Movin' and shakin'

So last week Jonas began to crawl!! he kinda does a crab walking butt scoot thing but he is now mobile. He has also started a nap schedule (thank god) and it seems to be working out well. Last week we had a scare, he was playing with his stacking cups and fell and i guess one of the cups hit his mouth. He was screaming so i picked him up and was holding him then I realized there was blood all over my shirt.. he was bleeding from the mouth, very scary. But the day after he seemed to be just fine.

I decided to take a break from my diet, the break lasted 2 weeks. But as of today I am back on it and already missing the carbs *sigh*.

Flu? Cold? Teething? Demonic Possesion?

So much for a nice 3 day weekend. Saturday the kiddo was so sick and teething. I am still unsure if he had a mild cold and teething or if it was a teething cold. Well after about 24 hours he started feeling better... but then i started to get sick.. so here is sit with a very leaky head i feel miserable. I had a puppet playdate i was "hosting" that i had to cancel, i don't think anyone would appreciate my snotty nose on their kids and toys. One crappy thing about being a mom is you get no sick days. Your sick day is exactly the same as any other day! Your kid doesn't care if you are on your death bed, he still needs food, attention, diaper changes.. it's damn hard. I just feel like curling up in a ball and sleeping... *sigh*

Was that a semi in my hallway?

Good lord all mighty what a storm last night! our little neighborhood got hit by several microbursts. Trees were broken, patio furniture was exchanged, and my poor tomato plants are not happy :( I was woken up around 9pm to what sounded like a semi truck in my house. I look outside and all the trees were bent in a 90 degree angle, niiccceee... then the power goes out and my dog looses his shit (not literally) and gets freaked out. So i called APS and they had the power back on around 11pm, not too bad. During the mini tornadoes Jonas didn't wake once, even after the dog barking for 10 minutes straight, the massive winds, and the warm temps.... i wish i could of slept through it :( So the past few hours i have been outside trying to fix my tomato plants and other various plants and flower, i think they will survive, atleast i hope they do.

So a few weeks ago we got DirecTV and disconnected our cox *giggles*. Well I had to go return the old cable boxes to cox and i put it off for 2 weeks, FINALY I went yesterday and waited in the dang office for almost an hour... just to return the stinkin boxes! It slipped my mind that ASU is over and all the college kids are moving out... so they were all there doing the same. Luckily Jonas was good and just stared at them. But that killed my plans for all my other errands yesterday so I need to do them today. But hey! atleast it's only going to be 101 today!!!

8 months old!?

What!? where has the time gone? It seems like last week we brought him home... the sleepless nights of waking up at every one of his breaths or grunts... changing the TINY diapers... Feeding him every 2 hours... Now he is eating solid foods, finger foods, saying words, and damn near crawling. It's crazy how much he has developed over these 8 months... and how fast time flies... *sigh* I know there is so much more to look forward to, but i feel like it has just gone by too fast..

Week from H-E-double hockey sticks

g'damn! between the hot water heater incident, the electrician, the 2 major play dates i organized and provided supplies for, all the prep work that went into the play dates, aaron's jeep dieing, us getting a dog, direct tv instalation taking 4 hours, realizing my new dog is depressed....AAGGHHHH!! I am so done, i can't wait for tomorrow... my eyes burn and I am tired.
to the people who think being a stay at home mom isn't a job.... you need to be drug out into the street and beat with a lead pipe....

that is all

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Welcome Home Sir Francis Bacon

We have a dog!! And he is so mellow and perfect! I got him from a lady who had 3 dogs, all HUGE and he wasn't doing too well with big dogs, they would pick on him and he would do nothing. So we now have him and he did so good his first night. I was expecting whining and urinating all over my house, but no! He slept on a blanket, no accidents.... very happy :) He seems to have adapted well and for that I am greatful. On another note Aaron's jeep decided not to start yesterday, I guess his battery is dead, so i had to take him to work yesterday and i have to drive him to and from work today. Well hopefully he can get a battery and that is really the problem. Now i have to miss a bday party for one of the kids in my mom's group :( oh well... i will leave you with a picture of sir francis bacon...


