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michelle and travis

michelle and travis

michelle, me, adrienne

My Little Nemo

Travis doing his airplane (picture taken a week before passing)

So i posted a blog awhile back about Travis being enrolled in Swim Lessons and how horrible they were in the begining. BUT last night he passed the first level! i know some of you are thinking big deal, but to me its a huge deal and i am so proud of him (i even felt the need to tell him a thousand times while squeezing him and kissing him). So here is how it played out. CSP never takes Travis to swim class, but last night he says to me "i will take him so you can get to bed early". I thought to myself, i must have the best bf, for letting me go to bed early after working all day. Sweet... bedtime at 330 here i come. Then i hear from a friend that MJ has passed away and i cant sleep. 4:05 my bedroom door flys open and Travis comes running into my room to tell me that he has passed and he got his medal. Tears are building up in my eyes (not sure if its because i missed it, and i never miss anything when it comes to my son, or because i am so proud of him) but i cant let travis see me cry soooo i start squeezing him and kissing him and telling him how proud i am of him. i think he asked me about 30 times "mommy are you proud of me?", so i keep telling him "of course mommy is proud of you".

and on a side note... travis has been swimming all by himself, those trips to the "fun" pool were well worth it...

now i have my own nemo... just hope he doesn't go touching any "butts"!


Oh yeah really wish i had a picture to post but like i said, i missed seeing him get his medal :(

Molting

This morning, as i am half asleep making my lunch for work (while the rest of you are just falling into a deep sleep)... i happen to look into the glass aquarium our tarantula calls home and see this:



He or She, had molted (sp). Gross, I know! The legs in the upper portion of the picture is the part that it has shed... I am ok with this "pet" as long as it stays in the cage, but when CSP decides that its funny to hang the legs in my face... NOT COOL!

June trip to San Diego

First let me start off saying i apologize for being MIA. Work, traveling to CA, and my "boys" have kept me very very busy.

But recently we (CSP, Travis and i) have been spending almost all my days off in San Diego, and our last trip was probably the best so far. We borrowed CSP's moms PT Cruiser (which i love), packed it with pillows, blankets, food and CAMPING GEAR (can you tell we were most excited about camping?). The 5-6 hour drive to San Diego was better than i had pictured it being, esp since Travis and I are so spoiled with flight benefits, and Travis even said a few times "this is taking to long, i want to fly". But eventually like a good child, he feel asleep. There is nothing more precious than a baby sleeping... even though Travis will tell you that he is not a baby, he is a big boy...

my "baby" sleeping

On our drive out there, CSP decided that he WAS going to go scuba diving, and there were no ifs, ands or butts about it. Soooo I caved in, like i always do and drove him down to the scuba shop bright and early friday morning and sent him off...

my sexy man in his wet suit... love it!

The main reasons we went to San Diego, were to celebrate my lil brothers 15th birthday and to go camping. Brian aka B aka Uncle B, decided that he wanted to go to Islands for his Pre-Bday (good choice), so us kids took him out. CSP decided that he couldnt wait to sit down and have a drink, so i found him at the bar... but low and behold, i found Travis with him.

isnt he a peach

i think CSP is giving him tips on what is a good thing to order... get mama a midori sour baby... :)


So after 2 days of eating out with the Family for B's birthday weekend... we headed out to Carlsbad State Beach and went CAMPING. I think i was the most excited... until it was time to sleep in the tents... note to self next time bring air mattress. As cold as the water was, i could not keep CSP and Travis out of the water. We rented boogie boards and they had an absolute blast. Travis wiped out a few times, but he is such a good sport and stood right up, wiped the salt water out of his eyes, and walked right back out into the water.

Travis and Daddy (CSP) getting ready to boogie board, although Travis kept calling it surf boarding...


Travis, i think the board is as big as him :)

riding the waves

So, i am a huge fan of being around good company. I love large crowds, i love lots of noise, i love chaos, i even welcome uninvited guests, but uninvited guests who steal my food, or creep me out, i am not a fan of.

-So dear squirrel please do not chew through our luggage to steal food, or steal the dogs food off the table again.

-And to you dear lizard, you scared the hell out of me and i would like some warning next time you decide to come to our "watering hole" that our cooler so generously made for you...

the uninvited

other than that nights around the fire, making smores, sleeping with waves crashing behind you, and watching my family have a blast made my visit so well worth it! Now the drive home was a whole other story...

