Been about a month

Yes sadly my blog is just not top priority these days. If we are being honest it doesn't even rate in the top 10. I would tell you excuses that I'm super busy and that I have a new baby and my husband is home from Africa and I'm contemplating a new job and while all those things are true they aren't totally keeping me from blogging. I just haven't felt the drive to blog lately. I have plenty to say and tons of stuff is going on. I could make about ten blogs with just funny kid stories and pictures. Oh and I have cute videos to sometime post. I could also talk about how we are going they state survey again at work and how stressful that has been because a lot of my personal work is being looked at closely. Not cause of anything I did, I just have been asked to do a lot of stuff the bosses normally do and so now with date in their it's all getting looked at. I hear there hasn't been to many problems. Some stuff with docent action but no glaring problems I guess. We will see at the end of the week. I could also make a whole blog about the new job I might take but I'm still waiting for an offer and I won't get one while the state survey is going on. Allan also went to a job interview. He is suppose to hear from them next Tuesday I guess. Just a lot going on and a lot to think about. We are also driving in the car right now to Wyoming.  I'm super excited toady be get to see some old nursing school friends. The kids are gonna visit their grandparents and they are really happy about that. So life is good, just busy.

Hit or miss but here are some pics!

 allan and I on a date night last month.

 We went to an italian steakhouse.. it was interesting i guess.

 The girls and I went and saw a movie yesterday. They had fun. It was 3d and lilly looked at me with her glasses on and said "wow mom you look kinda 3d" lol love those kids.

 before the movies at bahama bucks for a little shaved ice

 snuggling in at night. they both wanted to hold olivia.

lilly likes to snuggle close to olivia

 olivia at night

 olivia not so happy with her bath.. 3 months

I know i have been very hit or miss on my postings lately. We are just keeping real busy around here. I have been working a ton of hours at work and then spending time with the kids when i'm not working. I have tried to snap a few pictures here and there so I'm just going to post those right now. Maybe someday I can update this thing on everything that has been going on.. we won't hold our breath for now. lol..

This child has grown horns!

My sweet baby olivia has turned into a monster! I'm pretty sure she is teething already. It seems super early but if I didn't know better I would say she is teething. She is a bucket full of drool. Today she had a low grade temp and has been cranky. She pooped twice so I don't think it's her belly and has is medicine isn't helping so  I'm kinda thinking she is teething already. We will see how long it takes for a tooth to pop thru though. I think I'm declining the job at work. They just aren't offering enough money for me to change so much in my life. I could work full time 3 days a week and make about the same so it isn't worth it just to say in the boss and get some experience. I like being at home with my fussy teething baby and her silly Lilly sister. There is another position but in not sure about it yet either. We will have to wait and see.

I know I've been horrible at blogging lately. I've just been busy and enjoying my husband being home.. I've been working a lot. I put my name in the pot for a supervisor role at work. We have a new boss and she needs an assistant. So I'm putting in my resume. It isn't that I really love or want the job that much but the hours would be better for me I think. Also, I need to do something new cause after a year and a half I'm ready to move on to something else. I don't know if I'll get the job. It the boss said even if I don't she wants the resume because she is going to start having some other nursing supervisor jobs coming up. So we will see how that goes.
So here is small update on family : Olivia is a total water baby. Loves to be in the tub or she even went in the pool. She smiles and kicks and splashes. Very cute. Lilly is doing good but wants to spend every waking moment with her grandma lala. Lately she has been talking a lot about her cousin Jane and how she misses him but she thinks she remembers him from school. She doesn't go to school so I don't know why she thinks that lol. What else.. Oh Allan is good. Enjoying his time off. He is golfing today. He leaves in a few more days. Ok I have to walk into work.

