Alamo again

Eric told me today that he wanted to see if we could go to Alamo this weekend and look at the house we want to buy. I have already seen the inside, but Eric has only seen pictures. I called Wendy to see if she would be able to show it to us tomorrow and she said yes. I am really excited because I wanted Eric to be able to see it. We decided that we are going to drive up tonight after Eric gets home from work. That way we don't have to drive up and back in one day. Jaidyn is so excited. We were just in Alamo last week and stayed for a couple of days. Then we brought my mom back with us and she stayed here for almost a week. The kids were both sad that she left, but now they will be happy to see her again. We faxed over our loan application on Monday morning. We hadn't heard from Robin at the credit union all week. Eric finally called today and she is busy with end of the month stuff, but once she is done with that, she will work on our pre-approval. Hopefully it won't take long. I really want to be able to get our offer in before someone else comes along and puts an offer in. I can't help but already plan different things I would do with the house. Even though I don't know for sure that we are going to get it. I mean if we have any say in it, then of course we are getting it, but we have to see first if we can get the loan and then they have to accept our offer. I have been taking my new anxiety medicine since Tuesday. I have been feeling pretty nauseous. My doctor warned me that I probably wouldn't feel very well for the first week or so. The only good thing about it is that I haven't been eating near as much.lol One of the side effects can be weight loss. I can only hope that will be one side effect for me.lol The funniest story from last night. Eric usually always gives the kids their baths. Mostly because we give them a bath at the same time and Jaidyn always insists that Eric has to do it. So he just does both of them at the same time. So anyways last night I thought I would be nice and take Colin for his bath. That way Eric would only have to give Jaidyn a bath. I asked Colin if he wanted a bath and he got really excited. We went upstairs and as soon as I walked in the bathroom he started crying and saying dada. Next thing I know he opens the door and goes running out of the bathroom still yelling dada. He pointed downstairs to Eric and I told Eric that colin wanted him to give him a bath. Eric came up and took Colin into the bathroom and he was happy as can be after that. I thought it was pretty funny. It did make me a little sad that the kids don't ever want me to give them baths though. Only their dad.

Dr. Appointment

I had my annual checkup today. I hate going, but this time I was looking forward to going only so that I could ask my doctor about putting me on some medication for my anxiety. I have had anxiety pretty bad since I had Colin, but have always put off going to the doctor because I was too afraid. I wasn't even sure if my OB/GYN could prescribe me something for anxiety, but I thought I would ask anyways and thankfully he did. I will start taking it tomorrow and I really hope it will help me. Last week we went to Alamo. While we were there my mom told me about a house that is for sale for $39,900. It has 4 bedrooms, 2 baths and a huge backyard. It looks kind of crappy from the outside, but the inside has all been redone. So anyways I asked Eric if we could buy it and he said for that price, we can't pass it up. We got our loan application faxed over to the credit union this morning. Now we are just waiting to hear back on whether or not we got pre-approved. If we do get pre-approved, then we will put down an offer on the house. I REALLY hope we can get it. I want to move to Alamo so bad. This house is so cheap and besides the outside, it doesn't need much work. The only thing we will have to do on the inside is put new carpet in. The carpet isn't even that bad on the inside, but it is just a really ugly color, so I would want to put new carpet in. We should know in the next week or two if we get the house. If we do, Eric will drive back and forth to work. He will stay down here in Vegas a couple of nights a week, that way he doesn't have to drive back and forth everyday.

Pics from our trip.

I was finally able to put some pictures of our trip on here.

The beach,shopping and disneyland.

