A day out, a day in

So yesterday I was just going to stay home and do some stuff around the house but I got a phone call asking me to go to Logans for lunch, I decline but she continued to sweet talk me and make me feel all loved so I went. It was really good and I had a great time hanging with the girls. We headed over to Kohls and on the way Jenna got great news. She is in complete remission!! Woo Hoo! I am so excited for her! She still has a ways to go but she is doing great and is on cloud nine right now! So I had a great time eating and shopping and I am glad I have friends who care about me enough to do whatever they can to get me to hang out with them. It really made me feel loved. So we had a pretty good day, the kids were pretty good for me yesterday too. Grey's Anatomy was a repeat though so that sucked. I cut my coupons and made my shopping list for today.
So today, I get up and it is pouring down rain. So my plans of going to The Childrens Place, Target, Kmart, Publix, BiLo, Kroger, Foodlion, and the post office, oh and to pay my water bill have instantly been made even more difficult. I decided not to go but then I thought what the heck, lets go do a few of the things at least. So we get ready and head out the door. 1st stop the post office, I had some stuff to send to Angie (my sil), I mailed my mom her pics of the girls I had done a month ago almost, the first ones I've sent out too btw. So I get there, Kaylee wants to walk so I put her down and what does she do, yep, run in the other direction. She refused to stand with me so I picked her up. To this she decided the best course of action would be to scream as loud as she could in my ear. She continued the whole time we were in there. So that pretty much shot my plans in the rear cause there was no way I was going to attempt doing all those other things with a screaming kid. So back home we came and into Kaylee's room she went. Now I am just going to relax and maybe do some cleaning up. When it is nasty outside though I just can't get into the cleaning mood so I am not going to hold my breath. Ahh, who am I kidding I am hardly ever in a cleaning mood! LOL Well I am going to find something to do while Kaylee is quiet and napping

Getting Fat :(

I realize that I could be a lot bigger than I am, and I know that many people are bigger than me. Many people get mad or think I am crazy when I say I am too big or have too much fat. I actually start to believe them and justify that I could be bigger than I am but the proof is in the pudding. I have been noticing my pants are pretty hard to button in the mornings now and I have gone back to my pants that I wore right after having Kaylee on some days when I am a little bloated. So today I step on the scale and sure enough I have added an extra 5 pounds. This puts me at 135!!!! I am way too short to be that heavy. To prove it look at this

BMI Categories:

Underweight = <18.5
Normal Weight = 18.5-24.9
Overweight = 25-29.9
Obesity = 30 +

I, my friends, am at 24.7. Now this is technically still in the "normal range" but I am only .3 away from being considered overweight. This is a problem. I guess it is time to stop talking about it and make something happen. I have got to get on it. Of course this is all going down right before the holidays when it is hard to try and not gain weight, let alone lose it. UGG. It is going to be a difficult road for me, cause I love my food and my sweets. First thing I plan on doing is cutting out the soda. I have to. It is absolutley my downfall. I don't drink any water, so if I replace soda with milk and water, cut my portion size, and cut out most of the sweets I should be able to do it. I am also going to have to add in some excercise. This will be hardest after the no soda thing. I am not one to enjoy excercise so this could be tricky. The things I like to do are walking and bike riding and it is so freaking cold that I don't see those happening. I will come up with something though, I have to. Now is the time, I am not getting any younger. Do you want to check out you BMI score too? You can at www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi Wish me Luck :)

Our weekend

So my plan was to do absolutely nothing this weekend. I wanted to just totally veg and not hardly move! LOL Hey I can dream right. It ended up that I decided on Saturday to go out and clean my car. It was disgusting! I got it all cleaned out and armoralled up and it looks sooo nice! I was going to scrub the carpets and seats too and I had it all ready to go but then we got the phone call (from the post below) so I had to get my house picked up. During that phone call though, Travis asked me if I wanted to go out with Candy (below) just us to get away. Well hell yeah I want to go out. LOL So after I made lunch and picked up the house I got ready to out to dinner with Candy. They didn't get to our house until 7:30 and we ran out the door, and decided that we would go to Carrabbas. We had about a half hour wait so we got seated about 8:20. We pretty much knew what we wanted (Alcohol) so we ordered our drinks and she says Martell (her husband) really likes calamari and that it is pretty good. I am a little nervous since I know what it is but I will try it so we order it. I was expecting the legs deep fried on a plate. NOOOO that is not what we got! We got whole baby octopus, heads and legs attached together and fried. Well there was no way in hell either of us was eating that. So that was a big fat waste of $7. We order our food and it is ok but I hardly touched it. My drink was yummy though! So I basically paid $32 for a strawberry dacquari. I doubt I will go back to Carrabbas ever. It was nice being out and away from the kids though (even though she talked on her cell most of the time). Afterwards we decided we were not ready to go home so we drove by the movie theater to see what was playing and nothing really sounded that good, especially since it was already 9:30. A few things I want to see, but they are like war movies and I just wasn't in the mood. So we went over to Kohls and they were having a huge sale that made them stay open till 11! So we shopped. I bought Kaylee a sweater and 6 shirts and I got Mykenzie a sweater and 3 shirts and myself 2 candles for like $85. So I am getting there as far as getting the girls clothes for fall/winter. I love the way the candles smell but I tell ya they definitely don't fill my house with scent like my gold canyon candles do. I guess I am spoiled. I just couldn't wait any longer to get a pumpkin candle. I now know that cheap is not the way to go on candles.
Sunday, I got the sudden urge to paint Kaylee's room, so that is what we did. We had a can of purple paint already from our old house. It is not the color I wanted, it is too dark, I wanted more of a lavender. I tried to mix some white paint with it to lighten it but it didn't work at all. It looks nice though, just not excatly what I wanted. I am just glad it isn't cream anymore. Now all of the rooms in my house have COLOR!! Well the girls bathroom is still cream, but it is going to stay that way. Kaylee likes her new purple room. Now I need to get some new decorations for the walls. I put the stuff I already have back up but I am wanting new things. I have a few but I don't want to hang them till I get some more. That is far back on my list of things to buy right now though so it will have to wait. After we got that done we relaxed and played and then ate and Travis helped Kenzie with her homework and he lit a fire in the fireplace cause it was so cold. Now he is all pumped up about using the fireplace again, since we couldn't last year cause of Kaylee. Last night she was in bed when he did it so I still don't know how she will be with it. Should be ok though, she stays away from the oven when I am cooking. We shall see. We had a pretty good weekend, got to relax and accomplish somethings too :)

Some People!!

Tell me if I am the only person who thinks this is completely rude. So we get a phone call asking what we are doing, followed by can I come over and hang and watch football on the big screen. That in itself is kinda rude but it is not the first time they invited themselves over, many times it has been for dinner too. Anyhow, so Travis says yes and then calls back a little later cause he was hungry and wanted to see what the plan for dinner was. So he says he will stop at KFC and pick up some chicken. He does and he racks up a $37 bill at KFC to feed 2 adults and 4 kids (one of which was Kaylee who hardly eats) So Travis gives him $20, and then when they left he took all the leftovers home!!!!! There was a TON of chicken left and he took all of it. What he did leave was half of a thing of mashed potatoes and half a thing of coleslaw!!!! First of all, we didn't tell him to buy all that food, second Travis paid MORE for it!!! I am still pissed off about it and it happened on Saturday! Is it wrong to be so mad? I wanted the left overs for lunch on Sunday. I was ready to call him up and drive to his house and get some. Travis wouldn't give me his phone number though. I totally feel like they owe us for this and I am officially done with them. I said it before but this threw me over the edge in what selfish people they continue to be. They are just plain rude. There have been other things in the past too, so I am not throwing away a friendship over chicken. LOL We helped them move 2 weeks ago, not only move but UNPACK and we hardly got a thank you. I am not going to be the people who always give when they just take advantage and walk all over us. Did I mention that Travis is his boss, and that if it wasn't for him, he would still be in SC making alot less money and living in their tiny apartment! GRRRRR! OK my vent is over. Now I will go post about our weekend :)

Thank Goodness!

