What a Month! (so far!)

Holy Cow!! Can this month be over already? Today it is only half way there and I'm ready for December!!

OK, let me start at the beginning....

On Monday the 1st;
I wake up not feeling that good. I start to think I might take the day off of work. Soon after getting going for the day I get a text from my boss that my co-worker had been arrested over the weekend for stealing a truck, recking it into someones garage and he was drunk! Oh, Sammy was only 18! So, I knew I had to go into work since there was only 3 of us and now one is in jail. She also tells me that my cousin (who had applied to work there) needed to start that day to cover for Sam. I give her a text to tell her she will start and give her the info and that I would take her home after work. The rest of the day goes pretty good, even though I still didn't feel to well.

Wednesday the 3rd;
I get word that they hired a new guy to take Sammy's spot and my cousin seems to not take it too well. She was hired to work one hour a day for four days a week and since she was covering for Sammy she had been working 3.5 hours a day. So with the new guy starting she would go back to one hour. We texted for a little while and she decided she would keep working.

Thursday the 4Th;
She did a no call no show! Now, you have to understand.... there were only three of us working there and the work load is crazy. My boss didn't even really want to hire her but I went in and talked to her and told my boss that she could really use the money from this job. My boss agreed to hire her and give her a shot. Then, she did this! I texted her like crazy and no word, my boss tried and nothing. Then later that night she hits me up on facebook about why she did that and blah blah blah.

Friday the 5Th;
I have to go in and train the new guy, which sucks since I don't work Fridays. I tell my cousin to call and talk to the boss, which she doesn't do. It upset me so much because I put myself out there to my boss over her and she just didn't care. So, I don't know if they called it as she quit or if they fired her.

Saturday the 6Th;
The weekend goes pretty well. Matt and I went to one of my cousin's birthday party at a bar with some of our friends and had a blast. Matt and i don't really get to drink together since one of us a usually a DD. My mother in law drove us home to Tooele at the end of the night, which was awesome!

Sunday the 7Th;
I was sick all day! :-) That night Matt started his night shift. I didn't sleep all night, it was awful.

Monday the 8Th;
Matt got home a little after the kids got up. It was so hard to get going on no sleep, but I knew I had to.

Tuesday the 9Th;
No sleep!

Wednesday the 10Th;
No sleep! I could take it anymore! I was completely exhausted!!! I got up when Matt got home got dressed and Matt had made the comment that he thought my sister should watch the kids that day while I went to work. I don't know why but I flipped out. I got the kids ready and left the house early. I cried the whole drive to my mom's. I cried the whole time I was at my mom's. And I didn't even know why I was crying?! I remember sitting there crying and saying "why am I crying?" I couldn't go into work like that. I sent my boss a text and she told me that my co-worker (the new guy) had called in too. I fault stuck! But I knew I had to call in. She said it was OK and I loaded the kids and went back home. I cried the whole drive home. When I got home I woke up Matt and we sat and talked, it was great! He totally understood and helped my with the kids for the rest of the day. That night he helped me put the kids to bed and he gave me 2pm pills and told me to get some sleep that night.

Thursday the 11Th;
They worked!!!! I woke up feeling great! Thank God! I felt like I was having a mental break down! Thursday flew by.

Sunday the 14Th;
We had our family pictures done!! So excited for that one! It was my whole family, mom and dad, Jessica and her family, Jason and his family, and of coarse my little family. We went to Wheeler Farm. We hired a guy that does all of my friends the Romney's family photos. He was awesome! I can't wait to show everyone.

Monday the 15Th;
I think I am finally getting use to sleeping alone. I slept through the night, thank god! I'll have to wait and see how the rest of today goes. But so far, I feel great today. :-)

I hope this month turns around for me. It has been rough so far. P.S. I'm over the whole thing with my cousin, she's only 15 and I remember how it is when your that young.

