Just a couple quick things I wanted to mention about my sweet Brindley so I don't forget :-). She says the funniest things that just crack me up, the other day she was helping me with dinner and I asked her to grab a spatula and she said "that's not a spatula Mom, (even though she knew exactly what I was talking about) it's called a shovel flip." Can't argue there...you couldn't be more descriptive about it's use.
Today she graduated from Kindergarten, I wasn't sure if we would make it through the year but she did great and is onto first grade. CONGRATULATIONS BRINDLEY!
Oh yea and the cat we got, she turned out to be the sweetest little thing and was such a perfect cat no joke, even Lance agreed. One MAJOR problem...Brylin turned out to be allergic to it. We waited as long as we could thinking it was just a cold but the Doctor confirmed it, so with much hesitation she was given to a new family today.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Fun Week!
The girls cried all afternoon. I guess stating from the beginning it was just a trial didn't matter once it became a reality we were actually going to have to get rid of her. Here I was just using it for leverage with getting them to cooperate. The girls had named her "Binkie" and among tears Kallie said today, "I'll never hear the word binkie again without thinking about my sweet precious cat that we'll never ever be able to have again because of Brylin's dumb nose. Can't we just tell Brylin she isn't to touch it or breath the allergic stuff or can I just keep her locked in my room forever?" You have to remember she is the dramatic one in the house :-).
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
What a week!
Bare with me for those of you who read my blog. I decided I need to use it more of a journal since I am not good at keeping track of the events in our family. Last week was such a headache I thought I needed to jot it all down. Although it may sound drab and depressing I actually look at it and laugh that it all could be worse. We could be jobless along with a million other things right :-).
We started off Monday with Lance heading off to work again for his first day at his new job! YEA!! Although it was way past due I have to admit I had that brief though of "how am I supposed to do all this stuff alone," after all I have gotten used to Lance being home to fill in the gaps of Motherhood. Brylin woke up soon after with pink eye...YUCK! This was the first time we have ever gotten it and hopefully the last. I was so paranoid of everyone else getting it including myself I washed my hands to the point of being raw. Kallie also stayed home on Monday with an annoying cough which I although she didn't seem sick other than that knew she would be sent home by the nurse for distracting the class (which has happened twice this year). A Dr. visit and eye drops to accompany our day.
Then Tuesday Kallie woke up complaining of her ear hurting, a doctors appointment confirmed that she had an ear infection. So now she is on antibiotics and home for the next day. She accompanied me to some training for my work while Brylin was at preschool. Call me paranoid but I made her wear a mask. I didn't want to get anyone sick as we all work out of our homes and they were moving that weekend. She did great though and actually thought it was cool. Good thing she is only 7!
Wednesday Kallie stayed home again to rest. Thursday everyone was at school. Friday Kallie woke up with the goopie eye, Brin had a follow up doctors appointment in downtown phoenix so lucky me I got to take all three girls with me to battle there just to come back home and take Kallie another doctor's appointment to treat her pink eye. I tried and tried to convince the nurse to just call in drops but luckily they insisted on seeing her because Kallie's cold/cough had turned into Bronchitis! WHAT! So she is now on 2 different antibiotics with breathing treatments. I am tempted not only to do a disinfecting bomb in our house after last week but schedule a standing appointment with the doctors office. It's bad when you walk in the door and they know how your whole week has gone.
Brindley finished out the week getting pink eye missing a Hannah Montana birthday party she had been anticipating for 2 months, with one of her soccer buddies.
Oh and did I fail to mention we adopted a kitten on Saturday. I don't know what we are thinking but I keep telling the girls IT'S JUST A TRIAL. That way if I get buyers remorse they are forewarned. So far so good our big concern is the dog and his reaction. So far they are afraid of eachother and stear clear of one another. Time will tell.
Ho hum one week down it can only get better from here, hopefully :-)
Friday, May 8, 2009
WORK AT LAST!
Although I am grateful for all the side jobs Lance has found while he looked for that "real" job to bring in money, I must say I am so glad that the wait is finally over! Now we can get back to the consistent paycheck and routine and let's not forget those benefits!
Lance accepted a job offer this week and starts on Monday. NO moving to Cali after all, at least for now :-) He starts on Monday and it's even closer to us so the drive won't be that bad (Tempe). YEA!!
Not only that but I have been working from home and have been asked to help out more with their company. Turns out I actually have some good skills (for all you Napoleon Dynamite fans). We'll see how this stay at home Mom / working at home thing goes but the extra money will be nice. Let's just hope I can learn to juggle things!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Brylin has been begging me to put a video of "just her" singing on the computer for months now and I have yet to do it. So here it is, promise fulfilled.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
WHAT A DAY!
