Thursday, September 24, 2009

No routine!

This week, I am out of my routine. And I am actually lost without it! This was a long week - and it began on Sunday with a mandatory class for work, 2 extra shifts, schedule is due, and I'm working my last patient care shift. Phew... can't wait. It will be better next week.. hopefully.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Happy Birthday Honey!

Happy 38th Birthday Honey!!

And to think, i met you when you were just 29!! So here are 38 reasons that you should celebrate!
  1. You're not in your 40's!
  2. Your birthday falls during hunting season!!
  3. You have a daughter who is more excited that its your birthday than yourself.
  4. It's your daughter who would love to have you take her hunting than your 2 boys.
  5. You are as athletic today as when you were in your 20's.
  6. You get to watch your son walk in your shoes playing basketball and baseball.
  7. You still have all your hair and yet you cut your hair bald.
  8. You don't have a beer belly.
  9. You are never 'absent' in our hobbies. 
  10. You coach our Ashton's basketball team.
  11. You dance and sing to Miley/Hannah songs with Jadeline.
  12. You treat Troy as if he is your own.
  13. You bite your tongue when you see my craft mess.
  14. You are always there for your friends.
  15. You continue to call me, "Honey". Not Jeannie, and never 'babe'(I'm not a pig).
  16. You love eating candy as much as your children does.
  17. When you play a sport, you give more than 100%.
  18. You amazingly eat all you can and never gain weight!
  19. You love Disneyland as much as I do.
  20. You listen to a song, you sing it to us, and make us laugh!
  21. When you remember to, you still give me the last bite of a dessert.
  22. You are competitive!
  23. When your daughter ask you to kiss her stuff animals.. you actually do!
  24. You really have a genuine heart!
  25. You will carry your daughter's purse, and not mines!
  26. At this age, you can still wrestle with your boys.
  27. You are the main cook in our family.
  28. You're okay with me not cooking.
  29. You still tolerate my snoring!
  30. You've grown to being in front and behind the camera.
  31. You are still smoke free!
  32. You are the biggest kid in the family.
  33. You now drink wine.
  34. You're growing into your body now that you are working out.
  35. You have a great sense of humor.
  36. You still believe in nap time.
  37. You created 'slurpy saturdays' and 'french toast sundays.'
  38. You've still got many years ahead of you!!....
Happy Birthday Honey!!

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

THE ROUTINE!

Can't believe how much time i have on my hands when the kids are in school, and the husband works 6-2pm and in the middle of his hunting season. 

My routine has changed.. still trying to adapt but I think it will work:
500am: Bobby gets up and gets ready for work; leaves house by 545pm
630am: get kids up, i lie in bed because they tie up both bathrooms. And I really don't want to get up before them and make all that noise right?
700am: kids eat breakfast, i get dressed to head to the gym. Get their lunch ready.
730am: Walk Jade to bus stop.
745am: Ash heads to the bus stop
(yes, 2 kids and a husband out of the house by 745am!)
745am: figure out what to make for dinner, and get it prepped; clean house (vacuum or clean bathrooms or put things away) 
845am: head to gym
1030am clean myself up from the gym. have lunch. if i've worked its bed time....
1200pm: craft time!! or project time...
230pm: get Jade from bus stop. bobby gets home from work.
300pm: homework and snack time; i get dinner started
500pm: dinner. OR i get going to work.
700pm: family time..
800pm: jades bedtime
1000pm: ashton bedtime

.. and it starts all over again............

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

it's back to school!!!


It's back to school!! Jadeline is now a 1st grader @ Jackson Elementary School. Her teacher is Miss Roemer. 
At the school, getting ready to take the big leap into class.
They don't waste anytime. It's back to writing your name and coloring!!
The golden rules in being a 1st grader.

And while his sister has a new leap in elementary, Ashton has a new beginning @ Glencoe High School as a freshman.
When I dropped him off to school, the Tide Crew welcomed the freshmans with a whole lot of screaming, high 5's, and live band! They have so much love here!!

Let's see how this year will go... wish us luck! ;)

Monday, September 7, 2009

my life lately...


I think summer just passed me by in a flash! And yet this summer has been different compared to previous ones. No camping.. no lake.. no rivers.. what the heck right?  And i thought.. its okay because summers became routine and its okay that this summer was a little different. Kids in Hawaii without us.. Bobby and taking a trip on our own, and us experiencing our hobbies more often than usual... 

Lately i've been scrapbooking a whole lot:



Making stuff:



Watching Bobby play softball and Ashton play baseball while i've been scoring his games:


Being patient with hunting season...

On-line window shopping: really loving the ruffles from jcrew!!!



and really dreaming and thinking of this and reminding myself that clothes can really wait!:

But then it would cut into the disney fund!!

Its the last day of summer for the kids. School starts tomorrow! And as excited as they are to be back in school I am as estatic as they are! Back to school also means, MY time until 3pm.. Sleeping in after a nights work till 3pm.. what the heck will i do with myself!