Whiney Weekday

Who’s up for another round of whines for the week? I am I am… Okay so maybe you don’t share the same excitement that I do for my whines!

1. Manpower… The jerks are on my list. I finally heard back from them after 6 weeks of waiting and surprise surprise I didn’t get the job. I’m EXEREMY disappointed. Please don’t send me sympathy!

2. Weather… What’s up with the weather? Yesterday it was clearly nice tee shirt and Capri type weather and today its sweater with jeans and I heard this weekend it’s supposed to be back in the 70’s… We woke up to 40 degree weather this morning! YIKES can we say sniffle sniffle from all the colds that we will surely be blessed with!

3. Gas Prices… So I don’t understand b/c the threat of Rita hitting the shores of Texas… everyone went like crazy people to fill up their tanks… and the prices didn’t rise… well THIS week gas has already risen to $2.86 and at one gas station it was $3.05 what’s up with that? I mean the oil refineries said that they only received “minimal” damage… come on people get your stories straight… if it was minimal why the heck are gas prices rising?

4. Cleaning… Yeah I know I whine about this a lot but Tait and I are hosting the Colt’s game this Sunday and the cleaning that we did last weekend has been destroyed by us LIVING in our house… so on Saturday it will be another exciting day of cleaning! I told Tait we should have moved to a hotel for the week!

5. Sleeping… Now I don’t know what’s up with me lately but Daisy and the baby are sleeping through the night soundly I normally don’t hear a peep! But last night I woke up at 2 in the morning and was WIDE awake. I kept worrying about this bill we got last night… it was a normal monthly bill that’s what didn’t make any sense… So I got up and walked into the living room and read the bill over and over like an OCD person… I really don’t have OCD promise. Finally at 3 I fell back asleep and at 6 when the alarm when of I could definitely tell I missed out on that hour of sleep. What the heck is the matter with my brain?


6. Headaches… Why is it when you are sleeping and you wake up with a headache those headaches is the WORST type? You know they are the type that just sit on you temples and it feels like a little man is just jumping up and down and scream very loudly at a pitch you can barely stand. That has happened to me twice this week and I can’t seem to shake them!

7. Monthly Bills… Did you know that October starts on Saturday? That means the monthly bills start alllllll over again. Yeah another 2 weeks of feeling broke, that’s my favorite time!

8. Laundry… I want you all to know that I have been doing laundry every night this week. But I was looking at the hamper and it doesn’t even look like I’ve made a dent.

9. Baby Sizing… Well I ordered Lehna’s Halloween costume and the sizes said from 6-12 months… Well I thought okay she’s 6 month so I won’t get the 3-6 month size b/c that will be really too small… So it came in and I swear LANDYN could fit in it… It’s HUGE! Tait said we could roll the sleeves and stuff… but I don’t know the body of the outfit is huge… she be lost in it… so I am going to have to come up with an alternative solution. You’d think the sizing chart would say… for Giant 6 month old babies!

10. The Help Wizard… You know the little friendly guy that helps you on Microsoft Word. Well I selected the Wizard thinking he was cute. Well the other day I was trying to find out how to merge a document when I was typing for his wizardly advice when he kept saying “Please ask again, please ask again” I mean… he’s a wizard why doesn’t he understand… he’s magical and can create spells out of then air so why doesn’t he understand when I type “Mail Merge Document with Shipping labels” I mean there are lots of words there that he could have found SOMETHING with. Stupid Wizard!

Okay that's all I got... have a great weekend everyone!

I was tagged by Sarah Aka Mommy2Aubree

List five weird/strange/gross habits I have.

1. I like to put Arby's French Fries down the straw of my Milk Shake and drink it.

2. When I eat I only eat one thing at a time... example if I have mashed potatoes, corn, and steak on my plate... I will first eat the mashed potatoes.. then eat the corn... I don't mix my food bites when I eat. I know I'm strange.

3. Even though I don't mix my food bites... I don't care if my food touches. I know I know I'm STRANGE!

4. After I take the last piece of toliet paper off of the roll I usually will replace the roll but then I won't throw the old empty roll away, leaving it sit on the counter... this in turn drives Tait CRAZY! But Hey at least I replace the roll!

5. I have a certain body cleaning routine that I do in the shower every morning. I kind of work my way up... if you will. It's important I go in order if I go out of order I usually forget parts...

Now I know what your thinking I'm OCD but I'm not... just things that I have to do that make me... ME! Does it make me strange... of course... I never said I wasn't strange.

I tag: Jackie, Christina, Julie, Sarah, and hummm that's is it AND Since Sarah has already completed these five questions I will attach another survey for her to fill out... OH and all those I tag... fill this one out as well... I know you LOVE me!

1. What is your occupation?
2. What color are your underwear right now?
3. What are you listening to right now?
4. What was the last thing you ate?
5. Do you wish on stars?
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
7. How is the weather right now?
8. Last person you spoke to on the phone?
9. Last person you wrote a real letter to?
10. How old are you today?
11. Favorite drink?
12. Favorite sport to watch?
13. Have you ever dyed your hair?
14. Do you have any pets?
16. Favorite month?
17. Favorite food?
18. What was the last movie you watched?
19. Favorite day of the year?
21. Fall or Spring?
22. Hugs or kisses?
23. Cherry or Blueberry?
24. Chevy or Ford?
25. CSI or Law & Order?
26. J.C. Penney's or Foley's?
27. Who do you live with?
28. When was the last time you cried?
29. What is on the floor of your closet?
30. Who is the friend you have had the longest?
31. What did you do last night?
32. Favorite smell?
33. What inspires you?
34. What are you afraid of?
35. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers?
36. Favorite car?
37. Name 4 people to Tag!

Welcome back to another work week.

