Weekend Update

This was pretty much me this weekend. Ice, medicine and soft foods. I think the worst is over though. I have a bit of swelling but other then that I am on the road to recovery.

The kids and I went to see Leather Heads. It is a pretty good movie.

We give it 4 out of 5 stars

It was a movie weekend. We rented The Kingdom, The Invasion, Mr. Woodcock and some other sports comedy movie, can't remember the name. Thank goodness the kids don't mind just hanging out with their ol'Mom. Darren is really into any movie that has to do with the government/military. I guess because his dad is in the Army.

A lot of people have cut their locks recently and have posted pictures of their new do. So I thought I'd share with you my new cut. It isn't too short, I'd actually like to go a bit shorter. I am not the best at taking self portraits but here you go. What else are you going to do in Houston traffic? The above picture is an extreme close up! lol

The kids and I also played a friendly game of Scrabble. Lauren actually won. lol I won a game too and my son had the nerve to say, "Wow Mom, it must make you feel mighty proud that you beat an 11 year old and an 8 year old at Scrabble". What a sore loser. lol It was their first time playing and they were really into it. I had pictures but my camera is not with me now so I will have to post some now OLD pictures soon. Hope everyone has a good week.

All for Tyler!

Just a couple pictures from Nellie's shower! I have more to come!

The Secret Storks Revealed!!
The cake! Thank you Stephanie for taking off my to do list!

The cupcakes, thanks to my M-I-L! Yum!

The Stork Pens! Love em!

TGIF

So you haven't heard from me in a couple days and that is because I was lucky enough to have my wisdome teeth pulled out on Wednesday. My doctor was most excellent. All I remember is them pouring something cold on my arm and that is about it. Next thing I knew I was in a wheel chair on my way to the car. After that, I remember my good friend Chris pacing back and forth and going on and on about the medications I needed to take. Good thing he wrote it all down for me because I didn't remember a thing. Talk about good sedation. The kids got home from school and they were very eager to help me out and do whatever they could to make sure I was taken care of. Lauren made up ice packs and drew on the papertowels that she used to cover them. They said such things as "World's Best Mom" and "I love You Mom". She is such a little angel. We basically watched movies and relaxed. She got me water, my gauze and all the soft foods I could eat. I ate about 1/8 of a pancake today. I had mashed potatoes last night, yeah for warm food. Maybe I will lose a couple of pounds. I am a little swollen today but not in much pain. Yay for pain medicine. Dr. Michael Eklund and his team did a fantastic job. They had excellent bed side manners and were just great. It was very thoughtful that he called me that same evening to check on me and to give me an update on how everything went. I am glad I finally had this procedure done. It should've been done about 3 years ago. I hope everyone has a good weekend. I should have some pictures to post next week.

Oh, btw I have accepted a position with another company. I think it will be a good career move for me and the extra cash can't hurt. I'll have more details to follow.

Everything Is Bigger in Texas!

My breakfast this morning is a GINORMOUS banana! Look at the size of this thing!! LOL It is big enough to eat for Breakfast, Snack and Lunch! That is a lot of Potassium.

Weekend Update! 1 Baby Shower & 3 Birthday Parties

I sure hope she doesn't mind me posting her belly pictures.

What a BUSY weekend Lalo had. Friday after work I hosted a baby shower for Danielle. We had a great time. It was my first shower and I am honored that she asked me to do it. Also glad I didn't screw everything up. I came close. She knows how much Lalo procrastinates and how unorganized I am. First thing that went haywire for me was the Invitations!! Stephanie suggested we ask people to bring a card or something with ADVICE for the mother to be. Well how excited was I when I found Invitations with such cards for guests to bring. Little did I realize that the pack only had 12 Invites. We had 13 guests (not including myself and the m.t.b.). So I went to 6 (yes SIX) different Target locations in search of another pack, I sent Gina to 1 by her house and they were no where to be found. Lesson learned: By MORE than you need. Next, I found some SO UGLY they are CUTE Stork pens (in blue) at Party City, so I bought all that they had. I asked the cashier if they had any other pens-perhaps in the back-she said "No, all we have is what you see back there". I thought to myself, AMAZING that she knows the stores inventory without even looking anything up in the computer. She must be making big bucks to be able to maintain all their inventory in her head. So I asked if she'd call the store in Sugar Land for me. It is a good 25 minute drive from the Pearland store I was at. So she called and spoke with someone, asked if they had more BLUE pens.......we waited as it seemed someone sent an associate to see....waited some more.....then she says "Great I have a lady who is needing 6 more and she is on her way". I was so delighted but knew the store was about to close so I rushed out and drove to the other location. When I arrived I got back to the aisle and guess what. NO PENS, not one!?! So I ask the lady about it and she informs me that their manager does NOT allow them to confirm merchandise over the phone and they don't have any. WTF!!! So I bought a few other items and was on my way. The next day I go to the Party City off Kirby and 59 thinking surely they will have some. Think again, they had no blue ones. Is everyone having a Baby Boy this year? So I made an executive decision and just went with 6 pink ones. We have a lot of girly girls and I figured we'd make it work. I think it did. They seemed to be a pretty big hit. Gina was kind enough to slap on some "IT'S A BOY" stickers to their tags. We played a couple shower games, even though Nellie was against the idea and let me tell you-Stephanie and CK are two tough competitors. For a moment I thought they were going to just go at it to prove who was closer to the Baby's MAMA! ha ha. It was funny. I struggled to think of a tie breaking question but those two "KNOW THEIR NELLIE".

