I have a new obsession.

OK, I know the whole Twilight craze probably started years ago for most people.  But, I only watched the first three Twilight movies within the last 6 months, so the craze is new for me.

During the week of Thanksgiving, I bought and read all of the Twilight books.  I barely put my Nook down that week.  Since reading the books, I have watched all of the movies again, and now I have seen Breaking Dawn three times. (In all honesty, I will probably go home and watch it again tonight.)  I went to see Breaking Dawn Part 1 in theaters the first weekend it was out.  I have told my husband and parents that I want the Blu Ray movies for Christmas.  Lately every day at work, when I’m not busy, I have been on You Tube watching interviews and out takes/bloopers from the movies.

I have a sort of tiny obsession with Robert Pattinson.  I love watching interviews that he has done, he seems like an incredibly funny and sincere person..Not to mention the fact that I think he is super sexy.  I have upgraded my Netflix account to be able to receive DVD’s as well as the Instant Streaming, and have put nothing but Robert Pattinson movies on my waiting list for DVD’s.  (I have already seen and returned the first 3 Twilight movies so my husband could watch them with me, because he had never seen them and he was willing to watch them with me!)

I kind of feel like a teenage girl.  Being so “obsessed” with these movies, and this actor, but I also feel like it’s ok for me to have these two things that I enjoy.

I mean, everyone has the right to have a few things they like, even if no one else understands why, right?  Anyway, I’ve watched Water for Elephants again, with Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, which is a very good movie, even if you don’t have the “crush” that I have on R.P..  I will be watching Remember Me in the next week or so, and hopefully that will be a good movie as well.  Either way, good or not, I’m sure I’ll enjoy it since R.P. is in it!

So, that’s the latest on me.  Boring, I know, but ME nonetheless.

Until next time~Happy Blogging!~

My pup, Kobe, passed away.

On April 20, 2011, I had to put my pup, Kobe, down.  It was a very bad, dark, sad day for me and for my kids.  Kobe was fine when we woke up that morning.  We had put him in the kennel with the other dogs the night before because the coyotes sounded bad and I didn’t want Kobe to get a wild hair and run out into the woods after them.  So, when we went outside to leave for work/school, Kobe was jumping up to tell us “HI!” and everything was fine.

When I got home from work that afternoon around 1700 or so, I looked out in the kennel and didn’t see Kobe.  I got the kids out of the car, and shouted Kobe’s name, and still nothing.  I walked out to the kennel and finally saw him.  He was laying against the pump house, not moving, but still breathing.  I saw blood in sporadic places around the  dog houses, and on the giant rock we have out there for a cool place to lay…Then I went inside the kennel to get closer to him.  Kobe still wouldn’t move, he just laid there, all he would move were his eyes.  I got to where he could see me, and he just stared…I couldn’t get him to get up and come to me, he wouldn’t even move his head.  It was scary, because Kobe always jumped around and wanted to be as close to me as he could get.

I called my dad, and he came home and took Kobe to the Emergency Vet.  I stayed home because I didn’t want my kids to go to the vet, and no one else was home to watch them, so I stayed and did my mommy thing and cried when I got a free minute and thought about Kobe.

After several hours, my dad called me.  Kobe had been diagnosed with Arlichia.  It’s a tick borne disease that attacks a dog’s blood cells.  Apparently it destroys the platelets in the blood, and paralyzes the dog.  That’s why I saw blood in the kennel, because Kobe was literally breathing his blood out.  It was coming out of his mouth and his nose…and that’s why he wasn’t moving, because he couldn’t from the paralysis.  The vet said that when a dog gets this disease, they are fine one minute, and the next minute they are so bad off that they are really past the point of saving.

There is treatment for this disease, but it costs thousands of dollars, and the treatment is sometimes worse for the dog, and most times it doesn’t help the dog in any way, and they just end up suffering longer.  I decided that it was best to put Kobe down.  I cried, I sobbed, I yelled…It was a very bad night, and horrible next few days.

