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Mahna in gymnastics

My little gymnast.....

astrology

Ok it said I would get bad luck if I didn't forward so I am just posting. You know everyone likes to see their horoscope once in a while. :)

Mine is Libra.... very true that I can never make up my mind and flirtatious, It is also true that I give in too easily. The incorrect part is that I hate to be alone. I enjoy being alone....... it never happens!

VIRGO - The Perfectionist ( Aug 23 - Sept 22)
Dominant in relationships. Conservative.
Always wants the last word. Argumentative. Worries. Very smart.
Dislikes noise and chaos. Eager.
Hardworking. Loyal. Beautiful. Easy to talk to.
Hard to please. Harsh. Practical and very fussy.
Often shy. Pessimistic. 7 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

LIBRA - The Harmonizer ( Sept 23 - Oct 22)
Nice to everyone they meet. Can't make up their mind. Have own unique
Appeal. Creative, energetic, and very social. Hates to be alone.
Peaceful, generous. Very loving and beautiful. Flirtatious.
Give in too easily. Procrastinators. Very gullible. 9 years of bad
Luck if you do not forward.

SCORPIO - The Intense One ( Oct 23 - Nov 21)
Very energetic. Intelligent. Can be jealous
And/or possessive. Hardworking. Great kisser. Can become obsessive or
Secretive. Holds grudges. Attractive. Determined. Loves being in long
Relationships. Talkative. Romantic. Can be self-centered at times.
Passionate and Emotional. 4 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

SAGITTARIUS - The Happy-Go-Lucky One ( Nov 22 - Dec 21)
Good-natured optimist. Doesn't want to grow up (Peter Pan Syndrome).
Indulges self. Boastful. Likes luxuries and gambling. Social and
outgoing. Doesn't like responsibilities. Often fantasizes.
Impatient. Fun to be around. Having lots of friends. Flirtatious.
Dislikes being confined - tight spaces or even tight clothes.
Beautiful inside and out 14 years of bad luck if you do not forward

CAPRICORN - The Go-Getter ( Dec 22 - Jan 19)
Patient and wise. Practical and rigid. Ambitious. Tends to be
Good-looking. Humorous and funny. Can be a bit shy and reserved.
Often pessimistic. Capricorns tend to act before they think and can be
Unfriendly at times. Hold grudges. Like competition. Get what they
Want. 20 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

AQUARIUS - The Sweetheart ( Jan 20 - Feb 18)
Optimistic and honest. Sweet personality. Very independent.
Inventive and intelligent. Friendly and loyal. Can seem unemotional.
Can be a bit rebellious. Very stubborn, but original and unique.
Attractive on the inside and out. Eccentric personality. 11 years of
Bad luck if you do not forward..

PISCES - The Dreamer ( Feb 19 - Mar 20 )
Generous, kind, and thoughtful. Very creative and imaginative.
May become secretive and vague. Sensitive. Don't like details.
Dreamy and unrealistic. Sympathetic and loving. Kind. Unselfish.
Good kisser. Beautiful. 8 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

ARIES - The Daredevil ( Mar 21 - April 19)
Energetic. Adventurous and spontaneous. Confident and enthusiastic.
Fun. Loves a challenge. EXTREMELY impatient. Sometimes selfish.
Short fuse. (easily angered.) Lively, passionate, and sharp wit.
Outgoing. Lose interest quickly - easily bored. Egotistical.
Courageous and assertive. Tends to be physical and athletic.
16 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

TAURUS - The Enduring One ( April 20 - May 20th)
Charming but aggressive. Can come off as boring, but they are not.
Hard workers. Warm-hearted. Strong, has endurance. Solid beings who
Are stable and secure in their ways. Not looking for shortcuts. Take
Pride in their beauty. Patient and reliable. Make great friends and
give good advice. Loving and kind. Loves hard - passionate. Express
themselves emotionally. Prone to ferocious temper-tantrums.
Determined. Indulge themselves often. Very generous. 12 years of bad
Luck if you do not forward

GEMINI - The Chatterbox ( May 21 - June 20)
Smart and witty. Outgoing, very chatty. Lively, energetic. Adaptable
But need to express themselves. Argumentative and outspoken. Like
Change. Versatile. Busy, sometimes nervous and tense. Gossips. May
Seem superficial or inconsistent. Beautiful physically and mentally.
5 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

CANCER - The Protector ( June 21 - July 22)
Moody, emotional. May be shy. Very loving and caring.
Pretty/handsome. Excellent partners for life. Protective. Inventive
And imaginative. Cautious. Touchy-feely kind of person. Needs love
>From others. Easily hurt, but sympathetic. 16 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

LEO - The Boss ( July 23 - Aug 22)
Very organized. Need order in their lives - like being in control.
Like boundaries. Tend to take over everything. Bossy. Like to help
Others. Social and outgoing. Extroverted. Generous, warm-hearted.
Sensitive. Creative energy. Full of themselves. Loving. Doing the
Right thing is important to Leos. Attractive. 13 years of bad luck if
You do not forward.

it's a miracle!

