New Year

Happy New Year Everyone!

I don't ever get to spend the new year with my kids, sucks but that is our life now. They go every 12/26 to their father's until the day before school starts. Really makes my new years celebrations lackluster, knowing that I don't ever get to spend it with the ones that I love the most. I am so ready for this year to be over with and the new one to start. 2010 has been OK, but I am praying that God does a mighty work in my family in 2011. I am praying that my husband gets over his alcohol addiction and really saved, that my kids really get on fire for Jesus and that I get filled with the Holy Spirit. Those are my new years resolutions. It's gonna me an amazing year!!!

Christmas

We had a really wonderful Christmas. It started off Christmas Eve with us going to a candle light singing at Grace (Greg and Kelli's church) with Michael's entire family. It was an awful night, cold, rainy and windy but there were so many people there that we had to sit in the foyer. It was beautiful and a wonderful way to start out a celebration of Jesus's birthday. Once we left there we went back to Kelli and Greg's for present time! The kids were wild and crazy and got lots of stuff, except for Kam who Kelli forget to give a present to. After that is was on to Nana and Poppy's for more presents! The kids got more stuff and I got a new comforter set! Yay me!! well actually it was for me and Michael but let's be honest, does he really care? Nope, not at all. Finished there and went on home. Now, let me be the first to say, I love to sleep. I have to get my 8 hrs every night or I am a grumpy bear. Christmas is a trying time for me every year cause I have to stay up late and get up early and go go go from the time I wake up. Went to bed probably around 1:30 and was up again at 730 on my own. No kids came in waking me up or anything...hmm what is wrong with this picture. Got up, walked into the living room and saw all 3 of my precious babies sleeping on the floor. So, I woke them up. Kam did NOT want to get up, I told her "Santa brought you a bike" she said, "I know, I will get up later" but I kept on and finally got her up. Taylor and Colton popped up as soon as I went in there, ready to go. We opened presents, kam was more excited that Santa had eaten the cookies than anything else I think. So, thankfully, we had a great Christmas. I am glad it is over with and ready for the new year!

Pictures

Kamdyn Raye

Wow today is my baby's 4th birthday. Does not seem that long ago that she was a newborn and I was starting over with a baby in the house.

Kam was due on 12/6 but of course being Kam she had other plans and did not come like I thought she would. Which would be early. She was my 3rd and the other 2 were early. So I just assumed that she would be here late November/early December, well Kam had other plans. On the Monday before I was due I went to the doctor for my 40 week check up. I was getting nervous because the kids were leaving for Christmas with their Dad on the 16th and I wanted them to be here when she was born. So I asked Dr. Carl if she could induce me. I just did not want to take any chances at all with the kids not being there...and you can believe that my ex and his wife would not have been flexible at all.

So we set a date of 12/7/2006. Michael and I got up and got dressed that morning early around 4:30am. Taylor spent the night with Stacy (M's sister) and Colton stayed with my grandparents. We got dressed and met my mom and his mom and dad at McDonald's in Lindale to caravan to the hospital. We did not think anyone should have to come to the hospital with us that early but what can you say to your parents who want to be there with you the entire time?
We had to be at the hospital at 6:30 to register...we were late did not get there until about 6:45am. We got all registered and up to our room at about 7-7:15. The aide that was there started my IV and got me all ready for the nurse. She came in about 7:30 and had to ask me all kids of questions and get everything ready. She started my Pit (pitocin) about 8am and Dr. Carl came in at 8:15 to check me and break my water. Michael started crying when she did, I think it really hit him that we were going to have a baby when she did that.

I was about a 3 when she broke my water and knew that I definitely wanted an epidural but had to wait until I was a 4 to get one. So I figured that I was going to have at least an hour or so to labor until I had relief. Man it was intense, I had never had pit before so I did not know what to expect. I felt like it was the end of labor (how hard and fast it was) but it was only the beginning. About 9:45 I had all that I could take and asked the nurse to check me to see if I could have the epidural. She did and I was 5, and I was soooo glad. The anesthesiologist took forever to get in, I don't know how long it was (time had really lost all meaning to me at that point) but he got in there probably around 10 and had my epidural in and ready to go by about 10:15am. During all this time, everyone had gotten there. Taylor, Colton and all our family. They were in and out during my labor. Once I got my epidural I had her check me again because I was feeling a lot of pressure. Sure enough I was at an 8. So she called the doctor to let her know my progress. Dr. Carl got there about 20 minutes later and checked me again and I was ready to push. We got all set up and I started pushing. When Colton was born I pooped all over the table while I was pushing, so I was a little hesitant about really pushing and Michael being right there watching. But I was able to overcome that quickly cause she was ready to come on out and it hurt like heck. I pushed 3 or 4 times and she was here at 10:52am. It was one of the 3 best days of my life.

Getting on with Life

So much happens right now, at this time of the year, I don't even have time to stop and read the blogs :(

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, ate too much and visited with family too little. I was able to be off the day after but no shopping for me. I just chilled with the kids.

The weekend after Thanksgiving Taylor and I went to Converge a Youth conference in Dallas - totally awesome! We had a wonderful time and got to have our last service in Cowboy's Stadium. Pretty freakin great.

This past weekend we had Kam's birthday party at Chuck e Cheese's. It was fun, she really had a blast and kept telling me that "this was the best party ever!!" We went to a baby shower immediately afterwards, my cousin's wife's. Saturday night I had all the kids, Payton, Keaton, Savannah, Taylor, Colton and Kamdyn...so we stayed home and watched eclipse. Saturday Taylor went to All Region tryouts and made the concert band, which is totally cool. She got 6th chair in the Concert band and 24th overall out of 135.

Sunday we went to church and then had the kids pictures done. Man that was a whoopin! It was cold, the kids were tired (stayed up with their cousins all night) and man were they whiny! Well to be honest Taylor was great, she posed, never complained and did everything we asked her to. Colton complained the whole time, and Kam just did not do anything that we asked or she gave this awful fake smile. The one where her eyes are real big and her lips are curled back...yeah it looks as bad as it sounds. But we did it and I think some of them are going to turn out ok.

So now on to the week, Tomorrow my baby turns 4, there is something about that number that makes her not a toddler anymore but now a big kid. It is very sad but also exciting at the same time. I love her little personality but miss her being little. She is still very much a mommy's girl and loves me completely but soon, just like Taylor and Colton, it will be different :(

Happy Thanksgiving!

I have so much to be thankful for in my life.

God - He loves me no matter what and forgives me no matter what I do. My saviour, my comforter

Michael - God has blessed me with a wonderful man, who not only loves me but loves my kids.

Taylor - my sweet and wonderful first born. She is so sweet and loving, helps me out with anything I ask her to and is the kindest kid ever.

