And the damage is....

$550.oo! There was something wrong with the radiator cap which caused it to leak fluid onto the coil and ruin it. What ever that means. Whatever, it is fixed. Travis and I had to share his car for the past 2 days so luckily he had planned to be in town and not an hour or more away since I had to take him and pick him up since I had to have the car to get Mykenzie from school. That was not alot of fun so I am glad it is fixed and it is done. Lets hope we can get through the next year with no car problems! I want to get rid of this thing and I need to keep it for another year and soooo don't want to dump any more money into it. It has now been well over $2000 in 9 months.

No word on the electricity for now. He plans on messing with it tomorrow, so hopefully that is an easy fix so we don't have to drop alot on that too.

I took Kaylee into the doctor today for nothing apparently. She started crying and holding her neck yesterday and continued doing it today. Well it felt swolen and she recently had a high fever (well like a week and a half ago) so I thought it was best to have her checked out because she has also been soooo whiny and clingy this past week and a half/two weeks. Well there is nothing wrong with her other than she strained her neck and has a knot in it. The doctor turned her head to one side and she was fine and when he turned it to the other she immediatley started crying. He asked her if it hurt and she cried noooo. So that was a YES! So that doesn't help me on the whinyness and the not sleeping but at least now I know there is nothing wrong.

I jinxed myself by saying numerous times how well my dog has been about going potty. She has only had 1 accident in the past few weeks. Well for two days in a row now she has peed in her cage! Stupid Brat. I guess I don't have to worry about her starting that again when she is in a kennel while we are on vaction cause she is already doing it! GRRRR drive me nuts!

That about sums up the past 2 days here. Now I am going to go watch a movie and go to sleep!

The Malfunction Indicator Light

"When the engine is running, the 'Malfunction Indicator Light' may flash to alert of serious conditions that could lead to immediate loss of power or severe catalytic converter damage. The vehicle should be serviced as soon as possible if this occurs."

Guess what, that is what happened to my car today. Doesn't it sound splended. I have to drop it off in the morning to see what the hell the problem is. I really should have rolled this thing off a cliff a long time ago. I soooo want to get rid of it but I never will if I have to keep dumping money into it! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Kaylee has been a terror today! I don't know what this childs problem is that she can't seem to sleep past 5 am but it is really really old. Then she would not take a nap today so other than the 5 minutes she slept in the car that was it. It is now 6:40 and she is playing and being good for the 1st time all day. She thought she was going to fall asleep at 5:20 though. I woke her little butt right up and threw her in the shower. Homey don't play that crap!

Another thing for me to bitch about is the fact that I have NO power in Mykenzie's room and the ouside walls of her room also have no power. Which is especially lovely since she is afraid of the dark and can not have a night light now. Travis has to work all week so the weekend he gets to try and figure out if he can fix it or if it will require an electrician. It would be soooo nice to live in Ohio during times like these since I have a father in law mechanic and my best friends hubby is an electrician! Geeze!

On a good note, it was BEAUTIFUL here today! I am talking 73 degrees!!! Of course I was in a bad mood dealing with stupid crap so I didnt enjoy it like I wanted to. Hopefully we have a couple more days like that this week. Or better yet it stays that way.

Wow

It has been a long time since I have blogged. I guess I really haven't been spending much time at all online. I am not sure what I have been doing in place of it but something is keeping me busy. We went the other night and signed Mykenzie up for cheerleading. I hope she likes it. It is a 12 week class that meets on tuesdays. She is excited but nervous too.
Kaylee has been super whiny this week and driving me nuts but she is doing some pretty funny things too. Now when she poops in her diaper she will come and tell you that she is "not fresh" LOL I have no idea where she got that from. I got a new vacuum for Valentines Day (a Dyson), well technically it is for valentines day, mothers day and my bday! lol I was messing with it yesterday and the handle comes out and is a wand to do steps and whatever. Well Kaylee sees me take it out and comes running over and tells me "Mommy, your amazing!" and gave me a big hug. LOL She is too funny sometimes. She has also learned how to open doors that have covers on them that are supposed to prevent that from happening! Mykenzie didn't learn how to do that till she was 4!!! So now my pantry has become free game and she is constantly in it getting into food! You would think I starve her. UGG

Our trip to Disney world is coming up really quickly we leave in 1 month from today. I am so not prepared for it at all. I have a feeling we are all gonna need clothes but I am unsure of what to expect the weather to be so I don't know what we need. We all sooooo need a vacation though so we will be VERY ready by the time it gets here. The drive will suck I am sure though.

