Senor, Senorita, and Bubba Gump

Well my parents got back from good ole Mexico just fine. We are sure happy they are back. We went over there Sat night for some hamburgers and hot dogs. Breanna and JJ got to wear their new, strait from Mexico, clothes. They looked toooo cute!! Breanna has a white dress that is embrordered with little blue flowers, and JJ had a light blue guayabera shirt. Dad, Jay and I went outside and played a little softball (since we have joined my company team and all). My dad and Jay both noticed that I tend to hold my glove wrong during one type of throw. (more on this later). We had a good time visiting with my parents and Nana.

Aren't they cute holding hands!!

I made some civiche to take over there for us to have before dinner. It turned out really well. I only put shrimp and scallops in it, but it was pretty yummy. It has become one of our favorite foods to have to snack on, or have as a meal. It is VERY low fat, VERY low calorie, and VERY good. It is a great summer food, light and refreshing!

So while we were there my mom decided that they would keep the kids over night and Jay and I could have an adults only night. Pretty exciting huh. Well it didn't turn out to be quite the evening I think my parents were envisioning for us. We got home and decided since the sun was down and we were waiting to see the fireworks that started at 10pm, we would go outside and toss the softball around. Well remember the aforementioned wrong position of my glove. Well it came back to haunt me. Jay threw me a ball, and I tried to scoop catch it instead of the correct catching method with the glove turned out in front of you. The ball went into my glove and rolled right up it strait into my lower lip. I dropped my glove and ran inside. I now have an official "bubba gump" lip. Be prepared the next picture is NOT pretty!!

My mom told me that she thinks I should take up something like Tai chi, something I might have a chance at not hurting myself doing!! (I also have 2 skinned knee's and pretty much my whole shin is one big bruise) =)

Guess what.......

When: July 26th 2008
Where: Our house
Time: 11am

We will have lunch and cake!

Breanna has been walking around the house asking about her brithday all week. She is very excited about it!!

Gas prices high, come to Oklahoma......

From CNN.....

I actually got gas for 3.71 yesterday....(isn't it sad that getting gas at that price is a bargin!!)

Are weekends really THAT tiring???

This was the scene in my living room on Sunday afternoon. We didn't have a particularly busy weekend. I was doing the dishes and cleaning up the kitchen. I walked into the living room to discover that I was the ONLY person in the house awake. If you look closely even the dogs were sleeping!! sorry about the bad quality, but I just grabbed by cell phone to take the pictures!

Are you ready for July 4th?????

We are!!!

BTW, Grandparents (and great-grandparents), when you come for Breanna's 3rd birthday party we will have copies for you!!

B/S....H.A.L.F

B/S....H.A.L.F

What does that mean.......(be safe.......half a little fun) in this case I am going to modify it just a little to have a LOT of fun.

Why am I posting those funny words. My parents are going to get on a plane tomorrow and heading to meet their best friends for vacation. Truthfully, I couldn't imagine better people for my parents to be friends with. We can't get to get to see you both this fall over the OU-Neb weekend!! =)

I am sure that they will be doing lots of this:

(well my Dad and Kenny will be doing this)

I am pretty sure that some time will be spent here!!

Mom and Louise will be doing this....

They will enjoy some of these...

They will be hanging out here....(not to shabby eh?)

A plea to all 4 of them.....please, please, please make sure no one ends up like this......
(or at least make sure there are no pictures)

She loves to paint........

Can you tell????

(BTW she didn't look like this when I picked her up) =)

Nastics!!

Ok so last post I told you about Breanna and how she started going to gymnastics. Well here are some pictures from this weeks "nastics" class.
There are 4 other little girls in the class with her, and she has the worlds best teacher, she is patient and wonderful with the kids. Miss Brandie will not make it through a class without Breanna running up and giving her a HUGE hug.


This is the playzone where the kids can play before and after their class. If you look closely you will see Breanna on the slide in the middle of the picture.

