She's got a New Attitude!!

I've decided that when a girl turns 3 they also get a new attitude!!
Landry has now been 3 for about 2 weeks now and let me tell you is getting sassier each day!! Having 13 year old(Landry's 2nd to oldest sis) and a 3 year old around is about the same! Yesterday poor Lan spent half the day in time out. She kept talking back and having these melt downs. Her oldest sister asked her to pick up her toys yesterday and Landry, who by the way was in time out for something else at the time, preceded to tell Katy "NO! You do it yourself!"Well needless to to say I came around the corner from the bathroom and used her whole name and she picked up her toys!
Then yesterday afternoon at nap time she wouldn't lay down on the bed and take a nap, she kept getting up and playing with Vegas. So I ended up taking Vegas out of the room and I asked her to lay down for about 30 minutes. Well she kept getting up,so needless to say nap time was a total bust yesterday!
Today was a much better day though. I bribed her and told her we could get a special cookie from Cookies in Bloom, which by the way she calls "Cookies in Bloomers".I told one of my friends, Ashley, that she had jinxed us. Ashley watched Landry on Monday sit at the studio at the little desk in the office, quietly eating her apples while all the other kids ran around. Ashley then turned to me and said "She is so good!! I can't believe she sits there so quietly." Well I should have known then the next day Landry's demon side would come out!

Bows,Bow, and More Bows!!

So this weekend is finally almost over!! Not that it hasn't been good, it's just that I had a ton of things to do!
The weekend started Thursday. The cheer groups are going to a competiton next weekend and me being our official "Bow Maker" had 24 bows to do by Friday. The bows were to be just double looped red base then a row of silver sequin and black sequin cloth. Not alot to them right...Well I thought I was really on top of things. I started last week cutting the bases and measuring and cutting the sequins. Well I go to do the first bow and the ribbon was too short!! This meant that all the sequins were too short too!! So Thursday night when I got home from the studio at 10:30 I had to start recutting ribbon and fusing the sequins together in the middle! Thank goodness for wonder under. That night I was up till 4 AM getting at least everything cut and about half the bows made! John woke up a couple of times from his bed on the couch to hear me yelling at the sewing machine because things kept going wrong!
The next morning I was up at 7:30 because I had to take my car into to have the oil changed. Well it ended up not only the oil had to be changed I had to have a whole new front end! Thank goodness for mom and dad, Dad was willing to pay for it! During this time I was still at home sewing, looping, cutting and ironing those dang bows!! Finally at noon I gave up and crashed until I had to pick up my car and go to the studio.That afternoon was dress rehearsal for the cheer groups, I didn't stick around, I was afraid to hear the parents complain about the bows I had stayed up working on for so long. Instead I had to go shopping with my friend Angela for bridesmaid stuff, but I did find out that the parents actually liked my bows!
Man I love pre-competiton season, next week I get to sew fake pockets on 20 pairs of sweat pants and then on to rhinestoning!!
Today was like any normal Sunday, cleaning and doing laundry. I do live such an exciting life I know!! Now I am lying here typing and occasionally catching a glimpse of the Golden Globes waiting to go to bed. Have a great week everyone!

My Girls

This morning my deep slumber was interrupted by my phone ringing. I didn't answer it because I have learned that whatever is usually said on the other end when I first wake up I never remember so I sent it to voice mail and decided if it was really important they would leave a message. To my surprise it was Katherine calling me, which I new had was kind of odd considering that besides probably my own mom, Katherine knows that at 9:00AM on a Saturday morning I am probably sleeping. This is because at least 3 days a week I drive to her house in my pajamas and am usually back asleep on her couch by 8AM.
Well there was a message, but not from Katherine, it was from the Doodle-bug herself. She babbled about something and told me to call her back. Well, when I finally got ahold of them Katherine informed me that they had tears this morning because Landry "needed my Candi"!! It made me laugh so hard, but also made me feel so good!! Landry eventually got on the phone and talked to me for a while and mentioned something about that when I come on Monday to please bring Vegas so he can see her Hello Kitty. Needless to say Landry loves my dog as much as she loves me!!
I love the fact that this little girl misses me as much as I miss her when I don't see her for a week. Now don't get me wrong, I loved having this past week off, but it will be nice to get back into the swing of things next week. I love all of those girls so much, I feel so blessed that their mom and dad let me be apart of their lives everyday!! I feel like I will be so much more prepared for motherhood because I've had them to practice on!! I love the moments I get to spend with them almost being like the cool older sister or aunt who does stuff with them. I love that the middle girls feel like they can talk to me in confidence when needed and that I get to take part in the everyday happenings of their lives. I like to tease them that I'll have at least 3 babysitters whenever I get to that point and that paybacks are going to suck! I love that will probably do some of the things with my kids that I have done with them and then turn around and say with a grin, "Let's not tell your Mom!!". I hate it when I have to discipline the girls for fighting or Landry for doing something she's not supposed to do and I love how the oldest one, Katy, and I have a bond almost like an older sister and a younger sister just without the fighting and annoying nagging years. I love knowing that by the time I have a little girl that she will have 4 great girls to look up to that are all so different that I have had a part in shaping who they are and that Katy, Sydney, Mackenzie, and Landry will all take part in shaping who my daughter will be!!

