Christmas!

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas! David always gets way into decorating the outside of the house with lights. Since we were renting a house last year we didnt do lights. But since we have our new house we went and got a bunch. He is in chare of the outside, and I'm in charge of the inside. I need to take more pictures of the inside of the house. Alex is so excited about the lights! Whenever we go outside he is like "Oh wow!" and "Whats that?" to the deer on the lawn! Just dont tell him that the deer is the daddy deer! I told him that one was a daddy deer and he looked at it, and looked for David, and just stood there looking really sad, and then started to cry. He wanted HIS daddy! Not some deer! LOL Well here are some pictures!

Thanksgiving 2007

We had Thanksgiving at our new house this year! I was a little worried because I was in charge of making the Turkey this year. It wasn't at bad as I thought. The yukiest part was taking the bag of guts and neck whatever is in the bad out. And my Turkey came out really good! I was worried that the outside would look good, and once we were cutting it, it would be frozen or something and everyone would get sick. But nope, it was good and perfect if I do say so myself LOL We had my parents and brother Mario and his girlfriend Becky come over. It was nice having them over. Alex took a nap while we were eating dinner, so everyone was able to eat "Peacefully" without having grubby little toddler hands all over their food, or someone throwing food on the floor then saying "Uh oh!" lol We missed our family and friends in California and Iowa, my sis Jenniffer (She had to work) and sister Cristina and nephew Austin in FL. But we are still thankful for them all. Well here are some pictures.

Tagged

Well since Jenn needs something to read and she told me that I had to update my blog I'll be posting some new stuff after school. And since the kids (I'm at work) are doing group work, I could do this real quick. My sister in law Sam, "TAGGED" me kinda lol So I'm supposed to write 6 unusual things about myself. So here goes...

1. I'm the worst liar ever. (Which is not a bad thing) I always thought that I could lie and get away with it lol I tend to stutter or look around and say "Um" a lot. Or I OVER exaggerate, like "That plate broke because there was a HUGE earthquake and a stampede of elephants came in the room and ....blah blah blah" LOL So I just stay away from lying since I suck at it anyways LOL

2. I can wiggle my baby toe on my right foot without moving any other toe. Now thats some amazing talent! LOL I don't know how I discovered this talent, but it grosses Kim out and I like to torture her by spontaneously saying "Hey Kim, check this out!" LOL and she will ALWAYS fall for it lol

3. I love to shop. But not for stuff for me! Whenever David and I go to the store, I fill up the cart with stuff I HAVE to have, and by the time we get to the register all the stuff I had to have are gone. Sorry to all the employees at the stores I shop at since they have like major "Go Backs" to put away after I leave LOL I could always find a million things I have to get for Alex or David. David always says "Why do you even bother getting stuff when you wont buy it?" I think I'm rubbing off on David lol He is doing it too lol

4. I have a BAD temper. I could take a lot from people before it makes me mad. But watch out when you do! I have zero tolerance for going anywhere where people are bothered by you asking them to do their job. And if they give me bad customer service, I WILL say something. Going to restaurants is the worse since some waiters / waitresses hate their jobs and wont get you refills and when you ask for one they have an attitude problem. So they will hear about it too lol (This doesn't happen as often as bad service does lol)

5. I crack my writs ALL the time. I dont even notice I do it anymore. I guess years of sports takes it toll on your hands eventually. But if you ever just watch me I'll crack my wrists. Its random but I'll do it like seriously 100 times or so a day!

6. I pretend to write on anything all the time LOL If someone says a word I want to remember I'll "write" it down with my finger, and the word sticks to my mind LOL I think I remember WHERE I wrote the word down and thats how I remember the word. LOL Does that make sense?? LOL

Ok so now you know what a big weirdo I am LOL I hope you still love me (o: This was easier than I thought LOL And I could probably think of other weird things I do all the time too LOL

Family

Since we've moved to Arizona, we feel a little bit left out of all the family functions. We do stuff with my family here in AZ, but in California there are just so many more family members. So it makes anything we do so much fun. Even if it's just hanging out talking with the crazy Hendrickons haha (o: I'm so happy to be a part of 2 wonderful loving families.

