Friday, August 29, 2008

Dad's In Charge...

I leave in about an hour to a women's retreat for our church. It should be nice, I have my mom, sister, and aunts going also. I'm just nervous about leaving the kids with Bryan, especially Rylen. I know he's perfectly capable of taking care of him, but still.
I stayed up late last night typing up a detailed "how to take care of your kids" list. They're on a schedule, not a tight one, but I still wanted him to know at what time to do what. I guess maybe he's thinking I'm being condescending cause he just sent me an email titled "how to take care of your husband". I will spare you the vulgar details, but it sure was funny.
I'll be worried about my kiddos, but I'm sure they'll be fine, it's just one day. Bryan's a good daddy.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

I Was THAT Mom....

At Target the other night. I almost forgot to post about this, maybe I'm trying to block it out still. My sweet little Brit has turned on me, I don't know WHO that child is that throws those tantrums, but I want my Bitty back.
We went to Target on Sunday. It was about 6 or so, and we hadn't eaten dinner yet, and I know she was hungry and tired. In my defense-we had eaten a big, late lunch and she had snacks...I promise I don't starve my children. So Caden had $40 to spend on 2 new DS games. Bryan let Brit have her pick of something new too, cause you know these kids can never have enough toys, apparently.
She picked out this huge teapot full of Disney Princess play dishes. Um, no kid, we already have a ton of dishes, and Mom does not enjoy picking them up all over her room. I told her to pick something else. I was making suggestions and then the meltdown began. I pulled her aside and told her that she needed to behave herself or else we were gone, and she was getting nothing. So I tried again to have her look for something else, and the full blown tantrum began. I put her in the cart, and wheeled her butt out to the car. All the while she was flipping out, she wanted what she wanted. Yelling, screaming, crying, kicking, and everyone that we passed was staring. I felt like I was in a parade. I could not make it out the door fast enough. I started laughing at one point cause I was just thinking how embarrassing it was, and also about all those times when I was the witness to other kids tantrums in stores. Saying "well if I was her mom then I would...." Yeah well that came back to bite me in the ass.
Even getting her in the car and her car seat was a challenge. My poor Rylen was staring at her I only wish I knew what he was thinking at that time. I managed to force her in her seat and buckle her very quickly, then get my Ry in his seat too. When Bryan and Caden finally made it out to the car, she was at that point in crying that she couldn't even talk anymore. Well she managed make out a few words to make me feel like complete crap, she said "You're making Jesus sad". Bryan and I just looked at each other.
Did they teach her how to give the best guilt trips ever in Sunday school...I mean where did this girl learn this. I of course felt so bad, the guilt set in, I wanted to cry, but then I remembered that I can't give in to her all the time. So she was pissed at me for a while, she ate dinner then fell asleep in the car and when she woke up she was fine. I explained to her why Mommy had to take her out of the store and why she got nothing, and that big girls don't act like that. She got a big hug and kiss and was ok. I was ok, she still loves her momma. I am praying that she doesn't pull that act again, she has only done that in public twice and it's soo not fun.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

I'm Officially A Soccer Mom...

Today Caden had his very first soccer practice. We got the call last night at 9 pm. Thanks coach.
So on daddy's way home today, he stopped and got Caden all his soccer stuff. A new soccer ball, shin guards, a bag, socks, and new puma cleats...all that good stuff Caden was so excited, so were we. I know nothing about soccer, neither does Dad he was a football/baseball type guy, and me I am NOT a sports type person at all. I was super excited for him though. So we got to the field, all of us cause I was not going to miss this. We sat in our camp chairs and watched our big boy have a blast on the field. Grandma even showed up to see him for a little bit. It was flippin HOT! No sun just still, humid Texas heat. He did a great job out there, he looked so cute running around and kicking the ball. I was a proud Momma! Here's my big guy....

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Weekend...

