Last years resolutions....This years too

My 2009 resolutions....
Have a cleaner car. (Jenn, didn't you say you had something that would help me get the chocolate milk off the roof upholstery?)
(well I just bought a new one with more room for the junk)

Have a great 30th birthday and achieve my goal by then
Run the half marathon in SF.
(my birthday was ok, and Ididn't get the 1/2 marathon due to being preggers, guess thats next year)
Think about a new job...
(I thought about it, but then decided for the time my job is good for my life and kids)
Take the kids to Disneyland.
(next year:)
Finish painting and repainting my house.
(ha ha ha ha ha so much for that)
Finish my kids bathroom (Leslie this is your job to keep me on my toes for this)
(failed)
Repay off all the credit cards we have used for home improvement stuff.
(yup, but then I used them for Christmas:)
When those are done, try to talk Tim into a new car.
(checked off)
Start saving every month.
(uh....having a baby and not working during that time can affect this:)
Pray more and worry less.
(Yup)



2010 Resolutions.
Finish the Kids bathroom.
Disneyland (after my bros wedding)
Get back into running, 1/2 marathon.
Lose the baby weight, plus more.
Be a friend to all, be it bird or fish or tiny mole! Or anyone:)
Start saving.
Keep my Mom's memory close for myself and my family.
Drink more wine , cause it's good for you.
Keep the house clean! HAHAHA! With 3 kids....
Have Molly sleep through the night.
Plant more flowers.

Molly Grace

for those of you with out Facebook....

Labor day or Halloween?

An update on me...
For those of you who haven't heard....
Last night I was having contractions pretty much all night but nothing real, they were waking me up while sleeping, or I was dreaming about them (which I think were real ones just not too strong) When Tim left for work at 3:30 am I joked that I would be calling him in a little bit. After he left, they got stronger and more consistent. I called him around 6 and we went to the hospital around 7:30am. Once there I had a contraction in the elevator, and then not a single one once they put me on the monitor (shy Molly). The nurse had me walk around for about 20 minutes and I had 3 more, yet they weren't as strong. She put me back on the monitor for about 20 minutes and I only had one:(
I got sent home, which made me happy cause I can take the kids trick-or-treating:)
As it stands now, I have had them consistently all day, but they are about 10-12 minutes apart. The nurse said to come back at about 7 min apart. She seamed to think that this was early labor and I would be back later today or early tomorrow.
So we are going out to trick-or -treat about 4pm. and we are going to Tims moms neighborhood which is close to the hospital so that if we have to leave we can....
To be continued.....

Things Madden does to your husband...

He gets no sleep the night before in anticipation of getting the game.
He warns me that I should go to the movies after work, as the TV and him are otherwise occupied.
He asks the cat (whos asleep in the couch) if she has a problem. Over and over....
He hasn't brushed his hair all day.
He asked me to hold his controller while putting Jason in his carseat, but wouldn't shut the car door until I gave it back.
Two days ago the Fedex driver delivered to the neighbors, He went out to make sure that it wasn't his game that got delivered.
Yesterday he tracked the package on Fedex site so much that I thought it was going to pop up and say, "just be patient dang it"

I can't keep up

Although the blog Olympics are fun, I can't keep up, so I guess I am withdrawing from them:) Some of us have to work.:)

two bumps in two days.

Poor Jason's head. Yesterday he "fell" (aka got pushed , by his lovely sister) off the diving board on to the concrete. Then just a few minutes ago ran right into the corner of the kitchen cupboards. In almost the same spot! While yesterdays I' m sure hurt worse, today's, looks worse.....:(
(37pts)

Things I learned this morning watching Mickey

That Daisy can climb a wall in pumps.
For some reason Daisy is the driver of the Mickey car.
That you can slow down Pete with bubbles
That Pete is a cat. Did anyone else know that? Crazy!
And because he is a cat he can be slowed with a ball of string.
To do the hot dog dance you swing your hips and snap you fingers ( I never knew there was a special way until the told us today)
To clean stinky shoes you need one bar of soap and one bottle of perfume, and of course the stinky shoes.

