Hot Dogs

I was at target with one of my kiddos and his family working on behaviors in public places...Well we were working our way through the list of things to get and happened to be in the lotion aisle. My kiddo looked up, saw the above picture and said in the most excited yet serious voice, "Mom, Mom, look its HOT DOGS!" I about peed my pants... it was hilarious..Man this kiddo never ceases to amaze me or give me a good laugh. I suppose if you really look at the picture it could definitely look like a bunch of hot dogs!

Slumber party with the Uda's

Evs has a sister, Erin and her husband Marc and their 4 kiddos, that live in San Marcos, CA. We have had so much fun getting to play with them now that we live here. We have gone to San Marcos the last couple weekends to help them with some house makeover projects they are working on for their new house they just bought. It has been so much fun spending time with the kids and seeing their personalities and getting to really know them, instead of just being Auntie Darcy and Uncle Evan on the phone or through cards, we can actually really play and interact with them. Well, this week they decided to come up to visit us and sleep over. We live across the street from a drive-in movie theater, which is such a blast and its way cheap! Well the kids have been wanting to see Despicable Me, so they came up to see it, however they got up here a little later than planned and missed the first showing. We hung out, ate dinner, and they watched videos on demand with us. They decided to try to go to the midnight showing even though everyone was super tired, but for some reason it ended up that they weren't having a midnight showing..bummer..so they just hung out and finished watching Madagascar 2. We had a fun time with them and they were even able to get some tile from my family's shop for their new house. Good times..We were so happy to have them here!

before the movie..

In a bit of a rush to get out of the house, Kade had two different slippahs.

In the ZONE..the TV ZONE.

Movie Nite @ the drive-in

We met up with my brother, Tony, and his wife Michelle and one of their kids, Bria. We finally watched the saga movie, ECLIPSE. It was lots of fun and great to spend time with them. I had mixed feelings about the movie, personally I wished they didnt end it right where they did, but I suppose its a cliffhanger for the final movie. I liked the movie, but I dont know I guess I just didnt feel the LOVE like I felt when I read the book. I suppose the saying is true the books are always better than the movies, there are things that writers definitely can depict through words that directors just cant depict.But it was an enjoyable movie and time spent well with my hubby!

Momma Stubbs California visit

My mother-in-law was here in Southern CA for a short couple day visit. She was able to see all of her grandkids (even her only grandpup, Sage) while she was down. Evs sister from Nevada drove up too see her as well. It was a nice little family reunion, we were sad Megs and Rob werent down here with us too, but Mom was able to see them while she was at her conference in Northern Cali (her whole purpose for the trip). Mom, Erin and the Kids, and Colee, Tyler and their boys all went to Legoland. Then the next day we were able to be graced with Moms presence in good ole Riverside, CA. We just hung out, then I had to head to work, but Evs showed him around to his school and then they just hung out until I got home and we had yummy dinner and just talked story. It was so nice to see Mom and we miss her so much already! Thanks for the visit!! Give Hawaii a hug for us!

Momma Lolly and Sage.

Excuse my crooked smile, I am still healing from the surgery.

Mouth Surgery

Since 2007 I have battling this infection in my mouth that no dentist could seem to solve. It wasnt the kind of infection like "bad breath syndrome" or anything like that, but well no one quite knew. I saw an endodontist on my mission who said I had broken some bone from getting hit in the face playing soccer or even by a little kid when they throw their head back, but that I needed to have a root canal to solve it to help rebuild the bone..long story short..the infection came and went. I went to many dentist who took x-rays and well saw that there was an infection but cleaned out the canal once again and figured it was good to go, if it "didn't hurt" or if it wasn't causing me any pain. Unfortunately, all the dentists were wrong. The infection came back once again right before we moved from Hawaii to California and I waited it out until we got a little more settled. Well I wasn't sure where to start because no one seemed to be able to help me before. I checked my mail one day and received a brochure for a Dr. Muna Soltan. I called to see if they would a free consult, which they did. So I made the appt. I went in had x-rays done. Before even looking at the x-rays Dr. Soltan wiggled tooth #7 (the problem tooth) and said, "You have a fractured tooth." Upon looking at the x-rays she confirmed her assumptions. Anyways after reviewing the cost of the entire procedure (which made me bawl my eyes out because I knew it would be impossible to pay for it) We knew we would find a way because I needed to have it done right away. Long story shorter...I had the procedure, it was very very painful, not gonna lie. I had a tooth extraction and a bone graft. The infection that started in 2007 had grown for the past three years without anything killing it and it just completely ate away a large majority of the bone in my gums. I was given Vicodin and sent home, with a pat on the back for being a good patient and for having a jaw dropping amount of bone missing, so much that the Dentist took pictures for research and teaching because hse had never seen anything like it before ( I guess I felt special...). Well I came home and took some meds and slept..I woke up to go to work, not feeling sick or tired and went on with my day. My sweet husband begged me to left him drive me and he would sit in the car while I worked..but I assured him I was fine...Well about an hour and a half later I was being taken by ambulance to the hospital because I passed out during one of my sessions.,,(extremely embarrassing!!) Guess the mouth surgery did a number on me and I didn't even realize it. Since my heart rate and blood pressure was at an all time low, they kept me until it got to a normal level. They ran blood tests and all that good stuff, but after 2 hours or so I was on my way home. Of course my husband was here with me to drive me home..funny thing I was playing water balloons with my kiddo when I passed out and well...the balloon lost..it popped in the general area where it looks like someone wet themselves...but I didnt I promise..

Attempting to stay awake..the vicodin was really working!

Catching some Zzzzz with Sage after my crazy day!

Oregon Photo Shoot

My sister Brittanie (BIG Photography), took our pics as we tested out the lighting for the photoshoot she was going to do for the kids. She did a great job! Thanks Britt.

And then there was LOTS of FUN in Oregon! Part #2