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I'm 29 and I live in St.Charles with my husband Rob and baby girl Alivia

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Brayden's Adventure


Yesterday I'm laying in bed trying to wake up. Like most mornings, I can hear Brayden in the kitchen talking to anyone that will listen. Then I hear something in the bathroom (sounded like the toilet seat got picked up and then dropped) I didn't hear the shower start or the toilet flush so I couldn't figure out what was going on. I got up and opened my door, I looked in the bathroom and Brayden was in there. I look down the hallway and the gate was not on the stairs. I pick him up and I walk into the kitchen-don't see anyone. I look in the living room-noone. I look on the back porch-empty. I'm still half asleep thinking "What the hell is going on? Did he get out of his highchair?!?" I walk downstairs and Amber is asleep in bed. I'm still very confused at this point. Now I'm thinking, did he get out of his crib?!? I walk in Amber's room and wake her up. She wakes up to me standing in front of her holding Brayden. She sits straight up and says "OH MY GOD! I FELL ASLEEP!!" I said "He was upstairs in the bathroom!!"


She had gotten him out of bed and put him in her bed. He climbed off the bed and was playing with his toys and Amber had fallen back asleep. He had crawled up the basement stairs, through the foyer and up the stairs to the living room!!!!!


It's funny how things happen sometimes, because if the gate had been up then he would have turned around and tried to go back downstairs and that could have been bad.


He's such a little monkey!

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

We're in big trouble...

Rob watched Alivia yesterday because he was off work all day so instead of paying a babysitter he got to spend some quality time with his daughter. Starting last week, when you ask Alivia a yes or no question she will actually answer it. It's the cutest thing. So, yesterday I thought I would find out what happened while I was gone all day:

Me: Alivia, did you have a good day with daddy?
Alivia: Yah!!
Me:Did daddy keep an eye on you all day?
Alivia: Noo!
Me:Did he sleep all day while he was supposed to be watching you?
Alivia: Yah!!
Me: Did you get into things that you were supposed to?
Alivia: Yah!!!

I told Rob about what she said and he says that she's a liar!!

I'm going to have alot of fun with this new trick!

Oh and also, if you ask her how old she is she will hold up one finger!!

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

YYEEAAHH!!!

After a week of lying and sneaking around, my little sister Amber is engaged!!! YEAH!!!! Her (fiance!!) Bryan proposed to her on xmas eve at my mom and dad's house in front of all of us. It was very well planned out and so emotional !! We were all crying our eyes out! I'm so happy for them and we've already started planning!! She asked me to be the maid of honor-I can't wait! I'll post a picture as soon as I have one ready! Congrats-I love you guys!!



Alivia got a dream kitchen from santa, it's very cute and she likes it alot. I got remote start on my car that I've very excited about. It was a very nice weekend!!

Thursday, December 21, 2006

It's fate...

A few months ago when I got the lincoln (yes, before i totalled it) rob was driving my escalade and decided that he didn't want to be seen with my "LTL AMY" license plates. I had those plates ever since the 97 tracer!! I really didn't want to put them on the lincoln but wasn't quite ready to completely do away with them yet. So I kept putting it off. One day (after rob yelled at me AGAIN for not getting it done yet) I finally brought myself to do it. I went to the license office and told her I needed new plates-she then asked me why. So I had to explain that my husband didn't want to be seen with them and I wasn't very happy about it. So then she says "Ok, since you just renewed them I will either need the plates back or you will need to pay for a new set" Well I certainly didn't want to pay for a new set so I pouted for a minute and told her I would just give them back. I had to then go to the parking lot and take them off the car (SOOO NOT MY JOB) I brought them back in, pouted again and the woman said "Did you want a minute?" I'm thinking this is really dumb THEY'RE JUST LICENSE PLATES!!! She got the new ones from the shelf and to my suprise the first three digits of the new plates were "4AS" now to some people this wouldn't mean anything but to me it meant alot because I am one of three daughters who's name starts with A and my daughter's name starts with A (making-4 A's) I was very excited and I got over the old dirty plates very quick. I went home and pointed out the coincidence to my husband who was less than thrilled.

So, yesterday I went to register the malibu (which i've had since the beginning of november!) and she got the new plates out and the first three digits were "8AS" I'm not exactly sure what the relavence is there but none the less I was excited! I'm very easily amused!!!

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

For my husband....

I wrote this for my husband to remind him of how much I love him.....


When you're in love with someone you choke up everytime you listen to the song that you walked down the aisle to and you listen to it all the time because you love to be reminded of how you felt at that moment looking into the eyes of your future.

When you're in love with someone you consider your anniversary date your lucky number.

When you're in love with someone you will tickle them until they fall asleep because they asked you to and you find a sense of peace in doing it

When you're in love with someone you can't wait to have a child with them and then when you do you can't wait to have another.

When you're in love with someone you will get them cookies and milk at 10:30 at night because they asked you to and if you had said no it would have been ok.

When you're in love with someone you smile every time you hear them giggling at the tv in the other room

And finally, when you're in love with someone it takes less than 5 minutes to jot down all of the reasons that you're in love with them because you didn't have to think about it at all.

In case you didn't figure it out-I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU SILLY! I love you with all of my heart and soul through thick and thin for better or worse I am your wife and I wouldn't have it any other way :)

Friday, December 08, 2006

Where do the boogers go?

