The Weekend...I hope you have a minute...or thirty!

Since I already filled everyone in on what was happening throughout the week, I thought I would share our weekend with ya...

On Friday, we pretty much did nada!!! Anthony was feeling pretty yucky so we just stuck around the house. Brian went to Wal-mart and bought him a fancy aquarium humidifier, so he (Anthony) could finally get some good sleep.

On Saturday, Jaiden went to a friend's house to spend the night...(YIPPEE, she's finally un-grounded...and the countdown had already began for the next one!) And on Saturday night, Brian went out with some friends of his and had a 'guys night out', so I decided to go through a box of old pictures and stuff that I had from my Mom's house* (which is now my Dad's house). Anywhoo, going through an old box like that is about as cool as finding a hidden treasure! I remember when my Dad gave it to me, but I don't think that I had the time to really look through it as I transferred the stuff into a more storable box that I kept under my bed. I found old pictures and letters of my Mom's and then stuff from me, Doug, Ryan and Sean as we were growing up. Because I was at the house alone, I decided to put our new scanner/copier/fax machine/toaster oven (okay so I added the toaster oven thing, but I am almost willing to bet that it'll do it) into use and started scanning stuff in and e-mailing it to Mom. We talked on the phone as we looked through the stuff and we laughed and laughed and then she was telling me stories about some of the older pictures, it was a really nice moment for me! Okay, sorry, I got a little deep into that, so moving on....

* I actually didn't decide to go through this box, but as I was walking through my bedroom, the box had somehow inched it's way out from underneath my bed just enough to catch my big toe as I was walking by....after a few choice words...that I said to myself of course (my Grandparents do read this ya know) I pulled it out and well, I had nothing else to do soooo...

Sunday was Superbowl Day!!! Jaiden went to see the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus (Aunt Elicia, I still have your Billy Ray Cyrus CD and will return it to you soon...I'm sorry!) concert movie and Brian, Anthony and I went to a friends house to watch the big game! Unfortunately, I didn't get to see much (err..ANY) of the game, but I still had a really good time. Anthony had a mini stalker at the house that we were at. Every time he would fall asleep a little radar would go off in this little girl's head (the little girl's name is Indigo and she is SO CUTE!) and she was quite insistant that Anthony wanted her to hold him. So I finally did what any great mother would do...I hid him in one of the upstairs bedrooms. When he fell asleep, of course Indigo's radar went off and she was searching the house for him. I met her on the stairs and she asked me where he was. I told her that I hid him from her and she looked me square in the eye and said, "I'm gonna find your baby!" Okay, so it scared me a little, but as most three years olds do, she lost interest in about a minute and then Gia (the other little precious girl at the party) walked by and that was all of that. After the game was over, we picked up Jaiden, got home around 10:30 and I fell asleep around 11:30. I haven't been asleep before 11:30 in four months...it was absolutely amazing!

Unfortunately, my early bedtime didn't last as long as I would have liked. You see, when we got home I told Jaiden to make sure that when she got up for school the next morning to immediately get into the shower since she didn't have one that night. I told her to make sure that she set her alarm clock for 7:00. We normally get up at that time...okay, so she normally gets up at that time and gets herself ready for school and then we make sure that she is at school by 7:45. So, this morning, Jaiden comes into my bedroom and asks me if she could take a shower in my bathroom, I said yes and turned back over. When she got out of the shower, I then took my place in the bathroom and washed off my face and brushed my teeth. I knew that I couldn't really go back to bed because I had to go to work this morning. As I am brushing my teeth, Jaiden walks in the bathroom with a hideous outfit on and I tell her to go find something else to wear. Of course it could NEVER be that easy, so she pouts off to her room telling me that she has NOTHING to wear and I follow (yes, I know Mom, 'the rest of my life', thanks). I get into her closet and start picking out something for her to wear when my sub-conscience is thinking that it's probably getting pretty close to 7:30 or so by this time so I ask Jaiden what time it is. (Sidebar...I don't have an alarm clock in my bedroom so I am 100% clueless as to what the time is.) Jaiden then looks at me with one of those dear in the headlights look and tells me 'Six O'Eight". Six o'clock in the morning.....and I'm up.....and my four month old is still sleeping...do you have any idea of what precious sleep time that is just being lost, because Jaiden decided to just wake up an hour and a half before we were supposed to. I wanted to cry. Needless to say, Jaiden and I had a nice long morning with our hot tea, we curled our hair and Jaiden picked out my outfit for the day. Then it was off to school for Jaiden and I went to work.

