The Sweetest Family Ever!

A camping we will go...

2009-08-22T20:09:00.000-07:00

Do you see the little yellow bottle on the table!? That's what almost killed us!!!

After a few minor camping trips; at my parents' house in Knights Ferry and another friends' house for fourth of July, we finally got to take our first REAL camping trip in our new trailer! We up the mountains to Clarks Fork. It's pretty much in Dardenelle. We really enjoyed our trip. The first night was pretty much terrible especially when our Carbon Monoxide alarm went off at 3am! To make it worse, it was a REAL alarm. I found a map gas bottle that Jason had brought with his tools underneath the kids' bed. It had been bumping around in the trailer the whole way up there and managed to loosen up the knob. I was soooo scard that I made Jason open all the doors and windows up and turn everything off in the trailer meaning, the HEATER! I didn't pack heavy blankets because I knew we would have the heater and so we FROZE our butts off the rest of the evening!

We were just by ourselves the first night and didn't pull in until about 9:30 pm. Then in the morning, all the troops arrived!! The final total was 9 adults and 18 kids!! Holy crap it was a ton of kids!

It makes me sick.

2009-07-20T17:41:00.000-07:00

So this guy calls my house tonight and says..
"Hi is Jason there? "
"No he's not, may I ask who's calling?"
"Is this is wife?"
"Yes it is.."
Silence...
"I hate to tell you like this but your husband is having an affair with my wife. My name is Michael Winters and my wife's name is Nancy."
Silence..
"What.... are you sure?"
"Yes.. I found his name and phone number on a piece of paper in her purse.. and, I also found a video tape."
"Wait.. so.. how long has this been going on?"
"I am not sure but I can send you the tape if you'd like to see for yourself but.. I hate to be personal but do you guys do anal sex?"
"Uh. No."
"Well in the video tape, that's what he is doing to her."
Silence...
"Wait... I'm sorry this is so random, are you sure? I am sorry I am just trying to wrap my head around all of this.. Can I have her cell phone number and I will check it on his cell phone records.. I just would like to check it out on my own if you don't mind."
"Sure.. but I think the best way to get him is to show him the tape. I can send you a copy."
"Uhh ok, you probably know my address... how did you get my number?"
"Yes, on Second Ave right?"
"Yea..."
Silence..
"There's nothing going on, it's just a prank."
SILENCE...

My stomach feels like puking right now.. I didn't think that anything could possibly be going on like that! But.. when someone who sounds middle aged calls and tells you this with a distraught voice and keeps it up for that long... It makes you a little crazy..

What a JERK.

Deagan turns 4!

2009-05-12T08:55:00.001-07:00

As of May 11th, my baby is 4! Deagan is most definately the baby of the family and loving every minute of it. He loves his Momma, Mario Kart, and candy! He can throw tempertanrums with the best of 'um but is so sensitive. He has been planning his wedding for quite sometime. On the beach with two wedding cakes, a dora one for the girls and a spiderman one for the boys. He also has picked out a dinosaur shirt that he wants to wear when he gets married. I swear I didn't prompt him! But I think all this planning comes from me. I talk to both of my kids often about being respectful to girls ALWAYS ( to Deagan) and how girls are suppose to be treated and except nothing less (to Kaeli) and about only having one spouse (unless something real bad happens) Kaeli at one point was married to her imaginary friend (this was years ago) and wanted triplets and wanted to live next door to me. She has a little over 100 dollars saved in her piggy bank that she is saving for her car or house. (That idea came on her own as well)

Crazy kids... they are more together than I am!

Deagan the Pretty Boy

2009-04-03T21:34:00.000-07:00

We were at a friends' house that is just beautiful and Deagan was feeling so cool that I started to take some pictures of him. What a HAM!

Kaeli's first spelling bee!

2009-04-03T21:26:00.000-07:00

Kaeli was able to beat out the rest of her class (all 13 other students) for one of the two spots to go to the Gratton Country Spelling Bee. I was a wreck for many reasons.. But I knew she would give it her all. We practiced for a few weeks about 10 words a night and for every word she spelled wrong she had to write it five times. What a TROOPER! At the spelling bee you could spell four words wrong before you were out and she didn't win but it was a great experience in it's self. We also celebrated with the other second grader named Paris. She won 3rd place! We went to Mc Donald's and then to Cold Stone. I was going to bring her home early from school too but she BEGGED to go back to school for free time. Go figure. haha

Coach Jason

2009-04-03T21:18:00.000-07:00

Jason has been coaching Kaeli's softball team this spring. This is his second year of coaching but this year, he is all alone coaching 11 girls! Last year there was three coaches. He has been doing a great job with all the girls considering a lot of them are first time players. He has been able to help them with learning the basics of throwing, catching, and hitting. My niece Hanna, has been able to help too when she is available. There is something so awesome about watching my husband be such a good daddy!

Softball.