The girls Halloween costumes are here!!! I ordered them from disneyshopping.com on Tuesday and it said 7-10 business days. I was so worried I wouldn't get them on time since 10 business days from Tuesday would have been Halloween. Talk about cutting it close. But they came today!!! Mykenzie is going to be Mulan, and it is such a pretty costume, I am really glad she decided to be that. Kaylee is going to be Jo Jo from Jo Jo's circus, It is sooooo cute and looks adorable on her. Of course she SCREAMED when I put the hat on but she has to wear it cause it just isn't as cute with out it. I think when she starts getting candy she will wear it! lol Well at least I hope so.
Here is the link to Kaylee's http://disneyshopping.go.com/DSSectionPage.process?Merchant_Id=2&Section_Id=13811&Product_Id=187622
And here is the link to Mykenzie's (hers is a little different and has flowers instead of fans, I'm glad cause hers is cuter) http://disneyshopping.go.com/DSSectionPage.process?Merchant_Id=2&Section_Id=13811&Product_Id=187598

Attitude

What is it with my 6 year old having such a bitchy attitude. I realize who she gets it from, but my mom is bitchy and I am not so sure that I had the attitude at 6!!!!!!! She is driving me insane with her back talk. I told her to get her coat on today as we were leaving the house and she said "I told you" I was like "what" she said, "I was talking to dad, I told him that I would have to wear a coat, that's what" with a totally bitchy, who do you think you are asking me what attitude. That is just one example, I am sure there are worse ones. Between the attitude from her and the tantrums from Kaylee, it may be the death of me! Geeze! They look all cute and sweet and innocent don't they! LOL Most of the time they are great and really are sweet, they play nice together a lot of the time, but when they are bad they are horrible!
Last night I was trying to get Mykenzie to do her take home reader and she is reading it, needed help with some words like "night" and really having to work at sounding stuff out but was reading words like, summer and camping. She gets to the word "also" and oh my goodness. It was like she completely forgot how to recognize letters!!! She started acting all whiny and rolling around on the couch telling me she couldn't do it and she didn't know what the sounds were. Then she proceeded to do it with almost every word from then on! We finally got through it (took about an hour to read a TINY book) and this morning I had her read it again in the car, and she did the WHOLE book with no problem. She sounded out the words she didn't recognize and that was that. GEEZE, why can't she just do that to begin with? I can't stand when she acts like she can't do something and just gives up. She is smarter than that. I think that gets me more than anything else that she does wrong. I suppose I just want her to always do her best and she doesn't particularly care. I made sure to go on and on about how great she did this morning and how proud I was so hopefully she will do better on her book for tonight!

Shopping with the girls

Kaylee and I hit Old Navy and the mall yesterday with Barbara, Chandra and Jenna (yes I said Jenna, she is home from the hospital for a few weeks!!!) I ended up finding Kaylee a much needed coat and Jacket. Luckily Mykenzie's coat still fits her from last year but Kaylee had nothing. I walked out of Old Navy with the coat and jacket for Kaylee, 2 long sleeve shirts for Mykenzie and a Halloween shirt for her, and 2 pairs of socks for Kaylee for a grand total of $43.30!! The coat I originally looked at for Kaylee cost more than that so I am pretty happy! I got it in a 4T though, so it is a bit big but not to the point that it looks ridiculous, and she will be able to wear it next year too, provided she doesn't destroy it between now and then. It was a great day out with friends, not that I didn't just see them the day before but I will take all the time hanging out that I can get!!! It sure beats the alternative of cleaning my house!!

And the light is off!

So I finally got my car in to have the check engine light looked at and it turns out I had a vacuum hose leak. I don't know, something about the air pushes the fluids to where they need to go and my air was leaking out. So for the diagnostic and to fix it cost me about $150. Not wonderful but hey the last time I went into a car place it cost me over $1000. The light is off and it is fixed. Hopefully we can stay out of car repair places for a while now. It has been like every 3 months, brakes, tires, now this so hoping we are done. Well after tomorrow anyhow. That wont cost me money though, it is just fixing the recall.
My garage door opener is installed. They got here an hour after the 2 hour window they gave me, but they were done in time for me to pick up Mykenzie. It is working again just in time cause the weather is NASTY. When I wished for fall this isn't exactly what I had in mind. It went from hot to cold. I thought it only did that in Ohio! I am missing my South Carolina weather right now. I will really be missing it when we are in the middle of winter. I got a bit spoiled there. I have been missing a lot about it lately. Funny cause when I lived there I was so focused on moving back to Ohio I didn't enjoy it like I should have. Now I have no desire to move back to Ohio so SC is looking pretty good, other than the car tax that is. I miss the friends I had there. Well one doesn't live there anymore but she is talking about moving back so that would only really give me one friend there and one about two hours away till she moved back then I would have 3, LOL. It is not the quantity it is the quality :) I am really happy here though, I love the friends that I have made. I guess that I am just sad about not keeping up with my friends there and in Ohio. I move too much! I have to keep leaving people behind, not fun. Ok, I was happy about things being fixed and now I am making myself sad and missing my friends. I guess I can call them and chat and that will make me feel better. Even though we are far away from each other we will always be friends.
Wow, see only my good friends can follow the way my mind works. I don't know how I got from a check engine light to missing friends. LOL good thing that they at least understand (well maybe not understand, but can follow) my minds madness! LOL You all know who you are, know that I am thinking about you and I love ya :)

What have we been up to you ask?

Not a whole heck of a lot. I went and worked at the school for an hour this morning. Basically it is one on one work, taking kids into the hall and doing extra work to help with reading. Then I was supposed to go back after school with both kids for the parent teacher conference but since I was there she went ahead and did it with me. Mykenzie is doing really well. She got an E in Math and the rest are S's. This is on a scale of S is satisfactory (right where they should be), G for good (slightly above) and E for excellent. She is now in the D level for reading, she ended Kindergarten at the end of the A level and now she is in D. They are supposed to be in I by the end of 1st grade. We shall see, though she is getting better.

We bought a garage door opener yesterday. We had one but it was struck by lightning. Our estimate to get it fixed (over the phone without them looking at it) was $175 so we opted to just buy a new one. We cleaned the garage all out on Saturday and made it somehow so that both of us can park in there and still have all of our crap. I am still scratching my head trying to figure out how we did that but it is done, they both fit. So because we only had one remote, that played into the decision to buy a new one too. They were supposed to be here by now to install it though and guess what, they aren't . I was shocked that they called and planned to do it today to begin with. Hopefully they get here and it doesn't take long cause I have to pick Mykenzie up in 2 hours. Hmm, that will be interesting.

This week is going to be busy, but not with anything fun. That just seems wrong. Tomorrow I have to get my oil changed and my diagnostic run (I tried on Friday but they only take appointments!!!) And on Wednesday I have to go to the dealership to get my recall taken care of. I will be in need of a playdate after two days of car crap! Let's just HOPE that the diagnostic doesn't come up with anything major. Travis said if we have to dump any more money into it, I have to keep it till it is paid off (2 years) if not I can trade it in for my van in the spring!! That would make me VERY happy, though I must say I am starting to feel pretty old now that the van is within my reach. I don't want to be old, but alas that is who I am, an old lady with 2 kids, who's life is to be at their beck and call, it will only get worse hauling friends and such as they get older so I will jump on board now. My main reason for wanting it is so when we have people visit we can drive in one car. I HATE having to take separate cars. Plus it will be nice for road trips :) When I went to my mom's house she had a table for me, that I really want and I couldn't fit it in my car. Who knows when I will get it cause it is way to heavy to mail. I guess I will hold my breath for when she comes to visit me. Wait if I do that I will be dead. LOL Hope everyone else has a more exciting week than I will!

BURRRRRR

It is COLD here today!!! Right now it is 49 degrees. I didn't know it was that cold a minute ago, I just checked. HOLY CRAP! Here I am like an ass running around in a 3/4 sleeve shirt and no coat, no freaking wonder I was so damn cold! Of course I kept putting off grocery shopping for the past 2 weeks so I had to go out today, I ended up at Target and Toys R Us and then I drove out to Publix. So I didn't really grocery shop which means I will be back out again tomorrow to BiLo, Kroger and Food Lion. I also have the pleasure of getting my oil changed tomorrow. I hate doing that kind of stuff. I have to talk to Travis about having then run a diagnostic for the check engine light too (no I still haven't gotten it looked at) and next week I have to go get the steering recall taken care of. This is the second time something in the steering column was recalled. Lovely, huh. I am going to go put on a SWEATER and get out Kaylee's WINTER coat and go back out in the cold to get Mykenzie. Then I will definitely be calling to get my garage door opener fixed so that I can park out of the cold in my garage. Aaah that will be nice. Geeze, it is going to be a LONG winter if I am already freezing. I suppose that I will apologize ahead of time for all of the complaining I am going to be doing about it. Sorry. I hate being cold. What the heck happened to the weather in the 70's for fall???? Today is Thursday though, so I will be tucking my kids in bed, sitting in my sweats under a blanket, curled up with a cup of coffee and watching Grey's. That will end my very cold day well :) Hope everyone out there is staying warm!