Colton - my blue eyed boy. Colton is such a lover, he always has to have a kiss and a hug before he goes to bed. If he loves you, you know it with all of the affection he gives you.

Kamdyn - my hurricane! I have never met a kid who was more fun than her. She will keep you laughing constantly! She is so fun to be around.

My parents - Daddy -I am thankful to have gotten 21 yrs with my dad. He was not supposed to live very long in his life and I got 21 yrs of him being my daddy.
My mom - my very best friend who I love so much. She is the most wonderful person I have ever met and I strive to be like her. She absolutely is my hero
Poppy - even though he is not my daddy he is my dad. He is always there for me and can always make me feel better with a prayer.

My brother and Sister - I may not talk to them every day but I can guarantee they always have my back and would fight to the death for me or my kids.

Really the list is never ending but those are the things I am most thankful for this year!

Fun Friday

I am so glad it's Friday!!! Tonight I am going to take Kamdyn and Presli to see Megamind at the theatre. Both little girls are beyond excited. Which is the cutest thing to see. Taylor is going to a sleep over at one of her friends houses, Colton is going on a Royal Ranger campout and Michael is at the deer lease...AWESOME!!!! That means it will be just me and Kam tomorrow.

Tomorrow night I am going out with some football mom's so Kam and Taylor will spend the night with Maurney while I go out and have some fun. Sunday I am going to help mom at the gun show in Canton selling Scentsy. Will be so cool, I am hoping to see a few of my burners that I have, maybe make a little bit of mula.

So there is my weekend, pretty dang busy but going to be fun filled.... hope everyone else's weekend is just as great!!

2010 Super Bowl Champs!

Colton's football team won the Super Bowl on Saturday! It was a tough game. They won 12-6 in over time. Colton played hard and had lots of fun.

This season was interesting, a lot has been going on. Sometimes I think that the 5th and 6th grade football team mom's are a lot like high school girls. Petty, vicious and vindictive. It is really weird, aren't we all there for our boys to play and win? There is on mother on our team who I really don't like, she is a bee-otch. I am pretty low key, I keep to myself, I don't start stuff, so why does she insist on putting a bug in the coach's ears so that my son does not get to play. Think I'm kidding? Colton played an awesome game a couple of weeks ago. He played on defense and did very well, he was on special teams and on both of the kick off returns caught and ran the ball. The second return he had a 20 yard run. That is really good for a first time ball carry. I posted on FB about how proud I was of him and how great he did. She posted on FB at how the boys did not play worth a flip and for them to step it up. My son did not play again for any of the season except for his 6 plays per game. Really doesn't make sense does it but thankfully, this will probably be Colt's last year in pee-wee football. I don't think he will play next year and then in 7th grade he goes to Junior high. After the game we went to another kids house for an after party for the boys. It was a 6th grade party but Colt got to go since Michael helped coach his team. We had a good time and I did not let this other mother (who was there) get to me. I am done with this nonsense. Life is to short to deal with idiots. I don't want to be her friend, nor do I want take away her friends. It's funny to me how some people feel threatened by others. Oh well.

I am so proud of you Colton! I hope you had a wonderful season and lots of fun!!!

Boring

Well not much is going on in out lives....which is a good thing. I like to live a drama free life.

Colton's football team is going to the Superbowl on Saturday. They are so excited and have played awesome this year. Colton has been having some troubles with his feet so he is not playing as good as he did last year but he still does well. He got to run the ball for about 20 yards a few weeks ago in the game on a kickoff return. He loved it and did very well. I held my breath the whole time hoping he would not fumble or something, and he didn't. He dodged and ran, all the boys were saying how Colton was juking on the field. :)

Taylor is doing all region in band. She is pretty good but would be so much better if she would practice more and put more into it. I really want her to excel. Her grades are good but she really needs that one thing that she loves to do that will keep her busy. This year she has expressed a lot of interest in cheer leading so we are going to try to get her in a cheer class at the local gymnastics studio. Maybe that will be her thing.

Kamdyn's birthday is coming up. She gets funnier and funnier as she gets older. This year we are going out and having her party at Chuck-e-cheese. She has been asking forever to go and I figured that would be an awesome place for her to party. She is so stinking smart she has caught on to my game in the car. She chatters CONSTANTLY, and I just nod and say uh huh through out our ride home. Now she will say Momma are you listening to me???? when I do that. Smart little cookie that one.

So that is all that is going on in the Bergbower household. I still really love my job, got a raise my first week. I really enjoy running the office, makes me feel like a mother hen. Hope it stays that way!

New Job

I started my new job on Monday and I really think I am going to like it. It seems to be the perfect fit for me. I really like the men I am working with, they are all grandfatherly types. As long as I can learn the darn insurance business I will be doing good.

Here is a funny from this weekend. Saturday I had Keaton and Payton and after the football game we went to DQ for lunch. We had all already eaten at the game so I just picked up something for Michael and Colton, but the kids and I got drinks. Keaton was holding his in his lap and told me that holding his Arctic rush like this makes his P-E-N-S cold!

I died laughing, it was too stinking funny!

I'm Done

I'm Done.

I don't think I can do this anymore, I am to tired.

I am ready to quit and I have never been a quitter.

Please God help me!

Krazy Kamdyn

Kamdyn LOVES the cheerleaders at Colton's football games. While they are cheering she is dancing and clapping. So last Saturday she was up clapping and the cheerleaders were yelling "DE-FENCE, DE-FENCE" I started clapping to and told Kamdyn, yell defence. She said no mom that's not what they are saying. I looked at her and said what are they saying?

"SEAT BELTS, SEAT BELTS"

hmmmmmmm

Where did the weekend go?

I think the weekends are getting shorter and shorter. I swear that I get off work on Friday and then turn around and it is Monday again. This weekend was a whirlwind. Friday night we didn't do anything, I was just tired. After work I went to pick up Kam and ended up not leaving Chris and Mandi's until 6pm. I stopped and picked up pizza for dinner. Taylor and Colton both had a friend stay over so we had extra kids. Taylor and I got up early Saturday and went to Old Navy cause they were selling coats for $16 and all my kids needed new coats so off I went. Last time I went to Old Navy when they were having a special there was a line around the building . Not this time. We got there at 7am and there was hardly anyone in there. But it was fine, I stopped and got breakfast for the kids and we came home and ate. We hung around the house until it was time to leave for Colton's game. They won! The other team did get a touchdown which was the first time a team has scored against them this year but that is ok. We still beat them! Go Eagles!!!
Sunday was ok, Michael's family had a softball game but I did not go until later. I am not really a part of their family and plus they had invited a bunch of other people too so I just stayed away. Not really my thing. Oh well. I did go and see my mom, she had surgery on Thursday and still is unable to get around. She seems to be doing ok though. Everyone have a good week!