Here's to 2009!!

Happy New Year to everyone!! I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful night last night. John and I spent thee evening with our friends Matt and Shana. It's becoming our New Years tradition. We keep it very low key.. dinner at Pappadeux and ringing in the New Years just the four of us at their home and on our way home by 12:30. We are so exciting!!
I thought about taking down my tree today, but decided it was too much work for the day. I'm not exactly sure when it will come down, I'm begingin to think I'll just leave it up all year and change out the decorations, that would be ten times easier and I wouldn't have to deal with all the dust that is involved with putting stuff away! I'm so sick of the continous sinus infection, just as I think I'm getting over it I get knocked down by it again!
This is a total change of subject, but I read some of these 13 year olds post on myspace and get really disapointed in some of the language that is used. Everything is F this and F that. I remember when I was 13 the word "butt" had just come into my language and using the word "crap" was a really big deal, the kind of word you never said around your parents because you were afraid you would be grounded if they heard you say it! I just don't get kids these days, Lord knows I wasn't perfect, but at least I didn't make things public to everyone. It's like girls these day just don't care! I know these kids are good kids, but what makes them think it's okay to use words like the F word or other words. I'm to embarrased to even type the F word, much less use it in my everyday language! Oh well, I just wish I could change these things...Okay so I'll get off my soap box now!!
Landry's birthday was really nice. It gave me a chance to use the new video camera I got for Christmas. She had about three little friends there and they had a great time at Chuck E. Cheese, well until the big mouse made his appearance. I was standing with Landry and Kennedi when Chuck came out of his mouse house and they were jumping up and now waving, well that is until Chuck decided to come into the game area!! Landry and Kennedi both ran to their mom's really fast and were freaking out!! It was pretty funny, I love how at that age they are all talk until the character comes near, we had the same experience with Santa this year. Landry was all for talking to Santa at a distance, but if we tried to take the picture it was a no go!! OH well!!



Here's to the old memories of 2008 and the new ones I hope to make!!

Christmas

So it's officially the last day of 2008. I will start the day off by going to Landry's 3rd birthday at Chuck E. Cheese!! I love Chuck E. Cheese's, but if you know me at all that shouldn't be a big surprise!! I can't believe the Doodle-bug is turning 3. It seems like just yesterday Katherine was pregnant with her and we all were so worried about her big appearance into the world! Landry stopped growing when Katherine was like 5 months pregnant, they expected her to be really tiny when she was born. She made her appearance almost 4 weeks early at 11:14 PM on the 31st of December. I don't remember her exact weight, but it was over what they expected and she was completely healthy!
I made it through the holidays just fine. We had a very nice,easy going Christmas. I got to spend Christmas Eve afternoon with the girls having lunch at the American Girl Doll Bistro at the Galleria. It was so much fun! Christmas Day was spent going from house to house and I finally ended up at home around 3 and got to take a nap!! John got me a really pretty bracelet and a whole bunch of other things, but not the big diamond we all have been hoping for. Maybe that will come in 2009!
Speaking of 2009, I can't believe it's almost here! I've learned things rarely go the way you want, but I'm trying to learn to roll with the punches. I wish I could change certain things, but that's up to the Big Guy upstairs at to the way my life should work out, He has a plan for me, I just can't figure it out I wish He would give me some clue soon, I'm tired of this going fro year to year and not having thing the way I want physically and career wise!! Oh.... I almost forgot, I have been off my diet for the duration of the holidays, I learned it was pointless to try!! So I like the millions of other people will officially be back on my diet next week. I'll keep you posted as to how it going!!

Good Night Everyone and Happy 2009!!

