This is my norm

Good morning!! It’s finally Friday!!! Whoohooo!!! Gotta love Friday’s. So last night we sent Hayden to the grandparents for a sleepover and we went to have date night…I made dinner and then we went and saw Miami Vice…pretty intense movie…a little confusing and the sex scenes were totally unnecessary. I felt like I had to keep my head down for an eternity. Anyway, I wanted to see You, me and Dupree, but I got outvoted since I am having girls night tonight. Ah…the sacrifices 🙂

To tell you the truth the race is so much fun. Yes, it is really early in the morning, but there are so many people…we are talking like a million or more racers!! that doesn’t include all the supporters that come out for the race that day. It is a blast!! So come on and join me and my pals as we Race for the Cure 🙂

Hayden, Mommy and Daddy love you so much and can’t believe what a big girl you are!! You constantly amaze us, thrill us and keep us laughing 🙂 We love you so much !!!

I can’t believe we are closing in on a year already. Last night I dreamed that I had another baby and I woke up thinking “No, I’m not ready yet!!” lol! We have birthday plans underway and are just trying to keep up with our little motor boat here. She took three steps last night and I know walking is just weeks if not days away!! Hayden has 6 teeth now and eats everything in site, including, kibble, paper, and pretty much anything on the ground!! Makes for a clean clean home!!

Her words are “Da da, Mama, Nigh nigh (meaning bottle and bed), dis (this), See, Daw (dog), Duh (duck), Hey.

We are getting ready to finally do some more professional pics. I’ve been so bad…at least i take a zillion of my own pics, but no professional ones since she was three weeks 😦

Just a little update for all ya’ll 🙂

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Pasta legs. Kinked Back. Headache. Tired eyes. Yes these are all words that describe me the last two days. Just plain pooped.

At my JOB we are fininshing up on some of our jobs and sending all the final paperwork into the attorneys and let me tell ya, this paperwork business is just exhausting. A zillion copies to be made that must first have the staples removed from them so they may be copied (front and back, I might add…on a one sided copy machine…), and then re-stapled post-copying. Then filed, in binders, labeled, etc…… Not tough stuff, but the volume….exausting. So anyway, I was at the point of, “how can I go on like this??” The rest at night didn’t seem to be the cure…there’s no time to just chill on the couch without moving like in the pre-Hayden days.

So when my good ole pal Deb called me up for a date night, I was enthused ,yet I had no idea how the night would be a success once I told my pasta legs to spring into action and move, past the “clock-out” bell’s ring. But I did… and it was just the cure I needed.

After a night of Berryhill and then on to Main Event for some rapid-fire basketball shooting, virtual reality roller coasters, air-hockey, the Elvis Presley coin push (which we each spent $10 on, trying to get the coin to fall at the right point that would push off a bunch of built up coins….yeah, as you can tell it didn’t really happen too fast for us) and finally the most hilarious bowling game ever. We were both so bad, that we just decided that we would try for the highest combined score every time 🙂 The people next to us even had pity on us and cheered for me one time when I got a spare. HA! Such fun times were had by all!

And today instead of feeling miserable-r…it seems that it was just what the ole tired body needed. Either that or my body knew it only had one more day to make it through before the weekend and then it is going to crater on me…bring your spatulas over tomorrow…we might need them to pry me out of the bed.

Now I have the temporary energy to deal with my almost 10 monther that is continually teething. We’ve had a couple of red-faced, writhing, screaming-crying days lately. It is NO BUENO for anyone involved, let me tell ya. And now that she is figuring out the whole pushing and tensing-up and attitude, it makes it even 10 times funner. ahhhh I can’t wait until all 32 teeth are in (it is 32 right?)6 down 26 to go. sheesh

Well I’m off to work!! I’ll let all you potential Hoobie-child buyers know when we finally have a litter.

So Hayden usually gets all the glory on my blog but I have to say that I am a pretty proud pup owner 🙂 While we were in Acapulco, we boarded Hoobie and he was in training as well. He stayed for two weeks and I picked him up two days ago. He learned lots of things and now he sits, lays, stays and comes on command. Plus, he sleeps in his kennel at night now.

