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
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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?