Taylor

Taylor has always been my good child. She was easy as a baby, never gave me a minute of trouble. She has a very easy going personality, is not strong willed or aggressive like her brother and sister are. Sometimes this is not a good thing, she tends to get left behind so to speak. While the others are fighting for attention she is in her room alone. It bothers me a lot but I also understand how she is. She is just like me. We have the exact same personality. I can relate to her and understand why things hurt her or how she is feeling.
Now today I had a little taste of what my mother went through. We have a rule at the house that she can not wear makeup until she is 13. That is what the rule was when I was growing up. Taylor is a lot prettier than I was at her age. She has beautiful skin, long eyelashes and doesn't need makeup. I understand that she wants to wear it but she is just still to young. I want her to be a kid as long as she can stay innocent. So this morning, she tries to get out of the car quickly at school. I notice that her eye's are really dark, so I asked her..."are you wearing makeup?" She quickly says no and jumps out of the car. I sit there for a second. Roll down the window and say Taylor! She is not that far away, she can hear me. So now I am pissed off. I start really yelling, she is trying to get away without being embarrassed but what she doesn't understand is I am not leaving. She finally acknowledges that I am calling her name and comes back to the car. I again ask her "are you wearing makeup?" She looks away and mumbles yes. Then she says we can talk about it when you get home and walks away. By this time, I am fuming mad. I am ready to get out and really embarrass her but I refrain. The wonderful thing is that I have all day to stew and figure out what kind of punishment she will incur. And man it is going to be good.

Football, Cousins, Scentsy, Canton

Wow this weekend was brutal. I am such a home body. I need at least one day a weekend that I don't do anything, just sit and rejuvenate. That did not happen at all this weekend. Taylor and Kamdyn had Savannah and Presli over to spend the night on Friday. Well let me just say, a 4yr old and a 3 (almost 4)yr old are wild! Those two did not go to bed until 1am and then were up at 8am. I am a sleeper, I have to have 8hrs of sleep. So I was dragging on Saturday. Colton had a football game (they won 24-0 Yay!) and then the little girls, Savannah and I went to Canton to help my mom set up her scentsy booth. My mom and I both sell scentsy. Mom is great at it, me not so much. She has the time and the contacts, I don't. So we set up and came home at 10pm. Everyone was tired by now. Savannah and I got up at 6am to get ready. Mom was picking us up at 7am to get back to Canton to actually sell. We sold and sold and sold! It was actually a great day. Savannah got her hair curled. So cute! We finished up and left Canton by 5pm ate dinner and went home. I was in bed asleep by 8:30pm!!! it was so wonderful. I slept great. Now back to the work grind. I will have the phones again this week from Monday at 8am to Friday at 8am. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it is ok, but all the time it is tiring.

Visitation

My ex husband only gets Taylor and Colton 3-4 times a year. His visitation goes as follows 12/26 to the day before the kids go back to school from Christmas break, spring break, 42 days in the summer and every other Thanksgiving. He sent me a text last month asking if he could get the kids this weekend because it was a 4 day weekend for them. I said of course, I won't ever keep the kids from their father if I can help it. I probably would have even canceled plans with them so that he could see them, because obviously he does not see them enough. I figured he would get them Thursday evening/Friday morning and keep them til Monday. Nope. He is picking them up on Saturday morning. Colton has a game that afternoon at 3:15pm and then football pictures Sunday at 4:30. So the weekend that he gets the kids, I have to see him the whole freaking weekend. Now that he is divorced from his second wife we have a great relationship. He doesn't bother me and I don't bother him. That means peace for all of us. The sad part is that Taylor doesn't want to go. This is the same kid who 2 years ago BEGGED to let me go live with her dad and his wife. Now she is telling me, I don't want to go, can't I just see him at the game? Granted as soon as she sees him she will change her tune. She is really a daddy's girl. But I see the tides shifting. She is wanting to be home more and Colton is way more interested in his dad. He calls him and texts him a lot. Which is good for both of them. Colton needs to know that his dad is available to him at all times and I know it makes his dad feel good. The funny thing is that when Taylor was begging to go I would never let it happen. There is no way. Colton on the other hand, I love that boy more than life itself, enough to understand that he needs his father. I would see what we could work out and let him go I think. Anyway everyone has ditched me for Colton's game tomorrow so I have to go alone. Yikes, I hate having to sit with him cause that is what will end up happening. Kamdyn will be all over him cause he is Taylor and Colton's dad and she doesn't understand the intricacies of a blended family. Taylor and Colton love her daddy and are always with him, why can't it be the same for her?

Weekend Wrap Up

This weekend was way to short. It seems like it flew by. I was planning on this being a slow and lazy weekend, with me not doing anything more than just going to Colton's game on Saturday. It started out with my Mom coming by my work on Friday afternoon and asking me and the kids to ride to Winnsboro with her. I thought that would be ok, but then Taylor had a spa party (aka kids Mary Kay party) so that put a little bit of crimp in our evening. We ended up just going out to eat. I had been on call all weekend so I was tired, and just wanted to go to bed early. I got home and was in bed before 10pm but then Michael was out drinking so I could not sleep. I finally sent him a text at midnight and he rolled in about 45 minutes later. So then I finally was able to rest and go to sleep. Colton's game was late in Lindale so I did not have to get up early but then my sister sent me a text that she needed a babysitter so I just got on up and got in the shower. While I was getting ready for the game Kamdyn broke our TV. It sucked big time. Really sucked. So today I went and put another one on layaway. we will get ours fixed but we need a new one. It is time. Michael bought ours 5 yrs ago so even though it is not old it is not new either.
Colton's game was good. They won 16-0 against the other Lindale 5th and 6th grade team. It was rainy off and on but the sun came out right when he started playing and it was nice the rest of the day. That evening we went over to Tim and Angie's house and played cards. Kam spent the afternoon over at Kelli and Greg's so when she came home she was tired. I probably got another hour out of her then went on home. She and I were sound asleep by the time Michael and the kids came in. I made vegetable soup, it was soooo good. That is all we have ate for the past couple of days.
Colton went out and bought himself a new bike for his birthday. He was so excited about it. Sunday we did nothing. I took the girls to church and bought groceries but other than that not a thing. No TV the kids played outside all day long and I was inside reading. The perfect day.

Ear Piercing Sunday!

