Finally movie night is here!

The last 24 hours have felt a little crazy. I finally was able to go pick up my wedding band yesteray from the jewelers and now it looks all brand new again. But of course it takes very little time for me to scratch up the bottom of the band. But at least it is shiny for now.
Last night after getting home from Wal-mart I fed Nash his dinner and he was eating some baby goldfish crackers and he choked, it's so scary when that happens, I of course had to stick my finger down his throat, he pretty much hated me for the next 2 minutes but then was back to himself just in time for his bath. Woke up this morning at 330 and could not fall back asleep for the life of me and once Luke get's up at 445 I was pretty much wide awake. I hope I can make it through this movie tonight and don't get too tired.
Just pretty much glad it's Friday, a little bummed we aren't going to the Haunted House tonight and not going to the game on Sunday. But glad we get to go to the movies tonight after dinner with my Mom.
I heard that Paranormal Activity was really good, I hope we can maybe go see that too sometime soon.
Happy Halloween this weekend!

Just when you think you don't have to worry

The money monster comes right back to bite you in the butt. Or at least that is how I like to look at it. We seemed to be worry free for the last part of August and all of September. And now back to reality. Back to penny pinching and sometimes just hating life because of it. All I can say is that I am so thankful that I started buying Nash's birthday presents in June, because had I not, I don't know what I would have done at this very moment. I know he will have a wonderful birthday and get lots of great stuff and that is what makes me happy. The more I look at his haircut, the less I like it, there are some parts that need to be trimmed up by Luke, hopefully it will grow out a little bit sooner then later :)
Didn't get to go see a movie last night and now I don't think we are going to go Haunted Housing because it is $21 per person and we really just shouldn't be spending that kind of money. In fact I would rather go see a movie for a total of $20 instead of the haunted house, I'm too old for haunted houses. Hopefully our friends will understand our predicament.
I still don't have a good head count on who is coming to the party. This makes things more stressful then they should be. My fear is that no one will show up and it will just be my small amount of family that will be in town. I at least know that Erika is coming and her two kids.
I just hope the weather is nice, not too hot and not too windy and the food is good!

double checked for accuracy

Picked Mom up at the airport yesterday, worked out and then met Luke, Nash, Mom up at Chick fil a for dinner. Nash got his big boy haircut yesterday and he did really good. Luke said he didn't squirm at all, Luke took lots of pictures, it was cute!
Packed the car up this morning and took both dogs and Nash over to my Mom. The dogs were too excited to contain themselves, Bobby whined the whole way there. They love staying with her.
Nash was not too happy to see me leave, he was crying for a good 5 minutes before I even walked out the door. Luke gets to play golf today, and tonight we are going to go see a movie, I can't wait. There are 4 movies in the running that I really want to see that are out right now. I really can't decide. But I think it will end up being Hereafter, because I know Luke wants to see that one too.
I stopped and grab some breakfast from McD's this morning and they forgot to put the Sausage on my Sausage Egg and Cheese Biscuit, I didn't even notice until like the 3 bite. And I like how they have a sticker on the wrapper that says "double checked for accuracy" GOOD ONE!
A big FAIL for them, they're lucky I'm not the type of person who would march right back in there and complain to get what I actually paid for.

waking up late ruins my day

Why is it that getting off on the wrong foot in the morning can just make your whole day seem out of whack. Some how this morning I managed to turn off my alarm and sleep until about the time I would be making my lunch and getting ready to head out the door. So I of course rush to get ready, which I hate doing, because I ultimately end up getting hot just trying to hurry and it just ruins my whole flow for the rest of the day. Amazingly enough after a speedy drive and no sight of any police cars I managed to get to work only 5 minutes late. But I still feel off in some way.
Saw that the mid-west is getting slammed with some bad storms. I hope my Mom got on her flight and doesn't have any delays. But I haven't heard from her so I'm not really sure yet.
I don't even know where she was connecting from.
I have someone how managed to get a lot done since I got here, and as usual take my little break to eat some candy and update my blog. We have pretty much cleaned out the second bucket o candy here at the office. I have been loading up on jaw breakers and super bubble.
Nash was so hyper last night...I got home from my workout and Luke left to go watch some Monday night football and eat his wings up at Riskys. Nash had been sleeping since Luke got home with him, and of course as soon as Luke left he woke up. So I made dinner for both of us and I think he was just really hungry but also just wired. I ended up giving him his bottle early and letting him play and then Luke put him to bed at 730 and the little bugger laid in his crib for the next hour and a half talking to himself. He seemed be really enjoying himself, so finally at about 9pm I went in there and to see what he was doing. He was laying on his back with his feet propped up on his crib playing with Sharkey. He as just as happy as a peach and had the biggest smile on his face when I said what are you doing?
I think maybe 45 minutes later he was finally asleep. Such a crazy little guy, I just love him!
Hopefully he sleeps a good while this morning. I gave Luke one assignment today, well actually two, he is to take Nash to get a hair cut, his first hair cut done professionally and then take him to get the other lab test done, that was suppose to happen at his 9 month check up.
Hopefully he follows through on both...but we'll find out this evening when I see him.