This weekend was cousin Austen's 10th birthday party. It was a rock and roll theme cause Austen rocks out on his guitar all the time. He's really good for a 10 year old too!! Let's just hope he remembers all the times Aunt Kimmie had to change his diapers when he's a big famous rock star!
The party was cool, they had a magician which sadly, we arrived too late to see. But we caught the last magic trick. So here are some pics of that. It was fun, I had a good time catching up with cousins that don't get to see eachother nearly enough...except for you Jess... I always catch you at church, on your blog, or on our board so we always know eachother's business!! lol But it was nice getting together...everyone.

All the kids
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Brityn and Breyana
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The birthday boy opening up presents
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Cake time
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My Appointment...

Ok well I'm making a couple of posts instead of one big long one.
First off, I went for my PET scan follow up on Thursday, in my last post I said biopsy follow up but I already did that, this was a follow up to my PET scan. Just to recap, after my biopsy the Dr was puzzled as to why my liver was was covered in these spots, so I went in for a PET scan to make sure there was no cancer in any other part of my body causing these tumor to appear.
My mom and dad went with me, and all 3 kids, sounds crazy huh? Well they were almost angels! Very well behaved on this day. Thank God cause once I signed in, and sat down a receptionist comes out and says that Dr. Ramirez was running 1 1/2 hours behind!! The waiting room is huge, so it was comfy for all of us, and it was loud too so my kids crazy little chatter wasn't too noticeable.
So I got there 2:45, my appt was at 3, and I actually got into the exam room at 4:45 or so..yeah that sucks. My mom gave the male nurse a piece of her mind about that. I kept the kids busy with crayons, paper, snacks, juice boxes, books, and Caden's DS. I came prepared!! That was kind of exhausting in and of itself though.
Well I went back there, and all she did was reiterate what was said at the appointment before my biopsy. I have Focal Nodular Hyperplasia, which is basically benign tumors on the liver. They weren't really sure that it was in fact FNH because of the amount of tumors, they didn't count but there are lots of small ones all over the liver. Sometimes they are attributed to birth control pills, and stopping the pill may "shrink" them, but I haven't been on the pill in over a year, AND I only took the pill for maybe 2-3 years total...on and off. So I highly doubt that has anything to do with it. I was told to never ever take bc pills again...good thing Bry's been sliced and diced cause together we are the super fertile couple.
Ugh... I also asked if losing weight would be beneficial, she said it's a possibility. So it can't hurt to try. I'm still carrying around baby weight from all 3 really, never really got down to pre-Caden weight and that's where I want to be. Like I said before, 3 kids 5 years, it all takes a huge toll on your body. And especially someone with my shitty metabolism....damn genetics. Yeah..that's going to be fun times. You'll hear pleeeenty more about that, lots of blogging to do on that subject.
So that was it. I just need to keep up on it. Probably yearly scans to make sure that they're not growing. It's a relief to finally be nearly done with what I've called my Liver Drama. Just a HUGE load off my back. I also have to go in for some other procedures, but I have yet to schedule them cause I'm a chicken. Those procedures will now get me a definitive diagnosis on my tummy troubles and get it under control...finally!! It's funny, the tummy troubles I am talking about is why I walked into my first gastroenterologist's office (Dr. Coleman) in the first place... over 2 years ago. Instead of getting that taken care of I get thrown into this whole Liver Drama that took forever to play out. It was all put on hold while I baked my little Rylen. I'm just very very glad to be putting it all to rest soon, and I feel blessed that it very well could have been something very serious, but with the grace of God I was spared.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Daddy's Gone...