Yesterday both my girls got their ear's pierced. This was actually Taylor's 4th time. Poor kid. She has such sensitive ears, they get so badly infected (or her father takes them out to soon) and they end up growing back up. I have been kind of pushing her to get them pierced again, she is getting older and I know in a few years she is going to be wanting to wear cutesy earrings. All of a sudden Saturday she decided that she wanted to get them pierced. So we went to Wal-Mart Sunday after church and got them done. Kamdyn decided that she wanted to get hers done to. In February she said that she wanted to get her ears pierced, we got all the way to where they marked her ears and she changed her mind. So yesterday when she said that she wanted to get them done, I was skeptical. But I did think that if she saw Taylor get them done and see that it was nothing, then she would get them done. She watched Taylor and then all but shoved her out of the chair. She was ready. She jumped up on the bench, pulled her hair back and was ready. They marked her ears and then got the little guns ready. I just knew that once they actually did it, she was going to loose it and freak out. She hates shots! Cries when we go to the dr, just in case she might get a shot. That little girl was AWESOME! They pulled the trigger, she jumped down and said that she was ready to go get her barbie that Nana promised her. Never even flinched. Such a big girl now. So now she has pink earrings, she loves showing off. I love my sweet kiddos, they are so awesome!

Colton had a game on Saturday. They won 39-0. Those boys were on fire.

It's so hard...to say goodbye....to yesterday

Yesterday I went to Taylor's first pep rally. I am not ashamed to say that sitting in those bleachers, I sooo wanted to go back to high school. I even teared up. I was a band nerd, through and through. I am not athletic. Can't play any sport, pretty much don't want to. But I could play the clarinet. I was pretty darn good if I do say so myself. I loved being part of something like the band. In Whitehouse, the band was it. Our football team sucked, but the band....we ROCKED!

I can remember the excitement of the football game, of marching on the field. Watching Taylor starting all that, I really can't describe how I feel. I understand the mothers who live vicariously through their kids. I wanted to walk over there where the band was sitting and be a part of that again. I took Kam with me to the pep rally and she hated it. She hates loud noises and pep rally's are loud. They are supposed to be :) She cried, put her hands over her ears and finally went to sleep.

In going to the rally it made me think. I hope that Taylor and Colton thoroughly enjoy their school years. Once you get out, nothing ever compares to it again. I did not have an exceptionally great high school career. I wasn't popular, but I did have great friends and had a wonderful time in school. I would not trade any of it (well except I would try to do better grade wise) I had an absolute blast.

Ok so nostalgia is over. I can go back to being a grown up and working now *ugh*

Weekend Wrap Up

We started the weekend off with a family reunion. If you know my family then you know that we have a family reunion with one side of the family every month. Probably every week but I don't make it to all of those. Saturday's was with my late papaw's family, so it was very nostalgic to see all his look alike brother's there. Makes me miss him more. Kamdyn got to see Eli and Levi who she loves! So we did family reunion in the morning and then in the afternoon.....FOOTBALL!!!! We love football at our house. Especially our little eagle #66. Colton had a game that was supposed to start at 5:45 Saturday evening in Brownsboro. We had to be there at 5. Games were running late so the game before his, did not start until 5:45. Needless to say, we did not get finished playing until 7:45ish and did not get home until 9pm. So poor Kam was a hot mess by the time Colton's actual game started. I am not sure that I am going to be taking her to all of his games. She is just getting to hard to handle sometimes and since Michael is helping on the field, I am doing it all by myself. Colton's team won 19-0 or 13-0 we are not sure. There was a late TD made but they said it was called back but the score board never reflected it. But either way, a win is a win and we were soooo proud of our boyz!


Sunday we had a joint party for Colton and Keaton. Colton's birthday is 8/18 and Keaton's is 9/13. They love doing the joint birthday so we had everyone at our house yesterday for lunch and Cake. They had a blast and it was fun.

All in all we had a really great and busy weekend. Hope everyone else did too!!!

Wits End

So today I am at my wits end. I might be crazy at the end of this week, who knows. We got Kam a new bed (anything to get this child to sleep) and thought that she would love to sleep in her new bed! NOPE. Not Kamdyn.

Monday we put her bed together, got her room all set up and cute, hyped up sleeping in the new bed all day. So 9pm rolls around, I put everyone in bed, kiss everyone good night and go back to the living room. Here come Kamdyn, "Mom, I need to ask you a fuestion" I ignore her. Super Nanny says to just calmly walk them back to bed, don't make eye contact, just put them to bed. So that is what I did. 2 minutes later, here come Kamdyn. MOM I NEED TO ASK YOU A FUESTION! I put her back to bed. MOM I JUST NEED TO ASK YOU A FUESTION!!! so I give in and say what? She goes into some long drawn out conversation about Rex. So I lose it. I spanked her and put her back to bed. She is up again in 5 minutes but this time she is behind the couch hiding. I look behind the couch and tell her that if she does not get in her bed right now she is going to get another spanking. Needless to say, she got beat and finally was asleep by 11pm.

Tuesday night, I start at 8:30 and this time I go lay with her. We lay there for about 30 minutes and she tells me, I don't want you in my bed. Go to your own bed. I get up and tell her that is fine, she can lay here and talk to herself, play I don't care. She just has to stay in her bed. She doesn't. I am trying really hard not to spank her or have another night where it ends in a fight. So I get Taylor and she gets in the bed with Kam. About 9:30 I am tired, been a long day and I was up late the night before so I go to bed. 15 minutes after I get in the bed, I feel the bed shaking and here a loud thump from under my bed. I turn on the light and yell at Kamdyn to get out from under my bed and go to sleep. She leaves crying and goes back to the back of the house. After about 15 minutes I get up to check on her and look in her bed, no one there but Taylor, then look in Colton's room. There she is sound asleep. Why does this child not want to sleep in her own bed? Who knows but at least she was in bed 1hr earlier. Tonight will be bad because she will go to church with mom and not get home until 8:30. Lord grant me the patience to deal with this willful child, otherwise something has to give.

Settled Down

Things have settled down here. Which is a very good thing because I can't take to much drama. I still don't like my job, my bosses or anything about this place but I come here every day and do my job to the best of my ability. I have never blogged about my job because the internet is not safe, my computer here is not safe (yes I am blogging on work time) I hate to put anything out there that could cost me my job or make things worse for me. For instance, my boss R goes through my trash to see what I have been eating, doing and whatever else you can deduce from the trash. Gross right? How do I know this? The other day he called me about lunch and asked me what time I was going. I said it doesn't matter I usually bring my lunch so I will just run errands while I am out. He said, oh I saw fast food bags in the trash. Now tell me, why would he say something like that? I do bring my lunch almost every day but I also will stop on the way to work and pick something up for breakfast. What kind of freak is he? ugh the worst kind. Another instance of his craziness...one of our former co-worker's mom died. In lieu of flowers they asked for a donation to be made to a local charity. He said that they were going to give a donation and asked if I would pick up a card. He also said that I could go in with them on the donation. I never said yes or no, just that it was a good idea. So I went out and bought the card and left it for him. Yesterday I get a note on my desk that said, I have never received any money for ____ donation. You need to give me an answer or pay $25 for your part. I love this former co-worker and have no problem with doing this for her. I do have a problem with him, but I did it anyway. I wrote the company a check for $20 because it came out of the company's account. Today I get a note asking me to make the check out to him. Sounds really shady to me. Now I am paying him? I have to find another job.

