Freaky Friday!!!

The other day I was looking through an old photo album so I could send a fun picture to a friend who needed a good a laugh! I came across quite a few that i wanted to post lol but I wont do that to you all...

August 2003

So this I guess isnt as old school as some of the other ones Ive posted from hs and stuff but its for sure one of my faves. Annnd it was in the photo album I was looking through. Mexico... waaaay deep into Mexico. There was a group of us that went down for the weekend of my bday and camped on the beach for four days. We were trouble is all I have to say. For those who know most of us- think not just me and Luke, but Erin, Pam, Nicole, Chris, Johnny Reid, Garrett Severen, Jenny Mescher and a few other randoms, on this beach, four days, lots of beer, a guitar, NOBODY on this beach. Except a dead seal that stunk really bad and the boys buried it after johnny got seal guts splattered on his face hahahah Oh goodness it was such a fun trip full of some of the best memories. Seriously one of my most favorite trips ever. So here you have it, Chris, me, Erin, Johnny and Troy during a nighttime Jam sesh with the funniest songs ever ahah and me and Luke... Gosh I forgot how ripped Luke was before we had kids :) Oh and I was skinny back then. LOL

August 2004

I know weird, only a year later, here is my child... again, scary. Poor Jack. McKenna has been playing with the boys ALOT lately, she used to have no interest what so ever, and since they have moved in down the street she has been all about them. Today Jake and Kristyn dropped her off and she spent a few hours here watching movies with the boys... maybe theres a little crush going on?!? ;) JK KENNA!!! But this is Jack and McKenna when jack was just a few months old. McKenna was 2!! Ahhhh they were so cute. Cant wait to have this be the first picture in their wedding slideshow hahah JK again KENNA!!!

My Top Three

The top three things that drive me crazy on a day to day basis thanks to my three year old....

1. He doesnt know how to close the freakin refrigerator!!!

2. He NEVER flushes the toilet, EVER!!!

3. Before he takes a poo on the toilet he makes it known that he has to go by leaving me turtle heads stains in his pants!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHH! People, make sure you make other living arrangements for your childs third year of life so you dont find yourself going insane like me.

WYATT,

I love you but PUUULLLEASE work on those listed above. THANK YOU!

"Mom Are You Mad?"

"Yes Jackson I Am VERY MAD!!!" As I laugh hysterically turning the other direction so he cant see me. Yes, this is what i saw on the playroom door after he told me he made a sign that said "Keep out girls and babies". Wonderful.......

Monday Mishaps

A quiet weekend in the Brady household. Much needed too. Luke was still kinda recovering from the long trip, it rained a bit from time to time and me-well i started to not feel so hot. Only right affter all the kids and Luke were better again. Friday night Jack had practice... the first practice Luke was able to make it to. He is helping coach, so he didnt open his mouth much but he was soooo frustrated when he got home. LOL Lets just say baseball is waaay less organized, structured and disciplined then football (which we obviously knew going in but when Luke so badly wanted to open his mouth and couldnt, it made it that much more apparent haha). Best part is, he was talking to the coach after practice and Jordan said to him "Do you have older kids or is this the first?" Luke said he was the first and the coach asked if we had played before. Luke said no, first year in little league. Jordan comes back with "oh we'll have to break you in then!" HAHA Sure buddy.... if you only knew. Saturday was opening day. Pictures and a mini carnival, so the boys played for awhile before heading home. That night we had Jeff and Lindsay over for dinner and some cribbage. No we didnt win, we are tied for now, but I demand a rematch, they got lucky. Sunday was a day of errands... we just got our carpets cleaned so I needed a new area rug and I redid an ugly white wall with new family pics... its not done yet, still need to put pics in some frames... but I love it already. Then we headed to Marc and Brandi's for Hunters mexican bday dinner. Margaritas, enchilada soup lol and tacos. And some cream puffs that my mom devoured, while in the process of teaching my three year old the word assface which he proceeded to call his mother. YES my 3 yr old called me ASSFACE!!!! Welcome to my life. :)

From The Mouths of Babes!!!

