First Fight, Birthday, & PHANTOM!!! 9/20/2008

First Fight....
I picked Koda up from school on Friday and Miss Julie walks out and says "We had a little tiff" OH NO I say-What did he do??
She said oh it wasn't him it was John (names have been changed to protect the identity of the guilty) Apparently John didn't think that Coop was right when Coop told him that you put your apples in your basket (how they get the kids to sit and keep their hands to themselves at school-criss cross applesauce-apples in your basket) John was POSITIVE that you put shoes in your basket NOT apples-so he solved it the way any 4 year old would-he attacked Koda's face! He took a nice gouge on his nose and two little scratches under his eye!
As I asked Cooper what he did while he was being attacked (I assumed he decked the kid) He says in a very cool voice-Mom I was right so I just kept yelling IT'S APPLES NOT SHOES!!
Well I guess that works too!

In honor of the rodeo Friday was Cowboy day for Sis at school. Jaden was VERY disapointed that since he is now a 3rd grader they are not allowed to dress up. We were heading to Vegas right after school so her complete outfit isn't "cowgirl" but she still looks DARLING in her getup!

Instead of a party this year for Bailia's birthday we dicided to go to The Phantom in Vegas! We stayed at the Venetian since The Phantom was playing there and we are ALL abot convienence! The rooms were BEAUTIFUL-very similar to our rooms at the Four Seasons in Punta Mita-the kids loved that there were three beds and didn't have to squeeze all together! The Phantom was AWESOME -I think Koda enjoyed it the most! I don't know if he even moved the whole show!





We had to cut the trip short-I woke up this morning at about 4:30 with pain-then it became unbearable pain-I am SO thankful that the surgery is soon and I am praying it works-the kids were REALLY disapointed because they wanted to go shopping (so did I) but when there was a slight break in the pain we decided to just go home! Since I did not feel well when we got home A decided to make Sis an Ice Cream cake for her birthday! He is such a good Daddy! Love you A!

Happy Birthday Sissy Doo! 9/20/2008

Sis, Daddy, & J-dog!

Bailias first year...such a cutie! Our beautiful Princess 3 years old...
Our first trip to Mexico 4 years old...

Since this weekend is going to be a VERY busy weekend for the birthday girl I decided to post a few days early and wish my little sassy princess a VERY happy 7th birthday! I am sure there will be a TON of pictures to post after her amazing weekend so stay tuned!

Here are 7 things we love about Bailia

1- Koda loves her because "she cleans up really good"

2-Jaden loves her because "she's usually pretty nice to me and Coop" and "she's fun to play with" and "I love you Sissy Doo!"

3-We love that she is so smart and loves to figure everything out!

4-We love (and hate ;-) lol) how independent she is

5-We love how much she loves her family

6-We love how she works (at any and everything) until she is better than anyone

7-We love her because she has taught us SO much about life, patience, and love!

Happy birthday Sis, I hope all of your birthday wishes come true this weekend!

I was tagged....MONTHS ago!! 8 Things Tag

Looking through old photos I found a few that I had to post! This is J-dog only 1 day old! WOW! How time flies!

J is going to kill me for posting this picture but I couldn't resists! Are they not the CUTEST!!!???!! Bailia received a TON of dress up for her 3rd birthday who better to play dress up with than 4 year old big dog? They had so much fun!

Ok so here is my post for the TAG and I Tag anyone that wants to play:

8 Things I'm passionate about

1-My Kids

2-My Husband

3-Cleanliness

4-Being on time

5-Cooking/Baking

6-Keeping up to date on my Blog (since it is now my journal)

7-Taking pictures (you can never have too many =-))

8-Being a good wife and momma

Songs I can listen to - over and over-I know I put 9 but honestly I LOVE music and could have listed 20!
1- Kenny Chesney Me and You

2-Your My Best Friend Tim Mcgraw

3-Something Sexy About the Rain Kenny Chesney

4-Mothers Prayer- Celine Dion

5-House at Pooh Corner-Kenny Loggins

6-Just a Dream-Carrie Underwood

7-Mary did you know (it doesn't matter who sings it-it is always beautiful)

8-Somebody must be prayin' for me -Tim Mcgraw

9-Lie to me Bon Jovi (anything Bon Jovi I am a total 80's chick- Def Leopard, Poison, Bon Jovi-love them!)



