Moving & All That Jazz...

We have not set up the internet yet so I haven't been able to post all the pictures I have ready to blog. I am stealing WiFi on my labtop as we speak so hopefully in the near future we'll get our computer set up and I'll be able to get caught up on all the stuff that has happened since we moved to Oregon. So far things are good, I like it here in little Hermiston. Everyone is nice, there are lots of parks, and I am signing Clover up for a bunch of summer activities through the city parks and rec department here. Our place is good, having never have seen it before we moved in. I am pleasantly surprised how decent it is. There is a little girl a few months younger that Clover next door to play with and a park right across the street. Roger likes working for the Oregon Department of Corrections a lot better than Nevada so that is good. Also we only have one car now so Roger got a motorcycle so he can get back and forth to work and I won't be stuck at home all the time. He is super excited about that. It's a older honda 900 something or other. I don't even know. I lost/got my wedding ring stollen (we're not really sure) in our move, so that sucked. I am in the process of trying to find a doctor but there are only 2 full time OBGYN's here so I have to look in other cities around the area. I don't know if I've said, but we are having a boy, Roger has decided on the name, I kinda have no choice now, It is Crew Oneal (oneal is a family middle name, whatever). I am counting the days until I get my body back and get rid of my back fat, cellulite and thunder thighs. I am bigger sooner than last time and it sucks! Pictures and more blogging to come in the near future......

Where The Heck Is Hermiston, Oregon???

So where the heck is Hermiston, Oregon you ask and why does anyone even care? Well, in 2 weeks time this little town is where we will be living. Roger finally got a call from the Oregon Department of Corrections for a job opening. It's not exactly where we wanted to end up in Oregon but we decided to just take it because it has to be better than living in Vegas. This little town in Northeast Oregon has but 16,0000 people. It is a farming community that is supposed to have the best watermellons around. They also boast one of the best pro rodeos in the country. There are 2 rivers that run within a few miles of the town and even though it is kind of off in its own little area it is within a few hours drive of Portland, Spokane, and Seatle. So, Roger has been up there once for an interview and he is going up again this week to do a medical physical and find us a place to live. I, having never been there will be trusting in my husband that this place is a nice town to live in. Lets keep our fingers crossed that we will end up loving this little town. So finally after stupidly leaving our little peace of heaven in Eugene, Oregon and moving to Las Vegas after 4 years of wishing we never moved we are heading back. Yeah! Goodbye hot, ugly, dirty, nasty, expensive, hot, windy, did I mention hot, yucky Vegas!

Las Vegas "Zoo" & Clark County Fair

Clover loves animals so we decided to take her to our "zoo", which is to say a sad place where they keep animals in small cages. I do not like this place because I feel horrible for animals in cages and think it's wrong but Roger said Clover would like to see the animals so I gave in. So we walked around and saw some chickens, parrots, two ostriches, one chimp, a few lions and some goats. (At least Clover enjoyed it).But you could go into the goat pen and pet the little goats. We also went to the Clark County Fair and Rodeo in Logandale. I've never been to it and I really wanted to go. It was kinda fun, I couldn't ride the rides because of being prego so that sucked and the only ride that Clover could go on was the merry go round. She really likes horses so she enjoyed it. They also always have the best food at fairs, but it is the most fattening artery clogging stuff imaginable and it also costs about 3x as much. Ridiculous.

My Child The Biker??

Clover is absolutely in love with motorcycles. I have no idea where she gets this passion, but she has it. Every time we ride in the car and she sees one she says oooh, and points and makes vroom, vroom noises. She is not afraid of the loud noises they make at all. Roger borrowed our friends bike and Clover kept wanting to sit on it. After Roger rode off on it, every bike she saw after that she said daddy, put out both her hands like she was holding onto the handle bars and said vroom. It was hilarious. Maybe she is ment to be a biker chic when she grows up......

Hair Nightmare

My one attempt at doing something with her hair.....

Miss Pretty Princess

I was feeling bad that I didn't have enough girly stuff for Clover so we bought her a little purse that came with some fake lipstick, perfume, sunglasses and some play shoes. She seems to like them. The shoes are way too big and they have a small heel. She has a hard time walking in them but she seems to manage. (I keep thinking she's going to break her ankle in those things). Then one day we where playing with her sunglasses and I tried putting them on the dog, and she thought that was the funniest thing in the world. The dogs didn't think so, they acted like beaten dogs when I made them come over and take the abuse. But I got some funny pictures out of it so it was worth it!

18 month pictures

This little bratt is getting so big. Taking these pictures at the JC Penney studio was a challenge. She did not want to sit on the mark, or sit down at all for that matter. She was just running around and going behind the curtains and grabbing all the props. So, we only got a few good pictures out of the deal.

Bun In The Oven

Well, it's official. There is a bun in the oven that has been cooking for about 8 weeks. I had my first ultrasound last week to make sure the heartbeat was all there and it was measuring the right size and all that jazz. The blob seems to be doing just fine. We decided that we wanted to start trying for another one at the beginning of the year and shockingly it happened on the first try. That is crazy because they say you really only have like a 20% chance every month of it happening. I guess this one is eager to get here or something. "The Blob" has been giving me a little bit of trouble, mild morning sickness, lots of fatigue and I can't stop being hungry which is getting down right annoying. If I have to put another thing in my mouth I'm going to scream. I know, you're saying this is when its ok to eat more and not feel bad but I really just don't want to eat. Nothing satisfies me or tastes good and I'm sick of trying to find something in my kitchen every 2 hours. Agh! Well, I am due around October 12, and we are hoping for a boy.

