Hey, its been awhile! Guess i have a few min. to update those who check this :) The girls are doing great! Julia only has 7 more days of school and she is sooooooo excited. She keeps saying she will be a 2nd grader right after school gets out next wed. And Madie keeps saying she will be a kindergartener then too. Ella is such a good talker, when she wants to be. Otherwise, she is pretty lazy with how she puts her sounds together lol. Aubrey is crawling all over the place and pulling up to things. If i hold her hands, she will walk on her own. I think she is still months away from walking though, and will most likely be my latest walker. I dont care though.
The weather has been slowly creeping up the high temp. lately. We hit over a 100 last week, and today will be around 94. The lows are usually in the low 70s! HAHA weird. But its better than when summer is fully here and the lows are in the 90's...ick. I'll be looking at Oregon's weather then and be jealous.
Took the day off from working out to Insanity. While i have noticed changes in my arms and slight toning in other places, its not enough!! Im so frustrated! I watch what i eat, i've always eaten pretty healthy. My problems were not eating often enough, and to big of portions when i did eat. I changed that, and did Insanity for over 3 months, with no change on the scale. Talk about bummed. "It will happen, it takes time, dont give up" are all things i've heard and repeated to tell myself. But when skinny people are telling you those things, it doesnt help much :/ I could go on more about how upset it makes me, but i remind myself that others may read this lol.
Ugh, im so sick of the backyard of this house. I didnt really have a choice when it came to picking this house, since we were signing the lease to it from the hospital, when i was having Aubrey. And since we were leaving to head here when she was only 8 days old, i wanted to have an actual place to come too :) The house size is fine, im OK with it being a Ranch style, which i really dont care for usually. I dont like the layout though. We gave up one of the bedrooms for the playroom, because it is the first room when you enter the house. It has 3 tall windows in it, and i was not comfortable having one of my kids sleeping in that room. Not using that as a room, is making Madie and Ella share a room. Which actually is fine. Madisen is the only one that can fall asleep to Ella's talk-til-she-passes-out nightly thing she does. I let Julia have her own room since she is the oldest and wanted her own space, plus none of the rooms, besides the master, has enough room for a bed AND a crib, plus 2 dressers. So the baby is in our room, on my side of the bed. Its worked out ok because she has been little. But she is getting bigger now and im ready for her to share with her sisters or have her own room.
I think when our lease is up, we are going to find a new rental,as much as i HATE moving, one that is bigger and has an actual yard. My dream after having kids, was to have a back yard that i could have a play structure in, a sandbox, and a water table for the little ones. I wanted to make the back yard a fun place to hang out in, and just be able to watch the kids play. Cant do that here! And no, not because its too hot. Its only to hot for that about 5 months out of the year. Perfect otherwise. Anyways, the dog cant even enjoy the back yard in this house.
Kinda excited to start a new job soon (not sure when). It will mostly be from the house with possible going to the office on the days Jeremy is off work and can be home with the kids. It will be working for my Realtor (the one who helped us get this rental) and some other guy. Not sure the pay or anything, but im sure he will be fair. He's a nice guy. Possibly be able to get a second car if the whole job thing works out. We are thinking about getting Jeremy a scooter thing this week. They are only about $1000 and he can pay it off with his work bonus in July. That way i will have the car to take the kids and pick them up from school. They start back at the end of July and its waaaay to hot to walk them all then. I did it at the end of Aug. last year and it was 119*. Not gonna do that again!
The two youngest are up now, so gotta go!!
Monday, May 20, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Spider meets the vacuum
I've been doing this new work out called INSANITY. And ive been doing really good at it, and keeping up doing it daily as hard as that is to find the time. BUT today, im updating this blog, doing laundry, among other things, and packing my bag for Vegas! I'll get back to that later.
