Young Marines Recruit Grad

Taylor had his Recruit Graduation and is now officially a Young Marine.
Here are some pics.

Military Ball

Taylor had his 1st Military Ball this last Saturday - here are the pics before he left.

Being all serious....

Got a smile...
Annoyed because Ry wanted a pic w/ her big brother - he was afraid she'd mess up his attire.

Merry Christmas

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Deck the Halls

The Christmas decorating is done... We have 2 trees this year. The old one was too short for these ceilings, so I got a 9 foot one last year on big sale after Christmas, it now touches the ceiling and my old one looks dinky now.

Drill Meet

We went to watch Taylors Drill Meet today. It was cool. Long time to wait for him to perform (3 hours) but he did great. Here are some pics and video, we didn't get the whole thing. In fact, due to technical difficulties, meaning Mr. H, we only got 5 seconds total. Luckily, we had a friend there and she got a little more than that.

Geez, look how serious and intent he isin the first pic. He says it is just the son. I say whatever. I am so proud of him!

I am thankful for....

For my wonderful husband...

My pretty awesome son(most of the time anyway) who almost plowed into the block wall today

My beautiful girls...

and great friends, both near and far...

On this day of thanks, I am very thankful to Phillip -without him, none of the above would be possible. Had he not chosen me over that one guy back in the day, I never would have met Brigitte, who I do love even though we have nothing in common other than she likes native americans and I married one. LOL Without her, I never would have gone to Rocky Horror, where we then met the dorks that introduced us to SCA where I then met the man of my dreams and also Steph who has been an amazing friend. I love you Phillip, you are the best brother from another Mother and we have the most fun when we are together. I can't wait until we are old and still silly and do stuff like this....

I also am the luckiest girl in the world when it come to Mothers. I have the absolute BEST Mother in the world. I am also lucky to have a great Mother in law. I have heard horror stories about horrible Mothers in Law, and I lucked out and got a great one.

I love you all and hope you had a wonderful Turkey Day. Mine was another H. Family Holiday, and that says it all right there!

We are family...

My scanner sucks, but you get the idea!!!

So Proud

Don't know all the details yet, but our ROTC guy just called from Sahuarita High School where they just preformed his first ROTC drill meet. They did so good they qualified to go to "some bowl". He said The Super Bowl, but I am thinking The Rose Bowl since he said it was in California. He is so excited and we are so happy for him!!!

What do you think?

I never really thought the girls looked like me until I saw these.....

Pumpkin Patch Fun

Today we went to a Pumpkin Patch and here are some pics...

Ry making "corn angels"


My 3 favorite goofballs...

My "babies"

Taylor picking up chicks....

Me and the kids....
We tried the big family corn maze, but Ry got bored after awhile so we never finished. She spent a lot of time playing in the corn and the bouncy house. Then we left without getting pumpkins because she was having a meltdown at the time. We got pumpkins closer to home at another pumpkin stand and came home to carve.

Ramsie joined us for a few minutes..

The finished products....

Our2peasinapod Custom Boutique Jewelry Blog: Pink Giveaway & Tag

Our2peasinapod Custom Boutique Jewelry Blog: Pink Giveaway & Tag

My very best friend from back in the day, back when I first moved to AZ, pre Phillip era, is having a giveaway. She makes the cutest bracelets and other jewelry, and if only my husband would get a 2nd job, I could buy a whole bunch for my girls. So go check it out and enter her drawing.

Friday

My Mommy comes into town tonight for Ry's fall break. We were supposed to go to Cali. for the week but just can't afford it. We'll just have to have fun here.

Going out for sushi tonight - YEAH!!!!!! I haven't had sushi in so long. Shouldn't spend the money, but I really want some sushi. After sushi we'll come get the kids (Grandma L. watching while we go out) and go pick up Mom at 1030.

I started back at curves this week. I go back to work in a month. YUCK!!!