Finally, the Link

It took me awhile to get these all uploaded. This is the link to the girls trip to Portrait Innovations. I ordered the first 9 poses!!! Yikes, I know. They have all been cropped and what not for the actual pictures that I have here. The one of Mykenzie looking over her shoulder is just her face and part of her back and arm and it is in black and white and is super cute. Now she just got her fall school proofs back. Last year they were AWFUL but this year they turned out pretty cute so I will be ordering a few of those too. I am a bit addicted to pictures I think :) I wonder if there is a 12 step program I can join? Here is the link: share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AcuWTNo2bNGhQ

Girl Scout Camp

Mykenzie got to have her first camping experience. Well if you call sleeping in a heated cabin, with showers, and a microwave a camping experience. LOL She LOVED it. Mommy had fun too but not as much as she did. The girls all behaved alot better than I expected. We took a night time hike to the lake, made pizzas for dinner (set off the smoke alarm twice), attempted a fire for smores (lets just say they got to roast marshmellows but that was it) got the girls to bed. In the morning we got up got packed, made muffins for breakfast, played games outside, cleaned the cabin then we headed back home. I managed to come home with a HORRIBLE migrain. I couldnt think straight, I am assuming that the lack of food and sleep had something to do with that, I am glad it waited till I got home though. I woke up today feeling fine, just sleepy. Apparently Travis lived through his 24 hours alone with Kaylee. He even washed the dishes and the living room was picked up. He said she asked for us but was fine. He couldn't figure out what she wanted to eat though so he gave up and took her to McDonalds. She was happy to see us but she had a good time with her daddy. For more pics try this link: share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AcuWTNo2bNGhB

Hit the Road Jack

We FINALLY sold the Grand Am!!!! If you know me, you know we have been dealing with Grand Am crap for a year now! We transferred the loan last October so we could get the title to sell it, 6 months later no title. A LOT of calling and yelling later we finally had it in May and put the car up on AutoTrader.com for sale. Ended up putting it in 2 papers too and after 4 months we only had 4 people call and 1 person test drive the thing. It is a nice car. We just don't need it. I would have driven it instead of the Jeep but it only has 2 doors. Anyhow, the people who test drove it a month ago showed up at our door (which I thought was a bit rude, btw) on Saturday morning, test drove it again and handed over the cash!!! Yeah baby!!! I am sooo excited that it is GONE!! Of course our garage door opener got blown in the same storm that took out our 2 tv's, cable box and modem, so I wont be parking in there till it is fixed but, the savings we will be having every month from no car payment and no insurance on it will pay to fix that in no time :)

What cuties

Here are a couple of pictures from Portrait Innovations, I will add a link later with more :)

Our week so far...

We have actually had a pretty good week. It is time for Fall Break here, so Mykenzie is home from school all week. On Sunday we went to Candy and Martel's to help them unpack some stuff in their new house. The girls got to play with their girls so that makes them all very happy.
On Monday we headed out to the zoo with Chandra and Ryan and Jenna's girls, the kids were all very well behaved and had a really good time, and they were very excited that they got to ride the merry go round! Afterwards we took them all out for ice cream. Kaylee managed to turn herself into an ice cream cone. She was such a mess, but she definitely enjoyed her ice cream!! After that it was home to change Kaylee and throw Kenzie in the shower and then I took her to get her hair cut. I told her to cut it chin length, well it is a bit shorter than that, it doesn't look bad, just not what I wanted. She is happy with it though.
Tuesday we had an early appointment for the girls to get their pictures at Portrait Innovations. We got there with some time to spare, which surprised me. We started at 9am and didn't walk out of there until almost 11. Kaylee wasn't very cooperative, but I was just really happy that she didn't scream everytime they talked to her as she typically does with strangers. I bought WAY to many pictures so watch out I will be sending them out. I ended up with 3 poses of them together and then 3 of each of them separate. Which is about 4 poses more than I planned on getting, it is just too hard to decide sometimes. They turned out pretty good. Afterwards we met Chandra, Ryan and Jenna's girls at McDonalds and we ate lunch and let the kids play for a while. We went over to the mall to check out the costume prices at the Disney store (way cheaper online btw) and we walked around for a little bit and headed home. Now I have to cut and sort all the pictures to see who gets what! On the way home I got a call from one very happy Jenna telling me that her bone marrow test results were back and it was CLEAR! That is such wonderful news, and definitely got a little car dancing from Mykenzie, Kaylee and I!
Today was Chandra's birthday so I went to Kroger and picked up a cake for her from our playgroup. We had a playdate at Heathers and sang happy birthday. The kids were thrilled they were getting cake! We stayed there and enjoyed our friends company for a few hours and then headed home where Chandra, Ryan and Jenna's girls joined us. They ran around and played for a bit and hopefully got themselves so worn out that we will all get a break when they fall asleep early tonight! Now my girls are watching Curious George (they love it) and I am messing around online with email and such. So it has been a busy and fun filled week so far. We are going to a movie tomorrow and Friday is still a question but I am sure we will do something fun. I get to have some mommy time at Bunco Friday night and then on Saturday Mykenzie and I are off to Girl Scout Camp. Wish Travis luck, it will be the longest he has ever had Kaylee by himself, lets just say she is a mommy's girl and temper tantrum thrower! I hope she is good for him and he hasn't lost his mind by the time I get home! Hope everyone else is having a good week too :)
Oh and by the way Grey's Anatomy was sooo good on Thursday, so much better than the premier which was good too but this, oh so much better! I can't wait for this week! You can watch it free on abc.com if you missed it :)

Hi Pig, I Kaylee!

This is the start of the conversation Kaylee had with a pig at the pumpkin patch on Tuesday! She is too funny! The beginning of fall is finally here so to celebrate we went to the pumpkin patch with our playgroup. It was the first time I have been to that one, last year we went to the middle of no where and got lost for 2 hours, this one was a nice half hour drive away. It was much more fun so I am glad I finally made it out there. They have a ton of stuff for the kids to do and it is all free, which is fun for me :) Mykenzie loved it, I guess it could have been because she got to see her friends that she hasn't got to see since school started. I know she loved playing with them. Kaylee loved the animals the most. They both fed them, a 1st for Kaylee. We have fed animals but she just would drop it on the ground, this time she let the sheep eat out of her hand. We will definatley be going back to play. I already got our pumpkins too, I am not sure how smart it was to buy them already, I am hoping they can make it through Halloween but I have a feeling we will be buying more later (at walmart though) Here is a link to the pictures
share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AcuWTNo2bNGgn

How can I be mad when I am so happy?

I have had one crappy morning, well weekend. A lightning storm blew out our TV, cable box and modem on Saturday. The modem is fixed now, and the cable works, just don't have the features of the box for now. We had to go buy a new TV, Travis finally got his big screen plasma he has been dying for! Today we had a ton of freaking issues with the bank saying we didn't make our loan payment, but we did and I have the copy of the cashed check to prove it. Just sucks I have to deal with it, not to mention the fact that they called Travis at work and left a message with his secretary, so it will be all over the district I'm sure, which really sucks cause it isn't even true! They cashed the damn thing a week before it was due and it was mailed almost 2 weeks before it was due! I hate people sometimes! So all of that made me mad, but with the bad comes the good. I got to see Jenna today. Not visit her in the hospital unfortunately but she sent me a video email and I chatted with her on messenger and I got to see her video feed that way too. It was great to see her! She looks better than I do and she is in the hospital! Her blasts are now at 0!!! Which is wonderful news! Today is her last day of chemo for a week, so now she has to do another bone marrow draw and wait. Keep praying for her guys. She is missing her kids so much, we sent her some pictures of them and she got them today and has them hanging up in her room. She looked so happy that she had them. I am glad that I could do something to bring a smile to her face. I miss her, I hate that she has to go through this. Next week when the kids are all out of school will be really weird cause we would usually do something several times to get the kids out of the house. Christmas break will be coming up fast though and she will be home and in remission by then so we will have a lot of playdate catch up to play :) Looking forward to things that we took for granted to be back to normal! Here's to remission as quickly as possible so she can get out of the hospital and home to her babies! I am more convinced now than ever that she is going to beat this crap and be home soon! We Love you Jenna! Can't wait to have you home where you belong!

How to Save a Life - The Fray

SOOOO GOOD!

Tonight is the night

Check out this video, if your not a fan already you will be!

Tonight is the night!