This morning started out eventful when i found a big A** spider in the kids bathroom. That is the 2nd one in the last couple weeks, and only in their bathroom. They are mutants here! HUGE! Even my husband agreed that the last one was very large, when i called him to kill it. But of course he was at work when i found the one from this morning. As most or all of you know, i HATE spiders!!!! The bigger they are, the worse my fear is! This was big, brown and hairy, so nasty. I got all worked up trying to kill it somehow. I was trying to stay strong for my kids, but they saw right through me lol. I was figuring out how to get if off the girls showers curtain and into the toilet when it started on the move. UGH, i hate when they are creepy crawling when you want to get them. He went behind the toilet and i couldnt find him. Which of course is making me sweat and freak out cause im not about to let my kids go pee in there now! 2 of them still hadnt gone since waking up, the baby was starting to cry cause she was hungry, i hadnt made breakfast or Julia's lunch. So after about 45 min. (yeah yeah) i get the vaccum cleaner. If this spider had been smaller, i would have been able to get it and throw it in the toilet but with the legs and body it was almost the side of my palm. NO THANK YOU! So i get the vaccum out, but of course as soon as i get close the thing takes off in a sprint towards the tub again. So about 15 min. after that i try again, determined to get him because now its almost time for Julia to leave for school, the baby was fed, BUT my 2 oldest still needed to pee. And i know if i took my eyes off him any longer, he would be long somewhere when i came back and i can not have that happen. I took the hose from the vacuum and went to him very slowly since he is obv. smart enough to run. I got him this time. I also wouldnt shut off the vacuum for 15 min. so i knew he wasnt crawling back out! hahahah I vacuumed the kids room after i got him, then dumped it, and vacuumed the living room. He better be dead!
So now that the vacuuming is out of the way :) I did some laundry. I needed to so that i could pack a few things for Vegas tomorrow. IM sooo excited to go! I havent been in over 7 years. Im kinda sad though too cause i've never gone a full day/night with out seeing my kids! I completely trust their dad to handle all 4 of them, which isnt the problem. And im totally fine leaving the older ones for a couple days lol. But i feel like my little baby Aubrey is going to miss me. Shes is my little momma's girl. She hangs with me all day, most of the time, on my hip while i cook, or im sitting near her while she plays. I know it will be good for her to not have me being the only one that puts her down for a nap or feeds her. But im going to miss her soooo much!! My kids have only spend the night away from me, when i was in the hospital having one of their siblings but even then my parents would bring them up to visit. Julia has spent the night at her aunts house once, and that was totally fine. Shes at the age where im totally fine with her staying a night at her aunts, grandparents, or her best friends house. I know its probably odd for those reading this to think that i've gone that long with out leaving them anywhere, but its thats just how i am. I love having my kids around. And i know the older they are, the more willing i am and will be to apart from them on occasion. Its just when they are little like Aubrey, and even Ella's ages that i have a hard time leaving them. Having said that, once im there, im sure i'll be fine. Mommy needs a break, and some BFF time! Since neither of us gambles, it wont be an expensive trip at all :)
Not sure what else to update on since my last blog. Ella is now potty trained! :) I've hung out with a friend from down the street. We went to a drink and paint studio last weekend. That was a blast, i hope we can do that again someday. I'll pick something more challenging to paint :) And in March we are going to a glass blowing place with a Groupon we got. That is going to be a blast too!!
I hear Ella is up from her nap now, so i must cut this short. I sure hope this rain, yes i said rain, stops here soon, since i need to walk to go get Julia in an hour. GOTTA GO!
This morning started out eventful when i found a big A** spider in the kids bathroom. That is the 2nd one in the last couple weeks, and only in their bathroom. They are mutants here! HUGE! Even my husband agreed that the last one was very large, when i called him to kill it. But of course he was at work when i found the one from this morning. As most or all of you know, i HATE spiders!!!! The bigger they are, the worse my fear is! This was big, brown and hairy, so nasty. I got all worked up trying to kill it somehow. I was trying to stay strong for my kids, but they saw right through me lol. I was figuring out how to get if off the girls showers curtain and into the toilet when it started on the move. UGH, i hate when they are creepy crawling when you want to get them. He went behind the toilet and i couldnt find him. Which of course is making me sweat and freak out cause im not about to let my kids go pee in there now! 2 of them still hadnt gone since waking up, the baby was starting to cry cause she was hungry, i hadnt made breakfast or Julia's lunch. So after about 45 min. (yeah yeah) i get the vaccum cleaner. If this spider had been smaller, i would have been able to get it and throw it in the toilet but with the legs and body it was almost the side of my palm. NO THANK YOU! So i get the vaccum out, but of course as soon as i get close the thing takes off in a sprint towards the tub again. So about 15 min. after that i try again, determined to get him because now its almost time for Julia to leave for school, the baby was fed, BUT my 2 oldest still needed to pee. And i know if i took my eyes off him any longer, he would be long somewhere when i came back and i can not have that happen. I took the hose from the vacuum and went to him very slowly since he is obv. smart enough to run. I got him this time. I also wouldnt shut off the vacuum for 15 min. so i knew he wasnt crawling back out! hahahah I vacuumed the kids room after i got him, then dumped it, and vacuumed the living room. He better be dead!
