Farewell Mr. Dash Kittie!

Sadly i dont have any pics of my cat (not in the computer anyway). Friday Mr Dash went to his new home, Papa Markosek's! We've had mr. Dash for about 5 1/2 years! We got Dash after I had two miscairages. The first one I was 10 wks 5 days along (devistating!), my second I was about 5 wks along I'd just found out I was expecting (only three months apart). After expierencing what felt like the end of the world, I wanted to have a baby and be a mommy soooo badly! So, one day I came home with Mr. Dash! We were in a "non- animal" apartment, so we had to keep him hush hush for the two years we resided there with him! When Alex came along, at first Dash was very protective if him, but as Alex got bigger, Dash decided he didn't like him. Then two years later, Cam came. Dash was very unhappy by this! One year after Cam came, came Sally. Our awesome boxer dog! Dash absolutly hated her! After putting up with Dash hiding on top of my kitchen cabinets, shedding all over our counter tops and fur getting into my food, the cat had to go! Danny kept telling me "no" but I finally got my way. No more yucky cat hair! We haven't really missed him much (other than Sally, she wants to chase him) but him not being here has been the same as him being here. We never see him :) All is peacfull again hahaha!

New Comings....

So, as you all know, we tried to get us a loan mod on our house. Our monthly payments are just under $1,900, which in this economy has been way more than we can afford! When we first started working with the bank we were quite optomistic. They really seemed like they wanted to help us. As time went on they seemed less and less eager to help, and seemed just to not care. We only had one person who was really helpfull! That was it! So, we filled out all our paperwork, got everything ready for them that they asked for, sent it off, then the waiting game began! About six weeks came and went and we hadn't heard a single thing! So, Danny called to get to the bottom of everything and the people at the bank told us "that there was nothing they could do for us because we didn't get our paperwork in on time!" That was a big hunk of CRAP! We had gotten everything to them six weeks earlier, which was about five weeks before our "deadline" and our paperwork just sat on somebodies desk, ignored! We of course are less than impressed with Bank of America! Why put somebody through so much stress if your just going to screw them over? I'd rather be screwed over from the getgo. It's alot less annoying and stressfull that way! Anyway, now we'll be moving shortly (with in the next few months or less?...) Thank goodness we have a friend with a rental that has been vacant for a long time and he's only going to charge us $600.00 a month. Which is pretty amazing for something that is not an appartment. It is an old double wide trailer, but it's in good shape and will provide us shelter for who knows how long?.... So, I'm pretty excited about that! For now, that is our life. Stressfull! We're pretty bumbed about losing the house, but i think that it might just open more doors for more oppertunities... Hopefully anyways.

Our Latest News....

I really need to take some new pics of my boys.....

So, Alex and Cam are going to be big brothers! I showed Alex the ultra sound pic and he told me it was a baby girl puppy! We can only hope she's a girl, but I think puppy is his wishful thinking ;) None the less, we are all very exctied!

A Whole Lotta Nothin Goin On

How the kids watch Saturday morning cartoons (dog included)
This pic is kinda old, but this was the cuteset face! I called it the squinchy face! So adorable :)

Alex trying to keep the aliens out of his head. (hahahahaha, just kidding.)

Not alot has been going on lately. Life has just been crazy and stressfull! Danny has alot of work coming up, but we are patiently waiting for it to happen. (couldn't happen soon enough!) The kids are super crazy! Alex is a stinker,cute and sweet, but a complete stinker! Cam is also a stinker (already going through the terrible two's) and also very cute and sweet! Cam learned a new word today. Taco! We had taco's for dinnner and the word stuck with him! He even called Alex a taco, so funny!

Anyways, I wish there was alot to report, but there is not much! Oh, one thing! We are getting a loan mod on our house. We close the beginning of Aug! :) Very happy news for us! Our house payments are just more than we can afford right now and the bank has actually been very helpfull! I just really cant wait for life to become less stressfull! (neither can the kids!) I really dont mean to be so cranky! I guess I just dont handle lifes stresses very well! I'm tired all the time and super cranky! Sorry to my family!

