts, then headed to Jamie's apartment so that I could help her move some stuff. She is moving out of her apartment next week. She was throwing away most of her stuff since she has all new stuff. So I took the truck over and we got all of her stuff moved out, except for the things that she will be moving over to Sam's house next weekend. After that, I came home and was lazy for most of the day. I was very sore from moving all of the furniture, plus I had gotten a flu shot on Saturday, so my arm was already pretty sore from that. Last night we took the kids to the park and were there for about an hour. After we came home, Colin went straight to bed and Jaidyn got a bath and soon after that,we all went to bed. I think we were in bed before 8:30. This morning I went through all of Jaidyn's toys. I have a huge garbage bag full of toys I am going to take to the goodwill(if they will take them). I also have a smaller bag of toys I am going to take up to my mom's so that the kids will have more to play with up there. Jaidyn and Colin will both be getting alot of toys for christmas, so I figured it was probably time to get rid of alot of the old toys.

Colin's 9 month checkup

Colin went in for his 9 month checkup today. Just as I thought, he hadn't really grown much since his 6 month checkup. Today he weighed 21 lbs 14 oz. That is only 8 oz. more than he weighed 3 months ago. He measured 29.75 inches tall. That is only 1.75 inches taller than he was 3 months ago. The doctor said he looks very healthy and is doing everything he is supposed to be doing at this age. She did say however that he is as tall as an average 18 month old baby. She told me he will definately be tall when he gets older. I kind of figured he would be. Jaidyn is also pretty tall for her age. When I got there, they told me he wouldn't have to get any shots today since it was just his 9 month checkup. I asked his doctor though if I should have his flu shot done while I was there or just take him to walgreens or something. She told me if I got it done there, it was covered under the copayment, so I wouldn't have to pay anything extra. So he ended up having to get that one shot. I have to take him back in exactly one month to get a booster shot since this is the first time he has gotten a flu shot. I was a little nervous for Colin's appointment because he was going to have to see a new doctor because his doctor is gone on maternity leave. Well anyways it turns out that I like this new doctor even more than his old one. I have always liked his doctor alot, but this new doctor is even nicer and she told me alot of useful information that I wouldn't have known otherwise. So I think when he has to go back to his 12 month checkup, I am going to make the appointment with her. Jaidyn and I still need to get our flu shots. I think we will go to the walgreens by our house this weekend and get them. Jaidyn is going to be freaking out, but she really needs to have one. Originally,we were going to take the kids trick or treating down here in Vegas. Even though there isn't many places to take them since we don't know many people. Well now Eric has decided he wants us to go to Alamo. Of course that makes me happy. I love taking the kids to Alamo to go trick or treating. Jaidyn is going to be so excited because we will be in Alamo 2 weekends in a row. We are going up this next week for a few days and then we will go up the week after just for the night.

It is way too cold outside

I can't believe that it went from being really hot to being really cold all of a sudden. It is supposed to get up into the 80's again in a few days, but I can't believe how cold it has been all weekend. I do like it when it is cold out, but it was so windy this weekend that it made it feel even more cold out. Friday my cousin Robin asked me if I wanted to take Jaidyn over to her house to play with Alivia, that way I could nap while Colin was napping since I was so exhausted from the night before. So I dropped Jaidyn off around 10:30 thinking Colin would be ready for a long nap as soon as we got home. Well he slept for about 30 minutes and that was it. Jaidyn was gone for about 4.5 hours and Colin barely slept the entire time. I should have known that he wouldn't since I was really hoping he would. On any normal day, he would take a long afternoon nap, but not that day. By the time Jaidyn got home, she was so tired from playing, that she fell asleep about 10 minutes after she got home. On Friday after Eric got home from work, I told him that Jaidyn and I were going to go to the new dollar store that they opened right here by our house because I hadn't been there yet. He said we should all go and we could just walk because it is pretty much right across the street. At the time I thought that was a good idea, until we started walking. It was really cold and windy. Of course the kids didn't mind because they were just excited to be going for a walk. I didn't really find much there. I was mostly looking for Halloween decorations, but they didn't have much so they must have sold most of them already. However they did have alot of cute Christmas decorations, so I will have to go back closer to Christmas time. On Saturday I went in at 7 and filed. I spent about 6 hours filing and came home. I was going to file today too, but there wasn't really much for me to file, so it would have been pointless. Today Jamie, the kids and I went to the fashion show mall. I mostly needed to buy warm clothes for the kids and they have a big Children's Place in that mall. I found Colin 4 new long sleeved shirts and a thick zip up hoodie and I only found Jaidyn 3 new shirts. I still needed to get them some sweatpants to wear around the house, so after we went there I dropped Colin off at home because he was really tired and Jamie, Jaidyn and I headed over to JCPenney's. I found some really good deals, so I was able to get everything I needed there. I also saw that they had some really cute christmas decorations. Jaidyn wanted them and I did too, but I held strong and didn't buy any. I love Christmas and if it were up to me, I would buy every Christmas decoration I ever saw, but I knew Eric would be mad at me if I came home with a bunch of Christmas decorations. Jamie went home after that and I have just been cleaning up around the house. Now I have some chicken enchilada's in the oven for dinner. I can't wait to eat them!!!

