The kids and I didn't really do much this week. On Wednesday night my mom called me to see if I could come pick her up from Sam's house so she could come stay at our house. She was going to come over on Thursday and stay, but she decided that since Sam had to work so late on Wednesday, that she might as well come over here so that she had someone to visit with. So she was here for a couple of days. It was really nice to have someone to visit with. I am sad that she had to go home. Andrea came and picked her up yesterday afternoon and took her to her doctors appointment and then my mom went home with Andrea. The doctor said my moms eye is looking really good. She no longer has to keep her head down all the time and she can now lay on her left side too instead of laying on her right side all the time. She isn't allowed to lay on her back yet though. She is just happy to be home and able to look up. Thankfully the laptop I got her showed up on Wednesday night. She was pretty excited to take it home. She gets so bored since my grandma has been gone and she doesn't have a whole lot to do. So this should help keep her entertained. After seeing my moms laptop, I really wanted to get one for myself. I know Eric won't let me though because we have a computer that works just fine, so there really is no need for a laptop. I just really liked the way it looked.lol My mom will be out of school all next week because she can't go back yet because of her eye. The kids and I were going to go up next week to visit, but we decided not to. I just figured we didn't need to since we were just there. I am excited because Andrea is coming down for a conference for work and she is staying the night at our house on Tuesday night. So her, Sam, Jamie, Jaidyn and I are going to go shopping and eat dinner at Town Square. It should be a fun night. Today we will probably just stay home. Jamie is going to come over this morning and we are going to dye each others hair. Then around noon Eric is headed out to the race track to look around at the souvenir trailers. I am sure he will come home with a crapload of stuff for him and the kids.lol I told him he could stay and watch the race if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to have to deal with the crowd. He would rather just watch it on tv. He doesn't care so much about today's race since it is just the Busch race. Colin is finally walking all over the house. He had only been walking a few steps here and there until this week. Now he is walking everywhere. He is getting so big!

Can I get an animal?

That is what Jaidyn keeps asking me the last few days. I ask her what animal she wants to get and she keeps telling me a kitty cat. I told her she had to ask Eric...of course he said no. Eric was like your mom says no too, but she wants to make me look bad. I was like I would let her get a cat. Even though i can't stand cats, if she really wants one, then I would get her one. Eric is definately not going to let her get one. I was cracking up though because she kept asking him so nicely. She was like please daddy and she just kept saying it over and over again. It makes me feel bad because I know she really wants one. I just had to tell her that Sammy(our dog) wouldn't get along with a cat very well. So another funny story. Eric's parents bought Jaidyn a harmonica for Christmas because she loves to play stuff like that. So lately Colin has been playing it. It is so funny because he loves playing it. On Sunday I woke up and decided I wanted to start tanning again. I used to tan, but I became addicted to it and would do it almost everyday. I looked way too dark and I know it wasn't good for me to tan that much. So I stopped. Well I decided I wanted to start tanning again, but this time I am only going to go a couple of days a week to keep up the tan. I went on Sunday and got a little pink since I haven't been in so long. I came home and got on the elliptical for a while. Then I decided I wanted to see if Jamie wanted to go see Friday The 13th with me. I know it looks stupid, but I like to watch those movies, even though they scare the crap out of me. So her and I decided we would go. The earliest time we could find was 4:20. So I just showered and hung out around the house until we went to the movie. Of course the house was clean when I left and when I came home, there were toys everywhere. Plus Eric had let the kids take all the pillows off the couch and put them on the floor so that they could jump into them. So once again, I had a huge mess to clean up. Yesterday the kids and I went to visit my mom at Sam's house. Sam was going to stay home from work to take care of my mom, but my mom can do pretty much everything on her own. She can't look up and she can't see out of one eye, but she can still do all the things she needs to do. So the kids and I ate lunch and then headed to Sam's house. We picked up some taco bell for my mom for lunch on the way. We hung out there for a couple of hours. The kids were getting really tired, so we left to come home. Both of them fell asleep in the truck and stayed asleep even after I moved them inside. So I was able to catch up on a couple of my shows while the kids napped. Jaidyn hasn't been taking naps for the last couple of weeks, so I was surprised yesterday that she slept for almost 3 hours. Last night I made some chicken alfredo for dinner. Andrea gave me the recipe. It was so good, even Eric liked it. He is very picky, so it is hard to find stuff that he will eat. I am picky too, but not as bad as him. I am not sure what we will do today. It seems like it is going to be a nice day, so maybe we will go for a walk later.

