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29 dicembre titles are overratedThis Christmas I heard of a lot of familes who give their kids
ONE PRESENT
Now granted, these are hard times
So I'm not talking about people who can't afford to give them more
But I heard of several families who ALWAYS do that
And this is what I wonder:
Is that ONE gift a good one?
I mean do those families say:
"Okay, we aren't going to get you a bunch of random crap
But rather we are going to get you one really nice gift"???
Or does that defeat the whole cheap idea of the one gift?
I mean it all sounds logical and good
Until you get a package of tube socks for Christmas
Gee thanks guys... you shouldn't have?
Then I'm not sure that idea is such a good one...
HM and I went down to the temple Saturday night to see the lights
It was our "date night" I guess
And it was rather nice
We went just for the evening
Went out to dinner, saw lights and came home
We went to dinner at "Juniors"
Do you know that place?
We just drove around and thought it looked good
Apprently a lot of people have gone there
It's a Jewish diner
And it was ...interesting...
You know how at Mexican resturants they bring you chips and salsa?
This place brought us saukraut and pickles
 I ordered a steak sandwich thing--it was pretty good
HM ordered something but it was totally different than that he thought it would be
Basically he ordered a cottage cheese burrito
It was good... but ya... interesting...
Two different old ladies told us we had "a very cute little boy"
What is up with that?
Anyway, here are pictures...yay...
    
So tomorrow we are applying for our home loan Kinda nervous
okay, really nervous
what if we go apply and she says:
Sorry, you don't qualify for much
We have some lovely trailers here in your price range...
What's the worst that could happen?
She'll just say no I guess
But still
It's hard to do things like this because it's like a magnifying glass
on your whole life
And it makes me feel like a bad person if everything is not perfect
*sigh* 26 dicembre Merry Christmas!Cute Christmas babies:
   Opening presnts on Christmas Eve:
CHEESE!!!
   Cheryl and her new 72-Hour Kit L and I put together for her:
 Sadie's new rolling toy:
 Tommy and Mark even showed up!
 Christmas Morning:
Probably the only time we'll have to wake HER up...
 Dudey's new jammies:
 Go HERE for the full story
Opening presents:
     Dudey's big and most exciting present:
  His dad wrapped it a few times over...
  Yay!!! Hopefully this one lasts a little longer....lol...
Sadie got baby food in her stocking
Pureed fruit...yum...
 HM got me these clear glasses and some sunglasses
What do you think?
 And also this outfit:
 Sadie was so excited to play with her new toys on Christmas..... hmmm....
 That night everyone came over again to see Uncle Don and family who showed up to visit
 Kieran was a little busy elsewhere though:
   Merry Christmas everyone!!! 25 dicembre Merry Christmas!Hope you all had a great Christmas! I got a blackberry! In fact I am writing this on it right now! Crazy! Lots of pics to follow shortly :) 23 dicembre Hot and ColdWhew...
It's nice to be done
School is out for the holidays
My grades are posted
My classroom is clean
And nothing ahead but two weeks
of relaxing, being with my baby, and holidays
I finished all my shopping yesterday
I even went grocery shopping
So today I declare the official start of my holiday
Nothing on the agenda for me but doing a puzzle
Playing with Sadie
And watching holiday movies
Want to come over?
 Also yesterday
Sadie had her 5 month doctor's checkup
Well, actually just a nurse visit
She got weighed, measured and stabbed twice
So she's 18 lbs 4 oz, 27 inches
w/a bandaid on each leg
 This last weekend HM refed at the Garces Tournament
Sadie and I went in the afternoon when it was warm
And Sadie got to sport her new winter cap and mittens
 Not that it was THAT cold
I mean hey, this is Btown we're talking about
But hey, it's so cute! Who could resist!
These are technically her Christmas presents
But eh...not like she knows what Christmas is anyway
Why make her wait???
 Anyway, as always, HM did a great job
He even refed the Final
And everyone said he did amazing
it's so hard taking pictures of him refing though
Most of the time, the typical picture looks like this:
Oh wow... exciting....
It's either that or taking pictures of kids you don't know
But hey, good job kids!!!
You can see my car in the background though...
Anyway, good job HM
We made it out of this one with no injuries
(Last year there was something wrong with his shoes or something and after two days of refing, his nail on his big toe broke off, got all black has taken a whole year to grow back....)
  There's my car again...
