SHUT UP!

LMAO.... I was in the kitchen and Evey walks in smiles and says "SHUT UP!" not like your talking to much shut up but like no way! shut up! She's 2 people... she was watching the princess diaries earlier that day and theres a part where she very loudly goes "SHUT UP!" because she's told something shocking (i think). Evey promptly turned and went back to the living room, I was kinda dumbfounded, of course I told her that wasn't nice but how do you explain thats only okay sometimes??????? Later that night she decided to take off her poopy diaper in front of the couch and she somehow managed to scale the couch without getting poop on it and when she landed behind the couch she landed on her bum (thank goodness we have a steam cleaner) I walked in the room right before she was about to get on her new bouncing pony! That would have been a disaster! Oh the joys of potty training haha. She never ceases to amaze me! till next time...

Christmas Eve/Christmas

Christmas Eve we had family over and opened a few presents, as you can see Evey was very interested in her presents lol. Then after she fell asleep we put the train under the tree so we could turn it on once she woke up Christmas morning with all her presents underneath. She was so excited to see the train, and she got on her tricycle and started honking her horn lol

till next time

Merry Christmas Eve Eve...

Here is the Christmas card winner!

We liked her hair in this picture and she is smiling! Some of the others actually had her crying bc she wanted to watch Phineas n Ferb on Disney while we were torturing her for a picture haha.. we gave up on having Lucy in the picture. I'm sooo ready for Christmas Eve! We are going to hang out at home Christmas Eve and the family is going to drop by if they can. Christmas day will just be us at home for a relaxing non-eventful day, I have to work Christmas night :-( btw I think it is bullshit that holiday pay stops at 7pm...wtf, we have to give up big plans Christmas day to work Christmas night and we don't even get paid extra for it...yet thanksgiving and Christmas Eve get paid time and a half? who the hell decided Christmas stops at 7pm? probably some salary paid asshole who's never worked night shift at a hospital on a holiday. So if ur fulltime you have to work 3/5 holidays(thanksgiving,christmas eve, christmas day, new years eve, new years day) part time 2/5 days. (thank goodness I'm part time) but if they are mandatory holidays why do we only get paid for a select number of them? sniff sniff I smell bullshit! ok sorry enough bahumbugging. This will probably be the last post till after Christmas so I hope everyone has a safe and blessed merry Christmas! till next time...

Way Back Wednesday

I saw this on another blog and started looking through my pictures.... so being Decemeber I thought what better than to showcase Eveys old Christmas Card pictures starting with her 1st Christmas. I put a couple of the contenders for this years Christmas card picture up as well....Enjoy!

Getting to know Yule...saw this on another blog

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper

2. Real tree or Artificial? artificial, with a 2 yr old and a puppy running around I don't need either of their poop to have pine needles in it haha

3. When do you put up the tree? About a week before thanksgiving (yes I'm a Christmas nerd)

4. When do you take the tree down? Ha idk if its being lazy or because I like the tree so much, but in the past its stayed up till the day before Valentines day!

5. Do you like eggnog? Yes and I'm vowing to stay away from the calorie loaded drink this year.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Thats a hard one, Teddy Ruxbin

7. Hardest person to buy for? ???

8. Easiest person(s) to buy for? the Kids in the family

9. Do you have a nativity scene? No because I do not want baby Jesus to be eaten/chewed or played with by Evey or Lucy.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? mail

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? dont think I have a worst

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Can I have 2? The Grinch(w Jim Carrey) and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I would like to do it b4 thanksgiving but actaully the day after thanksgiving

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Tamales

16. Lights on the tree? Yep..all white (the colored ones r outside)

17. Favorite Christmas song? 12 days of Christmas

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? As in venture out or travel to another city? It varies... haven't decided this yr yet.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? yep

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? star

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One Christmas Eve the rest Christmas Day

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year. ?

