Farewell to Baby Teeth

As some of you parents out there know losing your baby teeth is a really big deal to kids. Especially so for my youngest daughter Lizzie. She has been pestering me for over a year now as to when she would finally start losing her baby teeth. Every time her older sister would lose a tooth and get visited by the tooth fairy she would start asking if her teeth felt loose. It was especially hard when our puppy lost two teeth and Lizzie still had not lost any. However, the crisis is at an end. Lizzie lost her first tooth on November 2, 2008.

Update

Well quite a lot has happened since I last posted. I will try to make this brief. School started the middle of August and my life changed drastically. This is my first year with both of my girls in all day school. Anybody who knows me well knows I cried for days. Ya right.


I now spend my days watching soaps and eating bon bons. Or so my husband likes to tell his friends.

Jake stays busy being a full-time firefighter. One of these days he hopes to actually fight a fire.

The girls stay busy with school, dance, gymnastics and who can terrorize our puppy the most. As of right now I'd say they are pretty much tied.

Cleo, our puppy, just graduated from puppy class and we are all thrilled. She now does her business outside, sleeps through the night and lets me walk her instead of her walking me. One of these days we hope she'll stop eating our socks and shoes, but hey nobody is perfect.

Our New Baby

Last Sunday we brought home the newest member of our family. She weighed 5 lb 6 oz. and had curly white hair. We named her Cleo and she is so pretty.
















Of course it's a puppy I'm not having any more children.


After living three years in student housing our children were dying to get a pet and as you can see we finally caved.

Independence Day

Sorry for the long absence but life has been crazy. Here is the list of things that have kept me busy.

1. Finals

2. Find a house

3. Pack up old house

4. Move to new house

5. Unpack new house

6. Paint inside of new house (from top to bottom)

7. Buried my dad

As you can see, a very busy couple of months. However, I am now trying to get back to my regular schedule.

As some of you know my father passed away recently. I just wanted to thank all of my friends and family members who were so suportive during that time. My family and I really appreciate it.

Recently was the fourth of July and our family spent it at the Stadium of Fire. It was really good. The Blue Man Group was very entertaining and Glenn Beck was also great. However, the best part of the night (according to my children) was Miley Cyrus. Personally, I loved the fireworks. They were phenominal.

Here are some pictures of our day. Also, for some of you out there who wanted a picture of my house, I'll throw that in too.

Lizzie's Big Debut

I have finally figured out how to get my videos onto my computer. This is really good news for all my family out of state. Sorry to everybody else out there who now has to watch my home videos.
Recently my youngest, Lizzie, was involved in her school's Kindergarten Nursery Rhyme Performance. It was really well done and very fun to watch. However, for all of you out there who are not really interested in watching four minutes of my daughter acting a little peculiar, don't worry I will not quiz you on it later. This is mainly for our family that lives out of state and who miss everything.

As you can all see my daughter was made for the stage.

Not Really 25

I feel I need to clear the air. The other day I stated in my blog that I was 25 and some of my friends thought this was true. For all of you who didn't catch my joke let me just say that my oldest daughter turned 8 this year. Truly, I did not start having children when I was 17.

My Birthday

As a few of you know, yesterday was my birthday and I turned 25. Because my birthday landed on a Sunday, I spent the day home with my family. Today I get to go out with my very best friend (my mom) and do a girls night out. It should be really fun.
Thanks to all my friends and family who wished me a very happy birthday yesterday. You're all the best.
p.s. Brad please don't start pointing out my gray hairs and wrinkles. In case it escaped your notice you will always be older than me and I could retaliate.

I'm an Apple

So I took this fruit personality test and this is what I got. Personally, I find parts of it are accurate but the majority isn't really me.

My friend took this same test and it was right on. So apparently there is either something wrong with me or I have many different facets to my personality.

I have highlighted those things I think best personify myself.

You Are an Apple
You are strong, powerful, and even a bit stubborn at times.

You have enough strength to help those around you in trouble.

You are adventurous and charming.

Many people are drawn to you.

You love life, and enjoy traveling the world.

You enjoy fine food, art, and culture.

People have accused you of being a snob, but that's not accurate.

You do enjoy the best things in life.

Unlike snobs, you truly appreciate quality... not just pretend to.

http://www.blogthings.com/whattypeoffruitareyouquiz/

A New Post

It started out with hints but has now moved to a full fledged attack from those I thought were my closest friends and family. What is really interesting is that most of the people who have informed me that I have slacked (mother) know eveything that happens in my life. However, for you people who live out of state and that I have not seen in almost a year or more, this is for you.

In January of this year our family went on a five night cruise to Mexico. We departed from San Diego and proceeded to Cabo San Lucas were we disembarked. The kids got to particpate in a Dolphin Encounter. They spent about 30 minutes getting to know one of the dolphins.

As you can see they had wonderful time.

The cruise itself was very fun and the food was wonderful. I gained about 5 lb (mostly from eating 3 desserts a night).

In February my oldest daughter, Sydney, turned 8 and was baptized on March 1st with her cousin, Maddy, who turned 8 a month before her.

This last weekend was Easter and we got to spend Saturday at my mother's house with my brother and his family. Sunday we went at my brother-in-law's house with most of Jake's family.

There I have updated my blog. I hope everybody is happy. Don't expect anything for at least another three months. I'm only partly joking.

Christmas Is Over

Christmas this year was truly wonderful as we got to spend it with the majority of our family (both sides). Christmas Eve found us at my mother's house with all of my siblings in attendance. I can't remember the last time we were all together. I absolutely loved it.

Christmas morning we spent opening presents with our daughters. As you can see Sydney was thrilled to get an iPod Shuffle and Lizzie got High School Musical II to go with her portable DVD player.

Christmas afternoon was spent at Jake's brother's house where we got to eat absolutely wonderful food and hang out with all of Jake's family, minus his brother Wil and fiancé Krissy.

To finish up our Christmas get togethers my siblings and I planned a Christmas party with our father and his wife Maria.

Interspersed with all of these parties were shopping days, days when we just hung out and family dinners. To say the least it was wonderful as well as exhausting..