Coffee. . .not enough

I don't think there is enough coffee in the world to wake me up this morning, but yet I am still writing a blog post. I have roo hiding in the other room doing her inevitible morning poo and I really just don't want to change it. Yet I am fully aware that I am going to have too as soon as she comes around the corner. Why am I so tired. Because I stayed out way to late last night. I took mom to see Phantom of the Opera for the first time and by the time it was all said and done it was midnight. Then I had to unwind at home some before I could fall asleep and be up early this morning to take Noah to school. God bless school. It assures me naptime. Because I know that the coffee is just not going to kick in anytime soon. On to other random thoughts. . .

Bumps is about to become a very very busy boy. Not that we weren't busy before. Just last weekend was filled with parties and get togethers. Sat alone had 3. Needless to say we were all exhausted by Monday morning, but extremely grateful we are finding a niche here finally. Bumps starts his bowling class on Sat and he is beyond excited. Then on Monday he starts karate and on Tues swim lessons. I told him I thought it was too much for him, but he disagreed with me. So I am going to let him have his way this time and watch him carefully. Maybe it is just too much for mommy. Especially since 2 of the classes are held at the Y which means I will feel obligated to workout while he is doing his thing. Probably not a bad thing, huh?

Roo is everywhere at all times. She has taken to my leftover candles in a big way. In other words, she likes to dig them out with her fingers and then comes downstairs smelling like various scents. At least she smells good, I guess. She still isn't walking, but she is making steps towards it now. She walked about halfway through the front room the other day, so good for her. She is going to be a strawberry for Halloween and she HATES the costume with a firey passion. We find it hysterical though. So she is wearing it, for better or worse. Poor roo.

Quilt numero uno is done and now I am working on another one that should be done tonight. I really wish I had gotten back into sewing a couple years ago, but a couple years ago I wouldn't have had the most amazing fabric store down the road to give me inspiration. Oh, and that person named K. She is pretty good at inspiring me and pushing me to do things also. Even though she is slightly way more talented than I am in the whole sewing area. Gives me something to look up too though. Plus, I don't feel guilty when I steal her ideas. :P

Roo has now reappeared, snot nosed and poopy, and thus this mindless post has to end. God I love my life. . .and I really do mean that. :)

One Step at a Time

Big brother helping rooroo with that walking thing. Almost 15 months and still not walking! I am not complaining though!!!!

Grrrrrr. . .

Yes, that is daddies sweatband, and yes, it apparently had sweat in it. I didn't know that until she was nice enough to hand it too me.

Blibble Blabble Blibble

How many moods can you go through in a minute? I think we go through at least 5 here. Such.a.diva.

Mantle

I have to show off my mantle because I am slightly more than excited to have one now! Bumps and I were having way to much fun decorating the other day and he wanted me to take a picture and put it where everyone could see. We decorated the outside also, but it isn't done yet. Pictures to come when it is done!

Wedding cont. . .

Cutie bumps!

Grandpa and his kiddo's

Grandma and her kids and great grandma (she turned 90 this year!)

Grandma eating Ainsley's face!

Practicing her high kicks

Wedding!

We headed down south to see M's family this weekend since his cousin decided to take the plunge and get married. Plus, we hadn't seen that side of the family in a very long time (yes grandma and grandpa S, we will be to you very soon, promise). We had a fantabulous time with the family. The kids were spoiled rotten and are still recovering. Plus, we had to do our usual sneaky sneaky thing and surprise the in-laws who thought we weren't able to make it. Bumps proved that he truly is a dancing fool and danced the night away with everyone at the reception. He claims he danced with 15 females and I don't doubt that claim for a minute. He is definantly taking after his daddy. The same daddy who had to break out the splits to show up the groom during a little dance competition they had. Not even the groom is safe from M's attention grabbing ways on his wedding day. ;) We are all still recovering from the trip, but I am glad we were able to make it to a family wedding at last!

Daddy and Rooroo

Trying to escape from me

Getting a chicks number?

Lights!

Daddy getting ready to show off

Another daddy and rooroo

My fabulous family

Dancing with his cousin G

Grandpa and Rooroo

Daddy dancing with Aunt M, who didn't put Rooroo down most the weekend

Experiment

Just an experiment to see if I can download videos or not. It was being a pain earlier, so if it doesn't work, just consider it a work in progress for now. And sorry it is sideways. I am not awesome enough to figure that one out yet.

What a pic

Nothing like waking up to a snotty baby first thing in the morning! Makes my day so much more fun!!!

Cardboard box

Bumps to daddy "dad, this year I want to be a carboard box for Halloween"

Score one for us! Cheap costume for us this year!!!