Panic at the Disco

are playing tonight at The Hard Rock. I don't even know any of their songs, I don't really even know who they are. Jamie bought tickets to go and asked me to go with her. I figured why not, it will get me out of the house. They are playing outside in the parking lot too, so that should be kind of cool. Jamie is coming over after work and then we will leave for the concert after Eric gets home. Last night I came downstairs from taking a shower and Jaidyn had drew all over the couch with a pen. Our couch is only about 4 months old. There is no way pen is coming off of the cushions. We can't even turn the cushion over because it is a sectional couch and she drew on one of the long cushions that won't fit if we turn it over. I was more mad at Eric than I was at Jaidyn. He is the one who was supposed to be watching her but instead, he was on the computer. I mean of course I get on the computer all the time, but I always make sure I can see Jaidyn to know what she is doing. She is only 2, you really can't trust her.lol So anyways I am pretty sad about that. This weekend is going to be a long weekend. I am going to go in and work on Saturday and Sunday. I am going to try and get in 7 hours each day. Filing isn't hard or anything, but after so long it starts to hurt your back from leaning over so much.

One year ago today...

is when Eric and I got married. I can't believe a whole year has gone by. I remember it like it was yesterday. We had a wonderful day on Saturday celebrating our anniversary. Eric really liked his driving experience. He said it was the scariest thing he has ever done. He was riding in one of the indy cars which are a little more scary than the cars they use for NASCAR. They went between 170 and 180. He said he felt like he was going to come right out of the car as they went around the turns. Here is a picture of him sitting on the car he got to ride in.

I wish I could have gotten a picture of him in his helmet and everything, but they were rushing him after they got his helmet on, so I didn't have a chance to get one. After we got done there, we went to town square mall and shopped a bit, then we headed over to the outdoor outlet mall. We shopped around there for a bit and of course we ended up buying stuff for the kids. Mostly new pajamas and some other small things. We didn't have much to do after that, but the restaurant we were going to eat at for dinner wasn't open yet, so we decided to go to Sam's Club and get a few things and also stop at the book store. I found a book called "Panic to Power" it is supposed to help you overcome your anxiety. I am really hoping it will help me. We also got a few new books for Jaidyn. After that we went and ate at Osaka. It was really fun because they make the food right in front of you. Of course as I was half way through dinner, my stomach started to hurt really bad, so I couldn't eat anymore dinner. After we were done there, we headed straight home because not only did I have a bad stomach ache, but I also had a headache. We got home a little before Jaidyn did. Jamie and Sam had taken Jaidyn and Hayden to a birthday party and then to the Playhouse Disney Live. When Jaidyn got home, she was so excited. She had such a good time and Sam had bought her tons of new stuff there. Saturday was kind of like Christmas for Jaidyn with all the new things she got from Sam and from Eric and I.lol Here is a picture of Jaidyn and Hayden at Playhouse Disney Live.

Yesterday I drove my mom to the glendale turnoff to meet my grandma, so she could go home. After I came home, I was pretty lazy the rest of the day. We just hung out here at home and didn't go anywhere. I am sad that my mom is gone. I miss having someone to talk to in the day. This morning I gave Eric the movie Iron Man for our anniversary. I wasn't going to buy him anything else since I got him the driving experience, but I had ordered Iron Man for him for Christmas and he kept saying how he wanted it, so I decided to give it to him early. He saw it in the theaters and said it was one of the best movies he had ever seen. It doesn't look all that interesting to me, but we will probably end up watching it tonight. He felt bad because he hadn't gotten anything to give to me, but I didn't expect anything because he already got me my new Betsey purse that I got about a month ago.

