Bubble Boy

So, I spent the day at WORK. I excepted a job yesterday and found daycare and got ready all night, and now i'm just pooped. It's a huge change to not be home with Luke, a change that all three of us are going to have to get used to. He's not used to getting up at the crack of dawn and even though he went to bed super early was cranky this morning and this afternoon after we picked him up. He was so tired and just done he was asleep at 5:30! Poor little guy! Thankfully my hours are good and i'm off at 3:3o and on my way home after picking Seth up just a little ways down the road we're on the freeway by 4. It's weird to be working at for the same company as Seth, I feel like i'm visiting him and just waiting for him to come back in the room, i'm in a whole different shop, I think it's just the atmosphere.

Daycare went well, they said he was happy and having fun. Made me feel better for dropping him off, however; today he wasn't so smiley to me as usual. I'm pretty sure he's got it figured out that something is different. I'm tired and it's been a long day, i'm off to sleep.

Happy Thanksgiving

I'm thankful for all I have and family and friends who care so much. Thank you!

Happy Saturday

It's been a busy week, I had more job interviews and am set up for two more on Monday. I'm so done interviewing, seriously. How many interviews can one person go to. I'm kicking myself for turning down the jobs I was offered at the time it made sense because of other offers, but now i'm back at square one. ugh. I did have an interview at Seth's work, I think it went well, it's more HR and no Legal so that's a downfall, we'd be able to carpool and that would be nice. We'd only have to go to one holiday party too (which would be my job to plan). Seeing as how well i'm doing planning a wedding, not so sure party planning is quite my cup of tea. Atleast that company would pay for the party, whereas i'm just a cheap ass and don't want to spend much money. double ugh. =)

Seth is working today as he will have to do whenever there's a paid holiday. Saturday after Thanksgiving, Christmas and new years. We're going to my mom's house in a little bit when Luke wakes up, after mom's we're celebrating a 4th birthday with our friends and their kiddos. Tomorrow will bring a date day for seth and I! First date since February when Ashley couldn't use a cabin she'd rented by the ocean and gave it to us. Have a great weekend!

Saturday nights alright

It's been a loooooooooooong saturday. We met up with Allison, Aaron and the boyz at costco yesterday and then went over to their house and hung out until the early morn and i'm pooped today.

We spent the day with Seth's parents and it was all in all a nice day, would have been a much better day had him and his dad not spent 6 hours working on that stupid truck. It's fixed! or was fixed, started it up and it ran for the first time in a long time and then, then the starter went out. what the hell. I'm pretty sure that truck is cursed. But on a seriously awesome note i'm greatful for family and friends who love us enough to spoil us! Thanks to my mom's friend Karen and to my Uncle (her hubby) for buying her a brand new car, i'm getting her old car to drive around tomorrow! Come tuesday morning i'm blowin this popsicle stand. =) I just like knowing that if I want to leave, it's possible. Friday was a bummer in that sense, I had planned to walk to the lake with the baby and feed the ducks and just hang out for a bit. I got ready, got him ready, got the bag ready and went to get the stroller...no stroller. It was still in the trunk and with carrier too.
I need to find some good sites to visit during the times when i'm online. I have my certain places I check out and read daily, tomorrow is my postsecret day, I usually check it in the morning to see what new odd secrets people have sent in and usually ending up visiting it again when Seth wakes up to share the really odd/disturbing/funny ones with him. I just wish there was a way I could go back and read the past secrets...but I suppose then there would be no need to publish the books. So if you're reading this and have an interesting web site you'd like to share please do! My sister doesn't update enough to keep me occupied and there's only so much perez, tmz and craigslist "best of" I can read.
Have a wonderful holiday weekend, I plan to!

shit like that

Another long boring day down, who knows how many to go. But on the upside we're getting seth's POS truck fixed this weekend and I should hopefully be back in the land of driving next week. I know I should be taking advantage of being home during the day and going for walks and taking Luke out and walking around, but it's cold outside, i'm sick and he's King of the runny noses. Not to mention the fact that like I said I'm still feeling sick and just plain don't feel like it.

