Solids!!

The other day Elyse was sitting on my lap while I was eating some lunch. Though she doesn't have full control over her hand's yet, she was able to grab onto my food! She had a death grip on it and was not letting go! She'd only had rice at this point, so I decided it was time for her to try some other foods. Foods that tastes good! Later that day we went to the store to get some green beans and carrots so I could make her some baby food. Making food for the baby was a new experience for me. I always just bought the food for the boys, but Danny and I decided it would save us a little money if we made our own! I was a bit worried, that it would be hard and take forever. First foods are pretty easy, though. It's all single ingredients. Just steam, puree, and freeze! Very easy!  She absolutely LOVES green beans! I tried giving her a banana and you would've thought I was trying to feed her poison! She gagged, spit, and threw up! She is NOT a fan! I then decided to try carrots. Maybe she is like her mommy and just prefers veggies over fruits?? She doesn't love carrots, but she will eat them.  I'm cool with that!! Next she gets to try sweet potatoes! I think she'll love those!

Right now she doesn't do any tricks. She loves to "talk" through movies and t.v. shows. No rolling around yet. She doesn't even try! When Jonathon was her age, he was the same way. When I told the pediatrician he said heavier babies tend to roll over later. Elyse and Jonny were/are fat babies. They're adorable!! Elyse, like her brothers, is extremely spoiled!!  There is one thing I let her do that I never let the boys and that is because I've become lazy! When she wakes up to eat at 6:30-7:00, I put her in bed with me so I can get a couple more hours of sleep. Completely shallow, I know! She loves it and so do I! Sleep is my favorite :) I'm most likely creating a monster, though... When school starts next month, we'll get on a routine! This Summer has just been hard on routine!                       

My Bucket List

These are a few things I'd like to do before I die, in no particular order, of course...

1- See New England in the Fall. I've never been (ever) and I hear Fall is breath taking with beautiful colors and smells (nature). Living in Nevada, season's are pretty underwhelming.

2-Spend a week somewhere tropical. I'd LOVE to go to the Bahamas..

3-Go on a paranormal investigation.  I grew up in a house that was quite frightening. There was a spirit in that house that seemed to try to scare us. I remember being afraid of coming home after school, so I'd drop off my back pack on the driveway and leave. I'd love to help, at least one family feel at ease.. The only problem, I'm startled easily, and when I get startled I grab onto the nearest person, and I get the giggles, lol. But, I think 90% of "hauntings" can be explained to something environmental, not a ghost.

4-I'd like to renovate an old, rundown house. One built in the late 1800's, early 1900's. I LOVE old homes!! I love the character they have.

5-Take my family to England. I've always wanted to visit!

6-Own my own children's and woman's clothing store. Who doesn't love clothes??

7-Buy a boat. Boating is just fun...

8-Design some clothes.

9-Adopt a child (If only the hubby would agree, lol)

10-Become the crazy old lady at the end of the street "with all those cats". I know, kind of silly, right? I'm going to be wearing hot pink jeans, big grey hair, hightop sneakers. It'll be AMAZEBALLS!

Oh, and I'll drive around a  classic powder blue convertible. 

11- I want to deliver a baby or assist in delivering a baby. I just think it's amazing...

12-Visit all 50 states.

13-Go on a ghost tour in all 50 states. Ghosts are a part of History and their "homes" have some of the coolest stories.

14-I'd like to create my own nail polish.

15-Get a tattoo

16-Get my eyeliner re-done (permanent makeup) and get my lips and eyebrows done, also.

18-Go skydiving (probably just in door because I know I couldn't actually jump out of a plane.)

19-Own a second (or more) home somewhere. 

20-Own a big ol' shoe closet, chuck full of shoes!!! Love it!!!

There you have it, lol! It's not much, but i'd like to do these things before I die :)

Baltic Amber Teething Necklace

Has anybody ever tried these? I ordered one for Elyse today. What it is?  It is Baltic Amber. Uses- relieves pain due to teething. I've read all types of reviews and people seem to think it really helps. Elyse seems like she might be teething. She chews on everything, even bites down really hard on her gums. Plus she seems a little fussy, too. She's not typically a fussy baby, and she's not running a fever, so I'm assuming her teeth are moving up. I'll let you all know what I think of them after they get here and we try it out!