I am a total Grey's Anatomy freak and tonight it is the season premier! I am so excited that the day is finally here!!! Who will Meridith choose? Will Izzy be back? Will Burke ever operate again? Whew! I am on pins and needles!! I LOVED Denny though, I miss him already. I am sad they killed him off. Travis thinks I am a lunatic. I can't help it, when a show is good it is good! I am not the only Grey's nut out there :) Click here and get your tissues ready...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6BmR6AwWLs

Disney on Ice

We went to see Princess Wishes (Disney on Ice) on Saturday. I took Mykenzie and we had a nice little girls day. It was a wonderful distraction for me with everything going on, just sit back and feel like a kid again for a couple of hours. It was such a good show! Wonderful performances, excellent skating, I wasn't expecting the skating like that, they were very good. The other DOI think I have seen is Finding Nemo, so they were in big costumes and not doing big tricks and pair skating. This was wonderful. The guy who played Aladdin, looked JUST like him! Oh my goodness, it was a little freaky how much he looked like the cartoon version, almost like they drew him to look like this guy! I was regretting leaving Kaylee at home because she would have enjoyed it too. That changed though when Prince Philip had to fight the large mechanical fire breathing dragon! She would have freaked. A little girl behind us was scared to death! It was way cool though! Then a guy that was playing thorns, that Prince Philip (from Sleeping Beauty) had to fight through crashed in front of us! Philip hit him with his shield and this guy lost his balance and slammed into the foot high wall about 2 feet in front of us. Thank God it was built strong cause he would have been in our laps. Of course the dads that were behind us were dying laughing at the poor guy! I felt so bad for him. I figure that people who weren't right there would probably think it supposed to happen. Those of us who heard the crash knew better though. Of course we get home and that is the only detail that Mykenzie can remember to tell her dad, someone crashed right in front of us! LOL

If you have a little girl and this comes to your area, I would definitely recommend going. It is a little pricey but we had a great time! This critic gives this show two thumbs way up!!
Here is the link to see the rest of our pictures from the show :) share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AcuWTNo2bNGgF

Fridays suck

It was last friday that Jenna first went into the hospital and this nightmare began. Now here it is Friday again and she got more awful news. It is indeed leukemia.
I hate this. I hate that she has to go through this. It seems so unfair to her, to her kids, to Mark, to her mom and the rest of her family. I orignally was only thinking of her,the kids and Mark untill I saw her mom with her in the hospital. I will never forget the image of them embracing for the first time since she got the news of what was more than likely to be (it was confirmed today). It broke my heart. It must be so hard for her to watch her child have to go through dealing with cancer a second time. I just can't imagine how hard it was on her when Jenna was young and had it and beat it just to have to see her baby in a hospital bed again 20 years later. Unimaginable. Just strange that I hadn't really given that a thought until then. You think about Jenna and her own kids but you forget for a while that she is someones kid too. Prayers for her family that they are strong for her to help her get through this, Prayers for her kids that they can come to some understanding to why they can't see mommy for so long, Prayers for Mark that he is able to find the strength to juggle everything from work, to the kids, the house, to Jenna and his own emotions. And of course the most prayers going to Jenna, that she will stay positive and kick this leukemia's ass. She will beat it. I am sure of it. She has been through this before and now she has 4 BIG motivators. I just hate that she has to go down such a rough road.
This probably makes no sence. I am just thinking outloud. My heart is broken. I hate that this is happening. I wish there was something I could do. She knows that if she needs me for anything I will be there, I suppose that and prayers are all any of us can really do. Pray for her. Have I mentioned that I hate this? Love ya Jenna!!

Chicks in the HIZZ-ouse!

Or so that is what Mykenzie told me in the car today after school. I swear they pick up the funniest things. I don't know where she learned it but I was dying laughing. When I explained to her what it meant, she wasn't so sure that she should say it. I am thinking it wouldn't look too good if that was something she said. I guess if she were older and going to a party with her girl friends and she said it as she entered the door it would at least make sence. Let's just say she may be a handful when she hits those teenage years! Lord help me!

An update on Kaylee's sleeping situation. The past 2 nights have been WONDERFUL!!! I let her stay up a little later, so after Mykenzie is already in bed. I tell her she has to be quite cause sissy is sleeping and then I say no crying and she repeats me. Then I tuck her in and give her a kiss and hug and tell her "I'll see you in the morning" which she has always loved and loves to say it back, and I remind her no crying and she hasn't!!! For 2 nights that worked!! I am hoping we are done with the fit throwing now. Mind you that didn't work for her nap, but I will take what I can get for now.

Keep Jenna in your prayers, we get the final test results tomorrow afternoon. Pray Pray Pray for her.

Sleep deprived

So last night was Kaylee's first night in her toddler bed. Lets just say, it did not go well. She was up every freaking hour. She would cry, I would go in till she fell back asleep, I would go back to my bed fall asleep and she was crying again. It was an absolute nightmare. So on top of the fact that I had been up since 4am I got next to no sleep last night. I dont know how she is not dragging after the past 2 nights we've had but she isn't. I just put her down for a nap and literally had to lock her in her room and let her scream so she would get some sleep. It has been an hour since she fell asleep and guess what she just freaking woke up! This sucks really badly. I had no problems with Mykenzie crawing out of her crib or staying in her bed when we switched her. I certainly did not have the complete opposition to sleep! She starts screaming as we start walking up the steps to go to bed. I have no clue what I am supposed to do. Anyone have any advice for me. Lord knows I could use it cause I am flipping tired!!!! She wont even sleep in bed with us, I am going to go insane. Now the weekend is over so I cant just sit in my pjs all day like I have today becuase I have stuff to do. How do people function with no sleep? She is quite again, I am going to go jump in the shower before she escapes. Seriously, advice is definatley welcome here!

Making the change

Going from a crib to a toddler bed. Definitely not my choice, if I had my way Kaylee would be in a crib until after Christmas at least. Well the problem is that she will not stay in her crib. She started last night by climbing out when Travis put her to bed. He got her to lay down and go to sleep but she woke up at about 4 am screaming and I went in and she was climbing out. I calmed her down and changed her diaper and brought her in bed with us. Well she kept tossing and turning and wouldn't go back to sleep so I put her back in her crib, she climbed out and stood at her door screaming on the top of her lungs. So we were pretty much up today since 4 am. She did go back to sleep for about 45 minutes so I got to sleep then too. She would also not stay in her crib for a nap today and she opened the door and came right on out of her room screaming. So we set up the toddler bed. I let her stay up till 8:30 thinking surely she would be tired since she was up at 4 this morning and then only took a 2 hour nap, but NOOOO, she screamed and cried, "I wanna play" over and over. I read her a book 5 times, I tried to get her to let me lay with her, FINALLY she decided she would stay in bed if I laid with her. So after about 5 minutes of me laying down with her she was out. Now lets just see if it lasts all night. I am REALLY dreading nap time tomorrow. About the time I put Mykenzie in her toddler bed was also about the time she gave up naps, Kaylee NEEDS a nap. Wish me luck with that. I suppose I should just hope she sleeps all night, needless to say that I have been up since 4am I am awfully tired.

I have to pat Travis on the back though and say he did make me breakfast this morning, and he made the girls lunch while I was visiting a friend in the hospital, and he made them dinner. And to top it off he put Kaylee's bed together and read Mykenzie a story all during the Ohio State, Texas game that he has been dying to watch.

On a side note, alot of you reading this don't know my friends here, but Jenna is in the hospital and they are unsure of what is wrong with her. Her white blood cell count is pretty low along with some other things. They are saying it could be viral or it could be leukemia (her smear came back abnormal). If you could all say a prayer for her or send some good thoughts out I am sure she would appreciate it. She is a good friend and we need her healthy again :)

Toys and Clothes for sale!

I decided to make a for sale blogger for family and friends to check out before I start listing stuff on Ebay. Right now I have newborn all the way to 12-18months girls clothes listed. Also alot of toys that are pretty much in new condition. Check out the site if you are interested. Still to come Girls 18-24 month clothes, lots of them...
The site is http://wedontfit.blogspot.com

Clean, Clean, Clean

I have gotten so much done the past 2 days! Kaylee took a long nap yesterday so I got a bunch of stuff done, I have been working on laundry today and when she naps I will clean our bedroom and bathroom. But so far I have cleaned the living room, dusted all downstairs and the loft, swept and moped downstairs floors, cleaned loft, scrubbed downstairs bathroom, cleaned the kitchen, did 2 loads of dishes (1 yesterday, 1 today), cut and filed coupons, printed online coupons, picked up Mykenzie's room, cleaned Kaylee's room, read a scrapbook magazine, organized all of my pictures and got my different scrapbook stuff organized as best I can with shoe boxes( I need to buy some stuff to help out with that), Looked online for organization things for scrapbooking, took the girls outside to play, talked to Rachel on the phone to get caught up, Talked to my SIL on the phone, watched a movie (Just My Luck, I don't recommend it) last night, and today I watched Beauty and the Beast with Kaylee (she wasn't too interested though) Plus my normal daily things got done too. I am so excited now I will be very happy to get out of the house tomorrow when I have a playdate at the zoo :) I still have a bunch of stuff I want to get done today so I am off to finish up. Travis comes home tonight, wont he be surprised to see a clean house :) Sad I know it should always be clean, it isn't though! lol It is amazing what you can get done when you force yourself to do it. I just get sick of the same thing every day, I need a break.

