One of THOSE days!

This morning we are getting ready for gymnstaics, no one wants to help mommy get ready, and we are fussy and crying! Char wouldnt get out of bed until the 15th time I asked her so she had to eat breakfast in the car, yum poptarts! we get to gymnastics, char gets her locker and takes off her shoes and coat and goes off to her class. Rylee had to stay with mommy and was P!SSED! all she wanted was to go with sister and do class too, but she's to small to be in sister's class, so I had to hold her to keep her from running onto the gym floor, for an hour, kicking and screaming......Thank god gymnastics is over, now the fight to get shoes and coats back on and buckled into the car.

We have errands! YAY! :( I decided to take the double stroller instead of a cart to walmart since RY refuses to sit in it. Get in the stroller walk around devils town (walmart) and my children are screaming and pitchin a fit (yep I was THAT mom today at the store) I finally get our stuff done at walmart, and as I'm walking out I mummble "I hate Walmart".

Now off to the mall for Lunch with NANA.......that its self is nuff said, but I will go into details :)


Char wants Chinese, ok so we Char and I will share a plate and Nana and RY will share a plate, good right! WRONG, Char wants her own plate and not share her food with mom.....so that was a battle I choose not to fight.....fine whatever, have your own food. She eats 3 bites and is done, so I go to eat it and she freaks!

Finally we are done with lunch and I let them ride those little rides there, 3 of them, and they fight over who rides what, (most of them are double seats) so I said enough we are goin home....more fits, screaming, ect.....all i want to do is get in the car.....and I do, after fighting over who sits in which carseat, and the struggle of the buckling....at this point both girls are screaming and crying....so what do i do? I blast the stereo....really I do! I just want 2 sec. of no screaming, no crying, no fighting....we get home and as soon as I walk into the door I smell DOG POOP! So i put the girls down for nap, open the bathroom door where we put toby when we leave, and he pooped all over the floor, walked in it jumped on the toilet, the counter, the bathtub....there is poop foot prints everywhere!

Can I just give up now? Can today please be over?



Nope its only 2:30! Gotta keep truckin, throw that smile back on and finish this horrible day!

Positive Light

This year has started out great, I have been accepted and enrolled into online classes to get my bachelors degree in Early Childhood Eduction. I am concentraing on the the infant/toddler age group and I hope to be the lead teach at a preschool in 4 short years! I really miss the preschool I worked at as an assitant after school teacher, I think about it a lot and realized that was what I want to be when I grew up, or atleast when the girls are old enough to be in school lol!

I have also made some great new friends, One girl in paticular, Kristle. She is the same age as me and has children in the same age group as the girls. Her and her family have been through so much, Her husband is medically retired military, he was hit by an IUD in Iraq, He also suffers from PTSD. But as an outsider you wouldnt have a clue. They are such a happy family and contribute to those in need in a heartbeat.  We have a lot in common and have been putting together a lot of fundraisers for those in need. She gives me so much inspiration and positive out look. 

I am so excited in Feburary I am attending the Amazing Girlfriend Conference with Kristle and a group of other girls. I cannot wait! Its going to be so much fun and such a great way to meet others!

We have started at our new church this month also, The Univeristy Christian Church in manhattan. Its a great church and offers so many programs for Charleigh and Rylee. They have a full band that plays at the contemperary service and they are truly amazing. I am trying to find out if they have a cd out so we can get to know the songs better :)

Charleigh starts gymnastics back up this week, she has been moved up out of the mommy and me to the beginners yellow group. I am so proud of her and cannot wait to see her blossom as a little gymnast! I think this fall we will start Rylee in the Mommy and me class, she wants to be just like her big sister and has already learned her summersaults thanks to a little nudge from Charleigh!

I am so excited to see what the rest of 2010 has in store for us!

Here is my list!
Start Jan. 1st 2010 completed by Sept. 28th 2012

1.start a journal for each of the girls and write them a letter once a month.