While reading about Abraham Lincoln...

JACK: "Mom he was the 16th president of the United Steaks..."

Overhearing mom on the phone with Candice talking about the kids outfits for lala's wedding....

JACK: " Mom do I have to dress as a bear?"

ME: " A bear?...." (finally realizing because hes a ring "bear") "HAHA no Jack you dont have to dress like a bear!"

JACK: " Ahh man...''

While explaining to me that everything is cleaned up in the playroom...

WYATT: " Its all gravy..."

While finding a new bat at Dicks the other night....

ME: " I like this one better than the other one buddy..."

JACK: swings it..."Ya its cool, I just simply dont want it."

While playing Wii on the couch...

JACK: " OH here comes a blasting hurricane!!" (lifts one cheek and rips a fart, then puts his hand to his hear) "Oop I hear bells!"

While trying to open the coffee table to put something away, everytime he would open it Jeff would close it, probably went on for like 4 rounds, finally Jackson snapped...

JACK: " OH MY GOD WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?"

Freaky Friday

July 2003- My 21st bday

This is me, my sis and Hunter almost seven years ago on my 21st bday. And yes I was wasted. We had spent all day at the angel game, back to my parents to BBQ (as seen here) then to FOX sports grill where I managed to FALL ASLEEP (not pass out, jerks!) in the booth on Lukes lap... and you people wonder how I won this guy over ;) I only picked this one because Hunter just celebrated his 15th bday!!! Holy crap. It makes me feel so old. Soon its gonna be his 21st bday (which I'll be honest scares the living S%@& outta me!). So as a shout out to my 15 year old nephew (ahhhhhhhh)... enjoy!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KID!!! Now stop growing!

PS How scary is it that only three months after this I was preggers. OMG. My poor children.

November 2006

Awww how little and sweet my boys were. When I saw this one it reminded me of a few nights ago when I walked in and the boys were laying just like this in the playroom reading a motorcycle book dad had just brought home for them. Wow they were so nice back then ;)

PS Is it strange that I show a picture of me with my sideways hat (like Wyatts on the below post), jersey shore tan because I spent every waking moment at the beach or near water, my tongue hanging out and a blood alcohol level of hmmmm, id say .92 and then I show a picture of my kids, my poor, sweet innocent kids, that have THAT for a mom! Muahahahahahah Poor them!

Little Skater Dude

Hi My name's Wyatt. And I like to skate.

And I look mighty cute doing so....

(Oh and yes my son wears his hat like that 98% of the time)

My Sweet Boys

My boys are the freakin sweetest kids ever. Which tells me I must be doing SOMETHING right :) .... This past weekend Lauren's grandpa had passed away so it had been a hard week for her. On Sunday night Jaack was looking at my flowers on the table and said "mommy can we bring a flower to someone?" I said "ok, who do you want to give one to?" He replies "Lala...." I chuckled a bit cuz I thought it was so cute and said "Sure you can bring one to Lala." He says "Ok Mom, cuz that will make her really happy..." Its like he sensed she was sad or something!!! I dunno! It was the weirdest. But the next day he had brought up like three different times that we needed to bring Lala her flower. So finally i said "Ok we are gonna go to the store, pick up some dinner, bring Lala her flower then go to the spa." So then he drew her a picture. One side was a football team (I know, random) and the otherside was her and him. I had gotten her a card so he wrote in that too.... All by himself... it said "LaLa, I Lova You. Jackson Brady". Cutest thing ever. They each picked out a flower and we drove to Lala's house before she left for dinner to give them to her. She was so excited and they both gave her giant hugs along with those flowers and then she posted pictures on facebook saying how much they made her night and it was the best gift ever and how much she loved them. I dont think these tiny little people realize how happy they really made her during her hard week. But I did... and I love them even more for it.

