Here is the picture I found that goes with the story below.

The Funny Things Kids Say

I was cleaning out the file cabinet today and came across an ultrasound picture of Cristian. So I showed it to him and said this is a picture of you when you were in my tummy. He got this funny face and said:
"You ate me?"
I laughed and said no that he grew in my tummy and then they took him out. Then he said
"How did they get me out?"
I didn't know what to say so I told him they just took him out.
He kept asking, but how? So I just told him they took him out of my belly button. I know it's a lie but what do you tell a 4 yeard old.
Then he thought about it a minute and said
"You must have been fat when I was in your tummy."
Then he put the picture down and said
"I'm gonna stop looking at this 'cause it is ascusting me out."

I just had to laugh. Kids are cute!

Here's Your Sign

OK. so I had a Jeff Foxworthy moment today at the movie theater. After High School Musical 3 was over I made a b-line to the bathroom to do a little number 2, (had to hold it 'cause I didn't want to miss any of the show) anyways so when I get it in there I saw both of the BIG stalls were open, so I went in the first one and closed the door to find that it had no lock, so I moved on to the next one and in there I saw on the floor a plunger and alot of wetness around it. **RIGHT HERE AND NOW I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THIS AS A SIGN AND TURNED AROUND AND LEFT THE STALL, but NOOOOOOOOO. I though that if the plunger was wet then it had been used recently and some nice person had fixed the problem. RIGHT? Well, I guess that wasn't the case as you will find out. SO I did my business and flushed the toilet. What I saw was not what I thought should have happened since the PROBLEM had been taken care of RIGHT? WRONG! So bubbles were coming up and the water was rising. SO I grabbed the plunger and put it back to work. Nothing happened. I thought that maybe I would just abandon it and leave, but how nice would that be. Not nice at all (although it would have kept the next person from having the same issue, because they would have just looked in and them left the stall instead of seeing the wet plunger and thinking that the problem was fixed) Anyways so I tried to flush it again and plungered with more vigor and more bubbles came up and then success! The blockage had dissapeared. YEAH! But if I had had Jeff Foxworthy there to point out THE SIGN for me the whole thing could have just been avoided. LESSON: SO next time you go into a stall and see a wet plunger just say Oh, there's the sign and turn around. Even if the water is clear and low.

The Joys of Preteenhood

We went to Courtney's choir concert at the school tonight. They got to dress up in their Halloween costumes. Her and her best friend Colby decided they wanted to be "FREAKS" this year. They have been putting their costumes together all this month. They ended up costing like $30 each. I told her she could have bought one of the nice store bought costumes for only $20 or less. But they were set on their idea. So I am attaching a picture of them. It is a big step for Courntey as she used to be so concerned with how she looked and used to worry alot about if she looked goofy or not. So I am proud to say that she is learning a good lesson in not worrying so much about what people think about her and her appearance. She is so sweet.

It brings back memories from back in the day when we didn't care much about what people thought of us. We had alot of fun trying to be our own unique selfs. We went through some weird phases, but such is life for everyone. So we will see what is to come as she approachs the teen years in the next couple years. Wish me luck!

So just in case anyone is looking for some used clothing or thongs(not the flip flops) here is the blog I was referring to in my last post.

Lisa's Online Garage Sale

http://onlineg-sale.blogspot.com/2008/10/undergarments-size-l.html

Selling Used Clothing on Blogger

Ok, so I just realized that you can scan through blogs from all over the world with the button up top. I saw blogs in Spanish some with indian folk and some with all japanese writing, then I saw one called Lisa's clothes or something like that so I thought 'oh what a good idea to sell stuff'. I scrolled down and there I saw that she was selling a group of used underwear. That is wrong but what made it worse was that about half of the lot were thong underwear so you ask is there anything worse than buying used underwear? Well there is and that is buying used THONG underwear. I'm sorry but maybe if I was broke and really needed some new skivvies the thought might possibly cross my mind to look for used ones, but I think I would rather go skivvieless than to wear someones used undies not to mention thongs. They don't just touch the unmentionable part of your body they kind of touch the part where the sun will never shine. It is like saying ""hmmm I'm running kind of low on dental floss maybe I will run over to my neighbors and see if she has some used dental floss laying around in her bathroom that I could buy off of her for .50 cents or so. Yuck! But I guess the good thing is that the whole lot of about 8 pair was only $2.00 so maybe you could sew them together and make 2 NORMAL pair or unders.

