Archive for December, 2007

I’m moving!

December 27, 2007 · Filed under Life

I’m moving away from Idaho!! I’m going to live in the Caribbean!!!! wohoo!! I just bought a hammock and I’m just gonna find two palm trees to tie it too for sleeping, other that I’m laying on the beach!  I’m so excited for the sand, green trees, ocean, sunsets, and warmth!!  I wish! it’s just so cold here and the snow is not stopping, it has been snowing for like 5 straight days and I’m just about done with it, how much longer till spring??

I was going to clean my house right now because Chloe is sleeping but after I put her toys away I decided to be done, I’m to tired to do that right now, last night I got into the deep cleaning mood, swept and mopped my floors and cleaned my baseboards in the bathrooms, but I really didn’t pick up the stuff that has been scattered around from Christmas, maybe by the New Year I’ll clean up. :) or maybe I’ll just take all my Christmas stuff down that might get me into the cleaning mood.

You know how people say that microfiber couches are amazing? well I’m really not that impressed anymore, Chloe will leave a cup on the couch and it will leak out, so I go get a wet towel and rub it out like they say, and I still get a nasty little water mark where the water was, it bugs me, (can you even shampoo microfiber couches?)  so I think the next time I go shopping for couches I’ll get an upholstered couch or maybe even leather.

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Christmas

December 26, 2007 · Filed under 1, holiday

what a busy and fun couple of days this has been, Christmas Eve we drove to my mom’s in a blizzard to be with the rest of my family, we ate(of course) and opened some presents, it was alot of fun until Chloe started to cough that she did not like and got cranky, it was really late so we just went home, we got back about 11:30 and put her to bed, she woke up at about 1:30 coughing her poor little lungs out I felt so bad, we gave her some medicine and let her watch tv in out room for a little while and then went back to bed, until 4:30 when she woke up again coughing her lungs up, it was a pretty long night.

At 9:30 Chloe woke up and we went to see what Santa had brought…she got one of those 3d view things with a bunch of different slides, go fish, a couple cars she’d been asking for, and the movie Rattattoullie ( I’m sure that’s spelled wrong but I don’t want to go find the movie to spell it right) then she opened the rest of her presents, I think she was a little overwhelmed with everything, she just kinda stared at the pile in front of her, she got spoiled, just to name a few…a kitchen (from us) a dang cute sweater (from Aunt Marisa) a book and pj’s (from Erica) a hopper ball and more from Grandma and Grandpa Brandt) and so much more stuff, I’ll post pics on flickr. After presents were open we got ready and drove back to my Mom’s for more presents and food, again Chloe was overwhelmed with presents but she had fun, until yet again her cough came back, it was such a bad hacking cough her eyes were watering and she started to gag a little, poor girl, I sent Vince to Walgreens for some cough medicine to see if that would help, the pharmacist gave us some of the “best” otc medicine which helped but I’m still taking her to the doctor once she wakes up from her nap.

I mentioned the blizzard we got…yeah it was so bad outside, you could only see a about 100 yards in front of you, the snow flakes were huge, and it was not stopping, we had to drive our 4runner that’s lifted 6″ to make it through the snow because our infinity would probably not make it out of the garage. now the snow has stopped (for now) and now it’s just so cold it’s numbing. We drove to Idaho Falls this morning and the roads there were not even plowed…it was such a mess, I don’t think I’m going to go anywhere after we go to the doctor, I’m gonna hibernate till April!! :)

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Christmas parties, and mean girls!!!

December 13, 2007 · Filed under 1

I love Christmas time, I could do without the snow, (except on Christmas Day, I don’t mind that) but anyway, I am so proud of myself…Christmas shopping is done woohoo!!! I’m usually still shopping a few days before Christmas and stressed out because I can’t find that perfect gift for someone, I had no problems this year, I had an idea for everybody, even my Uncle, I drew his name this year on my side of the family and at first I was like great he is the worst person to get, but I saw the Nativity Story dvd at the store and thought that would be perfect for him so this year was stress-free!!!:)

We finally got snow, blah, I don’t think it’ll melt this time though, it’s a high of 25 in the day and below 0 at night brrrrr! I just keep thinking that today I should be in Hawaii… I’m still bitter towards apex right now, :( it’s probably like 80 degrees there and here it’s 20 and snowing.

