Locks of Love

Sierra's hair has been driving me insane! She seems to get everything caught in it... food, hair ties, a comb etc. I've always said I would never cut my little girls hair. The hair on the bottom half was very thin and not doing well. She was excited to donate it to locks of love. It's shorter than I wanted it... but her hair grows really fast so it will be long again in no time :).

Before

Her donation to Locks of Love


After. Her hair looks flat because it was still wet. I'll upload more pictures tomorrow

Bedtime Stories

Today we went to lunch at Olive Garden. James and I decided that instead of spending money on having a partying or going out for New Years Eve we'd rather spend our money having fun as a family. It was good. I could only finish half of my meal. I seriously need to get back on the band wagon. Between March and July of 2008 I lost 35lbs. Traveling back really threw me off so now i go between being down 27-35lbs. Now that the holidays are over and we are settled in the house I need to get back in the game. After dinner we went to the mall to look around. Old Navy was having a big sale. Nearly everything was 60% off. If you know me you know how addicted to Old Navy I am. I managed to only spend $10 though. And it was on something I actually needed. After that we went to go see the movie Bedtime Stories. It has Adam Sandler in it but it's a movie for kids. It was great. Actually it was pretty funny. I laughed out loud several times :). James thought it was good. Lately we havent been buying a lot of movies but we will buy this one when it comes out.

James is leaving again in a couple of weeks. He'll be back after Sierras birthday. So once again for the second year in a row I will be left to plan everything and shop for it alone. Which is okay, he'll be back in time to celebrate with us the weekend after her birthday. She wants to go to Snoqualmie pass and go tubing instead of having a party :P. We'll still have cake and ice cream and then I guess we'll all pile in a two cars (Sierra, James, Tom, Carady, Brady and I) and head up the pass.

Be Safe!

We took Sadie to get groomed today. She seriously needed it! Poor girl. He last groomer experience was really tramatic but this one seemed much better. They told me the only time she really had a hard time was when they were trimming around her face and eyes. She doesn't like that. Hopefully over time it she will get used to it. We really liked the place we took her too. It's super close to the house and we actually plan on taking Mojo in to get groomed soon.

She hates the flash!

Below are a few pictures i took at James' reenlistment. We should have more soon. I forgot my camera and James had his (my old one) in the car so we used that. He reenlisted with the same friend he reenlisted with six years ago in Hawaii. It's a small navy! James and him were on the Erie together and then he came to James' current ship about a year ago. His wife had her nikon d60 with her so once she started taking pictures I just stopped, lol.

This picture is of James with the Officer that reenlisted him.

James and his friend reenlisting

I hope everyone stays safe tonight. We are going to spend the night as a family. Maybe some board games, watching the ball drop in NY and relaxing. We had enough excitment at Christmas to last a while!

ER Visit, Christmas

Well, Christmas eve started off interesting. The day before Sierra had been coughing... not not wheezing or anything like that. At about 4am Christmas eve morning sierra ran into our bedroom coughing and saying "im gonna puke". So James got up and she kept coughing and coughing so much that she was gaging. So I got up to see what I could do to help. She sounded bad... and sounded like things might start to go downhill so we decided to give her some of the prednisone (Steroids "anti-inflammatory medications" such as prednisone can be used for asthma as well as other lung diseases. Prednisone and other steroids help calm airway inflammation in asthma. ) that we have for her to take as needed. As soon as I gave it to her she caughed and vomited it up. So we gave her some water and she did the same again. I decided to go ahead and take her in since it was obvious that she wasnt going to hold down anything and i didnt think a breathing treatment alone would be enough. So I drove to the hospital. To my joy it was empty. She was seen right away. Her oxygen saturation was 94/95% not terrible.. They said it was good we came in when we did and they were able to give her two injections of prednisone into her legs. That way she got the meds but didnt have to worry about not being able to hold it down. They gave her a teddy bear to keep. And we went home. Over the day she got a little better.