Well another weekend has pasted us by. I have to say WELCOME BACK KRIS AND CHRISTINA! I know they just returned from a weeks worth of vacation in Pennsylvania. The worst part about vacation is probably the third day back…Why? Well the first day you are getting caught up on all the things that have happened such as the latest gossip, who’s sleeping with who, who got drunk and said what, and all that jazz… then the second day is getting caught up on all the work that has been missed… then the third day… you finally unwind you’re almost caught up and you notice HEY IT’S ONLY WEDNESDAY! Yep that’s right still two more horrible days to go! It’s horrible… hate it! But if I didn’t work I’d probably hate that too… I know there’s just no pleasing me!

Well this weekend we were pretty quiet around our house. We cleaned up the house for some ol’ fashion football watching on Saturday. We watched Purdue get beat by Minnesota… they were the underdog and well they fought back in the last quarter… even managed to get to Over Time… but managed to lose it in Over time. Needless to say it was pretty gloomy around our house Saturday. But we did have some good food. We had hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill. I was making the hamburgers into patties and I have discovered that when doing this by hand you need to double or even triple what you think would be a “good” size hamburger b/c my hamburgers were very small and you needed two of them to fit one bun. DON’T YOU HATE THAT! I am definitely NOT an Iron Chef! So everyone ate them and that’s all that mattered. In fact I even brought them for lunch today! YUMMMMMMY! Can’t wait until lunch… of course it’s only 10 LOL I have awhile until lunch!

Lehna got LOTS of floor time this weekend. We put her on the floor to see if we could “teach” her how to crawl and she did get up on all fours once (by herself) and rocked once… then did the superman to her tummy. That was all the “crawling” we saw. She did however manage to roll all over.

On Sunday we went to Emily and Aaron’s to watch the COLT’S football game. We had a good time there overall… it was nice to see one of our teams win. Lehna got to see her best friends Madison and Tyler. Lehna played on the floor which Tait and I watched the game. She still didn’t crawl. She did however get VERY fussy towards the end. But I have discovered a little bump on her bottom gums… I think she’s getting a tooth! So I gave her Oral Gel and Tylenol and let me tell you that child was SOOOO much happier after that! So after the game I dropped Tait off so he could get his Scooby Doo hair style trimmed back to “normal” it was pretty long and I went shopping at Wal-mart for scrape booking supplies. I knew I was out of 10x10 pages so I picked up a pack of 100 sheets and some other fun stamps and then I headed over to get some picture frames for Lehna’s pictures THEN I went to the baby isles to get some learning toys of Lehna. I was VERY disappointed by the selection… then it dawned on me that the baby toys I was looking for were actually in the toy department. So I was off there. After getting LOTS of development toys and “bigger” toys for Lehna it was time to check out. I may have gone a little crazy… but what I can do I’m excited she wants to play with toys!

So after I picked Tait up we went back home and I got all of Lehna’s new toys out for her to play with. It was so fun watching her manipulate the blocks and rings I had a good time just watching her. She decided the container for the blocks was LOTS more fun playing with then the actual blocks but that happens. And of course I DIDN’T take pictures… b/c I suck! I was telling Tait that I probably should have held some of the toys back for Christmas… but heck who cares she’s only little once!

So after awhile I had an itching to do some scrape booking and I passed Lehna to Tait and I did some much needed scrap book time. I managed to get 4 pages completed and I have enough stuff to do another page. So I’m excited about that. I found some EXCELLENT pictures that I want to scan in so I have them forever on disk but I want to be able to put them in the scrap book… and since my printer sucks I have to take whatever pictures I can take! I am going to work on it off and on but I need to get a few more ideas of what to put on them, but I’m sure something will come along! I need to get my printer working again and print off pictures onto paper… I think I like it much better working with paper then photo paper, and the results are about the same, but that sounds like a lot more effort… and again I SUCK and I’m FREAKING lazy!

But after about 1 hour of scrape booking Lehna decided that she wanted me… she was crying and just reaching towards me and Tait kept saying “I think she wants you” so I couldn’t say no to a crying baby… the poor girl her mouth hurts. So I played with her for about 45 mins and then I started the bedtime routine. I have to say that Lehna is now falling asleep in her bed by herself at night. I’m so excited of course we just started this routine and with her teething the success maybe short lived… but you know it was nice THIS week!

Lehna’s cough is also much better now the liquid steroid really helped tremendously we have one more treatment of it tonight and then she’ll be done, but if she gets the cough again the doctor said to call him and he’ll prescribe something for her! YEAH! So I’m happy about that!

Well that’s about it as far as my weekend update. Tait and I are going on a Mini Date tonight so I’m very excited. Tanna has agreed to baby sit Lehna while we go out to eat. I’m excited! I was talking to Chris about finding a “local” babysitter and she suggested another one of our friend’s daughters and she’s conveniently placed in our city!!! Soooo I think that the next movie I want to see I will be calling her! YEAH! Alright well I think that’s all I have for now… Oh Marcus talked to Daniel this weekend he’s doing really well and he’s having a great time! So I’m glad to hear that! Okay well that’s all I got!

News from my friends from CHICAGO

I have a dear friend that I made about 3-4 years ago when I first started going to Purdue University. Most of you know that my I hated my first semester at Purdue because I thought everyone was rude and incredibly stuck up and I was longing for the closeness of USI from which I came. Well as the first few weeks rolled by I started talking to Jennifer in my Black and White photography class at Purdue and we started talking and quickly became fast friends. Well Jen and I had many things in common she was a Communications Major and Photography Minor and I was a double Major in Communications and Photography. And we had this VERY obnoxious girl in our Photography class who I dubbed "gorilla woman" (she was incredibly hairy) and we both didn't like her b/c she was freaking annoying. (There were other things in common as well) Well Jen and I kept having classes together and it was great because Jen and I would study for tests together and do projects with one another and it was really just wonderful being able to become friends with her. So even though I graduated and so has Jen, Jen and I have still kept in contact with one another. Emailing, calling, and visiting when we can just to keep in touch. Well just recently (very recently) her boyfriend, who I meet when we were at Purdue, proposed to Jen and Jen very HAPPILY accepted. I asked her to tell me the story and quite simply I don't think that anyone could tell her quite as well as she can... so I'm going to copy it out of the email she sent me...