At alivia's last dr's appt the doctor asked me "How long has she had the runny nose?" I replied "Since the day she was born!" Well, lately everyday when I pick her up from the babysitter we have to do booger surgery for 15 minutes-let me tell ya-she loves it! I'm kind of obsessed, I don't like my beautiful daughter to have anything disgusting in her ears or nose-at any time!! Whenever she does I call her trailer park! Anyway yesterday I was telling my husband about the marble sized thing that I pulled out of his daughter's nose-and he says "If you don't get them out then how do they get out?" "THEY DON'T-now you see why I'm constantly picking at her!" He thinks about it for a second and says "They have to come out eventually" "I really don't think so babe and even if they do, i'm not letting her walk around like that to find out!!!" Don't worry, it runs in the family, Brayden is booger free too!

Monday, December 04, 2006

Bryan has a blonde moment

Me: Amber, we just bought this case of Sprite yesterday and there's only 4 left.
Amber: BRYAN!! You drank 8 sodas since yesterday?!?!?
Bryan: NO! I ONLY HAD FIVE!
Me: I had 2
Amber: I had 1
Me:There are 4 left
Bryan (redoing the math outloud to amber): Amy had 2, you had 1, I had 5, there's 4 left-How many are in a 12 pack?

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Girls don't have weenies...

Yesterday was a pretty comical day-great for a blogger!!

I picked alivia up from the babysitters yesterday and she was wet so the sitter wanted to change her before we left, she laid her down on the changing table and one of the little boys went up to the table and proclaimed "Girls don't have weenies" I about died laughing!!!

I laid alivia down for a nap last night and she fussed a little and then got quiet and a few minutes later she was screaming. I walked back in there to get her and as I'm walking through her room-which by the way is pitch black at 5:30 at night all of a sudden I trip over something-it was alivia-she had gotten out of her bed. Not sure how yet-she was still there this morning! Needless to say, I have been shopping for bed rails online today. I'm really not ready for this yet-she's only 16 months old!! Her bed turns into a daybed so at least I don't have to go bed shopping! Geez....

Then, last night, Mindy and Lilly came over to hang out for a little bit. It was about 8:15 (We were watching Dog, The Bounty Hunter-very important stuff! Lilly said to Mindy "Mommy, when can we go home" Mindy said "In 15 minutes" Lilly says "Mommy, that's a half an hour" We all cracked up!!

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The possessed alarm clock

Two years ago my aunt jill had rob's name for xmas. She asked me what she could get him, I told her that we had an alarm clock that would go off every single day whether it was set or not. So I told her to get him a new one and she did. Well, that one does the same thing. I guess it's not such a bad thing because you don't have to think about setting it-it will go off whether the set alarm button is switched to on or off. So I started to wonder-does this thing go off even when we are out of town? We've never come home to it going off. Now that would be REALLY weird. I asked amber and bryan last night and they said that it does go off when we're not home. So there goes that theory. Am I the only one that this has happened to?!?!? Two alarm clocks in a row with minds of their own-very strange.....

Monday, November 20, 2006

Good Suprise

I've been telling Rob for 2 years that I want new living room furniture, since we had the money from the car and with christmas coming up I had really been on a kick. I told him I wanted new furniture for xmas. He kept saying we needed to wait until after xmas and whatever else. Basically he was picking a fight with me everyday about the stupid furniture.

I came home from bowling last thursday night and I had new furniture in my living room!!!! He had gone with my sister and bought the furniture that I had picked out, he picked it up and set it up while I was at bowling. I seriously couldn't believe it!!! He's NEVER done anything like that. The only problem is that this furniture is so huge and comfy that I just want to lay on it and I didn't get too much done over the weekend!! There aren't too many people that are able to pull one over on me. I'm so nosey and I usually figure things like this out but I had NO IDEA!! It was a great suprise.

On another note, I got my new car on Friday, I really like it and I broke it in this morning by getting a speeding ticket! I was running late (as usual) and I got pulled over. Oh Well.

Happy Turkey Day Everyone!!!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Calgon, Take me Away.....

Last night started out like many others, I made dinner, started some laundry, unloaded/loaded the dishwasher. Bryan came home and had a headache, I went searching through my hall closet that contains everything but the kitchen sink looking for tylenol-I couldn't find it but decided then would be a great time to clean it out-it had been awhile. The evening went downhill from there. I did get the closet cleaned out-never did find the tylenol. Amber decided that she was going to do some touchup paint on the bathroom and then decided that she wasn't in the mood for it. Alivia was being very difficult all evening then amber and bryan started fighting-it was not a good night. So alivia and I went to my room and stayed in there the rest of the evening, when I finally got her to lay down I took a bath and read a book-I've never done that before-it was pretty relaxing. When Rob got home I told him that I had a bad evening and he needed to give me a massage!! He agreed!!

I had to have another talk with my babysitter this morning. Most nights Alivia will not eat dinner, I kinda figured that it was because the babysitter feeds her breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. I had to tell her not to give her an afternoon snack because I would like her to eat dinner with us instead of running around like a maniac while we are eating because she isn't hungry. Then I had to tell her not to give Alivia Kool-aid all day. She said she usually doesn't but I think her behavior in the evening proves different. I can only hope that the day gets better.

