We're Back In Milton!!

I've got Miguel and Lacey with me until Saturday or Sunday. We've been trying to have fun but I got this stupid cold that is wiping me out! It's ruining our vacation fun!

Vacatiaon Diary: Day 6

MERRY CHRISTMAS YA'LL!!

We laid around all day. It's snowing up here and I was hoping to go home tomorrow, but Joey said he didn't want us to leave just yet. I want to bring Miguel home but Joey doesn't want Miguel to be gone for so long.

On another note, Lacey, my twelve-year-old sister, made the mistake of falling asleep way before the rest of us last night, so me, the big sister, had to mess with her. You HAVE to watch this video, it is HILARIOUS...me smacking Lacey in the face while she's sleeping!!!



Merry Christmas everyone and thank you Lacey for the good times!!!

Vacation Diary: Days 2, 3, 4 and 5

Phew, Monday and Tuesday are over, spent all day working on my master's thesis. Woke up Monday, headed over to St. Kate's, spent all day on the thesis. Didn't get it done, they kicked me off campus because they closed at six pm. Went over to Kinko's to try to finish it and print, only to find out that Kinko's charges .49 cents per page to print, which, at 80 pages times two copies of the paper that I needed to print, would have cost me $75 dollars just to print! So I gave up, left Kinko's, went home, trie again on Tuesday. Went to St. Kate's and worked some more, but found out that St. Kate's now charges to print as well, even though they never used to. However, they only charge .10 cents per page which is a HUGE drop from .50 cents. Sadly, printing at St. Kate's was not going to be as easy as I thought, since I was not a student, they would not let me print. I was going to have to actually drive over to Hamline to print. But alas! One of my students at St. Kate's offered to let me print my paper on her print account! Since the semester was over, she let me know that she had a huge print balance on her account and let me use it! Thanks so much for that Becky!!!!

So, the moral of the story is, I got the paper done at 5:30 Tuesday night. Went off to Benihaha to have dinner with my beautiful friend Ania. Here we are:



Ania was a fellow student at St. Kate's and we graduated together.

Wednesday was a lazy day for me and the boys. I was supposed to go visit my pal Yobe, but I was too tired, and the snow was on the weather radar to be heading our way. So I laid around all day with my little buddies.

Today is Christmas Eve and we are relaxing together. My mom is here with Lacey. Pa Chia is home and my dad just ran off to get some McDonald's. We're hanging out today again. I went out and shoveled the walk for my brother, who went to work for a little bit today. Ooops, my car is running outside. I had Lacey go out and stick my cell phone in there, it was out of juice. I better have Lacey run back out and get it!!!!

Here's a video of my little buddy Manny giving me a full body massage. These boys are just so adorable, Sam better be HAPPY that he stole me away from them!!!



Today was the day that the boys got their hair cuts. Here is Manny, he's got the old man haircut:



And here is Gabe, he's got a mowhawk and he's really mad about posing for the camera. This picture seriously CRACKS me up:




Stay tuned. It's Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas! We'll have more action for you tomorrow!! .

Vacation Diary: Day 1

Hello to all of my fellow blog followers!!! I am now sitting at my lovely brother's house in Minnesota. Sadly, the boys are not here, my brother needs to go get them from my mom's house.

How did my first day of vacation go? Well great, thank you for asking!! I left my house down in Milton at about 1:30 on Saturday and went straight up to St. Croix Falls to celebrate my cousin Mindi's 30th birthday. My wonderful cousins Tonia came up from Iowa and Heather came up from Stillwater, Minnesota to hang out with us. Here we all are:



From left to right: Lacey is my cousin Mindi's step sister. Tonia is my cousin. Kayla is Mindi's little sister from another marriage. Then me. Heather is my cousin and Aunt Val is Mindi's mom (Mindi's dad is my mom's brother). Teehee!

And here we getting ready for some fun...



And here we are at the end of the night:



That concludes our Saturday night evening and Mindi's 30th birthday shindig. I am now hanging out at my brother's house waiting for my little buddies to come home.

Happy birthday Minders!!!

I Completely Forgot to Tell you About my Family Drama....

Remember my little sister Jewel? Born on my 13th birthday? She is now 19. She joined the Air Force in May, graduated from their boot camp in July. We secretly found out that she went off and married some guy that she was dating for only a month. She avoided telling us but I guess the guy she married, Scott, his mom sent Jewel's mom a message about it on Facebook. Needless to say, we were not happy. Then a month later, she decides she wants to annul the marriage. That was a few months ago. Now...the guy she is dating or "involved" in right now, is a guy she dumped before for doing crack. I'm so confused! She's going back to a guy who is doing crack?

Sigh sigh...I remember being 19, but I sure would have never married a guy after dating him for a month, nor would I have ever dated a crack head. And me being the strong willed woman that I am, I cannot keep my thoughts to myself. Booo, my sister has a screw loose, and she doesn't want to talk to me anymore because I told her that she was too good and beautiful to date a crack head!!!! There's nothing else I can do...oh well....at least I'll officially be on vacation in a matter of moments!

December Fun...

Well, it's been a week and a half since I last posted. Last week was kind of a hectic week. We had a huge snow storm that started last Tuesday afternoon and lasted until Wednesday evening. Last week Sam left our home around 2pm Tuesday and I didn't see him again until Thursday night. There was a point where I couldn't get a hold of him and I was beginning to get scared! But he apparently was removing snow for 36 hours straight. Broke a new record at his company for the longest shift worked. Sadly, he came home Thursday night and went right to sleep and Friday had to go to work again. Needless to say, he got a lot of overtime in this week!!

I went out and took pics of our driveway during the snow storm. Try to see if you can find my car somewhere in there:



I was able to stay home from work on Wednesday, which is why I really like my job. Hung out all day with little Lucy, who I have to say, is one insane kitty. Here she is relaxing amongst all of the presents under the tree...



And here she is this morning, we woke to find her little "playground" all lopsided. Wow, she really just can't help herself. I mean come on, look at the red blanket flipped all over the place. I'm surprised that she hasn't opened any of the presents! You HAVE to click on this pic to enlarge it, it's just too funny...



Surprisingly as well, she has NOT knocked the tree over since that first time. I think the loud thud it made might have scared her. Thursday night I was making Christmas cookies for a cookie exchange that I was going to on Friday, and little Lucy decided that she was going to jump on the counter right onto a raw cookie that was waiting to be baked. She left her paw print on the cookie! So cute! Here it is...

Random Pics....

Here is my nephew Manny as a newborn...



And here he is earlier this year, how he has grown! (he's the little one on the farthest to the left)

It's December Already??

Wow, I can't believe it. I had my long vacation last week and I'm sad to be back to work. Boooo....

Had a wonderful Thanksgiving at Sam's aunt's house. Met some friends out the night before, that was a great time. Sam did some hunting again this weekend but didn't see much. I hung around the house and painted some Christmas signs. You would be able to see them on my online store but I haven't put them up yet. Spent most of Friday putting up the Christmas decorations. I went out looking for some wreaths, but they are super expensive, so instead, I bought a fake one for $5 and some ribbon for $5 and a few novelty decorations for about 65 cents each, and made my own wreaths. We also put up the Christmas tree but it seems our kitty cat likes it too, as I awoke yesterday to find the tree knocked over! I should have taken a pic of it but I was just too shocked! I am 99% sure that she'll knock it over again, so I'll try to remember to take a pic.

So now we have owned our house for a year now. We really didn't move in until last January, but we've owned it for a year. I'll do one of those videos walking around my house like I did last year. This time, there'll be furniture in the house! Stay tuned!