Car Shopping

I hate it. Oh my gosh it's the worst job in the world if you ask me. My lease is up in September so I figured we should start looking now in order to not rush our decision. Well I have been on this kick to try and lower our debt with me going to school so instead of going new we thought maybe we should just buy a used vehicle. Problem #1 I need the room for transporting with the daycare kids. #2 It's cheaper to lease a new vehicle. Well we wasted our whole day today looking and test driving. Well I test drove the 2009 Dodge Journey.........I LOVE IT, well seeing its so new there are no rebates or discounts on it, so then I figured lets stay with the Grand Caravan thats right in our price range that we want but do I really want the same exact vehicle? I would like to downsize in vehicle size if possible. So we didn't go with that option either so we talked about it on the way home and then thought lets try used. Well jeepers kreepers.....we drove a Honda Pilot and we really liked it, but man they want a fortune for that even and its used. I think come September I will be just footing it. LOL

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I would love to hear what you all have to say and please no offense to anyone Do NOT suggest a Hyundai. Don't get me wrong they look like nice vehicles, but I have learned with the Dodge Caravan they are a dime a dozen and the Hyundais are even worse in that catagory. I know a vehicle is the worst investment you can make, so I don't want to really make a mistake and go that route.

Zachary loved shopping for cars and is disappointed we aren't getting the pilot, but we have to make the smart move from now on, not just because we want it, or it looks cool. So please help me out here if you can.

Zachary's Birthday

Happy Belated Birthday to our baby. Ok he isn't a baby anymore he turned 5 on Friday, and boy did he get to celebrate. Yeppers he had stuff going on Friday, Saturday, & Sunday. (Can we say spoiled? LOL) Well we celebrated Zachary's birthday Friday night by letting him choose what he wanted to eat and he originally chose Chili's, but they had a 45-60 min wait, and it was already 7:45 pm because we had soccer for Marissa & baseball for Zachary. So his second choice was Applebee's. On Saturday we had a birthday party at Polish Falcons Bowling for all his little preschool friends. I myself was shocked at how well some of these 4-5 yr olds could bowl. We had about 4-5 of them get strikes. I can't even get a strike! I will post a couple pictures from our weekend and Zachary on his birthday all ready for school. (I will be specific with the pictures I post because I don't know if other parents want their children posted on the internet.)

All the pictures of Marissa have a child in it with her so until I ask a couple parents if they mind, I won't have any pics of her to post. If I could just learn how to edit/crop pictures I could do that, but I am not a very computer technical person.

I'm truly a blonde

I forgot to add the pictures so here they are of the baseball practice.

First Baseball Practice

Last night we where finally able to have our first baseball practice for Zachary's team. Last weeks got rained out both times and thought for sure last nights would to considering it started raining here about 3 and practice was at 5. Zachary did pretty good considering it was his first time. He doesn't quite get the concept that every ball doesn't have to be thrown to him first. He is def. the smallest kid on the team and so cute trying to stay up with the others, but his little legs just can't do the job. I believe from listening to the parents heckle the coach that all the other players are return players so I hope that doesn't discourage our little guy and I hope the kids don't make fun of him or tease him because then me as a parent will have to stand up and say a few things. We all have been there at some point being a first timer, or not the greatest athlete, but come on lets not teach our children to say mean and hurtful things. I am worried about his catching the ball seeing he moves out of the way and I could see some of the moms/dads making faces when that happened. I was bumming as a parent because we are just so proud that he wants to try this we don't care if he is the next Derek Jeter or not he is a star in our eyes. So everyone please wish Zachary luck in a successful first season of baseball.

Updates will come over the weekend regarding Marissa's first soccer practice of the season. She can't wait, but is kinding bumming because for some reason she had her team switched. Someone had mentioned it could be because a kid that played last year isn't playing this year and it was his grandfather that sponsored the team. I hope thats the case because she was pretty close with her previous teammates and they all knew how each other moved and where the league champs last year.

He's all registered

Oh my gosh........my baby......yepper I said my baby Zachary is all registered for kindergarten. I had to take him on Monday and it was kinda a sad day, but yet a joyous day for me. I had mixed feelings but am ok now but just wait till the first day of school I will probably be a wreck.