Clover's First Soccer Class

Clover just turned 18 months and I have been waiting to put her in this 18-24 month soccer class that they have at The Las Vegas Indoor Soccer Arena. It is a 10 week thing, once a week and her first class was this last Saturday. I was wondering exactly what do you do with a bunch of barely toddlers, but the class was pretty fun. First they warmed up by sorta stretching. Then they ran 2 laps back and forth and they played red light green light. Clover just ran for her life. It was pretty freaking funny. She runs really goofy, but she is trying to run so hard and fast that you have to laugh so hard. I will have to try and get video of it next time. Then they do exercises of building stacks of cones and kicking them over and bubbles where they have to try and kick them. They didn't even get to kick a real ball, but hopefully as the class goes on they will get there. They whole thing was quite funny and Clover really liked it.

I'm A Big Kid Now

When does it happen when they think they are all ready big kids and they can do stuff on their own without any help? Kids these days are just growing up too fast. Clover thinks she is so clever wearing mommy's sweatshirt. And she really doesn't like too much help with eating and when you try to let a 17 month old eat yogurt on her own it just goes bad. It is true about how fast they grow up. She's not my little baby anymore, she's a mini-adult (at least she thinks she is anyway). By the way, when is my kids hair going to grow? If one more person calls her a boy, even when she is wearing pink, I think I might throw something at their head.

10 Year Reunion Come & Gone

Ok, my 10 year reunion was in October, but I just got these pictures so I decided to post this belated Bonanza H.S. 1998 reunion shout out. Has it really been 10 years? First off all, all I remember is not being able to wait to get out of high school and to be 18. Now I am going on 29 and I'm wondering how did I get so damn old. It's sad really. Oh well, maybe I can age like a fine wine or cheese, getting better with time. Yeah right! I have wrinkles and I want them gone. Getting old isn't all that awesome. You've got bills, responsibilities, a job to hold down, mortgage, and on and on.... So there is my rant for the day. So anyway here are some pics of my crew back in high school. All but 2 were able to go. It was a pretty good time. The first night was a bbq at the park and then the homecoming football game and the second night they rented the real world vegas suite at the Palms. So enjoy and reminece on your younger days.....

X-mas Eve & X-mas Day Extravaganza

For Christmas Eve we went over to my aunts house for a dinner and white elephant gift exchange. Roger and my cousin Chad made their own ugly holiday sweaters this year instead of buying them. I actually think they turned out cute, well, sort of. For the white elephant exchange most people buy funny gifts, we bought a beer bong and drinking glove for one gift and they other a calender of pin the tail on the naked mans junk along with a poop log diary. It was pretty funny because my mom ended up getting the naked guy calender. But we ended up with a replica of the leg lamp from the movie The Christmas story. (It is up and in my living room right now). For Christmas day we just opened presents at home and Clover had a blast. She got so much stuff, she is so spoiled. She got a rocking horse, and a toy vacuum, and a Dora chair just to name a few. This was the first year she understood how to open presents and enjoy the toy inside so it was fun to watch her get excited.

Aliante Dinosaur Park.... and catch up stuff....

So I've been slacking a little bit on the blogging. I got a new canon camera which I am very happy about so I can take much better pictures with than my old (swear word) camera. So here is some pics of Clover at the park from a few weeks ago. She is getting very big and smart. Her latest and greatest is that she is climbing on everything like a monkey or mountain goat (which ever gives you the best mental picture). She is getting into all the top drawers in the house that I don't have locks on. She turns on and off and on and off the TV and cables boxes. She likes to dig in the trash can, sometimes she's good and will throw stuff away, but mostly she just likes to grab stuff out of it She recently got one of those toy cars that you can push them around in or they can walk themselves, but she refuses to do it herself so she demands someone push her around the house. She loves to chase the dogs around the house while trying to grab their tales and laughing and giggling like a school girl. She has learned her face features and likes to point to them on your face, actually she likes to poke your eyes out and grab your nose and ears. Her favorite body part is her belly. She lifts up her shirt and tries to say belly, then she lifts up my shirt until my bare stomach is exposed and slaps it and laughs. She is doing a lot more dancing and will do a shimmy if I say dancin machine, dancin machine watch me get down, watch me get down. Pretty much she is just a non stop crazy go 100 miles an hour nut case kid. But you gotta love her.

Air Show at Nellis Air Force Base

Over the weekend we went to Aviation Nation at Nellis Air Force Base. It was a 2 day event that had tons of planes to see and several fighter plane shows. They had a Raptor fighter jet that was so loud and powerfull as it blew by you felt like you were going to fall over. Then they had the Thunderbirds air show along with some parachuters. They had a huge C4 cargo plane (shown in picture) that you could walk through to get the feeling of how huge the thing was. Seeing the jets made me want to be a fighter pilot, doesn't that sound like the coolest job ever!