I have started scrapbooking again. I have come to the conclusion that I totally suck at it! I do not have the creativity for it. I am blaming it on the fact that I don't have enough stuff though! lol I have done a few pages but none of them thrill me, but they are good enough and definatley better than that box they were sitting in. I decided to start with Kaylee's birth and go from there and then go back and finish the inbetween stuff which is about a year. I haven't scrapped since Mykenzie turned 3 and she will be 7 in June. So much has changed since I stopped doing it, and it is way more advanced now with alot more techniques and embelishments and so on. I have alot of learning to do that is for sure. I am hoping to get to hang out with rachel for a day or two during our next Ohio trip and get to scrapbook with her and her mom so they can teach me a thing or five, they are way better than I will be ever I am sure. Rachel will be a huge preggo by then! Yay! She recently found out she is expecting her 3rd little one, already has 2 boys and we are crossing everything that it is a little girl this time around. No matter what it will be one lucky baby.

That is about all I can think up to write about for now. Hope everyone is doing great out there :)

SNOW!

Yesterday school was cancelled due to snow but their was just a very light dusting on the ground but today we woke up to another day of no school and more snow. We could still see the tops of our grass through it but it was enough to play in. So Kaylee got to have her 1st experience with snow. She was not into the snow covering her shoes so she cried about that for a few minutes. And she didn't want to wear her mittens so she took them off. Her poor hands were bright red and she started crying cause they hurt and saying "can you help me mommy." I warmed them up as best as I could with my own hands (out of my wet gloves) and then told her if she didn't wear her mittens she had to go inside. So it lasted about another 7 minutes and she had them and her hat off again so she and I came inside and Kenzie played for about 10 more minutes before she decided she had enough. Now they are warmed up and drinking hot chocolate. Now we have to get ready to go to the store cause I have some errands that need ran. Joy! Here is a link to a few more pictures of our snow day :)
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Walking down memory lane

My friend's mom (Rachel's ) asked if I could email her some pictures of her daughter so she could have some more choices for her scrap book that she is working on. So I spent about 4 hours today looking through old photo albums and taking a walk back in time. The days that seem so far away and yet mostly like they just happened. This May will put me to 9 years out of high school and August will put me at 9 years moved away from "home". Most of my high school years I would not want to relive, but I had some really really great friends that I still cherish to this day. Three girls in particular that I will alway love and will always be my best friends, Rachel, Beth and Nicole. Life gets busy and everyone is going in opposite directions so it is hard to keep in contact as much as you want to. But it is so nice to know that no matter how much time has passed that they are still your friends and you will always have them in your life. We had "our boys" too, one of which married Beth and one married Rachel, they are great guys and I miss them but they can't compete with the girls. I became good friends with Nicole in our Junior year of high school and even got an apartment with her after we graduated. Beth and I have known each other since about the 2nd grade but became really close starting from about the 7th grade on. Rachel and I have literally known each other forever. Our moms were best friends and we also became best friends. I put this little diddy together of my friendship with Rachel throughout our lives, from the time we were 2 until now. Keep your eyes open and you will see Beth and Nicole in there too :) Missing you girls, love you all! You'll love all of my wonderful hair styles too! LOL Click the picture :)

Friends through the years

Happy New Year! (a week late)

Well I suppose it is better late than never right? 2007 has been pretty uneventful at our house so far. My new year's resolutions aren't going so great but hey it's only day 8 right? A BIG one for me is to stop cussing. It is sooo hard! I have been cussing like a sailor since oh, age 13! Not an easy habit to break but I am definatley working on it. My other is to stop yelling at people while driving. I am so bad about calling names and yelling at people on the road. Pretty bad when your 2 1/2 year old starts saying "Go Car!"

Can you believe that my girls have a ton of Christmas money and I can't find anything to buy with it? It is mostly Target gift cards but an AMEX gift card too. The money they got we put in their piggy banks and they get to take it with them to Disney World to pick something out there. I think the gift cards I am going to save and pick up some clothes for spring, they are already putting out shorts and swim suits in the stores, by the time we need to buy them they will all be clearance! yay!

Mykenzie went back to school this past Thursday so I am trying to get back in the swing of things. I am not a morning person (nor am I a night person, I enjoy sleeping) so when I got to lay in bed for 3 weeks till 7:30 and now I am having to have left by then is hard. I don't know what I did when school started after summer vacation! Geeze. I guess just shut up and do it right. Thats what I'm doing (except for right now) I am just horribly tired by the end of the day, who am I kidding I need a nap now and it is 1!! The girls have had no problem getting up early both rising at about 6 am every day. Drive me nuts, we don't *have* to get up till 6:45. Even if I am awake I prefer to lay in bed with my eyes shut and trick myself into thinking I'm asleep. My girls obviously take after their dad and jump up as soon as their eyes open.

