A new deadline

Well now that March 20th came and went and I got my New Moon DVD (my early birthday present) I now have to wait for June 30th when Eclipse comes out. I watched my New Moon DVD last night and today I watched all the extra features. The features were okay I was just a little disappointed because on the discs I got there weren't any deleted scenes and those are really the only special features I really usually like watching more than once. I'm excited for Eclipse to come out. I hope it is as good as New Moon. I think New Moon was definitely better and truer to the book than Twilight and I hope it continues with the rest.

A wonderful grandma

Yesterday morning my Grandma Girardo passed away. She was a wonderful woman who I really loved. She will be greatly missed.

This is a picture of her and my Grandpa Girardo on the day of my wedding.

Sick, sick and more sick

Well we have had two weeks of sickness, sickness and more sickness. It has not been fun. It all started with taking the kids for their well child checks. Of course you go the doctor well and a few days later you get sick. Connor and Chelton started getting a cough and then I kind of got a little cold and then we all stayed home two weekends ago and didn't get anything done. Once the weekend was over I remember thinking that we got by okay and I was glad that was over....but that was just the beginning (but thankfully it was over for kids). Well this last week has been horrible. Last Tuesday Chelton woke up and he went to work and he called me and told me that something was wrong. He came home and laid on the couch and told me he needed me to take him to the hospital---this coming from a guy who doesn't like to go to the doctor or even take medicine. I quickly called his doctor and got him in to see him a couple of hours later. Well after the longest trip at the doctor's office we have ever experienced and a few tests and x-rays later we found out that Chelton had an extreme case of Strep and a bad case of pneumonia and some other crud on top of that. He has literally been bed-ridden for a week (and yes he is still in bed one week later as I am writing this post). I got the crud on top of the pneumonia and Strep that he has and it too has lasted this whole week with me. But sadly I have not gotten to lie in bed for a week. I get to work and take care of kids and the house and all that fun stuff. Anyway....any other news besides sickness----as it seems that has been our life for the last two weeks----Kylie has lost more weight after we took her to her well child check. She dropped from 20 pounds down closer to 19 pounds so her doctor is worried about her. She has not been feeling great this week as well and has not been eating so of course I have been worried about that. She has slowly been filling into her role of the terrible two's. That is not fun. But she is still a cutie and we love her dearly. Connor has been slowly learning to read and will have nothing to do in Kindegarten next year. I keep joking with him that they are going to send him to Garrett's grade when he goes because he knows too much. Garrett is getting excited to start soccer soon and is excited that his baptism is coming up. I am excited also that spring weather is slowly around the corner. So that's our life in a nutshell in the last couple of weeks. Hopefully we are on the mend of sickness and some good stuff starts coming our way.....

Connor's field trip to the pet shop

Well Connor has had a few field trips lately with his Frog Pond preschool. He went to the dentist which I didn't go with him so I didn't get any pictures of that and he also went to the pet store which I did get pictures of. He liked the pet store but he wouldn't touch any of the animals or get within a foot of any of them. Kylie wouldn't either. She thought about petting the cat but once she stuck out her hand she had second thoughts and decided not to. Here are a few pictures from the fun they had from the pet store.

Connor with his best buddy Cooper by the fish.



Connor watching the lady show them the birds.



Connor by the fish.



Kylie getting ready to leave for the field trip.

Garrett's basketball endeavers

Well Garrett has started basketball this year. His team is the Jazz. He has really enjoyed it. They practice twice a week and it has really shown. He has definitely improved since the beginning of the year. He loves to go to practices and games and it is fun to go with his dad.

Posing for mom during half time



Going up for the layup



During the game

Valentines Day

Well Valentines Day came and went and we had a really fun one this year. On Saturday we went over to our neighbor's house across the street, Dan and Teresa Maisey along with around 12 or so other couples. We had lasagna and other potluck dinner and we had some great conversation and played some fun games and had a wonderful time. We absolutely love our neighbors. We played a newlywed type game which me and Chelton rocked at and a mad gab game which I was terrible at. There was also a game played which if you lost you literally got shocked but I didn't play that one. Thanks to my mom who watched my kids for me so we could go out and enjoy some really good company. It was nice not to have to go out with the crowds and get to enjoy some really good friends. I think I have the best neighbors in the whole world. We got to get to know a lot of people a whole lot better and I got to spend my Valentines Day with the best guy in the whole world.

Check out this site to win some cute stuff

My friend Beckie is giving away a darling pendant and a set of "Luck" blocks on her website. Go to beckieandbrad.blogspot.com to enter to win (before February 7th).