To Oklahoma this time, I'm glad it's not anywhere exciting. I was getting depressed when he was going to all the fun places. So it's just me and my three, who are ALL SLEEPING by the way. They didn't get to bed till 10:30 even though I started the bedtime routine at 8:30. I even managed to clean my room in that time, with a little tiny one hanging on me. I feel pretty damn accomplished today! I think I may actually get more done with Bryan is gone than I do when he's here.
Oh, but I did have one of those super stressful moments. Brit was opening the fridge and the stupid thing wobbles, well I had a glass cookie jar thingy up there, and it fell in the kitchen and broke into thousands of teeny tiny pieces. It was like shavings of glass. A major PITA to clean up. I swept like 5 times after I had cleaned it all up, and even vacuumed the floor. Well while I was cooking, Ry started to whine at my feet so I picked him up and went to nurse him. Then I saw blood, and quite a bit of it. So I lay him down to check him over, and his knee was cut by what I am pretty sure was a tiny shard of glass. I cleaned it up and bandaged him, I just hope that nothing is stuck in there, cause the pieces were so tiny. I just freaked out naturally cause I saw blood on him and my shirt. But it's all fine. He was intrigued by the band aide till I took it off of him at bedtime.
So now I am off to chillax. I have my biopsy follow up appointment tomorrow at 3, I'm nervous cause I don't have Bryan there to help me remember everything the dr tells me. Maybe I'll take notes. I can't believe tomorrow is thursday already.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Happy 8 Months!

Rylen's 8 months old today! He's growing too darn fast! The other day I was putting away some of his outgrown clothes and going through all his newborn stuff, and I cried. My very last baby, and he's just getting so big. He's independent like his brother, wanting to crawl and cruise everywhere. He just started cruising around on the furniture, moving from place to place on his chubby little feet. These 8 months have flown by.

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Late Weekend Update...

Well this past weekend I went shopping with my sister, my nephew Austen, and Brit. It was tax free weekend in Texas so the mall was packed with people trying to save a little. Of course I ended up with bags of clothes for the kids, and not a damn thing for me. There was just a lot of stuff on sale for them. I got Brityn the outfit she's wearing in the picture below for $6.50, reg $28, and I got Caden a Quicksilver shirt (that cousin Austen picked out) for $4.25!! I was so proud of myself, that totally made me feel better for the times that I buy them things that are not so on sale. Brit was unbelievably behaved at the mall. She was quiet, didn't run, and was just generally good. She even fell asleep in the stroller.
Sunday we went to church, and I helped out in the preschooler room. OMG, 19 children!! I enjoyed it though. I will probably be doing that more often. Rylen went to the nursery for the first time. Grandma was in there, so he clung to her.
The pastors wife usually takes on the preschoolers, and she told me that Caden really gets into class. They have a video that they watch that that teaches a lesson, then gives them music and a time to worship. Well she says he just puts his hands out and closes his eyes and quietly worships while the others are dancing around. I loved it! I'm so happy that he's learning this, and it's just saying something about the way that we're raising him. It gets me all teary eyed now.
So that was our weekend. Nothing much. I hope our week is uneventful as well. I'm not so sure about it though. Sunday night Brit woke up and puked. Not nice. She was fine all day yesterday , ate and acted normal. So I'm praying that it was just an upset tummy and not the beginning of anything yucky.

Friday, August 15, 2008

More You Tube Fun..Rememba These....

I was one of those kids that watched alot of TV. In the 80s you didn't have to monitor what your kids watched so closely. So I remember all these shows. I always ask Bryan "hey remember..." and chances are he doesn't. He can't remember to take out the trash in the morning, how can I expect him to remember something he watched on tv 20 something years ago. So am I the only one that remembers these...

Bill Cosby Picture Pages


Simon and the Chalk People


Paddington Bear


Today's Special


I wish my kids' shows were this fun. I hate Spongebob and all the other crap the kids watch. Now I have to really really keep on top of what they are watching on tv.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Oh The Stuff You Can Find On YouTube...

