Day 3

Day 03- A habit that you wish you didn’t have. Biting my nails!!! I really have been trying to get better at this...I paint my fingernails so I will leave them alone. Hopefully I will get better at this...Ryan and I went out of town for our anniversary so I haven't kept up very well!

Day 2

Day 02- A picture of something you cannot live without.

These are definitely the "things" or people I could not live without! I love them too much and glad they are mine for forever!!

Day 1

Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself.

1. I married my hubby when I was only 19 years old.

2. I L.O.V.E. me some diet Dr. Pepper and Diet Pepsi...not really for the caffeine as much as the taste and the fizz!

3. I am a definite people person. I love to be with friends and family whenever I can!

4. I have always talked a lot...my nickname my uncle Rob gave me when I was SO little was Gab.

5. I have my degree in Elem. Education but I haven't ever had a formal teaching job...only long term substituting and substituting in general before I had Nate.

6. I was a packrat growing up. I remember when we moved to Las Vegas I had the most boxes out of everyone in my family...I want to say like 9 or so of just my stuff. I have kind of learned how to tame it but I still find myself holding on to things that I really don't need...i.e. the other day I found a box that I had at my mom's house when we lived there and I went through it and found EVERY paper and project that Nate did in preschool! I mean I really thought I should keep all of his work. I immediately looked through it all and I tossed it all in the garbage. I have to make a conscious effort to go through the junk that sits around and throw the things out I don't really NEED.

7. I have polycystic ovarian syndrome. Which I never even knew about until I was in my 20's.

8. Going along with my need to keep things...I really like to scrapbook. I didn't really think about it much in high school except to keep everything. I did put a few things on paper and put them in a binder but since then I really like to put the pictures I have into pages...don't let me fool you though because I am NOT creative so just getting the pictures on paper and in a binder is good for me. :)

9. I love to read but as a mom I don't get to read as much as I would like. I guess that's what comes along with 3 kids! I do have a goal to read more books this year so I definitely need to get started!

10. I have started many series and not finished them....i.e. Harry Potter (I think I got to book 4), Work and the Glory (I am on book 3), I never finished The Host, and there are too many others to name. I want to finish these but I am not sure when I will!

11. I am definitely not a very good morning person! Sometimes I will get Nathan out the door and if the girls are still sleeping I go back and get in bed. Just another 30 minutes please???

12. I have never been much of a routine type of a person but with 3 kids I am getting to where I have to have more routines.

13. I love to play games! Card games, word games and really any games....even on my phone!

14. I am not really a snow person! I wish we had the winters that Las Vegas has and that I grew up with...mild!

15. I have never had a traffic ticket or been pulled over! Pretty good right?! (Knocking on wood!!!)

30 days of blogging

I saw this on my friend's blog so I thought I would go ahead and try it. It will give me something to blog about...speaking of things to blog about one day I will post pictures of our almost 1 year old baby pulling herself up and standing! So dang cute! Anyway here are the blog ideas for the next 30 days:

Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself.
Day 02- A picture of something you cannot live without.
Day 03- A habit that you wish you didn’t have.
Day 04- List 15 songs that represent your life’s soundtrack.
Day 05- A picture of somewhere you’ve been to.
Day 06- A hobby you have.
Day 07- A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you.
Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why.
Day 09- Something/someone you’re proud of.
Day 10- A story about a past relationship.
Day 11- A picture of something you dislike.
Day 12- A picture of your room & don’t cheat by cleaning it. Share a secret.
Day 13- Write a letter telling someone something you could never tell them.
Day 14- A picture of something you ate and 10 confessions.
Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle & share the first 10 songs that play.
Day 16- Something you could live without.
Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why.
Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have.
Day 19- Nicknames you have & how or why you have them.
Day 20- If you had 3 wishes, what would they be.
Day 21- Share a picture from your day.
Day 22- What makes you different from everyone else.
Day 23- What is something you crave.
Day 24- Share a story about your past that you are ashamed of.
Day 25- What I would find in your bag.
Day 26- Places you want to visit before you die.
Day 27- Why are you doing this 30 day challenge?
Day 28- A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Day 29- In this past month, what have you learned.
Day 30- A picture of you today & 20 goals you want to accomplish.

