Windy Night

We almost got blown away last night, the santa anas kicked up and almost blew us to Kansas. The tree was rocking and Bubbs avocado tree almost collapsed but Thank God nothing bad happened. Naty and I were just watching the tree getting closer to the power lines and we said, "oh man, we're losing our power," but that didn't happen so I know for sure he'll take care of that tree after that happened. Big pieces fell everywhere and part of our front tree was in the neighbors yard. Also, I followed Naty to chat with the neighbor and all we see is the other neighbor's car cover in the air floating like a ghost and holding on for dear life then I happen to look out about an hour later and it was gone, LOL. I felt bad after for not pulling it off for him and giving it to him but it was really late and I didn't want to get shot for pulling something off someones car. After I dropped off Bubbs at school I had to drag the big branches that fell off the front tree into the drive way, OMG! they were so heavy. Oh and forgot to mention that our next door neighbor has wood singles and some came off and are in our yard too, great! more crap to clean up. Overall, I'm glad our power didn't go off and that we're safe. Naty needs to cut that tree, ASAP!

Back from Novato

We went up North to visit Jose and Monica on the 4th and came back home on the 13th. We had fun getting away and relaxing somewhere other than home and had a great time. Naty kept asking me if I wanted to go do something but I was happy chilling at their house and just spending time with them. I told Naty if he wanted to do something then we could but it wasn't necessary and I was having a good time bonding with Monica. The kids were dying to see Alvin and the chipmunks so we did that right away, did some shopping, had my hair done, did some more shopping (hehehehehe) and my favorite of all we went to see some new houses that they were interested in. All I could say is, "WOW," they were sooooooooo nice! I was imagining myself in those houses and Monica made a few comments about us moving up there that it started to sound really good to me ;) Oh and Naty went to sign the book at his union in San Francisco and got a call on almost the last day we were there so he got to work one day and made a little over $900 bucks for one day! WOW! the union electricians make $50/hour up there and Naty was in total shock and love. Overall, the getaway was great and made me miss my home and appreciate it more once we got here. I was so tired on the way home that I thought I was going to knock out once I got here but instead I started putting all the Christmas stuff away and cleaning like crazy. I'm really glad to be home, aaaaaahhhhhh I love our home :)

Bubbs went back to school today and had a blast. He was so happy to go back and was done with vacation, I think he got bored and tired of hanging out all day. I'm really glad he got back into the swing of things and loves school. As for Audrey she's dying to go back to school too, she was upset that Bubbs got to go to school and she didn't. She loves playing with the other kids and loves her teachers too, I just hope this lasts for both of them, lol.

I also go back to school next week with Audrey. We're school and carpool buddies and have fun going to school together. It's just so convenient with the daycare being on campus. Oh and speaking of school I finally got my grades last week, here they are!

Stress Management.........B
Nutrition.................A
Personal Health...........A
Sociology of Gender.......A
Which puts me on the Dean's List :)

Isn't that funny that I got a B in stress management! LOL, I'll admit, that class gave me major stress! My teacher turned out to be totally cool at the end and announced that we would be the last class that she'd teach cause she was retiring. I felt bad for her cause she cried in front of the class but besides the B, I did learn a lot in her class.

Now this semester I'll be taking:

Advanced College Writing (blah, I hate english)
Concepts of Health Science
Measurements and Statistics in Health Science w/ lab
Visual Communication

My goals again are to get all A's! I'm really trying to graduate with honors, I know I could do it. I'm going to take advantage of all the help I can get with my classes. Like tutors and writing centers, I'm not going to guess my way through this semester. I'm also going to stay on top of assignments like I did about 3/4 of the time last semester. Big changes and Big hopes for this semester and actually in my personal life as well, we won't get into those.

Ok, I better put the kids in the shower. see ya

Happy 2008

We had a fun and entertaining christmas eve. I had spent the whole day before cleaning, baking and prepping for our big dinner. My mom and Steph even spent the night to help me but after a while I think Steph felt slaved by my demands. I had her cooking, cleaning and even hanging the Christmas lights with Naty, she looked at me like I was nuts when I volunteered her to help Naty put back up our lights. We had people working on our house on the 23rd! while Christmas was fast aproaching, instead of calling the whole thing off I decided to work with what I had. To my great surprise the guys finished the outside of our house and I'm amazed with the results! The actual color that we chose for the house was a lot darker than what it came out BUT we're really happy with it since the stone on the face of the house will be really dark it will blend really nice. So back to Christmas, we had tons of food, drinks and people! It was an awesome day! I was so busy that I didn't get pictures but I'll make sure to ask everyone else for some. So we just ate, drank and were merry.

Then Christmas morning came and the kids were waiting for us and when it was time they rushed the tree. Bubbs got a lot of games, movies and very little clothes and Audrey got some games, lots of toys, movies and very little clothes. Again, i didn't get pictures cause we were videotaping and I still haven't emptied my card on my camera, I know I know! thats dumb! After the presents I went back to sleep for a while and woke up to some guests which were Naty's dad, Miguel, Veronica and the kids, they stood for a bit and then we were off to Big boy Alex's house. He had asked Naty and his dad to fix his fence that the wind blew over so we gladly went and I took some games for the kids while we waited. It ended up getting late and Mayra got home so we went out for dinner at some Chinese Buffet place. OMG! it was hilarious, I had just seen Christmas story and the part when they go eat at a Chinese resturant cause the dogs eat the turkey, it was exactly like that! I told Naty watch them come out and start singing, "Fah rah rah rah raaaaaaaahhhhh, rah rah rah rah" (sung to Deck that halls, fa la la la la...." That is the most funniest part of the movie ever! But we had a nice quiet dinner and were off.

Now for New years eve we went to the George Lopez stand up show at Nokia theatre. We went in the neighbors Limo with a fully stocked bar. Me, Naty, Ruben, Laura, Mondo and one of his friends went. We had a cool night but they had changed the show from 10pm to 8:15! we were on the road at 8pm and the limo driver is the one who told us, imagine if he didn't tell us! we would have not seen George Lopez. We got there around 9pm and he came on at 9:20p, good thing we got to see him but we missed the first half of the show, I was fine with that but I don't think everyone else was. Oh well, what could we do?!? G Lo was hilarious and I couldn't breathe and had chest pains after but it was all worth it.

Then the next day we decided out of no where to have a BBQ here at home and invite everyone over. It was a nice day.

Of course my main goal for 2008 is to lose weight, I couldn't believe how big I looked in the pics that Laura took of that night. WOWSERS!! I'm huge! I don't want to get any bigger, I'm so out of shape, gross and very unhealthy, with all of my health problems I really need to lose weight. I know if I did my health would improve dramatically. I'm in pain as I type this and just want it to end, I wish I could just rest already, not DIE either! I meant, rest from this pain.......YIKES! Oh and forgot to mention that my doctor sent me for an ultrasound the next day and I now have another appt. with him on Jan. 17th. I just want to hear that I'm fine but I know I'm not. I'm also hoping to lose 5 lbs. before I see him, I've gained a good 15 lbs. since my surgery, NOT GOOD.

Well this post took me a long time to write so I better go now. We're leaving to San Francisco tomorrow morning to visit Jose and Monica. We owe them a visit since they come down here a lot. I'm just hoping to bond and have a nice vacation with the family, hopefully we can do that. Anyway, take care everyone and Happy 2008!