We went to a White Sox game last night with a bunch of my friends and their significant others. We were sitting, watching the game and he kept bugging me to go get ice cream or cotton candy with him. Finally I went and I bought him cotton candy. As we were walking back to our seats he said "Reach in my pocket and pull out some change for the cotton candy". I pulled out a black cloth and thought "you keep your change in this? Here you go". He wanted me to open it, but figured he would just open it. This whole time he was asking me "how much do you love me?" It's a game we play and I usually answer something like 1 million swedish fish, but for some reason I answered forever. Then he asked "even when I'm old and fat?" and I of course said yes. Then he asked "are you sure forever?" as he was getting down on his knees opening the black cloth to reveal the ring. I was just SOOOO shocked!!! I was not expecting it at all. Just earlier that day I was talking to my friend Sarah saying I don't know when it's going to happen, I would just like to have some kind of idea. How funny, huh? Just when I least expect it. He asked me at the Sox game because a lot of my friends were there and he thought I would have liked them to be there. So after we had our moment, we went back to our seats and everyone started freaking out when I showed them my hand. It was really great.

So both Tait and I are incredibly excited for her and we both wish Nick and Jen the best. So now I can finally stop asking "are you engaged yet?" I know Jen is thrilled about that! Well here are some pictures of them and the ring. Take care, you too crazy love birds! I can't wait to see you in OCTOBER!

Congratulations Nick and Jen!

A Picture of the beautiful ring!

Jen is going to have the band of the ring turned antique.

LEHNA'S 6 MONTH PHOTO SHOOT

Well as promised I managed to get Lehna's 6 month pictures scanned and reformated so I could put them up on the web. I hope you enjoy. It's amazing just how FAST she is changing... Enjoy!

This is the face Lehna normally makes when the camera comes out!

This was the RARE occasion that we actually "captured" a smile!

This is the picture that Jackie scammed the lady out of at Wal-mart. Originally the picture had the lady's hair in the picture but Jackie convinced the lady that she would have only gotten that picture but since it had her hair in the picture she didn't want it... Then the lady offered it to her for FREE and Jackie said "okay"... Little did the lady know that's the picture Jackie LOVED and she was almost willing to pay the $20 buck for it! Sneaking Aunt Jackie!

Whinney Weekday

Okay it’s time for another round of whines for the week. I hope you enjoy!

1. Daisy… Last night the retardo dog woke me up AGAIN! This time she woke up and I put her outside and she literally was out there for like 30 seconds then started to whine to come in… mind you it was Early O’clock in the morning so I let her in… well not two hours later she was whining to go out AGAIN! So I get up put her outside… this time it was POURING DOWN RAIN… I still pushed her outside and said “enjoy dumb dumb” So after I put her back in her crate, soaking wet (hehehe), she still never laid down and went back too sleep… GRRRRR Free Dog! Anyone want a beagle?

2. Sounding like an Idiot…Why is it when you think your kid is going to act one way they completely surprise you and you end up sounding like a FREAK? Lehna is taking a Liquid Steroid to get rid of her cough well when we gave her the medicine she vomited ALLLLLL OVER Tait. Well I tried to tell them at daycare that she will probably throw up and don’t be surprised and be prepared. And so they gave her a dose and I asked Penny how it went… Penny said it went GREAT! She took it no problem no spit up no nothing… ARE YOU KIDDING ME? So in the end I just sounded like an idiot… again!

3. Lack of Planning… Well this week there was some investors coming in and well they didn’t tell me until an hour before the investors were due in that they wanted the pop upstairs refilled… so I had to go huffing it 3 blocks, in platform shoes, to get the precious pop machine filled in an hour! Why didn’t they tell me YESTERDAY that there were investors I could have PLANNNNNNNNED and NOT wore platform shoes!!

4. Stupid People… Our office building elevator was having some major issues. Well I pushed the button to go up and was patiently waiting for the elevator to return to my floor. While I was standing their two other people, at different times, came in and PUSHED THE BUTTON, I guess they thought that I was just standing there for my health… I guess they thought if everyone pushed the button then the elevator would come faster!

5. Platform shoes… Okay Tanna this one is for you. Now I LOVE being tall and platform shoes make me feel that way (that’s what happens when you’re short!) but man they are KILLER on my feet. I wore platforms today and I think that I may have to amputate my feet when I get home to end the suffering. But I don’t think the walking to get pop helped too much!

6. Sleepiness… So this morning I was driving Tait and Lehna, to daycare and work when the radio was blaring and I was at a stop sign. I was thinking that I wanted the radio to be turned down; well I turned on my turn signal to do this… Tait then asked me “Where are you going, are you taking a new route today?” LOL I told him that I wanted the radio to be quite and I thought turning on the turn signal would accomplish this… he just kind of looked at me like I was nuts… I said that I was tried… he said “Maybe I should drive.” Oppps. I tell you my brain malfunctions ONE time and he thinks that I was incapable of driving.

7. Litter Boxes… It’s that wonderful time of the week again to change the kitty boxes! I’ve given up trying to get Tait to do it this week. All weekend I was trying to get him to do it and it was always, “I’ll do it later” response well it’s time to do it… The Tiger Monster is started to eye my shoes and personally I don’t want my shoes to smell like Kitty Pee!

