Quick blog..it's late

Went on a picnic over the weekend. These are just a few pics from that. Ash took the pic of me and peyton. ha Good time. Both girls really enjoyed it. Peyton has been begging to go on a picnic. They were ready to go after about an hour though.

I took the entire day off Saturday! It was really needed. I had to do another open house on Sun. though. uggh. So I didn't get the whole weekend off, which I do need to do soon! Be nice not to have to worry about work for a whole weekend. Was gonna try to this weekend, but ended up scheduling 2 appointments on Sat. Maybe I can take the whole day Sun. off.

Peyton story....She was walking into the other room, turned around too late and smacked her head into the wall. Started crying. Told her to come here and let me look. Tears a flowing...I kissed it and made it better. Told her she was fine but she might want to go make sure the wall was ok. She looked at the wall then looked at me and said, "mommy, actually the wall can't talk". Steve and I busted out laughing. She busted out in tears again. I asked her why she was crying, and she said "because your laughing at me". We told her, "no, we aren't laughing at you, you made a joke so we laughed." She giggled and then said, "knock, knock". LOL!!! We laughed our asses off again and so did she. Then she got serious, and said"knock knock!" hahaha Too funny. We gladly abliged with letting her finish her knock knock joke. Which is this. Knock knock. Whose there. Banana. Banana who. Banana you glad I didn't say banana head. hehe

Makes no sense. But funny.

She has been testing us lately with her attitude and a few other things. Cleaning her room, leaving her shoes out, I had to cut bubble gum out of her hair yesterday. Now she is missing a big clump of hair. Leaving her movies laying around and losing them, not listening and just all around sassing me. We now have a new time out chair set up in the dining room to make it less fun then the corner where she could see the tv. Plus I'm tired of hearing her crying in my ear.

Otherwise...staying busy. Birthday is Friday. 37. Damn, I am getting old. But so is Andi. One advantage to having a twin. You know you are not the only one getting old.

Auntie S. give Uncle Richard our love. Hear he is going to be doing chemo if he hasn't started already. We are thinking of you guys.

Have a closing on the 19th of May! Thank GOD! Been since Jan. that I got my last paycheck. Have I mentioned I need referrals!!!! Come on people! Something...anything!

Hope that satisfies the blog folk for the week.

Your weekly update from your friendly host...

So...how about it? Good week? I had a pretty good week. Friday couldn't get here soon enough...no not because it's the weekend and all that jazz...cause really what do I care if it's the weekend...I work all weekend anyway. Friday was FINALLY payday for Steve. uggh. It takes forever for the next pay period to roll around. He gets paid every 2 weeks but for 10 years we were used to getting paid every week. It has been something like 2 years we have been doing the every 2 week thing, and it just sucks. ha We were so broke all week, we had to spend the garage sale money that we made..which we were saving to go to Shreveport next month as a get a way trip for me and steve. Now we don't have it. ;( Now we can't go on our trip. ;( Man oh man. Money has been tight. There is just a lot of extra stuff going on the past month, and May...oh my gosh! Going to be even worse.





Otherwise...really nothing to tell for the week. Not a terribly busy week, but did have some good leads and work. Hey ya'll! I need referrals! Bring 'em on!





Peyton had a good week. Lots of bike riding but lots of rain too. Which made her mad that she couldn't ride her bike.





Let me see if I can find some pics I haven't put on here yet.




Ah yes...The princess sleeps. Her sweet cousin, Sydney, gave Peyton this princess mesh deal that goes over the bed. She loves it. And doesn't she look too sweet. I did have to threaten to take it down if I found her playing with it before going to bed. I walked in 3 nights in a row to check on her and she had that mesh wrapped all around her. I was scared she would tangle herself and choke or cut off bloodflow or something. So, it worked. She hasn't since I told her I would take it down. But I still frantically check on her every night.

That's all the pics I have. Maybe one day Andi will get our Easter pics to us so I can post some. ANDI!!!!!

Have a good week all!

Happy Easter

Well. How was y'alls easter? Ours was great. I am sorry to admit we didn't go to church this year. We at least try to goto the program they have at my Mom's church, but didn't make that because I worked all day. And then this morning we hung out as the little family that we are. My favorite.