Today's project

Here is what I did today. I have been wanting to do this in Kaylee's room since before she was born. I bought them while we were in Virginia and today finally got around to painting them. I still need to attach ribbon to hang them up, I may sit them on a shelf in her room too. I will have to try it out. I am excited that they are done and not awful looking. Well the "A" was awful looking but I painting over it and added the spots instead :) Travis thinks it is too many stripes but I didn't have a clue what else to put on them. I would have been really screwed if I would have tried to do Mykenzie's name, that is way too many letters :)

There is no fooling Mykenzie

Mykenzie and Travis were talking last night at the dinner table and Mykenzie got herself caught in a lie. Travis then started talking about what happens when you lie, the conversation went like this...
"Have you ever seen the movie Pinnochio? Remember how he told a lie and his nose grew and grew. That is what is going to happen to you."
Mykenzie replied, "THAT'S A LIE! Your nose doesn't grow if you lie, that is just a movie" I know dad. "
"Yes it does, I can see your nose starting to grow already."
"That's because I am growing and getting bigger, dad. Look at how much your nose grew."

To which I about fell on the floor laughing! It is so funny how smart she is now. We used to be able to pull things over on her and she lets nothing get by her these days :)

Mauney no more :(

Another sign that my baby is growing up too fast. I have been called Mauney for a while now and it was so cute, well today Kaylee learned how to say Mommy correctly. She said "mom ers my drink" I said I'm not mom I am mommy, well that is all it took and now she knows how to say mommy. I have told her mommy before but I guess today something clicked in that little head of hers and she got it right. Then on Saturday we were at the mall and she said, "I anna go Chuckie Cheese" yep, Chuckie Cheese, not Chupie Cheese :( She is getting too big. Good news though Chocolate is still Chupit :) I am not ready for her to turn into a little girl, can I make her stay this age forever?!?!? She is such a sweetie, rotten and busy but still the sweetest thing ever and a mommy's girl all the way.

I'm a girl scout

I took Mykenzie to register for brownie scouts last night, no more Daisy's. We found out that she will be able to do a lot of fun stuff this year like camping, being in the Christmas parade and of course selling Girl Scout cookies. I am really looking forward to the cookies :) She will be doing overnight camp this year, which I am excited for and nervous about at the same time. Well there is no way that Travis will let her do overnight camp without one of us there, he isn't going to go obviously, so I will be the one. Well in order to do that you have to become an Adult Girl Scout, so here I am! lol Mykenzie thinks it is quite funny that I am a girl scout too. I am glad there is no ugly uniform for me! hehehe I am so excited to find out that our dues for the year are only $15!! In Daisy's we had to pay $5 a meeting because they aren't allowed to do fund raising. I am thrilled about that, plus the camping and everything they do will not cost us a penny, woo hoo! Of course I have to buy the freaking uniform, which includes a vest, pants, short sleeve shirt, tie, skirt, and long sleeve shirt! And lets not forget about the troop numbers and pins and handbooks. We are talking over $100 for all of it but if you think about it, it really isn't too bad with all she will be doing.
We were thinking of signing her up for Cheerleading too. Registration for that is the 5th. Haven't decided for sure yet. It is $45 for registration and pom poms and then $8.50 a week. I am sure a uniform will be coming after that too. I can't imagine they wouldn't do a uniform. We will see. I have a ton of stuff going on that week for school and stuff. She says she wants to do it but I am sure she would say that about anything I asked her. Given the choice between that and girl scouts though, she chose scouts.

It is booked!!!

We're Going to Disney World!!!

I am so excited! I got online yesterday just to check out different hotels and prices and stuff and we were trying to get everything figured out, to get the meal package, or not to, to get the cheaper hotel... ect. We weren't going to book it, just plan, but we got on Expedia to check it out with flights and stuff and to get it through them on our dates the hotels were sold out. I freaked out of course, which then brought Travis to say we should wait till summer, I say still crowded and super hot! I left to get Mykenzie from school and while I was gone he booked it!!! He loves us! :)

So we are going for 7 days, March 16th we will leave and March 23rd we will fly back home. We decided against the meal plan, for no other reasoning but we figure we probably wouldn't do a "nice" restaurant everyday like that included so we would save some money. I wanted to stay in the All Stars Movie hotel, really just cause it is cheaper and they have a GIANT Woody (from Toy Story) which I think Kaylee will LOVE, she loves Toy Story right now. Travis wants nothing to do with that hotel, he would rather stay some place nice, especially since we stayed in an upgraded on the last time we were there. He says the cheaper one is like a Super 8 motel. Oh well cause we are staying there :) We still have to book our flight but we have lots of time for that. We are hoping to rack up some more frequent flyer miles (Travis travels a lot for work) so that we can score a few free flights, especially since we found out we had to pay for a seat for Kaylee, I thought 2 and under could sit on your lap, I thought wrong!!!

Anyhow, it is booked and now I need to get some books and get to planning, also call and make our Character meals reservations :) Did I mention I am super excited?

Our weekend and other rambles

I am done with summer, well more like I am done with this HEAT!!! Oh my goodness. I have no idea what the actual temperature is outside but it is HOT! We were outside from 9:30am till 3:00pm with a short inside lunch break. Travis got most of the house pressure washed and I trimmed bushes and pulled weeds, ect. The girls had a great time playing in their little pool and on the swing set but even they were done being in the heat by 1:oo. A drop in temperature will be very welcome :) Remind me I said that when it is freezing outside.

Yesterday we all ventured out to Jo Ann Fabrics. They had scrapbook paper on sale so I picked some of that up. I am thinking I am going to start doing it again. I talked to Travis about it and we are going to set up a table in our bedroom for me to work on it. That has been one big thing keeping me from doing it. I could only do it at the dining room table which Kaylee can get to very easily and I would have to clean it up everyday so it didn't look awful. I probably wont actually start until after Christmas. I need to buy the table and there are a few inexpensive tools I want to get too before I start. I need to worry about buying other things right now though before I start that. We also went on a great shoe search, who knew it would be so hard to find a pair of tennis shoes for Mykenzie! We finally ended up at Shoe Carnival and Mykenzie walked out with 2 pairs of shoes, yes one was tennis shoes. Kaylee and Travis both got a pair too. We ended our outing with a trip to Applebees, it was sooo good. It could have been because we were starving but we walked out stuffed and happy :)

Now I am done with the weekend. Technically it is only 4:15pm but I have done all I am going to do. I am relaxing the rest of the day... well I have to make dinner and get the kids baths and stuff ready for school but other than that I am done ;-)

We have decided that rather than next October being our date for going to Disney World, that we are going to go for Spring Break. I know it will be much more crowded but Fast Pass is wonderful for that :) I just don't want to plan it and have it ruined by a stupid hurricane. So our date will be March 16th that we will be flying out. It is not booked yet but it will be soon. I can't wait to go back. Kaylee will be about 7 months younger than Mykenzie was when we took her. I am a little nervous she wont like it as much as Mykenzie did but I am gonna pump her with Disney everything from now till then. Maybe that will work. Mykenzie is very excited and I am sure Travis is too because she will be able to ride some of the bigger rides this time. We will have to take turns with that cause I want to ride too :) As long as we have good weather we will have fun. Now to figure out what hotel we will stay at....

I feel better now

I just got home from the room meeting at school. I feel so much better about the whole situation now. It turns out that all 3 teachers are teaching reading. Two teach math while the 3rd teaches Social Studies or science. And they are hiring a new 1st grade teacher too so the class size is going to drop a lot! I want her to stay with her current teacher so I am really hoping that I can make that request. I will be calling in the morning to make sure. She said that it should be the kids who were last to register that will be the ones who get put in the new class. I hope that is correct in case they don't let me request. We have already been through enough changes and it is only the 10th day of school, we certainly do not need a new teacher now. I will be very angry if that happens! They don't even have anyone hired yet though so hopefully they get someone fast! I am so glad that it made me feel better about the situation, and I am also glad that I have talked to some of the parents from her class last year and they were just as upset, if not more so than I was about it. There was a lot of letters to the principal, which is probably why something was done. It makes me feel better that I am not too much of an overprotective parent, just want what's best. I also signed up for a butt load of stuff that I have to go pick up now but I have a while for some of it. I will also be helping out in the class on Mondays again like I did last year. Travis will probably be mad, he'll get over it though

Look out Ebay here I come....

I took a box of stuff to Once Upon a Child today, all fall and winter clothes, none with stains ect. Well usually my problem is they don't want it, today my problem was they were only going to give me $9!!! I am talking I had at least 6 pairs of Old Navy jeans, 2 pairs of Old Navy Khaki's, and a couple of other pairs of Old Navy pants. Plus a ton of shirts. My estimate for what I would take bare minimum came to $39, and they offered $9. I am now joining the consensus that Once Upon a Child sucks! Now I have to sit and list crap on ebay.... It is such a pain in the butt but I really want to get it out of my house and I really need money for it. Christmas is coming fast, not to mention the fact that both girls need fall clothes. I am so mad I wasted my time getting the stuff ready. I guess I need to break down and go buy a postal scale and get to work on some ebay auctions. UGG. Any one out there want to buy some baby girl clothes?

