I Miss This Thing!

For some reason this blog stopped working a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't let me upload pictures. But I'm going to attempt to start writing on this one again mostly because I looked through some of my old posts and I miss this dang thing!!

Update on us--Mitchell is in Texas right now looking for a job, we are missing him terribly!! I am still working at JcPenney and I love having the inside look at all the amazing deals PLUS a 25% discount!! Mileena is doing so well in school and we are super proud of her. She is looking forward to Girl's Camp and going to California this summer. Riker is in preschool and is still as inquisitive as ever. He is such fun big brother for Austin too. Austin is so big now!! He is talking up a storm and loves playing with Riker.

Next week, I will get come pictures up as long as it lets me upload them. But for now I will leave with a cute picture of my 2 year old big boy!

Messed Up!

It won't let me add new pictures!!! Ahhhhhhhhh! So irritated. I think I'm going to have to start a new blog :(

Stink

I stink at this blogging thing these days....but I promise I will get back into it. Soon.

Update

Mileena

has been enjoying her summer (when she's not grounded) that's a whole other story. She's

been sleeping over at friends houses and swimming a ton! She has started to enjoy reading

which she use to hate. She is reading the Chronicles of Narnia right now, and then she will start on her summer reading book!

She got stuck in her laundry basket, don't ask me how!

And she taped herself up while she was bored?

Riker

's routine hasn't changed much except Sissy is home during the day now, so he has someone else to play with! We have a weekly schedule and most mornings we have somewhere fun to go. Which is wonderful for me, cause then we come home eat lunch and it's nap time for him! He's had a recent obsession with animals, he plays with them ALL the time!

I know it's sideways (my bad), but this is how I found his dinosaurs the other day. The little ones on the big ones heads! So silly!

Eating a cookie pop?

Austin

is growing so fast! I can't believe he's 3 months already (and yes I didn't get his pictures taken so I will post those when I get them back)! I have no idea who he looks like, and everyone seems to have different opinions, so who knows? I'm trying to get him on a "schedule" right now, but it's not a real schedule, if that makes any sense. I'm trying to put him in his bed before he is asleep and let him fall asleep in there. Today is the first day and it's not going to well. But I will stay strong!!

I love this picture of my baby!

He loves to blow spit bubbles.

Mitchell & Me

is in school full-time and is working full-time, so his days are crazy! He has school Monday thru Friday in the morning. And Tuesdays and Thursdays at night. I'm getting the feel of being more independent with the kids and I'm also cooking dinner 2 times a week! I know amazing! It's going to be a lone 4 to 6 years, but we'll make it!

BACKSTREET BOYS!!!

I got to go to a Backstreet Boys concert! I've been waiting a decade for this and it was the most amazing night ever!!

Waiting for the show to start.

Love them!

NICK!

End of the show!

I got to go up to the front at the end of the concert and this is the video I took!

So this time last year on Mother's Day I had one 2 year old....this year I have one 11 year old, one 3 year old, and one 2 newborn! Big change, but I love it!

I got pretty flowers from Mitchell, Hercules from Riker, a candle thingy from Mileena and chocolate covered popcorn (omg...sooo good) from all of them!

I love these kiddos!

Number 4

Last Thursday was mine and Mitchell 4th Anniversary! We celebrated last weekend by going to a movie and to the Melting Pot (our annual tradition).

As you can see I'm 'mildly' swollen in the face these days, not a pretty picture but I can't stop taking pictures because of a swollen face!


We saw "The Lovely Bones" and we both actually liked it. I was sure I would because I had read the book in high school, but I wasn't sure if Mitchell would be to into it. Since it's been ages since I've read it I don't quite remember what happened at the end. I think the movie was different so it's probably better that I forgot what happens in the book or I might have been disappointed.

