Weekend fun

This weekend we changed things up a little. Friday night we went to my dad's game, as I said in the previous post. It was truly amazing...there is nothing greater than Friday Night Football in the great state of Texas! I am happy to say that Landry's schedule was not impaired...she went right back to it! Whew!
Saturday was pretty normal, JR had to work all day, so it was just me and the kids. I did a little cleaning and caught up on some shows on the DVR. I also played a lot of onine poker! LOL
Sunday, JR actually had the day off! Woohoo! We spent the morning and early afternoon just relaxing. In fact we spent about an hour in bed with both kids just cuddling, reading the Lion King, and playing...it was so nice. ONe big happy family all in one bed! LOL It was a little crowded, but those are my favorite moments. Then, we decided to head off to Wimberley to meet up with my sister and her kids. There is this wonderful place in Wimberely called 7A ranch...it is amazing and I haven't been there since I was a child. There is a place called Pioneer Tow that is on the 7A property and I decided that is where I wanted to take Landry's one year pictures, but I wanted to take some test shots to see if I liked it...and to see what Landry would look like in her dress so I could make any alterations needed before the professional pics are taken! Before taking the pictures we spent a few hours at the river...Not the river, river...not where you float, but a place really meant for relaxing and swimming, also I place I haven't been to since I was a child! I have such fond memories of this place...it is right across from 7A. We had such a wonderful time!
Afterwards we headed to dinner at Inoz and that was pretty great too! Then we headed home, I stayed up too late, but all is well in the world! I am just loving life right now!
Here are a few photos: Check out my facebook for more!

This week

Wow...I haven't posted in a week....Geez! I have been so busy and this week seems to have just flown by. Pretty much I have just been busy with the kids. We went to the park 3 times this week. We went to the pool twice. In between all that we were running errands, and playing at the house. Friday we went to my dad's football game in Cuero. I was really nervous for the team because Cuero had a 68 game winning streak at home...well the Texans broke that streak with a 49-42 win over the Cuero Gobblers!!! It was such a good game! The entire thing was exciting and I was so happy to get Friday night football underway!!! I was also nervous because the game started at 7:30 and was an 1.5 hour drive...yikes! She slept the entire way there, and was a perfect angel through the entire game. There was 52 seconds left on the clock when she started fussing! She slept the whole way home and when I got her in the house, I gave her a bottle, changed her diaper, and put her in her bed...she slept all night! Whew....Then I was nervous about what today would hold...would she take her naps? Will she go to bed on time, or is she going to be off her schedule? Whatever happens, we have to figure this out because we will be doing this every Friday for the next 10 weeks AT LEAST...Longer if we make the playoffs!!!
Anyway - Its been a fun filled week, now time to start dinner!

not so much

Well, there isn't really too much to say. It's Saturday and JR is working - Blah! Logan seems to have recovered from the upper respiratory infection. I am on the brink of recovery, and Landry shouldn't be too far behind. Her fever is gone, which is a sign of success, but her nose is still running like crazy and she has a horribly raspy voice and a cough. :( Her poor little legs have three bruises from where she got her shots:( So incredibly sad.
Last night, JR went to play poker with a group of friends, while I stayed home with the kids. He said he had a really good time, and that next time we will get a babysitter and both go. YAY I seriously love poker - which kind of sucks because when JR gets invited to play a game its usually just for the boys...but apparently several of the wives were there last night, so it looks like I will get to join in next time! Woohoo! While I was home last night, I finished Landry's dress...well pretty much, I just have to get the flowers on it, but that wont take anytime at all. I made her a big fluffy, toule dress for her one year pictures. We are taking them in just over two weeks so that I can put one or two on the invitations to her party. I am so excited to get her pictures taken. But I really need to get on the ball, I am supposed to be looking for a place to take them. I have the photographer, but I wanted some on-site photos instead of studio photos. I really need to drive down to Wimberley and look around. I kind of want to find something country....Logan's one years photos were so cute. We did them at the Picture People and he took some on a bale of hay with a saddle on top. In some he even wore a cowboy hat, so I thought it would be cute to kind of replicate the idea. I dont know how it will work out though...I still need to buy her some birthday clothes, for the photo shoot and because I want to get a few of the kids together, I will need to get something for Logan AND I am going to try to get a good family photo (maybe even use it for Christmas photos) so I want to find something for JR and I as well. I am trying to take advantage of this photo shoot because it costs $175 for the photo shoot, and I just want to get the most out of it, so that I dont have to pay another $175 in a couple of months for Christmas photos! LOL Not that I would, but hey...like I said, I am just going to get as many photos as possible. After all is said and done I will still have to pay to get the pictures printed....but at least I get the disc and I dont have to worry about copy rights! Whew!
Anyway, I am really excited...really, really, really excited! I can't wait for people to see the dress!