Travis has inventory at ALL of his stores this week. Which basically means we won't see him and he will be VERY tired when it is all over. He had new years day off and that will be the last day until this Sunday (the 14th). This means he will have to Tivo the Ohio State game tonight that he wants to watch so badly. His 2 brothers are going to the game and he is a bit jealous of that, but what can you do. I am sure they will be calling him from the game and totally ruin the outcome for him. He has $20 riding on it so GO BUCKEYES!

Kaylee has been talking for a while now, and putting sentances together as well. Over the past couple of weeks though it seems like she has become much clearer at what she is saying or something. Some of the things that come out of her mouth just catch me off gaurd. I can't even imagine that she will be turning 3 already this coming summer! Heck I really can't believe that Mykenzie is going to be SEVEN! It 10 years we will be saying it was like we blinked and they were grown. Mykenzie did tell me the other day that she is not going to college because she wants to travel! I told her way to crush my hopes and dreams for her future when she is only 6! LOL I am not really sure where she thinks she will be getting the money to travel? hmm. So I am telling her now she can travel all she wants AFTER college!

I think that probably catches you up on the boring yet content and happy lives here. Well other than the fact that Cami (the puppy) has an ear infection. I didn't know they could get them, but I guess if you think about it, it makes sence. I now have to go sew all of the patches and such onto Mykenzie's girl scout vest, since I finally bought the stuff and she has a meeting tonight. We are selling Girl Scout cookies until Jan. 25th, money due at delivery if anyone out there is interested. :) Have a great week!

Santa Came!

I can hardly believe that Christmas has now come and gone. On Christmas Eve we did a lot of cleaning and preparations for Christmas day. Travis wrapped all of my gifts with help for Mykenzie and used a lot of my wrapping paper so I had to go out at 6:00 on Christmas Eve to Kmart and pick up some wrapping paper since I had nothing of the girls wrapped yet! Around 4 we decided to go ahead and let them open all of the gifts that family has sent, they got stuff from Aunt Shari, Great Grammy, Grandma, Aunt Angie, Pops, and Nanny! We are still waiting on Aunt Aimee's stuff to get here, it is held up in the mail somewhere. So they opened all of that and got a TON of stuff from all of them and played with it until it was time to go to bed. We put them to bed around 7:30 and by about 8:15 they were both sleeping so up to the attic we went and carried everything down and started wrapping. We got done by 10! I was so happy, especially since our LONG Christmas Eve last year that kept us up till 3am, but that is a LOOONG story. So we ate Santa's cookies, got everything set up and went to bed!
Travis woke up around 6 and woke Mykenzie up about 6:15 and then Kaylee and finally me. We went down to find that Santa did indeed come to our house. Mykenzie must have said at least 5 times yesterday that she must have been on the good list, but she thought she was going to be on the bad list. So she must have been worried! They had all of their presents open by 7:00. Kaylee didn't much care to open them though, she would say "here daddy, open present" and make him do it while she played with something else! LOL Mykenzie tore through hers and loved pretty much everything she got. She could have done without the clothes but they are too cute! Of course after the opening comes the taking everything out of the boxes. So about a million twist ties later and all the presents were free from their packages! We played with toys, ate some breakfast, called our loved ones and played some more.
Mykenzie got an Easy Bake oven so we were trying to make cookies. Let me tell you, I know now why my mom never got me one! So we put our 2 little cookies into the oven and don't you know they burnt! So apparently 8 minutes really means 4 minutes we discovered! She loves it though and can't wait to get more mixes. Kaylee got a ton of Dora stuff so she is in Dora Heaven right now. We all got showered and I threw my ham and sweet potato casserole and green bean casserole into the oven and at 2:20 they were done we threw them into the car and headed to Candy and Martel's for dinner, she had fried chicken, greens, pasta salad and deviled eggs waiting too. It was all so yummy I couldn't stop eating! Then we had strawberry cake and banana pudding for dessert! The kids played and we played some cards and came home about 7:30. The girls played with some more toys while Travis and I tried to make the place we were standing look like a house again and not a land of boxes and paper! We got that done and were all in bed by 10. We had a great Christmas and hope that all of you did too :)
Here are some pictures of our holiday :)

"You Gotta Have a Dream."

