Rodeo Austin and Craig Morgan

So we went to the rodeo tonight, and we had a great time.

We started off by riding a couple of the rides...and doing some of the silly kid stuff.

Tim road a ferris wheel for the first time ever. I pity him, it was an awful experience. The thing was all rickity and scary. I thought it was going to break! There were even parts being held together by tie straps...comforting.

Tim on the ferris wheel


My "it's blowing my hair crazy" face


Tim didn't like it..haha just kidding


Our videos..





We then road a pretty cool ride called arctic freeze. It kept slamming my body against Tim...haha.


We also played in a mirror house...weird.

ConeHeads anyone?


hahaha



Then I made Tim ride my favorite ride ever...ya know the one...that takes you up so many feet high, then drops you. Well Tim didn't want to go on it..he swore up and down he wouldn't go on it. He even held my purse while I walked up the stairs..then he said he would ride it. The entire way up he was saying "i don't know why im on this..why am i on this? i hate you..i want off now"...then...we dropped. He didn't like it. He was shaking so bad when we got off. He's not a chicken, he just doesnt like that ONE ride. Not sure why.








Then after we started to get cold, since it was 50* out and we forgot our jackets, we decided to go watch the rodeo.




After the rodeo was Craig Morgan, who I must say is INCREDIBLE live. He sounds the exact same. It wasn't recorded because bless his heart he messed up on his first song, only one word though. He did awesome. The entire concert would of been perfect had it not of been for the three teenage girls sitting by us. The stupid girls kept screaming, randomly..and loudly. I understand screaming at the end of a song..but at the end of each sentence in each verse of each song?! It was ridiculous and was ruining his performance. So everyone knows me..I turned around and yelled at them to 'shut the hell up..just shut up!!' Stupid teenage little bitches...get your braces off or go to a Backstreet boys concert next time. (You can HEAR them screaming in the videos..listen for it, it's hard to miss)



Do you hear the screaming in the end of this one? It was the whole time...


Oh and in this one too..i couldn't even keep recording...they were awful


He looks insanely creepy in this one....but he wasn't, i promise



Rodeo Austin 2009 was awesome..at least Craig Morgan was. Can't wait til next year.

Mackenzie's first haircut and a pool!

So today was pretty neat, our camera was used a lot so I figured instead of posting photos in a bulletin, I'd just write a blog.

Well Mackenzie got her first haircut today. Yes, I know, by the age of nearly 3 most children have had multiple haircuts. Well between how slow her hair grows, the bounce in her curls (making the hair appear shorter than it really is), and family members complaining every time I mentioned it, we had been putting it off. But finally Tim and I decided, it was time. Her hair was two different lengths, one at her back, the other at her shoulders. Well Tim and I told her that if she was a big girl and sat still and let the nice lady cut her hair, we would buy her a pool. She has been screaming the past two weeks for a pool, and wanted to go swimming. Well, she was a perfect angel for the stylist, and didn't move once. Her hair is very cute and only about an inch or two shorter, you can't even tell unless it's pointed out.

Patiently waiting for her name to be called, while reading a magazine.


She was listening to the stylist tell her how pretty she was, haha.


Snip snip!


She was thrilled.


Then she got a sucker.




After we left Fantastic Sam's, we went to HEB and bought Mackenzie a neat pool. Perfect size for the girls, and has a slide with a sprinkler. Tim and I realized whoever designed this silly pool put the sprinkler in the wrong place. It's directly in front of the slide, so as your child goes down the slide, they get shot in the face with a nice stream of water. What a terrible design flaw. Mackenzie loved her pool and couldn't wait to get in..





Madison on the other hand, was NOT impressed.

Teething, The Walker's, Rodeo, Potty Training

So nothing really new to update about, just felt like writing. Tim is playing xbox and the girls are sleeping, i'm lonely.

Ashley and David came this past weekend. They got here Thursday afternoon and stayed til Sunday afternoon. It was so great having them here...I miss them tons. Ashley is getting pretty close to her due date, she is 37 weeks today. I can't wait to meet that baby boy!! On Saturday Ashley had a small baby shower at her sister Kristen's. It proved to be fairly entertaining, Ashley handled it very well, all that ridiculous belly rubbing. (Ashley HATES for anyone to touch her, being pregnant or not.) I can't wait til Drake is born and Tim and myself along with our girls can go down there and meet him. Ashley and I plan on going and getting ourselves pierced after he makes his appearance.