Chloe’s still being a little monster, she’s starting the back-talking (isn’t she still to young to do that? I wasn’t expecting that yet) she’s constantly saying no and when we tell her to do something like eat your dinner she’ll come back and say ” how bout I’m all done” we’ll say “how about you finish eating” and she’ll say ” how about I go play” it’s back and forth all day everyday…ahhh please tell me it’s going to stop when she’s 3 and it’s not going to get worse, (even if it is just tell me what I want to hear…thanks :) )

We went to Apex’s Christmas party on Tuesday night, it was really fun, it was a Hawaiian theme, they had palm trees, surfboards, even a smoked pig, I mean the entire pig, head, feet everything, it actually looked really gross and after seeing it I didn’t plan on eating it, but once it was cut up in pieces and didn’t see a head attached I ate some and it was so yummy! Santa came for the kids, Chloe was really excited to see him walk in, but she was scared to sit on his lap, so that’s why Vince is in the picture with her. we had a white elephant gift exchange at the end, and from something that happend during the game ( i’ll tell you the story in a sec) Chloe and the gift that she got has been talked about with everybody and probably will be talked about forever.

Here’s the story:

So the first present was opened by some guy, it was a big pink puppy dog purse, his wife thought it was so cute. My turn came and I took the puppy dog purse (you could take other peoples gifts instead of getting one from the pile, in case you didn’t know :) ) I knew Chloe would love this, she came over to me and hugged it and had a conversation with it)  I really didn’t think she would care I was taking it for a little girl. After everybody got a gift, we went around again and exchanged for what we wanted and nothing could be traded more than 5 times. This is where the drama started, it was the wifes turn of the guy who opened the puppy purse, I was holding the purse while Chloe went and got a cookie with Vince, she came over and took the dog, and gave me some lotion, Chloe comes back and of course she asks ” where is my puppy?” I told her that a girl took it, and that we can get something else, she started to cry, and everybody at apex loves Chloe anyway so they all felt bad for her and it was on…people started to trade their gifts to get the puppy back to Chloe, when we finally got it back, I took Chloe to go change her diaper ( and of course she was holding the puppy) and I was told that when we walked off that girl who took it got mad and said hey she’s leaving already and it’s not over yet!! they yelled to her that I was just changing a diaper and we’d be back. but it was her turn to trade again, she searched through the building to find us and the dog, she walked into the room while I was getting the stuff ready, and Chloe was holding the dog, she said “I’m trading, I want the dog back” I was like your seriously going to take it from a 2 year old and make her cry again? this was her responce…” well I work with disabled kids and I have a kid to!” and grabbed it from Chloe and walked off. she traded the 6th season of 24 for the dog, so I was happy but I still wanted that dog for Chloe and she was so upset again. but since everybody at apex loves Chloe so much they started trading their stuff for the puppy to get it back to chloe, it was traded 5 times and given back to Chloe, the game was over, and that girl was so mad!!! over a stupid pink dog purse! she walked out after that game. and the worst thing was poor Chloe was so traumatized about the girl taking it away from her she had a nightmare that night and woke up screaming cause the girl took her purse away again!! How sad is that?! That stupid girl better hope she doesn’t see us again!

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the no good, very bad day…

December 4, 2007 · Filed under Life

Okay, so it wasn’t that bad, but it could have been better, it started off with me missing my kick-boxing class, I only went to the gym once last week so I was really wanting to go but with Vince gone, it’s hard for me to get Chloe fed, dressed, and me ready to go. It really shouldn’t be hard, but Chloe is starting to not eat at all, or takes forever, Vince usually brings her towards the end of my class cause her class is after mine then Vince gets his workout and I watch Chloe in her class.

At about 10am we went over to a friends house to play, and she ends up having the biggest tantrum ever (over a stupid pink fishing pole) I give her a couple chances to calm down and share it with the other little girl that also wanted it but she kept screaming about it and so I finally just took her home, kicking and screaming at the top of her lungs!

It snowed again, not alot, it really didn’t even stick, I don’t know why but that also put me in a bad mood, I really don’t like snow, I know it’s December and we should have feet of it, and I live in Idaho and should love it, but I don’t. I don’t mind the dead grass look, for now. I think I need to go tanning, that might put me in a better mood.

Vince is in Kentucky this week for some training with Honeywell, I hate it when he leaves that also puts me in a bad mood, I hate being alone, but atleast I’m not in a scary house anymore.

On a good note…Chloe got a new bed last week, she loves it, I love it, and if I didn’t have to share a bed, I’d totally get one ;) I thought she would have a hard time with the transition to a big girl bed because when we took the side off her crib and made it a toddler bed she made us turn it around so the opening was against the wall, we did cause I didn’t want her to be so stressed about changing beds, but now I thought it’s time to get her a bigger bed, she’s way to big now. We painted her room pink, she was so excited when it was done, she kept rubbing the walls, it was really cute.

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