Birthday parties and refusing to sleep!

We had a lot of fun doing Dominic's 2 little birthday parties. The day of his birthday he took treats to school for his class, and his teacher gave him a birthday crown and 6 pennies (one for each year he is). That night we had his requested mac and cheese for dinner, and my parents came over to see him open presents and we ate those lovely green hulk cupcakes. They actually didn't turn out as messy as I thought they would, so that was a plus. Then on Saturday we had family over for cake and ice cream. We usually do our kids parties at my parents house, because they have more room than we do but this year we went ahead and did it at our house. Uncle James and Aunt Michelle got him a light up Hulk mask that goes with his big Hulk smash hands that Grandma Quintana got him for Christmas. He loves it! My sister got him a cool boxing ring thing. It has 4 fighter guys in it, and you fight each other until only one is left standing. She said she figured it was a good way for the boys (Dom and Gabe) to be able to play fight without taking it out on each other like they usually do. Good idea Steph!!! All in all it was fun, and he got lots of stuff that he loved. Including more games for his Nintendo DS. Even my mom got into playing them LOL

On another completely different note. We have been having a hard time getting Tasia to go to bed at night, and I am lacking some much needed sleep because of it. She seems to think that when we put her to bed she needs to get up and play in her room. Last night I went to check on her, and she had gotten a hold of Syds markers and was coloring on my walls! Sometimes she's not doing anything, but she just won't go to sleep. She's even going so far as to get up and turn on the light in their room, so we are constantly having to go in and turn it off. We fight with her sometimes for 3 or 4 hours after she has been put to bed! We thought maybe she was napping too long, so I have tried not laying her down for a nap during the day. If we do that though she is exhausted right before dinner and we have to fight to keep her awake. Then she's so tired and doesn't want to eat. I have even tried giving her a bath to help relax her right before bed, but that didn't help either. We aren't sure what the deal is, but it's exhausting and since her and Syd share a room she is keeping her up to so Syd isn't getting the sleep she needs. Hopefully we can figure it out soon, so we don't all lose our minds. If anyone has any suggestions it'd be greatly appreciated!!!

FRUSTRATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I learned you can make free and cute headers for your blog at scrapblog.com (Thanks Ali!!!). I was planning on heading to bed, but I got so caught up on trying to make a new header for our blog that I couldn't pull myself away from my computer. Well...I have this cute little header, and can't figure out how to get it to post! I figured you just go to header, erase your current imagine and paste the code in the "from the web" spot, but that didn't work! I have tried many other ways, and for some reason still can't figure it out. Maybe I am an idiot. Maybe my brain is not fully functioning at the moment since it is 1 AM and I am running on very little sleep as it is. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I could really use someones help who does know how to do this. Obviously I don't expect any answers tonight, because unlike me the rest of you are probably smart enough to be in bed. So I am forcing myself to pull away from the computer now, I am leaving my header blank of any pictures at the moment and hoping that by the time I get back on here tomorrow maybe someone who knows what they are doing can give me a few tips! Thanks for reading this as I have ranted and raved, and thanks to any of you who happen to help me out so I can get my cute, simple and personalized header put on here!

I'm addicted.....

....to Mario Kart LOL Dominic got some new games for his DS for his birthday, and after he went to bed last night Anth and I stayed up playing some of them. I have officially discovered that I am addicted to Mario Kart! I have always liked the driving type games (even though I am not much for video games), so I thought it would be a fun one to play for a bit. I couldn't put the stupid thing down!!! I played for like an hour or 2, and have played it again for a while today. I was suppose to be cleaning my house, but instead my nose was stuck in Dominic's Nintendo DS. I found that the closer the race was and the more intense it got the closer I'd move the DS to my face. I probably looked like an idiot with the thing right up to my face, but I was having fun and haven't played video games like that in forever. There are definitely worse things I could be addicted to though that's for sure!

Happy Birthday Bubba!!!

I can't believe my little man is 6 years old today! Wow time flies when you're having fun! I told him last night that he was going to be old. He laughed his little goofy laugh and told me "Uh uh mom I'm only going to be 6!" On our kids birthdays I always tell them they can pick whatever they want for dinner, and I will make it for them. Of all the things in the world my son picks mac and cheese. Plain old Kraft mac and cheese! Oh well, it's his birthday. Since his birthday falls on a weekday we will do his big party Saturday with all our family. Tonight we will do his birthday dinner, his gifts from us and I got some nice green Hulk cupcakes at the store. That will be fun to clean up!!! It's worth it, because it will make him happy :)

I just really can't believe it has been so long! Dominic has blessed my life is so many ways, and I can't imagine what it would be like without him. He is my little mama's boy! He has a sensitive little heart, and his smile lights up the room! I can't wait to see the things he will accomplish as he grows older. He has an amazing imagination, and I truly believe he will put it to good use. Happy Birthday Buddy!!!