Olivia is two months old

Olivia is two months old now. I feel like I've said that a time or two already. I guess cause everyone is always asking how the baby is. She had her doctor apt today. She is in the fifty percentile for both height and weight. He weighed in at a whopping 11.7 and she is 22 3/4 inches long. We got her first shots and did fine with them. She screamed and then slept most of the day. She is growing and has a cute little personality. Se still grunts and makes funny faces and smiles. She has giggled a couple times too which is cute. I just live her so much already. I also really love my sweet Lilly bug. She has been pretty super having a little sister to adjust to. I asked her if she wanted to give Olivia back and she said "no never" ! Lilly is being a good helper too while her dad is gone. She restocks the diapers for me and gets clothes for Olivia. She always tries to dress her in funny things. I think cause she has a funny sense of style. The other day as decided to wear moms tank top as a dress. She said it was a pretty gown. Haha! Today I told her to go get dressed and she made a grand entrance down the stairs dressed in shorts and a tank but had put on a floppy hat, sunglasses and topped it all off with a scarf I had made her for Christmas. She wears this scarf all the time And dons a whole different personality to go with it. Lilly has quite the imagination and I'm always surprised when grown ups take such interest in her. They seem to think she is adorable and so funny cause no one ever knows what she is going to do or say next. My sweet funny girl. Emma has been over a few times too while Allan has been in Africa. She wants to hold Olivia a lot. I find this sweet and nerve racking all at the same time. Pretty sure she still wants nothing to do with a dirty diaper. Both kids act like the diaper might bite them even if it's wrapped up where nothing will get on them. Sometimes they ask if it's a poopy one or a pee one.. Not sure why.. They don't want poop or pee getting on them. Lol Allan gets home next week and I can't wait! E can't either. Today they served fish heads for lunch. Fish heads! Gross! So he is looking forward to some real food. I'm gonna have to break out my recipe book again. Anyway everyone have a great night!

Busy as a bumblebee

Allan is on his final week out on the rig before he comes home for a month. We have been so busy lately. I went back to work after being off for about two months. It's nice to be back but a lot has changed. Some nurses quit and other people were let go. So I'm playing catch up a little. Olivia is two months old now and has earned her spot in the family haha. She switched over to formula now. We only made it 6 weeks for breastfeeding. The formula constipated her and everything I tried just hasn't helped but I think she might be adjusting now. She has had a few nights now of screaming fits. She has been great most of the time for babysitters. I seem to be the lucky one that has to endure her fury! Lilly loves Olivia but did ask me why I didn't love her so much and why I loved baby Olivia the other night. It broke my heart a little and I had to snuggle up with her and tell her I loved her soooo much and that she was my first special baby. We are all looking forward to dad getting home. I'll be able to give them both attention better hopefully when I have an extra set of hands around here. Othe than taking care of babies there isn't too much going on. We are having a hot summer but the last few days we have had monsoon weather. I love a good storm but our backyard was pretty flooded after three storms. Olivia gets her first set of shots this week. Wish us luck. Anyway I have been up since 4 am so I'm going to bed while I can. Goodnight! ;0)u

forth of july pics

 lilly and briana ( britata) before the fireworks

at the park with uncle

 some of the blow up water slides they had. That's lilly in her bathing suit running by happy as a little lark.

 she was very brave climbing up the slides. the line had 7 little boys in it and lilly was the only little girl standing there. I didn't know if she would be able to climb that ladder cause it was wet and slippery but she made me proud.

 in the bounce house. I had to drag her out. She is becoming such a big brave fearless little girl. No longer my little baby.

 briana and laura dancing to the band playing.

We had a blast at the park in florence( the next town down about 30 mins) they had so much stuff to do. It was great family fun. We went with karen and her kids and lilly had a blast running around with all of them. they had water slides, free watermelon, a band, bounce houses, mud volleyball, horse shoe tournament, basketball, skate park, and playgrounds among other stuff. It was a nice firework show too. We will be going next year again for sure!

Fireworks, sleeping, and winning!

Random title to this post I know. Happy 4th of July! We are going to see some fireworks tonight. I'm just not sure where and who with yet. We went to the farm down the street last year. It was a fantastic show but traffic is horrible afterwards. I live 5 minutes from there and it took me over an hour to get home. It is fun though and some of our friends are going there tonight. Our other friends go to Florence every year and they want us to go with. They give out free watermelon to all the kids and I guess have a lot of things to do. So I kinda want to check it out. This family has lived here their whole life so I assume they know where to go for the most fun. So stay tuned I'll post pictures of the days fun! Sleeping or happy baby. We switched to full on formula now cause I'm going back to work and decided I wasn't going to keep pumping. This switch made Olivia very mad for a few days. She was having belly aches and just not happy. She cried so much that I eventually cried and mom cried the day I went to work. She was tough to handle. But we discovered this stuff called colic calm. It's homeopathic and it worked wonders! I gave her one dropper full and it was like I had a whole new baby. She has been happy since. Smiling even. She is sleeping pretty good now too . She still wakes up a Couple times a night but it's not for long now and she has decided that she likes her swing now too! Yeah! Winning- I went out with some friends last night to play bingo. It was the first one I went with these two ladies Cindy and genie. We had us h a good time. Allan use to work with both of their husbands at the steel mill. Anyway I won on the very last game. And I hit the moneyball. I had to split with another winner but I still walked away with 990 bucks. I'm on a winning streak I think. Anyway happy fourth of July I'm going back to bed to get a couple more hours of sleep!

