SKUNK!!!

Bailey our puppy (14 months old) was behind the pool area and Jacob and Rileigh were swinging. Bailey didn't come right away, so I asked the kids what she was doing...."EEEWWW she's sniffing a dead skunk!!" Well EEEEWWWWW was right! And I knew what I was going to have to do! OMGoodness!!! I DON'T want to clean him up!!! But if you have ever owned a dog, you know that they LOVE to roll in smelly stuff! And really you could smell it at the pool, so it had to be done! So off I go to get a bag and shovel, coax Jacob to make sure the bag stays open while I shove him in.......OH DEAR LORD, I didn't know just how awful it was going to be!!!! He was decaying into the ground and was STUCK!!! One swipe with the shovel let the oder EXPLODE into the air!!! Down went the shovel!!! I had to turn away! Jacob must have been up wind because he didn't move...he stood there like a trooper holding open the bag....and LAUGHING his full little head off at me! So I get myself together and think the quicker I do this the quicker I'm DONE!!! Shovel in hand, I loosen his dead little stinky body loose from the ground.....which is stained black, WOW!!!, wasn't really expecting that, go to scoop him up and I thought I had him....NOPE...his head falls right off the shovel!!! HOLY HECK!! This is AWFUL!! So I throw the shovel load into the bag that Jacob has now left on the ground and I had to do a second scoop to get the rest of him! Then there he was in the bag on the ground, but not quite in the bag enough for me to touch the bag and lift it up to tie it, so we get another bag and scoop up the first bag and get it tied! Throw him into the garbage can and grab the keys....we're taking this straight to the DUMP! We load the trash cans into the truck and off we go! While empting the trash cans I notice something moving!!....oh my...we've got MAGGOTTS!!! Really? Really?

There's water in my BED!!!!

Rileigh comes into our room at 4:30 AM..........which is almost never good....Mike ask her 'what's wrong?' she says nothing...so I ask her 'Rileigh, what's the matter?'..Her reply "there's water in my bed" which is code for 'I wet to bed'!! Poor thing didn't want to admit that it happened to her! I'm hoping she was so exhusted from swimming for hours on end that she just simply didn't wake up this ONE time!!

Rileigh's way of thinking

Well I have just recovered from a stomach bug that TOOK ME OUT! I mean I feel like I've lost 4 days of my life! So it's without saying that the bug is moving through the house and has landed with Rileigh. So, she's sitting on the potty doing her business telling me how yucky it is and I said 'I know it's going to last about 3 days and it will be gone, but there is nothing that we can really do.....Rileigh replies with 'you mean I'm going to have this on my weekend?' Yes, you are I'm sorry, but just think you get to have some sprite and it's not even a party! Rileigh's reply 'Who made sprite law when you are sick? Couldn't it be root beer?' I love that kid!

I'm such a mean Mom!

We have a new puppy and we talked about it before we got her that EVERYONE was going to have to help....well Jacob wanted her sooooo badly that he said he would do it ALL. Of course we haven't made him do it all, but we did assign him the poopper scooper job. I am in the office and I can hear them outside laughing and saying how GROSS this is....it's so funny! Rileigh is saying EEEWWW!!! they have shovels and a wheel barrow. Rileigh just came in and said 'hey mom, I evened picked up poop!' They are talking things out and working as a team.

Finally Some Adult Time...ZIP-LINE!!!!!

After seeing Mike with the height of the ferrous wheel...I thought my chances of zip-lining were slim to none...but he sucked it up and away we went! First you suit up and they give you a whole 3 minute talk and up up up up up the 90 stairs you went on the first tower. You go the first a bit more blind then the rest. After we got to the second tower, they told you how to TRY to steer, but really that's just for laughs, you pretty much just go.......I happen to end up backwards every time. Mike did a little better with the steering then me. Our room was right in front of tower #4, so poppy snapped a few pictures for us and Jacob and Rileigh was able to see us land and take off once. There were a total 6 toweres and took about 45 minutes. AWESOME!!!

