Adventures of Christine Rowlan

Life Lessons/Experiences

2011-02-02T22:19:00.000-08:00

So at church a few weeks ago Pastor Don shared some life experiences He talked about how God uses moments in our lives to prepare us for the future.... he encouraged everyone to write down life lessons they learned. I shared some of mine at my TMB NG and here are the rest.

P.S. if u wanna watch the sermon it is really good so check it out here http://www.ccvonline.com/Arena/default.aspx?page=14868&item=174

My Life Lessons/ Experiences....thus far :)

1. Humility - We bought a new house while I was in 2nd grade but needed the money from our old house to start building the new house. So while it was being built we lived with my gma. I went to 3 schools that year and it SUCKED! I got to be the new girl which was humbling(2ng graders are not nice people!). I did see the true good some people have - Renae Sutter being one of these people totally scooped me up on my first day at Park Meadows and we have been friends ever since!

2. Some things are not worth it...and that is okay - In 4th grade you were allowed to join band. You got to leave class during the day to go to band and so I had to do this! I played the flute(i know surprising a 4th grade girl and the flute...so creative). I HATED the flute...i mean i liked it for a little bit but i wasn't really in to playing music. I hated my teacher he was SO mean to people who were not the best. i did it until 5th grade but at every concert I wouldn't actually play because I was so afraid I would mess up and the teacher would know(which he would and his face would turn red as his jacket and he would just stare at you). I remember going to band one day and the teacher made us go through the line and play the same notes solo. When he got to me and my friend(we didnt do good) he told us "you made this bed and now you will sleep in it". We cried not even knowing what that meant and then quit. Now I am not saying it is okay to quit things but I am saying sometimes things are not worth it. I knew I didnt want to be in band passed grade school and I really just did it to get out of class so it wasnt really worth it for me. It was such a relief to quit band and I have never regretted not playing the flute.

3. Try - In 6th grade there was going to be a spelling bee. Any of you who read anything I write must know I am not so great at spelling or grammar...never have been. Everyone had to get up and tryout for this big spelling bee. So the teacher had us lined up at the front of the room. The first word I got the was Musician. I laughed and said I dont know and sat down. The teacher was pretty upset with me and said, "it isnt even a hard word! think about it.. Music - Ian". I was so embarrassed because honestly I probably would have messed it up but not even trying was WAY worse than giving up. So I learned you just gotta try sometimes and it doesnt really matter as long as you give it your all. I have had to test this as an adult in a few different ways. I tried voice lessons(with the help of my mother in law), cake decorating, and even oil painting. I try new things all the time with church and with the girls...I try...right now im trying bangs lol.

4. Be Yourself - There isnt one specific event that lead me to this but pretty much all of middle school I learned this lesson. Middle school sucks in general. Mean girls, awkward puberty, BOYS, emotions...ugh it is all lame! Until middle school I always had my core group of friends and then we all got split up and grew in to our own peoples. The biggest thing I saw was everyone trying to find a clique to mesh into and I dont feel like I did this. I had friends from every group and I wasnt ashamed. I was friends with the smart "dorky" kids because I was in gifted classes and they became my friends. I walked with the tall gay guy in the halls because he was funny as heck and I loved it! I went shopping with the preppy girl who had the cutest clothes. The stoners came and jumped on my trampoline everyday. And hello my church friends! I had a bunch of acquaintances in every crowd and had a really close friend from each group. I stayed this way through hs and I feel it has allowed me to have so many more meaningful relationships. Everyone has moments were they act a little different to fit in but I feel like mostly I stayed goofy and myself and didnt care....And if you didnt like this about me then we prolly werent friends! LOL.

5. Regret - I danced at The Dance Shoppe from 4thgrade - 9th. I LOVED dance I still love dance. I thought I would always dance there and then at college. Note: I was never a "dancer" I just LOVED to dance always did Jazz and some hip-hop..never the best just loved loved loved it. In 8th grade when it came time to sign up for high school classes I choose Theater instead of Dance because, -snob voice- "I danced at a studio". Then I got really involved at church and my bible study day was the same day as dance so i choose bible study. I was so mad that I didnt do HS dance. I coulda learned so much more dance stuff by doing it in school. I saw all my friends doing it and then felt it was too late to join a year late and just ALWAYS regretted that. Finally in college I took dance and again fell in love but it just made me regret even more the years I missed because I was being a snob and then was too chicken! p.s. I need to find a dance class...

6. Travel/Experience New Stuff! - by freshman year in highschool I had been to space camp, snorkeled in Catalina island, went to the Bahamas on a Disney cruise ship, explored washington dc, stepped into time square, rode a toboggan thing in colorado, froze my butt off in new mexico, felt extreme humidity in Michigan, broke my fear of roller coasters in cedar point Ohio, and put my feet in the pretty Florida ocean...also recently going with Petyl to Pennsylvania and seeing Amish country, the jersey shore, new york city again(this time experiencing fighting with a cab driver and negotiating prices on knock of LV wallets in a back store room behind a secret door and eating at Serendipity(pic))! I never realized until recently how much my parents sacrificed for me to get to experience things they themselves werent and hadnt ever done. Every school trip or vacation with friends/family that I could go on my parents pushed me to do. I wish I appreciated what I was seeing and doing at the time as much as I do now. I hope that one day I can take my kids to historical and fun places like I got to go...

7. Humility(can always use a few doses of this!) - Each year of hs I went with my church to Rocky Point Mexico to build houses for families in need. It still amazes me the living conditions these people have just a few hours away from my home. One of the families we built for lived in a house made out of freeway signs and poles pushed down in to the sand holding it together. One house had a running toilet and I will never forget the women taking us one by one in to show off her toilet and how proud she was....how many times had I been proud of my toilet? On top of this these people were the happiest nicest and most giving. The kids had the biggest smiles and hugs for everyone that was there. The women were always making food for everyone working on the house and the men were always helping as much as they could. It made me so thankful for what I have but also showed me that what I have doesnt make me happy.

8. Loss - My Grandpa Young lived in flagstaff when I was a little girl until my gma was gone. He then lived with us or at my cousins for about 4 years and then he got remarried. He was my favorite relative. he was so funny and giving and such an amazing grandpa. One day I was riding back from flagstaff and got SO emotional. I was thinking about my grandpa and I had this huge feeling that I wouldnt see him again. I thought he was going to die. At this time my grandpa was in Hawaii for his 1 year wedding anniversary. I got home and told my dad and my dad was a little freaked out but told me he was okay and having the time of his life and would be back in a few days. Well the next night my dad woke me in the middle of the night to tell me my grandpa had died in Hawaii. I was so mad at my dad for "lieing to me" even though he didnt know this was going to happen or why I some how knew. It was the biggest loss I had and still have experienced in my life. I miss him everyday and wish I could have known him more as an adult. It does make me cherish the fact that my babies have awesome grandparents and it also makes me really just tell people i love them as much as I can....Loss is a hard lesson and I am so glad I will see my gpa again one day.

9. Fate..Luck...or Just God's Plan - I was fishing with my friend and her family for a weekend. We fished in 4 different places over the weekend and ALL day. We had caught NOTHING and it was becoming a joke..for everyone except her Dad who was kinda pissed lol. Anyways it was our last fishing spot and I had run out of worms so started putting my stuff away. My friend had one more worm and got mad at me..she didnt want to fish alone and told me to keep fishing. Laughing and being sarcastic I threw out my line with no bait and immediately began reeling it in. Well what do u know I caught a foot long rainbow trout. note:her dad was not happy about this lol! Anwyays I really learned that anything can happen and you just have to be ready for it :)

10. Jump - When I turned 18 I went skydiving for my bday! I was so scared but so excited. In the plane I remember looking out the window and thinking oh man we are still going higher and higher! They sang happy birthday for me while going up and then it was time to jump. I fell at 100miles per hour for a whole minute until I was instructed to release the parachute. When I finally reached the ground A huge adrenaline rush came over me. I couldnt believe I actually did that and it was surreal. It was an amazing feeling and I took away from it was just jump..do crazy stuff and then tell people about it. It's awesome!

11. His Plan - Coming up to hs graduation I had a good plan. I was going to go to Azusa College in California and get my degree in Teaching. I would meet the "Jesus Hot"(Jesus hot is a term i made up in hs youth group. The guys who were hot on the outside and on fire for Jesus...Jesus Hot) man of my dreams and fall in love. We would get married after I graduated. I would work for a year and then start trying for babies around 25 years old. I would then stay at home and take care of the babies while my husband made lots of money. Well I slowly learned that my plan was not His plan. I decided something about moving to Cali after graduating wasnt right and I would go to Community college first...then I started dating Trustan just after graduating. I fell in Love(and he is Hot so that is good!). I wanted to marry him pretty much after 4 months of dating. He really cared about me. He introduced me to his friends he always had his arm around me like I was something to be proud of. He loved me. I continued on with school at community college and was married the end of sophomore year. I learned that not only was Trustan meant for me but his family was too! I feel like I was missing out before or something that is how much i fit in to there crazy bunch! A week before the wedding we decided we were going to try for kids right away. 4 months in to marriage we were pregnant. When I held Petyl for the first time I have never had such a sense of peace knowing this is exactly where I was supposed to be in this moment(yea it coulda been the epidural but I think it was something more). I never took a break from school and got my teaching degree through NAU at Paradise Valley Community College. I brought my baby to class every weeek until I had to leave her while I did student teaching. After I graduated Trustan went back to school and is still working his way through now. He has a good job that pays the bills and provides insurance but we are in no way rich. I could never imagine not being a stay at home mom and not having my babies now. I am so glad that I get to be a young mom and that I have the husband I do. It isnt always the easiest path but it was the path meant for me I know it and wouldnt have it any other way.

12. Wrong Path - Many of you new persons in my life may not know this but I owned a business! Imagination Avenue first of all is an amazing place to take your lil kiddo especially in the heat of summer. I went there the first time in the heat of summer with Petyl right after I graduated with my amazing Early Ed Degree. It was closing and I just thought "what?! this place is amazing!" So after doing some research, questioning things, and getting some cash together. We bought it! I thought wow we r going to make this place even better and just impact the world with Imagination Avenue...Well It turns out I do have a passion for children and families but I am not so Business Savy. After 2 months the numbers were way down and I was prego with Haylo and just didnt feel good about it at all! Someone told me that God will never let you go too far down the wrong path. And I feel like he rescued me and well my whole family from this wrong path for us. I put IA on Craigslist and sold it 2 weeks later(seriously if that wasnt God then who was it?!?). It is still an amazing place...and actually the family who owns it now has really done some amazing things so Go check it out! http://www.imaginationavenue.us/

13. Mommy Love- through my pregnancy with petyl i was so nervous of the delivery I was so scared of the pain and in a lot of ways i was afraid to be a mom. I had always been a babysitter or nanny but being a mom was and is still a scary thing. After having Petyl the most amazing thing happened. I experienced True Love. I mean seriously I loved the kids I nannied and my baby cousins but when you have your own child..it is amazing the love you feel. And yes I felt it in pregnancy but it was so intensified holding and watching this beautiful little girl grow. When I got pregnant the second time I was worried that this love would be pulled apart to be shared between both babies...or that I just wouldnt be able to love another the same. Man was I mistaken! The love grew. I now have more true love than I ever knew possible. I love my kids more than any thing I could ever imagine or try and describe. I can like feel the love coming out of me when they are close by and my heart pulls towards them. And yes i get mad and upset with them but the love I feel never weakens it grows stronger every day. The coolest part of all this is that I know God in heaven has this love even more for each one of us. I feel like the love that we are allowed to feel for our kids is just a tiny glimpse of what God feels for us. I think that is why my relationship with God and my own parents has grown so much stronger with having kids...it is amazing!

14. Sacrifice - With these last two lessons I also experience sacrifice. I love my life and I love my family but it is a different life when you are a wife and mama. I have sacrificed my body through 2 pregnancies and nursing two babies. I have sacrificed my sleep...petyl was up every hour and a half for the first 13 months of her life and haylo still gets up twice a night. I have sacrificed my independence of just being able to run to Starbucks or go see a movie. I have sacrificed my standard of clean in my house. I have sacrificed my hair and makeup at times(i still cant leave the house without makeup on but it is definitely less involved than before). I have sacrificed a lot as a mom and wife and if you are not a mom or wife then i am sorry u just really dont know..it's just different... but I would never change it for the world.

15. No one is perfect - This lesson I learned multiple times in my life. I learned it when my adults did things that let me down as a kid. When best friends choose anothers side over mine. I learned it when Jesus Hot boys turned out to be very very awful people. I learned it when new acquaintances that I let in my life turned on me. Its hard to realize that no one is perfect and that is why Christ is so important...he is the only one who was and that is why we need him so bad!