Afterward we headed over to The Melting Pot, I looove this restaurant. We go there once a year on our anniversary. Sometimes we get the big shabang and sometimes we get the littler portion (which is a lot cheaper). For those of you that don't know, The Melting Pot is a fondue restaurant. The big shabang (As I like to call it) consists of an appetizer which is your choice of a cheese dip with bread, tortilla chips, apples, and some veggies to dip in the cheese. Then you get a salad. Then is the main course which is the meat, you can choose from several different combinations, that you cook yourself. And last is the dessert which is some type of chocolate with strawberries, cheesecake, brownies, rice krispie treats, chocolate and graham cracker covered marshmellows (my fave), bananas, and pound cake to dip. So amazing to say the least. Anyway, this time we just got the cheese and dessert which equals about the same as going to a regular restaurant. I loved it and since I'm determined to not eat sweets after I have Austin, the dessert was the best!

Happy 4 years, Baby! I love you!!!

Around Here

Things have been pretty busy for me lately with all my doc. appointments and stuff that Mileena has and just entertaining Riker in general. But we've had some fun! Mitchell and I decided to a rewards system for the kids, we're trying to be more positive with the good things they do instead of punishing for the bad things they do. So they each have their own chart and they both have to get 100 stickers and they get a reward. Riker reached his 100 in a month or so (so this time we're uping it up to 250) and Mileena is almost there. We told Mileena that if she got a sticker everytime she went pee-pee in the potty she would've already gotten her reward too.
Anyway, Mileena gets to go on a date with Mitchell and I all by herself (which doesn't happen often) and Riker got a new toy!


Since Riker's latest obsession is Spiderman he decided he wanted the Green Goblin (the bad guy from Spiderman if you didn't already know). I wasn't sure we would be able to find it, but we did!


He loves his Green Goblin and him and Spiderman fight every day, all day long.

Funny story:
When we were in the store, picking out his toy I found a 2 pack with a Green Goblin and a Spiderman for the same price as the Green Goblin he wanted. But when I asked him if he wanted the 2 pack he said "No, I want the mean Green Goblin, not the nice one." The Green Goblin in ther 2 pack was smiling and looked way more friendly than the one he wanted. I suppose they're trying to promote kindness in children's toys these days? Who knows. So alas, we now have the "mean" Green Goblin" in our home and next on his list is the "mean Hulk" not the nice one the mean one. Boy, do I love this kid!

Vermont!

Aside from court our visit to Vermont was great! There wasn't much snow when we got there but on the day of court it snowed all day long. The people we stayed with (Dylan's parents) have a Bed & Breakfast so we got our own little suite above there garage and they fed us every meal we were there. All for free! That's the way to vacation if I do say so myself. We got to hang out with Dylan and Shelley (Nyah's dad and his fiance). It was really nice to be able to talk about the situation and not feel like you're boring the person out of their skull. I swear Shelley and I could talk about it for days and never get annoyed with each other because we're the only ones that completely understand each others situation.
The day before we left I had to make a snowman. I've made one before when I liked in Virginia when it "snowed", but it was more of a frozen-dirtman than a snowman.


Icicles!


Dylan's parents have 4 llamas too! I had never seen a llama in person before, and they are huge! I was too scared to feed them, but Mitchell took a chance.

I was excited for the snow but it was so cold I couldn't handle staying outside for too long. Plus, Mitchell was so scared I was going to slip and fall that he held onto me every second we were outside. I know, my hubby is so kind and loving :)

Northward Bound

We leave for Vermont tomorrow (well technically Monday but we're staying at a friend's house in Jacksonville Sunday night so we don't hake up at the crack of dawn). Wish us luck! I'm excited about the alone time with Mitchell it is very much needed! I'm not so much looking forward to court, but I'm hoping we will be able to help get Nyah out of the same situation Mileena was in. I'll update when I get home in a week. Bye Blog World!

I Love My Valentines!

