Princess AJ's Birthday Party.

Party people hanging out.
Thanks for making Princess AJ's party so fun.

Present time.
Princess AJ's new camera...she's always stealing mine or SuperDashMan's that he got last year for Christmas, so she finally asked for one for her birthday. THANKS GRANDMA!
If your wondering how I got into the picture, my friend Carla (Amy's friend Carissa's mom) from the school took pictures for me.
I look so happy because I am reliving my own childhood through Princess AJ.

Our friendly rooster guest.
He was at the park when we got there and decided to join the party.
He just walked right up to us, didn't mind us a bit.
Princess AJ wasn't too thrilled to have him so close though.

Party Princesses
(and a couple prince's)

Princes AJ's cool cake.

Bye Fall Festival Fish.

This morning I was up early (5am) with Princess AJ because she had wet the bed. Then she remembered we had brought batteries home from Grandma's the night before and wanted me to put the batteries in her new birthday camera. We were in the kitchen doing this when I noticed SuperDashMan's Fall Festival Fish laying lifeless at the bottom of the bowl. He did live long past expected and it was a little bit fun to have a pet for few weeks (almost 4). I poked him to make sure...later when JimDaddy got up he did the flushing.

By the way I was able to go back to sleep for little bit, but it wasn't a full sleep. I am looking forward to some rest later (if I am lucky).

When Prop. 8 passed I was so excited and relieved, but now as all these protests happen I am just saddened. My friend from the kids school told me this morning that they were planning a protest at an LDS church up in LA and I immediately thought of the temple...I was very worried.
As soon as I got home I turned on the news and found out that sure enough there is a protest planned to be at the LA temple today. I was shocked and hurt and had to call and tell JimDaddy... I couldn't get a hold of him so I called a friend. I was shaking while on the phone...I was/am just so upset.
It hurts that they would do something like that somewhere that is so sacred to us.

Halloween & Other Happenings

Okay, so I left off with GameBoy scoring his 1st goal, but a lot has happened since then.
That night we went to the ward Halloween party...the kids had fun playing with their friends& eating. Charles let SuperDashMan borrow one of his past costumes, they were both characters from a Narnia movie. Princess AJ kept going back for donuts, but would only eat the top. I had a scare with Baby J. He was in the nursery playing (an adult was present) I went to check on the other kids...when I went back he wasn't there. I found him in heaven, playing with balls in the CH.














Sunday 10/26- We went to my brothers in Mission Viejo for dinner and to see my nephew receive his Eagle Scout award. It ended up being a very long night for the kids, but we were very glad to be there to support him. My Dad was also in town for this (he lives in Texas.)
Monday10/27- Not much exciting.
Tuesday10/28-Had a lot of help from others. JimDaddy worked early and I didn't feel like taking him to work so early, so I asked my mom if she could drop us off at school in the morning. I just had to walk home after I signed in Princess AJ to preschool.
Later my neighbor was coming home and saw that I was walking to go pick up Amy she asked if I wanted to borrow her car. She also let me borrow her car for the later pickups. Later she shared pomegranetes with us. It was very exciting for me because I hadn't had that since I was a little kid. My kids on the otherhand weren't as excited as I was. Thanks!














Wednesday10/29- This was the last day of school for the week because of staff development days Thursday & Friday. Princess AJ had a class party-they got to trick or treat around their room. Then there was a school Halloween parade that we watched. GameBoy didn't feel like wearing his costume to school, but he was still in the parade. After school we went to Grandma & Grandpa Jenkins to fix part of SuperDashMan's costume (we also played some Wii). Next we went home to get ready to go to the Fall Festival at Grandma's school. Grandma got all the grandkids tickets to use there. Thank You Grandma! GameBoy & SuperDashMan came home with goldfish that they won there. They were so excited. JimDaddy thought they wouldn't last overnight , but they did. Last night(11/2) there was a mishap when JimDaddy was cleaning out the bowl one of the fish jumped into the garbage disposal.
This is the same fish that JimDaddy said he saw nearly jumping out of the bowl a couple of times. Needless to say JimDaddy couldn't save the fish, but then he grossed me out and turned on the disposal. I had to tell GameBoy because it was his fish. The other fish looks lonely now.
Thursday10/30- No school and I was babysitting. Crazy me I went to Wal-mart with all of them. We got fish food, laundry soap & quarters (with one trip to the bathroom). Thursday night/Friday morning Amy woke up throwing up.
So...Friday10/31- We didn't do anything, we let Princess AJ rest all day. After JimDaddy got home from work we went to Grandma & Grandpa Jenkins for pizza dinner & trick or treating. Princess AJ stayed behind to help pass out candy with Daddy and Grandma & Grandpa.
Saturday11/1- I went to help with prop. 8 stuff in the morning and took Baby J. with me. On the way home he threw up in the car. I was getting breakfast ready after we got home and he continued to throw up ( the same as Princess AJ had about a couple days before). JimDaddy went to work and Grandma took GameBoy and SuperDashMan to the Soccer game.
Guess who was next to get sick?...SuperDashMan.
I called JimDaddy and he was able to get off work early to come home and help me out. Later that night we (GameBoy, Princess AJ and I) went to get some groceries.
We encountered some great service. One guy was cleaning the area where they give out samples, but it was too late for that. We walked by a couple times and he ended up giving us some granola bars and fruit drink. The guy helping us check out let me use a 2nd coupon , so I ended up getting $11 dollars off my total. As we were loading up in the car we were talk about how we hadn't had dinner yet then Princess AJ says "I don't have any energy". Rewind to earlier that afternoon she asked me "why do we eat?" I told her to give our bodies energy to learn & grow.
Yesterday-Only some of us went to church...the non sick ones.
JimDaddy cooked an early turkey dinner...what a great man I have!
This morning Princess AJ woke up early with wet pants, then an hour or 2 later GameBoy woke up sick , then I felt it coming on. Lucky for all of us JimDaddy was off today. He was doing laundry and dishes from last night super early this morning while GameBoy and I were sick. I haven't thrown up since this morning, but I still feel yucky. Our Saturday (11/1) morning breakfast.