We had margaritas last night :-)
After work yesterday Rick met me at Abby's school and we headed up to OHSU to see my friend's new baby. What a precious little thing she is. Welcome to the world Ashley Nicole, you are beautiful!! We took the kids on the tram- I have to admit that was pretty cool. Aidan kept signing "more more." I love that both kids use their sign language even after they can say the words. Speaking of, Abby's ASL teacher at her school gave notice... I am hoping they continue with that class.
Ok so we are walking from the hospital back to our car- and you know how OHSU is always busy- with students, interns, nurses, drs, patients, dental people, patients, visitors etc who stand outside and wait for a bus or a ride or I don't even know... well we are walking and I am holding Abby's hand and she says- and loudly I might add, "Mom you are stinky, you need to take a shower." She thinks this is funny- she likes the word stinky and uses it often. I am fairly certain and confident that I did not, in fact, stink. However, she says this in front of ALL those people standing outside. I think I even saw one guy snicker- a part of me hopes he was just on his bluetooth wireless thing and was talking to someone on his phone.
I made 2 loaves of zucchini carrot bread today. SCRUMPTIOUS.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Monday Monday
Well... our dishwasher cost $460 to get fixed today. OUCH. Hey dishwashers, cars, backyards... maybe the trees we had cut down were in fact money trees and we should have left them. Ok so the guy who hit our car (well not him- his SIGN) isn't insured. (see previous post). So now what??? call the police? File an accident report with a Luis Palau sign? What do you put when it says describe the the other vehicle??
Sometimes you gotta laugh. After work I stopped at the store, made dinner and threw together Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies for my husband. I figure he could use a little cheering up. So far I have eaten the most ;-)
Nontheless we are blessed. Blessed. Truly Blessed.
My friend Laura is in labor as we speak. I was telling Abby on our walk tonight that we will go visit the baby in the hospital tomorrow evening. She wanted to know when the baby can come to our house and I told her that we will be having the baby shower at our house. She says, "Will dad help?" and I said probably. Then she says, "Do we need water?" I said no and contemplated why she asked this. Then it hit me-duh.. baby shower. Makes me laugh- I had to explain it was a baby party instead.
Here is Abby the other day riding her scooter. My Aunt Jenny in Hawaii made her this dress and she wanted to wear it with her scooter. She is ALL girl.
Sometimes you gotta laugh. After work I stopped at the store, made dinner and threw together Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies for my husband. I figure he could use a little cheering up. So far I have eaten the most ;-)
Nontheless we are blessed. Blessed. Truly Blessed.
My friend Laura is in labor as we speak. I was telling Abby on our walk tonight that we will go visit the baby in the hospital tomorrow evening. She wanted to know when the baby can come to our house and I told her that we will be having the baby shower at our house. She says, "Will dad help?" and I said probably. Then she says, "Do we need water?" I said no and contemplated why she asked this. Then it hit me-duh.. baby shower. Makes me laugh- I had to explain it was a baby party instead.
Here is Abby the other day riding her scooter. My Aunt Jenny in Hawaii made her this dress and she wanted to wear it with her scooter. She is ALL girl.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Sunday...
Can we just start the day over? and more car issues- seriously. I'll get to that later. From the time Abby woke up she has been a crying, whining, sassy, MESS. Before church, I said to Rick "is it to early to drink?" We don't drink either... he had the famous reply, "it's noon somewhere." This particular morning a bloody mary or a mimosa sounded pretty good. I think we have a drink once every 4 years so I'm due. I don't know what is wrong with her but it's been a very trying day. I've never had high blood pressure but I'm convinced that today it's off the charts.