In the little kid area they have hand and foot prints on everything to help the kids know where to put them.

Miss Brandie is helping Breanna do her somersaults, they have them hold the baton so that their hands don't fly all over the place.
Getting ready to do some vault preparation.
Look a the air she caught!
One of her favorite parts, jumping on the trampoline and getting to jump off of it into the foam blocks!!
The end of class, all the girls get together and say "We did it"

Told you so.........

If you remember this post http://brinsfield.blogspot.com/2008/02/they-got-me-in-lot-of-trouble-once-upon.html

Here is proof. Tust me this time there will be no call of 800 numbers and running up phone bills!!

It has been toooo long!! Get ready for lots of pictures!! We have been busy with our regular activities we have added a few as well. Breanna and I go to a Mommy and Me gymnastic class every Tues night. She absolutley LOVES it. She asks me all the time if she can go to "nastics". It isn't only an activity for her, but for both us. Since she isn't quite 3 yet, I get to go through the class with her. Jay and I have joined the OHH softball team, we play 2 games in Mustang every Sunday. We have also been to the Circus, no pictures of that though, I thought the kids would love it, but it didn't really keep their attention. We had to leave early.

A lot has been happening, we went to the OHH carnival and rode the rides and ate some hot dogs. Breanna LOVED it, she had sooo much fun. JJ wasn't into the rides or the moon-bounces. He just walked around and did some people watching!


Jay finally finished his prep class for his unlimited license and went and passed his test, so now he is an unlimited journeyman. YEAH!! He has started a new job and his new responsibilities of overseeing work that is being done. He is doing a little less physical labor and more supervising. He has had issues with his shoulder impingement, it is getting better, but it still bothers him a little. I don't know if I had mentioned this before, but Jay had joined the union. There are some good points and some bad, but he seems to be enjoying it. He goes to his meetings and goes to their classes.


Work for me has been hectic, we had month end (which is ALWAYS hectic) we also have been testing some new things in our new computer system that has taken a lot of our time up as well. Still here, still working!!

We have had some bad weather (like last night, nothing will wake you up like the sound of a tornado siren) and a lot of really warm sunny weather. The kiddos LOVE going outside and running around and having some watermelon.

Breanna loves Watermelon so much that when I was cutting it up and left it on the counter she decided that she wasn't going to wait for her bowl of fruit, she was just going to stick her fingers in and get a little taste (see the whole in the left side of the watermelon below)

The kids love to go out and play in the backyard together, they are getting a long for the most part most of the time. They laugh and run and I even got a picture of them hugging. Breanna will tell JJ, "Your sisters here" and he runs over and gives her a hug.

One HUGE announcement that we have is that Breanna is now, (except for bedtime) in these exclusively. Something in her finally clicked (or it could have been the chocolate kisses she gets at daycare) that has made my girl into a potty fanatic. She has only had about 2 accidents in the last two weeks!!

JJ had his 18 mon old appt, he is now 33 inches tall and 24lbs 12oz. His height is in the 72% and his weight is in the 32%. Dr said he is perfect, and was actually shocked at how healthy he has been. He said that all of the other kids JJ's age had been in there 3 or 4 times over the last few months!!

My confession I have been a bad mother...........

So I will confess. I have seen this scenario on Super Nanny more than a few times, but I have finally dealt with my situation. Since last fall Breanna has not slept by herself. She has slept with me every night since then. In the beginning I know that I did it more for me than for her, which was selfish, and wrong. I needed her with me more than she needed me with her. I should not have done it, but I did. She has been sleeping with us ever since.
A few weeks ago I decided that she should be sleeping in her own bed, and she should be able to put herself to sleep.

So tonight I called on everything that I have learned from watching Super Nanny.

Jo says, put them to bed, tell your child that you will be back in 2 minutes, no matter what they do don't go back until the 2 minutes is over, then stretch it to 5 minutes, then 10, then 20, and so on until they are asleep. This insures them that you are still there even though they are not in the same room as you.