8 Things I say Often
1-NO

2-My Living

3-Get your homework/chores done

4-Are you kidding me

5-What??? (you know I am partially deaf)

6-I said NO (do we see a trend here?)

7-Stop it!

8-Seriously



8 Things That Attract Me to a Friend
1-Honesty

2-Friendly

3-Kindness

4-Punctual

5-Loyal

6-Happy

7-Happy with Themselves

8-Common Interests



The last 8 books I have read
1-Harold and the purple crayon

2-Baby Bear, Baby Bear

3-There's a kid under my bed

4-Breaking Dawn (finally a book with more than 30 pages!)

5-The Last Lecture

6-Pinkalicious

7-Titanic (my kids are really obsessed with the Titanic so I have been reading a lot of kids books about it)

8-King Tut (dog has always loved Egypt so I bought him a King Tut book that we have both enjoyed reading)

9-I just read In His Sights last night it was a true story-quite interesting.



8 Random Things about Me…
1-I had 5 wisdom teeth

2-I have 2 "stuck toes"

3-Always wanted to grow up to be "a momma"

4-Have NEVER left my kids overnight (except to have a baby or when I had Surgery last year)5-I would love to be a fluent in Spanish

6-I dream of changing the world feeding one mouth at a time (really just making people happy when they eat my food)

7-I love to read

8-I love to travel



8 Things I want to do before I die
1- See my Children get old and HAPPY

2- See my grand kids get old and happy

3- Go to Bora Bora

4- Write a book

5- Travel to every state in the US

6- Have a Cabin in the Mountains

7- Grow Old with A

8- Take our kids to as many places in the world as possible, to SEE everything (what better education could you ask for)





8 Things I’ve Learned this Year
1-I can't control EVERYTHING

2-Although I love my car-I miss my SUV-we need to buy another one soon

3-I spend WAY too much money

4-I actually love teaching primary (who would have guessed =-) )

5-Bats will fly in your house if you leave your door open!! YUCK!

6-Koda has really bad allergies (the poor kid can barley go outside without getting completely stuffy :-( )

7-Surgery is the PITS!!

8-Even though I know I can't control everything I am going to still try :-)

Remembering 9/11

It is hard to believe that seven years have gone by since the towers fell. I remember it like it was yesterday. Becca called and told us to turn the Today show on-they were showing live coverage of the first tower that had been hit. As we watched, speechless, I remember thinking this has to be a joke! This is AMERICA land of the FREE home of the BRAVE! Why in the world would someone purposefully KILL themselves and thousands of other innocent people?? I still question that. Then the second tower was hit-it was like a bad dream that just kept getting worse-and it did! The towers fell, and the world cried. As Alan Jackson said so well-where were you when the world stopped turning??
Just one month before we had gone to New York to visit A's brother Dustin (who worked in the towers) I was 8 months pregnant with Bailia-Jaden had just turned one. It was a VERY spur of the moment trip and we WALKED forever wanting to see everything we could on our quick trip! Looking back thinking about standing on top of the 110 story tower, I get chills. I am so grateful that we took the trip to experience New York before the towers fell. I am thankful that Dustin was not there that day. My heart goes out to those who still suffer from this devastating day, and hope that a day like 9/11 will NEVER happen again!

Bailia's toothless!!

Bailia's front tooth has been loose for a long while (probably a month or two) it has been disgustingly loose for 2-3 weeks! Her teeth just like to hold on for as long as they can! So this morning as she was eating breakfast she hollers UUGGHH!!! I run in to see what is wrong and there is her tooth sicking straight out of her mouth!! I told her to pull it out-she tried and tried-I tried-nothing would budge that stubborn tooth! So A came in and said let me feel it-and he flipped it (hard) thankfully right out of her mouth! I am so glad it is finally out! Just in time for school pictures (LOL) !!

