Gavin's first pony ride!

Gavin And Kenzie

They are about to go to a Halloween Carnival!

Y'all...I want a sewing machine.

I really do. Do you know that I actually "window" shop for sewing machines? Why do they have to be so darn expensive? I think the cheapest one I've found is for $75 at Walmart. But this is my dilema. I don't think I'm ready to spend that kind of money on something I'm not sure I'd enjoy doing. Yeah, it sounds great..I would love to make my own pillows and stuff like that. But would it be more frustrating than enjoyable? Why can't they have sewing machines you can test drive for a little bit? To see if you actually enjoy doing it. *Sigh*. These things I wonder.

Oh, I also wanted to say Happy Birthday to one of my very best friends, Manda!! I cannot wait to see you tonite! I really hope you love the gift Erik and I got you. We were torn over many things, and since you didn't give us any hints..you'll just have to like it and that be that! :P

And another thing, I made another A on my anatomy test. So so far that's two high A's and one B-(damn you chemistry chapter.) So I celebrated by buying me a new purse at Target. I got it on clearance for $5 and it's super-duper cute. Y'all will get to see it tonite. B

But anyways, hope everyone is having a safe weekend and I can't wait to see you guys tonite! (definitely will miss you Dina.)

Happy Birthday Melanie!!!

I love you very much!!!

Peace and Quiet

My favorite time of the day you ask? Well it's when both babies are down for their nap and then I FINALLY have peace and quiet. It's amazing how difficult it is to take care of two kids during the day. Especially since Gavin has turned into a bully and I'm having to discipline him every other minute. *Sigh*. But on to a not so stressful subject. Birthdays. I love birthdays. I love celebrating them and I love shopping for birthday gifts. Two birthdays are coming up (well three if you include me.) My older sister Melanie..and one of my best friends Manda. They both happen to be this week so it will be a busy but fun one for me. Can you guys please tell me what you would like for your b-day? Melanie has given me some hints..but I haven't heard anything from Manda :)

Well, I better go study. Can't wait to see you guys this week! (AND Dina...can't wait to see you in two more weeks!)

I LOVE YOU MANDA!!!

I just wanted to thank you Manda for putting a comment option and a title option for my posts!!! You are the greatest! I know that must have taken you some time and I really appreciate it! You are the bomb..and you can take over my blog anytime!!

Love you!

And thanks for all the comments on my new layout. It took me awhile to figure things out but I'm finally making it my own!! Wooo hooo!!

The first step to taking over the world...

is taking over Stacy's blog. :)

This is your friendly blog-guru, Manda, testing out Stacy's blog to see if stuff's working correctly. ♥ ya! :D

Potty Training Nightmare!

Ok, so today is officially day two of Gavin's potty training. Well, I hate to say it..but I'm ready to give up. He has yet to tee-tee in the potty BUT we have come a long way. First, Gavin was afraid of the potty..."No Noooo Nooooooo!!" he would yell. But now we're at the point where he'll let me read him a book on the potty...but still NO tee-tee! I thought it would help for him to see his cousin Sawyer go tee-tee...but it hasn't. And I thought that his training pants would keep some of the tee-tee in...but he wet his bed after his nap today. And I knew he had to potty really bad before his nap..so I put him on the potty before hand...but still...no TEE-TEE. I'm ready for any help or tips that come my way! Please!!!

On another note we went to a really cook Pumpkin Patch yesterday in Flower Mound. It was free parking and free to get in. There were also free bouncy houses,hay-ride and a petting zoo. We had a great time! The only thing that cost were drinks/food BUT they were really reasonable. It was so much fun to go out in the pumpkin patch and pick our own pumpkin. I'll put some pics up here so you can see the great time we had!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DINA!!

We Miss You!!!

Oh my God!

I made a 94 on my anatomy/lab test!!! Woooo hooo! I'm just very happy because I've been studying my life away!!!!!!! Yay, one down..eight more to go!

So it happened...

We finally got Gavin a haircut. I know a lot of you didn't want us to get his curls cut off but it was just getting toooooo long. And it's not like their not going to come back...this was his fourth haircut..so we're positive he'll have curls by Christmas. Just thought I'd share. Hope everyone is having a great week!

