Family Picture

I wanted this one after the other ones, but oh well. I love that we're all smiling. I like the setting, I like the colors that we're wearing. I just don't think that it's very flattering of me. Oh well at least we all have a smile on our face! I once heard someone say that the problem with blogs is that they aren't real. That people just type whatever they want to make their life seem perfect. I have seen some like that and they are pretty annoying. I want you all to know that ours is real. We have been really blessed with a wonderful marriage and two beautiful healthy kids. Some days are frustrating and hard, but I think everyone has those days. I love my family and I'm so thankful that they will be with me forever!

Family Pictures

B tells me often that he hopes he makes me happy. I tell him that he does. I hope that this picture can be a testament to him that he does. I don't remember what he said right before the picture was taken, but it obviously made me laugh! I love you B! More than you will ever know!

If K was smiling I think this picture would be my favorite. While I was uploading them I couldn't remember what ones I had already put on. There is one where we are all smiling, so I will stick it on. I still really like this picture.

I love my girl! This picture wasn't posed. Our photographer, Janneke Marquez, told us when she started that she liked candid shots best. B was trying to get K to stop freaking out and smile. While he was talking to him, M and I were just talking and smiling. I think this is such an awesome picture!

How could you not love this one?! There is only one person in the world that could get them both to smile like this. That would be their daddy! He was telling them that he was going to come get them. He would crouch down and act like he was coming towards them. This was their response. I love it!

Is it hot in here? Or is it just me?!

So what's with the weather? It has been nice to not turn on the heater, but it gets too cold at night to turn on the AC again. Or maybe it doesn't. Here is M clearly warm enough without any blankets. I found her like this when I went to check on her before I went to sleep. Next I went to K's room. This is what I found.....

Too hot child number 2! Here is more evidence that it is way too hot for November. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the nice weather, But hot? I don't like hot in November that's for sure. I decided it was time to check the thermostat before going to bed.

Yes you read right. 78 degrees inside our house in November. The heater has not been turned on this year. This was at midnight. I should have called time and temp to see what it was like outside. I just can't bring myself to turn the AC on again. During the day we open the windows and I really think it would be too cold in the morning if we had the AC on. I guess we will just be thankful that we are warm and not too cold!

Happy Halloween!

Aren't they so cute! M was a fairy and K was a spider. If I had remembered that I had the camera, I would have taken pictures while they were trick-or-treating. Alas, it is not to be. At least we got this one!

So long tonsils!

B says that he doesn't really remember not suffering from chronic sore throat. This year has for sure been the worst sore throat year on record. We went to Hawaii in February. He got a sore throat two days before we were supposed to leave. Said sore throat finally went away the second week in September. Now you may be thinking to yourself,"Self, that surely is an exaggeration." But I assure you, it is not. He finally decided to go to an ENT. There the two master minds, B and the Dr, decided it was time for the tonsils to come out. (I don't know why it takes a co-pay and a medical degree before it's a good idea. When I suggested the idea, I was turned down! No hard feelings, I'm just sayin'....) Here he is, happy as a clam before surgery.

This is what I walked into after they told me that I could come back. I'm not gonna lie, I was relieved when they said he was awake and in recovery. I know it's a simple surgery, but I was still nervous. I can't imagine having him go through a major surgery. I would fall apart!

I know that this looks like it must be a very posh hospital that they let me sit in a recliner with a pillow, but things aren't always what they seem. You see I have this weird thing that I can't see someone in pain. It makes me all lightheaded and hot. So I walked in saw B, the ice pack and heard him ask for a pain killer and that was the end of me feeling good. All the sudden I got really hot and it started going black all around me. Ya know, like I was going to pass out. I laid down on the floor of the hospital. NASTY! I know, but it's a very natural reaction when one feels like they are going to pass out. B had to call the nurse. We had to switch recovery rooms so that I could have a recliner. The nurse wanted to put me in a wheel chair, but I insisted that I was fine to walk across the hall. B got a card in the mail the other day from his nurse, on the inside she had written,"I hope BOTH of you are feeling better!" Embarrassing right?!

B checking out the damage.

That is really gross! The Dr. warned him that he would be miserable for 7-14 days. He was right. B lost 15 ponds because he couldn't eat anything. We went to the ER one night because he was throwing up, obviously not keeping pain killers down and was really needing fluids. So we went, got him fluids, IV pain killers and Zofran. Zofran is supposed to be this amazing anti-nausea medicine. It's been my experience, and now B's experience, that if you take it while you're already nauseated, it doesn't do anything. Anyway, B is finally on the uphill climb of this ordeal. He was able to sit on the couch the other day and that's a huge improvement!

"I stuck!"

Now no one is really sure how K got himself into such a precarious situation, but he did none the less. I was making dinner and M came running into the kitchen telling me that K was stuck. I went running imagining that he was stuck and could be dying. When M stopped at the laundry closet I didn't know why, but I soon found out! Somehow, K had gotten himself in front of the washer, behind the folding closet door and couldn't get out. The doors wouldn't open all the way with him there, but thankfully they wouldn't close all the way either. I have no muscle and so thankfully B had just come home from work and was able to lift him out. I'm sure if B wasn't home, my mother super power adrenaline would have kicked in and I would have torn the closet door off and freed him from his dangerous situation! (Yeah, so dangerous that I was able to run get the camera and take a picture!) No worries ladies and gentlemen, he was able to walk away from the closet unharmed!

Dreams do come true!

So, the members of our family that are under 4 feet tall love slug bugs. I'm not talking they like it when they see one, they really love them! M tells me often that she thinks that we should buy one because,"Slug bugs are so cool!" Both M and K love to yell out,"Slug bug____"(fill in the blank with a color of your choice.) Well, I have been on the hunt looking for slug bugs that could be given to them for an upcoming holiday. The slug bugs were going to be placed in a certain article that usually is hung. Anyway, much to my chagrin, finding slug bugs is much harder than I anticipated. I even looked on line. I finally found some, but they were $26. I wanted them, but not that bad! Well, our dear friends, J & R found some for us! They gave them to us last night. Our children are in bed between 7 & 8. We stayed up until almost 9 playing with these wonderful pull back cars! Here they are from the side. B gets the blue, I get the yellow, M gets the red and K gets the black. Aren't they so awesome?!

Here is the front of them. I love that they look just like the real thing, just smaller.

From the back

How could I forget the top? I love them! They are so rad. Thanks J and R for getting them for us. They have already provided hours of entertainment!