Thanksgiving

So the week of Thanksgiving did not start out well. I found out the Saturday before Thanksgiving the $300 had been taken out of my checking account. So how someone got ahold of either my I-tunes account number or my debit card number and spent $300 on I-tunes gift cards! This is not the time of the year to be low on money! I have done so well for the past couple of months to make sure that I had a significant amount of money in my account at the end of the month so that if I get paid late or if I need extra money the next month I have it, and now I am going into Christmas shopping season with very little money to get me started. So Monday was spent at the bank getting all the paperwork filled out to get my money back. They tell you it should only take a week, but it will be 1 week tomorrow and I still have not got the money back!!
Thanksgiving was pretty good. I spent it with my dance kids performing, well not really performing, with the Jonas Brothers at the Cowboys game. Me and 350 kids had to pretend to be concert goers. I do have to admit that it was pretty fun and when Nick Jonas stopped singing so that everyone could sing the words to "Burnin Up" I was one of the voices singing. I know it's pretty lame that I know the words to Jo Bro songs, but what else can I do when the girls and the kids at the studio only want to listen to their songs!! It was pretty fun and how many people can say that number one they were 4 feet from the Jonas Brothers and 2 that they were not in the stands at the last Thanksgiving half time in Texas Stadium,but actually on the field!!! It also made me really miss performing and the thrill you get for performing in front of people. I want to do that again, some days I don't miss putting on the make-up and gelling my hair for competitions or performances, but I do miss the rush you get when there is a live audience. It was such a part of me for so long in my life, and only doing it once a year at recital sometimes doesn't subside the part that makes me miss it!! Don't' get me wrong, it's such a reward to see the dances you create do well and I do love performing at recital, but there's something missing. I wasn't ready to give it up when it was time for me to give it up. I loved competitions, mainly because it was people there watching you!! Although the last year wasn't real great, I wouldn't mind doing it all again.

Goodbye October, Hello November

Well goodbye to a very busy month and hello to the next two busy months!! October is always such a busy month for me, but it seemed like this was more busy than usual. I used to think that after I graduated high school that October would slow down some, but here I am 6 years later and it's busier than ever!
My birthday was the 2nd weekend of the month and it was amazing!! The Hunter's surprised me with tickets to America's Best Dance Crew and John and I went to see that on the 22nd. It was really good. It was five of the Crews from season 1 &2 of the show and they did several of their dances from the show. But the best part was when all five Crews did a salute to Janet and Michael Jackson!! They did songs like Rhythm Nation, Beat It, Black Cat etc.. It all led up to the Jabbawockeez doing their dance from season 1 to Pyt!! It was my favorite part of the whole show!!
The next couple of days became a blur, it was the busiest part of the month!! It started out Thursday the 23rd. I ended up having to get a new phone that day. My Blackberry that I had exactly a month on that day decided it no longer was going to hold a charge.Luckily it happened on that day so they replaced it for free. But I hadn't saved the majority of my phone numbers to my Sim card so I lost most peoples number. So if your reading this I probably have lost your number so feel free to text it to me, call or e-mail me. That night Mom and I decided we were going to go to Movie Tavern for the midnight premier of High School Musical 3. I know it sounds lame, but I was so totally pumped to see this movie!! Sydney got to come along too with her friend Taylor even though it was a school night. Her mom decided it was a kind of special thing because Syd had got her braces off that day. Well we get there and we order our food and stuff, needless to say I managed to completely blow my Weight Watchers that night and had really great pizza!! They start to show the movie and the screen goes black. It ends up they couldn't get either the disc or the digital player to work. So we got our food comped and free tickets to come back and see either that movie or another one. I was completely bummed!! I thought I was going to cry.Oh well, me and all three girls managed to go see it later in the week.
I woke up Friday morning when John walked in around 9 and told me that our friends Shana and Matt were having their baby that day. We had all expected for Shana to have to be induced on Nov. 3, but Baby Kyndall had other plans. It was funny because Shana had sent me a message that morning at like 5:45 telling me they would see me Saturday at my party. Shana was one of those people that during her pregnancy got up every morning walked 2 miles on the treadmill and lifted weights, that's why she only gained 17 pounds and already looks good a week after the baby came!! We had laughed a couple of days earlier that she could come and jump in the bounce house and maybe it would induce labor. Well at 6 that morning her water broke, so no bounce house for her. John and I had planned on going up to the hospital together that afternoon, but John ended up coming down with the stomach flu so I went up there around 3 and there was still no baby. so off I was to teach until 7:30. After dance I went back up to the hospital and by this time Kyndall had a nice little party awaiting her debut. Finally at about 10:45 that night Kyndall made her debut weigh 7 lbs. 8.9 oz! She is truly a beautiful baby and we are all so glad she is here.

The next day I had to go teach like normal, but then I had to add in a performance at the boy's elementary school and a quick run by the hospital so I could finally hold that baby!! That night was my party. The temperature was a little cool, but everyone managed to have a good time. My cake was adorable, our friend Rose made it. It was hot pink with zebra fondant stripes! I loved it, it was exactly what I wanted!! Finally around 12:30 the last guest had left and we got everything cleaned up. When I drove up to my house I was surprised to find out that 5 of my dance kids had left my party and rolled my house!! The next morning someone did come back and clean it up though, not that I really cared if I had to. Lord knows I rolled enough houses back in my day!

The next day I had to get up and go to Nash's birthday party. Let me tell you 2 days of going all day until 12:30 really does a number on you. But I managed to drag myself out of bed and go to Nash's party in Southlake and horseback riding place. Needless to say I had not been on a horse in probably 10 years. But it all went okay, except the next day I was a little bit sore.
We ended the month with Halloween and began November with a dance workshop. So here I am ending one of the busiest months and going into the busiest season. Maybe in January I'll get to take a break!!