Long time no write

So it has been a super long time since I have written and so much has changed. I am gonna try to get better.

So that everyone know, Shawn is now in Korea and Kayden and I are in Colorado with my parents. Life is well Life. Both Kayden and I miss Shawn and I know he misses us.

I don't know how many people know this be we will be in Italy for 3 years once Shawn gets done in Korea. I cant wait.

Kayden is in preschool full time and LOVES it. He can count, Knows his ABC'S, Shapes, Colors and a bunch more. My little monkey amazes me everyday with the stuff he knows, says and does. He never stops and loves balls of any size. The one down side to living with my parents is he thinks he needs to sleep with mommy. That will be broken when his daddy gets back.

I am doing OK, I was gonna try to go back to work at a bank and that did not work out as well as I would of liked. My parents would of been watching Kayden at night and it would of been too hard on them after working a long day and it was an ass backwards bank. I am going to be having surgery on the 8th of Dec to get a tummy tuck. I am scared and excited at the same time. It is the last step I have to take in having my gastric bypass. I will Maybe post pics. He will see how I feel. Also I had a surgery on my back in July. I am still having problem but have found a wonderful Dr in the springs and it seems like I just might get stuff done and it won't hurt anymore.

I decide that Kayden and I would go up to Washington for Thanksgiving and had a blast. I miss it up there so much. We stayed with Marlene and had a blast. Both Kayden and I love her and her family a ton. I miss her and am VERY thankful for everything she has done for me and my family. I don't know what I would do with out her.

I can't think of much else that is new. Oh yeah one thing. I am glad to be the heck out of Las Vegas. I really dislike that place. So like I said not much else new in our little world.

I will try my best to update more often.

Spray Bottle

Does it make me a bad mommy that I find joy in watching Kayden spray him self with a spray bottle filled with water? It makes me feel better that he thinks it is funny too. He is now soaked :)

I love my little monkey

I will update more later, We have had a fun week this week.

Our New Toy

So Shawn got his new toy tonight !!! it is pretty fun, We played Guitar Hero tonight together after Kayden went to bed. I need LOTS of practice. I am glad we got it. It will be fun to play. For your viewing enjoyment here is a pic of Shawn playing

I cant sleep so here I am

So here it is midnight and I cant sleep. My mind is just racing with so many different thoughts. Shawn and I decided tonight, Or should I say Shawn told me that he thought it would be in all parties involved best interest that I go to move with my parents while he is in Korea. No don't get the idea that he tells me what to do but in the one choice this is really what I needed him to do. It will be good for lots of reason.
1. We can get most or I should say all our CC debit paid off and I hope to keep it that way. At our next station we should over have our cars as bills that follow us. It will be nice.
2. Should I get sick like I have been the past two weeks there is someone to take care of me and or Kayden
3. Shawn will have the piece of mind knowing I am not trying to make it on my own and maybe struggling and not asking for help.
4. I plan on taking little trips with Kayden, Some to places around the springs, two to see two different friends(holly and vett) and one to take Kayden to see his other set of grandparents.
5.Well I could go on and on about it.
While I am down there I plan on joining a mommy group, I have looked and there is tons in the area. I hope they are a good and active group. What ever one I find. I am also wanting to put Kayden in preschool and look for a part time job while he is there. We could not afford for that to happen if I stayed in Vegas. I really think it will be good for all of us in the long run. It will be hard to adjust living with my parents again, I know it will be hard for them to have a 27 and 2 year old in there house. We will all adjust and make the best of it. I am really going to be thankful for it if we get orders over seas. Sorry mom you are reading this on my blog. I am expecting a call when you read it. :)

Other news in the Pritchard house. Lets see - I have been SICK, I mean really sick, I am starting to feel better so that is a good thing but it seems as Kayden is now coming down with something again.. I am hoping not but we will see.
Shawn is almost done with the class he is taking, He is happy about that and has done wonderful in the class, I don't know if he is gonna try to take a couple more before he leaves.
I broke down and let him by a playstation3 the other day. He has wanted one for a while and sometimes I like to be a nice wife and let him splurge. I told him it is his Christmas present for this next year that because I wont send something like that over seas he can get it now. We got me Guitar hero for it, I cant wait to play.


