Memories

I have been thinking a lot about the past and focusing on all the good times I had when I was growing up. A lot of those memories involved my grandfather, Andy. My pop pop died in 2003 at the age of 56, way too soon. He was such a great person. He loved his family so much, he would do anything for them. After all this time I still feel sad about his death. I have grieved and time has helped so much but I don't think I can ever be over it. I can still remember his smile and remember his laugh but I can not remember the way his voice sounded. I can not find any videos with him whatsoever and it is driving me insane.
I was pop pop's little girl growing up. I could of killed someone and he would of come up with some excuse for it and I would of gotten off, lol. I remember one time when I was maybe 6-7 and I had taken $20 from my mom's purse before going to his house. Later at his house my mom had found out and my grandfather told my mom that I didn't steal it, I was just holding it for her :)
I am really glad he got to meet Destiny(pic above). He died when she was 9 months old. I wish he could of the met the rest of his great grandkids. So far he has 5 with the newest addition being Ryleigh Ann, my cousins baby girl. She was born 2 days ago :) We named our son, Andrew, after him and plan on calling him Andy for short. He would of loved to see them and they would of equally loved him.
I wholeheartedly believe that everything happens for a reason, even if it is bad and ugly. However, I am still trying to find the reason as to why he died so young. It shouldn't of happened.
He had this poodle named Boomer. Boomer could be so mean...lol. If the kids fought in front of him he would flip out and if pop pop said the word "bath" around him he would get so mad...lol After pop pop died we thought that Boomer we go shortly after because they were so close. My Aunt Dawn ended up taking in Boomer who was like a million years old in dog years. We were so surprised that he lived for so long. He passed away last year and is now in doggy heaven :)
One of the many reasons why I want to move back to Maryland is because I want our kids to have the same relationship with their grandparents that I had with my grandfather. I miss my family and time is precious and we don't know how much time we truly have here on Earth. On the other hand it is so selfish of me. What about my husbands family? They live in Colorado and in California and he should be able to spend as much time with them as possible. Why does it have to be so complicated? I wish everyone could just move to Texas lol So if we never move to one of those states our kids will not have a close relationship with our family and that makes me feel so bad because they are truly missing something. So I guess the ultimate question is what do we do?

(Sorry this is so disorganized, I have so many thoughts and just need to get them out)

We won a vacation!

Over the weekend we visited a resort, Silverleaf at Canyon Lake. We were to attend a 90 minute tour of their resort and afterwards we were to win a prize. Silverleaf is a timeshare company. The resort was really nice but it took 4 hours for the presentation. Timeshares are not so bad. This company offers extras in addition to a week in a condo. We would of bought one but we don't have the money right now so once we get the money we will be definitely going back to buy one. So after the presentation and them trying to pressure us into buying a timeshare we were sent to another room to get our gifts. We ended up with a 3 day trip to Las Vegas and a 5 day trip to Hawaii. We want to go to Hawaii in September to celebrate our wedding anniversary and are super excited. The tour alone was worth the vacations and you can visit their site to request a tour to get the prizes.

Mother's Day

The puppy in the picture is our new puppy Allen. He is 6 months old and a sheppard mix like Dixie. I woke up to these beautiful flowers on Mother's Day. Mike and the kids also got me a jewerly box and made me breakfast in AND cleaned the house :D It was the best Mother's Day ever. The day before we had gone to Six Flags Fiesta Texas and I had gotten some sun.
The kids last day of school is in a few weeks. They are happy about getting out of school and Destiny is super excited about going into the 1st grade. She is doing really well. She can read, write, and spell now. I am so proud of her! Andrew is standing on his own, but to scared to walk.

A week of firsts....

This past week has been very interesting. All of the kids experienced a new "first"
On Saturday morning, Madison woke us up to tell us that her "heart was broken" She even had both of her hands on her heart. It was too cute. It wasn't really broken, she had fell.
As you can see MJ loves matchbox cars. It is odd not too see him carrying one around. On Sunday, MJ thought he would be superman and jump off of the couch. When he jumped off the couch he landed on his hands and the matchbox car hit him in the nose. There was a lot of blood coming out and I thought I was going to be sick. Good thing Mike was here to clean it up. I felt so bad for him. He had his first bloody nose.
The day after MJ and Andrew collided into each other and the stupid car ended up hitting Andrew in the nose. Andrew then had his first bloody nose, don't worry it wasn't bad at all.
Finally, yesterday Destiny finally read us a whole book for the first time. We were and still are so proud of her. The extra tutoring is really helping her and it goes to show that all kids do not need to be medicated when they have ADHD.

Happy Birthday Destiny!

Destiny turned 7 years old last week. We had her party the week before because her birthday was Easter weekend. On her actual birthday we went and saw Monsters vs Aliens 3-D then went to Outback for dinner. Instead of the traditional cake, we ordered some cupcakes from Cupcake Junction and Destiny had a strawberry cheesecake cupcake with sprinkles and a High School Musical ring on top, yummy! We got her a guinea pig, Oreo. I will post pictures soon of her.

Cute kids contest!

I entered all of the Sanchez kids on a cute kids contest. They are on page 2 so go and vote for them please! Click on her banner to get to the page for voting.

Here are the details:

Please follow the contest rules for the votes to count...

You must vote for one BOY and one GIRL or your votes will be deleted!
(if you have already voted and havent done this, please do so today or i will delete your vote tonight)

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Votes will only count through picture comments.


NO MAMMA DRAMA, this is a fun contest ;)

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Overwhelmed

I have been feeling overwhelmed lately. I started my classes last week. I am so lost in my chemistry class. All those equations and stuff like that. Plus finding the time to do my homework, studying and projects every week for both of my classes.
Andrew has been clinging to me like velcro lately and Madison and MJ have been sooooo cranky. Sometimes I want to run away or hide in a room and lock the door.
On top of finding time to study, take care of kids, the house and my business I now need to find time to exercise. Next week I am having a test done to see if I have diabetes. I am showing more than one sign of having it so I really need to get that done and in order to get rid of it I need to start exercising more and eating healthier. I need a micro manager. Yup, someone to plan my every step then I can check off the list of things I need to do. I would do it myself but just making the list is overwhelming. Great Andrew is awake from his 10 minute nap. Did I mention he hasn't taken a decent nap in over a week?