In my own words....

Almost 2 months old!

2009-08-26T00:56:00.001-07:00

So...we're about 2 months into this whole 2nd child deal... Allie does really well with Hailey, but is definitely acting out about not getting enough attention. She's been doing things she's never tried before, and stuff I never thought I'd see her do.. ugh. But I know I've got to be understanding, and hopefully the "time of transition" will be over soon!!?? Other than that we are doing so good :) Hailey is growing every day and getting chubbier and chubbier I LOVE it!! She's smiling a lot, cooing a lot, and sleeping much better now too.

Shaun is done working part time at Home Depot, and has a couple weeks off until he starts his senior year of school, yay! it'd be much more fun if we had money to take a vacation while we have the time... but we'll just have to enjoy the time together and do cheap things around town. The next year of school is going to be super hard for all of us. Shaun's degree is very hard and every assignment is extremely time consuming. I hope I can be supportive and not an extra burden through this last stretch of school. Then when he's done we'll start the exciting/scary journey to "what's next" and WHERE is the key part of this... not sure where the right job will be for Shaun and if we'll have to move. So we'll see what God has in store for us....

I'm excited for Allie to start school also in sept... she's going to her first year of elementary school! the big K! I hope the school by our house is good enough and a safe place for her cause that's all we've got. can't afford fancy/expensive private schools (at least now) so I'm going to try and be involved and volunteer at her school as much as I can! it's within walking distance so I'm excited to have the option of walking her to school, and getting in an exercise routine as well! :)

oh yea and I've signed allie up for soccer! I'll let you know how that goes when it gets going..;)

ok... that's all for now folks!

peace.

OK.... so I didn't post about the pregnancy...lol

2009-07-26T14:02:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry if I disappointed anyone.... I was working full time and mom and wife full time at home, so computer time just wasn't in the cards, esp while trying to catch a nap here and there! My pregnancy went well just like the first time, and both baby and I were healthy and happy (most of the time ;) Our sweet little Hailey was born on July 2nd! :) just 2 days after Allie's 5th birthday! the birthday parties are going to be "interesting" we'll see if they like it or not... haha.

I've been blessed to be able to be a stay at home mom now, and I'm LOVING it! working just isn't for me... I'm a bit "insubordinate" LOL. I don't like bosses, and they don't like me. But that's beside the point... I'm so so so happy to be home with my girls, and getting ready to send Allie to Kindergarten in September! Shaun is working on finishing his Electrical Engineering degree at PSU, and when he's graduated and looking for a job in that field it will be an all new adventure of the unknown... we'll see where the job is and where it takes us!

here's a few pictures of our little Hailey Grace ;)

When Allie's 5.....

2008-12-28T00:07:00.000-08:00

She'll have a new baby brother or sister. :) That's what we've told Allie to help her know when the baby is coming... yep. the baby. We are within a week of starting the second trimester and feel that we can freely let all of our friends and loved ones know of our happy news!

Everything is going fine just as it did with the first pregnancy, so we all pray that trend continues :) We are all very excited and blessed that God has given us this opportunity and incredible blessing. I intend to keep friends and family updated on my blog with pictures and post of my progress throughout the pregnancy. Here are a couple ultrasound pictures from my 12 week visit last week. I'll do a belly picture a little further down the line and post a new belly picture regularly to show baby's growth :)

Christmas 2008

2008-12-27T23:25:00.000-08:00

This post will definitely not convey our entire Christmas Season this year, but we have a few pictures to share. It's been busy but very fun, especially with all the SNOW!!! yea.. it's been awesome! So we've been enjoying it and not taking pictures as we should. :) Enjoy....

Halloween 2008

2008-12-27T22:14:00.000-08:00

So Allie was a Bride this year, she had lots of fun in her pretty dress! Mommy and Daddy didn't dress up this year, but we had a great time going with her to the church harvest party with all the games and treats! Her favorite thing was the huge inflatable slide and the bounce house! Those were a hit this year! We also went trick or treating the next night with Allie's little buddie Orion and his parents and our friends Amanda and Nathan Skinner. That was loads of fun and loads of CHOCOLATE! Here are some pictures of Allie's Halloween :)

We have a new member of the family!

2008-10-11T17:22:00.000-07:00

His name is Bo ;] he's such a good boy, he sits on command (we're working on lay down) and he hardly ever barks, and it's low mellow bark... so cute! He doesn't really need a leash although we use it for safety when we're out walking. He follows right next to you or very close by, never runs off, actually comes to you when you call!hahah.. this is all very new and fun to have a dog that obeys! :) poor sadie she's having a rough time adjusting but she has already warmed up a lot. We're hoping they will learn to love each other and become playmates... sadie could really use someone to be attached to esp while we're not home... so that's the goal :) Bo loves sadie of course, he's always ready to play. He's about 8 months now, we adopted him from a lady who'd kept him this long since birth because he was born with a cleft pallet, meaning the roof of his mouth didn't fully form and was left slightly open and is at large risk for infection if food or germs get stuck in the open space. they said he's been doing fine with this birth defect and knew he was ready to go home with a loving family. we had him checked out at our vet and they recommend a surgery that will correct the gap and he'll be good as new. He goes in 10/24 and will get his manhood taken away at the same time lol. Mommy's happy that she finally gets a big dog :) we're having lots of fun with him... I love that he's so good! haha..

"Big fella"

2008-10-09T17:39:00.000-07:00

This isn't the best picture ever but it'll do ;) this is the one Shaun got me(White) and the little one allie got at burger king (pink) ;0)

i-dog ;)

2008-10-07T22:27:00.001-07:00

So Shaun bought me an i-dog tonight simply because we went through burger king for dinner on our way to church tonight and Allie got a mini i-dog toy in her kids meal, and mommy was fascinated by it. I was all ready to go back to burger king on our way home and either buy another kids meal and pretend I wasn't only in it for the toy, or beg the girl working if I can just buy one of the i-dogs with out the meal which we didn't need or want, haha! I thought it was so cute, I was just going to put it on my desk to look at and I knew allie wouldn't give her's up lol! So then Shaun says why don't we just go down to fred meyer and you can get a real one and use it with your ipod! .......awwwwww :) he's so good to me...

Allie kept calling him "big fella" on the way home it was hilarious... cause her's is smaller and didn't really do anything other than a button that lit up the face like the real idog does. So she was impressed with "the big fella". haha...

here's a performance from Snoop Dog in honor of dogs and my new i-dog ;) thanks sweetie!

it's been a while...

2008-08-07T11:10:00.000-07:00

So I'm just going to say a quick hello and get a new post up here lol. It's been a busy but really fun summer so far, we've gone camping like 6 times! and to the beach, and had Allie's birthday party, and other b-day parties, and bbq's... just lots of fun stuff... too much to keep up with on my blog! :) I do have some pics posted on myspace, but there's still lots more I need to get up somewhere.. it's hard to keep up with all the programs these days.. if I post pictures it seems like I've got to put them on my blog, myspace, and facebook just too keep everyone in the loop :)

So anyway.. hope every one's summer has been great! you'll have to give me little updates! We still have our "Hanna Montana" vacation coming up at the end of this month! whoohooo! we can't wait! gonna be tons of fun :) I might try to post a couple times while we're there in Montana with some pictures.. it will be my first time there, and I'll be all excited about everything.. Shaun doesn't get it but I know I'll have a blast!

have a good one!
peace.