And that brings me here. Sitting in front of the computer at 12:42 in the a.m. My poor husband is in the other room while I am neglecting him of all of his time with me...and yes, he looks forward to the time that I make him spend with me...hehe!

Well, I hope that everyone has a wonderful week.

I love you all!

Oh yeah, I had Anthony's pictures done last week at Target and although I don't have the actual photo's back yet, here are some of the proofs that they emailed to me....

**WARNING** THE FOLLOWING PICTURES COULD RESULT IN YOUR INABILITY TO RESIST KISSING YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN!!!

Sick Boy

I took Anthony to the doctor today and we found out that he has the Croup. Poor little thing! His voice is almost gone and he sounds like a little seal. He was sooo fussy last night and he stayed up until 4:30 this morning. The only way that he was happy was if I was holding him up and walking around. He was so sad and clingy all night, he would just bury his head into my chest and hum, it was so freakin cute, sad...but absolutely adorable!

Anyways, pray for us to have a half way peaceful night tonight! I'll post again tomorrow to let you know how he is feeling.

Help....I need somebody

I need a babysitter for Anthony! Someone in either the Carrollton area or in the Uptown/Park Cities area would be wonderful!! Come on Murphey...I know you know people! It would only be for a couple of days a week (Monday and Thursday) and unfortunately I can't pay a lot, but will pay.

If anyone knows of anyone that could help us out, please let me know!

Thanks for your help.

Man...what a day!!

Today started out great! I was determined that I would accomplish more today than I have all week, and considering I really haven't done anything all week, I really didn't set the bar too high...But anyways, I got up this morning and took J-Bug to school, then I went to the grocery store to grab some stuff that we needed. I came back home and loaded and ran the dishwasher, started dinner (God bless the crock pot) and then took a little nap...hey, I don't want to strain anything okay! ; ) After my little nap, I got up and fed the baby and got him ready to go and have his pictures taken at Target. We got some really great shots of him and the girls up there were super sweet...(Sorry Mel, it was convenient, but I still want to get our family pictures done with you!!!) After the pictures were taken I ran back home and had lunch with Brian just before I went to pick up J-Bug from school. After I picked her up we (me, J, and Anthony) all went to get Anthony his four month old shots....that's where the day got ruined (cue the da da daaaaa music).

Jaiden was stoked about getting to come with me and asked if she could be in the room with us when he got his shots. I explained to her that brother would cry and I wasn't sure if she wanted to be there, but she insisted, so I let her, probably not the best move. Oh and, just an FYI, at four months old, babies get one oral vaccination and three shots. We get in there and they asked me to hold him a certain way and Jaiden stood in front of me watching the nurses prepare everything. Of course, I too hate to see my baby cry so I was as not looking forward to this, but they did it and he wailed! As if that wasn't enough, I look up and Jaiden is in tears with the absolute most horrified look on her face and both hands over her ears. It broke my heart, but I knew that I couldn't break down right there in the doctor's office, so with a strong upper lip and 10mgs of Lexapro, I held it in....until we got to the car.

With that experience down, I doubt that Jaiden will ever go back to the doctor with me to get brother's shots done and I am also sure that I destroyed any dream she ever had about being a pediatrician! Good job mom! And as for Anthony, he is okay now and sleeping. He was pretty fussy earlier, but I got some Tylenol in him and he finally fell asleep, in my arms. It was the sweetest thing ever! I realized tonight that on a normal night when he gets sleepy, he wants one of two things, either to be in his swing or in his bed. He isn't the biggest fan of just being carried around all the time so although it was a really bad day at the doctor's office, I really cherished our time together tonight!

I love you all!

January 21st - January 27th

Miss Jaiden was out of school Monday and Tuesday of this week, so since she had gotten in trouble last weekend, Brian made her play Cinderella (not the beautiful, meet Prince Charming one, the one before all that) and boy did she clean! She really did a great job and I think Brian was frustrated because she enjoyed it. Maybe we shouldn't have put in the whole Cinderella comparison.

On Wednesday, Jaiden brought home her report card and I can't even tell you how happy we were! She brought up all of her grades at least ten points (all A's and B's) except for math, but we are working on that now! I'm telling you, if your kid won't pay attention in school or you are having any attention problems like ADD, I HIGHLY recommend a hot cup of tea with sweetener (NOT SUGAR) in the morning before school! It has really helped little miss J-Bug!