 I must admit though
Watching soccer games is a whole lot more interesting
When there's hot refs
19 dicembre Sadie and SantaSadie went with her Dad today to go Christmas shopping while I was at work
(Mostly shopping for me I think)
HM took her everywhere and he said she was SO HAPPY
So he was at the mall and there was Santa
The minute he set her on Santa's lap
She was just TICKLED to death
She was making eyes at Santa
And smiling big
I mean this has got to be the cutest picture ever
And HM said it wasn't even her best smile
 Sadie sure liked Santa!!! 17 dicembre list of newsSadie is asleep
So guess I will finally take this moment to update this
Things have been crazy lately and I don't even know where to start...
We decorated for Christmas and put up all our lights and things
We have a fake tree
Not really the same as going out and cutting your own
But around here--where would we go really?
It would be hot not cold, no snow and no real pine trees
And the fake one goes up a lot easier:
 Merry Christmas Sadie girl!
  Next,
it was HM's birthday!!!
35 years old--can you believe it???
 Still pretty handsome though...mmm...mmm....
  We had cake and presents that Sunday
I made him mud and everyone liked it
Happy Birthday HM!
We sure are lucky to have you here with us!!!
Next, we helped HM's mom decorate her house for Christmas
Her house was thrashed for two weeks
And finally when we all came over for Sunday dinner
I suggested that maybe we should help her out...
It took all of us over an hour even then... But the house sure looks good now!
 It's crazy, I think that ST and D did a whole lot more for his mom
As far as keeping everything "together" for her
than anyone really realized before
Not that her husband and CA are that neat in the first place
But I think it's becoming more obvious that it's not because they make such a huge mess
But that it takes her longer to do things
And to clean than it has before
I'm sure that's hard--admitting that your mom isn't superwoman anymore
And that she needs help with things that used to be so easy and natural for her...
This is kinda random
But this is a picture that HMs mom took sometime on our way to church or something
But look how dark my hair is!!!!
 It looks like I have old blond highlights...
*sigh* how sad...
AND... in the last month I found TWO grey hairs...what???
My brother John and his wife, Chelsea, had their baby!!!
She was induced--before she was due---what???
(Can her doctor call my doctor and give him the scoop because that's not fair)
She went into labor about 7:30Am
And then had the baby at 3:35pm
She only had to push THREE TIMES
That's totally not fair...
I had to push for THREE HOURS!!!
ah well... maybe next time
So please welcome into the world ladies and gents,
My newest nephew:
Mason Hinckley Forsythe
Born December 14th 2008, 3:45pm 8 pounds 20 inches     And lastly, it seems that everyone around here is going to be moving in the next month or so
L and CR announced this last Sunday that they are moving to Oregon
Probably they will leave in January
So they will be packing up and moving...
And I guess L has already been packing for awhile
That should be interesting...
They have lived there...???hmm... 5 or 6 years?
Main point is this would involve a 3 year old and a one year old (almost)
And I figure that alone is CRAZY...
That means that their apartment managing gig will be open
So we're hoping that will mean we can get HM's parents to take over
Get them to get rid of their huge house
And move into something his mom can manage a bit better
His mom actually said she would!
So we might be moving HMs parents over there--we hope
And that means cleaning out the house they have been living in for the last 12 years or so...
YIKES
That will be a huge project... worse than the garage!!!
THEN
As if that wasn't enough
We have to move out of this house
And we are feeling more and more like we should go find somewhere else to live
Nothing wrong with this house
We have talked about buying it
But we are feeling like maybe we won't
So we are looking for houses...
And then ALSO in January
We will have to move as well
Hopefully we would move into our house
BUT
probably not
So we might be moving into HMs parents house--with or without them there
For a month or so...or more?
While we figure our housing thing out
WHEW...
Just thinking about it makes me tired... what a crazy next month we will have...
11 dicembre Soccer in winterIt cracks me up around here
That soccer season is during the WINTER
Most other places that would not be possible
And yes, it is cold
But not as cold as it could be
Because here we are
Last Saturday
On Dec 2nd
At a Soccer Tournament
Doesn't look so bad huh?
Crazy...
      06 dicembre Sadie GirlI've been such a slacker on the blog lately
Not because I haven't had stuff to write about
But because right now SLEEP is paramount to everything
I am so exhausted lately!!! That at night it seems all I do is take care of Sadie
And SLEEP if I can
Which obviously I haven't been able to much lately
Sadie is teething
STILL
and now she's also getting earaches
So even when she's perfectly asleep
 She could wake up at any minute
 SCREAMING bloody murder
poor baby...
We finally got some medicine from the doctor for her
Some teething stuff
and some ear ache medicine
I didn't even know we were getting the ear stuff
But when I went to go get her teeth stuff, that was there too
And she's been a lot better since we've been giving her that
Who knew???
