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Here's some crazy news! We are moving to Wisconsin. Our apartment is awesome! 2 bed 2 bath. Jacuzzi tub and large standing shower. The kitchen is pretty large and so is the living room. There is a washer and dryer as well. There is also a garage, which is nice. My favorite part is that there is a free gym for tenents! I am so PSYCHED about this! I am so motivated to get healthy and stop being fat! I can't wait. Oh wait, I lied, my favorite part is that everything is so much cheaper in WI than CT!!! This apartment is costing the same as crap apartments over here. It's great!! I'll be sure to take pictures once I set everything up.

Anyway, we have booked our flight for Nov. 1st. We are just working out details on moving our stuff. Its actually pretty complicated to transfer Jimmy's car in his name and move states...so annoying.

Kylie cut her first tooth yesterday. I'm glad she finally did because she's been uncomfortable for days. Orajel has been our best friend. I don't think I mentioned that Kylie has been sitting up on her own for a while either. She's getting so big. I've kinda started her on solids. I'm mostly waiting for the move though because I want to make her food homemade for her. It'll be better...jarred baby food is so nasty.

We had to give away our cat Wiley. A bit of backstory on Wiley. He is my cat Chibi's brother. My brother owned him since he was a kitten for 7 years and then Wiley got beat up by their younger cat and he was given to my mom (I wouldn't keep the aggressor...poor Wiley). Then all the divorce stuff happened and my mom moved out of the house into an apartment. She was only allowed to have 1 cat and Gilly (whom we've had since 1999) went because she was also very fond of my little brother who still lived with my mom. We took in Wiley because he was Chibi's brother and I felt bad for him. Well he annoyed the crap out of us for the longest time and we never really bonded with him. Now with the move we can't have any cats. Luckilly our Panda and Luna are at Jimmy's parent's house living the good life and my mom says that she could take one more cat at her apartment now (the 2nd floor tenant flooded the apartment and the Landlord isn't doing anything to fix the damage so she doesn't care anymore and says the Landlord owes her some leeway). She is also just found out she got approved for a house and will be buying one soon and Chibi will live with her since he's my baby and I couldn't bear the thought of not having him..he is my best friend. Well we didn't have anyplace for Wiley so we had to find him a home. We lucked out BIG TIME! A nice family contacted us because their cat died in June and they wanted an adult, not a kitten. The woman works at a school and we were able to look her up and confirm her identity. I feel really good with this choice. She's going to send us pictures and let us know how WIley is doing. I feel so bad about giving him up (I always said I wouldn't do this...) and felt even worse as Alana was sobbing as we drove away yelling "Wy Wy!" (her nickname for him) when she saw him go in the lady's car. That made me cry. My mom is sad that she couldn't get a house sooner because she really liked Wiley and would have taken him (her apartment is WAAAAAAY too small for 3 cats). It's sad...I wish it didn't have to happen. I really think he'll be happy though...

Wiley (left) and Chibi (right) 7 year old brothers.

JUMP JUMP!

She can sit!!














When Alana was around 10 months old or so I went to visit a friend who had a niece a few months younger than Alana. She had a Rainforest jumperoo and let Alana try it. She played happily for the longest time and I told myself that whenever I have another kid, the jumperoo is a MUST!

Well...I just bought Kylie her Rainforest jumperoo! She is in love with it! It is so cute to see her bouncing around in that thing. We got an awesome deal on it too, about $20.00 cheaper than buying it in the store. I am extremely happy with it!

We also decided to get Alana some Dora the Explorer dvds and she is crazy about it!! When I shut it off she goes "My Dora!" it is so adorable. Alana is getting so big. The sentences are all over the place now and she's getting better at her Alphabet and Numbers everyday. She knows all the letter and numbers, but hasn't learned the order of the letters yet. She'll get it quickly, though. She seems to learn very quick.

Pictures

Not much to update lately so I'm just going to do a picture update!




Jimmy and Kylie



She is always smiling like this! It is great.