At Long Last....

Tonight is the night of the school meeting. I am so excited. Who ever thought I would be so thrilled to sit in a classroom. Mykenzie could care less about having 2 teachers, me on the other hand...AHH! I cant wait to go tonight and find out how it all is working and how her day goes. Not to mention how buying snacks works and when the heck they have gym. I haven't even bought her gym shoes yet cause they aren't telling me what day she even has to wear them. Drives me nuts being kept in the dark.

I am wondering what is wrong with little girls these days. Are they born to be mean spirited and hurt people's feelings? I witness some girls being mean to some other kids on the play ground a couple of days ago while I was sitting in car pool line. Then Mykenzie came home from school telling me that a couple of second graders were calling her and some other kids losers. I told her to remember how it hurt her feelings so she doesn't ever do it to someone else and to just stay away from those girls on the playground. According to her they "were sitting on the slide like they owned it and pushing the kids down if they got on it." I told her to find somewhere else to play and she was sad and said " but I like to play on the slide" I told her not to be a tattle tale if someone called her a name like loser, but they don't have any business putting their hands on her, if that continued she needed to tell her teacher. Not that they would do anything about it. I just wish kids weren't so mean to each other, seems like it starts way too young. I remember being that little and doing some of the same stuff though. I just hope Mykenzie isn't mean to other kids. I wish I knew the right thing to tell her on how to deal with it. She does tell them they are not being nice :)

Long Lazy Weekend

We did absolutely nothing this weekend. We took the girls to the pool on Saturday which I was completely dreading, but didn't end up being bad at all. Usually we go and Kaylee runs back and forth from the baby pool to the big pool and you get in the big pool and she screams and is scared to death. This time she only did it twice which was nice cause that meant I didn't have to run back and forth. We brought her new bath tub toys and she and I played Dora and Backyardigans while Travis and Mykenzie played in the big pool. Other than that we laid around the house. Went outside to play a little, cleaned up a little but mostly just vegged out. Travis and I watched a couple of movies after the girls went to bed. I don't remember what they even were, nothing good enough to recommend though.
Today I have just wanted to get out of the house. I didn't though, we stayed right here except taking and picking Mykenzie up from school. I don't know why I felt the need to go somewhere, I assume it was because I had no where to go, no one to go with and no money to spend. LOL I will be meeting up with friends on Wednesday though and I am looking forward to it. Tomorrow I am gonna clean. I know I should have done it today rather than mope around being bored but where would the fun have been in that?
I am going to Once Upon a Child tomorrow to take a box of fall/winter clothes. They better take most of it if not all and give me some good $$$ for it. I broke my stuff into 4 loads so that I am not overwhelmed and I can make sure I am getting the $$ I want for it. Now I have to go through the girls toys and get rid of some stuff before Christmas when they will no doubt get a TON more. They have so many that they don't even play with. I just hate getting rid of them cause they cost so much money and you hold out hope that maybe they will decide to play with them again. I have stuff in my attic that I want to bring down for Kaylee but I don't want the extra mess. I seriously need to get rid of some stuff!!
Kaylee is in bed napping right now and it's 5:00, so wish me luck getting her to bed on time tonight, I doubt it will happen. I think I better go wake her up

CRAP!

I was doing so good grocery shopping today. I was checking sales and comparing coupons and finding great deals. YAY ME! I got Frosted Flakes for $1.25ea and Frosted Mini wheats for $1.25ea. Mashed potatoes FREE, Purell FREE, Butterfinger stixx FREE, Pop tarts for 75 cents, Bacon for $1.50 on and on I could go. I got out of Publix with only spending $20 and BiLo only spent $24, then I went to Kroger. I was starving by the time I got there and I got alot of good deals but bought plenty that I should have walked away from. I ended up spending $120 there, which was my entire grocery budget! So I went over by $45 this week! I am so mad at myself that I didn't just say no! I must say I am quite excited to eat all the food I bought though :) I have already dove into my cantaloupe, and boy is it GOOD! Now, I just hope Travis loves the food as much as I do so he isn't mad when he gets home. Maybe the don't ask don't tell policy will go for our house too ;)

Things to Do Lists

I am one who has to make a list for everything! Things I need to do, things I want to do, things I need to buy, ect. I am a planner by nature, it is in my blood, I have always done it. It gets on Travis' nerves a bit since I literally plan our vacations by the hour. You can pretty much look at my schedule and know where we will be at any given time. I usually run a little late but I stick to it. I have even past said schedules out to family while visiting in Ohio so they would know when we were available to spend time with them. People think I am nuts but it works for me. Well today I discovered a new list. I am going to write down the things I do, as I do them. I don't plan on having this be a long term thing. I am just curious to see how much I do around this house all day that I never get credit for. My list so far has 40 things on it. It is now 4:30 pm. I know that plenty of people do more than I in a days time but I just want to see what I do, figure out if I think it is enough and adjust my life from there. I am pretty proud of my accomplishments, small and mundane as they may be. It made me see that even though I am home all day long I am actually doing something!

I Finally Got It

I have been messing with this blog for a while now trying to get it the way I want it. Well I think I finally have it! I was having a hard time with the links, getting my picture up, having my profile at the TOP of the page, ect.. I think I have it under control now! I am not messing with it again for a while, well till I am sick of the tulips I suppose. For those of you who don't check it very often, you wont really notice a difference, but I have changed it at least 10 times the past week!

No word on my stupid car. The people never called back last night so I guess another one bites the dust. Sucks. I guess we will have it for a while longer. Anyone out there in the market for a car??

My windshield is fixed and he didn't try to gouge me! Yay! I am glad cause after my day Friday I probably would have ripped his head off. So it is fixed and looks great. Travis unhooked my battery again so my Check Engine light is off temporarily until it registers again that there is a leak somewhere! It makes me feel better that it is off though, even though I know the most I have is 3 days! I like to be in denial about it.

Let's see if there is anything else you need to know.... Nope. I need to go buy yesterday's paper (kroger sells it for only $1 during the week instead of $1.75 on Sunday) and start cutting coupons and planning my meals and shopping lists. I am really trying to do a good job with this. I hope I can continue, it is alot of work! If grocerygame.com would put Kroger on I would join and let them do it for me!!

I had the pleasure of going to the dentist today, don't be jealous. Just time for my cleaning. I talked to her about my mouth pain and headaches and she chalked it up to TMJ which there is nothing they can really even do anything for. She told me we could do a mouth guard, so I said yes, until I found out my insurance doesn't pay one red cent for it and it is $350. I think I'll pass, especially since we don't even know if it will help. So I suppose I will just continue to be on IB Profin everyday, which will probably eat away my insides. Oh Well! The IB Profin helps with some other medical issues I have. I swear I have as many aches and pains and ailments as a 60 year old man! None of which can be fixed. I just hope I don't pass them on to my girls.

An update on all the school drama

This school situation has been driving me crazy the past few days. Since there was no school yesterday I had to wait until this morning to go to the school and see what the deal is. I still don't fully know how the whole thing is going to play out but I am felling a little bit better. Ideally I would rather her be in a classroom with 19 other kids and her teacher but apparently that isn't going to happen. The real reason behind all of this is that there were too many kindergarteners this year so they had to open a 7th kindergarten class, which meant that Mrs. Watson had to give up her room since it is technically supposed to be a kindergarten room. The 2 classes that they are being split into are in one large room separated by a wall, so essentially Mrs. Watson can stand it the "hall" by the wall and see both rooms. She will be going back and forth to each room for different subjects and they will also have a teacher's aid. I think it will work out ok, I just don't know anything about this new teacher she will also be having. I am hoping we get some more 1st graders registered so they can get a 7th class. It would be in the resource room or they will have to clean out the teachers lounge and get rid of it cause those are the only 2 rooms in the school it could possibly be in. The whole thing is just a mess. Hopefully it works out. I wish I could go and shadow a class one day so I could see what the heck is going on but I suppose I don't really want to be "that" mom. I already am though. I am the only parent that contacted her about this mess. Of course no one else has her email address either since we haven't had our room meeting yet. That will hopefully shed some light on things too. I was not the only mom who waited in the hall with them today to walk to the new room to find out where it is so that made me feel a little better. I am trusting my child's life and education to these people though so I have the right to be in their faces about it I think! I have heard some really bad things today about the middle school that we are zoned for so I really hope there is a new one before we have to deal with it or we have moved by the time that comes.

Cross your fingers for us!

We have been trying to get rid of our Grand Am for a LONG time now. Well not really but it seems like it. I think we finally got it for sale online in June and we were getting NO calls or emails about it. This after waiting for 6 months for the lien holder to get their act together and send us the title and ending up having to just buy a new one from SC DMV! It has 106,000 miles on it cause it was Travis' car and he had to drive it alot for work. Then it became my car because he got the Jeep. Well now (and for the past 2 years) he has a company car and this one has been sitting in our garage undriven. We are paying for it every month as well as the insurance all for it to sit in the garage. Well, I have had calls 2 days in a row about it! I just got one and hopefully they bite on it. Oh my goodness to have that thing paid off and not have the insurance anymore would be wonderful! I would love to sell it so much. Cross your fingers that this is finally the time that we can say good bye to the Grand Am!

