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life isn't fair.

I have decided that I don't want to be an adult anymore. I don't want to pay bills, clean the house, do the laundry, worry about what my kids are going to go through. I don't want to do this anymore. I want some one to take care of me and let me be a kid again. That just sounds so much better.
Jake got laid off his job on Wednesday.  It was a huge surprise. They just decided to lay off the 3 newest guys are he was the one of the unlucky ones. It really hit me hard. I wasn't prepared. We have had a lot of unexpected expenses in the last month .. so we are broke I mean flat broke. We filed for unemployment. $194 a week. are they crazy. Who can survive on that!
As we have be jobless for 3 days. I have been having a break down at least once a day. I don't know what we are going to do. Its not like people are hiring a lot right now. We've only lived in our house for a year. Its not like a lot of houses are selling right now anyways. I'm actually not scared to lose our house. Its kinda the cool thing to do anyways right now. :) 
You can't buy anything for like 7 years, but since Jake is going to Pharmacy school its going to be that long anyways. So that I'm not really worried about. I'm worried about where we will go, and what we will do.
Honestly if it gets that bad I'm going to do the one thing I swore I never would do... we are going to move into my parents basement. I've never wanted to do this, but there are schools up there, babysitters, cheap/free rent. What else could we ask for. I love my family.
I'm sure I'm just over thinking everything, and things will get better. I am always a worst case scenario kinda girl. I'm going to write Obama to pay my bills for me. That might work out better than finding a job!

easter time

I just have stories to tell, but when I sit down to blog and when I finally get all those pictures uploaded my ADD kicks in and I have lost interest. My time at home is precious since I work full time, I hardly get to see Reed So I feel like the 3 hours a night I have with him are very important, and since he suddenly has an obsession with me and won't leave my side (not even for dad, Jake is very offended) its hard to get anything done. My solution for this problem. Blog while I am at work, and have nothing to do but surf the web. Upload pictures when I get home and Reed is sleeping. I hope this new routine works out!




First off I just have to talk about my now usable feature in my car. The iphone/ipod holder!! I have recently gotten the iphone YIPEE!! Yes it is all its cracked up to be! I LOVE LOVE it! We are best friends. My car has this holder thing in the middle console and its for your ipod. So that it doesn't move and you can plug it in with an axillary cable. Well we don't have an ipod because of an very unfortunate event. Jake was leaving work one day and left his phone and MY ipod on the roof of the car and drove away. Well a few hours later I received a phone call from his phone and it was a kind old man that had found both of them on the road. He just happened to see them while riding his motorcycle.. Well the phone was just fine with a few scratches, but the ipod wasn't so lucky.. It had been completely ran over. It was flat as a pancake.
so needless to say we haven't gotten another one.
Back to the Holder. It is fantastic. I put my phone in it, because it doubles as my ipod. Plug it in and I don't have to worry about it flying all over the car. That it was I hate, when you turn they fall, when you brake, they fall, when you speed up they fall. So annoying. So I'm very happy with this feature...


EASTER!
We had a fun easter this year. We stayed home and didn't stress. It was great. We got Reed some plastic eggs, and put a few jelly beans in each of them. He was so cute he would find one, open it and eat all the candy as fast as he could. He has tasted the joy of sugar and can't get enough.




Our dinner was so amazing! I wanted to try out some new recipes and they we so yummy.
We had lamb with a balsamic reduction sauce, Herb oven roasted potatoes, and Glazed carrots. It was so amazing. I really like lamb. It has such a good taste to it.
And for dessert we had fresh raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, with dark chocolate drizzled over the top.
I love to cook. I wish I had more time to do it.



and here is all of Reed's teeth! He has 4 molars in the back and I think there are 2 more coming in.

Arizona

We got to go down to Arizona this last weekend to see Jake's side of the Family. Shanna and Kasey got to bless their 4th child Brenna! It was way fun and lots of kids for Reed to play with. He mastered the stairs and now can go up and down them all by himself. He also can go up and down slides and open doors. He is getting to smart and sometimes I wish he wouldn't learn to do those things. It makes me nervous that he is going to get hurt!
Well I guess it has to happen sometime..

3 Years Already!

I can't believe its already been 3 years. Its seems like I've been with Jake all my life, but it feels like we just got married yesterday. I love him more and more everyday, and he is the best daddy to our little guy. I'm so glad that I got so lucky. I can't wait for the many years to come.. love you jake.



Now for the Reed monster!!
He is getting WAY to much personality these days. He is the biggest cheeser and loves to smile at the camera.

Everytime I open the laundry room door he bolts to the dryer. He will do anything to get inside it.
Reeds first haircut! He looks to much like a boy. He is growing up to fast...
He is a kissing fool. well more like an open mouth slobber on your cheek, but its so cute, and he loves to give hugs and kisses all the time now.
my handsome boy!
and this is the latest pic. I sent this to my mom because I was worried about his rash. So we took him to the doctor and they said its just hives. But we don't know where he is getting them. So sometime soon we need to take him to allergy tested. Poor little man.

Friday Confessional...

I thought this was a fun little thing to do!
Its very therapeutic...

I Confess...

• I took a bath last just so that jake couldn't. I always get jealous when he takes one first.
• I locked Reed in his Room this morning while I got ready. He cried and I ignored him.
  
• i must have eaten something weird a couple nights ago because I got hives all over my lips, but just on my lips. It was terrible.
  
• i am addicted to facebook. Its pretty much the only thing to do while I am at work, but it has created an addiction.
  
• Not only am I addicted to facebook, but I'm addicted to that stupid bejeweled blitz game. dam you bejeweled. AND i still don't have the high score.
• i let Reed eat a cinnamon heart candy. I watched him pick it up and eat it and then spit it out. It was very cute.
  
• i hate using the bathroom. I have no idea why, but I'm always very anxious when I am in there. (definitely not a read the newspaper on the john kinda girl)
• i had another bladder infection -- probably caused by the statement above.
• I had walking pneumonia last week too, it was awful, I had to take two antibiotics which made me want to hurl.
  
• i let reed play with all the measuring cups in the bottom drawer in my kitchen. They usually end up all over the floor and I just put them back in the drawer at the end of the day. I don't wash them.

That is all. man I feel better.