I can't wait...

for my mom to get here. I love it when my mom comes to stay with us. Not only because she helps me out so much, but also because it is nice to have the company. We are leaving around noon to go meet her and my grandma at the glendale turn off. My grandma said she would meet me half way so that I didn't have to drive all the way to Alamo to pick up my mom. Jaidyn is going to be so excited to have grandma come stay with us. I was laughing so hard yesterday because Jaidyn always calls her fingernails, ponytails.lol Yesterday I was clipping Colin's fingernails and Jaidyn said" Colin doesn't want his ponytails clipped".lol Also when I go to do her hair, she always tells me that she doesn't want her hair dyed when really she means she just doesn't want me to fix her hair. She gets a little confused sometimes. It's cute though. I made Jamie a strawberry shortcake for her birthday. Well when I made it, it looked so good and I really wanted some. So I had Eric go to the store and get the stuff for one and I made it the other night. It is soooo good!! It is seriously almost gone and I just made it a couple of nights ago.

Almost October...

I can't believe that it is almost October. This year has flown by. It makes me so sad to think that in 3 months, Colin is going to be a year old. Where has the time gone?? Here is a picture that Eric's mom took of Colin last time she was here. It is one of my favorites.
He looks so happy in every picture I take. However, he is always whiny when the camera isn't around. He seems to be getting a little better now that he is a little more active. He doesn't need me to hold him constantly. I just wish he would start crawling, then he would really love it. Eric and I's anniversary is a week from today, but we are celebrating on Saturday. My mom is coming down on Thursday and staying until Sunday. She is going to watch the kids while Eric and I spend the whole day together. We are going to do his driving experience at 11 on Saturday and then I am not sure what we are going to do after that. We are going to go to Osaka for dinner though. I can't wait, they have the best food. We hardly ever eat there though because it is way too expensive. We ate there on the night we got married though, so I thought it would be nice to go eat there again for our anniversary. We had a pretty busy Saturday this last weekend. I got to work at 5:45 on Saturday, then I filed for about 5 hours, came home, got ready, got the kids ready and we went to my grandpa and his wife's birthday party. I didn't really want to go, but my dad really wanted us to, so we did. I saw alot of my cousins that I haven't seen since I was little. Some of them I would have rather not seen at all.lol I am sorry, but it is true. Some of them were VERY stuckup. The others were nice though. Yesterday was a lazy day for us. Well I mean I did clean the house a little, but we didn't go anywhere at all. Well I have a little guy that is hungry, so I should probably go feed him. He might starve to death if I don't.lol

My birthday

I can't believe I am already 23. I mean of course having two kids, I already feel alot older than I am, but it is weird to think that I am now 23. Today has been a good day so far. Last night Eric came home from work and told me he had to give me my birthday cake eary. Well it turns out he had ordered me a whole lemon cake from The Olive Garden. I love their lemon cake and so does Eric. He actually spent that much money just to get me a cake he knew I would love. Then this morning I woke up and Eric gave me my present from him and the kids. I thought for sure I was going to get the betsey johnson perfume I asked for, but he got me a gift card to old navy instead. Fine by me, now I can buy some new clothes. Then the kids and I headed over to TMA around 10:00 so that I could take Jamie her birthday present and also the cake I made her(I made her a strawberry shortcake). Jamie and I exchanged gifts, she bought me the cutest zip up hoodie. It isn't a thick one though, it will be perfect for when the weather gets a little cooler. She also got me a american express gift card. Sam also gave me my present from her which is a really cute so cal zip up hoodie. Then Jamie, the kids and I headed to The Olive Garden for lunch. We got there right when they opened and we were in and out in less than 45 minutes. Thankfully both the kids were good the whole time. I was a little worried that colin would get fussy because he didn't get to take his long nap this morning. Then we drove Jamie back to the office and came home. It has been a wonderful birthday so far. Although I have to say that no birthday will ever be as good as my birthday last year, that is when Eric asked me to marry him! Tonight Eric is going to order Macayo's for us to have for dinner because that is my favorite and tomorrow Sam, my dad, Jamie and I are all going to The Outback for dinner. Eric is going to stay home with the kids because by that time, Colin will be tired and fussy. After dinner, Sam, Jamie and I are going to go do something fun. We aren't sure what yet, but it will be fun! Andrea, my mom,Tyson and Ryan have to come to town tomorrow for some appointments, so they are going to stop by for a bit. That will be nice to see them for a while. Andrea better bring me a birthday present.lol

