Cost of Gas

We recently sold hubby's truck. We did this for a few reasons, we needed the cash and with the cost of gas going up we are going to try and see how well we can live off of one car - at least for the summer. His truck was very old and we could have sold mine but his is a stick shift and I don't know how to drive a stick shift. So with only one car this is going to force me to ride my bike to work and from work every day instead of when I feel like it. Of course we started this week off on Monday with a big snowstorm (luckily it stopped around mid-morning and dried up) and then yesterday Joe and Mikayla had to go to Grand Junction for an eye appointment and I had to deal with Lily by myself and the weather was not nice enough to push her in the stroller so I had to get a couple of rides to make these work.

What are you doing or planning on doing to not use as much gas this summer?

Not Blogging

I have been very busy with work, two little ones, company and what not - so I have not had time to blog except after 9pm when both kids are in bed and normally I am too tired that all I do is pump and go to bed. Joe and I don't have much time for each other because I am so tired in the evenings.

I am getting caught up on blogging tonight. Even though I am doing multiple blog entries tonight the ones below are re-dated to reflect when I should have done them - that way they will make more sense - at least to me.

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day we went to a local restaurant called Garlic Mikes for brunch. I figured it was a good reason to put a skirt on. Mikayla and I are sitting next to the river which is right outside the restaurant. We even saw a beaver swim by.

The whole family.

Here are the grandparents.

Mikayla is 3

Mikayla turned 3 on May 7th and all I have to say is where did the last 3 years go. It seems like yesterday she was a baby.

Grandma and Grandpa (Joe's parents) came in on Wednesday to help her celebrate her birthday. There present was the trampoline and it was a huge hit. On Saturday we had a birthday party and invited all of her friends.

They had plenty to do, we planted seeds in pots for them to take home and grow either flowers or herbs. Then it was time to hit the trampoline.

After that is was time to play in the sandbox.

Mikayla's daycare provider, Eric, was there and he made baloon animals and a crown for Mikayla to wear.

Cake Time!!

After opening presents they sat on her bed while I read a new book she received. That lasted less than 5 minutes!

Overall she had a great time and I think the party was a huge success.

Cute Pictures of My Girls

These are just some cute pictures of the girls. Lily is 3 months and Mikayla will be turning 3 in just a few days.

Tummey time when wrong!! Instead of working her muscles she took a short nap.

It is so hard to get a natural smile from Mikayla. Normally she forces a smile and closes her eyes. This picture would be great except for the funky colors due to the camera.

One Saturday while Daddy was working and Lily was sleeping I put Mikayla to work finger painting while I cleaned the kitchen. She had a blast painting herself instead of the rocks and cardboard she was suppose to be painting.

Look at these cute smiles. How can I get upset when one minute she is a screaming fit and the next she is giving me one of these smiles.

This is the view from our living room windows. In years past you could not see the other houses - now the neighbors tore out all of the willows because they are broken from the heavy snow we had in November. Now Joe and I are thinking about getting curtains in the living room. I really miss our privacy.

Mother's Day

With Mother’s Day coming up in a couple of weeks I want to know what the perfect present for your Mother’s Day would be.

I have been thinking about this and I would love to spend a day at the spa with a couple of girlfriends and lots of mimosas.. I would start the day off with a kick butt workout class, then head off to enjoy brunch. After that I would get enjoy a manicure and pedicure while drinking those wonderful mimosas and girl talk. After that it is off to take a aromatherapy steam shower. Then I will enjoy a facial (need to clean up that face!) Next it will be lunch time with the girls again and a dip in the hot tub. We will end the day with a yoga class followed by a 90 minute aromatherapy massage.

The day is not over yet. I will come home to a perfectly clean house, well rested Daddy, Mikayla and Lily. Finally the grandparents will be over so all I have to do is continue relaxing and nurse Lily as she want. Oh yeah one more thing, Joe tells me the house in under contract, someone wants to pay the full appriased value and take the house as is - they will be delivering a cashier's check tomorrow. Ahh the perfect Mother’s Day present!

Baby Clothes For Sale

Joe and I are done having babies so I am getting rid of some of the clothes. I know that most of you are not interested in buying these but by listing them on my blog it makes it easier for me to sell them on Diaper Swappers because I can't figure out how to load picture onto their website.

I am selling all of these infant sleepers for $6.00 each or $65 for all 12 - this includes shipping. Lily has outgrown all of these and she is almost 3 months old. She out grew most of these around 2 months.

The sleeper on the left is size 0 to 3 months, 6.5 to 12 pounds. Lily wore this until she was 2 months old. It is an off white with little bees and a picture of Pooh.