Traumatic Monday

I am so stinking mad this morning!!

Kamdyn has been coming to work with me for the past 3 weeks. Why? because I am here all by myself everyday and to keep my sanity I have been bringing her. It is amazing how nice it is just to have another person in the office with me. She plays well, watches TV and takes a nap. She is just company for me so that I don't get spiral into a depression.

Friday T (my boss) calls and tells me that we are going to have a "visitor" here on Monday and to make sure that I don't bring Kamdyn to work, so I took her to daycare today. She cried, begged and pleaded to come to work with me. She BEGS me to come to work with me. We packed her a bag every day with toys and movies for her to watch while she was here. This morning she grabs her bag as we are walking out the door, I remind her that she has to go to school today, she cries. She tells me that she is not big enough for school yet, she has to come to work with me. I cry. I want her here with me but I have to be the grown up and tell her no, she has to go to school. I hate hurting her like that.
We get to school and since she has not been there in a while there is confusion on how much money we owe to them so I am stuck standing there. I can't even leave her and go (like pulling a band aid off) I have to hold her for 10 minutes while theses idiots take their time. I really did like her day care until today. She is obviously traumatized so I tell them, please just take my money, if I owe you more than that call me. I will bring it by but I have got to go. I don't care at this point that I am late for work or anything. I want to get the leaving over with. Kam is already clinging very tightly to me. So I leave her crying.

What happens when I get to work???? T sends me an email..."oh our meeting with the visitor has been canceled. I will keep you informed on what is going on."

I so want to send that b***h an email telling her exactly what I think of her.

Sad News

Tuesday a baby was left in a hot car all day and died. I can not imagine how that father feels today. I am not blaming or judging because I unlike so many others who are screaming "What kind of Father forgets a baby in the car?!?!" completely understand how easy it is to forget. When Kam was about 6 months old I forgot her in the car. Thankfully I remembered about 10 minutes after I got out of the car but for those 10 minutes, I never once thought about her. I am a good mom, I take care of my kids wonderfully. They are all happy, healthy and loved unconditionally. How could I forget my baby?
Michael always picked Kam up from daycare but on this day I did for one reason or another. She was asleep in her car seat so she was very quiet. I got home and was immediately met by Tiffany (my niece who was watching Taylor, Colton, Payton and Keaton at my house) to tell me something that had happened that day. I was out of the car and in the house trying to access the damage. The house was a wreck, pots and pans filled with food on the table, stuff everywhere. I immediately started picking up. Never once thinking about my sweet baby sleeping in the car. After about 10 minutes one of the kids asked about Kam, and that is when it hit me. I had forgotten her. I will never forget that feeling I had in my stomach realizing that my sweet baby could have died. Thankfully it was not hot out yet and she was only in there for maybe 10 minutes.
So before anyone blames or says it would never happen to you....stop and think because it can.

Thankful!

I have so much in my life to be thankful for. My 3 healthy children, my loving husband, my family (in laws and out laws :)) I have everything in life that I need. I am so thankful that my kids had a wonderful day at school yesterday. They both came home with big smiles and lots of exuberance. I worry a lot about Taylor and being in Junior High. She is so sensitive and not one of those that can shake things off easily. Teenage girls can be so mean and I don't want my little girl to get hurt by them. So far she has emerged unscathed from most of the girl drama that happens in Lindale. For that I am so grateful. I hear other mothers talk about the trials that their daughters are going through with bully's and rumors, it breaks my heart that my sweet and innocent little girl is in that environment. Don't get me wrong, Lindale is a great school but there is drama. Taylor has already had 2 of her closest friends pulled out of school and home schooled because of girl drama. I pray daily that she puts God first and knows that the only thing important in life is what God thinks of her and not other people.
I am thankful that Colton has strong male influence in his life. I remember when he was littel 3 or 4 years old, if a man would show him even the slightest amount of attention, he was star struck. He loved men. His father and I separated when he had just turned 2 so in his life he does not remember his father ever living with him. Sometimes I think that we did such a disservice to our kids. I can't imagine growing up knowing that I have never lived with my father. He goes and visits his dad 3 times a year but that is not enough. God has put some very strong Godly men in his life and he loves them. They love him too, it is amazing when all these grown men come to me at church asking where Colton is and when he is going to be coming home from his dad's. God has done some wonderful things in my life and I am so very THANKFUL TO HIM!!!

First Day of School!

Yay it's the first day of school! Taylor was so excited this morning and ready to go! Colton was nervous. I heard him asking Taylor where he was supposed to go. I think starting at a new campus was a little stressful for him. The whole morning went off without a hitch until after I dropped them both off at school. Taylor called me and was panicked because she forgot her schedule. So me being the good Mom turned around and went back home to get her schedule. When I got back to her school all the kids were in the cafeteria. I asked one of the teachers at the front door how I could get it to her and she said that they didn't even need them today! They were not going to their classes for the first 2 days of school and would just be with their A/P teacher. They would get her a new one no problem.

I was 30 minutes late to work because I was worried about Taylor not having her schedule. This is after I told her last week to get her schedule off the fridge and put it in her notebook. grrr that girl owes me.

Kamdyn was not real happy this morning about getting up and going.

I am so thankful for my 7th grader, 5th grader and my daycare baby. They are all three such joys to be around and have such sweet spirits. I am so blessed!

School Supplies

Why is it that every year I go out and buy school supplies for my child's entire class? Why does a 5th grader need 3 packages of #2 pencils? How many do they think he is going to use over the course of 9 months? I understand that there are some people who can't afford to buy their kids supplies, but there are school supply trains that you can donate to. If they want to keep it confidential so the kids are not embarrassed then there are ways to do it. I can't afford to pay $50 per kid for school supplies along with everything else we have to pay for. This year has not started yet but I already know I will be paying for lunches, $3 per kid for agenda's, $7 per kid for class t-shirts, Colton will need $75 for Rockin C Ranch, Taylor needed $31 for band stuff. None of this even mentions, hair cuts for school, shoes, clothes and Colton's birthday which is always right here when school starts. NOR does it incorporate the cost of flying the kids home from their dad's at the first of August. Wow looking at it, I spend at least $1000 in August just on the kids and school. No wonder we are broke all the time!

Happy Birthday Colton!

10 years ago today I welcomed the most wonderful boy into my life. Happy Birthday to my sweet and loving son, you make my life so much brighter! I love you Colton Garrett!