Great Weekend!

It seems like it has been forever since we have had any "quality" family time. Travis was gone, then I was gone and then he was gone and gone and gone. This weekend we have actually gotten to spend time together.
My morning yesterday started with some disappointment, we tried to get tickets to see Rascal Flatts but we were getting awful seats. The best we had were section 107 which wouldn't have been horrible seats but still not where we wanted to be for that price. Last year tickets were about $25 cheaper and we were right on the floor. We gave those up and then we were getting section 300's, NO WAY! We were not paying $70 to hang from the ceiling. It would have been fun but that's ok. Maybe we will try again next year and get good seats then. I will just have to settle for listening to my 4 CD's. Just think it saved me $70+.
After that whole drama, I decided that we needed to get out of the house, at first I was thinking the zoo but then remembered that the county fair was going on. We all got ready and headed out.http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AcuWTNo2bNGeg The girls had so much fun. They have a kids farm, where they went to different stations and did things that are done on a farm. One was feed the chickens, plant a seed, milk a cow ect. At each station you got something to "sell" at the farmers market. An egg from the chicken, veggies from the garden, a pint of milk from the cow, ect. Then they took the stuff to the farmers market where they got "money" and got to go buy an ice cream with it. They loved doing it and were very pleasantly surprised that they got ice cream at the end! Then we went to the little petting zoo, where Kaylee spent 10 minutes laughing at the "funny sheep!" She also finally says horse without me telling her too, before it was a "neigh" now it is a "harse" LOL I love it when little kids learn to talk!

We ended the trip with some rides, Mykenzie loved them until she went on the spider thing with Travis. That one she did not care for! I was too afraid Kaylee would freak out so she only rode the merry go round and she rode the cars with Mykenzie. We came home and had dinner and dessert and relaxed. The girls rough housed with Travis for a little while and then it was bed time.
Today we spent the morning outside, the kids played while we did some yard work. My flowerbeds were horribly overgrown with weeds. It has been way to hot to mess with them! Today it is overcast and quite nice out there. Now Travis and Kaylee are taking a nap, then I am sure we will head back outside for a little swingset time. Then it is dinner, baths, bed for the kids and Grey's Anatomy for me! I love that show!

Too Good To Be True!

I can't wait until the new school on this side of town is finished! I am really starting to dislike this school and it is only the 2nd day. Last year I loved it and had absolutely no problems, this year it is like they all took stupid pills and no one knows what the hell is going on. Mrs. Watson informed me today that she will be losing her classroom. So they are going to move to the 1st grade cluster (what ever that means) and her class will be split between 2 other teachers class rooms. They will be "Team Teaching". That is she and the 2 other teachers apparently will be rotating rooms? I HAVE NO CLUE! I do not understand this at all! Now, they are doing this because of the high number of students in first grade. So my question is if there are too many kids how will combining classes make it better? I am pretty upset about the whole thing right now, maybe when I understand it more I will feel better about it but right now I feel like it is a stupid idea and I am pretty mad. Anyone else had this sort of issue with team teaching that can fill me in on what the hell it actually entails? She told me that they will all 3 be Mykenzie's teacher but she will remain on her role and listed as her students. It sounds to me like they just doubled these 2 classes sizes and she gets to be the assistant to the teachers. To me this sounds like a pretty raw deal for these kids, and mine is one of them which really pisses me off.
THEN, you should see the pick up disaster they have going for dismissal! Holy crap! I thought is was bad yesterday so I left early so I could be at the front of the line, I was 2nd in line in one of the left lane. I COULD NOT GET OUT! After having Mykenzie in my car for at least 5 minutes one of the teachers had to have people move their cars so I could get out. It is insanity! I want to park across the street and walk up to get her and I very well may start doing it. I cant imagine that after all the years of this school being there that they would not have an organized way for picking them up. I have been over there for 2 days now I have a solution! 2 lanes, certain teachers for certain lanes there is a space on the right and a space on the left so when you get your kid you can go into the OPEN space to get out. HOW HARD IS THAT PEOPLE!!! I must be PMSing because I am highly bitchy and emotional today. I got in 2 fights with credit card companies and spoke to supervisors this morning and now this. I am ready to call the principal but I am trying to breathe and see if things with pick up get better next week and I am waiting to talk to the principal about the classrooms till I understand it a little better. Now I am waiting for the guy to come and fix my windshield, why do I have a feeling he is gonna try and charge me more than my estimate? People suck today!

First day of Kindergarten

Getting up and getting out the door by 7:30 today was much easier than I anticipated. We were all ready to head out the door by 7:15! We ended up getting there way too early and had to stand outside for awhile but there were a ton of other people waiting too, I guess everyone was excited for the first day of school. I was talking with some of the moms and it seems like most of the people didn't know who their kids teacher was until today. I know that most of the grades had an open house yesterday though so I guess they should have gone to it.
Only 2 kids are in her class from last year, one of which I really like so I am glad to see her. Mykenzie liked playing with her and she is a very sweet little girl, just the type I want her to be friends with. I really believe that who you are friends with shapes how you are and who you become. I prefer a sweet little girl that stays out of trouble! I think we are going to have another great school year. I still can't believe that she is in the first grade already, she is such a big girl!

YAY! She Got Mrs. Watson!!

Mykenzie's kindergarten teacher from last year is moving to 1st grade this year. I knew it was a possibility but didn't find out until Friday that it was a sure thing. Well by the time Monday came along it was too late to request her for this year so we just hoped for the best. Well I just got an email from her and she told me that "luck of the draw" put Mykenzie in her class again this year! I am so thrilled. After having a preschool teacher who didn't care to much for Mykenzie and categorized her as the "bad" kid and then last year having Mrs. Watson who loved her, it was just such a big difference. It was better for her and it was better for me too. I was worried she would end up with a repeat of preschool but I don't have to worry about it anymore! WHEW! I can't tell you how relieved I am right now!

The Good and Bad

We have had a pretty good couple of days for the most part. I got Mykenzie registered for 1st grade yesterday and we will find out who her teacher is tomorrow.
We are crossing our fingers for Mrs. Watson but if we don't get her I just hope she gets someone good. I can't believe that school starts on Thursday already, the summer has flown by. I am definitely ready for fall though. I am excited to go to the pumpkin patch and for Halloween parties. I love that time of year, not to mention the cooler weather, I am sick of this heat! I also went to a candle party at Barbara's yesterday that my friend Heather was hosting. We had a really good time hanging out, eating yummy food and smelling great candles. Here is a link for the candles, they are great... http://www7.mygccandle.com/Default.aspx?alias=www7.mygccandle.com/breathofheaven
I spent a little more than I planned but I will be very happy when I get my candles! Plus it was the last time I will get to see Heather since she is moving to Maine next week. We will definatley miss her and all of her humor. Thank goodness for computers :)
I ordered tickets to take Mykenzie to see Disney on Ice "Princess Wishes" in September. I really think she will LOVE it. We got front row seats so hopefully I will get some good pictures and Mykenzie can get up close and personal with the princesses! It will be nice to have a little time with just Mykenize we haven't done that in a while.
Today I took the girls to play with Jenna's girls and then we all went to see Barnyard. Mykenzie really liked it and thought it was pretty funny. I thought it was funny too, not the best kids movie I've ever seen but it was funny. Warning though if your kids are sensitive there is death in the movie, it's not a scene from the Lion King but it is still sad.
My sucky news is that my stupid check engine light is back on, so I guess it was not the gas cap. From what the Auto Zone guy said it is a small leak somewhere so I am not freaking out about it but it still sucks. Also when I was driving to Barbara's yesterday a rock flew up and hit my windshield and cracked it. Now I have to shell out $200 for a new one. They are coming to my house on Friday to fix it. Sucks.
I finally got ahold of the detective in charge of my credit card theft case and made an appointment with him tomorrow morning. So my day will be awfully full tomorrow, I have to meet with the detective in the morning, the girls both have check ups in the afternoon and as soon as we are done with that I have to go to the school for the 1st grade open house to see Mykenzie's new class room and meet her teacher. I am so excited about this because I was a little freaked that I didn't even know where the 1st grade rooms are! I am so glad I don't have to try and figure it out on the 1st day of school. I have to remember to get her school supplies ready cause I am supposed to take them with me tomorrow.
Travis is gone to Las Vegas right now for some work seminar so he will miss Mykenzie's first day of school again. He left on Sunday but he will be back on Thursday night, then hopefully he'll be home for a while.
My plans for tonight include a lot of very fun chores, such as laundry, dusting, cleaning and scrubbing. I know everyone has to do it, and I am sure that you'll all agree IT SUCKS! I better get to it though or I'll be up awfully late tonight.

