too many good shows

You should have seen my remote control smoking last night!! There were way to many of my shows on- the "last" button on my remote got worn out! American Idol, Are you smarter than a 5th grader, Road Rules and Bam's Unholy Union. American Idol was pretty good-much better than last week-I love that Chris Richardson and Blake Lewis. We were talking about the "are you smarter than a 5th grader show and decided that we are definitly not smarter than any of those kids. I did know one of the questions-What does REM stand for-Bryan challenged me because he didn't think that I was right. When they showed the preview and the question was "What is a trapazoid" Amber said "Isn't that a binder?" and then we laughed hysterically at her and told her she was thinking of a trapper keeper! Then we started flipping back and forth and only caught a few minutes of road rules which is fine, MTV will replay that all weekend-We decided that we HATE Kina but it was funny to see Angel step up to her. And then Bam's unholy union was on-ok, i know that he is a jackass but that show is hilarious. For being such an immature little punk he treats his fiance pretty good. They were sitting around the table at christmas with the 50 foot tree that he pulled out of his mom's yard and amber said "this showed was taped at thanksgiving?" Bryan said "Yea, amber, most people put up a xmas tree for thanksgiving" and amber said "Well, they're eating turkey" and I said "You can have turkey for dinner even if it's not thanksgiving" and she said "oh"

There will be alot of good shows on tonight too. American Idol, Are you smarter than a 5th grader and real world. Another busy night! Alivia and I are going to visit with Kelly and Gianna. I've only seen her twice and I can't wait to see how much she's changed. Rob's cousin will be having her baby this week too. She's going in tonight to get induced. So we should have another baby tomorrow! Her name is Payton. I'll post pics on friday. That's it for now I guess!!

Dumb and Dumber (stolen conversation for blog purposes!)

My cousin Matt called my sister the other day and here was their conversation:

Matt : Do you and Bryan want to come over on Thursday for a sex party?
Amber: (Pause) Is is a couple party?
Matt: What?
Amber: What?
Matt: What are you talking about?
Amber: What are YOU talking about?
Amber: Is it a sex toy party?
Matt: NO, we find out the sex of the baby on thursday so we're having some people over.
Amber: DO NOT call anyone else and ask them that question!!

Rambling.....

We had a crazy busy weekend. Friday night I went to a happy hour with some people from work. I think our waitress was on crack or something. Everytime we asked her for something she looked at us with a blank stare like she had to process what we just said-weird. Then I met up with Rob at the bowling alley. Afterwards we went to Chipolte-Rob's new obsession. However I was craving White Castle so we went by there too. Saturday, Rob worked in the morning, I stayed at home and did some laundry and all that fun stuff. Alivia and I spent most of the day in the bathroom, she's doing pretty good with telling me when she has to go and things like that and she does NOT want to put a diaper on anymore. Saturday night I went to a mouse race as a fundraiser for Anthony's baseball team. There was a lot of really good food there-it was fun. After that Mindy, Rob and I went to the boat. I lost most of my money pretty quick, then I ran into my ex boyfriend, we talked to him for awhile, Rob met up with us and said "I'm a loser what do you want to do" I said "Well, I have $24.95 left, let's go lose it then we can go" By this time it was about 2:30 AM. We sat down at a penny machine and I had a pretty good buzz going on so we were having a good time. Something weird started happening on the machine and I said "I don't know what's happening" The lady next to me said "You just won $62 five times!!" "NO WAY!!" I yelled and rob said "HOW MUCH?!? ISN'T THIS A PENNY MACHINE??!, Ok, Amy let's go!!" So I played a few more times and cashed it out for $270. That was pretty nice. We took Mindy home then went home at about 3:30. Rob had to bowl at 9 in the morning. He wanted me and Liv to come up and watch him so we did, I wasn't feeling very well. I only had one drink and one shot so it couldn't be a hangover. It was weird. So we went to the bowling alley for a little bit, then I remembered that I had something of jenny's and we were right by her house so we went by there. The kids played for a little bit. We ended up going to walmart together. I bought livy some big girl panties!! She picked them out herself, my little pony and tinker bell. The smallest size I could find was 2T. I guess they figure a 19 month old doesn't need underwear!! I also bought her a booster seat for the kitchen table-she doesn't want to sit in her high chair anymore. Then we went home and took a nap, I was hoping I would feel better because I was suppose to bowl that night. When I woke up I felt even worse then I did when I went to bed. So, I called in sick to bowling, I never do that but I felt so weird. We ended up going to bed at 8:00 last night. I still felt tired when I woke up this morning. I won't be able to sleep in at all this week either-geez!! Ok, well that was about a bunch of nothing so I guess I will get back to work now!

