YAY!

The local news station had a Twitter message offering tickets to tonight's show of High School Musical at the local children's theater. I e-mailed them right away, and they were kind enough to give me three tickets! I'm so excited! I know that Isabel is going to LOVE it! I'm a little apprehensive about Olivia, so she might wind up staying with my mom. Movies are almost pushing it for her, so I don't know how good she'd do with live theater, you know what I mean??

Not much else to report. I have to go pick up the tickets by 5pm at the news station. The show starts at 7pm! :)

Back to school... and dentist woes.

Sorry, dearest blog, for I have been neglecting you lately. The weather has been fairly nice, and we've been spending quite a bit of time enjoying the great outdoors!

Anyways...

I've postponed mentioning this next tidbit, because I wasn't 100% sure it was going to happen. Now that tuition has been paid and classes start on Monday, I guess its safe to bring it up.

I start school on Monday!! How exciting and nerve wrecking is that?! Jose thinks that we should be taking advantage of him working out of town and making decent money, and what greater way to take advantage of the situation than for me to go to school and get a degree?

I'm going to be a full-time student starting in the fall. Right now I'm only taking two classes, human growth and a math refresher course. I still need to buy my text books, but I can do that on Friday as soon as Jose deposits his check into the bank.

I've bought mechanical pencils, notebooks, folders, and pens. I'm excited in an utterly geeky way. I can't wait to start doing homework and taking tests!

Wish me luck!!! :)

And now, a rather depressing bit of news. I took the girls to the dentist yesterday. I cried when I got the news. Olivia is getting her two front teeth pulled, and three crowns on her back molars. Isabel is getting one tooth pulled, two crowns, and four cavities filled.

I *knew* Olivia was going to need some work done. That was a given, seeing how she's been having dental work done since she was a baby. Isabel came as a shock to me, and I'm so upset with myself. Ugh.

The dentist and the receptionist were VERY, VERY nice (our first time there). The receptionist told us we ARE NOT the only ones in this boat, and that a lot of the time it is FAR worse. It made me feel slightly better, but I still suck. :(

They recommend us going to the hospital and getting all of the work done in one visit. If our health insurance okays it, that's the road we're going to go down. If not, I guess we'll be making lots of trips to the dentist!

We'll see. Wish us luck in that area, too!

Take care!

We're home from our little vacation!

After LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of driving, we've made it safely home! We sure had a lot of fun! We swam like crazy in Phoenix, met Jose's family and visited Disneyland in California, and enjoyed the sights in Las Vegas!

The highlight of our trip was Friday, when we went to Disneyland. The girls were in awe the entire time we were there! We rode rides all day long, and also caught the street celebration parade TWICE! LOL!

I'm posting some pics on here, and there are even more on my Myspace.

We had fun, but I'm glad to be home!!

On Saturday, we also were lucky enough to check out the Swap Meet. We got some GREAT deals, including EVERYTHING we need to baptize Karina's son. We bought everything (suit, shoes, socks, undies, undershirt, and the little box thingy with the candle and stuff in it) for $70! Here in Omaha that stuff would have cost me over $200!

Tomorrow I'm taking him to Portrait Innovations to get some pictures of him in his little suit. I'm excited! LoL!

Where might we be, you ask?

PHOENIX BABY!!!

Wait, wait. It gets even better! Jose is taking me and the kids to Disneyland! We're freakin' stoked!

I can't wait to share pictures with you guys! I'm so excited. Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics, but I had to share SOMETHING.

I'll update more if I get a chance. Take care!! Bye!!

The Cinco De Mayo festivities begin tomorrow!

Yay! Tomorrow our town's the annual 5 de Mayo parade! I'm so excited. It looks like the weather is going to be pretty good, too! I'm going to load up the wagon and lawn chairs tonight, so that we can leave early tomorrow and claim a good seat.

I guess I'm feeling nostalgic lately with all these photos from the past. Here were are at Olivia's 1st Cinco De Mayo parade. Olivia was 9 months old at the time, and Isabel had just turned two. The lady with the baby happens to be my mother-in-law, whom which I am none to happy with at the moment. Yeah, yeah. I know. What else is new, right?

I guess if you want to get technical, that wasn't officially Olivia's 1st Cinco De Mayo parade. The year before, at 9 months pregnant, I had actually MARCHED in the parade with my fellow co-workers. They were all fighting to hold down one of those huge, annoying balloon figures (Macys parade style) against the 45 mph wind gusts, while I was marching along with the little kids waving little Mexican flags. I felt kind of ridiculous, but whatever.

Anyways... back to 2009!!

Tomorrow I plan on taking the girls to the parade and to enjoy all the yummy Mexican food, and we'll go to the carnival Sunday afternoon. I bet the rides will be SUPER PACKED right after the parade, don't you think??

I hope to get lots of cool pictures tomorrow. Let's hope it doesn't rain! We have a busy day ahead of us!

Food dreams are taking over!

So, I forgot to mention that yesterday morning I was dreaming about going with Karina (Jose's niece, mom to the little boy that we are going to be Godparents of) to the buffet to eat some breakfast. But this was a special buffet indeed. I grabbed a waffle, and it was stuffed with a chicken fried steak and gravy!

Last night, I was dreaming about chowing down on some Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was soooo good.

WTF?! Why am I dreaming about food so much? Its definitely not because I'm depriving myself during the day! Hah! I kind of lost steam for the whole diet thing a month or so ago.

Sheesh... I must be a true fatty if food is even seeping into my dreamlife. And its not even healthy food. Stuffed waffles and fried chicken?! Give me a break!

Anyways...

TGIF! Tomorrow is Diana's niece's 2nd birthday. I'm excited to take the girls to her party. They are going to have a blast! In honor of the event, here are pictures of my girls at Maritza's party last year. They went all out and had a clown that made awesome balloon animals.

Dreams...

I've been having some weird ass dreams lately...

Last night, I dreamed I was at Once Upon A Child (kids' clothing consignment store) pawing through racks upon racks of clothes and they had NOTHING cute in my DDs' sizes. It was quite distressing! ;)

The other night, I dreamed I was in Mexico City and for whatever reason I had to pretend that I was the daughter of some famous drug lord. They were filling me up with all kinds of information in case anyone had any questions for me. It was weird. Even weirder was that I was young (like 6 or 7) but had the thought process that I do now at 24.

Weird, weird, weird.

I've also been dreaming NON-STOP about my BFF's wedding. I must be stressing about it or something, because I seem to dream about her wedding 75% of the time! My most recent wedding dream involved me waking up at 11am the day of the wedding, and I didn't have my bridesmaid's dress yet!!! I went to store after store after store and not one single store had a dress that even FIT ME, let alone the color I needed! I ended up in some ugly flowered dress. :(

Phew... it stresses me out even remembering!

Thank God, I already have ordered my dress. This is what I ordered:


Instead of the pink, it will be a gold color. The bride picked Tealness and Harvest Gold as her two colors. And I will be using the spaghetti straps that the dress comes with. Very cute. Simple. :)