Tuesday

I really can't think of a better title at the moment. I am so tired today. The last two nights I have barely gotten any sleep. I was so exhausted from working all weekend. On Saturday I went in and filed most of the day, then on Sunday I spent the whole day cleaning the whole house. On Sunday night I woke up at 4:30 to feed Colin and I could hear him talking for over a half an hour, so I couldn't fall back asleep. Then last night a little before midnight, I heard some guy yelling outside and then I was wide awake for over an hour. I hope tonight I can get some good sleep. I was laying down on the couch a little while ago while colin was napping and Jaidyn was watching her cartoons. Jaidyn never wants me to lay down though, so she kept yelling at me to wake up.lol So I had said before how I wanted to lose 5 lbs before family pictures. Well I got on the treadmill twice and then just stopped doing it. All I have done is eat a bunch of junk for the last couple of weeks. Well I went to weigh myself and I had lost 2 more lbs.lol I don't know how the heck that happened. I eat junk constantly and never work out, but I lost all of the baby weight and haven't gained a pound. I guess I am just lucky. I think most of it is because I carry Colin's chubby butt around all day.lol Anyways, I am hoping to lose the other 3 lbs within the next two months. I am sure I can do it if I really worked at it.

Peace and Quiet

Eric decided this morning that he wanted to take Jaidyn to the park. She hasn't been in a long time and it is really cool in the mornings now (the perfect weather to go to the park). I had some stuff I needed at Target, so I told him he could take Jaidyn to the park and Colin and I would go to Target because I knew by the time we got back from Target, Colin would be ready for a nap. Colin and I went to Target and he was really good the whole time. Sure enough, as soon as we got home, he went down for a nap. I just called Eric and they are still at the park and Jaidyn is having a great time. Well that means I have some peace and quiet for once. I would love to just lay down on the couch and watch some of my recorded episodes of 90210, but I know that I really need to clean the house. I went into work yesterday and I was gone most of the day, by the time I got home, the house looked like a tornado had hit it. Eric never keeps it cleaned up. I never let it get this bad because I am constantly picking up toys all day long, but Eric doesn't, he just lets it get a mess. So I really need to clean up all the toys and sweep and mop. I hate sweeping and mopping,but someone has to do it. I mentioned in my post before that Colin loved sitting on Jaidyn's dora ride. Well here is a picture of him on it, he was really excited!

Boring Friday

Just like usual. We don't ever do much. Friday's are the worst though because all I want is for the day to be over so that Eric will be home all weekend. I swear Friday's always seem like they just drag on. Colin is sitting here next to me on Jaidyn's dora ride on just smiling and laughing. Good thing he likes it because we bought him a spider man ride on for Christmas. He just got done being fussy. I swear he cried and screamed for an hour for no reason and Jaidyn slept through the entire thing. She didn't even move. I don't know how anyone could sleep through that. At least he is happy now. Colin woke up at 5:15 this morning and I thought I could die. That is the second time this week that he has woken up before 5:30. I mean he always wakes up pretty early anyways, but normally not this early. I bet tomorrow he will sleep in later just because I have to wake up early. I am going to get up early and head over to TMA to file. Jamie is going to meet me there at 7:30. I actually look forward to going in and filing. Not only does it get me out of the house all by myself, but it keeps me plenty busy and Jamie stays there with me the whole time and it is just me and her. Not to mention it is extra money! So Jamie and I's birthday is next Thursday and we have been trying to think of something fun to do. Sam asked if we wanted to go out to dinner on Friday so that is a for sure thing. We aren't sure what we are going to do after that though. Eric said he would stay home with the kids while I went out. I asked Jamie if she would want to go gambling and maybe just go walk around somewhere fun like planet hollywood or something.

Is it bed time yet?