My kids loved Kobe.  My son always called Kobe his “best dog”  He would tell me he wanted to “Go outside and play with my best dog.”  he would get upset with me for saying that Kobe was my dog, and always counter with “No Mommy! Kobe is MY best dog!”  My daughter would yell Kobe’s name every day when we got home from daycare…She would get out of the car and immediately look and yell “Kobe, Koooobe!”

I had to tell them both that Kobe went to live with God, and that God is taking care of Kobe for us.  I told them that Kobe got really sick and we tried to take him to the doctor, but he was too sick and the doctor couldn’t help him, and so he died, and now he’s up in heaven with God. 

My son mentions Kobe every once in a while…He will blurt out something like “Kobe died because he was really, really sick Mommy.”  And I just tell him he’s right, Kobe was really, really sick, and he died.  Then I just sit there and tears fall because I miss him.

We did go to the shelter and adopt a puppy shortly after we lost Kobe.  I decided that the quickest way to get the kids (and mine) minds off of missing Kobe was to get another dog.  We were lucky enough to find Marley.  She is a black lab/shepherd mix, with a bit of white on her chest and toes on all four feet.  She was about 6 weeks old when we adopted her, and both of the kids are just head over heels about her!

She is a very loving pup, and she’s getting so big.  When we adopted her, she was small enough to sit in my lap like a new-born baby, but now she is getting so big, and she still thinks she is small enough to lounge in my lap.  It’s easy to see that she’s a Mommy’s dog, but she is in love with both of the kids too.  Especially my daughter, Olivia. Olivia always pets and loves on Marley, and feeds her part of her food/snack.  Marley will walk around and follow the kids, jump in the pool and play with them, it’s so fun to watch.

Anyone that has lost a pet, I understand it’s one of the hardest things to go through, but it does get easier.  I still tear up when I think about my sweet Kobe, but I know I made the right choice, because he was hurting, and I didn’t want him to continue hurting.  I will love and remember him always….

~Until next time, happy blogging~

New rant…here we go…

Hello blogland!  It’s been ages since I’ve had time to post anything.  I trust everyone got along fine without reading any fresh rants and raves from me!  Just thought I would log on and share a bit.

I checked my email and had a message that someone had left a comment on one of my posts from a while back.  The comment read “who cares b*tch” (I added the “*”)…I’m wondering why people feel the need to put stupid remarks like that on someone’s blog posts…I mean, if you know me, then surely you know it’s better to call me or text me rather than to put something ridiculous on my blog.  Whomever left that comment, I have this in response:

Obviously you care, or you wouldn’t have read the post, or left a comment.  You should really grow up, and get over yourself.  It’s not “cool” to leave stupid comments on a person’s blog posts.  Maybe you did it just to see your name on the screen, maybe you did it to make yourself feel important, or maybe you did it to impress one of your friends or someone who you are trying to start some sort of relationship to.  Whatever the reason, you should take a step back and ask yourself if it will really matter in five to ten years.  I’m going to let you in on a secret:  Chances are a comment like “Who cares b*itch” won’t matter, and you just left it on my page for everyone to see how uneducated, and insufficient you are.  Give the world a break and save your brain cells for something that does matter.  Next time you leave a comment on someone’s page/post/blog/whatever, make it count, don’t make yourself sound like an idiot.

That’s all I have for now, until next time ~Happy Blogging!~

Babies can talk to dogs???