Anyhoo i'll stop my whining, not a great way to make friends. I've applied for a bunch of new jobs in the past few days and am just waiting to hear something, anything. Craigslist wedding anyone.

Luke found one of Nolan's binkies and has taken somewhat of a liking to it. He'll chew on it for a few minutes but usually ends up grabbing it and waving it around like a tamborine for a little while before seeing something cooler and moving on with his bad self. I might have a binky baby yet! I was a huge binky baby. I had them hidden from here to there and everywhere my parents stopped and visited inbetween. I just would rather not deal with breaking the binky habit and I like his face without that big ol' thing hiding half of it.

I'm off to hopefully get a better nights sleep, i've got to kick this crappy feeling. The mattress might as well be a cement stone covered in a soft sheet. I'm sick of waking up 12 times a night to move, stretch, roll around and wish I had Seth's compfy pillows to lay on instead of the rocks I have. Which that in itself is weird, his side of the bed and his pillows are always better. Unless I whine my way into sleeping on his side and using his pillows and because he's nice he lets me do. Then the other side was way more comfortable and I want to switch back. He's been jerky in his sleep more too. Which worries my mother to no end. She would get so worried when I told her the funny/scary story of getting put in a freakin headlock at 3 a.m. No wonder I haven't been sleeping that well, it's hard to rest in fight or flight mode.

I think it was the second time I spent the night at his house. I couldn't sleep and went downstairs at his house to get some water and stretch my legs and came back up to find him spralled full out and no where for me to sleep. I managed to make a small spot in the corner and was left to lie my head on his bicep for a pillow. I was almost asleep and he twitched, next thing I know he's got my head in a vice that is his bicep and chest and was going to punch me in the head. I screamed, he screamed, woke himself up and felt like a huge turd for trying to beat me up. He was dreaming he was fighting guys who were trying to hurt me, and I ended up nearly getting clocked in the forehead. He's lucky he's cute. He's a very active sleeper, so far that and being knocked between the shoulder blades and headbutted is all i've had to endure, both times woke me up and I was highly irritated and offended and remembered in the morning punching him back.
On that lovely note, good night.

ROCKSTAR

It's been a few days since i've posted so true to form, this will probably ramble on for a bit. We've been pretty busy lately and so has Lucas. He's been scooting for a couple of weeks now and I think I finally got some good video of him doing so. He's getting really fast and has been enthralled with Rockstar and water bottles chasing them all over the living room and then sucking on them like bottles when he finally gets them.


We had a busy fun weekend, we celebrated Seths' dads birthday on Saturday. with his brother, niece, and new girlfriend. We had a great time and Lucas got to experience all their animals at an older age where he actually noticed them and seemed kind of confused by what they were. They have a full house of four dogs and a bunch of birds one of which is probably only a little smaller then Lucas.

So in preperation for a week at home during the days with no car, we spent the afternoon in downtown Seattle. We visited the Pike Place Market and the only picture I was able to get was of Seth and Luke by the car and my camera battery died. Oh well, we had a good time and you'll have to just take my word for it. =)

It's fun to get out of the house and walk around and do something we don't do that often. We got lots of compliments on our little guy and he didn't fuss at all.

We watched The Number 23 when we got home and man, just the way they filmed it was hard to watch. Jim Carrey was creepy and the whole thing was just kind of unsettling. I had to stay up just watch something happy to ward off the freaky dreams. It's all in all a good movie, just creepy as hell.

The picture below is of the anniversary present I made for Allison and Aaron. I'm seriously proud of this and want to make one for us of engagement pictures for the guestbook at the wedding. I went to here to my publisher and uploaded their wedding pictures and made a coffee table book out of it. I was very surprised by how it all came out. Thing can easily look pretty cool online but you just never really know the quality you'll end up with. The colors are crisp, there's a ton of different designs, themes, and patterns you can put the pictures into. I googled wedding and love quotes and added them in with the pictures and it's something that will last a lifetime. I'm excited to get ours done and think I might have started a trend with friends all making their own books now. It really was worth it and easy to make. We had a fun Halloween, shockingly. We were not looking forward to it at all. I hate getting up every five minutes to answer the door and see four 15 year olds in nike sweatshirts holding pillowcases and asking for candy. It's not fun for us and i'm slightly surprised we haven't ever been egged. Our friends Eric and Crystalyn and their brood were going to a trunk or treat down the street and we talked Allison and Aaron into going and checking it out. It was such a fun time. Three of the neighborhood churches put it on and pulled about 30 cars into the playground of a nearby school. They decorated the cars and dressed up and I'm glad went. We weren't going to dress Lucas up to just stay home, but I was out for a job interview earlier in the day and stopped by the mall and randomly seen this seriously cute skunk outfit. I wanted to surprise my mom (who was appalled we weren't going to dress him up for halloween) and it all worked out. Here's the gang minus me, Sethy the pumpkin, Luke the skunk and Dash a.k.a Nolan.

