We got Bella's ears Pierced!!

While we were at the mall today we got Bella's ears pierced! My little girl has jewelry!!!!

Here we are waiting to get them done

marking where the hole would be

getting the first one done

getting the back put on

getting the second side done

This looks alot worse than it really was, she only cried for about 30 seconds and then everything was fine

Here's how they look, right side....

left side.....

and the happy, pretty girl with her new earings!

Girls Night Out

On Tuesday Hilary invited Bella and I over for dinner. It was really nice to get out with out the boys and just have a chance to catch up.

Hilary, thank you for the wonderful meal and fun evening, let's definetly make this a once a month evening like we talked about!

Playing is rough!

Isabella was playing in her new activity center that she got for christmas and when I looked over this was what I found.

Too funny! Playing sure is tiring when you are 5 months old!

Tagged

Hilary tagged me so here goes....

5 things I was doing 10 years ago

1. moving to Klamath, CA
2. joining the California Conservation Corps
2. just attended DVC
3. meeting Corey
4. being so tired and sore from working outdoors

5 things on my to do list today

1. take Stacey and Tim to Travis Airforce base so they can hop a flight home to Hawaii (sad about this one, we'll miss you guys)
2. order a new digital camera for my late christmas present (excited about this one)
3. laundry (yuck, maybe I will make the others last too long to get to this one)
4. make cashew nut chili for dinner (YUM)
5. bowl (see previous post)

5 snacks I enjoy ( my tastes change all the time, so here are the most recent)

1. craisins
2. pita chips with garlic humus
3. cheese crackers with peanut butter
4. graham crackers
5. oranges

5 things I would do if I were a billionaire

1. buy my husband a racecar so he could race in the NHRA
2. share money with my sisters and parents
3. travel everywhere
4. give to charities
5. build my dream home

3 bad habits

1. drinking dr. pepper
2. being too critical
3. obsessive/compulsive (ie the sheets have to have no wrinkles, heater and tv have to be on an even number, weird I know)

5 places I have lived

1. Concord/Walnut Creek, CA
2. Coto de Caza, CA
3. Klamath/Crescent City, CA
4. Catalina/Tucson, AZ
5. Running Springs/Arrowbear, CA

5 jobs I have had

1. synchronized swimming coach
2. tutor
3. California Conservation Corps/Americorps
4. landscaping
5. stay-at-home mom (hardest job I have had, but definetly the best!)

5 things you probably do not know about me

1. I want to go to school for criminal justice, and be a crime scene investigator
2. I am afraid of thunder and lightning
3. I hate being home alone when my husband works out of town
4. I want one more child
5. I love going to plays (if only Corey would take me, but looking forward to seeing Phantom of the Opera in June with my parents and Aunt Linda!)

Ok I tag everyone on my sidebar, in my friends and family who has not done this one yet! (:

My first video post!

We were in Sacramento this weekend to visit Grandma Sue, Aunt Linda and Uncle Rocky, and the boys got to play the drum set that cousin Brian has set up in the garage. They love anything musical so they had a blast! Aunt Stacey took a video of them on her camera. It is a little shaky in the begining, but this is so my first time posting a video so I do not know how to edit yet (:

Here they are

(don't forget to pause the music on my sidebar)

And two pictures of my beautiful girl!

Christmas

On Christmas the boys woke up to a tool and engine workshop that Santa had left out all built and ready for them to play with

They had fun exploring how to make the engine work and use all the tools while all the adults had time to wake up (:

tons of presents

we had fun opening them

Grammy Bunny, cousin Brian, Aunt Linda, and Great Grandma Sue

Corey with help from Jackson, Donovan, and Isabella

and playing with them too

Papa Bob with his new Cal Bears "the play" tie, and his new drill

Isabella in her baby's first Christmas hat and onesie

Christmas Eve

We got to spend the holiday at Aunt Linda and Uncle Rockys house in Sacramento this year.

On Christmas Eve the boys got to open Bella's gift, a new activity center



Jack helping Mommy put it together

Van helped Papa Bob while Daddy and Isabella caught a nap in the recliner

The boys also got to open their present of new pajamas to wear to bed

And also the present that they got for each other




Corey decided to take them out separately to get presents for each other, the boys loved it! Here they are with the ones they picked out

Corey opened the present that my Mom found for him. It is a reindeer that rocks and sings "Grandma got run over by a reindeer". Corey and the boys loved it!

Then finally it was time to get in their new pajamas and set out cookies and milk for Santa

They were a little concerned that Santa couldn't get through Aunt Linda and Uncle Rockys fireplace.......

So they opened the door!

Getting ready for Christmas

Here are some pictures from before Christmas when Aunt Stacey and Uncle Tim were here.

Here are Grammy Bunny and the boys making a gingerbread house

Aunt Stacey and Van

Uncle Tim with Bella and Van

Jessie making cookies

Gorgeous Isabella

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Wishing all my family and friends a wonderful, exciting, and happy 2008!

Happy new year!

My new addiction

For Christmas this year Corey's Dad and Valerie did not know what to get the kids for Christmas, so I suggested the wii. They are really hard to get so they just sent us the money and we set out to find one. We were at target and asked when they would be getting them in, and they said on Sunday. Well target opens at 8am, so at about 7:45 I asked Corey if he wanted to go try to get one. He said sure, why not. So off he went. When he got to the Target in Walnut Creek the line was all the way around the building. He thought for sure that he would'nt get one, but decided to try to park down below in the parking garage and go in the back entrance ( our Target has two doors you can enter the store through). Well when he drove down he saw only 5 people in line at that door, so when they opened up he went in, went up the elevator, and a lady asked if he wanted a ticket for the wii? ( you get a ticket at the front and then go back to the electronics to get one) He said yes, and got ticket number 164 out of 178. He just made it! While waiting to buy it he was talking to the person who had ticket 50 and they said they had been in line since 4:30 that morning! Silly people you just needed to go to the back door (:

And so that day my obsession began!

We have only had the wii for a week now and I am totally addicted to bowling. It comes with a sports game that has bowling, golf, baseball, tennis, and boxing. I bowl all the time. So much so that my right arm was so sore that I had to learn to bowl with my left hand.

It is a lot of fun. The first thing you do is to make a mii. It is your own character. You choose the face shape, eyes, hair, hair color, and name it. You can give your mii glasses, a beard, a mustache, a beanie, and even a beauty mark.

Here is my mii bowling

My addiction is so bad that I even bowl holding my sweet baby girl! She is so excited by this that she fell asleep!

My sister Jennie asked me yesterday if I let anybody else play too? And while I do bowl alot of games by myself, the boys and Corey play too. Here are my wonderful creative boys playing. Jackson has on his pj's with a pirate costume shirt and boots, a nemo costume hat, and reindeer ears, LOL!

Here he lost the reindeer ears, but kept the rest of the outfit! And Donovan has on spiderman.

If you have seen any of the comercials for the wii, there is one where a guy throws the controller through the screen of the t.v. . This can really happen!, so wear the wrist strap! Donovan already threw his. Luckily it just hit the wall, and not a person, or the t.v. ( how would I play then?)

So I am thinking that I need a support group for wii bowlers. Not for recovery, but for those who share the same obsession and want to support each other in the love for the game!