Puppies, Puppies, and more puppies!

So the puppy picking party was a ton of fun and most of the puppies got adopted that day to very good homes. We took our own and named her Cookie...then since the puppies were only 6 weeks I offered to hold onto 2 other ones while they matured to 8 weeks. The vet said it's best if they stay together in their pack, especially if they are taken away from their mom. They just turned 7 weeks this past Saturday and boy oh boy taking care of puppies is a ton of work. It's like I am non stop mopping up my floor. Here are some pics of the cuties and my old man dog too.

Here is a pic of our pooch Scrappy Doo being introduced to Cookie.



They are already getting spoiled here..from yard dogs to spoiled rotten dogs!


Even their bowls know its true...




Cookie's first bath....



All the puppies in a basket!




Cookie was playing dress up...


Last pic..not a puppy pic but here is Poops with Scrappy after he got released from the pet hospital. He had an episode of vomiting and diarrhea and we found out the hard way to not feed our dogs people food. Apparently, he got
Pancreatitis and had to be IV'd until he was fully hydrated and is on a dose of antibiotics. He will forever be subject to boiled rice and chicken along with Prescription Diet food for dogs. Leaving him at the vet was one of the hardest things to do...I left in tears but am so glad that he is okay now and it's not something more serious..like cancer. We really love our Scrappy...but no more table scraps for him.

Beach Week-Ocean City Maryland

Our trip to the beach went really well. We spent a week there and each day tried to do something fun..which made me super tired when I came back. Each day we had something to do..beach all day, water park, boardwalk...ect. Here are a few pics from the trip...

Peeps practicing for her Baywatch audition























Now practicing for the new coppertone baby














And here is Poops riding a wave!


Here is Poops saving Peeps from a wave!


My husband decided to rent a moped and we rode this around OC for a while...we got to ride in the bus lanes!


We did have some heavy storms and Ocean City turned into..well Ocean City!



And after a full day of fishing this was all my dear hubby caught



Overall..we had a GREAT time but I am happy to be back home..we picked a puppy and here she is!



We will be picking her up Saturday during our puppy picking party! :-) Soo excited!

Poops got her first pedicure!

Poops has been so good this summer. She's helping out a lot with her sister and helping clean up when I ask...so I took her to get a real pedicure as a reward. Here are her fancy smanshy toes!








Sitting on the Target ball posing pretty for a pic...

Busy weekend, road trips, the pool, and a night out at the DC Improv

This weekend I had to go to a wedding in WVA..it was really far for us and took about 6 hours. The problem really was that I had to be back home by 9pm to get to the DC Improv to see a comedy show starring Pablo Francisco. I asked hubby if he wanted to go and he mentioned the movie Deliverance and politely said no thank you.
So Poops, Peeps, cousin JayJay, and my dad all went on a 6 hour trip to Princeton, WV. The bride and groom were not so much traditional...they had the wedding outside at a park and thought it would be funny to have black icing on their cake as a gag to turn everyone's teeth black. Here's the result of that...


















These two cuties had a great time for the 3 hours we stayed at the wedding..here they are enjoying the lake view


















I snuck in a shot of Poops looking beautiful...















And then we took one together ...I wanted to play with my settings on the camera and this pic turned out too cute
















The ride home was beautiful















Love my state...even though we were in VA we still had hours left of driving...
















We made it home in time to enjoy ourselves immensely at the DC Improv...Pablo Franciso was the feature but the 2nd guy was even funnier than Pablo! From left to right that's me and my hubby, my oldest sister in law, then my youngest sister and law and her boyfriend. There is a 2 drink minimum at the comedy club and we all met our limits! We all had such a great time..I hope to do it again in the near future.
Peeps had a little meltdown when I told her I was leaving her with her abuelos to go out and I had to promise her a trip to the pool Sunday morning...I think this girl knows how to work me...she always gets me to bargain!

















When we got back to my in laws to pick up the girls Poops had played the mommy role and laid with the little ones until they fell asleep. See how Poops has her arm around JayJay so she doesn't fall off the bed? What a great daughter! In fact, I told her that I owed her a special treat...you will see how that turned out in my next posting.
















I kept my word to Peeps! The trip to the pool was fun!















After the pool I took another little road trip to visit my dear friend Kristi who moved back to VA from Hawaii...then NC...now back in VA! YAY...although she's not really close by, she is a lot closer than her last two places of residence. This road trip was especially fun because I lived out that way for about 9 months when I was about 12 years old and I was able to show Poops where I used to live. It was about an hour drive to her house out in the country and on our way I had to break for the geese who decided to walk across the street..I mean really? Why do they walk? They do know they can fly right?



