Patrick's first hair cut

After Halloween we decided it was time for Patrick to get a hair cut. He has needed one for a while! I was having a hard time letting go of his baby curls. :-( Sad! So Sunday night we put him in his high chair, so we could stap him in, and cut his hair. He was ok at first he just didn't like when we got by his ears. Then I think he just got fed up with all of it and he started crying. It was so sad, all I could do is sing to him to try to get his mind on something else. It seemed to work for a minute or so but when I pulled out the camera it just made him mad again! He looks so different now! He looks so big!




I saved some of his curls.

Halloween 2010

This year for Halloween Matt and I decided we wanted to do a family costume, so we all matched. I thought the oompa loompa's off of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory would be easy to make and Matt could be Willy Wonka. Some where down the line my whole family thought we were all going to be oompa loompas and my brother in law wanted to be Willy Wonka. So last minute change, we had to think of something else for Matt to wear. Every year I get a magazine of costumes I can buy on line. Matt looked through it and decided Patrick and him could go as Mario and Luigi. I looked at the costumes and decided it would be easy to make. Friday morning I got up early, got the kids ready and went to the store (oh, Friday October 22). Thank goodness I don't work Fridays! I got home and every chance I had, between feeding, changing, napping the kids, I sewed our costumes. That night Matt went out with the guys in my family so I had the kids all day! So I worked into the night! Matt got home around 11 pm and brought me a monster drink. I finally called it quite at 2am and went to sleep. The kids woke me up at 7:30am so I went back to sewing. I finished everything around 2:45pm with 15 minutes to get ready to go to our neighbors for a pumpkin carving party. I can't lie, it was a lot of work but I had a blast doing it, plus we saved sooo much money from me making them instead of buying it. Then after we changed our minds on Matt's costume, my family didn't go as oompa loompas or Willy wonka. Oh well. I have to say I was really proud of myself! I also made my mom's (she was an oompa loompa also) and she won best costume at our family party. That's two years in a row that the costume I designed and make won best costume! I love Matt and Patrick's hats, people thought I bought them, nope I make them!

SUPER FUN SUPER ZOE DAY!!!

Lately Zoe has been having a little trouble with having accidents. You know it is with kids, they get to playing and just does not want to stop to go to the bathroom. She has not been full out peeing her pants, it's just been leaking. Anyway, we tried marbles in the jar, we tried spanking, we tried giving away a toy. So I thought about rewarding her big time! And so far it has worked. We came up with the idea that if she can earn 7 star stickers in a row we would do something big for her and she got to choose. (Stickers worked really good when we potty trained her.) We bought a little calender to hang in her room and some star stickers. Before bed every night we sit down with her and talk to her about her day. If she had an accident we put an "X" across the day and talk to her about the fun day has to wait now. If she did good that day she gets a sticker of her chose and she gets to put it on the day. To get her excited about her day we came up with the name, "SUPER FUN SUPER ZOE DAY". When Zoe is super she gets a super fun day! She loves it! Last week she got her 7 sickers in a row so we sat her down and let her choose what she wanted to do for her fun day. She decided she wanted to go swimming, so we did. We had my mom babysit Patrick for us so she would have us to herself. She had so much fun. We went to the West Valley Fittness Center and after we took her for icecream at Artice Circle (that was our idea). The only sad thing was she kept saying she missed her brother, so next time I guess we are taking him with us. Lol!

Updates

I thought I would update everyone on how the kids have been and what they have been up to.

ZOE
Zoe has been in preschool since the beginning of September. She loves it! When I drop her off she is excited and can't wait to get into her class. And when I pick her up she is always singing her songs she learns and just plain excited! I love it! I hope she stays like this about school. She has always been the kind of kid that loved to learn even if it was learning a new song.
Last week we got a letter from her teacher that there was a case of head lice in her class, I freaked out! I don't know why, I know it is just a fact of being a kid and i know my kids are bound to be exposed to it. But I guess I was just being motherly and spazzed! But I am glad to say that after watching all weekend she did not catch them, this time.
One cute story I want to share about Zoe is; the the other day my mother took her and Patrick to pick our pumpkins. She gets back to my moms and tells her "ok, now we need a paper to print out a template of swipper (from Dora). Then we will trace it on my pumpkin and then I can cut it out." My mom said she said it so matter of factly. She could not believe she used the word template! Sometimes its crazy how big she is.