8. Baby Food… Lehna tried Creamed Spinach for the first time yesterday and from what I hear she really enjoyed it. But not only was it all over the front of her shirt but she had managed to get it all over the back of her shirt, in her hair, in her ear, up her nose, and on her feet! When I asked Penny about it she said that she thought she had cleaned it all off she said that when she was feeding Lehna she seemed not to be too messy… I’m thinking that Lehna was trying to put the spinach in her napkin, or feed the dog and she forgot that she didn’t have those options so she did alternate places. I can’t decide whether to send more spinach or not.

9. Dinner Plan… Why is it on Tait’s night to cook dinner I can think of like 50 million different things that I could make for dinner? Then on my nights I draw a total blank. Tonight is my night and I don’t have the faintest idea what I’m going to make. Boy I wish I had a maid… just like the one on the Brady Bunch someone to clean my house and cook for my family… wouldn’t that be heaven!

10. The Golden Reimbursement check… This is seriously like the golden ticket in the Willy Wanka Chocolate bars. I keep hearing that we are supposed to be getting a travel reimbursement from the state of Indiana for Tait and his weekly travels back and forth from home to IUPUI but he has been in training for 8 weeks and we still haven’t received ONE check yet. So it’s become like the big joke in our house about getting the golden check. It’s quite a large sum of money and every time Tait and I talk about it we have a different plan on what we are going to do with it… it sounds like we are going to be responsible and pay bills, that is of course if we ever see it, but it’s usually the conversation of our normal drive time home chatter is betting whether or not the check will be at the post office we have dubbed it “the disappointment of the day,” to help lighten the mood.

Well that's all I got this week. I hope you all have a great weekend!

A trip around the world and we returned unharmed…

Okay so maybe it wasn’t around the world but we were around Central Indiana again this weekend! On Saturday Lehna and I headed to Indianapolis for a last minute plan to visit the Indianapolis Zoo with Aunt Jackie. We first went out to eat and that was yummy and then we headed to Once Upon a Child for some Baby Jeans… and let me tell you I found 5 CUTE pairs… all under $4 wow can’t beat that! And I also found some matching tee shirts to go with them… Man I LOVE that store! We also found a VERY cute white dress for our family pictures coming up in November I’m VERY excited about it!!!! I now have two dresses for the two sessions I’m going to be doing… again scamming Wal-mart but oh well. So I can’t wait! So we headed to the zoo about 1 ish… The zoo was packed on top of it being a nice 78 degree day it was BEAUTIFUL outside!! The zoo had lots of people but Jackie and I stayed away from all the buildings exhibits and that DEFINTELY helped the crowded factor of the journey.

We went to see the Walruses and I have to tell you I was about to TROTTLE the little teeny bobber volunteer. The baby walrus was right next to the glass kissing the glass and play “around” Well she was tapping on the glass getting the walrus to come over and kiss the glass and blow bubbles, well she was basically just standing in front of the glass section just standing their asking repeatedly if anyone had any questions which of course no one did they wanted to SEE the walrus but couldn’t b/c she was in the way… Well I started tapping on the glass and the walrus started to come towards our direction and did for about 30 seconds before the “volunteer” started tapping on the glass and pulled its attention away from our section… I mean there were TONS of freaking people that were trying to see the walrus but couldn’t b/c of her… The other adult volunteer stood up on the stands over everyone but at least she was OUT OF THE WAY!!! So Jackie and I left after that I was not impressed by the teeny bobber volunteer!

We decided to get tickets for the train so Lehna could see all the animals. Well our wait wasn’t too bad it was nice to have Lehna outside. So we got on the train and I have to tell you the train was HILARIOUS! First of all there is this commentary between Jean the Giraffe and Elly the Elephant that was cheesy but hey kids love it. But the train “ride” was well VERY funny. You go by the giraffes and zebras which was fun and they make this announcement, this is basically a summary of the announcement, “Our train ride used to go down to many different exhibits of the zoo but it doesn’t anymore but it now goes to the “restricted area” of the zoo” LOL Well the train wound through to were you could see the “zoo fueling station,” literally a gas pump, the “Transportation dock for new animals,” a big fenced in area that you couldn’t see into, “the recycling area” BIG dumpsters, and the “veterinary center” this was the crazy part they had these BIG pictures of animals that were like mid surgery but they had like the breathing tubes in the mouths to assist them to breath… kind of interesting but not appropriate for a little kid ride… It also had LOTS of buildings that you could only see behind them. But apparently LOTS of children love this ride which I understand but it’s a little cheesy for $2 a person… But the ride cracked me up. I’m sure we will take Lehna on it again once she gets bigger it was just funny. We also have extra tickets for the caracole for next visit. But it was funny and we did enjoy ourselves. Here are some pictures of the trip around the zoo.

This is an elephant I know he has a name but I don’t remember nor do I remember if this was male of female… I forgot… I suck

These baboons were HILAROUS we watched them for quite a long time. The baby was so cute.

And what would a trip to the zoo be without a picture of the giraffes.

Lehna and her favorite “toy” Aunt Jackie

Lehna and her mommy

On Sunday we headed to Williamsport to visit The Wagner’s. We arrived pretty early because he had plans for the Colt’s game. Tonya, Anthony, Jake, and Tylee (I know that’s not spelled right), came down to visit with us and see Lehna. Jake was sooo cute. He kept coming over to Lehna and giving her big kisses and hugs the whole time we were there and kept asking Tonya if he could hold her. Tonya finally gave in and let Jake hold Lehna and Lehna just grabbed his cheeks and lips and Jake just laughed it was VERY cute. At one point Tait asked Jake (pointing to Lehna) what her name was and Jake said “this is My Lehna” it was so funny. But Anthony was putting Lehna’s bottle on the table and Jake went over to him and said “No daddy you can’t have that that’s My Lehna’s bottle not yours” it was very sweet. Tylee is getting so big she is the same age as Landyn (actual born on the same day and everything) but she was too funny. She kept walking over to the baby and would just smile then walk over to me and smile, it was pretty sweet. She was VERY friendly she didn’t care who picked her up or anything she was just a very social child. Below are some pictures of Grandma and Grandpa both holding Lehna.