I think that is all i got for now...I hope this blog wasnt too boring or churchy but I do love Jesus what can I say lol. I think it is cool to look back on these experiences and see how I can use them to better my future for myself and people around me. And it is just cool to remember a bunch of cool stuff that has happened in my life. Everything happens for a reason and I love all that God has brought me =]

December/Snow in the desert/Resolutions

2011-01-02T15:31:00.000-08:00

This December was awesome! We had so many fun events with the Rowlan's. Grinch Night, Snowman Night, Baking Day, Polar Express Night, Reindeer Day..im sure im forgetting some but they were all fun times! I think my favorite was decorating the trains and watching brieson and kambren as reindeer get shot by petyl with the nerf gun.

Christmas Eve Services at CCV were so good and fun but very honest with what is real...what we all need I really liked it. Went once with my TMB girls and then with all the Rowlans. If u wanna check it out or send it to someone else go here ->

http://www.ccvonline.com/Arena/default.aspx?page=14268&item=170

We had our first(many more to come) SMY Party! The triangle reunited with added family and babies! See Brandon Morgan, Amanda Schoech and Myself(Christine Young-now Rowlan) were all very best friends in Highschool and at CCV. We all got baptized together at our first CIY in the Ocean! Now we are grownups and the S and M moved to other states BUT S cam back and it is only a matter of time before M is back too! We had a great night just talking and catching up...I am looking forward to more nights like that! SIDE NOTE: We didnt take any pictures because we are lame!

We were also blessed with an End of the year snow. Yes thats right SNOW in PHOENIX! It wasnt a lot nor did it stick but it was still amazing. Petyl and I had just bundled up to go play with her new Barbie Jeep and then i saw the little white flurries in the air...it was so simple but amazing all at once. It was only a few minutes and then it stopped and we came in a little after. I was pondering the Phonician Snow and it made me get all emotional(yes thats not a big shocker with me but w/e). I know it isnt like a miraculous thing happened but well it kinda is. I mean how often do we see snow here in Phoenix? Just those few minutes of Snow reminded me that God is so wonderful...he is so big and so amazing and sometimes..well a lot of times I forget that.

It has been a crazy year for me. The end of my pregnancy was a lot harder than I had planned. Hubby has been super busy with work and school so I am home alone with our beautiful but crazy babies a lot. Our car's have taken turns popping out on us so it seems they are never both drivable at the same time. I have been really busy with church stuff but without a consistent vehicle to drive it makes being a part of everything more stressful. Plus all the regular little dramas of relationships and family stuff...it all can kinda bring me down. But the big picture is that regardless of all that I have had the most AMAZING year. My body issues from pregnancy all worked out and went back to normal. We added a beautiful rollie pollie baby Haylo to our family and big sister Petyl is getting smarter and amazinger everyday. We have had a lot of awesome people help us out with rides. Church..well church is becoming way more than just a Sunday service for me again. It is also awesome to see Petyl embrace nursery and all the activities. She Prays every night and she sings the songs in nursery..she loves going to church and bible study...its so cool to watch her. I have little extended family branching out all over the place because of church activities. Hubby is going great in school..did have to drop a class this semester but got A's in the other classes. I dunno sometimes we go through little hard things but no matter what in the end we see that God is great. No matter how tough or how frustrating things are he just keeps comin in with a few sprinkles of snow on my life to lift me up and get me on track. :)

Speaking about being on track...it's time for Resolutions!
This year I really want to try and refocus the resolutions to be...real and then follow through!

1. Get in a T group and Read the whole New Testament(then hopefully move on to the Old too!)
2. Continue learning about and committing more of myself to God.
3. Get Organized. In the house and in Life...and stay up on it!
4. Exercise(like plan and do it) at least once a week.-Preferably a dance class!
5. Eat Fast food Less than Twice a week(includes Starbucks and ice cream too!)
6. Be better. I want to be the Virtuous Woman in Proverbs for God, my family and for myself.

Thats it....Hello 2011 I am ready for ya! :)

Here are some pictures too :)

Heloooo

2010-12-13T14:43:00.000-08:00

Yea it's been a while and I felt like writing a blog so here i am.

A lot has changed in these last few months with added baby and all! So lets start with her.

Miss Haylo Sofia was born on June 4 at 4:20pm she was HUGE! 9lbs and 10.5oz and 21inches long. She was so big that when she cam out her face was all bruised and her eyes had bloodshot rings in them for about a month. She was big but oh so beautiful!

When Petyl came and met her the first time she thought it was just a baby doll. Then we unwrapped the blankets and Petyls eyes got so big. it was sisterly love at first site!

After coming home from the hospital I was a little overwhelmed with all that was changing for Petyl. She is still my baby but now is the big sister and that was hard...but after a few days it was only really hard for me. Petyl is an amazing big sister. She tries to hold haylo hug haylo and even tried to nurse her once. Yes all these "sweet" things are very nice but very scary! LOL but really Petyl is getting much better. And it is so cool to see how much they love each other already. If haylo makes one peep petyl is right there or yelling for me to come help sister. And even if petyl is squishing haylo to death haylo just smiles and laughs at her big sis!

The rest of the summer was really awesome. The girls and I went to Utah with the Rowlans for 2 weeks and I got to meet more of the family and have constant help with the girls. Petyl embraced her wild banshee and ran around the field all day and night, Fed horses every day, lit fire works, rode a quad, and enjoyed time with Forrest the dog. It was great!

After we got home things got CRAZY!

Trustan took on another full load this semester with classes 5 days a week after a full load of work. He has been exhausted but hopefully this is the last semester like this for a while.

I started back in my Teen Mom's Becoming Group and also with a friend started a Neighborhood Group(Bible Study) for the girls. It has been so amazing! I also was invited to a womens bible study and it is like changing my life! The women are so awesome and teaching me so much. I love the free childcare and so does Petyl. I cant wait for it to start back up in January. I also started back at my Neighborhood Group and really feel like a part of the family now :)

Halloween was so fun! Petyl dressed up as horse(she really wanted to be this white and pink horse!). She got lots of Candy and had fun watching spooky movies and seeing all the scary houses! We went back to Tolmacoff Farms and picked out a pretty plump pumpkin! Petyl got to ride the train by herself and feed all the stinky farm animals. OH p.s. I DID get an awesome gift of Halloween having my bestie Amanda Schoech come home to stay!

Thanksgiving(my favorite holiday) was super great this year. My mom hosted and cooked for Trustans family and even his Aunt Sandy and their family. It was really nice to have everyone together and even Trustan said that my "scheme" was actually good! So hopefully this means one year I will be allowed to have Thanksgiving with everyone at our house ;)

OH and Carissa Got married so we went and celebrated their special day!

So yea that is pretty much what you have missed these past few months. All the December festivities have begun and I will post another blog with all the fun details.

Maybe I will start keepin up on this thing again ;) But in case I dont Have a Merry Christmas! and a Happy New Year!! Here is some more pics for the road..or for the..surf..or something... k bye :)

crazy life

2010-05-08T15:39:00.000-07:00

So I am 36 weeks pregnant tomorrow. I am having issues with things...and am on "moderate bed rest" whatever that means. My hubby is in his finals week of school and is stressed out. and my lil nugget Petyl is going to be 2 next Friday. Things are CRAZY! but i have more craziness to add.

Last night Miss P spiked a lil fever..it was 9pm and Trustan noticed her hotness so we checked and sure enough she was at 102. I called the pediatrician on call and they told me the normal stuff..give her some Tylenol(GENERIC SINCE THEY ALL GOT RECALLED)...check on her every few hours..lots of fluids whatever. She had no other symptoms besides a slight runny nose. She feel asleep around 9:45 in our bed I got the room all re arranged so T could sleep in her bed with the alarm clock(he had to be at school at 8am for his Chem. finals) and fan and me an P would be in our bed. Me and him hang out and watch some tv.

11pm P wakes up crying and we both go up..she is ON FIRE! like no joke I could have roasted a marshmallow! We started the thermometer(rectal btw) and after like 10 seconds it was already at 104.7 104.8 104.9..i threw that thing out and we took P to the ER-Mendys Place.

When we got there she had cooled off a little..there temporal thermometer said she was 103. she could barely hold herself up on the scale she was so tired and weak. They gave her some Motrin while we waited for the Doc. 2:30AM rolls around- We had her all checked out ears, nose, throat, x ray on the lungs, catheter to check her urine.... NOTHING WAS WRONG. and BTW she was now running around the room making bird noises and talking to all the nurses. Her temp was now at 98. We went home.

Now dont missunderstand... I am happy there is nothing major going on and that she was feeling better. BUT REALLY? Ugh it was crazy. They said there is a virus going around or something..and today she is a lil grumpy and wont really eat and has a tiny temp. So I will go to the doc on Monday. BUT REALLY? Of all the times to have a crazy temperature that pans out to be nothing...

CRAZY CRAZY LIFE!

I felt bad for Trustan who got 4 hours of sleep before having to take his finals...its just Crazy. Dont you think?

Anyways thats all thats my rant/ craziness explained.

i do have to say I was a proud lil mama to see my baby being SO good for the nurses and doc. She did everything without crying or fighting at all. even the catheter she just laid there and then started talking to the nurses and daddy. it was so cute. Everyone commented on how easy she was and how surprised they were with her age. It was awesome..lil bug!

Ok im done now. Thanks for reading <3

Book Reading Update:

2010-04-10T10:11:00.000-07:00

A few blogs back I posted those 100 books to read. I was going to start from the bottom up but then that first one was hard to find AND it sounded kinda lame.

I did read the lion the witch and the wardrobe which is on there. It was good funny what I remember from being a kid and reading it..that dang Turkish Delight sounds so good. I want Brieson the bro in law to make it for me! It did also confirm that the book was way better than the movie for sure!

I also started Song of Solomon(really weird so far!) I cant even go in to that yet but when i finish it will be an interesting review.

I have actually been working on the big one from the list THE BIBLE. I mean its on the list and eventually if I had any order to reading I would have to read that one.

So I just finished Genesis. It is so interesting how the stories you hear in church or have actually read many times can still show you such different things. I love that! I really liked reading Genesis. Favorite Story - I really love the creation part..just cuz it is so amazing to think about and still not really understand. I like the story about Joseph and how forgiving he was to his family. Noah..with that boat! that would have been so hard. I think about that move cant think of what it was called..Noah Almighty i dunno it was so funny but still to really think about it I am sure all those people back in Genesis thought Noah was a freak! and then they were sorry too.

I think the one that stuck out to me the most is when Abraham is asked to sacrifice his son. UGH! that would be SO CRAZY! something I never noticed before was how when Issac kinda realized what was goin down he asked his dad uhm hey wheres the lamb? and Ab replied "My son God will provide for himself the lamb.." He didnt try and cop out with some whinny "oh son god is making me kill u!" he just had faith and stayed strong in front of his child. He knew whatever happened would all work out. which it did the Angel stopped him and a ram appeared instead. But I just LOVED that! Sometimes we people can be so...LAME in how we approach situations and I could never imagine being asked to sacrifice my little monkey and to see this strong example of faith and courage...It's nice it makes me want to be better and yea I just loved it.

So now im in Exodus I will update you when I finish. =]

Bacon Spaghetti

2010-04-02T19:13:00.000-07:00

It was brought to my attention that some people have not heard of bacon spaghetti in fact they had the audacity to say "it must be a pregnancy thing cuz it sounds disgusting". Well it is obvious they do not know what they are talking about and I had to do something about it. I mean I cant let them challenge my well culinaried palette on this one! It could damage my reputation! So I am here today to share a recipe that has been in my family for..well i dont know how long but i am pretty sure my dads mom taught my mom how to make it and in turn i also learned to make it. AND let me tell you it is in no way near disgusting. Actually i would consider that an antonym of what it actually is!

Also because of this I now must cook the meal for my Rowlan inlaws...they are kind of the test group for any new thing I do or old thing I love. They will then clarify its amazingness in case these unkknowledged people are too afraid to branch out and open their tongue to delicious amazement! Note these inlaws do not know about this yet but I am sure they wont complain..about me cooking a meal for them since that is a rare occasion in the household.

Anyways here is the recipe and if you are smart you will give it a try!

Bacon Spaghetti

Ingredients:
5-8 slices Regular Bacon no maple or anything that would be weird! (I like turkey bacon for this too..and its better for you!)
1/2 onion small diced
1 Green Bell Pepper big diced
1 clove garlic diced up
1 can mushrooms or fresh ones sliced up
1 Jar spaghetti sauce - a four cheese or classic works good..or make ur own
extra seasoning- if the sauce is "missing" something add black pepper, oregano and parsley.
Favorite Noodles..Original Recipe wants the regular spaghetti noodles but its good with linguine or some penne too.

Directions:
Cook your noodles. While they are cooking start your bacon in a large skillet..you want it to be real crispy so let it get almost burnt(it doesnt matter waht it looks like cuz you will chop it up later). Then take it out to dry on a paper towel. Add the onion and bell pepper to your bacon grease over medium heat(if you have a lot of grease drain some...turkey bacon doesnt leave that much). Cook a few minutes and add your garlic (and if you have fresh mushrooms add now). When everything is browned good add your sauce. Let that simmer for a while and add you extra seasoning if necessary. Chop up your bacon and add it back to your sauce. Drain your noodles and combine with sauce or just serve sauce on top of noodles. You can always add some meatballs or shrimp...but the plate is good on its own anything else is extra.