Hopefully I will be able to keep up with this! :)

Christmas 2010

I haven't ever post pictures of our Christmas from 2010 so for my children's sake here you go...We had a pretty low key Christmas here in our home which was so nice but very quiet with not much family! Ryan's parents came and stayed for a couple of days before Christmas and then we went to Nana and Papa's house for a breakfast on Christmas day. The holidays are a crazy time but we had a wonderful time being together as a family especially since Ryan is able to take the last couple of weeks of the year off! :) Here are the pictures we got from our Christmas 2010.

In NEED of a laugh?

Yes I do believe you are all in DESPERATE need of a really GOOD laugh. Right?! Our vacation to Monroe over President's Day weekend was so much fun (I will be posting some pictures soon) and my SIL blogged some HaLaRiOuS videos of Ryan and his brothers dancing to Just Dance Kids! You have to check it out...I am sure you will be laughing as hard as all of us were there. I mean...Parsons Boys dancing?! haha I never thought we would get to see that and I hope we get to do LOTS more of it!
Check this out:
http://themelonmunchers.blogspot.com/2011/02/its-miracle.html

Thanks Heather for catching it on video!!

Almost 10 months

I needed to post some pictures of Sydnee's sweet smiles! I could eat her cheeks they are so soft and squishy! She is the BEST baby! (I may or may not be biased) She loves to cuddle, she sucks her thumb whenever she gets tired, she LOVES her blankets along with her thumb, she babbles all the time now; a little dadadada and her daddy is eating that up(!),she LOVES her momma, she has been army crawling for about 3 weeks now and she has hardly any stranger anxiety. Seriously what 10 month old is not scared of every person outside of their immediate family? I cannot believe she will be 10 months old on Wednesday this week. Makes me so sad she is growing up so fast but she is getting sweeter by the day. I love you Sydnee Grace!!


Sydnee in her carseat in the cutest bunny hat! She was getting excited because she thought I would give her the camera...her arms fly up and down; SO CUTE!



Sydnee and Rylee....Sydnee's hair up in an elastic for the first time 2/7/11. Makes me laugh but still too cute!


Syd waiting for her "bah-bah" on the banana chair.

Here she is doing her FAST army crawl!

Weekly Challenge 1

I did my challenge last week...I am pretty happy with how it turned out. I filled it out for this week and I am loving it so far. Makes me feel like I have a handle on my week. This week's challenge is my "mud room"...I kind of have a little mud room and I have actually bought things a few weeks ago to help with it so I will get to it this week and show the results next week! Loving the organization this is giving me and my family.

Crib Issues...Opinions NEEDED

Okay so here is my question for you...and YES I want/need an answer.

So let's say my mom bought a crib from we will call it RW almost 6 years ago for my baby(ies). It happened to be a drop down crib because that is what they used to sell....I know ancient times right?! Since then they have begun to recall drop down sided cribs so of course I was nervous but I never got a notice saying they had recalled my crib. I didn't even know what KIND of a crib I had so I had my mom call RW to check and see if I had one of these cribs that had been recalled. According to the recalls all you had to do was call the manufacturer and give them the item number or whatever and they would send you out (for FREE) a kit that would secure the drop down side so it wouldn't drop down anymore. RW told her the kind of crib I had and so I got on the website and couldn't see this crib anywhere on the site about recalling so I wasn't too worried and I currently didn't have any babies in the crib to worry about. Now we have a baby in that crib and the drop down side is broken! One of the ends that drops down won't even stay up when the side is up. So a while back my mom called RW again to find out about this kind of crib so we could contact the manufacturer and get a kit to fix the one we have. Apparently, the manufacturer is out of Canada, has gone out of business, don't answer any calls or the some of the lines are disconnected and there is no one to even contact. We decided to go back to RW and ask them about this company which they do NOT do business with any longer. They came to the same conclusion we did and hit a dead end. They have tried to offer me 5, 10, and even 15% off of a new crib from them "since it has been so long" they can't really do anything about it. They wanted me to pay $70 for a service person to come out of and look at it but I refuse to pay $70 for a service guy. I just want this company to stand behind this product they sold me/my mom...it is a safety issue we are dealing with here. I was completely willing to deal with the manufacturer but since they aren't in business wouldn't you expect the company that sold you the product to stand behind it? They finally decided to send out a service person this Friday free of charge to see if it is something they can fix....here's hoping they do something about it! So now my question for you....If this was you what would you do??

I know she IS priceless! But what if I don't have any more babies and I only need a crib for about another year...so really BUYING a new one is not really a great option.