We left for our trip to California last Friday. Jamie and Eric both ended up getting off work even earlier than we had planned, so we were able to leave a little before 4:00. I was expecting the traffic to be bad since it was a Friday, but it wasn't at all. We stopped to eat dinner in baker and still made it to our hotel by a little after 8:00. We had gotten a hotel room in Anaheim close to disneyland, even though we hadn't planned on going to disneyland. I got us a room there mostly because I know that area of California very well, plus you can get rooms for super cheap through priceline. On Saturday we woke up and headed to Laguna Beach. We hung out at the beach for a while and Jaidyn loved it. At first she didn't want to go in the water because she was scared. I finally convinced her to go out there and I held her hand the whole time and she loved it. Then all she wanted to do was play in the water. She also took her bucket and shovel and played in the sand. It was so nice at the beach and I enjoyed just sitting there listening to the ocean. As it got closer to lunch time, we started to get hungry. We figured maybe it was time to leave Laguna Beach and head to Fashion Island to do some shopping and get lunch. Fashion Island isn't very far from Laguna Beach, only about 20 minutes so it didn't take us long to get there. We got some lunch at Red Robin and then I decided I wanted to let Jaidyn build herself a bear at the build a bear there. She has build a bears, but has never been there to build one herself. So she picked out one for her and I picked out one to make for Colin. They both got the cutest bears from build a bear. Jaidyn named hers all by herself and decided to name it rainbow carebear because it has rainbows all over it. lolAfter that we shopped around. Jamie wanted a new purse so we went into a couple of different stores and she finally found one she liked at the juicy store. Once she found her purse, we decided to head back to the hotel. We were hoping to get in a nap once we got back to the hotel, but jaidyn would not go to sleep. She was so tired, but so hyper all at the same time. I think she was just so excited to be there. So we decided we would take her to the pool to swim for a while. A while after we did that, we went to Target to get a few things and then went and ate dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. I had called Eric on Saturday and he suggested that we take Jaidyn to Disneyland on Sunday. We had planned on waking up and heading home, but I figured we might as well take her to disneyland. Jaidyn and I have season passes, so we get in for free and we were just down the street from disneyland. I asked Jamie if she would mind going and she said no. We woke up Sunday and headed to disneyland. We were there 20 minutes before the park opened and we got awesome parking. I was thinking that it was going to be so crowded since it was not only a sunday, but it is also the summer time. Boy was I wrong. It was the least crowded I have ever seen it. We were able to just walk right on to most of the rides without even waiting in line and if we did have to wait in line, it wasn't even for 5 minutes. Jaidyn had such a good time. She got to go on all of her favorite rides (some of them twice) and she got her picture taken with a few of her favorite characters. We left disneyland by 1:00 and was home by 5:30. I am so glad I ended up taking Jaidyn with us on our girls trip. She had such a fun time and she was so good the whole time. It won't let me add pictures to my blog right now, but I will add some later.

Cali...here we come!

The day has finally come that we are leaving for California. All week I have been waiting for today. It was originally just going to be Jamie and I going and I was going to leave the kids with Eric so that I could have a relaxing weekend. Well then I started to feel bad about not taking Jaidyn. She loves going to California and especially loves going to the beach. Plus she LOVES staying in hotels. Colin hates everything about the beach. He hates sand and water, so I wasn't feeling bad about not taking him. So I decided that I was going to bring Jaidyn along. She is so excited to go and keeps asking when we get to leave. It's too bad we have to wait until 4:00 today to leave. I feel bad because she keeps talking about going to disneyland, even though I keep telling her we aren't going to. I think it's because everytime we go to California, we go to disneyland. I thought about taking her to disneyland while we were there, but with the season pass we have we have some blockout dates when we can't go and Saturday is one of them. Oh well, she will get to do plenty of other fun things. Plus we already have a fun trip planned to take the kids to disneyland in October, so she only has to wait a few more months. With the way time is flying by, October will be here in no time. Hopefully we can sleep in a little on Sunday, grab some breakfast and head home. I want to be home by at least 2:00. That way I can unpack and get all my laundry done. Then a few days later, I have to pack again for the kids and I to leave for Alamo. We are only staying one night. We are going up to pick up my mom and bring her back to Vegas. She is coming to stay at my house for almost a week and i am so excited. I love having my mom here. I seriously wish she could live with us.lol It will be nice to have someone to visit with in the day and we plan on going shopping and doing some other fun things. The kids will be excited because they love having their grandma around.