This past weekend, David's brother Travis, his wife Jenn, and son baby Mark to visit us. When we lived in CA, Jenn and Travis were the family we spent the most time with. It's funny because when I met Travis he never talked to me, and pretty much ignored me. Bugged the crap out of me. Then I met Jenn, and the same thing! I kept thinking it was me! Jenn and I lived together with a few of my friends for a few months. The entire time we lived together we said no more than like 10 words! After Jenn moved out, we started talking more, and found out that it wasn't that we didn't like each other, it was more that we were so tired from working full time, and going to school full time. So we never really saw each other. So anyway we became really good friends after that. She was in my wedding, and we hung out and did couple things all the time. After I got pregnant with Alex, I felt like we drifted apart again. Which sucked, but that was ok. We still talked every once in a while. Then David and I moved to AZ, and we really didn't start talking as much until after Mark was born! Anyway I'm glad she's back in my life again! (Not that she fell off the face of the earth or anything, and this TOTALLY went off track and the origional post! LOL)

Anyway, as I was saying, they came to visit us this past weekend! I loved having them come and see our new house, and spend time with them again! (o: We went to the Arizona Science Museum, and the Phoenix Zoo. We were thinking of stuff to do, and should have gone to the Hard Rock Cafe! That would have been fun! Alex and Mark didn't get along at first. Alex is in his "Thats MINE!" stage, and didn't want to share his toys with Mark. Then after spending the day together, they became buddies. And were so cute playing wit cars, and balls and chasing each other all over the house. Anyway here are some pictures of our weekend! (o:

California Trip...

Just because I started this blog after we got back from our California trip, doesn't mean I cant post pictures like 3 weeks later right? (o:

I was so proud of Alex this last trip to California. He usually just wants to be with either me, or David. But mainly me. So I was a little nervous about going to CA without David. But everything turned out better than I had hoped! Alex was so good with everyone! He played with his Uncle Matt, and Uncle Dustin (A.K.A Santa lol), and Gramma and Grampa! He even had a good time with his cousins Mark, Kailin, and Konner.

Anyway here are some pictures from our trip!


(Opps I guess when my laptop got that virus, it ate my pictures LOL Well except for this cute one of Alex, Grampa and the Kitty lol)

Come on Mom!

Alex has been talking for a while now. He could point at things and tell you what they are, or he'll ask "What's that?" or "Who is that?" if he doesnt know who or what something (or someone). He's starting to put small sentences together now too! We went to Wal*Mart with my mom (Alex's Nana) yesterday. And he saw some balloons. And he decided that he DESERVED one. I told him that we would have to ask the photo center people if he would have one. So we walked up there, I told him, "Go ask her" and he said to her like a big kid "Balloon please!" and started doing his little grabby fingers at the balloons LOL The lady thought it was hilarious that this little boy was politely demanding a balloon from her! So she was nice and gave him three balloons! And so we started our shopping trip. He can't just walk nicely anymore. He either runs, or runs and jumps! And he's gotten brave where he will actually run pretty fast and jump with both feet off the ground! (He used to just kinda pick up one foot, while the other is still on the floor lol). He's making shopping trips so much longer than they need to be, but he HAS to push the shopping cart, sure he cant see over the top, and crashes into things and people. But that doesnt stop him from trying to help. He also keeps putting random stuff in the cart. Yesterday I found, pencils, dolls, cars, paint rollers, a candle, nail polish and ONE sock lol My mom said he was doing his Christmas shopping! LOL Crazy kid. But I cant just take everything out of the cart. I have to wait until he is no longer looking, or he'll be deeply offended that his purchases weren't worthy of being bought LOL Anyway he also kept pointing people out and asking me "Mama who is that?" and I would tell him "I dont know, some little girl?" and he would look at me and say "What's name?" and I told him "I don't know her. So I dont know her name" and he looked very annoyed and looked me straight in the face and said "Come on Mom!!" LOL I was cracking up! I was like "What the heck! Did this kid just get mad at me for not knowing that kids name?" lol And that wasn't even the end of that he went up to he and kicked her! And said "Did you see that Nana?" LOL

Random

My computer is not back to 100% )o: As of right now, only my internet is working lol I mean if I minimize my screen I get a blank screen. So I cant use my MSN Messnger! How tragic is that?!? During Math time is my "Chat with Sam" time! How dare it not let me load it us! LOL Oh well! So David is going to fix it for me when I get home.

