Tiffany's 7th Birthday

Today has been a pretty chill day. We got up and had french toast for breakfast which is what Tiff wanted. Then, we played Monopoly. The game ended up going for more than 2 hours, until Bob and Dorothea came by to see Tiff. So, nobody won, but we still had fun. Tiffany was glad to have them stop by for her birthday.





Sometimes I think about Tiff and how old she is and it seems a bit surreal. It's amazing how fast everyone grows up. I remember turning 6 and such and sometimes its weird to think back that far. I have realized that the older one gets, the faster time seems to go. perhaps its because you've lived longer and so the percentage of time passed gets smaller and smaller. Either way, it is a weird thing.

One thing that won't change is how proud I am of her. She is such a great girl. She genuinely cares for other people and truly brings a smile to my heart when I am around her.

Tiffany's Birthday Party

On Saturday, 11-8-08, we had a birthday party for a few select friends at our house for Tiffy's birthday. Tiffy asked a couple of girls from dance, school and the neighborhood to attend. The party started at 11AM. While we waited for the kids to show up, the kids played duck, duck, goose.



When they had all showed up, we had pizza.




then we went over to the theatre to watch High School Musical 3. They all had a lot of fun. It was pretty funny to watch them all rock out. After the movie, we went back to the house for birthday cupcakes, cookies and presents.





All in all, it went great and everyone had a lot of fun.

I do want to say thank you to Angela for helping me out so very much with Tiffy's party. She went and got the pizza for me, helped me take the kids to the theatre since they didn't all fit in my car, and she helped me wrangle them all together and keep them all entertained. I couldn't have done it without you!

Halloween Week

It's been a long week!

Tiffy had dance all week and 2 of the days were costume days. So, I had to get her hair and makeup done for 2 of the nights. On Thursday, we had to dress up at work. So, it was crazy getting ready, going to work, running home , taking a shower to take all the crap off of my hair and face and then running to dance again. Sigh! The things we do for our kids.

I gotta say though, it was nice to put on a regular amount of makeup after wearing my costume makeup all day. It felt light. lol!



Then came Halloween. This day was filled with lots of running around.

I took the day off to chill. So, in the morning I got up and was productive with homework and stuff. Then, at 11, Angela and I went to lunch for my birthday. It was pretty funny. Alton and his friend happened to go to the same restaurant as we did and hillariously were given the booth right behind us. We laughed about that. Then, I went and got my hair done with Shannon. It was nice to get it done as it had been too long since my last appointment and my hair needed colors- all the red was almost gone. After that, I ran and got Tiffy from school. A little while after that, we had dinner (pizza) with Angie and the kids. Then, we took the kids trick or treating. Josh got home just in time to go with us- Yea! It was windy and sprinkled a little at first but it was fun. It was actually pretty nice weather- not too cold or anything. That in and of itself is amazing in Utah.







We went home that night and chilled for a while. It was nice. I got up the next morning at the crack of dawn. Actually, before that, cause I was up at 4:15 AM to study for a test I had that day. I then went and took my test later that morning. After that, we went to lunch and came home to get ready for my birthday party. I wish I could say I got a nap. I wanted one, but it just did not work out that way.

The party was fun, but it went sort of weird. People came in basically 2 waves. There were the 730p people and then there were the 1030p people. I had to laugh because not 5 minutes after everyone in the first "wave" left, did everyone else show up. At around 12:30ish, I was just dying from exhaustion. Then I started getting a couple calls from people who wanted to come party. I kinda laughed and told them I was going home. I felt like I'd already had 2 parties by that point since there were 2 completely different sets of groups. Overall, it was fun.








Now comes Tiffany's birthday party tomorrow. I still have a lot to do for that, so it will be interesting, but I guess I will have to wait and see how it plays out.

Tiffany's costume

So, this week she had 2 parties where she had to dress up. She had a lot of fun with it and loves her costume. She is Morticia Adams.

She cracks me up. At first she thought Morticia was a vampire. Like a Morticia was something you were. So, I explained it to her. Then, she said that it was a weird name, but that she definitely wanted to be her for Halloween.

Josh wants to be a male model...

Okay, so I say this with a bit of amusement. Josh wants to be a male model. He has been working with a photographer for the last few weeks to get some portfolio pictures done. I decided I should post a few.

I didn't get it

I didn't get the job I wanted, but that's ok. I just hapened to get the news on a bad day. sigh. Oh well. That's life.

Patty's Party

So, last night we went to my new sister-in-law's party (Patty). Since it was a costume party Josh and I came in our costumes - Emo Punk Rockers. We had a lot of fun. Everyone was so surprised when we showed up cause it was just so different than our "normal" personas. LOL! Anyway, it was all fun until drama started. Sigh. Well, I suppose that's life. See, my sister Crystal and her ex-boyfriend Tom (the JERK as I like to call him) took "a break." Now, while I think he is no good for her and this will ultimately be a great thing for her. She just doesn't see it like that right now. I understand it's hard to break up, but sometimes you just have to think of yourself first- especially when the person is a druggie and a user.