Kayden and I went to a really neat indoor play place with play group on Tuesday, He had a blast

Dont quite know how he got in that position, I think it is quite funny.

Other that things have been boring and low key as I try to get better. Hope everyone is doing well.

Lots of love

Kassandra

My sneaky little monkey

Opps I almost forgot. My Wonderful Sweet Son learned something this weekend. We are sitting around and he finds my purse. In my purse there are fruit snacks. I pulls them out and says please and hands them to me. I tell him "no" That he has already had some and that we are getting ready to leave. He gets mad and throws them on the couch and decides that he is done with me because I am not going to give him what he wants. He grabs the snacks and walks over to his dad and says please and hands then to his father who says "OK" and starts to open the bag of them. I looked at Shawn almost dumbfounded and asked him why he was gonna give them to him after I had just told him no. Shawn was not listen when I had said no. Go figure . So my sweet son has learned how to pull on over on his daddy to get what he wants. We have really got our work cut out for us.

Updating

So I want to introduce you all to the tickle monster.
His favorite person to tickle is his daddy and he loves to wear Jammys and snow boats.
Watch out for him cause his attacks are sudden and come with out notice.

He will run up to Shawn going ickle ickle ickle and then proceed to tickle Shawn. Then Shawn has to do it back to him. It is very cute. I am gonna miss it. Oh and this is his red chair I got for him. Most days it is not where it is supposed to go or used for sitting but as climbing.

So lets see here it has been a while since I have updated, Last thing I said is that we got some very exciting news. Our news is that Shawn is going to Korea for a year. Yes we are VERY excited about this. We want out of Vegas and this is our one way we know we will get out. He leave sometime in early Nov we don't have a for sure date yet. I will keep everyone updated on it. We found that out on Wednesday and Shawn has been on cloud nine ever since.

On Thursday Shawn test for tech for the 3rd time. I hope he makes it. We should find out in August if he does. Also on Thursday we took Kayden to see Doodlebops Live. He loved it. We loved it. I will take him next year when they come back to Vegas. He was sort of not in to at first but after his favorite song he started dancing and screaming. Had a blast.

I love this picture but wish Kayden would of looked at me. There was so many different light sticks that he would not look at me he wanted to look at them. Those darn things cost 20 bucks. I don't know how we afford to go to those shows they are so darn expansive. The light stick and dinner and snacks and just the seats alone. But he loves it and has a blast so to me it is worth it. He is only young once.

We also learned while that that he can say op orn, in english it means Popcorn. I know they say we should not feed it to him yet but he loves it.

We or should I say I have found a new love for Japanese cooking. The kind of places that cook all your food right in front of you. I wanted to go out to one on Thursday night before the show, the one we go to most was on the other side of town so that was out of the question. I looked online and found a new place that looked good. We decided to try it. Yeah we did not even end up eating there and Shawn took me Friday night out to our favorite place. I love it there. We have been 3 times in under a month. I want to go there for my birthday at the end of this month.

So the races where in Vegas this weekend. Nascar fans invade our city for about 5 days. It is crazy, Even crazier cause the race track is right by the base, We had to get some groceries on Saturday Yeah that was fun. Also on Saturday night Shawn was ever so sweet to watch Kayden and the next door neighbors two boys so that she and I could go see Blake Shelton Live down on Fremont street. Best thing is it was free. We had a blast and she got pretty drunk. I was the driver so I did not drink. But I did get her 3 free drinks and she got to dance with 2 guys cause I would not keep my mouth shut. I would love to do it again but don't want to make Shawn watch all 3 boys again, I like it when he goes with us.

Today we just had a lazy day, I cooked most of the day, Made some really kick ass bread and some really nasty cheesecake. Did laundry and played with Kayden. Tomorrow a new week starts and we should have a pretty good week. Lots of fun stuff to do with play group.

NEWS !!!!

I have got some exciting new !!! Now I am not preggo but to Shawn and I this is almost as exciting as adding to our family. I don't know when I will spill the beans. But I just want everyone to know we got some pretty exciting news today !!!

Is it snowing outside ?????

So the Kayden wants to go play in the snow in a diaper. Not that we have snow in Vegas but he was screaming till daddy put the snow boots on. He is also on the computer typing to some one. One will never know.

