It was a good day

So today was a good day.
We had Owen's IEP meeting at school today and I have to say I am shocked I didn't cry! First Time!! Owen gets the biggest high five ever because he is doing so good in school. First all of his teachers at the IEP call Owen a success story. Everything they have done has worked so well with Owen. He has become more independant on figuring out if he needs a break or not and expressing his feelings to his teachers. He is at the point where they feel he doesn't need a teacher's helper in the room for him. However this may get looked at again once the school year starts up again.. if they feel he needs one they will bring one in, but from what they can see he does not need that extra help. He will continue taking his breaks, but his breaks are to the point where he walks out of his classroom and jumps 10 jumps on the trampoline and he goes back in. Owen still has headphones in his desk. These are taken for assemblies in the gym or Owen will put them on himself when he is at his desk working and there is too much noise. Owen's teacher said that she thinks he can be placed anywhere in the classroom, as far as desk location, and he does very well. He knows that when he is at his desk you need to work. The best news I got out of this meeting is his teacher just did his reading assesment on him and he is at grade level. I don't know exactly what level that is, but I think I wanted to cry at that point. He always could get there but he needed the extra help, now he can do it all on his own. His math is awesome. His teacher even said that he could move up to the next level (he is at the lower level) but the reason he is there is because it is more hands on. So it makes sense. So like I said what an awesome feeling.. I am so proud of him. Now Logan and I are waiting for him to get home to find out how he did on his spelling test.. I told Owen that if he got all his words right and two bonus words right we will go to Night at the Museum 2. He has to be excited. I think no matter what we will go, because I am so proud of him and all his accomplishments. Logan gets to go too because he did not have an attitude with daycare today. Yes this boy has developed an attitude. He told me a situation that happened today at daycare and said "is that attitude??" I told him no and then had to explain what an attitude is. I think he was a little worried because he had an hour to wait until Owen got home, he didn't want to ruin his chances of going.. So like I said.. What an awesome day!! Now a three day weekend!!

Here is comes

Everyone thinks I am nuts for loving the fact that I am turning 30. The past couple of days I have been thinking about it and wondering why. Why do I love turning 30?? I think in my head adults were always in there 30s and older. So maybe I feel like I am moving into that adult role. I'm not a kid anymore. I don't know if I have ever said this before, but growing up I always believed that I was on TV. My life was a sitcom. People would watch us and we would never get older. Things would never change. My Grandparents would always be around and I would always be there with my family. Obviously that didnt' happen. We grow up, we get older, we have our own families. I still find it crazy that I am married with two boys. So turning 30 means I have officially grown up and to me that isn't a bad thing at all. I have a family, a wonderful extended family and all that I ever wanted. So 30 is awesome. How can you complain?? There are certain birthdays I remember and I wanted to jot them down..

When I turned 7 I got my first bike. I was so excited. It was purple with rainbows. It had a banana seat and a basket in the front.
When I turned 9 or 10 I had my first birthday party. It was a roller skating party.
When I turned 16 I had a sweet sixteen party. Oh this year I did the "Open mouth, insert foot". My parents told me that my party was my present from them, but I didn't believe them. Well when it was time to open up gifts there was a present from my parents. I opened it up and it was a box of Forrest Gump chocolates. I was furious. All I wanted that year was a cd player. But whatever my friends were over so I didn't make a big deal about it. Once they all left, and went over to my parents and basically asked them where my present was. My dad gave me the whole song and dance about my party was the present. I was just beside myself. So I ran to my room crying screamed something at them and slammed my door. My life was over (oh how dramatic). Later there was a knock at my door. I just screamed to leave me alone. Anyways after some crying and getting over myself I opened up my door, there sat a brand new cd player. Like I said, open mouth, insert foot. I still have that cd player oddly enough.
When I turned 19 I was on my own. My mom sent me a care package. It had a little birthday cake in it with a candle that played Happy Birthday. I had the night planned that I was going to take the bus to the Mall of America and get my ears double pierced. So off I went. So excited. I got there and they needed to see my id. I had forgot it. There was no way to go back and get it, so I hopped on the bus and cried all the way home. I was so bummed and at that time felt so alone. But it turned around, because I went back the next day and got my ears not only double pierced but triple pierced.
When I turned 20 I got surprised at school. The guys in my class had bought me some gifts. Just something. So when I went home that day (on the bus) I have this bag I was carrying with a balloon on it. I was standing at the bus stop waiting for my bus and this guy asked me why I had this balloon. I told him it was my birthday and he reached in his pocket and grabbed all his change and threw it in my bag. It was so funny and random. He said Happy Birthday and that was that.
When I turned 21 Ryan and I waited at his apartment until midnight and we went and had a couple of drinks and since then I have celebrated all my birthday's with Ryan and the boys.
So once again.. how can I complain.. I am loving the fact that I am turning 30!!

