Jada's 9th B-day

Jada had an awesome Birthday! We went to the park with just the family the kids played and we got to visit. We opened presents and had cake and ice cream. I decided having a friend party every other year is plenty. The kids had lots of fun and Jada got very spoiled. When her uncle Scott and Sydney drove up with a 4 wheeler in the back of their truck she thought they had gotten it for her. What a nice present! She didn't think she was getting one because we told her we couldn't afford it and we can't but what the heck. Everyone else had a 4 wheeler to ride but her so we had to get her one and she was so excited I've never seen her go so crazy over a present.

Makayla's 14th B-day

I can't believe my little girl is 14. Wow I really feel old and I hope that saying isn't true that your only as old as you feel because I must be going on 80.j/k only some days. Well my beautiful daughter is growing up so fast and I'm praying I will make it through the teenage years without being put into the crazy house! She is a really good girl but she's a girl and for all of you with daughters you know what I mean. I don't have any comparison cuz all I have is girls but whatever even if you don't have girls you know what I mean. Makayla and 3 friends went to frightmares and then came home to shove their faces with cupcakes and ice cream, candy and Carmel apples. Yum Yum! Then they watched a scary movie because young girls always love scary movies. I know I did! They had Edward in with them to watch over them thanks to grandma Woolf she really surprised her! She got a darling shirt jewelry, chocolates,a life sized Edward and tickets to the premier of New Moon she also had a new moon cake. What a birthday this girl has had. She gets one all weekend long Friday, Saturday, and Sunday what a spoiled brat.j/k She loves her new cell phone and all her other gifts thanks everyone!

Cancun Trip 2009

Trip to Cancun

Well I know I haven't blogged for a thousand years or so but it's not because I haven't wanted to. This summer has been a lot of fun but very chaotic it seems like we have atleast 2-3 going on a week no exageration! I am so exhausted I almost fell asleep standing up at work last week! Anywho back to my amazing vacation! We left early Saturday morning on the 20th of June. My mom came to my house and stayed with our girls she is the best. The flight seemed like forever but it's really just because I don't do well sitting for long periods of time. A little over 4 hours we arrived at the tropical paradise. Cancun is a beautiful place and I can't wait to go back someday. We really appreciate Brandon's parents inviting us to go it was a blast! The whole vacation we slept in late, relaxed by the pool or at the beach and went to fancy restaurants. What more could you ask for it was definitley my kind of vacation. No kids and just relaxing, shopping, and eating good food it was paradise! If you ever go to Cancun you have to go to the Coco Bongo it is the most amazing club I've ever been to in my life. It was like a Vegas show combined with a dance club with live entertainment all night. We had a great time and wished Brandon's parents would have joined us but the thought they would be the oldest people there but we felt pretty young so next time they said they would go for sure. We had a little bad luck on Tuesday. We decided to go see Transformers since it was coming out that day. We decided to take the city bus since Ryan and Renee hadn't before. It was only 75 cents instead of paying 10-20 dollars for a cab ride to most places. Well it actually ended up being a very expensive bus ride since Brandon's dad left his backpack on the bus. When we went to get off he jumped up so we wouldn't miss our stop and left it in his seat. He realized right as the bus had left but it was to late and we didn't know the bus # or anything but we were hoping for a good someritan to find it and turn it in. No such thing on a city bus it's mostly the locals that ride it so we figured we'd see someone selling our stuff on the beach the next day. Ryan had his wallet, IPOD, his camera and our camera all gone it was awful. He had such a good attitude about it he figured there wasn't anything he could do about so not to get upset. It's a goood thing it wasn't me it would have ruined my whole trip and I would have wanted to go home. Well what can I say crap happens and you have to have something exciting to tell everyone when you go home and this was quite the adventure! We had such a wonderful time and we really missed our girls but it was good to get a break for a week. I needed it!

Too busy to blog!

Sorry I know it has been forever since I've blogged but my life has been absolutely crazy and even more hecktick than usual! As most of you know I was diagnosed with a disease called interstitial cystitis or IC for short. It is a chronic inflammatory condition of the bladder and it's cause is unknown. Unlike common cystitis (bladder infection) it is not caused by bacteria and does not respond to conventional antibiotic therapy. At this time there is no cure for IC, or an effective treatment that works for everyone. Basically you feel like you have a bladder infection most of the time with a lot more pelvic pain not just burning when you urinate. I had a surgery where they dialated my bladder and filled it as full as it would go. For a normal person this isn't painful at all but for someone with IC after the surgery the pain was worse and my bladder was covered with hemorrhages on the bladder wall. They inject some anti-inflammatory and other medications to help with pain. After peeing blood for 3 days and being in a lot of pain and not being able to take anything for it because pain meds don't agree with me I finally started to feel a little better. My urologist said the only symptom I don't have is a small bladder mine is normal sized but I would almost rather have to pee a lot than having pain all the time. They say if you follow a special IC diet it helps but you can't hardly eat any fruit which is killing me I could live on fruit and chocolate but I'm not supposed to eat that either. Somebody please shoot me! Everything about it totally sucks and I am having a really hard time with it. Some days I just don't even want to eat because it's not worth the pain you have to go through. I have lost some weight so I guess that's the one good thing that has come out of this. I also have to large kidney stones. How can you go your whole life with nothing and then bam everything hits at once. I know it could be worse I could have a terminal illness so I won't complain but now you know why I haven't blogged I've been a little busy and a lot depressed so I will try to do better!

Kinsley's 1st Birthday

I can't believe my baby is 1 allready boy how time flies it seems like we just had her and it's allready been a year! Since it had only been 4 days since my surgery Grandma Renee was nice enough to let us have the party at her house and her and Daddy picked out all the decorations and pretty much took care of everything since I wasn't really up for it quite yet. We wanted to have the party on her real B-day and it was on a week night so we figured we better have it around 7 so everyone could make it after work and dinner. Well around 6:45p.m. Kinsley starts yawning and getting a little cranky so we were sure that this was going to be awful she needed a nap and everyone would be there in 15 minutes. We decided to start with the presents which she loved tearing the paper off but then just threw whatever she got to the side. I guess she's still a little young for opening that many presents but she loved all of them and plays with them every day so Thanks Everyone for all the cute and fun stuff! She started to get a little tired of the presents since there were so many so we decided to go try the cake. Kinsley really loved the candle and I thought for sure she would burn herself before we got done singing but I grabbed her hand right in time. She loved being able to dig into the cake. At first she just dipped 1 finger into the frosting but once she realized nobody was stopping her she dug in and threw it around, shoved into her face and smashed it over and over Daddy finally got tired of holding the video camera and asked ho long I wanted to tape her with the cake. The clean up wasn't to bad she only managed to get 2 gobs on the floor and the rest was contained on the high chair. After all that sugar Kinsley wasn't tired anymore so we finished opening presents. She was such a trooper she never fused the whole time eventhough she was exhausted. She is such a good baby and such a sweetheart we all love her so much. Kinsley always makes you smile and she keeps us laughing no matter how bad your day is she makes it better. We love you Kins!

Jada And Cashus playing in the snow Feb. 2009

Jada and Cashus had a blast playing in the snow on our last big snow storm of the year in February. Cashus loves the snow and he is hilarious to watch! He had some pretty good air jumping up to catch the snowballs Jada was throwing. It was diificult to get him in the air at just the right moment on camera.