Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Chuck E. Cheese

As I said in my previous post, we took the girls to Chuck E. Cheese on Saturday night. They had SO much fun! Aydia even ate her first pizza...she almost ate an entire piece! When we left, Riley said, "I like Chuck E. Cheese and I like pizza!" It was adorable! Here are some pics!

She LOVES this "princess cup" (as she calls it!). She uses it every day!


The girls and daddy playing!


She actually did like it...you just can't tell from this picture!


Riley sliding...one of the 50 times!


Riley was not too fond of any ride that actually moved...Aydia loved them though! I was surprised by this!

This weekend, we are going to see Ny up at OCU. Josh's parents are keeping the girls and then on Sunday, my parents, Re, and G & G Solberg are all coming up to Dallas to stay for a couple of days! It should be tons of fun!

Josh took his Rowlett written test for firefighting and passed! He got the #4 score out of 150 people! He will take a physical test on Friday and if he passes that, then he goes on for an interview! We are so excited! This would be an awesome city to work for...we appreciate all your prayers and please keep praying!

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Pictures...finally!

Here are those pictures I promised! Not really anything to write about. We are taking the girls to Chuck E. Cheese tonight! They got gift cards for Valentines Day and I have been asking Josh if we could take them there for about a month now, and finally he said we could go tonight! I am super excited...they are going to love it!

Riley and Mommy


Aydia playing


The girls playing the piano


Check out Riley's sunglasses!


Sleepy baby!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Savin' money!!!

I know I promised pics in my last blog, but I have not uploaded them to the cpu yet...sorry.
Ok, so I signed up for this thing called The Grocery Game. A lot of women at my church do it and told me about it, so I tried it out. I am so excited about it! I signed up 3 weeks ago and have saved SO much money because of it. First off, The Grocery Game is a way for you to save lots of money on groceries and how it works is, you sign up (you can do a 1 month trial for $1) and you can pick up to 3 grocery stores in your area and they tell you where all the good deals are on groceries and what coupons to use where (you also need a Sunday paper for the coupons). I have gone twice to the grocery store with my grocery game stuff and saved $70 each time! I still have one more trip to make today! It is seriously awesome and you all need to sign up for it! After your 1 month trial for $1 it costs $8 for one store, $10 for 2 stores, and $15 for 3 stores every 8 weeks. I love it!
Anyways, in other news, this weekend we went to Arlington and stayed with the Whipple family! It was a lot of fun! They have 3 kids and Riley had so much fun playing with them! It was nice to see them!
I will try to post pics soon! Notice I said try!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentines Day

Well, since the last post, we all have gotten healthy again and life is back to normal. Well, our new normal! Josh started fire school last Monday, so it is sort of the beginning of a new chapter for us. Josh LOVES school! He has the whole firefighters outfit...the yellow one! He has already learned so much just in a week and a half. It is so awesome to see him doing something he loves finally! He has had a rough couple of years with employers...I think I mentioned that before, but he is just so much happier! It is cute to see his excitement everyday. He is trying out for the city of Rowlett on the 20th, so please be praying about that. We know for sure that this is definitely what God wants him to be doing, now it is just figuring out where he wants him to do it! So, it will just be a process of trying out for every city until he makes it!
The girls are doing good, just growing up everyday. Aydia is becoming less and less of a baby. She loves attention and has started to fake cough or let out a scream (a happy one!) if people are not paying attention to her. She is such a happy baby and is just becoming such a flirt and a tease! She LOVES men. We have figured out that the way to keep her happy in the nursery is to let the man take care of her. If there is a man in there, they tell me that she just cries and cries until he picks her up and then she is golden! Riley is becoming so funny. Today she fell and hurt her arm and of course, asked me to kiss it to make it better, but then that wasn't enough, so she kissed it 3 times and then said it was better. She always tells me that I am silly and she is crazy. She put a diaper on her bear today and got a kick out of that!
So, today I had a WIC appointment...for those of you who don't know what that is, it stands for Women, Infants, and Children and is basically a government funded program that provides milk, cheese, eggs formula, and lots of other basic foods for poor people. It is pretty awesome...if you are poor, you should totally do it! Anyways, there are always some interesting people when I go to my appointments. Today there was this mom with her 4 kids who just put on a show for all of us. She had a daughter that looked about 15( I think the baby was actually hers, but she seemed to want nothing to do with that baby), twins that looked about 8 and then a baby a couple of months old. Well, she was on her cell phone most of the time and her little boy was yelling and pushing other kids and the mom was just watching and acted like it was no big deal and then he began to yell and push and hit his twin sister and so she let out a scream and the mom yelled at her and smacked her leg for yelling and then said, "You guys are so going to daycare today, I am so sick of this. I am about to beat your a.." (you know what) and then went back to talking on the phone like nothing ever happened. It was awful. It was awkward as well. Everyone else in there was just looking at eachother like, did that seriously just happen. What do you do in situations like that? I just felt for those kids. They were 8 acting like 3 year olds. The whole time they were there (about an hour) they yelled, pushed, and threw body thrashing tantrums on the floor while their mom just kept telling them "they were so going to daycare when they left." Anyways, that made out for an interesting start of the day to say the least! It can be a whole different world sometimes!
I am going to upload some pics in the next couple of days so I will be posting those! Keep making comments! Love them! Happy Valentines Day!

Monday, February 4, 2008

Just an update

Well, it turns out our food poisoning was not actually food poisoning. It must have been a 24 hour virus because I got it on Friday night (more like Saturday at 3 am). Riley and Josh just had it at literally the exact same time, which is really odd, but true. Anyways, I am totally sick of vomit as I have been around it for about a week now (did I mention that Aydia is teething, therefore vomiting and throws up anytime baby food is put near her mouth). But, the bright side is that I think that sickness is over!
Josh started fire school today! He is so excited, as am I! It is so awesome to be on the road to a career! On the road to something stable and that will not end up as most of the other jobs have...people who have no education trying to run a business as Josh says! Anyways, today was an exciting day for us!
Not much is going on with the girls, Aydia is getting 4 teeth I think, all on top. Riley has an odd limp which I need to call Emily G about tomorrow and see what I need to do. She was jumping on a trampoline last night, which she has never done, so I think that her little legs are just sore, but it sort of makes me nervous because she just had 4 shots in her legs and I am hoping it is not some weird reaction as our health insurance is at a pause because we have not received out cobra continuation papers yet! Of course, we will do what we need to do to take care of her, I just don't want to do anything unnecessary!
Oh, here is a funny thing that Riley said the other day. She coughed and it was sort of an odd sounding cough and she said, "My cough sounded like a dog, didn't it?!" It was hilarious! She is always saying, "didn't it" or "isn't it" after everything! She cracks me up!
Here are some pics!