Alana helped me make a personal pizza for her!



So big.



My husband ready to go off to his softball game

Eating your winnings

My husband and I are silly. We play the lottery in the hopes of a better life. We've won $50, $100, and $500. We've just never won a jackpot.

However, today I thought I'd won something. You all know those sweepstakes right? Find this symbol on one of our candy bars and you win? Well I had the bat symbol on my KitKat bar. I was happily eating away at my chocolaty delight when I saw the bat symbol. I thought it was cool and I showed my husband (at this point I had eaten almost half of it). I kept eating and as I was getting toward finishing it I looked at the wrapper "FIND THE BAT SYMBOL AND WIN!" I dropped my candy. All this time of playing silly games trying to win something and what do I do?? Eat away my proof the one time I win! I couldn't believe it.

So I frantically try to do some research into the game. I still had some bat symbol so maybe it would still count? Well my research revealed something to me...I hadn't won anything! As it turns out, finding a bat symbol means you can enter the sweepstakes for a CHANCE to win! Oh and you can enter for free online. Hershey...you tricky little devil you.

I guess we are back to the occasional lotto ticket here and there...I mean, who knows, right? Somebody wins, it could be us!

Missing Camera

I haven't been able to find my camera for a few weeks now. I think my husband put it somewhere. I am NOT happy! Anybody with infants knows it is important to capture a lot of pictures because they are changing all the time!

I want to take pictures constantly, but I can't. Today I had my girls dressed up in matching polka dotted pajamas and matching pink slippers and I wanted a picture so bad! It was adorable!

...guess I'll just have to force my husband to remember where he misplaced it...drives me crazy!!

The car

So the other day I was at my Mom's house because Jimmy had a softball game and needed a shower after (We don't have hot water anymore, but that is a whole other rant) and she decided that she wanted Taco Bell. I offered to pick it up for everyone and so I took off and while I'm waiting in the drive thru for my food my car looks like it is smoking a bit and is making funny noises. My dashboard says I need oil, but I had just filled it up a few weeks ago and didn't drive so much that I'd be out, so I figured the warning light was broken (the car is 20 years old)

I got my food and headed back to my mom's house. As I'm taking a sharp turn up a hill, my car dies. It has never done this before and the car actually has a good engine so I don't understand it. I tried turning the car back on and it worked. My car stalls out 2 more times on the way back, but I make it!

After we eat, I decide to try driving home because I thought my car was just stalling out when I stopped and I could start it back up no problem. Well it stalled 3 times on the way home and wouldn't start up after the 3rd time just 1 minute from the house! Did I mention that this was midnight? Luckily we had both cars (my crappy 1988 Camry and my husband's nice 2004 Matrix) because I wanted to go to my mom's before his softball game was done. So I went to his car and we called my mom to let her know what was going on. She said my brother had jumper cables so I try calling. No surprise, he was asleep. So I try to start the car over and over, not knowing what to do. We were concerned that if we left the car there it would be towed and I'd be fined...I can NOT afford those kind of fees!

So a couple must have heard us (my car was making funny noises) and came out. The man said he had jumper cables and so he went off to get them. While he was doing that my husband drove back to the house to get a container of oil. We open the hood and see that my oil cap is missing. This confuses me because I did NOT forget to put it back on. Not to mention that even if I had, I had driven around enough that something would have happened DAYS ago! It just doesn't make sense why it is gone! Anyway, we fill up the oil and jump start the car. It sounds normal now and I drive home. I was so nervous driving home! It was all uphill with no streetlights and a bunch of trees...so it would be creepy if I stalled there. My girls were so well behaved. My car was probably on the side of the road for half an hour and they didn't complain once.

Well...I don't know what what to do now. I can't afford to fix the car if there are problems, not to mention repairs would probably cost as much as the car is worth. I am scared that I may have damaged part of the car and am scared to drive it even though it starts now. I also was about to go look for a job...now I have no ride to work!

This is a nightmare.

Here are some nice pictures to lighten the mood...