Living the Life

Another Day... Another Year... STILL BUSY!

So WOW... life has been just SWAMPED! I finally got caught up on work! YEAH! (passes out high fives) and now I can focus on the "more" important things... like bloggin, playing, chatting, and watching some of our favorite TV Shows

Logan was stuck at work this week a couple of times and so we brought dinner to him! Which was really nice, since the girls and I hadn't seen him too much up till that point!

Lets see... so what happened this week

Regan has sharing time for school. She brought her Alice in Wonderland dress, and talked about her adventures in California and visiting Auntie Megan and Mark. She is also finally feeling MUCH better and has pretty much kicked her cough!

Addison- well... Addison is Addison. She is in a "slightly" tempermental stage right now, known as the "terrible twos" in her mind I'm sure she calls them the "terrific twos". She is really discovering a little more about who she is, and what makes her tick.

Logan, has been working like a crazy guy! he had to drop some classes since he is learning pay roll and for the simple fact, that there isn't 30 hours in a day.... just not enough time to do it all.

I have been busy with school, *cough* getting older (25 BABY), and running around trying to keep our heads above water. I have to say even though life is seriously CRAZY, its not bad, I know it's gonna settle down.

But for some of the "good stuff"

my ALL -TIME FAVORITE SHOW STARTED THURSDAY!

Lets hear it for the beet lovin', camera staring, phone answering, paper selling, sarcastic, crossword doin', cat loving, quartet singing, weight losin, artsy-fartsy, no studderin', fire startin' people of the..... (DRUMROLLLLLLLLL)

THE OFFICE!

All I can say is my peoples at NBC... did NOT disappoint!

here is a promo from one of the future episodes! (actually its at the bottom of the post... watch it..it won't disappoint... yes that means you too Dulce!)

Angela- ela- ela-ela!

and for some other thoughts.... well today is my birthday. Now 

I'm not really a HUGE birthday freak.

I mean I seriously, wouldn't even get offended

if someone that I'm really close to totally spaced it.

BUT this is the big 2-5! TWENTY FIVE WHOPPING years... 

that I have graced this earth's

presence with (HAHAHAHA! Start the eye rolling now!!!)

So I was thinking... what is awesome about being 25...

I came up with one, 

and i'm totally gonna do 

it..because I can

I'm gonna.....

RENT A CAR!

Yup thats right... watch out civilians of California.... 

I'm renting a car for the 1st time come 

December... in my name... with my

CREDIT CARD

Can I just say I'm so freaking EXCITED to do that!

Now normally.. I'm all about embracing your age... fighting the 

"I'm getting older bug, so I can't do

as much" type of thing...

But my grandma Pat...actually got me tonight at dinner

She says... now you can say you are a quarter of a century old!

I was like.... HUH!?

WOW I have never felt old (nor do I act it... I'm kind of immature)... 

but saying it like that...WOW... 

puts a WHOLE new spin on things!

She graciously said after dinner she would never bring up the 

"century thing" again!

But all in all... it was a good day... after wrestling with the dang

airline people... everything turned out

GREAT. Magically I feel the

same as yesterday.. although I am falling apart...

Seriously you guys watch this clip.... brings joy to my heart, great display

 or a "normal" day at work for my two favorite characters!

Off to the races...

Logan and I have just been CRAZY busy... I mean the kind of busy, that when you hear your alarm clock going off... you are screaming "NOOOOOOO! Just give me 30 more minutes!!!!!"

He has been flying to Kenai almost everyday, then going to school and then getting home really late. Its been a little hard. It's like living with a room mate, who you see every once in awhile, when they come to wash their dirty laundry. 

I have been going to school, working, doing doctors appointments (with Logan's help), picking kids up and dropping them off.... AHHH!

And thank goodness I have my mom's help! Seriously I could not have gotten everything done with out her help taking the kiddos for me sometimes!

So this weekend, it was OFF TO THE RACES!

We went out to dinner at one of my favorite places (NO GAGGING NOISES A LOUD!!!) The Golden Corral! Yeah baby!

I love that place because I can make a salad and put all my fun toppings on it... ohhh so good!

Then he went and got his CO2 tank filled for paint ball, for the next day and I went to the scrapbook store for a crop with the girls!

Today Logan went pain balling with Rudy... and me the dork I am forgot to tell him to get pictures. Then I realized that could be slightly awkward. Imagine if you will...

Logan: hey wait before you shoot at me, could you pose for a picture for my wife and her blogging needs?

Other guy: huh?