My Sweet Baby is TWO!

In the blink of an eye my baby has grown into a toddler. I can't believe how quickly time passes when you have children, it really seems like they grow up overnight. No matter how old they get you still see them as your sweet newborn laying in your arms in your hospital bed.

Kaylee's birth announcement picture

My big girl had a great birthday! We woke up and opened most of her presents. She got a little tired of it and wanted to play halfway through so we let her wait till later for the rest. She loves her Dora Quad, or her bike as she calls it. Then after playing for a little while we got ready and went to Chupie Cheese (more Kaylee talk). She loves going there and playing and was so excited. All week when we told her it was almost her birthday she would say "party, go chupie cheese!" Then we came home played outside then we had her Dora cake and ice cream, which turned her blue so it was into the tub. She got to play for a little while longer but then she had to go to bed. She is so cute trying to hold up two fingers to show she is 2, she concentrates really hard but just can't quite get it. One other new thing that she does when you ask her what her name is she points to herself and she'll start to say Kaylee but stops herself and says "Spot" I have no idea why but it is too funny and she knows it. She is gonna be our little comedian. Happy Birthday Sweet baby girl!

Here is a link for some birthday photos.
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Rascal Flatts at the GEC!

I am a bit obsessive when it comes to Rascal Flatts, not to the point where I know where they live and I am stalking them, but I love their music and have all the CD's, lost them and replaced them right away. I went to there concert last year with my friends Jenna and Barbara and they were GREAT! Well girls get out your money cause they are coming back! In my sleepy haze I heard them mention it on the 10 o'clock news, I got up this morning and confirmed it! They will be here on September 22 at 8pm! I will be in the crowd somewhere even if I have to go alone, which would suck, so my friends need to take pity and come with me! Tickets go on sale a week from tomorrow and I will be ready. Stupid ticketmaster has an issue with my computer for some reason and wont let me get into it so hopefully it gets over it long enough to let me order. I CAN"T WAIT!!!! Girls are ya with me?!?!?!? This time I will have my camera with me!!! For all of you who don't know who I am talking about, GO BUY THEIR ALBUM! You will LOVE it!

I'm Done!!!

You will not catch me in another store for at least a week! I am completely shopped out! After all of our grocery shopping Tuesday and Thursday, today we were out from 8:30am till 5:30pm. Well today was payday and I had ALOT to pick up! I needed to get all of Mykenzie's school supplies since she starts 1st grade on Thursday and the list is LONG. Plus Kaylee's 2nd birthday is tomorrow and I had nothing for her. I started at Walmart, got almost all of Kenzie's supplies there, hit Target for a Bath tub toy I wanted for Kaylee's bday, Dora and very cute, and the remaining supplies. While I was there I also got a box of Pull Ups, 58 count, for $13! She isn't in them yet but she will hopefully be soon. I am on my last box of diapers and then I am done buying them. After that and running very late, I met Jenna and her girls at the Mills, which was busy but not as bad as I thought it would be with it being tax free weekend and all. I found nothing to buy there other than a few things at the Disney Store Outlet, some pretty good deal actually. But it was fun and nice to shop with a friend always!! After that I had to come home and empty out my trunk so I could go to Kmart and get Kaylee her Dora Quad! It is so cute and I hope she loves it as much as she does in my mind! LOL Here is a link if you want to see it.(http://www.fisher-price.com/us/powerwheels/product.asp?id=35209)
We got caught in a HORRIBLE rain storm while we were there so I tried to walk around for a little bit but there is only so much time I can spend in Kmart these days. Too many days of having to shop there now I just would rather not set foot in one unless I have too. Plus I ended up finding Kenzie a backpack there for only $6.99, really glad I put my foot down on the $20 one at the Disney store! Anyhow, we left in the pouring rain, while everyone else stood in the doorway hoping it would stop, we made a run for it, got soaked but we dried by the time we got to Toys R Us, where I finished my bday shopping for Kaylee. Of course then I realized I had no wrapping paper so I had to swing by Big Lots and pick that up, and I also found the last thing on Mykenzie's school supply list there! YAY! So I got all of Kaylee's birthday gifts, and all of Mykenzie's school supplies! Now I am just gonna sit back and enjoy Kaylee's day and the rest of the days of summer break. I will probably be visiting the Discovery Center this week if anyone is interested. I think I have learned my lesson not to wait till the last minute to get this stuff done so we don't have to have another cram day like today. My kids were pretty well behaved though and hanging out in the middle of the day with Jenna helped calm the chaos.

How's this for oral hygiene???

I have got to share my great deal with everyone! Eckerd has a coupon in their ad for Colgate toothpaste 2 for $3 (one per person), I in turn had a coupon for $2 off 2 tubes, which means... You guessed it 50 cents a tube! So I hit one Eckerd, where the lady was a complete moron and gave me a hard time but when all was said and done she had only charged me 66 cents for 2 tubes of toothpaste. Now this was incorrect and if she wouldn't have been such a bitch I would have told her. I should have been like $1.22 including tax (yes our tax is way too high here) for them but I am calling the mistake "money for my pain and suffering". I then hit the Eckerd by my house where the lady was also bitchy *note to Eckerd put the sale prices in the computer and tell your employees to quit bitching at customers when they point out they are wrong* but she rung the toothpaste up correctly so I got my 2 tubes there for $1.22. So this means I got 4 tubes of Colgate plus whitening toothpaste for a whopping $1.88!! Go Me, Go Me. I still have another coupon, should I go back and fight with them again??? I think I probably will...
ALSO, Kroger has Crest toothpaste 10 for $10, which means $1 a tube, I had 2 coupons for $1 off 2 tubes and 2 coupons for $1 off 1 tube. I got 6 tubes of Crest toothpaste for (drumroll please) $2 plus tax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is about .35 cents a tube! It is the little things in life that excite me people and knowing I have a butt load of toothpaste that I got dirt cheap is one of those things that excites me for sure

The sun is shining

Yeah Baby! I finally had a stroke.... of LUCK! I took my car to Auto Zone so they could tell me why my stupid check engine light was on (Thank you Jenna for saving me a $70 diagnostic) and it was the stupid gas tank cap, I bought a new one (though I probably didn't really need a new one) but now we are good to go!!! Thank God!



I finally finished my grocery shopping today! WOO HOO! I hit Publix and Aldi on Tuesday and BiLo, Food Lion and Kroger today! I went about $10 over what I wanted to but I have a TON of food! My cupboards were bare I'm afraid. I hadn't "really" grocery shopped in over a month. I was just going and picking up little things here and there that we needed. Well this time we needed everything! I am so excited! My lazy susan cabinet is STUFFED full, and so is my freezer! I ordered Kaylee's birthday cake at BiLo, I hope it tastes good, if not at least it will be CUTE! I love it and cant wait to see it finished. And here is the kicker, my kids were actually well behaved in ALL THREE STORES! Kaylee was fussy while we were checking out at Kroger but that is understandable after 3 stores and 2.5 hours she was done. Plus it was naptime! I got to come home put her to bed and put my groceries away in peace. AHHH What a difference a day can make!! Now I have to tackle my laundry go check out who is running for what so I can hit the voting polls when Travis gets home tonight. I have no idea what we are even supposed to be voting on, thanks to Roxy I have the links to find out :) Better go find my voter registration card. Now if my stupid poison ivy would go away so I could wear shorts in the 100 degree weather it would really make my day!

A call from my sister

I still feel stressed about all the stuff going wrong but Aimee just called me and just chatting and getting it out helped. Pluse she told me about some stress she was having too which let me know I am not the only one. My sweet little niece Abby fell off the couch yesterday so my sister had her first mommy scare. Abby is fine though and so is her mommy.
I guess I just needed a little sister chat to pick me up. Not that I am not feeling sorry for myself still but I am in a better mood now.

Woe is Me

I am definitely having a feeling sorry for myself kind of day. It seems like we just cant catch a break lately! July has sucked and now we are into August and it isn't going any better. We have had issues with moving, are gonna go, are we gonna stay??? Lost Kaylee in the woods! Then there were ticks and fevers and infections and poison ivy! Oh lets not forget the identity theft!!!Travis getting stranded in Chicago and having to spend a TON of money on new clothes to get through. His car is in the shop, we got it back and it had to take it back in (the silver lining here is that it is his work car, so we don't have to pay) Now my stupid check engine light is on!!! And I just dropped about 2 grand in this stupid car I don't want and now this! Add all this stuff together in a 2.5 week span plus attitude from my 6 year old about everything and whining from my almost 2 year old about everything and it makes for some stress!!! Everyone has problems and I understand it is life, but I am ready for a BREAK!!!!