Big news

I know that I haven't really been a great blogger, but maybe that will change since I will actually have stuff to talk about. We are MOVING!

I will finally be out of my parents "advice" area. We are moving to southeast Texas, where Devin actually grew up. I am beyond excited. We will be getting down there Easter weekend. It seems like it can't get here soon enough. The girls are already in daycare down there and I will be working at their daycare, which is conveniently located only a mile and a half away from our house. I am thrilled to have all of these doors opened up for us. There for a while everything was getting shot down and we thought that we would continue living in this crappy trailer for what seemed like eternity. But I am so happy to say that we are going to be living in a brick HOUSE!! I will have pics coming soon. I will come back soon and write another post but I have packing to do.

My baby is now 1!!!

I don't know what to do with myself. My little angel that I just had yesterday it seems, is now a whole year old!!! Where does the time go? Not only with that, but it has been months since my last post, I know total slacker. But there is a reason for it. Two kids walking around and a job and a husband really take a lot out of you. But, now I am no longer working, so that is a plus. I get to stay at home with my baby girls again. Nothing compares to the joys of being a stay at home mom and getting to see your kids grow up right in front of your eyes.

I am reminded daily of how smart children are, and how quickly they learn. Grace is almost 2 years old, and is talking up a storm! She asks questions and is quite the little sass queen. She has taken a fascination to Ariel aka The Little Mermaid. I love Ariel too, but I can only take so much of her, so by the 10th time of watching her I have to put something different on, or I will loose my mommy control.

Back to Abigail, she is walking now. She is a bit like "franken-baby" but I absolutely love it. I cannot get enough of watching her walk. I walk away from her just to watch her do it more. She is now 22 lbs. And for once, she is not sick, so on Tuesday we finally get to update her shots. She has only had one round of shots, so I am truly surpised that she hasn't been more sick than she has been. Both girls have a little bit of a runny nose, but that is due to the weather, hot then cold, the hot then cold, then windy and cold, and then hot and rainy. I sure wish it would make up its mind as to what it is going to do. Is it winter or is it spring? Come on mother nature get your act together.

Also, I have completely finished The Twilight Saga books. I am so in love with that story. I cannot get enough of Bella and especially Edward. I am so sad to know that I can't see where their lives together take them with Renesmee. I am really hoping that Stephenie Meyer will continue the story just at a later date, and maybe with Renesmee and her point of view. I think that that would be one of the best stories. She has such a way of telling a story that has you totally wrapped from the minute you start. I know that alot of critics don't seem to think so, but can I just say that it is all about the person who is READING the book. The first book I was totally entranced and saw the movie before finishing the book, and got the soundtrack. I am telling you I am so in love with it. As soon as it comes out on DVD in March (I think) I will be snatching that thing up. This is definitely a series that I can reread over and over again and never get tired of. I do miss reading about the incredible character that is known as Edward.

Grace is currently watching "bob-bob bob-dants" (spongebob squarepants). She is also dancing around and screaming at the top of her lungs. Oh the joys of cartoons. I wish that I could see now the way that children see things, and get the simple pleasures out of the smallest things. Everything is good, and mommy can fix everything. I wish that it was that easy and that the world was that good and peaceful. Alright, time to go get ready, for Abigails very first professional pictures. Wish me luch.

wow, not a lot of time

So I figured since I am off this morning, that I can finally update this thing. Or at least put something in. I am now working at Academy here in Tyler and it is keeping me super busy. I really despise working, since it keeps me away from my children and my husband. I deeply miss my family. But I can say that it is nice to be getting some new friends that actually live here, but none of them compare to my Dore`. I miss you girl, we really do need to just start calling each other. I hate that I need to read your blog just to see what you have going on in your life. With that said, I can now say that I got my promotion, I am now a cashier team lead. Basically I am an extension of management over the front end of the store, meaning all of the cashiers, and sometimes other team leads in the store. It's entertaining, it enables me to not be quite so much in the public eye and interact with each and every customer in the store, instead I just have a whole heck of a lot more computer and paperwork stuff to deal with.

