My Shopping today

Well I wanted to go to Kmart because their V-Smile games were buy one get one free, of course they only had 1 in the entire store! I so don't miss working at that place!! So I drove to one about 30 miles away and they had a few so I got a Cinderella one (I don't think she has it but I have to check) and a Scooby Doo one. Then I headed back to my side of town for Toys R Us. They had Crayola Color Wonders on sale buy one get one free so I picked a Little Mermaid one up for Kenzie and a Dora one up for Kaylee. They both came with a coloring book, paper, paints and markers. This will be so wonderful for Kaylee cause she always wants to color with markers and I wont let her unless she is going to be getting a bath shortly after, these ones only color on special paper so we are good to go :) Then I hit Target for their 10 piece Graco baby doll furniture set for $20. Mykenzie has been playing baby dolls a lot lately and I think Kaylee will like it too so it will be a gift for the 2 of them to share. I got something for Mykenzie's teacher too so I only have 1 thing left to complete her gift :) After Target I ran to Kohls, I was hoping to find something for Travis' dad there (An Ohio state something, preferably a pullover) but they only had the sucky Titans, so that will have to wait. I also checked out towels for my MIL and found some for $8 each (on sale) but I want to check TJ Maxx first if they have nothing I will be getting those ones. She wants really soft towels, she fell in love with mine when she was here visiting and if I was smart I would have went then and bought some but I didn't. Mine are super soft and I got them at Old Time Pottery for $5 each! Of course they don't have any now. So I then had to check out the toys and I got Kaylee a Dora Princess Castle (not the big one) and it came with a plush Dora doll for $24 and I got the Diego Field Journal and it came with the rescue radio for $24. I got Kaylee a Geo Trax train set too, I already bought a wooden train set but Travis was bummed it wasn't motorized so I got this one and am taking the other back, plus this one was $20 cheaper! I got something for my nephew to go with his rescue pack so he is crossed off my list now too!!! I am getting really close to being done! I just have to find what I am looking for and figure out what the heck to get my mom. I am going to go buy some stamps and get the first half of my Christmas cards out and I will do the rest next week. I can't wait to start getting cards in the mail, it is so much fun :) Now I have to go hide all of the toys in the attic before I have to leave and pick up Mykenzie. I have to enjoy Santa this year, I have a feeling it may be the last year she even believes anymore. That makes me so sad. We are going to watch the movie the Santa Clause with Tim Allen tonight and have a girls night cause Travis is in Chicago till tomorrow night.

Just Happy :)

I am overwhelmingly happy today. No real explination, I just feel happy. I am loving my girls and Travis and even the puppy so much today. Maybe it is Christmas spirit taking over and making me gush. Kaylee has been so good today I can't even tell you, just happy and pleasant, not a single fit yet today. Just talking and being cute. Mykenzie actually got in a little trouble this morning but just cause she wouldn't get ready for school at a decent pace. I talked to her about it in the car and I think she will do a bit better now, it is nothing major just she can't sit and play with the dog when she has a million other things to do. She got her report card yesterday and I am so proud of her, she once again got an "E" in math, but she also got one in spelling which is wonderful cause I was really worried after she brought home a 60% on a spelling test right before she got her last report card. She also brought her "S's" up to "G's" in Reading and Handwriting and kept her "G's" in Social Studies, Science and Health. I can't believe she is so grown up already. I mean this child is reading and adding and subtracting and learning about contractions! Wasn't she just my little girl who loved Dora? Now I have another Dora crazed kid I swear she was just a tiny baby. I am just so glad that most of her temper tantrums are behind her and I can really enjoy her being two.
The puppy has not had a single accident in the house yet today! Woo Hoo! I am thrilled! Of course we were gone for about 3 hours today shopping (I will do another post for that). Just loving life right now and trying not to stress about everything like I have been for the past month. Hope everyone else is having a wonderful day :)

Christmas, Puppies and Sickness oh my

I had no clue what to title this, can you tell? lol

So first I am going to update on the sickness in this house. I am better, slight sore throat and awful stuffy nose but better. Travis on the other hand is getting hit with what I had. No throwing up yet but is really tired and achy. I thought Kaylee was getting it cause she was running a fever on Saturday but she seems fine now other than a runny nose, which Mykenzie is starting to get too. Tis the Season, I suppose. I never mentioned either that the girls got their flu shots last Saturday and did soooo good. Neither of them made a sound or even flinched. After I had Kaylee's shirt back on she rubbed her arm and said, "That's pinchin" but that was it. So I took the girls to the library to get some books and movies before they closed for rennovations. I got some too :)

