My Mom went house hunting today, she looked at a few and fell in love with one but its set to go on auction in the next 13 days. Tre is going to find out tomorrow if she is still going to be able to put an offer on it or not.
I went to church with my mom and the girls, stopped at Frys and bought junk food, blegh, gave myself a stomachache. I walked with the girls around the block a few times, Ella was restless and has been getting cabin fever more and more lately. I really hope the W-2 comes tomorrow. At least I have books to look forward to in the mail. I hope I get everything soon, you being gone is bumming me out and I need a pick me up to help the days pass faster. And the end of February cannot come any sooner, you get to come visit for 4 days and we get new flooring. Only on the first floor but it is going to make such a difference I cannot wait.
AHHHHHHH, I am seriously killing my continuous posting by missing days! So last night I remembered I did not post when I was falling asleep in bed, one baby attached to my boob and the other with her feet in my back. At least it is an even number today if it had been an even number yesterday that I had missed I think my OCD would have shut this blog down. Coming close baby, coming close haha.
She is a daredevil, she climbed the slide backwards!
Our Babies <3
heeeeeey
Look Mom, I'm trying to crawl!
Baby Toes! Ella took this pic.
Well Baby that is it for today, I love you. Te Quiero.
STILL NO W-2. Taking their sweet sweet time. At least I did get a peek at your LES. I spent a good part of the day cleaning and organizing, the desk was a mess and I needed to rearrange the bookshelf with Ella's books. 14 of them came in the mail today, she was very excited. My mom took the kids to the park so I was able to get that all done. I made Mahi Mahi with fried rice and salad for dinner. Ella ate THREE helpings!! An entire thick fillet to herself!! AND the fried rice AND the salad!! THREE HELPINGS!! I think it was all the energy she burned today made her hungry, we danced and read books. It was a good day. And I think I changed my mind on the SDP, lets NOT do it, I will put it to the side myself. I am going to go with my gut instinct on this one and not trust the program with the way things are. Makes me very nervous. What do you think?
Here is Little Miss Bakes-A-Lot, she LOVES the Melissa and Doug Toys. I wish I could get every single one they have. There is stir fry, sushi, pizza, brownies, doughnuts and it goes on....
So I went on a mini book shopping spree and have a total of 100 books coming my way for Ella and Elisa. Including Dr. Seuss (tons), Shel Silverstein (4 titles) and a variety of other top 100 children's classics. My mom bought a few and I bought a few, Ebay has awesome deals on used books and pretty much every single one is second hand in very good condition meaning, no tears/scribbles and the binding is still like new. Don't worry it was not costly at all, I never spent more then $1 a book. Except for a few that were in "new" condition but then it was never more then 2-3 a piece. Anyway I am very excited to have a library for the kids, I think you will agree that reading is one of the most important things for the girls to do.
I watched Case 39 with my mom tonight and that movie was not scary at all. Do you remember the books "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" ? THAT was scary lol.
So. We meet again. I know. I committed the ultimate cardinal sin in this record keeping blog and I missed a day. I sat here trying to conjure up some sort of elaborate story as to why I did not write an entry for deployment day #15. Nothing I came up with would have been as simple of an explanation as the truth, I plain forgot. We skyped real quick and then my mom needed help with her homework and than it was 11pm. The girls had already gone to bed at 7pm and I knew I was in for a long day today. Which it was. Stress. Stressed about you and what is going on over there. Stress about this house and how I am so sick to death of this nasty carpet. I know its going to get changed but the time could not come quick enough. Stress about the girls simply because being a mom is stressful. Stress about my doc which looks like it will never get finished. Stress about time. Yes, even time has me stressed because the things that I can't wait to happen are set for future dates which are taking forever to come around. I even feel guilty for having ordered pizza for dinner. This day cannot end soon enough. To help brighten it up, I present, Ella.
I do love you, I do, do you love me the same as I love you? do you?
Leslie
I hope time keeps flying by and you come home sooner then later. Here is Ella! She was rocking out at Butchers.
She would live in costume if I let her!! When I took it off tonight to give her a bath she asked if she was going to be able to wear it again tomorrow. How could I say no?
I went to Kohl's to use my $20 credit and they had all their toys buy one get one 1/2 off so I scored some Melissa & Doug toys on the cheap! I didn't get any pics of Elisa today, when I went to take a pic of her the battery died :( Lots tomorrow, I promise <3 This one is from last night, I went to bed and this is how I found the girls, Elisa had a fistful of Ella's hair in her hand!
I am terribly upset I missed your call on Skype. ugh, is all I can say about that.
Soooo, I just found out since we have to begin repayment of the first time homebuyer deal, we cannot file until February 14. Boo on the IRS. But we don't have the W-2 from the county yet anyway.
In other news, Adrian and Monique came over, Ella would live in her Tinkerbell dress if I let her and I found out it will only cost $245 to cancel the dish as opposed to continuing to shell out $53 a month until 3/1/2012 coming to a total of $689! Subtract the cancellation fee and we have a total savings of $444. It is technically more of a savings because I did not calculate taxes.
I also calculated our budget for the next year and a half. We should be good for 4-6 mo from the time you come back. I just wish you knew the dates of your second deployment in '12 so I can prepare.
Amber came over, I made the diaper cake for her roommate, what do you think?
These I forgot to upload on another post.........
Let's focus on the cute baby face and not my pudge in the back :)
Your LES did not post. No W-2 came in the mail, the end of this month is draggggggging along. I also hate painting walls red. It takes a ridiculous amount of coats to cover and I am DONE! My mom and I have resigned ourselves to a different color and better quality paint which we will have someone else do. Ella on the other hand LOOOVES it and wouldn't stop telling me how much she loves the red wall. I did score 13 hardcover Berenstein Bear books for $20 in new condition!! wooohoo, I am trying to build up Ella's book stash. I am also going to buy some that will be appropriate when she is older. The memory card ran out of memory, I am going to pick up a new one tomorrow to take more vids of the girls.
Today was uneventful besides preparing to install the flooring and paint the walls, the house is going to look awesome when you come and visit. I know you probably feel like this
James
But really, its ok, you will love it and I will post pics when we finish it ;) In the meantime this was Ella last night, she had just taken a bath and need her "baby-honk" I was all "wahh?" and then I realized she was trying to say "Babyhawk"
Ella snapped this herself
I definitely need to buy Ella her own camera, I think she takes awesome shots.
I'm no photog, but Ella is scarfing down that seaweed salad!
And we got the wedding pics!!! Just some of my faves
We are hitting double digits now. The girls and I bummed around today. I officially withdrew from UoP, the counselor was really ok about it after I explained that I would rather go with Oregon State's online degree program. Especially since their cost per credit hour is lower then UoP. I tried on my mom's wig! Now I want to buy my own, but not in such a "mature" style.
I researched home school curriculum's today, I think Ella is ready to get started with something more formal then her ABC's and 123's
Anyway, I am counting down the days until you come and visit. I'll post bunches of the girls tomorrow.
I love you.