I love Cops
Ok not all cops, but today I was leaving my gma's apartment, I called Jarrod to excitedly tell him some good news (remind me to mention that later) and I pull to a 4 way stop and see a cop which triggers my memory of not yet putting on my seatbelt. I jerk it on, and of course he saw me and pulled me over. He says I am pulling you over for no seatbelt, I said yes I know I just left my grandma's apartment and I was just then getting it on. He went back to the car forever with my license and insurance. I was about to start balling but I thought how embarrassing to cry in front of a stranger, plus why cry...... it is just money. Why cry over money. "Money comes easily and frequently" ($5 if you can quote where that is from). So he comes back with the pad of paper for me to sign and says "It is just a warning". I said ARE YOU SERIOUS! He was caught off guard but totally stoic young cop faced. I know underneath that look he felt good about my reaction. I am sure cops are asses just way too much and it just HAS to feel good once in a while to make someone's day BETTER instead of worse. I told him that I hope he had a really great day today. I have had an amazing day. The whole time I was cleaning "C"s house after I got pulled over I was just happy as could be that "I DIDN'T GET A TICKET TODAY". And back to the good news I got this morning......my parents are letting us use their vehicle to go to Kansas City soon and even paying for gas. YIPPEEEEEEEE so now we can be on our own schedule and work it around Jarrod's work and have a car to drive while we are there. I can't wait to see Gold. It has been over a year.......... plus the chunk of other people whom I love out there... u know who u are!!!!!!! XOXO see u sooooooon

hearts

My grandma is turning 80 on Sunday and my mom is throwing a party for her. We sent out 150 invites and so far 85 are coming. In the invites we asked people to send in a memory of my grandma to me or my mom for a scrapbook. We had no idea what it would become. It is the largest scrapbook I have ever seen. It is about 100 pages of notes, cards, poems, pictures and letters saying thank you or I love you or you impacted my life in this way or that. It is just so inspirational to see. I keep thinking how I would love to have a book of letters from everyone I have known. I mean all of these people love my grandma enough to stop and write something. I can't wait for her to get it tomorrow.

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yo ho ho

I am up at two in the morning, after two nights of not getting enough rest. I woke up sick as hell in the middle of the night and still don't know exactly why. And no I am not pregnant again. So here I am sitting writing a post when my eyes aren't all the way open. I need to change the picture on here, its over a month old. I feel accomplished even in my sleepyness. Sometimes the best time to get things done around the house is when everyone is asleep. So I actually got all the laundry put away. My days of following FLYLADY.COM have been dwindling down. They teach you to wash, fold, put away. I wash and put in a basket in the laundry room. For some reason I have it in my head to wait until I have a 'full load' of colors or whatever to wash them. I really should start doing a few at a time and keep up with it without giving up sleep. We had a great day today swimming and I watered Di's plants, my current two week house sitting job. It's like a challenge to water against this horrid TX heat and keep this woman's botanical garden alive. Today I was blessed enough to not have to take the kids and it made it a somewhat peaceful experience. Jarrod had enough time to come by and say hi for 30 min in the middle of the day. I am looking forward to MOPS staring in a few weeks. I am hoping one or two of my friends will sign up with me for the 2nd and 4th Mondays. I also got a babysitting job at church for Tuesdays starting in Sept that will pay an extra $70 a week and of course I get to take my kids and they love it, so bonus bonus. This weekend we are taking Mahna to Galveston as an early birthday gift. She's been asking to go to "the beach" for several months. Not to mention her parents love the ocean. Cole will get to spend his first night away from mom as my mom volunteered to keep him. yea mom! :) We also get free lodging in a really awesome mansion of a house visiting some fun true hearted people in Houston. That is a major bonus since the hotel we stay at on the ocean (Flagship) is $175 a night! So are you still with me? still reading? Well thanks for that and caring about what I have to say however ho hum it may be. Hugs 2 U.