2. Finish Charleigh's scrapbook

3. Make Rylee's scrapbook

4. Do a walk for a cause

5. Put away $1.00 a day for 1000 days then spend it on a trip.

6. Learn to play golf.

7. Put away $1.00 a day for the girls for christmas next year.

8. Tell chris & the girls I love them when Im upset with them.

9. Read 50 new books

10. Try a new recipie once a month

11. Exercise everyday except sundays

12.join and attend church

13. Get the girls involved in chruch

14 Write my friends letters

15. Take more me time

16. Find a sitter & go on date night once a month.

17. Make a list of my 101 favorite songs

18. Blog at least once a month

19. Make my 101 list into a scrapbook

20. Take a pic of me doing everything on my 101 list

21. Go for a hike

22. Take a picture of myself every 30 days to see my work out progress

23. No more soda

24. Learn how to crochet

25. No eating out during the week

26. Take a picture of my girls everyday

27. Make homemade cards for b-days and holidays

28. Find a pen pal

29. Volunteer 10 times

30. buy a fireproof box, fill it with personal items like the girls hospital bracelets and t-shirts

31. Keep a journal and write in it everyday

32. Make another 101 list before the end of this one

33. Send a card to: someone I know, someone I don't, and someone I love

34. Explore Kansas

35. Donate to charity

36. Take a cake decorating class

37. Dance in the rain with my girls

38. Have a dinner in with chris

39. Drink 2 glasses of water a day

40. Throw a party other than a b-day party

41.write a love note and mail it to chris

42. Find something to collect

43. Campout in the yard 3 times

44. Have an outdoor movie night

45.make 3 new friends

46. Ignore the negative, concentrate on the possitive

47. Go on a weekend get away just me and my mom

48. Perform 5 random acts of kidness

49. Do something good for the earth

50.do something I haven't done since I was a kid

51. Write my mom a letter

52. Start and keep a girls night out once a month

53. write my memere a letter every month

54. Lose the baby weight!!

55. Be more confident

56. Attend story time at the library every week

57. Get another tattoo

58. Go to a dance class

59.go to a wine tasting

60. Buy 10 new nail polishes

61. paint my nails once a week

62. Send a care package to a solider I don't know

63. Read the bible front to back

64. Find 20 bible verses that mean something to me

65. Complete 200 miles in 300 days

66. Make a list of 100 reasons of why I love chris and give it to him

67. Teach Charleigh a dance routine and let her perform it

68. Dance like crazy 1 day a week

69.sing at the top of my lungs to my favorite songs

70. Start a chain letter for kids with stickers!

71. Have a spa day

72. Try a new resturant

73. Buy a new ipod

74. Learn a new word every day and use it

75. Go on a honeymoon finally!

76. Be able to run a mile without dying

77. Pray everyday at meal time w/the girls

78. Take and send out a family photo

79. Decorate for every holiday

80. Stop living in sweat pants (can only wear them 1 day a week)

81. Host a cookie exchange party

82. Read a night time story every night

83. Rekindle an old friendship

84. Host a playdate once a month

85. Go back to school for early childhood edu.

86. Get charleigh and rylee in a mommy's day out program

87. Take vitamins everyday

88. Get the girls baptized

89. Go on a double date 5 times

90. Do not buy any more sweats

91. Spend more on my self

92. No more impuls buys

93.buy and wear more earrings

94. Buy and learn to walk in heals (again)

95.lose 50 lbs and reward myself

96. Follow through with # 95

97. Spend a whole day in bed as a family

98. Learn to not stress out so much

99. Realize that its ok that the laundrys not done, toys all over the floor and dinners not ready and its 7pm....its OK

100. Pay myself $5.00 for every accomplished item
101. Pay chris $5.00 for every item I don't

Long time!

Gosh its been forever since my last blog, but I promis I will update more often!!!! Wow its 2010! I cannot believe how fast time is going. Charleigh turned 3 in oct. and she has become quite the kid! She has been enjoying her gymnastics class and on Jan. 20th she starts in the begginers class all by herself without mommy! Shes getting so big its crazy. Rylee will turn 2 in march, I cant believe my sweet baby is a toddler.....and not so sweet anymore:) She has quite the attitude and holds her own pretty well for being such a shrimpy. Rylee has also started potty traning and has been pretty good at it so far, she still has quite a few accidents in her pull ups but she is doing a great job!

I have found an old friend and we have been talking a lot lately. Its crazy how things change over the years. I leanred that she has MS and it just breaks my heart. She is such a strong person and I pray that she makes it through ok.

Christmas was great the girls got way to many toys and I got everything I wanted and more. I have started my girls journals and working out on the treadmill, I hope it pays off!!!!

I have been talking a lot more with Molly, Julie, Sarah and Katie. I wish we were all closer so we could get together but atleast with facebook we are able to talk everyday. Its nice having a set of mommy friends to talk to. I really miss Sarah, I wish she didnt haveto move so far away. It seems like as soon as I start getting close with someone that has kiddos they have to move :(

Well that is all for now I will post again in feb.