Thank goodness Stephanie offered to pick out a cake. I had my M.I.L. make some cupcakes and they actually matched the cake Stephanie picked out so I was very pleased. Nellie later sent me a text that read "Cupcakes Rock". I am so glad she enjoyed them. The kids grandma is a pretty good baker. I think Yolanda's kids ate mine. I got home and took the couple I had in the car and placed them on the trunk. She called me over to talk so I left them there. When I came back to my car a few minutes later they were no where to be found? The only trace of them was the silver cc liners that magically landed in the yard. Those little *beeps* lol I guess I didn't need to eat them anyway. RIGHT! I had a lot of fun putting it all together. I only hope my Guest of Honor was just as honored.

The Lovely Parents to Be~How can their baby not be beautiful?
The Secret Storks!

For many months now Stephanie, Kristin and I have been leaving Secret Stork gifts for Baby Watson and Nellie was sure it was ME. She was correct but had no idea her other friends were in on it too. So we decided to come out of the Stork Closet at her shower. The look on her face was priceless. I think Gina has video of her opening up her SS scrapbook that leaked our little SS Team. What fun.

Saturday the kids and I went to a birthday party for Nick who turned 13. The kids played on a ginormous moon walk and had a lot of fun.

That evening I attended a birthday party for my friend Jason. We had yummy shrimp tacos, Spanish Rice and homemade salsa. Heather is such a cute little cook. We had an open bar and enjoyed some cocktails and conversation. We decided to play Trivia Pursuit Pop Culture on DVD so Gina and I teamed up. We were the gnome (naturally) and we kicked butt. In my opinion we won. We had all of our pie pieces but due to the time we decided to do a SUDDEN DEATH question for the win and I believe Jennifer took the game. I wasn't happy with the sudden death thing but Heather was sleeping on the couch, the Russian girl was also sleeping on the sofa chair so I agreed for the sake of their backs and necks. But why go through the trouble of winning all your pie pieces and going to a quick draw for the win? Next time we will start the game earlier so the real winners can take the PIE! All in all we had fun. I rocked the Sports & Games category and Gina was kick butt on the Music and TV categories. I just don't watch enough TV and I never know who sang what song or what award they won for it!?!

Sunday we went to my most UN favorite place, yep the picture gives it away, Chuck E Cheese's where a kid can be a kid. I say it where a Kid can be a MONSTER. I mean really people, monitor your children while they are at play. I was ran over by two children. Lucky for me the Boy and the Girl are very well behaved and have manners and respect for others so they play nicely. Other kids and/or adults NOT so much. So to keep myself from going crazy I sat at my own little table and played Sudoku.

I have actually gotten pretty good at this. Sometimes I am playing and I don't realize that I have finished the puzzle until it is finished. A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Only problem is once you start playing it can be hard to stop. I kept going and going until my eyes were crossing and the party was over!

Well Stephanie is in Chicago so no camera cord for me today but Nellie will be bringing hers in tomorrow so I will have some pictures to post of all the madness. Overall my weekend was very busy and very fun. I am thankful that I have so many friends that keep me busy. This weekend will be a quiet one because I am having my Wisdom teeth pulled on Wednesday. All FIVE of them. Yep, I have super Wisdom. All four 3rd Molars will come out and I was lucky enough to have a 4th Molar that needs to be taken out too. Lucky lucky me.

THURSDAY THIRTEEN-TO DO LIST

1. Finish all the D.O.'s Nellie left for me to do!!!!
2. Send pictures to Walgreens for pick up this afternoon
3. Drive to Sugar Land to pick up Sweet Treats *Homemade Goodness* for a special get together
4. Complete project that I have been working on for months (along with two other great ladies)
5. Work Out-Yay me!!
6. Wash Car-Yes again-I love having a black car
7. Go to Babies R Us & Party City (again)
8. Make reservations
9. Baby Shower for little BTW
10. Heather "Choppinator's" Dinner Party for Jason Friday evening
11. Christian's Dinner Party Sunday
12. Sign Offer Letter (hopefully) *No Rae, Nothing is happening in Denver* BLAH
13. Buy soft foods and pick up prescriptions to prepare for my surgery next week

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTIAN!! 10 YEARS OLD

Lauren, Darren, Zachary, Damien & Christian

Happy 10th Birthday Christian. You are a wonderful Big Brother and a very good friend to Darren & Lauren!
Christian-Houston Zoo 2007

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Love Auntie Laura!!

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY! ALBUQUERQUE, NM MAY 2008