Now for some of you this is no big deal, but others know how Hoobie has been somewhat of a testing little guy. But I think we have turned a corner in his little life!! We are really excited and are now considering breeding him once we find an eligible female. So, if any of you know of any under 6lb. female yorkies…get in touch with me…we’d love to find Hoobie some lovin’. 🙂

Last night I had a pampered chef party and it was really fun!! I had never been to one before, and it was nice because while we are flipping through the catelogue and admiring the wonderous kitchen accessories, etc. the consultant is cooking our dinner for us. I love it!! I asked if I could provide the food and a recipe every night and she would come cook for me 🙂 J/K…I actually love to cook so a personal chef won’t be necessary 🙂

anyway, the party was sort of last minute and lots of people didn’t get their invites, so, if you wanted to come but couldn’t, or you didn’t know about it, there is still time!! You can either book a party and earn great free stuff for yourself, or you can place an outside order. Just browse the Pampered Chefwebsite and then let me know what you want. I have two weeks to close the show so, look look look 🙂 I was really impressed by their stuff. Made me want to update all my stuff! 🙂 I love kitchen stuff.

In other news…Hayden is moments away from walking…she took one step last night during my party while bj was watching her at his parents. ah!! I missed it!! But she is so close that I can’t believe it. She is going to be motoring around so soon. So exciting!

We had such a great time! I wish we could have stayed on vacation for a year 🙂 Our hotel was beautiful, the food was amazing!!! and Hayden was a jewel. Yes, it was a bit tiring, especially for BJ to not get a break from her, but it was a wonderful vacation for me for sure and we all had a great time.

After a wonderful meal

This is a view from our patio

and this is from the front of the hotel right before a storm rolled in.

We saw the famous cliff divers that dive from 105 feet into 12 feet waters. (Yikes!!)

We drove through old Acapulco, haggled with vendors and saw some famous hotels and sites. Very fun time!

Hayden loved loved loved swimming and went nuts when we would put her in the pool.

Gotta love Milk and Swimming 🙂


She didn’t quite know what to do about the ocean, sand and waves though. One wave came in and knocked me and her over. We cracked up laughing!!! Oh and she did just great on the plane.

I was more nervous than she was.

She has become a stick-tight this past week. I will move rooms and she is clamouring behind me to follow. sigh…. She has become more of a part of me out of the womb i think than she was in me 🙂 lol.. go figure.

But I sure do love her. She has been changing and growing so much lately. I looked at her today and she is just blossoming into a little girl. Her personalilty is blooming ( some of it not so thrilling) and she is looking more girly and big. Makes her mamma sad to see the baby stage fading before her eyes.

Aww, Mom, Do we HAVE to go back home!?!?!

Oh and Hayden’s teeth are all cut through and blazing in. I have one pic that you can sort of see the top two coming through…they look so big!

Melissa~ I was so glad to come home to an ultrasound pic…how fun!!!!!!
Court~ Have you started your blog yet?? 🙂
To everyone~ I am having a pampered chef party tomorrow at 7 if anyone is interested, let me know!!

Cheers: To long vacations
Jeers: to long vacations that have to end

Last night bj and I stayed up until the wee hours of the night packing, packing and…more packing. Wow, traveling with a babe is so hard because you have to basically pack everything imaginable that they will need, could need, or might by the slightest chance need. I do not want to be trapesing all over the Mexican countryside looking for a pack of size 4 diapers. Or a gerber baby water with flouride. sigh…the things you do. So we hauled out the gigantic suitcase from back in the day that I used to load up for ORU every year.

So I loaded my stacks of things into “big green” (the suitcase) and bj came around with a shocked look at the amount of no space that I left for him. Really there is plenty, his clothes are just way bigger than mine and therefor don’t fit in as well 😉 Then I realized that we still had yet to include Hayden’s belongings. So we hauled out Little green…the rolling carry-on. That bag now contains, a large tub of formula, 56 diapers, a whole pack of wipes, oatmeal packets, water bottles, snacks, crackers, fruit snacks, toys, blankets and clothing…and and an array of other things…medicine, spoons, bottles, liners…..sheesh. The good thing…most of that will be consumed and not brought back with us, leaving plenty of room for souvenirs 🙂

I think we are going to look like a walking circus through the airport, with big green, little green, Hayden in the stroller, bj with the carseat strapped to his back, and all the other things we accumulate between now and take-off. ahhhhh…the joys of traveling with a child 🙂 I am pumped. We are going to have so much fun!!

So…enjoy yourselves this week…I know I will be!!

ahhh….the day is over and thank the Lord. It was just one of those overwhelming days and I had no time for all the things that went wrong and needed fixing and attention. …………i’m better now…regrouped and ready for another wonderful day tomorrow 🙂 I’ll look back on my last post someday and laugh…i already am.

much to do…night night blog world

That’s all.