Pictures Finally

I have been very bad about keeping up with this whole blog thing. Every time I go to take a picture or decide to upload some pictures something happens and I don't get it done. No real good excuses just life getting in the way. I started February with a where did January go, and I started March with a where did February go. And now I am in April and I hate to say it again but where did March go!?!?

First a few pictures, then a small update on us.

Marty and Lindsey after running 3 miles in 30 minutes

My toothless wonder

Love this girlie!!!

I just realized I don't have any of the boy. The 2 pictures of just Linds were taken at Disneyland and he did not go with us, and the one of Marty and Linds was at her Jog-a-Thon for school.

I will get pictures of him in April! In fact this weekend is Easter so I will be sure to take some pictures then.

March was another busy month for us. When is a month not busy anymore would be a better question.

We went to Disneyland, Marty and Lindsey went on a camping trip, Camden and I had a garage sale just to name a few things we did. I think there might have been one weekend where we did not have any plans and April is setting up to be just as busy.

I promise to post more pictures on Monday from our weekend.

Where did February go??

WOW!! Where the heck did February go? I know I said that about January, but February went by even quicker.

February recap in 30 seconds:

Super Bowl party, San Francisco, overnights with Aunt Mimee and Uncle Shane, overnights with Papa, and Grandma. Rainy weekends, Father/Daughter dance, one weekend of no plans, spending time with the neighbors, gymnastics, sickness, school, and some great family time!

Now for the details:

The beginning of February we went to a Super Bowl party, ate some yummy food and saw friends we haven't seen in awhile.

The father/daughter dance was the 11th, and the girlie looked so so cute.

That weekend Marty and I went to San Francisco and the kids spent the weekend with my sisters family and my parents. San Francisco was a blast, exploring a city that neither of us knew a lot about and getting to explore the city with one another makes me want to go find another city to explore. :) The kids had fun at Aunt Mimee and Uncle Shane's, and Grandma and Papas houses. One of the best parts of that weekend was probably coming home to the kids. Lindsey came with papa to pick us up from the airport and made a welcome home sign for us. Then walking into my parents house and Camden running to us, just melted my heart even more.

The following weekend we had no plans at all, and it was wonderful! The kids and I just hung out at home since Marty had to work and it was a great lazy weekend.

We spent time last weekend at my sisters house grilling out with my family and it was a lot of fun. Great food, great company, and card playing what more can you ask for?

Oh and at least one of us have been sick since the middle of January so we are all just trying to get healthy. Which means we have all been going to bed pretty early lately. Can you say asleep by 8:30 on most night?? So that doesn't leave a lot of time at night to get things done.

So the month full by in a hurry but we had some great fun! I didn't take many pictures, and the ones I did take are still sitting on my camera. Hopefully by this weekend I will post pictures!!

March is going to be another busy month for us, lets hope I am better about taking pictures and posting.

Where did January go??

I can’t believe it is February already, where did January go?

January recap:

We celebrated New Years with the neighbors. It was an easy going, quiet night and the first time we woke up in our own beds on New Years Day. We also started going to church again, last year we went from time to time but this year we are making an effort to go more often. Lindsey started back to school on the 12th of January after being off for almost 4 weeks. It was a little adjustment for her, but now we are in the swing of things and she is doing great! We spent a lot of time down and Grandma and Grandpas house. Grandma Hartman is here visiting and the kids love it. Lindsey fondly refers to her as her bed partner and even skipped spending the night with her cousins so she could sleep with her grandma, something about being the best leg and back scratcher ever. We also went to Disneyland, and the kids had a blast! This was the first time that Camden really enjoyed the rides. He would get off of a ride run in a circle, make growling noises, and say I drive over and over again.