Thanks everyone :)

2008-05-28T19:36:00.001-07:00

All the supportive comments were very sweet. and really it just reinforces that the true friends I have care, and pay attention. I'm privileged to have you all as such good friends, it just will always bother me to have "so so" friends, ya know? I'm just not the kind to befriend someone without giving it my all.

Hope everyone had a great mem day weekend! I am working on the pictures for my post :) coming soon! :)

ta ta for now.....

tell someone you love them today.

sometimes I just don't know why I try....

2008-05-08T18:43:00.000-07:00

I've always been this way my whole life... I'm the friend that tries really hard to make everyone happy, and always calls, and always thinks of the ideas and makes the plans. I can write about this fairly freely on here because some of the friends I'm talking about have never actually checked out my blog after I have mentioned it and sent the link to them several times. I have some really close friends who don't check it all the time, or write on it all the time but that doesn't bother me at all because they DO respond and reciprocate when I really need them. But there are just these really sad moments that I seem to come across more often in my life than I'd like to where I feel so walked on, and unappreciated. I go through months of "friendship" and interaction with these people and "think" that they are good friends, or they really care, and want to keep up with me. And one of those moments just walks up to me and slaps me in the face so hard I can't remember who I am. it throws me off majorly.. it makes me rethink everything I've ever said to these people, or anything they've ever said to me wondering if it was all a show or all just to "be nice" etc... UGh...

I wish things were simple people never talked to other people unless they meant it and vise verse. I tend to be real simple and blunt in my thinking like that.. if I don't feel genuine or have a whole lot to say I don't waste my time or their's until I can come up with something valuable to say that will make that person happy, or make them feel just a little bit better than maybe they did a min ago.. things like that. (this is what I mean by why do I even try) because I come to these sad moments in my life where I realize the friends I think I had don't think of me that way, they don't make sure what they say to me will encourage me, or make a difference in my day, they don't just mind there own business when they really have nothing good to say and make me feel they are just chit chatting and going through the "friend motions" with me. *sigh* oh well.. I just seem to be really naive and gullible about people and their intentions and their value of friendship.

anyway.. just needed to get that off my chest. I'm thankful for friends of mine that are very true and very honest with me and very real. I don't have to worry about them "faking it" or going through the motions with me, they either like me or they don't. they either enjoy talking to me or they don't. they either want to get to know me or they don't. it seems pretty simple to me.

well... off to figure out dinner for Allie and I. Shaun won't be home until late tonight. ( I feel an pizza and 1/2 gallon of ice cream with a spoon cuddled up on the couch night coming on)...

thanks for listening..

life update (may be long and coma inducing)

2008-04-29T18:44:00.000-07:00

well... I'm in my last week of training at the new job! yay! I actually get my own desk and a much more flexible schedule next monday! ;) I'm excited! everything is going well, and I'm still enjoying it. I've had a lot less stress since I changed jobs, it's been delightful :)

I've been thinking a lot about where to send Allie to preschool this coming sept, and I have no clue what I'm doing or where to send her or if we can even afford it. All these firsts with kids are hard, of course I've never had to do it before so how do parents know what to do ya know?

We are still on for our vacation to "Hanna Montana" as Allie would say lol. I'm so glad my new employer let me have it off! So we're trying to figure out how to plan our trip out and if we'll go bankrupt just from the gas prices since we're driving there and probably taking the truck and the dog so we'll have room for everyone and everything.

I'm sooo loving the weather (when it's been sunny) lately. We've had a few days of 70's ish weather and it's been absolutely lovely! we went to the beach a couple weekends ago on a nice saturday like that, had a blast and got a little sun. Last weekend it was really pretty too, Shaun and I bought a couple of barrel planters and I planted some white and dark pink flowers in them in the front yard and enjoyed the sun.

We've been hanging out with a couple who's son goes to Allie's day care lately. They invited us to his birthday party and we've gotten together a couple times after that. I haven't really had a friend who has a child that we can hang out with regularly. I have friends from high school who don't have kids yet, and friends from church that have kids but we don't see all the time or very often anyway and they have their friends from high school that they always hang out with. So it's nice to sort of find a couple that's within our element. :) we're having a good time. Their son and Allie play really good together, he's a good little boy. And we have a lot of the same interests so we really get along well. anyway... I'm just always thankful for new friends :)

I'm posting this on the laptop from my bedroom cause I'm "guarding" or watching Gracie after her spay today, poor thing she's pretty tired. Keeping Allie and Sadie away from her is hard and keeping her in is hard too, she wants out of course. lol anyway, there's been a lot going on lately and I've been cut off from my second life on the internet so I haven't been able to keep up like I used to. I miss all my friends online at momsville and hope you all are doing great! shoot me an email anytime (I try to check it every night) :)

peace, love and cookies.

My LAST Day!

2008-04-04T10:52:00.000-07:00

I'm a big bottle of excitment! lol! Everyone's being really nice today!haha so far I got a card and a hand made beaded bracelet from a friend here, and lots of goodbyes. We're doing mexican food for lunch today, and Greta and another guy from work and I are going to do some Irish Car bombs after work! (carol ann's, baileys, and guiness) YUM! and maybe play some pool too...

So ya this is it! I'm going to NOT miss it here! lol.... but I will miss some good friends I've made a long the way of course.

I'll be posting about my new job as soon as I get a day or two under my belt :)

so long....

hello.....

Well it's my last week at Carlton....

2008-03-31T07:51:00.000-07:00

It's going to be long but short at the same time... there are some great friends that I've gotten to know over the span of 2 years, and when you think about spending the majority of your days 5 days a week with people at work for 2 years of your life you've invested a lot with some people and with others you've endured and soaked up a lot of emotions and experiences that will stay with you forever. So I'll be trying to touch base with some of those people I've invested in and have a relationship there and make sure they've got my phone # to keep in touch and let them now I'll miss them. Other's I'll be rejoicing that I won't have to deal with them anymore! hehehe And of course I'm getting anxious and a little nervous for the new position, and the new relationships and people to endure lol not knowing what I'll come face to face with, the good, the bad and the ugly.... they're all out there lurking in the shadows waiting for any moment to leap out and ..... oh sorry got a little carried away there.. ;) you get the picture.

on the lighter side, I got to go shopping for some new work clothes! yay! shopping! lol... that always makes a girl feel good :P

New job, new journey, new challenges...