Saturday night

It is 7:30 on a Saturday night and I am already ready for bed. These last two days have been very long days. We went to Alamo first thing on Thursday morning. When we got there my mom said she couldn't really see out of her eye very well and it was really bothering her. As the day went on, it got worse. So she finally decided she better call her doctor in st.george and they made her an appointment for Friday morning. My mom felt really bad that we were going to have to leave early on Friday instead of Friday evening like we had planned. I didn't mind because it wasn't her fault, she really needed to have her eye checked out. On Thursday night I hardly slept at all because Colin kept waking up and Jaidyn woke up at 3:00 and was wide awake for a half an hour. I couldn't go back to sleep knowing she was awake. She finally fell back asleep and at 4:30 her and Colin both woke up and was ready to get out of bed. We left Alamo around 7:00 when my mom and Andrea left to head to St.George. My mom went to the doctor and found out that she had a detached retina. She needed to have the surgery right away because if you don't, you can go blind. Thankfully they caught hers early, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. They couldn't do the surgery she needed in St.George, so they sent her to Vegas. Jamie met Andrea and my mom at the glendale turnoff and brought my mom to Vegas for her surgery. My poor mom had her surgery last night and for the next week, she can only lay on her right side and she has to keep her head down at all times. I feel so bad because she is so uncomfortable. Even when she is sitting up, her neck starts to hurt from having to keep her head down. At least she only has to do this for a week because with some people, they have to lay on their stomach for up to 6 weeks after getting that done. It can also take up to 6 weeks for my mom to have her vision back in that eye. Hopefully she can see good before then. So now we aren't sure if she will be able to go to disneyland with us or not. I really hope she can because I was really looking forward to her coming with us. She is staying at Sam's house for this whole week so that someone can take care of her in the day since my grandma isn't in Alamo. I woke up early this morning and my mom text me and she was awake, so I headed over there to visit. I was there for a few hours. I came home and Eric's sister came over to visit for a bit. Then Jamie text me to see if I wanted to go to the mall. I needed to get Colin some shoes, so the kids and I met Jamie at the mall. The mall was so crowded. We shopped around in a few stores and I finally found Colin some gray converse at Journeys Kidz that I really liked. They had tons of cute shoes, but I thought these were the cutest. They will go with all of his clothes. He did not like me putting them on him. He whined the whole time. After we got home from the mall, Jaidyn wanted to go outside and ride her scooter. So we went out there for a while and she got bored real fast. It felt really nice outside, so we decided to take the kids to the park. We usually take them to a park on town center, but their swings have been gone for a few weeks, so we decided to take them to a different park so that Jaidyn could swing. We took them to desert breeze park. I didn't like it very much because it seems really dirty compared to the park we are used to going to. The kids sure did enjoy it though. I wanted to buy my mom a new laptop because she has wanted one for a while and since she has always done so much to help Eric and I out, I thought it would be nice if we bought her one. I found a really nice one at best buy for a really good price. It has alot of reviews and almost all of them were good. They didn't have it in the stores, so I had to order it online. I had it shipped to my house, so I am really hoping it is here in time for my mom to take home with her on Friday.

I am surprised

at how fast this week is going by so far. I know it's only Tuesday, but yesterday and today have flown by. I thought for sure the week would go by so slow because I can't wait to go to Alamo on Thursday. Today I have been doing laundry and cleaning house, so I guess that is why it has been going by pretty fast. Colin has finally started to walk. He can only walk about 5 steps at a time, but at least thats better than him not walking at all. He is so cute when he does it too because he gets a big smile on his face because I clap everytime and you can tell how happy he is that he did it. Nothing else has really been going on since last time I posted. We went to TMA yesterday for Sam's birthday. We had cupcakes that Jamie had ordered from the cupcakery. They were really good. I can't wait for American Idol tonight. Usually I don't watch it after the hollywood audtions are over, but the guy I really like made it through, so I have to keep watching it now. This weekend I really want to go to the mall and get some new pants from Anchor Blue. Last time I went there to buy pants, they didn't have the kind that I always used to buy. I was sad about it, but I bought a different pair. At first I didn't think I liked them very much, but now they are my favorite jeans. So I think I need to go get some more. I also want to go get Colin a pair of shoes. I never bought him shoes before because I figured what was the point of wasting money when he doesn't even walk. Well now that he is sort of walking, I want to buy him some shoes. Plus I hope that by the time we go to disneyland in 3 weeks, he will be walking some more. Speaking of our disneyland trip, jamie has decided to come with us now too. It is going to be so much fun. I wish Sam could go, but she can't miss work. So it looks like Andrea, my mom, Jamie and Tyson will ride up in Andrea's car and Eric, the kids, Ryan and I will ride up in our car. It should be fun. Jaidyn will like having Ryan in the back seat with her, plus since he doesn't mind watching the movies that Jaidyn and Colin like, it should be good.

