Master Magician Mickey Mouse and the always-dazzling Minnie join forces with professional illusionists for a magical production on stage. Disney Live! presents features grand illusions and favorite Disney characters, including Donald and Goofy; Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother; Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter; and beloved Disney princesses Jasmine, Belle and Snow White.
At Ontario Citizens Bank Arena for 1/15, 3:30 & 6:30; and 1/16, noon & 3:00. Use coupon code MOM for $5 savings, $15 or $20(not to be used for VIP floor and Front Row tickets) Buy your tickets now at www.ticketmaster.com
A Little Musical Interlude Courtesy of Chris French
Chris French is a very talented singer, song-writer. Here he is at Mike and Robin's new home just hours after we moved them in! The song is called 5 Little Monkeys.
Check it out as it was intended to sound at http://www.chrisfrenchmusic.com/music.html. PS there are some other great songs like "Are We There Yet?" and "Me" so check those out too!
And we're off!!
Emily is officially walking! The video is at Memere's house. James recorded this for me because I was out that night working for Uncle Bill at the Loma Linda Academy Winter Dinner and missed it. Before this night she had old taken a couple of steps at a time but tonight is the first time I've been away from her in months and she decided she was going to walk everywhere! Of Course!!!!!
(13 months old)
Absentee Blogger
Sorry I've been MIA for a while but I hope things are starting to calm down so that I can catch up here. We've moved to a new house and completely redecorated the interior from roof to flooring and everything in between, my computer crashed - thank god that we have EVERYTHING backed up. But that just means it's taking me forever to reload it all to the way it was. Emily's birthday is in 3 weeks and I haven't done anything yet to prepare. Why can't money grow on trees? And I've been begging James to take me to the fair. We haven't gone in a couple of years and I miss it! Anything else? Oh, I'm sure there is! :o)
I'm Getting Big! (9 months)
The Doctors say I'm healthy! (Except for a cold that just won't go away!)
18.2 lbs
29 inches long
17.25 Head Circ.
Based on the charts:
Length = between percentile 75 and 90
Weight = between percentile 25 and 50
Head Circumference = between percentile 25 and 50
18.2 lbs
29 inches long
17.25 Head Circ.
Based on the charts:
Length = between percentile 75 and 90
Weight = between percentile 25 and 50
Head Circumference = between percentile 25 and 50
Emily and the Baby in the Mirror
Emily at 7 and a half months
Every Mom thinks their baby is the cutest, smartest, most beautiful baby in the world! I just happen to be right! :o)
Tragedy for Brian's Family
Brian (Jimmy's brother), Sandie (his wife), Ashley (her daughter), Ashley's boyfriend, friends Todd and Desiree were in Havasu for the weekend to celebrate Memorial Day and Ashley's 21st birthday which was on Monday. On Monday, while parked in the channel at Lake Havasu, Ashley's boyfriend was flipping off the back of the boat into the channel and the third time he did it he must have hit shallow water. Ashley found him floating at the back of the boat. There was a doctor in a nearby boat that helped them and the lake patrol were only a few boats down and were able to assist them quickly. He was airlifted to Las Vegas to the hospital there. He was in a coma, on a breathing machine, until additional test could be run. On Wednesday, they finished their tests and the doctors said that he had crushed his spinal cord, blood was not getting to the brain and he didn't have any brain activity. Later that day they took him off of life support and his family has donated his organs. This is a devastating tragedy for their family. He has a 3 year old son from a previous relationship and this happened on Ashley's 21st birthday to her first serious boyfriend.
I'm back!
Sorry for taking almost 4 months off from blogging. I'm going to try to play catch up. So you're going to see a lot of back dated posts popping up this week. Hopefully it should only take this week to catch it up!! :o)
Ugh! Packing!
Marie's house is in escrow and is due to close on July 6th. This weekend we started packing her so that as the month progresses we aren't doing anything at the last minute. We're going to try to make a trip to Mom's house at least once a week to continue to pack and get ready for the move to wherever! We still haven't found a new house yet but there is still time.
My First Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day!!!
As my first year as a mother we had a very relaxing day. Jimmy made me breakfast and he surprised me with my new diaper bag/purse! Okay, I picked it out but he bought it at the store and picked out the color!
In the afternoon we drove down to Brian and Sandie's house because Brian was hosting a dinner for Marie, Sandie, Betty and I.
Opening Weekend
James went on his annual Guy's weekend with Ed, Mike, Brad, and Danny for opening weekend of fishing season up in Big Pine. Last year they stayed up for I think it was 6 days but this year they only did 4 days. Luckily there were fish. They were worried because the department of fish and game didn't stock the area until the night they arrived to camp. Until then they thought there weren't going to be anything to catch this year. He brought back 5 good sized fish this year and probably caught 30 plus, overall.
*TMI Warning* Poop Talk!