Now we are in to February and already the days are flying by. Marty went back to working nights; the kids and I both miss not seeing him at night. It isn’t a lot of fun when you only get to see daddy for about 15 minutes before he heads to work. Thankfully his schedule is such that he only has to work about 14 days a month but those are very long days. The kids are taking awhile to adjust to daddy not being home every night. Camden is constantly asking “Where daddy at?” over and over again. The father/daughter dance at school is on Thursday and Lindsey is excited for that. Marty and I are heading to San Francisco this coming weekend and we are both excited about it. I have been once when I was about 8 years old I think and Marty has never been so it will be nice to explore the city together. The kids are going to my sister’s house for some auntie, uncle, and cousin time, and Max is heading to my parents house, every one is getting a mini vacation away from the house. J

Sorry I have been lacking in pictures, here are some gymnastic pictures my dad took last week of Lindsey and some pictures that were taken at grandma and grandpas house this past month. I have to start getting better about taking pictures.

Camden stuck

Lindsey in action

Love this picture...

Linds riding Camdens quad

Sweet girl

Probably up to no good

Marty said if I was going to post pictures of him on a scooter, then we needed to get him a boy scooter.

Gymanastics:

The balance beam

sit ups

jumping

stretching

Disneyland

I created a slideshow of our day at Disneyland. I did not take as many pictures as I had hoped for but we still had a good time.

Camden loved the rides, this was the first time he was excited to go on the rides, and he loved them.

I tried my hardest to get Lindsey to try some new rides, but she wouldn't do it. She isnt crazy about the dark rides, she won't go on Space Mountain, or the Matterhorn (even though that use to be one of her favorites) but the girl loves Pirates, The Haunted Mansion, Splash Mtn, and Thunder Mtn. If only she would try the other rides I am sure she would love them.

I am off to bed it has been a long and exhausting, but fun day!!

Follow up to the last post

I got home today from work, looked at my 2 beautiful children and realized just how lucky I am. So I have had a pretty crappy week, but I have the 2 most awesome kids ever! Not to mention a pretty awesome husband who was completely understanding of me ripping the front bumper off of his car. Yes, I am pretty darn lucky!!

Marty is out tonight playing poker with the guys from work so the kids and I picked up some food and enjoyed our evening. Which consisted of us eating dinner while watching cartoon network (love that my kiddos like the Jetsons), taking baths, finishing homework, then a good old round of my mommy, my sissie, my Camden where the boy tackles all of us, followed by some sibling wrestling, and Lindsey singing for us. I love my life!!!

Update on the kids.......

Lindsey - She is doing great in school! We got her progress report and it was nothing but improvement. This time last year we were struggling, (really struggling), and now this year she has completely done a 180 and everything is just clicking. As a parent there is nothing better then seeing your child getting "it". We have also received emails from her teacher saying what a great job she is doing. Lindsey loves her DS, she usually goes in spurts playing it, but since Christmas she has been pretty much glued to it when we allow it. Well we went to the doctor the other day and we were talking to her, and the doctor was letting Linds draw a picture. The girl draws a picture of her in her bed (you knew it was night time because she drew stars and a moon) playing her DS, and then next to her bed she wrote "sneaky". So we get done talking to her doctor, look at her drawing and ask her "Lindsey do you sneak your DS at night?" She says no I was just playing with you, but then starts laughing. So our little 7 year old has been sneaking her DS at night. We now put it in our room so we make sure she can't sneak it. Silly girlie!!

Camden, ahh really what can I say about this kid. He is so full of energy and love, and so so ornery. Last week when I went to pick him up from school, his teacher pulls me aside and says "we just need you to know that Camden has started hitting, kicking, and pushing kids." Now when he does this at home he knows he can't do it, and he will get a time out. At school though they don't do time outs, it is all about positive reinforcement and redirection. So we have been battling that for a little while. He is just a very possive little guy and likes his things. He likes his things so much in fact that he says "mine" for everything, and his teachers at school call him the birds from Finding Nemo. Everyone I have talked to says this is typical 2 year old behavior but wow this is new to us. Lindsey was complete opposite of this, never hitting or kicking anyone. To this day I dont think she has ever hurt anyone to be mean. But the boy on the other hand, if he doesn't like something, you will know. I just hope this phase ends sooner rather then later! 2 more things the boy has done this week. We went to Subway the other day, Marty and I are ordering our food, we look down at Camden and he has pulled his pants down! Yes in the middle of Subway the boy just drops his pants as if it is nothing, and laughs. We have been working on potty training on and off. Some days he is in to it some days not. Well tonight he decides he wants to pee on the potty while he is in the tub. So I get him out of the tub and sit him on his potty. He then stands up, grabs himself and grunts as he aims for the potty. Then he puts his hands behinds his back, sticks his tummy out, and aims some more. Thankfully he never went, imagine that mess.