He is saying Hi

The TV must of caught his eye

And talk about screaming today. We took him to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay today, We had been in the house most of the week and thought it would be fun to get out and do something. It was not nice enough for a park. He loved it. He walked around the whole place saying "fish fish fish " He says it with his tongue out so it sounds funny. He was also saying Shark. We stopped on our way home to get lunch. That was a bad idea. We put him back in the car and he screamed and scream and scream and well you get the point, So much he made him self sick. He has been a little bugger ever since then.



Also today I got a new hair cut and color. It is cute see

It is red on top and blond under neither . I really like it and am gonna try to keep it up. I know the red will get a lot lighter I am hoping not by too much.

I am going back next monday, We are gonna go to a lighter blond and I am gonna get some blond highlites in the front. I am excited.

I will also add I am not good at taking pics of my self.

Tomorrow the Snow boot saga continues . . . . .

Snow Boots

Picture this . Snow boots in Vegas with no snow.

Kayden found his snow boots my mom bought him while we where in CO for Christmas. He is insistent on wearing them around the house. SO mom I just want you to know they are not going to waste. He still wears them.

I will post a pic for your viewing enjoyment.





Also it looks like we are starting to get better. Kayden and I both still have lots of snot and I slept most of today. But I al starting to feel better. Shawn has been wonderful and has let me sleep and is taking really good care of me. Even went to the store to get him chips and soda. He is such a wonderful hubby.

On a side note cause I think it is funny. Kayden has having some dried fruit today. It was apples, Cranberries, Cherries, Pineapple and golden raisins. Every time he asks for more I good look at his little pile and he has eaten everything but the apples. I think it is funny. The apples are my favorite part and for him to pick though everything and leave those there. TOO FUNNY.

Soup

So last night as I was falling asleep I felt like my throat was on fire, Water was not helping as nothing else was eather. I slept good last night. That was nice. I have not slept good in a long while.

When I woke up this morning I could not talk. I had all but lost my voice. I decided I needed to take my sick butt to the Dr and see what was wrong with me. I called and was barely able to get in to see them as they are pretty busy right now. I then called Shawn and told him about my appt and asked him to come home so I would not have to take Kayden. The Dr says I have an upper respitory infection and I have bad allergy. How lovely for me. Shawn stay home for the second day to help take care of me and my monkey and is only working an hour tomorrow. That is the only thing I love about his office. They are good at letting him take care of me and not complaining.

So I took my progestone last night and today has not been too bad. Lets hope it stays this way.

Please forgive me for my spelling today I really don't care.

Dinner tonight will be yummy. I wanted soup as I am sick so I made up a BIG pot of homemade chicken noodle soup with onions, carrots and corn and lots of garlic. It smells and taste so good I cant wait for dinner.
Wish I could have all of you over to enjoy it with us.

Cant think of a good title for this one

So Shawn is moving out. Well I know he wishes he was.

I get to start taking progesterone. It is the worst thing in the world for me to take. It makes me more moody then normal. I freak out at little things, Think heavens Valentines day has passed and I cant flip out on him for wanting pancakes for dinner. Love you Sweetie !!!!

This is part of the stuff the Dr wants me doing in hopes of helping me get pregnant. I cant handle most of it but I really don't like this part.

We will see how we as a family do. It does not help that both Kayden and I are sicker then dogs. Shawn took today off work so that he could take care of us. How sweet of him.

I hope this is all over soon, A sick baby I can handle, Both of us sick is hard.

I will keep everyone updated.

The monkey is SICK

My poor baby

He is sick !!!

He has a fever that I can get to go down but then back up it goes, He has more snot then any one little boy needs and he has a cough that makes him puke, He is sleeping like crazy.

I have a little bit of it but he got his head, We went to the DR this morning and they said he get to wait it out that it should last at least 10 days, We are on day 3. Please pray for us that he gets better soon.

Other then that we are just taking it easy. Not doing anything this week.

Oh and looks like we get to do another round of the clomid. Please wish us luck. This sure is hard stuff getting prego again.

Updating and stuff

Ok so I have gotten really bad at this whole updating thing, I promise to get better !!!!