2008-03-26T09:06:00.000-07:00

Well it happend within 2 days! I got a call thursday and interviewed friday and got an offer extended to me the same day! I hope that this new job will have the environment I'm looking for and less stressful all around. They seemed to be pretty nice, and understanding even when Sadie was hurt that day and they had to wait for me.

anyway...I sort a wish I could take a week off in between this job and the other, but I doubt my boss now will go for that, hahah. but I might just ask :)

no you're eyes aren't playing tricks on you, there really is a swing in her room!

2008-03-01T16:43:00.001-08:00

We saw it at IKEA when we got our bed frame, and couldn't resist! how cool is it to have a swing in your own room! lol... .she absolutely loves it ;)

This is our cat "stretch"

2008-03-01T16:39:00.001-08:00

Allie's Easter Dress (one for her dolly too)

2008-03-01T16:31:00.000-08:00

I found this dress that came with a little dress for a doll, and I had to get it! she had to try it on and put it on her dolly :) I'm thinking I'll let her take dolly to church with her just cause it's so darn cute! hehehee..

Allie wanted to help me take a picture with her princesses camera :)

More snow pics!

2008-02-26T08:40:00.000-08:00

Here's some more that my brother took :)

Playin at the mountain!

2008-02-18T07:55:00.000-08:00

We had such a blast! it was a little slow goin with parking, and how busy it was up there since it was sooo sunny and beautiful, and finding a good place for all of us, esp Allie to have a good safe place to tube. But once we found our little spot and got goin it was awesome! Allie did so good, and thank goodness her snow clothes worked well, she didn't get wet at all. My brother came up with us which was awesome, and took a lot of pictures which we really awesome cause I wanted to make sure I got some but I was really keeping a tight watch on Allie since it was so slippery and the snow wasn't packed much and we kept falling down as far as 3 feet or more with each step in most places. I had no room for taking pictures, I was on high alert with Allie running around! :)

Here's a few Jenn took, and I'll post more when I get some from my brother :)

Allie loved the snow!

This is Anne and I goin down the hill! poor girl was about to fly off the back! but it was fun!

Anne and Nate were trying to go down together and Nate was sliding before she got on so she grabbed on to his hood (kinda choking him, hahaha.... whoops!) she eventually got on with him and took off down the hill!

Anne and Jenn

Shaunie and I ;)

Jason and Jenn :)

Anne and Nate :)

THE GIRLS! :)

Jenn's Wedding!

2008-02-08T08:44:00.000-08:00

So... she finally got back her professional pictures, and I found a few with us (Shaun & I) (Anne & Nate) in them! I assumed I'd look like my horrible picture taking self, but I don't look half bad for being 20-50lbs overweight and 6 ft taller than everyone else. lol. *sigh* someday I'll look better right? anyway.. regarless of how I look, I still want to cherrish the moment! Jenn's Wedding was so amazing! it was truely a fairytale wedding! everything went so well, and everything looked amazing, I'll have to post more pictures sometime of the rest of it. We all had a great time, and now all three of us are married!!! heeeehaaww! now get on with havin babies you two!!! lol. I can't wait we'll all be barefoot and standing around pregnant in our kitchens talking about how our backs hurt, and our feet hurt, and the heartburn, and the fear of delivery! lol, it will be great! lol.

So, here's to you Jenn! Congratulations! Jason is a great guy, and you two will be happy for many years to come! just keep on sayin your sorry when you should, sayin I love you even before you should, and keep the Lord first and at the center of your marriage! I'm so happy for you!

just needed to post...

2008-02-04T10:30:00.000-08:00

So life seems to be a bit crazy lately...I'm really not sure why, lol! it just is... I've been wanting to make a new post forever, I look at my blog every day and just think, "ugh.. blah.. nothing new! lol, but I never have any idea's of what to blog about, esp with out any interesting pictures! lol So here's something at least... ;)

The superbowl game this weekend was awesome! I was trying to find some good pictures of some of the great moments to post... I found a lot of great ones, but one moment that I think deserved a lot more credit than it got was when Eli Manning escaped the clutches of 4 or 5 patriots and after being down to grass level, then back up again spinning out and back only to make "the" amazing throw of the game to Tyree who inturn makes "the" catch of the game pinning the ball tightly to his own helmet! All of it was just plain awesome but in all of the news, sports overage, etc.. they really only focus on Tyree's catch. I would love to see some still shots of Mannings efforts! but all in all it was a fabulous superbowl game, very exciting, and nail biting at the end!

I'm not the best to comment on football but this was a game ANYONE could enjoy and appreciate! ;) here are a couple cool pics from the game...

The MVP celibrating!

The Coach, and a tradition!

"the" catch. amazing....

holding on for dear life, even with a 200 +lb man scooping him up from underneath!

Victory! and the later emotional Plaxico Burress.

Allie and her new hat & scarf from Lizzy

2008-01-15T08:33:00.000-08:00

Lizzy is so good at this stuff and when I saw the hat she made for her daughter Jaemie, I loved it! and asked her if she wanted to make another one and I'd buy it for Allie. We got it in the mail yesterday, and had to try it on! Of course almost every picture from now until eternity Allie will be holding the kitten, it's attached to her hip these days. Little Gracie does pretty good about being hauled around everywhere, I think she'll have a good temperament which is what we were hoping for. Sadie knows who's boss during play time now, she's so patient with Gracie, and we're relieved that it's going so well :)

More Gracie

2007-12-29T20:33:00.000-08:00

Just playin with a Christmas bow....

Sleepin on mom....

Hi mom I saw that....

soooo cozy....

Just close enough to smell her....

Whoa she's jumpy....

(right after Sadie's nose was swatted ) lol I thought I got the pic but it was right after

What is this thing?

Baby kitten for Christmas

2007-12-27T09:04:00.000-08:00

well it's love.

Allie and her new kitten are smitten. ;) She was so surprised and excited when she woke up Christmas morning. I carried her into our bedroom and when the door opened she saw baby Gracie sitting on our bed meowing at her. She threw her hands up and said " A KITTY!"

I decided her name should be Grace or Gracie because of a moment on the drive home from picking her up Christmas eve. This is the story....

