A weekend without the kids.

This weekend was Eric and I's weekend to spend all by ourselves without our kids. They left for grandma's house on Friday afternoon and we picked them up this morning. Eric and I got a room at the Aliante hotel for Friday and Saturday night. It is such a nice hotel and it isn't crowded at all. There was a huge tv in our room and a really comfy bed. It was the perfect place for Eric and I to spend our weekend together. As soon as Eric got home on Friday, we headed to the hotel. We checked in and then decided to get some dinner at TGI Fridays. They have one in the hotel, so we didn't even have to leave. Dinner was really good, but I ate a little too much and felt sick to my stomach afterwards. We then decided to do some gambling. Well Eric doesn't really gamble, he just sits there and watches me. I love to play the wheel of fortune game. I must have been really lucky because I got to spin 10 times in under 20 minutes. I couldn't even belive how well I was doing. I only put in $20 and ended up cashing out with $50. I could have gotten more, but I gambled some of it away. After that we went to the room and was lazy the rest of the night. I think we were asleep by 9:00. I was hoping to sleep in on Saturday, but I woke up at about 6:45. We got dressed and went and ate at The Original Pancake House, which is also located inside the hotel. After that we ran to Wal Mart because it is just down the street and we wanted to buy a pack of bottled water to keep in our room. We went back to the hotel and decided to go swimming. We swam for a little bit and I laid out for a while and then decided we needed to go back to the room and rest. We watched tv for a while and then grabbed some lunch inside the hotel. We heard about a new toys r us on that side of town and decided to check it out. We were there forever checking out stuff for the kids. After we got back to the room I was so exhausted that I needed a nap. We both fell asleep and slept for about 2 hours. It was so nice to just relax all weekend and take a nap whenever we felt like it. We woke up and ate at Red Robin for dinner. Once we got back to the room, we decided we didn't want to go anywhere else. We were just going to put on our pj's and rent a movie. We rented some movied called The last turn on the left or The last house on the left.lol I can't remember what it was called. Anyways it was a scary movie and I was really stressed out the entire time I was watching it. Probably not the best choice of movie to watch. We woke up first thing this morning and met my mom and grandma at the glendale turnoff to pick up the kids. I was so happy to see them. Even though it was nice to have a weekend to ourselves, I missed my kids so much and thought about them almost the whole time. The kids had a really fun time at grandma's house, but I think they were really glad to see Eric and I. Poor Jaidyn touched a cactus at grandma's house and it got stuck in her hand and tummy. My mom said she was freaking out and wouldn't let her or my grandma get it out. So they called Andrea and thankfully when Andrea got there, Jaidyn let her get it out. Now we only have a few more days until we head to grandma's house again. Jamie, the kids and i are driving up Thursday after Jamie gets off work and Eric is driving up Friday after he gets off work so we can spend the 4th of July in Alamo. I am really looking forward to it. I love being in Alamo for the 4th of July. Mostly for the parade and the fireworks.

Father's Day and swimsuit shopping

On Saturday my sisters, Jaidyn and I took my dad to dinner at The Outback for Father's Day. Eric decided he wanted to stay home because he isn't a big fan of the outback these days, plus he didn't want to take colin because he is always very whiny when we go out to eat. We had fun at dinner. We don't all get together like that often and it was really nice to see my dad since I hadn't seen him in a while. We woke up Sunday morning and Jaidyn gave Eric his Father's Day present. She picked out a dora card for him and the kids also got him a Kyle Busch diecast car and a shirt that says NASCAR DAD on it. He really liked it. She must have told him Happy Father's Day at least 20 times yesterday. All day long she kept saying it in the sweetest little voice and finally when we went to bed, Eric told her Father's Day was going to be over. I feel very blessed to be married to Eric. He is the greatest husband and father and I couldn't ask for anything more. Everday when he comes home from work, the first thing he does is plays with the kids. Yesterday Eric asked me if I could go to JCPenney's and buy him some new boardshorts. Him and I are staying at the Aliante Hotel next weekend and we plan on spending alot of time by the pool. I went to JCPenney's and found him some really cool boardshorts and they had them on sale for 50% off. However, I couldn't find myself a new swimsuit. I have swimsuits, but not any that I like very much. I went to 4 different stores before I finally found one at Target. Everywhere I looked either had bikinis(which I won't wear) or swimsuits for old people.lol Thankfully I finally found one at Target. I am really looking forward to this weekend. The kids are going to Alamo on Friday and staying until Sunday. Eric and I got a room for Fri and Sat night. I plan on relaxing and hanging by the pool most of the weekend. It will be a fun time for the kids as well because they get to spend all weekend with Grandma Taylor and Grandma Helen. They haven't seen Grandma Helen in months since she has been gone to her sisters, so it will be good for them to spend the weekend with her.