I'm taking tomorrow off to try to relax a little. It probably won't happen though because I have a cable guy coming and I won an auction on a company car so I have to deal with that tomorrow. Geez.............I need a clone-good thing that bill passed ;)

Thursday, November 09, 2006

My sister, the politician

Amber got home from work at about 6:00 tuesday night and we were sitting down eating dinner and here was our conversation:

Bryan:Amber hurry up and eat so we can go vote
Amber: VOTE?!?!?
Bryan: Yea, I feel like I really want to vote
Amber: Where do you have to go?
Me:Just up to the library on Kisker, you better hurry though, you only have until 7
Bryan:I bet it's packed
Amber: (looks up from her dinner and pauses) I swear to god I just said to myself when I was coming home "Why is the library so packed on a tuesday night, what a bunch of losers, who hangs out at the library on a tuesday?"

Me and Bryan just shook our heads at her

Monday, November 06, 2006

Worst Babysitter EVER!!

I bowl every other sunday so Rob gets to "babysit" while I bowl. I come home last night and this is our conversation:

Me: How was liv?
Rob:Good, we were playing and watching football and I just layed her down about 15 minutes ago
Me:What did she have for dinner?
Rob: (giving me the deer in headlights look) I thought you fed her before you left!!!
Me:No, that's why I said-she will need dinner before I left
Rob:Well she didn't tell me that she was hungry.
Me:Did you give her a bath?
Rob: um-no she didn't tell me that she wanted a bath-we just played all night
Me:did you at least change her diaper?!?!?
Rob:YES
Me:did you put jammies on her?
Rob:no, just sweatpants because she was hot

I think she heard our conversation because I heard her from her room so I went in and got her and fed her and put jammies on her and put her back in bed. I said to her "I can't wait till you can talk and tell daddy how to take care of you" and then I said to rob "From now on, when you watch her, no matter what, you need to give her a bath" He said "Sure, but only if she wants to"

Lord help me!!!

Friday, November 03, 2006

Too much information...

I'm sitting at the bowling alley last night eating the best cheeseburger EVER!! I am minding my own business when a woman comes up to me and says "There's nothing worse than the first day of that time of the month"
Are you serious-did you really just say that as I sit here and MIND MY OWN BUSINESS AND EAT DINNER?!?!?

So I reply" Well, I've been very fortunate in that department" then I think to my self WHY DID I JUST RESPOND TO THAT COMMENT?!?!
So she continues "I've been telling my gynecologist for years to make it stop-I'm over fifty just make it stop"
By now I wise up" Yep"

then she went away...dinner was ruined forever!!

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Random Conversation in my house...

Rob: Am, Where's my cardinals jacket?
Me: Downstairs, I think it's dirty
Rob: Honey, you need to make sure that jacket is clean whenever carpentar is pitching!
Amber: It's been down there for a week-you just now noticed?
Rob:Why do you always need to put your two cents in?
Amber:Ok-Sorry (The ONLY reason she apologized is because this was about the 3rd time she had throw her two cents in on one of our conversations last night!)
Rob: You just always have to say something don't ya? (still talking to amber)
Amber: You better be nice to me or I will eat ALL OF YOUR COOKIES while you are at bowling.
Rob: You better not touch my f*ck*ng cookies or I will break your neck!

funny...

Monday, October 23, 2006

Update to accident

So, they are totalling my car-i'm very excited. They offered me $12,500. It was all I could do not to shout "YES!!!" We paid 8,100 for the car last month. So now I have to buy another car-trouble is, I have NO IDEA what I want. There aren't any cars right now that I HAVE TO HAVE. I'm going today to get the lincoln registered (didn't have time to do that!) so I can get the title in my name so I can get my money!! I hope they don't give me any crap!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Crazy week



Last Saturday night I went to wineries with some friends for our bdays. We had a nice time. After the bus dropped us off, I picked alivia up, got some jack in the box and then totalled my car! An 84 year old man came across the intersection at independence rd and hwy 94. I smashed into him going about 50. Alivia and I are both doing ok but the car might be totalled! Sunday was my birthday-we went to the boat for brunch-favorite new thing to do!! Then we went to the pumpkin patch in Illinois and Rob and I went to dinner at the melting pot. It was very nice. I am off today because Alivia had a Dr appt for her 15 month check up. She is doing great. She weighed 22 pounds and 3 ounces. She had to get two shots and then she had to get blood drawn-she was not happy!! We went to the bank, postoffice, taco bell, dr office and target today. We also went to take these pictures of the car. You can't really tell from the pictures but both airbags went off and broke the windshield and the sunroof is not exactly in tact!!

I feel so productive today-I might even get to put a dent in my laundry!!

Mouse in the house part two


Here is the card that amber got me for my birthday-she's not right!

