He made it out alive...

out of his first day of preschool that is!  lol!  My Nolyn did amazing!  The teacher actually said when I walked in that he was so good and she wished all the kids were like him.  lol   He is my good lovie boy.

Having a no-kid break was nice.  Now it's almost time to pick up aiden, 1 more hour.  I should probably straighten up the house since the only thing I got done was dishes and mailing some paperwork while Nolyn was gone.  Oh AND I called and waited on hold FOREVER to schedule a physical for Nolyn for school.

Anyway, I'm so excited he had a great day.  he made a cool snowman picture he got to show me!  And he said he got to play and meet new friends.  He said he ate crackers and apples at snack time (the school provides it).  He's a little eating machine though...  He had pancakes and eggs for breakfast, crackers and apples for snack, when he got home I made him pb&j and apples, then he had some pretzles and then a tangerine.  lol.  Holy moly!

Have an amazing day everyone!

My baby isn't a baby anymore...

Nolyn had his first day of preschool today. 

It was so hard to hold back the tears! 

He's my little momma's boy.  He was excited about it 'til we got there.  Then it started... he wouldn't leave my side, he didn't want me to go, he wouldn't talk to anyone else but me.  Luckily he went to look at something to play with for a second and I snuck right out of there.  I had to go before the tears started.  ugh.  It's only 3 hours a day.  he can handle it.  He's 4!  he has to prepare for kindergarten and I need some time for myself to get the house cleaned up and ready to do daycare.  ugh...  he'll be OK!

Aiden of course showed up after his two weeks off from Kinder and was ecstatic as usual!  he couldn't wait to get back to his friends!  With the rain pretty consistent for 2 weeks, he was going stir crazy. 

Now I have some paperwork to get done to run to the post office then it's clean clean clean time so I can go get Nolyn in 2 hours.  Oh how excited I hope he will be. 

it's 2011!

The holidays are over....

THANK GOD! 

I'm so ready for normal life.

Tomorrow is back to school!!!

Aiden goes back to kinder and Nolyn starts his first day of PRESCHOOL! 

You know what that means?  3 hours of peace and quiet for Mom! :D  :D  :D

I'm starting a diet.  Not as a "resolution" but because I'm in a wedding on May 14th!  lol! And I kept starting but then a birthday or holiday would come up and screw everything all up!  lol!  So now things should be a little bit better.

Ok, I'm tired and need some quality husband time. 

We had a couple and their baby at our house ALL weekend.  A baby that screams constantly.  ugh.  and then today we had Aiden's friend Fayth's birthday party.  So now that the kids are in bed and it's quiet I'm ready to nuggle!

Low on Fuel

That's right, I'm super low... I couldn't get to sleep for crap!  ugh!

First, at about 9:30 my husband asked me if there was any laundry in the washer?  This meant that he must be low on boxers.  I said yes I'll switch them over because I HATE when he takes the laundry out and my clean laundry is all over the floor and then he puts the wet in the dryer but doesn't let it dry long enough and then throws my still-wet-laundry onto my dry-clean-on-the-floor-laundry... Then the kids go in and think it's all dirty and mix in their dirty clothes it's all just a mess.

So I said I'll handle it just get together the things you need washed and I'll add to it and all that.

So, he gets me the tiniest little pile (another pet peeve of mine cause when he does his laundry he will literally wash ONE item of clothing... HELLO, wasting water and propane much?) and I put it in after I do the washer to dryer transfer.  So I put it in and ad to it and then I set the drier to dry until it's all dry... which my husband would normally just put it in for the 70 minutes or whatever and typically it's now all dry then, especially I had a big load of towels in there. 

So, I told him I'd even stay up late to make the next washer to dryer transfer cause if not he has to wake up like an hour earlier than usual and do it and go back to bed.. which of course you know you never get back to sleep the same.  So with him working and me.. well... not working, I thought it was the nice thing to do.  So I stayed awake...

finally after about an hour and a half I got up to check on the laundry...  Dry... so I folded and transferred.

Now folks, this takes us to about 1:00am or later.