I found this on You Tube today. I was looking for a Sesame Street bit from the 80's that Brit was watching today and I found this....cute, but this SOOOO would not fly today! Can you just imagine all the anti-breastfeeding parents would have it pulled so fast!!! I guess there was a time there when mom's weren't expected to cover up, where the fancy hooter hiders weren't a diaper bag staple. I'll admit, that I do cover up in public. Not cause I am all that modest, I don't mind plopping it out (lol) heck I even nursed Rylen at Disney on the "It's a Small World" and "Winnie the Pooh" rides. Although, I do want to avoid the stares and looks of disgust. I've nursed all three kids, and I will tell you that yeah, I have gotten those looks many times. I just find it sad that moms like me are now shamed into hiding behind blankets, in dressing rooms, and in bathrooms (which I will NEVER do) to do something that is so natural.

My Fluffy Stuff

My Mommy's gone nuts. She's going crazy just to keep my tushie comfy and cozy. So the other day she got me these cool new diapers. She said something about my chunky butt and how I needed a bigger size in my cloth diapies. The smalls don't fit anymore, and the mediums are getting snug.
So the mail man brought her a package, and boy you should have seen her face. She loves getting new diapers. There was a super cool punk rocker diaper, but she has to send it back cause it was too big for my heiney. So Mom washed the green and oranage ones asap and put them on my heiney. I'm so embarrassed...she even took pics!! While I do admit, I look pretty cute naked, I just know that these diaper pics will come back to haunt me, like say when I bring home a hottie. I'm sure Mom will pull out these pics then.
Anyway, here's me and my new fluffy stuff.

KnickNappies Disposanot
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Bum Genius 3.0 (MOM'S FAV!!)
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

We Partied All Weekend...

We had a weekend of parties. Actually for the past 2 weekend we've had parties to attend, cousin birthdays and an anniversary party.
Saturday we were invited to go to celebrate baby Brielle's first birthday. We had tons of fun at Gattiland, the kids played games for hours. We didn't plan on staying that long because of Rylen, but he was surprisingly well behaved. He just chillaxed in his stroller for a long time,and loved all the attention from family that we don't get to see often.
After the party we headed to Aunt Stephie and Unlcle Bobby's house just for a visit. The kids went wild, the girls dressing up in every imaginable dress up outfit and high heels. The boys- playing xbox.
Sunday we went to church then came home to rest and take a nap before baby cousin Christian's first birthday party. It was in the evening at the local pool. The kids were ready for a dip in the kiddy pool and Caden even braved the huge wave pool, while mommy nearly had a panic attack. They swam until about 9:30 pm and were hyped up on all the cupcake icing so they stayed awake until 11:30. They had the cutest Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Oscar cupcakes, It was either my cousin Jen's idea or her mom's, either way they were genius and cute too. (Wish I had pics) They also had those M&M s with printed pictures on them. Too cute!
So we had a full weekend. Today it felt nice to just be home and relax. Here are some pics.

Brityn playing games.
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Caden and cousin Nicholas gaming
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Later that night my silly Lily and Brit
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At the pool, showing off the big guns to the ladies
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My little fishy
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Rylen got in the pool too...sort of
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And here's RyRy eating french fries (healthy huh?)he dumped them out of the bowl
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Monday, August 11, 2008

Moody Monday

Since I'm in a not-so-good mood today, here are some of my current annoyances.
1- hammering neighbors at 8 am
2- the word 'chic' I really have no reason to dislike it but I do.
3- character clothing , nothing wrong with an occasional shirt or pjs, but letting your kids wear batman , spiderman, superman shirts all the time...seriously??
4- the heat
5- the impending task of cooking dinner

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Killing Time...

Yes it's super late and I have to be up for church at 9, but I just got the little one to sleep (!) and dammit I need my mommy time. So if I have to take it at 2 am so be it.

Alrighty....if you're up for a challenge...answer these in ONE word. Much harder than you think.