Hi Summer

This is why I love living in Southern California...... Yup, its the middle of february and we spent the last two days at the pool. Its been 85 degrees here. Yesterday we were there for three hours with kristyn and the girls. Needless to say it was awesome and my kids slept great come 3pm. Ahhhh how I wish it were summer now!!!

PS. LUKE'S HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO! We have missed him. ALOT. So glad he's back!

Monday Mishaps!

My weekend of flying solo was pretty uninteresting. The boys and I just hung out really, Jack had baseball practice fri night and saturday afternoon. We picked Hunter up saturday to come babysit saturday night so I could go to our Couples Valentines Bunco down the street at the Ladera clubhouse, which was awesome, but I wont NOTHING AGAIN!!! Booooo! My winning streak is for sure over! We had peppinos catered, cocktail attire was a must, wine and sangrias, and valentines decor galore. It was a fun night! I got home and made my first attempt at parallel parking in my new bus and I WAS SUCCESSFUL!!!!! Woooohooooo!!! GO ME!!! I wont reveal the number of times my tire hit the curb but thats completely besides the point! :) Sunday it was hot here, like 85 degrees hot so I took the boys and Hunter to the pool for a bit before Hunter went home and we all took naps. The boys and I made some chicken marsala for dinner and we called it a day! Nothing too exciting here.... oh except for the way Wyatt has been eating his garlic bread lately..Freakin weirdo. He digs the middle out with his finger and only eats that part. (Sorry bout my crappy picture) I might as well give him a spoon.

FROM THE MOUTH OF BABES!!

While the boys were looking at the new car for the first time...

ME:'' You guys like your new car?"

JACK: " YA its a beaut!!!"

McKenna was here friday playing and Jackson decided to use a certain phrase over and over again...

JACK:" Ok, that was just.. Akkkkwarddd!"

At the pool eating lunch and Wyatt does/says something to Jack...

JACK: "Oh my gosh Wyatt, you are SO your fathers child."

The boys have torpedos for the pool, Wyatt isnt quite certain how you actually say that word...

WYATT: "Mom can you get my tortedo out?"

I HEART YOU...

....... Jackson Reyn. I seriously think that I single handedly (with maybe a little help from Luke ;) created the sweetest little boy alive. Ive never met a more caring, loving, sweet kid before in my life. The things he says, the way he says them, his sweet little voice, the things he does, the way he looks at you, his ridiculously handsome smile, the way he hugs, the amount of times he hugs, his little lip puckering kisses, I honestly just cant get enough of him and his sweet ways, I hope he stays this way forever!! Seriously he just makes my heart melt every single day.

........Wyatt Kane. My little mama's boy. The ways of the devil and the face of an angel! LOL jk. Kind of. He just has to smile that little bulldog smile at me and I fold, its obsurd. There has never been a child that has ever had a parent wrapped around their tiny finger like Wyatt does me. There is just something about this kid and that ridiculously troublesome way about him that makes me wanna stick him in my pocket or kiss those cute pudgy cheeks all day long. He can be there picking his nose and I still just wanna squeeze him. He just makes me ridiculously happy.

........Luke David. My better half (well thats arguable, I personally think Im the better half of this whole ;) JK honey!). My superhero, and our superdad. Im so incredibly lucky to have found someone that has put so much effort into being the best he can be for our family. Whether its a provider, a supporter, a comforter, a father- he does it all to the best of his ability and I am so appreciative and grateful for that. This year on Valentines day he is out in the 10 degree weather of Indiana working his butt off for five days, when I know he would way rather be here with his valentines :( And even though he is far away and barely having a minute to call or text or even sleep he still managed to send me some love from Indiana on valentines day. He had Bmoe deliver me flowers and balloons sunday morning and i cant even begin to tell you how much it made my day. So thank you Luke for being you, and being so selfless and striving to make our lives better each day. Happy Valentines day baby, We love you more than you will ever know! XOXOXO

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!

Moped Madness!!