The happenings

Emma is here all week. She is going to camp at the YMCA. She seems to be enjoying it a lot. The fried an egg on the sidewalk today and yes it really did fry cause we live in Phoenix. She has also made slim an other activities and they take th summing and let them do the rock climbing wall for exercise so it sounds like it is fun for her. Lilly loves having Emma around. She really has so much fun playing with her. Olivia is growing more and more everyday. She weighed in at a whopping 9.15 at her one month check up. I had my 6 week check up and that went fine too. The doctor wrote me a note to go back to work in another couple weeks. She wouldn't let me go early. ( she knows I'm a nurse) we call Olivia the baby beast. She grunts and makes all sorts of funny noises so when Lilly and I are awake an Trying to be quiet we play a game and say " don't wake the baby beast" then Olivia grunts and I say" hurry kiss her so she will stay a princess" Lilly kisses her an Olivia grunts some more and I say" too late we have awoken the baby beast" I know it's silly but they seem to get a real tickle out of pretending she is a wild beast. Haha. What else? Oh I'm sick as a dog right now. It started with a nasty allergy day and now I think it might be a sinus infection. I have a mild temperature of 100.4 right now do I guess it's about to be NyQuil and bedtime for me. Till the next time....

i'm still here

I have been extremely bad about blogging lately. I'm sorry but i have just been so busy having a newborn around. My husband was home to so we have been just running nonstop even if it's just to get a bottle or a diaper.. lol Well allan left a couple days ago for africa. He made it there and texted  me that he is working days this time. I'm nervous for him this time because he has to stay there 5 weeks. Well and dayshift i harder than night shift and the company laid off alot of technical workers that helped him. So i'm hoping he can hang in there and doesn't get to stressed out this time. I've decided that i really like this job he has. I started encouraging him to keep it. Allan gets bored and wants to change jobs alot. I think it's the military remnants. Anyway, i love that every other month we can go on a vacation if we want to. I also love that we arent' stuck in phoenix if we don't want to be. WE could live anywhere. For right now we live here because emma is here but eventually we could move anywhere we want. Yes the month away from him is tough on me and the kids too but i think it makes our hearts grow fonder. WE are both so sweeter to each other when we are apart.  Not that we are mean when we are together  it just brings out our emotions a little more when we are apart i think. So anyway, I am liking his job as long as it's not to hard on him this month. Here are some pictures of the last month.

 my wonderful husband bought me a shadow box from my military days. He said he was proud of my8 years in the navy and wanted to have something to show on our walls for it. i love him!

our babysitter came over and took pictures of olivia in the outfit she made her. I thought this was a cute one.

My grandparents came to visit. There trip out was amazing. They are both

doing so well. I couldn't get my grandmother to put olivia down the entire time she was here. She would stop midsentence if olivia shifted or made a face to ohh and ahh over her. It was very cute. We had a wonderful wonderful time having them here.

I just thought this was a good saying that a church put up! How appropriate. I think people forget that everyone of us are sinners. None of us are better than the other we have all sinned. So before you start pointing out other peoples flaws and how they don't measure up or what you think they are doing wrong.. well we should all remember that we aren't perfect either.

another picture of the outfit lizzie made. it was the funniest little thing.

and this one is of my grandfather out in the pool. I think he enjoyed our pool. He would go out in the morning and do a little class of water aerobics all by himself and then he had some other participants join him a few times. It really was so nice having a sweet loving visit from good family. We miss them and wish we were closer to visit more often. Maybe we will plan something this fall. i am itching to do some traveling in our new suv just not yet. It's still a little rough right now with the baby so little and breastfeeding and dr apts and all that. But by fall I'm out of here. I would like to go visit my dad in cali soon too. He hasn's seen olivia and he is only a couple hours away. I feel bad that i don't get out there more. I know there are some of allan's family in Alabama that we would like to go visit too. maybe a roadtrip to Alabama with stopping in Texas would be fun in the fall. I have to go back to work though at some point. I think my leave is up Aug 10th. So after that i have to take days off but i don't have any vacation cause i had to use it all for the FMLA. So not sure how that will work out with my traveling plans. lol.. we will see i guess. Oh and emma goes back to school aug 8th so never sure on wether she will be able to go or not either. I think she gets a long break but i don't know if her dad will b home during it or not.. things to contemplate..