Oh man what a day, I almost wish I hadn't gotten out of bed today. My day started with a phone call at 6:45 from my hubby letting me know that he had gotten that dreaded call from his boss that he was being laid off. We knew it was coming I mean how many layoffs could we survive in the Homebuilding industry....it was only a matter of time. If anyone has any leads for Lance send them our way :-). I am just glad they paid for school!
Kallie got two more teeth pulled to make room for the permanent one's that decided to come in before the baby teeth had fallen out. Then we went and ordered new glasses for Brin, bad timing what what do we do tell our 5 year old that can barely see too bad. Besides I am going to make the most of our 2 weeks of benefits! Let's cram in as many appointments as we can I'm up for it!
Off to cook and clean, lucky me anyone got any simple dinner ideas??
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Our 5 Favorite Things About The Holidays!LanceNikiKallieBrindleyBrylin
Monday, December 15, 2008
Happy Holiday's!
Happy Holiday's!
This was the card I sent out this year for those I missed.
We hope everyone is doing well and wish everyone a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Chopped again!
I know most people have a story about their children cutting each others hair. Well our first one was the night before Kallie started Kindergarten she chopped Brin's hair trying to make her pretty. I franticly called Melissa to fix it and it ended up so cute I loved it. However I am big on the long hair to be able to pull it out of their face practically everyday, so we have worked really hard on just trimming her hair and growing it out. 3 times now this year Brindley has cut a little bit off the front of her hair. Who knows where she is finding these scissors I have about a dozen pairs up on top of the fridge and still still finds weapons of destruction. So once again on Thursday she chopped about 4 inches (a good chunk) off the front of her hair. Honestly it doesn't look bad, it kind of looks like layers so my question is do we cut it back into a bob or leave it as layers? We can't decide what do you think?Take our poll to the right and help us decide! Here is a picture of Brindley 30 seconds ago with her new layered look and the other picture is of her cute bob from the first incident almost 2 years ago. HELP!! My only fear of cutting it short would be that she would cut more off and then we would be in BIG trouble.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Our busy busy week in review....
Thursday we had the typical school followed by Vision Therapy for Brin, and that night Lance's parents arrived from Denver for Lances Graduation. Friday was spent running errands a little shopping and preparing food for the graduation party! Saturday we were up and out the door at the CRACK of dawn. It's hard enough to get myself dragged out of bed but to get three little girls to cooperate and get hair done etc is exhausting. Luckily Busia was here to help. We were at the stadium by 8:15...how early was that you ask? Well we were the FIRST row yep the VERY first row. However for a 2 hor wait, and the 2 hour ceremony the girls did GREAT I was very happy. Thank goodness for Ashley running the girls to the bathroom over and over AND over again and for Ipods! After the graduation ceremony we took some quick pictures....grabbed lunch and ran home to change clothes. 20 minutes later we were off to my parents for the party. WHAT FUN it was great to see everyone, thanks for coming! Sunday....8:00 church, YEIKS.....nothing more to be said! Monday I took advantage of everyone being home and after I dropped the girls off at school went walking with the crew for a while and then went for a little jog by myself. I felt so out of my element without a stroller, I have to admit it was odd. Then that afternoon we decided to take Grandpa to Whataburger (his very favorite place to eat) when we get a call from the school nurse, "you need to come get Kallie I believe she may need x-ray of her leg she may have broken it." WHAT......so back home we go and on Lance's day off he spent a good part of his day at the doctors and getting Kallie's leg X-rayed. NO BREAK after all she just hit her shin bone REALLY hard on the play structure stairs. WHEW! Tuesday was Veteran's Day so the girls had no school we took advantage and went to see a movie. Wednesday we put in every appointment imaginable. Kallie got two bottom teeth pulled at the dentist, Brin's weekly OT, Lance's chiropractic, Grandpa's massage/reflexology app. and in between those we fit in Desert Book and Trader Jo's. Makes me tired just thinking about it. Then Thursday again, we took Busia & Grandpa back to the airport, drove to North Scottsdale to take Lance some items he forgot for his weekend camping and fishing with his buddies. We then drove back to Gilbert for Brindley's weekly Vision Therapy class. So what did I do today NOT MUCH, the girls had a donuts for Dad's breakfast at the school. Grandpa Lewis filled in as the serrate "Father" since Lance is out of town. Brylin and I then walked the 5 mile loop with the crew, I paid bills and messed around on the internet. I am looking forward to getting a little extra sleep in the morning and watching Kallie in her last soccer game of the season. Hopefully Lance will get home at a good hour tomorrow night.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Wow has it really been 10 years already! This is my favorite wedding picture, one of those candid moments. I am very lucky to be married to my best friend and such a wonderful man.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY sweetheart!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
General Conference Activity Book
I came across this cute activity book for conference and thought I would pass it along.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Well like I said when I started this I am not the die-hard blogger so I defiantly made up for lost time. Here are some highlights from September.