I have always loved Valentine's Day, I don't know why most people hate it. But even as a kid I loved picking out Valentine's for my class. And the only thing I didn't like about it in high school was all the girls carrying around huge stuffed animals and big vases of flowers from their boyfriend (kind of puts a damper on the holiday if you don't have a man). But regardless I still always loved it. My parents gave us Valentines too on Valentine's Day so we do the same with our kids. I feel like it's not just about celebrating the love of your significant other but about celebrating your love for everyone in your life.


I could tell Mileena was really excited about getting something from us. She said she had never gotten anything for Valentine's Day before!

After we got home from church Mileena came up to me and said, "I love you, Mom." Made my heart melt! Then she told me she had decided that she wants to call me Mom from now on. I love it, she is so cute and I can tell now that she feels like she can let most of the stuff in her past go because she has a Mom here. That was the best part of the day for me :)

And for dinner we had breakfast (I looooove breakfast for dinner). Complete with pink chocolate chip heart pancakes, bacon, sausage, bagels with pink cream cheese and red Kool-Aid. Riker loved the pancakes and kept wanting more but could careless about the color or shape. But Mileena loved all of it, she helped dye the pancakes and cream cheese, she was really into it.

(Sorry the picture is facing the wrong way, but you get the point)

After Riker was in bed Mitchell told me to go upstairs and wait. When I was allowed downstairs I found....


I could tell he was trying so hard ot be romantic and I loved it! He had "Amazed" by Lonestar playing the background. He is so cute! I love that he worked so hard to make something special for me.

I gave him his present when right before bed (basically because I had forgotten about it). It was a Survival Kit for Vermont (cause we're going to need it). He really liked it and I got to use my mad 'creativity' for it which was fun.


So it was a great Valentine's Day this year and hopefully all the rest will be too!

Getting Closer...

Caution:
Post full of Complaints

This pregnancy is definitely different than the one with Riker. With Riker I worked all the time, with hours varying from 1 in the morning until 10 or 11 in the afternoon with only an hour break. If I had to do that this time I would feel like I was dying, considering I already feel like that when the day is over. This baby likes to shove his feet in my ribs and make places I didn't even know I had hurt. Don't get me wrong I'm super excited to have another baby and I know it will all be worth it when I get to hold him, but as of now it just plain hurts! I only remember Riker putting his feet in my ribs once and it was like 2 days before I had him. All I remember is that he hiccuped a ton. And the heartburn this time is baaaaaad, I had it with Riker too but 2 Tums before I went to sleep usually took care of me for the night. With this one I wake up 1 or 2 times during the night and have to pop some Tums, and I've almost thrown up quite often because the heartburn was so intense.

I'm assuming that Heavenly Father knew I could handle more this time because last time I don't know what I would've done if it had been like this! I worked at JCPenney's in the Jewelry Department during the Christmas and Valentine's Day season (explains the working from 1 am to 10am). And I made pretty decent money with commission, so I know I was suppose to work. I guess raising an 11 year old and an almost 3 year old is enough work as it is!

Anyway, sorry about my complaining post. I figure my kids will want to know how my pregnancies were one day, and since I'm not very dedicated to journaling I'm planning on making this blog into a scrapbook.

Here we are! I'm 32 weeks in this picture and right now I'm at 34! I didn't even get this big with Riker so it's a change for me and Mitchell. He keeps saying "I can't believe how big your getting!"

Broken...

I haven't been posting these days because my wonderful hubby broke my camera :(
I know he didn't mean to, but what am I going to do without a camera! Especially around this time of year?


Thank goodness for disposable cameras! I'm definitely not use to using one, but at least I get to capture memories! When I get the pictures developed I will do a HUGE update!

Nix the A/C?