2009-03-29T19:52:00.000-07:00

I will post pictures some time..

I have this obsession with watching my niece, Hanna play softball. She plays for this awesome team out of Stockton. RR Gold. I have driven to Carson City, stayed for a week, sat for at least 6 to 8 hours in the rain, wind, and 99 degree (at least!) weather, and not to mention drug my kids through all of this! She is so amazing to watch and their team moral is outstanding. I call them the Come Back Kids. They can be down by any amount and then in the final innings just take the game! This spring they were undefeated, and their new record is 19-1. They had their first loss handed to them today but it was the championship game and they all fought hard. These girls play usually 3 to 4 games on Saturdays and then Sundays it's a knockout day. Depending on how well they did Saturday determines their schedules for Sunday. It's usually about 3 games on Sunday.

WOO HOO I love being an Auntie! :D

Baking..

2009-02-26T18:47:00.000-08:00

I like to bake. I like to bake so much that I think I will hit 800 pounds soon! :D

Deidrick

2009-02-26T18:39:00.000-08:00

The top is Deidrick now and the bottom is Deidrick when we firstgot him!

We got this puppy last November and at 7 weeks, he weighed 31 pounds. At 5 months or so he is now 53 pounds. I can not believe that he keeps getting bigger and bigger!

Crazy lady!

2009-02-07T07:48:00.000-08:00

I love kids and always will love kids. But.. if I was unemployed and single mother who already had sextuplets, I don't think I would be pressing for more kiddos unless I had well a husband and probably was a millionaire! Have you guys been reading about this lady? AND she is in California... and not to mention in four year she collected about $165,000 in disability! So I can't help but wonder how she supports her sextuplets (that obviously she did invitro for!) and now she afforded her recent invitro which produced her Octuplets. I mean shoot, open a flippin' day care, or do foster care, or even adopt (which I don't know how you can adopt with out an income but whatever).
She feared she wouldn't be able to have to kids and now she is the lucky mom of 14 kids. I get that. But geez, a little to the extreme don't you think!? Good luck lady and I hope that my husbands' tax dollars are serving you well.

allrecipes.com

2009-01-23T11:40:00.000-08:00

Have you have went to http://www.allrecipes.com/? I absolutely love that website because I love to try new things. (baking and cooking, I mean!) You can read the review of other people and they generally write what they did different to make it better or other ideas. Also you can have a recipe box on there so you can click and add any recipes that you find that you like and maybe want to use it at a different time! They have like ANYTHING you can imagine in terms of food and drinks. Oh and you can change the number of servings to adjust to how many people you want to cook for and it automatically changes the amounts for ingredients for you. You can take a recipe made for 12 people and make it for 4 people if you don't want too many left overs, which is awesome because our family is small!

Anyway, just a random thought!

More to say about being adopted..

2009-01-19T18:35:00.000-08:00

My biological family didn't even know about me so it was NEWS to them! My bio father knows that I am in contact with his sister and I have even called his cell phone and left a voicemail. But he has never called! I just find that insane, curiosity would definately have killed me by now! The rest of the family has been amazing. I am the "first" born grandchild, the only grand daughter and niece, and I have the first great grand children. My grandma and grandpa have 6 grandsons and now me the only grand daughter. I sometimes wonder how I would have turned out being the oldest child in a family because I am the baby baby in my family. Megan, my closest sister by age to me is 7 years older. Here's a few pictures of my family and then my adopted family! Oh and we did a family trip to Disneyland last year and my Bio family came too! We went to dinner at this awesome place too!

the Bios are Coming!

2009-01-17T23:05:00.000-08:00

See, I'm adopted and I have recently came in contact with my Biological family on my biological father's side. I think that it's been almost two years now. They live in SF and today they came to visit us! We see them pretty often although the last two months has been crazy and so it is just now that we get to spend Christmas with them. I have learned quite a few things about being Phillipino.

#1 I am pretty sure that I spelled Phillipino wrong.

#2 They are late all the time. Seriously like three hours late.

#3 They love their RICE

They say that I am a coconut, Brown on the outside and White on the inside! I guess I have a lot to learn about my heritage! Shoot, I was raised in the country!

Also it has been really interesting getting used to someone looking like me. I can not believe someone has the same smile as me, or my broad shoulders, or even my tempertantrums. My family is all italian and so they look nothing like me and so it's been strange to see where I get my features and personality traits from!

Kaeli's 8th birthday

2009-01-16T18:55:00.000-08:00

I made a cookie dough cheese cake for Kaeli's birthday cake at home this year because I baked ice cream cone cupcakes for her birthday party in her classroom earlier in the day. I was so proud of it!

Myspacer, Facebooker, and now I'm a Blogger!

2009-01-16T09:03:00.000-08:00

Uh-oh another addiction has graced me with it's presence! Hi everyone, I'm sure I find something exciting to blog about soon with pictures! haha