So I did this tonight. Jay and JJ were sleeping. Breanna needed to go to bed. So I went and put her in her own bed, she screamed and screamed. Then she said something that just BROKE MY HEART!!!! Earlier in the evening she had decided since mommy's hair was in a pony-tail that it would be fun to pull mommy's hair. So when I put her in her own bed she said "Mommy, I go with you, I don't pull your hair" uggghhh talk about pulling at the heart strings.

I stood my ground. I told her that she was in her own bed, not because she had pulled mommy's hair, but because she was a big girl and big girls slept in their own rooms. She cried and cried. I went back 5 minutes later and told her that I loved her and was so proud that she was being such a big girl and staying in her bed (even though at that point she wasn't, I just laid her back in her bed) . I went back in 10 minutes and she was still in her bed, and at 20 minutes she was still there too. I think she gets it now. Thanks Super Nanny!! In the matter of an hour I had my baby sleeping in her own room, and thinking that it was a good thing. Mommy wasn't mad at her, and that she was a big girl for sleeping in her own room.

So that is it. I have been a bad mommy, I was selfish and was letting her keep me company, but I have done the right thing and have let her go. Be a little more independent and let her know that mommy is still here, but she needs to sleep in her own bed.

Happy Birthday to my Mommy

My mom's birthday is tomorrow (May 3rd). I hope you have a wonderful day!! Here are somethings that I have learned from my mother over the years!!

If you listen to Van Halen, the Eagles, and Journey you too can be the coolest mom in the 7th grade.

Nothing is better than a Sunday afternoon drive through the “country” in a Camero convertible with the Isley Brothers playing "This old heart of mine", and the Nylons singing "Kiss him goodbye" .

“Yankees” think it is important to wear shoes during things like Thanksgiving dinner.

Mom’s can make any boo-boo better with a kiss and a hug.

Disneyland is a great place to be in the rain.

It can be great therapy to rearrange and obsessively clean your child’s room after they leave for college.

You aren’t doing your job as a parent unless one of your kids is mad at you for something.

If your husband is driving and one of your children is sitting in the front seat and says a feel sick, your husband then says to the child roll down the window, grab the other child and duck!! (your husband may decide to slow down sometime, but it will probably be too late!)

When the child in the above statement gets out of the car to throw up on the side of the highway, make sure you don’t stand in a pile of fire ants. I am sure it was quite a sight!

If you get a speeding ticket you can always try to get your kids to not tell dad by offering them ice cream in return. Just know if you are the mother to the “family informer” it may not work out.

Just because you go through all the training and test out dives to become a certified scuba diver doesn’t mean you will actually ever dive.

If you have a license plate with your name on it, people are going to know your name.

You can tell your kids the WHOLE time they are growing up that they can’t have a dog because you are allergic, as soon as both kids are out of the house you not only adopt a dog, the dog can actually sleep in your bed with no ill effects!

You can be against tattoos and motorcycles until you have a tattoo and a motorcycle yourself.

Even in Colorado Springs the temp at a NASCAR race can get soo hot that you feel sick and go and sit under the bleachers.

If you sing in the car with your kids while they are growing up they will think their mom is the BEST singer EVER!!

If you sing in the car with your kids while they are growing up, and happen to add your own lyrics into the song, when your kids are grown up and hear that song on the radio they will revert to singing those same made up lyrics during the song.

Egg salad sandwiches are the best thing to have for lunch at rest stops while on road trips.

Happy Birthday Mom!! Thanks for being the mom that I try to be. I am still learning how to be a great mom from you. You will never appreciate what it takes to be a mom until you are one. Till you can be covered in poop, puke, and have a screaming child in your arms at 2am and still be able to look down at the child and smile and know you love them more than anything. Then you realize that you mom has been in the same position with you and loves you just as much!! =)

P.S. Today I was driving to get lunch at the hospital and "Pour Some Sugar on me" came on the radio, I rolled my window down, turned up the music and sang out loud!! (just like my mommy)