A little behind because of our trip!

So I am finally adding our Easter photos of Loni. I didn't forget to take pictures but I didn't take very many and I did forget to take a picture of her in her Easter dress. So Loni got a cute ladybug plate, Barbie Mariposa movie......
Lots, and lots,and lots, and lots of kit kats which are her favorite if you didn't know. She really doesn't eat lots of candy except for kit kats. She would eat them all if I let her in one day.
She also got this cute blue dress which looks really cute on her, but I didn't take that picture, sorry! Maybe this Sunday or next when she wears it again.
This is after the first egg she found........then I quit taking pictures. Sorry, again.

Then here is our Charlotte, North Carolina, trip pictures. Again not too many but hey at least I took them. So of course no landscape photos but pics of the reason we went. This is my friend Melissa and her son Dylan. I went to school at CSI with her. She is about to have her second baby a little girl in a few weeks.
Here is a picture of Loni and some boy at a park near their house. It had a sand box and Loni being the little sand devil that she is stayed in the sand the whole time we were at the park. I think she loves sand more than swings, which is a good thing....see a pic below....
This is Loni tickling Dylan. He has the cutest laugh when you tickle him. She was trying to get him to sit and pose but he really didn't care for it. I was amazed to get this picture. Isn't he cute? Course Loni is too.
Here is Loni at another park on the day we were leaving. She didn't want to play anywhere other than on the swings and of course I needed to come push her. She really needs to learn how to make herself swing to get higher. She has it down a bit but loves to be as high as she can get....so that leaves me to have to push her. My arm was so tired I thought it was going to fall off. So I love the sand because I don't have to push her to play in it....she just plays. Maybe I need a sand box?

Back from San Diego!

Here's a couple a pictures and a clip from my recent visit to San Diego.

San Diego in the background.

Just Having Fun!

Our week in an eggshell.......

Loni and I dyed and painted Easter eggs. We had glow in the dark paint so our eggs can be found in the dark. Don't know if we will test that out or not.
We should have turned the lights off so you could find the egg! Just kidding. I am sure you can see it.
This was our other adventure......This is Koby/Coby? I, being myself, decided we needed another dog. Not any dog, a Boston Terrier. So I started by looking at rescues. Well the rescues wouldn't even look at my application because they have too many. So I decided I just needed to find one. I checked craigslist and what do you know there was a 10 week old male puppy. I told them I would come and see him today. Then up popped a 6 month old female puppy. I was looking for a female but I also wanted a younger puppy since I haven't had one for a while. So I decided to go look at both.
Well we showed up at the place with the 6 month old. She was very cute but had learned some manners already that we wouldn't have the opportunity to teach. She also had a small hernia which can be fixed but.......well we told the owners we had to go look at this other puppy but would let them know either way. I was unsure of which one I wanted and so was Loni. We both thought we wanted the little female but......
We showed up to see the 10 week old puppy and we both turned to mush. He is adorable. Who cares if he isn't the better sex....ha ha. We spent about a 1/2 hour to 45 minutes with his owners and they were great. They had his parents on site and another adult female that is going to have babies in May. They had 4 kids of their own and were just very nice people. So we brought him home. Loni has named him, walked him, and said he is her puppy. She has even reprimanded him saying, "NO, N-O Koby(Coby)!" It is quite hilarious what a little mother she is. And no I do not tell her NO, N-O. But anyway so that is our story and we will stick to it. Wish us luck we have a lot of work ahead of us! Yeah!! Oh and of course Cali is unsure of him but what I say goes, so it won't be long before she is licking him.

New Furniture

I love buying new furniture. I am probably addicted which is bad because seriously it won't fit after a while. Anyway this is our new loveseat. We got a red colored couch when we moved into our house which I love. We also had a couch my parents gave us that had seen better days. Mostly you can't have a white couch with a black dog. I don't recommend it, so don't even think about doing it. Well I sold that one because it just wasn't working for me anymore, sorry mom and dad, but thanks for letting us have it. Rick decided he liked those chaise lounges which, oh my gosh, are the most expensive things in the world! So I became addicted to craigslist trying to find him one. So now after a whole month of looking at craigslist for hours on end I decided that the chaise just wasn't going to happen. So I got this yesterday for 20% off which made it a pretty good deal. It was the color and fabric I wanted and it WILL be what Rick wants. :) So anyway to explain the next picture...........

So when I got rid of the white couch which was always covered with 2 blankets....one for people to sit on and one for ......Cali. She had deemed it hers so I decided to put a blanket on the side she sat on which was fine. So after we sent that couch packing she decided that the new red couch was now hers. I wasn't having that so when I saw this papasan chair on craigslist I asked Rick if he liked it for......Cali. Yes I went and bought a chair for Cali. I know I am growing worse in my older age. First she has 3 beds and now I am getting her chairs to call her own. But to defend myself she is staying off of the couch. And no I will never buy her her own full size people bed. I think? Well who knows.....if I ever have extra rooms she could possibly.

I agree Pam! Why?

So my friend Pam's blog(Threesacrowd) had a picture of her daughter sleeping on the floor and I remembered this picture I took last month. Loni had decided that she was sleeping on her HARD plastic shelf. Why, because she wanted to. Now if you noticed the chair to the left, we bought that from our friends yard sale for $5 bucks. Great deal I though since Loni needed a chair in her room that was a little cozy. Too cozy it seemed because when we got it home she slept in it for a few days. One night she started out sleeping in it but the next morning she was climbing into my bed asking why I put her on the couch.....downstairs? Course I hadn't, she must have walked there on her own...SLEEPWALKER! But to get back to Pam's original idea....why do we buy our kids beds when they choose to sleep anywhere but there? The floor, hard plastic shelves, chairs, highchairs, toilets, next to the dog on its bed, while taking a bath(scary but my brother has done it!), and I am sure you all have other places to add. So here's to good night dreams wherever they may be sleeping.

Loni's Super Homework

I thought this was cute. Loni had to do this homework and came up with the answers herself. Read them they are funny and the teacher's comments are priceless too. Loni really likes her teacher which makes things so much better at school.

Loni Lost her 2nd Tooth

Loni came home from school and was wiggling her tooth and I was secretly thinking how am I gonna get that one out. Loni is too smart to play the,"Here lay down and I will get the blood out," trick a second time. Sooooo.....
When she said her tooth hurt and it was bleeding a tiny bit, I told her to go get a tissue and dry it and pull on her tooth. It was so loose I was sure it would come out. So she did. And it did! No tears and hardly any blood. Now we just are waiting on the tooth fairy. Between here and Vegas that Tooth Fairy has her hands full.......see lasvegasjensons.blogspot.com.