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? No favorite... like most anything

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Tamales and lots of desserts

25. What do you want for Christmas this year?

I'm really trying to be optimistic....really

20 HOUR DAYS SUCK ASS! I worked agency today 8a-4p and I was on call tonight and lo and behold I got called in...wtf. Who called in? Who did it? lol Then tomorrow morning after work I have to run errands and turn in more paperwork to my agency to work at the VA..it really is ridiculous, they want your first born child and your left arm before they let you work there. But the money is worth it,so its taken months but I've filled out the f*ing paperwork. Then I have a 0930 appointment with cadillac because there is a recall on my car so we will see what kind of loaner I get. Do you think they'll let me ask for the 2 door sports cadi? Haha I think not. Since I'm on that side of town I may as well stop in and get the gift cards I need for Christmas. I'm tired now and still have a good 20 hrs before I see my bed...probably longer than that because I will get home miday and want to see Evey. I haven't worked a 60 hr work week since before I had Evelyn.... should be interesting. Till next time Baahumbug!

I hope they are this sweet during Christmas pictures.

HOW CUTE IS THAT! There has been a little jealousy between the two of them but for the most part they love eachother.

Still working on potty training Lucy, no poop in the house but she still piddles once in a while. As for potty training the 2yr old...ha.. she's always done things on her time table and always will! ( Anyone remember me being out of work for 10 1/2 months because my stubborn little baby REFUSED to drink from a bottle!) Honestly though I'm not really gonna worry about it till after the new year. I'm sooo excited we put up our Christmas lights outside! Will post pictures later! Thats all for now, till next time

Happy Thanksgiving/Black Friday

I'm a couple of days late with my thanksgiving post, we made the rounds and then got up for black friday and I worked friday night and I work again tonight. At my moms it was my grandma, uncle, brother and my nephew Gabriel n us of course. I made twice baked sweet potatoes and they were delicious! It was almost more of a dessert but either way they were yummy, with cream cheese, cinammon, milk, brown sugar all mixed together and twice baked sprinkled with pecans on top....mmmmm. So I always SWORE I'd never be that person that wakes up at the butt crack of dawn to go shopping the day after thanksgiving..... well we saw some stuff we wanted and couldn't resist, we split up and I took evey to Academy. Evey was not thrilled about waking up at 330am! But it worked out bc we shopped from 5-11ish came home, ate and all took a 3hr nap which worked out perfectly for me bc I had to work that night. I had an easy assignment and was struggling to stay awake lol. SO NOT COMPLAINING after that train wreck I had the night I covered for Carlos. Back to black friday, I am NOT a morning person but I actually enjoyed it! Waking up early once a yr and going shopping isn't bad. Some ppl say its not worth the savings but I definately do!

Christmas will be here before we know it!

Yes I am a Christmas nerd! We had our decorations up over a week ago! Decorations are up inside, we just have to put the lights outside. We have our regular tree in front and our mini in the back room. I can't wait to decorate the outside of the house! We will make the rounds for thanksgiving and omg I am actually going to get up at the buttcrack of dawn to go shopping on black friday. I ALWAYS swore I'd never b that person but it looks like I've been sucked in lol. I will let you know how that goes. Last night wasn't too bad at work, one admission wasn't too bad, beats having the patient that pulled his trach out at shift change the night before! Luckily the team was doing rounds and the doctors got it back in relatively easy. I worked 3 nights in a row which I am SO not use to anymore and I slept for 4 hrs n woke up to watch football. Time to get back to being lazy and watching football. Till next time....

Lucy!

We've had Lucy for 2 days and I love her to pieces! She is finally settling in with us. She is a lab/weimaraner mix and is 8wks old. Evelyn loves her but is still learning she can't pick her up haha. Lucy is very patient with Evey and loves to play! Waking up in the middle of the night to take her outside reminds me of having a newborn! lol She is the cutest! Well thats all for now! Till next time!

Family Fun!