I'm taking it easy on solids with Emily right now because she finally went poop today after going over 9 days without any movement. On day 7 I spoke to the PA at her pediatricians office and she said to give Emily pears. So that night she got no cereal and pureed pears. Nothing. So on day 8, I called the Dr. office again and the PA said give her pear juice and no solids. Then she said that if she doesn't go by day 9 to take her to the ER. (I should mention that Emmy's ped, Dr. Sharma was on vacation still for Easter.) Well Friday, day 9, there was still no poop and her poor stomach was all big like a budda belly. We got ready to take Emmy to the ER when I told Jimmy that I wanted to swing by the peds office one more time since I knew Dr. Sharma was finally in the office and get his opinion. His office was on the way to the ER anyways. He said there isn't any reason to take her to the ER just yet but if by Monday (12 days) she still hasn't gone then to come back in the office. Thank goodness my Mommy instincts were right on to get the doctor's opinion. Because after leaving Dr. Sharma's an hour later she finally went..... and went.... and went! I want to say it was probably about 4-5 cups worth! Poor little girl! I'm going to take it easy on solids now since her little system is getting backed up. But at least we avoided a trip to the ER!
Our First Family Easter
HAPPY EASTER!!!!!
The Wahl's were so generous to have us over for Easter day. There aren't any small children on either James' or my family so we went to our best-friends' house. Emily is too young yet to get to do the egg hunt - but next year... watch out! :o)
Alyssa (almost 7) and Emily (6 months)
First Time with Fruits!
Emily had her first fruits today! She had bananas with her cereal this morning. She still hasn't master the whole "swallowing"- thing yet! But she already like to try to feed herself.
First Beach Day!!!!
What to do in Southern California on a beautiful day?!? Go to the beach!
Daddy and Emily! Love this photo!
At least we got some cute pictures from the day! :o)
We give up.....
We've have finally thrown in the towel. Our house we bought in 2006 for 330,000 is only worth 110,000. Today we have put the house up for short-sale. It's sad, but it's exciting too in a way. Jimmy's mom is ready to retire so she is going to buy a house up in the desert here. We are looking for a place with a "granny" house so that Jimmy, me and Emmy will live in the main house and Jimmy's mom, Marie, can have the smaller granny house. This will work out great for everybody because we'll finally get a place big enough to build a shop on the property for Fusion (Jimmy and Brian's company) to move in to - and out of my garage. And Marie's health had been getting worse so she could use to have someone close to her, plus she doesn't need her big ol' house anymore. And Marie can also be closer to Emily and any future little one(s)! So far we haven't found a new house yet but the short sale process is anything but short so we have plenty of time to find something!
Calico
We've lived up in the desert here for 4 years and never visited Calico. So we decided to take Emmy to her first "theme park".
Look at that smile! We have a future hiker!
Emily trying on a Davy Crockett hat!
We took the train ride, walked through a real mining cave. And yes, I was an idiot and asked the woman at the enterance if this was a man-made cave or a real mining cave. Duh! A mining cave IS man-made.
In the real, man-made mining cave!
Have a Raging Day!
Today I started a group on Facebook for old employees of Raging Waters. I really loved that job which was hardly ever a job. It was like being camp counselors. We were all one huge family!
I worked at the park in the summer months from 1996 through 1998.
I worked at the park in the summer months from 1996 through 1998.
(Summer 1997)
Well, when I started the group I thought I was seriously the only loser who loved that job. Cut to three weeks later - there are over 200 members. Everybody was so excited to see each other that this summer we have a reunion beach party planned for July!
Valentine's Day!
Please ignore the tired Mommy just behind the beautiful baby!
Our first Valentine's Day as a family! After Emily had her breakfast of Mommy Milk then Daddy made me a delicious breakfast of eggs, sausage and heart shaped pancakes. No diets for me yet!
New Milestone Today!!
While getting ready to go down the hill to Jimmy's mom's house I got my first laughs from Emily!
The very first laughs were great but by the time we got the camera she had tappered off. I swear we need a camera on us at all times!!
The very first laughs were great but by the time we got the camera she had tappered off. I swear we need a camera on us at all times!!
Emily's First Super Bowl
This year the Saints kicked some Colt tushie! But that was only half the fun of Sunday. The three of us went to Ed and Ruth's house for a Super Bowl party. They gave us a whole bedroom to ourselves to make "baby central" for Emily. I was able to set up her pack and play in a back bedroom that was nice and dark and quiet for her naps. Jimmy remembered to bring the ipod so that she could have white noise playing while she napped to drown out the sound of the party. Shortly after we got there Samatha (Ed's daughter) showed up with her boyfriend Brandon. Brandon we just met a few months back but he is a great guy. (Jimmy loves to hang out with Brandon because Brandon is a chef at the Disneyland resort and loves to bounce recipes and ideas off of him.) But this time getting together was special because on Saturday Jimmy had called me while I was at Robin's to let me know that Brandon had asked to see Ed and Ruth privately WITHOUT Samantha...... and all of us knew what that meant!!! So Sunday when they showed up Samanthat went in to the backyard and Brandon showed Ruth and I the ring! It was a gorgeous ring - I'm sad to say I never got a picture of it. I'll try to remember next time I see her to get a close-up. Brandon told Ruth that he wasn't going to do it that day but if she could hide it in the house. So Ruth and I went to the master bedroom and hid it. We were having a great party and all assumed we were going to just hang out and watch the game for the rest of the night. Jimmy made seared ahi tuna appetizer, Memphis spiced ribs and his chipotle potato salad. Ed and Brandon made kabobs with greek yogurt sauce. Of course there was the make you own nachos station! I mean, what makes a Super Bowl without good food and expensive commercials? Toward the end of the second quarter Brandon walks up to me and whispers in my ear. I nod my head and get up and head to the master bedroom. Jimmy says he thought this was weird but since Brandon didn't follow me that it was okay. :o) Brandon had asked me if I knew where the ring was and if I could hold on to it discreetly. After I got the ring I gave Jimmy the heads up and told him to get the camera ready to take a video. Just after The Who started playing the half time I handed the ring off to Brandon and he wrangled the entire party to the living room. Where he popped the question to Samantha!!!!!!!
