Nature Lovers

So this weekend the weather decided to be about 105 on Sat. and Sunday! Lets just say houses here do not come equipped with AC and boy was it miserable. We had to escape it somehow so on Sat. we drove up the mountain and to one of the many lakes up there. It was called Todd Lake and it felt like we were millions of miles away from home when really, it was more like 20 miles. The lake sat in the middle of the "forest" and it was crystal clear. You could see clear out into the middle of it. My first thought was the water was going to be freezing, after all, we were up in the mountains. In all reality, the water was perfect. It was pretty shallow to about 15 feet out and sandy so Journee was able to run around and we didnt have to worry about her. She absolutely loved it!! Its amazing how different my child is when she id out and about in the wildnerness. She is already an Oregonian! Here are some pics:
















Sometime recently my daughter decided she is able to tell us what she wants and that she wants it now. I believe I am starting to get payback right about now. She knows what color sucker she wants. If you try to hand her any other color but blue she says "no thank you, i dont like that sucker". Orrrr here favorite song right now is Alicia Keys, Noone. Every time we are by the computer she goes "Licia Keys mommy" and when the song is over and the next one plays she says "No thank, I dont like this song" She is very demanding and at times hard to handle. But at the end of the day, it is this that still makes my heart melt and all the anger and frustration go away
And no, we do not put her to bed with no clothes on....the girl just likes to be nude and pulls everything off before falling asleep. Notice the lovely big wet circle next to her. She def. doesnt make things easy! I cant believe she is almost 2 years old, wow.....we have made it 2 years!! Hard to believe.

Other than all these fun pictures there isnt much else to report on. Possiby a camping trip this weekend?????

x0x0x Steph

Stay Tuned....

I have some new pics to post....which I will do after lunch. I cant work on an empty stomach.... :0)

Boring Shmoring.....

So I know its been a little bit since I have blogged and normally I am pretty good at the upkeep but I must say, there hasnt been much going on since vacation. We are just trying to play catch up and keep things on the low for a little bit. Boring, I know. This weekend is the annual Brew Fest here and I sadly will not be attending, but Ryan is going to go with our neighbor. So hopefully there wil be some pics to follow. The weather man says its going to be triple digits this weekend......first time since we have been here. Sounds like there might be some floatage of the river going on! Anyways, as soon as I have some exciting stuff to blog about and some new pics, you can bet it will be up. x0x0x

Back In Business....

Well I dont even know where to begin! We had an enjoyable 10 day vacation mixed in with some stressfull times. Im sure everyone heard already but our first day there Journee had a febural seizure. It was prob. hands down the scariest encounter yet with her. It was caused because her fever rose so high so quickly it put her in a seizure state. I guess since she has had one she is likely to get them again when she has high fevers. They dont cause any brain damage or blindness like normal seizures do. So I guess we will do whatever we can to prevent fevers. ha, yah right! So that is how we spent our first day on vacation: In the lovely Lake Havasu City Hospital! After all of that was put behind us we spent lots and lots of time at the beach or in a pool or indoors. It was too hott for Journee to do anything else besides that. We were very lucky to have a short visit with Grandma and Uncle Rob.

Grandpa came down and rented a pontoon boat for the day. Whats going to LHC if you cant go out on the lake for a day. This is when we had our next bit of Drama. We stopped to get breakfast and Journee, Cyd and myself went in to the restaurant. I put Journee down to walk around and she immediately took off running, tripped over her flip flop and went head first into the leg of a chair. There was no nail or anything sharp coming out of it but the way she knocked it was just right to crack her forehead open. She prob. could have used a stitch or two but because of everything she went through at the hospital, we decided she would be OK without them. And it is healing just fine.

Ryan and I were able to spend lots of much needed time with friends, we got to hang with our cousin, karaoke, see Ari, go out away from our kid for a little bit, and got to eat at some of our fav. places! Now onto the pics, which I am sure is what everyone wants to see. I have a million pictures but that would take days to upload so here are some of my favs:
















Going back to visit def. made me happy that Arizona is a place I go to visit. I am very thankful I am able to raise my child in a place where we can actually do things outside. If it is too hott in town we are only a short drive from the mountains. I will say though is was a bitter sweet goodbye leaving this time knowing the next time I go there to visit the only family left will be Cyd and I will not be staying at the house I grew up in. Its always hard to let go of those things. It looks like I will be moving my mom up here the end of October. Grandma and Grandpa are heading to New Jerey the end of September. With all of these things and more going on this year, I have decided to join school next fall. The timing seems like it will be much better and less stressfull. I will have moved my mom here already, and we will be moved into a new house. I am however, still going to take a math class prior to the dental assistant class to help my chances of getting in. Well I guess that is about it for now. Until next time x0x0

Back from vacation

So I know alot of you are anxiously awaiting a new post about our vacation and some pics. I promise I will get to it soon. There is so much that has gone on in the past couple weeks I dont know where to begin. Today is my first day back at work so hopefully tomorrow or the next day I will be able to take some time on here. x0x0