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Mouse in the House

Rob and I are laying in bed last night at 11:00 when I hear a knock on our door-I say come in

Amber:Can you wake rob up?
me:why?
Amber: There's a mouse downstairs
me: ok so kill it
Amber: Rob needs to kill it, we don't know what to do
me: have bryan kill it, rob has to get up at 5 in the morning
Amber: But Amy, (whispering) "There's a mouse in your house"
me- (cracking up)
Amber-ROB WAKE UP AND KILL THE MOUSE
me-get out of my room

so i lay there a few more minutes and hear banging downstairs-i go down there and amber is standing on the couch, apparantly the mouse had run into a closet so bryan was standing in the doorway of the closet with a budlight bucket i guess he thought he was going to catch it-then we all see the mouse scurry out of the closet so then i jump as fast as i can over the side of the couch to join amber! they both cracked up-i look over and amber had put a towel under the door of the bedroom that brayden was in because she didn't want the mouse to get brayden-i told her i didn't think the mouse would be scaling up brayden's bed to attack him-i stayed down there a few more minutes and then went to bed-i heard bugs (their cat) run as fast as he could up the stairs at about 6 this morning so i don't know if he saw the mouse again or not- there's never a dull moment in our house!!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

The Chaos that is my life....




So, Amber and Bryan are moving back in with us and somehow that involved me cleaning out my basement! I really needed to though-the only bad thing now is that I really need to have a garage sale and it's October. Oh Well. Also now my bathroom is under construction (amber didn't like the decor) that's also fine-I was ready for a change-we went to walmart the other night and spent $100 on duck decorations! They also painted the room that they will be "living" in and have now decided that they want to paint the living room downstairs-also ok with me-because they are doing all of the painting-i'm not much of a painter-keep your comments to yourself please :) So they slept there last night for the first time as well as bryan's brother.

I recently moved my office at work from 40 & mason to clayton. And, on oct 30 I will be moving it again to St.Peters-long story. So I have been dealing with that too. OH-I now have myspace. www.myspace.com/aliviawhitehouse
I was putting off doing it but I found a bunch of people on there that I went to school with so I though I would get on there so they could find me too.
That's all I have for now-as if that isn't enough!!

These are some pictures from the Oktoberfest last weekend

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

I love technology

I love technology!

I love technology. I took this picture last night with my cell phone and just sent it to my blog-how weird. Anyway this is a picture of my monkey (daughter) alivia. She climbed into this position all by herself

What did you say to me?!

I swear my mother runs across some of the weirdest people. Here are some of her stories:

A few years ago her and my dad were at a concert at riverport and I guess there were some kids behind them being obnoxious. Someone said something to the kids about the way they were acting and the kid responded with
"Why don't you go throw up on yourself or something" Everytime they tell that story we all crack up laughing.

A few months ago my mom went to a gas station near her house to get some coffee-nothing else. She went up to pay and the kid that was working there had a button on that said "If I don't offer you the rain-x carwash-it's yours for free" or something like that. So he rings up her coffee and says see ya later. She then says "You didn't offer me the carwash-so I get it for free right?" He says to her "Well, ugh, I didn't know that you were going to pay with a dollar" Not really sure what he meant by that but she got the free carwash. Those are like $14!!

Last night she went to Jack in the Box and ordered some ice tea (They have THE BEST ICE TEA-I'M DRINKING SOME RIGHT NOW!!) Anyway-they handed her the tea and said "Would you like any cream or sugar with that?" She said "Um, no thanks"

geez!!

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Mall Rats

Amber, Bryan, Brayden, Alivia and I went out to dinner and to the mall last friday night. Not sure why we thought that would be a good idea to go to the mall on a friday night. Anyway, Bryan was in a wedding on saturday and Amber needed something to wear (as usual!). So we walk into the mall and it's much worse than I expected. There were LOTS and LOTS of teenagers with black clothes and bad haircuts walking around. There were a few girls walking around with those stupid child development baby dolls AT THE MALL, one of the girls actually had her fake baby in a STROLLER!!!! Amber says "When I had that doll it spent the week in the trunk of my car" Nice-luckily her real mother skills are better than that!!

So Bryan and I are about done with the mall and Amber wants to go back and look at a shirt she saw. Outside of this store were a few couches and a few chairs. Bryan walked over and sat down and I followed him. Next thing we know about 6 of these punk kids came running over and were laying on the couches and about 3 of them were sitting in one chair. They were wrestling around and dropped their overly large can of jolt. It spilled all over the floor and they thought it was hilarious. As people were walking by one kid (that looked like a girl) was asking people to give him money to lick the jolt off of the floor. He didn't get any takers. I looked over at Bryan and said "Hey, Bryan, do you have a dollar?" He grinned and said "Yea" so he reached into his pocket and said "Hey, I'll give you a dollar to lick that off of the floor" So the kid went over and PULLED HIS HAIR BACK and licked away. He then came running over to Bryan for his prize. Then another kid said "Hey, I'll...I'll, Um, I'll snort it through my nose for a dollar" So Bryan said "Ok" Then he did. Bryan paid him off too. The kid kept sniffling and his nose was bright red. It was cheap entertainment for a few minutes.

I forgot to mention that when amber was trying on something she came out of the dressing room without a shirt on-she forgot to put one on-I was outside the store when it happened but I thought that was pretty funny!!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Everyone loves a blue eyed girl!


Brayden's Mohawk





As promised:

Here's are pics of brayden's mohawk and alivia's pretend mohawk that daddy gave her in the bath!

