Spring Ahead!

Good morning! I hope everyone had a wonderful Weekend!! We sure did!! We kept ourselves busy and enjoyed the wonderful sunny 70 degree weather! I must say its wonderful to have warm weather, but 70's in march is a bit much, i mean sweating in spring isnt a good feature. Brian and Slade washed the truck with shorts on yesterday, and flip flops. While all my friends and family in Michigan are still wearing winter coats, hats and boots! Thats such a crazy thought to me. I am trying to enjoy the warmth as much as possible, because when we move back to michigan in 2012 its going to be SHOCKING. BUT moving back brings me to smiles because it gives me winters. actual winters where you can go sledding, snowboarding, SNOWMOBILING, all the fun stuff winter brings. Not only that, but people can actually drive with more than a inch of snow on the ground in Michigan; here, not so much. I don't drive when we get snow here. Not because i am afraid or anything. Its because people around here drive like maniacs and they are more damaging and frantic than the road conditions themselves. We live like 3 miles from brian's base, and it took him over an hour to get home from work during one of the "snow storms". Pure craziness!! Anyways, i really didnt want to sit here and write about winter, but i guess it happened. Moving on.

This weekend we "Sprung Forward!" and boy has it thrown me off!!! Last night we were eating dinner and I Freaked when i saw the clock say 6 o'clock. i mean, normally the kids are out of the bathtub or almost done with their nighttime bath at that time, and when im off schedule it just throws me for a loop. brian just said "relax" and thats just what I did. But Keni's poor bath lasted about 10 minutes because "mean" mommy bathed her. Normally thats daddy's thing. Mommy cleans up the kitchen after dinner and daddy bathes and plays with the kids. He lets them sit in the bathtub until their little hearts are content. Me, not so much. when they are scrubbed and played for a couple minutes, thats it, were done, time to get jammed up! When i had finished and dressed keni, i brought her down for her bottle and brian said "geesh, why didnt you let her play?!"....... that's how we are different, im strait and to the point, and daddy's fun. That's how its sopossed to be right?!

I have to say, i like to wake up with the sun coming up. It's way better than waking when it's still pitch black. Since my kids are early birds and like to catch their worms each morning, i guess so do i. So i have to say this time change is making me happy. they sleep until 7ish.....yay! hahaha. which in all actuality it is still their normal 6ish, but atleast the clock says its later, and that in itself is good to see!

Brian has done alot with me this weekend that he normally avoids. Like making the menu for the next 2 weeks. He searched through cooking magazines and recipe books, coming up with an array of new ideas and meals. We then headed off to the farmers market to check it out and get fresh products. It was a really cool expierience. They have a butcher there, a fresh bakery and a fresh seafood joint, along with a bunch of other vendors and shops. Which brings me to my next topic. Seafood. When i was younger i was alergic to fish/seafood and such. Ive always been terriffied to try it again because who really wants to know their throat is swelling and their tongue is swollen and itchy?! nuh uh. not a good feeling. But watching commercials lately with seafood it has gotton me curious to try it. now we think im allergic to the iodine in shell fish and seafood, so we tried tuna steaks since i can eat canned tuna, we thought tuna steaks would be a start. We tried something different and cooked together. it was a really fun experience. one we are going to incorporate throughout our life. LOVED IT! anyways the hubby looked up a recipe, asked me if we had the ingredients and away he went. pouring and measuring to make the marinade. I was prepping the side dishes for a very healthy meal. He grilled it and everything. I have to admit, my anxiety aside, it was VERY good! it had GREAT AMAZING flavor, and knowing hubby cooked it was all the better!! Might i add, he was in 7th heaven with getting to eat fish!!! Even sladen ate it. he's a tough crowd when it comes to food, so for him to eat it, that's quite impressive. So all in all, it was a great weekend full of new adventures and new habits.

The weather was amazing and the boys took full advantage of sucking up the sun by washing brians truck. They are getting ready to sell it, so they shined her up really pretty. I know alot of you who are reading this know how much brian has put into his "baby" and how much he loves it. But it's grown up time. He had his fun in it, and he says its time to get practical. So with my being more sad than him about selling it, i guess i just have to let him do it. Slade and Him really love going places together and working on it. But i think with selling it and saving for a car that they can work on and enjoy together, will be the cherry on top. Brian's always wanted to save it for slade so he can have it when he turns 16. but it wont be worth much by then brian says so i guess its time for someone else to have it. Its just sad to let go of it for me because ive seen all the things sladen has learned and done with brian in that truck. and the smiles on their faces while working on it I will never forget. But its time to move on. (i know im talking like we are giving away a child, but you have to fully grasp how much of a child this truck is to brian!!!!) While in boot camp, brian wrote me to ask me to send pictures of his truck to him. he also wrote in letters to ask where i was keeping his truck and to see how "she" was doing, now if that isnt love, what is....hahaha.

Sis is really motivating, she more or less hops when she "crawls" its not very "smooth" yet but she is getting there. Brian is amazed by this. I think he forgets that i am the one here with them all day, and since he is at work  and he doesnt get to see it all day, when he finally does he says " HEY MOM COME LOOK!!". its too cute that he is so excited for her and i always hate bursting his bubble when i say "i know babe, shes been doing that for a couple of days!". But this passed week he taught her to say "daddy". She says "HI" and "daddy" now. so its so cute when she taps his legs and says "hi dada, daaaa daaaaaA". Something NOT so cute that she has learned this week too is scream!! she screams when shes mad, happy, excited, all her emotions result in a blood curdling scream. slade screams along with her. its funny to a point but wowzer! She also tried avacado last night and that didnt agree with her belly. so i think im just going to stick with what i know she can eat. trying new things is good, but i always feel bad when she yaks!

I havent updated on wolfie in a while. Quite frankly we understand to the full extent why the previous family had surrendered him. As much as he makes us mad, and hate him (for a minute) we love him unconditionally and we can't help but love his goofy ass. even when hes eaten 3 of slades bike peddles, a grill brush, a grill lighter, a duralog, and anything he can get his mouth on. Stolen slades star crunch, and about 5 biter biscuits from sissy. (and thats just the passed 5 days) And no, it isnt because he is bored. He's walked everyday, its just his personality. He's very spiteful as well.  He's like marley (from marley and me). The whole time my parents were here he acted like a complete angel. listening to every command.... it was the best he's been SINCE we adopted him.....when they left, old habits set back in. Oh wolfie! We couldnt ask for a better behaved dog when it comes to no barking and getting pulled at by the kids. He's very mild manored with the kids but he's so rambunctious all at the same time. Its hard to explain but once you have seen it, you would totally understand. Slade and wolfie are best of friends, and that in itself is reason enough as to why he was brought to us.

Sladen is doing really good. i think he is growing so much right now. he is outgrowing all of his clothes and pajama's. which is good for him, but not for my wallet!! and so is sis!!! they both need a TON of clothes and pajama's. Dont really have alot of updates for sladen at the moment, just that he is growing and doing good. He's momma's little helper and such a great little guy.

Something is new with me though. I have decided to start a homeschool group. No i dont plan on home schooling, but sladen is dying to go to preschool and quite frankly i am not ready for him to go yet. so my result is getting other moms together that are willing to have their children learn, help with crafts and just have a good time doing it. Field trips and everything. I think it will be really a great thing. We have alot of kinks, and we havent "started" it yet, but its in the works and should start this week. Im pretty excited about it. I hope the other mom's are as well.

Well, that is all for now. have a wonderful week everyone.