Serve with some garlic bread and salad and you have an amazing meal!

big girl room!

2010-03-29T22:40:00.000-07:00

Miss Petyl my lovely child learned how to get out of her crib...and she decided to become a pro at it in 2 days. So pro that even when I pushed the crib to the wall where she was shimmying down she still managed to get out and get stuck between crib and wall. So I knew safety wise it was necessary to move.

I cleaned up the new room and brought all her Petyl stuff in. It looked like a nice toddler room. And she liked it. I was dreading night time tho! I wanted her to be real sleepy and ready for this big night. So we watched some wow wow wubzy(her favorite if you didnt know). Then we had a little snack of cereal. took a warm bath. brushed teeth. got snugly in some jammies. read a book. at 10:30pm i laid her down...and. she CRIED! got out of bed. banged on the door. turned the lights on. jumped in the bed. played with puzzles. spilled humidifier water.

UGH it was not going well. so i re assessed the situation. cleaned up some of the mess. moved some things around. and then I laid on the lower trundle part of the bed while she laid in her bed.

****note: anyone who knows me knows how against this i am. i am not one that sleeps with their child until the fall asleep. i want my baby to comfort herself and not depend on me being there for her to feel safe to sleep.

I thought this might work tho and was desperate... she was staying in bed tappin her nose with her blankie closing her eyes being a good girl. It had been a while with no sound and little movement. I decided i would make my escape. I maneuvered my BIG belly down to the floor without moving the bed too much. got on all fours and sneaked to the door. I did a little peak at my precious babe and then squeezed out. I ran to the monitor to see her still laying in her bed. YES i thought, it worked.

I was wrong! 2 mins later i heard her cute little whisper "mommy? where are you?" then she got up and came to the door knocking! did I mention it was now almost 12:30AM! so I went in not knowing a plan. she threw her binkie and blanket and said bye bye and blew them a kiss. so i went with it. I said Oh you dont want them okay i will just take them out. I threw them in the hall and she said NOO and gave me her infamous evil eyebrows. then she pointed to her diaper and said Pee. so i told her we would change it and then it was bedtime. As I laid her back in bed she asked for her covers. I covered her up kissed her head and walked out. I watched her on the monitor for a while before it sank in but the little stinker fell fast asleep!!! after all that crazyness that is what worked! and I didnt have to lay with her I didnt have to sneak out I just did the norm minus the baby crib! It was pure awesome!

Now this is a happy ending but I have to share what happened next.

In all my mommy happiness I went down stairs to get a drink only to drop the WHOLE bottle of apple juice breaking the lid and spilling all over the kitchen! the stickiness was not going to be okay so I mopped the floor and then went to bed angry but happy all at the same time.

Oh the joys of motherhood!

here is my little bug... pic from monitor of her sleeping soundly!

p.s. tonight P went to bed at 9:30 and it was a normal routine...now if only we can get her to nap in there......another challenge to conqour...stay tuned!

Goals/To Do before baby arrives

2010-03-22T11:51:00.000-07:00

Okay so it is spring and i really want to clean up my whole house. I have had a good start in organizing everything but then i started to slack and it is piling up again..and there are still things i want to DO! So i am going to blog this bad boy so i feel more accountable or something...

1. Clean/ Organize the garage
2. make trustan go thru his clothes that do not fit him
3. Clean out petyl closet and clothes
4. Move petyl stuff to big girl room and organize haylo room
5. Commit to Potty Training! (she is so ready and i am being lazy!)
6. Plant SOMETHING in the yard...so it looks prettier! im thinking wild flowers..they can grow with the rest of the weeds but look nicer!
7. Have a yard sale (with all the cleaning out I should have a nice bunch to make some money off of!)
8. Hang pictures so it looks like a real family lives in this home!
9. Scrapbook the life of Petyl...and then some!
10. Move Petyl to big girl room(and big girl BED!...or find a crib someone wants to donate to my cause)

Ok i think that is all for now..i am sure i will walk in to another room and see that there is more things to add to this list but its a good start right! and now i have made the list so i will start to do things on it..Promise!

EYEBROW THREADING

2010-03-05T16:52:00.000-08:00

mm k so I really wanted to try this eyebrow threading thing that they do at the mall u know. So I have been growing these beasts out so that they could really be shapped and it would be worth it ya know. I have been growing them for like 2 months. That is a long time ya know! i mean these things were getting caterpillarish. Today had to be the day. I needed to end the crazyness. So I went in to get em done. Let me tell u it doesnt look painful but man it does NOT feel good! Waxing doesnt feel good either but its like bing bang ur done. This is like an inbetween tweezing and waxing cuz its like a lot of tweezing at once. It hurt. My eyes were a watering. But I do have to say there was no reddness that u get when u wax. So that is a plus. Anyways check out my pics...i have a before during and an after for u. And if u were thinking about going in to have some threading done then now u kno it is not pain free but the results are nice. I still think next time i will go back to waxing!

Books

2010-02-26T20:53:00.000-08:00

I decided that I love to read but sometimes it's hard for me to decide what to read unless I have a purpose for reading it. The last time I really read was the Twilight Series and that was also motivated by all the other friends I had reading and tlakin about the books etc.. and before that I dont even remember. But I never know what to read either..I feel like there are all these books we are "suposed" to read or should read and I want to read them! So I starting looking up lists of books to read before you die..top books..etc. I found A LOT of books. But I settled on one list.

Newsweek posted the top 100 books: The Meta List. It is a list made from all the other lists. I liked it cuz it was recent(the article was from June 29,2009). It has a good variety too...theres fiction and non fiction..theres stories I have heard of and some I havent. It seemed like a good fit. My plan was to start at the bottom and work my way to the top. Number 100 happens to be The Second World War by Winston Churchill a 6 book series! EW! is this a test? Ugh well I decided that there are a few series' on the list so I could at least read the first book to start and then go from there. I searched for the first book and the Phx library only has it online and that is no fun. Peoria and Glendale have it but I will have to pay for it and that is also no fun! So my good friend Sarah Raber is going to get it for me from her library...so I will wait.

Today however I was substituting an amazing 6th grade class and they were too good so I had to busy myself with the teachers books..where I saw The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I knew this was on my list.. I also know that I read this book in grade school but need a refresher. So during class I read the first 7 chapters and then continued when I got home with my personal copy and now have 20 pages to go. So I guess i am on my way. Note-Number 41 is ya know The Holy Bible. That may take some time... Anyways this is my new adventure. I am going to do it. I dont know how long it will take..but I will do it. Then I am going to post after each read. Wish me luck :) Here is the list of just the book names and the link to the article if you are interested.

P.S. Shelly Rowlan I would love to know how many books on this list you have read???

Newsweek’s top 100 books Jun 2009
http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478/?q=/name:0/type:0/range:0/page:1

1. War and Peace

2. 1984

3. Ulysses

4. Lolita

5. The sound and the fury

6. Invisible Man

7. To the lighthouse

8. The Iliad and The Odyssey

9. Pride and Prejudice

10. Divine Comedy

11. Canterbury Tales

12. Gulliver’s Travels

13. Middle march

14. Things Fall Apart

15. Cather in the rye

16. Gone with the wind

17. One hundred years of solitude

18. The Great Gatsby

19. Catch-22

20. Beloved

21. The Grapes of Wrath

22. Midnights Children

23. Brave New World

24. Mrs. Dalloway

25. Native Son

26. Democracy in America

27. On the Origin of Species

28. The Histories

29. The Social Contract

30. Das Kapital

31. The Prince

32. Confessions

33. Leviathan

34. The History of the Peloponnesian War

35. The Lord of the Rings

36. Winnie the Pooh

37. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

38. A Passage to India

39. On the Road

40. To Kill a mockingbird

41. The Holy Bible

42. A Clockwork Orange

43. Light In August

44. The Souls of Black Folk

45. Wide Sargasso Sea

46. Madame Bovary

47. Paradise Lost

48. Anna Karenia

49. Hamlet

50. King Lear

51. Othello

52. Sonnets

53. Leaves of Grass

54. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

55. Kim

56. Frankenstein

57. Song of Solomon

58. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest

59. For Whom the Bell Tolls

60. Slaughterhouse-five

61. Animal Farm

62. Lord of the Flies

63. In Cold Blood

64. The Golden Notebook

65. Remembrance of Things Past

66. The Big Sleep

67. As I Lay Dying

68. The Sun Also Rises

69. I, Claudius

70. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

71. Sons and Lovers

72. All The Kings Men

73. Go Tell It On the Mountain

74. Charlotte’s Web

75. Heart of Darkness

76. Night

77. Rabbit Run

78. The Age of Innocence

79. Portnoy’s Complaint

80. An American Tragedy

81. The Day of the Locust

82. Tropic of Cancer

83. The Maltese Falcon

84. His Dark materials

85. Death Comes for the Archbishop

86. The Interpretation of Dreams

87. The Education of Henry Adams

88. Quotations From Chairmen Mao

89. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature

90. Brideshead Revisited

91. Silent Spring

92. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

93. Lord Jim

94. Goodbye to all that

95. The Affluent Society

96. The Wind in the Willows

97. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

98. Eminent Victorians

99. The Color Purple

100. The Second World War

Oh and another list I found that I want to read also is the top 25 banned books... here is that list too!

#1 A Day No Pigs Would Die

#2 American Psycho

#3 And Tango Makes Three

#4 Annie on My Mind

#5 Bridge to Terabithia

#6 Candide

#7 Fallen Angels

#8 Fanny Hill

#9 Forever

#10 Frankenstein

#11 Harry Potter (The Entire Series)

#12 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

#13 Lady Chatterley's Lover

#14 Lord of the Flies

#15 Of Mice and Men

#16 Silas Marner

#17 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

#18 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

#19 The Arabian Nights

#20 The Catcher in the Rye

#21 The Chocolate War

#22 The Color Purple

#23 The Giver

#24 The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

#25 Ulysses

Gassolina

2009-12-20T10:39:00.000-08:00

So today i got up early to drive to surprise and pick up my friend Sarah so I could take her to the airport. I was so sleepy but she was buying me breakfast so it was worth it. I had to get gas so went to the nearest chevron thats right by my house. I pump the gas and sit in the car cuz its cold. When the gas is done pumping I get out and pull the handle to put it away only i was holding the gas pump handle down. I sprayed EVERYWHERE! luckily it mostly got on my car and the ground or so I thought. I got back in the car and other than feeling so stupid I was afraid from the fumes I would be making my baby stupid too! I thought ugh I am just going to roll the windows down and turn the hear up and breath into my arm...well i picked my right arm and took a big breath...ALL GAS! ugh it gagged me. I took my sweater off and wadded it up and threw it in the back. It didnt help too much because the whole car was a gas chamber. I finally made it to Olive and Citrus or the white tank mountains and the smell was still overwhelming if I didnt leave the windows down. Sarah hooked me up with a new sweater and a bag for the tainted one. This made the rest of the trip fabuloso but man it stunk at first!

lazy lunch turns messy

2009-12-14T23:08:00.000-08:00

SO i tried to be good and feed petyl yummy vggie and noodle soup so that she could get some vitamins in her and whatever...but I was a little lazy so instead of pulling up the high chair i let her sit and eat on the counter. WELL Petly will only eat the amazing veggies in the soup if i feed them to her with a cracker. SO as i am feeding her she asks for her drink which she still calls baba even tho it is a sippy cup. It was on the floor behind us i said ok dont move and i will get it. SHE then reached for the crackers on the other side of the full soup bowl. THEN...

That last pic here is after she tried to run thru..slipped and fell because she wanted to help clean so bad..so now her pants are off and she is "helping"

SOLD

2009-12-13T23:17:00.000-08:00

Yea I sold the business...uhm it was crazy and you need to have money and knowledge of the business world to keep up on those types of adventures but its okay we sold it on CRAIGSLIST! ha can you believe it Craigslist is amazing! but this awesome family came in and scooped it up and is going to be able to make IA so much better!

SO NOW i am a 23 year old prego, mom, and wife who has a bachlors and HAS owened a business..still sounds accomplished right! I am going to try and substitute now... which is scarry but might be good. I appled at Glendale and they said they needed people and would call me but i havent heard so i am going to call tomorrow..then my friend wants me to sub for her so i need to fill out the app for the Diosis of Phoenix. but who knows what will happen. I will keep you posted FO SHO!

GOOD NEWS about Trustan tho..he got in to his classes he wanted at GCC he was waitlisted on one and finally got in..which is awesom cuz its a good schedule even tho he is taking Chem and Bio at the same time..but that was his choice! CRAZY! I hated Science..so yea hopefully he does well cuz i cant help him with those classes at all. So yea next semester is going to be fun stuff!

Petyl is amazing as always..she loves the christmas lights on peoples houses and we taught her to look fo rthem and now when she cant see any she just yells MORE MORE MORE until we see more. but its so awesome!