Now for the puppy. We have discovered that she HATES the puppy pad. We would take her out to it and she would sit there for 10 minutes and nothing, then come in and poop on my rug. So we decided to take her outside in the yard and what a difference! She totally goes out and does her business. I wanted the puppy pad so I didn't have to go out in the cold with her but what ever, at this point I will stand out there in my underwear if it meant she went potty outside and not on my floor. She is still not telling me that she has to go out but I know that will come. I am just glad she isn't holding it till she can get to my rug! So far today she only had 1 pee accident! WOO HOO!!! I am liking her again now :)
I have to take her in for her second round of puppy shots and I sooo don't want to pay the $100 that is going to cost. I then have to turn around in Jan. and get her 3rd round and pay another $80. Anyone out there with a cheaper vet, bring it on please :)

On to Christmas... let me just say that I have officially crossed 3 people off my list! Yay me. I know I suck in comparison to others but let me have my moment. I got my dad's ordered online today and I had it shipped to his house, but under my sisters name so she can wrap it and make him wait till Christmas for it. If he gets his grubby paws on it he will have it open and be using it as soon as it arrives, which will be way too soon for Christmas! I also ordered my neice Lily's gift which is a Blue's Clues Jack in the Box, I had it shipped to her house too so she is REALLY done too :) My neice Abby (click here and here) is done but has been and I still will have to mail hers. I also have things for almost all of the people on my list. If I dont have it bought then I know what I am getting, with one exception... my mother! I have no clue what to get her and I really wish she would give me a clue! I will figure out something. I am going tomorrow to pick up some stuff and will hopefully cross most of the other people off my list! Yay! I so can't wait to be done and not worry about it anymore and just sit back and enjoy the holidays. I doubt that will happen but I can hope!

I need help

This dog is driving me NUTS! She is refusing to be potty trained. My problem is that she pees and poops in her cage!!! She doesn't care. She will lay right in it and have shit in her paws and her fur soaked in pee and she doesn't seem to mind. I have no idea how I am supposed to get her over that! I just scrubbed my area rug to get pee stench out and got on my hands and knees to scrub my entire downstairs, which includes an eat in kitchen (pretty big) a formal dining room, a half bath, and the living room. It was a lot. Well while I am doing it I end up finding 5 spots where she peed on the floor and we didn't know it. I am telling you we watch this dog like a hawk to make sure we catch her in the act. Not to mention the fact that I take her out every 20 minutes!!! PLEASE if you have potty trained a dog successfully in the past email me and tell me how the heck you accomplished it! And if you have suggestions on what to do about the potty in the cage thing I would love those too. I would really like this dog if I could get her trained, but right now I can hardly stand to touch her cause I am sure she is covered in pee!!!! UGGGG! I am going to dry out her skin cause I wash her so much, but what am I supposed to do let my kids play with a dog covered in pee! HELP ME!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone out there had a great day today. We had our dinner around 2 this afternoon. After Kaylee got over her fit and decided to join us we had a nice meal. Travis was a huge help this year. He helped me prepare food and he totally did most of the dishes and the cleaning up. I am very thankful for him and lucky to have him in my life.

I am feeling better today. Still queezy but the getting hit by a bus feeling is gone. I just hope no one else gets it but I suppose it is good to know that it is short lived if they do. I am more emotional than I'd like to be though. I had the urge to cry so many times today for no reason, and I mean NO reason. I was looking at a CVS and was fighting back tears. I am going to assume that is was a fluke due to the fact I forgot to take a BC pill the night I was sick and had to double up last night. Crazy.