Since it is Colton's birthday I wanted to tell his birth story -

*both my ex husband and my current husband are named Michael so for this story I will name him x-dh*

I found out I was pregnant December 26, 1999 and due 8/31/2000. My X-DH was based in Baltimore so I just called him and told him that I was pg. We were not really trying but had been separated for 4 months and when we got back together...I ended up pregnant. My pregnancy with Colton was really easy, I was not that sick and did got gain that much weight. I felt good up until the end of July/first of August. We are not good at waiting so in April of 2000 we found out Colt was a boy. We already had Taylor so we were very excited that we were having a boy. My x-dh worked for Southwest Airlines, and our health insurance only covered the cities where there were SWA bases. I had to find an OB in Dallas. I found a great one in Grapevine and was set to deliver at Baylor Grapevine. My labor with Taylor was pretty fast for my first baby so my dr decided to induce me on 8/18/2000. He really did not want me to have to travel 2 hrs to the hospital while in labor. The morning of the 18th we got up at 3 because we had to be at the hospital at 6 for induction. Mom and Stacy went up with us. We got to the hospital, got checked in to the room and all settled about 7. Dr. Rost came in at 7:15am and gave me cervidil to start my labor. Cervidil is usually given at the dr's office to soften your cervix and start labor naturally, but not immediately. I was already 70% effaced and dilated to a 2 so the dr figured this would be enough to get things moving.

He came back through around 7:45am to check me and to break my water. When he came checked me I was about 90% and dilated to a 3 and all the remnants of the pill was gone. I remember being so embarrassed that "I" had disolved that pill completely so quickly! he broke my water and labor started for real then. Colton had a little bit of trouble with his heart rate so they pushed in lots of fluids (3 bags in an hr) and would not let me get off the monitor so I had to use the bed pan....not the most fun thing to have to do!!! It was awful, I couldn't get up, couldn't get an epidural and had to pee constantly. Things progressed along well and about 10:30 I was far enough dilated to get the epidural but the anesthesiologist was in the ER with a major mva. My mom pulled a Shirley McClaine and told the nurses that they better get someone else to my room immediately! Needless to say I had an epidural within 30 minutes. After I got the epidural I felt good, it did not work on one spot of my abdomen so I felt like someone was stabbing me but it was manageable so I was not sweating it. Mom and Stacy decided to go get lunch about 12:15 or so, I was resting and we thought it was going to be another couple of hours because by the time I got my epidural I was only 7. My dr came in at 12:30 to check me and said that I was ready to go, I freaked! He said that I could rest for 15 minutes then I would need to start pushing. I sent my x-dh down to the cafeteria to get my mom. The nurse came in about 12:45 to have me do some practice pushes, I asked for the mirror cause I wanted to see. I saw about a quarter size of Colton's golden brown hair, it was so sweet. I pushed 2x and he was crowning. The nurse ran to get the dr and to get the room set up. 2 funny things happened during delivery, I had a dead leg. Literally. I could not get that leg to cooperate for anything. I was just wildly swinging it trying to get it in the stirrup, finally the dr grabbed it and put it up for me. Secondly Colton's big ol head had sealed up the hole when they broke my water, so after he was born, amniotic fluid shot up on the nurse and dr. The nurse jumped 2 feet in the air I swear. I could hear my x-dh and my sister snickering and that made me start laughing. My dr fussed at me and said for me to stop laughing and push. Colton was born at 1:07pm

He was a big ol boy for being 2 weeks early. He weighed 8lbs 14ozs and was 20 3/4 inches long. Poor guy was bruised all up because he came down the birth canal so quickly but he was gorgeous. He had all this beautiful golden brown hair and this fat sweet face. Taylor was not really interested in him, she was more enamored of the other babies. Not the one that her momma was holding and loving on.

Well that was my big day 10 years ago, one of the 3 best days of my life!

New Week

Here we are in a new week. It's Tuesday. I still have Kam at work with me, I am such a pushover. She cries and I don't have the heart to send her to daycare. She hasn't been to daycare in 13 days, almost 2 weeks. She has spent every day since the kids came home here with me. I love having her here and she is so good, I wish I could keep her with me all the time. Yesterday she went to Judy's house and last night I could not tolerate her. It was weird, if I am with her all day then she does not bother me but if I am not, everything she does gets on my nerves. You would think it would be the opposite. If I didn't spend the day with her then I would be so happy to see her and everything she does just rolls off my back.

We told Colton that he could not quit football last night. He was so upset but I can't stand the thought of letting him quit something. The one rule that we have regarding extracurricular activities is that if you sign up, then you finish.

We have meet the teacher tonight at both the kids schools so that should be lots of fun. I hate running from one place to the other trying to get everything done. I get stressed out and short with the kids. But thankfully it will be over and done with after tonight. Kids start school on Monday so that part of our lives will start again. I am excited about it, I love getting back into the routine of things.

First Week Back

So we have made it to our first week back together, boy what a week. Last Wednesday night Stacy and I left at 9pm from Terrell and drove 5 hrs to Oklahoma City, OK to pick up Mom and the kids. My poor sweet Momma left Dallas at 7am on Wednesday morning (which means she had to check in at 6am, leave Stacy's house at 5am) She got into Albuquerque about 7am their time and waited to leave for SLC at 11:40am. Barely got on the plane to SLC and made it to pick up the kiddos at 12:40. Taylor and Colton's dad had brought them to the airport so when mom got there they did the exchange and Mom and the kids waited to catch a flight to Phoenix. Well apparently there was a bad lightning storm and all flights were delayed for hours. Mom was supposed to leave at 2:00 but ended up not leaving until 4:40 so she missed all the connecting flights from Phoenix to Dallas. She then re-routed to Oklahoma City so that Stacy and I could drive up there and get them but we did not know if she was going to make that flight or have to go to Houston until 7:40pm. Her flight landed in OKC at 10:30 but since Stacy and I did not know until then where she was actually going to be, we did not make it to OKC until 1:30am. We picked them up and turned around an drove straight back home. The kiddos and I did not make it home until 7:15am on Thursday morning. It was a LONG trip.

Needless to say, I stayed home from work but poor Taylor, she had to leave for church camp at 12:30 until Saturday. She was all hyped up and would not take a nap at all. She did ok though and ended up having a wonderful time at camp. I am so glad that she loves doing stuff like that so much. Colton stayed home with me until Sat night and then he went to spend the night with his bff Corbin. He stayed with him for 2 nights and then came home on Monday. That was such a big mistake. He was tired and cranky and ended up quitting football. I was so pissed off at him. That was $85 down the drain, cause you can't get any of your money back. But it is done and I can't stay mad at him or hold a grudge. He is just not going to get to do anything else for a while since he can't keep his commitment.