Colin's 1st haircut

I finally decided it was time for Colin to have his first haircut. He had an appointment today at the snips and clips for kids by my house. It's a really cute little place. They have cool cars for the kids to sit in while they get their haircut and they also play a movie for them. They had elmo and since Colin loves elmo, I had them put that one in. Too bad that didn't keep him from screaming the whole time. We even gave him a sucker to have while he was getting his haircut and nothing distracted him. After screaming his loudest the entire time, I thought he would stop as soon as I picked him up. Boy was I wrong, he still sat there screaming the whole time I was trying to pay. Everyone in there was just staring at me. It was pretty embarassing. He looks so cute with his new haircut. He looked cute before, but his hair was a little angry, now it should be easier to fix. Here are a couple of pics of his new do.


Sam had been recovering so well from her first surgery then on Thursday she started to feel really sick. On thursday night she ended up going to the emergency room. It turns out her intestines were twisted. So she had to have another surgery yesterday to fix them. She is doing good now. Hopefully she will get better soon. My mom was supposed to go home today, but now that Sam had to have another surgery, my mom will be staying for a while longer to help her out. My mom is going to come stay at our house tonight and stay until Sam gets out of the hospital. I have no idea when that will be. Hopefully she won't have to be in there for too long. It will be nice to have my mom here for a day or two. Eric is painting the upstairs bathroom right now. I was going to do it and he said he wanted to do it. I am surprised that he wanted to do it. I am ok with that though because that means I don't have to do it. I got the name plaques I ordered for the kids rooms. I can't even belive how cute they are. We put another coat of paint on the walls in Colin's room so we will have to wait a couple of days before hanging anything in there. I can't wait to get his room all decorated.

Two sick kids

Unfortunately both of my kids are sick right now. Jaidyn has been sick since Friday and Colin just started coughing last night. Jaidyn has been taking claritin since Friday night and she seems to be doing better today. Poor Colin has been coughing all day and he has a runny and stuffy nose. The sucky thing is that I can't even give Colin anything while he is sick. Hopefully he will get over it soon or I guess we will be heading to the doctor. I had been talking about painting Colin's room for a while now. It was just plain white and so boring looking. So yesterday I got everything cleaned up. I ended up throwing away a bunch of stuff that I had kept for some reason and we never even used it or needed it. After I got it all cleaned out, Eric ran to home depot to check out the paint. He ended up coming home with 2 gallons of the paint he wanted. I didn't really care what color blue it was, so Eric got the color he wanted. I got it all painted yesterday. I just have to touch up a little bit tonight after Eric gets home. I really like the color of it. I ordered some cute cars decorations to go in his room. Mostly just a plaque with his name and some cars stuff on it. Also a cars mural to hang on the wall. I think it will look really good when it is all done. Jaidyn has been sharing a room with us for a while now because she won't sleep by herself. Well we are finally going to make her have her own room and sleep in her own bed. I am going to get her room painted in the next couple of weeks. I am going to paint it pink and get her some disney princess decorations. Hopefully that will make her want to sleep in her own room. When I told her I would be painting her room, she insisted that she wanted a pirates of the carribbean room. She has never even seen the movie, but she has seen the stuff at Disneyland. When I told her she couldn't have a pirates room, she started crying. I feel bad, but I have to draw the line somewhere. Eric bought two gallons of paint and we only needed one, so I am thinking about using the other gallon to paint the bathrooms because it is the perfect color blue that matches the rugs that I already have in the bathrooms. I might do that this weekend. I got Jaidyn all signed up for preschool. I am really looking forward to her going and I know she is very excited as well. The good thing is that it is only 1 mile from my house. That will be nice not to have to drive very far to take her to school. Sam had her surgery last Wednesday. She was doing so well that they let her out of the hospital on Friday night. They also told her she could eat the next day. Her recovery is going really well. My mom is down here staying with her until the weekend.