gratitude

how do you stop negative thoughts and feelings? replace them with positive ones. start by being thankful for everything.

tonight I am grateful for my mom, my husband, my daughter, my son and my house. i am thankful to live in America and have a brain that works and a body that is healthy. i am thankful for my friends and my church. i am thankful for my sisters and for my brother. i am thankful for all the family that i have close and far and that we all love eachother so much and stay connected so consistantly. i am thankful for my grandma and that she is going to have a really neat 80th birthday party next month. i am thankful for the love I get from my husband and children, more love than i ever deserve. i am thankful for the car my dad is lending me and that it has air conditioning. i am thankful for Golden having a steady life since his birth and i am thankful he is such an interesting and intelligent person. i am thankful that my parents love eachother. i am thankful that jarrod's parents love eachother. i am thankful for my sisters in law. i am thankful for my old friends and my new friends. i am thankful for people who patiently continue to show God's love and grace to the world, however frustrating and unfair it gets.

doublestuf

I read Frankys last two blogs this morning and it inspired me to write something. Some days I open up blogger.com and just look at this blank slate thinking "what do I say?". At one time it came so naturally. I woke up this morning at 4:55 a.m. and could not go back to sleep. I thought about working out, cleaning the house, catching up on blog reading. I did accomplish washing a load of towels before Cole woke up. He had fever all evening last night. Jarrod took him on the end of his route yesterday and watched him til about 10 pm while I attempted to take Mahna to the circus at American Airlines center. Unfortunately after lots of driving, walking, waiting in line, it sold out. This was suprising as it has been in town for a week. But a lesson was learned, buy your tickets ahead of time! So Jana and the kids and I will go next week in Ft Worth after SHE gets back from Cancun. (lucky beep) We had a fun night anyway tho, all the kids got along and laughed a lot and Jana and I laughed together and talked for the first time in a while. Friends are good "soul food". jarrod did good watching the babykins. He was looking forward to playing w/ him and having him as his little buddy, but unfortunately Cole just got his second tooth so pretty pitiful the last day or so. Mom got a dose of it yesterday morning while she watched him so I could take Mahna to the water park. Today I am looking forward to staying home.

didya

Didya look at my pics on my last post?
Okay, I finally changed Anna's link, so it is correct and you can get to hers from mine. I also added Franky's, as promised.

Today is "church day". I look forward to it, and getting something out of it to make me do better what I should this week. I let Mahna sit with me in 'big church' once, a few weeks ago. Since then I have to convince her to go to Sunday School. She was pretty good the time I took her in with me, but I really need to focus on what I am hearing and not focus on keeping her quiet/off other people's nerves. Last week the pastor said something that I appreciated and stuck out. He said that if we had an idea of something the church needs, a group or association or something (children's choir, prison outreach, etc. whatevah) that we should see that as God calling us to add that ourselves. As opposed to us going to him saying "this church would be better if it had 'this'. The message I get is 'this is your church', not my church that you come to.

Ok so I really should be getting myself and the kiddos ready instead of playing online!

happs yo!

my cuz Adam and his fam are here visiting and it's been a week full o' fun. Mahna and his son Blake (1 yr older than her) have had s much fun! It is cute seeing her play with a kiddo her age. Enjoy the pics! I have more!

links

Thanks to my tiny little sister, I finally know how to put links and pictures on my blog.... Don't be offended that your link is not there yet, I am still collecting web addresses and just doing a lil bit here and there. My time is spread thin.

Cole is doing fine, his hemotoma is almost gone. The DR said it could take up to 6 mos to dissolve completely. I am just relieved it was no big deal.

This hot weather SUCKS! I would like to take Mahna to the water park everyday, if it wasn't so hard to take a baby, too. I could ask for babysitting, but I am already asking for babysitting on Fridays to clean houses for money. I see some people pawn their kids off too much on family and I am trying to be cautious not to take advantage of my blessing of having family nearby.

Mosquitos are eating my children! I put bug spray on them daily, like a second skin. The mosquitos still want bites of their baby skin....... in my house, in Babies R Us......... in the car. My aunt suggested feeding the kids more garlic. Any one else have ideas? Cole's face looks like he has the measles, Mahna scratches her legs until they have scabs!

Jarrod had his first day of being his own boss Monday. 3 months in the working, he finally got to start working. Our company is official, and hopefully will get it's first check in the next couple of weeks. The look on his face was priceless, leaving Monday morning. I am proud of him. We still have a gap from 9:00-1:00 to fill up, so if you know of any places that need paperwork deliveries in Tarrant County......remember our courier service "ABLE COURIERS".