I searched through the ads today and I must say I am not all that impressed that I need to go out into the madness tomorrow. I bought an easy bake oven on Tuesday at Target and it will be $13 tomorrow rather than $18. I may go get a price adjustment. We will see how the kids are acting. Toys R Us has a few game boy games that Kenzie would like for cheap but I would have to get up and go before Travis went to work since I can't buy them with Mykenzie with me and I just don't think I want them badly enough to get up that early and go, so I guess I will pass. Maybe I will look at them online and order them. Who knows. I think we may just have a relaxing day tomorrow. Maybe I will read one of the books I got from the library. Decisions decisions. Right now, I am just passing time, avioding doing anything that I should be doing, until Grey's Anatomy comes on. Kaylee is in bed and Travis and Mykenzie went to a friends house. I decided to pass, due to the queasy belly and Kaylee needing to go to bed and the fact that Grey's is on! LOL

I'm siiiiiick!

This is the first time in a while that I have been sick like this. I started to feel a little weak last night and I had an awful sore throat. Well I ended up throwing up all last night. Then I went and laid back down in bed and started shivering and shaking like crazy. I was so cold and my body was shaking like crazy, my teeth were chattering so loud that it woke Travis up. He got up and got me some blankets and informed me I had a fever. I just laid there trying to get warm and stop shaking, the shaking was causing my already sore body to hurt so badly. I finally thought warm thoughts and prayed alot for the trembling to end so I could sleep and it did. Travis made me some hot tea and got me some dayquil and I am feeling a little bit better now. Really tired and starting to get a little queasy, and my back is killing me. So why am I on the computer? Good question. I can't sleep in my bed like I want to since the girls are running around and my couch just isn't comfortable. I thought if I got up and tried to do something I could will myself to feel better but I am starting to feel worse so I guess I am going to get my pillow and head back down to the couch. Maybe I can get the girls to go upstairs and play and I can watch all of my shows that are getting back logged on DVR. I have all the Grey's Anatomy so far on there, maybe I can have a Grey's marathon :) I just hope I am feeling better tomorrow so I can make Thanksgiving dinner, otherwise I will have to ship Travis and the girls off to the people who invited us over. Then what would I eat? I would have to make ours this weekend. Lets just hope this is short lived and that no one else in this house gets it.

Please keep Jenna in your prayers, she is not doing really well right now. She has a bacterial infection and her blood pressure is really low. There is talk of possibly moving her to ICU. The Chemo is done but it reeks havoc on the immune system so she could use some extra prayers.

Hold me accountable

I have a million things I want to get done today and tomorrow so I am going to post them on here so I have something to answer to! :)

*Scrub both upstairs bathrooms
*Finish laundry and put away!
*clean up my bedroom
*pick up Kaylee's room
*clean off desk
*list some toys for sale on sale blog
*sweep upstairs
*scrub carpets *may wait till weekend*
*put all the empty Christmas decor. boxes back in attic
*clean up kitchen
*mop floors
*dust
*Sit down and watch medium ;-) (I taped it last week and haven't had a chance)
*Make Kenzie clean her pig sty, I mean room
*Get Candle order in to Barbara
*sit down and write out the girls Christmas lists for grandparents
*do bills
*balance check book
*Go to Kroger for a newspaper and gravy (yes I buy my gravy, no clue how to make it)
*Return ornaments to Target
*cut and organize coupons

I am sure there is plenty more but that is all I can think of for now. I know none of you care but sometimes I have to be forced to clean! LOL I hate it! I am going to go change Kaylee's diaper and get her dressed and then I am off. I am getting a late start cause I worked in the school this morning, which I love and Travis hates cause he is late to work then. He will get over it :)
Oh and just so you know Cami is fine today. I gave her water throughout the day yesterday with a medicine dropper to keep her hydrated and she decided to eat a little food around 6 last night. This morning she got up and ran around like normal playing with Kaylee so I'd say she is feeling much better today :) Off to get started on my fun chores :)

Listen to this crap

So most of you know that we had to deal with identity theft issues over the summer. Someone got ahold of several credit cards and charged them up. Well that has all been taken care of, the money returned ect. Well yesterday we get a phone call from Chase fraud dept. and someone tried to make a purchase with the credit card that Travis uses for work. UGG! This is ridiculous. Luckily they caught it before it went through since it was an online purchase and they had the wrong exp. date. What the heck is wrong with people? I don't doubt that it would be wonderful to buy whatever you want with someone else's money but there should be a little voice in your head saying "yeah this would be great and it's so easy BUT it is just wrong." This world is flying on a fast track to hell. Just so you guys know if you are going to have a credit card Chase is the company to go with. They are the ONLY people who noticed anything was wrong the last time, and they called us then to report it and called us now. Discover and Washington Mutual however didn't have a clue until I called and told them. Discover actually accused me outright of trying to con them when I tried to cancel the card (there was no balance prior to the theft) so I will never have another Discover account in my life. Make sure you are active in your credit history because these people are nuts and they will do it if the opportunity becomes available. You buy something online, you hand your card to someone in the mall, they can all steal your info. Be Careful

