Ok so it's been a year!

I am a really bad blogger! Wow I hadn't realized that I hadn't posted anything new for awhile. It was really chaotic with the house hunting and then closing,moving,settling in and not to mention my two boys,4 dogs and a husband in a pear tree... Well we found homes for three of our dogs so now we only have one, wow it's so peaceful! We love our house and definitely love our Pool this time of the year.

We are planning on going vacation for a couple days and camping a night or two when Tyler gets out for summer break. I think we'll spend the other nights at my mom and dad's because the kids will love that and we'll probably like the ease of that. We're also going to Massachusetts in July so that should be interesting with the boys on the plane but we'll have a blast once we land! I'll be posting more now since we finally have Internet!! Love you all!

The most magical place on earth!

Jeff took me and the kids for Disneyland for my birthday, it was such a great trip! The first time the kids have been there and the first time Jeff and I have gone together.The kids did great! They were both so excited and so were Jeff and I,we love Disneyland and are big kids too. We spent the whole day there and Dane fell asleep at about 8pm but then woke up a little while later and we finished the night with watching the firework show which was Awesome! Here are some pictures to enjoy! We also went to the beach the next day which was really nice. Next time we are staying longer at each!

What's been going on with us

We have been so busy lately, with Tyler and me both in school things have been hectic. Tyler is doing much better at school,he was kind of having a hard time with actually going into his classroom. Luckily he's gotten over that! Now he lets me drop him off at the front of the school which is kind of sad for me but I know he needs that independence to help him. Dane is growing like a weed! He is starting to talk more but I think I need to have him try to say more stuff so that he's not talking his own language haha. He is still being stubborn about saying Tyler, he will say "school" for Tyler haha.
Jeff's company is going to be starting this new project that will in turn have him get hired on permanently which would be Awesome!
I am still doing school and tearing my hair out while I do it! It is really hard to do online classes being a mom but I'm trying to keep at it.
We have some exciting news! We're going to Disneyland next month for my birthday! I am super excited. Jeff and I both haven't been there for a long time and this will be our first family vacation, so it will be fun!
Here is some pictures of the kids, enjoy!
Love Tiff

Dane is 2 ... now I want another little baby to hold!

Dane is now 2 years old, I miss having a little baby to hold :) We still want to wait maybe another 2 years or 3 till we have another but I sure miss holding those cute,cuddly babies. Here are some pictures from Dane's birthday, we took him and Tyler to the duck park that we always go to.

Tyler's 6.... wow how time flys

Tyler's birthday is on the 2nd, Jeff luckily had the day off so when Tyler got home from school we had dunkin donuts waiting for him. Jeff's dad gave him some presents which Tyler LOVED! He got some paper,some washable paint, and one of those toy cars that can drive on the walls and ceiling. Tyler is still playing with it, which is really good. Then we asked Tyler what he wanted for dinner, he said steak, haha he's one of us :) It was a really good night!
On the 7th, we had a birthday party for him at our house. It was a lot of fun, my sister and her husband and their kids and my mom and dad came and some friends and Tyler's birth mom.He got a lot of presents! We only got him some clothes and two toys because his birthday is so close to Christmas. Here's some pictures to enjoy!



I absolutely loved Tyler's cake, Jeff took some toys and fixed them so it looked really cool because the cake had some flowers on it.




Here's Dane at the end of the night, he fell asleep on Grandma :)

I love this time of year

We decided that us being broke wasn't going to ruin our fun and the kid's fun so we thought maybe a trip to a pumpkin patch would be fun. We get outside and it's HOT! I wanted us to be dressed up cute and sport our winter clothes but no our weather wanted to disagree with me. So we went and I took a lot of pictures, Tyler had so much fun looking for a pumpkin and Dane was a little scared at first but then he loved walking around and looking stuff.

I can only imagine

What it will be like to walk by your side....
Today marks a year since my Grandma passed away,it has gone by so fast and yet it feels like it was just yesterday my mom called me with the news or her passing.I remember talking to her in the hospice room not knowing if she heard me but i'm sure if she didn't then God relayed the message to her when she saw him :)
I remember the funeral very vividly and that it looked like my grandma but her personality and smile truly is what I remember the most. And I realized that she is gone but it in a better place and one day I will be able to talk and listen to her stories again. Till then
" I love you Grandma, I miss seeing your smile, I miss hearing your jokes, I miss the conversations that we had late at night. I remember writing in a card to you shortly before you passed that I missed having you right down the hallway so that I could talk to you.
I will miss that you won't get to see my kids grow up or any of your grandkids grow up
I will miss hearing stories about you and Grandpa,or my mom and dad when they were younger.
I will talk you from time to time at night or during the day, I'm not sure if you can hear me or not but I will keep doing it.
Everytime I pass a taco bell or a boston market I will think of you :)"

Tyler lost a tooth

Tyler has had a loose tooth for 2 days I think and yesterday he had Jeff pull it out with string. He was so brave and wasn't scared at all! He is so happy to have lost a tooth, and he was very happy the "Tooth Fairy" left him some money :)
Here is some cute pictures I took of the kids today.Enjoy!

