Memorial Day weekend

We took the kids to Dollywood Saturday. All of them! It was Addison's 1st time and the kids are starting to do really really good together. They behaved and didn't wander off or anything. Addison loved riding the tram and of course when we would stop to let the older kids ride rides she immediately wanted to get out and look around. I took a couple pics but after I posted them on facebook I deleted them because my phone froze up so I don't have them on me. :( We were only there a couple hours so they didn't get to ride much but they were fine with just getting soaked. LOL
This is while we were waiting on Josh to get off work. I said that Addison looks like King Kong taking over the building. :)

This was the only picture from Dollywood I didn't delete. She didn't know what to think of the water sprayer. I don't think she could figure out where it was coming from.

After we got back from Dollywood, Addison slept from 10pm til 2pm Sunday. She was so dehydrated and tired that she would open her eyes to look around and then go back to sleep. So me and her stayed inside pretty much that day so she could recoop.

Then yesterday (Memorial Day) me, Addison, the boys, Tia, Justin, Angie, Dylan, and John spent some of the day at the pool. I think we stayed from 11am til around 5. Addison actually got in the pool several times and didn't freak out. :) Of course I have pics. LOL

Being lazy

That's Jacob way back there. :)

And Eli. :)

My chick magnet. For some reason girls flock to him. I'm in so much trouble when he gets older. Thank God he's mostly shy. LOL

Takin a breather.

Jacob's 1st appointment in SEVERAL years

I give all kinds of updates on Addison but now it's Jacob's turn. Jacob and Eli both are hardly ever sick. Like Jacob hasn't been to the doctor since he got his tonsils and adenoids taken out more than 3 years ago I think. Ryan got strep about a week ago and now Jacob has it since they all can't stay away from each other. :) He woke me up at 3am saying his throat was hurting and of course he had blisters in the back of his throat. Jacob doesn't usually complain about anything that a Tylenol can't fix. Actually between him and Eli, I don't usually hear about them feeling sick until they're walking out of the bathroom after throwing up. Yes this has happened before. I caught Eli once on his way down the stairs after throwing up. He wasn't going to tell me. LOL. Then Eli came up to me once and told me that the quarter he swallowed was scratching his throat. LOL!!!

Anyways. Jacob has strep and he weighs 84 pounds and is 54 inches tall. I'm only 63 inches by the way. And to compare to Ryan which is 5 weeks YOUNGER than Jacob, Jacob is about 4-5 inches SHORTER and 56 pounds less. I definately don't raise basketball and football players. Guess he'll have to stick with baseball (which I'm not complaining at all!) :)
This actually makes him look like he's really sickly but actually he got bored and wanted to lay down. I told him we had to take a blog/facebook pic. :) Thanks for Dr. Powers tho, I found out Jacob has a "girlfriend" named Megan that was in his class this past year. :)

Busy weekend

This weekend went by way to fast and it was way busy.
Thursday night I had to go in for a sleep study. I had to be there at 9pm and didn't get to leave til around 5pm Friday. (I didn't have sleep apnea so I had to stay for a day study too.) Addison stayed with Daddy for the 1st time without me. She and Daddy of course did fine. I did pretty well too. LOL I had to sleep til 6am with 20 something wires on my head, chest, under my ribs, legs, a pulse oz thing on my finger, and an oxygen tube shoved in my nose. I have a pic but I'm NOT posting it. :) Then Saturday I had to take a 20 minute nap every 2 hours. I had absolutely no problem falling asleep when told to. :) A loooong boring day.

Addison also turned 13 months on Friday. She's crawling really fast, putting everything in her mouth, eating whatever you put in front of her, standing and walking along the furniture but will NOT have anything to do with walking or standing by herself. She gets mad if you try to help her walk or try to make her stand alone. She's ROTTEN!

Saturday was Tia's graduation. I was ready to go and so excited for her. We had Daddy's work picnic immediately afterwards all the way up in Sevierville at the Smokie's Ballpark. So of course we found out we weren't going to make it to Tia's graduation (we had already paid for the picnic.) Luckily, Tia texted needing help getting ready so that gave me a chance to see her before she graduated. By the way, cap and gowns are way over rated and such a pain to try to figure out. LOL Here's the pictures from that...
(Yeah I literally got out of bed and threw clothes on. LOL)

Then we had Daddy's work picnic at the Smokie's Stadium. The boys were with Jonathan so it was just me, Daddy, Blake, Ryan, Addison, Peas(a guy that Daddy used to work with), Cassie, and Cassie's mom. Josh got there when we left. LOL. Addison got passed around all over the place. Everyone thought she was so cute and wanted to watch her dance. (She has a dollar dance.) At one point I came back from the bathroom and she was 4 rows behind us. LOL. Smokie's won, Daddy (Ryan) won 2 prize packs, Addison behaved perfectly for her first ballgame, it was hotter than you know what, blah blah. :) Picture time!
Blake and Addison (and her Braves outfit.) Go Braves! Braves didn't play at all that day BTW. LOL

