May Overview

May was a busy month for us. We started by picking up Aggie from training and doing his "continuing education" classes on weekends. I had finals which ended the spring semester for me in college. Chantz got accepted to the Police Academy:) Our little pumpking turned 2!!! We got ready for Aggie's first birthday on June 6th and a whole lot more.....

I have more pictures to upload for May I just haven't found the cord still. These are the ones my sil took at his birthday party which was at Northshore Park this year. It was SO hot but SO much fun. This year was so exciting because he was actually able to pick out his theme all on his own and seeing his excitement when the party goods were coming in was just "a kodak moment". He picked Yo gabba gabba which by now in July has gotten on my last nerve haha because it's all he wants to watch. I was so thrilled when I found a special 2nd birthday theme with Gabba on it since he was turning 2!!! We got him a banner that is still in his playroom right now that has all of the gabba characters with his picture on it telling him happy birthday. He refuses to take it down and he STILL gets excited when he walks in there and says Gabba and Dalton and cracks up laughing. Speaking of his laughing the way he really laughs is so funny. When he thinks something is just outrageously funny he will throw his head back and put his hand to cover his mouth and laugh. When he laughs with his head like this it almost sounds like he's snorting so it's really funny. Back to his birthday party he had a great time. He had so much fun playing with his friends and feeding the ducks with them. This was the first year that we had a pinata at his party and at first he was shy and scared of it but as soon as he saw his cousin Kade hit it he wanted the bat and went running up there to whack the heck out of it. We had a two tiered red and yellow cake this year with some matching red cake balls and let me tell you the kids LOVED the cake balls. They couldn't get enough of them. You can see in some of the pictures he got the gabba shirt that matched his party theme and everytime I do the laundry if he sees it in the basket he'll say mommy put gabba shirt on and he'll start taking his shirt off. He is just too much now:):) He got a ton of clothes and toys for his birthday but the one thing he would not take off the entire day was his helmet that goes with his new motorcycle that Gigi and Paul got him. Despite the heat, we had a great time and Dalton was so pooped he crashed as soon as we put him in the car to go home.

This next picture is in preparation for Aggie's first birthday!!! This is a picture of him when we first picked him up. He was only 7 weeks and it's so crazy to me how fast he has grown over this first year. He is HUGE and isn't even fully grown yet. I think at his first year he weighed right around 80 pounds which means he still has 30 to go. He has brought so many funny and loving memories to our family. When you see the movie Marley and Me that really is how our life with him is. He is just like another baby all over again:):)
Right after Dalton's birthday party we took his two year photos. I was so pleased with how they came out this year:):) Looking back at his first year pictures to this year I just want to cry at how quickly it feels like the time has gone by:(

I ended the semester right after Dalton's birthday party which was wonderful. Right before finals we went through a pretty rough time because Dalton came down with pneumonia:( I basically blew through all of my sick time at work because I was out with him for almost two weeks. It was one of the scariest things I've ever been through in my life. When I first took him to the doctor I had to go alone because Chantz couldn't get off work and she told me it sounded like either something was stuck in his wind pipe and they would have to go surgically in and get it or that he is just really inflammed. I immediatly broke out in tears and felt like I was going to throw up. I wanted so bad for it to be me instead of him. Then we were told that we had to go get xrays to see what was actually in there and when we went to the xray room the lady pulled this clear tube standing upright with this wooden circle around it over to us. She told me I needed to strip him down to a diaper and we were going to put him inside this tube and hold his arms up over his head. As soon as she put him in there he started screaming and asking me mommy help mommy get me out and she told me I needed to stop comforting him and let him cry because it would make it easier for his lungs to show what was going on with them. Talk about the worst mother moment in history. My child was stuck in this tube that all I could see was his cheeks smooshed in the plastic and his little nose was sticking out of this hole so he could breathe and I had to hold his arms up in the air and not even comfort him when he was looking to me for help and comfort. I was SO upset. When we left I went and took him home and waited by my phone for the phone call. I felt like the minutes were hours until we got the results. Finally they told us he had pneumonia and they put him on two medicines for it. It was exhausting those next days trying to keep a two year old from running and getting overly excited. Plus on top of this I was trying to play catch up from being away from school on our cruise and get ready for finals. Five days after he first got sick was mothers day. At this point I had been around him for that long that I myself started to feel bad and so Chantz went and picked us up food at the restaurant we were going to go eat at for mothers day and we ate at home instead and spent the day resting and coloring together. It was a pretty neat mothers day because since we were sick we basically couldn't go out and focus on other things like we usually do instead we spent quality time together at home which was really awesome. Dalton ended up healing just in time to have a week of rest before his party which was nice because he was 100% by that time then. I hope I never have to go through something like that again it was the worst feeling in the world being a mom and not being able to do anything to help your child when they're asking you to.