The sleeper on the right is light pink with white flowers on it, the brand is Vitamins. It is 0-3 months.

This is a light pink sleeper with brown polka dots. It is made by Little Me. The size is newborn up to 8 pounds.

This is Premie and it has been washed but never worn. It has light pink and white stripes and it says adorable under the bear. It is made by Child of Mine, Carters.

I love sleepers with a zipper for midnight changings. The sleeper on the left is white with tiny ducks, bees and turtles on it. It is made by Gerber, 0-3 months.
The sleeper on the right is fuzzy material and yellow with ducks. The size is 0-3 months and made by Gerber. I was upset when Lily outgrew this one - I loved it.

The sleeper on the left is yellow with pictures of sheep, Noah's Arc and lions on it. It is made by Gerber and is 0-3 months. The one on the right is the same except it is light green with two larger pictures of Noah's Arc.

The sleeper on the left is light pink with pink ladybugs on it. It is made by Carters, size is 0-3 months.

The sleeper on the right is light pink with a pink cow and yellow duck. It is made by Carters and the size is 0-3 months, 8 to 11 pounds.
This is a purple sleeper with flowers on it made by Child of Mine, Carters. It is newborn size

The sleeper on the right is made for a short baby. Lily only wore this for about the first month and she was 19 inches long when she was born. It is made by Circo, size is newborn.

Pictures and Camping

I know that I have not blogged in a VERY long time. Our Internet at home was not working and it took two different phone calls to Qwest, a new modem and finally a call to our friend who is the telephone repair man to fix the problem.

I don't know if I blogged about this or not but Mikayla has stromblis. Basically when she gets tired her eyes turn out and don't work. There are also times when I know she is looking at me but I feel as if she is not looking at me by the look I get in her eyes. About a month ago we took her to the eye doctor in Grand Junction. We found out that when you cover one eye and then un-cover it, it has turned out to the side. This is like lazy eye but when her eye turns out to the side it her brain shuts that side off. The doctor recommend we put a patch on her eye 4 hours every day and see what happens. This works about 50% of the time.

On Thursday, Joe and Mikayla, went back to the doctor in Grand Junction and the patching is working and we can reduce the patch time to 2 hours a day. If the patching solves the problem then she will not need eye surgery when she is six.

After the eye doctor Joe and Mikayla headed to Moab, Utah to do camping together. They had a blast and I think the Daddy daughter weekend was a must and a huge success.


Here are a couple pictures Arches National Park.

Mikayla standing in the arch. Mikayla climbing - how cute is this little tom boy?!



Mikayla is in the back pack on Daddy's back.

Our friend Keith came along with his daughter Sienna. Keith has a jeep and they had fun taking the jeep in the river.

Here are a couple of cute pictures we took of Lily today. She is 2 1/2 months old and is doing great. I gotta say that Joe and I make cute kids!

Mikayla cannot wait until Lily is big enough to play with. She loves her little sister.

No Posting Lately - Nothing New

I am sorry for not blogging more often but I really don't have any exciting to say and work is actually keeping me busy enough that I don't have time to sit down and write a great blog entry.

Lily is doing wonderful - as I am writing this I am sitting in the back office pumping away. We have given her a few bottles of formula mixed with breastmilk because there are some days I am not pumping enough. But we are doing the best we can. I hate pumping and it is usually on a Monday morning she needs the formula because I did not pump enough milk over the weekend and Joe might give her a bottle while I sleep in a little bit or go to yoga. Lily is sleeping really good for only being 10 weeks old. Can you belive she is already 10 weeks? Where did the time go? Oh - back to the sleeping she only wakes once a night around 3:30, sometimes it is 5! If she is not going to sleep in until 6am I prefer that she wakes up at 3ish so I can go back to sleep until 6am.

Mikayla is getting so big and so smart. All the time she amazes me by telling me the next line in her book. She started a new daycare and we love it. She is learning her letters and the other day they made birdfeeders. She is also growing out of her clothes so fast I can't keep clothes on her (that is another story - she loves to run around the house naked. I ask her if she wants to put her clothes back on and she says "I want to be the naked baby for a little bit.") She is wearing 3T to 4T pants and her shirts will have to be a 4T very quickly so that her belly is not hanging out. It is getting nicer outside and now it is time to buy some shorts and short sleeve shirts. She only has a couple of short sleeve shirts.

Work is keeping me busy and I am also looking for a part time job - daycare is killing us but if I quit my job right now that won't work either. I am hoping and praying a waitressing job opens up so I can quit my full time job - stop paying for daycare and pay all of the bills which are piling up - I am really excited to get out tax rebate check in May because it is really needed. We also need to pray that the trailer sells and Joe is able to start selling some real estate now that Spring is here.

