House

So.....I know that we have lived in our new house for about 3 months and I have yet to put pics up. So here they are!!!

Time just goes by too fast!

So.... I know I haven't written in a long time, so here is what's new. My baby had his 3rd birthday on the first Saturday of January! He had so much fun!!! His birthday was a Thomas, Curious George, and Wall-E themed party, courtesy of Party City not having all matching decorations, but Mike loves all of them so he was totally psyched to have his FAVORITES!!! We did it at our house and Mike absolutely LOVED the Wall-E cake. We ended up doing the cake first because once he saw it, he just had to blow out the candle and take Wall-E and Eve off of it. We ordered a 6 ft sub and had chips and soda. After the eating was all done, we went out back for the traditional pinata!!! It was Mickey Mouse from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Mike didn't want to hit it, he just wanted to hug it!!! Overall, it was probably the best party he has EVER had!!!
On January 10th, Channing lost her first tooth!!! YAY!!! The Tooth Fairy came and she was soooo excited, she wanted to take her money to school and buy her own lunch rather than take one. LOL!!!
Then on January 12th, Joseph lost his first tooth! YAY!!! It's actually kind of sad, because Joseph is just 4 and he is still a baby to me! He it just a reminder of how fast time actually does go by!!! He too got money from the Tooth Fairy, but he was somewhat confused as to why the tooth fairy gave him money!!! Joseph put his in his piggy bank! The funny thing is that they both lost the same tooth!!!
Yesterday Tony called and let me know that his days off are changing to Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. This will be so GREAT, because now I will have someone to help me take Mikey to all of his appointments. Everyday he has an appointment for something, I am not exaggerating! It is CRAZY!!!
As for me, everything is still the same here. Working all the time, doing homework, and being a wife and mommy!!! I have tons of pictures from the birthday to post, and I will post them soon!!! Oh and by the way, we are free and clear to try for another baby!!! YAY!!! We can't wait, Joseph insists we are having a girl this time, not pregnant yet, that I know of anyway, but we will let you all know!!!

Christmas!!!

For Christmas this year, we stayed home. It was our first Christmas together as a family, so that was exciting. We originally thought it would be fun to go to Cali to visit Tony's family, however that didn't work out, plus Tony had to work on Christmas day, soooo... we just stayed home!
Christmas Eve, my brother, his wife, and kids, came over for movies, and treats! We watched Step-Brothers, and The Bad News Bears, and then played X-Box 360. When it was almost bedtime, we sat the kids down to read a Christmas story, then they each opened one present. Before my brother left, I pulled out the laptop and began tracking santa so the kids could see where he was! It was really neat, and the kids really enjoyed seeing santa flying over the ocean.
On Christmas day, Tony woke us up at 3:15 so that we could open presents before he had to leave. We must have been good, because Santa brought us some really awesome gifts, and everyone got just what they wanted.
After opening the presents, we all went back to bed, while Tony went to work. After Tony got home, we went to my ex-husband's sisters house for Christmas dinner. I know it is weird, but they invited us, and since we have no family out here besides my brother, we gladly accepted!!!
After dinner, we went to go see a movie, a family tradition that we have done since I was little. We saw bedtime stories, with Adam Sandler. It was hilarious!
All in all it was the best first Christmas I could have asked for.
Hope you all have a Happy New Year!!!

Update

First off, just want to say Merry Christmas!!! Hope everyone had an AWESOME one, I know we did!!! SO....I know it has been a couple months since I have updated our blog so, I will just fill you in on what has happened.
We are all moved into our new home. We absolutely love it!!! Our room is plum and peach. The boys room is green. Channing's room is purple, and my office is red!!! The red goes great with my Edward posters!!! The house is pretty much done, with the exception of a few wall hangings. Since Tony and my best friend Tarah think I am not so good at decorating, they both did the pictures!!! It looks great!
I started working again, for my ex husband's family's pediatric practice. It is nice because I get to work from home or take the kids with me when I go out there to the office. I am also going to school full time to get my Bachelor's in paralegal studies. After I am done with that, I will continue my education to be a family law attorney!
Antonio is doing well, still working down in intake at the 4th Ave Jail. He is now on first shift, so he goes in at 5 a.m. and gets off at 3 p.m. He works 4, 10 hour shifts, so it is nice having him home 3 days a week!
Joseph and Channing are on school break. They start back on January 5th! They are loving being at home, and NO HOMEWORK!
Little Mikey is doing well. He has speech therapy every Thursday. He has 5 different evaluations scheduled in January, so it will be a busy month. He goes to the neurological psychologist, DDD, SARCC, and an evaluation with the school district for preschool! He will begin school in February, and it's free!!! YAY! I have to pay for Joseph, so it is nice that Mike will be free.
Our little family is doing wonderfully and we hope you all are too!!!