Great weekend

Had an uneventful weekend, but it was so nice, finally the AC is off and hopefully will remain off for quite sometime. We manage to eat home cooked meals for the past 3 days which is always a good thing in my book if we can manage it. I got some heavy duty cleaning done on part of the downstairs. Didn't get a chance to make it to the gym but will definitely be going tonight. Really just had a relaxing weekend, nothing exciting that I can even write about happened. Oh we did get Nash's first birthday present in the mail, so we decided to go ahead and let him open it. It was from Popo and Gigi, he got Buzz Lightyear and Woody stuffed dolls, a fire truck and police car, and a Toy Story 2 Book and a police t-shirt that is just sooo cute! He loves the cars has been playing with them a lot and he keeps putting them under the couch.
Made one of my favorite meals last night, Cheesey Turkey meatloaf, it was so good, in fact I already know that I will be eating leftovers tonight, as Luke will be going to Risky's for Monday night football.
My Mom gets in to town tomorrow, it will be nice to have her around and Nash will be staying with her and it will also give Luke and I a chance to go see a movie and go out for some adult fun time, I'm looking forward to it. I think we are going to try and go see Hereafter on Wednesday night, there are so many movies out right now that I really do want to see it is a tough decision, but I think I will hold off and Social Network until it comes out on DVD. And I don't really need to see Paranormal Activity 2, or maybe we will go see that next week:)
Pretty boring blog today:)

Hot Air Balloons

When I take Nash to the sitter over in Marana there is always at least one hot air balloon floating along the mountains, it's so cool. Today there were two of them. Even though I think I would be scared out of my mind I think it might be something fun for Luke and I do too, maybe someday we'll get around to trying it, it looks very peaceful and calm. It is a chilly, chilly morning today, I love it. I had to get Nash all bundled up, and have realized he has no pants, he really only has 5 pairs of pants excluding his pajama pants. So I need to get him some here soon and actually add to his pajama collection as well.
Even his little sweat jackets are a little too small, might one to look into that as well.
I made a trip back to the party supply store yesterday and got a few more things for the birthday party, I think I have covered everything except silverware, cake, balloons and food, and that can all wait at least until next week, I need to figure out about ordering the cake though and where to get it from.
Nash was not a happy guy this morning when I left him with Maria, I hate seeing him like that, hopefully he outgrows this stage soon. I got his 12 month check up scheduled and I made an appointment to finally after over a year get our water softener hooked up. I wish I wouldn't have waited so long to do it but oh well.
Luke bids today for his new schedule for the first of the year, I think he is gonna try to go back to nights like he was working before Nash was born. I already know that schedule will work for us and the sitter, but it's gonna cost us more so I'm not sure that is the best, but oh well.
I still think we need to look into a daycare for him, but we'll see what happens.
We are getting closer to finding out what is happening with the lay offs, and praying it doesn't effect us, but we'll see what happens.
I will be able to get another work out in tonight, really happy about that, and I'm gonna try to get it another one tomorrow as well, but I really need to get my house clean and just do a really good scrub clean. Not looking forward to it and I still need to get some yard work done as well. Looks like I know how I will be spending my weekend!

Nash's hat obsession

Nash loves to play this game with Luke where he takes Luke's hat off and then tries to put it back on Luke's head. He now has this obsession with hats, he loves to have them on this head, loves to chew on them and he even sleeps with his Colts hat in his crib, it's so cute. Makes me want to buy him a hat for his birthday, not that I really need to get him anything else. I probably should focus more on Christmas shopping now.
Last night he stood on his own for a record amount of time, probably like 30 seconds, but it was the longest so far, I think he is really enjoying this whole learning to walk thing.
My plan for cooking a good meal went down the drain as soon as I got home last night. I ended up going to Taco Bell for Luke and I. And I took Brewski along for the ride, sometimes I think Brewski needs some one on one time with out Bobby around to get the attention that he used to get before Bobby came into the family :) It was a good day yesterday I got to talk to Andrea, twice which is very rare, I talked to Anne while she was still in the hospital and talked to Ameena briefly.
It's nice to be able to gab with my girlfriends for a good 30 minutes each because it just doesn't happen enough anymore, I miss them a lot!
I woke up today to a very cloudy dreary morning with a little bit of rain and colder temps and I love it. I almost broke out the Hunter boots this morning, but decided to wait a little longer:)
It's Thursday, which means that Nash and I will be going to Wally world for our weekly grocery trip! I'm hoping maybe to hit up the party supply store too to get the rest of the stuff that I need for Nash's birthday so that I don't have to worry about it later.
I really need to make a point today to call someone to see if we can get our water softener hooked up, I'm so sick of dealing and cleaning with the after math of hard water! The $125 should be worth it by now!
Got in another awesome workout yesterday, I'm doing really good, I just need to stay on track and work out some kind of schedule with Luke so I can fit in my workouts on the days that he is working as well!

