Craziness in Buffalo

Well...we are here...in the flo!

It is great for to see my family again. I see my mom all the time...but havent seen my sisters in awhile. We havent seen anyone else yet...but it has been crazy. We are trying to schedule everyone in. But Dave is doing some side trips while we are here too.

Isaiah will not sleep...no naps...wont sleep in his crib...we are exhausted.

Plus...I started to wean Hope...I am in so much pain. I weaned Isaiah when he was eating only 3 times a day. And she is eating 10 times within 24 hours. I just started and it is horrible. Good thing that I have a lot of people here to hold the kiddos and help me out. Hope is fully on formula and I am just pumping and getting rid of one feeding a day.

I couldn't do the diet anymore and I dont think that it was doing any of us any good. Plus I was getting bruises all over my body...probably from lack of nutrients. Hope seems to be doing well. I pray that continues. And I am going to start adding foods back to my diet slowly. I heard that some people who have done this crazy diet and then when they went back to eating the foods again their body rejected them and it took a long time for them to get used to them again. I pray that that does not happen to me!! (since I love dairy and miss all those foods!)

I am trying almost all the advise I was given in an earlier blog (this one)...but if you have any others...all are appreciated! Thanks!

A long time

Wow...I didn't realize that I haven't blogged all week. My mom came in on Tuesday and we have been busy ever since! I have had to do so much since we are leaving for about 3 weeks. Plus we have so many things scheduled.



















Friday...D, Hope and I went down to Santa Monica for a dinner with Monsignor. It was a fantastic dinner and Hope was so good for it. Isaiah was a perfect angel for my mom too!! It was nice to get out but we were exhausted when we got home.

Saturday....Isaiah had soccer practice with Presley. They are so cute. Isaiah got up early again that morning and was definitely ready for a nap so...he was laying all over the field. Ha ha! Then I had a baby shower to go to for my friend Karen. It was so nice. It was small and outdoors but it was a lot of fun!

Sunday....We went down to Santa Monica for 9:30 mass and met Mr. and Mrs. Socha, Sara, and Ashely there. Then we went to lunch at our favorite place on Third Street. Later that afternoon we went to the first Santa Clarita Fair. Isaiah had so much fun. He loved the petting zoo where he fed and pet a camel, ducks, pigs, goats, and a zebra!! He also saw a very scary tiger show. Then we took him on some rides and played some games. At the end we took him to see a sea lion show....he did not take his eyes off the show once....he loved it so much!! I feel like we are always going to see animals now...ha ha!!

Monday...Was Brent's 18th Birthday!! We surprised him and went out to dinner at Woodranch with Randy, Rachael, Mike, Maria, Preston, Ella, and Mrs. Socha. He loved the food! When he came home we had a ton of ballons in his room...ha ha! I hope he had fun! We did even though are kids were crazy at dinner.

Tomorrow we are off to Buffalo. I will try and update while we are there.

The Zoo

On Friday we drove down to San Diego. We left very early in the morning and it took us about 2 1/2 hours. Dave went to Mexico with his mom, dad, and sister for a little while....I had the two kids in a hotel room. Thank God I was able to get them to nap. Isaiah was into everything. Then I took them to lunch and the waiter was so nice. He sat us in front of a fish tank so that Isaiah would look at the fish while he ate lunch. It worked so great!

When Dave came back...we went to lunch with Dani and then we were finally off to the zoo.

I had been promising Isaiah that he was going to see elephants since the day before because we went to the circus....but this circus had no animals...well they had a huge snake...yuck! and some cats and dogs....

When we got to the zoo we walked forever. The map was horrible and Dave and I got a huge workout. We went up so many hills either carrying Isaiah or pushing the huge stroller. We finally found the elephants at the end. Isaiah loved it!! He wanted to pet all the animals. Ha ha! Hope slept for a lot of it.

Then we went to dinner and they both lost it....they were so tired and we were exhausted.... then we drove home. We were so lucky not to hit traffic!

Here are some pictures from the zoo!