It's Official

Well it's official. I talked to Kevin tonight after school and he started his today. He said he made $240 to sit on his butt. He only did one job. The shop foreman said that as long as the jobs they have to do for the day are done by the end of the day it's okay to go slow and he doesn't have to start on them right away. How lucky is he.
I started my phlebotomy class today. I learned how to properly use a tourniquet. It was pretty fun. The people I practiced with loved my veins because we had to find them on each other and I have HUMONGOUS veins. It was good to learn on people who's veins were harder to find. We start pokes next week. I am soooo nervous. I will try to remember my camera and take some pictures so fair warning right now if you don't like it you may want to skip that post.

New Found Respect

I know I have only had one night without Kevin, but I'm starting to struggle a bit. This will be my first night at home without him. He has only been gone all night once. That was when he was trying to get into the Air Force and he went to MEPS. Now I have to go until June without him. Luckily I will be with family most of the time.
I now have a new respect for military families that have their mommy or daddy away. I know I get to see Kevin again soon. But the men and women risking their lives for me and my family aren't able to drive a few hours to see their families on the weekend when they are missing them the most.

Update

We found out after Kevin got off work that he is supposed to start his new job on Monday. So here is our new plan. Kevin, my mom, the kiddies, and I are driving to Grand Junction tomorrow after Kevin gets off work. We will stay in a motel and Kevin will go to work with his dad and brother on Sunday morning. He will officially start on Monday, but I guess the boss wants to visit him on Sunday. I am quite bummed that we don't have much time to prepare. I really think this is a good move for us. I just didn't think it was going to happen so fast. The guy in charge of the shop wanted Kevin yesterday when he called and offered him the job. We didn't know that until today. It's going to be an interesting time in our lives, but we are up for the challenges.

Change of Plans... I guess

We were woken up early yesterday morning by the phone ringing. A guy that runs the shop where Kevin's dad works called to offer Kevin a job. We have been really excited for the changes that were about to happen in our family. Me taking phlebotomy, moving to Ogden, Kevin going to school and me going back to work. Well those plans have changed a bit. I am going to take phlebotomy and we are moving, but the rest have been put on hold for now. We are moving to Colorado. YUCK!! Luckily the place where Kevin will be working is not in Grand Junction. I absolutely hate and despise Grand Junction. We will be moving to Rifle. It's about 1,000 more people than Tremonton. There is a Walmart there, but they close at midnight. This is funny to me. I have never known of a Walmart to actually close.
Anyways, the offer is unbelievable. They offered Kevin a ridiculous amount of money to be a mechanic. We decided we could live there for a few years and have time to save up more money for Kevin to go to school. We will be able to afford to send Cheltzi to preschool. She is so ready. She talks about it all the time. Today I was talking about me going to school, and she said, "Oh, I have to go to. I have to go to preschool." It was pretty cute. I am excited that we will have money to get new furniture and fun things for our new place. The thing that sucks about it is of course missing my family. Kevin's mom and dad are moving to Rifle also. His dad is already staying with his brother. His mom will be moving with him soon. The other bad thing is the place we found to live is about $900.00 more than we are paying now. It is really expensive there, but I guess it will be worth it if we can save money for Kevin to go to school so we don't have to get huge amounts of student loans. Another thing that I don't like is Cheltzi, Dominik, and I are going to be homeless from the middle of April until I am done with my class in June. I have an idea of what we will do, but I'm not sure yet if it's going to work out or not. We don't want to have to pay for rent in Brigham and in Rifle. especially with how expensive rent will be in Colorado. In a way I'm excited about moving but in a way I'm not. I don't do very well without my mom. She is the one that keeps me sane. We talk about anything and everything.

I realize this post if pretty long and I have started rambling so I am going to just go for now. I will update as we have more info about what our plans are for sure.

