pics from the girls weekend

After a day of the family pass time SHOPPING!!!

All of us at dinner

Aunt Dawn Alicia and my Mom

Grandma and Aunt Debby

Me and Aunt Mary

JR's weekend

Well I thought I'd start this weeks update with a tale of how JR's weekend went without me.  On Friday he only had Marcus because Jailyn was with her friend (that I will get into in a minute too), so that went well he took Marcus to Chuck E Cheese to have dinner and play.  Saturday however he says from the minute she woke up Jailyn was being a brat and giving him attitude ( I don't know where that attitude problem comes from I tell you).  He got another break that afternoon because my sister and chad took them to a birthday party for a couple of hours.  He did have to feed them dinner that night but he just went out with some friends and their kids.  Sunday they stayed inside and around the house.  So it was a pretty uneventful weekend THANK GOD!!!  However when I walked in the 1st thing Marcus says to me is " Don't ever go anywhere with Grandma again.  I don't Like staying with Daddy.  He's bad."  The room wasn't clean and Marcus and Jailyn looked like they needed a bath but at least they were all in one piece!  Jailyn's attitude however seemed to be a constant problem.  I called my friend on Monday to see how she was with them at Disneyland on Friday.  Her exact response " She was a pain in the butt.  She didn't listen at all."  I was so embarrassed!!  I wanted to Kill her!!  So needless to say she's grounded until friday!!!

I had a good weekend!!  It was nice although a little nerve racking to be away from the kids and not have to deal with the day to day for a little while.  We went shopping on Saturday and I fit into (comfortably) a size 10 jeans!!!  I was a size 20 back in January when I started!!  I was soo excited that I was dancing in the hallway of the dressing rooms.  We also went and saw The Women it was a total chick flick!!  It was fun!!

 That's about it for now!!  I'm going to go get my camera then I'll post the pics from our girls weekend!  

PS  Wicked this Sunday we are sooo excited!!!!

Before I go...

Marcus in his Karate Gi

Jailyn in her mexico dress from auntie bonnie

marcus and leilani playing in the back yard

aren't they cute!!!

Just a quick update before I leave for a girls weekend at my grandmas.  I'm down another 1.4 lbs this week so I'm almost to 40 lbs. Only a 1/2 lb left to go!!!!  Jailyn is still having fun at school.  We started homework this week but it's stilll pretty much review from Kindergarten so we get it done pretty fast.  She's getting to be a really good reader (even though she claims she doesn't enjoy it) she reads about a chapter a day from her Junie B Jones book.  Marcus is doing well too.  He enjoys having Leilani around during the week to play with although we are having a few issues with sharing Mommy's time with another little kid.  But nothing bad!!!  That's about it I have to go finish getting everything ready for this weekend.  I pray that JR can handle them for the weekend by himself.  I've never left them with him this long before.  I have left him hour by hour instructions so hopefully he'll be fine!!!  YIKES!!!  

9/11

I was just reading a friends blog as she recounted her memory of this day 7 years ago and I thought I would write about mine.  I was 7 1/2 months pregnant with Jailyn and working as a receptionist at an Escrow company we were all just getting into the office when my boss ran in and turned on the tv in the break room and told us all to get in there a plane just crashed into the World trade center towers.  Like most I'm sure that watched it on TV I thought at first that it looked like some kind of action movie stunt not real life, but as I watched people jumping from windows hundreds of feet from the ground to save themselves it hit me this is REAL!  This country, our country, my country was being attacked in broad daylight in the most dramatic and visible way.  I remember thinking that this shouldn't be able to happen here.  We weren't living in some war torn 3rd world country this is the USA we were supposed to be unstoppable!!  We never left that back room that day all of us to stuck to the TV waiting to see what happened next and I think a little afraid to be alone.  I remember being soo scared for Jailyn this little Innocent child I was getting ready to bring into this world, thinking until that morning that I could keep her safe and realizing in that moment that was impossible.  I remember crying for those who were there or lost someone that day ( as I am right now while writing this) because I could not even imagine the pain for them so connected to it if mine so far away was this great.  

I was thinking of all these things just this morning in my car while dropping kids off at school.  A radio station was playing a country song written about 9/11 and I started to cry thinking about it again.  I thought to myself if 9/11 had never happened how would my life be different today I would still be driving kids to school and thinking about back to school night tonight but I wouldn't be crying in the car to God bless the USA on the radio and I wouldn't be fearful every time someone I love steps on a plane.  Those are just small effects but it goes to show that all of us no matter how far from NY that day 7 years ago changed us ALL!!  My prayers for safety, love and healing to you all and to everyone who was affected by 9/11 on this day especially we should all stop and think and pray!!!  All my love.

nat

Yeah!!....

So I went and weighed in again today and I'm VERY happy to say that I lost all but .4 of what I gained in the previous 3 weeks!!  I was down 4.2 lbs. today and am at a total of 38lbs total so far.  Although 38 is a # I have seen before I still feel better knowing I'm back on the right track!!!  So excuse me while I celebrate!!  YEAH ME!!!!  Now let's see how long I can keep this momentum going hopefully all the way until i"m down to my goal which is 138lbs.  I'm currently 166.6 lbs so that puts me at 26.6 lbs left to go!  Also I completed my first week as a working mom on friday!!  The little girl I watch is super sweet and really easy going.  She's even made marcus a better napper which I LOVE!!!  So far soo good and of course the little extra cash is always GREAT!!!!

Jailyn and Marcus are both good!!  Not much new going on with them.  Just getting into our back to school routine!!  We have Back to School night for Jailyn tomorrow and then the dreaded homework starts!!  AUGH!!!  Hopefully she won't put up a fight about doing it an it's stuff she can do pretty easily!!  Well that's it for now>  I don't have my camera near by so no new pics today.  Sorry!!  Love you all!!

nat

So feel free.....

.. to call, text, or email me and tell me to GET OFF MY LAZY BUTT whenever you want!!!!  I finally went into Weight Watchers for the 1st time in 3 weeks and faced the music on Wednesday night!!!  I was prepared for it to be bad news (although secretly I was hoping by some miracle that even after all the pigging out and no exercise of the past few weeks that I would get away with only gaining like a pound) so I wasn't too surprised when she said that I had gained 4.6lbs!!  YIKES!!!  Like I said before I'm just really loosing my motivation lately so Please don't hesitate to tell me to get my butt going!!  I'm half way there and i'm really struggling!!!  More to come at a later date!!!  Love you all!!!

nat

Jailyns First day of 1st grade!!!!

Jailyn in front before school

Jailyns new outfit!!!

Jailyn, Madi and Brooke before school

Jailyn at her desk

I just love this one of Marcus eating an Ice Cream bar after dinner the other night!!

Well she is officially a 1st grader now!!!  I can't believe how fast she has grown up!!!  She picked her outfit out a week ago when Auntie Tee Tee took her school clothes shopping.  She loves the leopard skirt and the belt!!!  We put her hair in sponge curlers last night so it would be curly this morning!!!  She looked soo cute!!!  She didn't want me to stick around in class again this year so I didn't get to hear much from her teacher but she seems really nice and back to school night is next week so I'll get to know her better then.  She said she had fun and that her teacher was really nice, so that's good and so far no homework yet!!  Yeah!!!! I start my new job tomorrow watching Leilani so I will let you all know how that is working out soon!!!