I also want to say a quick Happy Birthday to my friend's son Luke! Bethany and I were working at Teleperformance together (I know I don't miss that place one bit!), and she was pregnant. I remember it was Dominic's first birthday, and I'm sitting at my desk and my boss hands me her phone. I kept thinking "who could it be we aren't allowed to get personal calls???" It was my dear, sweet Bethany telling me she had given birth to her son on my little man's birthday and it was the coolest coincidence. I will never forget that phone call or that day! So I hope you guys have a good day for Luke's birthday today, Bethany!

Hey everyone!

My phone broke tonight, and I am really not happy about it. I am trying to get a new one from my cousin until we can buy one with taxes. What luck huh! Anyway...the purpose of this is to let any of you know that since it's the screen that broke unfortunately I can't get everyones numbers off of it, so I need everybody to send me their numbers. I'm sure most of you don't want to post them on here for the world to read, so you can email them to me at abusico2@hotmail.com. Hope everyones having a good night!

If it's not one thing it's another!!!

I swear we are never going to all be 100% healthy around here! At least that's how it feels at the moment. Over the last 3 weeks or so we have all had a stomach virus. Nothing horrible, but still not exactly fun. Then Tasia got congested and her voice sounded really raspy. Then as she gets over that Syd starts having a sore throat and is achy. Luckily it only last a few days for her, and she was better. A day or 2 later Anth ended up achy and his throat hurt. Again it was gone for him in a day or so. We all just start feeling a little better. I scrubbed our house partly for inspection by our property owners, and partly to help get rid of the germs. Well wouldn't you know today Syd wakes up and says her stomach is bubbling and she has been having diarrhea all night. I know lovely share of information, but it's true. I decided to keep her home from school, because I don't want her to keep leaving class to go to the bathroom. She has laid in bed most of the day, and at lunch time I decided to make her chicken noodle soup so she would have something in her stomach. She sits down at the table and says "mom I need to go potty". Obviously I tell her to go, and she can eat when she is done. Well she comes out and says I feel like I'm going to throw up. Again I tell her then go to the bathroom (don't do it on my floor when any minute now the owners could show up for inspection. No I'm not insensitive, and I'm sure they'd understand but still nobody wants to clean puke out of carpets anyway!). She, of course, ended up throwing up. She couldn't eat her soup, so it went to waste. I called the girls mom that I tend and let her know (I let her know this morning too before she brought them that Syd was sick, because I would want my sitter to tell me something like that.), but unfortunately she has 2 appoinments this afternoon and I told her I don't want her to get in trouble with school so don't leave early. Things are hectic though...I am chasing 3 toddlers (they are all napping at the moment), cleaning up nonstop right behind them for inspection and taking care of a daughter who can't stop puking. One of these days I may get to relax again, but it doesn't look like it'll be anytime in the near future!

The "5" tag

5 things I was doing 5 years ago

*About to celebrate Dominic's 1st birthday
*Met Anthony
*Working at Teleperformance
*Living back with my parents
*Trying to get my life back on track after a HORRIBLE relationship!

5 things I did today

*Laundry
*Tend Alliyah and Nadiyah
*Help Dominic and Sydney with homework
*Fought with Tasia, because she refused to let me do her hair...I compromised and at least combed and parted it cute
*Got Sydney's new glasses

5 things I would do with a million dollars

*Pay off debt
*Buy a home, and fix it up the way we want it
*Put some in savings
*Put some away for college for my kids
*SHOPPING SPREE!!!!

5 places I've lived

*North Ogden (growing up)
*Downtown Ogden
*Tooele
*Stansbury
*Texas (when I was about 2)

5 jobs I've had

*Special Ed Assistant at Oquirrh Hills
*Cashier at Walmart
*Nextel Sales Rep at Teleperformance
*Waitress at La Frontera, Melinas and Applebee's
*Mommy :)

5 things I want to be doing in 5 years

*Buy a house
*Pay off debt
*Boost credit
*Have had another baby
*Build up our savings

5 people I tag

*Tasha
*Erin
*Bethany
*Angie
*Joanna