Doing something different

It looks as though trying new foods with Owen, really isn't going to work. I mean I can keep trying and he can just keep throwing up. This week I have emailed Owen's teacher and his special ed teacher to find out what is going on with school. I asked Owen the other day if he was taking breaks any more and he said he wasn't.. So what does that mean. I emailed the teachers and it sounds as though they now have a trampoline outside of his classroom, so when Owen is a little loopy, he can go right outside and jump around and then come right back. Well once again I asked questions like "Why? Does this mean you are weaning him away?? What changed?? " Well after some talk I don't think I got all my answers, but we are all meeting in May so I will ask them then. Through these emails we got talking about Owens eating habits. The OT recommended us to a clinic to help work with Owen on trying new foods. That was great, and I found out my insurance covers it, but what pissed me off (and it is just me) is that she kept referring to me "MAKING" him try new foods. She said by doing that things could really back fire. So I gave up. I called this place that isn't too far from us and found out that they can help us and that our insurance does cover it. She is sending me some info on the whole thing. I guess we have a 7 day diet that we have to go through. This should really be interesting.. But all I can hope for is that Owen will start eating different foods. I have to admit, it was pretty funny talking to her because everything I said to her made sense.. Who knows.. by the end of the year, Owen may have more foods that he really likes??

My Final Project

This cake class was so much fun.. I just can't wait until course two starts (May 5th). I am trying to come up with a design for my birthday cake. I made some of the swilr flowers last night and had so much fun with the colors. But Ryan said that he likes the roses better.. So I think I am going to do both. I think I am going to make a Red Velvet cake (because I have the mix already) with the cream chees frosting (I am just going to buy that) and then decorate the rest with a few roses, swirl flowers and possibly some dots. I saw this design in my book and thought I could do something very similar.

7 Years

Well today is Ryan and I 7th Anniversary. This time seven years ago we were downtown Minneapolis having some drinks with friends, while Keith and Linda stayed at our apartment watching Owen. You know every year I think about how everything went down. Getting married wasn't easy for us and staying married hasn't come easy to us.. But somehow we have defeated it. We made everything work. What an awesome feeling.
This weekend my parents took the boys for the weekend. Friday night we went downtown Shakopee and had a couple of drinks. On Saturday it was Ryan's day. He was supposed to decide what we were going to do. I had no idea what we were going to do. We spent the day in uptown and downtown Minneapolis. I don't think Ryan planned it this way, but for me it was kinda going back in time, like where we met type thing. We saw a movie and went out for lunch. After that we went home and Ryan had a fire. It was an awesome day.

He is getting bigger

Well today was a big day for me. We offically had to move to the young men 8-20 sizes at Kohls. Owen has hit another growth spurt I think. I just bought him ome new jeans, not to long ago, and I am noticing that they are starting to look too short for him. But he is offically a size 8 in pants. They are a little big, but 7s are not really fitting in the waist anymore. Owen is now all for trying on his clothes in the fitting room. It just makes him feel so cool. He really takes forever in there.. I think he is checking himself out in the mirror the whole time.. NOT JOKING. When he rides in the car with me and sits in front, all he wants to do is look at himself in the mirror.. What sucks about shopping in the young mens section.. I can't really match Owen and Logan anymore.. :) Oh well..

I do a lot of thinking in the bathroom

I really do.. and the really wierd thing about that is sometimes its funny and sometimes I get some great ideas. I usually only get my great ideas in the shower, my funny moments are when I'm cleaning the bathroom. So tonight I decided to get a jump start on my cleaning. Ryan was over at Adam and Kristina's house and the boys were in bed. I knew I had a lot ahead of me (cleaning the bathroom) because Owen is in this stage where he needs to pay more attention to what is really going on. Now I grew up with three brothers.. This is not new territory for me. However, I do not know how to talk to Owen about "getting a grip" on things.. If ya know what I mean.. :) Anyways, here I am scrubing the floor behind the toilet!! First thinking about my mom having to do this many times and then remembering that we had carpet (GROSS!). Then for some reason I start thinking about Facebook and how I became a fan of God and Jesus (two people (Linda will get that one)) and I thought "Did Mary have to put up with this kind of stuff"?? Was Mary scrubbing behind the toilet. Oh I fully believe she was.. But then that got me thinking about Mary putting out a book on raising Jesus. I just started laughing at myself. I'm scrubbing pee off my bathroom floor and thinking about Mary writing a book about Jesus growing up. Did she come across some of the same things EVERY mother talks about. Oh I believe she did.. But wouldn't that be a great book to read!! Anyways.. just a random thought I wanted to post, because I thought it was so funny.