The car... and not the Nissan. On the way to church this morning, our minivan got hit on 217 by a flying Luis Palau sign. (hmmm maybe that is a sign in itself) You know those yard signs that are everywhere with the metal frame- that's the one. We were behind this old beater blazer and apparently he had the sign fixated to his front bumper where it dislodged itself and came flying at us. Scratched our hood- we had to pull over and get his info. I'm not sure what to think- or what Rick is thinking. The whole exchange between them seems shady- I am letting my husband figure this one out. Needless to say it was hard concentrate on the sermon at church due to this very BIZARRE incident... but it was a GREAT sermon and I took lots of notes because it certainly pertains to me. Do you ever feel like you are sitting in church and the sermon is about you, for you, directed at you, and you want to slink down or look around because you just KNOW that everyone knows this sermon is for you and you only? That was me today. Gosh I just thought, what if I blabbed all of that and no one else ever has those moments. Open mouth insert foot.
You want to know more about the sign situation don't you? It's strange I tell you. In the back of the blazer there was a ton of stuff- like one of those people who collect trash? or he's living out of it? I wasn't sure if he was intoxicated but Rick says he didn't smell anything. Apparently on his insurance card the only car listed as covered is a Mercedes- so is this old blazer even covered under the policy? The guy doesn't want us to call his insurance because he is trying to get his bus license and doesn't want this incident to affect that. ?????????????????? Things that make you go hmmmm.
I'm scratching my head at this very truly strange day.
Abby has this church friend, Julia. She talks about her constantly and even names her babies Julia. Today we found out that it's Julia's last week in Abby's Sunday school class because she is moving up to the kindergarten class- she turned 5 today. When we picked Abby up after church I asked her if she was sad about Julia and she says "Mom, I gotta turn 4." Also on the way home Abby likes to point out the train tracks that run alongside the freeway. She is still having issues with some of her words- today she says, "There's the shoo-shoo sane tacks" and Rick says, "You mean choo choo train tracks?" She says, "THAT IS WHAT I SAID." Sassy little thing I tell you.
Nick and Ash came over today for a much needed, long awaited visit and by much needed- it was was a great deterrent for Abby- she switched off the crying meltdowns and was somewhat back to normal. Costco and the libray now wait for us to visit. Maybe I can convince my husband we should eat out tonight so I can have a margarita. A very big one.
ps. speaking of dinner I figure I would start posting our menus so all of us blogger readers can start swapping dinner ideas. (and if you don't blog but read ours- we can swap by email).
M- crab cakes, cous cous and asparagus
T- ham and potatoes and some veggie
W- tacos
TH- teryaki meatballs over rice and fruit
F- chili and cornbread
S- ravioli bake
S- chinese chicken salad
The car... and not the Nissan. On the way to church this morning, our minivan got hit on 217 by a flying Luis Palau sign. (hmmm maybe that is a sign in itself) You know those yard signs that are everywhere with the metal frame- that's the one. We were behind this old beater blazer and apparently he had the sign fixated to his front bumper where it dislodged itself and came flying at us. Scratched our hood- we had to pull over and get his info. I'm not sure what to think- or what Rick is thinking. The whole exchange between them seems shady- I am letting my husband figure this one out. Needless to say it was hard concentrate on the sermon at church due to this very BIZARRE incident... but it was a GREAT sermon and I took lots of notes because it certainly pertains to me. Do you ever feel like you are sitting in church and the sermon is about you, for you, directed at you, and you want to slink down or look around because you just KNOW that everyone knows this sermon is for you and you only? That was me today. Gosh I just thought, what if I blabbed all of that and no one else ever has those moments. Open mouth insert foot.
You want to know more about the sign situation don't you? It's strange I tell you. In the back of the blazer there was a ton of stuff- like one of those people who collect trash? or he's living out of it? I wasn't sure if he was intoxicated but Rick says he didn't smell anything. Apparently on his insurance card the only car listed as covered is a Mercedes- so is this old blazer even covered under the policy? The guy doesn't want us to call his insurance because he is trying to get his bus license and doesn't want this incident to affect that. ?????????????????? Things that make you go hmmmm.
I'm scratching my head at this very truly strange day.