So now that the vacuuming is out of the way :) I did some laundry. I needed to so that i could pack a few things for Vegas tomorrow. IM sooo excited to go! I havent been in over 7 years. Im kinda sad though too cause i've never gone a full day/night with out seeing my kids! I completely trust their dad to handle all 4 of them, which isnt the problem. And im totally fine leaving the older ones for a couple days lol. But i feel like my little baby Aubrey is going to miss me. Shes is my little momma's girl. She hangs with me all day, most of the time, on my hip while i cook, or im sitting near her while she plays. I know it will be good for her to not have me being the only one that puts her down for a nap or feeds her. But im going to miss her soooo much!! My kids have only spend the night away from me, when i was in the hospital having one of their siblings but even then my parents would bring them up to visit. Julia has spent the night at her aunts house once, and that was totally fine. Shes at the age where im totally fine with her staying a night at her aunts, grandparents, or her best friends house. I know its probably odd for those reading this to think that i've gone that long with out leaving them anywhere, but its thats just how i am. I love having my kids around. And i know the older they are, the more willing i am and will be to apart from them on occasion. Its just when they are little like Aubrey, and even Ella's ages that i have a hard time leaving them. Having said that, once im there, im sure i'll be fine. Mommy needs a break, and some BFF time! Since neither of us gambles, it wont be an expensive trip at all :)
Not sure what else to update on since my last blog. Ella is now potty trained! :) I've hung out with a friend from down the street. We went to a drink and paint studio last weekend. That was a blast, i hope we can do that again someday. I'll pick something more challenging to paint :) And in March we are going to a glass blowing place with a Groupon we got. That is going to be a blast too!!
I hear Ella is up from her nap now, so i must cut this short. I sure hope this rain, yes i said rain, stops here soon, since i need to walk to go get Julia in an hour. GOTTA GO!
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Winter Break
Feels like its been awhile since i've updated this. Since my last post, we've had Christmas and started a New year. Julia was off for about 2.5 weeks, and i got used to her being home. So its her first week back and i've kinda missed her :) Although i dont miss the two oldest bickering.
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A couple days after the 1st, we headed up to mountain to play in some snow. Yes, Arizona does have mountains, and does get snow, LOTS of snow in the winter! :) I didnt really know this either when i lived in Oregon, until my friends in-laws were visiting from Flagstaff and they told me that they get lots of snow every winter. Eye opener for me. I just thought all of Arizona was hot, all of the time. Lately, its been in the 30's when i walk Julia to school, but by the afternoon is sunny and in the 50-60s. Anyways, flagstaff is about a 2.5 hour drive from where we live. I packed our lunch and snacks and extra clothes and all our snow stuff and off we went! We didnt want to go to the actual ski resort, so about 2 hours after leaving the house, we just took an exit and were looking for a big field to go play in. We had the dog and wanted her to be able to run freely. Luckily, we had taken the perfect exit! Tons of people were doing the same thing and had all pulled over for this huge field to play in. We drove about another min. down the street and there was a country club with an acre or so of land out front that another family was playing in the snow as well. So thats where we got out and played for a couple hours. Im sure once the kids are all bigger there will much more time actually playing in the snow, but with such little ones, it ended quickly. Ella never slept on the way there, so she was tired, but did really well over all :)
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I cant believe that my little Aubrey is already 5 months old!! And in less than 2 months, i'll have a 7, 5, and 2 year old! Speaking of an almost 2 year old. Ella is almost fully potty trained! She wakes up dry from nap and has no pee accidents for over a week. I am just working on her using the potty for her #2. She likes to wait until nap time to do that, although she has gone in the potty for that a couple times now, but it still fighting that. Not sure why....
Here are some random pictures from the last few days...
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