happy new year everyone!

I hope everyone had a great new years! I had to work and all in all it was a good night despite two tables one inparticular! They had a package deal going on.. 65 dollers four course meal(lobster. filet mignon, surf n turf, and a few others) and open bar for 3 hours. I had a four tables section and they way the reserved the tables...ugh! but after they got some drinks in them all was good! other then my two top who apparently was one of the managers friends who from the get go were assholes! so but they really were theor nose was so far up in the air! i treated all my tables the same. and what they give me.... ten dollars! all that running around i did for them ..more then any of my tables! okay so i just had to vent! other then that i made out good. even the owner said something to me tonight on how happy he was of my service! Hope everyone enjoyed their night. happy new years!

Christmas eve at grandmom corneys

What a great Christmas!

I have been meaning to come on here sooner and post this picture along with how our Christmas went! But as you know life gets pretty darn busy with a five month old! So let me back track! On our days leading to x-mas our excitenment was getting pretty crazy! I was so thankful to find out I had off x-mas eve. Of course I didn't find out until like 3 days before hand! ugh!! but the outcome was what I wanted to see! Sophia and I went to my parents house and opened a ton of gifts they gave her! It reminded me of when I was little! I loved everything they got her. I cant pick out my favorite! Actually I think that chair is! It is soo helpful! I was also shocked to see what they have gotten me! I got a canon camcorder I was thrilled it even takes pictures too! now I just need to figure out how to set the darn thing up on the comp. I am having some trouble! ughh. I have off tomorrow so hopefully i can take some time and figure it out. i have so many cute videos already! Its so neat I can turn the screen around so that she can look at herself when i am taping her! So anyways After we opened up all the gifts we went to my grandmom corneys. my grandmom wiley joined us which was very nice having her there with us since I was not going to be seeing her x-mas day. Sophia had a really good nap inthe afternoon before going to my parents so she was pretty good. Once we got to my g-moms only my sunt debbie was there. Once everyone came Sophia had her eye on everyone. Going from one arm to another. She especially had a liking to her "2nd cousin" Oliva. Liv was too cute! Everywhere Sophia was she was right next to her. When I had to change sophias diaper we went into my grandmoms room and it was sophia liv and i sitting on the bed talking and sophia was all smiles and laughing. I then had to feed her and liv asked if she could help. So i had liv sit on the reclinner in the den and i put sophia in her lap and she fed her the bottle. they looked adorable.

I can tell liv is a great "helper" for corinne! We are going to have to get the girls together! especially since char and soph are so close in age! As the night grew Sophia started getting really tired. I wish she wasnt because my cousin diana finally got out of work~those darn dollar tree customers! She had came with dom and I really wanted to get them two together and interact but it was late and the little girl was turning into a tired monster! we'll just have to do it when its earlier. so we ate and then did out pollyanas. My pollyana was corinne and she gave me this awesome necklace. its silver and its a cirlce with sophias name on it and her birthstone. i love it. i got soo many compliments already. its perfect! sophia had my cousin ricky. which i just reminded myself i need to call him and thank him because he was not there for me to do so. he got sophia these rolling balls that have neat textures on them and also a pink glow worm. she really likes both of them. especially the glow worm. i have a cute video of that. hopefully you'll be able to see it soon. so after we did our exchanges it was pretty late so my dad took sophia and i home. once we got home she decided to wake up! but not for long. before we went to bed we put her gifts down under the tree. once we all went to bed i felt like we just had closed our eyes and then it was time to wake up! it was just about 6 am and we heard voice down stairs! ughh Joeys brother steven had his kids sleep over they are 2 and 13 and they were all downstairs opening up gifts. so of course sophia didnt want to go back to bed! so we headed down stairs and then our long day started! she was great she sat in her little chair that my parents gave her and she held onto wrapping paper in one hand and her toy in the other her smile didnt leave her face! after opening up all the gifts we had breakfast and then started opening up the toys. which one to play with first! we were all soo tired but there was so much going on nobody could take a nap! later on that day my grandmom wiley and my aunt audrey came over to give sophia their gifts. my aunt audrey gave her an adorbale wooden sled that has padding on it for the snow. its too cute i cant wait for the next snow fall. its ashame all the rain washed it away. so instead joe had been pulling her around in the house. she loves it! my grandmom got her tons of cute little outfits that she will grow into.

so all in all we had such a great christmas sophia now had soooo many toys to play with! oh yea and my aunt debbie gave us the jumper thing that hangs on the door way. sophia thinks its really neat that she can just hang there and move around with nothing next to her. it makes her feel like she really is standing in her own!

Now that x-mas is over was relaized we really next a toy box for her! so I think cupid is going to be looking for one for her!

I want to thank everyone for making this chrsitmas so wondeful. thank you

we are so excited!