It's the Holiday Season

Our turkey is bought and so are all of the other trimmings for our Thanksgiving dinner. Of course the day I bought them we got invited to someones house for Thanksgiving dinner. We are just going to stay here though, we haven't had a nice quiet Thanksgiving since before I was pregnant with Kaylee. This also means however, that we will have TONS of left overs this year! I am making, Turkey, stuffing, scalloped corn, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, noodles, apple pie and pecan pie, oh yeah can't forget the rolls! Then we will stuff ourselves with all of that and soon the Christmas cookie baking will begin. Geeze, looks like I lost 5 pounds just to add on 10 more during the next month :)
Our Christmas decorations are up. Travis put up the outside lights yesterday and then while he was watching the Ohio State game I put up the tree. I finally have it the colors I want it too! No more blue and silver, it is now red and gold. Very pretty. I went and bought some suff yesterday and have to take some back cause I spent too much and I think it looks full enough for now, I can always add to it later if need be. I bought a new angel, red and gold ornaments, gold ribbon and a new tree skirt. I will post a picture eventually. I only put decorations in the living room this year. The stuff I have always put in my kitchen I don't really care to have up. I don't really like it, plus alot of it I bought and painted and if you know me, you know how uncrafty I am, so they are not very good. LOL My living room looks pretty, I want to get some new stockings but they will wait for now. The girls like the cartoon looking ones so I will let them have them for another year, eventually I will have pretty ones though.
I have all of my Christmas Cards written out. I still have to address them and get stamps but I figure I have at least a week since people may think I am crazy if I would have mailed them out already.
Now for the Christmas shopping. UGG is all I can say. It is not moving along like I would like it to. I tried to buy the things I wanted for my mother in law yesterday and they don't have them anymore so I don't have any idea what I am going to get her. I should have bought them months ago. My mom still hasn't given me a clue to what she wants, I have an idea for my dad and Travis' dad now! Yay me! And some people are getting candles that I ordered for them at my gold canyon candle party I had on Tuesday :) I have about 4 small things for each of my kids. The puppy is their BIG gift this year. I still have alot of shopping to do for them and still don't really have any ideas. I will probably wait till next week to go shopping. I *may* go out on black friday but it will have to be a GOOD deal for me to do it. I have to take both girls with me so it will take alot to get me out of the house. I will still be up on Thursday at the store to buy my newspaper so I can search all the ads. I am hoping that Target puts their Christmas decorations on sale so I can get an adjustment! lol
Our puppy is sick. I don't know what her deal is she was playing last night and then a few hours later she was throwing up. She hasn't done anything today but lay on the floor, she wont eat anything. We think it is cause she was outside yesterday tied to the tree while Travis put up Christmas lights and we assume (due to the wood in the vomit) that she ate some mulch from under the tree. I hope she gets better quickly and is ok. Poor thing. She still is a good dog and I like her till she poops and pees on the floor! I realize it takes time but my hands are raw from having to wash them so much cause of cleaning up after her. I hope there is nothing awful in that mulch that could really hurt her, we have only had her a week and I will be really mad if something should happen cause she cost a fortune, but also cause she is such a good puppy and we are enjoying having her in our family.

Oops We did it again...

We bought a dog today. We started talking about possibly getting one for the girls for Christmas and went to just check out some different breeds and look to find something that would be a good fit with our family. Well we walked right out of there with a 10 week old Lhasa Apso. She is about the cutest thing, and I am not an animal lover. She has been really good so far, pretty calm but still romping with the girls. Potty training may prove to be difficult but it will be with Kaylee too! I am nervous about her first night, when we got our last dog she got up alot, so I am not looking forward to it. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but hopefully she remains a good dog and was worth all the time and effort and cash that we will have given. We went through many names like Daisy and Angel but we decided that Cami suits her best. So now we have a Kenzie, Kaylee and Cami, how am I ever going to keep them all straight!

