Flashback Friday...

Halloween 2005
CJ 4, Lia 6 months, Aiden 2, Damien 3, dJalen 7 months,

Thursday

Today has been the loooongest day. I woke up to the delicate sounds of Aiden banging around downstairs at 7 a.m. I could also hear him talking Dad's ear off. This kid wakes up talking a mile a minute. I refused to get out of bed before 8 even though I couldn't go back to sleep. I rolled out of bed at 8:01 and headed downstairs. I got everyone fed and dressed and by the time I was showered and ready myself it was 10. I took the kids to the park thinking I could walk on the track while they played on the playground. Yeah, not so much. Aiden started following me around before I was even a full lap around, then Lia lay on the ground and refused to walk any further after we visited the fish pond. Needless to say it was time to go and she DID get up and walk her little hind parts home. It was sooo hot outside today that we pretty much camped out inside watching movies for the rest of the day. Aiden had a friend come over this evening to play on the slip n slide for awhile which was fun for them. Then came dinner & baths and then finally bed time. I'm beat. And my team is currently loosing in the bottom of the 8th. They were winning when they came into this inning. Then they put in the closer that got the loss yesterday... and the SAME GUY hit ANOTHER 2 run double off of him. Homeboy does NOT have good luck in this stadium apparently. Personally I would have hit that SOB when he came to the plate after stealing the game from me the day before. But I'm ghetto like that.

Waterslides and Baseball upsets

Today was my first day with Lia and Aiden. They'll be here for 5 days while Amber and Smitty are back east for a funeral. They arrived around 11 and we had a quick pancake brunch (and good lord can they put away some pancakes... I felt like Aunt Jamima). Next on the agenda was an hour or so of cartoons (a ploy to gain a few moments peace to check my facebook and blogs). To everyone's delight, Gramma and Papa (and some Popeye's chicken) arrived home around 3 o'clock. Mom took a 5 week vacation back east and we are all glad that she is finally home. After a little Gramma fix it was time for "Rest Time"(a.k.a. "Adult Recovery" time because Auntie is about this - close to passing out right here on the couch) which lasted for an hour and a half or so. We cut that short though and headed down to Janelle's house so they could play with her kids on their big inflatable water slide. They sure had a blast down there and were really fun to watch. (But holy crap what is with the tattling at this age??? If no one is bleeding or requiring immediate medical attention, I really don't care what happened). But anyway, on with the pictures!

Tonight Jake and Dad had softball games so I threw Lia into a quick bath, got her ready for bed then went to grab Aiden only to find him fast asleep in his bed in front of a movie. Rather than wake him (it was already 7:30) I just let him sleep dirty :) He played on the water slide... that counts a little right :) Anyway, I left mom with the sleeping (and almost asleep) kids and met the boys at the ball park to watch their games (they split... lost the first game, won the second)while I listened to the Roadrunners game on my handy little walkman radio.

As for the roadrunner's game, they were down 2-0 til the top of the 7th, where they blew up for 5 runs and led 5-2. The score stayed the same until the bottom of the 9th... with one out. Chico is at the plate, 2 walks led to a 2 RBI double and then a 2 run walk off home run for the win! I HATE when that freakin' happens (to us)!!! I mean OUR team does that to other teams all the time, but it hardly ever happens to us. Crap.

The Littlest Heckler

She makes PaPa so proud!

Littlest Heckler from JennyRyan on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday to me...

I had a good birthday today. Dad got up early and went and got me a present (Guitar Hero World Tour) and a cake. Lori, Kaylee & Trent came over and brought me some cute earrings, then Amber, Smitty, Aiden and Lia joined us and brought me a funny t-shirt. We played Guitar Hero until my fingers were cramping. It has some 311 on it (whooohooo!). Rochelle stopped by around 6 and brought me the first half of my birthday present (a t-shirt autographed by most of the Roadrunners), then around 6:30 Dad and I headed up to the ballpark where we met Smitty and the kids. There I got the second half of my present from Rochelle (a shirtless, sweaty pin-up of a player that was taken last night just for me...all I could say to was Daaaaaaammmmnnnn! (and holy shit I can't believe she made him do that!) It was autographed as well with a happy birthday wish on it). The boys gave me the rest of my birthday present, blowing out Orange County 21-9... it was great. By the end of the game Lia had dad heckling the other team like a champ. Tonight's game was a little bittersweet as Juan, my other favorite player (757 in the house) has decided to give it up and move on... tonight was his last game :( I may have shed a tear but wish him the best in whatever he decides to do. Thanks to everyone who made my birthday special... love you all.

Happy Birthday Liana!

Man, I tried so hard to get on here before midnight... though technically it's no longer Lia's birthday (the 12th... which she shares with the incredibly awesome Nick Hexum) I haven't gone to sleep yet so it still counts. Our first baby girl is now officially 4 years old. Since her birthday fell on Easter Sunday this year, they had her birthday on Saturday. She had a fun pizza party with a superstar pink sprinkle strawberry cake she helped make herself. She wore her pretty pink party dress, which she was oh so proud of and loved to twirl in. She got a host of Disney Princess dolls and a few Littlest Petshop toys too, not to mention her cool Tinkerbell laptop. Of course all the kids were so eager to 'help' her open the presents she barely had time to look at anything before it was snatched away with another package thrust at her. Anyway, hope you had a good birthday sweet princess.

Lots of stuff...

First and foremost, a belated birthday shout out to Keith! ( I texted him the next day but he was too cool to reply!) Anyway Happy Birthday! I love you and miss you (and Bobby Light) like CRAZY!

Second, by the time I get home from work on Monday I will finally have MY OWN wireless (so I can stop jacking the neighbors and getting booted off every 15 !@#3ing minutes! Whoooo-hoooo! However I will be using that internet to start looking for a part-time job (boooooo!).

And to make the trip worth your while, here are some cute kids :)

practically perfect

Baby Blockade and an oldskool pic...

Kesha and I with Jalen and Lia Halloween of '05. We had the strollers set up as a barrier to keep all the kids in front of us so no one would get lost in the dark :)

In other news, since the 'oh I've never even seen this picture' phrase is so commonly expressed to me and because I enjoy looking back through my old pictures, I've decided to try to post a random picture every day. This one is one of my favorites of my sisters and I just over 8 years ago.

Picnik...

Okay, so while I was bidding my time playing mobsters waiting for my stamina to come back up I stumbled across the Picnik website. It's a free photo editing software, kinda like Picasa, but you don't have to download anything to your computer... plus it's got some cool actions and is really easy to use. Anyway, just thought I'd share for anyone who takes lots of digital pictures like me :) Here are a few that I piddled around with tonight (again waiting for my stamina to build up ;) They all started out as camera phone pictures and I think you've seen most of them, but here they are anyway with a new twist :)

Ballerina and a 'Broken' arm

Lia will be starting dance class tomorrow. How freakin' cute is she?

Today Aiden fell up the stairs at Gramma's house and "broke" his arm. His "cast" is made of athletic tape that Gramma wrapped around his arm to appease him.

Annie sent me this picture of Kole-man today and I love it! He's getting so big. (And I don't recall seeing him in a shirt since they've moved ;) He's gone country!