Wednesday night Brady's girlfriend came over at around 6:30pm. Shortly after that Tom and Carady arrived. We had our traditional 'special spaghetti dinner'. The sauce spent most of the day cooking. It was yummy! After dinner we made cookies for Santa with Sierra. Then it was time for her to go to bed. After she went to bed we played apples to apples. It was fun. After that Santa came and delivered a barbie house, a bike and a bunch of other things that were wrapped in either Santa wrapping paper or paper that said "special delivery from the north pole". Cute. Around that time James, Brady, Carady and Tom went to karaoke. Brady's gifrlfriend stayed with me. They were there about an hour and a half. We decided it would be fun to wake Sierra up. So Tom went up and woke her up. Her face was priceless as she was coming down the stairs. she got a lot of stuff! About 1/2 the way into opening her gifts she started coughing again and gaging. We decided she needed a breathing treatment. She refused to stop opening gifts just because she had the mask on her. And Tom wasnt about to make her stop. The last gift she opened was a electric guitar from Tom (and his mom). Tom also gave her an amp. He taught her a few things on it tonight.


We nicknamed this year "the year of the Hannah Montana". Between her grandma (and papa), her aunt lisa, and her uncle tom she got FIVE hannah montana/miley cyrus dolls!

After we all opened our gifts we had cinnamon rolls and decided it was time for a nap. Sierra didnt want to sleep much as she was too excited and wanted to play with her new toys. She wanted to ride her new bike but it's still way too snowy and icey. She wouldnt make it an inche without getting stuck. The rest of the time we spent playing with her and her new stuff. We play with her guitar hero and helped her open up her things. Later we played a game of phase 10. For dinner we had prime rib, mashed potoatos, corn and dinner rolls. After dinner we had Chocolate cream pie. Yummy.

Much more photos are at our webshots page here http://community.webshots.com/user/mana2sisi

After Santa came

In her I love Santa PJ's

Lots of hannah montana dolls. lol.

Groom ME!!!

Sadie needs to be groomed so bad! But she's never good at the groomers so i've been putting it off and putting it off! I was going to let her top knot grow out but she doesnt like it when i put a bow in it. It doesnt look like it but she was just given a bath yesterday!

In all we've gotten atleast 20 inches of snow. May not seem like a lot but is when the area is only used to getting 1-3 inches and it ususally melts that night. The next couple of nights we are expected to get snow/rain. Sierra's had a blast in it. The dogs love it. You should see our deck. Insane. Tomorrow I have to drive down to mill creek which is about 30 minutes away and I am taking the car (not the trailblazer) so we'll have to dig it out tomorrow.

Still waiting on our trash to be picked up. Almost a week later! It's starting to pile up. Hopefully it will be picked up before Christmas because that will add a lot more!

Snowman!

We've had more more and more snow. Last night we got an additional 5 inches. That's in addition to all the other snow we've had. The snow hasnt melted at all! We went outside an made a snowman today. Well, Sierra made one & then the three of us worked on the bigger one :). We've been kind of staying at home and not going anywhere because the drivers here have NO clue what they are doing. The roads havent been plowed at all. It's a mess. So if we leave its just down the road and back.Infact, its snowing again :)

Additional Pictures to the right where it says "My Links"

Other than that not much excitment. We are getting excited about christmas!! Just a few short days away!

Tubing!!

We got a lot more snow last night. Some parts of the town we live in got 2ft of snow just overnight, not including the stuff we already had. And its STILL snowing! So this morning we decided try and find a sled. Ha, not happening. Every store we went to was sold out. Our last resort store had some kind of cheapy tubes. But it worked! We blew it up & went. It was a lot of fun. We just had SOOOO much fun. One time I went flying and narrowly missed a pole. So we moved to another hill. The kids around here arent very bright though. Because as soon as you hit the bottom you should know to MOVE. Sierra took out this one kid bad... and sierra kept going. It was so funny. The kid didnt seem to mind. additional pics to the right :)