Saturday was an Easter egg hunt at Steve's folks church. I had to work so Steve took Peyton there. I got to work and the receptionist there said to just go. If there was a call she would call me on my cell. Our new rule is that if you are on floor duty you have to be at the office. So I took off and went to the church for a while. I kind of wish I had just stayed at work. ha I'll tell you why in a min. It was a nice surprise for Peyton because she cried when she left in the morning to go and I wasn't going too. Which made me cry. uggh. So when I showed up and surprised her and steve she was excited. I missed the egg hunt but they had bounce houses and cupcakes. Here are a few pictures to tell the rest of the story....

Soooo...Peyton was happy to see me. Playing in the bounce houses.

And picking up Easter eggs...

Posing for pictures...

Eating cupcakes...

Then the melt down. She was walking around barefoot because she was going back and forth to the different bounce houses. She stubbed her toe on the concrete and was bleeding with skin hanging off. She was crying. Ok. Don't blame her. Tried cleaning it off, she freaked. The nice lady at the church ran in and got me a band aid. K...Peyton, for some odd reason, does not like bandaids. She freaks out about them. Hasn't let me put one on her for a couple of years now. Weird fear....but a fear nonetheless. So she is screaming, freaking out, and asked her to please let me put her shoe on her. She screamed and cried. We are now into full blown meltdown. Kicking and screaming. Here is the end result of this little excursion.

Yes, Steve carrying her off kicking and screaming. She did not want to have to leave but wouldn't put her shoes on, wouldn't let us put on a bandaid, clean her wound or anything. Then she wouldn't walk to the car. So steve picked her up and carried her away. Steve's mom said she had people from the church calling her asking if she was ok later that afternoon. Oy...she is now known as the cryer. ha

She does this about once a year. This was a pretty bad one, but she has had one worse one when she was about 2. That one was BAD. Took me and Steve both to hold her down to get her in her carseat.

Other than that...it was a nice time. I, personally was fine with having to go back to work after that. haha Let steve deal with the cranky kid. So I did. Then Steve calmed her down and she actually let him put on a bandaid when we got home!!!! I was SHOCKED!

Steve's folks wanted her to come over after the church function, but due to circumstances of our little monster freaking out, she couldn't go right away. So steve too her back later. She did very well and stayed there for dinner too. Which was nice, because after steve went with me to show a crazy man a house, (because I didn't feel safe alone), he and I went out and had Sushi. We tried a different place this time and it was very good. We tried a new one which was very spicey! Can't remember the name of it now, but wow. My stomach was burning for a few hours after. But it sure was yummy. We also finished getting all of our Easter day festivity stuff. Nice day overall.

Today, woke up and made my family some yummy Texas breakfast. Biscuits and gravy, bacon, and eggs. Steve took a picture to save the memory because I don't cook breakfast that often.

Love breakfast food, but am not enough of a morning person to get up and feel like cooking or eating for that matter. But on Easter, I will do it. Then Peyton checked out her basket and hunted easter eggs in the house. Which is a tradition we started last year.

Then after our morning festivities I saw a perfect window of opportunity for a NAP! And I took it! Not long enough, but a nap nonetheless. ;)

Off to Andi's we went for good food and our crazy easter egg hunt. It was raining earlier in the day, so we had to all wear these pretty blue booties so we didn't ruin our shoes and andi's house from the wet and sorta muddy ground. Here are some pics.

Good times. Happy Easter, and have a good week.

Lots of pics to make up for lack of blog

Britt goofin' off


Ash hammin' it up



Peyton hammin' it up




Ally goofin' off.


All the cutie pies

Addy not enjoying the bluebonnets


Peyton not enjoying the bluebonnets

Peyton and her bud Olivia on our playdate

Lovin' the slide at the playscape

WEEEEE

Ok...I am sorry. I have gotten a lot of complaints about my lack of blogging. Do ALL the pictures make up for it?

Look. Between work, playdates, garage sales, and more work... things have been out of control lately. We had sooo much stuff to go through for the garage sale, so almost every evening the past week has been dedicated to that. Then garage sale fri. and garage sale sat. Work on saturday. Take the stuff over on Thurs. Showed a house on Thurs evening. Went to the office today to try and catch up on some stuff I had to do, but ended up having to show houses for most of it. So I had to stay late to finish the must finish items today.

