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.