Prayers Please

My father in law had 7 hours of surgery after he cut a portion of his arm off on Monday. He lives in Winnemucca NV (WHERE??? 2 hours from Reno) and was flown to a trauma center in Salt Lake. My husband, Raul, tried to get a flight out this morning, but all the crazy winter weather has made him postpone till later this morning. We are praying he gets on a flight. My father in law's wife does not speak good English and it is hard for her to get around in a strange town, so Raul will go, and get the basics his dad needs. Since my FIL was flown over he doesn't have any clean clothes or basics that he will need to leave the hospital. We are hoping that Raul will then be able to come home on Christmas and celebrate, but it all depends on if they still need him in Salt Lake. Sorry, I am rambling now. Anyhow if you guys would be willing to pray for Raul's safe trip and his dad, Filaberto's, recovery we would really appreciate it.

Marci

MIA

Wow, see I knew when I signed up to blog that I would never keep up with it. That little dude in the picture at the top of this page is almost 8 months old! How in the world has this year been going by so fast. On the very last day of this year that beautiful curly haired kid turns 2!!! And Heidi, wow she is 8 going on 25. Heidi thinks she is a mom. She even put Julie in time out the other day.

So far the holiday season is going well for me. I have been selling the jewelry and even giving a few massages. Unfortunately the economy has made business slow for the massages. I miss all my wonderful clients that I see less frequently, and even more so, the ones I haven't seen in a while!

So since I last blogged we had Halloween in Tucson with my sister, Travis is a full fledged crawler, Julie is not as much of a bully (but that doesn't mean she's an angel by any stretch of the imagination), Raul is running scared at all these mobile children. Travis eats anything that will fit in his mouth, Heidi has created a list for Santa that is fit for a teenager. I have made my family pajamas to get Christmas pictures taken in. I have been making puppets, for fun, but if the collection continues to grow, they may take over the house. I got word that one of my friends from way back when is getting married, how exciting is that??? But on a sadder note, another friend has been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma, so please pray for her.

I think that is a basic update. I will try to remember to post once and a while!

The Election

Ok, so I am beginning to hate both choices. I liked McCain/Palin for a long time, Obama is too damn socialist for my liking, but now McCain is too. So I have my own theory. Obviously our country has some moral issues. I have discussed this with a few of you, but if you haven't heard, stick with me here.

I am voting for Mickey Mouse as he is the best known mascot for Disneyland "The Happiest Place on Earth." Then I think we should change United States of America to Disney America. My reasons:
1. People don't steal at Disneyland. I have been there a ton of times, and even with strollers you can leave stuff under the stroller and people don't touch it. Where I live if it's not bolted down people think "finders keepers" yet it wasn't a lost item.
2. People are having too good of a time to kill anyone else
3. The economy would improve as Disney employs a ton of people.
4. Who doesn't love Disney? Disney is loved around the world, and it would improve other countries views of America.
5. As the world loves Disney, again improving the economy, we will see more tourists traveling the country.
6. There is an underground world that hides all the behind the scenes and negative stuff, so we can focus on the positive and making things better.
7. There are fireworks everynight (I'm kind of a kid and love my fireworks)

I know I had a few more reasons but I will have to edit them in when I am more awake!

Growing too fast

Holy cow! Travis almost army crawled off my bed today! Ok so it was a modified army crawl; he pushes up with his feet tucked under his tummy and then thrusts forward till his little arms are under him. Then he pushes back up and repeats. Can someone tell him that he is only four months and he needs to slow down!!! If he is going to be my last he needs to take things a little slower!

OOPS

Wow, I haven't posted in a while! That is exactly why I didn't think I could do this! So I have been utterly obsessed with the Olympics and life is just getting in the way of it ;). Beyond that I have some awesome news... I finally (after over a year of searching) bought a minivan. It is a 2006 with low miles and VERY clean. I LOVE IT. My babies have air blowing on them to keep them cool so I am happy. When I told my dad I had great news he asked if I was pregnant... how exactly would that have been good news???? I have two kids under two, does it sound like more fun to have three under three? ha ha.