This weekend my cousin got married and my niece had a birthday party. So we were surrounded by family all weekend. Evey had so much fun playing with her cousins, now that shes older she can semi keep up with them. She had fun beating up tinkerbell haha. Some how she knew what "pops" were even though she doesn't get this from us! I think nana has been sneaking loli pops as Evelyn targeted them when the pinata broke! lol She will get enough junk food when she's older for now I try to limit what she eats. I always hear how hard it is for parents to get their kids to eat well and that they always want junk food. Somehow my family seems to think by not letting Evey eat McDonalds I am depriving my child that all kids need to eat junk food. We eat organic for the most part but I think my parents still think we are vegetarians that only eat tofu lol. Oh well, its my child and my decision to not feed her junk. Besides I think it makes her immune system stronger by getting natural vitamins and minerals in her food (yes she still gets a whole food gummi vitamin) but she is 2 and has had a stuffy nose once for like a day and a half. Neways I'm off my soap box. We had fun at the party, it was nice hangin out with my cousins, I really need to see them more often. So yesterday I finally brought our books in from the garage to put in our bookshelf. I found a childrens bible we had bought Evey when she was born. So I started over from the beginning and she was interested but read aloud most of the time lol... it was so cute and she said the most appropriate things at just the right time, we were reading the garden of eden and there was a snake and an apple tree picture, she pointed to the snake and screamed "Ahhh SNAKE! Ahhh!" it was cute. Then followed by "mmm apple." Last night she pulled a fast one on me! She has been sleeping in her bed for a while and still gets up and wanders into our room in the middle of the night and I just take her back. Well I woke up this morning to find her snuggled up in bed! I was surprised though when she didn't put up a fight when I lead her back to her room. Well thats all for now, till next time.

Slightly Hectic Week....

Tuesday we decided to go get Christmas lights for the outside of the house, I am stoked to decorate my own home. So we ended up getting all new Christmas tree decorations and ended up spending 3 1/2 hrs at Hobby Lobby uuggghhhh. So I didn't get to sleep at all before going to work tuesday night. TIRED. I worked wednesday night and went to the gym thursday morning, on the way home I got a call from my father in law saying that Davids grandma past away. With all that going on I didn't get to sleep until 11am, I woke up and it was dark outside! OOPS! I slept till 630p. I needed it though I haven't gotten that much sleep since before Evey was born! lol So I wake up this morning about 8am , so the wheels start turning in my head thinking the sale at Toys R Us is suppose to be friday...the 7th... I WORK FRIDAY THE 7th at AGENCY which is 8a-4p....SHIT! So I call and say I will be there in a bit and profusely apologize. So I'm running around getting ready and Evey runs up to me and holds my face with both hands and looks me in the eyes and says very seriously and very sadly DONT GO! mama DONT GO! omg HEART BREAKING! Times like those make me wish I stayed home. I will only be here half day bc its slow so when I get home Toys R Us here we come! My cousins wedding is tomorrow and my nieces birthday party is saturday... So I'm ready for a vacation....Tahoe anyone? Thats all for now, till next time.

Happy Haloween!

Evey was a monster! We had a blast walking my brothers neighborhood with my nephew and my niece. Evey kept up with them too! She hasn't quite got the concept down yet. You say trick or treat (she's got that part), accept the candy and say thank you (she does that) but then she reaches in their basket for more candy! It is so cute, most everyone thinks its funny n lets her take another piece. One guy told her she was so cute and could take as much as she wanted.... I said now Evey in life thats not how its gonna work! You can't get everything you want by looking cute! haha It was funny. Thats all for now, till next time.

POOP!

So we have kinda sorta not really been potty training Evelyn. She's pooped in the potty once a long time ago and since then if I see her starting to go I ask her "evelyn poo poo in the potty?" and her response is always the same...."NO poo poo potty!" She's only two not too worried about it. WELL, yesterday she went to the bathroom so I went to get a diaper and wipes So as I'm about to walk into our carpeted living room In walks a naked child with POOP on her bum and legs. Yes she took everything off and left her poo poo diaper on the ground. THANK GOODNESS there was no poop on the floor! Hopefully this means shes getting closer to wanting to potty train! Or it could be Evey being....Evey! Well since I worked 7p-7a last night and now I am at work (agency) for half a day 730am-noon, I am going to go before I start typing jibberish haha. 2-3hrs of sleep and then its time to take Evey trick or treating! Thats all for now, till next time.