Brian got a job on Friday and we were soo excited. I actually had to stay home from work today so that he could get something done...darnit ; )! To make it even better, he will be working remotely, so he'll still get to be here with me and the kiddos. He really seems to like the company so I hope that this works out.

On Saturday, Brian, Anthony and I (Jaiden was at her dad's and that's a WHOLE other story) went to Emberlea's birthday party at a skating rink in Grand Prairie. And, yeah....I skated (thanks to Anna giving me her socks and skates!) Boy that was an adventure, but we had a really good time. Sorry, no pictures from that because I knew as soon as I took the camera out there, I would fall on my butt and break the camera into a million little pieces! But after we got finished there, we went back to Grammy's (Brian's moms) and hung out and then I left Brian and Anthony there to go and have dinner with some friends from high school. We met at Razzoo's in Mesquite and had a really nice time! We had some drinks and ate some good food.

Sam, Angel, Jenny and Sheree

Sam and Melanie (with her stylin new hair do!)

Amanda and Melanie

The whole gang...

Melanie, Angel, Sam, Jenny, Amanda, Sheree and Me

I'll have to do another post about Jaiden's weekend at her dad's later, but I will tell you that when Jaiden made it home, she didn't come home empty handed...in fact, she came home with another addition to our household...meet Clinton the Beta.

Well, it was once again a fun filled week in the Barrera house!

I love you all!

He finally did it!!

Anthony rolled over yesterday all by himself! We were playing on the floor (tummy time) and he just did it! For whatever reason, I felt that this was a huge milestone for him and I just had to share it with everyone!

Brian told me that I was really stressing out over it too much. He told me that he has never had a friend that was laying on the ground saying 'come on guys, just roll me over, I never got that down when I was a baby'. It's true I guess, but I feel much better now that he has done it!

What a week!!

Wow, what a week at the Barrera's!! Tuesday, Jaiden, Anthony and I went to the skating rink for a PTA meeting. Yes, our school decides to make sure that EVERY student in the school knows that the PTA meeting will be held at the local skating rink and that every parent should try to attend...thank you Kent Elementary....thank you!



Jaiden got out of school early Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, so Aunt Jay came over Wednesday and we all went to La Hacienda Ranch for lunch...it was super yummy! Thursday was filled with us trying to convince Anthony that he would eventually have to roll over and soon after become somewhat mobile!!

We see how he felt about that!

Anthony tried his first couple of bites of applesauce and I am truly afraid of this child when he starts really eating. He LOVES his food!!

And Jaiden was quite the lady with her honey bbq wings...

Then on Friday, Brian and I jet setted off to Arizona.

I have to say that I was really worried about leaving Anthony for the first time over night, but we both survived and it was a nice get away for me and the hubby!

Anywho, we got to Phoenix and had our business meeting and all went really really well. Brian talked his talk and I smiled and nodded as if I had some understanding as to what was being talked about! We really didn't have a lot of time to do anything so we just drove around Friday night and had dinner and then Saturday morning we got up and Brian took me up South Mountain. It was beautiful! I took a thousand or so pictures, but photos could not capture the true beauty that we saw. Being born and raised in and around the Dallas area mountains aren't something that we see everyday...err every...so to get to drive to the top of one and look out at the land around was awesome! I'll put them in a slideshow for all to see...

Grammy stayed with the kiddos while me and Brian were in Phoenix and I'm not sure that I will ever be able to convince her to come over again! For starters, Jaiden invited a friend over, yet she failed to mention it to me or her dad so you can imagine Grammy's surprise when she showed up to pick up Miss Jaiden and she had another little girl in tow. Needless to say, Jaiden is grounded and as of yesterday has the cleanest bedroom on the block! Then, I didn't get a chance to go to the grocery store before we left so Grammy had to make Lord only knows how many different trips to the grocery store and to McDonald's. So with that said, I want to make a public apology to Grammy! I am so sorry and I promise that you won't have to work your tailend off next time that you come over.

Well, as you can see it was an exciting week at Casa de Barrera! Thanks for taking the time to listen to my madness!

I love you all!!

Okay, I was going to put in a slide show of all of our pics, but it won't work so here ya go! Let me know what you think!

Wow...my husband is HOT!