I love decorating cakes

Just by chance I heard of this cake decorating class they have at Michael's from a facebook friend of mine (co-worker's wife). I was very interested because I have always wanted to know how to do something fancy with a cake. Can I tell you it is so much fun. I love doing it! The best part is I'm not the one eating it. My first cake I made (in the picture) was brought to work for my Fun Committee to enjoy. They loved it. I made another cake just like that for Easter and we brought some home, but it is now gone. Tonight I am going to class again and we are bringing cupcakes. We have learned a few different techniques so far. I have learned how to make wonderful icing, and how it makes a world of difference what consistency you are working with. I never liked writing on cakes, but now I do. It is super easy. I love thinking of the many possibilites you can do on a cake. Tonight we are learning how to make the roses. That will be fun. But we are also learning how to make clowns out of frosting and sweet peas, and a shell border. Wait till you see our final project. I am super nervous because it is crazy. After this course I want to continue on with the three other courses they have. However the next course is wedding cakes, and in all honesty, I really don't want to learn that, but we will see.

Oh by the way.. My favorite thing to make so far are leaves!! They are so fun!

Easter

I really think I need to keep a notebook with me at all times. Otherwise I forget all the things the boys will say to me. Owen is really into this talking back stage.. For me it is a little fun, but there are some days I don't want to hear it. Like I am really proud of him for standing up to certain things he believes in (when he thinks he is right) but it gets to be a little too much when he is just going off to go off! But on Sunday Owen, Logan and I went to church (at St Mary's). The night before I was explaining to them what Easter was all about (aka what happened to Jesus). So I kind of explained the story about Jesus walking through town with his cross and then how he got hung on the cross, and then getting put in the tomb, and finally rising. So we walk to church. Of course it is completely full and the only place they can sit us is in the front, where the choir sits. So picture this. We are basically sitting right in front of the piano and microphone while looking out to everyone in the church. YEAH!! So we sit down and church starts. This man keeps walking around (didn't' know who he was or what he was doing). Logan turns to me and asks "Is that Jesus?" I told him no, and that he had to be quiet because of the microphone in front of us. Then church goes on. Logan is so into it. He is really listening, Owen was pouting a little bit, but doing pretty good. I got up for communion (I know I spelled that wrong) and I came back and Logan says "What did you get?" Like it was a big surprise or a toy that the priest was giving everyone. It was so funny.. I told him that I got a piece of bread. Of course he immediately says "I want a piece!". I told him no, and then said that Owen will be able to do that next year. And of course Owen flips out because he doesn't want any part of that bread. So Logan, once again, says "OH Owen, it's ok.. it's just bread, you like bread". It was just too much and too funny. Overall, it was fun to go with them and see that they are so well behaved. Logan was really listening which just shocked the crap out of me. I think it really helped when I told the story first, so they knew what was going on. Logan did want to know why Jesus was still on the cross. I told him that it was just a statue. Too funny!!

I had to pick up 4 perscriptions for myself yesterday!

Honestly, I think that is the most I have ever had to pick up at once. I went to the doctor yesterday because I was getting more spots (what I thought look like Chicken Pox). I think this doctor thought I was nuts. It was great! So I had the first two dots, right? Well then I had some on my back and then under my boobs and now on my legs. REALLY WEIRD! So it freaked me out. First off the doctor yells at me for being off my Thyroid pills.. So she refilled that without even testing me. Then she starts looking at my spots. She has no idea what they could be. She keeps looking at them and she decides to just start treating me with a couple of different things. All of a sudden I have pills and creams that I need to take for 10 days. But she said that if they don't start clearing up by next week, or I start to get more I will need to come in so they can take a sample of on and get it looked at.. How crazy is that.. I told her that I called the nurse line and the nurse kept saying that it may be shingles, and I kept telling the nurse that I have had shingles and I know what that looks like.. this is not shingles. The doctor starts laughing and says, "That is not shingles". So who knows. I am really hoping it just goes away with all this crap she gave me.

