Wow....long time no post....

We have had some serious bacterial/viral crap in our house for 2 weeks. Everyone was sick at some point or another, and all of us were sick at the same time at one point I think. And of course, everyone had to have something completely different from everyone else, because we all couldn't be sick with the same thing. That would be too easy. We had to bring in pretty much everything under the sun, and spread it around to everyone for well over 2 weeks. I think finally though, after lysoling everything that was hard every night for 3 straight days, the sickies are leaving the building!!!! WAHOOOO!!!! I promise I will post more tomorrow. And post more pictures. :)

8 TAG

RULES

1) Post rules on your blog

2) Answer the six "8" items

3) Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment



8 Favorite TV shows:

1. LOST
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Private Practice
4. Eli Stone
5. Pushing Daisies
6. Ugly Betty
7. Numb3rs
8. .....um.....dunno

8 Things I did yesterday:

1. Made bread
2. put up vinyl lettering in Natalie's roon
3. Lowered Natalie's matress
4. Changed Cody's sheets
5. laundry
6. shopping to WalMart with the boys
7. watched Tinkerbell
8. digital scrapbooking

8 Things I look forward to:

1. A full night's sleep
2. A healthy household
3. Christmas morning
4. Seeing my sister
5. shopping with Natalie
6. Warm weather
7. No more diapers!!
8. A full night's sleep. :)

8 Favorite Restaurants:

1. Durango's
2. Olive Garden
3. Red Lobster
4. Del Taco
5. Applebee's
6. Cafe Rio
7. The Mayan
8. Chili's

8 Things on my Wish list:

1. A full night's sleep
2. no more diapers
3. a Dyson vacuum
4. drastic weight loss
5. my sister to live closer
6. a laptop
7. Canon Rebel XTi
8. Hubby to spend more time with the fam and less time with the compy.

8 People to TAG:

1. Beth
2. Caroline
3. Emily
4. Andrea
5. Sarah R.
6. Amanda
7. Vickie
8. .....feel free......


Have fun and Enjoy!!!

chunky baby in bath

I love chunky babies. I can't help but to pinch their cheeks and thighs. Kiss their cheeks and belly. Tickle, tickle, tickle. But, put that baby in a bathtub, and it is just heaven!

Contest!!!

I love contests, and I love gift cards, and I love books. This rocks!!


THE AMERICAN TITLE V CONTEST HAS BEGUN!The American Title contest is a joint project between Romantic Times Magazine and Dorchester Publishing. Each year, Dorchester selects a handful of submissions to compete for a publishing contract, and YOU, the readers, get to choose the winner.

To spread the word about the contest, finalist Jessica Darago (author of The Serpent's Tooth, a gothic historical), is raffling a $10 bookstore gift certificate to anyone who copies this message into his/her own blog. You don't have to vote for Jessica, or vote at all, to win. (But Jessica sure hopes you will!)

The winner may choose a gift certificate from Amazon, Powells, Fictionwise, or even iTunes (because audiobooks deserve love too).To enter, copy this message to your own blog and leave a link to your post at http://justjayj.livejournal.com/259245.html

To vote for Jessica, send a blank email to votes@romantictimes.com with "The Serpent's Tooth" in the subject line.Visit Jessica at http://justjayj.livejournal.com/ for more information and a link to read all of the American Title entries.

Halloween Pics

At Cody's school, they did a little halloween parade for the whole school. After lunch all of the kids got into their costumes, and paraded around the track twice. It was so cute to watch. Here are all of the Kindergarden teachers dressed up as hippies. Cody's teacher is on the far right in the orange jumpsuit.



Here is a picture of Cody in his shark costume. I told the boys that they could be whatever they wanted to be for halloween, as long as the costume was downstairs in the costume box. :) I don't see a point in spending $20+ on a cheap plastic costume that they wear for a few hours. I wait until halloween is over, and then I stock up for the next year. I usually buy a few costumes after halloween, so they have a fresh pick for the following year.



Here is Cody's class lining up waiting for the parade to start. Jacob (the elephant) wanted to be in the parade too. He just didn't want to wear his hood. Oh well. It was pretty hot out, and that costume was made for colder weather. Jacob was dying in it. He decided to be Buzz Lightyear when we went trick-or-treating that night.

Our pumpkins

Thanks to our neighbor, we had 3 pumpkins sitting on our porch. I was really dreading carving the pumpkins this year. I wasn't looking forward to cleaning up all of those stupid little seeds. I wasn't looking forward to washing orange goop off my hands for days. I wasn't looking forward to having droopy, disgusting looking, moldy pumpkins on my front porch. I was putting this off for as long as I possibly could. Cody kept asking when we were going to carve them, and I kept saying, "Not today, maybe another day." Well, since Halloween is on Friday, I couldn't put it off any longer. I got ready to carve the stupid things, when all of a sudden, I remember pictures of people painting the pumpkins. Lightbulb moment! I can do that! I even have paints already. :) So, I got the boys decked out in their painting clothes, and put the pumpkins on the driveway, and let them go to town with washable paint. :P

Even Natalie had fun, and helped with her pumpkin.

Piggie tails!!

I am so excited! I was looking at the top of Natalie's head today while I was putting on her hair bow, and thought to myself, "I wonder if she has enough hair for a pig tail yet." I found my trusty little box of teeny tiny elastics, and went to work. I gave her her favorite baby doll to chew on, and pulled her thin hair up on the top of her head. I have to say, those elastics are VERY stretchy! I kept pulling it around and around, and it took forever. It wasn't all the way tight, but I was getting bored. I think the results are rather cute, but I also think I will wait awhile to try again.

I love my family!!!

Seriously, I have the best sister-in-laws ever!! Not only do we all get along pretty well, they are sooooo generous!! Along with hitting new milestones, Natalie hit a growth spurt too, and grew out of all of her clothes. Not a big deal, I had a box waiting in the next size. Then Mother Nature came and threw us for a loop. It got really cold really fast, and Natalie had summer clothes. Big problem.

I went to Phoenix with the children this weekend for my nephew's baptism, and I came home with boxes and bags FULL of clothes for my baby girl. I will have to play fashion show this week with her, so I can get pics of all of the cute outfits that she now has. I am so excited to dress her up. I was literally giddy this morning trying to pick her outfit for the day. I know I am weird.

Thank you again so much Andrea, Camille, and Amy. I really do appreciate all that you have given me, and can't wait for Natalie to wear it all!!

Growing up

Well, Natalie has decided to grow up a little more this week, and hit 2 milestones. She can now clap her hands, and she army crawls. :( I don't understand why she just won't stay little for me. We even had a talk about it. She told me that all babies had to grow up, and I had to grow up too. Well, I don't want her to, so I hope she takes her time learning to crawl the correct way, and also walking. I don't mind her waiting a few months(okay...make that like 6) for her to walk.

A little bit of ME time.

I am so not good at keeping up with this. Last weekend I went on vacation. All by myself. Well...as by myself as I could get with a nursing baby. :) Natalie and I packed our bags and headed south. Where to you ask? Lake Havasu City, AZ. Now I know you are thinking "why would you want to go there?" Well, I will tell you. I grew up there. I lived there from the time I was 8 until I was 15. It is pretty much the "home" I remember. My mom still lives there, so I went to see my mom. My dad was there too. My very best friend from elementary/junior high got married. I just HAD to be there. It was fun. It was fun to get away, it was fun to see my parents, and it was fun to just chill with Natalie all weekend. Also, not having to cook was a bonus. My dad is the best cook!