An article from this web site I thought was interesting…

Babies may understand what dogs are saying Fri, Jul 24, 2009 (HealthDay News) — What’s in a bark? A new study suggests that 6-month-old babies know the answer. Researchers found that most infants who were tested could figure out that an aggressive bark goes with an angry-looking dog. They also seemed to know that friendly-looking pooches voice their feelings in a different way. The babies managed to do this even though they weren’t very familiar with dogs. It’s not clear whether the babies actually know that a dog baring its teeth is a sign of trouble, but they’re showing a level of sophistication regarding how dogs reveal their emotions, said study author Ross Flom, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. “We think babies have a broad-based set of abilities and skills when they enter the world,” he said. “And those become broadened and honed based on the individual experiences in their lives.” Flom spends his time studying how babies perceive emotions, and previously found that they can tell the difference between upbeat and gloomy music. In the new study, Flom and his colleagues recruited 128 infants and toddlers, almost all of whom were white. All of the participants had little or no exposure to dogs during their brief lives. The researchers showed the babies video stills of aggressive and non-aggressive dogs, and watched what they did when they heard sounds of barking. The study results appear in the July issue of Developmental Psychology. The researchers believe that they can glean whether a baby is making a connection between two things by monitoring how long they look at a picture. In this case, 6-month-old babies were more likely to look longer at the picture of a canine expression that matched the bark. Only about 15 percent of the babies spent more time looking at the wrong dog picture or looked equally at both, Flom said. Older babies — at 12, 18 and 24 months — were likely to look at the correct dog, but for just a flicker of time, Flom said, and then look around the room or equally between the video stills. While some have interpreted this to mean they can’t distinguish the correct picture, Flom said it’s actually a sign that “the task is almost too easy for them.” The study didn’t examine what the babies actually perceived about the barks and the canine expressions. No one knows if they’re aware that a normal-looking dog is a better prospect for playtime than one that looks — and sounds — like it wants to take a bite out of the nearest leg. Still, it’s “remarkable” that babies that aren’t exposed to dogs can figure out how to link their barks to their faces, Flom said. That means they can connect audio and visual cues, he said. As for the future, researchers are exploring how humans relate to dogs, which have a long history of interacting with people, and wolves, which don’t. Over time, Flom said, dogs and humans have learned how to communicate with each other. And, of course, each gets what they want from the other, whether it be the newspaper or a long back scratch. — Randy Dotinga

Beautiful Baby!!!

Ok, so my mother-in-law asked me & my husband a few months ago if we had thought about entering our son into the Photogenic category in our town’s pageant.  I of course said no, and that I disagreed with parents putting their children in pageants when the child is too young to be able to say they want to or they don’t want to.  I think it should be up to the child, not up to the parents.  When I told her that, she quickly informed me that all I would have to do is enter a photo, and that my baby wouldn’t even have to be present the night of the pageant, as long as they had his picture.  She told me she would pay the entry fee and she would take care of everything, the only thing I had to do is pick out a picture, professional or snap-shot, and give it to her to enter.

So, I gave in…Since he didn’t have to be there, except in a frame…

Well, the pageant was on March 7, 2009.  We entered a photo that we had taken for his 3 month picture(s).  He has a big smile, and is wearing the cutest little striped outfit with a wolf face on the chest…He looks perfect!!  Wouldn’t ya know, my baby won the photogenic category!  My mother-in-law told me the title he received, it’s something like “Little Prince” or something similar….anyway, He won a trophy and his picture will be in our town’s newspaper.  I am so proud!

I feel a little hypocritical because of the way I really feel about pageants, but I can’t help it…I think that entering a picture is a smidge different than actually making your child parade around on a stage all dressed up and made up.  We just entered a picture that we had already had taken-before we even had knowledge of the pageant, so…am I really a hypocrit or is it just my defiance against pageants poking through??

Oh well, who cares, I just really wanted to share the fact that my baby boy won most photogenic!!!  YAY!!!

My Little Boy!!!

Here are some recent pictures of my little boy…I think he is hands down the cutest baby in the world!!  Of course, I am biased…But, really, can you blame me????

In a couple of the pictures, he has a pink frog, I bought it for him for Valentine’s Day, and because it is so soft, it is his favorite toy….It’s so funny to see him get excited about me giving him this frog, so he can immediately put the frog feet in his mouth and the little eye bump things too…it is too cute!!!

The plaid base ball hat is his first baseball hat….I think he looks adorable in this hat, he also has some beanie’s that he wears when we go outside when the wind is blowing so his ears can be covered up and his head can stay warm…

He loves to jump in his jumper…He just bounces in it for as long as we let him….It’s very good exercise!  Plus, it has so many different toys and lights and songs that it makes it exciting all of the time!!!