Weight Loss or Face Loss?

Well as I continue to try to get off the last 11 years and 4 kids worth of baby weight I finally realized that my face must have weighed 20 pounds. You see I have lost about 22 pounds in the last year I guess. I have gone down a pants size or 2 and a shirt size and was feeling pretty good about it. (I only have 3 more pounds to go until I weigh less than my husband. I have never weighed less than him.) Anyways when I started this adventure of losing weight I took some before pictures: in a black bra and swim bottoms. Vivid picture huh? And so last night I decided I wanted to take pictures again to compare my progress. Well to my surprise my body looked exactly the same as before. The only vast difference was my face and neck. So how frustrating is that. So I have decided that my face must have been really heavy. And a word of advice. NEVER take a picture of yourself from the back. It is very frightning. Maybe my eyes are just deceptive. But when I look in the mirror each morning I don't see myself that wide and not to mention the waves and dimpling going on back there. That must be why God made our head only turn so far. Because if they could turn all the way around and see the back view of ourselves I think Utah would have a much higher rate of prozac or whatever the depression medicine is.


Well, I am still going to try to keep losing weight and I just hope that I don't look like the man with the shrunken head when I am done. My head can only lose so much weight then it has to start coming off somewhere else, right? (Oh, I forgot my fingers have gotten skinnier, my wedding ring keeps threatening to jump off every time I shake my hands.)

I wonder where it will come off of next. Probably the boobs since I would like to keep those. My legs will probably stay the same size forever. Gotta love the pear shape. Hmmm maybe it will become the next big thing. You gotta have something to put those applebottom jeans on, right? I don't have any applebottom jeans but I have heard the song about them (hope you have heard the song so you know what I am talking about.) It talks about the apple bottom jans and the reeboks with the strap, someone turning around and givin' "that big booty a slap" anyway, I'm rambling so I will end it.

When Everyone is Away Me and Cristian Play

Well when everyone else is away(at school or work) me and Cristian can play.

Today we played GO FISH and OLD MAID then we went for a bike ride.

We ended up taking a lot of pictures on my phone.

This is fun because Cristian is normally the kid that hides his face when you pull out the camera but not today. Boy he was a poser.

I told him I wanted to take a picture of him on a rock at the mortuary by our house. And he did it willingly. Then to my suprise he stood by the side of the rock and said "Ok now take one of me here on the side" He kept doing this until we had a picture of him on every rock with his cowboy hat on and then off, by the side of every rock with his hat on and then off and by a bunch of different trees with his hat on and them off. I finally had to tell him that I wanted to go home.

Wow this is different for him. But it is fun!

Here is a video of him riding his bike and some pics of the bike ride.

Pictures at Disneyland

California

We went to California last week and I wanted to tell about it.

It was a long drive to get there. We bought 2 new set of wireless headphones so we could have a total of 4 (1 for each kid) so they wouldn't fight over them. (my kids can always find something to fight about)

And guess what.. They found something to fight about and it was who got to use the new headphones. I kept telling them that the same sound would come out of each of the headphones, but they didn't care. No one wanted the old ones with the batteries that kept falling out.

Carlos has reminded them before that kids in Guatemala would love to just ride in a nice car, or any car for the matter, let alone watch a movie while riding in the car. My kids just roll their eyes everytime he starts with "you know what....