We so can not wait for christmas this year! Other then a few last min gifts we still have to get Sophia is set! I can not wait to put the gifts under the tree and wake up christmas day to show her what santa brought! Even though she is too young to understand it is still exciting! She loves helping us wrap gifts especially when we give he some of the gift wrap!

ho ho hoooo

On saturday we took Sophia to the rec center that is right around the corner from us for "brunch with santa". This would be our "trial run"! We had her in a cute little x-mas outfit and stood in line with all of the other kids. I walked her up to santa and placed her in his arms and she was great not even a peep! So we knew she'd be okay for the "mall santa"! After eatting brunch and walking around and Sophia staring at all the little kids running around we had walked back home. When we got home we relaxed for awhile and then her cousins came over. Sophia loves when her cousins come over because Rosie who is 13 carries her around, etc. it was so cute i was in our room watching tv and i heard the two of them talking to eachother and i walked in the door way of the room they were in and rosie was sitting at the comp holding sophia. it looked so cute sophia was sitting there so still looking at the comp and then up to rosie. after a little while i took sophia and we went down stairs to plau with angie who will be 2 x-mas eve. she was playing with her little dolls. there like barbies but smaller. alot smaller! so i sat sophia on the sofa like a "BIG GIRL" and gave hera doll to hold and we all played dolls for a little bit sophia loved it she felt like such a big girl.
Today was the day for the "mall santa"! We dressed her in a little x-mas dress that had white fur around the kneck and around the arms and her little white stocking. We stood in line and she was staring at all the things around santa. It was then our turn... joe and I stood behind the lady with the camera calling her name she did soo good once she looked at santa she didnt stop looking at him. hopefully next year she will be as good! we saw plenty of kids crying! we picked the picture we liked the most it was a hard choice because the one of her looking up at santa was also good! but the lady said i can always come back and get that one. there were so many people at the mall during lunch she was staring at these two older ladies making face with her mouth as they were eatting! she wasnt even blinking! While we were there we got her stocking with her name on it. now we just have to get a bunch of goodies to stuff it. That should be fun! Tonight we will be wrapping her gifts i am soo excited i got the cutest wrapping paper~pink (of course!) with x-mas tress , little cats on it and x-mas balls.
I have been working alot with in the last couple of weeks with my normal days off (tuesday and wednesday) so i took off today, but i picked up a banquet on wed afternoon. When i was feeding sophia her breakfast this morning i could not believe how well she did with everything. i had her small bowl of rice cereal and a small bowl of her sweet pot. (this morning was the first time i actually got to feed her them since i was home.) she ate everything! and she wasnt even messy after she finished that i offered her her bottle and she ate some of that too! i am excited for dinner tonight! hopefully she does well with that again! I am going to try and out the picture of her and santa online so that everybody can see it.

4 month check up!

So today was sophias 4 month check up! she did wonderful. she weighs 13.10 pounds 50% and is just about 26 inches long 90%! she does have a little rash down there that the dr gave me a script for. we started feeding her cereal last weekend and the rice cereal is giving her soft poopies so we might have to try oatmeal instead but then she told us try start on veggies!! ALREADY i said! i dont wont to start yet! she is getting big to fast! aww my little girl is growing up! she got her shots and cried and was cranky when i got home but i then took her on a walk since its so nice out and now she is in a good mood! i fed her some cereal and the rest of her bottle she is slowy eatting but now she is laying on my lap staring at the comp!
in jan we have to go back to the dr to get the flu shot for h1n1and then feb shell get another round of vaccs and i think thats when i'll get her ears peirced! she has now found her thumb anbd likes it in her mouth! she loves holding her toes too!

SWAP MAMAS!

So I was on this one website called what to expect when your expecting and I was on there the whole time I was preg. just searching different things and posting blogs,etc So I had met this girl named jen after I posted a blog on the coupons I had. So after that we had started emailing eachother and then got connected on facebook. So anyways her daughter is acouple months older then Sophia. Since I only use similac formula and she uses good start I started sending her all my coupons for that to her and she did the same for simailac. She has also sent me a package of diapers that her daughter grew out of! how nice! I offered to pay her,etc but she said that since i have helped her out so much with everything I send her! isn't that so nice! So anyways she had introduced me to this website called swap mamas. it took me a day or two to get the hang of it but now that i kknow what i am doing it is a wonderful website. you can swap anything!! The only thing I have been swapping so far is coupons but i need a camera so that i can take some pictures of her clothes,etc and then swap for something else. its really neat they have rules such as if you area beginer then you have to send out your swap within ten days and then the person receiving it can then send there swaps after they get it. do i think every one shpould check this site out.
I have become the Coupon mom ever since sophia has came! i love clipping coupons and then seeing how much i can save. so far my biggest same on coupons was 117.00 at shop rite! the other day i went to babies r us and i saved 64 dollars in coupons! i get all excited and happy when they telme i know i am weird ! their just jealous~!