Girls day/night

On Friday Jamie and I decided we wanted to have a fun girls day on Saturday. We try to have a girls day every so often where just the girls go shopping and have lunch. Jamie decided she wanted to get a room at Planet Hollywood on Saturday night for her, Sam, Jaidyn and I to stay. On Saturday Jamie came and picked up Jaidyn and I and we headed to Planet Hollywood a couple of hours before check in so that we could do some shopping. Sam met us there about 30 minutes later. I saw tons of cute stuff and wanted to buy so many different things. I did good though and only bought a pair of really cute ed hardy shoes. After shopping we checked into our room. I had Jamie ask for a lower level floor because of my fear for riding elevators. The guy told her that she got a free upgrade to a room with a view of the fountains at the bellagio. The only problem was that it was on the 18th floor. I almost had a heart attack just thinking about it. The first time we rode the elevator up to our room, I was very nervous and scared, but as we rode it more and more, it wasn't so bad. Maybe I am finally getting over my fear of elevators. I hope so anyways. We got to our room and it was so nice. We really did have a perfect view. Shortly after we got to our room, we decided we would go to the pool because that is what Jaidyn was most excited about. Jamie stayed in the room because she didn't feel very good, so Sam,Jaidyn and I headed to the pool. It was so crowded and Jaidyn was the only little kid there. I was feeling bad at first because I didn't know what Jaidyn thought of all of that, but it didn't seem to bother her. She still had fun. Some guy gave her a beach ball and another guy wanted to take a picture of her with his phone.lol We swam for a while and then headed back to our room to change so that we could get some dinner. We decided to go to a cafe that was in the hotel. We sat down and looked at the menu and they didn't even have chicken fingers. What cafe doesn't have chicken fingers? It didn't look like they had anything that Jaidyn would eat because she is very picky and will pretty much only eat chicken fingers and pizza. Thankfully they serve some breakfast items all the time and they had waffles. Jaidyn loves waffles, so I was able to get that for her for dinner.After dinner Sam and I gambled a bit while Jamie stayed in the room with Jaidyn, then Jamie and Sam went and gambled while I gave Jaidyn a bath. Unfortunately I didn't win any money and neither did Jamie. Sam did win $30 or something like that.lol After that we got in our pj's and decided to order some dessert from room service. It was so yummy! Then we painted our toenails and Jaidyn was very excited for that. She loves having her toenails and fingernails painted. We got in bed a little after 9 and Jaidyn fell asleep right away. She was exhausted. We woke up the next morning and ordered breakfast from room service. Then Jamie, Jaidyn and I hit the pool one last time before we had to check out. After checking out, we shopped around for a little while longer and then came home. We had a really good time and I am glad we had our girls day/night. I was glad to come home though because I always miss Colin when I have to be away from him for a night. Don't get me wrong, I missed Eric too, but it is harder for me to be away from Colin for that long. I thought Colin would be excited to see me when I got home, but instead he was giving me the evil eye. I think he was mad at me for leaving him. Colin got to have his own guys day with Eric and Alex, so I didn't feel too bad. Here are a couple of pics of us in the hotel room.
Jaidyn with the Paris balloon and the fountains going at the Bellagio in the background.
Me with the Paris Balloon in the background.
Jaidyn, Sam and Jamie getting ready to paint toenails.