So far everyday this week I have brought the kids to work with me, well at least Kamdyn. But I hate to separate them after they have been apart for so long. So far it has gone very well but school starts in a week and a half so that will stop soon.

Tomorrows the day :o)~

Tomorrow is the big day, the day I have been waiting for, for 5 weeks. Taylor and Colton come home!!!!! Yay. I am so ready to have my kids back and everything to be back to normal. Don't get me wrong, it has been nice for them to be gone. Groceries are less, I don't have to worry about them being home all day by themselves making messes and I come home to a clean house. But still I want them home with me. Nothing else matters to me. My poor mom is going to pick them up, she is in for a long day, but then so are the kids. But they don't have to head out until 2, she has to be at the airport at 5am to catch a plane. Yuck. Been there, done that. It sucks. But tomorrow my kids will be on one of these...

on their way back home to their momma ;)

REXY

So for my birthday I went and bought myself a new baby. He is so sweet. His name was Rex but I call him Rexy which Michael thinks is gay. He is 8 weeks old and just the cutest thing ever! He is a mutt but looks just like a Min Pin, I think his mom was a chi/min pin mix and his dad was a datsun, so he is a hodge podge of little dogs. So far he has been pretty good. He is a mean little devil though. Kamdyn loved him with a passion for about a day, then after he got acclimated to our house and started attacking her at every turn, not so much.

Here is the funniest part, Michael. He griped and complained about me getting a puppy but does he look unhappy about having him?

Nooooo, that puppy is already so spoilt it is not funny. Taylor and Colton do not know anything about him so Shhhh! don't tell them. They are in for a huge surprise when they come home in 2 DAYS! Can't wait... I love my kiddos, especially since they have been gone for 5 weeks. That just makes me love them so much more.

Friday Friday

I am so glad it is Friday. don't think I could take another day of being alone. I never really considered myself a social person but after being here alone all day, I crave people interaction. Michael cringes when he sees me because I am all over him, and as a man, he hates it when I come home and want to talk. I think he would prefer going to the dentist and having a root canal.

I brought Kam to work with me today since she has a touch of pink eye again. Her eyes are not bad but they were matted and really pink this morning. Right now they look really blood shot and have goop dried around them. My mom is in Denver so instead of sending her to school I just brought her with me. Not really the best idea, but at least she is someone to talk to during the day. She has actually been really good. Usually they drive me crazy but I guess since it is just me and her, who is she bothering if she drags all her toys out?

6 days to go!

Oh I am so happy!!! My kids come home in 6 days. I am counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds. I am so glad when they leave but by week 2 I am ready for them to come home. Michael, Kamdyn and I have wonderful family time but it's just not complete with out Taylor and Colton. They are the other pieces of my heart and when they are gone, my heart is just not whole. They probably are dreading it, as is their dad. When they come home that means, school, and regular life. No more vacations to Florida or to the beach in California, just regular life that everyone else leads. Taylor will get home and then leave the next day to go to camp for 3 days. She will love it but that means that I will have to bring Colton to work with me every day since I can't leave him home alone all day. It will be fun but he will be bored by 10:30 in the morning of the first day :)

Kamdyn is really missing them to. The other day she told me that she was going to call Taylor and tell her to come home RIGHT NOW! and a different time she told me "next time don't let bubbie go" (to Utah) She misses them so much. I have been trying to be fun mom who plays and sings and does all that exciting stuff but really, I don't hold a candle to those two kiddos.

Saturday is my birthday, oh joy. Can you feel the excitement? It is really weird because I still feel like I am 25. I will look at Taylor who is almost as tall as me and filling out and think how did my baby get so big. It's because I am getting old! oh well age is just a number and you are as young as you feel. I still feel 25 so I guess all is good!

Hugs,
The Bergbowers

Monday Blues...

Boy oh boy am I tired today. I have a serious case of the Monday blues. I did not sleep worth a hoot last night and feel like crap today. Always a great way to start the week. I drank some Four loco's yesterday. 1.5 to be exact and that sh*t put me on my a$$ big time. I won't gross you out with details but yeah, I spent a lot of time in the bathroom. I had Payton and Keaton this weekend again and we had a good time. Saturday night we hung out at the house and just watched TV and movies. I re-arranged the living room and cleaned all day. It was really nice. I love coming home to a spotlessly clean house. It doesn't happen often but while the big kids are gone I can keep up with everything. Speaking of the big kids...they come home in 9 days!!!! Whoo hoo!!!

They are not excited about it but boy Momma sure is. I feel really sorry for them. I understand how badly they miss their dad, and it really sucks that they don't have anyone to talk to about it. I miss my dad and I can go to my mom when I have bad days. They can always come to me but they know that I don't miss their dad so it's just not the same. It has to be hard on them. My resolution for the end of the year is to be a better understanding mother. I will sit with my kids and talk about their dad with them. They need that, I need to be able to go sit with my mom and talk about my dad when I am sad and missing him. The difference is that my dad did not choose to leave, but theirs did. My dad can't come back or call but theirs can and just chooses not to. It breaks my heart sometimes to think of what they are going through.

Kamdyn is doing better. We had the spitting incident last week but she was really having a bad week. She seems to have gotten better though. I think she really misses her bubba and sissy and doesn't know how to handle it. We had Presli over Friday night and Payton and Keaton on Saturday and Sunday so I think she got her fill of kiddos at the house. Thankfully this is the last week she will have to be without them so next week will be wonderful.

Yay Communication!!

I guess Taylor's dad bought her a phone charger (she left hers at home) so I have been able to communicate with at least one of my kids this week. It is awesome. There is nothing like getting a mass text from your 12 year old that says "hey". But at least she is texting her old mama. It means she is bored at her dad's this week, which I have to say makes me a little happy. It's no fun being the boring parent, the one who makes them get up to go to school. I would love to be the fun one who gets to take them to Disneyland and Sea World for the whole time they are with me. Naw actually I wouldn't want to be that parent. I like being able to see my kids, be there for them at sports functions or school functions. In the end that is what they will remember, not just the Disneyland.
Oh well, still riding high on my convo's with Tay!

What a weekend!

Wow, what a weekend!!

Michael and I went to Dallas to hang out, just the 2 of us. We went up Friday night and stayed at the Doubletree in Downtown. It was nice, the best part ...I got to sleep in until 10am on Saturday. I pulled the shades together, turned on my industrial fan and cranked the A/C down to 60 and slept like a freakin log! It was the most awesome experience of my life. Especially as I sit here at work and think about my sleep last night. Kamdyn in the middle waking me up at all hours asking for her "tup" and it being 75 degrees in my bedroom. I had my fan going but there is something about that cold A/C air blown right on to you. You know what I mean, when you get out of the bed and start shivering, even though it is July and 95 degrees outside. So we got up Saturday and just took our time. We went to the Sixth Floor Museum, it is the book depository where JFK was shot from. The history of that day is just amazing. I can't imagine being there or even being alive at that time. It was so shocking and awful. The pictures of Jackie after it happened, made me want to cry. I walked around the museum with tears in my eyes, and the knowledge that we will never know exactly what happened that day.