Being that Kristi has spent a lot of her time in Hawaii...she was having spam and rice for dinner...Poops tried spam for the very first time..and she liked it! If you've never had spam before you should try it. It's like ham from a can. :-) Just slice it up and fry it in a pan!
Thanks, Kristi!

Friday night concerts by the lake

So every Friday night in the summer by our home our county offers free concerts. This past Friday it was the blues...the girls liked this a lot better than the previous week which was folk music. See how well this turned out! These girls can get down!

When one donut just isn't enough, more snakes, & the 4th of July!

On an early morning trip to Dunkin Donuts Peeps found the one donut didn't quite cut it. She had to have one in each hand. Can we say sugar addict? I promise I do feed the child!
























This past weekend I had cousin Jazzy over and Peeps and her decided they both wanted to wear black boots. As we walked our way around the lake looking for my hubby and Poops who were out fishing I stopped to take a picture of the girls in their boots by the lake...as they say..these boots were made for walkin'




Jazzy got to make her first cake with Peeps! I heard since I sent her home she wants to help her mommy cook now! This was their favorite part!



Our neighborhood has a concert by the lake every Friday and this past Friday was folk music...I didn't know what that meant but apparently it means one man singing and using all kinds of instruments such as harmonicas, and banjos, ect. The girls got disinterested in the music and decided to play in the water. I only let them put their feet in but they had a great time!


















For the 4th our neighbors across the street always put on their own show for fireworks so we hung out on their side of the street and the girls played with sparklers


























Peeps held her first sparkler



















And this is one of the cutest pictures ever!

P.S. Jazzy won't sleep over at anyone else's house! I feel so privileged!























Update on snakes in my back yard...my dad found a whole family of the Dekay's snakes! I'm so glad they are harmless!

Puppies on the brain...

My uncle's dogs puppies were born 6/27/09! They are so cute! When I got the call that mama dog was in labor I was so excited but couldn't go see them being born since I was cooking like a madwoman the entire day for the bbq we had on Sunday! Once all was said and done I went to see the puppies around 9:30 that evening and they were sooo cute! Mama dog was pretty protective of the puppies and wouldn't let papa dog even look in their direction. Papa dog was pretty funny as he would stand in front of where she was and move his eyes in the direction of the puppies to see but wouldn't turn his head (cause when he did mama dog would go crazy). Mama dog has 10 puppies total but one was stillborn so she ate it. That left 9 puppies for us to choose from..which we haven't yet but we've been to visit them 3 times already.
Peeps says this one is hers




but then on our 3rd visit she says she wants them all. Hence this picture!


And, yes, she was wearing the same shirt on both occasions!

She actually has taken a liking to the red one and still wants the chubby black one. She says she wants both...hubby says no way..I'm a sucker for puppies so I say why not...but I am pretty sure 2 is out of the question..

We are having a puppy party in August so that all the potential new puppy owners can come over and pick their puppies. Of course, they have to wait until we pick ours first. Once we can get Peeps and Poops to agree on one puppy then we can plan this puppy party. We have a lot of friends interested in the puppies so hopefully they will all get adopted at our party.

Peep's 1st Ballet Class, snakes & turtles

Peep's 1st ballet class didn't go as expected. She wouldn't wear her ballet shoes and was very shy and pretty much kept to herself most of the class. Then I told her I'd get her a Slurpee if she participated and she started to do a little bit. She sure did look cute in her tutu! This is a pic of her walking towards me in an attempt to get out of dancing.

On another note, we keep finding snakes in our back yard. My dad is a snake hunter...very much like the crocodile hunter guy (RIP) but he hunts and is fascinated by snakes. Here's a pic of the most recent finding under our wood pile...and a box turtle stopped on our porch to say hello. We kept him for the day and then put him back in the shrubbery near the lake so he can have lots of yummy berries to eat.