Little bug in my belly is doing great too! I think i mean ight now its hard to say cuz i dont know much but i go to the doc again on the 23rd and that is so exciting! i think we might find out the sex..but i dont know for sure...I have started to feel little movements which make it so fun! I cant wait till my belly moves and then we can show petyl..she might not get it tho but oh well its still exciting!

So yea i guess that is the update for now I will write more SOON

BYE!

HEYYY

2009-10-21T14:51:00.000-07:00

So I am starting up the BLOG thing again because I missed it. So many of you may not know this but I a a new business owner. Imagination Avenue is my new adventure. It is located off the 51fwy and Shea. Not too far from Paradise Valley Mall. It is an indoor play center for kiddies 0-8 years old. We have lots of fun things to do so definitly if you have children in you life in any kind of way you should bring them in to check it out. here is our website www.imaginationavenue.us :) I am also starting a prescool program there. It will be for 3-5 year olds and is only 3 days a week for 2.5 hours. It is going to be perfect in preparing little ones for grade school and SUPER fun! I am excited to actually use my degree and I hope we get kiddos signed up! we only have 1 so far and I wont take more than 8 so if we can get at least 5 or 6 that would be beautiful! So if you know anyone looking for a great program TELL THEM TO CALL IMAGINATION AVENUE please :)

On another amazing note I AM PREGNANT! So miss petyl is going to be the big sis sometime this spring/summer ( i dont have an exact due date yet not that those are really exact anyways but yea i should on FRIDAY!)

So I am about 6 weeks prego and i feel like barf. but i havent actually done that so i guess that is good. but it is like CONSTANT nausa! and it is lame! i dont remember it being so constant when i was prego with Petly...hmm. Other than that i feel good. SUPER tired and that is annoying but still not too much to complain about.

We do have a name picked out if it's a girl..which according to shelly will be FOR SURE! So her name will be Hailo (no middle name yet). Boy names are harder..we are still thinking.

Im really excited and cannot wait to find out the sex. It is different this time..like I dont feel as weird as i was the first time. I mean i was so DYING to get prego the first time that i think once i was i assumed i had to get fat right away and wear maternity clothes so EVERYONE could know! I was just way too excited last time and now i feel more laid back about it and just like YAY! I still want everyone to know cuz it is a happy thing but u know what I mean i will not be CRAZY!

Ok well I will be back soon! BYE!

mm k

2009-07-01T16:52:00.000-07:00

so I havent posted in a century or so but my summer has been amazing! i love being home with the little monkey! but i have also needed to watch some other little monkeys for spending cash. So i started watching these twins Brooke and Bryce..the are soooo cute they are 8 weeks old and adorable! the boy has so much hair and snarls his face just right so i call him Elvis and the girl is just a lover and wants to be held.

WELL TODAY i watched the kidlets and petyl and it was CRAZY! they were both kinda fussy when i got there at 11 but i thought they would settle down and fall asleep soon enough..NO! instead they both were wanting me to hold them and this is quite hard..i finally got them both happy in a swing and bouncer thing but the pacifiers keeped popping out and the the screaming would start again. Petyl would walk between the two of them and then look at me like "Hello help them!" and then she just started crying for no reason just cuz they were crying! SO i decided i would get her settled in the high chair with some food and that would occupy her so i could get to the little ones. but then I BURNT THE CHICKEN NUGGETS and it all went down hill from there. She was so mad but the babies were SCREAMING! so i would hold one and calm him down and lay him down and grab sister but then he was crying again. PEtyl was crying cuz she was expecting food so i gave her bread cuz it was the most accessible and i tried to feed her some yogurt but it was too crazy. so i took petyl out of her chair and then she was just following me crying at my feet. Finally i picked up both babies and rocked them in the chair petyl was so upset she got on the couch and crawled on to me in the chair and they all cried as i rocked them and sang church songs. Finally they all calmed down and the babies were asleep. And the mom came home YAY! we must have looked so funny...it was crazy! but it all worked out..but man 8week old twins and a one year old is hard work

because i have way to much time on my hands now!

2009-05-12T11:53:00.000-07:00

Make a Smilebox photobook

3 FLUs over the rowlan nest

2009-04-17T21:28:00.000-07:00

EW! that is how i must start this post because let me tell u it is a horrendous one!

Day 1: Monday
I leave Trustan to watch Petyl while I go do this dance thing for Shelly. It was SUPPOSED to be an easy peasy evening. she was fed and in bed at 8:15. i left at 8:30. I go to the church and just when we are about to leave at 9:45 Trustan calls. "Petyl threw up everywhere in her crib." amazing so i get home petyl is in the bath Trustan had taken all her crib stuff out. I got Petyl out and back in some jams. she calmed down and went back to bed. 20 mins. later she is crying. I grab her out of the crib and snuggle her of course and mmMm i get covered in some amazing barf. so i take her in the other bathroom just so i can get undressed and clean her off again. we rocked in the chair for a while and sure enough she threw up twice more. she finally seemed more relaxed so i put her back in the crib and went to clean some of the mess. i checked on her 10 minutes later and she was passed out but there was a little more puke in her bed. I wiped it as quietly as possible covered her with a blanket and let her be.

Day 2: Tuesday
called in to school so I could clean everthing and make sure Missy was okay. the day was fine all good. 7pm tried to give her some real food...she didnt even eat a whole bite and she threw up all over the highchair. called the doc. doc. said there is a virus going around it lasts about 5 days. and that they usually get sick around the same time every night or may just have diarrhea. They said just do some pedialite and take it easy. they said to only offer her starchy foods like the rice and cereal stuff and milk or formula.

Day3: Wednesday
Petyl wakes up with blown out YELLOW nasty diaper. but she seemed fine. drop her off at gmas go to school. go get my nails done. come home. felt kinda...off all day. a little dizzy too. hmm. around 7 made petyl some cereal. she ate it seemed happy. almost ate half when she let a little burp out. hmm threw up everthing back in to the bowl. cleaned her up got her to bed. 10:30 i wake up PUKING! 11:30 puking some more. 12:30 trustan starts puking. 1 petyl wakes up with a dirty diaper. couldnt even complete the change ad to call in trustan so i could run to the bathroom. come back to relive trustan to also run to the bathroom. feed petyl put her to bed. she screams! take her down stairs to get the bottle. she pukes ALL over me. take her clothes off and bring her to trustan so i could get in the shower and clean/puke some more. when i get out trustan says "Aw our sick little family." EW! it is not Aw like how cute it is disgusting! we all lay in bed watchin Reno 911. 3am petyl goes back to sleep. trustan and i take turns getting up all night.

Day4: Thursday
we both call in for the day. trustan has a 104 degree temp and is shaking he is so cold. i can barely even care beause i feel like death. petyl wakes up at 8 and i feel a little better but can barely take care of her so i take her to Shelly's and stop at walgreens for some gatoraid and water. Trustans fever doesnt break until around 3pm. we have my dad go get petyl and my family watched her for the night.

Day5:Friday
again we stayed home. this was more of a recovery day. still not eating much BUT there has been NO PUKING! oh but p.s. shelly is now sick!

This is an awful disgusting thing the stomach flu and i wish it on nobody not even creepers or wierdos! i dont know how u avoid this type of thing but please do try!

Dr. Seuss Bday

2009-03-02T20:08:00.001-08:00

shelly brought up a good point today.....i imformed her of the birthday celebrations today heard from school room to school room and she said something to the effect...we can celebrate his birthday but not talk about Jesus. hmm i was thinking about this just now. and like okay so some may so oh relgion and school no good so that is why w dont speak of J.C. but then on the other hand many people do not celebrate birthdays and so this day could also be infrindging on someones belief...BUT if it is okay to celebrate birthdays at school then Christmas should be okey dokey cuz religious or not Jesus ad his birth are proven....

hmm so yea

those are my thoughts

oh and today is Marisa's bday too SO happy birthday to her!

briesons promt that i stole because i am bored and do not want to go to bed yet

2009-02-24T21:36:00.001-08:00

RED

I was walking home from school yesterday. It was a pretty warm day for February but the sun felt nice on my skin. It was the perfect kind of warmth that makes a person want summer to come. This however is all an illusion because no one really wants summer to come in Phoenix. I was suddenly torn away from my thinking when out of the corner of my eye I saw a boy drop something out of the passing vehicle. I wouldn't have given it a second thought but the dry wind blew it just into my path. I picked up the pace a little because that something really looked like something. It was a 100 dollar bill sticking awkwardly to the concrete ahead of me. I reached out to rescue it from it's wandering. I was very surprised and happily put the bill in my pocket and continued home. Once home I immediately took the bill out again except just in this moment it changed somehow. It happened so fast I am not sure I even ever had a bill in my pocket in the first place but at the same time I knew I did. The once bill now was a beautiful cardinal flying through my kitchen like a flash of fire in the sky. He must have been scared. I must admit I was a little shocked myself. This could not be happening. right? the bird flurried some more until he finally came to a rest on the edge of the counter I call the peninsula. I already thought things were strange...but I was wrong nothing was more strange that what happened in that next moment.

To be continued....

UGH!

2009-01-26T06:06:00.000-08:00

my husband yes shelly rowlan's son is at times.....retarded! so his wallet is missing..(a regular occurace in our lives) and instead of telling me this and finding it YESTERDAY we wait until 5:32 AM! when he is two minutes late already to then wake me up in hope that i some how can use my eye spy eye glass and tell him where it is located. well no i must tell you we did not find it and now he is off half way to mexico for work with no wallet. I love him but he is like i said just a little retarded..and there must be someone to blame...i blame Forest..it must be the Rowlans in some way and I assume that trustans life was very orderly before THE DOG. He being the oldest child and with such responsible character oh and with shelly as the mother and true insipration to his life it is obvious this disorder stems from another sorce. When that dog got thrown in the picture it brought in stress and confusion and this being in the adolesent onset years for trustans brain..he was permanetly dammaged!

in a side note i feel other Rowlans have been influnced as well see briesons blog "Oh mygosh i tune people out". anyways i guess i just want to know if you have seen the walet please let trustan know
THANKS

oh and stay away from Forest or he may affect you as well!

HEY HEY

2009-01-13T20:09:00.000-08:00

I have been so busy with school and stuff that I have had to put my blog on the back burner! i am so sorry my followers! So student teaching is going amazing! I love my school and the teacher! I have been missing my baby girl but it's goin okay....My resoultions are going pretty good! I have not been late one time! Petyls scrap book is in mind just not quite started..this weekend!!! hmmm last week i danced and walked/ran-ish (LOL) and this week I plan on going to LA fitness and takin my acount off of hold so I can do the classes! I have not started the book but really I have to journal for my class everyday so that is my max writting load so no worries cherly i will not start till May(this is your chance to push forward!!)

I didwant to write a warning for all you AMC Deer Valley 30 goers....you may want to start packin when you are up there! this weekend we wnt to see Bride Wars(oh so good!) and then we went down to Target to buy the Britney Spears CD(i kno it's a habit i cant kick!) and on ouay back we saw a woman-ish person walking down the strip wearing tights thatwere ripped and rolled down with her whole butt hangin out and a tube top shirt that i think she meant to be a dress just revealing everything and she was def. not in her right mind kickin her legs and uhm yea it was pretty scarry and she was a wreck! so just word to the wise BE CAREFULL up there!

HMM so yea all is good and I will try and write more...and have pics!

but yea I do have to say i am very VERY disaponted in BRIESON ROWLAN and his non blogging i mean his life is absoultly the same and with that new laptop we should be getting blogs by the hour...but have you seen any? NO! well i mean i sure havent! Maybe it is some kind of skeam! hmm we must all keep and eye out for that creepertin! but word to B... BLOG ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009

2009-01-01T22:22:00.000-08:00

In no type of order..here are my 2009 Resolutions-->
1. Scrap book and Journal PETYLs whole life including pregnancy(and our wedding and honeymoon!)
2. Run at least three times a week..and/or DANCE!
3. Graduate College!
4. Be ON TIME as much as possible
5. have a schedule and stick with it(see numero 4)
6. try something new....like painting(i really want to do this!)
7. decorate house...hangin pictures and the bedroom mostly!
8. write book..or start it at least!
9. get better at putting God first
10. spend more time with family

meet and greet and ENGAGEMENTS!!!!!!!!!

2009-01-01T22:07:00.000-08:00

so today like many other days i spent time with the Row-Clan get it HAHA anyways yes i was there and I got to meet Carissas new man in question Aaron or Aron or Erin or Airin or Ayerin hmm or some other way to spell his name and yes here is pic 1.....assuming there will be many other pictures...

anyways then a very exciting thing happened! the Engagement of Bri was announced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES i said it she is ENGAGED...well sorta

Shelly gave her the LOVE BOOK which is the key to love and marriage and within a year(actually i think the specific time frame was less..i remember something about 9..but i dont know what so we will go with within a year Bri will be married!!!

