Family

Here is a pic from our last family reunion, December 05.

I am so happy to be visiting with my family. I have an Auntie, Uncle and 2 boy cousins from Orlando, FL. here. My Uncle, Auntie and 2 girl cousins from Kuna, ID. And I have my dad's cousin from Nashville coming this week. They are all here for my dad's wedding this weekend. Yeah!

I have been talked into doing a hula dance with my Philippino extended family for my dad's wedding. My family loves Hawaii. It will be a surprise for my dad. He wanted me to have the girls dance on his 50th birthday, but I was sick with my last pregnancy. I know that this will make him so happy. My cousins dance at most all of there get togethers and I have always admired from a distance. Well they said that my dad would be so happy and proud and so on, that now I feel obligated to join in the dance. I am nervous because if I learn this dance I will be expected to perform at other family functions as well. Oh well, the price of being in such a loving family. I will put of pics of our performance next week. My cousins from Idaho will be doing there Irish Folk dancing as well, with my uncle playing the flute. My dad's wife's son (mary's son, would have been easier) will be doing an acustic gutiar solo. Its a total family event.

Spring Break

We went to South Carlsbad State Beach Park for spring break. It was our first time camping at the beach. My wonderful father let us barrow 'bambi" his airstream trailer. We had so much fun. The picture is of part of the staircase we had go up and down a few times a day to get from the campsites to the beach. There is two more flights of stairs you don't see. My calves were killing me the first day. Defiantly got my exercise in for the week. My kids love the water. It didn't matter that we had some cold weather. They also love digging in the sand with there dad. Auston found a lot of shells and even taught his little brother to throw rocks in the waves. It was kind of hard explaining to a 2 year old that he couldn't throw rocks when other people were around. THAT WAS FUN! We even had some friends join us for dinner one night, Auston and his friend Nick rode bikes and played catch with the football. There were a lot of other kids there too. Kolby can make friends with anyone. He would just walk up to strangers and say "what's up" and want to play. We didn't want to come home, I just wanted my bed. LOL!

I am going up to orange county this weekend to watch our color guard perform in the championships. I also have some family coming in on saturday from out of state. Florida and Idaho. I am so excited to see them. A little nervous that they all want to come and watch me play softball. They will haggle me, I just know it. And my dad's wedding is just around the corner.

Until next time......

Monday Again!

Well I am feeling GREAT! I am over my sickness and the doctor found out another little problem I was having also. My thyroid is low and is the cause of my tiredness, headaches and lack of weight loss. My goodness, anything else??? We had a good weekend. This Saturday I am giving my dad's future wife a bridal shower, I am so excited. We are going to have a "tea party". This will be the first time I get to meet Mary's family. My dad is scedualed to get married next month.

Another cool thing is we are going camping at the beach the monday following Easter. My oldest son is excited.

This friday my husband and I are going to a concert together, Unwritten Law. One of the band members is my dad's future wife's (Mary) son. This will be the first time we see him perform. It will just be nice to have a date night with my husband.

I hope that everyones start to the week is great!

a short one....

Well I have been sick since last Wednesday. It started with feeling achy and tired. I got a migraine later that night and a rash all over thursday night. Turns out I have a viral infection that has the symptoms of the flu but you also have an itchy rash all over your body, GREAT!

My rash is almost gone but still itches, my migraine is still here and I still feel a little weak. I made a chiropractor appointment today to help with my head problem and hopefully by tomorrow I will be feeling close to a 100% again. I need to get back on track with my walk(s).

Thank you to all the wonderful people at my church who called and offered there help. It made us feel great.

Mon. Nite Drama

Yikes. I had to leave early to go to the bank and stop by my tax ladies office before my softball game. It is all in san marcos. Well, the bank was closed and when i started heading to the tax office..... my car dies. In traffic, luckily I was able to park it in the median out of the way, but people wanted to still honk at me. Like I had any control over it. I had my flashers on! So I call my friend and her husband to come help me push my car onto a side street. Played my game, which we won, then waited for my husband to come down after work and wait with me for a tow truck. The tow truck showed up just before 10pm. I got lucky actually, my friends own the tow company. We finally make it home after 11pm. Now we are down to one car, yippee! I get to only cart my kids around, but my husband now too. We are having the car looked at tomorrow, I just pray we can afford to fix it.

I do feel really blessed that my car didn't die on the freeway, in the fast lane or something. Thank you God!

Monday

I had a great weekend! Went to a baby shower and saw some old friends. My husband had a drum-line tournament, they took home first place. On Sunday I went shopping for my dad's (soon to be) wife's bridal shower. I had a great time picking out all the little gifts for prizes and other decorations for the party. The woman marring my dad is wonderful. They have been dating for over two years now and decided to take the plunge. And I couldn't be happier.

I went for a walk this morning with my friends Heidi and Tristan. I feel great. Walking in the morning helps we wake up and feel like I can get things done today. Kolby was great, he actually stayed in his stroller. For a two year old, that's a big deal. I look forward to more walks with them. It's more motivating when you have another adult to go with.

Monday looking Great so far.

My Brothers

This is a picture of my brother Jimmy and his girlfriend Anjeanette. My brother and I haven't spoken to each other in about six years. We had a disagreement involving a mutual friend of ours and my brother won't let us move on from it. He just recently started to go to my mothers when my boys are there, to spend time with them. They love there Uncle Jimmy. I haven't meet his girlfriend yet, but we do converse via myspace with each other. I miss my brother so much, so so much. I want to be close with him, we were close growing up. We are fourteen months apart. He was my coach when I deliverd my first son Auston. Auston shares my brothers middle name. My brother was and is still important to me. I pray everyday for our reunion. I want so badly to reconnect with him.


This is my brother Jordan with my son Auston. Jordan is 21 and lives at home still. He is a good guy with a big heart. I am not as close as I want to be with him either. I call him to check on how things are going and I see him when I go to my mothers. He won't just call me or come over, but he does talk to me when I call him. I have always let him know that I am here for him. He doesn't talk with Jimmy much either. Jordan does come to all the family functions though, thats something.

I want more, but feel stuck! Does that make sense?