Kallie started soccer! She is thrilled to be the main goalie and does really good. She is always so upbeat and could care less if she is in or out of the game. Lance loves soccer, so the girls have been told since they were little that they would play soccer some day. Now that it is a reality she is just tickled to be involved and such a great sport. We just had our first quarter conferences with her teacher and she doing great but still has a tendency to talk and socialize in class. I don’t think that will ever change.
An update on our little Brindley all her genetic testing is done for good. All tests have come back normal so we are not going to explore that any further. YEA!! She is still loving her Occupational Therapy and does such cool stuff. Her sisters are jealous she gets to play with things like monster goo (cool putty that goes from a solid clay to almost a water consistency) and making fun necklaces. She will soon start Vision Therapy to help with her tracking issues and we are looking into bifocals. This is a picture of a necklace she made me last week. She had to look for all the red beads in a big bowl of hundreds, and then get them onto the string. That night she had a headache and kept saying her hands were sore, yet she does it with a smile and has a great attitude. She is doing so so good in Kindergarten! Her teacher reports that she is meeting or exceeding in every subject. She has a new BFF named Abby and has found a love for PE.
Looking back at our month I laugh because you would think we have a house full of boys. One night Lance took the girls on a bug walk. Now it is a daily request, they thought it was so fun. Everywhere we go now they get excited to see crickets and ask if they can pick them up. Then what do we do for our Fall break you ask, Lance takes us to Tuscon to a reptile show. Anyone that has known us since we were first married knows that Lance used to breed snakes and leopard geckos. For me it is nice to be on the other side of these shows and I fully support visiting them and not being so hands on. Their favorite thing about the trip was a petting zoo they had with a tortoise and some alligator/crocodile (that’s how much I know) and a blue tongue monitor (I think that is what it was). All three of them were the size of Brindley and could have easily eaten Brylin.
Another fun tidbit, you will notice everyone is dressed in red, this was completely intentional. If any of you have ever attended a reptile show you would notice that 90% of the people are wearing black or some sort of dark color. Knowing this valuable information I dressed everyone (including Daddy) in red to be able to spot them easily amongst the crowd. Just as I had anticipated you could spot them from across the room, they stuck out brilliantly. Until next time!
Friday, August 29, 2008
CONGRATULATIONS Lance!
Well he did it! Finally after a year and a half Lance now has his MBA! We never thought the time would actually come that he wouldn't have class or homework to do as it was almost every day of the week, but finally he is finished FOREVER! (that is if I have it my way) The girls were so excited and made this poster for him and we decorated his car. Small and simple, but he was excited and so were the girls. Congratulations sweetheart YOU DID IT!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Ever have one of those friends that just goes overboard? Well that’s my friend Katie. You sneeze and she is on your doorstep with dinner, or having a bad day and she pulls up with a surprise.
Well I did a favor for her and made her PROMISE not to do anything in return after all that’s what friends are for, and this shows up at my door today. Thank you Katie but your in BIG trouble!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
All Ready!
This morning I woke up to this subtle, "pssst, Mommy I'm all ready for school." So I wake up to find my 3 year old had dressed herself and gotten ready for preschool. Acknowledging her great job I comment on her cute dress, shoes (awkwardly on the wrong feet), and her two very bright headbands, oh and of course her necklace. She informed me she was making her own breakfast of fruit snacks and blue juice (blue gatorade) but if I wanted to get her some cereal or something that would be ok too. Being supportive she did go to preschool today just as she is in the picture. She so proudly marched up to the door with a final "thank you your majesty" and a curtsey. Such precious moments in time!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
All alone!
I had to add this to the postings. Brylin has never been without someone to play with at home, so I knew she was going to be so bored when both of her sisters were at school all day. So what did she do her first day her sisters were at school. Well for the first hour about every ten minutes she asked if we were going to get Kallie yet. We read books and colored pictures but nothing would distract her. Finally I said go play with Chaco (the dog) and she walked off in a whimper "ok Mama." After a few minutes I could hear a strange sound so as I went to explore I found her on the stairs (she fits perfectly)talking to herself. Then I asked her what do you want to do? She wanted to watch a video, so up the stairs we went and once again she asks, "is it time to get the girls yet?" When I replied not yet honey it's not even lunch yet (it was only 10:15ish) she started to cry and climbed on Brin's bed for her video. Around 11:30 I called to her to come down stairs so we could go run some errands but there was no response. I found her fast asleep with a little wet spot by her eyes....the poor thing had cried herself to sleep. Today she was much happier with her own class to go to. That and the fact she learned she gets to play with her sisters things without anyone taking them away.
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