Looking forward

I am so excited for all of the events that are coming up for us.  First off, Sydney and Chad #2 are coming out for Easter, which will be a lot of fun.  Syd will be going to Disneyland of course for her birthday so she is lucky to go for free!  It is also Chad's (my Chad) birthday on Easter which will be way cool and we will have company to celebrate the three (Syd's birthday is the day after Chads) holidays!

Then after Chad is done with finals, we are headed to Yosemite with some friends for a long weekend. We are totally excited for this and have wanted to go for quite some time.  Its nice to be close enough to do so.  

Then when we get back from there, we are headed to Wisconsin to visit my sister and her family.  We just bought our tickets today and got a great deal so that is why we decided to go...plus I miss them a ton!!!

Then a week after we get back, Rachel,Brooke, Colby, and Owen are coming out to see us!  The two girls are Chad's sisters and Colby is Rachel's boyfriend and Owen is Rachel's son.  Paige is so excited to see them.  She loves to talk to Owen on the computer!  

We seriously cannot wait for the fun to begin.  When its all over I am sure we will be so sad!  It has been a rough past couple of weeks which included Chad being at school for 21 hours.   We love having visitors and also being the visitors.  Hooray!  

"sick" and tired of it

Fast food that is.  I am so literally sick of fast food.  The past couple of weeks have been a little crazy with Chad being gone almost every night until midnight, and just running around.  I probably have eaten out like 5 times in the past 2 weeks. Now, normally I may eat fast food perhaps once a week.  Still really bad I know (give me credit, its been a lot of subway).  Well the thing is that, after I eat it, I feel gross and sick to my stomach.  Today Paige and I went to Taco Bell after my dental appointment because I was so dang hungry.  Afterwards, and still, I just feel yucky.  So I have committed to NO FAST FOOD MONTH.  That is right, none for a whole month, and then I will see where I will go from there.  Given, I have some pounds to shed, but this is really for me to just feel good.  I have no energy when I eat crap and get so tired.  My working out is cancelled out by the nastiness.  So, if you would like to join me in the cause of feeling good, and no fast food for a month...please do!  I would love to have supporters out there!  Oh and soda is also out.  This one I have done many times (for a year at a time) and never seems to have much affect on me, but in my head I think its good to not have it!  So there you go.  I declare it "no fast food month!"

Oh the fun things to do!

The wonderful weather is back!  We had a couple weeks there where the weather was so off.  We are back in the 70's and loving every minute.  Our friends, the Meeks, came down for a visit and were staying with Jenika, so we got to hang out with them a lot and just have fun!  We went to Manhattan beach and all the kids had a blast!  Seth showed Paige that the water was not a bad idea, so she got over her fear and went crazy.  She would just sit down and giggle when the water would come up.  It was hard to keep her out of it.  It was so nice to get out and have a great time on the beach!!

This is Tye trying to get her to go in, but she kept screaming and refused.  Little did I know she would come around!

There you go!

I was talking to my sister in law on the phone and she was telling me that she was in the middle of building a fort for her boys and I thought, hmm maybe I should do that.  So, I built Paige the lamest fort ever, because I do not build them often, and she had a blast.  We pretended to go to sleep and just sat and "talked."  It was great fun, until she decided it would be more fun to destroy it.  Oh well!

She is standing on her stool in the fort.  That is the big bump you see.

A new addition

Did I get you with the title?  Yup thats right, we have a new addition to the family...make that 2 new additions.  Our friends, Brett and Stacie, gave us their two fish because they will be moving soon and do not want to take them.  Paige has been OBSESSED with them since we got home.  She keeps asking to "hold it."  We have put them up high and in a place that she cannot reach.  Before she went to bed, she said "night night" to them and kissed the tank.  I think it is safe to say she loves them.  Thanks so much Brett and Stacie.  You have made Paige a pet owner and she is thrilled!

I apologize for the bad quality pictures, but my camera is dead, thus I took it on my phone.

Go-way!

Paige is really turning in to the funniest little girl.  As I am writing this, she is telling me to "Goway!"  This is her new thing.  She will close the door on me and say this and then laugh.  Today, we went to Ikea and while Seth was gone, she was laying on the beds and pretending to go night night and she would point at me and say "SHHHH night night, goway!"  So opinionated.  She also discovered that she can lift up her shirt and put it over her head.  What a weirdo! Oh how she makes me laugh.

I think this may be their wedding announcement photo!  What do you think Jenika?! haha

These were taken on my cell phone and Paige kind of looks scary.  Oh well!

Why try?

I am not kidding on this.  I have reached my level of sanity and can no longer claim sane.  Since the Christmas break, Paige has been sick more times than I can count.  I think every week she has either a runny nose, a cough, or a fever.  I am not sure why this is and normally it would worry me, but just about every little kid I know has been in the same boat.  IT IS GETTING OLD.  Ok wait, old was like 2 months ago.  The really sucky thing is that I joined the YMCA so that I could go work out and let Paige go to the childcare.  Works fantastically for me.  I don't know if this is why she can't stay healthy, but it is really annoying when I only get to go maybe one or two times a week if I am lucky, due to her getting sick.

I am also annoyed because it seems like for the past couple of weeks, I can't have just a "normal" day.  Something always goes wrong, or Chad doesn't get home till after midnight.  Yesterday I was happy because it was a gorgeous day and I wanted to go take Paige places, maybe even the beach.  Well, I locked my keys in the car, more like I left them in there from Sunday when Chad was driving.  Yeah not cool.  I decided to just hang out at the park and then later on Paige and I went on a 3 mile walk and then walked to subway for dinner(good thing our complex will give you an extra key to let yourself in).  Not too bad of a day in the end, but I was exhausted.

So today, I had to go to USC to do some X-Rays and I get out of the car and Paige had thrown up ALL over everything.  I had no clue and she had not told me she did.  Chad had to go buy her a 30 dollar dress, that is very cute, but come on!  Now, she is refusing to take a nap yet again, and I will have a struggle of a day trying to keep her happy and entertained.  

Here is some help...I thought Paige was just hitting her "terrible twos" early. Well, in this book I read they say there is such thing as the "terrible twos" but it means a terrible TWO YEARS (from 1-3)  Boy do they have that right!

Ok now I feel better.

What do you do when your husband is gone ALL the time...

...You become a domestic diva.  Ok, seriously.  I am constantly trying to come up with new projects so I can see what I really enjoy.  I end up putting them off though and never really finishing them unless it is something I am totally jazzed about.  Well, I have been reading friends blogs and seeing all the fun stuff they are making.  So mainly, thanks to Kali, I decided to make my very first homemade strawberry jam and bread to go along.  I got my friends, Jenika and Katie, to go along with it.  We had a great time on Saturday chatting and making our goodies while the husbands were at meetings.  I must say they turned out decent enough for me.  I hope to improve on it for sure though.  Making jam is so stinkin' easy that I am going to continue it.  Chad is thrilled about that one!  Last night our meal consisted of homemade potato soup, my bread, and homemade oreos.  Could life get any better?

Whole wheat goodness...funky looking loaves I know, but its the taste that counts!

Yeah, look at all that jam!