Smartest kid on the planet!

At Alivia's 18 month appointment the doctor said we could start thinking about potty training. We bought her a potty chair probably about 6 months ago. Its a wood chair with a magazine rack and a toilet paper holder-only the best for my kid!! It's been in her room and she uses it for a step-stool!! So last night, she needed her diaper changed and I had to go potty, so I thought, well, let's give it a shot and see how it goes. I brought the chair into the bathroom, took off her diaper and pants and sat her on the chair, I did my business and then I hear the sound of tinkles in her chair! SHE WENT POTTY!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it. We threw a bit fit, telling her what a big girl she was and clapping. We emptied the chair and I said ok let's put your diaper back on. She said "NO!" She sat down and went potty-AGAIN!!!! This happened two more times!!!! She's a potty-machine!! I can't wait to try again tonight and see if it was a fluke or not.

Happy Valentines Day!

We decided at the last minute to take the kids to get valentine pictures taken yestersday, I'm so glad we did because they turned out soooooooo good!! Rob got me some stuff from bath and body (as i requested!), beautiful roses and we went to Red Lobster for an early dinner. It was a very nice day.

Random Conversation last night:

Ashley: Bryan, did you still want to get rid of your tattoo?

Bryan: Why, do you want it?

Springfiled, il

I LOVE Springfield, Il!! Ok, not really, but I did LOVE the fact that it's a non smoking CITY!! We went there this weekend for a bowling tournament, when I got there I was SHOCKED to see that the bowling alley had a no smoking sign up! I couldn't believe it. Then we went out to dinner and there was no smoking there too!! I wish they would do that around here. I'm sorry to all of you that smoke and I know that I can't understand that it's an addiction, but it's such a disgusting habit that bothers people around you that don't wish to share your habit with you. It was so nice to sit in a bowling alley for several hours and not smell like an ashtray when we left. Overall we had a very nice weekend!!

Rob stuff

Rob, Alivia and I went out to eat last week to Emperor's Palace. It was really good and a good environment for Alivia because it was busy-lots of things to look at. Rob came back from his 3rd or 4th trip to the buffet with this in his bowl, if you can't tell, it's octopus. YUCK! He took one bite and said it didn't taste that bad but he just couldn't do it!!!

I received this text from Rob this morning:

Good morning Miss Wifey, you don't like talking to your husband now or what, you got another man i need to know about, give me a call, love me, your hubby

I've been very busy at work and I guess he's feeling neglicted!! We're going out of town this weekend so hopefully he'll feel better next week!!

Welcome Baby Gianna!!

Gianna Marie Fleites was born on 01/31/07 at 3:20 pm. She weighed 7'9 and was 20 inches long. Everyone is doing great!!

Crazy Morning

We were in a hurry this morning to get ready and out of the house-not too different from any other morning. If Alivia wakes up before I get in the shower it works out perfect because she can eat breakfast, watch curious george and wake up before we have to leave. However, if she wakes up after I get out of the shower then there's no time for any of this. This makes for a really bad day!! If she doesn't get this time to wake up then she doesn't want to get dressed, put on her shoes and coat and she sure isn't going to cooperate getting into the car. That was pretty much my morning today. She assumed the wet noodle position as I tried to put her coat on her limp body laying on the floor-not too easy to do. I can usually coax her into putting her coat on by telling her that she can go outside-she LOVES to go outside. So after the wrestling match I carried her to the car as she assumed the straight as a board position. Then as I put her in the carseat she assumed the arched back position. We were finally on our way. I met up with kelly to drop Alivia off and then sped through the drivethru at Hardee's. As I'm getting out of the car my cell phone rang and as I answered it I grabbed my food and rushed into work. When I got off the phone and gathered my thoughts, I noticed that there was something on the bottom of my cup. My cup holder isn't that big in my car so anytime I have a big cup the cup holder will stick to the bottom when I take the cup out. I hadn't noticed that I had carried the cup into work with the cupholder from my car still attached! So I had to take a pic to share. Yesterday Alivia was screaming as I was pulling out of the driveway and I side swipped the Escalade-there was no damage though-lucky for me!!!

18 Months old Today

My baby is growing up. Alivia is 18 months old today, I can't believe it. She is talking alot. She can say: Mom, Dad, Something that sounds like Bray (for brayden), eat, belly, up, no, yes, night-night, bye-bye, eye and of course no-no. She went straight from crawling to running. I love to watch her run down the hall with her curls bouncing!

More Random....

• We had an appointment yesterday to have family pictures taken (9 of us total) Bryan and Amber were complaining that they didn't want to go because they were tired, hungover and broke. 10 minutes later Sears called and said they didn't have electricity and would have to reschedule us. I was pissed-it's very hard to get that many people together at the same time!! Amber and Bryan were very excited

• I had a very nice evening. Rob, Alivia and I went to the bank, to get gas, supermarket of shoes, walmart and out to eat last night. We never do that and I told Rob it was really nice to have him there with us. I normally have to do all the running around by myself and it was nice to have the help and the company. We went to that new pepper stone steak house on jungermann. It was really good and Alivia behaved for most of the time we were there.

• Conversation in walmart parking lot last night:

Me: Rob, look there's a used pregnancy test (in the parking lot)

Rob: Well, what does it say?

Me:I don't know I didn't look

Rob: Well, you HAVE to look (he then went back and kicked it to flip it over to see what it said. It was raining and he couldn't tell)

Some poor teenage girl probably had to break the news to her mother last night that she got knocked up by her jobless boyfriend who dropped out of school.

I'm not looking forward to those days!!!

As if that isn't enough, That's all I have for now!

Lots of babies..

I have two sister in laws that are pregnant. Kelly is due Feb 8 and Marsha is due in May. Another member of our family is pregnant and she's due March 8. Kelly went to the doctor today and they said that she was 50% afaced and dialated 2 centimeters. We might have a baby soon!! There's only one slight downside to her having her baby early. She has been watching Alivia because my babysitter had to have her kidney removed suddenly. She is coming back on Jan 29 but I don't know if Kelly will make it that long!! While I'm very excited to see the arrival of Giana Marie Fleites-I don't know what I'll do for a babysitter if she comes early!!
geeezzzzz.....

Random

• I cleaned out my fridge the other night. I found 5 containers of sour cream-FIVE!! Not one of them was expired. I have to blame my mother for this-I was at her house one day and noticed an excess amount of salad dressing in her fridge-so I counted them-SHE HAD 16 BOTTLES OF SALAD DRESSING! There are only three people living in her house. Sick.

• I went to Jiffy Lube yesterday morning to get my oil changed. I sit down in the waiting room and look over to the table with the magazines and the selections were sports magazines, car magazines and some kind of national geographic or something. Are you kidding me?!?! Shouldn't men change their own oil at home?!?! Why were there no decent selections for women to read?!?! That bothered me.

• I told my sister and her fiance what my new years resolution was and they laughed at me. My resolution is to get a tan. Bryan informed me "That's not a resolution" to which I replied "Of course it is, it's my resolution and I can make it anything I want!!" So I will be checking out tanning beds soon.

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!

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!!

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!!

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!!!

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 :)

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!

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?