Thats all.

(31pts)

Home improvments...

Tim and I made a list of home improvements that we would like to to do, hopefully before the baby is here. We are actually getting somewhere on it. I have the living room half painted. We are still deciding if Tim likes the color or not.

We got the paint for the outside of our house, as well as lined up the supplies to do it with. Thanks to a friend of Tim's who's girlfriend works for a paint company, we got 20 gallons of free paint. We are waiting on a stucco guy to come do some work before we throw the paint on.

We also ordered new windows to replace the last 4 single pane metal ones that were left. I am kind of bummed that the new windows won't have that swing out character that our current ones add. But the new ones will be much more energy efficient.

Yesterday I mentioned to Tim that I had picked out the new ceiling fan I wanted to get for Kara's room since hers quit working about 8 months ago. So he called Greg (his step dad and electrician) and asked when he would have time to put it up. He said he would be over in an hour. So I had to run to the store right then to get it.

Just a few items to check off the list of to be done.

(20pts)

is this fair?

Joel and Leslie share a account and so do Mike and Jamie. So when comments say Joel and Leslie or Littau Family can the both count them as points?
(13pts)

#1

I can't believe no one has posted yet for the blog Olympics, so here I am to kick it off. It's going to be hot today! And I am going swimming! Yup thats all.

Kara's picture!

Kara drew a picture of her family. From left to right, Daddy, Kara, Jason, Mommy and Mommy is holding her new baby sister.

Skateboards

Kara wants to get everyone skate boards.
Here's what she wants to get everyone....
Kara gets a princess skateboard.
Jason gets a Mickey skateboard.
Daddy gets a Giants skateboard.
And Mommy gets a Mommy skateboard.(I guess Mommy has no other interests but being a Mommy)

The best daddy...

So today after church, I say to Kara, "hurry get in your seat we have to go get daddys father's day present, because he is the best daddy in the world."
Kara says, "Mommy he's not the best daddy in the world." (long pause, I get kind of worried.) "hes the best daddy in the universe".
Sounds good!

The fair

Yesterday afternoon we headed out to the fair, of course it was the hottest day of the month so far. So after we got there we went to go on some rides and it was just to hot to stand in the sun. So off to the buildings we went so Kara could collect her backpack full of free stuff from the CHP and other booths. After that we went and listened to some music on one of the stages and Kara got some good dance moves in. People were laughing and watching her, Jason joined her for one song too.
By then it was time to hit the Ferris wheel. Kara had been talking about wanting to ride the Ferris wheel. So she and Tim went up and around. I'm not sure if Tim was as big of a fan as she was. Then Kara spotted the goldfish game. So I gave her $1 and she got 5 balls to throw. The 5th one was the winner! So we now have "dory" to go with "nemo" from last fair's fish. (although Nemo is the replacement from the fish that died after we brought him home last year, but don't tell Kara)
Back to the kids area we went, where we meet up with Grandma and Papa, and the kids got to ride some more rides. Tim was taking Jason on a roller coaster so I took her to the fun house, the funny thing is she stands by the measuring thing for every ride and waits to see if she is big enough. So she goes in the fun house, and comes out, some of the kids she was just in there with were going back in so I said yes she could go too. She had to stand and measure up again, though. This went on like 8 or 9 times, each time she would measure up and wait to be told she could go in, until the last one she said, "I'm big enough" and just walked in. The lady working thought she was the funniest thing.
Then it was off to ride the motorcycles. At the end of the ride, one little boy yells, "I'm the winner". Kara yells "no she's the winner" and points to the girl in front of her. Then the boy yells something back, Kara gets off her motorcycle and proceeds to go over and tell him how he didn't win. So funny!
We topped off the whole day with fair food, yum!

if, ands & buts...