A trip to the ER

So Tuesday night 6/23 (so I don't forget) I started getting a weird stomach pain...at first I thought it was from actually doing something physical on Monday (playing soccer) and then I thought maybe even gas...so I went to bed with this crazy pain that just kept getting worse and worse..finally at 1am I wake up completely and think I have to take something. If you know me then you know I don't like to take pills...any meds of any kind actually. I end up taking 1 Motrin..and my husband gets up and sees me balled over in pain on the floor and says to take at least 2 Motrin. I argue and he wins so I take the 2nd Motrin...still the pain is so bad..at this point it feels like LABOR...I literally feel contractions in my stomach..upper stomach..like someone is squeezing and then releasing my insides. So I lay on the bathroom floor because each time I have a "contraction" I feel like I'm going to vomit. This happens for about an hour and then my husband says he wants to call an ambulance and I say no no no..I'm going to drive myself to the ER..I didn't want to be put in an ambulance...so he says he will drive me..I say nooo again..I didn't want to wake up the girls. I run out the door in my pjs grasping my stomach and drive myself to the ER. This was actually very tricky because I felt sooo bad but it wasn't far away so I did it..I saw a big deer on the way. Who knew we had deer living so close by?

When I got to the ER there was no one in front of me..I got seen right away and the doctor said hmmm..maybe appendicitis or maybe ovarian cyst..so he wants to give me an iv and pain meds. I tell him..nooo I just had 2 MOTRIN!!! He said well its obviously not working and we have to make the pain go away so I let them give me pain meds in my IV. The pain goes away so fast! I felt ready to go home...but they wanted to do a Cat Scan..so I had to drink some chalky white stuff mixed with ginger ale and wait two hours...they do the cat scan and my results are..."possible ovarian cyst...abnormal amount of fluid in area". Doc gives me a script of pain pills which I haven't even taken...and says make a follow up visit with my regular doc within 24 hours. I got out of the ER at 7:00am...got home by 7:15 and went to work by 8am! I was pumped up..pain was gone..and by 2pm that day I was so tired I think I might've fallen asleep for a minute at work. Thursday I went to my doc for my follow up visit and they said they have to assume it was an ovarian cyst but no physical exertion for 3 weeks! There goes my soccer plans!

My husband thinks I could have cancer...my mother in law might be thinking that too..and my doctor says we just don't know...time will tell.

Soccer, Soccer, and then our nanny!

My arm was twisted by a couple of the moms on my daughter's soccer team and next thing I know I'm buying "turf shoes" and running around late at night with a bunch of women on a huge soccer field. Now, I'm thinking we will play on a soccer field similar to what my 10 year old plays on..I get there and its like HUGE! I was fairly intimated and had a bit of anxiety but then I got out of the field and it wasn't really that bad. I did had to sub out quite a bit and one of the girls smelled like urine but overall I think I did okay. If you overlook the handball I got called on and the 50 something year old woman who outran me I think I may have done great! If only we could have margaritas while we play....hmmmm :-) Why do my inner thighs hurt??????

Father's day soccer tournament ...Saturday Poops got out on the field and started playing..10 minutes into the game it started raining...15 minutes into the game it started to thunder and they cancelled all games for the duration of the day. No biggie right? It's happened before but as the day went on the weather was amazing and beautiful and we thought about how we could've been having the tournament. 7pm rolls around and the email comes out from the commissioner of the soccer tournament and he says all teams are scheduled to play 2 games Sunday..if you are not playing 3 games you won't be in the championship. So this has us all angry as we see our team is scheduled for only 2 games so basically we are just playing for fun? While playing for fun is all well and good we didn't shell out $$$ and practice 3x a week the past month for a game of just fun. The commish said that all the trophies would go to the recycling bin and no one would get trophies who didn't play 3 games! You can imagine that parents and coaches everywhere were outraged as were we and we have made official complaints after making suggestions which were just taken with a grain of salt. They could've done penalty shots or changed the games from hour games to half hour games so that everyone had a chance to play at least 3 games. They could've even said we will consider everyone who didn't play yesterday a draw and weighted the games on Sunday heavier but nope...anywhoo we will not be playing with the All Star FPYC cup again...if anyone else wants to sponsor it then yes but not FPYC!

Poops is sick today with a fever, headache and some stomach issues. The nanny also started today and so far I think the girls adore her. Yes, even after just a few hours...I can just tell. Peeps was so excited to see her she was waiting by the door. Peeps never wants me to leave her..in fact she cried last night just when I left for the soccer game..she cries when I go to the store just to get groceries..she always wants to be with me but she was okay when I left her with the nanny today to head out to work. I wish we could keep her all year but she's a teacher who is just filling some of her summer time while watching my girls.