I will try to post some updated picturs very soon!

Preschool

Mikayla is all set to start preschool at the Lake School in the fall. In Gunnison there is one large preschool and it is run by the school district. There are other smaller preschools that are run by individuals and are more in line with a daycare than kindergarten. There is a very high demand to get into the Lake School because it is so cheap. I will be paying $184 for 4 - 1/2 days each week. It is so cheap because it is subsidized by the school district. It use to be first come first serve on registration day. This year they decided to do a lottery and Mikayla won! I am excited for my baby to start preschool but now I can say she is no longer my baby.

Spring in the Rockies

My husband asked me what the weather was suppose to be like today. Without even thinking about it I said it was suppose to get up to 45 and snow this afternoon. He looked at me like I was crazy - typical Spring weather in the Rockies.

On another note Lily slept from 10:30pm until 5am! It was wonderful to sleep 6 1/2 hours in one stretch. Lily and I had a great morning, playing, nursing, and just relaxing together with no other worries in the world.

Spring Has Arrived

In the mountains of Colorado the seasons do not change when the calender says they are suppose to. We get Winter much earlier than everyone else, Summer arrives much later than everyone else, and sometimes we don’t get Spring or Fall. But this year Spring is arriving on schedule.

Each Spring, there is a HUGE flock of birds that swirl around in the sky above our house. I don’t know what type of birds these are just that they are white and the fly in circles with more and more joining them. There are easily over 100 birds and they sound like turtle doves but they are too big to be turtle doves. They come from the east swirl around and eventually head west. It is a really cool sight to see all of these birds. It also marks the arrival of Spring. The days are much warmer, at night it is only getting down to about zero, and best of all the snow is melting. My driveway is a disaster - don’t come visit us right now unless you have 4-wheel drive and are very comfortable using it! So many people have gotten stuck in our driveway lately. The long part of the driveway is all mud, the river is completely open, and I love hearing the birds in the morning.

Horton Hears a Who

We took Mikayla to see Horton Hears a Who yesterday and she loved it. I was also impressed about how good she was. She sat there and watched it, of course she did talk some but no more than the other kids sitting around us. It was a very cute and funny movie - I loved it. Lily slept on my chest the whole time.

I have not been making enough breastmilk for all of the bottles Lily takes during a day. She normally takes one from Joe after I have gone to work. She snacks from 6am until I leave about 8am and then she wants more from Daddy. I send her with 4 bottles with 3 oz in each bottle to daycare. Then in the evening she snacks from me all night. (I think to her I am one big snack machine), then Joe gives her one more bottle around 8:30 to really fill her up so she won't wake up until around 3am. My friend Jen gave me some fenugreek to take. Hopefully that will help. During the work day I pump 3 times and then at home another time right before bed.

So far I have had to mix 2 bottles of formula with the breastmilk because there was not enough. Hopefully taking this fenugreek will help.

All In One Diapers For Sale

I really want to get rid of these so I having a Buy 1 Get 1 Free Sale.

Purchase one diaper for $9.00 and get the second diaper FREE!!

I have a bunch of misc All In Ones for Sale. They are all size small. None of the diapers have any staining on them.

Price includes shipping. All of the diapers come from a dog friendly, cat free and smoke free home. .

2 Little Pony Diapers with light blue inside

Dark Pink Lil Bummers with white inside.

Lily - 6 Weeks Old

I am finally sitting down to update everyone on how Lily is doing and to show you PICTURES. Lily is an excellent baby. She wakes up around 3am and then around 6am. You can't beat that. During the day she is excellent as well. As Mikayla would say she eats, sleeps, pees and poops. Mikayla loves her and loves being a big sister. Mikayla has also become a great helper.

Sometimes in the afternoon Lily will nap with me. It seems as if as soon as I get Mikayla down for her nap and I go to lay down for mine and get comfortable and I am just about ready to fall alseep, Lily wakes up. So I will pick her up and nurse her in bed with me because she will fall asleep next to me. Today I was able to nap for almost 2 hours. It was wonderful. I woke up suddenly at to hearing Mikayla yell Mommy, Mommy, Mommy from her room. I go into her room, still in a daze, and she is sitting up in bed playing with her dolly and she asks me for a diaper wipe for her baby!

This is Lily's other place to nap during the day.

Here is the happy baby.

Isn't this a cute outfit.

Here is a picture of Lily's room.

Daddy, Mikayla and Lily reading books.

Big Yawn

This is how Skylar lets me know that she wants in. She is looking into our living room.

Isn't this oneise cute!