Double Oink Oink

Good morning everyone! As you can tell from the time, it is now roughly 6:35am. Those who know me, might be thinking, "What the heck is SHE doing up?" Well, the answer is simple. The swine flu. I finally gave up on sleep because my Tylenol had worn off and it felt like I had swallowed a thousand teeny tiny shards of glass. I know, it should have given me pleasant dreams, but it didn't. I gave in and just got up; waiting for the next round on Ibuprofen to kick in.

As I lay here on the couch, I wonder how I could be so naive to think that I didn't need the H1N1 vaccine. Hindsight I suppose. This nasty flu has finally passed through Ethan, and is about half way through Ev and is now wreaking havoc on me. If you call me, don't be alarmed, I have not been strangled by a man who is holding me hostage, that's my voice. Really. I asked Bucky if he wanted to make out, but he politely declined. Just sharing the love, right?!

This week we had a swine flu fiesta because my old friend Seth and his girlfriend were in town. Seth is one of my oldest and best friends and I'm glad to see that he has a super cool girlfriend. ANYWHO, they both said they didn't care if we had the swine flu, they weren't scared. At this point I hadn't gotten it yet and thought I was invincible. :) Ha. We found a luau pig decoration and I made Cafe Rio style food. It was really fun, until the end of the night when I realized I hadn't taken pictures of anything. Doh! So I snapped one real quick at the end.

This Thursday was the much anticipated New Moon premiere. Thanks to my good friend Kelly she was able to get us into the show before anyone else! So we sat front and center. It was awesome! Much better than the first. Here's Missy and I in happier days (pre swine flu). I never noticed, but Missy and I have the same eye color. Huh. Cool. If you like your eye color I suppose... Have a good week everyone and get a flu shot!!!

Oink Oink

In other news, Ethan has H1N1. We're hoping it doesn't get into his lungs and he gets pneumonia. He had pneumonia last winter and it is not fun. It's been REALLY fun having him home all this week but he and Ev can't stop pestering each other. Like every second of the day. But on the upside I subscribe to the Pinching Your Pennies emails and I was able to get 2 pairs of glasses with the lens' for about $50. If you buy glasses you'll know that's a screaming deal. And I just ordered all our Christmas cards for FREE. Here's the link. The promo code is freebies4mom-1109. Check it out.

Role Reversal...

Well, this having a dog is going just okay. Before we got the dog, Bucky and the kids were all about making promises about helping out. Yeah, Bucky's dad was right, it all usually ends up on one person. That person is me. I know, WAH WAH WAH. But, dude, c'mon. Yesterday Evie (4 1/2) had 3 accidents, Ethan was sick and I'm supposed to train the dog not to jump up on the BAR and scavenge for food. She also has taken up barking ALL the time when she goes outside. We have neighbors who have 3 big dogs and I don't know if she's just trying to protect or what, but it's getting annoying. Any advice?

In good news, Shelley's only have two accidents in the house EVER and they were solid poops. That's better than my daughter who's nearly five and can't seem to make it to the bathroom. What up???

A Day in the Life of Us...

Evie was a little mad that she didn't have a picture on the blog of she and Shelley. That's
a bit of pure joy right there. She and Ethan both love her so much that they get mad if she
follows me around the house. We spent the morning hanging out and then I decided to get
ambitious and bag all the leaves that I raked the other day. As you can tell by the pictures, it sucked. I used the entire package of 18 bags.

Ev took this picture of E while he was doing his homework, I thought it turned out really well.

And this last one was a picture I found in E's school folder. Notice, the bit in the corner, "Not a planit." Yeah, that's Plooto. How funny is that?!

World-Shelley, Shelley-World

How could you not love these pictures??? Shelley is a Sheltie. The people said mini sheltie but the guy at Petco thought she looked like a regular sheltie. Either way, she's a great dog. Although I never thought I was a pet lover, I think that I could be. It's hard to say, but she's already wormed herself into our lives (in a good way, not literally like she has worms.)

She doesn't really bark and she seems smart. Which are two of the things that I hate most about dogs, when they bark and when they seem dumb. Brutal, I know, but I didn't grow up around pets. Fish and a sad parakeet, that's it. That' s all the training I had.

But Bucky (aka Bleeding Heart as he will now be known as) and the kids (Said Spawn of Bleeding Heart 1 and 2) have wanted a pet for like 2 years, and I kept putting them off saying, " Oh sorry guys we live in this apartment that doesn't allow pets." Slyly grinning when they turned around. Perfect excuse, right? Well, we no longer live in an apartment and they wouldn't let me forget it.

So, after a long rant, we have a dog. A nice dog. A dog that I'm not afraid of. I got bit by our neighbors dog when I was babysitting one time. It was really tramatic at the time and I guess I never really recovered. Until now. I don't know. She's pretty sweet. In a totally tubular way. Even now, she's laying on my foot under the table. How cute is that?

D-O-G

We got a dog. Will post pictures soon. Gulp.

The Most Non-Spooky Halloween Ever...

The title says it all! We were not spooky and that's okay with me. We patrolled our old neighborhood and caught up with old friends, it was great. My friend Christy was awesome and had a stopoff for soup and rolls and some hand-dipped chocolate treats. They were stellar and then just down the road was my friend Kelly's Spook Alley. It was super fun. Sorry, that my post is lacking in details AND humor, but this daylight savings hour is kicking my booty. The weather, for once, was excellent. I was used to having to put a snowsuit under my costume growing up in AK, but it was just gorgeous here! Here are the pictures from aforementioned festivities...

Evie had her preschool Halloween party the day before Halloween and some of the costumes were cracking me up, like the bumblebee for instance. The big one. I felt so bad, we walked around Ogden High School and the teachers handed out candy that we brought in. So all the kids were getting sweaty and tired in their costumes because we were walking up and down stairs, but this bumblebee girl kept saying, "I'm hot, this is heavy." And you know what her mom said? " Quit being such a woosey. Suck it up. You are being such a baby." Now there's a good parent, no sympathy or anything for the girl that is wearing a 100 lb. costume. Gotta love the ghetto-ness of it all.