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.

Sissy

We had a cool lightning storm tonight. Dog, of course, was a huge sissy and hid under the kitchen table while I watched at the back door. You can hear, no thunder, no rain... just crickets... freaking scaredy cat.

Happy Birthday Jake!

Today (for the next 4 minutes) is Jake's birthday. He's 31 today (daaaaaammnnn!). Hope you had a good day. Love the thorn in your side (but also your favorite) :)

The Littlest Heckler

She makes PaPa so proud!

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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 Koley...

I am completely dropping the ball on these birthday posts. July 5th was sweet Koley's 2nd birthday. Happy Birthday little man!

Batting Cage...

I feel like the kid in A Christmas Story "I can't put my arms down". But in my case, I can't really move them much at all. Dad and I went to the batting cage today for an hour. I maybe took a hundred swings and my arms are killing me. I haven't hit in soooo long. I did make my way down to the medium fast pitch cage though and after only one embarrassing swing where I didn't come anywhere close, I got my bat on the ball and started hittin' some. Still got it :) But what do I have to show for today? 5... yes FIVE! freaking blisters. In 55 minutes. With 2 batting gloves on. WTF?

Tomorrow the RR come back into town and the heat stroker starts tomorrow night as well, so definitely a weekend full of baseball/softball. Love it! Here is a picture from the cage and I finally managed to get the pictures I took of Trent yesterday. His are a little fuzzy because I had the resolution set wrong on my phone. Here they are...

Another summer day...

Can I just stop and say for a minute how freaking great it is not to have to go to work for awhile? Not that I don't love my job but HOLY CRAP I love waking up whenever I want and having the whole day to do just the things that I want to do. I'm sure my tune will change in another week or so, but so far, LOVING summer vacation.

Today I got to watch Kaylee and Trent while Lori went and got her hair did. Sorry, no pictures of Kaylee as she was too busy watching the Hefelumps movie to even spare me a glance. And I can't upload the pictures of Trent right now because Sprint's website is down for routine maintenance (damn it!) As it were, Trent didn't have much time for me either. I fed him... then he slept for 2.5 hours. I mean like passed out asleep, not even flinching when I picked his arm up and dropped it a few times (cuz I'm soothing like that). Nice. Sorry Lor, call me if he's up all night... really... I'll be up :)

I listened to my baseball game today on the radio. Well the first 55 minutes of it... then they had a 2 hour and 19 minute rain delay before we could listen to the REST of it. They boys wanted to give in and go back to the hotel... I don't blame them. The other team wouldn't have it though and after the 2 hour rain delay we ended up losing 5-1. They should have just let us forfeit. Outfielders should NOT have to jump over lakes (or charge through them) to catch a routine pop fly. Soggy shoes kinda ruin the effect.

Not much else to report. Oh yeah, did I mention how much I LOVE summer vacation? Oh I did? My bad.

Happy Forth of July...

Happy 4th of July everybody. I'm heading out to Jakesha's in about an hour (hooray for bbq and LOTS of fun!)

I've had a busy few days. On Monday I took some new pictures of Trent... which are as of yet unedited (sorry Lori) but I'll work on them in the endless stretch of a week I have looming in front of me. On Tuesday we (Jakesha, boys and I) headed down to Las Vegas to pick up Lisa & kids. We stayed in the Sunset Station in Henderson (which I highly recommend... Vegas without most of the Vegas BS). Unfortunately, the airline lost Jasmin's luggage (why the 15 year old girl? they care the most!) Anyway, of course Uncle Jake volunteered to take her shopping to hold her over until her bag arrived. We shopped in the HUGE Henderson mall across the street, went bowling in the hotel, swimming, dinner on the strip, a quick adventure walk to see the sights & hotels, then back home on Thursday morning! Good Times.

Thursday night I headed straight out to the ball field to see my boys win a great game 4-2, last night not so lucky as they got beat 18-13. As of right now they are in first place by 6 games in their division... WHOOHOO!!!

I'll post some pictures when I get a chance, just wanted to jot down a few things. I'm out!

Splash Pad

I picked the boys up this afternoon around 3:30 and hauled them off with me to the splash pad. I figured they could run some energy off, mom & dad could have them out from underfoot for a few hours to get some remodel work done and I could get some sun on my ghostly white legs. Goals 1 & 2: check... goal 3... errr not so much, I'm thinking they need a few more days to lose the florescence. Anyway, of course I took my camera along for the photo opportunity. C.J. was so funny... he kept asking "Are you gonna post that on facebook?" I asked him if I should and he says... "Um, yeah, they need to see me" :) I swear he makes me laugh so hard. We had a great time and the boys played awesome together. We only had one small mishap where Boogie wiped out on a metal grate and took a little chunk out of his knee, but he toughed it out and only cried for a second. Afterward we stopped off at the store and bought some ice cream treats to take home to Mom, Dad & Grandpa who were still working like field hands. Here are a few of our pictures from today :)

Playing Catch Up...