Grandma Wagner holding Lehna

Grandpa Wagner holding Lehna

(Grandpa didn’t want to hold her b/c of his arm but Grandma insisted, which he of course did fine)

Jake, Tonya, and Lehna

After our short visit we went to watch the Colt’s win against Jacksonville, Sorry Sarah. It was a rough game for the Colt’s though I wasn’t sure they were going to pull it off. Oh and Tait and I have started a little game in which we try and guess who’s going to win the games… well after the first week Tait won both sections of the Pro team and Big 10. I did pretty well choosing but my double shocks KILLLLLLED me! Darn it! Stupid Norte Dame and Stupid Raiders! If one of them would have pulled through I would have WON ONE of the serious!! Oh well… well hopefully I’ll do better next week.

I’m hoping to put Lehna’s pictures up for her photo shoot VERY soon. I hope to have them up by tomorrow. Okay well that’s all I have for now…

Just for the Record!

Okay so I did my weekly whine yesterday but when I tried to post it... the Blogger site was down... so it was done on Wedensday! Also Tanna got Lehna the CUTEST outfit and I wanted to show everyone. Isn't it cute?

Sitting Pretty!

Also Lehna is now becoming more vocal she made a new sound last night she can now make the trumpet sound like an elephant. She learned how to do it last night after smacking her lips together like an old man. It was pretty cute and VERY loud. Also she is starting to learn how to crawl very slowly of course. She can scoot backwards and turn all the way around but she still can't figure out how to do it forwards. Penny said she thinks by the end of September she will be crawling forward. Tait said by the end of next week he thinks she'll be crawling, me I'm not sure I really don't want her mobile yet so she can take her time. But anyways enjoy the Whiney Weekday!


Whiney Weekday!

Welcome to another week of Whiney Weekday the time I take to publicly whine all my private trials away!

1. Kitty Pee… Yep it’s on here again. This time we have eliminated the kitty pee in the dirty clothes but he’s now peeing on our shoes? How does one correct this when you aren’t home during the day? Of course he is on a one more time basis and if he does it again he’s going to be a permanent outside kitty cat!

2. Change of Seasons Cold Bug… Yes the wonderful cold bug has spread its magical pixy dust in our direction. So we all our suffering for the cough, congested sinus, headache, and body aches. Oh the change in seasons is a MIRACLE OF LIFE!

3. The Sock Monster… I don’t know about you but lately the sock monster has been eating up soooooo many of our socks. I swear I have about 50 new single socks and no matches to be found anywhere. I guess it’s time to spray again!

4. The Age of Patience… For those of you that know me my patience level is really VERY low and I am patiently trying to wait for a call from Manpower and I haven’t heard anything back yet! They said one to two weeks and this is the beginning of the second week… please call me back people!!!! I can’t take this type of waiting!

5. More Patience…. I finally talked to someone from Manpower today and well they told me that the position that we talked about in the interview, the supervisor position, is just now going to be to the public and I’m still a leading candidate for the position, which means MORE WAITING… such anxiety! She said she probably wouldn’t have the position fully filled for another 2-3 weeks… (((Sigh))) But I did mention to her that I hope that after the open resume collection that I am still in the lead for the position and she said “I hope so too” so I hope that’s something… I really don’t want to read too much into it! I think it’s a BIT late for that! (sigh) So once again I am thinking positive again!

6. Baby Diapers… Lehna’s room is starting to smell like old gym socks and it’s coming from her diaper pail. We empty the pail all the time but I am thinking that we may have to start washing it out… not that we get the crap (LOL) all over the trash can I just think the pail just smells of dirty baby diapers, YUCK!

7. Fleas… The animals have FLEAS AGAIN! Again we are on the endless battle of fighting the dumb fleas. Friends of ours had to finally call the Oren man to come out and spray… I really don’t want to do that… but it’s starting to look like a viable option to get rid of them forever! I hate fleas!

8. Baby Monitors… Why is it that baby monitors take batteries? I understand that you move them from room to room and sure having batteries would be nice on occasion when you do that… but why isn’t there like an adaptor hole for the monitor that you carry from room to room so when you put it in your bedroom at night you don’t have to worry if the batteries go out in the middle of the night… like last night!

9. Mowing the lawn… Well it’s that time again. We had a break last week b/c it was so freaking hot but it looks like this weekend we are going to have to mow the yard. At least it won’t be so hot here.

10. Laundry… Well I can now check up on all my laundry but I actually have no motivation whatsoever so now I have a continuously growing mound of clothes with no desire to start washing them!

Big Smile!

Hail! Hail! To Old Purdue all hail to the old gold and black….

IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN SPORTS FANS!

Boy it was all a bustle at my house this weekend! Purdue football on Saturday complete with Tailgating then on Sunday Colt’s football! And surprisingly enough both of my teams won YEAH! Although I have to admit I didn’t stay awake for the conclusion of the Colt’s game I briefly remember waking up and getting the score from Tait but I didn’t even know what he said…

Let’s Go BOILERS!