After

Before

catchin' up

So Kenzie's birthday was something else to say the least. Ok, Karen reserved this really big room that accomodates at least 30 people at this really good mexican restaurant for Kenzie's first birthday. So Karen and I go to the restaurant an hour early (with cake and balloons in tow) to start the decorating process. Well anyways, we wait for a couple of minutes because supposedly they were "cleaning" the room for us. Well finally they led us to this room that was not even half the size of the "big room"..and we were like "what the hell?" And then it happened...and I don't think I've ever seen this person before. But I saw the rath of Karen. She went from 0 to 100 in about 5 seconds. I think she was most angry because she had reserved it two weeks in advance and then talked to the manager the night before to make sure that everything was settled. Well needless to say she gave the manager HELL...and when I say hell she was about a curse word away from them calling the police on her. So I finally was able to calm her down and the manager led me around the restaurant to see what was suitable for the party and they eventually sectioned off a pretty good section. But the worst part of all of this...is that the people who were decorating the room for their bridal shower didn't even show up until we were leaving Kenzie's party (which was about 3 and a half hours later.) So that room wasn't even being used that WHOLE time! So then Karen proceeded to blow another gasqet and proceeded to cry and to tell the night manager about all that had happened to her. Well get this. She had told the night manager (which is a woman) that Santos was the man that she made the reservation with two weeks prior and the man that she talked to the night before. Well when she came in that day the day manager was the one she was screaming at...and she's like "Where is Santos????????!!.....I want to talk to Santos????!!!!!" And he was like...Santos is not here. Well the night manager (the lady) told her that the man she was talking to WAS Santos! Can you believe that??! Well Karen is calling corporate tomorrow to air her grievances. But the party actually went pretty well. Kenize got a lot of great things and we had a couple of pitchers of margaritas so we were fine. I just had to tell that story...oh my gosh it was just awful. Thanks for everyone who was there to celebrate her precious little birthday.

I'm dying a slow death.

School is killing me! My freakin' classes are hard this year. Well Philosophy isn't..but Anatomy/Physiology is kickin' my ass. I don't think I've ever studied this much in my life. I'm putting so much stress on myself because I HAVE to get an A in this class (basically if I want to get into nursing school) and it's going to take everything in me to do it. So I'm counting the days 'til this semester is over (which is around Christmas) so oddly enough I'm counting the days until Christmas!

So Kenzie turns 1 tomorrow. Awww little K-chub. That's what Erik and I call her...it fits her perfectly. I can't believe she's already 1. How did that year pass me that fast? I have no clue. So we're not really doing anything for her birthday tomorrow. Karen says that we'll celebrate it on Saturday (her birthday party) and that's enough for her..lol. We're doing a cool thing this year and not have her birthday party at the house..but at this REALLY good mexican restaurant. They have an HUGE room that Karen reserved and we're going to get there early to decorate and it's just going to be PERFECT. And the best thing...no clean up! Wooohoo!

So Gavin is doing good. He's talking more and more everyday. He's sooo cute. He learned how to say that daddy's at work...of course it sounds like "da-GA werk". And he finally said I love you back to me today...but it sounds like "e-lubu"..no one could probably understand it but me...awww..he's so cute.

Well that's about all that's going on right now...I hope all of you are having a good week!

*Sigh*

One of my very best friends is getting married tomorrow. It just makes me feel all warm inside because so many memories just flood into my mind. I remember her being a short/shy blonde haired girl who could barely say two words to me...and now...YEARS later..we're still friends. Ok, so I felt this way when Dina got married..(remember me? crying through the whole ceremony?). Thank your lucky stars that I wont be there tomorrow...boy would the floods gates break! Ohhhh I love you Teresa sooo much!!! I just hope you have to most perfect day tomorrow! You are going to be a Mrs....can you believe that? Well I want to hear every little detail about tomorrow as soon as you can! Tell Alex I love him too...and give Gabby a big hug from me! Teresa...if I was there you know I would give you the "talk". But I can't. I just want you to know that if you ever need me..that I am here for you. Ohhhhh *big big big big hugs*
Have a beautiful day tomorrow!!

I love him.

I love Dave Matthews everyone. I'm sure you know this by now. But I really do love him. The concert on Saturday kicked ass! Man it was sooooo good! I was able to experience it with Erik, Karen, Jon, and Melanie...it's been a long while since we've all seen Dave together. It was so awesome! Talk about being tired afterwards. I spent 3hrs dancing my ass off.