1. Your childhood? happy
2. Your significant other? snoring
3. Your hair? ponytail
4. Your mother? caring
5. Your father? funny
6. Your favorite thing? children
7. Your dream last night? weird
8. Your favorite drink? coke
9. Your dream/goal? school
10. The room you’re in? living
11. Your friends? awesome
12. Your fear? surgery
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? home
14. Where were you last night? home
15. What you’re not? thin
16. Muffins? blueberry
17. One of your wish list items? camera
18. Where you grew up? Texas
19. The last thing you did? nursed
20. What are you wishing? sleepy
21. Your TV? annoying
22. Your pets? Cha Cha
23. Your computer? old
24. Your life? blessed
25. Your mood? calm
26. Missing someone? friends
27. You need ? sleep
28. Something you’re not wearing? earrings
29. Favorite store? Gymboree
30. Your summer? HOT
31. Loves? familia
32. Your favorite word? happy
33. Last time you laughed? today
34. Last time you cried? overwhelmed

Have a blessed Sunday ya'll!

Friday, August 8, 2008

The Clean Up

Today I decided to do a much needed cleaning of the kids' rooms. We pick them up daily, usually twice a day but I needed to get down into the toy boxes and bins to take all the crap out. I have them pick up their rooms too...I don't do it all. They have to pitch in, I don't make them really clean it, but at least make an effort to help me pick up. How else would they learn???
So anyway, I started in Brit's room, not too bad. She doesn't have a gigantic toy box, mostly dolls, books, dollhouse stuff, and kitchen stuff. So I dug into her toy box and found some interesting things (see below). I just tossed the junky stuff, and organized her kitchen and book shelf. Only to have her take out more toys while I was cleaning Caden's room.
Then I went on to Caden's room. Oh my word...seriously I must have sorted between about a 100 action figures and hot wheels, he's got tons of those. And I noticed he's got all the toys, legos, Thomas tracks, Power Rangers, Star Wars, Hotwheels, light sabers...you name it, and I gave them all their own place in his room. So I hope he keeps it that way, and I hope Bryan keeps it that way. When he picks up, he just dumps everything where ever he wants. Pisses me off.
All this took like 2 hours, I had to stop cause Rylen was impatient, he needed a nap. Thank goodness cause I was tired too. Tomorrow it's my room...thinking about that mountain of laundry scares the hell out of me.

The following are just some of the surprising things I found in their rooms...

1-Army guys with their heads chewed off
2-A tiny opened bottle of bubbles..what a mess.
3-A petrified french fry
4-A pencil that looks like a chipmunk chewed it
5- $3. 67
6- 3 well hidden granola bar wrappers (although they are not supposed to have snacks in their rooms)
7- Bank deposit slips (???)
8- My tape measure that has been MIA for a couple of months
9-Caden's favorite headless Spider Man figurine (it's his favorite!! and he's been looking all over for it, I think it was a hand me down from cousin Austen)
10-A long lost lipstick that was rolled all the way up into the cap, wonder who got a hold of this??

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

We Have A First Word....

It's "MOM" !! I've been "coaching" him for weeks. Repeating " Mom" or "Momma" over and over again. He says "MMM" but not the whole word. Well today he wanted to be nursed so he crawls over to me and starts pulling up on my leg and he's whining "mmm" and he said "mom". It was just the most precious thing! I tried to get him to say it for daddy and of course he doesn't say it on command. So right before bed I was changing his diaper, washing him up, and getting some new pjs on him and was coaching him again and he said it again. A while back we caught him saying bye, a few times, but then he stopped saying it so I don't think it was a real word. Not this time. It was not a fluke but his real first word ! I'm so sad, he's growing so fast. Here's some pics of the little guy!

"Driving" Grandpa's new Cub Cadet

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The Arce Kids after church

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Eating breakfast in his new highchair

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Splashing in his baby pool

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Eating his first ice cream cone - yes he ate the cone and all!!

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You Like My New Header?