So where to start…

Shawn has started school, He is going on Tuesday and Thursdays and so far is doing really good, the name of the class is “The History of Rock“ Right up is ally. We decided that he should go back to school before me, 1. The AF pays for it and 2. I don’t want to go back right now. I need to decide what I want to go for first. With in a week or two of class starting he had a paper due on Irving Berlin. It was an interesting paper and my smart hubby got 100% on it. I was so proud. Also part of his class was he had to go see a concert; we took that as a chance to go on a date. More on that later, don’t want to jump ahead of my self here.
So Shawn is doing good, Work is well work for him. He is still trying to get orders out of here and well, well we are still waiting and hoping and waiting some more. You all will know as soon as we know. He also tests for Tech on the 28th of this month. Wish him lots of luck.

Kayden is doing good, He is getting so much smarter and it is sort of scary. I have been thinking of shaving his head. His hair is so thin that it is a little rat’s nest in the back and it drives me crazy, still thinking on that one. I liked him as a bald baby, but too bad he is really not a baby anymore. He is getting to be such a big boy. He got a burn on his finger the other week. I felt bad, Shawn was at school and Kayden and I where sitting down to eat some pizza that had just gotten out of the oven. As I was taking a bit to give to him he stuck his hand in my piece. I have never heard him scream like that and it last for almost an hour till he passed out. It is almost healed now and looks fine. The first couple of days were no fun. He has started saying more letters, number and colors. Why is everything blue??? He is coming up on two pretty soon, I can’t decide what we are going to do for his party, or if I am even going to do a party. I know bad mom. But he won’t know the difference. We will see. Not much else new with him. He is well he is Kayden and my child that should tell people enough.

Now on to me. Well I am just plan ol frustrated. As most of you know Shawn and I decided that we wanted to have one more baby, Easy enough you might think, Well not if you are me L The Dr decided that maybe we should try fertility drugs to help us along. This was our first cycle and I am not a patient person. I had to take a drug called clomid, I do not like that stuff, it makes my vision blur, Cramps and I get cranky. What a fun 5 days that was. I had top get blood work for and two other test. One to make sure that my tubes where open, let me tell ya that one hurt and then an US to make sure I had eggs. The good news is all the test came back good and wonderful so as soon as my body get is act together we should be having another baby. I will keep ya all updated on this. Other then that there is nothing else new with me. I am boring J

So on to our date – We decided that since Shawn had to go see a concert that we would use that time to go on a date. We had a wonderful time. We went out to Benhinas for dinner. It was good but don’t think we will go back, I have been to other Tepinaci places that I liked better, I want to go to one tonight for dinner cause it sounds so yummy, We will see if Shawn lets me. So after dinner was our concert, Shawn loves Heart so we went to see then. It is not really my type of music but Shawn had a good time and that is what matters. After the concert we went out to get a snack at the Cannery and then gambled a bit, something we don’t do often. HE lost all his and I walked out with 8 bucks more then I came in with. We got home to find Kayden was running a fever so that sort of ruined the night. He is doing much better today.

I have more to add but will leave it for another day.

My TRUCK

So it has been a fun few days.

I am super grumpy today and don't know why. Well I think I might of figured it out. Maybe more then some want to know. I am really frustrated with my body. Why cant it be "normal" I just want to be able to have another baby and not have problems conceiving him or her. I am really hoping for a her. Well onto other things.....

Shawn got into an accident with MY truck yesterday. He is fine, Everyone else was fine. I am more upset about the ticket and how much money this is gonna cost us. The funny thing about NV is when you get a ticket you have to go to court or call no matter what. They don't put the cost of the ticket on the ticket it self. I think it is interesting. I told him to go in his uniform as they seem to give pity to the military here. When he got home yesterday he had 10 bucks in his pocket. He gave it to me. I thought it was funny. How is 10 bucks going to help me ??? I don't want to take things from him but at the same time I don't think that Kayden or I should have to go without stuff either. O I thought well this means I will really go back to work. But should I be the one to solve his problem or should I let him do it. I am trying my darnedest to not be mean and know that this too shell pass and we will be fine on money we always are and in a year I wont even remember it.