When we walked in to our apartment from the fireworks on the 4th, it was 11pm. We get inside and it feels really hot, even hotter than outside. We look at the thermostat and it says 92 degrees! Definitely not okay! We have one person from Vermont and 3 people from Utah staying here, this is not going to go over well. And this is actually the 3rd time this had happened, yeah, I know tell me about it. We made a phone call to emergency maintenance (cause this is definitely an emergency in Florida) and they brought us up a floor unit, he said it should cool the whole apartment within the hour. WRONG! It basically worked as a fan, if you stood right in front of it you felt cool. Since this was a Saturday we had to wait until Monday to get it fixed (but it actually didn't end up getting fixed until Tuesday). So Sunday we come home and this is where Riker ends up passing out for his nap.

The big silver thing in the back of him is the floor unit. He was the only smart one in the house, that's for sure!

My Turn.

Since Mitchell has gone to the hospital so often this past month my body figured it was my turn. On Sunday I started getting a pain my lower back, right near my tailbone. I thought maybe it had been bruised by my reckless little boy who uses me as a wrestling buddy when I'm not looking. But it never went away, and it got to the point that I couldn't sit down at all. It was getting red and swollen, I know gross. I was going to head to the doctor this morning but by 3 am last night I couldn't take it anymore. Mitchell drive me to the hospital, I found out it was a cyst. It came from a hair follicle that got infected. The FSU intern that was going to do the procedure told me it wasn't going to be pain-free. And boy was she right :( But I'm just happy it's out and I can somewhat sit down now.

So Mitchell and I switched places, and now he's taking care of me. Will this ever end!

Overdue

Mitchell and I have been well overdue for some new bedding, and as I was browsing the Sunday paper for my coupons -Don't hate, just because I'm 21 doesn't mean I'm too young to be a coupon clipper :)- I found a Target ad. Now I love me some Target already, before Mitchell went into the hospital Riker and I would go there once a week just to check out all the new stuff.

Anyway, in this Target ad there is some bedding on sale-a comforter, bed skirt, sheets, 2 pillowcases, and 2 bed shams (aka pillowcases). for $34, I know right, who could pass this up especially us who so desperately need some. Well, as you all now Mitchell has been out of work for a month and because of this I was hoping and praying the sale lasted 2 weeks. Then I could go get this bedding after he went back to work, but of course it ended Saturday. So I quickly tried to push such a good deal out of my mind.

BUT...

When I checked the mail on Tuesday, low and behold, a birthday card from my dear Grandmother. And what do these yearly birthday cards (that usually comes late) contain? A check. Yep, that's right. My Grandma had productively sent my birthday present on time this year, which means I could get some new bedding!!

So here it is, thanks to my lovely Grandma!

You better jump on this sweet deal, which technically ends today!

I Love Me Giveaways

Go on check it out. Who doesn't like to win free stuff?

Friends are the Best!

Mitchell was in the hospital (again) on my birthday :(

But my friends are the best! They took me to On The Border, my favorite restaurant, and then we went to The Pub. I know what you're thinking what is a good mother/wife/LDS girl going to a pub for. Well, I turned 21, that's why!! Even if I don't do what most people do when they turn 21 I can still celebrate right?

Flowers from my SIL and fam. Thanks guys! I love them!

There it is.


We bought fake hair, I got aqua and Keri got pink!

Legal!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I'm finally 21!

Pictures coming soon!

Stolen Memories

I don't know how many of you have been to DisneyWorld, but they have these Photo Pass cards. How they work:
there are people that work at Disney all over the park taking pictures and they hand out these Photo Pass cards.
Pretty nifty, I know. But once I got home and logged onto their site and totally fell in love with some of the pictures I realized they were $13 for 2 4x6s! Doesn't seem fair, right? Especially since you spend a whole months budget on food in one week at Disney. I tried anyway possible to copy the pictures from the site, but no such luck.
Then, I figure out I can just take a picture of the picture with my camera. Yes I, Kalena, has officially stolen from Disney. I never thought I would say that, but I did. Just take a look at this pictures and tell me you wouldn't have done the same thing.





Ok, so tell me which ones of you wouldn't have done what I did, seriously?!