Because it always relates to someone having less than we do, living worse than we do, appreciating things more than we do, behaving better than we do, respecting people more than we do, loving more then we do, cleaning more than we do, cooking more than we do. ;) You know what I mean.

He was raised in Guatemala where he had nothing and only got to eat tortillas and salt with lime, a little bit or rice and black beans and his mom would whip up 1 egg so fluffy that it would make an omelet big enough for the family of 10 to each have a little piece and then if they were lucky on special occasions they would get to share a small bottle of coca cola. Each person would get just a swig. Carlos is a great husband and father just grew up different than us. I will have to blog about Guatemala later.

Anyway, I got of the subject of our trip to Disneyland. Sorry.

It was long drive but we made it and stayed 3 nights with Jenae and her family in Oceanside, CA.
The area she lives in is Awesome! They have a nice new house that they shared with us. Thanks Jenae and Blake! And if they had a Stouffers close by it would be tempting to move there.

The day after we got there we went to the beach for the day. It was great. We took all of her beach equipment and her little boy and spent the day in the sun with a nice breeze. We even tried out the boogie boards and that was a blast.


**I don't know how to put pictures where I want them so the pictures are seperate from the story**

The next day we went to the harbor for 'Harbor Days' and walked around and the kids got to climb all over a real hovercraft and other big tough navy things. Now looking back I miss the beach and wished we would have just lounged on the beach another day which our skin wouldn't have liked because a few of us got a nasty burn the first day. Anyways, maybe next time.

We ate at In and Out Burger just because we could. It is a very basic burger experience. Good for people who can't make their minds up about what to order. You have the choice between a burger with 1 or 2 patties, fries, drinks and shakes(chocolate, strawberry or vanilla). Salt and Ketchup for the fries.

Then the next day we headed out EARLY to make it to Disneyland for our Magic Morning early entrance. We were up at the front of the line.

But the early start to the morning took away some of the Magic! All the kids were grumpy and not excited about being at the HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. But once inside they managed to get a smile on their faces.

We spent all day there until 9:30pm or so. (A little too long for waking up so early with no naps) Which was more than Caleb could handle as he was trying to fall asleep in the stroller as we walked back the 2 blocks to the hotel. He was cold and had my jacket and his across his body but I guess since we were at a MAGICAL place he expected me to MAGICALLY turn the sweaters into blankets and thus screamed the whole way back. Boy were people looking at us. Very embarrassing but what are you to do when there is no reasoning with a tired and screaming child. the more you talk the louder they scream. So we just kept walking.

The 2nd day was not an early entrance day. Thank goodness. The kids got some good sleep and we spent the day at California Adventure. The kids were SO looking forward to the tower of terror. They had seen a scary movie about it and Alex is all about trying to scare himself I think.
They loved it and ended going on it about 5 or 6 times total I think.

3rd day was at Disneyland and then after we had been on all the rides there that we wanted to we went back to our favorites at California Adventure until it closed then it was back to Disneyland because they were still open for 2 more hours. Jenae (my cousin) got some season passes and came for 2 of the days. It was a blast!

Then it was time for the ride home. Which is always a drag, That means of course the long ride (which went relatively good, Only a couple sibling breakouts, but no blood was drawn. I was suprised at how well they did in such close quarters for 11 hours straight.) And it means that the eating out would come to an end and I would have to cook and clean again.

Oh well. But it was a great trip.

Disneyland Trip

New Blog

I have started this new blog because our other one was just for Guatemala.

I am horrible at keeping things up to date because there isn't too much excitement in our lives. The kids are in school, Carlos is at work from 7:30 am to 7pm 6 days a week, me and Cristian are home in the days and we run errands, shop or lounge around until everyone gets home than I get to be the referee for kids fights and the homework patrolman, and the meanest mom in the world etc.. That is about the extent of our daily lives. Exciting huh?

Well I will try to post anything even remotely exciting that happens just to keep everyone up to date.