Colin's 18 month checkup

I had to take Colin to his 18 month checkup today. He did really good. He only cried for a minute when they gave him his shot and after I picked him up, he was fine. He weighs 26 lbs now. I couldn't even believe it. At his last appointment 3 months ago, he only weighed 22 lbs. I didn't think he had really gained any weight, but obviously I was wrong. The doctor said he looks really good, so I am happy about that. I won't have to take him back until he turns 2. On Saturday we went to Eric's sisters house to have lunch. They also bought a little pool for the kids to swim in. Colin hates swimming, so he wouldn't swim, but Jaidyn did and she had fun. This little pool is the perfect size pool for her because she gets too scared to go all the way into a big swimming pool. She usually just sits on the top step. We haven't even swam in our pool this summer because colin hates swimming and Jaidyn won't even get all the way in. I wish we didn't have a big swimming pool in our backyard so I could buy one of these little ones and we could still have a backyard for the kids to play in. Jamie and I decided last night that we are making a girls trip to Cali this weekend. We just wanted to get away and go to the beach. Eric told me to go have fun without the kids because next month, he is going to do the same thing. Him and his brother are going to san diego for a weekend to go to a couple of cardinals baseball games. So I figured I might as well go while I have the chance. I am a little nervous to leave the kids for a couple of days, but I am sure they will be fine. We don't know for sure what we are going to do, but I do know we will be going to the beach. We got a room in Anaheim for super cheap off of priceline, so I am excited about that. It should be a fun time.Here are a few pictures of the kids from Saturday.

4th of July

Jamie, the kids and I headed to Alamo on Thursday afternoon to spend the whole weekend there. It took us almost 3 hours to get to Alamo from the time we left my house. Once we were on the road, Jamie realized she forgot her shirts at home. She lives clear on the other side of town from me, so I wasn't very happy about the fact that I had to drive all the way over there so we could get them. The traffic was so horrible and we ended up getting on the strip. The I-15 was way backed up so I figured I would get on the strip and take it as far as Charleston and get back on the I-15. I am really glad we decided to do that because I think it would have taken us much longer if we would have stayed on the I-15. I am just glad Colin ended up falling asleep or else he would have gotten pretty onery being in the car for that long. On Thursday night, the kids, Jamie and I went down to Andrea's to visit. It was fun. We all sat outside and visited and the kids played basketball. On Friday we didn't do a whole lot. Jamie, Jaidyn, Ashlee and I went to lunch at Windmill Ridge. It was nice to go out to lunch with Ashlee since we don't get to do it often. Eric called me around 11 on Friday and said he was already off work. They got off early because it was so slow, so he was heading to Alamo early. I was really glad that he was able to come up early. We woke up super early on Saturday and ate some yummy breakfast that my mom cooked for all of us. Then we got ready to go to the parade. Here is a picture of the kids before we left for the parade. Jaidyn was really excited.

The kids enjoyed the parade but by the time it was over, Colin was exhausted. We took him back to my mom's for a nap and Jamie and I took Jaidyn to the park to play games. She had a really good time. It was so hot though, that we decided to go back to my mom's. Colin was awake when we got home, so a while later I decided to take both the kids to the park. Eric didn't go to the park at all because it was too hot out and he didn't want to be out in the heat. I let Jaidyn play a few more games and then we ended up leaving the park because it was too hot out. Andrea, Jeremy, Tyson and Ryan came to my mom's house around 2 and we had a lunch/dinner. It was really good food and fun to be with everyone. Thankfully soon after everyone left, we were able to get Jaidyn and Colin to both take a nap. I had also laid down to take a nap when Jennifer and Lisa showed up to my mom's house. We hadn't seen Lisa in years and she decided to come to Alamo to visit everyone. So we ended up visiting with them for a while. Soon after they left, we went down to the baseball field to watch Jeremy in the homerun thing they were having. Soon after that we headed to the park for the fireworks. Eric had originally said he wasn't going to watch the fireworks because the NASCAR race was on and he didn't want to miss it. So I left colin there with him. I didn't know how Colin would do for the fireworks since they didn't start until 9 and last year they scared him. Well we were sitting on the grass visiting and Eric called and said he was there and wanted to know where we were sitting. I told him I would come find him and when I did, he had Colin with him. I am glad he ended up bringing Colin because Colin loved the fireworks. When they first started, he kept laughing and clapping. It was so cute. All day Jaidyn couldn't wait for the fireworks and she was so excited once she finally got to see them. We were all so tired after last night that even Colin slept in until 7:30 this morning. That is the latest he has ever slept before. We got home from Alamo around 11 today and I was sad to come home. I had such a good time this weekend. I just love being in alamo.