i'm BACK!!

So after my e-mail and blog were seriously screwed up I've gotten it all worked out and am BACK!

Sadly not a lot has happened to write about!

Toby finished school and his summer enrichment program and is now home for the next month YAY!! We totally blew our tire out on the (pos) car. While putting on the spare we discovered a shit ton of other problems =0( So now we're driving as little as possible and waiting til Aug 9th when we will be getting a different car!! We've already purchased the car but the people are not PCSing until then so we have to wait! I'm super excited though because it is a small car!!

Caleb has started working over nights and I am NOT a fan!! We did this moo poo before he joined the Army and i thought I never saw him b/c he worked third shift and i worked first.... turns out you just don't see people who work over night even if you're sitting your bum on the couch all day long!! The only plus is that he gets a nice chunk of days off!

Anyhoo- thats about all thats new this way.

hope all is well wherever you may be!!

*peace &love*

what a day...

Today I must have had a big sign on my head that said....*Friendly...please talk to me!*

After dropping Caleb off at 8, the boys and i went to Burger King for breakfast. Theres this guy here I see all the time and I swear if I didn't know better I'd say he was...um....well... idk super trashy like old construction worker guy. Anyway- He decided to give me all these parenting tips for the climate here. Like I should be feeding my 2 year old bell peppers to keep all his neutrons in balance...okay?!?! He told me he was a stay at home dad. He did say his mom always said; it's easy to walk in and mirco manage but if you haven't been in it all day you have no clue. I did agree w/ that!

Okay fast forward to 930 ish, TJ and i had dropped Toby at summer school and decided to goof off in the PX. This poor girl came up to me and started asking me about EVERYTHING she had in her buggy! she was like 8 months pregnant and the poor girl was overwhelmed to say the least..... she had about 4 jumbo tubes of A&D, a couple of desitin and a few butt paste to top it off! Thinking she would need all of them! I told her what i knew but wasn;t sure I was much help....until she thanked and hugged me!

It was refreshing though because most of the time people walk around all angry faced and it just drives me NUTS!

Anyhoo- gotta get off and go get Caleb! Going to a Shrine sale in the am....it's like a flea market at a shrine! Should be interesting!!

*peace & love*

...a night OUT!

So Caleb and I FINALLY had a night out after 2 years of being w/ the boys 24/7.

I dropped the boys off at The Pasions, who live just a couple houses over, at 6. We took off for the train station immediately! It was super crappy weather, but we walked anyway! We rode the train to Machida (only 2 stops away). We walked around, went into a music store and looked around. Then we went into TGI Fridays.. Caleb had a long island ice tea and i had a pina colada. But because thats the "spot" in Machida and certain people hang there we left. Not to mention our drinks were 12something a piece! We walked around, went into an awesome hat shop goofed off trying on hats and what not. I got a new pair of sun glasses! Then we went in the arcade played the crane machines and the slot machines for a bit. Ended up in a biker themed bar, ordered a couple of their random special drinks, took a shot and had a couple of jager-bombs. We left there and headed home. When we left the train station Caleb went into a store and came out with roses!! So we walked in the pouring rain from the train station, but we didn't mind. We picked the boys up a little past 10.

We missed them so very much, but it was sooo refreashing to get out!! Today was awesome too! I know that had a lot to do with 1) the boys sleeping in til 9! and 2) our time spent out and alone last night! We didn't do to much today but play outside with the boys!

Welp that about sums

*peace and love!*

Take the money and run...7 years in progress...

Okay so this blog is a day early but tomorrow will be busy so today it is =0)

So if you don't know Caleb and my "song" is "Take the Money and Run" by the Steve Miller Band, if you've never heard it you should def. look it up and listen. We totally planned on living out that song...and 7 years ago it seemed pretty fitting. We still joke about it but just with 2 kids in tow. No doubt though anytime that song comes on we both look at each other and smile....we will always be Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue at heart =0)

By now if you haven't guessed June 16th is our 7 year anniversary, and no he's not sending me and the boys to Maine for the summer!! (and Marilyn Monroe is def. not moving in upstairs haha) I realized the other day that sooo much has changed in 7 years. We've both grown, together thank goodness. We've made 2 beautiful boys together! We've traveled across the globe! We've loved, we've fought, we've always made up.... we've laughed, cried, hugged and kissed. The usual stuff right =0)!