...so this book is the engagement because it's magic is so strong that Bri might miss the fun of being engaged so please take the time to congratulate her, throw her party's and stock her future kitchen with hand towels and toasters.

grades

2008-12-29T15:22:00.000-08:00

so my grades finally posted.... 4 A's a C and a B..I am a little disapointed cuz that C brought my GPA down to a 3.71 but oh well not too bad for taking 19 credits in a semester... Im glad it's over!

I met with my teacher for student teaching and she is way amazing.. I cant believe I start next monday! AHH! but it will be okay i am positve!

Downside...i think that I might have to make this blog private now tho that im going in the school....Schools dont like your personal buisnees floating around on the internet..so yea I will have to figure that all out but i will keep everyone posted do not worry!

what a week what a week!(yea it's long)

2008-12-25T20:55:00.000-08:00

Okay I am going to start back..way back..back at...Tuesday! mostly because I dont know what I did monday...........

Oh yea monday the girls from my class came over and we did an online orientation thing on skype...which is pretty cool..but ANYWAYS!

So Tuesday I had a nail appointment at 8am so I was to leave the house at 7:30 to be there on time...well I woke up at 7:25 and was like this AHHH! so i ran grabbed the monkey and flew all the way to 51st and Northern....just to arrive 5 minutes late and find out that my nail lady Leslie(who is amzing and I have gone to since 8th grade) had accidently overbooked and she already had a lady in the chair..a little bummed but sorta greatful that I didnt have to have Petyl sit there for an hour...I left and rescheduled for 1pm.

So with HOURS to kill I went to walgreens and to Michaels and then got a crazy urge to go to the mall. Baby in tow we made our way to Arrowhead..where beacuse of the early hour was pretty mellow. I just browsed for a while enjoing the chirstmas feel of the mall and then did I realize I HAVE A MERVINS GIFT CARD AND THEY ARE CLOSING SOON! So now having an actual purpose for the mall I picked up the pace...I got to the Mervins Peninsula of the mall and was HORRIFIED to see the gates were shut and the store empty....te lights however were on and with a little investigation(looking over the edge) I saw that the Down stairs was still open with a sign that said 2 DAYS LEFT. So I tried to make my way down there...now I say tried because I could not take the mervins elevator it being closed and then the mall elevator was closed and I didnt want to go in Dicks because I never been in there and was worried about where an elevator might be in that store so I opted for macys...well it took me like 10 minutes to find the macys elevator! that is crazy right! and brieson can vouch for this because during this excursion I called and woke him up..

anyways I finally made my way to mervins...and it was SOOO EMPTY! only like i would say 1/4 of the downstairs was even open and that was like very spread out racks of clothes and random items...it was crazy!!! at first I was discouraged and couldnt really see anything i wanted..but then the gift card inspired me and I got a dress, shirt, and two cardigan-ish sweaters for the classroom all for 26$ WOOT WOOT yeah it was exciting...

So then I went to get uncle B to go to Target and shop some more...and as I entered the neighboorhood I saw the must sad thing EVER! this poor mama dog with her chest like FULL of Milk was running around DRIPPING her milk all over..and ugh I wanted to help her but she looked kinda mean(and I mean I can relate....that wouldnt feel good) and I am sure she wanted her little puppies and ugh it was so sad I tried to call her and see if she would be happy but no she growled so i had to give up and drive away but it was SO sad

Then me Brieson Kambren and Petyl went to target and finished stocking presents there.....and I dropped the three of them back at the Rowlans and went to get my nails did.

That night we all went bowling and I must say I was ASTONISHED to see Brieson drinking a BEER! of all the rowlans he was the last one I would expect I cought him in the act..and you know he tried to hide it but I got pictures.....

no but for real bowling was way fun Petyl didnt like it so much I think it was just a tad over stimulating for her pretty head..and maybe the sleepyness was setting in too... OH ! and I also was going to say that I saw an ex boyfriend there which was weird..I wish trustan had been there!!! erg..but oh well it was still funny to see his face when he saw me HAHA!

anyways way we played one game and I took Kam home ...it was fun for me tho and now I want to go again!

Christmas Eve we went to church but it was so packed there was standing room only and the overflow room was liek crazy so weleft and didnt see service... I was real sad cuz that is my favorite service all year long and it just makes christmas to me...but I let that depresion disapear and enjoyed a night of movies games and food back at the Rowlans house. I went to bed that night still feelin bummed that we missed church and that I didnt talk to my parents(cuz we only saw them at church for a sec. and then I couldnt get a hold of them after and whatever..) and cuz trustan doesnt really like christmas ..or a lot of things...and it just didnt feel christmassssy and i was sad..i went to bed sad and felt dumb about it but i just did ya know.

Chirstmas morning I woke up happy and excited for the day I got miss Petyl up and we wrapped presents(well she ran in to my feet in her walker) and then we yelled at trustan to get movin and finally made it to the Rowlans. we opened presents and had cinnamin rolls and watched Elf....I got such amazing presents(finally a real cammera so I can take millions of pics of my lil nugget now!) and it was just a fun morning!

After we went over to my parents house and we opened presents and had turkey and some burnt rolls(a tradition with my mom LOL!)

then we watched a movie(which was lame..and really weird but my parents liked it LOL) then we played TABOO which is my FAVORITE game ever and I am AWESOME at it...we played for like an hour and a half it was so fun! but yea then we eventually packed up and headed home..

When we got home trustan told me he got me something(which he was anti this year especially) and told me where to find it....and I promissed not to tell anyone"(because it might display a softer side of my beastly man husband) but it was exactly what I wanted and so beautiful and romantical and yea

Today I think was the best Christmas I have had in ... I dont even know prolly ever I feel like I have the most amazng family the little three of us..the rowlan side and the young side...It's crazy like I have always felt like me and trustan were ment to be together like i just i dunno it's a long story ut i just truely feel like he was meant for me and me him...and the more our families get close i feel like it's even true that his family waswas meant for me...like each person brings out a diferent quality.. and i dunno this is gushy stuff i guess but i just.. I feel so blessed and couldnt ask for anything more!

Merry Christmas Everyone and Happy Birthday Jesus

Good night!

OH and P.S. My mom got me a bunch of clothes and stuff okay and she got me size 7 jeans and ya they fit my lil bootie so nice and i just had to share because size 7 jeans have not fin my bootie since I was a sophmore in high school WHAT WHAT!

Go breast milk-HAHA

HAIR HAIR HAIR

2008-12-19T07:51:00.000-08:00

So my bestie Sam is going to school for Cosmotology and has been for 7 months now she will graduate in May and she loves it! She goes to school monday thru friday from 8am until 4:30(except on thursdays she stays late). Then she rushes all the way to Anthem to work in a Salon with this crazy owner who treats Sam very poorly. She does not want to continue at the Salon but she feels she is out of options because of her school schedule.

I came up with a plan for Ms. Sam..but I need YOUR HELP! She needs to get her name around anyways so why not get out there....

She is willing to come to YOU in your house and cut color style anything for SOO CHEAP!

here is a list of some of her services....

shampoo cut - $8

shampoo cut blowdry- $9

color - $15

full highlights - $25

Sam is amazing at hair..yes she is still learning technique and things but she has done my hair and I love it! she also has many other refrences upon request.

I know there has been a couple hair cutting fiascos within my blog followies and I want to put a stop to this insanity! here is a nice amazing future Hair Wonder! waiting to make your dreams(with your hair) come true!

It could even be a gift for someone you know! Think about it a day of hair pampering for your dear granny or a hair party with all your friends

okay so the last part got a little cheesy but lets keep it real my friend sam does a great job for way cheep....and getting hair done is expensive! She is willing to come to your house and I also said my house is available. She does kids, guys and gals and will work around you.

finished!

2008-12-13T00:35:00.000-08:00

Wow I am done! i finished all the stupid assigments and I am done. ...And not just done for now i mean i am done with classroom classes..i mean i have student teaching but that is different... I AM DONE BEING A STUDENT(cross your fingers and please pray because there is one grade i am not so sure on!)..in the literal sense I feel you never stop learning but yea anyways

Tonight I went to a party for Alison(a girl in my cohort who is doing her student teaching in germany) she graduated today since she will not be here for graduation in May. It is so crazy! us girls have gone through so much! like to me it's crazy cuz growing up i always wanted to go away to university and join a sorrority or like have dorm friends etc....and i wanted to have all these girls and I would become like my best friends and we would all like get our degrees and then meet the perfect guy and all be in eachothers weddings and yea blah blah blah.

Well when I met Trustan my whole life plan changed and I decided I did want a young family etc and I just never thought I would have the college experience in my head. And then I met these 7 amazing ladys (bobbie will always be apart of the cohort!) and I know we will all go our own way but some of us will keep in touch and it will be amazing. I really didnt think I cared about finishing school..and i just felt like whatever but it really is awesome when you acomplish something and even more awesome when you have a group of women all acomplishing it together! it's crazy! so crazy

I will miss everyone so much!

Petyl's blog

2008-12-09T12:03:00.000-08:00

so my kid up and started a blog behind my back........so u should prolly check it out

I HATE HATE HATE HATE SCHOOL!

2008-12-07T21:30:00.000-08:00

ugh!
so i have one more stupid week of classes and I want to QUIT!i mean right now at this verymoment i do not care what my grade is i will take it and go......

Assigments to be done...
Monday: Moc Interview(that was not on sylabis!) with up to date resume. Also Practicum Portfolio(my in the classroom stuff from this semester)
Tuesday: Literacy Final(online...so big waste of time yes!). Post my 2 book shares on Vista(the stupid NAU online thing for ONLINE CLASSES even tho this is a real class i am taking....i still have to post online...ugh so LAME!)
Wednesday:Spanish Final. Spanish Composition. Spanish Exam make up(possibly..).
Thursday: Social Studies Lesson Plan due and present ALSO! Special Ed Final (have no idea what it is!). Special Ed. Assessment Assigment.
Friday: 8-10 page Latin Humanities Paper that i havent started yet and do not know what to write on and think is so SO SOOOOO stupid along with the teacher! Taskstream review for Practicum.

so yes one might think of just start on this crud and get it going BUT I CANT! i do not know what is wrong with me my brain is broken! and really i just could care less.....really i am only worried about the Essay i have to write on Latin America...I choose the topic of women/catholic church/mexico(long story but i had to be SPECIFIC when choosing so this is what came about) I wrote a stupid ABSTRACT for it and the input my teacher gave me just confused me

here is my abstract cuz i want u to se how stupid it is

"Christianity is a religion where people are supposed to love the sinners of the world this does not mean they are to condone the sin. In today’s society people are becoming more and more liberal in their thinking. This on its own may have some very important contributions however from a religious perspective one must stick to their morals. The Catholic Church is not discriminatory or inconsiderate when standing up for issues that directly show their beliefs. Women have specific roles and purposes within the church. The women that feel their rights are in question are women living for a society of today not a society of Christ. The Catholic Church should not change their moral position in order to fit in with a society of today."

My teacher wrote that writing about religion is fine but that i need to focus more on ideas,values and cultural perspective. I dont really know what she means and ugh so yea i suck! so now i am confused....procrastinating and about to cry cuz i am a baby and just do not want to do it!

so instead of dealing with this now at 10:42pm i am going to make trustans lunch and go to bed! WOW i am amazing right!

okay this was all a ventful post so I hope you liked it k bye

no...not some crazy drugs....

2008-12-06T15:34:00.001-08:00

Yes, i know this picture must look like I was participating in some crazy drug party but i must tell u this is not the case. You see really I was just participating in some amazing natural ear candeling. You see my friend Sam had an ear ache and I told her about these ear candles i had seen my mom do before and then we were off! So on the way back from costco we stopped at the local HiHealth and bought some ear candles and ear oil. Then that night around 11pm we started! i did sams first and oh man they were amazing! i accedently cut the candle a little to close and flung burning paper on to sams head!.....but no worries blew that bad boy off and no harm was done! then sam did my ears and voilla we were wax free!

the following night happened to be A Christmas Story night at the Rowlan home. I preceded to tell them the adventure and it seemed to all start again. Stacey this time was off to the local HiHelath and I began candeling away. First I did Brieson (cuz i think shelly was a little skeptical!) then i did shelly. Both of them are now cured of there wax! Shelly can even hear out of a non-hearable ear!!!! maybe this will help her singing voice for the recital huh Tausha!....not that she needs any help!!!

Anyways today I finished off our box of ear candles with my hubby Trustan...also a skeptical Rowaln. he believes it really doesnt do anything and the smoke makes all the gorgeous waxy chunks form in the candle.

maybe you should check it out and write your opinion!

this last picture is my own personal ear waxed candle....thought you might like to take a peek!

also note that my writing today was in a nice ear waxy yellow for youto get the full affect!

if the diaper feels full.....dont push it against you..

