Just the way I wanted it to be....

This past weekend turned out to be exactly what I wanted it to be! On Friday we did I usual running errands, and then we spent the rest of the evening watching movies. Then Saturday morning we got up and got the kid all dressed up in their costumes (again still haven't gotten my camera cord from my mom, so I will have to put up pics later). Then we were off to the Halloween carnival. It was PACKED! They had games everywhere for the kids, hot dogs to eat and cookies to decorate. I am a little sad though, because when we went to get the kids pictures taken their printer was having issues and they weren't sure how long it would be before it was fixed, so we didn't get to do pictures there. After the carnival we came home to relax for a few, and then it was pumpkin carving time! Yet again Syd picked the hardest pattern in the book, so Anthony did it. Once he was done with that though he was DONE! He had enough, so I was left with 3 pumpkins to carve. My parents came over to visit while we carved pumpkins, and we all watched Hulk (Tasia's new favorite phrase is "HULK SMASH!"). On Sunday we spent the day watching movies and relaxing too. We are huge movie buffs LOL All in all I think it was the perfect weekend, and I can't wait to go out trick-or-treating with the kids on Friday.

Today I started watching my friend's nieces while her sister goes to school, and I must say the thought of 5 kids (ages 8, 5, almost 3, 2 and almost 2) scared me a little. Out of those 5 kids 4 of them are girls, and I'm sure you all know how girls can be....like I said a little scary! However, I am pleasantly surprised. Tasia loves having other girls her age to play with, and these girls not only do really well with entertaining themselves but in the last 5 hours I have only had to break up 1 fight. Amazing huh! Also I must say that the bond between these 2 girls is phenomonal! I've seen a sisterly bond before, but nothing like the 2 of them. It is so sweet to watch. They take care of each other, and play with each other better than I have seen any kids play together. Now I don't have false hope that everyday will be perfect, because even the best behaved kids have their bad days but I do have to say that if they are like this and have bad days once in a while the bad days will be much easier to deal with.

Looking forward to a fun weekend!

Last weekend Anth, myself, my mom and our kids went to the Pankratz Pumpkin Patch (I will post pics when I get my camera cord back from my mom). We got 2 big pumpkins, and I decided that wasn't enough so when we stopped by Walmart later that day I bought 2 more. I wanted to carve them right away, but Anth was able to convince me to wait because we didn't want them to rot before Halloween. SO...our plan is to carve them this weekend!!! I can't wait. I love having that time as a family! As gross as it feels we have some good times and good talks while digging up to our elbows in pumpkin gunk LOL Last year I had the genius idea to do the patterns. We let the kids each pick one, and we carve the one they pick for them (last year Sydney picked the hardest pattern in the book, so I let Anth do that one LOL). I swore that this year we weren't going to do patterns, because they were kind of a pain in the neck but apparently I forgot how big of a pain they were because I bought more patterns for us to do this year. After we carve our pumpkins we roast the seeds, and will probably just sit down and watch a movie together and eat seeds. Saturday afternoon we will be going to the Halloween carnival at the Complex. The kids are all excited to wear their coscumes (that's what Tasia calls costumes), and be able to play games and eat treats! Sounds like the perfect weekend to me :) I wish it would hurry up and get here!

Why do nice people always get hurt???

I consider myself a nice person. I'm not fake, I'm not judgemental and I truly do care about other peoples feelings! Well being nice seems to get me nowhere. All it has done lately is get me taken advantage of and got my feelings hurt pretty bad. Maybe I need to learn to have "thicker skin" and not be so nice. It seems like people like that don't get hurt nearly as often, because they know how to blow people off when they are being mean. They also know how to tell people NO, so that people don't take advantage of them all the time. For everyone out there who is nice like me I hope this works out better for you than it does for me, and for everyone who knows how to have that "thicker skin" and not let people get to them I could use a few pointers!

Hair Blogs!

Those of you with little girls know that no matter how hard you try to think it isn't always easy to come up with different hairdo's for your girls hair. I personally don't like doing the same styles all the time, but a lot of times I am at a loss for what to do. WELL...I have found the perfect solution LOL I found one blog page called HAIR TODAY where a lady does her daughters hair and tells you step-by-step how to do it. From her page I found more and more blog pages that consist of the same thing. Some of them have giveaways that they do on their pages for bows and stuff too. Some of you may have already heard of these, but I hadn't and I must say I am pretty excited!!! I have already tried a few new hairstyles on my girls, and they have been super easy and super cute! For those of you haven't found them yet, or just want to look at the ones I have found so far they are on the right side of my page (you can't miss them!).

Just venting!!!

So there is this girl who literally used to stalk my husband when we first got together. They had dated a couple of years before, and she had never given up on him. She would find him no matter where he went, and he always knew what was going on in his life no matter how long it had been since he had talked to her. She was seriously creepy!!! He tried to tell her to leave him alone, but she never let it go. Well we haven't heard anything from her in 3 years or so, and the other day he got a friend request on myspace from some girl and in the message box it said "You don't know me, but my cousin _______ said to tell you what's up!" Now I am not one of those girls that is like don't look at or talk to my husband, but when the chick has literally stalked him it's a little irritating that even after so long she figures out some way to find him (even if it is to say what's up). Sorry I just had to vent a little, because some girls just don't get it!

"I didn't do anything mom!"

Have you ever been enjoying some peace and quiet while you thought your toddler was taking a nap only to find out they weren't really napping??? Well the other day I was sitting in my living room thinking Tasia was asleep. I had laid her down, put on her movie, checked on her even and never heard another sound. The next thing I know she is standing in front of me with my mascara in her hand, and all I can do is laugh and ask her what she did. Her response of course was "I didn't do anything mom!" Sorry kiddo the evidence was ALL OVER your face!

Back to the REAL world

The last 10 days I have been more or less lost in the 4 books that make up the Twilight series, and now it is time to get back to the REAL world! Not much has been going on. Anth and I decided that this past weekend we were going to do absolutely nothing. We have had so much going on over the last couple of months that we haven't had one weekend where there isn't at least something we had to do. It was so nice to just relax this weekend though! We rented movies and just hung out at home. I'd say it was peaceful, but with 3 kids in the house we all know that isn't possible.

We finally found some bunkbeds for our girls, and I am so excited to get Tasia into Syd's room. Anth and I haven't had any privacy since she was born, and it'll be nice to have our room to ourselves. Anyway...the bunkbeds we got were dark blue, and my girls don't have anything dark blue so I have decided to paint them white. While I am at it I got a wild hair and figured I would paint their dresser and nightstand too, so that they can all match and look really nice. Anth and I are going to get them some new bedding too. I know a lot to deal with, but once it's all done it will be VERY worth it! Wish me luck :)