Saturday, February 28, 2009
A little late
This is a little late, but I wanted to give a shout out to my mother-in-law, Iwalani. Her birthday was on the 26th. I've got to say it, I lucked out in the mother-in-law department. She is a pretty awesome lady. Aside from being a wonderful mom, she works and goes to school full time! And I'll tell you, she is at the top in all of those areas. Happy Belated Birthday Iwalani, thanks for being a great mom to Chad and I and a wonderful grandma to our boys. We can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks!
Boo ya!
Chad is pretty much the coolest. Yesterday I called him at work and out of the blue he said, well, today after work I'm going to go get you a SLR camera. I thought he was joking, but nope he was serious. He has known I have wanted one for awhile and here's what he said, "Well, I got my bonus and you work hard and deserve it." Pretty sweet huh. We ended up ordering it online because price wise it made sense, so it should be here in a week or so. Without further ado, may I present the canon rebel xsi :)
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Cloud 9
Devan had a dream come true last weekend. We went to "train extravaganza". It's a train fair where tons and tons of toy train venders come and set up booths. There were a lot of model train tracks set up from lionel to a disney set up. Their was of course a Thomas and train set up. But the most amazing thing, in Devan's eyes, was the Thomas train ride they had going. We had pumped Devan up for it for a couple of days asking him if he wanted to ride on the "real Thomas the train. This is a fun age where he can understand what we are going to do, and get excited about it.
When we got into downtown where it was held, I told Chad I needed to find an ATM to get money for parking. We thought we would just go to the nearest gas station, which was about 1 mile away. Well, 1 mile ends up being quite far in downtown, and it took us to a scary part of town. Once we got to the gas station, it was closed. Not that we would have gone in anyway though because it was quite scary looking! So we thought ok, we'll go to the nearest Valero, we thought that way it would be a nicer station. We drove for a couple more minutes and the GPS said we were there. I looked at Chad and said, "Is that really it?" It was a tiny building, with 1 gas pump, it was covered in bars (like a pawn shop), there was a little window to pay for whatever, but the people up by the window, didn't look like they were buying gasoline. I'm guessing they had a little side business going on. So we got the heck out of there quick. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier, but I told Chad, "let's just find a bank." Soon after we found a Wells Fargo ATM, but it was still scary. I pulled up to it and started taking out money when I heard voices behind me. I freaked out and accidently hit a button, and ended up pulling out $300 instead of $40! And then we got the heck out of there.
Despite our little gas station adventure, we really had a good time. I'm glad we don't live downtown, but it's nice to be able to get there in less than a half hour. By the time we got home it was nice to be safe and sound in Helotes!
When we got into downtown where it was held, I told Chad I needed to find an ATM to get money for parking. We thought we would just go to the nearest gas station, which was about 1 mile away. Well, 1 mile ends up being quite far in downtown, and it took us to a scary part of town. Once we got to the gas station, it was closed. Not that we would have gone in anyway though because it was quite scary looking! So we thought ok, we'll go to the nearest Valero, we thought that way it would be a nicer station. We drove for a couple more minutes and the GPS said we were there. I looked at Chad and said, "Is that really it?" It was a tiny building, with 1 gas pump, it was covered in bars (like a pawn shop), there was a little window to pay for whatever, but the people up by the window, didn't look like they were buying gasoline. I'm guessing they had a little side business going on. So we got the heck out of there quick. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier, but I told Chad, "let's just find a bank." Soon after we found a Wells Fargo ATM, but it was still scary. I pulled up to it and started taking out money when I heard voices behind me. I freaked out and accidently hit a button, and ended up pulling out $300 instead of $40! And then we got the heck out of there.
Despite our little gas station adventure, we really had a good time. I'm glad we don't live downtown, but it's nice to be able to get there in less than a half hour. By the time we got home it was nice to be safe and sound in Helotes!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Big Fat Liar
OK, sorry guys, that picture was just wishful thinking. I photoshopped us into it. So, go ahead, you can call me a big fat liar. I really wish I had a fun trip to be blogging about, but nothing to exciting has been happening our way. We've mostly been home because we've had a few bugs passing around.
It's kind of been nice to slow down for awhile and not have a lot to do. Devan's been working on potty training. Some days he does great and others are a disaster, but he has been making progress. He's getting pretty good at identifying alphabet letters. Tristan is walking really good now and goes further every day without falling. These last couple days he's looked more and more like a toddler and not a baby anymore.