Messy, messy, messy and I am going CRAZY!

My daily routine as a stay at home mom is: wake up, get the kids dressed for school, drop them off at school, go home clean up, take a nap, pick up Joseph, make lunch, clean up, help Joseph with his homework, pick up Channing, help her with her homework, make dinner, clean up, get the kids all bathed and clean and ready for bed, clean up again, oh and take care of Mikey all day.
So as you can see, I clean up constantly through out the day, a trait I must have gotten from my mom, so my house is ALWAYS clean! However, due to the events of the past couple weeks or so, I have been bed ridden and unable to do anything. My husband promised to take care of everything, since he has taken off to help me, but I have learned that unless he is working out side, or playing with his toys, he can not do anything unless he is directed. Don't get me wrong, I love him, I just didn't realize when women said their husbands were like children, that they were serious!
So.......it's 9:15 at night, and the house is a wreck, I just can't stand it anymore! Despite what my doctor told me, I just had to get up and clean a little bit. I started putting the dirty clothes in piles, all of the trash in a pile, and put the million stack of dishes in a more orderly fashion to get cleaned up. I then instructed my sweet husband on what to do with the clothes, what to do with the trash, and I told him to leave the kitchen alone, I will handle that one!
Then after all is done, we will be able to pack everything in a cleaner environment! Soon enough, we will be in our new home, and I will be able to keep things clean again!

Pumpkin Carving, Orange Party, & Halloween!!!

Well, this week has been awfully busy with my surgery, packing, Halloween parties, pumpkin carving, and well of course, Halloween! On Thursday, Tony decided it was FINALLY time to carve our pumpkin as the next day would be Halloween. He wanted to do this really hard design, however I thought it would be cute to do something that was more simple and traditional. Maybe next year he will get his way!

The Town of Buckeye does things differently than most. They like to celebrate Halloween and do the Trick-or-Treating the night before Halloween, then on Halloween they hold a big carnival. So, last night we got to take the kids out Trick-or-Treating. Well, I didn't, I got to stay home and pass out the candy as I am still recovering and I am not supposed to be up alot! So Tony took them. The kids had a blast, but Michael and Joseph must have eaten all of their candy already!

Then Today, I was feeling somewhat decent, so I went to Joseph's school party! It was fun, the kids, including Michael, got to decorate Halloween cookies. Then they got some snacks. Mainly, the snacks were orange in color, due to the party being called an Orange Party! Anyways, Michael and Joseph had a blast, and when my pain started to get worse, I decided it was time to head out!

Tonight, since it is Halloween, we are taking the kids out to Gilbert to go Trick-or-Treating in Grandma Merry's neighborhood. Once again, I shouldn't say us. Tony will be with the kids, I will stay at Grandma Merry's and once again, pass out candy!

Then tomorrow, once all of the festivities are done, Tony and some people from church will be packing up all of our belongings so next Friday we can move into our new home! YAY! We are so excited!!! Once again, I get the priviledge of pretty much doing nothing! It's not as great as it sounds, especially when all I have done the past two weeks is a Whole LOT of NOTHING! Happy Halloween everyone!

Pumpkin Patch!!!

Last Saturday, I was feeling some what decent, so I thought it would be fun to take the kids to the Pumpkin Patch out in Gilbert. Joseph has been before, but Channing had NEVER been to a Pumpkin Patch, I swear her parents must have been boring! Anyways, the kids had so much fun. They got to go in the pumpkin patch and each pick out a little pumpkin! After they picked out their pumpkin, they sat down at a table to decorate it with different stickers! Then they got to play around, ride on the hay ride, eat sno cones, and see all of the little farm animals! There was also an author there who was doing a book signing for a children's Halloween book! So, we went and got a book. After about an hour, I decided we needed to head home, I wasn't feeling too good, but the kids had so much fun, and I guess that is all that matters!