Well we had been talking about getting a kitten for months, and every time I saw a picture on craigslist or heard of a friend that had kittens to give away I'd ask Shaun, " honey, look how cute! can we?" the answer was always, "we need to wait until the floors are done". It was always true, we did really need to wait. Mommy didn't like waiting much , lol. So finally when we had a confirmed day when the guy was going to come and put the seal, and finish coat on the other half of our house in order to finish it all up, of course I began looking and I think it took me all of 2 days to find the perfect little one (because of course Allie wanted one that looked similar to the cat at daycare, lol). So with about a million calls back and fourth to the girl who posted the craigslist add trying to schedule when kitty would get to the vet and when we could pick her up I was finally driving out to get her on Christmas eve. I finally arrived and she was beautiful, adorable, sweet, innocent, and ours! On the 30min drive home I was just in heaven watching her sleeping in her carrier, she was so clam and sweet I couldn't believe she wasn't fussing more. The weather was very nice that morning it was clear and sunny (still cold) but sun shining! Then as I neared home still on the freeway in the middle of a stretch of beautiful tree's it began to rain lightly, and being a believer I always look around for a rainbow when it's sunny and raining. As I looked around I didn't see one at first, but then after I cleared some of the heavier trees there it was, and not only a single rainbow but a beautiful double rainbow! It was extremely bright and clear, it was just a perfect moment. I looked down at the little baby next to me and thought what a sweet moment and this should be her name... .but what? rainbow? that's kinda "happy" ie: other word for happy connected to rainbow lol and then I thought ok what does a rainbow stand for? Promise. It's God's sign of His promise to us to never flood the earth again. Then I thought Promise that's a weird name for a cat... then I thought ok so what does His promise mean? Well the next thing that came to mind was that it's only by God's grace that we are saved and the meaning of the rainbow specifically is that we are saved from another flood, spared, pardoned, forgiven, and loved. So there it was, she would be called Grace. (or Gracie if you ask Allie ;) I felt it deep down in my heart in that moment and just knew. So with that said here's some of the first pictures of baby Grace.

It's the thursday before the friday... well duh.

2007-12-20T09:15:00.000-08:00

So ya friday will be nice to get to and get over with, hahaha. I'll have a half day friday because of our company Christmas party at noon that day. And then the EXTREMELY busy weekend begins! as of about now (11:ooam) our floors should be sealed and coated with the finish and nicely drying! HOOOO RAWW!!! finally! you can say that again! ok.... I will! FINALLY! Criminy it took so long! I'm soooooooooo HAPPY! we've been waiting for this for so long, and have worked soooo hard on it, the pay off will be SWEET. :) It's going to be a race against time to get the house in order for Christmas day at our house with the whole family!

Friday night : buy paint at home depot, paint all the trim in our bedroom, the hall, and the bottom trim in Allie's room. Shaun is redoing the closets in our room so that it's more efficient since it's currently the size of a Honey bucket port-o-potty. (not much too it) lol. It won't be getting any bigger that's for sure but he's going to add shelves and redo the hanging rods to be more efficient! yay for handymen! Then move all the furniture from the other side of the house back into the bedrooms and also get most if not all of the rest of our junk that's been sitting in the garage into the house finally. Then set up the dinning room table and chairs again, and pretty much deep clean the house. Then wrap all the presents stashed in the coat closet. Then die of exhaustion. ;)

Should be interesting, I'll let you know if we succeed! :) OH and I almost forgot! pick up a new baby kitten for a surprise Christmas present for Allie (and mommy, who secretly wants it more than Allie, hehehe) YAY!!! we can't wait!

Merry Christmas everyone! May God Bless your families with fellowship and love this Christmas!

peace
love
and coffee.

Needed to post...

2007-12-13T11:26:00.000-08:00

Something.

I haven't posted in a while cause I haven't been very motivated.... Some day's I feel chatty and some days I just don't. More often than not I don't feel all that chatty hence the not wanting to post with out a picture along with it. So... ya this is me posting with out a pic. Extremely interesting huh? Let's see we got Christmas lights up at the house, re-arranged the living room for a tree, got the tree, decorated the tree. Now to finish Christmas shopping, yay.

I guess that's about it.... hope I have satisfied the blogging community out there, lol.

I'll post more when I have some pics or something worth ranting about ;)

peace
love
and coffee

Random funny stuff...

2007-11-28T15:12:00.000-08:00

While searching for pics to re-vamp my blog I came across some I knew I had to post.
enjoy...

This next one is my favorite, it was titled "coffee and Jesus". What more could you want! this complete's life's most basic needs! :)

Our Thanksgiving Dinner

2007-11-24T14:43:00.000-08:00

Well the food was great! then we were all full and sleepy. Typical Holiday dinner, lol.
some of the pics aren't that great of the people, I was taking them kind of fast, but you get the idea :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

2007-11-22T14:33:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to wish every one a great Thanksgiving, and a safe holiday! Happy Decorating! :) Christmas is just around the corner! :) yay!

Ice Skating!

2007-11-13T07:51:00.000-08:00

We took Allie ice skating for her first time last weekend, and she had a blast! :) She did pretty good, I thought she'd be more scared, but she wasn't. She kept wanting me to hold both her hands and she'd just kinda hang from me (which was hard by the way) and so she wasn't keeping her skates on the ice a lot, she was just having fun I think. ;) She did let me pull her and keep her skates down quite a lot, she skated for almost 30 mins straight! Needless to say mommy, daddy and grandma were very tired and soar after only 30 mins cause none of us had been skating in a very long time! But we had fun and got a couple cute pictures!

Allie likes Sadie's little house more than Sadie does...

2007-11-13T07:37:00.000-08:00

So I saw this cute little thing in a magazine and i thought Sadie would like it... nope. She won't go in it at all, lol. We've put her toy's in there, we've but a blanket she likes to lay on in it, we've put treats in there and even then trying to get her toys and treats out she carefully edges in and reaches her neck as far as she can so she doesn't have to go in all the way and gets her toy or treat and scoots out backwards as if there was a bear in there! lol

But Allie liked it... she got right in there and in the one picture you can see she's trying to drag Sadie in by her collar! That's a no no! we try to keep her from pulling on Sadie but this was pretty cute. ;) So maybe eventually Sadie will like it right?

Disney Princess's on Ice

2007-11-04T13:02:00.000-08:00

We took Allie to this show because my boss got a great deal on tickets from one of her connections through work, otherwise the tickets would have been upwords of 60-80 dollars each. but ours were only 35/ea! And they were awesome seats not far from the ice! Allie absolutly loved it! My mom and I took her, and it was great girls day out!

Here's some pictures....

Trick or Treat ;)

2007-11-01T21:40:00.000-07:00

We had a great time at the harvest party :) Here's some pictures of Allie playing some of the games they had set up, and a few pics of the three of us. I threw in some close ups of my make up, and you can see Allie's in some of the pics too, she wanted red like momma :)
Happy Halloween!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Trick or Treat!

Sleepy puppy...

2007-10-22T09:55:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd share this cute pic of Sadie I caught the other day, she's often very passed out looking in the evenings. ( I like her this way the best) lol....

Kids say the darnedest things....

2007-10-22T09:45:00.000-07:00

Ok, so talk about embarrassing.... Allie and I made a quick run to the grocery store last night and as we were passing oh about 4 or 5 people within a very close distance to us, Allie says very clearly and loud enough for all to hear, "Mommy?" I said what... then she said, " do you have underwear on?" I said yes (kind of quietly, but still loud enough to defend myself) then I promptly said Allie! Shhhhh! and she says, "mom, I can talk" and I said yes you can but you can't say that! lol....it was pretty embarrassed by her asking that in public but also couldn't help but laugh a little cause it was soooo out of no where! I'm a very modest person, and have never and will never go "commando". I have no idea why she asked me, but I thought it was hilarious, and also extremely humiliating at the same time. I was too chicken to look up and see if anyone was looking at me. There were like I said at least 4 people right next to us in the isle!