So God has blessed me today. As you know Erik has been looking for a job for awhile now and we've been getting behind on our car payments, which has really been stressing me out. So yesterday Erik and I were going through the Sunday paper want ads and I found an ad stating that they were needing people for a research survey and that they would pay $300 for two days. Ok, so I go onto the website to see if they are legit..and they are! My mom has actually gone to a couple of their surveys once before. So anyways, I register our names into their website and they immediately call Erik the next morning. And then I called them and they entered me into the survey as well! That's $600 for two days..woo hoo! I had intentionally wanted to have a garage sale at my house to raise some money up for my car....but now I don't have too! Yay! Thank you God!

On another good note I have officially lost 26lbs. I have been maintaining for most of the summer but then was able to get off a couple more pounds here recently. I'm hoping to be at least 35lbs lighter by my birthday...which is definitely reasonable.

Ok, well I hope y'all are all having a great Monday!

Please Exercise Gods!!!

Take this pain away!!! If you saw me now you would think to yourself.."Why is Stacy walking with a limp?" It's because I'm in pain...that's why! Ok, I've been really stepping it up a notch when it comes to my exercising. See I'm in a contest with a group of 5 girls scattered around the U.S. We all met on SparkPeople and we all came up with this great idea to have our own version of the Biggest Loser. Whoever loses ten pounds first wins a $25 gift card to your favorite place to shop. So considering I'm broke as hell I really want to win this card. Well I've been doing cardio for awhile now and I decided that it was time to add on some strength training. So I printed out the exercises that SparkPeople assigned to me and I did one each just as it told me to do so. So I'm feeling really good about all of this until the next day!! My quads and my ass are killing me! I feel like I can only walk if I have crutches...it's that bad. So it's been two days since I did this and I'm still in tremendous pain. How do people keep on doing strength exercises? I vowed today that I'll never do forward lunges or squats again!!!! "Owww, my ass"

I haven't posted in forever!

OH my God..I haven't posted in forever. What's the matter with me? You know what it was? I started a new myspace account and I became a myspace snob and forgot all about my blogger blog over here. I suck.
So then a lightening bolt hit me! (well actually it was Teresa and Manda). And they told me to put on my myspace blog that I have a blog here..and that this is where I update my life from time to time. So I did! Great idea you guys!

So life has been pretty good over here. I finished summer II last week and I found out today that I made an A in my class! And it was a well deserved A because it was toughhhh. Oh my gosh it was like taking a freakin' English class! But I got through it!

Other than that I am still on my healthy lifestyle. WOW. Yeah I know...it's been since January. I've still kept the same weight..I've been in the terrible habit of letting myself gain some..and then losing that weight the next week. Basically I have been maintaining.....but now I've been back on the ball for the past couple of weeks. Working out and staying within my calories..go me!

So we I had an awesome time and Teresa's bachelorette party last weekend. Can you say drunktify? Because that's what I was for about a whole second. And Teresa too! "There's an oh shit grip?...OHHHHHhhhh shit!" That's freakin' priceless...and I just love hanging out with you guys. And I'm going to miss you Dina terribly. How am I not going to cry on Friday?
*sigh*.

Well guys, I'm off to bed. Hope you're having a pleasurable week ;)

Ok...so I finally

enrolled for the Fall semester! Yay! So relieved and happy and did I say relieved? I got all the classes I needed and I wanted. AND I'm actually going to take a class during Summer II (which starts next Monday.) That class will be intro to theater. I normally wouldn't have to take this class but I dropped out of it when I was going to Richland (this is also the time where I quit going to classes so I could go hang out with Erik in Killeen.) Well anyways, dropping out of the class has severly brought down my GPA and I can't afford for it to be low. If all works well I'll be up to 3.8 or 3.9 by the end of the spring semester. Then I'll be ready to put my applications in to nursing school. The two classes I'm taking during the Fall are Anatomy and Philosophy. I need to get A's on those and then get an A in college Algebra during the Spring and I should have my GPA where I need it. I'm starting to get really excited about this. It's like I've been going to school for sooooo long and it's finally getting down to where I can actually do clinical rotation and stuff...FUN! Well, just thought I would express my excitement! Have a great week everyone!