One of the last things that happened in May was Chantz's new truck. I just knew that since I got a new car in January that the "I need a new truck" was coming. Well one day I get a phone call at work saying "the exact truck that I want is here and it's the only one that is made like this and someone is looking to buy it right now so I need to know right this second if I can have it or not otherwise they may buy it and then I'll have passed up on this great truck". Well what do you know that night Chantz came home with this "awesome amazing one of a kind truck":):) It's so funny because he always gets on me for "overexaggerating" when I say can I please have this I really need this it's the last one in this color or my size or whatever but then when I saw the truck I mean don't get me wrong it's beautiful but I'm pretty sure it's not the only one made in the world hahaha. So here it is his new truck (the only one in the world but they actually had a picture online of it hahaha)He is too much too:):)

It came with cloth but they threw in leather for him as part of the deal. Well he brings home all of these swatches of leather and him and I spent a whole night debating what we each thought would look good. The reason I have this picture is because I wanted it a different way but this is actually how he got it with the two toned the dark grey on the outside with light grey on the insides (I thought it would look better all light grey). I have to admit when he brought it home with the leather done it was gorgeous so he was right and he just ate it up when I said the words "wow you were right" hahaha.

Ooops!!

Well I just realized yesterday I left off all of our Cozumel pictures so I am going to post them on here as well. Also I wanted to note that our last day at sea when our boat tipped on its side is when one of the worst environmental disasters happened and a BP oil rig exploded and is now leaking oil into the gulf of Mexico every single day. This happened on April 22nd and still now to June 30th there is oil leaking out every day and it has caused major problems to Lousiana, Alabama and Florida beaches already. There has been talk of it also going around Florida and up the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Europe. This has caused a ban to be put in place on any drilling in the Gulf now which has kind of put a damper on our family since mommy works for an oil company but luckily I'm on the international side so even though our deep water jobs have seized, we still have work thank goodness. This has put such a damper on so many people with their housing, jobs, family loses from those on the rig when it happened, fishermen, restaurants, and the economy in general. Hopefully not too much longer and all of us can start to see the end for this and things get back to normal. I just wanted to add that since it is now the biggest oil spill to date.

