My day

When we first moved into the Serra Mesa area and were registering Christy for school I was disappointed that we were in the boundaries for Jones Elementary. I had wanted Christy to go to Angier Elementary. California is a choice state so if you want your kid to go to a different school than what your boundaries allow you have to fill out a form, send it in and wait for the drawing to see if the next school year they can go to a different school. So we did just that. Meanwhile Christy has been attending Jones and she likes it. I also have been very pleased. My first impressions were way off base. Also Jones Elementary was just recognized as a California Distinguished School and last year the students at Christy's school scored the highest on the California Standardized Test in our area. So lets just say that I like her school and don't mind the weird schedule. So yesterday in the mail we received a letter stating that Christy's choice application had been drawn and she was approved to attend Angier for fourth grade. David and I discussed it and decided that the pros of staying at Jones out way the pros at Angier. So Christy will stay at Jones for fourth grade.
Today started out not very good for me. I woke up this morning aching and just overall feeling drained, and emotional. That time of the month brings unwanted changes and feelings. I walked Christy to school and though it was windy and cool I did my walk/jog. When I got home I thought that a long soak in the hot tub would make me feel better. And it did, while I was in the tub. When I got out I was feeling the same drained, blah feeling. But as all mothers know there are things that need to be done even if we are not feeling our best. So I got dressed and decided the first thing on my list was to clean the car. David has been driving the car lately because the Ford didn't have tags to go on base. Finally I took care of that little situation. Anyways David took the Ford today so I was going to clean the car. So I drag my body down the stairs and drag myself and the vacuum out to the garage. I get the mats out of the car and move the seats and start to vacuum. Then I notice that the vacuum is not sucking up anything. I think maybe the hose is clogged. I unhook the hose and look for something to stick in it to see if its clog. I find a wrench and drop it in, no problems, it comes out the other end just fine. So I reattach the hose and try the vacuum again. Still no sucking. I turn the vacuum off give it a little thumb on the garage floor and try again, still no sucking. So what do I do, I get upset and I start crying. I walk into the house, climb the stairs, climb into bed and call David and cry. Lame I know!!! Poor David thought when he answered the phone to me crying that something was wrong. You can chock that one all up to hormones. Good thing is that David ended up taking me out to lunch :) This evening our community had their living green expo. We got free dinner and then we walked around and visited vendors booths and got free stuff. I love free stuff. They even had things going on for the kids and right before the raffle drawing they had a Mad Science show for the kids. It was surprising to me that the event was not well attended. But that turned out to be in our favor. We won in the raffle. We won a bag of stuff from one of the vendors. It had two travel mugs, four collapseable water bottles, two kids books and two reusable shopping bags. I learned from the YMCA vendor that once a month I can take one of my reusable shopping bags to the YMCA and they fill it with groceries for FREE :) Just one of the many services they offer for FREE to military families. Now David is at class and here I sit on the Internet waiting for him to get home. We watched the movie "Brothers" last night. It made me so grateful for so many things. Most of all that my husband comes home each night and he is not at risk for being to deployed to the worst areas of the war. My heart goes out to all the spouses and families that have loved ones in those areas and who are in the face of danger daily. I am so lucky to have a husband that loves me so much and does what he can to take care of me!!!!

Rain, Rain, Go Away

I really do love the rain but this week with Christy getting out of school early for Parent Teacher Conference she gets really bored in the house. I need the sun at least for one day. On a different note, my thumb nail is almost off. All but one corner has not fallen off and this is from January when I slammed my thumb in the car door. The nail that's growing in is funny. I hope as it grows that it will go back to normal. Yet another note. On short days I now watch two little kids for two hours after school. A brother and sister. They are sure cute and it gives Christy someone to play with. And its nice to have a little extra cash :)

Just one of those days

I am so beyond frustrated!!!!!! I hate this minute! I hate this computer because I was half way done with my post and I erased it!!!!!! DAMNIT!!!!! I am having a bad day, if you couldn't tell. I am upset with David, he never tells me anything. How much important stuff do I miss because it is sent to his work email of a message left on his cell phone. Why does he not feel the need to talk to me. This is so stupid I am crying. I am mad that I am not pregnant, I am jealous of all those women who are. I want so badly to be pregnant it kills me that for some reason I have not been able to have a successful pregnancy since Christy. I'm almost to old to have babies. My knee hurts today. I decided that I was finally going to do something about being so fat, so I started going to the gym and I started jogging and now with my knee hurting I wonder if its even worth it!! Can't I just be fat and happy? And I noticed that i have deep ugly wrinkles on my forehead. I pointed them out to David and he says "I guess you'll just have to do something about that" What the hell am I supposed to do? Now I am laughing and crying. I know that he didn't mean it the way I took it. I hate the location of our house. It prevents us from having any kind of satellite tv and it prevents me from laying in my backyard to tan. I watched the back patio all day yesterday trying to find the perfect time where the sun was in the yard so I could go lay out and tan. Guess what, it never happened. Sure the area with the bushes and trees gets sun, but I'm not going to lay on the bush to tan! I miss TV, sometimes all I want to do is lay on the couch and do nothing but watch the trash on tv. I am so moody and emotional today, maybe its that time of the month. That would be nice because then I know that at least part of me is still working even if its only 1/3 of the time :( I wish I could go to Ambers house for lunch today and tell her all my problems. She always seemed to help me feel better.