I told Shaun what she said, and he quoted.."kids say the darnedest things" so I knew I had to post about it today to share the humiliation, and laughter with everyone.... why not, eh?

The Pumpkin Patch Oct 2007

2007-10-15T21:11:00.000-07:00

We had a great time this year, Allie really had fun as you can see. :) We got 3 pumpkins (2 of which we'll carve) the other little one was just for Allie to be able to carry. I'll probably get one or two more bigger pumpkins to carve at the grocery store. I'll take pics of them and post them soon. Happy Halloween!

Morning fellow earthlings..

2007-10-08T08:25:00.000-07:00

well it's monday. Grrrreeeaaat. Oh well gotta do it... It was a fun weekend, we had my good friends bachelorette party on sat night, and the boys (including my husband) had the bachelore party. It was pretty cool, we went to Jenn and Jason's (the bride and groom's) new house that we helped them move into by the way for the bachelorette party. we did some games, and she opened her lingerie and tried a few numbers on for us ;) (calm down she put them on over her clothes) geeeez! but ya that was fun, I got lots of pictures, and then we went down town to Rock Bottom brewery, which is one of her favorite restaurants. All the girls went to dinner with her, talked, laughed, she opened some more gifts there too. then! all the guys from the bachelore party that was supposed to be at a different location far away from ours at a sports bar/ pool hall type thingy, walked bye our restaurant waving at us through the window! lol they had decided to go to a different bar downtown that happened to be right around the corner from where we were. So of course like half the girls who's husbands were there went out side to say hello, and I got a few pictures of some romantic moon lit kisses on the steps of the restaurant. It ended up being a nice surprise! :) the the boys went back to Jenn and Jason's house to play one round of poker which I am proud to point out MY husband won! $20 smackers! ROCK ON! lol And all the girls went home from the restaurant. So ya that was cool, she had on the typical bachelorette gear, the veil, the t-shirt that said BRIDE in huge letters on the front. it was cute... we tried to get her to wear one of the thongs she got that said bride on em over her pants but she wouldn't lol. something about it would be humiliating, or degrading.. ya know something silly like that.

Then a friend of mine got a new PUPPY! that was super cool! YAY Chrissy! he's soooooo CUTE! love the pictures!

So.. that the extent of the excitement for me... I'm sure more drama will show it's ugly face at any moment but until then peace, love, and chocolate! lol

Mommy get's to go shopping and Daddy get's points in the Love bank ;)

2007-10-04T12:15:00.000-07:00

So Shaun and I were talking and he said we'd have a little extra money this month because of an extra paycheck. So I asked timidly if I could have a clothes budget and get a few new things. He said I could (he manages all the money so I know he knows what we can and can't do) yay! So first chance I got (yesterday) I was off to the store as soon as grandma picked up the little one. I planned to stop at a few different stores, but needed to go to walmart first.... I never made it past walmart, lol. they had a lot of cute clothes and I knew they were the most competitive prices anyway, so I just kept looking and trying stuff on. I think I went back the dressing room like 5 times, the lady was getting sick of me. I didn't find any shoes I wanted or the earrings I was looking for but hey, I got 3 pair of pants, like 6 or 7 new tops, some new undies, 3 pictures for the house, 1 toy for Allie, and some decorative potpourri stuff(had to look that word up, great scott!) (that I need to find a cute bowl for). But after all that NEW stuff, I was on cloud 9! just getting a few little things made me so happy, made me feel so good.... I'm easily pleased I guess.

Grandma helped get Allie some new clothes for the winter the other day so she was taken care of too. **deep breath** ahhhh.... all is well :) it's amazing how a little extra money just wipes away the stress, lol. anyway.. just thought I'd share my bliss!

My friend and I are going shopping again this weekend not for me :( but for our friend who's getting married in about a week and we get to pick out some lingerie for her for the bachelorette party this sat! whooo, saucy! ;) lol

Allie amazes me sometimes...

2007-09-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

She's sitting on the big chair pretending to read daddy's sports illustrated magazine and is singing various nursery rhymes that she can remember as if she's reading them straight out of the magazine she's looking at. It's so cute. She turns the page and starts in on a new story, lol. She has such an imagination! Now she's a monster stomping through the house roaring with her hands up like paws, lol...now she's in the cubbord that's attached to the desk, we haven't got anything in it yet and she can fit snugly in there. She has closed the door and is talking to "merry old soul" apparently. I could just sit here and narrate a day in the life of Allie and it would be pretty entertaining. Actually I sat down and wanted to make a new post and couldn't think of what to write about and just started watching Allie, and thought it was funny, so I wrote that. ;)

Sadie and Shaunie are a sleep on the couch supposedly watching the seattle/san fran game. :) well it's sunday afternoon and we're all just being kinda lazy... I want to see if my mom wants to come with me later and go shopping for some new winter clothes for Allie and maybe a few things for yours truly. Although it's kinda "icky" outside and I'm not jumping around anxiously to go out in the "icky" weather to go shopping, but Allie only has maybe 2 pair of pants that are long enough for her, almost all of her current pants fit still but she's too tall for them now. It's so expensive to buy new clothes every season! but she's not going to stop growing anytime soon. :)

well... hope everyone is enjoying their weekend, and getting some relaxation in! Talk to ya'll (momsville) tomorrow. and the rest of you.. get with the program and at least email me... lol! :) j/k still friends .... (I guess).. hehee.

peace.

hip...hip hop....hiphopanonomous

2007-09-27T07:45:00.000-07:00

I love that line from the movie Big Daddy. the food delivery guy can't read and him and the little kid are learning to read together and he can read hippopotamus! then Adam sandler says something to the little kid, and then says " it's not his fault he can't read" lol ya it was funnier when you actually hear it. :( I'm bad at re telling stuff lol!

Anywho.. just babbling cause I'm bored. I'm so excited for halloween! I can't figure out what Allie should be, she of course wants to be one of the princesses, but I think it's just so over done with little girls, I want her to be different and original, but I'm not going to spoil her halloween and make her upset, if she won't get interested in another costume, I'll settle for tinker bell or something a little off from the princesses ;) she liked that costume when we were in WalMart.

I wish I could sew and had a sewing machine, so I could be all martha and make her something really fun, but at last I'm not and I don't so we'll just be boring... lol it will still be fun! :)

Shaun and I will dress up too but we don't know what to be either.. plus there's always the money factor so it's not really in the budget to buy a couple really cool ones for us either. ... so we'll just see what we find.. maybe we'll go to goodwill and see if there's something creative we can make ;0)

I'm excited to get pumpkins and do some fun carvings too! last year I did 3 stencils and it was pretty easy. I'm gonna do some of those again this year. It's also really fun to go pick out the pumpkins, we like to go to a farm and pick em out, it benefits them, and most of the time cause it's Oregon in October you get all muddy, and it's just a big messy fun trip! lol Sometimes we go out to this big farm that a family friend owns that we actually used to work at in the summers sometimes when we were growing up. Any how we'd go out there and they have a huge field of pumpkins and they take you out on a hay ride for free and you go wander through and pick out your punkin's and bring em back to the hey bails you rode in on and they drive you back up to where you pay like maybe a $1 per punkin. And at night they have a HUGE corn maze that on certain dates is "haunted" and they have volunteer kids dress up scary and hide throughout the maze and jump out at you! it's really fun! ;)

ok.. this post it ridiculously long, I'm done now! thanks for reading!