Can you say....

COLD! Oh my goodness it was so cold out today. Yesterday it was BEAUTIFUL, sunny and almost 80 degrees, today it was 43!!! BURRR
It was definitely one of those days where you want to curl up in your pjs and do nothing all day. No such luck for me though. I had to take Mykenzie to a Veteran's Day workshop for Girl Scouts. It was a long 2 hours but the girls had a pretty good time and they earned a Wave the Flag try-it for going. After getting hella lost trying to come home (for like 45 minutes for a 10 minute drive) in the middle of cow country no where (who knew I was so close to the middle of no where?) I finally got trapped on a dead end road behind someone else and I flagged him down and he told me where to go. Thank goodness he didn't think it would be funny to mess with me and tell me wrong cause I was running quite low on gas and I am out of minutes on my cell (prepaid phone). I then had to stand out in the cold for gas, and since the election is over the gas prices are going up, which made that even more enjoyable. Then Kenzie and I went to the grocery store. After that I got in my pjs and relaxed. I did some cleaning and relaxed again. Smelled some candle samples for my Gold Canyon Candle party that I am having Tuesday. I am so excited for it! I need some candles and guess what people are getting for Christmas this year ;-) They are so yummy! Now it is 10:00 and I am going to bed. Travis and Mykenzie want to go do something tomorrow, I prefer to be lazy. I am sure they will win in the end though. Kaylee is sick so I don't really want to mess with taking her out. I ran her into the doctor yesterday and she has what I expected, an ear infection and a cold. She gave her omnicef for her ears and a Rx for cough medicine with codeine which makes her sleepy (NICE!! :P ) She has been much better the past 2 days , so now I am feeling like a bad mommy and maybe she has been sick all along with these nasty temper tantrums she has be throwing. We shall see in due time if she is just full swing in the terrible two's or if the poor thing just hasn't been feeling well. Off to wake her and give her some cough meds, she is in there coughing like crazy in her sleep. Hope everyone is having a good weekend and staying warm!

Can you believe....

There are only 46 days till Christmas!!!! I hope everyone else is more prepared than I am. I only have 1 person done and that is my 10 month old niece, so really, how hard was that to begin with? I still have to buy for my mom (and stepdad), Travis' mom, my dad (and girlfriend), and Travis' dad (and stepmom), My niece Lily (which I think I may have found something online for her), my nephews Jaden and Neeko (Neeko will end up with money I'm sure) I have a few ideas for my dad and Travis' mom but other than that no clues!

My kids are posing to be my most difficult problem this year. They really don't NEED anything (well clothes, but they aren't any fun) and there are really no toys out there that they or I see as something they would really enjoy. I wouldn't think it should be so hard to buy for them. I see things I think they would like but it is a book or something else small. I usually get them a "big" gift but that may just not be the case this year. I have been online a lot searching but either the things are way too much money or I just don't see anything. I was thinking about getting Mykenzie an electronic globe, I think she would enjoy playing with it but they are $100!! I don't think she would like it $100 worth. I am really having a hard time this year, I had the same problem with their bdays too. The stuff I want to get them just would make for a boring Christmas morning and it is pricey so they wouldn't get a whole lot more. I want to get Kaylee a toy box but the cheapest one that I found and that I like is $100 +shipping, and I would like to get Mykenzie some kind of bin system to put toys in but once again they are like $100. I just hate to get them practical things when they are still little and just want some new toys! LOL I guess I better keep looking huh. Any suggestions out there from those of you with kids my girls ages, I will take them :)

Oh yeah, do you realize that Thanksgiving is only 14 days away!!! That is close. I at least have my menu planned, not that it was hard since we have the same stuff every year. LOL Travis may be inviting someone from his work that I have never met. I hope not but I will suck it up. We will probably be putting up our Christmas decorations next weekend already! I may have a panic attack now! We cant the weekend after because Travis has to work. Last year he hung the outside lights on Thanksgiving while I cooked maybe I can talk him into that again, plus I got out of helping do it ;-) We shall see, I still can't believe how fast time is going.

