What do you think?

I have not told a lot of people but I have decided to go back to school and become an RN. I have wanted to do this for a while and have put it off because my husband was going thru his apprenticeship and it was not a good idea for both of us to be in school at the same time. So I figured he is the bread winner and I support his decisions. Now that he is not in the apprenticeship I have the opportunity to go thru with my schooling. I am very excited and many think that I am crazy for it but I have a strong feeling that I need to do this. I am not sure what route to take right now,,,,I am debating on the COC program or going thru Concord College. I am going tomorrow to look at the campus and meet with a counselor to see what they have to offer me. It will be hard but this is for my family as well as myself. I am going to try and work around my girls and do night classes 2 times a week and labs on weekends, I'm trying to draw out a plan and make the best decision.

If any of you have any good advice let me know....

Camping

So the Milhoan and Vincent camping shindig was interesting this year. It was great to see all of Jake's cousins and be able to go to the beach, but this camp ground sucked. Imagine being in dirt all the time. The campsite had dirt and just a bunch of bushes and if you wanted to go to the beach you had to go down a dirt path (which by the way is not made for strollers) and under a bridge. If you did not pee before 5pm there was no toilet paper left...and we where bit by every insect imaginable. We usually go to Carpenteria but we did not get enough sites so we went to another camp by point Magoo sp? In Carpenteria everything is close by and it is a lot cleaner and my kids have a blast riding up and down the street path. Thank goodness for my mother in law and her sister they always find ways to make everyone's time there enjoyable and busy. :)

Don't get me wrong it was fun but just not a camp ground I want to take my kids to again.

Jake came up a few nights he went swimming in the ocean and got to hang out (and to try and even his tan lines out a bit lol). I almost killed him 2 nights ago when we where sleeping on our tent, there was a mutated grasshopper in our tent that he said was crawling on him and I thought he killed it but oh no the thing was crawling in the tent and when I handed him the tissue and said "Kill it" he looked at me and said "I'm not touching it". Needless to say I won and he killed it.


We did get to go to the Ventura County Fair for a couple of hours and get to roam around a bit, we did not get to go on any rides but we got to look at all the animals and the hands on kids exhibits . Next time I am going to get Jake to be there so we can do more with the girls.

The girls had a great time at the beach but I think they got a bit worn out after being there that they got sick and restless so I took them home.

Tagged

Tagged!!!

I was Tagged by my friend Stephanie. So here are six words to describe our Family.

1. Devoted
2. Cranky
3. Busy
4. Tired
5. Loving
6. Blessed

I now Tag Gina, Rachel,Hannah,Joelle,Wendy.

Thank you Jake for adding cranky to the list. lol

What my husband does for a living

So a lot of people lately have asked me. "Now what does Jake do again". He is a Power Lineman, he's is the guy that keeps the lights on. He climbs up those big polls and fixes them. I feel so sorry for him lately, having to be in this heat outside with long sleeves and pants working on a poll all day. Let me tell you I am very grateful for such a hard working husband. He went thru an apprenticeship for 3 years having to drive far for work and at one point he had to live up in Palo Alto and sleep either in his car or a trailer. When he was up there we would only see him on the weekends and he missed a lot of Kaelyn growing up :( ..... right now he is working with my brother and he really seems to like his crew. I love when he comes home with funny stories from his day. I have a few pictures here from a rodeo we went to that Jake competed in with my brother and their groundsman.

Daddy's invention

Daddy the inventor!

So the other day I hear a scream from the other room "Fran come here I have to show you what I invented" I knew this was going to be good. Jake likes to put stuff together to amuse our children and keep them occupied. As I turn the corner all I could do was laugh. There Natalia was sitting in her Bumbo chair in front of my ab roller with toys tied to it with a jump rope. I could not stop laughing apparently Jake did not know that they already have invented a toy like this for babies. Needless to say Natalia was very amused and plays with this often. I am not allowed to take it apart to use the ab roller so it is one of my kids ghetto toys now.

I've been tagged...thanks Penny :)

I've been Picture Tagged...and you might be next!

The rules are you have to take ten pictures of the following things. And you have to do it right away. No straightening, cleaning, or wiping your child's nose. And then tag five others.

Penny tagged me. I just got home from a walk with a friend and an interesting day with an Earthquake! So my house is not cleaned and I was not looking my prettiest today but this was fun!

Beware you might be next!

1.Fridge

Here is my lovely fridge…As you can see nothing is in it’s place and things are thrown in there… I blame Jake lol

2. The Closet

Oh man this is some of my cloths. Jake says I need to get rid of a lot of it but I get in moods where sometimes I might want to wear that so I keep it…lol Right now there are no doors on the closet because we are remodeling and we had to take them off because we got new carpet and we where scraping the ceiling.

3. Self-Portrait

K so this is now just mean I just got back from doing a walk in Valencia, and here I am no make up hair pulled back looking like I have not showered in days... seessh

4. Favorite Room

So I picked this room because it is one that is somewhat all completed. This is Jessica and Kaelyn's room. Yes it is blue and this is because Jessica wanted it to be Cinderella Blue... Over the window I wrote "Once Upon a time" I still have more to do but for now I like it. Why did we get bunk beds I'll never know they still want to sleep together...oh well

5. Kitchen Sink

Why oh why the kitchen sink...Did you know that Jake likes to put dishes in the sink and not wash them. I should work for Molly Maid. This sink was clean last night but good morning today is a new day. Gross I'm never going to let this happen again...lol

6. Laundry Room

Ha this is not as bad as it usually gets. I cleaned this room about a couple of days ago.. :)

7. Toilet

So you can't really see the toilet right now, I can't get a picture with this angle so you have to settle for the shower and my rob...neener neener

8. What your kids are doing right now

Well right now Natalia and Kaelyn are sleeping in the front room and Jessica was nagging me for what else but CANDY. We just got back from a long walk and the two youngest fell asleep in the car.

9. Dream Vacation

I would actually like to go back to Maui. I loved it there. It was not as busy as Oahu was and I just loved the all around experience. Jake took me a 1 year ago for 7 days and we had a blast. It was weird with out kids, but we managed to have fun :D

10. Favorite Shoes

Oh how I love my flip flops....jake tends to throw them away on me he says "they have no support for your back" What does he know these are Air Jordans....lol I only wear tennis shoes when I go to the gym and even then I would rather wear flip flops.

Well the time is right for the lucky 5 I will choose to do this. I really hope that our friendship means enough to you to do this for me. The torture was not too sever other than my self portrait which I will still have to get back to Holly about this one!

I choose...

Genine Baldree

Camille Johnson

Gina Woodhouse

Melissa Evans

Michelle Lyche

So I know you all had a good laugh at all of my embarrassing picture's just be nice next time you see me and thanks Penny, I'll get you back hhhaaahahah. Your turn girls show me what ya got!

So this year we decided to do Kaelyn's 2 year birthday party at Scooter's Jungle. As you can see the picture to the left she looks REALLY happy. I thing the ring pop put her over the edge lol. We had about 50 people who came and got the have a great time bouncing in the bounce house or sliding down a huge slide. I thought that she would be really shy but she wore her crown proudly and went down that slide with no fear. I am even a bit afraid to go down but that did not stop my girls.

Jake always would get on me about having a big party for Kaelyn because I always go crazy for Jessica. Plus Jake loves Scooter's Jungle he even would like to have his birthday party here. ......Now that is in negotiation.lol

We hope that everyone had a great time and we hope to do this again.