Dr. Visits

Well, Miss Landry Bell went to the doctor yesterday! FINALLY! You will not believe the HELL I went through in order to get her an appointment. I finally got all the insurance settled, and got her the appointment - only a month late! My baby girl weighed 18 pounds 1 ounce and is 27 inches long! She has gained 11 pounds and 6.5 inches since birth! She is in the 25th percentile for her weight and the 65th percentile for her height! I am so impressed! She is completely healthy and I couln't be more proud of my baby girl!
She still shows no interest in letting go of whatever it is she is using to hold herself upright. She is perfectly content with cruising and crawling, however; yesterday and today she started to bear crawl...she was using her hands and feet instead of her hands and knees - then while she was on her hands and feet...she looked as if she was going to try to get her balance and try to stand - but....it didn't happen. Not to mention, I didn't think that was the best way to try standing on her first time. LOL My daughter is an angel! She is also sick...I was so scared they wouldn't see her yesterday due to the fact that we all have upper respiratory infections and she had a little bit of a fever...but luckily, they still went through with the visit! Whew! To top it all over Landry is getting 4 more teeth ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Yikes! I am soooo very lucky that neither of my kids have had adverse effects from teething!
Speaking of teeth, Logan went to the dentist on Wednesday...I am so proud of my little boy as well. The dentist said he was impressed with Logan's teeth and asked if he ever drank juice, or had candy. I told him the truth, which is that Logan eats a little more candy than I would like, but that we are dilligent in brushing...and as for juice, he drinks Capri Sun's but they are the flavored water kind, and he is limited on the amount he drinks. He still drinks plenty of milk and I really try to limit the sugar intake.
I can't believe my little babies are growing up so fast!

Night from Hell...

Well, here we are. It's 11:09, and I am sitting here drinking, more like GULPING, down Starbucks frappuccino. When I am finished with this one, you can most likely count on me going to get another one. Last night, Isabella and Isaiah came to stay the night. Randi and my mom both work overnight shifts. I think my mom gets off at 7:00 and Randi gets off at 9:00, but my dad usually leaves for work about 6:30 or 7:00, so there would be no one home to take care of them....thus, they came to stay with me. I have no idea what they plan on doing when school starts, NEXT WEEK, but I can tell you that I WILL NOT be driving them 30 minutes to Wimberley to take them to school. Not going to happen. Anyway, they have been at their dads for 2 weeks so Logan was so excited to see them...and they played and played. However, we have been doing really well with Logan sleeping in his own room - but it went down the drain last night. He was in bed with us...I couldn't sleep - ughhh! It was awful. First of all, we had a storm come through last night, and for those of you that dont know, I have arthritis in most of my joints. Fingers, shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles. My lower extremities are the ones mostly affected. The slightest changes in weather send me over the edge. So last night, I laid in bed (with only a VERY small space to try to stretch out my legs), I could not get comfortable. I tossed, I turned, I huffed and I puffed, but the pain only got worse and worse. On top of this I was burning up. Logan is like a little radiator, he puts off so much heat. At 12:15 in the morning, I couldn't take it any longer...I just wanted to fall asleep, so I picked him up and took him to his bed with the kids. Although, once he was gone, I cooled down considerably, I still could not go to sleep. I laid there and laid there and laid there, writhing in pain. At 1:30 I went downstairs to take some pain medicine. I stayed down to drink some water, and headed back, each movement, each stair agonizingly painful. As, I neared the top of the stairs, I promised myself to get to the doctor and get some prescription medicine. Maybe they can give me something to slow the progress of the disease, who knows. I have pretty much accepted the fact that I will one day have to have both hips and knees replaced, but last night, I was ready to just cut them off. When I reached the top of the stairs and climbed back into bed, I quickly realized that Logan had found his way back...I laid ther for about 15 minutes. I was crying, I was soooo tired, I just wanted to sleep, Logan was making me burn up, and they pain was keeping me awake. I couldn't even fall asleep....not even for just a few minutes. Ughhh! At 3:00 JR woke up and asked what was wrong with me...at that point I had gotten out of bed all together and was on the floor reading on my phone, while trying to stretch my painful joints and surrounding muscles. Apparently he was extremely hot as well, and Logan was laying sideways digging his feet into JR's ribs. I moved Logan over to my side and went back down those wretched stairs and slept on the couch. Well, really I laid on the couch, decided the medicine wasn't working so I took an aleve. The last time I looked at the clock it was 4:07. I woke up at 6:45, still in pain, but it was better. The reason I woke up, was because I was bitten about 45 times by mosquitos last weekend....I have 17 bites on one foot....in between the toes, on the top, on the heel, on the arch...and I guess I had been scratching in my sleep, but I guess it got out of control ad the scratching woke me up. REALLY??? I went to check on JR to make sure he wouldn't be late for work. Then I went back down stairs and promptly fell back asleep. I woke up at 8:00 with the kids. So now, I am just praying that the rest of the day can somehow go by at super human speed, because I am soooo tired, and to make matters worse, JR has a 2:00 am job tomorrow! Yipppppeeeee!