So, for now, that is our life! Stressfull, we're extremly poor! , We dont know when Danny's job's are going to start (within the next couple weeks, hopefully) and we dont know if he'll be able to stay on top, I just want us to keep busy! Would it be selffish if I prayed for money? (hahaha, just kidding)

4th Of July!

Waiting for the Light Show to start!

Nadja, Nathan, Mattingly, Miss Sally

Kissy got to take a swing at the pinada! It was so cute!

Ales and Maddie, getting nice and dirty!

Everybody standing around, waiting for Chris to hang up the pinada. Look how tiny my little Cam-er-doos is! He looks so little!

Kids had a great time playing in the dirt!

Sitting around after dinner.

This year for the 4th celebration, we started off the day by going to the fair grounds, as usual. This year it was COMPLETLY lame! Every year since who knows when, they've had a fire truck and they'd squirt everybody with the hose, not this year. Also they've always had a airplane that would fly over and drop candy out of it, not this year. I guess they shot candy out of a canon and it didnt work so well. Only half of the candy flew out. It was completly retarded! Anyways... After the morning celebration I brought the kids home to go swimming in their little kiddie pool until nap time! They love their little pool, but so does the dog! My family came over for dinner. Nathan and Nadja brought pulled pork, which was so good! We bbq'd some hot dogs for the little kiddies, had some deviled eggs and frog eye salad. Was a great dinner! We then had the kids beat the pinata that Lara and Chris had bought for Allie's birthday (we'd forgotten about it). Afterward Lara, Chris, Mom, and kids all went home and Nadja, Nathan, and their kids stayed at our house to watch the fireworks!

p.s. pics are backwards :)

Cam's 12 Month Check Up!

Cam is now 16 months old and just barely got his 12 month check up. I dont mean to be a slacker when it comes to this, it just ended up that way! He was 20 lbs 2 oz, 3%, 30 inches 5% and his head was also in the 5%. He's just a teeny little guy! He's perfectly healthy and oh so sweet! The doctor asked me if I wanted to get his 15 month shots as well as his 12 months, and i declined! The 12 month shots made Alex so sick, I didnt want Cam to suffer anymore than he should have to. So, in 3 months I have to take him in for his 15.... It sucks to be behind!

Girlie Day!

(Yes I have freakishly long toes!)

Yesterday my mom, nadja, friend Shelley, and I went to mesquite to get a mani/ pedi! Even though they are kind of a rip off (expensive to me), it was so much fun! I love having my feet, legs, arms, and hands rubbed! We went to Pizza Hut afterward for lunch. Nadja and Shelley are on diets and had to eat a salad (hahaha)! Then went to Walmart and came home!

I left the boys with a babysitter. We love her! But, a sad story (to me anyway...) Alex is getting pottie trained right now! He's doing so good, but doesn't know how to hold it while he's asleep. I completly forgot to tell the babysitter to put a diaper on him before he went down for a nap, so she didn't. When I got home he was in his room still kinda snoozin, kinda not. So, I went in there and he's of course peed everywhere! He was so sad, and crying. I didnt want to make the babysitter feel bad and say anything infront of her (it was completly my fault. She's only 16 and didn't know..) So I paid her said thankyou and yata yata yata. As soon as she left I got down on my knees, gave Alex a big hug and said "did you have an accident?" and he says, still crying, "yeah, I'm so sad!" I tell him that it's ok and that he's not in trouble (he thought he'd get in trouble :( ) I reassured him that he was not in trouble, mommy forgot to tell the babysitter to put a diaper on him. Then he looks at me and says, while crying, "dont take iron man away". It made me so sad, the way he said it... He gets iron man taken away when he's too lazy too go pottie in the toilet, but in this case it wasn't that way at all.. I've never seen him cry a sad cry! I've seen temper, owie, you suck mom cries, but never sad and it seriously broke my heart! Anyway, after he realized that everything was ok, we got him cleaned up and he gives me a big hig and says, "thanks mom! I love you!". It was so sweet! I love my little boys! LOL!!