America's Funniest Videos (AFV)

This is Owen's new favorite show. If you are ever down in the dumps just listen to Owen watch AFV. He cracks up so much you can't help but smile or laugh with him. I mean his laugh is the biggest belly laugh you can imagine coming out of him. It is so funny. I have now tried to make an effort to remember that AFV is on Sunday nights so Owen can sit down and have a good laugh. Last night Owen and Ryan were sitting there laughing together.. It was a pretty good sound to be listening to.

Crazy Hair Boy

Saturady afternoon I got a phone call. It was a dad of one of Owen's classmates. This boy Nicholas wanted Owen to go bowling with him. So we said that was fine, Owen wanted to go. After I got off the phone I asked Owen who Nicholas was (because I never heard about Nicholas). He says "Well, he has crazy hair." Nothing else. So I bring up pictures of Owen's class on the computer and I have Owen pick him out. Logan was with us and as soon as Owen picked out Nicholas Logan says "Yep, he has crazy hair."

Can you see me in Singapore?

The oppurtunity is awesome, but really, me in Singapore?? Oh boy.. So I had a great talk with two different co-workers at two different times. Last night I guess there was a meeting and my name got brought up. These two managers were basically fight over me (and they are not even my boss). My name was brought up in this context "Jessica is the only one that knows how to build these computers and she can save the company money if we send her out to rebuild them." How frickin crazy is that!!?? So here is my issue. Do I take it?? I want to, but I am SOOOO nervous working in front of the customer and working in a bunny suit. The other thing is the plane ride! OH MY GOODNESS!! They are saying I will be in the air longer then I will actaully be in Singapore. I would have to be drugged!! And going by myself! AHHHHH.. But I can't pass this up.. I may never be somewhere like that ever again.. I am not worried about the boys because I know Ryan would tell me to go. It makes me feel good that other departments are seeing me and what I do and appreciate it.

OH what a GREAT day!

I am so happy today. I got the mail just a few minutes ago and had the typical bill, bill, junk mail combo. But the thing that was great about one of those bills was that it was my student loan. As it stands right now, I have 2 student loans left. I decided to look at how much I have left. Do you know what it said?? I have $680 left! UNREAL. I have been paying a little extra every month, but not much. I took what was left and divided it by how much I pay every month and I would have 10 more payments left. I may have to pay just a little bit more every month now, just so I can see it leave us quicker. Now my other student loan is really close too.. I want to say it is right around 1000 dollars.. may be less.. I mean if I really wanted to I could just write a check and pay it off, but I want to keep making the payments. One more year to write off the interest, right?? Well I just had to post this because I am super excited about it!!

I have an issue

My issue is small but I feel bad putting another post up. But I have to do it.. This will be a venting post.. Don't have a lot of funny things from the boys.. However they were super excited about yesterday. I guess the lepercahun came to Owen's class room and made a huge mess, but he did leave candy for all the kids, and then escaped out the window. Boy he was excited about telling me that story. Logan also had a visit from the Lepercahun. He came through daycare's basement window and left candy and a piece of gold for all the kids.. I don't think he made a mess there.. But what was really funny was watching Owen and Logan both trying to tell their stories to each other. Owen is asking Logan what time the Lepercahun showed up, and Logan is just trying to tell Owen that he got a piece of gold. THEN when Ryan came home it was two stories being told at once. It was crazy.. That Lepercahun got them all worked up!!

Anyways.. Back to venting.. I love my job and I have for a long time. The one part I hate about my job is when I have no one to go to for help. I do like to figure things out for myself, but I am supposed to learn that I can ask for help. But what happens when I don't get the help?? Then what? Or people say they are going to help and then don't? Or if they don't communicate anything back to me?? So that is my struggle.. I can honestly say, that I do try to do too much.. It is my nature to help everyone. I almost work better when chaos is involved, but I hate hitting a wall.. So that is that.. I have vented, now I can move on..

Scrapbooking.. I am so excited for this weekend.. Honestly, I just can't wait to get in my car and start driving. Seriously I think I am bringing three bags (my whole blue luggage set duffle bag, little suitcase, and big suitcase). Is that too much?? I have my cricut stuff in the duffle bag, and then I figured I would fill the little suitcase with all my other stuff, instead of brining my scrapbooking bag. Who knows.. I just know I should have enough. I am going to be doing a mix of pictures. I have gone back in time and got all the boys 8x10 pictures from pervious years and I will do pages for all of those (6 months-last year), that part I am really excited about. I also found last years Easter pictures, so I will be using the Easter Egg stamp set. I may also try using it for other things (cards). I also still have vacation pictures.. So I see a lot of that coming into play. Anyways.. I am ready to go and I just can't wait!!!