Holy crap this is my new favorite thing.... Kylee had gotten a moped back in october and then McKenna got one for xmas, now that Jake and kristyn moved right down the street we have been going to the park most days with all the kiddos. Well friday Jack and Kenna got to come since they had no school (which reminds me, I DESPISE school holidays, DESPISE!!!). Well Kenna brought her moped so was giving Jack rides around the park, he was LOVING it! And watching his head fly back everytime she punched the gas was priceless!! Wyatt went once too but wasnt too fond of holding on in the back which i was ok with cuz he made me wanna pee my pants a little. He stuck to his skateboard....... and my cute little Payton stuck to Wyatts star wars scooter hahaWhen we were walking back from the park the boys asked McKenna to stay and play so she did, and so did I. Muahahahah I took that sweet purple moped and rode up and down the street like 80 times. I let Jack ride with me for a bit, at full speed (these things are quick btw! quick enough that I scream, no joke!). Then I finally got Wy to ride with me. Ok well the kid went crazy! He LOVED it! He was cracking up the whole time then by he end kept going "NO HANDS!!!" which had me crapping my pants on numerous occassions! UGH. Sooo fun, after about 90 hot laps on that bad boy I decided to stop so poor Kenna had enough to juice to get home. Seriously, I want one, bad. How sweet would it be to cruise up to beachfire on that thing for happy hour! Ummmm Ya, totally want one!

Freaky Friday!!

Freshman Year-1997

This was at one of our pasta parties at my house for soccer. I dont know why (well I do know why, it was nothing new) but Ashley, Lauren and I were CRAZY that night. I think the rest of these girls (other than Jill who already REALLy knew us) were a little bit scared. (Ash Im gonna have to show you the rest of these, LOL)Halloween- 2005

My poor child... Jacks gonna hate me for this someday. Yes I made my one year old a Chippendales dancer for Halloween. I cant tell you the hilarious comments we got walking down the street that night. Thank god the santa anas were in full force so my poor boy wasnt freezing his butt off. Holy crap he was so cute. But ya, hes gonna kill me one day. :)

Hello Simplicity!

GOODBYE NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!!!HELLO SIMPLICITY!!!!

Say hello to my little friend... I havent named her yet. But I will! This was delivered to me last night! Yes you heard me correctly, DELIVERED!!!!!! Strange, weird, odd, LEGIT?!?!?! Here is my story of simplicity... maybe Ill just name her simplicity?! Ok anyways........ So we had the second pathfinder for two years this month, so we still have another 15 months left on our lease. Weeelllll, see now, I have four children to cart around during the day, sometimes five cuz I carpool for kindergarden as well. Nightmare car was doing the job for awhile until one day those tiny babies I take care of, turned into toddlers with long legs and a mind of their own. So those car seats that once fit in my third row with no dangling legs just no longer could accomodate these beastly children (ok thats an exxageration, they arent beastly). To the point where I could no longer buckle the bottom parts of their car seats cuz their knees were pretty much to their chest. If i wanted to go anywhere i had to switch car seats throughout the car (even in the rain for a half hour one day which was highly entertaining, bet my neighbors loved listening to me thrown things and cuss at a booster seat!!!)I finally told Luke I just physically couldnt drive this car anymore with all these kids. Its impossible. Trust me I tried 18 different seat arrangements. Wont work. He didnt believe me for awhile, thought I was being a spoiled brat I think lol Well one day my po-po bro, Ryan, was heading to Nissan in Oceanside to talk to the manager about a car for my sister. Their dept gets all their undercover cop cars from that nissan. So i asked him to ask the guy if he could get me a deal to upgrade my car without having to pay a buttload of money. So Sean, the manager told him to have us call him and he will see what he can do... So Luke did. Tuesday night in fact. They talked for 15 minutes or so, ran some numbers and Sean said "Ok, I can get you an Armada for $250 down and it will up your payment a hundred bucks a month." Luke said hed talk to me and call him back in the am. Yesterday am Luke called me and said "Can you find a sitter for a bit?" UMMM WHY?? "cuz u need to go get your car washed, they are delivering your new one at 6pm tonight!" YA!!! He talked to him for another 15 minutes that morning, said what do i do now, Sean gave him a list of colors, he picked one, and sean said ok my guy will drive it out tonight at 6pm and bring your car home with him! YA!!! Not a joke. Literally 30 minutes of phone time within 12 hours and that night his guy drove up at 645pm, Luke signed the paperwork, wrote him a check for $250 and at 7pm he drove off in our old car. DONE!!! SIMPLICITY!!! AT ITS FINEST!!! I mean cmon, it doesnt even sound real?!?! Oh and best part is, our registration and pathfinder payment was due next week. A total of almost 900 bucks. Instead we wrote a $250 check and saved ourselves over $600!!!! I mean cmon doesnt this really happen!? Im in heaven, i love my new car. Its huge, roomy and easy and the kids LOVE IT!!! Thank you Luke, Ryan, Sean and the cute little man Don who drove it out here! I LOVE SIMPLICITY!!!!

