Funny kids!

Dimitri is so funny. Yesterday he was saying he didn't like something I can't remember what it was but he said. "I don't like the damn....." so of course after Alex and I silently laugh we tell him that damn is a bad word and he shouldn't say that word. He told us that he didn't say it, that he had said HAM....omgosh what a hoot. Smart kid.

Eleni is into the hitting phase too now. When she gets mad...and oh she has her mom's temper...she hits. The more you tell her don't hit, the more she hits. So yesterday I actually put her in timeout for hitting me. SO FUNNY. I sat her down and folded her legs and told her its not ok to hit and walked away. Oh man you would've thought I'd hurt her she cried so hard. Is it too early for timeout?

Finally!!!

I got a call Friday from my cousin Killoe saying he got Alex a job at the oil rig he works at. He starts October 15th and will be working 7 days on and 7 days off. So I'll be down in Salt lake as long as the weather will let me pretty much every other week now. We still don't know where we will settle, his job is in Baggs, Wy until Dec and then in Jan he will work in Rock Springs, WY. We are going to take a drive and check out Pinedale, Rock Springs and some other towns. From what I've heard I would like Pinedale but I'll see once we get there. I'm excited to say I'M QUITTING my job to be a stay-at-home mom like I want.

Weird

So last night Alex put both cats in their room at about 9:30pm. Somehow, someway our cats were crawling on us at 2:00am...either they figured out how to open the doors themselves or something freaky happened. Alex says he shut the door and it opened, so he shut it again and made sure it couldn't open.....WEIRD!!!!

Beginner's Luck!

this last weekend we went to Lake Fontenelle up by Kemmerer. It was Eleni's first time camping and Dimitri's first time fishing. It was fun. I'm so glad Eleni walks now, it makes it easier to do fun things. So Alex, George, Pam and Mitri went fishing while I stayed in the trailer (Hollywood as one fellow camper called it cuz it's so big) with Eleni so she could take a nap. Pam caught a nice 17" trout and as they were getting ready to leave Mitri caught a fish. It was a 21" 4 lb trout...Alex had a hell of a time reeling it in with a dinky kid pole LOL. I would have loved to have seen that. But Dimitri was so excited and he keeps asking when we will eat it. I love that kid.
Dimitri's latest thing is power rangers. Don't know why. But it is. He has even named each of us a character. He is red, Al is blue, Yia Yia is yellow, I'm pink, Eleni is white, George is purple and Tom is black (he says cuz the black guy is mean..lol). Eleni loves dolls and anything that has to do with them. They both crack us up.

Bad Words

So the other day Dimitri asked me, "Mommy, when I get bigger can I say bad words and not get hot sauce...like YiaYia?" So funny. He cracks me up. I told him that he can say them when he gets bigger like daddy but its still not nice to say them.
Little side note: He is an echo....I seriously have to think about what I'm saying before I say it now. He's repeated a couple of words I shouldn't have said myself.

I'm going to SLC tonight for my ARUP interview tomorrow...I'm pretty sure I'll get offered that job but I'm not so sure that's the one I want. I'm hoping the other places I've interviewed for will offer me the position and that ARUP will be my "just in case" job.

Happy Birthday Eleni

August 29th a year ago I had my baby girl. I can't believe she's already 1. Man how time flies when you get older.

Holy Cow...I mean Buffalo!!

Alex got the once in a lifetime chance to hunt for buffalo. Sept 1 at 4:30 pm Alex got it (Carmichael is what they named him when they were scouting). This thing is HUGE! There is no other way to explain it. It took them two hours, 2 saws, and 3 knives later to gut and cut the thing up. He (Carmichael) is 1/2 inch short of the world record. His horns are 15.5 inches long and 15 inches around the base. I'm excited to say that after this hunting season (3 elk, 3 deer, 3 antelope, 1 buffalo and maybe a couple of bears) we won't have to buy any meat at all for the next year. I will post pics later.

Oh and props to all the single parents out there! I had the kids for the weekend by myself and oh man was I ready for Alex to come back.

Allergic reaction

Yesterday morning before I went to work we noticed Dimitri's face, lips, and peepee were swollen so badly he couldn't even say certain words like butterfly. So I took him into the ER and they basically just gave him some benedryl and cortisol. The dr didn't know for sure what had caused him to have the reaction. By the afternoon the swelling went down with the help of two more doses of benedryl. This morning though, Dimitri's face and foot was a little swollen (not like yesterdays thank goodness) and he had some rashes on the back of his legs that look like rings. But after a dose of benedryl (thank goodness for that stuff) it went away. We still don't know why this is happening and the only thing we can think of is that he was playing in a flower bed Wednesday night so it could be a weed he touched or a bite.

I'm New!

Alright Kars and Nate. I see how cute your blogs are and I want to have one too. So hopefully I can let people know more about me and my family and how we are doing.