Monday, September 18, 2006

Open House

My house was a crazy place this weekend. I can't complain though I love it. Friday night, I took Alivia to my mom's so that I could hang out at the bowling alley for a few hours. Saturday Rob was playing golf (this happens once a year!) Alivia and I hung out for awhile until the madness began. Amber and Bryan came over around 11. They are getting ready to move back in with us. Amber didn't care for the birdhouse decoration that was going on in the bedroom they would be living in so she took it upon herself to repaint it-whatever-one less thing I have to do! Amber and Bryan began painting so Alivia, Brayden and I were playing in the living room. That was going ok and then Jenny, Anthony and Jack came over. I was going to watch the boys for a little bit. So now Alivia, Brayden and Jack were all playing. They played really well together and took turns taking naps all afternoon. Anthony is such a great helper!!! We ordered pizza for lunch. Rob got home and I felt so bad for him. All he wanted to do was come home and watch football in peace and quiet!! We have three tvs in our house. Amber and Bryan had the basement a mess from painting, I was in the living room with the babies and there was a baby or two taking a nap in our room at most points of the day. At one point I went downstairs to check on what was going on down there and when I came up rob was yelling "Amy, there's babies crying all over the place" It was pretty hilarious!! We went to St. Charles and walked around that night at the mosaic fair-it was a beautiful night. On Sunday I had to work at the diner. My mom calls around 4 and says "Amber invited us over to look at the room" So we had a replay last night. My mom, dad, Ashley, Amber, Bryan and Brayden all came over last night. We hung out for awhile and Amber gave a bunch of hair cuts including Braydens (pictures of his new mohawk should be ready soon!) When Amber got to my house last night she says to my dad "Grab a piece of paper" He didn't so she continued "Bryan's car needs new shocks and a new battery and my car needs new brake pads" Later that night Ashley says "Amber can I have your old shocks" Me and my dad are thinking "She surely doesn't mean car shocks" She didn't, she was talking about nike shox shoes. We all had a good laugh about that. Tonight I guess I have to go grocery shopping because yesterday when I asked Rob if he was hungry he said "I have been hungry all day, we haven't had any food for two weeks" He exagerates a little.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

End of the Fad Diet

Tuesday was the last day of my diet (which I haven't exactly been sticking to!) BUT, I went to the doctor this morning for my final evaluation and I lost another 2 pounds. The grand total of weight loss is 16 pounds. I would like to lose a little more but I think that's a good start. The main goal was to get to pre baby weight and I did that about 4 pounds ago so my goal was achieved!!

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Random thoughts and comments....

Toys R US

Amber and I went to Toys R Us Monday night looking for halloween costumes for the babies. We didn't really find anything but I did find an outfit for Alivia and I needed batteries for a new toy that I bought her last weekend. So, we are checking out and AS THE GIRL SCANS MY BATTERIES she says "Do you need any batteries today?" I looked at her and I said "I think the batteries you just scanned should do just fine" This would have been a valid question if I had bought a toy or something that required batteries-but I didn't-I bought a onesie, jeans and the cutest velcro corduroy shoes ever for $2. Needless to say, she felt pretty stupid.

New Car

I accidentally put regular gas in my new car that is supposed to take premium gas. I remembered that I wasn't supposed to do that about 15 minutes after I did it-oops.

Rob's "New Job"

Rob is a "gamble-a-holic" from way back. He still hasn't found a job-it's been about 5 weeks now. He's been playing $30 poker tournaments at the boat during the day. ( Because this is what you should be doing when you don't have a job?!?!) Anyway, yesterday he won first place and it paid $700. Last weekend he was betting on football and won $1,300. He is calling this his "job" now. And the scary part is that he is serious. If a job doesn't offer a 401 K or a weekly paycheck where taxes are taken out then IT'S NOT A JOB!!!!!!!!!!! Lord help me......

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Husband in Training

I dred holidays, birthday's and occasions with Rob. He is the type of guy that waits until the VERY last minute to buy a gift for an occasion. The gift is NEVER wrapped and always has very little thought behind it. I am such the opposite of that so usually I am very dissapointed when/if I get a gift from Rob. Yesterday was our 2nd wedding anniversary. After 7 years of this I try not to get too excited when something comes up that warrants a gift. The other thing is that if he does get a gift he tries to make me think that he didn't get me anything until I am at the point of tears and then he brings out the gift-not sure why this is so amusing. So yesterday I get home and I hand him my gift to him. ( A card and a portable satelite radio) So he says to me " I can't find my wallet, are you mad" So I say " It's always something isn't it?" and he says " Well, I did get you choc cov strawberries, they're in the fridge" I'm pretty excited by this point. It's not much but I do love me some choc cov strawberries. Then he proceeds with " I really have no idea where my wallet is and I didn't have much money so that's all I could get you today-is that ok" I told him that was fine, so then I guess when the game wasn't going his way he decided not to play it anymore, he went into the bedroom and pulled out two boxes, one had a small ruby ring (alivia's birthstone) and heart shaped earrings to match-he said that was to make up for the mother's day fiasco (that's another story!!) So all in all he did very well and we had a very nice dinner at the melting pot. After he gave me the boxes he said " I really didn't get you a card though" I wonder if I will be able to have him completely trained by our 10th wedding anniversary!!

Monday, August 28, 2006

2nd Anniversary!



Today is our second wedding anniversary. And actually we got married on our 5 year anniversary so technically, today is our 7th anniversary. It doesn't seem that long!!