Now mind you, I decided to browse some new apps for my iphone in this time I had been waiting for the dryer.  So, I finally caved in and downloaded "Angry Birds."  WORST DECISION OF MY LIFE!  Let me tell you.  Not only did I keep playing after the dryer was done drying... I COULD.NOT.STOP!  AHHHHH!  I played that damn game until 3:30 AM!   Yes, you read me right.  I got pretty far in the game though so not a total loss.

But, now I'm paying for it.  I woke up at about 8:30am.  with a headache.  still tired.  husband already gone.  kids playing at grandma's house (we live in the same yard so they wake up and go visit her).

Now I'm left with my chores for the day....  shower, straighten hair, get kids dressed, go to walmart, come home, make enchilada's, clean, go to our neighbors so Aiden & Nolyn can play with their girlfriends from school, come home and hang with our friends that are coming over tonight for new years and have dinner, put the boys to bed, attempt to keep my eyes open 'til midnight.... uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.  Is it over yet?

Super Walmart in itself is a CHORE! 

It's now 9:36am and I'm still sitting on the couch in my PJ's with crazy hair. 

Better get started...

Thank goodness...

Christmas is over.

And even better, 2010 is almost over!

I have mixed opinions about 2010.

One of the best things of my life happened in 2010... I married my best friend and love of my life.

Also, my divorce from my ex husband was FINALLY final after years of arguing and only staying "married" to finish my foster sons adoption.

Some of the worst things of my life happened in 2010... My boss demolished the office with me inside, and fired me, all because I told him there wasn't enough money for him to steal, yes, STEAL, from the corporation at the time.  He then fired me.  He lied to unemployment.  And left me currently on disability which pays about 1/4 of the pay I was used to in a month.  We've been broke pretty much all year because of it.

My neighbors 19 year old daughter died in a car accident.

My ex husband quit paying COURT ORDERED child support and rarely ever seeing the kids.

I backed into my husbands car (sorry hun!)

My parents barely got any work all year (they own their own business and do iron work)

We were informed that Jared's grandma Dora only had 3 weeks to live.  That was about 2 weeks ago now....


To say the LEAST, I'm 100% ready for 2011!

It's already off to a great start in my opinion...

On monday I had an appointment at the preschool and we qualify for low income assistance.  What does that mean?  Nolyn can go to preschool, FREE!  Not that I don't love having my little booger home, but he was getting VERY, EXTREMELY attached to mommy.  Everytime I'd leave he'd cry.  ugh.  It's hard on my heart.  The little man LOVES being around other kids and really needed some time with kids, without his big brother.  We qualified for 5 days a week, just from 8:30am-11:30am.

This also helps with my new business venture.  I will be opening my own family child care out of my home.  Because of this we're trying to fix up the house like crazy... and on a budget at that.  I'm sure i'll be posting pictures of the improvements as they're done.  Currently my first room is the boys room.  I've moved them into the extra room.  I scrapped the popcorn ceilings down, now we're getting them ready to spray on the new texture.  My plan is to make them an amazing room!

None of our bedrooms have flooring.  We pulled up the 15+ year old carpet when we moved in (and I WAS working and making enough $ to afford new flooring) and we've been broke ever since!  I'm planning on painting the floor in the boys room I think... at least temporary.  We all have plywood subfloors right now.  not fun.

So yeah, that's most of our excitement around here.  I have 'til June (when my disability runs out) to get this daycare stuff going.  yikes.  I'm nervous!

I hope everyone had an amazing holiday!  For being broke ours was actually good because we're here and healthy and we did have enough cash to give our kids what they wanted at least, and to get each other things we *needed*.

It's raining it's pouring...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the rain!

BUT,

Can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me WHY in the world it doesn't rain all morning until right when it's time to pick Aiden up from school?  grrrr!!!

Boudoir by Katie!

So, since blogger wasn't letting me post photos the other day, it looks like it'll work now... YAY!  So, here's some photos from my test boudoir party!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE how they turned out.  Of course there was a TON more than what you see here but I'm showing my favs!  

So the whole idea is that you get a group of your girlfriends together and I come to YOUR house and we do a shoot with everyone.  Kind of like a tupperware party or a passion party!  So you invite your friends and everyone pays a fee.. so if it was like 8 people, they'd each pay like $25 and you'd get yours free for being the host!  Cute idea, right?  