Brandon was so cute he actually had his family on speaker phone to hear the propsal since they couldn't make it.
The Happy Couple 
Congratulations to Brandon and Samantha!
Brandon was so cute he actually had his family on speaker phone to hear the propsal since they couldn't make it.
Congratulations to Brandon and Samantha!Weekend at Robin's
Emily and I went down to the Wahl's house without Daddy for two full days. Daddy dropped us off on Friday afternoon and picked us up Sunday morning. This was the longest Jimmy has been away from Emily ever! He missed her so much that instead of us staying at Robin's till Sunday night Jimmy wanted to pick us up in the morning instead.
Robin, through circumstances, ended up alone with her girls all weekend. Brad, Cheryle, and Mike all ended up taking separate trips on the same weekend. So we decided to get together for an all girls weekend. Alyssa and Brenna love Emily so much they just couldn't get enough of her this weekend. Robin and I mostly just hung out since it was raining for most of the time I was there. Which made the girls very restless since they couldn't go outside to play.
Here are pictures of Alyssa (5 years old) reading and playing with Emily (three months old).
And here is a picture of Robin (5 years old) rubbing my back (2 months old).
Robin, through circumstances, ended up alone with her girls all weekend. Brad, Cheryle, and Mike all ended up taking separate trips on the same weekend. So we decided to get together for an all girls weekend. Alyssa and Brenna love Emily so much they just couldn't get enough of her this weekend. Robin and I mostly just hung out since it was raining for most of the time I was there. Which made the girls very restless since they couldn't go outside to play.
Here are pictures of Alyssa (5 years old) reading and playing with Emily (three months old).
And here is a picture of Robin (5 years old) rubbing my back (2 months old).
Uh-oh! I think I'm in trouble.....
Everybody was so great about giving me diapers that I had about 5,000 diapers (no exaggeration!) before Emmy was born. But lately anytime she has a #2 diaper they aren't holding the "stuff" in. I get leaking out of the back and sometime out of the leg. It doesn’t matter if I put them on tight; pull out the leg flaps, changing brands and styles, nothing! I think we need to move up to a size two. The thing is that I only have about 200 size 2s and about 2000 size 1-2s still left over, plus I still have about 30 size 1s! Nobody said that she would grow out of these sizes so fast. In my search to find a non-leaking diaper I opened both cases of the pampers (they were different styles) so now I can't even exchange them if I wanted to!
So I have a dilemma now, start buying diapers in size 2 (I have yet to buy diapers since she was born) or have her wake up every morning with a wet and smelly little girl? I guess it's off to the store I go!
I guess I'll just hang on to the other diapers because not this year but next year we are going to start on the next addition to our family.
Gotta go, Emmy is up from her nap!
So I have a dilemma now, start buying diapers in size 2 (I have yet to buy diapers since she was born) or have her wake up every morning with a wet and smelly little girl? I guess it's off to the store I go!
I guess I'll just hang on to the other diapers because not this year but next year we are going to start on the next addition to our family.
Gotta go, Emmy is up from her nap!
Thumbsuckers Anonymous
Hello. My name is Liz and my daughter is a thumbsucker.......
This isn't something she's just picked up. She's been sucking her thumb since birth really, but she has full control over it now and is more often then not with her thumb in her mouth. It's almost always the left one too! When I breastfeed her I have to fight her to take the thumb out so I can get a breast in. I feel bad for her little thumb though because it gets pale and waterlogged.
New Year's 2010 Resolution!
We have decided to start having family dinners on Jimmy's side once a month. Every 1st Saturday of the month we get together for dinner and each month we will rotate whose house we go to. It doesn't matter if we go out to a restaurant or have a home cooked meal. It will be up to the host to decide!
Happy New Year's!
We had a blast for New Year's! This year Becky and her family, Bobbie, Mom, Eddie, Robin & Mike all came up to the house and spent the night. We had a FULL house!! Emily was a great sleeper that night and missed out on all of the fun! We had some cocktails mixed up by Jimmy and Mike of course and played the Wiii, then we watched the ball drop and finally all of us watched the The Hangover. Overall it was a great night and everybody had a blast!
Below are some pictures of us girls kicking ass on the Wii!
Below are some pictures of us girls kicking ass on the Wii!
Robin and I posing for a quick shot
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