My little pony

Despite her "I'm not in the mood for pictures" look, she had a blast riding her pony! She can be fast asleep and impossible to wake up but if you say "Wanna go ride your pony?" She will sit straight up and say "socks on! shoes on!" She may walk around like a zombie for a little while but she forces herself to wake up, its hilarious. Lady got to a trot(w Nana close of course) and Evey was grinning from ear to ear. Its hard to believe she is 2! My dad stopped by last night and dropped off some souveniers from his 3week cruise, Evey would not leave him alone and kept sayin "come on papa colors colors come on!" it was cute. Work has been okay, we have a neuro side and two trauma sides to our unit and I was stuck on neuro this past week. I will take a bad train wreck trauma over neuro side ANY day. Although Amy came to have lunch with me (if you can call midnight lunch) one of those days, it was great to see u Amy! I am not giving up trying to convince her to come work with me. The weather has been beautiful so we are spending more time outdoors and Evey loves it, we all do. We got a mexican lime tree, it already has limes on it....margaritaville here we come! The other night we went to a dinner party at a friends house and it was mexican night...omg chile rellenos and rice and stuffed jalepenos everything was delicious! Now I have to work it off at the gym lol. I also learned that I SUCK at ping pong haha. We had a great time though and Evey loved chasing the dog around. Time to run, till next time!

Big Girl Bed!

Evey slept in her big girl bed in her own room! BACKGROUND- We lived in a one bedroom apt for the first 1 1/2 yrs of her life so naturally her crib was right next to othe bed. So we bought our first home and set up her crib in her own room, around 4 or 5am she would cry n we would bring her to bed with us. The eventually she started climbing out of her crib (not safe). So we converted her crib to a day bed and with no side rails she naturally would sneak into our bed at night while we were asleep. So for our sleeping convienience we put her matress beside our bed and thats where she has been sleeping. So I decided to bite the bullet and we had her help us take her matress to her "big girl bed" and started our new night time routine (she had no clue what was going on lol) and the first night went relatively smooth, cried a little then slept through the night. Last night cried a little and then woke up at 5am, I was SO tempted to let her sleep in our bed for the morning but I sucked it up and walked her back to her room and sat with her till she fell asleep. I am such a push over when it comes to Evelyn! When I walked out of her room she yelled WAIT! NO MAMMA COME BACK COME BACK! WAAAIIIT! It was hard for me, I think I had just as much seperation anxiety as she did! So hooray for sleeping in her own room!