Happy Independence Day

This year I decided to take the kids to the fair grounds for water games. The  sad thing is, is there weren't any... All they had was the fire trucks, which is pretty lame!! They usually have a lot to do! Alex and Jonathon loved it!! Cam was too scared, and Elyse is just a baby. She didn't appreciate getting sprayed with the cold water (they kept spraying us..). While Jonathon was running through the water, one of the firemen decided he was going to walk across the grass to spray some people who were standing on the outside of the water being sprayed. What he didn't notice was Jonathon standing behind him, and he proceeded to walk, running Jonathon over with the big, heavy fire hose!!  He'd stopped walking, but Jonathon was pinned, by his neck, under the hose!! I was rushing over to free him when his cousin Davis ran over to him and pulled the hose off of him. He was scared and so was I. Thank heavens Davis and I were paying attention because the fireman was NOT! Jonathon was unable to remove the hose himself. It really could've been bad. 

Danny is working tonight, so the older boys get to go to the fireworks with Grandma Markosek. They are so excited!! I'm going to stay home with the little ones so they can sleep. I wish I could go, but to save my sanity, I'm staying home. Jonathon get's super fussy around 7:30. I couldn't imagine keeping up until 9:30, 10:00!! Maybe next year we'll all be able to celebrate together! (We can only hope..)

My Funny Kids.

My mother in law just told me I should start keeping a little journal of the things my kids says. The truth is, they are honest, smart, and hilarious! Alex can keep me in stitches all day! One day we were over at Aunt Lara's house talking about girl stuff, like periods, manicures, pedicures, and Alex was just in a crappy mood!! I finally asked him, "Dude! Why are you so cranky?!" and his answer... "Because I haven't had a period, a manny, or a peddy!!" I laughed so hard I cried! He just didn't understand why this was so funny. He was dead serious! More recently, I was in my bikini. I'm not going to lie.. I just had a baby and still have my post baby body. It's not pretty.. But, we were going to go swimming in our pool. I'm allowed to let my fat hang out in my own back yard. He looks at me and says, "mom, you need to work out more." Me, "I know, Alex." Alex, "you're getting fat." Me, "Geese, Alex! Thanks!" Alex,  "no, really, Mom, you are!" Me, "no really, Alex thankyou! Now go away...". I'd be completely offended if it were to come from anybody else. My kids blame the bad the things they do on a "ghost". Our house tends to become full of paranormal activity when the boys are bad. There are ghosts EVERYWHERE!! They even push the boys down, they hit, and they steal toys (gasp!). They steal food out of the pantry and give it to the boys. It's horrifying, lol! Cam calls Delilah "Diarrhea" and he has "itchy palmades" I have no idea what that is, but it's a very serious disease! He wants to eat "eagers" for breakfast, which Alex just translated into "anchors". Yesterday, I was just watching some t.v. with Danny and Cam comes up to me and asks, "mom, can I have some coffee? I'm sleepy..." I don't drink coffee. Danny does when it's cold outside. He prefers it over hot chocolate. It made me laugh! I wish I could remember all the funny stuff that they've said. I'm going to do what Grandma Trudy told me and write this stuff down. They're funny little boys!

Girls Shopping Day :)

Since Father's Day is Sunday, I decided I would go to walmart to get Danny a present. I left the boys with Grandma then Elyse and I went to Mesquite. While there we got Elyse's ears pierced. I was a little nervous... I have my ears pierced, but it's been so long that I have no idea what it felt like. It has been 20 years!! (I feel so old when I can say something happened 20 or more years ago!). I then thought of immunizations! No way getting her ears pierced would be as painful or stressful as those are!  She did good! She sat on my lap while two ladies pierced both ears at the same time. She was upset for a minute or so, then she was perfectly fine! I gotta say, she looks adorable! I don't dress her in a whole lot of pink, I'm not a huge pink fan, so I get asked a lot if she's a boy or a girl. Even though she looks like a girl. I don't dress her in boy clothes, all of her clothes are girly, but she wears a lot of blue and yellow. So, of course that makes her a boy, right?! GGRRRRR.... Anyhoo..  She looks so cute with her little 14 KT gold pink heart CZ earrings :) . It was so not a big deal! After getting her ears pierced, we got her some new onesies. It's too hot for any actual clothing this time of the year! Got Danny's present, which is a pool! I can't wait to lounge around in it for the rest of the Summer, even though my body is so NOT swim suit ready right now. I don't care.... I'm going to let the flabby flab all hang out so I can get a tan. Then, we got some hot and ready's and came home. I gotta say... I LOVE SHOPPING! I spent all my spending money for the next two months on our pool, but it'll be worth it when I'm tan and the kids are happy!

How Can Somebody Be So Evil?

  I don't know if you've heard of the Jodi Arias trial, or not. I've been completely sucked into it!!  I'm going to share my thoughts and what my theory is what happened that evening and what she says happened. 