We lost a WONDERFUL lady

Today Great Grandma Saralampi died. Oh it is still really sad, but she made it perfectly clear where she wanted to be and it was ok. I will personally miss her so much.

It's kind of wierd, but I got a vanity!!

For me, this is weird. I am not that girly girl. I sometimes would like to be, but I am your typical tomboy.. and fine with it! But Ryan felt that I needed a vanity. The reason behind this is so all my crap can come out of the bathroom closet and open up some more space. I understand where he is going with this. So I have been looking for awhile. A vanity is not cheap. Well one day my mom and I went to my neighbors antique shop and I saw this little white desk. I thought it would make a nice vanity. So since she is only open one weekend a month, I took Ryan there a couple of weekends ago and had him look at it. The best part was it was only 50 dollars. So it was a steal. It is very nice to have, however I haven't offically sat at it to do makeup yet. But I finished getting a light and putting the mirror together. I wanted a certain type of mirror and I found mirrors were very expensive. So I bought mirror tiles (ten bucks at Walmart) and put my mirror together. What I really love, is my Victoria Secret bottles all stnd up in the drawers!! Hell, I can use this table to scrapbook, if I really wanted too.. :)

Trying something new!

When it comes to Owen and Food, trying something new does not exist. But sometimes for a split second he will try something and even like it. This is very rare! Almost too rare! Well today he really didn't have a choice. Now I would not consider this trying anything new, but for Owen it is. Lunch time is ALWAYS peanut butter and jelly sandwich with applesauce. Well For some odd reason I don't have any bread.. And I am in no mood to go to the grocery store right now. So I had to get creative. We made peanut and butter tortias. I got the crying and the stomping from Owen, but he really didn't have a choice. So I made it. Logan and I ate them. Owen was just crying. he told me that he licked the outside of the shell and he didnt' like it. I told him that if he took a bite of the whole thing it would be better. So he did. He then cleaned his plate. I was in shock. He told me that it was different then bread. I told him that he was right and that when I tell him things taste good he should trust me a little more and at least try them. I highly doubt that went anywhere but Yeah for Owen for trying something new!!!

I'm POOPED!!

I love saying thst sometimes because it reminds me of that I Love Lucy episode. Where she had to drink that Vit medicine. I won't be able to spell that word out, but you should know what I am talking about. She gets her words mixed up and says "Do you every Pop out at parties? Are you unpooplar?" Love it!

Well this was Ryan's weekend to go fishing with my brothers and Dad and Uncles. This is either the second or third time they have done this. I'm so glad Ryan goes, because it really means a lot to me. I know that if BJ (my middle brother) didn't go, Ryan may not go, but anyways. I feel like the boys have been attached to me for many weeks now. By attached I mean at the hip. It seems like if they get going on something I will sneak out of the room to just go lay down on the bed, or watch TV in a different room, those boys will call me on it right away. So I think I am in need of a mommy break.. Just need to find it. Ryan got me a gift certificate for a massage, on valentines day, so I think I may use that next weekend. But I don't know what I want. I would love a facial. But a massage sounds so good right now.. We will see what happens..

I'm counting down the hours when Ryan will be back. I have to say when Ryan is gone for a weekend, it doesn't matter if the boys are here or not, I still miss Ryan a lot.. Thank Goodness for texting!! :)

From the mouth of Logan.. Again

Oh this boy give me a run for my money.. Let me set the scene.. The boys are in the kitchen coloring. Owen wanted a glue stick. I am cleaning the bathroom. I hear Logan say "We can use the glue stick to hang our pictures on the wall". I start in with a big "no you don't". Then I asked the question.. "Is there glue on the walls already?" Owens face made me believe that there was. Owen and Ryan have the same face when they are trying to hide something from me, it is pretty funny. Anyways, Logan comes back boldly and says "No Mommy, there is no glue on the walls, yet!" What does that mean?? Will there be glue on the walls?? I had to turn my head and go back in the bathroom because I was going to start laughing..