2008-11-30T22:44:00.000-08:00

SO! saturday or sabado whichever language u prefer it was a plan to go to michaels to get petyl a stocking and decorate it etc. then i was to go to target and get the rest of the christmas stuff i needed and then to frys for salsa stuff!!!!! so i picked up brieson and was suddenly hit with a hugemongous headache like ugh it was like death! and we got to michaels and went in and i was just carrying PJ cuz i thought this would be best and as we walked in to the store i was like "hmm petyls diaper seems full" i though i will just change it before we go into target and then i was distracted by the stocking choices i was going to make when i felt a squish...looked down to see i was now covered in beautiful Pea and Oatmeal POOP! and so was my little nugget! so we had to abort mission and head to the car. Now the situation was so out of control for a minute iwas not sure what to do. We opened the passenger door and bega to assess petyl (the priority at the moment) we carefully slipped her out of her clothing and wiped her down. i shuffld through the diaper bag and found some sweats and a lil hoodie for her. she was good to go and brieson held her while i then had to wipe myself down and gather the poop smeared articles. We then ran into target and i had to buy a shirt. ( now i know most would probably abort the whole mission and go home BUT i truely think it would have been more work to leave the store and attempt to doit again nother time! so i bought a white shirt and changed in the bathroom at target and we went along with our plan....we just left out the michaels because i didnt want to go back in there. IT was a pretty amazing mission and i am sad u missed it!

SALSA TIME!

2008-11-29T09:43:00.001-08:00

So Brieson and I are going to be whipping up some of my famous Young Family Salsa

- Salsa de Joven -

We plan on bottling it up and selling it out(free samples will be available...dont buy it till u try it!)

it would be a great gift or side dish during these wonderful holidays

SO i will be posting more of the who what where when why and how later today

Tara McMurdie!

2008-11-29T09:33:00.000-08:00

ATTENTION ATTENTION

SO TARA i was going through my junk email and deleting like crazy as usual when one of the 152 emails caught my eye....i saw ur name Tara McMurdie BUT before i could stop the compulsive deleting it was to late ur email was lost forever! u cannot undelete junk mail on hotmail! this is just not allowed i guess.... SO if you could please resend that..SORRY!

In other news ....

Turkey Day was BEAUTIFUL! uhm i love food! and today we are having turkey number two at my familys house so i am excited!

I will post more later with pics of this fabuloso weekend

HASTA

arrivals,crafts and twilight!

2008-11-23T20:56:00.000-08:00

So this week has been pretty good good!

I got SOO much homework done and think i am finally on track..two more weeks(thats what i keep telling myself)!

wednesday my friend Sarah popped out her lil man Skyler he was 6lbs 15.5oz and 21in long and oh so HARRY! haha

Thursday both of my classes got canceled so that was pretty amazing that i didnt have to go to school!

Friday auntie Carissa came home and lil PJ was oh so excited!

Saturday was craft day at shellys church and carissa and i made these amazing magnetic boards and tiles and they trned out beautiful(which reminds me that we have to make the other one for grandma rowlan(or maybe it was grandma ellis?) but yea we should make it and i want to make one for my mom...a CAT one! hahha(u had tobe there hahaaa)

Sat night we went and saw twilight at AMC 30 and it was ehh....it was good. I mean I LOVE LOVE the books and so really nothing can compare with ones own mind but still it was pretty good! there was some cheesy lines and effects but it was still okay... i just will never forget when edward said, "hold on tight you little spider monkey" HHHAHAHAA so lame but now my favorite hahaha

OH but the preview before the movie for The Unborn ahh that looks so scary! i was like creeped out after that

So Sunday(today) trustan woke me up and said to make pancakes...so i showered and went to work on some chocolate chip pancakes

(just in case you need tips for chocolate chip pancakes see video)
for my spoiled husband just to go back up stairs to find him sleeping! ugh but he came and ate and then i got ready for church and then we were too late(well trustan was like not ready at all and my hair was still wet) so we didnt go! and i was erked at that but yea so then i did the laundry and read some of my book and Petyl by the way was sleeping this WHOLE time. she had woken up at 7 to eat and then sleept untill NOON when i went in there and woke her lil bootie up.

then we went over to my parents house and practiced some crawling exercises and then came home and I made some cookies.

Then I made some veggies for dinner at the rowlans which i was worried about because it was just randomness from the fridge BUT! i must say when we went to dinner they were pretty good!

so yea we hug out at the rowlans and ate and talked and laughed way to much(i swear everytime we all get together for dinner it is so hard to eat because i laugh so much and then water and food almost comes flying out my nose and mouth every second! it is pretty dangerous!)

and now the babies are sleeping and i am up writing a blog about nothing

so now i am off to attempt to finish the last twilight book

LATES

feeding baby fun

2008-11-14T21:53:00.000-08:00

so first of all(i think i say this a lot ...i like to start that way i guess..it can be my trade mark!)

Anyways

So first of all I must appologize because i feel i have not given a great post lately....i mean an amazing thought out post..they have been pretty thrown together and lame so i must assure you this one will be interesting and yea okay but it is long...

INTRO

As a first time mamacita i have been learning SO much. it is so amazing and rewarding to know that i am taking care of this beautiful little nugget..but it is also SO SO SO scarry sometimes to think of all these things I have to do and DO RIGHT! ugh so with the feeding thing I really tried to listen and learn and learn and learn..

breastfeeding... I was so set on doing this I really wanted to be able to give that if nothing else to Petyl. i think that if possible it is best and now after 6 months of doing it i feel even stronger about it. sometimes i am not gonna lie your mind wanders and your like oh man those things are like doing something and you feel crazy for a minute (and like when your beautiful little nugget looks over and smiles...not at you..but at THEM..you really feel crazy!) but then you feel good like God's purpose is in action and that is awesome!

*side note- i went to this breatfeeding clinic once and there was this poster that had a mother feeding her baby and then all around her were different animals feeding there babies and it said something like "you cant get more natural than this" and i admit i kinda laughed cuz it's soo cheesy right but i mean it is true it is how God made us and there is nothing weird about it...

**side note 2-i must say tho i do think it is weird to just whip it out and do the buisness without no cover or anything i mean yea no

THE NEXT STEP(getting ready for cereal)

so then after i feel i mastered that last concept i felt safe and secure....and scared to move on LOL i really wanted to do things right i didnt want to rush my little girl for selfish reasons(so that i can sleep through the night) or give her allergies or whatever all those people tell you ya know. So i waited...i asked the doc. and waited some more. I listend to all his signs to look for and waited for ALL of them - the interest in food, the putting everythin in mouth, the drooling, the sitting up, sitting up reaching out and not falling over....then when she was sitting up and sneezed without falling over(and about to be 6 months old [TODAY SHE IS!]) i dived right in.....well sort of... I told Trustan today was the day and we were going to do it. I took all that doc advice and passed it on to him to go to the store "get some rice cereal and some infant juice because you mix the juice instead of breast milk because in order for iron to absorb the body needs Vit. C" so the now informed papa went to buy the goods(and call me when he got there so i could reiterate all the requirements).

LETS TRY IT(eating cereal!!!)

then that night when he returned we made a family diner date for petyl and got started. I read the little cylindar thing of rice(which trustan spent and extra $4 on for the DHA- he called it the supper brain cereal). I read and read and could not find any directions of how one goes about this. it ust said to mix in to desired consitancy. Now i do have common sense so i went with that and we just made a little bit and pretty runny for the first expiremental stage.

so yea she tried it and made crazy faces and was so stinkin cute and yes it was amazing!

day one....hmm i dunno bout this stuff

day 2 - still thinking

what do you think...AHHH

happy girl - give me more!

STILL SCARED!-Research Mode

so tonight was day 4 on rice cereal and little bug has jumped on board very quickly SHE LOVES IT! so then i was still worried well how much do we feed this beast? how often? then what do we do? so with all these questions running through my head i laid little girl down and ran for the internet search engine! i have looked at everything and i mean EVERYTHING. i first went to just the gerber website..and then the parenting magazine website and then i found the American Academy of Pediatrics website

but my favorite which i found most helpful and most useable was this http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ I was actually looking for like a chart to go by on what and when baby should eat but they just have so much on here!

THE PLAN

So after reading through and thoughts i have had for a long time about feeding little beauty i really have concluded i want to try and give the most natural and organicness to her. that website had all these little recipes for baby food and what the veggie or fruit does for them and all that but as i was reading (and taking notes...lots of notes!) i began to realize that some of these things i am just not going to do...for example the squash recipe....

1. Cut acorn, hubbard, or butternut squash in half, scoop out seeds2. Place an inch of water in a baking pan, then place squash halves "face" down in the pan. Check on water level while baking3. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 40 minutes or until the “shell/skin” puckers and halves feel soft then scoop squash “meat” out of the shell4. Place squash "meat" into your choice of appliance for pureeing and begin pureeing. 5. Add water as necessary to achieve a smooth, thin consistency.6. You can also peel the squash, scoop out the seeds and then cut into chunks and boil/steam until tender (like when boiling potatoes for mashed potatoes) then follow steps 4 and 5

im not going to bake something for 40 minutes just to mush it up and feed the lil one. i know i just wont do that. so from reading i found there are these organic baby foods now too.... i am going to do my best to give petyl organic...and as much like fresh things as realisticaly possible. I have a little baby food masher thing to try and make as much at home as i can. I just want to give the best i can ya know

EXCITED! and scared still LOL- am i a crazy mom

i dont know i am just excited like SO excited to have took all this in and learned. Like i think before i was just so uneducated on the topic and i felt like unconfident but i feel better now i feel ready to do this LOL!

there is one more thing tho that makes me nervous...AM I A CRAZY MOM? i mean do all moms start out excited and like gung ho about being healthy and then in 5 years am I just going to be throwing french frys at my babies?? I would like to think that I try and keep this healthy ness going i feel that I am pretty healthy (aside from my need for baked goods) and I dont think there is anything wrong with a french fry here and there....but am i just crazy do i got it all wrong is my plan...CRAZY?

FOLLOWERS

ugh i know i dont really blog for weeks and then i lay down another big mama but give me advice or just commentary thoughts(brieson) and yea i will appreciate it much!

dominos online delivery

2008-11-08T20:20:00.000-08:00

So right now I was like hey i want pizza and i do not even care i want it NOW! so i went to dominos.com to do the online ordering cuz that is easier than having to talk to anyone! but yea so i placed my order and this thing poped up on my screen . it is called the dominos pizza tracker...see picture

so what this nifty contraption does is it tells you every detail of the making of your pizza. and the time so like underneath the thing would say YOU GOT IT ON THE WAY: Angela put your order in the oven at 9:05PM.... it is kinda hard to explain but anyways then it came on and said our pizza was being dilevered by Fatmire and that name made me laugh but then a cute old man came and i felt bad for laughing but anyways the pizza was AMAZING and you must order online from them so you can experience the amazing pizza tracker THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT

whew it has been a while

2008-11-06T21:30:00.000-08:00

i guess not many exciting things have happened lately..this is sad!

I did get my hair cut and collored by my amazing amiga Sam..you can find more information about her life at http://www.samanthatrenkle.blogspot.com/. Anyways i turned out soo good and i love love love it!

I skipped school for like two weeks so i could do homework this was exciting and i am pretty much cought up now i just need to get ahead..the goal for the weekend!

In the classroom things have been crazy as usual. i think i am getting used to all the little monsters in there..i really feel bad for them because they really cannot learn that much when they havent been given the tools to know how to learn in class...ya know. like the teacher needs to lay it down and never did so theyre crazy. I had a little moment in my head on wednesday when they ere getting lined up for lunch. I looked at the wild beasts in line and thought 'i can do this...and i can do it better...' this made me excited. excited for a classroom of my own to turn little beasts in to well behaved educated little beasts lol. it was a good moment!

big news for the new job i was working....i got fired! well i mean not really fired our schedules just didnt work so much and ugh i am relieved. i mean i didnt want to turn in down cuz the extra money would be nice but it is SOOOO far! and i just wasnt into it ya know! so this is better. i will just pick up hours now and then until student teaching and it will work out.

well this is all for now... a borin update i know and i appologize i will try and find something exciting to write about soon! but now that i gave my self bed time(for 10:30pm) i must go and sleep! so good night.

oh and YAY for prop 102!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

google shmoogle!

2008-10-31T21:35:00.000-07:00

first of all HALLOWEEN IS LAME now...or just people are i dunno we only had 2 trick or treaters! and i missed them both! that is so stupid but yea! anyways that is not the reason for my post. but i guess it did lead to it ..you see i was pretty bored waiting for lil princess' and monsters that never came so after laying petyl down i was called to the computer like i usually am. nothing real intersting to look at so i decided to google my name. First of all when i googled my maiden name Christine Young all that comes up is a 19 year old canadian porn star. nothing on the real me. Then i googled Christine Rowlan and you know what came up first. BRIESONS BLOG! and then after that it tries to find Christine RowlanD but that is not me so i dont care. then when i scroll down a few i finaly see me on a face book link. but get this it is all in German. I know because there was a "translate this" button and i clicked it and it translated to english and it was my face book. isnt that strange....why does y facebook come up german? weird!

anyways that is all for now. I am going to read my twilight book whichever one it is.....buenas noches or good night

THE ROWLAN

2008-10-30T23:49:00.000-07:00

Now I cam across this book about different families. a girl read it in class. and there are any mixed families, biracial, single parent, adopted etc. there was one completly caucasian family in the whole book. and whos family do you think it was???

its the ROWLANS! even forest is in this dang picture! I couldnt believe it. I would have shaed sooner but until recently my only two folowers were Brieson and Shelly and now I have 9 people(THANK YOU FOR JUMPING ON BOARD!) anyways i know that well all of you are either from the Rowlans or know them and can agree that this is their family.