So on Saturday we headed to West Lafayette for some good old fashion tailgating and football watching. It was GREAT we had breakfast with eggs, pancakes, bacon and sausage! Then after the game we had burgers and chicken! It was a GREAT day for me!!!!!! I love to eat… can you tell? So I have to tell you I had about 2 beers and a bottle of Boone’s well I finished off the Boone’s in like 30 mins… and I was a little dizzy but that was about it… I really didn’t want to get to drunk since the baby was with us. But here are some pictures of the Tailgating party!

I love my aunt Jackie, and my fingers!

So on Sunday we did some MUCH needed cleaning. I was doing really well most of the morning with cleaning I was organizing book shelves and everything else and had just starting getting the kitchen clean and then Kris and Christina called and said they were on their way to bring the washer! YEAH A NEW WASHER! But my house was only HALF DONE! So at that point I pushed into to HIGH gear and quickly finished the rest of the house… of course Tait helped. We put the baby in the hallway so she could see us both and I cleaned the bathroom and Tait swept… it worked pretty well for the most part. Soooo we put in the WONDERFUL washer and it runs and doesn’t leak water all over my floor… THANK YOU CHRISTINA AND KRIS! It’s great having a washer again! It’s even better when I don’t have to pay anything. So we put our piece of crap in the garage, maybe one day we’ll get it fixed who knows… it’s just a piece of crap… I think I’m going to write the company b/c it’s so ridiculous! But I’ll save my rants for the letter.

Sunday evening we went to Chris and Rob’s house to watch the football game. I made some white chocolate macadamia nut cookies it was the kind that you just scoop our and bake… of course I didn’t “hand” make it… right! They were a big hit we left at the half time since Lehna had fallen asleep and I was really tired from all that cleaning in the morning! It was nice seeing the Roy’s family, they actually had some other friends there and it was nice being able to meet some other people that had kids so we could talk. Carrie and Neal have a 2 year old daughter named Ryan and she is SUCH a cutie pie! She was playing with Tyler (Rob and Chris’ 4 year old), and at one point they were in Tyler’s room with the door shut, and a blanket over them and they were asking to have the light shut off. LOL you should have seen Neal’s face… too funnnnny! After that they were told to go to the front room. Purely innocent but it was funny. But Neal and Carrie are going to be having a baby boy on today they are having a scheduled C-Section. Both of them are REALLY nice so it was fun, so I’m sure we’ll see them again. I told Tait it’s like we are living off of other people’s friends… but what else can when we do when we really don't have the opportunity to meet new friends. After all this isn’t college anymore where new people are around all the time. I know we are sad  Madison (Chris and Rob’s new baby) is doing GREAT by the way. Her scar is pretty non existent and she is now a whooping 8 lbs! ALMOST half the size of Lehna. She’s a whooping 18 lbs!

Lehna Behna is doing great by the way. We are starting to give her, her medication on a more “regular” basis (reflux medicine) I always forget. She has been spitting up a bit but she also has the cough that’s been going around so it’s not too much of a concern right now.

Penny who watches Lehna at daycare told me about another baby’s mommy in Lehna’s class named Madyson that she’s worried about her daughter because Lehna seems to be so far ahead of Madyson. Penny told her that Lehna started picking up on things because of Luke and it won’t be long before Madyson will be doing the same things Lehna is, Penny told me she was very concerned but she kept trying to tell her that she was really fine and that Madyson was developing on a fine schedule. But she told Penny that she wanted Lehna and Madyson paired up all the time so Madyson can watch Lehna and learn from her. It’s kind of nice to know that Lehna is such a leader, but I’m sure it’s b/c she’s just imitating Luke. Lehna and Luke are best buddies. Lehna is always watching Luke no matter where he is… especially at lunch and breakfast time and Lehna is always trying to do everything Luke does.

The other day Penny was telling me that Lehna was in the exosauser and Luke crawled over to it and was pulling himself up and just as Luke was standing up, Lehna would jump in the exosauser and it would then knock Luke over. Penny said Luke would give Lehna a really mad face and then Lehna would sit still and Luke would try again and Lehna would wait again until he was almost standing then knock him down again. Penny said Lehna would just laugh and smile at him. She’s such a rat. It's funny that she’s a bully in one situation then a leader in another silly girl!

Here are some pictures of the football game. I LOVE Purdue Football!!!!!!!

This is a section of seats 30 mins before the game

This is the same section of seats 30 mins before the game was over

Final Score

GO PURDUE!

Even Lehna was in the game spirit!

Thanks for reading about us!

Update with Whiney Thursday… Again with the Thursday

Okay so I guess I set my standards WAY to high with assigning myself a special day to actually be organized enough in order to write an update… so my official whine day is going to be Wednesday or Thursday… that will ease the PRESSURE! Actually probably not but, whatever. So the Whine is going to be at the end this is just a middle of the week update… so enjoy!

First things first, Lehna had her appointment with the specialist yesterday… and the verdict is… well there isn’t one really. The doctor told me that he can hear her wheeze but he isn’t 100% sure she actually has asthma. They don’t like to diagnose them when they are her age b/c chances are she will grow out of it. So he said that since she has been doing the treatments for about a month a normal asthmatic child will not wheeze after the amount of treatments that she’s had so he thinks that maybe there is another trigger. He thinks that it sounds like she may suffer from acid reflux and so he prescribed a reflux medication. He said that children with this condition will wheeze as well so we are to try the medication and continue giving her the steroid treatment once a day for the next three months. After that time he wants to see her back to see if her condition is any better. He did take x-rays and I must say I was impressed by his bedside manor. He played with Lehna and talked to her and everything it was nice. He also said that if anything comes up with Lehna respiratory wise to give him a call and he would be more then happy to see her, so for a specialist I was very impressed. So that’s where we stand on that. Also I am attaching pictures b/c I did say that I would try…

These pictures were actually taken when we were in Wisconsin and I forgot I had taken them.