Monday Mishaps

A long weekend in our household lemme tell ya... friday night I got another girls night to myself. I met Lindsay, Ambra, Andreal and Lauren at Chilis for dinner. Yummy food, margaritas and girl conversation made for great dinner. Then we met Gianna at the movie theater to see Dear John. Movie was good, til the end... booooooo! But not as good as Notebook Ill tell ya that much!

The next morning Luke was up at 630am (this is why I needed another girls night before I had to take the weekend on by my lonesome!) to go play golf with all the guys. Their first annual Donkey Open. Ya they had a golf tournament sat and sun, in the miserable rain saturdaybtw! The boys and I went to Jacks baseball meeting at Mcdonalds to meet his team. Hes on the Padres and is super excited about this. For some reason he wanted to be on the Padres. Weird. Luke got back that afternoon just in time for us to get ready to go to Monster Jam... which i was a little worried about since it had been raining all day and expected to rain all night. We all had long underwear, beanies and 3 shirts on and a backpack full of ponchos, hand warmers and towels with our umbrellas in tote. And all for NOTHING! It didnt rain once, in fact it was totally clear until we started to drive home. Thank goodness. The kids LOVED it as usual, the older they get the more excited they get. Grave Digger won of course which had Wyatt happy. And his tire fell off the last freestyle jump too which had Jackson even happier. And I am pretty sure Wyatt consumed almost that entire bag of cotton candy by himself.

Sunday, Luke played golf again and then we all headed to Lala and Bmoe's for the Superbowl... whcih was a HUGE disapointment for me since I won ZERO money :( My game luck has totally run out. I think its safe to say my kids left with massive amounts of sugar running through their veins. That is in huge thanks to Lala's nephew Steven who was squirting whip cream in my boys mouths everytime he saw them. At one point someone had given Wy ANOTHER brownie and as soon as I saw him and he made eye contact he slowly backed up and dashed under the table, thinking he was safe there and I couldnt see him... It was so funny I let it slide, then Steven found him and doused him with another mouth full. Gross. Great weekend. Wish it was friday already though. :(

HEAR/SAY from the mouths of BABES!

Had just got Jack outta the shower and getting ready for bed...

JACK: "Mom tomorrow I just need to have a little alone time..."

ME: "Alone time? What for???"

JACK:"I just need to be alone to play Wii. Just for a little bit. Ok Mom?"

Showing Wyatt the bag of hand me down shirts from Mason one shirt at a time...

WY:" Wow thats one so awesome!" (please add lisp to all these sentences for full pleasure!)

"HAHA! This one is super duper awesome!"

"Oh My gosh haha there are snakes on that awesome one!"

"BOOYAH!!!!!"

Wyatt walked down hallway and happened to hit Luke right in the nuts...Im secretly laughing inside while Lukes getting him in trouble. Then Wy comes to me and he is telling on his dad....