I mean i did find a few errors that make the pic slightly unaccurate.

1-trustan would never have hair that long

2-brieson is younger than carissa

3 carissa is not a twin.

but really if you switched the boy and girl around it is a perfect match!

a little deep

2008-10-29T23:32:00.001-07:00

so there is this video and it is soo good everytime i watch it i get chills it is very visual i guess ! just wanted to share

the classroom from HECK!

2008-10-29T21:08:00.001-07:00

it's a long one!

Backround:

So in case no one knew I am a student at NAU distance learning at PVCC. I am going to school for Early Childhood Education which will enable me to teach preschool through 3rd grade. Each semester we have been required to do 45 observation hours in a classroom. We call this the "practicum". I am in my last semester of classess and starting in January I will begin student teaching (which is where i am actually like the teacher and she/he just watches me and helps etc..)

I really do love going in the classroom. It makes me feel like okay i do want to do this still! it makes writing essays and going to class all worth it. As soon as i hit the front office i get excited. Like the smell of playground sand puts me at ease. I feel at home and I really truely cannot wait to have my own class one day. HOWEVER, I know it will not always be easy and scary classrooms remind me of that!

Present:

So I started my practicum yesterday for this semester(i am somewhat of a procrstinator on these things..so i have to do 45 hours by Dec. 5) I was only in the classroom with students yesterday for an hour and then i did all my interview stuff with the teacher during prep. In just that hour I observed that this class did not have a very firm classroom managment plan in place. At one point the teacher was running after two students barking "if you want your jelly bean you better be good"

Today:

I was a little worried but excited because I always get excited when I go in the classroom! So today I started off again. I was determined to be positive and learn as much as I could! ugh but this class is CRAZY! so the teacher has centers (which i think are soo good for learning) but they were either not functioning or what i feel as developmentally inapropriate.

The listening center didnt work yet the teacher rotated kids there anyways. So i went to investigate all the tangled cords and headphones. I got everything back in order and the kids were on task.

Then I went to check out the writing center. Which was students sitting on the carpet writing their site words on white boards..none of them were really doing it or at least they didnt fully understand what they were writing.

Then the Individual work center caught my attention. The students were to fill in these little boxed letter spaces with the correct words...i dont know how to explain it unless i show you so here is a pic....do not laugh i made it in Paint! So anyways the idea was to fit the correct words in the boxes and then match with the pictures. I DO NOT THINK KINDERGARTE SHOULD BE DOING THIS! i mean most of them didn't understand that it actually made words they were just trying to fill in the boxes and draw lines. and the other half would just sit there and be like "I dunno". The teacher even looked up and said to me that if it's to hard they can flip the page and just color. BUT! when she had explained the centers to everyone she said "(AND I QUOTE!) The individual work center is for all my SMART students to do" I swear she said that so what am i suposed to say "oh dont worry kid i know you cant do it it's only for the smart students." NO! So I turned individual work in to a small group and we knocked it out..sorta.

So each time the centers were to switch I would go get the listening center up and running and then i would go to the individual work center to help them. It was kinda stressful and I havent even got to the good stuff yet!

So think back to my first visit yesterday when te teacher was running screamin about jelly beans. Well there are two students on individual contracts to help them with their discipline throughout the day(which is why they get jelly beans(I still do not think this is good but whatever..)if it worked great BUT IT DOES NOT!) so anyways these two are very cute and smart children BUT OMG do they need some discipline BADDDLY! so of course during math I am sat at a table with the two lovely boys wo are crazy and these two girls who really are okay just a little slower at the math. but all together itwas awful! they were all feeding off of eachother and it was whole group math so even though i was sitting with them it was suposed to be the teacher teaching. One boy sitting with the group was refusing to do his work. When I asked him to "show me how you can color in 5 red fish" he told me "NO, I am not doing it." Then I said that he had to do it or woud lose free time and he told me "You're not the boss of me" he also threw in that "I hate you" and proceded to throw his rubber braclet at my HEAD! so as you can see this was going so wonderful! the teacher came over to check on everyone and the girls were kind of making it through and she seemed to almost not even notice how bad the boys were being. I was a little overwhelmed mostly because it is hard when your just the helper and you dont really know where your line is in disciplining the students. UGH so i tried a few things and he eventually got up and was standing behind the teacher playing with her papers and acting out.

After math it was time for lunch.... WHEW!

I went to shellys to have lunch and break with Petyl. It did recharge me a little bit...

When I came back to school the kids were coming in from their specials and the boy(who hated me) came up and gave me a big sweaty hug....now you have to know i was thinking BIPOLAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ugh whatever so they did there story and fun centers (again with the boy running to all different centers and the other boy crying in the middle of the room fo like 5 minutes before being taken to another classroom) then at the end during clean up uhm the boy that hates and loves me RAN i mean RAN out of the classroom! I didnt even see him but the teacher all of a sudden ran after him. Then the boy for the rest of the day continued to be crazy throwing his shoes getting up and moving a table in the middle of circle....it was WILD!

Now after this whole experience you have to be wondering about this teacher....she told me she has been a teacher for 12 years. And i knew this was in no way possible i mean if that had been happening for 12 years she would be dead literally. Turns out it is her second year in the classroom she had been a resource teacher so basically she dd a lot of one on one all day.

It really gave me a great visual of why building classroom managment is the most important thing and that it must be done right in the begining. I really feel for the teacher because she has good ideas and she is trying but failing horribly on the discipline end. I do look forward to going back just because it is always good to learn what not to do! but i must say i am a little nervous about bipolar boy....

hopefully one day i will be like Harry Wong(like the king of classroom managment) and this will never be an issue

a cute story about the day to end on:

a little girl came up to me and asked "are you a teacher or a mommy or a kid?"

I said, "Well I am going to be a teacher and I am a mommy too"

and she said "Oh I thought you were a kid."

Then all the other ones around me started whispering "Oh shes a mommy" and

another girl said "do you have a boyfriend"

I said, "Nope i have a husband tho."

then another girl asked "do you have a boy or a girl?"

"girl"

"what is her name"

"Petyl"

"Pedal is what you do on a bike!"

"No her name is petyl like a flower PETAL"

"OHHH, okay"

they were all SOO cute even Bipolar! I LOVE KIDS! even when they're crazy.....

correction correction

2008-10-28T23:35:00.000-07:00

like 1000 posts ago mis-spelled in a thank you and that i not acceptable. I mean i always mis-spell but not in a thank you so....

THANK YOU BRIANNON OVERFIELD FOR FOLLOWING MY BLOG!

sorry

p.s. you can have my pumpkins (i have 4)

oh and p.s.s trustan wants Caseys number but thinks he has an old one or something...you should tell im to call trustan

THE PREFORMANCE!

2008-10-28T21:53:00.000-07:00

so last night Sam and I again took a chance at the community center dance class...this time we brought reinforcments..well we brought Brieson. Who actually knows the teacher and danced with her in the Hello Dolly Play! she was so excited to see him! anyways class was whatever. we rocked the dance for sure! even Brieson said so!but brieson was taking so many pictures and we kept laughing it was no good! i had to tell him no more pictures it was to crazy! then we did the most easiest lame dance in forever so really we gotta find something BETTER! but yea Brieson did take some...b4 dance class and some during and they did turn out pretty amazing! and i just thought i should share them with you all.

FOR TARA

2008-10-28T21:45:00.000-07:00

Please become a follower to Tara McMurdies blog... because if you think I am amazing you will think she is too!

Gracias and Adios

pumpkin patch pictures!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-10-28T21:29:00.001-07:00

I dont know what tagging is but i wanted to do this so i am!

2008-10-26T23:41:00.000-07:00

MY 8 Favorite TV Shows: gossip girl, greys anatomy, private practice, desperate housewives, the real world, realworld/roadrules challenge, Jon and Kate plus 8, and The rock of love shows(including the charm school and I love money)

MY 8 Favorite Place to Eat: olive garden, macayos, chilis, cheescake factory, pei wei, nothing but noodles, paradise bakery, and peter piper pizza

8 Things That Happened Just Yesterday: I shaved Trustans head with the clippers, I started an amazing family tradition at Tolmachoff Farms Pumpkin Patch, I ate lunch at Johnny Rockets, Sarah and Elmo came over with Sierra, I bought amazing brown teacher shoes at Kohls, I made cookies with Sam, I went to Taco bell with Sam, I was up every 1.5 hours to feed petyl

8 Things I am Looking Forward To: Making cookies again(well eating them), Thanksgiving, Petyl eating real food, Petyl sleeping through the night, Getting done with this lame semester, Graduating from NAU!, Teaching in the classroom(even though that scares me too!), Making the backyard cute

8 Things on MY wish list: MAC make up, a new cell phone, a digital picture camera, more teacher clothes..or just clothes in general, a new cookie sheet(and other kitchen stuff), an amazing and cheep Jazz class, a flat screen for the living room, and the big one the one day what i want is an amazing new Tahoe or other hot mom mobile...and i want it to run on water or something too!

lil punkin

2008-10-26T00:14:00.000-07:00

So today was the day I started my first family tradition! I got the Rowlans and the Youngs and we all went to the Tolmachoff Farms Pumpkin Patch! It was the first big family outing and it was...well it could have been more amazing .. i think for ages 2-8 but if ou want family traditions they have to start sometime right?! anyways so there was a corn maze that kicked our butts and some pumkins laying in grass pretending to be a pumpkin patch(which if you didnt know they do not grow that way!(i didnt know this until shelly and brieson informed me))anyways it was way worth it because check out these amazing pictures of MY little pumpkin

i must say thank you

2008-10-23T13:34:00.000-07:00

Mr Brieson you have truely helped me out! i have gained a follower!!! you must have scared people with your mean face or maybe the "rock" star new hair du(i almost wrote dew...i dont know how to spell hahah)!anyways oh yes this has made my day

Brianna Overfield I welcome you!

and p.s. SAM get on board this is the whole reason i made you start a blog so you could follow mine..im following yours now return the favor!

http://www.blogger.com/www.samanthatrenkle.blogspot.com

if any of your crazy followers want to know more about the crazy life of cosmotology school and my best friend then you must follow the blog above....Brieson and Shelly... i am talking to you here!

fatty

2008-10-22T23:22:00.000-07:00

So today i babysat mr carson and it was fun we went to the park and it was nice out so that was amzing. but it was a little windy and i swear everyone planting there winter grass left a distinct poo-ish smell in the air. hmm anyways then i took petyl on the swing and she LOVED it she was laughin and watching carson swing and she was squeling it was so fun it made my day! when we got back from the park petyl smelled funny like the poo-ish air had tainted her! so we gave her a cute little bath and then she took a THREE hour nap she crashed out on Carsons bed...she always sleeps good over there because it is dark quiet and cool in his room and it's way away from everything so she goes like in to deep sleep. but anyways then i made carson lunch and i started to get SOO hungry! but i was hungry for olive garden breadsticks! to try and feed this cravin i began to eat EVERYTHING in sight! some of carsons corn dog, easy mac alfredo thng, a sugar cookie, a piece of bread with butter, some peaches(also from carsons lunch) an oatmeal cream cookie, some almonds and some chocolate covered rasins...all of this to satisfy those amazing breadsticks which can only be done by eating amazing breadsticks! It was horrible!!i was soo full and unsatisfied it was awful and now i just have to get some BREADSTICKS!

bailamos - we dance

2008-10-20T20:57:00.000-07:00

tonight we(sam and I) took the jazz class at the commuity center and listen we were excited. and a little scared cuz it has been a while ya know. So we arived, first in the class and alone with the teacher, she looked like an old classy balerina. this made me a little more scared for about 3 more minutes. So then the rest of the class filed in,you could tell they all thought they were amazing which is fine i think i am amazing too( never as amazing as the oh so great shelly rowlan but with the commeners i feel much more confident) but they were kinda rude like oh you guys are starting late, we already learned a whole dance you will have to learn it all....but then we began.