Lehna lounging out on Grandma and Grandpa’s Patio

Lehna still lounging

This picture was the ONE picture that I took this weekend of Helen and Lehna at Caribbean Cove… Can you tell Lehna is teething?

YUMMMMY Thumb Grandma!

The last section of pictures is actually Lehna Turning over… she can flip over to both sides now… and she’s like a little flap jack… once she gets a moving she’s ALLLLL over the place. She’ll be crawling before long…

Start Here

Mid-Roll

Yeah what a BIG girl!

She is also VERY curious about whatever object we have on use… so she got a little close with the camera….

AHAWAAAWAAAA


Look Mama I can Talk!

Now for the featured presentation WHINEY WEEKDAY!

1. Ironing… Well this morning I had ironed a very nice button up shirt to go with my black pants and put it on and was holding Lehna… usually I wait till the VERY last moment to get dressed b/c Lehna is a spit upper… welllllll As I was getting ready to get her dressed she spits up ALLLLL OVER my nice ironed shirt… so I got to spend another 10 mins and iron another shirt! I HATE IRONING!

2. Baby food… besides the fact that it smells nasty and looks horrible. I put Lehna in this beautiful white and red dress and sent her to day care well when I picked her up she had carrot stains ALLLLLLL down the front of it. And so for the last 2 days it has been soaking in a cold water bath, hoping it will come out. Note to self no white at daycare!
3. The washer… Words cannot explain how I feel of the piece of crap I call a washer! It’s like this week has been the week that I have NEEDED my washer… I have had to go back to college mentality when I wear my clothes… I wear my jeans once then hang them back up b/c I only wore them for 4-5 hours… clearly not a whole day so they are still good. Man I wish my washer worked!

4. Daisy… yep the dumb dog is still whinnying at night. I have been ignoring her to the best of my ability at night but at the same time I hear her and I just try to not move so she knows I’m not awake… Trying to out smart a beagle at Early O’clock in the morning is really not too fun especially when I’m half asleep. Are you sure no one wants a very SWEET beagle?

5. My Wallet… This morning I forgot to grab my wallet out of the diaper bag from yesterday so I feel like I’m missing my whole life. I keep thinking of all the errands I could be doing and then I realize that I don’t have my freaking wallet on me so I have no means of paying or proving who I am!

6. Text Messaging… Why is it when you try to text message on your phone all the letters that you need are all on the same key so when you try to type a message it takes 15 mins b/c you have to wait for the freaking cursor to move over… does anyone know of a short cut?

7. Eye Liner… I put on make up yesterday for my special “appointment,” tell you about it later for those that don’t know… but I woke up this morning with like big BLACK RACOON EYES. I forgot to take it off before I went to bed… so I was trying to scrub it off and surprise surprise you can’t, it is permanently absorbed in my skin! So I had to reapply it this morning… to help distract!

8. Yahoo Mail Account… So Yahoo’s Spam Filter is a piece of crap. Seriously I have like 400 spam emails everyday and I diligently go through and mark each one as spam b/c they are supposed to be put on some “spam list” what a joke! And no mater what I put on the filter’s they all still come through… I mean it’s a pain in the butt… thank goodness this service is free if it wasn’t I would be REALLY upset!
9. Laziness… I have been so freaking Lazy lately that I’m starting to annoy myself. Every day I wake up and think hummm when I get home tonight I’m going to go for a walk with Lehna. Then by the time I get home I’m so lazy I usually pop the T.V on and go to sleep about 8:30-9 or as soon as Lehna goes to sleep.

10. Cleaning my house: So I have put off cleaning my house for the last couple of weeks and you can DEFINTELY tell it’s been neglected. I was looking around my bathroom this morning and after I had to ask permission to use my hairbrush from the huge dust bunny that guards the hair supplies I have decided that is going to be my major task this weekend! YEAH HOUSE CLEANING ON A SUNDAY HOW MUCH FUN CAN I HANDLE!

Well Thanks again for reading out us! I hope you all have a GREAT weekend!

Weekend Review

Well another weekend has come to a close and can you believe it it’s already Tuesday! That means that tomorrow is WHINNY WEDNESDAY! I need it this week! Welllll let me see where to start… First of all let me tell you I only took ONE picture this weekend… why well I just wasn’t the picture taking mood I guess… I don’t know so I know this will be like three weeks soooo maybe I’ll take some tonight and post them tomorrow with my whinny Wednesday post, no promises though.

This weekend was of course very busy but what else did you expect. On Friday night Lehna and I went and crashed at Marcus and Jackie’s place since we were going to be meeting Helen, Tanna, Landyn, and all of those guys on Saturday morning… and Tait went to Speedway to meet his brother at BW3’s for the Indiana University vs. Central Michigan game, and I didn’t want to be by myself I’m social animal you know! So we headed over there and got pizza which was yummy and watched TV. It was a nice Friday night, very relaxing.