Dramatic Story here for ya

Thursday we went to the mall to get Cole's pic taken. He is 6 mo. old now. We rented one of those $5 strollers that looks like a car, b/c I forgot Cole's stroller and Mahna has always wanted one. Well he can't sit up all the way and was really doing well leaning back in one corner of it, but along the way somewhere he pulled himself forward and must have bonked the side of his head. I didn't see it happen, I just assume. So he is asleep w/ his head on the side and I am showing Tina & Mahna stuff at the Disney store and I see him sleeping so I go to put Mahna's sweatshirt under his head. I feel a big bubble of liquid under his skin on the side of his skull. It is the wierdest and freakiest feeling ever. I figure he must have bonked his head on the side, but how could it have done that much damage??? So I grab both girls and we drop everything, running toward the other end of the mall where we are parked. Tina is saying "Why are we leaving? U said we could throw pennies in the fountain" Mahna is crying "You said I could get an umbrella". My head is cold and I am just trying to figure out what to do and I want to scream at them to be quiet but I know it is not their fault and I feel like I am the worst mother in the world for letting him sit in that stroller and for shopping and not looking at him for a few minutes. He is asleep. I get them in the car, I feel his head and the liquid has spread up to the top of his head a little bit, too. I drive home, which is 5 min maybe but it felt like 30. Jarrod comes out to the car, like usual, to help me w/ the kids and stuff. I said you have to keep the girls, I have to take Cole somewhere, something is wrong with his head. Jarrod felt it and took the girls and I think he asked me what happened and I said I think he hit his head on the side of the stroller. Jarrod was calm and I am thankful for that. I drove straight to Lewisville Hospital, which seemed like an hour but was maybe 10 min. The whole time I was driving, I was calling his DR's office, and calling the insurance's nurses hotline. Everything was taking too long, and truthfully even if they had told me that it was not a big deal on the phone Iwould have taken him for an actual DR or nurse to look at themself. I get in the ER (it's raining). I signed Cole in, took him out of his seat and walked around the waiting room, holding him and he was awake and acting pretty normal. I still keep touching that bubble on his head, wondering if his skull is cracked and that is leaking fluid and is he going to be mentally messed up from this day on, etc etc. Why didn't I bring that blanket with me, it's so cold in the waiting room. Why are they taking soooooo long to see my little baby, he is just a 6 mo old baby. When we came here for his RSV, they took him straight in! Finally after 30 min they take him in, look at him, say it may just be a hemotoma and to wait for a room to open up so the DR can see if he needs a cat scan. Cole falls asleep again and I am holding him crying (not hysterically or anything) calling Jarrod every five minutes and talking to a big funny black lady sitting next to me. A room opens up and we get in. After another 30 min a DR comes in and says since Cole keeps falling asleep we need to do a catscan. An hour goes by sitting in this tiny curtained room, listening to all the other patients coming and going. There is a man a few curtains down moaning in pain, he didn't know why his back hurt so bad and said the pain was moving back and forth. Turns out he had a kidney stone. It was hard to listen to his moaning. At first you wonder if a person is faking it to get pain medicine, then you think, that must be pretty bad pain for a grown man, business man, to be crying out and moaning like that in a public place. SO Cole gets a cat scan. The nurses all loved him and his big blue eyes. Said he was more cooperative than the adults that day. They promise me that results will be back in 30 min. 2 hours later........a DR comes and tells me Cole is fine. He has swelling on his head, but no internal bleeding, no fractures whatsoever. He is fine. And in the future I can avoid a multiple hour wait at the ER by knowing that a serious head injury would involve lots of unstoppable crying and puking. Good to know. Cole still has the swelling on the side of the head, and if you felt it (GG did yesterday) you would see how freakishly squishy it is. I still can't believe it is "nothing" but if a catscan shows that, I have to believe it.

pic one of a billion

Here are two pics of Mahna holding her brother Cole who she asks to hold at least 3 times a day. They love eachother sooooooo much and it is amazing to watch. She is not jealous acting of him whatsoever. It is so cute to watch her make him smile.


OK the last post I wrote in this series u are about to start reading was really the first one but i forgot they would post backward. SO here is post one of a bunch of pics, so scroll down and check out my shtuff.

Summer Swimmin' at the folks

Swimming time!!!!! Mahna and Cole are so blessed to have their great Grandma youthful enough to go swimmin with 'em!