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Jury Duty

A few weeks ago I had the privilige of attending Jury Duty. I was kinda excited just because I had never done it before and was looking forward to the experience. So, I get there at 8:30 just like I'm supposed to and we sat in a room until 10:00. They finally called us into the courtroom and then asked us about 100 questions. Finally at 3:45 they pick the jury. I was juror #12!!! As soon as you get selected you go right up in your seat and court begins. We were there until about 6 that night. When we left that night they told us we couldn't discuss the case with anyone and we couldn't look anything up on the internet about the case. Suprisingly enough, I sort of listened. I didn't look it up on the internet. So the next day we go back in at 9 and we are there until 7 that night. We did find him guilty on two counts of burglary. The defense didn't have any case except to say " The state doesn't have any evidence beyond a reasonable doubt" The guy never said a word and we had so many questions that weren't answered by either side. And they say, if you aren't sure then you have to rule in honor of the defense. That's easier said than done. It's funny because when we were listening to all of the evidence you wonder what the other jurors are thinking-because you can't talk to them about the case until after you hear all of the eviendence. When we were excused to deliberate it was clear that everyone was thinking the same way that I was-HE IS SO GUILTY!! It only took us about 20 minutes to reach a decision: When I got home that night I looked up his name on the internet and here's what I found:

06/30/94- 3 counts of 2nd degree burglary
12/27/01-speeding
03/02/02-seat belt
04/12/02-speeding
04/14/02-child seat belt
04/14/02-speeding
10/18/02-seat belt
10/18/02-material on windshield
12/30/02-seat belt
12/30/02-material on windshield
09/12/03-seat belt
11/21/03-seat belt
11/23/03-speeding
12/23/03-seat belt
08/08/04-littering 2 counts
10/02/04-tresspassing 2nd degree
05/21/05-speeding
07/14/05-speeding
07/14/05-unauthorized oper a motor veh
07/19/05-speeding
07/19/05-seat belt
08/02/05-2 counts burglary 2nd degree
12/17/05-passing bad check

Isn't that nuts!! After it was all said and done I was glad that I hadn't looked on the internet before we made our decision. I think he was supposed to do 15 years for that burglary back in 1994-that would explain why he wasn't in trouble again until 01. His sentencing is next monday-I can't wait to see what he gets! And you would think that this was a kid right-nope-he's 41-what an idiot!!!

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Jobs are good

So, about two weeks ago I get a phone call that I've gotten a few too many times. "Honey, I quit my job, but it wasn't my fault!!" Rob, gotta love him. My husband is a very talented painter and he knows it. Every other time that he has gotten mad and quit his job-he had something lined up. Well, this time he didn't. I didn't freak out or yell at him because like I said EVERY OTHER TIME he had something lined up. I'm always ok until he starts freaking out. He has applied at every place you can think of and talked to every one that he knows-noone is hiring right now. So we're starting to get a little worried. Luckily, he's had a few small side jobs, that has helped out and he's got another one lined up for next week so that will buy some more time. Each time he does this he learns a valuable lesson-He has come so far in so many areas since I met him 7 years ago. He actually sent an apology letter to the company that he quit after working there for 5 years. I couldn't believe it!!!!! It's funny though because I didn't quit my job-I go to work every day but I can't go to Target anytime I want to now-What's up with that!!! I guess that's what marriage is all about though. So if anyone has a car that they need fixed or painted get ahold of me!!

Monday, August 14, 2006

Fad Diet Month 2 update

Today I weighed in for the second month and I lost 3 more pounds. This last month was not very productive. But, I have lost a total of 14 pounds. 28 more days to go. I need to get back on track-I'm such a cheater! I can't help it, I love food too much!!!

Thursday, August 10, 2006

1st Birthday




Here are some pictures from Alivia and Jack's first bday parties

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Ms Popularity

Alivia & Jack
Alivia is going to a new babysitter now because our old sitter went back to work-I was not happy about that! It seems to be working out well though-she's very popular!! I dropped her off today and one of the mom's came in to drop off her daughter and said "there's your baby" (talking about alivia) she said "That's how I wake her up in the morning, telling her she needs to get up and get ready to go see Alivia" I thought that was funny, yesterday when I picked her up I walked in and some other mom was holding Alivia. Then the sitter told me that one of the little boys kisses her all day. I'm not sure how I feel about that but it seems cute enough. I hope this isn't the start of a much bigger problem!!!!!!

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

The Pregnancy Epidemic

My husbands family has always been known for having babies in pacts-it goes like this-My nephew kyle, neice rachel and rob's cousin rebecca were all born in the same year. Then my nephew nathan and friend of the family easton were born the same year. Then there was evan and he was born all by himself. Then my sister in law marsha had her son austin last year and of course alivia was born last year. NOW-my sister in law kelly and rob's cousin's wife amanda are pregnant. Isn't that nuts??? So pretty much if someone in the family gets pregnant you better watch out because you could be next!!!!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Doctors Scale

I went to the doctor today to get "weighed in" I use to hate the Doctors scale because I always felt like it said more than what the home scale said, however, today I love it. According to the doctor's office I have lost 11 pounds since I began my diet on June 12. My home scale says I have lost 8 pounds. Either way, I am back to my pre-baby weight. I am pretty proud of that. I always thought that when I had kids I would blow up and never be able to lose the weight. My daughter will be one on Sunday, so it took right at about a year to get back. I have 60 days left and it's going really well. It's not the hardest thing I've ever done and it's healthy so it's a win/win. I don't have to go to the doctor to weigh in for another 30 days but I weigh myself every morning at home. I will keep you up to date

Friday, July 07, 2006

Babies first fourth!