HOWEVER I've realized he's changed me a bit.....in 7 years, I've become a Yankees fan (I know don't tell my southern lovin family!!) I've gotten rid of my fear of motorcycles! I've embraced the fact that I am a girl...and the only one in the house so I totally LOVE it!! I've realized I can love someone whole-heartedly and do so everyday all day!!

To sum up a blog that could go on all day... I still love my husband, I'm still his #1 fan and always will be!! I can't believe it's been 7 years but I'm more than ready for 7 more! Who knows maybe one day we'll make it Old El Paso!!

Bulging disc and tears.....

Okay so finally got some answers to my back pain. Apparently I have bulging disc! With instructions to do the cobra pose (from yoga) every 3-4 hours and go back on the 28th hopefully I will get some relief....oh and the pain pills don't hurt either =0P

How ever if you've never been to physical therapy, it is weird and a bit creepy. I had to bend over some 40 odd times in front of this dude, who of course was watching. I know it's his job but it's still unsettling!

Now on to the tears..... Today June 9th I left TJ with a friend of mine so I could go to my appointment. He has never stayed with anyone other than Caleb (except for when he was 2 weeks old and that was w/ my mom for an hour)

So I'm all nervous like he's gonna cry or be a brat.....but did he NO!! He didn't even care that I left him there! I was so sad =0( I mean don't get me wrong I was glad he was good for Jen, but come on!!

**6 days til Tobe's summer!!!****

Anyway- hope all is well out there!

*peace & love*

The little things....

Nothing can make you appreciate home like living in a different country so today I would like to pay respects to "the little things" I truly miss about America......

• Vertical traffic lights....yep they are horizontal here and quite strange
• My kind of fast food..in most cases availible 24/7...the places on post here close at 9pm =0(
• Being able to go to town and read signs
• finding clothes that would fit a real person not a toddler
• having more than one radio station and 8 tv channels
• being in the same or near same time zone as loved ones
• Wal-Mart....never thought I'd say that!

It's not all bad though so I thought I'd even it out with some things that rock my stripey socks

• FASHION it's sooo amazing here you are constantly amazed by peoples clothing and no one cares whatever goes
• Coffee....hot ones in cans out of vending machines, cold ones from corner stores, coffee shops all so super YUMMY!!
• The 100 yen store...like our dollar store but way more awesome!!
• You can get almost anything with some sort of cartoon picture on it ( I recently got a pot holder trivet thingy with a piggy on it saying cooking time!)
• and of course SAKE =0)

Hope everyone is awesome!!

*peace & love*

Births~the 2nd edition

So today is Travis' 2nd birthday so I thought I'd blog his story like i did Toby =0)

So the birth of my second baby wasn't so much of a shock.... he was a planned induction. One week early because I had (supposedly) gestational diabetes. So at 7 am I was to be at the hospital to get the devils juice a.k.a potocin. We show up and the people had no idea we were supposed to be there....thank you army hospitals =0P. They decided to let me stay anyway and around 9am they started the d.j. I was seriously standing on my head waiting for TJ to come! By noon my crazy mother had found the number to the hospital and called my room to see why we hadn't called her yet....see where I get it! By that time I was finally starting to feel some contractions nothing serious but I got the genius idea to get an epidural thinking it would speed up the whole process. First off the dumb ass epidural guy thought my tattoos were more interesting than his job...he jabbed me countless times, apparently hitting bone, which feels like an electrical jolt going through your spine...NOT NICE! After who knows how many attempts and me almost calling it off he finally got it. Did it speed things up....NO it put me back at square 1...UGH!

My doctor though kept reassuring me we would have a baby THAT day. So they upped my d.j. constantly. Then at about idk 5ish.... they start freakin out b/c everytime I have a contraction TJ heart stops. The nurses were HORRIBLE and bc they were freakin out so was I. I thought a c-section was def. in my future. They kept insisting I wear this oxygen mask...I didn't really see why. Oh well....then my doc. came in and said everything was fine he just had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck...FINE?!?! Does that sound fine to you? Anywoo- finally at about 7pm he's ready, I push twice, I guess Caleb was able to see him do a spin and he was out! With his arm up above his head keeping the cord from completely strangling him!

He weighed in at 6lbs and 9oz and was 18inches long. another BEAUTIFUL baby!

Now he's a crazy toddler and I couldn't be happier =0)

*peace & love*