Our Cruise and Remainder of April 2010

We finally got to go on our "honeymoon" this past April. We took a five day cruise to the carribbean on the carnival ecstasy. This was my second cruise and before this cruise I thought I knew evertyhing about cruises until I found out that one of the worst things I ever thought could happen to me happened on this trip. The start of the trip was great we were enjoying ourselves, eating a ton of food, relaxing by the pool with our drinks and just enjoying the peace. The pictures are in backwards order and some of them we took and some of them the cruise took and we bought. The frist day at sea was when we pulled out which was mostly just safety briefings and sail away parties followed by dinner. Destiny and Joey went on the cruise with us and the first night Destiny and I felt nauseated so we all went to sleep pretty early. When we woke up the next day it was pretty gloomy outside and we thought the day was going to be a dud until the sun came out:):) Destiny and I pretty much spent most of our day laying out by the pool with our coconut drinks enjoying the wonderful breeze and the island music. Later that night wasw formal night which we all had a blast dressing up for. The cruise takes so many wonderful pictures of you that night that it's hard to decide which ones you really want to buy and which ones you're going to leave behind. That night we gambled a little bit and I actually played craps for the first time and won some money and then we all went to a adult comedy show later. The next day we were up extremely early getting ready to get off the boat for Progresso, Mexico our first port. Progresso was an adventure in itself. When we got off the buses that bring you to the actual port we heard of an adventure that you can go on where all drinks, food and jetskis, massages on the beach and everything was included. Well we decided to take up the people on this offer and go along with it. We were so nervous at first because some guy took our cash and then walked off and told us to meet him back there in an hour and we would leave for the resort. Well we kept thinking we had just gotten scammed but we didn't and they actually came back to get us. We got on the bus with these CRAZY people that were on the other carnival boat. They were very interesting and amusing with the things that were coming out of their mouths. When we got to the resort it was beautiful with the pretty pool and beach however there were no jetskis which is what we REALLY wanted to do and the whole reason that we paid to go on this excursion. Well come to find out, they weren't running during this time of the eyar is what they told us so we were pretty disappojnted. However, we still had a great time and ate and drank a whole bunch and had a ton of fun swimming around in the pool. When we got back we shopped around for a little while and then got back on the boat to head for dinner time. One funny story about dinner is that we kept saying the waiter had a crush on Destiny. We said this because she would always get special appetizers and desserts that she didn't even order meanwhile none of us did haha. He would always refill her drink and leave all of ours un filled it was pretty funny and Joey was cracking me up with his thoughts on the whole thing. That next day was Cozumel where we swam with the dolphins at Chankannab. I have been where you get to touch the dolphins and hug them before but nothing like what we got to do this time. This was the favorite part of the whole trip for both Chantz and I and is something we will both remember for the rest of our lives. We actually got pushed up in the air by our feet where we were floating on the water and we got to hold on to their fins and be carried across the water on them which was also amazing. The other awesome thing about this day was we got to run into my Uncle and his friend that has known me since I was a baby here. They were on another cruise the same time we were but we couldn't find them in Progresso but somewhow they made it to here and we got to spend some time with both of them catching and throwing all these beautiful fish at each other in the crystal clear water. I could have just stayed in that beach forever it was so beautiful and the water was go gorgeous. We met back up with Destiny and joey at Senor Frogs later that day to eat and have some drinks. Then it was time to get back on the boat and back to dinner again. This night we were so worn out from the day that we actually just relaxed and went to the back of the boat and laid under the sky looking at the stars together so it was very nice to just have some actual time to just not have five million things to do and just be able to enjoy spending some time together. That next day was our last day at sea and this was when the wrost imaginiable thing happened to me. We got up and went and ate some breakfast and laid out by the pool relaxing some more before we were going to be home. Well the cruise had misplaced one of our pictures from formal night so we decided to go and ask them to look it up and reprint if or us. Just as we're standing there and I'm confirming which one Chantz says why does it feel like we're leaning to one side?? I kept telling him don't worry about it you're just imagining it when all of the sudden the picture sign comes fliying down from the other side of the boat almost hitting me. Chantz grabbed me and we ran for the other side o the boat. We were standing behind a column that was there for decoration and watching as the other side of the boat was in the water and the water was coming right up to the glass on that side of the ship. All we c and things falling all over the place. We really thought we were going to flip over and I honestly had no idea what to do and thank goodness the boat started leaning back to the normal way otherwise we probably would've jumped. We were so glad that next morning to be home after this crazy occurance happened on the last day. They said it was to avoid a buoy that was int eh ocean it's just so hard for me to actually believe that they didn't see until last minute that they needed to turn that hard when there were NO waves that day in the ocean it was like we were sailing on glass. During this time we were on vacation Aggie was getting trained at Mans Best Friend. Let me tell you this place did an amazing job with him too. We went to pick him up the first weekend in May and it was like we saw a different dog. Not to little after that though Dalton got pneumonia which was the worst thing ever. I was scared to death that something was going to happen to him. Luckily, he didn't have to get hospitalized and was better just in time for his birthday and birthday party that we threw him. I'll be posting those pictures along with other fun in the sun pictures from May and June hopefully this week or next.