Adios good buddies.

What's wrong with me?

2007-09-24T11:42:00.000-07:00

I don't know what is wrong with me but when something hurts my feelings I don't think I feel inside what most people feel inside. I can't imagine if all people felt this horrible this often. One insignificant moment and for next few hours, until I can get my mind off of it I feel like dieing. I just feel like crying, and running away. I don't' know how to control how deeply I feel things, it's always a deep cut no matter what the situation, and I think most people just don't even notice the kind of stuff that I'm agonizing over... I feel cursed or something. I have talked it out with friends and family, and co-workers before, and all I get back is.. "you've just got to get over that, because you'll never learn or grow, or get past it if you don't" well. what happens if I can't get over this? what happens to me? do I just break someday? do I close my self off from people, and live a lonely life? I just don't know. I don't feel normal, and I feel weak. I don't know that I'll ever know what's wrong with me or how to over come it.

random pics...

2007-09-18T10:10:00.000-07:00

So... there's a couple here of Allie being cute, she found a flower outside by our house, and I put it in her hair for her, so she started posing for the camera, it was so cute! And there's a couple of the new bead-in-a-bag set we got that I was talking about yesterday, it was only $40 bucks for the comforter, flat sheet, fitted sheet, pillow cases, shams, and a bed skirt. It was like 10pm last night before I got to it, so I just kinda threw it on, and didn't get pics of it with the bed skirt or shams on, or the other side of the reverseable comforter, which is a little more "boy" for Shaun's sake , lol. it's a grid pattern with the same colors as the flower side. ;) and there are a couple pics I found of Allie and Sadie pup when they were both younger ;) I forget how cute Sadie was... aww, why can't they stay that small?

Some pics of our house and the dreaded FLOORS!

2007-09-15T10:04:00.000-07:00

Ok...bear with me these are just a couple that kind of show the house. (more the floors than the house) but you can see the living room which is the most furnished room in the house at this point, after taking these pis and looking at them I realized I REALLY need something on the walls, pictures, paintings, decorative painting, anything, something! it looks so bare! I want to do some stenciling on a lot of the walls throughout the whole house, but I'm kind of chicken, I don't want it to look horrible then have to go through painting over everything :( not fun, and NOT cheap. So ya.. I'm still waiting for more inspiration, I might start with Allie's room if I get some money for more paint someday....

you'll see the hall in which we have started on but are at a dead halt for the lack of the right kind of wood to finish repairing it. So as you can see there are gaping holes in the hall and our bedroom floor, we have a tarp on the one in the hall to walk over it, but it's getting really old, I just want it done. I may have to turn MARTHA and do it my self who knows.

okie dokie.. now for the pictures................

Living Room

Our little computer desk ;)

Front door/entry way

Looking into the dining room

The dining room

Looking into the dining room from the kitchen

From dining room to front door

Allie's room (not finished yet) light purple walls though!

Allie's room

Hall

Corner in our bedroom (floors not finished yet)

What Sadie did to our blinds in the bedroom :( stupid dog.

It's Friday!!

2007-09-14T11:23:00.000-07:00

Well.. there's not a whole lot going on today, work is kinda busy so that's good, Shaun and I are going to help our good friends Jenn and Jason move into thier new house tomorrow! yay! I hope it doesn't rain! :(

Other than that we're not doing much this weekend, still can't get our floors done :( I'm so tired of living this way... I want my actually "live" in our house :(

hope everyone's doin good. keepin' it real.. represenin'...

peace.

Better pic of our fire pit :)

2007-09-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

I grabbed this pic off of my brother's blog http://www.drueck.net/ cause it looks so much prettier! This was at night after we'd finished and wanted to actually have a fire in it the one and only fire we did the whole weekend cause we were working on it the whole time.

there's just something about camp fires I love...

Camping Sept. 2007

2007-09-09T19:15:00.000-07:00

SO! I finally got some pics on Shaun's lap top, and we got our internet set up this weekend, and it has still taken me until sunday night to try and get at least one post up! :) So this is the most recent event you've missed for lack of pictures...

I didn't have a lot of chance to get pictures while chasing Allie and Sadie all over creation the whole weekend, but there are a few of us at the river, and of the fire pit that was originally designed and put down by my grandpa who passed away quite a while ago, but his passions and traditions live on strong in our family. We wanted to redo the pit because a lot of the rocks and split and slid out of place, and it just didn't look the same anymore. We worked hard to re do it to what we hope is as close to how grandpa did it originally. All of us have always enjoyed how it looked over the years and wanted to keep it as much the same as possible. My husband Shaun, and my brother did most of the work but dug in a few rocks too! :)

We had a great weekend and will definately go again as soon as we can!

Allie in the river.

Uncle David and Allie in the river.

Allie and Sadie pup at the river.

Sadie pup being a good girl at the river.

What the fire pit looked like before and while we were digging it out

This is the finished product, my brothers pictures of it were better.

We did fajita's for one of the dinners, it was yummy!

We caught Shaun smiling while grilling, so he now has to cook from here on out, lol.

Labor Day Weekend...

2007-08-31T08:30:00.000-07:00

So... it's FRIDAY! whoopiee! We have plans to go back down to Taylor Park for a long weekend of camping! Should be fun, probably kinda quiet cause it's just going to be Shaun, Allie and I and my brother. Of course Allie can cause quite a stir when she wants to , so it may not be as quiet as we think ;) We're going to bring her little power wheels dune buggy thing so she can ride all over the camp reaking havic on poor unsuspecting campers, with mom in tow chasing after her yelling, "you won't get desert if you don't stop!!!"... ahhhh! lol And of course we'll bring a few games to play because it's tradition... Taylor Park is a place to sit and play games untill the wee hours of the night with your family and loved ones. Our one delema will be find games we can play with 3 people :( we were trying to find some one else that might like to come so that we'd have an even # of people for games, but we had no success with that. We'll make the best of it though, I'm thinking Allie will pretty much keep me busy, and Shaun and David can play games.

I'll bring my camera and probably take pics but who knows when I'll actually get them up... :o/
Hope everyone has an awesome long weekend, stay safe, and I look forward to catching up on all the "dish" on wed!

peace, love, and happiness....
or just bye.

New Title background ;-)

2007-08-29T12:41:00.000-07:00

I decided my blog needed a little color, wether I have pics up on each post or not I wanted something to catch the eye of the reader. I really like this pic I found, but I might change it every now and then, just because I like change. ;)

well...that's about all I was going to say.
Hi momsville!
peace.

ya, ya, ya... It's been a while.

