Oh Man, It's Been a While

Oh my dear blog, how I've missed you. There is much to catch up on... I will be back soon, I promise.

Father's Day

I just wanted to post a few pictures of my men on Father's Day. We had a few friends over that evening for a small bbq and a couple games of poker. I won the second game!!! That morning Skylar and I woke Regan up and gave him cards from each of us. This is the boys looking at the card from Skylar.

Last Day at SVD

My bosses catered lunch today... the inevitable last day of my almost 6 year career at SVD. They ordered My Big Fat Greek Restaurant, it was pretty good. It was also kind of a pot-luck, so I think I'm going to have to go in on Monday and help them eat some of the leftovers. I also need to get back in there next week to pick up my last paycheck and I'm hoping to have my gift to the office wrapped up. So I will have get more pictures with my friends from work. There actually weren't many people around today, sooo.... I think that worked out in my favor, less tears. It was hard to think that I won't be seeing my mom everyday anymore.

Here's the food.

It's Daddy!

It's actually been almost two weeks since Regan has been back in the states. Here are pictures from the airport.

Skylar's first move was straight for the escalator, he recognized it because we had picked Meghan up there about two weeks before Regan came in.


I convinced Sky to just watch for a bit, and he did. After that his eyes were on the prize, he wanted nothing to do with me... Now the wait.




Finally! Here is the reunion of my boys! Skylar acted shy for a bit, but was very happy to see his daddy!




Leading daddy to the car.


Boy talk before getting in the car. I think Skylar was giving Regan tips on how to load the bags into the trunk! LOL!


Right after becoming a whole family again we hit the road to visit my Grammie in El Paso. I will post more about that later...

Hey There Delilah

Skylar spent a lot of the evening tonight playing with an adorable little blond girl. Her name is Delilah. She is about a month older than Skylar. This is the first time I've seen Skylar flirt with a girl his own age, lol! It was so cute, they were putting rocks into a metal column that had what looked to be a hole for water drainage. They played for nearly 30 minutes, together the whole time. It was so cute I needed to document it. I asked Delilah's mom if it would be okay if I took a couple pictures of them playing together, she didn't mind. By the way, he calls girls princesses! When we had gone to the car Skylar asked me: "where my princess go?" My kid is going to bring the romance... That's for sure!

We're on a Boat!!

Here are the few pictures my battery lived for during our time at the lake. There are some pretty good ones. Random, but still good.

Camping!

Aaron and Chloe came down this weekend, and we all went camping at Parker Lake. The Orozco's and Meghan came out too, we rented a little speed boat on Friday and kept it over night. We had such a blast, we are still recovering a bit... I'm relaxing now and I will post some more pictures later. I hope everyone's weekend was awesome.

Almost Home!

I can't believe it, it's almost here. Regan will be heading home soon! He's officially begun to clear and so far is on track to be home on June 6th! That night we will head straight to El Paso from Tucson because my cousin Kaile's high school graduation is the next morning. It will be a long night, of that I'm sure. We wouldn't miss it though. While there we will get to see some cousins, my Grammie, a couple aunts and uncles, and of course Chloe and hopefully Aaron. Aaron is in the field a lot, but just got promoted so I told him to get that weekend off. Like they will care, lol!

It's gonna' be here before we know it.

Wait, potty what? ... Potty trained?

My little man went to daycare in underwear last Tuesday. That was his first time. Which made today his fifth day. Today also happened to be the first day he didn't have an accident at school. He left in blue undies and came home in the same blue undies!!!

I AM SO PROUD! Whenever he does good at daycare, especially with potty training and being nice to friends, I tell him how proud I am and how he makes me so happy. We give a bunch of high-fives and a bunch of hugs... he asks me if I'm "So happy? You so happy mommy?" I tell him that I am SO HAPPY and he just smiles back at me and chuckles.

I love my little guy more and more everyday. It's just amazing to see what they take from you and how they express their love for you right back.

Letters to Juliet

My mom and I had been planning to see it since we first saw the preview for it. I have to admit, it was as good as I thought it was going to be. At the same time though, I was almost hoping it would exceed my expectations... Weird, I know, because I really did like it. One thing that did surprise me is that I didn't think I would cry, and I did. I wasn't weeping or anything, but I did have a somewhat steady flow of tears for a few minutes. If you were thinking of seeing it, I say see it. You will enjoy it!

Pizza Time!

We bought some really cool pizza crusts from Costco yesterday. Skylar had tried a sample and asked for more, so I figured I may as well buy them and we can make a pizza together. We made one for dinner tonight. I knew I had a few things to use for toppings at home, so I just chopped up some sliced pineapple and some of the turkey sausage patties we had in the fridge.

We got everything set up and Skylar was ready to go.


I heard him say "yum" right before we started and when I looked closer I realized he was hungry and liked the crust!


He recognized the sausage and had to try some of that too!


After he was done with a few samples we started to top the pizza...








He stopped while topping the pizza for a couple more samples...








Ready to go into the oven!