He is amazing!!!  I love him so much!!!

Irish Twins?

I know that the term “Irish Twins” may have a derogatory meaning to some people, but I’m not one of those people.  I don’t think it means anything rude or crude, at least, it doesn’t to me.

I just had my first baby on 29 September 2008.  My son is just wonderful.  He is sweet, beautiful, smart, everything that mothers think about their babies.  His laugh lights up the room, his smile is contagious, he is wonderful!  Initially I wanted him to be an only child for the first few years of his life.  You know, that way he could have all of my attention, have all of his daddy’s attention, his grandparents attention, etc….

However, just this week, I found out that I am pregnant again.  I’m due on 28 October 2009.  So by definition, he won’t actually be an Irish Twin, but since he will only be 13 months older than the second baby, we are just going to use the term anyway. 

When I found out that I’m pregnant again, I was shocked, and happy at the same time…I walked out of the bathroom smiling, and instantly my hubby knew what my smile meant.  It will be tough having two little ones at the same time, but it will also be fun.  They will be close enough in age to be good friends, and play together all the time.

I still want to have at least one more after this one, and hopefully I will be blessed again someday.  For now, I am counting my blessings to have the sweetest baby in the world, and to be pregnant with another one that will make me the mother of the two sweetest babies in the world.

~Happy Blogging!!~~

Popular Baby Names…

OK, so right now, I am at work….Yes, I am supposed to be doing actual work, but, I’m sure you all know how boring that can be.  So, instead, I have been looking at popular baby names!  My husband and I are finding out if our little bundle of joy will be a a little boy or a little girl this Thursday, so I have been wondering about different names. 

So far, the only name my husband will tell me he likes is the name Tristen/Tristan for a little boy.  He doesn’t want to go further into the name discussion until he knows for sure what our baby will be.  I like the name Olivia Marie for a little girl.  I told him that he can name the baby if it’s a boy, as long as I approve of the name.  Yes, because I am carrying this baby for 9 months, I get VETO POWER! As every Mommy should!  I also told him that I am naming our baby if it’s a girl, and he gets NO VETO POWER!  As it should be! LOL!

So, I came across this site:  http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/babynames/

You can see the most popular names in the U.S. for 2007, and there is a link on the page that you can click and find out the most popular baby names for every year since 1880 (I think.)

I am very excited to find out if we are having a little girl or a little boy!  Of course, my hubby is hoping for a boy, and I am hoping for a girl, but the only thing we are praying for is a happy, healthy baby….you know, 5 fingers on each hand, and 5 toes on each foot, etc.

A lot of people think we are crazy for not wanting to be surprised, and then there are some that think we would be crazy if we wanted to be surprised.  I just want to be able to buy and register for mostly pink frilly things if it’s going to be a girl, or blue, boyish things if it’s going to be a boy.  I don’t want to get just the generic colors that go with both genders…(yellows and greens)….

Plus, there is still a chance of surprise, because the Dr’s results/findings in ultrasounds have been known to be wrong before…..Example:  My aunt just knew she was having a boy…the doc said so, several times….but when the baby came out, it was a little girl.  That was 24 years ago.  More recently, my cousin-in-law had an ultrasound and the doc kept flipping from one appointment to the other…first a girl, then a boy, back to girl, no wait, boy….so, when the baby finally came, it was a boy!  That was 3 years ago….

Hopefully our doctor will tell us a sex and stick to it, because hopefully he will be right the first time he tells us boy or girl.  But you never really know I guess, until D-Day (Delivery Day)….

Anyway, if anyone has any name ideas, please leave a comment!!!  I would love to read your suggestions!!!

Until next time, Happy Blogging!

Update on me….

Hey blogland!  Well, I have a lot of news!  First off, I am no longer a single woman!!!! YAY!!!  On March 29, 2008, I married the man of my dreams!  It was a beautiful wedding, if I do say so myself!  I love being married!