Ashley (L) with her sisters Kristen (M) and Brooke (R)


36.5 weeks prego



I've had the best sleep of my life the past two nights. My kiddos fell asleep around 9 and they both slept til 10 am. Wicked cool, Madison has slept through the night for the past...3 nights? Lovely, except the first night we were at my mothers and the dogs woke me up around 4 am.

We stayed at my mothers because we were taking the car to the shop around 8:30, which means I had to take Tim to work, and I didn't want to have to wake up the babies and take them with me. It's my mother's spring break so we just stayed there and my mom was home with them while I was gone. Really bad thing about it was, we woke up, took him to work, and once again, for the third day in a row, his plumber didn't show up. So Tim was off Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Anyways, we then went to the dealership and everything that has been going wrong on that car, was finally working and they couldn't do anything about it. Annoying.

Madison cut two new teeth....that's new. She slept really bad while Ashley and David were here, and I blame it on teething. She was fine once those teeth broke through. Either that or she didn't like Ashley and David, cause she slept fine once they left, ha.

Tim and I are hoping to go to the rodeo on the 27th, to see Craig Morgan. That is, if we can find a baby sitter for two. I don't want to ask my mother because she always watches them every Saturday for us, and Tim's family doesn't tend to watch them longer than an hour and normally not both at one time. I want to be able to go to the carnival, the rodeo and then to the concert...all of which will be a lot longer than a single hour. So if you know of anyone who wants to watch my darling children, send them this way, we will pay. I don't think we can pay much, but we will pay something. That and we will get them something for dinner, yay!

Well I don't know what else to write about so..oh wait!

Madison is using the baby potty. She has gone number 1 and 2 in it a handful of times. I'm really impressed, she just turned 15 months on the 7th. She will walk to the bathroom, and point at the potty. It's pretty neat. Hopefully she'll potty train easy. Mackenzie is completely out of pull ups except at night time. At 3 years I will take them away at bed also. She is waking up with a dry pull up most mornings, so i'm excited. Yay for easy potty training!

Well, that's it, I believe. Thanks for reading.

Oh and Tim got his tongue pierced on March 1st. alright done now.

Moving, Schnuller, bye bye baby food

So, I figured I would update on our lives.

I'll start with the parents, I always write about us last but i'll write about us first today!

So at the end of April we will be moving out of Colonial Grand and into my mother's house. We are ready to move tomorrow if we could. I am so tired of
living in this stupid apartment. It was nice when we didn't have neighbors, but gangsta boy upstairs drives me crazy. He is the loudest person I have ever experienced. He probably weighs 100lbs soaking wet, but he stomps like an elephant. Not only that but him and his buddies like to hang out by our front door and yell...and let their door slam...at all hours of the night. And don't even mention the rat they own that they believe is a dog. Damn thing stands in the stairwell and barks. Their stairs are smack dab in the middle of our apartment, thank you rat dog. So we are ready to move out of here. It will be nice to be able to let the girls play in my mother's back yard, instead of having to stay inside all day. We will put our stuff in storage while we are there. We plan on staying with her through the summer, so come August we will start looking for somewhere new..hopefully a house.

Tim gets to reapply for his plumbing test as of today. He won't be able to do it today though, he is in South Austin and his paper is here at the apartment. He only has to retake the questions portion, so he will be once again studying like crazy for a straight month. Who knows when his retest date will be, hopefully before May.
His birthday is next month, April 4th. I am trying to plan a fun night for him, i'm not sure what we will be doing yet though. I had thought we would go to a bar or a club or something, well he informs me today he would rather go to a sports bar and eat wings and drink and stuff. I'm not sure how many people would be interested in doing that. Of course his guy friends will, but I'm not sure that the girls will. Oh well, it's about him and what he wants.
He has been on a motorcycle kick for the past month. I posted a picture of him on a bike the other day, it's a bike he is really interested in. He has wanted a bike since he was 14, so it's just a matter of time before he gets one. I'm okay with it, as long as he stays off 35. He has decided to wait another year before he gets one, he wants to save up for a big down payment so his payments will be good.