100 things... amys idea

100. I too do not know what I want to be when I grow up.
99. I am actually starting to enjoy working out.
98. I love going on vacations.
97. I have 3 vacations planned at one time
96. I've never lived alone.
97. I pray I never have to live alone.
96. Evelyn means the world to me.
95. The thought of her growing up makes me sad.
94. I'm still spoiled by my parents.
92. I too often take my family for granted.
91. I use to think my mother was over protective.
90. I'm never letting Evelyn leave the house by herself. haha
89. I hate scary movies.
88. Now that I'm a mom I take less risks.
87. I wish my best friends lived closer.
86. I want to win the lottery but don't play it lol.
85. I am a Vegas junkie haha.
84. I realize I pout when I don't get my way
83. I LOVE FOOD.
82. I just realized its been 8+ yrs since I graduated high school
81. I miss not having any financial responsibility ha
80.Seems like overnight I became an adult... where did the time go?
79. I now realize I took my job at Lost Lagoon way too serious.
78. I look back at the waterpark and think how good we had it.
77. I miss working with my best friends, we always had eachothers back.
76. I actually like my job in the trauma ICU
75. Its a rush to save someones life.
74. I realize preventing someone from dying doesn't mean a full recovery.
73. People die, you do all that you can but sometimes God has other plans.
72. As painful as it sometimes is everything happens for a reason.
71. There are no coinsidences, God knows what he's doing.
70. I love my new house.
69. I still need to decorate the house.
68. Watching Robots, Nemo and Monsters Inc. is making me crazy haha
67. When I go out to eat I have to look at the menu online to narrow it down.
66. I hate whole wheat pasta
64. I want to vacation in Greece and Itay
63. I want to go to Oktoberfest in Germany before I die
62. I wish football season was year round.
61. I wish I had the stamina to play sports like I did in high school
60. I love cheese.
59. I love my ipod
58. I would be lost without my cell phone
58. Im addicted to texting lol
57. I cant wait to paint the master bath, the previous owners thought bright yellow would be nice.
56. Im ready for cold weather so I can wear comfy clothes.
55. I want to fit into my jeans again.
54. I never realized how expensive dental work is!
53. I started a scrapbook for Evey and am SO far behind(like 2 yrs!)
52. I'm sad that Evey will be starting preschool in 2 years
51. I know I will cry her first day of school.
50. I love my cadillac
49. I'm officially spoiled.
48. I want to take up cycling.
47. My long term goal is to do bike to the beach.
46. I don't know how that will work bc my butt hurts after 1hr of spin class haha
45. Spin class is the few types of cardio I like.
44. I want another pair of Stuart Weitzman shoes (I don't think I spelled that right)
43. I refuse to buy anymore pants/skirts till I fit into my old ones.
42. I love it when Evey gets excited when I come home, I know that won't last forever.
41. I need to get a massage more often.
40. I want a metal roof on my next house so I can listen to the rain.
39. I want to see snow once a year.
38. I want to see sand once a year.
37. I want to see my best friends once a year.
36. I want to see my friends that live in town more often.
32. I use to be in dancing(every kind), brownies, soccer, basketball, band, track.....
31. I could shop for hours and buy nothing and still enjoy myself.
30. La Cantera is the best
29. I like classical music
28. I wish I could sing
27. I sound like the people who try out for American idol (the ones on the funny clips)
26. I love to bake
25. My favorite holidays are thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
24. I cant wait to decorate my house for the holidays.
23. I still remember Meghans HUGE christmas tree from our Christmas soccer party in high school.
22. I think Lake Tahoe is the perfect family vacation ,snow for Evey to play and casinos for mommy to play :-D
21. 4578 is my favorite roulette bet
20. I want another tattoo
19. I wish Tiff would move back to San Antonio.
18. I want to have my palm read just for the fun of it
17. I've always wanted to shave my head but will never have the guts to do it.
16. I have donated my hair to locks of love.
15. I think KIVA is the best
14. It makes me sad when Evey says Wheres Tiffy?
13. I have no idea who I'm going to vote for President
12. In my dream house I want a huge loft for a game room.
11. My favorite football team is the redskins
10. If the night shift at work found out I'd be dead lol
09. I still like the cowboys
08. I think Amy should come work with me, it would be great fun.
07. I have to retake Chem 1 n 2 so I can take Organic Chemistry if I want to go to grad school
06. Maybe I will go back to school when Evey goes to school.
05. I haven't decided private or public school for Evelyn.
04. I love only working 2 nights/wk university and 1-2 days agency.
03. I'm not a morning person.
02. I hate being late for anything.
01. I want to open a flying saucer on our side of town.

I'm 26!

So I am 26 today. We relaxed all day and watched football, we will probably go out to eat tomorrow night to celebrate. I would LOVE to be celebrating in Vegas with my best friends but the vacation thing didn't pan out. Vegas- no one to watch Evey, Dauphin Island Alabama- wiped out by hurricaine Ike, TX Treasure Casino boat- owner n renter of the boat going to court over repair costs.... so we are hoping to go to Lake Charles in the next couple of months. Evelyn is 2 already and talking up a storm, she does and says the funniest things. Her latest phrases are "What u talk about mamma?" and "Not so fast!".... I recently realized that its only 2 more years before she starts pre-school and I wanted to cry. Maybe next year we will take her to Disney World. We are getting settled into the house but I still need to decorate. We decided not to put a pool table in the back room bc it would be a tight squeeze so we are gonna buy another TV and a Wii and make it into a mini game room. Well thats all for now, time to relax.

My First Blog

Its become harder and harder to stay in touch with my close friends so Ive decided I will post here so that the people who are important to me will know whats going on in my crazy life! I will start posting soon!