It's gotta be hard being a baby
You can't tell you're parents:
hey, it's not my teeth that hurt so much, it's my ears!
So I guess we finally figured it out
Anyway, but Sadie went for her 4 month checkup
but it's been so long since I've written her 5 month checkup is next week...*sigh*
But anyway, she's now 17 lbs 3 oz and 27 inches long
Ready for a new car seat already
 She is really getting big and the big change for me lately
Is that she's SOLID now
I mean before she was a fragile baby
(Even though she was a big baby)
And she still felt like she would break
But not now
Now she is STURDY
 And all of her limbs are well padded
She's finally big enough to enjoy her bouncy seat thing!
  And she's also finally decided that she likes her Papa
She would never be very good for him before
(Much to his dismay I must add)
But lately she's been good with him
Guess she's decided she likes him :)
  Andre remains ever protective of the little "puppy" in the house
 Although sometimes they act more and more like "siblings"
 The other day I was trying to take pictures of her
But it was kinda dark
and the flash was really bright so
she'd smile
but then the flash would go off and she would make these weird faces:
I was busting up...
    We even got to take a walk the other night
She looked so cute peeking out over her front pack:
 And even though I am so so tired
This is what I get to come home to every day:
 And it's a pretty good life :)
He Gave Her To Me...HM has a new employee
It's this Mexican guy we'll call Rigo
For a very special reason: that's his name
It's that the name of a dog in an old movie?
It seems like a very apt name for him, so much that he doesn't need a nickname!
Rigo is a very interesting person
He's Mexican
Speaks passable English...
Meaning that he's pretty hard to understand
But he tries super hard to speak so hey... kuddos to him right?
Irritating for me though
Gotta be honest,
I like Rigo, he seems sweet
But as you'll see in a minute
His opinions towards women are not acceptable to me
And I want to wring his neck on a regular basis
Even though I speak Spanish
He refuses to speak to me
If and when I try to speak to him
he will just smile and act like he hasn't heard me
And then tell me he will just talk to HM
Seriously
When we were stuck in LA from the fires
HM had me call him to give him instructions for a job to do
And it was hard because Rigo wouldn't listen to me!
He kept insisting that he would just call HM later
And I was like RIGO! HM is right here, this is what he wants you to know!
GRRRR
And he's not mean or antagonistic or anything
He'll just smile at you like he would a cute puppy
And I imagine in his mind he pats you on the head
Smiles and walks away
Like, "why would i get instructions from a puppy???"
That is ridiculous to him
And as you might imagine, very frustrating for me....
But hey, i'm a woman and don't know much
*pat pat*
Rigo currently has a "girlfriend" or maybe you would say he currently has a WIFE.
He was over at a friend's house one day
And the friend was angry at his wife
So he told Rigo:
Take her away! I give her to you.
So Rigo did
When HM tries to talk to him about it
Suggesting that maybe this lady should go back to her family
AND HER KIDS--which I guess she has three or so
one of which is in elementary? Junior high?
And keeps getting in fights at school
Gee... wonder why?
Anyway, any time HM suggests maybe she should go back to them
Rigo responds: (imagine a very heavy mexican accent here)
Why? He gave her to me!
It's something we've been laughing about around here because it's so ridiculous
Where in this picture do you begin to try to explain what woman's rights are?
How do you explain that he had no right to "give her" to anyone?
It seems so logical to him, he looks at YOU like you're crazy...
Add to the picture that Rigo is living in his van right now
Unless he happens to have enough to splurge on a hotel
And can barely take care of himself much less a "wife"
And doesn't have any money except what he earns day by day with HM
So this lady lives in the van with Rigo
While her children and husband live at home
And her and Rigo sleep in random places we can find for them sometimes
At apartments that he is painting
What must her life be like at home if this is the better option?
HM and I think that maybe her husband beats her
And so this is the better option
Since Rigo,
even though he's kinda weird
Seems really sweet and nice
So maybe this is a step up for her???????
Pretty sad huh?
Last night I came home and Rigo and her were both sitting in the van outside our house
Waiting for keys to the van so they could go help HM
So I got them keys and then went inside
Thinking they had left
About an hour later, HM calls me and asked me to go outside and give her $20 for gas
WHAT????
My nonobservant self didn't even notice
That she had been sitting there this whole time
I told him I felt bad! I would have asked her to come inside!!!
He said "don't, she wouldn't have done it"
She's weird like that
Maybe she feels like she needs a man to tell her to do anything???
Maybe you're thinking:
Oh, she doesn't speak English, poor abused Mexican woman...
Nope... actually she speaks perfect English
And seems pretty normal actually....
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