Logan: yeah ya know blogging, making a memory, online journaling

Other guy shooting Logan

So yeah needless to say no pics yet...of that

I spent the day cleaning. So my house was seriously... BAD! and anyone who knows me well... knows I can be "slightly" anal...but i was just like nah don't clean it up I'm doing it all on Saturday (yeah that whole attitude started on Wed Night-ish). Needless to say by Saturday... my house was officially a crap- hole.

So when Logan walked in the door... I headed out! I was meeting up with Ronalyn and Dulce... we were going to the MAC Counter at Nordies.

I'm not a huge make up wear-er person... basically I have mascara and if I'm feeling frisky, I MAY put on some eyeliner...WHAT WHAT!

So ya know, after going out with the hubby on date nights, or a night out with the girls, whatever, I noticed... huh women do dress up for SOME special occasions. So I decided that I needed to broaden myself a little and learn to do some make up!

Mind you these are for MAJOR dress up nights for me... but it was still fun, to learn and get some "girly" things for once!

I came home... Logan liked it... he said it was like being with a "mistress!" lol! 

At Ichiban- for some Sushi, seriously the BANE of my life!

Ronalyn... I have no idea (what were you doing girl), I was just trying NOT to laugh

Be afraid- be VERY afraid

R.E.D.- HOT MAMA'S!

The Mistress and the Stormin' Mormin'

and this is off base... but from my recent trips from Forks, at one of the burger joints in town, they gave out fangs with their lemonade and Rae gave me hers... and Regan and Addison really enjoy!

glad to see, that they share my vampire fetish with me (maybe not as extreme... YET though)

Boys & Their Toys

Logan has wanted a paint ball gun since he was in Texas about 3 years ago. I told him he could get one if he kept playing. I know that sounds stingy BUT, love my husband, but sometimes he gets into "things" and then they become "GARAGE TROPHIES" after a few uses. 

But I broke- Ronalyn's hubby is into paint balling and has been asking Logan to go. So after hanging out with one night with the girls, with the hubbies in tow, the girls and I went to Sportsman's and got the low down from some local "balla's". 

They told us to go to Sports Authority for the best deal!

So we went!

After some fun in Sportman's of course!

had some fun with our Fondu party and Logan got a fun toy, that he can shoot em up with!

Forks or Bust BABY!

I'm back! Had a blast. Some of you know that I have a slight obsession with the Stephenie Meyer book Twilight. Seriously... its a love affair. I don't think I've ever read a series that really, really, just made me swoon like a high schooler again. Edward Cullen was my first fictional boyfriend!!!! I got to go to Forks with a bunch of Twilight Moms for a few days (9/11- 9/14). It was a freaking blast! I got to see La Push and 1st beach, Forks and Bella's truck and Port Angelos and eat at the "famous" Bella Italia!

I will post pics as soon as I can get them. But to share a few of my thoughts-

It was EVERYTHING I imagined it to be La Push- I can totally see Bella and Jacob walking down the beach. AAAAWWWW it was PERFECT!

and then the Hoh Rainforest and Bella and Edward running through there to the meadow... PERFECT once again!

I will post more tomorrow, I'm crazy tired and some of my fellow Twilight Mom's have some AWESOME pics!

So now its back to reality, back to school and tests and LOTS of work to catch up on!

But my mini holiday was perfect! I was ready to come home at the end of it, I was so tired and worn out from going hard for 4 1/2 days without hardly any sleep! 

10 inches- CHOPPED

Well once again, I changed my hair up. I have a hard time staying with the same hair-do for very long. I think the long hair, grow out thing was a new record. I chopped it about 2 years ago and then played around with it for another 6 months and then let it grow out for another year and a half... with some "minor" color dabblings and some little cuts.

But on Friday, I was fed up! My hair is thick and its heavy... so I whacked it!

The gal who did it is AWESOME! thanks Chelsea for the recommend. 

She put my hair in a pony tail and just whacked it off!

I was so HAPPY with how it turned out. Then she put this rich chocolate color in my hair with a couple of caramel looking highlights! Another plus about this hair style... versatility! I can do it really fast and change it up from day to day! love it! 

I think I'm gonna stick with the shorter hair... time is of the essence and I don't have the time to do the long hair everyday!

I walked out of the salon... feeling FRESH and 3 pounds lighter, and my neck muscles were no longer straining and the weight of the pony tail is not giving me a head ache!

AAAAHHHH what a simple thing as a hair cut can do!

Sniffles and Wheezes!

Regan and Addison BOTH came down with cold this week. As a parent, I think this is one of the times I feel most helpless. Her asthma was acting up again. Its almost a guarantee that when the season changes something in her immune system flares! So she spiked a temperature, starting coughing, and then the wheezing episodes started.

