HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I must admit, I was worried about how halloween would turn out as I sat and watched it rain all day. I told myself I would make a decision on where we would go by 4 and it was still raining so the mall it was. I wanted to drive the the Mills but while we were on our way it was already 5 and their trick or treat started at 5, since we still had about a 45 minute drive left we opted to just stick to the mall close to home. We got there and found out that their trick or treat didn't start until 6 so we decided we would walk down to Chuck E Cheese for an hour. Well as we got into the mall we realized that we were not the only people there and the stores were passing out candy, so we said what the hey. We walked the mall and ran into a few friends, and Mykenzie saw some kids from Girl Scouts and school as well. We ended up done with the mall before 6 so it worked out nicely, we were leaving as they were getting busy. By the time we left the rain had stopped so we decided to troll the neighborhood too. I hate for the costumes to go to waste! LOL They were both having so much fun and being good, plus other than being wet it was really nice out. I am not sure what the temp. was but it was perfect. We came home with our pant legs soaked but the girls had a blast and didn't mind at all. They looked absolutely adorable! EVERYONE we walked by commented on how cute Kaylee's costume was, I must say I agree. She made a very cute Jo Jo. Mykenzie was beautiful as Mulan, she is looking more grown up all the time and tonight with her make up made it even more so. Kaylee loved going to the houses and people would open the door and she would ask where there doggy was! lol Apparently since a couple houses had dogs that meant they all did. I think the dogs were her favorite part, well she got pretty excited when she saw the people gave her chocolate too! She did so good and kept her hat on the whole time! I told her over and over before we left she had to wear it to get candy, I guess when she saw I wasn't pulling her chain she was happy to leave it on! LOL Our day turned out great despite the wet weather. Hope everyone else had a great Halloween as well :) Here are the pics from today :) share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AcuWTNo2bNGhy

That's what I'm talking about!

It was beautiful today!!! What a gorgeous day out. We spent a majority of the day outside. We carved our pumpkin, played on the swing set and went for a walk to our subdivision's playground to play, followed by cooking burgers and roasted potatoes on the grill. I wish the weather would continue but it is going to rain Tuesday followed by cold again. I am hoping we don't have rain long enough to go trick or treating on Tuesday, if it does we will end up at the mall instead. Here are some pictures of our fun day.
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Wreck

Yep, I got in a car wreck Friday. Guess who's fault it was, oh yeah, it was mine. Good Lord. These poor people sitting at a red light and I don't know, I guess I am in a Jeep so I think I can just run over things so I thought, what the heck, lets try a mini van!!! No seriously though, I am not really sure what happened as I can't really remember anything but the van getting really close I panic and BAM! So I assume I thought the light changed started to go, realize my mistake but rather than hitting the break I accidently hit the gas. I plow into her, she hits the guy in front of her, lovely. I get out ask if she is alright, go call Travis to have him get Kenzie since I was headed to the school to pick her up. I go back and talk to her again, are you sure your alright kinda stuff, and I realize that she has 2 little kids in her car too. So now I felt WORSE. They were just sitting there unaffected by it all though. So a firetruck pulls up, they make sure everyone is ok and get us out of the middle of the road. The woman I hit said her head and neck hurt a little and they told her that it would be best if she got looked at so she agreed and here came another fire truck shortly followed by an ambulance. She later told me when we were standing there talking "geeze, all I said was my head hurt a little, I really didn't need another fire truck and ambulance" My neck was also a little sore and my head killing me, but my head hurt before I left, I had just taken Aleeve for it. I didn't have them check me out though. So then the cop show up I tell him it was my fault and that I thought the light changed and he needed the usual DL, Ins, and registration. So I get my DL and ins and search my car only to find last years registration. I have NO clue where the current one is. So the guy that the van hit gave a statement and drove off without getting my info, so we shall see. There was no visible damage at all to his car. So the lady I hit left and then the cop came to talk to me, asked if I found it, I said no. So he said to make sure I get a new registration cause I could be ticketed on it but he said he wasn't going to. Then he gave me a case # and told me to be on my way. He was so nice. He could have ticketed me for the reg. and for the fact that I still have my SC Drivers license. He didn't even write me up for the accident. Thank the Lord. So, her car has damage, not a ton but enough that I am sure she will be filing a claim with my insurance co. My car the hood got knocked out of place and you can see on the bumper where it bent, neither of which seem to be a huge deal. We are still gonna have it looked at but if there is nothing wrong internally we will probably just skip getting it fixed and paying our $500 deductible (which I was supposed to lower to $250 last week, and forgot) Luckily we have no out of pocket expense to fix her car so that is a relief, but most importantly no one got hurt. I already have horrible guilt about it I can't imagine how I would live with my self if someone would have gotten hurt.

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
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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!