2007-08-21T07:28:00.000-07:00

SO...I know it's been a while since I have blogged, but I don't like just writing a bunch of blah, blah, blah... I like to put pictures up, that's what people like to see.

I need to post pics of Jamaica, Allie's new swing in the back yard, pics of the house and the floors that we've been agonizing over, and my new hair cut (super short) lol.

I will eventually.. ;) Things have been good, work has been a little busier which I like a lot better than slow, I've simmered down a little on the baby, and work at home thing, I still may try an at home business if it's legit, but I've just realized all I was doing was stressing my self out and running around in circles, not getting anywhere, the truth is I just have to wait, and wait as long as it takes. It's not what I like to hear, but I have to remember the blessing of a child is all in God's hands anyway, and it does me no go to try and "make it" work on my own. So... we'll just see what happens.

I watched a OPB show on hurricane katrina clean up efforts on the subject of rescuing the animals that got left behind when their owners had to evacuate. It was extremely heart wrenching for me to watch, my heart has always been with the animals, and all I could think the whole time watching was that I would love to be there doing that right now, and to have the knowledge some of the vets that were flown in to help, that I could help in that way and save lives. That would be extremely fulfilling to me, so I was looking online the other day to try and get some info on becoming a vet, or vet assistant. People have told me my whole life that I should become a vet since I love animals so much, and I always said back to them, I would have a hard time seeing so many of them come to me and be suffering. But now I realize that knowing I could help them or at least do my best would be greater than just avoiding the subject. It's most likely not something I can pursue or even afford to pursue at this stage in my life but I figure I'd look into it. Haven't really found out a whole lot on vet assistants but to become a full licenced vet is like 6 yrs min. So ya.. not very fast to get into...I thought maybe it was a lot less for animal doctors vs. people doctors but not really... So we'll see what the vet assistant thing would take.

ok.. I've blah, blah, blah'd long enough. sorry for the lack of visual aids or atmosphere... it will get better (I keep telling myself) lol..

have a great day/week/ weekend dep on when you've read this... asta la by by ;)

Work at home jobs???

2007-07-23T09:35:00.000-07:00

Can anyone help me with some answers on this... I want to research this to see if there can be any truth to any of the offers to work at home out there. We want to have another baby soon and there just isn't any way we can do that unless I can quit and stay at home full time. I have found some sites that review a lot of these so called work at home offers and then again you don't know if you can trust the review because someone is probably getting paid to create reviews like that and it doesn't matter if they are truth or not. So I just need some direction and help from anyone out there that has some experience with this subject or just your advice :)

thanks for listening :)

Ya Mon....

2007-07-10T09:54:00.000-07:00

Well... Jamaica was great! Very Hot and humid, but enjoyable :) We weren't there as long as we really thought we would be. on our itinerary it said mon- fri so we're thinking 5 days ya know... well we got there pretty late on monday, and with the sunset being at around 6:30 there the days were pretty short compared to our 9:30- 10pm sunsets in Oregon right now. And we left early on friday to catch our scheduled flight. So ya we pretty much had tues, wed, thurs there. We layed out and lounged around on tuesday, went shopping and to a really cool restaurant on the cliffs on wed and on thursday we went white water rafting, which was almost and all day thing, but very cool! The people were always very nice and every other word was "ya mon" or "no problem". So we have been saying ya mon to everything since we got back, even taught Allie to say it, and of course it's a thousand times cuter when she says it. ;) So ya, that's kinda the run down, I'll write more in detail when I get the pictures up! :)

later mon...

Camping May 2007

2007-06-20T10:39:00.000-07:00

Here we are at our family campsite hanging out and playing games. My brother took these pics and I stole them off his blog ;) hehehe... so here are a few recent pics of me and my family, everyone is in these except dad, he was busy that weekend. It was also my birthday, so we did a little b-day cake, which Allie enjoyed more than anyone.

My mom, Shaun and I playing games at the table....

This is Shaun my husband and my brother David.

Again, a cute picture of Shaun and David.

This is MY truck. I love it!

Allie and Mommy swinging ;)

About to make a wish......

Allie love's "party cake"!

Allie with a messy face, but soooo cute ;)

All smiles ;) my sweetie...

Shaunie and Allie, and Sadie pup.

Mommy, Allie, and Sadie pup.

Four generations ;) and happy ones....

2007-06-18T12:35:00.000-07:00

These aren't the movies we saw, it's just a pic from the website of the drive in sign so you can see what it looks like. We went friday night to see Shrek 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 3! It was so fun! we got there kinda late though but ended up getting a spot right up in front. We brought Sadie a long with us too, she loved being out with us, especially out in the fresh air out side. There was other dogs there too, but we parked right next to a truck with a puppy bit bull mix who was bigger than Sadie and she was only 6mos old or something like that. they were cute together :) We brought our couch cushions and a sleeping bag, another big blanket, and two pillows, we were nice an cozy in the bed of our truck! Everything went great and then we went to start the truck to go home, and it was deader than dead!!! the guy next to us gave us a jump but it was so dead that it kept dying as soon as you let off the gas, so we ended up driving home very cautiously, and didn't get home until almost 4am! ;) cause the first movie didn't start until after 9:30pm. But it was well worth it, I love going to the drive in! :) so these are a couple pictures of past and present at the little drive in, that I pulled off their site.

yay! I want to go again ;)

Monday, a week and counting!

2007-06-18T08:32:00.000-07:00

hidy ho neighbors...

well we begin this week with a slight panic, as I just realized that I only have a week to pack up the apartment before we have to move this weekend! eeeek!! luckily it's not terribly big, but we do have a lot of junk, it will actually be nice to get rid of a lot of it. anyone I know want an espresso maker? I have an extra one cause Shaun got me a new one for my birthday last year ;) he's so sweet and so good to me I can't wait for the rest of our lives together. Hope every one's father's day was good, ours turned out pretty good I think. My ex came over to see Allie on sat, I was there when he came and really, to Allie it was like any other time he was there, she didn't understand it was supposed to be anything special, and he certainly didn't do anything to make it special. He chatted with my grandma a lot of the time, checked his e-mail on my parents computer for a while, etc... nothing new. But for Shaun and my dad (Allie's grandpa) we went to Michael's and got some crafts to make for them, and wrapped them up and gave them with cards to Shaunie daddy and Grandpa after dinner last night, they thought they were really cute! of course mommy painted and wrote on them and framed them, but they will enjoy thinking of Allie when the look at them. :)

tattoo's...

2007-06-13T09:36:00.000-07:00

Isn't this a cool one? I'm totally hooked now that I've gotten one of my own. I think about what to get the next time a lot. I keep searching for good idea's like this one, I don't think I could ever put one spread over my shoulders like this but I love the design and the boldness of it. Anyone else have a cool tattoo pic to share? the worst part is it cost so much money and I never have an extra couple hundred to several hundred dollars to blow on my self. well hope everyone's Wed is good. hope it says that way...

peace.