So I have been chosen as a donor by another couple. I received a phone call from Texas Fertility Center yesterday and the woman said I was picked and the recipients wanted to know how many children I have and if I have anything coming up in the next 2 months that they should know about. I told them the only thing was my husband's birthday but that it was no big deal. I'm excited about it. Everyone keeps asking me if I'm just doing it for the money, which I'm not. While the money will be nice, it's not why I looked into it. I wrote a blog about why back in November/December, check it out if you don't believe me. So when they start doing the fertility drugs they will have to remove my Paragard IUD. All of the family is scared that I will get pregnant, and if I was to get pregnant, it would be a multiple pregnancy for sure. (The fertility drugs I would be taking would make me release 15-20 eggs at once, wow!) But ya'll don't be worried, you have to abstain from having sex for about a month. So basically, Tim will be locked in a basement, haha. But when they take out my Paragard I will be having the Mirena put in after. Has anyone used the Mirena?
I donated another eleven inches of hair to locks of love. My hair went from this..

to this...

It's quite a change, one that I'm not use to yet, but I love why I do it. There was a woman in the salon when I was doing it. My stylist, Kim, turns and looks at her and says "she's donating to locks of love again." The woman looks at me and says "thank you, you don't know what it means to us that people like you do this. I have been cancer free for 5 years, and you don't know how grateful I am that someone donated so I could have hair, but I love having my own hair again!"
It was nice.


So Mackenzie has officially stopped using her nooney (new-knee). I finally asked Sandy what it means...apparently that is what Tim called his pacifier as a baby since he couldn't say 'schnuller'. Schnuller is german for pacifier. I think it's adorable to think of Tim as Mackenzie and Madison's age, very cute. Anyway back to Mackenzie, she no longer needs a pacifier to go to bed. I don't like when kids past the age of 2 use a pacifier and it was driving me crazy that at nearly 3 she still was using one. So we just took it away cold turkey. It took one night and now she doesn't even ask for it anymore. YAY!! She is also going to the bathroom by herself which is exciting. She will be playing and jump up and say "Mackenzie is going potty, you leave me alone, i'm a big girl, I do it myself" haha. She is getting so big..it's crazy. Look at this picture I took the other day..doesn't she look so grown up?


Madison, oh Miss Madi. I say it every time, but she is just amazingly precious. I think every single person needs to spend at least 30 minutes with this child to understand why. She is just so sweet. She slept through the night last night, big thing. She normally wakes up at least once, but last night she slept straight through. Of course she was also up at 7 something..which sucked! She is officially eating normal adult food, no more gerber graduates or baby food. She won't eat if you try to feed her, she wants to do it all by herself. Such a big girl. She is also wearing 18-24 month size clothes, which is funny because she is sooo tiny. My baby girls are getting so big!!

I'll just tell everyone

So here is my blog so we don't get asked a million questions and have to explain it a million times.

Tim failed his plumbing test.

There were three sections to the test..
The questions, mechanical shopwork and Two-Story Rough-in of Drains, Wastes and Vents.

Tim failed the questions and passed the other two parts. He failed the test questions by 6 points.

He has to wait 30 days before he can reapply to take it again, and after he applies it will probably be another month or two before he can take the test. He only has to re-do the questions and not the whole thing, so that's a plus.

I'm telling everyone so he won't have too, he is pretty upset/bummed/depressed about not passing it after he thought he did really good. If anyone wants to send him some words of encouragement I'm sure he would appreciate it and could use them.

My failed attempt

So I failed my attempt at watching children.

I had posted my ad on craigslist looking for a child to watch, I got tons of responses but one stuck out to me. It was a mom of two, looking for someone to watch her children Monday,Wednesday, Thursday and Friday every week.

Her children were the EXACT same age as Mackenzie and Madison so I thought it would be perfect, I was wrong.

Her oldest daughter kept hitting my kids repeatedly. She would hit them in their mouths, and she even hit me. She would back-talk and just argue with Mackenzie about everything. It was ridiculous. When I asked her to sit in the corner, for time out, she told me no. I can't physically make this child sit in the corner.

Not just that but the younger daughter bites and bit Madison's hand when they were playing. Yesterday she cried for 2.5 hours straight, without reason.