We are heading to Disneyland this weekend. Linds doesn't know we are going so it is going to be a big surprise for her. And I think just what I will need to erase this week! Disneyland through your childs eyes is the best!!! :)

Pictures from this weekend and some videos from tonight............

Lindsey riding her scooter

Camden and daddy on a walk

A pane mommy, a pane

Camden looking up to his daddy

Camden chasing his car with the broom.

He was chasing his car all over the place

They wrestle like this all the time.

Lindsey sings and falls..........

Lindsey singing

Sorry for such a long post, but it has been awhile since I posted. Hopefully I will get back on track and start posting more then once a week. :)

Can it get any worse??

I know this blog is suppose to be about my kids, and what cute and clever things they say and do but really I just have to vent for a minute.

Can the week get any worse?? Seriously I am done, stick a fork in me!

It is only Thursday, and if I could just erase this week 2010 I would be more then happy to.

Monday - I had to drive to Rosemead for a meeting with the CEO of our bank. I am given unrealistic time frames to complete my work, and when I let them know this I am pretty much told to deal with it. Driving home I am riding in the back seat of my bosses car, and his stop and go driving make me want to hurl. I get in my car finally and start heading for home, Linds has to be at gymnastics at 5:00, it is 4:10 when I leave the park and ride place. I am crusing along, and bam see the cop get on his motorcycle, see the lights before I am even past him, and just pull over. Yup I got a freaking speeding ticket! My first one ever!!!

Wednesday - Work decides at 2:00 (mind you I leave work at 4:00) that they want 2 borrowers to come in and sign loan documents first thing in the morning. Now they have had my files and my documents since the 14th and 15th of this month. But they decide to tell me that they want changes to the documents at the last freaking minute and want me to organize a closing for these borrowers. I am rushing to get stuff done. I realize there is no way I will get Camden on time, so I have to go and pick him up and bring him back to the office. Thankfully our neighbors kept Lindsey late for me. I didnt get out of work until 5:45 yesterday, not a good way to end the day!

Thursday - Today everything is going great, I was on time, even a little early. I got to back out of the garage and hear a smashing sound of metal. Oh crap Martys front bumper is totally hanging off his car. I pick up his bumper shove it back on his car (where it actually stayed), and honest to goodness actually think hmm can I make it look like I didnt do this?? Yeah no such luck. There is no damage to my car, thankfully. I am just trying to figure out how not even going 5mph I could have ripped his entire bumper of the car. I am hoping that it isnt going to be to expensive to fix it, but it has to be fixed there is no other choice but to fix the darn thing.
Thankfully Marty was super nice about it and didn't get mad at me, at least on the phone he didn't get mad at me. Not sure what he said to the people at work........

So here now I sit thinking when is it going to get better?? I don't think it can get much worse, or maybe I shouldn't say that!

MY MONEY, KISSES, AND A FIT ALL IN ONE POST

These are the videos I took last night of Camden. Still not feeling 100% so sorry there are still no pictures. :(

I wanted to capture Camden saying "my money", and kissing his wall.

This video is a little long but so worth it in my opinion.......

I probably shouldnt post him throwing a fit but really who can't relate to this.

First he got mad about his couch, and then got mad at me for taping him.

Where have I been?!?!!

