It's true....*edited* :)

Aight, I completely SUCK butt at my blog lately!!! I think about it often and I have so many things to post, but by the time I crawl into bed and do my usual, play on facebook way too much doing cheesy but SUPER important fish wrangler and keeping my city folk of Squish City happy on Cityville, there just hasn't been time for me to blog :(

I finished another quarter of school last week!! WOOHOO....I have never been more excited for classes to end then I was for this quarter. Between working full time, kids and just life in general, throwing school into it was just too much for me right now. But I am proud of myself for making it through it and not just throwing in the towel like I so wanted to a couple of times.

I'll do a picture update later, but here's a lil bit more about what's been going on in our crazy lives :) Let's see....we have been getting ready for Hawaii, so excited to go, only 35 DAYS till we board the plane and absorb paradise for 2 amazing weeks. It started out as just me and the kids going, but then we figured what is a vacation without old people tagging along?!?! So we invited my parents to come along with us, soon maybe they will get the old people parking pass and then we will DEFINITELY be lugging them along with us hehe :) Then we invited Auntie Debbie to come along with us, had everything planned and pretty much paid for and she ended up having to back out of going because she had to have surgery and then dad's job also caused us to have to bump the entire trip to a month later!!! Trust me I was so NOT happy about starting the search for a condo, plane tickets everything all over again....I threatened everyone's lives that I'd be going to Hawaii ALONE if anyone asked to change anything haha oh did I mention my sista, Brian and their crazy 3 munchkins are coming too!!! It is going to be so much fun having all of us in Hawaii together for 2 weeks. We got a condo right on the beach, oh yeah I got a convertible for my rental car and stuck the others with a mini van hehe

So besides Hawaii plans, lets see what else have we been up too?? Vanessa did the unicycle assembly again and of course she was incredible. She just rides around on that thing like she is walking!! I'd be flat out on my face if I even tried it. 

 Speaking of Vanessa, I can not believe it, but my lil baby girl turned 12 years old at the beginning of this month!!! 12!!! Yes I said 12!!!! She should not be that old already and getting ready to start middle school next year. I look at her in amazement at what an incredible young woman she is becoming and then I want to beat her with an ugly stick haha she is such a beautiful girl on the inside and way to cute on the outside :)

She even makes braces look good :)
*New addition* Tonight as I'm doing my newest post about Matthew's birthday, Vanessa is laying here next to me and says, you never did one of those for me on my birthday!! So feeling super guilty and like a horrible mom, I scroll down and show her the post I did do, which then I realize I never posted any pictures of her blowing out her candles, so to make myself feel like a better mom, here are a few of those pictures!!

 Matthew is goofy as ever, man that boy can make me laugh. He is getting ready to turn 8 in a couple weeks and is so excited to get baptized. He has been asking lots of questions and is taking this very seriously which I am very proud of him for. He is growing into such a caring, loving, hilarious young man. He has one of the best senses of humor I have ever been around, he cracks himself up lol

We made a quick and unexpected trip to Utah on Vanessa's birthday. Teresa had to have surgery and needed help taking care of her kids while she recovered. So we all jumped in the van and drove to Utah for the weekend. Man I love those boys!! And man do they love my kids lol I don't think Justin went too far from his Banessa :)

 This last picture, by far is my favorite one. He just loved her :)

And like I said, it was her birthday when we drove to Utah, so when we got there, we found a shoe store and of course, taking after her mother she is a shoe girl. So she easily found a pair of shoes, which she informed me was the start of my payment to her for making her sit in a car for 14 hours on her birthday haha

Too bad she now has bigger feet then me and I can't steal them to wear!!!

 And yes I know I said I'd do a picture update later, but you can't just ramble for this long without throwing a picture or two in for entertainment purposes :)