2007-06-12T08:01:00.000-07:00

Morning..
it's tuesday. the sun is out, and I hear it's supposed to be kinda decent today. I'm getting more and more excited about finally moving out of our crappy apartment! it's about 2 weeks away! I've got to try and pick out colors for the house before we even get a chance to move in. We've seen it a few times now so I know what everything looks like and the colors in there now. I spent like 4 hours there during the home inspection, ugh! So... any suggestions are welcome! I'm partial to fun colors and lots of detail. I would like to actually stencil in lots of fun designs on the walls but I don't think we'll have time to do that before we move in, we'll just have to paint the walls and I can work on that later... I can't decide what colors to do the living room, dinning room, and kitchen. it's all kinda small spaces so I'm not sure what colors would be good so that it won't make it look smaller, but I don’t' want it to be boring either. the living room is a decent size though, so I can probably have a little more flexibility with that room. We are definitely painting Allie's room a light purple. She's already requested it. ;)

I'm going to put some of the pictures from the listing of the living room, dining, and kitchen and you can help me think! :)

so... hope everyone's day is going well. keep the peace, smile, and laugh when you can!

Adios Amigos...

Monday... euuck

2007-06-11T07:13:00.000-07:00

Morning... I hope everyone's weekend was excellent! ours was decent. We didn't get a lot done as far as responsibilities go. one load of laundry, no packing, no dishes... hehehe...but we relaxed, had a big bbq at my parents house sunday afternoon, that turned out ok with 20 + people there ;) (my brother's thing) Sunday was good I was in the toddler room volunteering at the early service and Shaun stayed home with Allie, and then brought her to church to join me after my "shift". He did really good with her although he made it sound like it almost gave him a heart attack and a permanent twitch, hahah... he called me like 3 times in a row while I was still in the classroom, and finally I told the other girls that I needed to answer it. I answered and the first thing he says is, "where are you?" with quite a sense of urgency.... and i said in the toddle room where I've been all morning that you knew about all day... then he goes on to say he's down the hall in the childerens wing and was trying to check Allie in and she got near the little kids restroom and said as she bolted in before Shaun could stop her, " I have to go potty!" so he was calling me to see if I was close and could go in to see check on her! hehehe, it was really funny.. (had to be there) I thought it was cute that he was so stressed out over it. he hasn't had to do a whole lot with her all by himself, and this was a good opportunity! well, gotta actually start working..

have a great day!

2007-06-08T07:38:00.000-07:00

Good morning.
I'm feeling kinda invisible today. I have been getting a weird vibe from the two other women I work with lately, and yesterday and today I've just kinda felt like it's not worth trying anymore. they seem to just talk over me and look past me like I'm not even here. work stuff and personal chit chat, they both just talk to each other and it's like I'm not even in the room. it used to be a little more loose and fun in the office, but I feel like at least one of them has a chip on her shoulder for some reason. I don't know... I'm just getting sick of being ignored, and walked on. I think I'm very capable and can take on more responsibility than I have, and I feel like by boss the other woman of the two in my office just looks at me like I'm a moron and she has to keep it simple when she's talking to me. Anyway.. just venting a little. I'll check back in later to give an update. it had better get better or I'm going to go insane. I e-mailed my ex about the whole father's day issue with Allie yesterday and I haven't heard back yet.

well.. carry on. hope everyone out there has a good day, I'm off to try....

asta manyana.

2007-06-07T15:06:00.000-07:00

Well, it's comming to the end of my day, and I have enjoyed all the people who have taken the time to see my postings, and enjoy my pictures, which made me want to throw another one I had up here, I love this one too, a little moment between Allie & I. ;) well, thanks again for checking me out. Have a great night, and a better tomorrow.

peace.

2007-06-07T13:20:00.000-07:00

Thanks Shelly! that was sweet of you to check out the blog and to comment. I e-mailed my husband after I set it up and made him comment so I'd at least have one one there! hehehe, I know I'm retarded, but it's fun.
okie dokie... I'm having a little better day thanks to some momsville friends. ;)
Adios...

2007-06-07T11:24:00.000-07:00

well, today I feel sorta blah today... I'm tired, moody and just feeling down. there's a lot that's behind all that, but no need to ramble on and on. I just wish I wouldn't let things get to me. I'm excited for a lot of things comming up but right here and now, there's absolutly nothing to singing so to speak. well it's lunch time, and I didn't bring lunch and don't really have money to buy something, and I really just shouldn't eat at all cause I need to loose weight, but that doesn't mean I'm not hungry... sheesh.. listen to me. ok don't. ;) it's better for you anyway. like I said no need to ramble on and on. peace out... have a good day to all those out there that aren't reading this anyway. hahaa..

ok manyana...

2007-06-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

I'm messing with the formats with pictures and stuff, I thought I'd throw this one in there, it's just a pic I found, but look how cute!!!! ;)

2007-06-06T13:33:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favorite pictures of us. Shaun and I just got married in April, and my little Allie was the cutest little flower girl ever! She did play her part in the wedding with her own style.... she was spotted up on stage with us several times. The funniest was caught on tape by Shaun's brother, she went up and stood next to me but far enough out of my vision that I didn't notice her, Shaun was watching the whole thing, while trying to concentrate on our marriage!... she then sat down on the platform and started rocking backwards a little farther towards laying flat on her back with every rock, and pretty soon all you saw was her little bare legs up in the air, her pull up showing to all the guests, and then plop legs down and flat on her back! hahah, it's was so funny to watch after on the camera. She's definitely a character! We love her expressions, dramatics, and overall personality. I wanted to get at least one pic up to get started, I'll have to work on some more soon. enjoy.

In the begining...

2007-06-06T12:18:00.000-07:00

Well... here goes.. I thought it might be cool to start a blog. don't know who on earth will read it or care, but it might be fun. We'll just have to wait and see. ;)

Here's a little about me...
I live in Portland, OR born and raised. I am married to a wonderful man named Shaun. I have a beautiful daughter named Allie, she's almost 3 as she'll tell you promptly apon your asking. We have a stupid dog named Sadie, she's a 1 yr old beagle, and a bundle of trouble. Allie calls her her Sadie pup, it's cute. I have one brother who's name is David. I work as a purchasing asst in a large manufacturing plant in Milwaukie, OR. I enjoy sleeping, eating out, haning out with my friends, spending time with my Allie, animals of almost any kind, nice weather, swimming, camping, etc... lots of stuff like that.

I hope to keep this up and give my self and other's some entertainment out of my posts, life experiences and learn from other people out there whom I respect and look up to.

this may be the longest you'll ever read from me, I'm not too lengthy unless I'm really into something. (and note to self right now, if it's a really long comment or reply I may not read it!) I don't like to spend too much time reading over stuff, just short enjoyable snipets people! ;)

well, here goes.....
Adios for now.