On another note. Today is mine and David's 3rd year (wedding) anniversary! We have been together for 7 years! I love him so much! (o: He's so funny! He doesnt do the traditional gifts. I mean like he wont get me anything for Valentines Day, or Anniversaries. He will do it on a random day. He once told me "Why do I have to give you something to show you I love you when everyone else is doing it? I love you all the time" So he'll get me something whenever he's ready. My vice principal asked me today "Where are your roses?" and I told him "My husband isnt a 'Send roses on anniversaries' type of guy. He'll get me something some random day for Happy Monday, or Happy Saturday!" I love that he does that! Makes it more spontaneous! (o:
I think we're going to try and go to dinner tonight. Nothing too fancy. But that will be nice anyways! (o:

Mama's Boy!

Alex is such a mama's boy! My brother, Mario was in the ER today, with some weird stomach bug thing. So my mom, sister Jenniffer, and I went to the hospital to sit and wait with him and his girlfriend Becky. Apparenlt they had been there since 1am! We didnt know until after 7pm! So we were there for 3 hours! Since that was going to hit Alexs bed time, he stayed home with David. He apparently did really good, fell asleep before 8pm, and everything was going good for David, and his sleeping baby. Until 9:30 came along, and Alex woke up wanting his mommy, who was nowhere to be found! Uh oh! So he started to cry and was a very sad little boy! So David called me and I talked to Alex, and he stopped crying, and decided that he would be good and calm down for his daddy, who was trying really hard to comfort this sad boy! Mario was able to go home at 10:30pm, and was feeling a lot better! (Phew!) and so I went home. When I got home everything was quiet, except for a little sad voice saying "Mama? Mama?" and a reasurring voice from his dad "Yeah, mama is home!" and then LOUD Crying! "MAMA! MAMA! MAMA!" lol My poor little mama's boy!

Never too late for Halloween Cookies!

So David and Alex decided that since we (Alex and I) were in California on Halloween (Or as David put it "Since you ditched me on Halloween") they were going to decorate their Halloween Cookies. Hey its never too late for tasty cookies right? So they had fun decorating their cookies. Ok well David had fun creating his cookies, and Alex had fun eating the frosting and gum drops lol Then it was time to eat the cookies.... um maybe it was too late for Halloween cookies LOL They were stale! Ok so *I* didn't taste them, but David said they were stale and not very good! LOL Oh well thats what happens when you slack and decorate cookies 2 weeks after Halloween! haha Oh well, we got some cute pictures anyways!!

Zoo, and New babies!

Yesterday we decided to take Alex to the Phoenix Zoo. The LOVED... the fish tank they had at the ticket window lol Crazy kid! I guess thats what he recognized first since we have the Bobs. Oh well! He had fun running around, and pointing out the stuff he recognized like the trees, the grass, the trash cans the water fountains LOL Then we decided that we should stop for a snack. Alex feed the duckies some of his cinnamon apple snacks lol I wonder if thats bad for ducks? Oh well! I didn't even think of taking pictures of him doing that! I guess I was just too into watching him and David feed them that I didn't think of it! )o: Oh well, we got a Zoo membership so we could go again, andI'll take pictures then!













































Then Alex and David went on the
Merry-Go-'Round. I thought Alex would be scared of it, but he had fun! (o: It was making me dizzy watching him waiting to get a perfect shot of him lol




After the zoo, we went to the hospital to visit my friend Brenda and her new baby Adrian! He is so adorable, and tiny! Alex was only 1/2 inch longer than Adrian, but I don't remember him ever being so small! I KNOW that he was little at one point, but that time seems so far away now. I have my moments when I miss him being tiny. But he's so much fun now, that it goes away. Or I look at him, and see just how much he still needs me that it passes lol I love my baby! (Even though he's a toddler now, he'll ALWAYS be my baby!)