I think the bow tie is what really sealed the deal when I bought this. I don't have a picture handy but the costume as fur down the back to and a tail. so stinkin cute.

We all took the boys down to Auburn to a pumpkin patch right before halloween. We are so lucky to have two older boys who get the great clothes, toys, and anything else. Luke get's the best hand-me-downs ever. I love this jacket, it reminds me of a lumber jack or something.

It's going to be a busy week. I plan on hitting the gym hopefully everyday, last week Seth was sick, then I was sick and it just didn't work. I'm feeling better and thankfully Luke didn't catch (or just hasn't yet) what we had. I'm off to get busy.

Bye for now!

7 Months!

My sweet little Lucas is seven months old! He's figured out rolling from one part of the room to the other in about 2 seconds, he's also crawling, kind of. He lays on his tummy rolls to one side and pushes with his foot and then does the same with the opposite side, he really gets around.

Gettin some Mama luvs

chasing shadows!

Almost got it!

Angel face

such a happy boy

Unfortunately....Unfortunitley, bite me.

So, i've been offered the job where my loverly sister dear works and while it's what would be awesome- it's temporary. Full time, pays well, great insurance but temporary. Meaning that it could be 4 months, 6 months, 8 months or maaaaaaybe 10. They didn't really know what to tell me, that means that a month or two before our wedding I could be let go with no job to finish paying for a wedding and no vacation to take a honeymoon and a serious ulcer stomach ache just because that's what would be fitting. She did say that if other jobs came up I could apply for those in different divisions, I just hate the complete openess of it all. I need a guarantee, a plan. I may not even get insurance if they can't get me past 6 months. The good thing is she asked to be told by friday if i'm interested so I have til then to fret and worry and wait and see if I can get on at Seth's work. They are looking for someone to do alot of HR work and office/executive support. They've seen my resume and are interested but are moving at a snails pace and i'm not obviously guarenteed that position either. If given the choice i'd choose to work there, it would make life a bit easier with the transitioning from SAHM to working chick. We could carpool and wouldn't need to buy a second car. We could take Luke to daycare very close by and have found excellent rates and i'd be off by 3:30 which nothing can beat, it also pays a little more then the other job, not much better, but a little and with a wedding coming, 30 cents is 30 cents, yah know. So hopefully they'll pick up the pace and i'll have a job within a week. Now if only the cookie gods could take back 30 pounds and allow my old work clothes to fit. Bastards.

That being said, i've gone to the gym quite faithfully and have gotten the "did you change your hair?" comment which has always in the past meant i've lost some girth in the neck/chins/face area, so that's a little motivation to keep it up. I'm becoming a huge fan of the Bosu Balance Trainer i've been researching excercise moves and making allison do them with me. I keep hoping i'll find a workout class that uses them that we can go to at the gym, but no luck. I do much better whith a workout when i'm forced to.

My Naaaame is...KID soldout ROCK

So ticketmaster sucks and so do the people who buy 12 tickets and take them all up to sell them later on craigslist for twice the ticket price. Bastards. I love seeing kid rock in concert, he's ghetto and usually accompanied by dancing girls but puts on one seriously awesome show. Unfortunatley when the clocked 10 am and i tried to buy tickets they were sold out instantly. How does that happen? What's the ticket-getting secret? There has got to be one. How does one get the front row at a show? I must figure this out.

