A vent.

I try. I really do.

Sometimes I don't think my kids are that bad. Isaac is pretty even tempered. David gets frustrated easily but is SO cooperative when I ask him to do things. Sammy... is Sammy. He's gotten over the shrieking at the top of his voice thing for the most part. Of course now that I've said that, he'll probably start all over again. He's never been a "naughty" kid. Just curious. Which doesn't bother me. Not like he is mean. He's never been mean. None of my kids have. David is bossy and Sammy is better playing by himself but he's not MEAN. But lately...

*sigh*

Maybe it's just me.

We took the kids to a little Air Museum with David's cub scouts yesterday and the grumpy old men that ran the place were all over my kids! WHY MINE!?!? And why can't my kids listen when I say don't touch!?!?!? And why do people feel like they have to discipline other people's kids??? Especially when I'm in the middle of disciplining him myself!!!! Dude, I'm his parent... I got this!!!!!

It's so frustrating.

And today I'm just tired of it. Tired of people. Tired of my kids. I know they're not perfect, Hell, I'm not perfect in the SLIGHTEST, so why should they be?!?! But I try!!!!!! I try to raise kids who are thoughtful and polite and kind.

Maybe I should look into a speech therapist for Sammy. I keep thinking he'll grow into it. I don't know. I'm just tired and frustrated.

I don't like November. November doesn't hold good thoughts for me. I'm already having a hard enough time this month with other things, I don't need more stress...

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!

Stolen from facebook. I love this!!!

Some Halloween Pictures

I posted most of these on facebook, but figured I'd share them here as well.

David as Fox in Socks for Character Day at school.
Crazy Hair Day... it's blue!
The loot... I need a shower.
Cuties dressed up!!! (Or not so much in Sam's case.)
Marge and Homer. :) Good use of the belly bump.

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Facebook really does distract me from blogging, I've decided. I post my pictures there... I update my status there... I tell stories about my kids there...

I really need to make myself blog more. I've been seeing everyone's blog updates with their cute halloween pictures, and I'm just too busy/tired/lazy to copy it here as well.

I should try harder.

Later.

But for now, here's a brief update. Last doctor's appt (almost two weeks ago) had an ultrasound. Put my due date up five days, but he won't change it. Either way, I'm not planning on going past the 5th (at the latest). Baby's growing fine. Keeping me awake at night... like I sleep anyways.

Nathan was gone all this last week for some non-Army related training. Yep.

Boys are doing good. David made Honor Roll this grading period.

And.... that's about it. Not much news. It's still warmer here than any November should ever be. Seriously. Gimme some cold weather PLEASE!

That's about it.

Annnnd.... Scene.

Just some random stuff....

Well, we finally got our new camera. Basically it's a little nicer/newer version of our old Nikon. It works for us! :)

Whoa, Nelly!!!!!! .... 32 weeks

First Top Tooth gone!!!!!

Thug McSam

Playing school!!! :)

Watching my stomach shift...

So. Since it's been a while since I posted, I'm not sure where to begin. I suppose I'll break this post down into categories, since I really don't know what else to do...

Prego: Fine. Went to the dr. today and have gained another 5 lbs. He is worried about size of baby so we are doing an ultrasound next time (2 weeks) to measure. Like those are ever accurate....

I'd like at least one decent pregnant tummy pic before this is over so Nathan and I really need to get on top of buying a new camera.

New Camera: We've been shopping and think we're just gonna get another model of the one Ike Ike broke. But the PX was out so we have to wait till they get some in...

Cake: I think I'm gonna take some time off from caking. I'm tired. It stresses me out right now. I'm making one as we speak for a friend's dad's 50th and it's not turning out how I wanted. I get in over my head sometimes with the stress level and I need to chill for a bit. Bawled on the phone to Nathan about it earlier and later David came down stairs and said, "Mommy, if anyone else asks you to make a cake, you say NO. It stresses you out too much!" :) I must obey. I will wait till after baby comes to take anymore orders. I'm tired...

Jobs: Nathan is just about done with his grad school app. He's had some awesome help from my old roomie with his essay and I think he feels good about it. Transcripts are ordered and if all goes according to plan, he'll be in school in January. Sheesh...

David: Was nominated for the Talented/Gifted program at school which was a nice surprise. He's been testing this week. IQ tests and creativity tests and such. I am proud and I know he's talented even if he doesn't "make it". :P

Ike Ike: Is cute...