On Saturday we meet Helen, Tanna, Landyn, Steve, Shari, Camryn, and Tara at the Holiday Inn Express with Caribbean Cove in Indianapolis. The hotel has an indoor water park complete with indoor water slides and lazy river. When we arrived Lehna was all smiles and was in a good mood. We headed in the pool, which was a good time. Lehna of course had a great time she loves playing in the water. Lehna and I went to the smaller wading pool and played in the water there, but Lehna wasn’t too keen on sitting in the water directly so I kept her on my lap and she wasn’t really into that either so we headed to the Lazy River. So we went around the Lazy River like 5 times, it was very relaxing.
She really enjoyed that she laughed and smiled the whole time and just looked around at all the different sites. After we went around we went over to the bigger pool and I found a nice little edge to sit on and held Lehna in the pool. She had a really good time in the bigger pool, she got to splash (she learned how) and was kicking up a storm it was a good time. We played for probably 3 hours in the pool and then we went to eat at Texas Roadhouse, which was of course tasty, by that time Lehna was so tired she slept almost the whole time at the restaurant and then she woke up when our food arrived which was good b/c it gave me a free hand. After we ate we then went back to the hotel and we kind of relaxed a little bit and feed Lehna. We then had cake at the hotel for Travis Birthday, which was fun and watched him unwrap his gifts, by then Lehna was pretty tucked out but we put her back in her swim suit to see if she wanted to play in the pool again. We took her down to the pool, and this time the water was MUCH colder this time and she shook b/c she was so cold. We got out of the pool and got her changed and she was good. That night she woke up once for a bottle which she barely had an ounce out of before falling back to sleep. And that was good b/c I was pretty tired and that meant I didn’t have to get up! So she slept until about 6 and then she was very much awake and ready to go. Lehna and I went on a walk of the hotel while we waited for the rest of the family to wake up. So after our stroll we went to go eat at Bob Evan’s and then Lehna and I went home on Sunday.

On Sunday I wanted to clean the house so Tait was watching/playing with Lehna and I went into the laundry room to start a load of laundry since I was behind like 7 loads! Well I had to do a load of whites on hot with bleach water thanks to the WONDERFUL cat that decided the white laundry basket was his litter box… Sooooo I started the washer and put the cat box outside to clean and when I came back in I noticed that the floor was wet right by the washer and it was in the bathroom. Well I went in and told Tait and that either the washer or bathroom was leaking water, he went and investigated and sure enough it was the wonderful washer! YEAH! So after he spent about an hour using the wet vac to clean up all the wonderful hot bleach water we decided to head to the laundry mat and after 2-3 hours later all of the washing was done. Needless to say I am not happy about the washer but at least all the washing got done in one swoop. So what to do about the piece of crap washer well the washer was purchased two years ago and already this is the second time we would have to fix it… of course last time we had the warranty to fall back on, not so true now… the warranty is not out soooo what to do. I’m going to call and find out what to do but the problem si when do I have time to stay off work to get the piece of crap thing fixed. I mean I can’t take any more work I mean seriously! So I am going to call and find out if they would even be willing to take a look at the piece of crap and then try to figure out a time in which they can come… man I wish Tait could take off some freaking work! This depending on me crap sucks bad! On top of that Lehna has the appointment with the specialist this week so that leaves tomorrow out… so I don’t know it’s a major problem. Personally I don’t want to sink any money in this piece of crap and put the money towards a new washer I mean if it’s just going to break in another year to six months… seriously! So I don’t know. I know we can’t go without a washer I mean just yesterday Lehna managed to spit up on both Tait and I and of course on herself so it was a problem just trying to wash out her cloths so they wouldn’t mold… grrrrrrrr I mean usually I could just throw the outfit in with whatever load I was going to do… no so true now… so I don’t know I’m sure some kind of plan will fall into our laps but until then it’s the laundry mat we go. YEAH MY FAVORITE PLACE TO BE!

On Monday Tait and I just cleaned the house and talked of plans of what to do about the washer and we have decided calling them first and seeing what happens… But other than the washer incident it was a nice weekend. I hope all of you had a good weekend. Okay well I bet you can’t tell what my whiney Wednesday will be about? Okay well that’s all I got... I hope you all have a great SHORT week! Thanks again for reading about us!

Whinny Thursday….

Okay so I didn’t get my whines up on Wednesday so I thought I would include them today… I know LUCKY YOU! So here they are…

1. Laundry… let me tell you what a VICOUS cycle it is… I still have 5 loads left and I did 4 yesterday!

2. Baby Medicine… They want us to give Lehna a teaspoon of her orange gew and let me tell you first of all Lehna HATES IT! And secondly, it STAINS… so as she is pushing it out with her TONGUE it is staining clothes and furniture alike!

3. Work… at work I feel like the person picked last for Gym class teams… I just don’t “fit.” It’s super depressing.

4. Ironing… I have successfully gone two weeks without having to do one piece of ironing… tomorrow I will have to iron… I HATE ironing.

5. Kitty Pee… yeah that’s right Kitty Pee… I don’t know if the freaking cat peed on my shoe or what but ALL DAY I have smelled Kitty Pee… just wait until I get a hold of that cat!

6. Hair… Every morning I have VERY little time to blow dry my hair so I have done the wet look and for me that makes my hair go naturally wavy and not the pretty wavy so for the last couple of weeks I have had my hair pulled up in a pony tail. I’m getting tired of the pony tail look but too LAZY to get out of bed the extra 15 mins to have time to blow dry my hair.

7. Mowing. Even though we JUST MOWED on Sunday it looks like thanks to the rain gods that we get to mow AGAIN this holiday weekend… just what I want to do…does anyone know where I can rent a couple of goats?

8. Gas… Those gas whoring thieves are up to their old tricks again… $3.25 per gallon are the NUTZ where to they think we can come up with THAT kind of money, Trees?

9. Beginning of the month… Yep another month has begun that just means the bills start ALL OVER AGAIN! Man if only we could NEVER have bills.

10. Daisy… She woke me up 4 times last night to go potty that’s worse then Lehna she only woke up once. Does any one want a beagle? She’s super sweet!

Okay that’s enough for this week. Thanks for reading about my moans and groans. I realize that even though the horrible tragedy of Hurricane Katrina my whines are pathetic and probably shouldn’t be mentioned. But I do feel for all the victims of the hurricanes and I know nothing I experience in my life time will probably ever amount to the burden and anguish many of the victims are feeling. So I do apologize for my pathetic whinnying in this moment of tragedy.