Hey, so it is only Oct. 10 and I finally put the last of my xmas decor away. LOL - if I didn't have halloween/thanksgiving stuff to put on those shelves I wouldn't have even bothered w/ xmas being so close.

Please go here...

http://legalizetheherb.blogspot.com/ leave a comment and vote at the bottom. It is Moms friends son in college and is for a grade in one of his classes. Thanks.

My future Navy SEAL

T. got his patricipation ribbon in ROTC and is very proud of himself. He got it for participating in three non-required events. He is now working on his community service ribbon. He is really enjoying this whole ROTC thing.

Also, check out the GUNS.....

Changes...

I have combined both the girls blogs into one. They can now be found here.

My baby is already 4 weeks old, so that means I only have 8 more weeks off work. That stinks.

I don't really have much else to blog about, I don't do much these days, but catch sleep whenever I can and take care of the family. Of course, I keep up on all my normal reality TV and then some. I learn funny things from reality TV.

We are home....

We've been home actually, it just still hurts too much to sit at computer for very long. That's what happens I guess when you push out a small toddler.

Ramsie is wonderful, so sweet and mellow, just like Rylee was until she started talking. I am hoping Ramsie will stay that way and be the opposite of her big sis. She is giving me a hassle at feedings. I did cave the first night home and gave her a little bottle, because I felt so bad for her as she was wailing. I have held strong since then though even though Mr. H tried to get me to give her more bottles. She feeds great one time and then the next she takes a few swigs and starts wailing like I am starving her. It makes me feel bad, but I am not backing down, she will not starve to death. She will usually settle down and go to sleep and we try again the next time, so I figure she can't be that hungry or she would suck it up (literally) and eat.

I am thinking of combining the 2 girls blogs into one, I don't really need 3 blogs to post on, I know it's hard to keep up w/ my busy life, so if you only had to read 2 blogs it would make it easier.

Now about the other man in my life....

My little ROTC guy. He really seems excited about it and I am very happy and hope he sticks w/ it as long as he continues to enjoy it.

I am off to update the girls blogs now.

Later!

38 weeks.......

and it feels like this baby is wanting to bust on out of me. :)

I have my bag mostly packed for the hospital and her bag is all packed. 3 outfits I packed for her. I'm a nut, but that's ok. I need a picture outfit and a going home outfit and I may not want them to be the same.

Grama is planning on driving out on the 9th. Hopefully baby girl no name will cooperate and not come any sooner so she can be here.

I have been through the whole 60,000 baby names book and we have a list, now we are going to take turns crossing out names and see what is left when we are done and go from there. May just take the top 5 names w/ us to hospital and see what we think when she is born.

For your viewing pleasure, I bring you a crappy cell phone pic taken just now....

Blah, blah, blah

Nothing much to report. It's hot, I'm huge, and my house is still a mess. The girls room is done though and there will be pics posted on Ry's blog, so go there is you want to see it.

Went and spent money we shouldn't have to see the newest Batman "The Dark Knight" it was great. I love Heath Ledger and such a waste that he is dead. Poor Movieman was stuck next to some obnoxious kids, but it was his 2nd time seeing it, so better him than me. I was just trying to breath through my mouth the whole time, because Movieman smelled so bad. LOL Kidding, some freak was wearing way to much floral perfume somewhere in the vicinity and it was making me sick.

Today I have my weekly doc appt and next week is yet another ultrasound to see how big little miss is now.

I am only working Tuesday - Thursday right now for 1 month. I was taking at least that much time off anyway every week, so I just made it permanent for 4 weeks that I take Friday off too. Now, I just have to force myself to stay there all day Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. :)

Mr. H, coworkers threw us a shower last Monday and it was so much more than I ever expected a work shower to be. So sweet of them to take the time and do this for us. We got a lot more great stuff. His boss painted up construction helmets for us and blinged them out w/ jewels and baby bottles. A pic can be seen here as Diva immediately posted the pic I sent to her by cell phone. Now to get that batch of Thank You cards done.