New Babies!!!!!!!!

My best friend here in AZ, Brenda (Sierra's mom) is having her baby today!!!!!! She's had a hard pregnancy poor girl! She has a hernia, her veins in her legs burst. I'm so excited for her!!!!! (o: I'll post pictures later!!!!

Ugh!

My laptop got a VIRUS!!!!!!!! Well more like 12! My poor dad was trying to fix it forever yesterday, and got the virus out, along with everything else! Including windows, my grade book, EVERYTHING! )o: He was soooo upset about it. And kept trying to reassure me that he'll fix it. He called David (since he was still at work), and when he got home they tried and tried forever to get everything restored without having to reinstall windows (Apparently if you do that then EVERYTHING really will be lost forever! Yikes!) So David thought of something he called "Computer suicide!" Scary lol But anyway it worked! And I got ALL my stuff back! YEY!!! I was mainly worried about my grade book, and the fact that the school provided my laptop! I didn't want to have to tell them, "Um yeah I know I've only had my laptop for 2 months, but its broken!" Its nice having a computer guy in the family!!

On another note LOL We didn't get back home until after 11pm, Alex was HORRIBLE! He was tired and grouchy. Everything you did, or said to him threw him into a range and he would throw himself on the floor crying. So I put him to bed, and he fell asleep before I was even in my PJ's! LOL Then like at 3am, he had a "Night Terror" You know when they are still sleeping, but crying hysterically and nothing you can do will make them feel better. And I couldn't even wake him up! He was just very upset! Finally he woke up all freaked out, and I rocked him in his room and we both fell asleep there until 5am! Geesh my back is sore! Oh well! Of course we had our normal fight this morning about waking up and going to his Nana's house (My mom watches him everyday for us!). Things were back to normal! LOL

Sleep...

Its getting harder and harder to convice Alex that bedtime is a good idea! haha He doesn't want to sleep in his own room, or in the play pen we have set up in our room for him. He decided he HAS to sleep on our bed with me and his dad! You'd think that he isn't that big, and we have a huge Cal. King bed that it shouldnt be a big deal right? WRONG!!!!!!!! Last night he slept with us for like 30 minutes. And I got kicked in the face 7 times, pushed, sat on, jumped on, got my eyes pulled open. Had grubby little fingers up my nose, and in my ears! Ugh! So he finally fell asleep, and I moved him back to his room. Well he stayed asleep until I covered him up.Then he started to cry. So back we went to our room for round 2 of "Daddy sleeps while mom gets beat by a small child!" LOL But I was lucky, he didnt do that, he went right to sleep! (o:

Thats not the hardest part of it all. We have the mornings! He is such a grouch when you wake him up! And I dont wake him all all best like either! I dont jump on him, or pick his nose, or pull his hair or anything like he does when he wants to wake us up! LOL But he STILL throws fit every morning. So I decided his bed time is being moved up an hour! Crazy kid...

Blogging... take one

So since Sam and Natalee have a blog thing, I decided to give it a try. A little intro on me. I'm Tania and I'm married to the "bestest" guy in the world David. We have been together for 7 years and married for 3 (well 3 come next Tuesday! Nov. 13th)! We have a son named Alexander Kai, who was born on March 15th. He is just over 1 1/2 years old. He is a very happy boy. He LOVES to play sports and with cars. He just discovered bowling yesterday! And loves it! He doesn't understand that you are supposed to try and hit the pins with the ball, and not kick them as soon as I get one pin up! haha



Anyway lets see what else I should say?...



We just got back from visiting family and friends in California! We went trick or treating and to Disneyland! Alex usually is my shadow when we go to CA, but this trip was so different and so nice. He spent time getting to know his Uncles, and Grandparents! (o: I was actually able to go to the bathroom without him! (Believe me sometimes its NICE to do that lol)

Anyway our ANNOYING dog keeps getting out! UGH So my dad and David decided to pour cement under the gate so he wont be able to dig his way out. So we thought it would be cute to put our hand prints there! Once I figure out how to post a picture of it I will! (o: