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We adopted a DoG!! His name is Indy. He is 3 months old and is a mastiff. Greg and I have been talking about dogs for a while but never thought we would be ready to have one. Now that the girls are older and can have more repsonsibility we decided it was a good time. We both like big dogs, but wanted one that was pretty mello. I found a boy and a girl mastiff up for adoption on petfinder.com. They were the only baby mastiffs in AZ and the rescue just happened to be in Queen Creek, what are the odds. We did our homework and researched Mastiffs. They are great family dogs. They also have many other great qualities about them too. We have had Indy for over a week now and the whole family just loves him. I keep thinking that he is tricking us because he's been so easy and wonderful. I know the days will come where something gets chewed up and ruined. We definetly have to change our lifestyle around a little now that we have him, but its def. worth it. Julia is so wonderful with animals, she has been so helpful and even offers to clean up the yard!! (Not sure how long thats gonna last) The other two are just as good with him. Even Poker is Okay with INdy, She doesn't want to play with him just yet, but I know soon that day will come.
I think most everylittle kid needs a dog growing up, and finally after getting asked billions of times for one we adopted a doggie, and a great one at that!

Julia's Basketball Season

I apologize, basketball has been over for 2 weeks and I never posted anything on Julia's basketball season. Her team name was the Firecrakers. There were 8 girls on the team. Julia was one of the youngest because it was first and second graders. she started off as one of the most inexperienced players on the team. Over the 8 weeks of one practice and one game a week, she improved Sooooo much. It was very fun to watch those games. Once she caught on she became aggressive. We try and practice, but with all the other activities we have its hard to find time, but we do our best with the practicing. Julia did decide she wanted to play another season so in a few weeks we will start it all over again.

Morgan's tonsilless

A few pictures of little Morgan.
Mo got her tonsils out on Thursday! It went pretty well. we went in early Thursday morning and stayed in the hospital till Mid afternoon Friday. She had a few issues along the way but nothing major. And now she is trying to run around and play, and she isn't supposed to be doing too much.

Her voice is so high and cute. She sounds soooo sweet right now. She is eating very well. Her food preferences are Cereal, mac n cheese, yogurt, bananas and ice cream. Lucky little girl. I still feel bad for her though cuz her sister was eating a pop tart and she wanted one. She said her throat didn't hurt at all, and she didn't understand when I told her no, but then I offered her Boston cream pie yogurt and she was much better.
Her sisters have been very good to her (I knew they would) and have made sure she isn't over exerting herself. And Greg is back! Yay! He came back last night and should be here for awhile.

Riley

So last week Riley had to get tubes put back in her ears becuase of all the ear infections she has. Her appointment was early Friday morning so Jenny had the other two spend the night with her. I've never had a night with just Riley so I was very excited.
I met up with Jenny and the girls at Gymnastics (seems like we are always there) to pick up Riley. I asked Riley what she wanted to do together for the night? She wanted to watch a movie, so we went to the Hollywood Video and rented a couple movies and they gave us Free popcorn. We headed home after telling the other too bye which was very sad because Riley started crying because she was gonna miss her sisters. We get home and she wanted to watch it in my room. So we layed on the bed ate popcorn and had the fire going while we watched Madigascar 2. Which was a really cute movie. We had the best time together. They she got to sleep in my bed with me that night which doesn't ever happen, she loved that too.
The next morning (early) we left for the surgery center. Riley was in a really good mood and very talkative, like usual. She was dressed in her Pajamas and they let her bring Noni (blanket) and Glowie (her stuffed bear) with her. they call her name and take us back still with a smile on her face. they give her a cute little Looney tunes gown to put on and she is jabbering away. She was playing with a toy steering wheel and was driving to Africa. The nurses preped her (which really isn't much for tubes) and gave Glowie a hair cap and a mask and some booties. Finally it was her turn. She walked away with a smile on her face. She is a brave little kid. I went to the waiting area for 15 minutes and then finally they called me back and let me know everything went well. the minute I got there she wanted me to hold her and to leave. I carried her out to the car (she is getting really heavy) and we left to go meet the other two. Not even 5 minutes after we get in the car Riley asks if we can go to her Preschool Valentines party. so after we dropped Julia off at school. We stopped by for just a few minutes, yea right, we were there the whole time. You would have never even known anything was wrong. I figured she would be tired from waking up early and the anestia they gave her. Wrong. That girl was as hyper as could be. running around in circles all day. She did great. I wasn't worried that she wouldn't, but I figured there might be a little recovery time. Ha

Staying Hopeful

Well it finally happened. Greg got laid off from Fulton Homes. It was very sad and scary and upsetting and a relief. Fulton Homes filed Chapter 11 Bankrupcy last Tuesday and then on Thursday had another round of layoffs. Greg made it through so many different rounds in the last year and a half, but there weren't very many guys left. Luckly Greg has had a second job for the last year and a half (he's a thinker) so we were somewhat covered for the lay off. He is now in Vegas training and working to try and get a full time job with Quickpass. He is training this week and really enjoying it. We are staying hopeful that it will soon turn into a full time job for him.

Other news is Riley is getting tubes in her ears very soon. Yay! No more Earaches. This will be the second set for her.

Morgan might be getting her tonsils out too. That decision is up to me (and Greg), but Im really torn becuase they don't recommend doing that for children under 3. I went in and listened to her snore last night and she really works hard at breathing. So I'm really leaning towards the surgery. It is a bigger deal when they are younger, they will keep her over night and there are more risks involved. Its a real tough decision. I have to make up my mind soon though because of the insurance situation.

We went to see Santa

After pictures on Sunday we went to visit Santa Claus at the mall. Here is what the girls asked for from Santa this year.

Julia-Ipod and Phone (no way she's getting a phone at the age of 6)
Riley-Butterscotch (that stinkin horse that cost $250) She's asked for the thing for the last 2 or 3 years.
Morgan-Choo Choo Train (Camden was going to ask Santa for one so she thought she should too.

Painting the shed

So Greg finished making the shed probably 9 months ago. I've had no motivation to finish painting the thing. So I tried to paint a little more today and had some help.