He loves cars! Any car he will sit there and play with, he loves to make the sounds, Jeff loves that! He even makes the sound of the shift changes!
I think the look here is Enough pictures mom!

New Things

Wow! Things have been crazy lately, it's hard for me to even think sometimes lately. Tyler is in kindergarten now, he's doing great and loves it! He wakes up and is excited to go, which is total opposite of how his dad and I were when we were younger. Also he wasn't feeling good last week and I think that he doesn't know that he can stay home from school, so I'm not going to clue him on that :) Here's some pictures from his first few days.





Dane is learning more and more words,testing our patience, and throwing fits in stores now which is always fun! He is getting so tall and is looking for like a little boy and not a baby anymore.

I started my dental assisting program, I got my books a week late so I had to try to catch up with my assignments as fast as I could. which I did thank goodness! I just finished the first part of it today, so I have a couple days of rest before the next part starts.
Jeff and I and the kids are moving into my great grandma's house on october 1st. We are very excited! It's a very cute small old house, it's two bedrooms and one bath, which will be a little tricky but I think we'll be ok for awhile. It's got a lot of memories for me and my family,my dad grew up in the house on the next street,my mom could see my dad in his front yard from my great grandma's kitchen window. My parents rented the house next door for a little while after they had my oldest brother.
So it will be very neat to live there and have the kids grow up there for a little while. Here's some pictures of us going the house, I will post more and we get settle in.
Peace and Love
Tiffany

Bowling as a family

We went bowling Saturday night for Jeff's company party. It was a lot of fun and we all had a blast-Yes we brought Tyler and Dane! :) Tyler actually got quite a few strikes and beat his own mom at the game. He bowled one game of 108! Jeff and I were so proud of him!

Isn't it Ironic

Well here's an update for you all~
Jeff and I are doing great! Our 3 year wedding anniversary is coming up next week, I can't believe it!
Jeff and I have been together for 5 years now, we've had our rough times and we are a lot stronger in our relationship now. I think it's hard in the first couple years of marriage when you marry young because first off your learning to live with this person and do all cleaning and house chores by yourself! I was so used to my mom doing all that stuff that it was a big wake up call when we moved into our apartment. You mean I have to clean and... Cook?? haha
I catch myself doing a lot of similar stuff like my mom, it makes me laugh sometimes, especially dealing with my kids, I swore when I was younger that when I had kids I would be different and never say the same things to my kids that my mom would say. And sure enough I will catch myself saying those things. It's so funny how when you become a parent that you truly appreciate your parents even more, all the hard work and stress that they must have gone through but you never see that side of your parents when you're little. I never heard my parents stressing about how to pay a bill or put food on the table or taking us kids some place fun.

Anyways back on to our family :) The kids are doing great! Tyler is starting kindergarten on August 4th. He is very excited,we're going to go school shopping soon. Dane is learning so many new things and I can really see his personality shining through, he is getting so tall! He has 8 teeth now, which he loves to have me brush his teeth at night, he LOVES baths! He says "ba" for bath.
Jeff is loving his job at Coca Cola, we're hoping he will get on permanent soon and that will mean benefits and more pay!Yay! I am going to start school soon to become a dental assistant. We're hoping we can buy or first house next year!

We'll that's all for now!
Love Tiffany

When it rains it pours

Wow these past few weeks have been really crazy. First with my dad getting his knee surgery and then all the times of him going to the hospital for the horrible pain he was going through. Jeff's cell phone rang early in the morning, we let it go to voice mail because we didn't recognize the number,it was my brother Brian, Jeff listened to the message. He scared me because he started out saying "Tiffany it's your dad, he's being air lifted to a hospital in phoenix", It was so shocking to hear, not my dad, my dad is superman and can't be hurt or in pain. That's just not how it's supposed to be .I of course started to cry and Jeff was trying to comfort me, I think what scared me the most is my Dad is not a complainer when he's in pain so I was thinking this has to be really bad if he's in that much pain.

They found out it was a kidney stone and it was blocking the passage way to the bladder, so it was getting backed up and causing horrible pain. Due to an idiot of an urologist, my dad was then taken care of by a wonderful urologist. I was talking to my Mom and I told her maybe that had to happen with the jerk so that my dad wouldn't have him as a permanent urologist and have to deal with his attitude and stupidity, and maybe they were meant all along to have that great urologist. I can imagine God having it all in his plan.
My dad is out of the hospital now thank goodness! They made a stint to bypass the passageway so that all that stuff would drain and in 3 or 4 weeks he'll have the kidney stone removed.

