Girl Night!

Last night I had the wonderful opportunity to head out for a girl's night! It was GREAT! I love that my husband is soooo understanding to my needs for "non-kid" time. He is wonderful! So we didn't do anything spectacular, wandered 2 targets, a home goods store, and grabbed some slushies...BUT it was so much FUN! To just wander aimlessly and look at stuff that I wanted to look at without hearing, "I wanna see the toys!" or "I wanna go home!" every 10 seconds. Oh and to be able to actually enter a store with breakables (the home goods store) was great! And of course the company, Thanks Desi! And if anyone is up for a fun treat go try the slushies at Taco Cabana. I recommend the Strawberry Lemonade.

Friday was GREAT...but Saturday

SO Friday night we had soooo much fun having our "party"! Both of the movies were great! Saturday we had all sorts FUN family plans, but then work called. GRRR!!! Bad DAY! So Dave ended up having to work about from about 10-4. But I had hope we could still do some of the fun things. So we went to work setting up our above ground swimming pool. We knew it wasn't going to be perfect because our backyard slants, but figured it would be ok. But man it's a sad case. We decided we need to take it down, and either level our yard or build a deck. Oh well, one more thing for the day that didn't go as planned. The kids did have fun splashing and playing as we tried to fill it though, so at least that was good.

On a Happier Note!

So my last entry was long, and grumpy. I'm sorry, I was having a bad day. I do appreciate all the support, and suggestions from friends and family, THANKS!

So, on to the happier note!!!

IT's FRIDAY!!!

This is exciting, it's been a LONG week, and I'm looking forward to vegging out and enjoying our weekend! We are going to have a family movie night, we rented Underdog and Enchanted. The kids are looking forward to our "party" as they call it. I'm looking forward to some down time. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

GRRR....

I am flustered! Timmy has been sick for like a month now! He went in at the first of the month with a fever and overall moodiness. Turns out he had a double ear infection. He was started on his 10 day antibiotic, and a decongestion medicine. That afternoon one of his ear infections ruptured and then he had to have ear drop too. In addition to all of that he had severe diarrhea from the medicine with a very sore bum. So I had to buy him an additional OTC to combat that.So he finished up that medicine and was doing okay, for a day. Then he started having a fever and tugging at his ear again. So I took him back, he still had an infection in one ear, so they gave him a stronger antibiotic for another 10 days. So he finished that on Monday, and has been tugging at his ear still. So today, we went in for his 1 year well check, which already meant 3 vaccines to ruin his day. But they checked his ears again since I told them he kept tugging at them. At first glance, the Doctor said that one looked slightly irritated but not bad. But she decided to do a test, don't remember the name of it, they stuck this machine in his ear that did a puff of air. The test results said he had fluid in both ears. Oh and while checking everything else he has a yeast infection in the diaper area as a side effect from all the antibiotic he has had in the past little while. GRRR... So here we are having just returned from the pharmacy with a third, yet stronger antibiotic to try for 10 MORE days. And a new decongestant to use for a MONTH to dry everything up! Besides feeling totally bad for my baby, I'm getting bummed out by the cost of all this! 3 Doctor visits with a copay of $30, 5 RXs at $15, 1 RX at $30, 1 OTC at $20, and I still have to go by the OTC for the yeast infection. And he has a follow up again on the 4th, so that will be another $30. My only saving grace in all of those costs has been CVS. They have been running coupons in their ads for $30 Gift Cards with a new RX. So I have been filling the RXs one at a time, and using the Gift Cards to pay for the next RX and the OTC. But man that's a lot and all over the period of one month. It's making me miss the poor student days of qualifying for medicaid. So that is my vent, thanks for listening! And here is wishing you all HEALTH and no doctor visits!

Easter Morning

During breakfast Jimmy said, "This was the best Easter!!! When is Christmas???"

Confetti Eggs

Friday night we had lots of fun busting our confetti eggs on one another. Our good friends Mr. Rick and Friend Desi as the kids lovingly call them were here to partake of the fun. It was their first experience with cascarones, aka confetti eggs, and I think they had fun. These have always been a part of Easter for Me, and I have enjoyed sharing the tradition with the Dave & the kids. So starts our Easter! Happy Easter to all!!!

spring time smores

so almost a month ago i saw these super cute frog jars on robyn's blog, and loved them! after asking her about a million questions i got things all figured out to make them myself. of course projects are always more fun with other people though. so today 3 friends came over and we made several variations some frogs & some bunnies. all and all we had a fun few hours socializing, and came out with 26 of these cute jars to share with family and friends. check out the pictures!!!