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Search for a dog

So for the past 6 months we have been wanting to get a dog. We will try craigslist and the local rescues only to be lead on a wild goose chase of people changing their mind, not telling the truth, or being just plain dumb. Well tonight I have a potential canine candidate coming over for an interview. He is a terrier mix who is good with cats and kids, so we will see what happens! sad to say I have learned not to get my hopes up, but I feel the right dog will find us when the time is right... I am not going to push this.

Muther F$%^$%

Ok.... let me start this off by saying, when you work in the customer service field, you are expected to have a level of communication and humility when working with the public. You NEVER should say "my bad man, oh well" to a customer who just paid you 3k for your services.

A few weeks ago we noticed our hot water heater was leaking. Since we are "renting" the house from my mother inlaw she said to go ahead and get some quotes, and if the tank needed to be replaced to just get a tankless and she would pay for everything. So we got some quotes and decided to go with a local company, we will call them company X. So when the guy came out to give us a quote he said it was ready to go and give them a call to set up an appointment. So later that day i called and was informed by the receptionist that we needed to have an electrical outlet installed near the heater (our house runs on gas), yet when the guy was out ehre he didnt mention anythign about an outlet. So i told her i would call an electrician and have that done before they come out. Well the next day i called them back because they needed to mark WHERE they needed an outlet, i was then informed by the same person "actualy you dont need an outlet, i dont know what i was thinking"... so cool! They came out today and installed it while i was at a mom's meetup with jonas. I left him alone with aaron... so i come home and they guy was already done and gone. I was so excited so me and aaron went outside to check it out.... first thing i see our extention cord running from the hot water heater, through a puddle, and into my dryer outlet that is 20 feet away... ummmmmm ...... we have a problem... The pulmber never once came in and mentioned ANYTHING about needing an outlet, had he said "hey, wheres the outlet" we woudl of told him to mark where he needed it and he would have to come back after it was installed... isntead he said nothing and ran an extention cord through a huge puddle and all over the damn yard.... So I call the company and say "hey, what the fuck? You told us you didnt need an outlet, and if you needed one or your technition told us he needed one PRIOR to installing the damn thing we would of told him to stop!" So her words to me "i guess i was wrong, sorry man, oh well"..... wow.... So we have an electric death trap running all over our yard and all you can say is "oh well" ????? Bull shit... I got pissed off and hung up on her, then aaron called back and yelled at them and now they are paying to have the outlet installed tomorrow. Seriously... does this even look safe?! If you were a plumber wouldn't you question that before you unplugged my dryer, run an extention cord all over my yard and through puddles, to connect it?? I'm not a plumber, BUT I WOULD!! I HAVE COMMON SENSE!!! AAGGHHH!!



COMMUNICATION GOES A LONG WAY... if they had communicated at any time they could of avoided this issue...

Beware: Giant beetle bugs

So i have a routine, every monday morning is my time to do laundry, i ususaly only have 2 loads a week (which isnt bad for 2 adults and 1 seven month old) . Well this week i have a ton... and our laundry "room" is outside. So i go out there to start my 8 foot tall mountain of laundry and there are these bettle creatures all over my washing machine and dryer!



ok ok, maybe they don't look THAT scary, but still.... i have a huge phobia of bugs so they might as well be venomous african horntail beetles!... ugh... so here i sit... waiting for them to leave

New blog space for a new life

Myspace just seems so teenish these days, and since facebook doesnt have a blog option I decided it was time to seek out other venues... so here I am! Jonas is over 7 months old now, sitting up, rolling over, eating real people food, saying "mama", and is on the verge of crawling. Time has flown by so fast. People always tell you how fast time flies, but you don't actualy experience it until it happens. It has been a crazy 7 months, but I wouldn't change any of it.