Feeling a bit better

GOOD NEWS!! Both of the kids are doing so much better. My mom and I ended up taking Cheltzi back to the hospital on Tuesday. They ended up just giving her a shot of antibiotics. From now on I will not fight with Cheltzi when it comes to taking meds. They also gave us a prescription for phenergan suppositories. She doesn't like it, but at least it's less of a fight than trying to give her some form of liquid medication. Well it didn't occur to my mom and me until Wednesday morning to see if there was such a thing as acetaminophen suppositories. She needed something to get the fever down and we couldn't get her to take anything. Well we found them at Walmart. I swear by them. They are wonderful. It's really gross sticking something up your childs bum, but if it works you have to do it. Today she actually was feeling well enough to get up and cause some trouble while I was feeling yucky. Kevin took the day off but ended up having to go in because they had an alignment and he is the only one right now that knows how to do alignments.

Dominik has been feeling quite a bit better, but he has been REALLY fussy. He is also eating better. I am so glad for that. I think he has been fussy because he should be taking his medicine for acid reflux, but since he has been on an antibiotic he hasn't been able to take it. He finished his last dose today so I am going to start it again tomorrow.

Easter and Sick Babies

Happy Late Easter Everyone!! We had quite the Easter. Cheltzi and Dominik are both sick. Cheltzi wanted to get excited when she saw the Easter baskets out, but she had a hard time. She just said, "Ooh what is this?" She got excited and started yapping like a puppy when she realized there were hidden eggs. The egg search lasted about five minutes and she found less than a 1/4 of them. Boy am I glad we aren't a family that uses real eggs. I felt so bad she felt yucky. We were in the ER at Jordan Valley Hospital the two nights before. We were all very tired. After her five minute egg search she sat down on Kevin's lap with Dominik's book. They both got Little Golden books. But I guess she knows the Little Mermaid inside and out so she wasn't as interested in her book as she was with Cars.

Cheltzi has Strep throat and Dominik has croup and pneumonia. Dominik is on the upside of his yuckies, but still has a pretty nasty cough. He has been such a trooper and so happy. He has been smiley pretty much the whole time. If I could get him to eat a bit more I would be even happier with his progress, but he is still having a hard time breathing.

Cheltzi has been throwing up. She has so much junk in her throat she gags and throws up. She gags on everything I have given her to bring down the fever. The last time I took her temperature it was at 104.3. I called the hospital and had Dr. Lloyd paged because I was really worried about it, but he said it really wasn't anything to worry about. She has been waking up all night. I couldn't get back to sleep after the last time she woke up. Quite a bit of work was involved. She got out of bed and tried to go poop by herself but the light was off and yeah I'm sure you can imagine. I ended up having to clean the floor the toilet and her. Poor thing. This is the first time she has been sick like this so we are having quite the time trying to figure out what to do for her.

Pictures

Disney on Ice: Princess Wishes

We had so much fun at Disney on Ice. Cheltzi could not take her eyes off the program. She could hardly eat her hot dog!! She was eating it without even looking at it. I'm not even sure she knew what she was eating. We had really good seats so it was even funner to be so close to the ice. We saw all the princesses. Princess Ariel, Princess Aurora, Princess Jasmine, Snow White, Cinderella, Mulan, and Belle. Tinkerbell was even there.

My mom sewed a Cinderella dress for Cheltzi so she was a princess too! She was way too cute. We couldn't find her princess shoes she got with all her dress ups for Christmas. I felt so bad because they were so perfect. She ended up wearing her church shoes and the socks that her Aunt Brenda made for her that matched her Cinderella dress. Dominik even enjoyed it until about 10 minutes to the end. Kevin and I missed the ending. We got back in time to see all the princes and princesses and a couple of fireworks. I feel bad we didn't get pictures of the end, but at least Cheltzi didn't miss it. She wouldn't even leave her seat to go potty at intermission.

I don't have time right now to put pictures up, I will do that in the morning. I stayed up late to feed Nik one last time. I better go before he gets too upset.

Pictures.... Hopefully

The Anticipation!! She was trying to be so good,

but she just couldn't take it. She snuck some frosting!!

Birthday Eve! New Birthday P.J.s

Happy Birthday Sister!!! Isn't he cute? Daddy

wasn't so happy about this picture, but Dominik

was just getting into the party mood.