This is how it turned out! If you think it looks good believe me when I tell you it tasted amazing!

Little Cowboy

We were at Kohl's yesterday waiting for Meghan's flight to get in. Aaron follows Skylar up to my mom and I. Skylar is wearing a pair of Toy Story boots that light up. He is enamored with these boots, jumping up and down, telling us "there's a snake in my boots!" Of course I ended up buying them.

This is him at lunch. We went to Claim Jumper, needless to say he didn't eat anything.


These are a few pictures from today. We had just got home, he climbed out of the car and helped me check the mail. I love how the bottom of the boot says ANDY!





Of course I had to buy some kind of shirt or something to match the boots. I found this one at Old Navy!

Hurrican Simulator with Uncle Aaron

My brother is in town this weekend, for a couple of reasons. Other than just to visit Meghan gets home from college tomorrow and it's our mom's birthday on Monday. Today we went to the mall, and strolled around before we went to see How to Train Your Dragon. For the record, this was my seventh time seeing it! I saw it once with Regan, once with Aaron and Skylar, and five times with just Skylar. Whew! It's a good thing that I love it! Anyway here's a clip of Aaron and Skylar in the hurrican simulator!



This is just a couple shots of the boys roaming around the mall.

Sorting Clothes

I actually did it. I went through all of Skylar's old clothes. I separated them into five piles: one for Rachel, one for Lyndi, one for Karen, one for me, and one for donation. Yikes! It was hard but super worth it. I was going through them and remembering him in all the little outfits. There were also a bunch of pajamas, onesies, shorts, and overalls that a girl could wear.... Wishful thinking I guess!

Private Practice

Seriously! I hate how much I love this show. The bad thing about it is that I get so attached to the characters.... in all the shows I watch really. Man, what a season finale. Almost as bad as last season. Last season ended with Violet being cut open by a psycho patient of hers. This season, almost 3 deaths. One actually happened.

Anyway, I just had to blog a little bit about it, I was crying like a little girl! :(

CPR/BLS

I completed my Basic Life Saving/CPR Certification yesterday!

I'm so excited! It was strange to think I took an online course, but I feel just as confident as I did when I learned in XRay school. The only thing that's really changed is the respiration to compression ratio. Not too big of a deal, just glad to have it. I'm actually surprised that more health facilities don't require it. It's a pretty good skill to have... For now I'm just praying that the only time, if ever, I have to use it will be at work.

HeAdAcHe!

I have the absolute worst headache I've had in a LONG time. So, right now I'm timing just how quickly rapid release extra strength tylenol to work. Until then, I hope that Skylar keeps up the moderately good behavior he's got going this evening. I just put Toy Story 2 on for him, so I should have at least 30 uninterrupted minutes to relax...

The Back-Up Plan

Skylar and I went to the movies today. I figured if we should get a bite before going to the theater. Ice cream was sounding awesome so DQ seemed like the best choice. Plus, it's on the way to Uptown 3 (I know, ghetto theater) which is where The Back-Up Plan was showing. We had hot dogs and chips, followed by some ice cream, which Skylar made minced meat of. I still haven't figured out how to post videos on here, so the video of him eating ice cream is on facebook.










By the way, I adored the movie. I had read some harsh reviews in People. They had dissed on J Lo's character for climbing into a dumpster while pregnant. Seeing the movie, and having been pregnant before I understand why her character did it. People's problem was how realistic that action was. I think it's fairly accurate, when you're pregnant and you NEED things a certain way to sleep... You WILL make sure things are the way you want. It was funny to think of but I understood her desperation. Although I liked the movie, I almost regret seeing it because now the baby bug is getting worse!!!

Kind of a Big Break

I have a friend/former co-worker who actually moved to Hawaii around this time last year. She emailed me yesterday, kind of out of the blue, and asked if I had found a job yet. She said a CT position opened up at Tripler! It hasn't been posted yet but she told me to email my resume to a contact there that way when it's posted and I apply they can pick me right out of the list of applicants! That all depends if the see my resume and decide I'm qualified. HOORAY!!! I know the contact has received my email, she did respond and said she would be reviewing it and contacting me in the near future. Keep your fingers crossed for me everyone!

A Slight "Bum" in the Road

Just wanted to make a quick post about one of my job applications. I heard back from a facility that had listed a mammography position. Apparently they had looked into it and decided not to fill the position and just closed it. At least I heard back. There are several other applications I put in, so we'll see if I start hearing more. A lot of them had said I may not hear back for 4-6 weeks, so I'm still crossing my fingers.

Also, I'm pretty sure I will be receiving my Hawaii state license any day. I paid for my CPR/BLS certification, it's an online course that's accredited in all 50 states. Is that scary, learning CPR online? I thought it sounded weird, but since I already had a classroom CPR class once I figured this would be okay to sort of re-up. If this were my first I would've definitely felt better about sitting through a class.

Badger Boy

One thing is for sure, my boy loves his aunt Meghan and the mascot of the team she plays for... Wisconsin Badgers, mascot a.k.a. Bucky the Badger.