Here are some pictures of Alivia, Jack and Brayden from the fourth of july parade in O'Fallon. I don't think any of them really cared about the parade but they all looked really adorable!!

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Fad Diet Update

I started the diet on June 12 and have lost 6 pounds to date. Only 73 more days to go!!

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Weird Crush


My mom took me and my sisters to the Rascal Flatts concert last saturday night at UMB. It was really good. Gary Allan was there also, I don't care for him, he's too whiny but he is cute. The wreckers were there, they were really good. I really like rascal flatts, but more importantly, I have a weird crush on the lead singer Gary LeVox. I don't know if it's the hair or the voice or the shiny clothes he wears but I think he is really sexy!!

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I can't believe it's already been a year!






We went yesterday to get Jack & Alivia's 1st Birthday pictures taken, they did so good!

Monday, June 19, 2006

Another Fad Diet...

I'm such a sucker. I'm doing another Fad Diet. It's called One Day Diet. You may have heard about it on the radio, you eat anything you want every other day and on the Diet Days you eat these Chocolate flavored food tab things and you can have all the fresh fruit that you want. I started last monday and I have lost 4 pounds so far. You do it for 90 days and report back to them as to how much you lost, there are about 20 different little things you have to do and send it and if you do it all you will get $1,000 and reimbursed for the product! Unfortunatly, I have no will power when it comes to food so I have to do stupid stuff like this to lose weight and having a baby didn't help that out either! Hopefully it works! I'll keep you up to date with my progress.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Advice to new moms...





Here's some advice to new mothers-it's almost impossible to get anything done at home when your young child is awake. Therefore, I would advise you invest in the following, a good sturdy highchair, the biggest box of cheerios you can find, a good exersaucer and a baby einstein video!! These are the best babysitters you will find. These are the things I use when Alivia is awake and I need to get something done in the house. The other day after working at the diner I was exausted and Rob had to go to work so I put Liv in her saucer, popped in a baby einstein movie, set it for Repeat Play and took a nap on the couch!! When I'm trying to do laundry I will stick her in her highchair and dump a bunch of cheerios on the tray. She eats some of them but mainly plays with them, this usually works for 15 minutes or so. I took some pictures of her cleaning up her cheerio mess the other day. You might think I'm a bad mom for letting her eat food off the floor but I thought it was cute and they were fresh!!
Plus, she's the one that threw them there!

Monday, June 05, 2006

Fun Weekend






We went out two times this weekend. That is very unusual for us! Friday night we went to The Blues on the Mississippi with Amber, Bryan, Brayden and some people from my work. It was a nice night but a little cool. Saturday night we went to a trivia night for my cousin. They raised $20,000. It was alot of fun. These pictures are from Friday night.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Brayden & Livy's first time to the zoo!



Yesterday was such a beautiful day so we took the babies to the zoo. It was lots of fun and they both had a really good time!

Monday, May 22, 2006

What is this world coming to?!?

A couple of weeks ago Alivia & I were in Target buying our normal weekly necessities. I was putting everything up on the belt to check out. Alivia grabbed one of the jars of baby food and threw it on the floor. The bottom of it busted but it was still in the plastic wrapping. I handed it to the clerk and said "I'm sorry, my daughter just dropped this on the floor" She took it and looked at me and said "did you still want it?" I said "No, the jar is broken," and she said "Oh, so you don't want it? Did you want me to put it back?" I said "Um, sure that would be great" Don't you have to have some sort of common sense to get a job these days?!?

THEN-I needed to stop and grab some dinner last week because Rob had a game and we were both runnng late. I stopped by Hardee's thinking they still had fried chicken. I pulled up and didn't see it on the menu so I said to the girl "Do you not have fried chicken anymore?" She said "Spicy Chicken?" I said "Fried Chicken" She said "We have chicken strips." I said "Ya know like a bucket of friend chicken do you not have that??" she said "Oh, no" Then I drove off.

And last but not least... I went with a girl from work to pick up lunch from the diner last friday. I don't know if we didn't notice a low tire or if she ran over something but we got a flat tire. We pulled over on the side of the road. We called AAA and sat on the side of the road for 45 minutes. ONLY ONE PERSON STOPPED TO HELP US!!!! I bet 200 cars passed us while we were sitting there. AAA finally came and got us back on our way I just couldn't believe that only one person stopped. I guess we just figure that everyone has a cell phone these days and we are all too busy to stop and help anyone out!

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Kids VS Dogs

I was watching the season finale of Grey's Anatomy the other night-I don't even watch that show but there was so much hype about it I had to watch it. Anyway, they put a dog to sleep and it made me very upset-It just made me think about Tiger & Zeus. Then I got to thinking, having dogs wasn't much different than having kids. Last night Alivia crawled under the table and was eating all of the Cheerios that she had dropped from her high chair. The dogs used to hang out under the table waiting for scraps. When we had the dogs we had to put up a gate on the stairs so they wouldn't go down stairs and use the basement as a bathroom, not exactly the same but we need to put up a gate again so Alivia doesn't fall down the stairs (again!) I'll explain later. When we had the dogs they had to have their nose in the dishwasher as I unloaded it. Alivia does the same. She has to play with the silverware and move the rack back and forth while I'm trying to put dishes in it. I had to watch what I had out on the tables when we had the dogs so they wouldn't knock things down-have to do the same for the baby now. Funny......