Oooooh I made it myself. I'm desperately trying to learn how to make my own layouts, so if anyone knows how to do it, let me know pretty please. I know a little about html, but I can't figure out how to make the picture stretch. I'll be obesessing over it all day or till I get it figured out.

A Tip....

A DIET tip (from me???) - Those 100 calorie packs-they're a clever idea. But eating 2 kind of defeats the purpose. So.I.must.stop.from eating another little packet of 100 calorie ritz snack mix. It's late and it's bad for my tummy anyway.

Mom's Night In-CANCELLED!

Bryan left to Houston this morning. He was working at an oil refinery all this week. At first I was bummed. The kids get all sad, Caden cries every time Bryan has to leave for work trips. So we prepared him yesterday. It's just so sad, it makes me sad-he loves his daddy. After lunch I sit down to watch the news at noon and see that there is a tropical storm on the way headed for the Houston area. I thought no big deal, he'll just catch a flight home later this week if things get crazy. Then I see this story and I get worried cause that's where he's supposed to be. So I called him, no answer. I get on with my day. Kids are bouncing off the walls and I plan a nice quiet night after they go to bed. I'll sit down with some popcorn or something and catch a chick flick on pay per view, it will be nice to be alone. I keep calling Bry and I get no answer.
After dinner the doorbell rings. I'm thinking maybe it's my sister and her kiddos. Wrong. It's Bryan. Turns out he woke up at 4 to catch a 6:45 am flight. He got there, and his work buddy called to tell him about all the crap going down at the refinery. So he shows up there, waits to see if things will settle down so he can get down to business. They go to lunch, come back and then they tell him they need to leave cause they're in storm mode. So he catches a 5:30 flight and comes home. Good for the kids, but I had plans to be alone. As a mom of 3 alone time is hard to come by. Oh well. So he was exhausted from the day of flying, driving, flying, and more driving. Poor guy. It sure would have been nice to have the bed all to myself though.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Tons of fun...

Satuday- After a breakfast of tacos I decided that Bryan and I would take the kids to Natural Bridge Caverns. It's only like 30 minutes away and now that Brityn is 3 and Caden is 5 it seemed like a cool place to take them. I loved that kind of science-y stuff as a kid. So we lined up Grandma as our impromptu babysitter and headed out.
I knew it would be quite a bit of walking, so we stopped at a nearby store to load up on Gatorade and some salty and sugary crap for the kids to snack on. It was then that I realized that I left the camera in Rylen's diaper bag at Grandma's house. Me..I love to take pictures of everything. I take the freakin camera everywhere I go, so it killed me that I was going to not be able record this spelunking experience on camera. Total bummer.
We made it up to the place and I bought a crappy disposable kodak in the over priced gift shop. I'll settle for that over nothing. We trek down to the cave entrance, where we listen to a teenager tell us what we are and are not allowed to do. She tells us that food or drinks are not allowed in the caves. It's about 100 degrees outside with a heat index of like 112, and we have to walk in a f'n cave 3/4 of a mile and not drink anything?!? So the large Gatorade bottle in my back pack is useless.
When we get in there they explain to us that we are not to touch anything. I have a 3 year old and a 5 year told with very busy hands. I relay it to them in "mom's terms" telling them "if you touch anything a big bat may bite your finger." Mean? Well sometimes that's the only way to get through to them. It began with a slippery decent, we took a good hold of their hands so that we don't lose them to whatever the hell is in the dark areas below us. It really did scare the crap out of me, being the nervous mom I am. It was stifling in there. 70-something degrees but 99% humidity, mom and dad are sweating here. Oh but it was beautiful. We traveled the entire length of the cave and I explained to them what a stalactite and stalagmite was, and that each formation was created out of water dripping down over thousands of years. Brit of course didn't understand but Caden seemed interested. They enjoyed all the twisting and turning, ducking under rocks, and getting "cave kissed" that was when you felt a drop of water on you. Toward the end of the tour we had to make our way up out of the cave. Oh my God, was that an experience. I, the fat ass, was so exhausted going up the steep exit for what seemed like forever. Had I not contained myself I may have been huffing and puffing. I am no longer the Kim that used to dance for hours on end, those days are no more so is that body. I am so out of shape it's embarrassing. Well I birthed 3 children in 5 years - I guess I should cut myself some slack here. But we made our way out and that is where the Gatorade came in handy. The kids were tired but boy did they bounce back. They had way too much energy for me for the rest of the day.
So it was a fun fun day. We were happy to get back to my RyRy, and come home to relax. As much as I could with sore legs.
Today we just went to church, then came home to do a quick clean up, then back to Mom and Dad's for a steak dinner. I'm so glad to be home to a clean house. Bryan is packing up cause he's in Houston all week, and I'm mentally preparing myself for a week of being a single parent. Yippee.
Sorry no pics, I forgot the stupid camera remember? Hope everyone had a fun weekend.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Let's Go GNO ....