Well hello

You know it's been a while when you can't remember how to log in. So. I turned down that job for one that would work better for me and now i'm just waiting to hear if i've got it! I'm hoping so, Allison and I would work for the same place just different divisions. I think the interview went well, but yah never know.

We had a good weekend, Seth is still working overtime, and so he was gone all day saturday and Luke and I went to my mom's house and visited with everyone there. We had fun as usual and ate some parmesean chicken and too many cookies.

Karen and I went to Macy's on sunday to register for the wedding...well I had every good intention of registerring for things we would like to have, but holy crap! the prices! I had a pamphlet for the registerring event from the last wedding show I went to, and there were deals like register for 2000 dollars worth of Ralph Lauren bedding and bath and receive a throw blanket worth 400 dollars and a whole ton of other cool stuff. So I was like ahhhh why not?! Well. when 2 pillowcases that aren't even made with silk, gold twine or encrusted with diamonds and crystals cost 70 bucks, i'm not even about to ask another person to buy us that. Target here we come. Atleast there I could get a complete bedding set and possibly have change left over. Geeze. Rip off if you ask me.

So I registerred for an ungodly amount of cool shizzle and should have free stuff coming in the mail shortly. I was amazed tho, there were only three other couples there.

My little guy has decided it's time to move and groove. He started crawling yesterday on his side. So funny to watch, he wanted a pack of wipes and got on his side wiggled his legs a bunch and started pushing himself across the living room. We have video on our camcorder, but the camcorder has me stumped when I try and download the video...so that'll be here later some time.

F*CK I've got a JOB

I don't know whether to jump and yell or sit here and cry. At this point i'm totally confused as to how this is going to work. We have one working car and a pos truck that needs a rebuilt head..whatever that means. And I start Monday! auuuuuuughhhhhhhhhhh. I'm off to go stress.

So I thought I had a sleeping genious for a baby... I think it was cruel joke from the person who invented swaddling. Obviously he can't be swaddled forever, but man, that child doesn't care so much for having a free arm. We decided to unwrap an arm at a time, and on friday we'll unwrap the other one and hope he'll learn to sleep unwrapped, he woke up at 4 a.m. both days over the weekend and a little after 4 a.m. this morning. I just laid there and listened to him jabber for about a half hour before I finally drug myself out of bed.

We went to the Puyallup fair twice this year, once last weekend Seth, Lucas and I went and it rained the whole damn time. Not so much fun eating bar-b-que sandwiches in a downpoor, down right sucky to be exact. But all in all we had a good time, bought 400 count egyptian cotton sheets any size just 20 bucks! Then we went again just as a girls night and had a really good time. Somehow we planned our night perfectly intime for a bow wow concert... I seriously worry about our boys going to school these days. We wandered around until we were so tired we were just laughing and making a scene being dorky. I 'might have' announced loudly Allison had some bidness to attend to (my sister has to POOP) and then we were all laughing at the look on her face and I couldn't even defend myself when she went all WWE on my ass and took me down! which reminds me of a story when I threw her a bridal shower and we played a game of how well do you know the bride. My mom didn't want to lose and begged me to tell her the answer to "what does allison want to be when she grows up?" well at the time becoming a teacher was the answer but I convinced her it was to become a WWE Diva. Having her read her answer to the crowd was priceless and still makes me laugh to think about it.

Seth's company hosts a picnic every summer for employee's and their family, they do giveaways and contests and games which by the way, he took first in the hoola hoop contest. We went on Saturday before Sethy's partay and had fun. The people he works with are really great, always friendly and welcoming with fun stories from all the guys who were previously military. He is a contractor for a company who maintains and fixes military vehicles on a local military base. I'm just excited for Lucas to get bigger and be able to go play in all the big hummvees and 5 tons he works on. I do believe that'd be some cool stuff to a little boy.

Which brings me to Sethy's party and the wonder that is Karens' house. Why oh why is it that EVERY time Lucas has gone to her house he loses his shit. Crying, screaming, squirming, can't console him at all. EVERY TIME. We found this out the hard way when we dropped him off about a month ago for her to babysit while we went for a jog at the track down the street from them, came back and he was a mess, just cried the whole time. He knows Karen, loves her at our house, loves her at my moms house but man, in her own house. no love. I pretty much spent the whole party in her bedroom trying to calm him down.