So I just knew this would happen, I was in the bedroom folding laundry last night and Rob came in and was looking for something in the hall closet so immediatly Alivia crawls down the hall as fast as she can (which is pretty fast!) I yelled to Rob "You got her?" He said "Yep, she's right under my feet" So a few minutes later I hear the door to the garage close, I wait a second and begin to run down the hall-it was too late she had already toppled down the stairs. Rob came running back in-I cussed him out-She cried for 2 seconds-and that was it!! She probably wouldn't have even cried it she didn't see me freaking out, She is one tough little cookie!!

Monday, May 08, 2006

I'm obsessed!!

I'm totally obsessed with EBay. I've been buying things on there for about a year. Well, last week I began selling things. I can't stay off of there. And it's so dumb, I could just drive up to walmart and buy the things that I bid on ebay. But, there's no excitement in that! I need to bid and try to get the best price and wait for it to come in the mail!! I started out last year and bought some maternity clothes, then I bought some baby clothes and now I bought all of the supplies needed for Alivia's first birthday party. Now, I am selling things and that's even better than buying!! I don't even care if I have to sell something for a penny at least it won't be sitting in my basement anymore. I have all that Avon crap that got sent to me "accidentally" that is all brand new sitting in boxes in my closet. Maybe I can finally get rid of most of it. Now Rob is into it too, which is REALLY BAD!! Sorry, have to go and check my ebay account~

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Livy's first cardinal game




We had a very busy weekend! We started off by going to the cardinals game friday night. I probably watched about 5 minutes of the game, if you don't know what I mean please refer to my previous blog about the movies!!! Anyway it was fun. After the game was over we got in the car and drove to Cuba missouri where we stayed the night. We woke up the next morning and drove to Springfield missouri. Rob had a bowling tournament so we made a weekend of it. It was alot of fun and Alivia was so good. As you can see from the pictures she did not care for Fredbird!

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Jenny and I thought it would be a great idea to take the babies to the movies last night. We took them to what used to be the $1 show. The admission is now $3!! We took them to see Curious George. It was a mess. The night started off pretty good. We started off with them in our laps and then it turned into, sitting by themselves, standing on our laps, laying down on our laps, sitting on the floor, standing on the floor, facing forward, facing backward, sitting in the chair alone and going back to sitting on our lap. Jenny summed it up by saying "It was very stressful watching Curious George!!" When we were walking out I told her to NEVER invite me to a movie again. I was kidding though. They really were good during the movie, they just didn't watch very much of it!! They sat on the floor for a good amount of time shredding napkins!! They had a great time!!

Friday, April 14, 2006

Two Peas in a Pod



Can you tell these two are related? Weirdos..that's all I have to say!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Spring Fever!

Rob has spring fever like no other. Last weekend he cleaned out the garage and threw a ton of stuff away. Every night this week he has been working outside, burning stuff and cutting things down. I told him last night he's either way way up or way way down. What I mean is, he either sits on the couch and does NOTHING but get up to go pee or he works like a mad man until the sun goes down. I guess that's good though. He took the fence down around our pool area and cleaned up all the left over leaves, acorns and whatever else. He burned all that stuff last night and took the pool cover off, we folded it up and put it away. He has been moving all of the rocks from the area by the pool and wants to redo it somehow. He cut down a whole line of brush and burned all of that too. It's looking much better and hopefully will be in full working order for Alivia's birthday party in july!

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

As I was saying....

Alivia crawled across the living room last night, it's so cute! Then she toppels over. It seems though that she doesn't crawl around just to crawl she will only crawl to someone. I'm sure it won't be too much longer though until she figures out that she is mobile! The other night she rolled over to the coffee table, pulled up onto her knees and starting to pull my party lite centerpiece toward her! Geez, I guess now I have to baby proof and put all my pretty stuff up and get a gate for the stairs. We go to the doctor next friday for her 9 month check up I can't wait to see how much she weighs, at her 6 month appointment she weighed 14 pounds 15 ounces and was 25 inches long. Now she has rolls in her wrists and thighs!! But now that she can crawl maybe she'll work some of that off!

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

I'm not ready for this yet...


I don't think I'm ready to baby proof yet. Last night Alivia was sitting with her nose about an inch from the TV putting her fingers in all of the holes in the TV where you would plug in video games or whatever. And, her new favorite game is to pull all of the video games and DVD's off of the shelf, and I do mean ALL OF THE GAMES AND MOVIES. It's pretty cute, but I have to keep a much closer eye on her. She doesn't stay in one spot anymore-I'm just not sure I'm ready for this yet-my house isn't exactly baby friendly! She's getting so big and I just want her to stay little forever!
Here's a picture of her all tangled up in the playstation cords and her foot is in the movie shelf. She's a mess!

Thursday, March 16, 2006

I like your teeth!




Liv is 8 months old today! Yea! She is so silly here are some pictures of a funny face that she makes all the time.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Livy's 2nd Play Date







Here are some pictures from our second play date.
First picture is Brayden, then Alivia's cousin Austin, Alena, Jack and Davin

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