Happy Day!

For the first time in his life Diesel only woke up two times last night. Did I wonder if he was no longer breathing - YES! It felt so good to get a good nights sleep.

Any biggest loser fans out there? I love it that Danny won! And I am so relieved that Tracy didn't. She actually looked very gaunt to me. I am sure that she is glad that she can finally stop starving herself. When I was in high school this guy drew a cartoon of where a guy and girl are at a restaurant and it shows the girl eating this tiny salad and the guy eating a normal size meal. Then the next box shows after the date and she has a huge chicken leg on the way to her mouth which is opened huge as if in an animal like state. It was pretty funny.

sleep...what is it good for?

Most of you don't believe that Diesel is our last baby, but I am satisfied with the crew. I do love babies, but I don't think I can do this no sleep thing ever again! Diesel is the worst sleeper I've ever had. He still wakes up 4 times a night! I am ready to let him cry it out, but each time I get serious about it he gets sick. Although I like to take each stage at a time and not look ahead so much, I can't help but get excited about when I'll be able to go to sleep and wake up once during the night to go potty of course and that is all. On most nights we have others that join us in our bed. Hunter who is the worst scaredy cat of all "I'm scared mommy" as he wakes me out of the first straight two hours I've gotten all night. Hunter likes to take the whole bed too if his foot isn't touching your head or his hand slapping you across the face well then it just isn't a good nights sleep for him. Karlee usually makes her way down if she gets too cold. She isn't as bad as Hunter goes as far as physical abuse during the night, but I would compare her style of sleeping as a piggy back ride. She cuddles up as close to you as she can get and doesn't move. Hallie every once in a while wakes up during the night. She comes to hang out not to go back to sleep. All of a sudden she will start playing with my face or start talking. Thank goodness for Lexi! She never wakes us up unless she is sick and I can handle that.

Rain Rain Go Away Come Again Another Day

I am definitely missing California weather. It feels like forever since our vacation, but I will do a post on it anyway. We had a blast. We ate a ton of food (PF Changs 3X). I got a little burned out of greasy restaurant food, so I was ready to eat at home for sure :) We went to Knotts Berry Farm and the kids loved it. I think they liked it more than Disneyland. Shorter lines, less people, less $ - dad loved it too! We went to the beach with my friend Allyson and her kids, which is so relaxing. We spent some time with my sister (who moved back up here now). We love just hanging out at the hotel and swimming in the pool. I think it will be a yearly trip.

"I'm not moving!"

We were lucky enough to enjoy 10 days in sunny California this month. We flew into San Diego and headed up to Anaheim where we stayed for half the trip and finished off the other half in Palm Springs. The plane ride went great both ways. The only problem we encountered was when the plane landed in San Diego we waited for everyone else to get off. We had talked about that I would go first then the kids and finally Wynden. Karlee decided that she would be the first kid. Well for some reason Wynden went first and Hunter followed. Picture this: Karlee, her suitcase that we needed her to pull to make it all work because we didn't check anything, Lexi who had a backpack on and then her suitcase behind her, me holding Hallie with my suitcase in tow. We were,'t moving yet and Wynden is off the plane now. So I say to Karlee "go Karlee" and she replies "I'm not moving" and I say "why not?" and she says "I was suppose to be first!" She doesn't cry, but she doesn't move either. And for the next five minutes I try to bribe her, threaten her, anything to get her to move. There was no way I could get to her. By this time the few that hadn't hurried to get off the plane were now lined up behind us and the flight attendant is trying to get Karlee to move as well and she is not budging for nobody. Finally a flight attendant from the front of the plane comes and grabs Karlee's suitcase to carry it forward, so now I can reach her and she is of course screaming because he took her suitcase. Wynden finally figures out that we are not coming and returns to find out the problem. So we end up exiting the plane and entering the terminal with three crying kids (actually Karlee was screaming). Everyone looking at us like oh I bet that was a long horrible plane ride, but I just smiled and laughed a little.

The other day the kids and I were taking pictures of ourselves for fun. I was holding the camera and took one of Karlee, Hunter, and myself. I turned it to look and realized the kids weren't in it very good and so I said "oh shoot" and then Hunter said "too fat huh?" I guess I must say this when I see pictures of myself. What a kid!

My sweet tooth

Halloween this year was a lot of fun. The kids got cold kind of early. I was still rearing to go and fill their bags some more, but oh well. No one is happy if Karlee isn't and she gets so cold so quickly because she has no meat on her bones. Regardless We have a ton of candy now and I am having a hard time staying away from it. For a long time our candy bowl has been depleted of anything good in it, but now we have TWO bowls full of snickers, reeses, butterfingers, twix, and m & ms. I love candy bars!! I will be glad when they are gone.

And the Winner is...

I love it when my obsessive compulsive behavior is rewarded. I am sure next year everyone will be way more competitive for the scavenger hunt (I can't wait). Bring it on Kaden!