My kiddos are growing up so fast, grace talks in sentences, and tells us what she wants. She is doing so well with the potty too, but I know that we have a long way to go to get where we need to be with that. I am so excited about Christmas this year its not even funny. I have started getting "santa gifts". So far she is getting a red tricycle and a play cleaning kit... Aside from that she is going to get more movies, and books, and from my parents she is getting a JEEP!!!! Holy crap what are they thinking !?!? who gets a not-quite-two-year-old a freakin JEEP!!!!! And a destructive one at that who hysterically laughs when she hears you say OW!!! I have a sinking feeling that we are all going to be ran over.....poor Abby. I am undecided on what to get for Abigail, she can't really do much right now. She is almost walking, and she pretty much occupies herself. So what do you get a child that is self-entertaining, and plays with all of her sisters toys anyway? Any suggestions....they would be much appreciated.

Alright, well I smell that it is time to get off of here, and go take care of some diaper duty. Now...where did I put the febreeze........

wow 2 months....gone

What can I say...two months have already flown by. I guess I could start with the big things that have happened. We as in our little family had our very first family vacation on the beach shores of Galveston, TX. It was fun, I guess. Just doing the same things I do everyday only at the beach. We also took Abigail back to the doctor, this time to a specialist in Plano, and he put her on 2 different inhalers. She goes back in a month. They still don't know what is wrong with her, why she is still coughing, gagging, and not sleeping. He did suggest the possibility that she could have abnormalities with her trachea. So they are going to do an upper GI and a swallow study to see what it might be. We are still waiting for that appt to be set up.

I also haven't talked to my best friend in what feels like a month and today was a BIG milestone in her life. She went back to school today, and put her son in daycare for the first time since he's been alive. I miss her dearly but I am so proud of her for getting her life together and bettering herself for her family. One day I will be there too.

New updates since I last started trying to update this thing. Abigail finally had her swallow study and her upper GI done. She has severe acid reflux, which means that when she reflux's (fluid or stomach acid comes up into her esophagus) so much comes up that her esophagus swells and that allows the fluid to go up to her airway, which then gets into her lungs. That is why she has her chronic cough. We are waiting on a doctor appointment to get her on a new antacid, and she is still on her inhalers, to try and prevent her from getting pnuemonia.

Also, she is trying to learn how to crawl, but she can only seem to go backward, or just push herself forward a couple of inches by thrusting her entire body onto her belly. Miss Grace is now talking in 2-3 word sentences. She is also really getting on board with the whole potty training thing. We have also moved her into a big girl bed. And so far so good. She has only fallen out of it one time. Thank God the mattress is only like 8 inches off the ground.

I also jut had my birthday. It was great, only thing that could have made it better is if my husband were home, but he will be home in less than a week. I will also be starting my job on sunday. That is when orientation is, I am excited but also a little apprehensive, since I have NEVER left my children on a regular basis with anyone, not even their dad. I always have one or both of them with me. This is going to be a big change for me, hell our whole little family. The great thing though, is now we will be able to actually save some money, so Vegas.....here we come!!!! That is as long as Dore` is still planning on getting married.

We have also had several hurricanes reek havoc along the gulf coast, those 2 would be Gustav and Ike....those assholes. Gustav had my entire family in Louisiana evacuate. My grandmother stayed where she was in Alexandria, my aunt and her family from Houma went to my grandmas house. And my aunt with her family who live in baton rouge, came here. Then Ike came.....dun dun dun....that bastard came straight for us...!! The bad thing is there was nowhere for us to go. So we just hunkered down and played lots of scattergories and drank lots of vodka and cranberry.....lol. Oh and we did lots of Wii Fit. Which I am glad to say that I only have 5 lbs to go. Back to Ike..... we really didn't get it really bad here, a little wind and not much rain. The power never went out at my house, and it flickered a few times at my parents house. However the Bolivar Peninsula, and even Bridge City and Orange, TX got it pretty bad. Galveston literally looks like a bomb went off. And BC and Orange had at least 9' of standing water.

Alright enough of this for now, I must go be little miss mommy now. God bless everyone, and I hope yall have a nice day.

weeklong update

The last time I wrote in here was a week ago and we had just found out that Abigail possibly has asthma. Well, she was on breathing treatments for a week and a half, and didn't seem to be responding, so she went back to the doctor today. She is now on an antacid out of hopes that maybe her cough is related to acid reflux. Tomorrow we will have an appointment set up with the hospital to have an xray done with barium. But she is gaining weight appropriately, she is up to 15 pounds now. She has also figured out how to roll completely over from her back to her tummy, getting over that arm was a total bitch though.