Cassie and Addison

She loved trying to get my bubble. :)

Then Sunday we had Tia's graduation party. Food, family, friends, and Addison ate her 1st hog dog (which she'll never eat again because apparently it's full of whey so I paid for that ALL day Sunday and this morning.) I finally got to meet the newest (for now) Gouge baby. Caden Nathaniel Gouge. Of course now I realize that I didn't get a single picture, which is not like me. :(

Then me, Amanda, and Addison drove up to try to exchange the Dollywood passes I had got from work...FAIL! It started pouring so we didn't attempt Dollywood and the office on the strip in Pigeon Forge was closed. So attempt #2 is for this weekend. We did stop at the Carter Outlet and the Eddie Bauer outlet tho so that was a success. Addison (and Amanda) doesn't like loud thunderstorms tho. LOL

Guess I could have put that in several different blogs but it was much easier to do it in one big one. :)

Visalus check-in

So I've been doing Visalus for 2 week and 2 days. I've lost a total of 4 pounds. Which I'm thrilled about because I have totally not been doing what I'm supposed to be doing. LOL I've been drinking the shakes but there were SEVERAL days where I would eat 2 meals a day. Mainly because I've been eating lunch at work (I haven't found a blender I can bring to work yet) and then when Josh gets home early or I don't have the boys then I'll eat supper as well. (Only supposed to eat one meal a day.) But at least doing one shake a day is for maintaining your current weight. So it's working...which is what my main goal was, was to find out if it would actually work or not. So my goal this week is to stick to it more. If I eat lunch, I have to make myself have a shake for supper. Which actually isn't that hard (depending on what we cook for supper LOL) because they're really good. I ran out of strawberries this morning and tried to make a banana flavored. I don't like bananas so I'm not sure why I thought this would be a good idea. :) I choked it down but I wasn't a fan. Strawberry is the #1 for now. I'll get brave and try new receipes soon. Until then, if you'd like to join me you should DEFINATELY try it! Check my website out or email me and find out how to get your shakes for free.
http://jenniferdennison.myvi.net/challenge
And now of course some random pictures. :)
I told her to slow down eating...she didn't like that.

Mother's Day at church with Eli

And Jacob

Swimming in the yard...I don't think she liked it. :)

Go banana, go go banana

Spaghetti! 1st time feeding herself something like this.

Addison's 1 year check-up

I've posted several post today. You can see them here:
Eli's 2nd grade program
Walking in the park

Addison had her 1 year check up today. She weighs 20 pounds (she lot 11 ounces.) He asked if she was walking since she has lost weight but since she hasn't it's probably because she's not eating as much since she can't eat/drink milk products. She's 28 inches SHORT. :) She was in the 50% on everything but now she's in the 30% for her weight and 20% for her height. She's short but she seems to be doing fine. He said if she's not walking by the next time he sees her then he'll have her evaluated but he said it's probably because she's a "stinker." (His exact words.) LOL Which she is of course.
This is her checking the nurse out when she came in.

She's trying to figure out how to get her bandaid off. LOL

Eli's 2nd grade program

I found out the day before the program that Eli had a Tennessee program at school. Eli's real bad about not sharing what he does at school or what his teacher talks about and so on. And APPARENTLY he's also bad about not bringing papers home from school either. He told me one day "I need money for a field trip." So I asked him when the field trip is. "Today." Nice! The only reason I even found out he had a program was that I saw it on my friend's facebook. (Facebook can sometimes be a life saver and annoying all at the same time.) Anyways...the program. He had to wear an orange shirt and sing "Amazing Grace" and "Rocky Top." Which he did bring the paper home with the words to these songs and I kept asking him why he was having to learn them and his response was always "because my teacher said so." Of course she did! Jeeze! It's like pulling teeth to get anything out of him. So here's some pictures. On the 1st picture I actually circled him so you could see which one he was in the other (crappy) pictures. Jacob took off to the front of the gym with the camera and wouldn't take any pictures. He did so good tho. :) He actually sang and participated and knew most of the words. My little rain man. :) (Long story.)
Now that I put this on here, you can't really see the pink arrow I put on the pic.

Walking in the park

Since I've been doing this Visalus weight loss, I've been trying to exercise more. It's really hard to exercise at Court South when there nursery closes before I even get off work. So we've been going walking at Victor Ashe/Northwest. We start at the back of Northwest and go ALLLLLL the way around to Victor Ashe, then back to Northwest. Which I didn't know it went THAT far. That track apparently goes over 3 miles! Jacob has been wanting to go with me and likes to help push Addison in the stroller so I'm loving it. I get me and Jacob time and he gets exercise to plus Addison LOVES being in the stroller. If you haven't tried it, definately try the new walking track they have. It's a very pretty walk. Of course I took pictures. :)
This goes over a little creek/stream/whatever you want to call it.

This may look like Addison liked it. Yeah, she didn't! She DID NOT like how cold the water was. She was ok being taken down to the water but as soon as Jacob stuck her feet in...wow. LOL