Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving fellow bloggers! My Thanksgiving, well lets see it was pretty typical. Ive set here watching looking at the screen trying to think up something cleaver to write when in actuality it was very ordinary.
I really enjoyed being able to have Thanksgiving with all my family on both sides, especially my brother in law Jarrod and my grandpa Oscar (dad's side). My hubby worked Thanksgiving and I missed him dearly but when you marry EMS thats the price you have to pay sometimes.
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This week has been pretty eventful on the home front completely aside from Thanksgiving. Calli has finally lost one of her front teeth! This makes her 5th tooth lost, but I was really looking forward to it being one of top ones. I dont know why, so dont ask LOL! I just couldnt wait to see how cute she would look! Its over and done with now the process of getting it out was HORRIBLE with a capital H! It was hanging to the point where it was lower than her other teeth. It was flat out gross because her gums were purple and swelling where it NEEDED to come out. Me and my dad (even though I know it killed him) were holding her done at one point. She screamed like we were literally killing her :( But of course my mommy senses were 100% correct when I finally grabbed it and POPPED it out, SHE SMILED INSTANTLY! We could have just won $10,000 if we would have recorded and sent it to America's Funniest Home Videos. I will post a pic later!
Another awesome thing this week is that Ryker has finally decided to start walking! He is getting more brave each and everyday. The poor baby today (when he thought no one was watching) walked all the way across the front. Unforunately, he ran into the coffee table and splatted the floor :( But he was fine when we broke out in a jingle singing " Go Ryker , Go Ryker". Instant SAVE!!!!!

Im gonna make this a habit!

Well I was advised by a friend to follow her blog and to start my own. I already had one but honestly I forgot all about it! So I'm sorry little blog! Im gonna make it a habit to keep up with you this time.
My last post was nearly a year ago! I was talking about how strange it was that Piper was turning 2! Well alot has happened since then. Piper will be 3 in a matter of months, and Ryker (the baby not even mentioned before) is already 9 months old! Calli my oldest just turned 6 and my sweet sweet cuddlebug will turn 5 in April! My my how time flies :( tear.

{Family ReCap}

Meet Calli! She is my first, so naturally there is no child cuter, smarter, or more special than her! lol But Seriously she is beyond beautiful in everyway possible. She is a kind hearted girly girl. She is a lover of all things pink! I love this Calli bug with every ounce of my being!

Meet Eli! Ohhhh Eli my sweet little cuddlebug! I could cry thinking about how much I love this boy! He was so pleasant from day he born, and its continued throughout his all of 4 years old. Ive always said he was an old soul. He enjoys rough boy things like cars and wrestling but will always settle for a cuddle with mommy! I love you baby man!

Meet Piper! Or shall I baby pit puppy! She is as rough as she is cute! Not in a bratty way, but she very much acts like a little boy! As a baby she would jump off the couch for the heck of it. One day she grow to be either a stunt double or a comedian! I SWEAR IT! I love to pieces. Even though she is the 3rd she feels like my baby. Maybe its because she still so tiny, but I dont know!

Meet Ryker! He may be only 9 months old but he knows how to make sure he isnt forgotten in this family ours. He is very friendly and always smiling at strangers. Its a relief from piper's babyhood( if thats even a word). Right now he is suffering from separation anxiety which to say in the least sucks! lol He has been crawling and crusin for months now, and Im positive if he had an ounce more courage he'd be walking! Yay for Ryker not so much for mommy! This kid can already open any drawer or door( well the ones he can reach Lol)

Poppy is 2! Where has the time gone? My baby girl isnt a baby anymore. Ugh she is alittle girl! We celebrated her 2 bday with a Minnie Mouse themed party at the fire house. She is old school pimp like that! Although let me tell finding Minnie Mouse themed party supplies was no treat.

Family & EMS do not mix!

There are alot of professions out there are made perfect for single life. My husband the paramedic just happens to have one of those. Like doctors, and firefighters ( which is also is) paramedics put everyone first, that is except their families. Its the families who spend atleast a 24 hours shift away from their husband and daddy. Its the families who cant sit down to a dinner because thats just asking for tones to drop. Its me the mommy who listens to her 4 and 3 year say comments like "daddy just dont want to come home, or daddy dont like to be here". I know alot of people put alot of medics and firefighters in the hero cateagory. It's hard for to try and do that when I'm sour at how someone could give there all for strangers but their families rest on the back burner.

Thats just alittle vent for today. We are supposed to be cleaning and packing for vacation as of right now. But he went in to work to help cover a wreck that im sure no one would have come to help him out with if it had been his day to work. Ive got all of the cleaning done, which Im not supposed to be doing in the first place. My ob has put on limited activity because my blood pressure has been up and at my last check up there was protein in my urine.

Today is a day of reflection........

In 3 short but busy days me, hubby, and our 31/2 kids will be heading to Gatlinburg. This is a much needed vacation for all parties. In preparation for our trip I dug out the point and shoot kodak. To my amazement there was well over 300 pics on it. Out entire summer it seemed was waiting on the SD card. How patiently it waiting to be viewed and uploaded to myspace. lol There were pictures from our trip to the Zoo and the babies first trip to Kings Island, Calli's first ever beauty pageant, and endless amounts of daily couch session with me and Piper. 

As I uploaded I scrolled down the hundreds upon hundreds of photos on the computer and came across an album of Piper's birth. Has it really been almost 2 years now? Calli's hair was much shorter than, and Eli was so round and chubby. I was reminded of the time when I called him my chubby bunny. Time flies so quickly!

Also today I found a journal that me and Derrick kept when we first started dating (Oct of 2002). He was still in college then and only got to see me on weekends. We couldnt even talk to each other everyday, because we couldnt afford it. We basically got to know each other through this journal . We would write it all week long, and then swtich off when the weekend came so we could read it. I dont know where the idea came from, but Im sooooo thankful that we did it. So I  found it today and was in complete awww at how much things have changed.  We have gone from a new couple to saying those first "I love You's " to being married, and now having 3 kids and another on the way. This journal is something Iwill always cherish, and I admit i wish we would have kept up with it. My how interesting of a read would that have been now? I think its something atleast I will try and do. 

As for now this ends my first post. Ive got packing for 5 people to do.... Wish me Luck Bloggers