If you have a little girl you probably know that my title is a Hannah Montana song. I love to hear Brit sing it.
Anyway, I had 2 GNO's (girls night out) this week. When you think of girls night, you're probably thinking girls, loud chatter, bitching about men that never do the dishes, and margaritas....we'll you're partially right. Cancel the margaritas cause we had the 2 youngest girls in our family with us.
Either way it was fun. Dinner and shopping with Mom, my big sis Stephanie, niece Lily, and my Brityn. We don't get to do it often so it was nice to get out with them. I even managed to buy myself 2 outfits. And you know how I hate to shop for myself. I'll enjoy it someday when I can actually try something on, look into a mirror, and not go into a deep depression.
So since I went out, Bryan had to stay with the boys. He never really had to take care of either of the kids as infants, they were stuck on the boob so went with me everywhere. Well Rylen will take a bottle so he gets to stay behind. Bryan did a pretty good job in my opinion. Both boys were bathed and Rylen was asleep in his crib when I got home. AND...I told him if he was brave enough he could take Caden and Rylen to Game Stop to get Caden a new game. So he did. When I got home I saw that he had packed a diaper bag with wipes, a diaper, a bib, and bottle. Of course he didn't use my diaper bag which is about the same print as my blog layout, he transferred the items to a much more masculine looking, messenger bag that I had gotten at gap when Caden was a toddler. So Mr. Arce did a damn good job it seems. Glad he's getting the hang of it cause I go on a women's retreat with my church in a few weeks. I'll probably take Rylen with me though.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Tag! I'm It...

YAY how fun!! Thanks girls.
So here is how it works: First, share 7 facts about yourself.Next, tag 7 people at the end of your blog by leaving their name and a link to their blog.Last, let them know they're tagged by leaving a link in their blog.
Ok well here I go...
1-In the summer, I only wear flip flops...not sandals...flip flops or "Chanklas" as we call them.
2-I HATE being barefoot, and I have many pairs of slippers cause I cannot stand being barefoot even in the house.
3-I read Perez Hilton religiously. I can't miss a day.
4-I suffer from terrible insomnia! It's 1:30 am right now and I'm not even the slightest bit sleepy.
5-I would LOVE to be a midwife, but how can I be when I was the lady screaming for my epidural :-o
6-I LOVE me some shopping here's the sad part...I only enjoy to shop for my kids!! I hate buying clothes for myself since I'm still carrying around baby weight from 3 kids (can I still use that as an excuse?) So...I live vicariously through them.
7-I love rain, my ideal day would be all of us being home, on a rainy day, and being lazy together on the couch.
8-I HATE folding laundry. It's my most dreaded task. I'd rather scrub a toilet than fold little pairs of underwear that don't even stay folded in the drawer.
OK Dokie, Most of you guys have been tagged, but I'll tag....
Liza
Justi
Ann

Jodi
Jen
ummm yeah, I think that's all. Everyone else has been tagged already.