First of all. She is so full of crap! She wouldn't know the truth if it slapped her in the face! What she said when she was brought in for questioning about his death. "I haven't been to Mesa (AZ) since April. I wasn't any where near there."  Interrogator "What if I told you I had photographic and DNA evidence that you were there?" Arias, "Are you sure it was me? I was no where near Mesa at that time, I hadn't been there since April.". Interrogator-" Yes you were your DNA was mixed in with his.". Interrogator leaves, Arias starts singing and does a handstand on the carpet.

Next story, because she was there. She was heading to Utah to meet up with a guy. When she told Travis he told her to come To Mesa first, so she did. When she got there, there were two Caucasian people there in ski masks. Travis was on the floor screaming, there was blood everywhere and one of them held a gun to her head and pulled the trigger and the gun misfired. So she took off running down the stairs and out of the house, where she left Travis to die. She stuck with this story for a couple of years.

Next story. What she said "really" happened. Like I said there was photographic evidence of her being there. So, she was there, Travis invited her. They had sex took a bunch of risky pics of each other, he gets in the shower and she starts taking pics of him. They were trying different poses for her portfolio. He then got mad, lunged after her, she ran into his closet, got a gun and shot him. First of all, he didn't own a gun. Secondly, the same caliber gun that she used to shoot him was the same caliber gun that was "stolen" from her grandparents house one week prior. (will get into that story when I go into my theory of what really happened.) She didn't remember stabbing him 29 times or slitting his throat and nearly decapitating him. she "was in a fog". And- autopsy report said that  he was already dead by the time he was shot. in his head....

 My theory. About two weeks prior to his murder he and Jodi had gotten into a huge fight. He told her she was evil and the worst thing that ever happened to him (was he wrong? no!). Nobody knows what she'd done, but him and her. One week later, a her grandparents home was "broken" into where a few items were stolen including a .25 caliber hand gun. She makes plans to head to Mesa before she heads to Utah. He doesn't know she's coming and she goes right before so she somewhat has an alibi. She was out traveling on her way to Utah and got lost and drove over 100 miles out of her way (she left messages on his cell phone after she killed him and this was one of the messages she left). She'd rented a car, dyed her hair brown when it was dyed blonde before and on her rental car she'd turned the license plates upside down. She did these things so she wouldn't be recognized. She had filled five-five gallon gas tanks up with gas so she wouldn't have to stop for gas on her way to AZ. She drives all night and gets there about 4:00 in the morning he's awake, in his office watching youtube videos. I think she was hoping he'd be in his bed asleep where she could just kill him and head out. But, he was awake. She stood in the office door way watching him for 30-60 seconds before she said anything to him.According to her they had sex in the office and went to bed, woke up at about 1:00 p.m. had sex again and I'm assuming they ate lunch and whatnot. He goes and takes a shower, I think that she'd pretended to leave and he thought she'd done so. He's in the shower she comes in and starts taking pictures (which does not know. The flash is not on in these photos) then he realizes she is taking pictures of him. In the picture he looks completely surprised, like "you're still here? and what are you doing?" It was two minutes later that the camera snapped a picture of her shoe and the bottom of her pant leg standing over his profusely bleeding body. Another picture seconds later of his body being dragged across the floor. He fought like crazy for his own life. His hands and arms covered in defensive wounds. He tried to run... Now, if what she said was true, he was attacking her, she would've had to run out of his bathroom, through the bedroom, down the hallway, down the stairs, into the kitchen, where she got the knife and then back up the stairs, down the hall way, through the bedroom, into the bathroom, where he still was? If her life was in danger like she said it was, don't you think that he would've been chasing right behind her? I'm assuming he was a faster runner, he was bigger than her, and stronger. Don't you think that this would've had a completely different ending if that were true? And if he was, wouldn't you have just kept running out the front door? It was 5:30 p.m.. People are just getting home from work at this time. You could find help! I think that she had the knife somewhere on her while she was taking pics of him. Either tucked in her pants, or tucked in her bra. She took pics because in her sick twisted mind she wanted to be the last person he saw before he died and she wanted it to be evidence of the last time she saw him before he died. The first place she stabs him was in the heart. He comes out of the shower coughing up blood all over the bathroom sink. He starts running down through the bathroom hallway where I think he collapsed, she slit his throat, drags him back to the shower, just tossing him in there. naked, just, yeah. Shoots him in the head with her .25 caliber, deletes all the photos off the camera, sticks it plus bloody sheets and towels into the washing machine. Starts it. Washes the knife she used in the dishwasher and leaves.

Now, what do you think happened? I think she was a psycho, cold hearted woman! and that's putting it nicely...