I was really looking forward to an amazing choreographed stretch but no there was none of that just a few leg stretches on the wall. then we did some turns and kicks.... there was this girl in there with my same name(how convienant!) and when the teacher had us line up she was all "I always go first, i dont care i like to" oh boy she was no good it was kinda sad but whatever we even did chaseys across the floor 8 times....it is like the most basic thing...i mean she could have thrown in a chasey leap but no...no leapage tonight :(

so yea then we moved on to the dance(which they have been practicing for 6 weeks) so i was a little worried this is there dance next week is the las class and so it should be pretty much complete right....well we start and it was so BORING. it was like to this song that sounded like a battle song from star wars and all we did was kick kick pivit chasey 3 chaneys and then pose. then chasey fan kick chaney chaney pique pose clap then some weird gypsy thing that didnt match anything then an end group pose. sam and i learned the whole dance tonight and the teacher kept looking at us ithink she was like oh they can dance and maybe she got excited ran home and is making amazing dance things for us to do next week...we will see! The other girls i think came down from there pedistals as well asking us if we had danced before and they were all pretty nice...except the weird girl who shares my name! but yea the rest were chill so yea

In conclusion I gotta say the whole ordeal just left me disatisfied! it was like when you feel like you're going to sneeze and then you start working one out and then all of a sudden it disapears and you feel like ugh i just want to sneeze. thats how it felt but for me it was like ugh I JUST WANT TO DANCE! i mean it was fun jut to be doing SOMETHING but this was not the jazz dance i love and am used to. oh well i just think it was for super beginers. so i am still on the search for an amazing dance class....like Erin's at PVCC. next semester i think i will for sure be taking that one....but i will be student teaching UGH i dunno ......... i need to DANCE!

radom thought expanded

2008-10-16T00:57:00.000-07:00

So our little neighbr girl has a new man in her life and i do not like him. i mean i dont know him but i dont like him. Today, like many other days, he was sitting in front of their house jammin out to some rap music. which whatever but he was sitting out there from approximentally 2pm(could have been as early as 1 but the exact arrival time is unkonwn) until after 8pm! now normally i may see these and think 'wow what a loser' but then i would go on with my life. Today was a differnt kind of day! the lil child of mine decided to pass out around 6pm and i felt a nap creepin in. since this is not a normal occurance these days i took advantage and ran to the bedroom. as i drifted in and out of sleep i realized there was a distinct vibration waking me each time. Since this was definitly affecting my nap i gave up and sluggishly went down stairs. sitting at the table defeated I realized the vibrating of our entire house was coming from the stupid boyfriends car! I snuck to the gate so i could peek. sure enough my theory was confirmed when i saw him. he was still out there! what a lame-o the girl wasnt even with him. i tried to think of a way to get him to leave without getting involved...it occured to me that Shellys flame throwes would have come in handy at a time like this. then soon after to my surprise the vibrating ceased and thr boy was gone. i will keep you updated on these sightings but in the meanwhile could some one please find me the loitering law and see if it applys in this sinario.

Que Picaro!

2008-10-16T00:41:00.000-07:00

which means what a rascal! (but you need asento things on top of the e and i)

but whatever the point here is that i just did 2 hours of spanish because i am a procrastinista and everything is due tomorrow...i still have two speaking actividades but i am skipping out on that for ahora(now) ugh i wish i was just fluent and it was just a natural thing ya know like oh i have brown eyes is a natural thing....i could just be like bam Hablo espanol. but well i dont so much so it is LOTS of work!

and u wanna here the most amazing part of this random tale.

while working on the LONG writting actividad it was like 15 sentences about these pictures and writing in past tense. so i was jamming out this amazing parafo(paragraph) and then it was finished and i hit the submit and then the screen disapered with my words and said "computer time out if this happens often please call X-XXX-XXX-XXXX. there could be a problem with your browser." i was SOOO mad! and a little discouraged i went on and completed the rest of the writing assigments and had decided i just was not going to do that one and i didnt care about the puntos(points) for it but then i knew it was an amazing paragraph that i had thought of so i went back and started over!

either way this just prooves that the internet is stupid! remember that when typing up a storm...

maybe you should write it in a word doc. first and then submit...

maybe that is the smart way to go!

garden comedians and grocery lesbians

2008-10-14T23:19:00.000-07:00

SO! after petly's horrific doctor appointment i was in need of some major refresments so me and the stylist aka Ms. Sam went to olive garden for a nice peaceful lunch. Then toout disapointment the table behind sam was full o fthre obnoxious laughers. i mean i a not kidding these women thought they were funny when the one dirctly behind sam would let outher cackel the whole booth would shake. it was very distracting and out right rude. i mean if first of all you are going to try and put out that you areso hillarious actually be talking about something hillarious. In a normal evesdropping sort of way we discovered that they were actually busting up about some pretty borin stuff.

after the bill and mints were delevered we high tailed it to the car to escape the hienas and headed to Frys for some grocery shopping

I must say most of this excurssion was pretty uneventful exept he relevation sam and i had upon departure... we shopped like normal but i a gladsam was there because the lil giant was wantng lots of attention that sitting in the car seat just wouldnt give her. So sam carried wile i pushed and picked things out. There was a small incedent in the bathroom (which i had to run to after all the peach tea from olive garden) I was trying to clean my hands like normal healthy pople should and the stupid automatic paper towel despenser would NOT give me anything. it was very frustrating and i had to leave with drippy drop fngers. The second event was def. very small in comparision to te finale bt still a good conversation piece. We turnd down the isle for the canned tuna and three woman where huddled up talking about John McCain's wifey saying how she i a big druggie and "how would any one want that as the next first lady" apparently one woman wasa nurse and had an inside story to the life of Mrs. McCain's drug abuse times over seas. Either way sam and I found it pretty funny..wishing I was wearing a "Nobama Mama - keep your change" shirt...we moved along defeated....

Anyways as check out began we took a fewlooks around to see lots of curious people staing we realized that it truly looked like some modern day lesbians with our adopted or implanted baby. We got many stares and an odd ora surrounded us as we shopped. All I haveto say is that it is pretty sick and disgusting that the way things are now with all the homo's running around people automatically asume something freaky must be going on instead of a normal girl friend shop!

THE 100 FOOT BABY

2008-10-14T22:33:00.000-07:00

So first of all my kid is soo stinking cute..but i think we have a problem on our hands!

Today was Petyl 's 4 month check up even though today she is 5 months od(itwas as soon as i could get in okay!) anyways so everytime you go in and they weight and measure and all that jazz. Well after measuring lil P the nurse Michael compared petyl's stats with the percentiles on the page...after a minute of calculations a confused and then amazed look filled michaels face...petyl was off the charts for heght.. and you know at first it was quite exciting...i saw images of free college from high school scholorships for basketball or vollyball, i saw Tyra Banks giving adult petyl tips on how to really pop her fierce eyes...but then it hit me... SHE IS A GIANT!!!

now maybe you the average reader do not see this as such an issue. I however the mother am a little worried..... what if she turns in to one of those monsters in old scarry movies..the 100 foot woman or whatever. what if i have to buy whole elephants just to satisfy her hunger.....and i dont even want to think about the size of the crock pot i would need to make elephant roast! my poor child is going to be a bahemiath beast if we dont do something...but what can we do??

please help me!

or one day this could be her....

my kid

2008-10-13T21:25:00.000-07:00

she is so cute right!?

fajitas

2008-10-13T20:15:00.000-07:00

today...ahh

PART 1

so i ate at craker barrel for breakfast with my friend...we will call her Pamarama. so we were eating and there was like this wall between our table and another but it waslike not a real wall it was like a fense thing i dunno anyways there were two guys just chillin eatin too and they were being pretty loud and then all a sudden they just bust out with ballon animals. They just started goin crazy makin ballon animals for all these people and then this lil boy went over there and asked for one and the guy was like laughing and said "uhh we were just playin." so the lil boy walked away and then his brother went over there and they ended up makin some for them but it was weird at the least.

how can u just bust out ballon animals and then just stop at random as if it was uncontrollable. the forces of the universe made the urge for ballon animals so strong that in the middle of a reastaurant you whip some out then since you have satisfied your desire you stop. you stop when every single child in the place is DYING for a dang ballon animal. pretty LAME to the O but whateves they did end up making more so that is good.

PART 2

So anyways after that i came home for a second and watched desperate housewives on the tivo which brings up my next errk for my life! so we have this tivo and I LOVE IT because i jsut have to watch sooo much tv that i could never sit down and watch it when it is all on I mean why would i either when i can record it and fastforward ahh it is amazing but anyways. the husband ALWAYS messes things up! i will go in the tivo list and see all my cute shows then go to play one and it's only recorded half (maybe) of my show! so lame! makes me mad! but regardles i did get to watch desperates but i have missed like 2 weeks because it hasnt been recorded. so hear is my plan. I just have to distract trustan enough so that between the prime time hours of 7-9 h is either not watching tv or watchin something else that recorded...i will keep you updated on how this goes. it worked tonight tho. he is sleeping and gossip girl is recording. this is amazing!

PART 3

so then i went on the pumkin adventure which i wrote in my last blog so i am just going to skip to part 4...

PART 4

i babysat carson for an hour and a half which was way easy because he slept and hour and so did petyl so it was really one hour of "work" so that was coolness. then i went back to the AMAZING AND TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL MOTHER IN LAW FROM THE HEAVENS HOME also known as shelly rowlans house and cut kambrens pelo(pelo=hair) and that was whatever but i was SOOO itchy for ever after that it's like the little hairs turn into monster needles and attack you slowly making there way through yur clothe to my silky skin(prolly not as silky as shellys flawless skin) but whatever that was annoying!

PART 5

(yes this is the final part so do not complain OKAY!)

anyways i come home and made fajitas which would explain the title of this blog.

THE END

hahahah no really i would never leave so abruptly like that but it is time for this bloggie to end so have an amazing day/night whatever and see you in the next post!

the pumpkin extravaganza

2008-10-13T14:12:00.000-07:00

so it was any usual day driving down the road the baby me brieson and siearra when all of a sudden petyl said her first word.....PUMPKIN! well seeing as how all my followers are followers of brieson you should know the story from there so here are some other cute pics of the crazy day!

And yes i must say we found the pumpkins are all for prop 102 as well.....good to know

on another note. these last two pictures are petyl eating a lemon....so amazing

Briesons NEW Do

2008-10-12T21:50:00.000-07:00

HAHAHAHA! no yea brieson wants a new do so we gota hook him up. Sam is going to cut it and so i tried to find a picture of what i was thinking but i couldnt find an exact match but this one below is pretty close...

....more like this but i guess not as long ya knowlike the messy kinda look like...it reminds me of california or somehting..that is wha i want it to look like....we will see!

the adventure

2008-10-12T21:13:00.000-07:00

So today i went on an adventure.

mandy and i took petyl up to this cute little craft fair n prescott and it was cool! lots of interesting things to ponder at and it was kinda fun to get to wear a sweater and warm shoes. it was 51 degrees up there cold stuff! petyl looked so cute too with her lil beanie and hoodie and blanket...i was like a those crazy moms bundling her up as if it was 100 below.

then we were going to go to the pumpkin patch festival thing but it was in chino valley and it was too late it would have taken us a half hour to get there and then it would close like a half hour after that so it was a no go.

instead we went and ate at The Office. this little like bar/grill. the football game was on and you would think it was the superbowl everyone was being crazy like yelling. ugh lame. but the cardinals won so thats cool i guess if you care about football.

so now what came out of this whole adventure was let down because i think i wanted to go to the pumpkin patch most and we didnt get to so now i MUST go to one! im going to try and talk the husband into going next weekend but not in prescott...maybe shnepf farms or somehting we will see. i really just want a pic of petyl next to millions of pumkins...we will see for sure!

opps the wraneing

2008-10-11T23:32:00.001-07:00

i forgot to say in the intro and all that i mus warn everyone that Shelly Rowlans daughter in law is

1. not a speller
2. not a writter
3. not a typer
4. not a type of fruit

so beware when reading you may get confused

The birthday

2008-10-11T23:20:00.000-07:00

WOO k so today was my birthday!

upside: So i got to get amazing bannan mufins made for me. i went out to eat at chilis, on the border, olive garden, paradise bakery and oregenos all for the big day(eww but not all in one day i would be a fat one). I also am going to get my nails done fee for a year and the AMAZING SENSE AND SENSIBILITY MOVIE FROM MY AMAZING MOTHER IN LAW SHELLY ROWLAN. which i havent watched yet but just assume is amazing! I also got some amazing flowers...kohls, outback and carwash gift cards. so heck yes it was fun stuff!

down side: Trustan had to work in Eloy which from here (on christmas island) is like all the way to hong kong so yea that is lame! and i ate way to much birthday food this week/weekend and i turned 22 which in bigbirthday ness means i am old because i am offically past all the cool birthdays people wait up for.

Let me explain
1- the first birthday aww kid gets covered in cake everyone thinks they're awesome...tight
10- woo double digits enough said
13- officially a teen and not a child woot woot
16- sweet sixteen driving
18 - LEGAL for wherever adulthood leads u
20- officially not a teen and a real grown up but it doesnt feel like it so the birthday is still cool
21- can drink and gamble and well do whatever an actual adult i mean aloud to make all the decisions and no one tells you know

22- old but in a yound way until 30 and then older

so yea that is good it was a great day

Lates!

Introductions

2008-10-11T23:15:00.000-07:00

Well I know that this blog was on such high demand i will finally break down and start it.

If you dont know me..well then that is weird if you are reading this and real creepy so please leave

and if you do know me then no introduction is needed

talk to ya soon!

p.s. that picture..yea that is me driving..well actually watching people walk to their cars so i can find a spot...but that story is for another time