American Girl

We woke up in Chicago and gave Rileigh her birthday gift early; Kanani, the Hawaiian doll of the year. American Girl Store in Chicago! It's every doll lovers dream come true and is a destination it self! We arrived about 9:30 am and your mind and eyes go into over load. Displays are every where! There are displays of all of the dolls in every outfit that they have, displays of life size rooms for them and then also the doll size rooms. Upstairs was like a main street shopping area with shops,a salon, bakery, hospital, and bistro. We had Kanani's ear's pierced at the salon and while we waited for her, we shopped. Little girl clothes, pets, and doll outfits galore! We lucked out and were there on the day that they launched new products, so it was the first time that we had seen some things....like Kanani's party dress and ukulele....which we just had to bring home :) We did try to control our selves, but it was hard to resist the cuteness and we bought more then we should have! Pictures tell more then 1,000 words in this case, but shhhhh!!! It's our little secret!

Chicago....Look Out

Well we arrived in Chicago right on time...for the traffic :( So, after 3 hours in the car, we made it to Navy Pier...and as soon as we stepped foot on the pavement, RAIN!!! Are you kidding me? Thank goodness it was a quick shower and didn't ruin our evening. Navy Pier is simply beautiful! Very similar to our Inner Harbor. First we looked around inside then ate at Harry Carey's Baseball Bar & Grill. Then outside to do the ferrous wheel. Wow is Mike afraid of heights!! He made it though, but did the happy dance when his feet hit the stationary ground! Jacob and Rileigh lucked out and rode twice, once with Mike and I and once with Mom-Mom and Poppy. The skyline was amazing from up there!

Are you looking at me?

We visited a family farm today and I tell you the cows were just as courious about us as we were them. One stood half way out of the barn peaking at us, one followed Jacob and Rileigh around and the others just watched us....the same as we were watching them.

the window are down again today!

So, I have this awesome little mirror attached to my rear view mirror that allows me to see the back seat at a glance. We're headed to wal*mart today and I don't see anyone in that little mirror....so I turn around and see Rileigh with her head darn near out the window smiling and enjoying the wind the way a dog would enjoy the wind. Imagine her leaned forward, face directly into the wind, her hair flowing behind her and a big smile! She does always say when she grows up her car is not going to have a roof!

Jacob and Rileigh are SOOOO Different!

With the beautiful weather today, I had the windows down, the sunroof open, and Zac Brown Band playing on the radio....wahoooo!!! Rileigh has her hands in the air and says "Mom, this is AWESOME, it's like a roller coaster"...........Jacob on the other hand has his hands over his eyes and says "can you at least roll up my window!?!?!"

"Mommy, how does a baby get into your belly?"

Well..........Rileigh..........ummm....let's see........ummmmmm, well.....when an adult girl and an adult boy fall in love and get married they have so much love for each other that their love makes a baby grow.....And with that she walked away....but then she came back to ask "mom, why did you grow 2 kids? and ms. Alisa growed 4 and pop pop Marks mom grew at least 3....and at this moment she is sitting there staring at me......yup...still there....still there...shew she finally left! So, there you have it....love grows babies! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

The thing about having 2 children.........

is that when you want them to share they WON'T, but when you don't want them to share they DO! Rileigh now has the funk that Jacob had last week :( Jacob is back to his normal self, so hopefully Rileigh will bounce back just as quickly.

On another note, we've got Rileigh all signed up for soccer for this fall. She has been the one asking for it forever and this is the first year that she's old enough. However she will be 'double dipping'. Soccer is late Aug-Oct and dance will be late Sept-May......and Jacob will probably be doing fall baseball. Holy Moly! We do enjoy the sports, so while it will be crazy, we love it! Sign ups for sports always sneak up on me. You have to be a planner, the cut off for soccer sign ups is June 15th for the fall, dance will have sign ups in July for Sept and at this point I don't know when baseball is........summer camp sign ups start in February for some....it's crazy!

lemon # 233 or something like that

We got up on a nice relaxing Saturday morning, watched Gnomeo & Juliet, then decided to go for a swim before showers. They had fun in the pool for about 2 hours then we headed in for showers.....Jacob done, now Rileigh...just as we were finishing up her hair I noticed a big black BUG!!!! RILEIGH STAND UP!!! finished rinsing her got her out and let the BUG go DOWN THE DRAIN!!! GROSS!! So, the worst part is that when I was combing her hair, there was a trace of blood in her ear canal..........OMG do you think that BUG was in her ear biting her??!!! Simply GROSS!!