Whenever Regan has these kind of flare ups, it just knocks her out and drains every bit of energy out of her. She went to bed on her own. That is unheard of in the Newby household, normally it turns into a battle of wills of getting either one of our kids to go to bed.

.

The only thing that we can do for her is give her, her breathing treatment, pumping her full of medication that makes her act like a crazy, and then blast the humidifier right by her face for the night.

Thank goodness this episode only lasted for the night, by morning her fever had broke and her breathing was pretty much back to normal with only slight wheezing.

SO behold.... when Regan gets sick- we have a minor drug factory set up in our bedroom.

By the next night Regan was back to her happy self, and everything was back to normal with her breathing! 

Do you ever just have "one of THOSE days?"

Do you ever just have "one of those days?". You know what I'm talking about. Those days that you ponder exactly where you've been in your life and where you hope to go and then for some odd reason or another it gets you all emotional?

Well I'm having one of those days. It makes me have the urge to wanna call all my family members and all my close friends and just tell them thank you for being there and for being who you are. Because most of those people have helped shaped my life more than they will ever know. But since I hate the phone and LONG conversations... I'll just kind of say it on here. (I know its a cop out, right?)

But I was thinking back to when I graduated back in 2002. That really isn't that long ago, but it seems like an eternity. Since then I've been to college, dropped out of college, got married to my best friend, had 2 kiddos, tried some other random things, had some injuries and bumps along the way and am now back in school, while my babies are growing up and entering the "school scene"

Seriously... thats how I feel sometimes. Like where did the time go? Did I take it for granted or did I jsut soak things up. I can honestly say that I have done both. There are periods in my life, that seriously feel like a blank spot. Like ya know when you are driving and have alot on your mind and once you get to your destination you wonder to yourself... how the heck did I get from point A to point B with out crashing, hence the fact you can't really remember the drive over.

But then there are other times, me being the nosy person I am, where I look at all the people in their cars, change my station a bunch of times (much to my mom's annoyance) and just sing (since I seriously have a passion for music lyrics- Logan can attest to that), notice the pretty plants and flowers, and don't have my foot pressed so hard down on the peddle that I'm actually able to enjoy the view.

I can also say that there have been points in my life, where it has been just like that. Where it felt like there wasn't a care in the world, and the situations that I did have really weren't worth the stress, so I just moved on.

I was also thinking it is time for some changes. I need to stop being lazy and be more grateful. I don't mean physically lazy, I'm talking mentally and spiritually lazy. Seriously, sometimes I won't tell someone something... simply because I'm too lazy to say it. I don't tell people how I feel and build those relationships because the time and effort it takes to maintain and sustain them.

Spiritually wise... well some of you know that I haven't been going to church. Logan has basically been left to fend for himself by taking the girls. I just feel awful, but at the same time I couldn't bring myself to go back and start really searching for the reasons why I believe and remembering them. God has NOT abandoned me, its kindof of been the other way around. Not in some crazy extreme way. But I can't get if I don't ask and if I don't do the things that I know in my heart that I need to do.

So new goal... I'm going to take it slow (not snail like slow), but I am going to GROW and PROGRESS. Because if we aren't doing those things... we are basically stagnant which is as good as digressing and retracting. Whenever i get into ruts like this, I'm always reminded of a picture of Christ I saw that said " i never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it."

Some food for thought- Tony Robbins video that I had to watch for school for an assignment. I will warn you there is some language in it, but the video and the message was GREAT! I seriously got alot out of it. Descions help to shape our destiny's

Tony Robbins- WATCH IT IT'S GREAT!

Regan's Take on Cinderella

Regan left for California with Grammy. She went down to visit my sister Megan and to go to Disneyland.

While on the phone with Regan she told me a story about Cinderella that just made me laugh at a 4 year old's logic... which I'm sure was partially true.

Regan: Mommy, Cinderella gave me a kiss on the cheek and she is so beautiful.

Me: I know and she got lipstick on you too huh?

Regan: (giggling) yeah

Me: She's a silly princess...

Regan: No she's not silly, she just likes me!

Me: laughing and saying oh yeah thats right!

This just cracked me up... I love reading about the funny things our kids say, seriously I think I am surprised more than once during the day with something witty that pops out of their mouths.

Regan decked out in her Disney Gear- Alice in Wonderland dress, Princess Hat, ariel purse... and she is ready to go!

These are some randoms I took of Addison and Logan one night. We bought that new Disney Movie Little Mermaid 3: Ariel's Beginning and they just kind of vegged out together on the couch.

these ones are of them getting ready for the day...