Happy Valentine's Day

You know... This has to be one of the best Valentines Day I have ever had. I don't know why, maybe because we celebrated it all together. Owen had a playdate today so Logan had a date with Ryan and I. The date started off a little rough because Logan didn't want to eat his food, but he turned it around. He wanted to go to a few stores (Lowes, Best Buy, and Target), I have no reason why, he just really wanted to make sure we went to those stores. Then we got home and Owen got home and we had dinner (heart shaped pizza) and celebrated Valentines with the little dog cake (it was made out of two cupcakes). The boys played their Wii games while Ryan and I watched. The night ended with Ryan and I watching Fool's Gold. I hope everyone else had a nice day.

"I used to paint my toes when I was a girl"

I swear to you, I do not make this stuff up. That is what Logan said to me today as he watched me paint my toes. He said to me "I used to paint my toes when I was a girl, but now that I am a boy, I don't". Where does he come up with these things?? And how random is that??

Logan got shots!

I HATE TAKING THE BOYS TO GET SHOTS!!!
Poor Logan had to go to his 3 year check up. I have been so behind with him and his check ups. Anyways, he did AWESOME. The doctor was so shocked with everything Logan did. He asked him some of the same questions they asked Owen when testing for school. Logan knew almost everything.. I was shocked. But then that time came. Logan had no idea. I told him that he needed to take his pants off and lay on the table. All of a sudden Owen shouts "I don't want to be in here when he gets his shots!!" NICE!! Way to go Owen. Logan starts freaking out, I told him that if he is good he can pick out a toy or a game afterwards. That made things so much better. So the nurse came in (this nurse KNOWS Logan, she has been with us since Logan was born). She was shocked how calm his was. He had me hold his hands and she held his legs. She felt so bad giving him the shots. And then they started. Oh we had to go through 4. Seriously, I was tearing up after the first one. I don't like shots, and I dont' like seeing my kids in pain. It just kills me. That poor boy cried all the way home, but still wanted to stop at Target for his toy. Poor kid. But he is doing pretty good now. I am hoping for an early night for both boys!!

My first date!

What a fun and ENTERTAINING day! My first date was with Owen. We had some errands to run and then he got to pick where he wanted to eat for lunch. We left the house around 9. The first thing we needed to do is find John S. house. He is another friend of Owens and Owen will be going to his house for a playdate, along with Owen's other friend Eli. I find this so funny, because last year Owen could only have one friend. He made that perfectly clear, but this year he can have two! So off we went to John's house. He only lives like three blocks from us. I had Owen show me where he gets dropped off for the bus (I have his address but forgot it at home). So Owen shows me and we drive around. He points out Isabell's house. Now if you don't know Isabell (I am probably spelling her name wrong) but she was Owen's girlfriend. Yep, girlfriend. However, when Owen told me he had a girlfriend, I asked him what her name was, and he didn't know. It must be serious!! So I am going to act out the conversation that Owen and I had about Isabell, when he pointed out her house.. This was so funny to me!!

owen: That's Isabell's house
me: OH! Is she still your girlfriend?
owen: No she is John S's girlfriend.
me: Really? Huh? Does John S like her?
owen: No, not really.
me: Oh so she is only his girlfriend because SHE likes him.
owen: Yep!

I about died. I kept a straight face the whole time. So after that we went to get Owen's haircut. He has been complaining about his "bangs". I love when boys get haircuts.. They just look so clean cut. At least he didn't ask for a haircut like his dad. (Logan did.. I just didn't know how to explain that??) Then off to Walmart. We needed to look at some things and of course we swung by the cricut stuff.. I think I am waiting until the scrapbooking weekend, to buy all my goodies!! After we got done there then we had to go home and drop everything off. During this time I told Owen that we had to pick Logan up early so he can go to the doctor to get his 3 year check up and finish off his shots. I told him to not say ANYTHING about shots to Logan. So we got home and he told me that he wanted to go to Turtles. Turtles is a family favorite here in Shakopee. We ad lunch and then we decided to stop at the bakery. I love to stop at any bakery if I have a time, I love that smell (What can I say, I'm a daughter of a baker??). So we picked up some heart shaped cookies for tomorrow and went home. We snuggled up on the couch and ALMOST took a nap, but we had to pick up Logan. So that was the end of our day. It was a great day of talking and hanging out together. Both of us had fun.

I do have a couple of pictures, but I will post them later!

I may go on TWO dates this weekend!!