Now let's see what the rest of the day has to bring!

I'm Back!

Besides keeping my wonderful family and friends up to date......the purpose of this blog was to help me remember life's little moments or the lemons that life throws my way. So with that said, I am going to do my best to post something each week or more often...depending on the amount of lemons that are delivered to my door. I just hope that if the house fills with lemons someone might visit me with a BIG bottle of vodka to enjoy those lemons with me!


The lemon of the day was needing to pick up Jacob from school :( Rileigh had been looking forward to having a friend over to go swimming for a week! So, they finally get here right on time, but if I had to hear when are they getting here one more time.....well you know. We were swimming and my cell phone rings and it was the school telling me that Jacob had a slight fever and needed to be picked up. All I could think was 'damn, Rileigh is going to cry like a baby when I tell her I have to go', but THANKFULLY the mother of her friend could see my panic and offered to stay and watch them while I picked up Jacob. THANK YOU!!! So, I brought Jacob home got him set up with a sprite and the baseball game and went back out to the pool for just a little while and finished the playdate. After they left, we went to patient first and he had a fever of 102.9 and a slight ear infection....but no one can explain why he keeps complaining about a belly ache. Target for medicine and home to cook some quick dinner, put away the groceries that I bought at target to save myself a trip tomorrow and now finally crash. I did let Jacob ride in the cart at target and wow is he getting big!! It was a chore to get him in, push him, and a chore to get his 61 lbs 4'3" self out of the cart!

Too Funny

Today while Jacob was at camp, I let Rileigh play with Jacob's trucks and cars that he left out in his room...........well boy oh boy was he MADDDDD!! He said a whole lot, like Mom I can't believe you let her do this..blah blah blah...but the funny one was to Rileigh "I'm so mad I could eat you" Rileigh's response "Jacob, you know you won't be hungry until it's dinner time". I had to leave the room!

Another Repair!!!

I don't think I'll ever get a new kitchen! The well pump went kaput!! $1,700.00 and the nice man in the wife beater t-shirt said "you won't want to take a shower or wash clothes here for a few days............about all you'll want to do with the water is flush the commode"........Well, Thanks!! Hope to NOT see you for another 10 years!

Here's a cute Pic

T-Ball

Pictures say 1,000 words...............LOOK HOW FREAKING CUTE!!!!

I get a new tooth and Jacob loses his 2nd

Jacob lost his 2nd bottom front tooth tonight right after dinner. He's too funny about it. He was ready to go to bed so the tooth fairy would come at 6:30.

New tooth :)

Well you all know everything I do is an adventure. And the old saying 'everything happens for a reason'....true oh so true!

Getting a new tooth is of course no different! I started the process about 1 month ago. Went and had a whitening session done, then a week later, they do all of the impressions and color matching, then another appointment for the prep, and then one last one.........or so we thought. The dentist wasn't quite happy with how my new tooth looked and asked if I minded going to the lab for custom shading and some reshaping, well no I don't mind!!! It's my FRONT tooth and I'll probably wear it for 8-10 years!! Well the deal for that is that I had to go to bel air for the dentist to take off the temporary tooth then drive to the lab........in Rosedale........big old greek guy (who was the owner of the lab) hung out with me for 3 hours, painting the color on my tooth while it was in my mouth!! Then reshaped it and fired it and I was off to the dentist in bel air again. 45 minutes there and here I am!!! I do believe that this is the BEST my smile has ever been!!!

So, 100.9 miles in one day and with travel time 8 hours later I have a new smile :)

The every thing happens for a reason come in with.........Jacob puking Sunday night into Monday morning.

I was going to tote Rileigh along with me, because they didn't think it would be more then 2 hours, but THANK goodness that Jacob was sick and Mike came home to watch them, so that I didn't have to change my appointments. Rileigh would have been a little bear with all of that waiting!