So Thankful for Smoke Alarms!

So, this morning I put on some water to boil to make some hot cocoa. Well, then the girls woke up and I went in the other room and completely forgot about it! Oh no!

So, the smoke alarms just start going off and I'm about ready to freak out! But I feel I need to check in the kitchen so I peek into the kitchen and there's a fire underneath the burner for the water! All that needed to be done was for me to take the thing off the burner and blow the fire out! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

There wasn't any damage to anything, the burner definitely needs clean but otherwise it's all good! I'm just so grateful it wasn't worse and I know it could have been without Smoke Alarms because who knows how long it would have taken me to think about it!

Oh where art thou...

2.1!!!! Here I am anxiously awaiting the Droid to be upgraded to 2.1 and it hasn't happened yet! There were rumors it would be in January and now there are rumors it'll be the mid or end of February! I'm really looking forward to the update though. There are suppose to be some great improvements!

It's going to have animated wallpapers for the phone (I want to be able to do a slideshow but I think I might have found an app that can do a widget for that...) and it's suppose to have an updated gallery, on-screen keyboard and some other minor improvements. I can't wait to check out all the changes!

So where oh where art thou my android 2.1??? It better atleast be here by the end of March or big complaints!!! Oh and where is that flash that was promised the first part of the year!?! Still waiting for that too! (Theorizing they might be waiting to release both at the same time to make sure it's all compatible and works great!) Ahhhhhhhh, the impatience!

Owies! and Stairs!

Ok, so anyone who knows me, knows that I'm terrible with stairs! Seriously, so many people joke about it! Luckily though, I've never gotten hurt, not really, that is until yesterday. :( And even that one I thought I had escaped any real hurt!

So, we had put the gate up at the bottom of the stairs to keep Dusty (our lab/collie mix puppy) from going downstairs unsupervised to poop. Working great by the way! Anyway, the girls had left a blanket on the last few stairs and I was going down to go help Charity with something and not paying enough attention when I slipped on the second to last or last stair and my foot came down HARD on the metal bar on our gate. It's one of those you attach that has a built in gate you can swing open. Owie!!! It hurt a lot. But after a little while the pain had mostly subsided and I was completely fine walking around on it, no complaints.

Well, then last night I fell asleep on the couch watching tv and in the middle of the night I wake up because I keep dreaming that my foot is just on fire with pain. Only, I finally wake up enough to realize it's not a dream. My foot is seriously in some pain! I ended up crawling upstairs to get in bed. But it still hurt so much I couldn't sleep. So, I woke Dennis up to check it out. Maybe a tiny little bit of swelling practically non existant and other than that it looked fine! I got him to give me a couple of tylenol and it had been really cold downstairs so I had him microwave the hot bag thing too so I could put that on my foot and I was finally able to go back to sleep.

Wake up this morning, it doesn't hurt at all! But slowly as the day went by, the more I used my foot the more it hurt. I got to rest it for a couple of hours this evening and it's still got a small throb but it is pretty cold right now. I'm hoping it will be completely better by tomorrow because I haven't been to the gym in over a week and a half and I don't want to miss it again tomorrow! That and if can't manage to make it out of the house tomorrow I will NEVER hear the end of it from Charity! So, everyone, let's hope my foot gets feeling better.

And hey, atleast this time it's not one of the girls with an Owie! Though Danielle did skin up her ankle a little bit last night and we have no idea how that happened! Seriously, how do they get so many bumps and bruises a mom can't account for? Aren't we suppose to know all!?!

ChaCha!

I don't know if I ever mentioned stalking the Become a Guide page of ChaCha before, but I had been. I wanted an easy way to bring in a little income and I finally stalked it at the right time!

ChaCha is hiring and you're looking at one of their newest guides! It's a pretty simple process. You fill out a few forms, take an initial test. If you pass, they give you access to the training information (about an hours worth for the Expeditor) and then you take a readiness test that you HAVE to pass to become a guide. Well, I passed that too the middle of last week!!!

Really, the pay sucks! I think based on last month's point worth I'm only averaging $1.5-2/hour but it's a work at home, no outside child care, work at your own hourse, non-stress job that will be in a little bit of extra money each month. Plus, it gives me a new addiction for a little while! :)

If anyone else is interested in an opportunity like ChaCha visit Becoming a Guide at chacha.com they are currently looking for guides and hey have a recruitment bonus so make sure to post my e-mail as your referral! ChaCha!

Oh, and I think I'd recommend being a Generalist/Specialist over an Expeditor but I think they have the opportunity to make more money. So... There you have it. It's been pretty entertaining so far.

Family Photos!

My friend Jenny from Black Pearl Photography took these family pictures for us. Turned out quite cute, didn't they!

Family Photo

Charity

Charity

Danielle

Danielle

Daddy, Charity & Danielle

Mommy and Danielle

Daddy & Mommy!

Charity & Danielle

Charity

Daddy & Charity

Charity trying to take the present from Danielle!

Danielle eating lunch meat, it was the only thing that would keep her happy there at the end!

Mommy and Daddy kissing!

Jenny's Signature Photo!

New Years Resolutions 2010

Here are my goals from last year:

Read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover - didn't complete :(
Improve more at doing family home evening - did!
Exercise atleast 3x a week - mostly!
Be better at keeping track of our budget - We stay within our income but I can't seem to keep track of it!

So, my goals for this year are:

Read the entire Book of Mormon - Really, I need to work on reading the scriptures daily, hopefully I do better this year!
Continue Improving at FHE -
Exercise 4x a week -
Read 25 books - That's only one every 2 weeks or so, I'm sure I can do that no problem!

There you have it, what I hope to accomplish this year!

Bedtime Woes

So, for bedtime I go in and lay down with Danielle on her bed while Charity lays on hers. Most nights it doesn't take either girl long to fall asleep. Sometimes there's a bit of a fight with one or the other but for the most part bedtime isn't too bad. That is until the last few days. Danielle does not want to sleep!

During nap times I've had to lay by her thw whole time or there is no nap, which doesn't yet work because then we have days like yesterday where she then crashes areound 5:30 or 6, wakes between 8 & 9 and then thinks she doesn't need to go back to sleep until after midnight :(

I don't know what her problem is tonight, she got a nap early this afternoon but Charity has now been out for a while and Danielle is wide awake.

I must admit, being a Mom, sometimes there are moments of sheer frustration! Good thing they're so cute and that Mama has a fun phone to play with to vent her frustrations! Lol. But, seriously, when is it time to call it quits and just let her play for a while? That doesn't mesh with my plan of her learning she has to go to bed when it's bedtime. Ah, but now I've let her get off the bed and she's playing....