Today is the last day I get to watch Seth before he goes to daycare with Nolan. I've had alot of fun getting to watch him, it's nice to get close and have him get attention without having to share it with his brother and while lucas naps it's just me and him. One thing I won't really miss is his infatuation with poking Lucas in the eye, mouth and nose oh and using his soft spot as a boost. Besides that, it's been a fun six months.

well that was a ton of random and now i'm off to work out while the boys are still asleep, this isn't letting me move pictures when I add them to the post otherwise there would be a ton of cute pictures of the kiddos and one of my new hair cut!

August 23, 2008

I'm getting MARRIED! Well, that's not anything new to the people who actually know me and for the seven girls in my bridal party. Hopefully eight if i can talk Seth into adding one more on each side!

I 'met' Seth in middle school. I should let clarify that when i say met, I actually mean stared at him from afar. I was seriously shy and would not under any circumstance talk to him or any other cute guy unless they talked to me first, then I would just turn a lovely and painful shade of purple and whisper back some dorky response.

Of course my friends new him, they would talk to him with me standing there- looking at my shoes. He claims to have known exactly who I was and just thought I was a nice, quiet girl.

So I pretty much NEVER said even one word to him in the six years I went to school with him. But to my friends it was "Sethhhh Bentley, he's so dreamy" corny but yes, I actually used to say that, and well i'll be real, still do. So cut to my brother-in-laws bday at a bar in March of 2004 and me feeling brave after 4 kamikazes (mmmmm kamikazes) and who happens to walk past me looking all handsome. Well I nearly fell over and downed my fifth drink and made a vow to wait there and say hi when he walked back. So what do I say after admiring him and never speaking to him before..."Seth Bentley....give me a HUGGGG" and he did! We danced and traded phone numbers and the rest is history. I've suckered him in, poor guy never had a chance.

Went to a wedding expo today and it was so much fun. We watched the fashion show and were completely surprised. We were expecting typical wedding music and dresses, well we got dancing cowboys and chaps!

uh yeah and that second guy to dance...um like the sun...couldn't look at him too long before his hottness hurt our eyes. At one point coming out and doing pushups after of course throwing his tank top into the crowd for my bestfriend/Bridesmaid Ashley who was yelling "TAKE IT OFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!" and the overly enthusiastic girls behind us.

I got a bunch of ideas and of course have more planning to do. I need a job. asap. Preferably one that will let me work part-time and pay like full-time and pays for daycare or lets me work from home so I can still watch flipping out on my 'break' ya, i'm pretty sure that job doesn't exist.

Do I have enough guts for this?

so after quite a long time of listening to my lovely sister dear telling me "start a blog!" and "you're so funny, i'd read it!" well i'm pretty much convinced she'd be the only one to read it. unless of course I post pictures of my sweet, perfect little boy, then my parents might check it out too.

I'm pretty sure I can be funny in quick myspace comments or sarcastic comments in her own blog, but can i really carry one by myself? ohh the Self doubt!!!!! the Grammar...my endless and pure love for semi colons! I'm pretty sure i'll end up wincing when I look back, but oh well! Happy now Allison...well ARE YOU. So here's to you my sister, may you read my ramblings and regret ever telling me to do this in the first place! So without further ado and what this journal will most likely be all about... a picture of my sweet perfect little boy.

Today is another boring day, I've got a dirty kitchen from last nights dinner, a toy ridden living room it's 11 a.m. and i'm still in my pj's and I'M LAZY. Why am I so lazy? I have a "i'll do it later" attitude. I need to work out...I'll do it later...I need to do dishes...I'll do it later...I should go for a walk...I'll do it later. a big mound of laundry in the bedroom...guess what comes next! Only when the baby wakes up and i'm forced to get up off my butt do I realize all the many things I should have, and could have been doing but chose to watch flipping out on bravo instead...(that guy and his plumped upper lip kills me.) I do believe later has come, now I feel guilty for sitting here...this blog is going to be no good for me, damn laundry guilt.