Abby has this church friend, Julia. She talks about her constantly and even names her babies Julia. Today we found out that it's Julia's last week in Abby's Sunday school class because she is moving up to the kindergarten class- she turned 5 today. When we picked Abby up after church I asked her if she was sad about Julia and she says "Mom, I gotta turn 4." Also on the way home Abby likes to point out the train tracks that run alongside the freeway. She is still having issues with some of her words- today she says, "There's the shoo-shoo sane tacks" and Rick says, "You mean choo choo train tracks?" She says, "THAT IS WHAT I SAID." Sassy little thing I tell you.
Nick and Ash came over today for a much needed, long awaited visit and by much needed- it was was a great deterrent for Abby- she switched off the crying meltdowns and was somewhat back to normal. Costco and the libray now wait for us to visit. Maybe I can convince my husband we should eat out tonight so I can have a margarita. A very big one.
ps. speaking of dinner I figure I would start posting our menus so all of us blogger readers can start swapping dinner ideas. (and if you don't blog but read ours- we can swap by email).
M- crab cakes, cous cous and asparagus
T- ham and potatoes and some veggie
W- tacos
TH- teryaki meatballs over rice and fruit
F- chili and cornbread
S- ravioli bake
S- chinese chicken salad
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Bless My Mom
My mom called late this afternoon asking if I wanted to meet her at Target- well what woman wouldn't want to go there? Bless her heart- she spent a fortune on us. Thanks mom for all that you do for us... we love you.
Here is a picture of Abby in her new princess jammies with her new dog purse.
Here is a picture of Abby in her new princess jammies with her new dog purse.
Ouch!!!
The check engine light came on in our car. It's a 99 Maxima... it's paid off. Rick drives it to work and I drive it to work on the days he is home with the kids. The estimate we got today. $2,200.
NO JOKE. Ouch. We have a friend who works on cars so he might be helping us out and getting our business but the car probably isn't even worth $5K. Do we keep it? Do we figure out how to purchase something else? I jokingly said, "is this your plan on getting your motorcycle?"
Then the estimates on our backyard- we had the trees cut down- we want to redo the entire thing. Rick wants to do most of it by himself to save money. Well, we've had some bids this week for doing some work to help him out- rock wall, leveling, and sod. The first one- four grand, the second one six grand. DOUBLE OUCH considering when we moved in four years ago we had the ENTIRE yard landscaped for six grand. What is going on people??? So if you know of a good landscaper who doesn't charge an arm and a leg and half your torso pass on the info. Well maybe not. Now that I think about it we'll probably be getting the car fixed instead of the yard.
In the meantime, here's a photo. The top part closest to the house we want do a flagstone patio. The bottom part we want to make level and all grass for the kids play-swingset. It looks level in the photo but it's not.
NO JOKE. Ouch. We have a friend who works on cars so he might be helping us out and getting our business but the car probably isn't even worth $5K. Do we keep it? Do we figure out how to purchase something else? I jokingly said, "is this your plan on getting your motorcycle?"
Then the estimates on our backyard- we had the trees cut down- we want to redo the entire thing. Rick wants to do most of it by himself to save money. Well, we've had some bids this week for doing some work to help him out- rock wall, leveling, and sod. The first one- four grand, the second one six grand. DOUBLE OUCH considering when we moved in four years ago we had the ENTIRE yard landscaped for six grand. What is going on people??? So if you know of a good landscaper who doesn't charge an arm and a leg and half your torso pass on the info. Well maybe not. Now that I think about it we'll probably be getting the car fixed instead of the yard.
In the meantime, here's a photo. The top part closest to the house we want do a flagstone patio. The bottom part we want to make level and all grass for the kids play-swingset. It looks level in the photo but it's not.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Down in the Dumps Sunday
Today my husband robbed me of seeing Abby ride her scooter for the FIRST time.
AND... both kids' VERY FIRST visit to the ice cream man's truck.
AND... both kids' VERY FIRST visit to the ice cream man's truck.
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