That's right.. Two dates, and they don't even include my husband! What do you think about that?? Tomorrow is Friday and I am off of work and Owen doesn't have school!! So that sounds like some BONDING TIME!! I love it! My mom and I watched this movie a long time ago, and I can't remember the name of it. Anyways, in the movie the mom and daughter made a point to spend at least 15 minutes with eachother to bond. So ever since then my mom and I always joke about our 15 minutes of bonding. However, I would like to do more with Owen. We have all day, so who knows what we can do. Maybe run some errands together and then go have lunch. Then on Saturday Owen has a playdate with another friend from 10 to 4 (that's a long playdate!!) so I figured Logan and I can go on a date (I think we will invite Ryan along for that date). It was funny, the other day I said to Owen "when you go on your playdate, what am I going to do here?" Logan comes running up to me and says (in his little Logan voice) "You can play with me, Mommy". It was so funny!

Along with going on dates, the four of us are staying at Mystic on Sunday night. Using my coupon again (free night), we will be able to go swimming and go to their Playworks (HUGE area for the boys to play in) so it should be a fun night.

Shaving at 6

So here's the deal.. If you stop by our house anytime in the near future, I want to give you a little heads up. You may see a plastic knife by our sink. This knife is there so Owen can shave. I accidently threw it in the kitchen sick to get cleaned (I did question why there was a plastic sink in the bathroom), then that night Owen was looking for his knife so he can shave.. OF COURSE!!! It all makes sense now!! Like I said before 6 going on 13.

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Let's all welcome the new member of our family..

I LOVE this new fridge!! She is wonderful and as you can see she fits perfectly in our kitchen. She was delivered today and I felt I needed to go shopping to fill her up. I figure I will wait until Friday for that!! Anyways here she is, and I am happy the other one blew up!!

OH!! So of course when the guys took the other one away, I showed them the freezer. They were in complete shock what happened. They said they have never seen anything like this before! Of course!

Up in Black Smoke!

Oh my poor Fridge. Last night my poor freezer had enough.

Lets go back to Saturday. What a nice day. Ryan took the boys outside to play, while I cleaned. I started on one end of my kitchen and worked my way to the other. It was wonderful. Well once I got to the fridge, I noticed that the freezer smelt funny. To me it smelt like an electrical issue. But I noticed that Ryan had worms in the fridge, so I threw those away and cleaned everything up a bit. Sunday came, and I was still smelling that smell. Now Monday, I got home from work, made dinner, then went out for a little bit and picked up some sorbet. When I got home I opened up the freezer and put it in there. Freezer was still cold. About 20 minutes later Ryan was in the kitchen and asked what that smell was. I told him that it was the freezer. Wellwe opened up the freezer and black smoke started pouring out. It was crazy. We closed the freezer door and unplugged that thing as soon as possible. Ughh.. What a mess. Now we had to get all the food out of the freezer. Yuck. As of right now our food is buried in a snow bank somewhere behind our house. We went right away to buy a new fridge. We were in and out in record timing. I am excited to get our new fridge in the kitchen. I love it. But since we found out that we wouldn't get anything until Wednesday we ended up buying a little fridge to get us by. The boys love the little fridge. Logan's first comment was "Look, I can get the cereal and the bread off the top now!" He was so excited about being able to reach the top of the fridge. Too funny! Owen just laughed. He really broke into this belly laugh because he thought the little fridge was too funny!! The positive side to all of this.. We have now offically replaced all of our appliances in the kitchen!!

I am positive that my boys have old souls

I swear these boys of mine are too funny. Their conversations they have are too much. We were in the car on our way to go shopping and the boys start talking about their favorite stores. Logan went first. He decided he likes going to Walmart and Michaels. I was so shocked to hear him say Michaels. But his reasoning behind it is because his name is Logan Michael. It is too funny. So then Owen goes next. He decides that his favorite store is Target (the red store). No reasoning behind that one. Then they start talking about death. Now death has been a big topic in our house for quite some time now. First reason being, Great Grandpa died, and two the little boy that got hit by the car and died in our town last year. Owen used to talk about it as people going to see Jesus (this is how we explained it), now he just says, they are dead. Anyways, Logan asked how Jesus died. I said He died on the cross. Owen then said, "Yep He did. I saw Him on the cross. I even saw His blood." (Owen is going to church school this year, and they take field trips to the schools chapel) Anyways then they get talking about when you die. I told them that you are pretty old when you die. They come back with "Well, Great Grandma, is old." I said "Yep, you are right, but Great Grandma wants to see you get really big. Great Grandpa wanted to see you get really big too, but he got really sick." That seemed like a good enough answer for them. Then they ask "Kids aren't old, why do they die??" I told them that kids die because they may get sick, or they get into an accident, like the littel boy on the bike. Then that was my time to talk about why I may yell at them sometimes because they are not paying attention and I want to keep them safe. Well that all made sense. Then they had to ask about my parents dog, "Why did Kadee die?". "Well, she was just old". That seemed to answer everything at that point, but boy sometimes I wonder what they are thinking about in their head. Owen talks a lot about Great Grandpa. I think he really misses him because he doesn't see him anymore. But I have to say I am very happy that he knows about him and will remember him.