I'm so excited...

because I just found out that Andrea, the boys, and my mom are coming to Disneyland with us next month. Andrea called and asked if they could come with. Well of course I don't mind because I love going on trips with my family. At first we weren't sure that we would be able to stay at the same hotel because we bid on priceline and when you get a hotel that way, you don't know what hotel you are going to get until after you pay. So thankfully we got really lucky because Andrea went on and put that she wanted a 3.5 star hotel by disneyland for $41 and it gave her the same hotel that we are staying in. So it worked out really good. I mean we could have stayed at different hotels, but that would have sucked. So Andrea is going to drive her car with the boys and my mom and Eric, the kids and I will drive up in our truck and we can just follow each other. Jaidyn is going to be soooo excited to find out that grandma taylor, andrea and Tyson and "Rynan" are all coming to disneyland with us. Yesterday Eric and I went to the olive garden for lunch while Jamie watched the kids for us. After we were done eating, we wanted to go look for a new bed. We were going to get a bed from the wynn hotel, but it was going to take 6 to 8 weeks. Well neither of us wanted to wait that long. We went to Mattress Firm by our house and found the perfect bed. We got a king size sealy posturepedic pillow top. It is seriously the comfiest bed I have ever been in. We got it delivered last night and so we were able to sleep in it for the first time last night and I slept better than I have in a really long time. Not only is it much softer than our old bed, but it is much bigger too. We got it for a really good deal and they delivered it for free, so I was excited about that. Tomorrow the kids and I are going to TMA for a bit. It is Sam's birthday, so we have to take her over a present from my mom and visit her for a bit. Then on Thursday morning we are leaving for Alamo. My mom took the day off of work to hang out with us. We are probably going to come back on Friday evening because I hate driving back on Saturday morning because it feels like I waste most of my day driving and unpacking. At least this way we will still have the whole weekend to do whatever we want.

Disneyland again and a new bed.

So this week has been exciting. We haven't done a whole lot, but we found out this week that we are going back to Disneyland in March. Jaidyn is always talking about how she wants to go back. I love it there, so I would go there all the time if it were up to me. I sent Eric an email just joking around asking him if we could go to disneyland or sea world anytime soon. I really didn't think he would let us because we went to Sea World in August and Disneyland once in November and once in December. Well of course when I told him how Jaidyn really wanted to, he said we could.lol We haven't told Jaidyn yet, we are going to try and make it a surprise for her. We are going a couple of weeks before her birthday, so it can be part of her birthday present(like I haven't bought enough for her already for her birthday).lol We are going to go on March 19th which is a Thursday. It shouldn't be too crowded, so we should be able to go on alot more rides than we did last time we went. Last time we went on a Sunday a couple of weeks before Christmas, so it was very crowded so we couldn't ride all the rides we wanted to. Colin also seemed to really enjoy it when we took him in November, so I think he will love it this time too. We are going to go up on the 18th and come back on the 20th. I am not sure what else we will do while we are in Cali, probably go to the beach or something. I am excited and I can't wait to go. Also this week Eric and I decided to buy a new bed. I am so excited because our bed is so small and not very soft. We have wanted a new one for a while, but never wanted to spend the money. Well we finally decided it was time. The Wynn hotel always orders extra beds and they sell them. Since Eric works there, he can get a king size bed for a really good price and they deliver it for free. It is a pillow top, so it is really soft and comfy. It is the same bed they use in their rooms, so you know it will be comfy. I LOVE hotel beds. They are always the softest.I can't wait to get it. I am not sure when Eric is going to buy it or how long it will take for them to deliver it, but hopefully we can get it soon. That is pretty much all we have been up to this week. I can't wait for Saturday to go to lunch with Eric without the kids. I also can't wait to give the kids their Valentine's presents. Jaidyn is going to be so excited. It was so cute this morning she printed out some max and ruby valentines and wanted to make a card for Eric. I helped her make it and she was so excited. Then of course she wanted to make one for herself.lol So i let her make a card for herself.