Sewing

I have gotten back into sewing recently and am really enjoying it. I have been taking ideas from blogs and online tutorials and getting crafty with them! Plus, I have figured out it is alot cheaper to make rooroo clothes then buy them! And there are so many amazing fabrics out there and patterns (totally digging Amy Butler right now) that I just want to experiment with them all! I am also taking a quilting class with my mom right now that I am really enjoying. It is really fun to see what a yard of fabric can become!!! Here are a few of the things I have been making lately:

Ainsley's finished twirl skirt. It is big on her, but I put the elastic in that has button holes. She will be able to wear it for a long time I hope!

Taggie blanket for her to chew on

Fabrics for my quilt

The squares "focus" for the quilt

M's twirl skirt, still need to add the maroon lace to the layers

Ok, ok, I understand already

I am getting my arse reamed from multiple sources because I am a horrible blogger. What can I say. . .I have a life. *cough cough Kate cough cough* Plus the whole moving and not having a husband around could have contributed to it. We are now in the midwest again and loving it. It is nice to be near family again. And we are now homeowners! We love our new house. I am still in awe of it. I don't think there has been a day since we signed the papers that I haven't just stopped and looked around and sighed. It will be hard to sell this house.

The kids are doing really well. Bumps is now in kindy. So hard to believe. It feels like I was just holding him in my arms last month. He loves it so much though. As much as I dreaded fully day kindy, I love it now. I have time with rooroo during the day. He is slowly starting to make friends which is good. He loves his new backyard and spends a ton of time on his swingset. I can say he still gives me a hug and kiss everyday before he goes in the school building, so I am very lucky that some of my little boy is still in there.

Rooroo, oh rooroo. We have the hellion of the family. She is 14 months old now and still not walking, but by God she climbs everything in sight. I found her on top of our high top kitchen table the other day. She found it very humerous. Me, not so much. She loves to "talk" and does it constantly. I am always getting pointed at and talked too very sternly by her. Cracks me up, but I know what it means for the future. There are so many moments where M and I look at each other and say "we are so screwed." We are raising a diva. God love her.

M loves his new squadron and seems to be having a good time. He has friends here already from our previous base so he is having a good time. Plus there is a lake right by his squadron, so he is in heaven. He also bought a truck, so now he is a real man. We were excited though because it is a 01 Dodge Ram with 25K miles on it. So we can use and abuse it over the next few years!

I am doing good. Lonely, but that happens when you move. I have friends, but we are all so busy it is hard to get together. I am not used to having a non-social neighborhood yet either. Living on base and off base are totally different. I wouldn't switch because I love it here, but I miss having houses I can just walk into and so on. We are hoping and praying our good friends G & A get orders here soon, but only time will tell.

So that is the current update. I will add pics over the next couple of days!

Mowing the Snow

This is what happens when your kid gets tired of being cooped up all day and dreams of spring. He goes outside of mows the snow.

Caught me taking pics

His poor lawnmower

Can't see anymore

He is so damn cute

Fixed his hat problem

Messy Messy RooRoo

Seriously, you want me to eat what?

Get the camera out of my face

Starting to warm up to the mess

I see brother!!!

And he is super funny and loves my mess!!!

6 month pics

Our baby girl is growing up very very fast! We took these last month for her 6 month pictures. As you can tell, she is not a ham at all! :)

Silly Rooroo

Mmmm. . .toes

Looking just like daddy

Daddy's favorite

She hates getting dressed up. She is taking after mommy there!

Give me that furry thing that is making me smile

So beautiful when she is happy

Holding herself up

My favorite with her Juicy Couture bloomers

So sweet!

Little Bits

Ahhhh. . .yet again life has gotten very busy for our family, so the blog has gone by the wayside. We are very excited about the orders and have been house hunting in the area we are going to be in. We are taking the big step of buying a house. Scary. Very scary. We feel like now is the time to do it though. Prices are so cheap right now in the area we are going, we would be stupid not too. We found the neighborhood we are most likely going to be in and naturally there is a lake in it. Wonder who was all excited the minute he saw the lake? Our house actually would be on the lake if we do what we want too do. So big daddy could get home from work, grab his pole, and go out the back of our fence to the lake. That is his heaven. Mom was nice enough to go and check out the houses and the neighborhood today and loved it. So that made us feel good. We (myself and the kids) are going to try to be there before Aug so bumps can start school on time. My baby is starting kindergarten!

Bumps is doing good. He has been offically approved to go to kindy next year. Makes me very very sad. They said he was academically ready, but moreso socially ready. I think the latter is the more important of the two when it comes to kindy. He has had croup this week, something we haven't had in a long time around here. It was the 2nd time in his life he ran a fever. He has been having alot of fun going to our neighbors basketball games, which we have been doing alot. And he ever told me how hot the cheerleaders are. . .thank you bumps, I needed to know that. It is amazing how going to a high school basketball game makes you realize how old you really are. But I digress. . .