Sam: is not quite the screaming terror he was a few months ago. He talks more now. The other night we were at Cub Scouts with David and he was so tired he kept saying "go home, go home, go home." And he loves Nightmare Before Christmas and I love watching him watch it. It cracks us all up because his favorite thing to do is watch and quote movies. There's a song in that movie where Jack is in Christmas Town and he sing "What's This?!" And Sammy always sings along those two words... "Wut Disth?!" "Wut Disth?" ...I didn't realize how many times Jack said those two words till watching with Sammy. "Wut Disth?"

Hercules: Needs a bath.

Mom: I've been missing her a lot lately. I am anxious for the memorial place to get her marker to the cemetary so they can place it and I can go take pictures. I hope it's done by Halloween. I'd love to go put a pumpkin on her grave. She'd love that too I'm sure. :) David is working on 'writing stories' at school and the other day, when I went in to help his class, he showed me his book he's writing. It's called "When my grandma died". I read it and it was very sweet. Even illustrated. Touching. I think, with it being the time of year it is, we are all thinking of her a lot lately. Ike was driving around with me today and just randomly said, "It's sad Granni died." Yep. Agreed. I know I have been thinking of her a lot lately with things that have been going on and I miss her like mad.

Hmmm.... what else?

I can't think of anything right now. I need to go take another look at this beast of a cake and... actually I need to go to bed and tackle it in the morning with a fresh eye. Bleh. :P

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We're gonna party till we're purple!!!

I LOVE BEING PURPLE!!!!

....

Ok. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie has obviously been played one too many times in my house.

Seriously though!!! We partied pretty good last night and I am SO sore and tired today!!! That's what dancing, standing, screaming, and carrying on for two hours will do when your 6 months pregnant...

But it was SO worth it!!!!

We got to Dallas, after dropping off the pug dog at a friend's house, around 2 o'clock. We went and checked in to our hotel, swam a little, and then got ready. The boys and us went to Jack in the Box for dinner... cause we're cheap right now. Then we took them over to a babysitters. We'd never met the girl before but she came highly recommended from a good friend in her ward. So we dropped off the munchkins and took off to our concert. Free Parking... YAY!!! The opening act was some (decent) European band called Peter Bjorn and John... no commas but it was three dudes. Pretty good. Coulda been a lot worse! Then our show... totally rocked! They played tons of old stuff, a bunch of new stuff, it was great! It's so fun to be able to sing a long to every song.

Here's a clip from last night's show. Obviously we didn't take this as our camera is still BROKEN. :P But this is the side we were on... a few rows back from this dude...

So awesome. Totally worth it!

Depeche Mode, Dallas 2009 Sweet!!!


And this am we got to see my old friend Doug and meet his wife Lois, which was nice (though short) also!! Then we drove home and now are thoroughly pooped.

Life.

Haven't posted anything in a while. Isaac lovingly broke our camera when he and David were fighting over it. It. Is. Dead. And momma and papa are not very happy about it. Who has money to just buy another camera?!? Not us, anyways.

But we have been keeping busy. David started school this week. He has already told me that it's "longer than Primary School". I wonder if he's already disillusioned! Not all he thought it would be? I don't know. I think part of it is still getting into the swing and routine of getting up and going. I hope it'll get better though. For his sake.

We went to Six Flags last week (Me, Ike, and David) thanks to a good friend who got us in for free! (YAY!) We had a lot of fun and I even got the boys to ride the log flume (a feat!). They were feeling brave so I said "Let's go for it!" David was shaking and whimpering after!!! But he also agreed it was fun!!

We are going to Dallas this weekend for our Depeche Mode concert. We would have probably chosen to go to Houston, except that they were playing there on Sunday. So we bought tickets MONTHS AGO for the Dallas concert. We have been really excited but it's been challenging trying to figure out what to do with the kids. Another testament to our desire to live closer to family. And I was thinking we'd just drive home after (ha ha) but Nathan thinks we need to spend the night somewhere, so we've been trying to figure that out as well. Things are just tough right now cause he's not getting a lot of flight hours and doesn't really have a "full time" thing right now. He's also just taken a part time job at the scout shop to help make ends meet. Planning on going to Grad School in the January, which I am proud of him for. But we just have to get there. Oi. The cycles of life get a little ridiculous. I wonder if it's just our family that goes through these feast or famine things...

So that's about it.

Yep.

Here's a few pics (thanks to other sources of picture taking...) of our adventures!

Six Flags with friends!!!!


David's SECOND day of school... this camera being broken stuff is ridiculous! (Taken with the web cam)


A tummy shot (also taken with web cam) at around 24ish weeks...

SO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!