WY: "He is so fired! So so fired!"

Wyatt showimg me his break dancing moves...

WY: "Mom was the move so awesome?"

ME: "Ya so cool!"

Does one more move...

WY: "Oh my gosh that one was gnarly, did you see mom?!?!"

Freaky Friday!!

So mad... I was already copying Caley and Ashley when i did this but then I check out Ambras blog right before I start and she did it too!!! Oh well... its that entertaining! Freaky friday will be my new friday posts... with some flashback photos to back in the day! HOWEVER.... there will be two photos of freakiness... one much more freaky then the other, especially for you fellow Mission Diablos out there! One that i will get from off my computer, Ill pick a random folder closing my eyes then select a picture from that folder (so most likely of the kids awhile back) and one pulled straight from my photo album and scanned to my computer! So with no further ado (spelling???).... welcome to freaky friday! ENJOY!

September 2006...

Holy cow look at my chubby baby. Jack looks exactly the same just smaller, but Wyatt?! Geeso. Ahhh I miss them being so small sometimes. Dont you just wanna eat them... ps check out Jacks arms covered in blue ink... such a good mom I am haha

SENIOR YEAR-2000

Ok I had to pick this one... for a few reasons haha!

1.) I was literally just talking about this a few weeks ago at a xmas party. Pretty sure they all thought I was crazy, which i was.

2.) Some of you will most likely remember this. Ashley, you being one of them, maybe even Rachel lol

3.) This just screams me in high school! TROUBLE MAKER. LOL

Here you see Erin, Leah and Angela playing with this tiny friend before school started one day. Erin and I would randomly drop by the pet store on the way to school. I know, I know, but I said RANDOMLY!! We would buy a little white mouse and they give them to you in this brown lunch bag. Well the two of us being the evil prank pulling crazy kids would bring this bag to school with us and tell people to pick something outta the grab bag! Well just try to picture the reaction you got when someone (especially people scared to death of furry creatures and rodents, such as Katy Galey who I will never forget reaching into this bag! PRICELESS) would stick their hand in there and if not get bit by this pissed off mouse, would feel nothing but a long gross tail and a furry little body! HAHAHAHAH HOLY CRAP, seriously it was the best thing ever. One of my all time favortie high school memories. Im dying laughing here in my room by myself just thinking about it. Oh gosh.... best ever. Yes call me immature, I was, and loved every minute.

A Day of Firsts!

So Wednesday was a fun day. Im trying to get the babies off morning naps so i have been speding the entire morning outta the house at the park so they are entertained. So we spent two hours there then Candice dropped Riley off when she went to work. Well when it was time to go pick up Jack, she insisted she ride a scooter to school like Wyatt does. I had no clue she had never rode one before... lol so cute! She was determined. Yes it took us a half hour rather than our normal 12 minutes to walk there and yes a half hour back, but soooo worth every cute thing outta her mouth! Her and Wy kept yelling at each other "Nice job, youre doing so good!" Repeating what I kept telling her! Or she would yell to him from 100 yards back "Wyatt wait for me!!" As she very carefully rode the rockin star wars scooter. LOL. She rode the whole way, to and from. Priceless. Love her.

Later that night we headed to the Ducks game. Dustin and Ambra invited some of us to join them and the boys were soooo excited!!! Wy had never been to a hockey game. I dont think he moved the first 20 minutes we were there. Just stared!! They loved it... and loved hangin with their buddies. And sharing ice cream with their girlfriends....ooooooooo!!!!!! :) I swear Wyatt and Riley will get married haha

Choices

So I dont post about crap like this very often, this blog is a way for people to keep up on the cute kiddos in the Brady household and some occassional venting by mom, not to hear opinionated lectures by a 27 yr old mom of two boys who has a limited amount of life experience. But, this has become my new motto lately, in every day life, having to do with pretty much everything around me. Agree or disagree, its an opinion, not a fact, so no one take this personally or get offended.