We walked around West End for a while and tried to go to the Aquarium but the line just to get in was wrapped around the building and we were not waiting for hours in the heat. So we went back to the Hotel to see if we could find a movie theatre close by. The front desk said there was one 10 mins from the hotel so off we went. After driving around for 30 minutes we passed Speed Zone and decided that would be fun. Michael and I raced on go carts, he won, I got lapped by a man and his kid. I am not a competitive driver apparently. If someone came by, I let them pass. Them Michael did the drag racing, needless to say he will never have a career in drag racing. I think he came in last place 2x and 4th place once. Then we went in to play in the arcade. It was fun but admittedly I am not an arcade person. Just not that girl. I did get him to take a cheesy picture with me though....

Later that evening we met up with Bo and Heather at the IMPROV in Arlington to see Aisha Tyler, she was funny just a little too vulgar for me. Every other word out of her mouth was the F word. I am just not a big F word person, and crazily enough my husband, who by the way thinks F is a verb, adjective and noun was a little put off by her language. He said that an attractive woman dropping F bombs makes them a lot less attractive. She was funny though.

Sunday we got up and just came home. All in all the weekend was good we had a really good time. Can't wait to do it again. We got to Michael's sister's house to get Kam and she has pink eye in both eyes. Yay! I got to hold her down 2x on Sunday to put medicine in her eyes. The last time she just told me that she likes her eyes pink and wants to leave them like they are. Poor baby! She gets to stay with Nana today since she can't go to school with pink eye, so she was not too terribly upset about being "sick".

The Blahs...

I think I have a really bad case of the blahs. I sit in this office all day long ALONE, not a single soul to speak to. It has really started to get to me. I feel like I'm in solitary in jail. It spills over into my home life too, I can't seem to shake the blahs even once I leave here. I need to find another job or something has to give.

Pray for me today, I am going to the dermatologist. I have a spot on my right eyebrow that has been there since 2006. It started as a scaly patch that would come off when I had my eyebrows waxed. It would grow back within days so I knew it was something that was not good. I noticed this weekend that it has started getting bigger. It now looks like a mole. I don't think that it is a good thing when stuff starts to grow on your face. So I am off to the dermo in about 20 minutes to see what it is. Hopefully the dr will say it's nothing and freeze it off or something.

Tomorrow night after work Michael and I are going to Dallas for the weekend. I'm so ready for this. We have NEVER spent the night alone out of town before. I think this will be a really wonderful thing for our marriage. Might put a little bit of the ole' spark back in it. We have really fallen prey to the hum drums of being married with 3 kids. It really scares me because we did not have the best beginnings. We love each other yeah but are we friends? That is not something I can answer honestly with a yes right now. So this weekend will be our test. I went on price line and got us a great deal for a hotel room for 2 nights. $150 bucks at Doubletree in Dallas for BOTH nights. How great is that??? We are meeting Bo and Heather Saturday night and going to the Improv at Addison to watch Jon Lovitz. I've never seen any of his comedy routines so I have no idea what to expect. Hopefully it will be good and really funny. I am ready to have a good time.

Everyone be safe and have a wonderful weekend!
TTYL

The Bergbowers!

Kamdyn Said WHAT???

This is to funny I just had to share it!

Last night we came home from Michael's nephew Brayden's baseball game at about 8pm. Kamdyn wanted to watch Bolt and Michael said no, just to pick at her. She starts the dramatics, crying, wailing and then says" I just can't take it anymore, my life is over!" Now she is 3, how does a 3 year old come up with something like this? Too stinking funny!!

Clean House = tired Momma

I cleaned and cleaned this weekend but I am very proud to announce that Taylor, Colton and Kamdyn's rooms are all clean. And I mean SPOTLESS!!! I got up Saturday morning with one goal, clean those rooms and I did. I bet I threw away 8 bags of trash just from Taylor's room alone. She will probably be a little p'oed when she gets home but oh well. If you walk to the back of my house it does not look like a tornado hit that part. Taylor's was by far the worst of the 3 and it took me about 4 hours just to clean her room. I re-arranged her room (she will change it as soon as she gets home) but for now, it's exactly how I want it. (Heehee) I bought her and Colton new blinds and valances for their rooms. I still need to get her a mirror for her dresser. I really want one that hangs on the wall and it iron. I really think that would go great in her room.

Colton still needs a comforter for the bottom bunk. I started looking for one at Wal-Mart but just could not find one that I loved so I am going to Target next. The valances that I bought him were blue so I am trying to get something that will coordinate with that. I wanted Michael to build him a shelf but he went to Lowe's for lumber and came back with a utility shelf. It will be broke before them come back. I've already caught Kam trying to get stuff off the top of it.

Kamdyn's room was just messy. She loves to play in her room but has to dump everything out in a huge pile. I'm not sure why but that is how she loves to play. Sunday was Michael's sister's birthday so we went to her house to swim and eat. Michael has a really great family and I really love spending time with them. I'm really lucky. I don't know many in laws that really enjoy spending time with each other and we really do.

Kam fell asleep on the way home of course and Michael put her in bed clothes and all. She got up this morning and was so tickled that she slept in her clothes. She really cracks me up sometimes.

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Hump Day!

Wow what a busy weekend! Friday night was wonderful, just me and Kam. Michael went to the deer lease and spent the night (which Kamdyn calls the deer woot woot) Kam and I had a wonderful night and got to sleep in. Saturday night we went to a dinner at the church. Poppy (my step-dad) had all of his brother's and sister's in for the 4th so they catered a dinner at the church for the family. It was delicious and I ate and ate and ate! After the dinner my sister and I took her kids to see Eclipse at the drive in. It was really good, I liked it so much more than New Moon. Sunday was the 4th so we went to church and then had a huge BBQ at my mom's house. We do it every year and it just seems to grow and grow.

Kamdyn ran non stop for 6hrs. She swam, played with Presli and ran for hours. Mom and Poppy probably had over 100 people there for the BBQ. They had cotton candy machines, a huge smoker and homemade ice cream. So Yummy!

Here is Kamdyn playing with sparklers

This is her at the end of the night. She was plum tuckered out!

We had a really great time. I was off work on Monday so that was my relaxing day. I went to mom's to help her clean up and just to hang out. Tuesday was back to work as usual :(

Tonight Michael and I are doing steaks for dinner since Kamdyn will go to church with Mom. Maybe I should blog only about eating, cause that's all I talk about!

((Hugs))

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