Bad Luck Cluff's

So, many of you already know but Brian was in a motorcycle accident Thursday. He ended with a HUGE gash in his arm and got 25 stitches and 21 staples. He was pretty banged up all over and even had a broken toe! Poor guy! I know a lot of you don't like gross bloody pictures, but for those interested you can go here to read more about his accident and see some pics (I gave plenty of room before the pics if you just want to read about it).

http://briansgrossbloodyarm.blogspot.com/

So if that wasn't enough, we were going about our day today when I walked by our kitchen to see a TON of water! Our kitchen and laundry room had totally flooded and was about ankle deep with water! We realized it was coming from our washing machine and quickly shut it off and started throwing every towel and blanket we own down to try and soak it up (which didn't do much). We called the front office and they had someone come over with a wet/dry shop vac. (one of the REALLY good things about living in apartments!). But they weren't able to come for about a half an hour. In which time we were frantically trying to get rid of as much water as we could. It was a pretty stressful, messy situation but eventually we got it all cleaned up. Afterwards we checked out our washing machine (I was so scared it was broken and I'd have to use the quarter machines again!), and the knob that say's the load size was stuck between medium and large and we think it just couldn't sense when to stop adding water. So it seem's to be working fine now, which is good because I have about 10 loads of blankets and towels I need to do now!

So let's hope for a little bit of a calmer next week!

Halloween

I'm finally posting some Halloween pics! We spent Halloween with my family in Tucson. It was a lot of fun and Ayden enjoyed spending time with his cousin Sydney. Those 2 are so funny when they get together, both are so shy but always seem to end up having a blast and my family's poor ear drums will never be the same!

The whole weekend was pretty much a huge battle to keep Ayden away from the boys XBox area. This is where we could alway's find him, he wanted to be just like his daddy!

Ayden was Superman for Halloween! It wasn't very easy to get him to look at the camera!

Except for about 2 seconds where he randomly put his hands on his cheeks and said cheese! Don't know where that came from and have yet to see it since!

Here is my adorable nephew Easton as a skunk! He is SO cute and was so good while we were there (even though his mommy would probably disagree), I thought he was such a quiet, sweet little baby!

My beautiful niece Sydney as Belle, she is SO into Disney princesses and was so cute in her costume! She doesn't like all the scary stuff about Halloween, but getting to be Belle for a night was probably well worth all that!

Recipe Swap Blog

We have started a recipe swap blog! It's for all of us to share our favorite recipes that we have tried and love! There are already some REALLY good one's on there! The blog is for everyone who wants to participate, but want to keep it to just family and friends so that we know where the recipe's are coming from. If you are interested in participating let me know and I'll e-mail you all the information! Everyone has the username and password so you can just sign in whenever you want and post your recipe! Just remember to try and keep it to fairly simple recipes (something that everyone can do!), and we would like everyone to try to include a picture (just snap one the next time you make it). Anyway's it's been fun so far trying out new recipes and I hope some more of you want to join!

Go here to check out the blog!

Eclipse For Sale

Hey everyone! At our local library they have a little store that sells used books for really cheap. The other day I found a slightly used hardback Eclipse there for only $5! I wasn't sure if I had the hardback or not so I grabbed it because it was such a good deal. However, I DO have it in hardback so I was planning on selling it to Bookman's. I just wanted to see if anyone out there wants to buy it first. $5 dollars is about as cheap as you could find it for and it's only slightly used. So if anyone is interested let me know! Oh, and if anyone is in need of a vacuum let me know!

zoo fun

Yesterday there was a special day at the zoo where if you showed them your Fry's card you could get in free. I was so excited to go and spent all week trying to get Ayden hyped up for it! When we got there he could care less about the animals (they were too far away and most of them were asleep), but they had some really fun play area's that Ayden had a blast in. We also went on his first Merry-go-Round ride. It was so funny, when I first put him on he was so annoyed and tried to climb off, but as soon as it started moving he got this big smile on his face! He'd say wee and wow and just laugh his head off! It was so funny that I had to take him for a second ride! It was such a fun day, and just something different to do! I didn't get many pictures cause he was being a turkey about looking at the camera but I got this one which I thought was cute! Anyway's, it was such a fun trip and I'm so glad I decided to brave the heat and do it!

Update

So it's been forever since the last time I updated, so I'm just gonna give a few quick highlights.

(Sorry the pic is SO big!)

* Brian started selling these salt crystal lamps with his dad. His dad had tried them and found them to be really helpful, so they decided to try and give selling a shot. They are similar to ionizers but are all natural and have a lot of health benefits. They sold some at an event at Apple Annie's Orchard last weekend and I decided to tag along with Ayden. We had so much fun! Ayden loved picking the apples right from the tree and would just start munching on them right there. So funny! We were very glad we decided to come along.

*I found a scorpion in my kitchen about a week ago and was totally freaked out! I wouldn't let Brian leave for school until the scorpion was smooshed and the entire kitchen was spotless. It took a few day's before I started feeling comfortable in our house again (not having to wear tennis shoes indoors all day). Then a few day's ago I found a baby one in our bathroom. Yeah! I'm thinking babies! And I'm kinda thinking that they don't just have one baby (although I wish). So, I'm back to terrified of our house and am thinking a move would be a good thing (like tomorrow!).

*Brian is almost done with his CNA classes! He has worked hard the last couple of weeks and is looking forward to them being done. He is hoping to get a job soon after which will be GREAT!

So that's about all I have to report right now. Hopefully we will have some more exciting things happen in the near future for me to blog about! Here are a few pics from Apple Annie's Orchard. It was NOT easy getting Ayden to sit still for a pic, he was WAY too excited and hyper. And be prepared for some very goofy, but very Ayden, faces!

Summer is STUPID!

I feel so bad for Ayden during the summer! His life during summer month's has got to be so incredibly boring since he is pretty much always stuck in the house (or at a store with me :)). I wish there were more (free) things for kids to do in the summer months. We do go swimming, but it's even too hot for that any more. Life outside is just miserable! So I decided today to take him to this park I heard about and see if it was any good. It was WAY too hot and the playground wasn't covered, but it looks like it will be a lot of fun come fall! It has this pretty lake and even some little kid rides! But we still had fun, Ayden was determined to play on the jungle gym despite how hot it was! Then we had a little picnic by the lake under a big shady tree. It was so nice just to hang out with my little guy all afternoon. I need to take him out more, I feel like I'm SO much more interactive with him when we are out doing something than when we are home. Anyways, here are some pictures from our outing!

This was about the only spot on the jungle gym that was cool enough to play :)

I set up his picnic and the little stinker would NOT sit on his blanket! I guess that's just the rebel in him!

Poor Ayden was SO hot, so I took him to McDonalds and got him a mini ice cream cone! I don't think I really need to tell you if he liked it or not :) Isn't it such a cute little cone!