We have also tried to tackle Grace's potty training road....which we have come to a fork in. She has ,to no surprise, taken the difficult path. We have come to a stalemate. She refuses to go potty now. She sits there for an entire hour and doesn't do anything, so out of fear of her legs falling totally asleep, I put a diaper on her, and f*** me she immediately pees or shits in the diaper, thus creating more work for me. When will she get the hang of it? She knows when she goes to the bathroom that she gets treats and she also knows when she dirties a diaper!!! What gives? Is this just the start of that long bumpy road of daughters making their mothers lives hell! I just don't understand, I thought girls were supposed to be easier to potty train than boys...who knows....those damn books don't know anything. That'll teach me to actually pay attention to what I read in those books. Anyway...we are moving on now.

Me, my mother and my sister-in-law are now taking our weight loss and muscle toning seriously. Me and my mom walk 5 days a week for an hour at the local mall, a total of 5 laps (2 laps=1 mile). So every day we get in 2.5 miles just from walking around the mall. And trust me when you are pushing a stroller the whole time, you feel it in every muscle from your neck to your feet. We have also started doing videos at home. We do a dance video, and cardio videos/wieght training. And I can proudly say that I am now 151 lbs. Not too shabby. I have 15 lbs to go to get to the weight I was before I became pregnant with Grace. That is my goal. I have even gotten a special form of motivation. I have taken a picture of me in bra and panties, and put it on the wall in the bathroom by the scale. We have taken to starting a diet, trying to cut out our fatty items. So we will see in a few weeks whether or not this is working. I am so excited about this. I am going to be busting my ass to get to that weight and to be able to actually look good in a bikini again, since we have a vacation in august that is on a BEACH!!

I also need to tell you how our weekend without the girls went. It was a great weekend for us, but oh so funny. It all started out on a thursday night when we still had the girls. We decided to have everyone over (meaning my family, and my husband best friend) for steaks and taters. That all went off without a hitch, but that night we all decided to have a few drinks. We had Cuervo margaritas, and each batch was much stronger than the last. I hardly felt a thing, because I had 2 babies to take care of. My husband on the other hand, was feeling fan-fuckin-tastic. He had 3 HUGE glasses of margaritas and 4 beers on top of that. He got totally sloshed. He even went to bed at 1. I stayed up to talk to BFF and decided to try to go to bed at around 2:30. Well, before the hubby went to bed he told me to wake him up to fool around some. So when I went in there that is precisely what I did. We start messing around, and I realized that he was still really trashed, so I wasn't go to do this for him, I was just going to worry about me. So I get after it, and all of a sudden he tells me to stop cause his stomach hurts. I said honey, if you think you are going to be sick go to the bathroom. Get out of bed and go to the toilet. I get off of him and lay on my side of the bed to see what he was going to do, then he just shot straight up and started pucking all over himself and into his lap, which is covered with our comforter. I was so upset!!! I told him to get out of bed and go finish at the toilet and then take a shower cause he was covered in puke. He gets out of bed after trying to soak some of the alcohol and steak off of the comforter with a towel, and all he really manages to do is just make the mess bigger. I take the towel outside to shake it out before I can wash it. I come back inside and my husband is trying to shove the comforter into the washin machine. I told him to stop, that it won't fit and I have to get all of the vomit off of it before hand anyway. So I help him into the shower and go outside to shake it out. I come back in, he is still in the shower, I go check on the girls. I come back into our room, and tell him to get out of the shower and he gets very angry with me because I turned the water off. He then informed me to turn the water on or else. I knew that it was the alcohol talking, so I turned the cold water back on, and then he got extremely angry with me, but I wanted him to be angry because I was angry with him. I finally get him out of the shower, after he slid down the wall of the shower and almost passed out. Once I thought he was done vomiting I got him dried off and back into the bed which I had remade with cleans linens.

The next day, we are supposed to bring the girls to meet my in-laws for them to stay with them. Hubby wasn't able to make due to the fact that he was STILL throwing up!! Therefore I made the hour and a half trip alone and dropped them off, which was probably for the best since I cried on my way back home. Come on now, its the first time they have gone somewhere without me, especially that far. I get back home, and my hubby is feeling better. Well enough for us to go wash our cars and to go get some beer and crawfish. We then went back home and went to the movies later that evening. We saw The Happening, decent movie...bad acting. The next day we slept in and just hung out with each other until that night. We went back to the movies and watched Don't Mess With The Zohan. It was funny and stupid all at the same time. Then we left and drove around for a little while. We decided to go to a bar. There is one just down the street from our house that we hadn't ever seen open, let alone people there. But that night it was open and there were people there. We decide to go to that one. When we walk in I notice that there are cages alongside the dance floor. I personally think cages are awesome, but I am a huge dance junkie. When I saw those cages I leaned over to my husband and said "Oh look, there are cages, thats amazing seeing that the only other time I have seen cages in a club, it was a gay club." Well, it looked like any other club, until more and more people started showing up and then we realized that we went on gay night. Which don't get me wrong, we absolutely loved. I was able to let loose and not worry about hubby, and he was able to let loose and not worry about any guys hitting on his wife. We noticed this lesbian couple, because one of them had a really bad ass total back tattoo. We started talking to them and low and behold I was able to find probably the only person in there from Louisiana, and Lafayette of all places. I was so happy to know that I was talking to someone who is from somewhere so close to where I grew up. She immediately knew that I was from LA the moment I started talking. She felt just as at home as I did.

We had such a good time that the next day before going to get the girls, we went and hung out with them and their dogs at the lake. They are a really cool couple, very laid back. We even invited them over for hotdogs, hamburgers, and boudain the next night. So I am happy to say that I now have new friends in this little bitty town in TX. It only took 2 years to get them. However they will never replace my friends in LA. No one quite compares to Louisianaians!! We have got to stick for one another. Unless you have lived there you have no idea what I am talking about, it truly is like a whole other country, with all of its diversities. Well, I think I am done for the night. I hope you all sleep well, and have a blessed day tomorrow.

So Abby has neither a virus or pneumonia, she has ASTHMA!!! She is on 4 breathing treatments a day. My poor baby, she just can't seem to get well. I am so excited.....this weekend is getting closer and closer. Big, big plans for this weekend!!! And we are grillin steaks tonight....yummy. BTW....Happy Birthday to you....Happy Birthday to you.....Happy Birthday to Dore`...Happy Birthday to you.....WWOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOO

Sick baby....Blog tag

Gosh, if it isn't one thing it is another with Abigail. Now she either has a virus or pneumonia. WHY!? Haven't we dealt with enough sickness with her? It seems like as soon as she gets over her other ailments another pops up... I guess that is just the life of a family with two small children. But then, why is it that Grace doesn't get sick as well? Who knows. My husband came home two days early this time. I am in heaven, but as fate would have it..... my Aunt Flo came into town. So it seems that I cannot win for losin. It seems that I have been a bad blogger here lately....for that I am sincerely sorry. I just can't seem to keep up with this everyday like most bloggers. I guess I just wasn't meant to be a great blogger. Now for my blog tag....thank you Dore`.

What was I doing 10 years ago?
I was 12 years old and in the seventh grade. My mother was pregnant with my little brother. I hadn't even had my first real kiss yet.

6 Non-important things/habits/quirks:
1. I love the smell of dogs paws after that have been walking on cement.
2. The day that I had my oldest daughter, a man opened fire outside of the entrance to the hospital in hopes of killing his ex-wife, injuring her and an innocent 60 year old male bystander.
3. I get really turned on seeing dirty sweaty men....but not gross fat men!
4. I desperately miss my Louisiana, but is trying to find land to move back.
5. I have ZERO friends here in Texas. All of my friends are at least 3 hours away. BOO!
6. It absolutely amazes me on a daily basis, how rude people can be, how they have the audacity to say things that they have NO business saying. If I wanted people into my life to criticize me than I would spend more time with my family and in-laws. But I don't, so butt out!!! Not you Dore`, you are my saving grace....thank you.

Five foods I enjoy:
1. Crawfish!! (AMEN!!!)
2. Coke, it tastes like nothing else!!
3. Double stuft Oreos
4. Pot roast
5. Deviled eggs

Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Buy some land and build our house.
2. Travel to those places that I would otherwise not ever get to see.
3. Have a collection of old cars, and cameras!!!
4. Have a PERSONAL personal trainer!!
5. Invest, and buy my parents a house close to us.

Five places I have lived:
1. Jacob B Loop in Alexandria, LA with my family
2. 2 different apartments on Government St, both with ex's.
3. the house in Williamsburg estates right after we moved to TX, with the family again....
4. Autumn Glen apartments......suck balls!!!
5. where I am now... our lovely mobile mansion!!! But at least we can do whatever we want, and it is BIG enough for what seems like our ever expanding family!!!