So I haven't been around in awhile... sorry, I was slackin' big time and then baseball season started and you know how my baseball seasons go :) Anyway, I've missed a few birthday posts, I forgot to do Avery's birthday post in April (22) so sorry my sweet girl.
May 2006

2009
And Annie (June 26)

Happy Birthday to my favorite sister on the Gulf Coast :) Wish I could have been there for everyone's birthday fun.

Baseball season started in May, so of course I have been busy for the last several weeks. A shout out to Uncle Mike for my season tickets, thank you, thank you a million times over!

This is pretty much my view every night of the summer (they'd just thrown down, that's why everyone's all lined up). Love watchin' my boys. They're in first place this year (whoohooo!!) and I'm lovin' it!

Also, at the end of May, Damien graduated from kindergarten. Yay! Congratulations to him! He will be starting full day school as a big first grader! CJ will be starting 2nd grade and Aiden will be going into Kindergarten as well.

In other news, (I know... sooo far behind!!) Lori had her baby on Monday (6/22) afternoon. Trent Allen Jardine was 8 lbs 5 oz and born at 2:50 pm. He is so cute and sweet that he makes my ovaries ache a little. Linda and Lexi (along with sweet baby Hunter) came down to be with her when she had him. We had a great time playing together this week and I'm so sad that they're leaving tomorrow. We went to Pirate Island Pizza tonight for one last outing and had a great time. We sure will miss them. Anyway, on with the pictures... how sweet are these boys?

So I think this pretty much concludes the catch up. I'm going to try to do better blogging so they don't all end up being novels like this. We'll see how that goes :) Anyway, I'm out... HOLLA! :)

Fool Set Me Up...

Mom & Dad just put in some new sod this morning and asked if I would water it a little later in the day. No problem. Of course I forgot about the beast in the backyard and her addiction to water. Aqua-dog attacked the hose and splattered me with mud for the next 15 minutes. She chased the hose all over the yard like the little crackhead she is. Now we both need a bath. Great.

1 Month

It's hard to believe it's been a month since I quit smoking. There are days now that it doesn't even cross my mind. Honestly, I didn't think I would get this far. Crazy.

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.

Low Blow...

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My oh so sweet babies pleading. Hoping to see you guys soon! I love you!

Good Day...

I had a decent day at work today. Devil spawn kept his horns in and we had a good day. After work I headed over to Target to pick this up (and got the last one :) ) :

Then when I got home, this was there waiting for me (I got blue)...

I was torn, I couldn't decide which new toy to play with first. Its been awhile since I bought myself something fun so to have them both show up on the same day was a bit overwhelming :) Loving both new toys though. I took pictures of Aiden and Lia doing the wii fit and I'll try to post them soon. They were so funny. I'm off to find more ringers... the only bad part about getting a new phone... you have to replace everything!

Hangin' With The Boys...

I hung out with CJ, Damien and Jalen today while Jake and Kesha went out. We had a great time. As Jalen reported to Jake when they got home "we played lots of games and had lots of fun". It's true, we played Hulk Operation, Don't Wake Daddy (which is the LONGEST game ever... who the hell thought that one up?), and Curious George. Afterward I cooked them dinner while they played Air Hockey with Gramma, who had stopped by to see them. After dinner we played the Wii (of course... Dami is a fiend and I can't resist the dimples... for too long). They were so good to me. My back hurt so bad by this evening and they let me just sit and chill without causing too much trouble. Damien came out with a funny today that made me chuckle (inside). One of the other boys was upset about something that had happened on Mario Kart and of course cries "it's not funny!" Damien tells him "No, it's not funny, it was hilarious!" I had to give him the good sportsmanship brief lecture, chuckling inside all the while. They are so much fun.

My neck, my back...

Okay, so really just my back. I threw it out (again) last night. How? I have no clue. I've been feeling it coming on for the last few days, then last night I was reading in my bed and went to sit up or roll over or something and BAM, there it was! It wasn't nearly as bad as it was the last time. I just slid out of bed, hobbled into the bathroom and took a steaming hot bath at like 1 in the morning. That helped quite a bit, loosening the muscles up. I went to bed after that and when I woke up this morning (er... afternoon) it felt much better and was just a little stiff. Hopefully it will feel better by the time I go back to work on Monday. I guess I'll quit whining now... Lori is coming over in awhile and we're going to name her baby :) I have to get a list started.