This is a Disney Princess C.D. player. She loves

it!! She also got a new Primary C.D.

More Presents

The Birthday Girl... Don't mind me in the background

Kevin got a hold of the camera

Tiny Moments

Okay so I love the idea of the tiny moments, but unfortunately they are a bit harder for me to do than I thought they were going to be. So I have decided that I would try to do them weekly. I will still post as often as I can, but I will no longer be doing my tiny moments everyday.

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!

Okay so there was supposed to be pictures, pictures, pictures. But I could only upload one. Bummer dude! This one was taken at Dr. Lloyd's office. The kids both had well-child visits. They are both growing and "thriving". Thriving is the word Dr. Lloyd uses when they are doing very well. They'e both had time's in their tiny little lives that they weren't so to hear this was music to my ears.

Cheltzi LOVES the rocking horse. If anyone knows where I could get one for pretty cheap I would love to know.

Birthday Girl

Cheltzi's party was great. She had so much fun. She got a pair of boots that she absolutely loves. She has worn them pretty much since she got them. They are so cute on her. For some reason I can't post pictures. As soon as I can I will get them posted.

Tiny Moment #7

I have been so lazy with my tiny moments. It really is harder than you think. But today I must admit was the nap I had really put a smile on my face. It is so nice to sneak a nap once in a while without being woken up by kids. My hubby is the best. I am so thankful for him. He helps out so much.

Tiny Moment #6

Okay so yesterday I wasn't very happy. I didn't feel all that great, Cheltzi was being a stinker and Dominik was just a bear. I am having an issue with Cheltzi growing up. I realize it's what kids do, but I still hate it. I don't want my babies to grow up.I was talking to my mom and I just started crying. I hung up from talking to her and Kevin came over and started talking to me. I thought it was very sweet that he did that. He asked Cheltzi to come over so she could give me a hug. She asked what was wrong and I said I was sad and asked her if she could stay little. She told me no!! She said, "I can't mom." I said, "You just have to grow up?" "Yeah," she said, "It just happens sometimes." It put a smile on my face. I still felt grumpy and sad but at that moment Cheltzi put a smile on my face.

Tiny Moment #5

My tiny moment for yesterday is friends. I am a part of the Mckay-Dee Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit parent volunteer moment. Once or twice a month we get together and put gifts together for the parents who have babies in the NICU. We also plan a reunion for all the babies that have graduated from the NICU. It is such a great time to get out of the house for a few hours a night. I am so happy for the friends that I have gotten through the group. We always smile and laugh... We have even had a few nights that we all cried for each other. It is just a special group and I appreciate the opportunity that I have to be a part of that group.

Tiny Moment #4

I didn't have a minute to do my Tiny Moment last night, so I am posting this morning. My tiny moment is quite funny to me. Last Fall I took the CNA class at Bridgerland Applied Technology College. There was a person in the clas who wore pink scrubs to her clinicals. Now I do like pink however I'm not sure she should have worn a pink top and pink bottoms together, She looked like a giant Peep. My friend and I now have a thing for Peeps. While at Walmart yesterday I found pink t-shirts that say "Chicks look good in PINK." and they have a Peep on them. I just had to buy two. One for me and one for my friend. While this may not be funny to those of you who are reading this I appologize, but it was just something that made me smile.

Tiny Moment #3

Cheltzi!!! She is so funny and she is growing up so fast, but she just makes me smile. I don't think there is anything inparticular that she did today to make me pick her for my tiny moment, but she makes me smile and I am so proud of her. I am going to miss her and Baby Dominik while they are at Nana and Papa's for two days.

Tiny Moment #2

My tiny moment for today is going to have to be family. C.J. and Chelsie came up today and spent the afternoon and night with us. We played Killer Bunnies. It is so fun to play with them. We always have smiles on our faces when we play. I love to spend time with my family. I feel like I missed out on a lot when I had my black years. (I decided that is what I will call the time that I fell away from my family and church.) I know I can't get back those years and I can't make it up, but if I don't have to miss out on spending time with my family, I'm not going to.