Dallas Arboretum

Here are our pictures from visiting the Dallas Arboretum Saturday. It was so beautiful and practically vacant. The kids were great and it was a really peaceful time with my gma and her friend and my parents. Mahna and "grandad" are so cute together. She bugs him constantly to do things with her and he is very silly/cute about it. There is a pond of coi in one section of the arboretum that we were throwing pretzels to and they were crazy hungry! These huge fish were jumping over eachother fighting for the pretzels......like over the top of the water!

Rhuedasil Park

Here is a couple of pics from our awesome day at Rhuedasil park last week. We got up at the crack of dawn (8 a.m haha) to go feed the ducks before it got too hot outside. Lucky us it was overcast and we got to stay several hours. There were sooooo many ducks and some of them are unbelievably huge! We fed them a whole box of crackers and they were still hungry. There were a lot of other cool kids there and Cole was sooooooo good the whole time. Mahna had fun pushing him in his little stroller. The older girl is my niece Tina, in case u didn't already know her. She is spending a lotta time with us this summer.

Jarrod with his kiddos on Mahna's little bed that is next to our bed.
And Cole N jarrod on the couch.......I love those cute girraffe jammies Cole has on. THey are size 12 months!!! (he is 6 mo)

huz and ma in law

I sometimes like to brag about how hot my huz is. I like this pic of he and his momma at the 'family reunion' a few weeks back. Can you believe that woman is over 50 and has 4 kids?

if mom is annoyed everyone must be!

Sorry for my non blogging........ i need someone to ask me questions cuz i have no idea lately of what people want to know about me or my life..... SO here are some pics. And ya'll that want to know anything ask me something in my comment bar.



Here is pic one of a million (so keep scrolling) This is Mahna and Cole in their cute matching shirts and hottie sunglasses on my living room floor.

Seven

Happy Anniversary to Jarrod and I. At 3 pm. today it will be the end of our 7th year married. I won't gush on here about the things I think and feel, for those are better said to him today.

Anything to share? (comment!) I have heard a few wives tales of the 7 year itch and 'if u can make it past 7 you can make it'........

for Sunday readers

Ugh, it is too early. I went to bed after 2 a.m. Mahna went to bed around 1:00 as did my nieces who stayed the night. I was expecting to sleep in til the last second before church this morning. So much for that! Mahna was up a little before 8. I guess that means she will take a good nap today but man I really wanted to sleep this morning. I did get some sugar free french vanilla creamer this week. It only came in a big huge size, so I have plenty. I actually started drinking coffee without sugar/splenda in it cuz this creamer is so yummy. I have been trying to lose weight this week. Dieting sucks. As if everyone didn't know. So I guess I wll drink a pot o' coffee this morning before church at 10:30. I signed up to help with cutting out VBS stuff and filling in letters for decorations and today is the day to turn it all in, so I really should be finishing all that right now instead of blogging. My nieces are going to disney world w/ their other auntie and their dad for a few days, then on to Canada for a couple weeks and Virginia for a week to see their other other aunt and cousins. I am gonna miss them. My parents are gone so I gotta go check on the house and get Elliott, who thankfully got over his stomach problem, so I don't have to worry more than usual over my carpet while he's here. I just hope my brother doesn't show up at the house anytime while I am there, so I don't have to deal with any confrontation. Then again I wish I could see that he is "ok", too. Blah blah blah. Jarrod and I have been having a lot of laughs together lately which is really cool. Makes life more enjoyable for sure. Our 7th anniversary is on Father's day and I truly can't believe 7 years have gone by. This year seems like a "big one", to both of us. I can remember things that happened at our first apartment and it seems like just a couple months ago. Well I better get some stuff done, like making that pot o' coffee. Oh by the way THANKS MOM for telling me how to use my iced tea maker. 7 years later, I finally made a decent pitcher of tea for Jarrod. HOORAY!

favor to ask

The last few posts I have made, no one commented on. I am just wondering if my blog has dropped off the radar. Would you mind leaving me a message/comment saying u read it. If you want to remain anonymous that is all good w/ me.

promised afternoon update

Ok, well the meeting went very well. I amjust horribly impatient, and he will not start being this bank's courier service until AUGUST!!!! That is two months, becuz they have to give their current service two month cancellation notice. Bummer, but ok. It will be awesome once it starts. He loves those people and they love him, so it will be much better than the guy TONY he was working for before. That guy was such an ass. N E WAYS.....

Nikki, good idea about healthy snacks!