Anyway, we went in and of course Zachary knew a bunch of people there so he wasn't afraid or nerveous. Once he saw his Aunt Lisa he was real happy. When it came time to take him from me for the testing in the gym he just got up and went. I thought for sure he was going to be hesitant but he wasn't. I got to see some of the testing he was having done, and mentioned to the testers about things going on with him and his other evaluations and they noted all that. Well the next day someone from the school contacted me and agreed with my concerns and they are going to do some more testing to find out the exact type of class room Zachary needs to be in. They are thinking just a smaller class with a aid or two to help keep him on track. Finally someone else sees what we are going through and dealing with.

Well as I was getting Zachary back into the van after it was all done, he says to me "Mom how come you didn't take any pictures of me? You always take pictures of things." I couldn't believe I had forgotten my camera. I was mad at myself but didn't want him to see it, but as usual he doesn't miss a trick. So maybe after all he is smarter than we all think. LOL

Gosh....we have to just love those little apples in our eyes no matter what they say or do. They are just so unpredictable and amazing with what they say and come up with.

My Weekend

Hello all....This past weekend I was able to do some catch up on my scrapbooking. I got about 7-8 pages done and 1 card. I figured why not share a few of my favorites, and you can get a feel for what kind of scrapper I am. I would love to scrap everyday, but with our busy lives and life in general that gets in my way. So my work from the weekend goes like this:

Saurini Florida Vacation- from when we went to Disney in April 07

Soccer- Marissa's team won the championship in 07.

Washington Nationals Baseball- We went to DC to visit our Friends the Acta's (Manny is the manager for the Nationals) and we had the best time. It was amazing to be able to do the things we did, I guess it really does pay to know someone. We saw parts of the stadium that the general public never sees (I didn't scrap those pictures because we where asked to not share that info to general public, which I totally understand)


Harley Davidson- Zachary loves to sit on Papa's Mo-Mo. These where from 06 I believe. Yes I am way behind, I will catch up soon I made that promise to myself.

Preschool- Zachary on his first day of preschool for the 2 yr old program. He is so tiny looking back at him, then again he doesn't look much bigger now and to think he is going to kindgarten in September.

Jordan Fall Festival- your typical carnival type event. Kids love it, and we always meet up with friends we haven't seen in awhile.

Gingerbread house making- This was gingerbread house making for Zachary's 3 yr old preschool. Marissa loves helping in do the gingerbread house, which is good because he looses the attention on it real quick. They did a great job.

Coloring Eggs- This was coloring easter eggs, and who was going to color more. I made an even amount for them to color each, but it still had to be a competition. I just enjoy the fact that they are together and learning from each other.

(Sorry the pictures didn't load in the order I typed about them. They are pretty easy to figure out though)

Adjusting to new times

Wow, I have been trying to update this more often, but with my time schedules, I am failing. So just as a heads up I will only be updating 1-2 week, unless something really good or exciting is going on in our lives. I started a new little guy with mydaycare, and that means I have to get up early (I'm not a morning person) and Marissa has her dance 3x week preparing for her recital, Zachary starts baseball Friday night, and Marissa will have soccer and softball soon enough too. Then starting in June I will be going to school every other Friday/Saturday/Sunday. I will be leaving Friday afternoon and not returning till Sunday night. I will miss the family, while gone but it will be easier for all of us instead of getting home around 7-8 at night go to bed get up and leave at 6 am again for school.

Rob and I are also trying to plan a little get away to NYC (again) this summer and are looking for a different hotel to stay in. We normally stay at the Sheraton Manhatten or Sheraton Towers. Does anyone have any other suggestions? He likes to be right in Time Squares (which is the most expensive area). I'm kinding bumming because we where suppose to go to LasVegas to visit his brother and see the busy city, but the wonderful airlines are charging a fortune for the airfare and we refuse to pay those crazy prices. So any suggestions would be great from all you wonderful readers out there.

I will post some pics over the weekend from Zachary's first baseball practice. He is so tiny, so I can imagine what he is going to look like out there.