Yesterday was a crazy day. We went down to Orange County after we dropped the kids off at school. After brunch with Joanna and Tommy we headed to Camp Pendleton for Tyler to pick up a part of his uniform for the ball. The traffic was so lame and it took us forever to get home! We picked up the kids and Tyler started getting the chills. We got home and took his temp and he had a 103 fever! After a good night sleep he's feeling much better but I still think he's crazy for going out to set up the soccer field today.

Today is Kayley's last game. As far as I know her team has won all games but two. I know we're not supposed to keep score, but I do. It's amazing the improvement I've seen in all the girls as they practiced and learned to work as a team. Kayley is amazing at dribbling and stealing the ball. She isn't the fastest but she sure has fancy footwork! I plan on getting a video of her that I'll post later.

Besides the game (and the party after), we have nothing on our agenda for today and we're going to take a looong nap! Hooray for daylight saving time tomorrow. Now if only my kids will sleep in!

This was my view at lunch time today. With Tyler by my side we sat on the beach, consumed smoothies, talked and enjoyed the beautiful summer fall weather. Ah, what a day!

Ten On Tuesday

1. I'm feeling much better today.

2. Tyler is really blessing me by doing so much while I'm at work. Today he did all the grocery shopping. I love my husband!

3. Halloween was very fun. Kayley ended up being Indiana Jones and Cole was a pirate. We went trick or treating for about an hour and the kids really enjoyed it. Then we went to trunk or treat at First Assembly. I took some pictures but I'll post them later.

4. Tonight we start a class at church. I'm very glad to finally get involved in something besides church on Sundays.

5. I wish I were in a sundress and flip flops, drinking a smoothie while walking on the beach. Instead I'm indoors, freezing from the air conditioning and wearing fancy clothes and high heels. Oh well, at least I can see the palm trees swaying outside the door.

6. I just took a typing test and found I average 50 words per minute.

7. I spent some time reading up on the candidates and measures for today. There are so many people on the ballot that it's a little overwhelming. I think I'm convinced that most of the propositions are just a scam for politicians to carry out their agendas.

8. 11 days until the ball! Man, I gotta find shoes and a clutch to go with my dress.

9. I introduced Tyler to Modern Family and he loves it! Now onto Glee...

10. Tyler went into the doctor for x-rays last week. Everything is looking great and he's healing much faster than she had expected at this point. He was given the ok to to start running again! I'm amazed by Tyler's attitude toward getting better. He's stronger than I am in that way, that's for sure.

A Weird Day

Today hasn't been especially stressful. It has been a normal Monday. Besides the fact that the internet was down all day at work and I'm slightly annoyed by someone I work with it's been uneventful. But I got home today and I just want to scream. I can barely breathe and my body just does not want to function. I don't get it.

So I think I'll go to the gym and work out all this anxiety.

I hate days like this.

I love that Tyler is very pleased with choking me. I wouldn't blame him sometimes:)

And just for good measure, another one of the little guy.

I wish...

...I had something marvelous to blog about. I feel like typing, I really love to do it. Just when I really want to I never have anything to blog about. Hmm. I'm thinking. Still thinking. Nope, nothin'.

Ten minutes later...

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. We all know those are a couple of my favorite things. Except I hate the rain and would enjoy plucking the whiskers off the kittens. Just kidding, I only hate full grown cats who scowl and plan my demise. Anyway, I guess those things aren't my favorite even though Julie Andrews thinks so.

Ok, so my favorite things. I say a lot of things are my favorite. Of course my husband and my kids are my favorite people, and I love Diet Coke, Milky Way bars, riding bikes, camping and being lazy. But I really, truly love musicals. In fact, I love bursting out into song very much. I love to sing loud. Sometimes I sound good, sometimes I just sound plain ridiculous. I've dreamed of being a singer, a silly thing really. It will never come true and even if it did I would never sell out to what the world would want me to be anyway. So I'll stick to Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Barbara Streisand duets. If you've never heard me and my sister or Hillary bust out our duets in the car then you are truly missing out. There's nothing louder, more ear piercing than three ladies trying to live up to the legends themselves. We, sadly, fall very, very short. But it doesn't matter. It's wonderful, magnificent. To sum it up, I love music and I wouldn't mind if my world suddenly turned into a world of spontaneous musical numbers.

So when the dog bites and the bee stings, shoot the dog and stab yourself with an epi pen. Then make up a musical number about it and dance the night away. Or take a nap. Or go to jail for shooting a dog.

Ten On Tuesday....Late

1. Since I don't have a gym or diet buddy, myfitnesspal.com has been a lifesaver for me. Sometimes Tyler helps me stay on track but he mostly lures me away with his peanut butter m&m's, ha. I track what I eat and all my excersize online and it seems to be working for me.

2. We watched Julie and Julia last night. I'm glad I saw it but I didn't love it. Julia Child's voice is very annoying!

3. Our office is looking for a robot who will cater to my every want and need someone to assist me during tax season. It would be Monday through Friday, 10-4 (hours may increase as the deadline approaches) during March and April. The pay is $11 per hour since it's a temp job. If any of you know of someone reliable, flexible and interested in short term work please let me know. Krista, I know you have a lot of college friends so let me know if you hear of someone!

4. I love that I practically just posted an ad on my blog. What is this, Craigslist?

5. We carved pumpkins this weekend. The kids helped clean off the seeds to bake them. Cole still hates touching the pulp which is totally hilarious to watch! Tyler made chipotle flavored seeds and garlic ones. They were fantastic!

6. Cole and Kayley switched beds. Cole's on the top now and he's loving it! I feel like he's so much bigger now. I'm pretty sure we've reached the point of no return on having more kids. I'm choosing to be content though. Starting over would be such a huge deal for us now that Cole is almost five. Three months until Kayley is 7 (eek!) and Cole is 5!

7. I'm so happy that the Stachurski's will be in California so soon! I'm probably the most excited about being around when the baby is born!

8. Two months until Christmas!!

9. Kayley wants to be an astronaut and Cole wants to be Batman for haloween. I'm still not a lover of the day but will always be a lover of the candy.

10. I'm glad we got Kayley's inhaler because she woke up sick and wheezy this morning. Remember when Kayley was a baby and we called her wheezer?