Also, I am pregnant!!!!  I thought I wouldn’t be able to ever get pregnant, because I have some health issues that could have prevented it.  But, I was wrong!  I will become a mommy around September 30, 2008.  I am so excited I can hardly wait!  So far, everything has gone really well with my pregnancy, and hopefully everything will continue to go well.  I have been really sick with morning sickness, but other than that, all is good.

Oh, and for those of you who don’t know, “morning sickness” is a misnomer…..I have been sick all day long every day since I got that first positive pee test!  I have probably missed  total of close to 2 full weeks of school, and have tired everything to keep from throwing up….

Recently though, I have discovered that taking my anti-puke pill right before bedtime, and then again when I wake up in the morning helps me out a ton!

Right now I am about 17 weeks along (4 months and 1 week)…..I am scheduled for an ultrasound to determine the baby’s sex in about 2 weeks.  We are both so excited to find out whether the baby is a boy or a girl…..Of course, my hubby wants a little boy, and I want a little girl, but we will both be ecstatic no matter what.  We aren’t praying for anything other than a happy, healthy baby.  I just can’t wait to become a mommy!!!

Alright, that is all I have for now….sorry it’s been so long since my last post, I have been super busy with school work, army stuff, and hugging the toilet….I’ll post again when I have a little more to say!

Until next time~Happy Blogging!~

A repeat of some New Year’s Eve Toasts…..Enjoy!

1. Here’s to you, here’s to me, here’s to girls that get on their knees!

2. I love ‘em in leather, I love ‘em in lace, I love ‘em the best when they sit on my face!

3. Good bye, good luck, get high, get f*cked!

4. In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want!

5. I drink champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty!

6. May we be alive at this time next year!

7. Always do what you are afraid to do.

8. A toast! To our wives, and our girlfriends…may they never meet.

9. Gentlemen! I’ve drunk your health in Company,I’ve drunk your health alone. I’ve drunk your health so many times, I’ve darn near ruined my own! Here’s to me!

10. Here’s to the perfect girl. Who could ask for more, she’s deaf ‘n dumb, oversexed, and owns a liquor store.

11. Here’s to honor. Get on her. Stay on her. And if you can’t cum in her,cum on her.

12. Here’s to the hole that never heals, the more you rub it the better it feels, and all the soap this side of hell, won’t wash away that fishy smell.

13. Here’s to you and here’s to me, and to all the guys that lick us where we pee.

14. Here’s to those who sit when they pee.

15. Of all my favorite things to do, the utmost is to have a brew.
My love grows for my foamy friend,
With each thirst-quenching elbow bend.
Beer’s so frothy, smooth and cold–
It’s paradise–pure liquid gold.
Yes, beer means many things to me…
That’s all for now, I gotta pee!

16. Here’s to a long life and a happy one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer and another one!

17. Best while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death.

18. To women and horses, and the men that ride them.

19. DOH – The stuff that buys me beer.
RAY – The guy who sells me beer.
ME – The guys who drinks the beer.
FAR – A long way to get beer.
SO – I’ll have another beer.
LA – I’ll have another beer.
TEA – No thanks I’m drinking beer.
And that brings me back to DOH!

20. Here’s to women.
No other creature in Heaven or hell,
Can take the fruit from a nut,
Without ever breaking the shell.

21. Down your throat,
Into your bladder,
Which end it comes out,
Does it really matter?

 

It’s that time again blogland!  It’s almost New Year’s Eve, and that means that most of you will be out having a good time, at a party, with your friends, loved ones, and some of you will be with people you have just met, or haven’t met yet…..Whatever your New Year’s plans are this year, please remember this:

It’s better to drink and stay where you are, or have a sober designated driver take you to your final destination.

The police will always give you a free ride to jail.

If you drive drunk, you’re not only endangering yourself, you’re endangering everyone else  on the road too.

Sex is fun, but please use protection!!!

Please, have a great time this year, but always be smart and be safe.   You do want to live to see the rest of 2008, don’t you?!?!?!

Happy Blogging!!!