Even better news, I took Travis to the doctor and he is still perfectly healthy and HUGE. He is four months and weighs 16.5 pounds and is 26 inches long. This is my first real sized baby! The girls were still miniatures at this point. Heck Heidi was just over this at her first birthday! But then again he has been my healthiest, so I will go with it! Oh, and since he was losing his newborn hair we shaved his head yesterday, leaving just enough for a mohawk :)
In the last few weeks I have been doing TONS of crafts including making sock monkeys and tote bags and wipes, knitting scarves and whatever else I can think of. My goal this year is to do a home-made Christmas, but with all items people want or need. It would be so much easier to just give everyone easy stuff, like a pillowcase :)

Heidi started school again. 2nd grade already, she is loving her class, and for the first time I am happier with her school. I am very involved on the PTO again this year and am starting the year feeling burned out, but I hope momentum will build soon. If anyone wants to save their box tops from their general mills products you are more than welcome to send them to us to support our school.

A funny story... A little over a week ago we had Travis doing tummy time and all of the sudden Julie decides she can ride on him. We got her off of him, but then she got back on, and I decided I had to have a picture. It was so funny. Thankfully she hasn't done it again.

OMG On Monday I Forgot to Mention

I can't believe I forgot to tell the best story about the weekend. So I brought my dad home from the airport on Friday, and hadn't mopped the floors yet. Well I gave Julie a small cup of KIX cereal so she could eat it as she walked around the house. She decides to dump them on the dirty kitchen floor and eat like a dog, picking the cereal up with her mouth. YUCK. So then I decide to sweep them up and got a few in the dust pan and kept sweeping. BUT when I went to put the next few in the dustpan I saw my crazy girl eating like a dog FROM THE DUSTPAN!!!! YUCK! OMG I wanted to barf, but settled for laughing hysterically. From this my dad decided I never feed my kid ha ha.

This week has been boring and I'm not sure what else to talk about. I almost forgot. Good news the market was up today and yesterday!!! Maybe I can make some money soon!

It's Monday

My goodness, this weekend was crazy. So my dad came to town to surprise my brother and that all went real well. Saturday night we went to this great Greek restaurant and had dinner and some entertainment. Poor Raul is not into Greek food and he took the night off to go, so on our way home we got him his favorite gourmet meal at McDonalds. The restaurant was very cool, other than the fact that it was incredibly LOUD. The place was pretty small and there was a live band and of course a dance floor. Towards the end of dinner a belly dancer came out and was dancing, she did a good job; however, she startled me. She was singling people out and dancing around them for tips and stuff, then she clanks her hand cymbals on either side of my head (I hate loud noises right at my head) so I look to the left and I see a whole lot of boob in my face and turned my head back and couldn't stop laughing, I laughed so hard I was crying. Then she went up to my brother (who is recently bald by choice) and rubbed his head for good luck, but he wasn't enjoying her belly dancing and wasn't thrilled. Poor dancer didn't get any tips from our table. We left before they did that big Greek circle dance, but we did see some people break plates. $2.00 to break a plate, they have not met my family, we break plates at home for free (well free until we have to replace the set.) lol. It was a really nice time.

We had a babysitter for Saturday night. Then yesterday morning Heidi and I got up and made a home made carrot cake and cream cheese frosting from scratch. YUMMY! There is so much left over frosting, and it would be like a sin to throw it away! After making the cake we went to my mom's community pool to go swimming. Julie was swimming between my brother and Raul quite a bit. It was quite impressive, no floaties. Then back to moms to relax and hang out.

My sister and her family had to head back to Tucson last night, something about working and needing to make some money and bills, who knows lol. Boy did we trick her we packed a bag and stowed Heidi away. Vikki thinks it's a good thing for Heidi to come hang out for a week. You know, she is so helpful with the kids. Then I got a call on her way to work this morning...
"HEIDI HAD US ALL UP AT 5:00 AM!!!!!!!!" Well the real story is Axel woke up and needed to go potty and Heidi used her excited voice she uses when Julie needs to go, and that woke Axel all the way up, and then Vik couldn't go back to sleep either.

Right now other than Raul yelling at Julie for tearing apart the kitchen, our house is pretty quiet. Time to go clean something!!!

Mouse