Where's My Daddy

Kaylee was playing with Travis this morning and Kenzie got a little jealous of the attention so she went over and climbed on him too. Well Kaylee didn't like it and pushed Mykenzie and said "No, its my daddy" and of course Mykenzie had to counter with "It's my daddy" so back and forth they went a few times before Kaylee got up and came running to me and here I am thinking well maybe she will give up and say "It's my mommy" BUT NO she has this horribly sad look on her face and with a pitiful voice said "Where's my daddy, mom? Where's my daddy?" It was so freaking funny I lost it. I sent her back over to her dad and she pushed Kenzie and said "get away from my daddy" It pretty much ended there, but oh my goodness to see the look in her eyes and her that pitiful voice wondering where her daddy was if that wasn't him. Too funny.

Cleaning Frenzy!

Tuesday I went through my room, cleaned it, dusted rearranged pictures and cleaned my bathroom. Unfortunately these 2 rooms hardly ever get cleaned cause I can close the door and no one sees them but us. I must say it feels good to walk into a clean bedroom :) I also cleaned my kitchen and both of the other bathrooms in the house.
Yesterday I spent 2 hours in my closet! Sad but that is how long it took to clean and re-organize it. Oh my goodness it is just beautiful now! I'd take a picture but since I don't have a before you can't truly appreciate all of my hard work. I also cleaned out my disaster of a coat closet. I don't have a clue how it gets so messy and unorganized so quickly, well yes I do and their names are Mykenzie and Kaylee. I have shelves with all of our movies in there that never get put back in a nice way, always just thrown and Mykenzie has a 3 drawer cart that houses her coloring books, craft stuff and play doh that she can NEVER keep cleaned up. So I went through all of it and what a difference!!! I got it so my vacuum actually fits and has its own little place! It is the little things that make me happy:) I also got half of my laundry room cleaned (all but the floor) and ALL of my laundry done (and put away). Sound like a productive day if you ask me.
Now for today... I stared by doing dishes like EVERY day. I ended up cleaning out Travis' drawers so stuff fit, on from there I walked into Mykenzie's room to put something away and I couldn't help but notice every little thing out of place. She just cleaned her room yesterday so to the untrained eye everything looked fine. Oh but not to me, I ended up with everything ripped out from under her bed and dumped out of her toy box. I put everything away properly and I feel better now. I then moved onto her dresser, I dumped every drawer and refolded and put away everything. Plus I got her summer pj's out of there so she quits trying to wear them, it is just too cold. All I have left to do in there is sweep. I went into Kaylee's room with no intention of doing anything except put some clothes that don't fit Kenzie into the totes in Kaylee's closet and let me tell you what that led to! I ended up dumping all 5 FULL rubbermaid totes out and reorganizing by size, stuff to sell, shoes,ect. Got them put back in there nice and cleaned up the rest of the closet where I found a blues clues car that I think my niece Lily would like but blue was not with it. I look out at the toy box, and think it has to be in there but I am not dealing with that today. Well I did. Her toy box was OVERFLOWING plus had a bag of toys beside it that were brought up from downstairs. I dumped the whole thing out and decided that it would only have stuffed toys in it from now on. It is a cute cloth house but the walls are made of card board and it is not sturdy and all the stuff crammed in it was making it look like trash. So I have a BIG bag of baby toys to get rid of now and some that are going in the trash. I have my pantry cabinet from my old house in her room that has always had baby blankets and packs of wipes and stuff like that, well now it is toys. I got all of her remaining toys that were in the toy box that I wasn't getting rid of to fit in there. I want to find something else eventually but for now it is working. I went through her kitchen and reorganized it too. So now I just have to sweep in there too. The carpets need scrubbed again. We just did it in the beginning of September but it needs done again. I guess it is good we own a scrubber! Now I am going to clean up my desk and fix the stupid slip covers, sweep upstairs and it will be beautiful up here. Then I have to do the downstairs. UGG There is no school tomorrow either so its a 3 day weekend. I am sure that I will be on here on Monday complaining about the disaster but for today I am enjoying my clean clean clean and ORGANIZED upstairs!!! It is only 11 am, imagine the possibilities to come!
Don't forget to watch Grey's Anatomy tonight it is a new one! WooHoo!

Happy Halloween