Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Jersey Boys

At the last minute my dad and step mom had an extra ticket to see Jersey Boys! I was so excited to see it( and it was an awesome show) However, I should warn those of you who might want to see it also that the language is AWFUL! Someone had mentioned to me that it was bad, but I was still shocked when I heard it come out of an actors mouth on the stage! It is F-this and F-that. At first it really throws you off, but after awhile the shock is over. My Step moms good friend lives in Jersey and she said they really do talk like that to each other.

Jersey boys is the story of Frankie Vallie and the four seasons. I realized how much I loved their music. So my step mom ordered us some CDS. I can hardley wait until they get here!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Happy Belated valentine's day!!

Here are some pics showing ya'll what the kids and I gave Bruce for Valentine's day.








I really love the thought of valentine's day But I really do NOT like the pressure it puts on people. My hubby knows he is going to be in big trouble if he buys me 80 dollar rose that next week will be back down to 10 dollars. It just seems like such a waste. We have made kind of a silly tradition instead.

We spend less than 10 dollars( we got him this picture frame and the pics in it for $1.36 plus tax!) I got a hilarious card! Then we make Breakfast for dinner( heart shaped pancakes) it is a HUGE hit with our Kids!

Friday, February 15, 2008

I am a Big Girl Now!

Jocelyn turned 3! The day after Jocelyn got her stitches out was here 3rd Birthday! We took her out for dinner to get her favorite thing Mexican food! She Loves Beans and cheese! and of course T-T's( which are actually tortillas). She ate so good! Her big brother Riley gave her a very sweet toast ( his idea) it only took 4+ attempts of glass banging to finally get the toast out, but he did it! It was such a big kid thing to do!

Here he is Deep in thought during the toast!


Jocelyn was so happy that all her Grandparents had come to have dinner with her! She loves Mexican food and we usually give her little piles of her favorites. On this night we looked over and she was loading pieces of tortilla up with Queso and beans and then wrapping it up like an enchilada! She was shoveling it right in. I guess we can move on to more grown up food for her!


Graham is also a super eater! This night though he did something so funny! After he dropped his fork he tried a new way of eating.



I guess this is the mess we get for trying to teach him NOT to eat with his hands!

This week Jocelyn also got her big Girl bed! She slept fine all night! We had no problems and no falling out. Things are changing here in our house! It feels so good to be leaving the baby side of life, but it also feels kind of sad! All part of growing up!

STITCHES!!!!

I am Very sorry for the long pause in my blogging.

Blogging is a little bit therapeutic for me. I often find Humor in our lives, but it usually takes a good week or so after the act for it to be funny to me. With blogging I have found the humor so much faster. All of this is leading to the great reason for the lack of posts.

We had a terrible thing happen and It has been 2 weeks and I am just now able to bring myself to blog about the STITCHES!

My beautiful daughter was climbing on a wooden bed frame to a day bed at her great grandmothers house. Bruce and I were in the bathroom painting and pulling off wallpaper. When her Great grandmother brings her into to us. Jocelyn looks like a vampire! She has blood gushing out of both sides of her mouth. ( that area bleeds so much). It was hard to tell where the blood was coming from exactley. We ran to the kitchen and blotted the blood away and put some ice on her mouth. We couldn't tell if she had bit through her lip with her bottom teeth or her top. We rushed her to the ER and they took us right back to give us the bad news. She needed STITCHES! or her BEAUTIFUL face! The ER dr also told us it was one of the worst places to have a cut on the face. SHe crossed over aand cut both lip and regular skin. He said it would definitely leave a scar. WE paged the plastic surgeon who could not get there for another three Hours! ( which was actually four hours by the time he showed up)

I will spare ya'll the sad details of the stitches and the IV and the throwing up in the car on the way home. and i will leave you with just some pics of her lip.

Here she is 15 or so hours AFTER it happened



And here she is 2 days later




and here she is at her first dental appointment ever to check out her VERY bruised gums and her slightly loose teeth!



And here she is so Brave 5 days later when she got her stitches removed



So many things have happened since then that I have a lot to blog about and to catch ya'll all up on! But I will let this settle a day or two before I get back to posts a usual