So I missed pretty much an entire week of posting, which stinks big time. But in my defense I got some horrible bug that made my head feel like it was going to explode, my throat feel like it was on fire, and my nose running so much I felt like I was a faucet. Last night I was taking video of Camden and Lindsey came in and said her ear was bothering her, I ended up taking her to Urgent Care last night waited 2 hours got the meds, and finally got home abou 9:00. So my intentions really were to post last night but then well life got in the way.

I have no pictures to post today, but I do have a cute story about Camden.

The other morning Marty gets him out of his bed and changes him. Camden reaches for his bank, and says My Money!! He then walks around the house yelling My Money!!

That is all for today, maybe tonight depending on how everything goes I will post some pictures.

Rachel

Bedtime

Tonight as we were putting the boy to bed he came up with a new stall tactic.

Normally he has to give everyone including Max the dog a kiss goodnight. He says kisses daddy, kisses mommy, kisses sissie, and does this over and over again until we put him in his bed. Tonight this was the conversation:

Camden: Kisses daddy, kisses mommy, kisses sissie.
Me: Ok Camden into bed you go.
Camden: Cookie night night
Me: No Camden you cant have cookies
Camden: No momma, cookie night night, melmo (Elmo) night night
Me: You want to give Cookie Monster and Elmo a kiss goodnight?
Camden: Yes

He then proceeded to spend 5 minutes talking to Cookie Monster and Elmo that are painted on his wall. He gave them kisses, (yes he kissed the wall) and then talked about cookies with them. Then when he was finished he came over and said "night night mommy."

I guess not only do we have to kiss everyone in the house goodnight, but now we kiss walls too!

Sorry no pictures again tonight, I did get some video of Lindsey I will upload tomorrow. I am just to tired, and American Idol starts soon. :)

THE MEATBALL IS IN THE SAUCE

No pictures today but had to post what Lindsey said tonight.

I was running Camden some bath water tonight and asked Marty to put Camden in the water while I got pj's ready. The next thing I heard is Lindsey saying....

"Mommy, the meatball is in the sauce, I repeat the meatball is in the sauce."


Gotta love that girlie!!!

Both kids are in bed early tonight. Lindsey goes back to school after having 24 days off of school. I am ready for her to go back so we can get back to more of a routine, but at the same time I really did enjoy not having to make lunches, not worrying if homework was done, etc. Only 5 more months of school left, with 2 weeks off for spring break.

January 9th and 10th

He really enjoyed his melon!!

And in case anyone was wondering this is the real boy!!

January 8th - Park Day

WARNING VENT ABOUT THE PARK BELOW........

The kids and I ventured over to the park today after work. Can people not control their kids? Just because they are at the park and entertaining themselves does not mean you have the right to sit on your butt and do nothing. Kids were running up the slide while the boy was trying to go down, digging underneath the walkways, blocking the stairs, etc. I asked a kid to move so the boy could slide down the slide and the kid just looked at me. This was the conversation:

Me: Excuse me can you please move off the slide so my son can go down?

Kid: Blank look

Me: hmmm yeah can you move now please?

Kid: Blank look

Me: Camden just go down and if you happen to push him, well he wouldn't move so it's ok.

Kid: Blank look

Yes I know probably shouldn't be telling my 2 year old to push someone out of the way but really, the kid just stared at me. What would you have done?

I didn't get to many pictures of the girl today, she was to busy to have her picture taken. Tomorrow we are going down to Mamaw and Papas house and we are going to go to the park again. Hopefully the kids are nicer, and the girl won't run when she sees the camera.

The girl can be sweet to the boy when she wants to.

They really do love eachother.

She actually asked me to take her picture here.

twing momma, twing

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January 7th

Today I am thankful that we were able to play outside when I got home from work.

My toothless girl riding
She just jumped off her scooter when I took this.

Dont mind the pink scooter, he loves the thing.

January 6th

The boy was up for playing with the camera today, the girl not so much!

We said cheeseeeee mommy....

We went bowling............... We watched TV..............

We loved on each other.......
We were afraid the hamster was going to touch our legs..........
We caught the tricky hamster........
All the while the girl did this.............