With all the bugs going around I haven't been able to workout for the last 2 weeks, but I'm thinking I'll start back up again today. It's so hard to start after taking a break! I'm also going to go back on the fat resistance diet. If any of you are looking for a diet I really suggest this one. It's very healthy and doesn't take out calories your body needs. About a year after I had Devan, I went on this. I had gained a lot of weight with Devan and when I had my body fat checked it was at a whopping 26% Well, after about 2 months of being on this diet, I had my body fat checked again and it was at 19%! I have to add I was working out also for around an hour 5 days a week. Something else about it I found amazing was usually when you loose weight you loose some muscle along with body fat, but I had lost pure fat, no muscle! Anyway, I'm a firm believer in this diet. I will never again go on one of those, starve yourself and turn your body to moosh diets!
Enough about that though. Yesterday, I put ant killer over our lawn because I found a big mound. That's one thing I really hate about Texas. The ants are just terrible, and ant bites are horrible. I'm hoping this will get rid of them! I'm hoping once I get rid of them I'll be able to do a little bit of landscaping in our yard, but we'll see. There's always so many things I want to do with the house, and then I remember it all takes $$$, and usually to much of it! I really want to put in a patio in the back, but realistically that won't happen until at least next year. It's so fun to be in a house though and be able to work on projects like this. I can't believe that we'll have been here a year on February 28!
Oh one other thing, I inherited Chad's Itouch because he got an Iphone for Valentine's Day. Anyway, Devan really like some of the little games on it and I was helping him play it yesterday. He took it away from me, as if to say Mom I can do it myself, exited the application we were in, and said I want the fishes and went into that application. If you haven't used the Itouch before, just to put this into perspective, it's a whole different technology and it took me awhile to get use to how the buttons click and going from screen to screen, but here was Devan doing it all easy! Anyway, I was in shock and amazement. I called Chad and he couldn't believe it. He was even more amazed when he watched Devan do it himself. I guess he's going to be a computer whiz like his daddy!
Here's some more photoshop I've been doing lately.
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It's kind of been nice to slow down for awhile and not have a lot to do. Devan's been working on potty training. Some days he does great and others are a disaster, but he has been making progress. He's getting pretty good at identifying alphabet letters. Tristan is walking really good now and goes further every day without falling. These last couple days he's looked more and more like a toddler and not a baby anymore.
With all the bugs going around I haven't been able to workout for the last 2 weeks, but I'm thinking I'll start back up again today. It's so hard to start after taking a break! I'm also going to go back on the fat resistance diet. If any of you are looking for a diet I really suggest this one. It's very healthy and doesn't take out calories your body needs. About a year after I had Devan, I went on this. I had gained a lot of weight with Devan and when I had my body fat checked it was at a whopping 26% Well, after about 2 months of being on this diet, I had my body fat checked again and it was at 19%! I have to add I was working out also for around an hour 5 days a week. Something else about it I found amazing was usually when you loose weight you loose some muscle along with body fat, but I had lost pure fat, no muscle! Anyway, I'm a firm believer in this diet. I will never again go on one of those, starve yourself and turn your body to moosh diets!
Enough about that though. Yesterday, I put ant killer over our lawn because I found a big mound. That's one thing I really hate about Texas. The ants are just terrible, and ant bites are horrible. I'm hoping this will get rid of them! I'm hoping once I get rid of them I'll be able to do a little bit of landscaping in our yard, but we'll see. There's always so many things I want to do with the house, and then I remember it all takes $$$, and usually to much of it! I really want to put in a patio in the back, but realistically that won't happen until at least next year. It's so fun to be in a house though and be able to work on projects like this. I can't believe that we'll have been here a year on February 28!
Oh one other thing, I inherited Chad's Itouch because he got an Iphone for Valentine's Day. Anyway, Devan really like some of the little games on it and I was helping him play it yesterday. He took it away from me, as if to say Mom I can do it myself, exited the application we were in, and said I want the fishes and went into that application. If you haven't used the Itouch before, just to put this into perspective, it's a whole different technology and it took me awhile to get use to how the buttons click and going from screen to screen, but here was Devan doing it all easy! Anyway, I was in shock and amazement. I called Chad and he couldn't believe it. He was even more amazed when he watched Devan do it himself. I guess he's going to be a computer whiz like his daddy!
Here's some more photoshop I've been doing lately.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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