Koda Post 9/9/2008

My little Koda Bear has been waiting for his Halloween costume to come for a couple of weeks now(I know it is barley September)! Every year my kids LOVE trying to come up with THE BEST costume ever and Koda believes he has done that this year. When we got home from gymnastics tonight there on the porch was a giant box. Coop couldn't stand the suspense a second longer and started tearing into the box. Inside was the most exciting thing in the world for this little man-his "space man" costume!

Today at the bank he told the lady behind the counter that his space man costume was coming today. She asked which planet he was from. He quickly replied it isn't coming from a planet, it's coming UPS. She and I both had a good laugh! The picture with his helmet on is him showing me how he would walk in space!

I won what???

So I had a message from "Megan" on my machine today that goes something like this.

Hi this is Megan from the O Magazine this message is for Marcia (she actually said it right) if you could give me a call back that would be great.

The return call goes a little like this...

Hi Megan this is Marcia.

Marcia I am so glad you called back! I am just calling to let you know you have won the grand prize in the O Magazine Spring giveaway. You have won a trip to San Fransisco flight, hotel, and tickets to O You! (whatever that is)

(laughing) Ok so what do I have to do sit through a meeting? Pay $$? Give you my SS#?

(now she is laughing) Honestly this is The O magazine-you must have entered the contest back in the spring.

Yes I actually remember doing that...and I won FIRST prize??

No you won the GRAND prize-I am going to overnight you everything you need and we will get everything finalized after you have signed the paper work.

Ok thanks Bye!

So as of now I do not really know much about my winnings- but hey I WON!!! And what is more exciting that winning?? Maybe the anticipation of finding out exactly what it is that you won! =-)

Bored to death leads to LONG posts!

I have been up for HOURS now-I am bored out of my mind! So for the joys of entertaining myself, I post the following...
Over the past several days I have questioned myself wondering if I am making the right decision by going through with the surgery. Do I want to go through it all again? This will, after all, be my third surgery in two years!
It seems like yesterday that I had to stop eating the morning before the surgery and drink the "grape" flavored diahrea in a bottle. Honestly you would think with all of the technology today there would a pill you could take instead of trying to swallow that entire bottle of "juice!"
I can still taste the sickening bitter taste in my mouth from the gas, YUCK! I can still hear the monitors beeping their annoying BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, taunting you just waiting for their chance to scream their greatest joy-the long dreadful BEEEEEP-Doctor we have a red line!
I can still hear the AWESOME nurse who barley speaks english telling me-boy you don't look good-Gee thanks-that is just what I wanted to hear as I try to fight the undeniable urge to vomit on you as I try to walk the seven painful steps to the bathroom, so they can get the (oh so painful) catheter OUT of me! I can feel my insides start to spasm yet again and the same nurturing nurse, who told me I look like crap, running in to give me another shot to stop the spasms, that may have hurt worse than the actual spasms, tells me so kindly in her broken english that "if you gained some weight this shot wouldn't hurt so much" -umm maybe if you knew how to give shots like the nurse before your shift it wouldn't hurt so much! Obviously if you stab me in the hip bone it isn't going to feel so great! Moving to my rear just a few inches south you would have found a nice piece of flesh to gouge in to-I have had three kids for crying out loud-a blind man could have found enough blubber to stick that needle in!
So I ask myself am I just being a wimp? Is it really that bad? Then it hits me like a ton of bricks at 2:45 this morning-yup-it really is that bad! Whenever I have had a break from the pain (it has been a whole three days) I start to doubt myself and wonder if I should just "wait it out" to see if it gets better. Then my body tells me in its own special way-by making the pain a little more intense-to stop doubting yourself you idiot and get the surgery! Ok, on the bright side the turkey sandwich the hospital served for lunch was actually really good (maybe due to the fact I hadn't eaten in two days)! But I have to post some sort of bright side right?

This concludes my post of boredom-it didn't put me to sleep like I was hoping, but it might do it for you, if so, I have done my good deed for the day! :-)