So I meet a new lady yesterday, She has a daughter that is 5, So quite a bit older then Kayden, We are gonna meet at a park on wed to let the kiddos play. Kiddos of all ages love to play at the park so I think it should be fun for the both of them. Me meeting more people is not a bad idea either. I love my mommy group I have now. It is nice. When Jess and I first started it I did not think I would like the idea of it being on set days and set times and so structured. Well come to find out that is what works best for us too. I got out of that group when I did not think it was gonna work for us and Jess was nice enough to let me join again. I LOVE IT. Kayden Loves IT !!!!

So other then Shawn breaking my truck there is not much new in our world. I know we really want to go see my parents this summer but don't know if we will be able to wring it now. That bums me out A LOT, I know it bums Shawn out a lot too as it was mostly his idea. We will see how much we get back on our income tax refund and go from there I guess. I am hoping I get to file soon. There is some CC I would love to get paid off. I know it will be done before the 15th of Feb for sure.

Well it sounds like Kayden is getting into stuff he should not be. Have a good weekend everyone and DO SEAHAWKS !!!!

Long time no.....

So I know it has been a really long time since I have written

I will start off with our Christmas - It was wonderful - We had a great time with my parents. Shawn even wants to move there. We took Kayden up to the Mountain so he could play in the snow. After he realized that gloves are a must in the snow life was good. Shawn and My Dad went back up on Christmas day to play more. They did not stay long as the elevation gets to you. We also got to take Kayden to the Zoo Lights, I wished would could of stayed longer but Kayden got cold. A cold baby is not a happy baby. I was panicking while we where there, I had gotten his gloves out of the back of the jeep, I thought I had put them in the stroller, I could not find them so chalked it up to lost gloves and we would go get him a new pair. Well we get back to the jeep to leave and there they are. I was so ____ insert any word you like. While at the Zoo he got to feed the giraffes, He enjoyed that. We got to spend quite a bit of time with my dad, I thought he was gonna have to work most of the time so that was nice. Shawn Loves the shirt he got from my parents and I love the necklace they got me. We cam home the Friday after, I did not want to leave(Neither did Shawn). The only thing it is missing for us is the ocean.

So Kayden is getting huge, He is grown almost 2 inches since Halloween, I am not looking forward to finding new pants and shoes are just expansive. The price of being a parents. I would not trade it for anything. I forgot to mention that while at my parents house Kayden learned how to climb out of his play pin. We thought he would be ok in his crib, The first night was fine. The second night we took a trip to the ER as he fell out and hit his little head pretty hard. Every thing was fine. I was more scared then anything. If you have ever been to my house you know we have hard floors. Really Hard Floors. While in the ER the Dr said well this means he gets a new bed, I just wanted to kick the Dr and tell him no shit. I kept my mouth shut. The next day Shawn converted his bed for him and now he is in a toddler bed and for the most part happy. I miss my 730 bed time. Now it is any where from 830 to 10 one night. He is sleeping in a little longer and that is nice. Also we are on day 6 of no paci expect at bed time. He does not miss it that much I think. Over all he is doing really good. Talking and signing more. He says more words then I can count and signs - More, Please, All done and eat. Please is a new one. I still know he does not know how to use the words and what they mean but we are working on it. It is a constant work in progress. We are also starting on our ABC's his fav is O. He screams it at the TV when WOF is on. Too Cute I tell ya.

So as for me and Shawn. Opps I mean Shawn and I. We are doing great. Shawn test for Tech on Feb 28th. We have decided that we want one more baby. Well my body is giving us hell and we have been pinned with the label of infertility . We are gonna start with different meds and see where that gets us. I hope it does not take too long. I hate waiting for this kind of stuff and we really want more one. I know a lot of people wonder how this is possible cause we have a happy healthy baby boy. I asked her about it and she said it is common. I will keep you all updated on how this stuff goes. Shawn and I have also decided that we are not traveling for the holidays for a long while. It did not feel like the holiday season to me and it sucked. I also felt like I cheated my family by not being home. It will work for this next year as it is people turn to come see us. HINT HINT to the grandparents.

That is all I can think of for now. I am gonna try to get back on track with up dating this thing again. I will also post some pics tomorrow while Kayden is down for a nap.

Lots of Love

Kassandra