Tomatoes...tornadoes

So yesterday we had this huge storm and as you can see by my previous post it flooded the road. Peeps calls tornadoes "tomatoes" and I haven't corrected her because I think its so darn cute. She gets all big eyed and looks up at the sky and says..."Look mommy! I see a tomato!!!" I love it....I love her.. :-)

School is out...the last day was yesterday..which means summer is officially here! The girls are home with their dad today creating a monstrous mess that I get to clean up when I get home. Then I get to scramble to get all the ingredients for the cupcakes I intend to make for tomorrow's All Star game. I am hoping to get to the party store and pick up some baking cups with stars on them to represent the All Star girls. I am thinking to also make stars out of blueberries for the tops. I am trying to make something healthy since the suburban parents in my hood are all about health..so I'm thinking banana cupcakes by Martha Stewart. They seem to have rave reviews so hopefully they will be healthy enough for the girls so I can attempt to fit into my suburban hood...and by the way..we had our last soccer practice last night and the team we scrimmaged against got named the mad dogs...now when I think mad dog I think Mad Dog 20/20 but apparently none of the other suburban folk knew what the heck that was. Okay then...I guess growing up in suburbia they all had access to their parents expensive alcohols so they never had to resort to cheap 7-11 booze like me and hubby. :-)

So wish us luck for our tournament this weekend! We hope to win but most of all we hope to have a great time.

Traffic in my hood!...when it rains..it pours!

I got stuck in this on my way home...ick! Things like this make me feel like I live in the country. There isn't even a creek or river there! It just rained so hard the road decided to scoop up all the water and hold onto it.

:-)

I just realized this is my 100th post!!!!! Congrats to me!!!!

I told the witch doctor I didn't know what to do....

So Peeps has been singing this song that goes...

"I told the witch doctor
I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor
I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor
He told me what to do

He said that

Ooo eee,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang...
Ooo eee ,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla ,bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang"

And its so funny...I used to sing this song with my dad and there he goes again teaching the lyrics to my 3 year old. I love my dad. :-) The dad that raised me all by himself with no help from his parents (who had passed away when he was younger) and the dad who struggled to make ends meet while it was just me and him..the dad that is there whenever I need him...the dad who loves my girls with all his heart. :-) Thank you dad!


_________________ON another note..this really happened! This is my life! I kid you not...please don't try this at home. After Peeps devoured the chocolate molten cake she then proceeds to try and stab her sister Poops in the face with a fork! And yes, she wears that pig mask everywhere..I kid you not. Great mom I am snapping pics... :-) You can't make this stuff up!


Trying for a normal pose...



We were celebrating my husband's awesome soccer coaching skills with a gift card from the parents to Chili's. He really is an awesome soccer coach and a really great dad!

Can you handle it? I'm keeping up with my blog!

My family is running around like crazy with the big All Star Soccer Tournament coming up. Poops is going to be playing offense and is excited. Since hubby is coaching he has spent a lot of time planning and preparing for these girls to get the proper training and build team skills before the big Father's Day tournament. It really is exciting..and hubby is doing a great job with these girls. Even though some of them are kinda rude..like this one who said "Ewww! You sweat a lot!" to hubby. LOL...oh well...he definitely is getting a workout during these practices.

I had some of the cousins over this weekend..the girls loved it. We had a sleepover and here is one pic of the musketeers..the one sitting next to Peeps didn't spend the night..we met up with her the next day.

Saturday night we went to the park really late...Poops and cousin Alyssa were acting foolish as always (when they get together its just chaos). We took the soccer ball and light up Frisbee. People looked at me like my children had never been to a park..I don't know why they act so crazy when they get together but they always do..start screaming and acting crazy. We scared off all the rest of the late night park stragglers and had the park, soccer field, and baseball field all to ourselves. Alyssa never had an underdog before so I got to teach her what that was. Peeps and Jasmine had a great time messing up the sand at the baseball field. After we kicked the ball around, threw the Frisbee, and played in the sand we tried catching some fireflies and headed home. The sounds at the lake were very loud at night. It was as if the geese had their own language and talked to each other when they thought everyone was gone.

Back to work...
Peeps cried this morning when I dropped her at the sitter. She hadn't been there since Wednesday of last week so she got used to being home with us. She only has 3 more days with the sitter before summer vacation kicks in and she gets to spend all her time with the grandparents and Kylie. We have our vacation all planned out too...we have plans to go to the beach for a week in July and are excited about that.

Oh yea..and since we have plans for the beach we (hubby and I) are thinking about weight! I am about 30lbs overweight right now and am thinking to start low carbing it during the week to lose some of these lbs. I also signed up for a soccer team with some of the other soccer moms. It's kinda exciting since I've never played sports before..was more into drama and love yoga. Anything the involves running is not in my personality but I will give it a try...they practically twisted my arm pulling me into this so here I go...trying something new..lets see what happens!

I made these for my daughter's other soccer team..the Falcons..very lazy but cute!