Old Town Recyling

Remember the post with all the bottles of drinks. Well today I decided it was time to take the empty ones and cash them in. So I gathered all empty bottles and drove to Old Town Recycling. I hate going there. It is so nasty dirty, noisy and lots of vagrants hang out there. The first thing when you get there you must get a bin to put your bottles in. The bins are inside next to the trash containers for the glass. As I was grabbing a bin they were dumping a bin of glass into the container. Of course it is a deafening sound and little pieces of glass escape. Stupid me wearing my flip flops, my poor foot got cut. So here I am dirty hands from grabbing a bin and my foot dripping blood. I drag my bin to the car and start filling it. My poor foot is bleeding. I wiped some of the blood on my palm so then I had blood on my foot and my palm. Anyways 101 bottles turned into $7.72. Now we are home and my foot is cleaned and disinfected and no trace of blood on my palm. Next time David can take the recycling :)

Wendy's Wedding

This past weekend was Wendy's wedding. Saturday April 17, 2010 Wendy Whitmore married Josh Lee. They were married on Laguna Beach. It was a very nice wedding. There was just a small group of people present including relatives and close friends. I was one of Wendy's bridesmaids. We had beautiful dresses and flowers. After the ceremony there was lots of picture taking. My girls had fun playing in the water. I bought their dresses at Kmart for $11 each. I thought they were perfect for a beach wedding. After the ceremony there was a reception at the church. Once again it was a small group of family and friends. The decorations were beautiful. There were little bottles with sand and shells inside for each guest and the centerpieces were glass dishes filled with shells and sand. Tammy made two beautiful cakes. The wedding cake was three tiers with shells and pearls enhancing the brown fondant and satin ribbons. The grooms cake was made to look like the beach and the ocean with Wendy fishing a scuba gear clad Josh out of the water. Tammy made chocolate shells to decorate the sides. We enjoyed yummy sandwiches and salad, and very yummy cake. There was dancing and visiting. Brent was so good to dance with both my girls. He even was sliding the girls on the floor. Shadow was very shy at first but finally went and danced and guess what she had a great time. I did not get very many pictures from the wedding or the reception. Saturday night Emma came home with us and had a sleepover with the girls. Sunday we woke up early and drove back to Anaheim to go to church with lots of family. After church we all went to the park for lunch and visiting. It was a fun filled weekend with lots of family. Thanks to mom and dad for taking Shadow home and enduring the over hour wait for Tasha to get there to pick up Shadow. It was a great weekend and I am glad that I was able to see so many family members!!!!

Me in my bridesmaid dress. I love that on the beach we were barefoot and flip flops worked just great for the reception.

What a sexy man I married :)

A family picture on the beach.

I was honored to be one of Wendy's bridesmaids.

My vacation in St. George

While in St. George for two weeks I spent a lot of time with family and at work. When I moved back to San Diego the doctors office let me stay on as a prn employee. They let me come in and work while I was in St. George. I miss working. Staying at home everyday gets boring. I like working and knowing that I am contributing to our family and working gives me something to be proud of. Also while in St. George I went swimming a few times at the Washington rec center. On Saturday the 10th I drove Christy to Beaver so she could spend the third week of Spring Break with Grandma Cosgrove. I spent one whole day in Overton with Salina and her family. When I got to Overton Salina and I layed out in her backyard so we could tan for Wendy's wedding. Neither one of us wanted to be the whitest ones there. When Emma got home from Kindergarten we went to Inside Scoop for lunch. It was fun hanging out with Salina and her kids. I love being able to hang out there. In the evening I went to Mesquite with Salina and Mandy to go bowling. So fun. It was such a good day! Wednesday evening I went to dinner with mom, Alisha, Crystal and Jen. We went to Samurai 21. So yummy. Thursday I went and got a pedicure so my nails would look cute at the wedding. Friday I got my hair done then I drove to Vegas. I picked Christy up at the airport and when Shadow got out of school I picked her up. Then we made the long drive home. I had a good time in St. George, but it was so nice to be home and be able to sleep in my own bed and use my own bathroom!!!

Emma! David says I spoil her. But who wouldn't she is so cute! While we were at lunch the dentist came in and Emma was begging Salina to let her go to the dentist right now! What kid loves the dentist that much.

One of my favoritest cousins, sometimes I even claim her as one of my siblings.

Michael and Kayley hugging.

I have the cutest niece in the whole world. Kayley is the best. She loves me (most of the time), and she really loves Kiki. She talks so cute! She is just overall so dang cute!

After I took Kiki to Beaver I went over to Alisha's and Kayley asked me where Kiki was. I told her that Kiki was at Grandmas house, so when Grandma went to Alisha's house to watch Kayley I guess she went up to grandma and asked where Kiki was. I guess grandma tried to explain to Kayley that Kiki was at her other grandmas house. Poor Kayley didn't understand, she only knew that she was told Kiki was at grandmas and in her mind if grandma was at her house then Kiki should have been too.

Kiki and Britten

For the second week of Spring Break Christy and I were in St. George. I worked at the doctors office and Christy played at Alisha's house. One of Christy's best friends lives in St. George. Britten and Christy are two weeks apart and they were in the same third grade class at Little Valley Elementary. Christy wanted to spend some time with Britten while we were in St. George. I decided to take Christy and Britten out to dinner. We went to Brick Oven!!! The girls had a blast. They laughed and had so much fun. I am so glad that we were able to go out to dinner. Christy has really missed Britten.

Two crazy girls :)

Falling Behind

I have so much that I need to blog about but I am in St. George and I forgot the thingy that connects my camera to the computer. When I get home late next week or early the week after that I will catch up.