I was running a few errands, post office, bank, ect, the last one being the dry cleaners. We got our clothes and started driving away when Mykenzie said "I wish I was that dry cleaning man" to which I laughed and said "WHY?" and she said cause "I think it would be fun" Okay, I say to which she says "You gotta have a dream mom"
So I am a proud momma today of my daughter who dreams to be a MALE dry cleaner! GEEZE!

Success!

The baby shower went great yesterday! I was so pleased with it and I think that Chandra really enjoyed it as well. There was laughter and tears and a lot of silliness. Chandra got a TON of great gifts. Her mom, aunt, grandmother and sister in law came all the way from CO. to help her celebrate which made it even more special. I can't believe that Makenna is almost here! Congratulations Chandra! I can't wait to meet that sweet girl. Thanks to everyone that came and helped make it a wonderful day :)

Ok That's it!

I am done shopping! I am not buying another thing!! I am going out tomorrow to RETURN some stuff. I went through all of my lists and decided that I don't need some of the things I bought. The girls would be happy to have them but they would just get tossed aside quickly after and not to mention they will have Christmas money and gifts from family coming as well. I went over my budget for Travis so I am taking a couple things back of his. Nothing that he will miss or care about. After that the only store you will catch me in is a grocery store. I got Chandra's baby gift today and am done with all of Travis' work gifts and Kaylee's stocking stuffers so thats it. I feel very happy that I don't have to shop anymore, especially since Mykenzie's last day is Friday and I wanted everything done by then. I will go that morning to mail stuff out.

Now for the dog! GRRR! She is ticking me off so bad today. First off she pooped on my floor today after which she stepped in it, Kenzie picked her up (didn't know she had pooped) and had poop down the front of her shirt from Cami's paw. So that is nasty to begin with but then I am cleaning it up I put my hand down on the floor a ways away from the intial pile into another one. This was probably just the stuff from off her paw but nasty still the same. Cleaned it up, locked her up, then let her out to eat, took her out a little later, she did her business outside and a half hour later she peed on my freaking tree skirt!! UGG! I clean that up take her back outside, she pees, I bring her in, I go upstairs to wash Kenzie's hair come back down (we are talking 5 minutes max) and she has chewed Kaylee's boot up. Not so bad she can't wear it but bad enough that if she does people can tell the dog chewed it!!! Not to mention all the biting she's done today and don't let me forget what happened 1st thing this morning! I go to let her out of her cage and take her outside and she is all wet. Now the cage is not wet so she must have pee'd and proceeded to soak it up with her fur! So yes, I was giving her a bath at 7:15 this morning. Lets just say she is at the top of my shit list, and apparently I am at the top of hers. Why did I get a dog again.... good thing the girls like her, well when she isn't biting them!

Somebody STOP me!!!!

I am crazy shopping lady these days! I keep buying more and more and more!!!! I do have a couple of small things to get still, like some Easy Bake oven mixes and some stocking stuffers for Kaylee and her Dora Potty seat. I have to pick up Travis' work gifts but other than that I am finished. Now I need to be strapped down to my couch so I don't buy anything else. Both of my kids have PLENTY (or too much) stuff for Christmas. Kenzie is getting about 10 articles of clothing this year which I don't normally do. So I am cutting it down to 5 boxes (Kaylee has 5 articles of clothing too so they will be even number to open, just more in Kenzie's boxes. Kaylee really doesn't need clothes since she has gotten some new plus she has Mykenzie's hand me downs so she is really just getting pj's. Kenzie however definitely needs shirts so I took care of that today. I have it so each girl will also have 13 toys to open, some are double in the package but I just really feel the need to make sure they have the same amount. I guess I am stupid but oh well. I got Travis done today, which I went slightly over budget but I found a really good deal and had to get it cause he needs it anyhow. I need to get him some socks for his stocking still though, BUT THAT'S IT!!! OMG I feel like I am crazy buying everything in sight now! I bought some stuff for myself today too. I am gonna give it to Travis and tell him that is what he got me for Christmas! LOL I am excited to get them too! Just some shirts and sweaters. Now he doesn't have to search. He is taking the girls shopping on Saturday while we have Chandra's baby shower here. Good Luck to him is all I can say! It is gonna be a mad house and he will have both the kids, I hope they both make it home alive cause he doesn't have the patience for shopping with both girls while it is crazy busy. Heck, I don't either! LOL
Well I am off to shop again... I am gonna pick Mykenzie up from school and *hopefully* find what I need for Travis' work gifts at Walmart and *possibly* get the rest of the stuff on my list. It will depend on how nosey Mykenzie is being when I put the stuff in the cart. If she sees it I can just tell her that is her gift for Kaylee, which I may do anyhow, Merry Christmas Sissy, here is a potty seat! LOL I am going in with blinders on, wish me luck!

