Time to catch up!

Back at the blog again. If you look under this post there's a few more with pictures that let you know what we have been up to lately. Busy as usual!

Ms. Aub has been having a tough time with her ears (another infection, 3rd since the new year), but I'm happy to report that we finally got a referral to an Ear, Nose, & Throat specialist. We will head there in the beginning of March. I'm taking her to her regular dr on Friday to make sure the latest infection has gone away. I'm guessing it hasn't because she's been in her super crabby mode for a couple of weeks now and that usually indicates something is going on with her. We'll see!

Mike's starting his work with the ship that he'll go underway with in April.

Nicole is doing well in school, as always, and will be celebrating her 100th day in a couple of weeks (they are having a party in class).

Pretty sure we are headed to Pittsburgh for Easter. I think we are going to drop the girls and head back by ourselves (yeah!).....let them have a fun spring break at Grandma & Pap's.

We officially have plane tickets to CA! We'll be there in June. Can't wait to see everyone!

Oh, we have purchased a webcam and have been Skype- ing! If any of you do it and would like to chat with us, our thing is under mnkbeardsley. It's been fun. We've talked to Grandma Cyndy a couple of times and briefly talked to our old neighbors that live in Italy now. Hope to "see" more of you soon!

So that's it. You are updated!!!

Monster Jam

Don't ask me why, but I went along with the idea to take the girls to the monster truck show last weekend. Mike has been bugging me to go since we moved here so I gave in and decided they might actually enjoy it. They did, the girls had a fun time. We took Madeline along with us and Jordan (from school) and her Dad & sis joined us. The show kind of sucked. Not only did we get shafted on the price by 20 bucks (we got overcharged [the guys were in charge of buying tickets])..but for the 2 hours we were there, there was maybe 20 minutes of monster truck action. Oh, and the place was filled with underage kids that were drunk and dressed up as hicks. Been there, done that, never doing it again!

Valentine's Day!

The picture at the top of the page was of the girls on Valentine's Day (my fav of them as of late). School was cancelled that day due to frost (totally lame) so Nicole's class party was postponed until the day after. Here's a couple of pictures of the girls with their goodies from Mom & Dad.

Sophiticus- The new addition

Here she is..... Miss Sophie!

We've had her for 3 weeks now and things have been going pretty good (knock on wood). When we got her she weighed 3lbs and she weighed 4lbs at her vet visit yesterday. Her Mom weighed 6lbs and her Dad weighed 4lbs so she shouldn't get too much larger than that. Like I said, things have been going good....the girls love her. Other than the occasional attempted snuff out from Aubrey (she likes to get a pillow and then lay on top of the dog with it [fabulous, I know]) they play together pretty well. Thank heaven Sophie isn't shy or timid, she holds her own with the girls and actually, at the vet yesterday there was huge St. Bernard (167lbs) that she had no problem getting nose to nose with- I wish I would have taken a picture! Anyway, here she is!

Some pics of Aubrey

I'm just all around lagging! I have zero pics of Nicole and just a few of Aubrey. Anyway, check out our snow we had last week. I though VB was going to have to shut down the way they were talking about it. Like it was the storm of the century coming at us. Lame! The other pic is of her in one of her daily outfits. The girl is crazy. If she's not in her pjs she's in dress up clothes that most of the time include tights and her "tapping high heels". We get home from dropping Nicole and she immediately has to change.

Hello, hello!

Jeez. I have definitely been lagging on the blog. Not sure why really. I guess the holidays and everyone being sick for so damn long put me out of the mood. This is the first week (knock on wood) that any of us haven't had to go to the dr. We just had Aub back in last week for her persistent pink eye and it turned out she had an ear infection as well. We've had some car issues too. It never ends around here! I'm sure it's the same where you are at too.

Anyway, things are good otherwise! I just got Aubrey registered for preschool again next year. I put her with the teacher Nicole had when she originally started going. She'll be young for her class, just turning 3 at the start of school. The rest of the kids will be 3....and turning 4 by the end of the year. She's always going to be young as far as school goes. I guess we could hold her back, but I don't think so! She's not at all behind so I'm sure she'll be fine. It was weird though as it all came up and I talked to other moms about it. We had never even gave her age a thought. Like ever. And then all I heard was how people were holding their kids back because they were young (even summer babies, which is CRAZY!). I did get a little freaked out and thought maybe we should do what they are doing. But naaaaaaahhh, we are going to keep her at the pace she's at...we are confident she'll be fine.

Nicole is good. She's chugging along in school. The weeks fly by and are a complete blur. I'll be driving 4 of them on a field trip to the library next week-- oh joy! No registering her for preschool next year, she'll be in public school. WOW! Getting old. I'm glad we won't have tuition costs, that's a plus....but she still seems so little! Could you imagine her on the bus??? Haha! You could probably fit 6 of her in one seat!

Some other news for our household. We're getting a puppy on Monday!!!! Yeah! We actually picked her out in the beginning of January. She'll be a tiny little thing. Mom weighs 6lbs and dad weighs 4lbs....toy rat terrier. Nicole has already named her Sofie...which is much better than some of the other names she had picked out. We're excited! I'll be posting pics next week.

I think the girls and I are heading to Pittsburgh for Spring Break. Mike is going out to sea for a couple of weeks so we're hitting the road. Should be fun, we've never been there for Easter. The girls will have a blast, I'm sure. Fingers crossed it's not freezing ....can you hunt for eggs when there's snow out??? Haha!

We're also getting ready to book our trip out west. We'll head that way in June. Very excited to go since we haven't been in two years. We are making a vacation of it though. We'll be hitting the road again (last time we were there we put 2000 miles on our rental car in two weeks!)-- hoping to spend a couple of days in San Diego, some at home, we'll make a stop in Phoenix, and then head to Utah for some boating action and sight seeing (The Grand Canyon!!!).

So that's it. Sorry this is so long....I know how most of you like to talk shit about how much I write. Well, whatever. I gotta keep you up to date on everything and it's been awhile so stop your bitching!!! Haha!!!

Aubrey's eyes

I have to say her eyes are much better now, but here's a picture from when they were at their worst. Poor thing! Her and Nicole have gone through an awful bout of pink eye. Nicole didn't get it as bad as Aub, her eyes were only bright red for a few days. Aubrey's were bright red for several days. And they are still glued shut every morning......we're 7 days into the 14 day virus. Oh joy!