Ahh...
It's been a long week. We had our sonogram last Thursday and found out the baby is a girl, and the lady said "you won't be coming to me telling me I was wrong", which gave me confidence that we won't have one of those oops,it's a boy moments at the hospital. Now for names.....tricky....suggestions will be taken. I like Madden Elizabeth or just Elizabeth or Paige....Tim likes none of the above....:)

After much thought we decided to give away our puppy, but she went to a great home where she will roam 6 acres of land and go on hikes everyday to a creek. Makes it easier to let her go.

I am excited to get back to a normal routine, I feel like things have been crazy busy lately but maybe they will slow down? Not likely.....

Tim and I made a todo list for our house. We are getting ready to paint inside the house this week and hopefully prepare to paint the outside. After that maybe stain the concreate out front, put up a new fence, get Jason into a big bed, move the crib to the baby's room, maybe put in new flooring, get new windows for the 3 single pane ones left..... oh did I start rambling?

I have been missing my favortie shows, so I have gotten hooked on the "little couple" and "18 kids and counting" and of course "Jon&kate", but that's starting to make me sad.

ok that all my ramblings for the night, I need to get some sleep .....
I am going to post some pictures from my mini vacation soon.....

100th post, Survey says, a four year old, commands and Many & little one.

Wow this is my 100th post!

Jessica and I were discussing the Chinese baby prediction calender. She said that it predicts this baby will be a boy. She also said that it is almost always right. So I looked up both my kids and the calender was wrong on both! She said that it puts me in a 10% range where it was wrong. So if you get time look at the chart and let me know if yours were right or wrong.
Both the age and the month are at the time of conception.
http://parenting.ivillage.com/ttc/ttcsigns/0,,j736,00.html

Kara just celebrated her 4th birthday last Monday. She did it up right with friends, swimming, a pinata and a Tinkerbell cake. She also received a huge dollhouse. Which has become her favorite toy.

Jason is begun to talk more, but has also become very opinionated, voicing his dis concern for nap time and bedtime and telling you what he wants! Milk! More! Ball! are all said as commands and not requests.

Kara as two new favorite words/sayings....first
"Many" everything is many. I have many friends, presents, or toys.
The second has become Jason's new nickname...
"Little one" Tim and I say that she sounds native American when she says. "here little one have many toys"....

Where does she get this stuff?

Tonight on the way home from dinner and ice cream we are driving in the car and Kara says "Mommy I love you"..."that's just my heart talking"

She is the best!

major breakthrough....

this just in.... Tim opened the door, and Dora ran crazily through the house. Jack and Bella just watched, no crying! Jenn there is hope!

odds and ends...

Right now I am watching the amazing race and they are getting painful foot massages. I want a foot massage but that looks a little harsh.

Friday I took the kids to target with me while I was getting supplies for a baby shower I was throwing. Kara got out of the car carrying her (which is really Jason's) Mickey Mouse toy. I didn't feel like trying to talk her out of bringing it in so I allowed it. We did all of our shopping and when we were in the checkout line I realized that Mickey was missing. So back through the store we trekked looking for him, yet he was no where to be found. Kara was so upset that I asked the girl at the service desk if they would call us if he turned up. Yes she said. (now here's the cute part of the story) So Kara miss upset, said "he has big black round ears, and red on and yellow shoes...." I said "Kara I think she knows what Mickey looks like":). (Mickey was found and we returned for him about an hour later)

I think that I blog about the biggest loser too much as, I received a comment on my "windy Wednesday" post, where someone thought I was the Kristin from the biggest loser.

Today we took the kids to the new yogurt shop 'you top it' by blockbuster. It was awesome , you fill up your own cup with yogurt and all the toppings you want, and at the end you just pay by the ounce. And they even have kids cups where they can get whatever they want for $1.99. So Kara had like 6 toppings on her yogurt.

Do not read if you haven't watched the Biggest Loser yet

I hate Ron! Can you say "hey Kristin, I got your back......... with this knife!" GRRR!!!!!!