Girly Vacations

So, my baby sister turned 18, finished high school, got her drivers license and got a new car. If that doesnt make me feel old, then i dont know what will. Adrienne and I decided that we would use her birthday as an excuse to have a girls trip. So, 3 nights were spent at Morongo Spa and Resort just outside of Palm Springs, CA. It was nice to get away, since it was my first real vacation without Cameron and Travis, but honestly didnt stop wishing that they were there with me. Gosh, i am such a mom now haha.

All we did was lounge, sleep, eat, and swim. Oh yeah and be silly. That was probably the best part of the whole trip. Oh yeah a little gambling happened as well, but came home with no luck, should have known i wasnt going to have luck, when i dropped my phone and ipod in the pool the very first day. haha. other than that... time with the ladies was much needed...

Now i just need to steal the ladies at gateway and get them to do something "silly"... say Vegas???

*Tear filled movies*

Ask anyone if I am a cry baby and they will tell you yes. There are only a few things in life that make me cry, but lately it has been movies. But I will let you in on a secret, the harder I cry (from sadness or laughing) the better it is to me :)

In the last month the movies have been Role Models, Twilight, Changling, Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, Marley and me, and The Mist. Now I will not ruin the movies for anyone, but I will tell you, all of them I loved. BUT be prepared to wipe those tears, or stare at your TV in shock. I am not a fan of horror movies, even more since I had my son, but nothing moves me more than a good laugh or good cry.

Now I don’t know how many of you will watch Boy in the Stripped Pajama’s, but let me tell you that it’s sort of a story about childhood innocence. Two little boys one the son of a Nazi soldier and another in a concentration camp… yet neither seem to notice the “fence” between the two of them that should keep them from being friends. I recommend this movie to everyone.

As for the others, I am sure most of you have seen Twilight by now… LOVED IT. I didn’t think I would, esp. since I thought it was just a vampire movie. No sillies, it’s a LOVE STORY! The kind of Love story one would only fantasize about. (So good, I am reading the books now J ). Role Models, is hilarious, cant really say anymore about it or it might ruin the movie. Changling, is about a mother whose son goes missing and its about her search to find “HER” son. Marley and me, again, I am sure you all know all about it, but if you grew up with a dog as a child or as an adult and no longer have that dog… then you know the feeling. This movie touched me since I once had a “bad dog” that grew in her old age to be a “great dog”. Now The Mist, I have a few words for this movie… disturbing, heart wrenching, unexpected.

Now curl up and watch a good movie… but not during the day…. Its way to beautiful outside to be inside watching movies!!!

Swim Kids

Summer + Arizona + grandpa doug + dad = travis needs to learn how to swim!

Everyone knows that there is nothing more refreshing then jumping into a nice cool pool (well dont go too late in the day in AZ, otherwise its bath water) but when you have a child that doesnt know how to swim, it makes pool time not too fun.

So CSP and I got tired of "floaties", holding him and being afraid that he is going to fall into the pool, so we enrolled him into swimming lessons. We have enrolled him into Swim Kids USA (http://www.swimkidsusa.us/) and bless their hearts they should have charged me triple to handle our son.

So let me give you a play by play on what happened. First of all Travis loves the pool, and is not afraid of it at all, which is the scary part, but anyways, I took Travis to get his new swim suits and he picked out two of them, both very “cool” according to him.

this is my fav...

very cool

We go to Swim Kids, he sees the pools and the kids swimming in them, and gets very, very excited. Then comes time for his first swim lesson. In each group there are only 3 kids to an instructor which is very nice, but with our son… we need 3 instructors just for him!

It starts off good, he blows bubbles in the water, yet I know he can do better than what he did, he tries kicking as his instructor is holding him, but then IT happens. Travis FREAKS out! He is placed on his back and the instructor is trying to teach him to be calm and to float on his back, but Travis is not having it. He keeps saying that he is going to drown… and CSP and I can’t help but laugh. I know, I know laughing at Travis is not always funny, but it’s funny to see how others react when he doesn’t listen.

It gets better, the instructor puts him on the outside of the pool, to jump in, and Travis takes off running to CSP. One he is running around the pool and second he is running to CSP thinking it’s funny. I am hiding my head, thinking why me, the instructor is getting frustrated and Travis is trying to tell him what HE is going to do. Eventually he jumps in, again I KNOW he can do better than that! By the end of the lesson, CSP is embarrassed, I am annoyed and the instructor looks like he is dreading the words coming out of his mouth “Travis see you next week”.

Don’t get me wrong ever, I love and adore my son, but, big BUT, he does not listen. I know we are the only ones to blame, but one would think that he would listen better if mommy and daddy aren’t around, so next lesson, we will not be by the pool, but standing on the outside… fingers crossed he gets this swimming down before the summer is officially here… better yet, say a little prayer for all of us, even the swim instructor....