It was just a bad situation. Mackenzie refuses to eat while they are here and she won't take her naps. 3 years old is too young to stop taking naps. (If you're not a parent please don't tell me that it's an okay age for them to stop, you honestly don't know.) Mackenzie also has started regressing on her potty training since the older girl wasn't potty trained. She has wet the bed two times in the past 3 days and has started 'messing' in her pants. (She has been perfectly potty trained for the past week and a half.)

I sat down with the mom yesterday and told her that I won't be able to watch them anymore but I will watch them up through next Friday to give her time to find a new sitter. She said she understood, but I could tell she was upset. I just told her I had to put my family first and it wasn't a good situation for my children to be in.

25 random things about me

25 Things about Me

1. I can't stand when words are spelled incorrectly or pronounced wrong. I can't stand when people use bad grammar. It makes my blood boil, and I want to slap them.

2. I use to love walking home from school when it was raining. It was the best feeling in the world. I haven't had the chance to play in the rain in years.

3. I have a phobia of cotton balls. I can't stand for them to touch me or be near me. Tim has to remove them out of the Tylenol bottles, thank God for him.

3. Garlic and onions make my mouth itch and make it hard for me to breathe. Please don't put them in my food. It won't kill me but it's not a very pleasant feeling.

4. I can't drive at night. Well I can, but not very well. The on-coming headlights have a glow about them, like a halo. It makes it hard to focus.

5. I'm addicted to caffeine. I am so addicted to caffeine that I have actually gone DAYS without drinking anything but soda. I drink more than 44 ounces of soda a day. If I go more than 12 hours without any caffeine I get terrible, painful migraines and can't function.

6. I exclusively breastfed, no formula, both my daughters for their first year of life. I had no emotional attachment to it whatsoever. I did it because it was free, and healthier for them.

7. I never thought I would be married and have children before the age of 25. Oddly enough I became a mother and a wife at the age of 18.

8. My mother and husband use to hate each other. They have now decided if anything goes bad between him and I, they get to keep each other. They honestly probably love each other more than either one of them love me.

9. I hate driving to a place I have never been too. If I get lost I will most likely end up having a mental breakdown in a parking lot, while crying on the phone to my mother or husband.

10. I suffer from chronic insomnia. It takes me at least 2-3 hours to fall asleep every night, and if I wake up in the middle of the night I can't fall back asleep.

11. I have a photographic memory. I realized this while in elementary school.

12. The first time I held a snake was on Thanksgiving Day 1997. My brother forced me to sit still as he put Monty the Python on my shoulders. I hated it, but since then I have had a love for snakes.

13. When I was in 7th and 8th grade I always wore a jacket wrapped around my waist. I was embarrassed that I didn't have any meat on my butt and thighs to fill out my jeans. The jacket hid that fact, but looking back, probably brought more attention to it.

14. I love photography and love taking pictures. I have taken more than 2,000 photos of my children in the past 2 years.

15. When I was little, I use to tell people "when I grow up I want to be a Dalmation". I was serious.

16. I was never scared of monsters or the boogeyman at bed time. I was always scared of gang-bangers and thieves. What can I say, as a child I use to watch "cops" before I went to bed.

17. I never have my blinds open. I am always worried that someone will be looking in on me. I blame this on number 16.

18. I have recently come to the conclussion that I am a neat freak. Not so much a clean-freak, but things HAVE to be in their specific place. It doesn't matter if they have an inch of dust on them, does it? ;)

19. I don't own a single pair of heels. I love stilletos, but don't own any clothes to match them, so why bother.

20. I still don't have a profession in mind. So far in the past 6 months I have wanted to become: a teacher, a vet technician, a photographer, a mechanic, a plumber, an electrician, a nurse, and many more things.

21. I have trust issues and self esteem issues. The two are connected and probably will always be there.

22. My feelings get hurt easily, but I normally won't tell you.

23. I'm from west Texas, all my family is from west Texas. I have an accent I have aquirred from being around them. If I am drinking or tired, it does come out. Be scared.

24. I suck terribly at cleaning, cooking and spending money. I am an awful girl. Thank God I married a man who is AMAZING and enjoys doing those exact things.

25. I love my brothers more than anything in this whole world. Even though they are pains in the ass. :)