I feel like when I became a mom, at the mere age of 21, I had alot of crap to sort through and things to deal with. I was the only one out of my friends who had a kid now. I got misunderstood alot, not many understood what it was like to have a kid and took it real personally when i couldnt do the things I did nine months prior. I made alot of new friends, simply becasue we had things in common (kids, spouses, homes, bills, parenting). While some (not all) friendships dwindled, others flourished, and that was ok. I came to a realization that my life was different at that point. I had other priorities, Luke and my kids came first, not random night outings and parties and trips to vegas. I met lots of new people, some people that didnt want to make the effort, some that just ignored you, some that just treated people like downright crap. This was the exact person i did NOT want to be, I didnt want to make people feel the way I did when around these people. I turned my focus to trying to be nice to everyone (until they gave me a good reason not to be then you got the bitch side of me cuz if you know me, I will not be taken advantage of or walked all over and I will stand up for myself and tell you how it is). I wanted to include everyone and make everyone feel welcome and quit having these stupid across the room glares and cliques and pettiness. I put so much time and effort into some of these relationships that simply didnt deserve it. Maybe it was the challenge? I dont really know. But when you do that for so long just to be basically dumped on, when do you finally throw in the towel and say screw it!!! Why do these people deserve your friendship when its never reciprocated, and you know they really dont give a rats ass about you, even if they try to fake it. Its like theyre socially retarded. You dont have to like everyone, and some people get closer than others, but for gods sake, give people a chance! Treat people like you want to be treated. Trust me, I can be a bitch, Ill tell you how it is, and some people hate that, thats fine by me. Id rather have someone tell me how it is then be fake for so many years. Thats just me.

I have all these relationships with so many different types of people, each special in their own way :) Ive come to appreciate them so much especially when you get to this time in your life when your main focus is your family.... I want my kids to grow up with happy loving parents, surrounded by great friends and family, people that truly care about them. I feel like we have done a pretty good job at that so far. So this last week, Ive realized, I have to stop trying and putting effort into these people that I will never win with, and honestly dont even really like at this point after being shunned so many times. Refocus it to the people that you know reciprocate your friendship, and actually appreciate you. I have tons of those people in my life, and its the little things that they do for me, and for my kids, that make me truly appreciate their friendship. Sure they arent perfect, they all have flaws, as do I. No ones perfect. But they show me the same degree of friendship that I show them. So Ive made a choice... a choice to be a better friend to those who care about me, and although I will quit trying and putting effort into them I will be civil to the ones who dont, and redirect all that effort into relationships that mean the most.

So long story long.... Today everytime my kids got outta line we had a talk about whether they were making bad choices or good choices. They knew right away what was right and wrong... and 9 times out of ten made the good choice. A simple kindergarden lesson, right?! Choices are going to be another way of discipline in this house now. Stupid as it may sound, after Jackson gave Wyatt his lecture on bad choices and good choices the other day, it made me think about these things. And Jacks right. My five year old taught me that I always have a choice. Which choice I make is solely up to me.

Life is a choice. I dont believe that everything is based on fate, or Karma or that someone above is holding your future in their hands and they have a plan for you or anything like that. You are who you are because that is who you choose to be. Sure things may have happened in your past to help you be who you are but it doesnt mean it cant be changed. Who you choose to be and what you choose to do will determine alot about your future. You choose the people you surround yourself with, you choose whether or not to be a good person, a good friend, you choose how to raise your kids, how to act around your kids, how to treat your kids. How to act towards your husband or wife, mom or dad. You choose what you eat, what you wear, how you present yourself. You choose what youre gonna do with your day, with your time. You choose what is most important and least important. You choose your priorities, and how to manage those priorities. And most of all you can choose how to change things in your life to make it better for you, and your family, or the people you care about. Life is a choice, its just up to you to make the right ones for you at the time. You live and you learn..... And then you make more choices.

FINALLY!!!!

