Fun times are gonna be had!!!!!!!!!!

I am sooo excited about this weekend! It is the first big summer weekend. Lots of plans and fun to be had. Originally Riley was suppose to be going with us, but to bad so sad..LOL.. anyway...I booked a room at a really fun and cute motel. The kids will surely have a blast!! If not, I know I will!. There is so much to do in the Dells, you never get bored. Some people dont know that Wisconsin Dells is the waterpark capital of the WORLD...neat huh?? I really wish the kids were way older and I wasnt inpregnito..I would love to go to mount Olympus and ride Hades! that is the BEST rollercoaster I have ever been on! But thats okay. What is great about this motel is all the kids are FREE! I only had to pay for ME...and Riley..but ya know haha.






Okay because I have brought up hades I have to tell ya about it!...it starts off normal..zoom zoom zoom..then you get to this HUGE hump..you go up...it literally takes like 2 mintues to get up it..then you get to the top and there is steep drop and you go UNDERGROUND! underneath one of the parking lots..and you come up the other sid of the parking lot...then you come back up and back into

the park..I LOVE IT!














We have plans to go to Tanger Outlet mall..YAY!!!, there is soooo much stuff to do..omg I cant even begin to tell you!! They have several places where you can dress up like people from like a SUPER long time ago and get your picture take

n..and it looks like an old vintage photo. There is a Ripleys believe it or not..I refuse to go in there!! it is soooooooo gross!!!!!!





But my favorite place.......one of the 50 candy stores! I ALWAYS go there! I load up on super soft salt water taffy..omg yum! they also have a little ice cream shoppe in there, but the ice cream looks nasty lol...






another place I wont go..is this once shop..I dont remember what it is called, but in teh front widow there is a giant ogre...it scared me

Babbling!

The twins have been babbling and cooing for several months now. Today Bella babbled mamamamamama...my eyes nearly popped out of my head. I know it isnt her first word and she doesnt realize what mama is..but she keeps babbling it. She saw how excited I got and kept on a goin. I am so happy! I took a picture of her mid babble :]

OH EM GEEE

The last day has been hard on me. Except Owen's has been worse. I can deal with this..to me this is no big deal. Owen has never expericened anything like this. He will be okay though. I am soooo excited, in a few hours I start working at the clinic. Hmm I really could eat subway rght now..stupid commercials, anyway. I have waited sooooooooooooo long for this!! okay well not even a year but whatev...


AND FINALLY!!!!!! Sara and I kicked marlene's ass in Mafia! We have been trying for a few months and we did it! and from what I hear Marlene is pissed! that made my day brighter! Now we just have to stay on top of that....

AND ANOTHER FINALLY!!!!!!!! Heather FINALLY spilled the beans... I am sooo happy for her. Thank God, too. I really really wanted to say something, but I was told to not to! How cruel! But thats my girl...tourture me..LOL KIDDING...no really, I swear she gets her giggles by tourturing me. :] It is worth it cuz even I have to laugh...

Now, I am just waiting to see if Taylor is pregnant too. If she is that means another January baby!!

Okay now that Owen is finally passed out, I am gonna go grab my bina (my blanket's name..SHUT UP lol) and my Cars pillow....hahahhahaha I am such a kid!!!!!...and lay down..good think I love sleeping on floors!

Night all and sweet dreams!!

Weekly Pregnancy Humor: Week 6

There is a group of women out there that think they didn’t get morning sickness because they wouldn’t allow themselves to. Like, they think throwing up all day, every day is a state of mind.

“Oh, I just wouldn’t allow myself to throw up,” she says while rubbing her nonexistent belly. “So I didn’t.”

Any pregnant woman that comes across these types of women should turn the other way and run as fast as she can (which might just be lumbering gently away). Why? This woman has the “Miracle of Life Syndrome.”

Every little gas pain and tummy rumble is special. They feel like they’re “glowing” and just love every last bit of pregnancy, right down to the hemorrhoids.

You do not want to be friends with these women. They will brag about “easy” labors. Their babies will sleep through the night by the end of the first week.

Worst of all? She’ll be fitting into her “skinny jeans” by her six week postpartum checkup. Never trust a woman that can fit into her skinny jeans that quickly.

Find yourself someone with hyperemesis. She won’t ask if you “tried crackers.” She’ll be truthful about labor and will be your friend in sweatpants for that first year after the baby.Never underestimate the value of a friendship where you can go grocery shopping together in your pajamas.

BOB

Baby on Board!!

I am not sure how I feel about being pregnant, but I am sure once things starts coming together things will be okay. Riley and I have started talking about things and working together for our kid. Last night we had a great conversation. I really think things will be okay. I have been thinking about baby names just a little bit for a few days. He wants the name to have a hispanic theme I guess. IDK. We came up with two names, but they will probably changed. The twins' names changed like 5 times. If we are having a girl we like the name Fallon Taylor Olivia. If it is a boy we like River Noah Conley. BUT I am also liking Naima Taylor and Jackson Ray..

oh well...we have plenty of time

Memorial Day & A Birthday

Happy Memorial day!! Tomorrow the kids and I are going to my hometown to honor the memory of Sgt. Joshua Brennan. I myself have never had the chance to meet Josh, but he was a part of the community I grew up in.