Monday

I know I am so lame lately, I can't even think of a good title. I had a good weekend this last weekend. I actually left the house, all by myself. That doesn't happen often. On Friday, we were bored, so Eric said he would meet us for lunch. The kids and I met him at Red Robin and it was really good. I got Colin and Jaidyn chicken fingers and fries to share. They split theirs up into two baskets. Colin ate his entire basket full of food, of course Jaidyn didn't though. It's so funny because Colin eats so much everyday. He will also eat pretty much anything I give him. Thankfully he isn't picky like Jaidyn so he can have a variety of foods. On Saturday, Jamie text me to see if I wanted to go to the movies. Of course Eric said that was fine with him. So we headed to lunch at The Olive Garden and then after we were done there, we went over to the Red Rock. We had over an hour before the movie started, so we decided to gamble a little bit. I didn't win of course, but jamie won $40 or $60, I can't remember. So the movie was on her. I was sad because I always like to play the quarter Wheel Of Fortune, but they no longer have the quarter ones, only the dollar ones. Well of course you lose your money much faster playing the dollar machines. Finally it was almost time for the movie. We saw "He's Just Not That Into You." It was a really good movie. It was a little over 2 hours, so it was pretty long, but it was really good. By the time we got home from the movies, it was already 4:00. The rest of the night, I just hung out and didn't do much until bed time. On Sunday, we woke up and hung out for a while. Then we all headed to Wal Mart to get some groceries. After we got home, I cleaned the house really good. It was already clean for the most part, but I needed to sweep and mop and clean the upstairs bathroom which always takes forever since I have to scrub the shower so good. After I was all done cleaning, I didn't do a whole lot. We ate dinner and then I gave the kids their bath and took a shower and then i was ready for bed. I couldn't make myself get on the elliptical all weekend. I do plan on getting on tonight though. I am so excited because I paid off two of my credit cards today. It feels really nice to have those paid off and not have to make those payments anymore. I am hoping once we get our money back from our taxes, we can pay off the rest of our credit cards.

Thursday

This week has gone by pretty fast for me. On Tuesday, I took the kids to the park. The weather was so nice, we didn't even need jackets. I actually felt hot the whole time and I had a short sleeved shirt on. Jaidyn had a really good time playing, although when it was time to leave she threw a huge fit. I felt bad because she doesn't get to go to the park that often, so I know she didn't want to leave. Colin also enjoyed being there. He likes just hanging out in his stroller watching all the other kids play. At first I was nervous to take the kids by myself because I am afraid someone might kidnap one of them if I have to look away for just a second. I told Jaidyn before we went to the park that she had to stay close by me so that I could watch her the whole time. She did very good about staying close by. After we left the park, we went to target so I could get a few things. As I was falling asleep on Tuesday night, my stomach started to hurt really bad. I figured if I just went to sleep, hopefully it would go away. I woke up in the middle of the night and had to run to the bathroom. I just knew I was going to throw up. I sat in the bathroom for about 30 minutes feeling like I was dying. Thankfully it all went away. From being up so much in the night, I was too tired to do anything yesterday. So we didn't leave the house. Today the weather is supposed to be nice, so I am going to take the kids to the park after we eat lunch. Hopefully I won't have such a hard time getting Jaidyn to leave this time. I have been proud of myself for using the elliptical as often as I have been. I was worried that I wouldn't make time to do it, but so far I have been using it alot. I am so out of shape it isn't even funny. I am just going to have to work my way up to being able to use it for longer periods at a time. Each night I have been adding 5 more minutes. We don't really have any plans for this weekend. Eric keeps telling me to go to the movies or do something since I never leave the house by myself. For some reason I feel bad doing that though. Although I have to say that having some time to do something without the kids, would be nice. Next weekend for Valentine's Day, Jamie is going to come over and babysit the kids for a little bit while Eric and I go to lunch together. I can't wait. We never go out to eat anymore because it just seems like too big of a pain in the butt with both the kids. Especially because colin is always so whiny. So it will be nice to get out of the house for an hour or so all by ourselves. I just hope Colin isn't too mean to Jamie. He is always mean to her and anyone else that comes to our house. He really doesn't like anyone that isn't his mommy or daddy.