Prayer- This has been amazing lately for me, I was praying a lot when Jeff didn't have a job and asking for God to show us the right job for him, then it seemed like a couple days later is when he got the call. It was amazing, sometimes this job seems so good compared to the other jobs he has had that sometimes it seems to good to be true. Jeff really loves working there and he has NEVER loved a job this much.
Then I began praying for comforting about my Grandma's passing, for some reason it has been really saddening to me, I know it's because I want her here to talk to her and tell her the neat stuff that's happening in our lives. I really wanted to tell her about Jeff's new job and hear her excitement and her comforting words. So I began praying that God would give me comforting and then I went to the library last week and picked up a Max Lucado book, it was titled When Christ Comes. It was amazing how this book was perfect for me, it was so interesting to read about how heaven is and all that fun stuff. It also talked about how we shouldn't grieve so much about our loved one's passing if they are saved, that a farmer wouldn't mourn about planting seeds in his ground- so we shouldn't mourn our loved one's passing because they are going to go to heaven with a improved body and we will see them again. It went on to talk about how there's no pain in heaven and that made me think about how wonderful Grandma must feel, her toes and feet won't hurt, her back, her hearing will be awesome,she probably has a bright white smile, dancing around, doing stuff she hasn't done for along time. It's fun to think what her and Grandpa,Grandma Dickson and Uncle John.
Grandma probably would like some Taco bell or Boston market up there :)

I've also been praying about what to do about Dane when I start school, I really don't want to put him into daycare, I will miss him so much and will miss out on all the fun stuff, like him learning new words. I was praying that God would give me wisdom to know what to do, I went to go register for Tyler and came home looked at his school ours, he's all day till 2:20 and wed. he gets out at 11:15, my school goes till 2:30- mon -thur. I can't be 20 minutes late to pick up tyler from school. So I talked to Jeff and showed him and he said well maybe you can wait to go to school to Dane is a little older or in school. Later in the day I was thinking wow maybe that was God's answer to prayer, he knows how much I love being home with the kids. I'm really happy!

A Time for Reflecting

Easter has just passed and it made me really think of what I am grateful for. All the petty stuff we care about sometimes get in the way of what is really important. I was listening to the news and stories on the internet that are just horrible,I can't imagine if it was me going through any of these things. Sometimes I just stare at Dane or Tyler and think how lucky I am. I really try not to loose my patience at Tyler at much and try to let Dane play and give him and Tyler hugs as much as possible.I'm going to start losing weight now and get in good shape for my husband and kids, I know in the long run it's the best thing to do.It's just really hard to do it!
Have a wonderful Day!

The Month of Love

We're approaching Valentine's Day, love is in the air. Jeff and I have went through our up's and downs and we both really appreciate each other. I have fallen in more with him and I know he truly loves me, that security is a wonderful feeling. Of course we have things about ourselves that might get on each others nerves but we each treat each other with respect and honesty and that what has helped us with these past almost 5 years. I am so thankful for him! Especially thse tough times we have had to endure with our Grandma's passing away, putting our puppy down, My uncle passing away and my other uncle 2 years ago. It truly makes to appreciate your loved ones so much more and you don't take life for granted,something can happen so fast and you might not see that person again tomorrow. We say I love you to each other everyday and to our kids.

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day everyone!

Approaching a New Year

Christmas has come and gone and now it's almost 2008. Tyler and I took down the Christmas tree and all the decorations around the house last night. We are so excited to see what God gives us in this new year! So much has happened this past year with Dane,Funerals and puppies. I'm hoping this year goes really well, we will be taking classes, I will start my program,Tyler will start Kindergarten!!!
Hopefully we can get into a house soon and get second vehicle. Maybe by some miracle :)

Tiff

Christmas is almost here

Christmas really has come fast this year, it seems like it was just Halloween. I am very impatient about putting up Christmas decorations so we decorated before thanksgiving. Tyler and I are counting down the days till Christmas and it is so fun seeing him get so excited about it. It brings back so many memories when Jeff and I were little and Christmas was the best thing in the world! Now we really enjoy giving presents instead of receiving, I mean don't get us wrong we love presents. But it truly is special to see our kids and nephews and nieces open up there presents and see their excitement! Loosing both our Grandmothers this year will be tough this Christmas and I'm sure Christmas's to come, I am really struggling with loosing my grandma. I know she wouldn't want me to be dwelling on it and I can hear her now saying "I'm fine, you don't need to worry". Every time I see a grandma looking woman it really saddens me. I've been praying and reading verses to help me, and Jeff tries to help me too :)
Well we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!