Woops!

I am sitting here at the computer getting some stuff together for tomorrow, thinking I am pretty on top of things for the moment. And it dawned on me that muffins with mom was this morning at 7. I was totally going to go and I completely forgot about it. I guess Mykenzie didn't care since she didn't metion it to me at all. She has never said a word about it so I don't think she even knew it was going on, so at least I didn't disappoint her. Of course had she known I would have remembered cause she would have reminded me! lol Well tomorrow is my playgroups Christmas Party and I am not going to forget to show up for that. I told Kaylee when I was tucking her into bed that we were going to see Santa in the morning, so she got up and said "go bye bye" She is excited to go, but there is no way she will want to be hanging out with Santa. We saw him at Kroger on Saturday and she was happy to take the candy cane from him but there was no way she was going near him for anything else!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We had snow today! Just flurries but it was great! Kaylee loved it and said "It's so pretty, mommy" Of course we were out running around in it rather than sitting cozy in front of the fire, which is my preferred way to see snow! LOL
We went out and got the stuff for Chandra's shower. Now we just need food and we are set :) Well other than me cleaning my house! It is a good thing I have a week cause that is how long it is going to take to clean it.
I have pretty much completed my shopping between yesterday and today. I went to Kohls yesterday and the stuff I bought there for Kaylee was on sale cheaper so I ended up getting over a $13 credit. I finished my shopping for Travis today. Now I need to pick up some coffee to go with my moms gift and I will be finished. Well *technically* I still have to get an ornament for an exchange and pick up some stuff for Travis' work and the last part of Mykenzie's teachers gift but that is all little easy stuff. I am sure I will end up picking up some extra things for the girls between now and Christmas but I have all the things I really wanted and could be done now. I just can't help myself sometimes :)
I am loving the holidays! Tomorrow Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is on!! One of our favorite Christmas movies and we have been jamming to all the Christmas songs on the radio!!! I am so happy to be finished with my shopping, the stress has now passed and I can enjoy the holidays. We will be going out to look at Christmas lights soon. I heard on the radio the other day that there is a house near me that has their lights set up to music and they said it was really cool. Since it is so close we will defiantly have to go check it out. Anyone else know any good spots to go check out lights?

How cute is this?

Travis' had his work Christmas party last night and Mykenzie had her Girl Scout Christmas Party tonight so the Holiday partys have kicked off and are in full swing now I suppose. Travis' party did a dirty santa and he ended up with a $20 gift card to Starbucks which is perfect for him. I hope I get something out of it too ;-) Mykenzie got a Bratz baby tonight in her exchange, and she is really excited about it. Her troop leader made the most adorable girl scout ornaments for all the girls. I love it, it is a great way to remember her first year as a Brownie Girl Scout :) The holidays can be so stressful but they bring so much more happiness and fun than stress. I love this time of year!!! Minus the 20 degree temps I should say! LOL

Whirlwind

That has been my life the past few days. I tell ya. I have been so busy but I have no idea what I have been doing. I called every vet in and around town trying to find the cheapest and finally found it. So I took Cami in for her 2nd round of puppy shots. Rather than costing the $90 after a 25% discount it was only $50! HUGE difference to me. So she is healthy and goes back for round 3 on December 29th. Potty training is the same, no accidents cause I take her out. She still doesn't tell me she has to go though. No accidents is what really matters to me. She also hasn't gone to the bathroom in her cage!!

I have gotten most of my shopping done. I picked up my MIL's on Saturday, ordered my FIL's online today so now I just have to get my moms. She finally gave me a clue as to what she would like to have so that is wonderful! Travis' has decided that we will be buying each other gifts after all so now I have to figure out what to buy him and pick up a few small things for the girls and that is it my friends. Now I have to turn my attention to the baby shower I am cohosting at my house in less than 2 weeks.

My guess is that from now till the 16th will be a blur. I have a million things to do between now and then. Finish the shopping that I have left to do, wrap everything and get it sent out, help plan a baby shower & get my house spic and span. I have a million little things, like help out at school in the morning, a Girl Scout Party tomorrow night, Thursday is Muffins with mom at school, Friday is my playgroups Christmas party, next Thursday is the school Christmas brunch, oh the list goes on and on. So I need to sit down and actually figure out a schedule of who, what, where ect. Once I have a plan and a schedule I will be fine! lol

My Shopping today

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

Just Happy :)

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

Christmas, Puppies and Sickness oh my

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

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

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

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

I need help

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

Happy Thanksgiving

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

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

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