Weekend Fun

Oh man - We went to Happy hour on Friday night...It was so nice. We just hung out....and let me just say the place that we went was SOOOO AUSTIN! LOL I can't really explain that statement, You kind of have to spend a good amount of time in or around Austin to get it. I had a really good time, and was so thankful to my sister for watching the kids.
Saturday we were on the road about 9:00...about an hour later than we wanted, but oh well. The trip started off well, the first hour was great, the second hour started to go downhill, the third hour was like the kids were taking turns screaming without a break in between. Then we got to Katy and all hell broke loose. Logan started acting really strange and all of a sudden started yelling, "Mommy, I need help, I need help!!!" This was followed by him twisting into a very awkward position is his seat...I am trying to figure out what happened, he is crying, I am yelling at JR to pull over, Landry is now screaming bloody murder, JR is frustrated telling me to get the kids quiet so he can focus. He finally exits and pulls over I get out and run around the car which is where I find out that Logan has diarhea and it is EVERYWHERE. I put a diaper on him after cleaning everything up, but about every 15 minutes he is crying saying he needs a new diaper. So there we are, pulling over just about every 20 minutes in downtown Houston!!! Then we get to Wal-mart, it was horrible. We finally get to the birthday party and I am constantly changing Logan, I gave him some medicine, but it was just BAD. He was still acting fine, still playing and having a grand ole time...but then there was the poo. Geez. He finally started having solid poops and it just disappeared later that evening...so I dont know what the deal was.
The party was AWESOME!!! They had the same 16 foot slide that they had last year, only this year, I felt comfortable allowing Logan to participate. Plus, I joined in too! It was a blast. Then I woke up the next day and felt like I had been in a car accident. I have some serious whip lash...My entire neck is in so much pain. My abs feel as though I did about 100,000 sit ups in an hour! My neck is still in some pain, but I have to say that it was well worth all the fun we had!
We drove home on Sunday, and it was a much better trip...but I wish they would have just slept the whole way, LOL!
Let's just say, I am in no way shape or form looking forward to another road trip!!

Getting rid of JUNK!

This past weekend JR went out to clean the garage....whew! It was A LOT. We had all this baby stuff that we no longer use, plus our old above ground pool....basically, we had a bunch of stuff that is just wasting space, and collecting dust. So I went out on Monday and took pictures of everything and posted it all on craigslist! I am shocked at how fast it all is going so far I have sold a huge bulk of it...and made $125 in the process! WooHoo! Anyway, I have spent the last couple of days driving to meet up places, I am hoping to get a few more items sold, but for now...sitting and resting is good enough for me! LOL
We leave Saturday morning for Houston...we will leave around 8, and get there around noon. The party starts at 1:00 and Logan couldn't be more excited! I told him we were going to see Davin for his birthday party and since telling him, I am questioned 20 times a day about when we are leaving to see Davin!!! LOL Unfortunately he doesn't really grasp the idea of time, nor is his memory as short as it used to be! LOL
Well, that's about it for today! Hopefully I will get more stuff sold - I put all my "earnings" into the floor fund, I am hoping to add more to it! (Can you tell how badly I want to get rid of the carpet?)
Oh...tomorrow night we have a babysitter...JR and I are going to dinner and happy hour with JR's company...woohoo! I am excited to do something outside of the house! Looks like its going to be a good weekend!