Finally some more teeth

Colin got his first 2 teeth when he was 10 months old and hadn't had anymore until yesterday. He had been extra fussy on Saturday and I couldn't figure out why. Well now I am guessing it is because he had two teeth coming in. They are on the top and one of them is all the way through and the other one isn't all the way through the gums yet, but you can see where it is starting to come through. It's about time he got some more teeth. Well we ended up taking Jaidyn to Chuck E Cheese's yesterday. I was feeling bad that she doesn't get to leave the house much, so I thought it would be fun for her. We got there as soon as they opened at 9:00. We were the first people there. We were there for an hour and there was hardly anyone else there. I guess first thing in the morning is the perfect time to go. Ryan and Tyson's birthdays are coming up in the next 2 months. Jamie is taking Tyson to see Fall Out Boy, so I thought I would take Ryan to Chuck E Cheese's. That way he could do something fun as well. I think he would really enjoy it. I had a coupon if you bought 40 tokens for $10 than you would get 60 tokens for free. So we only paid $10 and had a crapload of tokens. We were there for an hour and when we left, we still had a whole cup full of tokens. I guess we can use those for next time. At the end, we had 110 tickets, so Jaidyn was able to get a couple of little prizes. Colin even seemed to enjoy it there. He got to ride in a few cars that move back and forth and make noises. He really liked that. We finally had to leave because he was so tired. As soon as we got home, I put him down for a nap and he slept for 3 hours. I seriously kept getting worried that he wasn't breathing anymore since he was asleep for so long, so I kept going and checking on him every so often and he was still breathing.lol While he slept, Eric and jaidyn went to the grocery store and I cleaned up around the house. Of course once the super bowl started, we had to watch that. I didn't really watch because I was too busy doing laundry and making dinner. I made some really yummy enchiladas for dinner last night. They are different than the kind I usually make. My mom puts this sauce in them and it is so good so I decided to try making them and it tasted just like when my mom makes them. Then I spent the rest of the night cleaning up the kitchen, giving the kids baths and working out on the elliptical. I got off of the elliptical just in time to see the last few minutes of the super bowl. Eric really wanted the cardinals to win, but unfortunately they didn't. Oh I forgot to mention that last night I went upstairs to get some laundry and I came back down and Colin didn't have his clothes on anymore. It turns out he got into Sammy's food and water. I noticed that he had something in his mouth. When I put my hand in there, he had some dog food in his mouth and he really seemed to be enjoying it.lol When Jaidyn was little, she was constantly trying to eat Sammy's food. This is the first time Colin has gotten into it.

Should I or shouldn't I?

We had made a plan to take Jaidyn to Chuck E Cheese's today. Well she has been acting pretty naughty lately, so I can't decide if we should still take her or not. I do feel bad because I think sometimes she is naughty because she is stuck in this house with Colin and I all day and it is probably boring for her. I always want to take the kids to the park, but then I get too nervous to take them by myself because I am afraid someone will try and kidnap one of them. Eric and I have been sitting here this morning trying to figure out if we should take her to Chuck E Cheese's or not. She has never been there before and I think she would love it. Yesterday Colin had an appointment to get his pictures done at JCPenney's. He cried most of the time because he was scared once we set him on the floor, but the lady was able to get him to stop a few different times and she was even able to get him to smile. So even though she couldn't get too many good ones, she did get about 3 or 4 poses that turned out cute. I was pretty excited that we were able to get some good ones. I can't wait to go pick them up. While we were waiting to look at pictures, we were walking around JCPenney's looking for some stuff. Jaidyn wasn't with us because she stayed home with Jamie, so I decided I would look for her some pj's for her birthday. Her birthday isn't for 2 months, but I pretty much have everything already bought except for some new pj's. JCPenney's was having a sale and all their spring pj's were 45% off. So I have a couple of cute pairs for her. Of course every pair I liked and I would hold up, Eric didn't like them so I couldn't get them. He actually picked out the two pair that I bought for her. After we came home, Jamie hung out for a while and we watched a movie. Then she left and Eric and I had to sit here and listen to Colin scream the entire afternoon. No matter what I did, he was not happy. I really don't know what his problem was. He is always pretty whiny, but never as bad as he was yesterday. I thought that maybe once he got to be a year old, he wouldn't be so whiny and so needy all the time, but boy was I wrong. He still wants me to hold him all the time. I sure hope he grows out of this eventually. Especially if Eric and I have another baby in the next year or so. I called my dad to invite him over for dinner tonight, but I still haven't heard back from him. It's weird that he hasn't called me back because usually he does. I am going to make some really good enchiladas that my mom makes. She puts this really good sauce in them and it is SOOO good. I can't wait to make them. Eric of course wants to watch the super bowl today so we are going to be watching that. I absolutely hate football, so it should be pretty boring for me. Oh yeah, I just remembered one more thing I wanted to write about. Yesterday Colin was being whiny and Jaidyn called him a butthole. I was like what did she just say. Eric just thought it was funny. I was like that is not funny. I told him he has to stop using words like that in front of her. Although I guess I am not such a good example for her either because the other day I said the word shit and she said "why did you say the word shit."lol It's like she knows it is a bad word. Thankfully she never says it though.