Cin...money tree doing good and so far the 'universe' has provided all we have needed to make it thus far, jobless.

OH! Something bad happened, though. Lexy (3 yrs old) was getting in Penny (dog)'s face and I was off with the other kiddos and Penny bit her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so pissed off, I am leaving Penny outside and thinking of getting rid of her. I know she was cornered, but she bit Lexy's LIP! It was bleeding and you know that Lexy will possibly be frightened by dogs now! I can't call her mom at work, and Lexy is ok now but I will have to explain this later and if it happened to my kid i would be pretty PISSED.

Jessica.......Thanks for always reading! I wish I could post pics, I have a million new and good ones, but this isn't my computer so I can't download the pics. Hopefully soon!

Hugs to all.

howdy loyal friends!

i am not a dumdum
ok i really do know how to spell 'computer'

mine is fixed but missing drivers for the wireless card. you can download them on the internet, but duh.... no wireless card NO INTERNET

So Tivany was nice enuf to bring over her dad-e-o's computer to calm my withdrawl symptoms from MYSPACE

Today is my fourth day of babysitting two little kiddos from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. It has been mostly good, and fun. There are stressful moments here and there, but It hink mostly it is fun having kids for Mahna to play with and learn how to share with. The sucky part is that I have been getting up at 5:45 a.m. and going to bed after midnight. I really want a nap!!!! :) But when I get free time I do not use it for sleeping. Also, I see how being a babysitter or housewife could really fatten you up. I have been munching on whatever they eat, like donuts, hotdogs, nuggets and french toast sticks.

Jarrod's big meeting with the main customer he wants is this very moment!!!!! (9 a.m.) and I am so excited to see how it goes. Much of our immediate future depends on today. He looked great when he left and seemed very relaxed. If I get a minute later I will update with what happens!

Cole turned 5 mo. old on Monday. He rolls over, plays with toys a little, sucks on his whole fist, likes a pacifier, smiles a lot and giggles a lot. He is so much fun, he totally lights up my world. Of course, Mahna lights up my world as well, but in different ways. Cole is a smiling face with simple needs. Mahna is fun to play with and have amazing conversations with. I never thought I would be able to equally love two kids, but I so totally do. I think it is an indescribable feeling you don't know until you 'know'.

moosh moosh

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!

So Long........

Kendra is moving to Colorado tomorrow. She will be here for this evening, but no longer a "temporary Texan". So sad that I won't get to see you play with my kiddos as much or do fun crafty stuff with you on your weekend visits. Good luck, though! You will love Fort Collins, I bet.

Sunday Sunday Sunday

To those who work the hardest of anyone on earth.......And whose job is never done...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Mahna's First Sporting Event

Saturday we took Mahna to her first baseball game. Granted she is little young...only 2 1/2 but she had a ball. She clapped when everyone clapped. She got to eat ice cream out of mini baseball cap and tried cotton candy for the first time. I wish I could have captured a picture of her face after that first bite. It was like total suprise that such a wierd thing would taste so yummy! We were up on the second level so the players were pretty small and when they hit the ball I tried to semi-explain the game to her and she kept asking "whats next momma?" I think her favorite thing was that the seats retracted up and down. Or maybe it was just that she got to be an only child for a night again. Enjoy the pictures!

try something new

Mahna got an easel from grandma yesterday, so first thing when she wakes up this morning she wants to "paint a picture for grandma". I was nervous at first thinking what a mess I was about to have on my hands. I held my tongue giving her the paintbrush. I suppressed my control issues and decided to just let her figure out "how to paint" by herself. She did awesome! Of course every parent thinks their kid is the most talented, but I AM just like every other parent. She made some really awesome pictures and had a certain person in mind for each one. Here is my little wonder at her easel.

so anyway......

For anyone who doesn't know, Jarrod got fired a couple of weeks ago from his job. We immediately started researching starting our own courier business.

I would like to happily announce we now own an LLC (limited liability corporation) called "Able Couriers" and have secured our first (and almost second) customer. We are both really excited and optimistic about a future that once seemed bleak (job-wise).

Send good vibes our way! Thanks!!!!!!!!

McDonaldland

Ever wondered what it looked like thru the eyes of kiddos inside those McDonald's playground thangs?????????

Happy Feet

We watched Happy Feet and that is the happiest movie I have ever seen! If you need to be cheered up you should check it out. I would have never watched it if my mom hadn't bought it for Mahna.

To sum it up: A dancing penquin makes a difference.

two days at the park