Sgt. Brennan was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy; died Oct. 26, 2007 in Asadabad, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained Oct. 25 at Korengal Valley, when he came in contact with enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenade, machine-gun and small-arms fire during combat operations. Army Sgt. Josh Brennan, 22, was shot in the chest on patrol in Kunar province, his father, Michael Brennan, of McFarland, Wis., told The Associated Press. He was a member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Taliban fighters tried to drag the soldier’s body off, but a medic hurled six hand grenades at them before he himself was killed, Michael Brennan said. He said the military notified him of his son’s death Oct. 26. He said his son told him his unit had seen combat almost every day over the last two months. Josh was shot in the leg in August, recovered, and returned to duty, his father said. His enlistment was to have ended last month but he had to serve another year under the Army’s stop-loss doctrine, Michael Brennan said. Josh grew up primarily with his mother in Oregon and graduated from Ontario High School, his father said. He spent the summers with his father in Wisconsin. Michael Brennan said he and his son’s mother both served with the military police in the Army. In school Josh ran track, played football and won a good citizenship award, Michael Brennan said. His father said he asked Josh it he wanted him to try to get congressional intervention to get him out of the extra year. “He said, ‘No, Dad, I don’t want you do any of that. I’ll serve my time with my friends.’ ” He said his son won two Bronze Stars for valor. I’m very proud. I didn’t want him to have to give his life up like this,” Michael Brennan said, his voice quivering. Ontario soldier remembered as dedicated, dependable young man The Associated Press ONTARIO, Ore. — Army Sgt. Joshua Brennan asked his mother last month to mail him a sturdy Bible because he was developing a strong relationship with God. Brennan and his mother, Janice Gates of Ontario, communicated through Gates’ MySpace page. After Brennan’s platoon sergeant died in Afghanistan several weeks ago, she posted the song “Heaven Was Needing a Hero” to comfort her son. “Never in my wildest dreams did I know heaven was needing him, too,” Gates said a day after learning her son died in combat. Brennan, 22, died Oct. 26 from wounds he had suffered the day before in a firefight, according to the Department of Defense. He was serving his second tour in Afghanistan with the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Combat Team. His father, Michael Brennan of McFarland, Wis., told The Associated Press that after Taliban fighters shot his son in the chest, they tried to drag the wounded soldier away, but a medic threw grenades at them before he himself was killed. “If it weren’t for that medic, horrific things could have happened to Joshua,” Gates said in an interview with The Oregonian newspaper. Gates said her son’s enlistment was supposed to end in September, but a stop-loss order extended it a year. “Josh struggled with that for a little while. He certainly wasn’t resentful of it,” Gates said. “He truly felt that what brought him to Afghanistan was a worthwhile and just cause, that they needed to be there to preserve independence and freedom in the United States and worldwide.” Brennan, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient, was wounded in the leg in early August. “Within days of being shot, he was insistent he wanted to be back out with his men,” Gates said. “He wanted to make sure they were OK.” A 2003 graduate of Ontario High School, Brennan ran the hurdles, played football and hunted elk with his grandfather, uncle and stepfather, Jared Cutler. After the military, Brennan intended to attend college and pursue a career in forensic science or criminology, Gates said. Brennan returned home on leave in May, and friends and family threw a party and “lavished him with love,” his mother said. “When I was raising Josh, I wasn’t financially able to do things like pay for his car insurance, pay for a vehicle, pay for a cell phone, these extra amenities kids get these days,” Gates said. Brennan worked a part-time job at a print shop and paid for his own extras while maintaining above-average grades. “He was just such a responsible young man,” she said. “I know he would have done absolutely amazing things in his life.” Army Sgt. Joshua C. Brennan was killed in action on 10/25/07.

I remember the day Josh's body was brought back to McFarland, for his funeral. Illinois police guided him from O'Hare Airport in Chicago to Wisconsin State line, where WIsconsin police then took over. Jason and myself along with hundreds of other people lined the streets leading from the entrance in to McFarland to the cemetary. Every school, daycare center and buisness, closed for a while. Students lined up. It was so amazing to see a community pull together.
McFarland also suffered the loss of another fallen soldier, My friend Scott's sister. Rachel Hugo was killed.

Rachel Hugo, of Madison, was killed Friday in Bayji, Iraq, when insurgents attacked her unit using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire, the Department of Defense announced Saturday. She was a member of the 89th Military Police Brigade of the U.S. Army Reserve and the 79th soldier from Wisconsin killed in Iraq since the war began in 2003.




~ Many thanks to those men and women who fought for our country~
~And many thanks to those who are currently serving our country~




HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to Lamama (Laura)..Tommorrow she turns the big Five-0!!!!!!

Yawn!

Yawn! Omg I am soooo tired!! I was up past 2 am last night! First we finished watching Dirty Dancing on ABC family. Then I really wanted to watch Pretty in Pink. I LOVE that movie and nearly all of Molly Ringwald's other movies. No matter how many times I watch them, I never get bored haha.


I was pretty sure I was going to kick Riles in the head!! he was watching Obama and enjoying it..UGH...SO not cool!

I lovvveee summer weather! it is so warm here! I love it..pretty soon I can start going swimming!

okay so I take back what I said yesterday about liking Riley


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