So lemme first start off by apologizing for my crappy pics, or lack thereof. I have no little point and shoot camera anymore, its broken, and the charger apparentely grew legs and ran away (my way of saying I lost it, no idea how). So i figured by the time I got it fixed and bought a new charger I might as well have just bought a new camera. Well maybe not quite but this is SOOO the case when you shop on EBAY!!!! Muahahahahaha! I bought this little puppy for..... wait for it, wait for it....... (drum roll please)............ $20.50!!!! Yes you read right. I wasnt so worried about the brand or super duper quality either (although I hear its a pretty good brand) and its 7.0 MP I think. So cant be that bad I guess. I just needed something to stick back in my purse for everyday occurences!!!! So I am happy to announce that this cute little pink sucker will be your new source of entertainment! So you better LOVE HER!!! I do :) and i cant wait for her to show up on my doorstep soon!! Wooohooooooooo!

Monday Mishaps

So remember when I said I was gonna get better at this blogging business. Well I am determined. So here is my new monday theme. Mishaps. Monday Mishaps. A simple run down of our weekend and a short section on the funny hear/says out of my precious babes mouths. Which arent always so precious so read with caution.

Our weekend, well, my weekend, started friday night. My friend Cheyenne and I had the brilliant idea of going to disneyland, no boys, no kids, just girls. So fun. We had dinner, some beers, then headed to Ca Adventure, which we werent aware closed at 9pm, so we only had time to ride tower of terror, which made my throat hurt from yelling so much and my pants almost wet from peeing myself. But so worth it. Then headed to Disneyland side and did all the big rides- FYI dont ride Indiana Jones, worst, jerkiest, bumpiest, most hurl-worthy ride EVER!!! I remember loving that ride when I was younger. Ya not so much anymore. I almost passed out when I got off. Sucks being an old fart now. Then we rode Splash Mountain at midnight TWICE! So fun, so wet, so cold. Didnt walk through my front door til 2am. It was so fun, I cant wait for another adult night, Im making Luke go next time though so i can watch him pee himself on tower of terror. Luke and the boys and a guys night, ate pizza, hung at home, watched a movie and went for a night ride on their scooters... we have been doing that alot lately, so Luke bought the boys SUPER BRIGHT lights for the front of their scooters and obnoxiously bright red and blue blinking lights for their helmets, no joke.

Sat- we took the kids to lunch then to see Alvin and the Chipmunks the squeakel. Cute movie, the boys loved it. And i love that they will both sit through an entire movie. Luke took them to see Avatar over xmas and they both sat thru the entire 3 hour long movie. Weird. We came home, put the kids down and Luke rigged up bikes for us to ride to the Ranch that night for J's 31st bday.... long story short, I drove, with the kids-BLAH and Jeff and Luke rode bikes, no crashing, at least that i am aware of. Sunday-Luke played golf with my parents at the buttcrack and the boys and I rode bikes over to the old house to play with all our friends on the culdesac. I miss them. The kids had so much fun. And I miss all our buddies over there. Even though we talk to them all the time its not the same as hanging in the front yard with them everyday. Dont even get me started on the neighbors over here, aye yae yae. Anyways, weekends over , nothing too exciting. And now the beginning of a new week.... is it friday yet?!?!?!

HEAR/SAY from the mouths of BABES!

Luke and Jack in the middle of a typical conversation...

JACK: "I feel ya dad, I feel ya..."

At the fish grill eating dinner....

LUKE: "Wy you want some zucchinni?"

WYATT: "Ok."

A minute later when he finally took a bite-

"Mmm I like bikinis!"

Jack and Wy sitting on the couch playing Wii after school...

JACK: "Wy, did you go in timeout cuz you cried the whole walk home from school?"

WYATT: "Ya I did..."

JACK: "Well Wy, thats cuz you weren't making good choices. You made bad choices. If you dont want to go to timeout you have to think about making good choices and being a good boy."

WYATT: "I dont care Jack. I. JUST. DONT. CARE!!!!!"

JACK: "Thats a bad choice bud..."