So really. Has been nutts. Listed a house though and wrote an offer. And I have picked up 3 good buyers this week. Working on 2 lease folk too. (oh joy!!) But hey...$$ is $$. I will take it even if it's just a little bit.

Birthday galore lately. Brittany, Kevin, Kyle, Steve's mom, Steve wingate, Bridget, All in a 2 week period. Easter is next week. Have to get ready for that. It will also be one hell of a weekend next weekend too. Easter egg hunt at Steve's folks church, floor duty in the afternoon and mom's church program. ALL on Saturday. Sunday....church??, then to Andi's.

April is open house month. So I have the pleasure of holding open houses every sunday this month except on easter.

Did I mention things are busy!

Ok. I will quit complaining.

Peyton is doing well. She is a little monster sometimes. Yesterday I'm on the way to the garage sale, and Steve called me...(who was already there at the garage sale) Well....She was ever so kind to just drop by and bring everybody donuts. And offered to take Peyton for the day while we were doing the garage sale. HOW FREAKIN' SWEET! So she took off with Peyton for lots of fun at the Rogers' house. Then she brought her back to me. Really...it was so appreciated. Peyton wouldn't have been fun to keep up with during the garage sale because she had nobody to play with since all the other kids were in school. Thanks Jess!

Then...Jess sent me an email that I got this morning. I am going to copy and paste it below:

Entitled: Highlight of my day with Peyton

1. She was supposed to be named Brooklyn, but her daddy didn't like that name so she was named Peyton instead.
2. She asked how you spelled "Ryleigh", and thank God I called Aunt Andi to ask before scarring her for life by spelling it incorrectly. (You FREAKS of nature with the "Leigh" crap!)
3. She promised me not to tell her mommy that she got extra chocolate as her way of getting even more. (Did she tell you Ally?)
4. We built 6 puzzles together and she named every star on the Dora puzzles.
5. She LOVED Word World on PBS Kids.
6. She spilled Diet Coke on her dress and insisted it was just an accident all the while taking the straw out of the cup to drink from the bottom of it instead of sipping from the actual cup. Accident...I think not!
7. She drew me a picture of Aladdin. (I will attach this to my blog when I do my Peyton post this weekend.)
8. She covered her ears every time Ava cried and said, "That baby sure is loud." (Does that tell you what kind of days I have?)
9. Jeremy gave her a hug when she got here and he asked her why she was skipping school today. She told him that she didn't go to school and he looked at me like...what? I had to remind him that Peyton just turned 4 and he couldn't believe how tall she was! (He LOVES her and thinks she's so cute. Watch out Ash - you need to come over to "Aunt Jessica's" more often. Peyton is taking over after just one visit! LOL.)
10. She apparently inherited the "snack" gene that all women get because she ate and ate and ate some more! ...and I ate every time that she did. LMAO!
Bonus: She reminded me why every woman needs a little girl in their life!

You guys have a sweet child on your hands.
I enjoyed my time with her, and I hope that she can come over more often.

~ Jessica

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I thought it was so sweet. I hope jess doesn't mind that I put it on here. Thanks Jess. Let me just tell you guys a few things about Jessica. She is really a kind person. She takes care of what needs to be taken care of. Is a great mom and friend. She takes has 3 kids at home and seems to do it effortlessly. You know what I am jealous of. The fact that she awakes at like 6 am and is happy and ready to go! I've heard about it anyway. I haven't witnessed it. I really do wish I could be a "morning person" like that. So anyway...Jess is a great lady. xoxo

The first thing on that email...The name Brooklynn. Did I ever tell you guys this story. Well, I really love that name. And my middle name is Lynn, so it would have been perfect. But our last name is York. So she would have been Brooklynn York. I told Steve we could name her Brook Lynnew York....get it?? (Brooklynn New York all run together. ha) Steve wouldn't have it. But if our last name wasn't York, she would be named Brooklynn. Anyway, I told her about that in the car on Thurs. She remembered it and told Jess about it. The other stuff is just so typical Peyton. Note to all that watch Peyton. She will ask for food all day..and I mean ALL day! You have to learn the art of NOOOO! She will eat anything that you will feed her. She has no control when it comes to food, which is a concern to me. But her food intake has to be closely monitored. It's crazy how much she wants to eat. But Jess didn't do too bad.

What else. Humm...That's it for now. I will try to do better.

Ya'll have a good week.