PATRICK
Patrick is getting sooo big! It blows my mind! He says stuff like "don't!" "no!" "don't you do that!" and "I'll spank your butt!" He also just says word like "mom" "dad" and "bottle". He makes up his own words also, like "be-da". I have no idea what he is trying to say but I do know it means he wants a bit of what ever you are eating or just to give him food!
He walks, runs and climbs on everything! He does not go one day without hitting his head on something! I don't even jump anymore because I am so used to it.
One story I want to share about Patrick is; we went camping for Labor Day this year. We went to Wellington, Utah. It was my whole family and some. My mother has a HUGE fifth wheel camper, I mean big! It has three huge stairs to climb in and out of (well, huge for me, lol!). So one of my cousin's kids fell off his scooter and no one was around him, everyone was in their trailers. There was a hand full of us in my moms trailer and saw him hit the ground. My brother jumped out of my moms trailer and ran to help. We were all looking out the window and didn't realize he left the door open. Patrick has started wanting to walk down the stairs instead of backing down them. Next thing I know my mother is asking where Patrick was and I run to the door, which was open. And found him at the bottom of the stairs on a cement ground! I freaked out! He was trying to cry but all the wind had been knocked out of him. His arm was bleeding from the stairs. But over all he was fine! I was completely thankful! I felt so bad for the rest of the day. After the shock wore off he was fine, playing, running, talking. Just fine! He still has a scare on his arm but I would rather that then a broken skull.

As for Matt and I. We are good. Matt will be starting a new job next week, which I do not look forward to. After his training period, which is two weeks, he will begin working nights! He will leave for work around 9:45 pm and wont be home until around 8 or 9 in the morning! I don't know what I will do without him. We don't sleep without each other, in the nine years we have been together I think only about four or five times have we slept apart. It is a good thing too though. He will get a pay raise, work with his brother again, and not work at his current job. I still work for Granite School District at West Kearns as a sweeper. Tons of drama with that, as always!

So I guess that's it for now.

Weird!

So the field behind our house has always had cows come and go. I think it is their stopping point to the slaughter house (sad, I know!). They are only there for a few weeks at a time through out the spring to fall. We had cows back there up until Wednesday of this week.

Yesterday our room got pretty hot so I opened our two windows ( one in the front, one in the back). We get a really good wind flow through our room when we do that. Last night they were still open while we laid in bed. We both heard a cow moo in the back and I thought "weird!" I told Matt that there was no cows back there anymore. He thought maybe they got a new herd last night. Well, maybe they did. We closed the window and went to bed.
This morning I got up before the sun and started my day. When the sun came up I let the dog out and noticed no cows. I went up to our master bathroom and looked out the window (to see the whole field). NO COWS! What did we hear last night?
I'm a little weirded out today!

Halloween 09

We had a great Halloween last year! I decided I wanted to make the kids' costumes when I saw a cute idea in a costume magazine. I made Zoe Little Bo Peep and Patrick was her Sheep. It only took me a few days to make them and they didn't cost that much either. I love crafts so this was cake work for me.

I also made my brother Brobee for Halloween. It was kind of hard with no pattern but I made it work and it looked awesome! At our cousin's party he won the poll for best costume so he gave me $20 of it to say thanks.

Because I had spent so much time on everyone else's costumes, Matt and I had nothing to wear. So Matt took an old white sheet and cut some holes and went as the classic ghost. I wore a low cut shirt (not hard to come by in my closet, lol!) and stuffed my bra with spices.... a spice rack! lol! It was fun.