For some reason today, I feel so tired. I haven't even done anything to make me feel this way. Of course I can't go to bed this early though because Jaidyn is never ready for bed until between 8:30 and 9:00, sometimes even later than that. I really need to try and get her into a routine of going to bed earlier. Colin went to sleep about an hour ago. He isn't usually in bed that early, but he didn't take a long afternoon nap like he normally does, so he was very tired. My mom sent both Jaidyn and Colin a card in the mail with $5 for each of them today. Jaidyn was so excited. I told her tomorrow we could go to Target and she could buy something with it. When I asked her what she wanted to buy, she told me a new book.lol She loves to look at books. Half the time she doesn't like me to read them to her though. The other day I was reading to her and she actually put her hand over my mouth because she didn't want me to read anymore.lol There is an episode of max and ruby that Jaidyn keeps watching and it has a story about magical beans. Well Eric went to the store on Sunday to get some refried beans and Jaidyn asked where he was. I told her that he went to the store to get beans and she said "magical beans?"lol It was so cute. I am starting to get worried, Colin is almost 8.5 months old and he still has no teeth. I just can't even believe it because jaidyn had her first tooth at about 4 or 5 months. I am starting to feel sad because both the kids are growing up so fast. I mean Colin is going to be a year old in 4 months. Where has the time gone? It seriously feels like he was born just yesterday.

I am exhausted!

I guess it's because I am not used to being on my feet most of the day. This morning Jaidyn had her tumbling class and it didn't go so well. She didn't like it all. I can't say that I blame her. She barely got to do anything. They only had one girl doing the whole class so the whole time, all the kids had to sit there and watch everyone do the stuff and when it did get to Jaidyn's turn, she only got to do it for a few seconds at a time. I felt bad for her because she was so excited when we got there and then when we left, we asked her if she liked it and she said no. Then I kept looking at her in the back seat and she looked so sad the whole way home. So I don't think we will be going back for that. Thankfully the class didn't cost much. I just feel bad because I was really looking forward to Jaidyn being able to do something fun and it turned out to be not so fun for her. Jamie came with me to Jaidyn's tumbling class and on the way home we picked up some food and came home and ate lunch. We bought jaidyn a happy meal which made her feel a little better. After we ate, Jamie and I left to head over to TMA so that I could start doing the filing. Jamie hung out there with me the whole time and just did her homework, that way if I had any questions than she was there to answer them. I mean I know how to do the filing, but I haven't even worked there in over 8 months, so some things have changed a bit. I was there filing for 5 and a half hours. I still have tons to do, but that's ok because I really want to get in as many hours as I can. All the money I make filing, Eric and I are going to use to take Jaidyn to disneyland in December. I would have worked for even longer, but it was already 6 by the time I left there and I really wanted to see Colin before he went to bed since I didn't get to see him much today. Now that Jaidyn doesn't have her tumbling classes anymore, I will probably go in first thing on Saturday mornings and file most of the day. Here is a picture from jaidyn's tumbling class. For some reason they all turned out really dark so you can barely see it. The flash was on, but it seemed really dark in the room.

Well Eric and Jaidyn are watching spiderman downstairs and Colin is asleep, so I think I will take this oppurtunity to go watch one of my own shows upstairs in my bed.

Sick again?

So the other night I woke up really sick in the night and threw up. Well I was finally feeling all better yesterday and then last night about 5 minutes after I layed down in bed, I started to feel really sick. I went and sat in the bathroom for about a half an hour feeling like I was going to die. I finally threw up and felt a little better, but felt exhausted by that time. This morning I have a headache and my throat hurts, but at least my stomach isn't bothering me. I don't know why I keep feeling so sick the last few nights. So I got the pictures back from JCPenney's of the kids. Here are a few of them.



You would never tell by looking at these pictures, that Jaidyn was very naughty that day. So tomorrow I have to go into TMA so that Sam can show me how to set the alarm and lock up since I will be there alone when I go in to file on the weekends. Jaidyn has tumbling class at 10:00 on Saturday morning and it lasts for 45 minutes, so I will probably go in and file after we are all done with that. I am looking forward to it. Eric and I had been planning a trip to Disneyland with his parents in February. Well we feel bad that Jaidyn keeps saying how badly she wants to go. So yesterday I asked Eric if I just saved all the money I made from filing for the next couple of months, if we could use it to take Jaidyn to disneyland in December and still go with his parents in February. I love going when they are all decorated for Christmas and I think Jaidyn would love it too. Surprisingly enough, he said yes. Jamie said she would babysit Colin because we didn't really want to take him with us. So as long as it all works out with Jamie's work, we are going to go to disneyland on a Monday, december 15 and come home the next day. I have never been the week before Christmas. Does anyone know if it is extra crowded at that time??