These boys are just too much some days, but I LOVE listening to them talk to eachother and their little discussions. While we were at the store today, Logan starts giving words to Owen to spell. Logan has no idea how to spell these words, but still encourages Owen to spell them. He will give him a "Good Job" or a thumbs up when he gets them right (which is ever time, for Logan)

It's Friday

Well thank goodness for Fridays, but I hate Fridays when I have nothing planned for the weekend.. Nothing! At the end of the year we go three months with something going on every weekend. But the beginning of the year we have nothing.. And yes I should enjoy that, but it is nice to have something going on. Maybe we will take the kids out again. We took them to the Mall of America last weekend. Oh they had so much fun. Poor Logan was so scared in Nick Universe because those roller coasters are just buzzing around over your head. Owen will ride anything. He just cracked me up. He is for sure Ryan's son. Ryan made a comment that day, that I didn't understand at first but then when I thought about it, he was right. Their unlimited wristbands there are almost as much as it is to go to ValleyFair. How crazy is that?? ValleyFair has so much more to offer then Nick Universe! Really??

Speaking of ValleyFair, we have decided to get smart about season tickets this year. I don't ride the rides. I doesn't pay for me to get a season pass when all I do is walk around there. Logan is the same way. He doesn't like going on all the rides. So we have decided that Ryan and Owen will get season passes. This can be their thing together. Owen is big enough to ride all the rides so it makes sense. Now Ryan has that ride partner he has been waiting for. As for Logan and I we can do almost anything. Logan likes to fish and Owen isn't in love with it as much as Logan so Ryan and Logan have fishing, Owen and Ryan have ValleyFair. As far as me and the boys, we like to shop! I will take the boys shopping any day. They are usually pretty good for me. I love it. I also know that I am coming into this phase where it is going to be "cooler" to hang out with dad. That makes me sad in a way, but so happy in other ways. Ryan was never the "baby" guy. So that is where I was always tied up. He was just waiting for the day they could throw a baseball, or wrestle with him. He now has it, so it is his time to shine. Even though, Logan laughs so hard when I will get into the wrestling mess!

See how easy it is for me to get off track.. Goodness! Anyways, let's get this Friday over with. I am thinking I will run to Walmart today and pick up some things for the Cricut!!

Biggest Loser at work

I am in big need of a push. You know that push when you know you need to do something but someone needs to be right there behind you saying "Come on, Let's go" and takes NO EXCUSES. Well I haven't found it. I want to lose weight again.. Man, I want to so bad. However I don't have the push. I have tried many things just like everyone else, but I am hoping that this is my push. We are doing a Biggest Loser at work. Everyone enters with $20 and you must weigh in at the beginning and at the end (you can weigh in in the middle, but you don't have to). I am really hoping this will do the trick for me. I want it so bad, so we will see. No more excuses, and I will just have to find the time to work out.

First Post.. Oh what to say

Well if you know me, I could talk on this thing all day long, without any responses. I have dedicated this my space. My space to say whatever (hopefully) and do whatever I need to do. So just a heads up I may be venting on this page!

My life right now is pretty good. I mean with the economy in the shitter, we are hanging in there. I have been keeping myself busy at work by doing those jobs that you didn't want to do when you were super busy. Life at home can be crazy, but I love it. I swear Owen (who will be 7 in March) sounds like he will be turning 13. The way he talks and acts cracks me up. However on the flip side to that, sometimes his talking is going to get him into trouble when it turns into an attitude. So I try to keep that under control as much as you can. Ryan, my husband, is the "nice guy" in the house. The boys know who to go to when they want something, but I am still that person that they will cuddle up with at night. So that makes me feel better.

Well so much for the first posting.. I don't have a whole lot more to say just yet.. I think I will start another topic.