And everyone gets their photos edited on a CD for that price!  LOVE it!

I heart babies!

So, I wrote a huge post on saturday and yeah, my internet was SUCKING so it didn't save it and when I clicked save, GONE!  POOF!  ugh.. I was so mad.

So, after installing a new modem/router combo, and calling cox cable who still sucked, but whatever... It looks like it might be working good.  I had the new modem forever, but I hate calling cox, cause well, they suck.  So, on with it...

I did a photo session with a newborn baby on sunday.  They're friends of ours.  She is just so darn precious.  Didn't help my baby fever one bit!

I'm really excited to be pregnant.  I think mainly for my New Husbands side of the family.  Of course they weren't around for me being pregnant with Nolyn, or for when Aiden was first placed with me.  So, it's exciting.  His family REALLY wants a grandbaby.  I mean they already have the boys who of course they consider their grandkids, BUT, it's a different feeling and connection to feel the baby moving in my belly, to see one born, and to snuggle with that fresh baby smell, and watch him/her (hopefully HER) grow up from day one.  That will be a spoiled baby for sure! :D

The baby above, her dad's pretty gangster, lol, so he requested the bandana diaper cover as a must!  lol! 

I <3 this one.  So much love!

So anyways, I spent my sunday doing their shoot and then the bulk of sunday editing them cause I just love baby shoots so much I couldn't wait!

Of course the parents love them! :D  I'm so glad!  I was really excited with how some of them turned out!

Sadie Rae is a cutie patootie for sure!

First Comes Love, then comes marriage, then comes the....

...baby in the baby carriage!

well, at least we hope that's how it works, right?

I already have two children from my previous marriage, one I foster-adopted and one biological, both boys.  Now of course my new husband has taken over the Daddy role, as their "old" daddy (as they call him) thinks 10 hours a month and $150 in child support is being a dad.  Nice, huh?

So, we're almost to our 1 month of marriage mark!

Before marriage, we had discussed doing things backwards and adding a new munchkin to our clan first, but we decided to go the "right" route and give our family the big wedding they wanted and then work on kids.

It took me 2.5 years to get pregnant with my bio son.  So of course we enter this journey with worries of infertility...  And we didn't really want the kids all too far apart.  If we could get pregnant any time soon it'd be ideal.  My oldest son just started kindergarten, my youngest son will start kinder next year, so it would give me the nice along bonding time with the baby that I missed with my youngest son.

And hopefully it's a girl!  lol!  But we won't get into that!

So, this was our first month officially "trying."  I had an IUD for about 3 years which cause MAJOR heavy 5 day periods *sorry tmi* and horrible cramps and after 3 years I was more than happy to be rid of it!  It did it's job well but it was definitely time to part ways.

So thanks to my period tracker app, it's easy to track when my ovulation is and period should be expected.... all that fun stuff.  So, last week was our baby dancing time and we did well.  every other day which was what my fertility doctor had suggested when I was trying with my ex.  Plus I think EVERY day is a little over kill and tends to stress and burn you out and I think thats what causes a lot of the fights and emotional part of infertility.  Feels so much more like a chore when you HAVE to do it.  If we couldn't do it, I didn't freak and I really just enjoyed it and didn't think of it any different.

So, we shall see what comes of this month.  We've got a few months now without using protection and didn't get pregnant but we didn't go anywhere near ovulation so we stayed pretty safe.

I think maybe I'm a little more optimistic getting pregnant this time because I've gotten pregnant and stayed pregnant, so I know it's possible for me and  I think the first time it was all the unknowns!

Our family is pretty excited about the thought of a new baby... especially since the boys are FAR from babies anymore, so everyone can't wait to snuggle up with a fresh little bundle of joy!

It's official!

I'm a married woman! (again... lol)

The wedding turned out amazing!  i couldn't have imagined it being any more beautiful!  

I can't wait to get the pictures back from our photographer!  It's taking FOREVER!  It's been almost 3 weeks now and I'm so excited.  

Pretty much the only way life could get any better would be if I was 50lbs lighter and pregnant!  lol  Oh, and maybe if we had some more money but that will come too.  

More pictures later!  Just had to FINALLY update!