Rooroo is growing so fast! She is on solids now and loves daddy's creations. She loves her squash and plows through it fairly quickly. She can move alot faster now. She rolls all over the room and takes off after Bumps the minute she sees him. And now she is getting up on all 4's. Scares the poo out of me. I am very anxious to get a picture of her at Disneyworld being so little, in a princess dress, walking towards the castle holding daddys hand. That was a mouthful. And then another one holding brothers hand doing the same thing. It is going to be so much fun!

I will post some new pics this weekend. I am planning on sitting down and making myself do it!!! Bye bye for now!

Momma (and Daddy) we're coming home!

So if the rumor is true, and we have been told it is 99% for sure, we will be ending our days in the great NW at the end of this summer and heading to some place we didn't think was possible. We will now be based 2o min from my mom, 2 hours from my dad, and 4 hours from all of big daddy's extended family. Big daddy has gotten word he will be helping to establish a new flying unit at our new base. This could all change tomorrow knowing our luck, but I would like to think that we are being told the truth since it came from the commander. We have talked about this base, but as a future possibility, not one that we thought could be our next one. Deployments are a possibility, but it is a risk we have to take. And, besides, I don't know if I could go a year without one. It has kind of become a part of life around here. I am so excited to be going to a base that, like the one we are at right now, is right outside of a big city. I had finally become resigned to the fact we were going to be stuck in bfe again when God came through with this blessing. I was even looking for houses at the base we thought we were going too. Now the fun part of going through things and preparing for a new city begins!!! And it is a journey we are more than ready to take!

Best Friends

Why are bumps and R best friends? Could it be that distance does nothing to seperate them? That they beg for webcam time together? And then this is what they do for hours at a time on the webcam? This pic was taken from K's view of the battle. They did this for almost 2 hours the other day. Of course, K had to get her rooroo time also, especially now that she has been tasked with the very trying job of being her Godmother. But as R likes to tell people "his mommy won't let him have a sister like baby rooroo," so they just have to get their fix on the webcam till we get closer again. Vegas won't even provide K with her much needed rooroo time. But it will provide K and I with some much needed drinking and partying time. But back to the boys. There is a good reason both of our houses are going to have 4 bedrooms. The guest bedrooms have already been claimed by the other couple and the boys will be sharing a room. Not that they will ever sleep, but at least they will be together, fighting with lightsabers, at 3am.

Weekend O' Fun

We had the best weekend with W and L at Silver Mt. The rooms are incredible there and the waterpark is always so much fun. We love the fact you can get a drink and float on the lazy river. Friday we spent some family time at the waterpark and then chilled at the hotel that night. Sat we all went down to the waterpark for the day. The boys started drinking as soon as we got there. Naturally, they can't resist PBR in a bucket 5 for 10 dollars. I got rooroo down for her nap at the waterpark and she slept for a couple of hours. After she woke up, I started to drink. I remembered my giant goblet from the last trip and had them fill it up for L and I. That lead to a slight buzz and more drinking when I got back to the room at around 6ish. Big daddy and W were already feeling really good by then. Good enough that big daddy passed out while reading to bumps, just a short nap, but he still passed out.

Sometime around 10 or so I decide that L and I needed to go to the bar. So we walked over to the bar (adequatly named Noahs) and I decided to start doing shots. For those who know me, I don't do shots. I haven't done shots since college. The 2nd shot put both L and I under. I swear it was all vodka, a teeny tiny bit lemon. Then M showed up while W stayed with the sleeping kids (they were supposed to tag team, but I think M had sobered up enough he knew I needed to be watched.) We got home after having a blast singing and dancing and drinking and I attempted to sleep only to realize it wasn't going to happen. Thus hitting the trashcan later on. 1st time in 10 years, so I can't complain. I am allowed 1 drunken night in 10 years. We spent Sunday relaxing needless to say. Big daddy and bumps went tubing and had a great time spending time together and going down the hill. All in all it was a fabulous weekend and we can't wait to go back soon. Maybe eventually even buy a condo there in the future. We will see!

Too much waterpark fun for rooroo

So sweet when she is sleeping

Her hiney made a good holder for my ranch :P

Waterpark pics

And this is where my drinking started and continued until I ended up over a trashcan at 3am

The giant Mai Tai of death (the same goblet that screwed me up with K back in Sept)

Noah and his fiance L, just don't tell W

Mmm, giant green scarf

Oh God, it has started, she is in love with W. Same look she gives Rob Pattison in Twilight and Harry Potter