Congrats to the Tennery Family

I woke up this morning to a nice text message from Anne that baby Olivia Lee Tennery was born at 159am and that everyone was doing great. I'm so happy for Anne and Jeremy and Bristol and I can't wait to meet the new addition in January when we head home.
I also got to talk to one of my best friends today which is rare these days, all of us being so busy.
She happened to be in Indy and was going to surprise Anne and stop by the hospital to see them and the new baby. I'm sure will just be thrilled to see her! I let Eileen know who is all the way in Hong Kong, I was hoping she would be on Skype this morning which is actually late at night in Hong Kong, but she wasn't so I messaged her on facebook and hopefully I will get to talk to her tomorrow.
My new phone has been acting up, just realized last night that none of my text messages were being sent out, was practically on the phone with Verizon all day today. But I think we finally got it fixed, of course they had to wipe my phone completely clean, that sucked bc I lost what little pictures I had already on there.
I had another successful workout yesterday and delicious dinner, grilled by my husband and sides my by me and Nash ate another big boy meal, he has some kind of crazy appetite, I think he could eat forever if we didn't stop him. He is really getting better with his walking and each day gets just a little bit closer, I really hope within the next month he gets it, I just can't wait for him to be walking, we need to practice with some shoes on, that would prevent him from trying to stand up on his tippy toes all the time. He really is testing us with is antics of seeing how long we will let him touch something that we continuously tell him "No" and then he gets really upset when we finally have to pick him up and move him. We have gotten into the habit of letting him take sips out of our cups and last night Luke was drinking a beer and Nash got so upset when Luke would not let him have a sip of it, he just didn't understand. We had a good night of him sleeping through the whole night thank God for that. But I once again overslept, every day this week I have either over slept or been running late in some form.
Today, I have another workout ahead of me, and then home to cook another delish dinner for the family and then hopefully just relaxing, we are supposed to get rain and the temps will be pretty cool tomorrow, I can't wait, I am loving this weather so much right now.
Lots to get done still for Nash's party, I decided to go a whole different route with the goody bags for the kids at the party, instead of being crafty I will just buy some Sponge Bob boxes to put the goodies in. It will look better that way :)
Still don't really have a good head count on who all will be there, but I think we should have a pretty good number, so I'm really looking forward to it, I can't wait to give Nash all of his toys and of course finally put that wagon to some good use. He is going to love it once we can actually pull him on the street in it. My husband said he was going to get some things done today, like yard work and take Nash to get another test at the lab done, but we'll see how much he really got done when I get home, I do have to get him credit , he straightened up the house yesterday before I got home, which is always nice, I like to come home to a non-chaotic house hold.

unhappy little boy

Today is gonna be difficult, I am way too tired to do anything, I was up pretty late with an unhappy little boy. Lately he has been waking up at some point during the night and just crying, and then I will go and hold him or rock him for a little bit and lay him back down and he usually goes back to sleep with out a fight, but last not he was not having it at all. Finally after 3 or 4 times of laying him down letting him cry and then going back in there and doing it again, he finally fell asleep. But then this morning I tried to sneak in his room to cover him up and he woke up and started crying again, so I had to get his bottle for him. Sometimes he wakes up to the slightest sound and other times he can sleep through Bobby's howling.
It is finally, finally feeling like fall here in Tucson, cooler temps, no air conditioning, I hope it continues and we don't get another heat wave anytime soon.
Got in a good workout yesterday and even though I don't want to go today I will make myself and take advantage of the days that I am able to get in the gym.
Luke's schedule will probably be changing in the next couple months which means our whole routine will be changing as well.
I'm still strongly considering enrolling Nash in to an actual daycare, there is one near my work that I want to check out, and seems very affordable, at least on our budget it does.
I just want him to get more socialized with other young kids and learn too.
We'll see what happens, who knows what will happen in the next few months.

I knew there was a good reason...

I'm about half way to the sitters house and I realize I didn't shut the garage door, or at least I don't remember shutting the garage door. But really cannot remember if I did or didn't. After dropping off Nash I decide it's best to go back home to make sure I did shut it, because I would hate to come home to an empty house, especially after dealing with the wrath of Luke's golf clubs getting stolen out of our garage while I was home. I just didn't want to risk it, so I drive all the way back home and of course it was shut, but I felt better about double checking. I text Erika and let her know I will be late to work and make my way back to work, an hour behind the usual time that I would leave home. Now all the school kids are outside waiting for the bus, and I can't help but to notice the time and wonder if that will be me in a few years, waiting with Nash at the school bus stop. Then I start to remember why I leave for work at 620am, because that early I never get stuck behind the school bus, annoyed I deal with it and get on to Oracle only to realize traffic is sooo heavy right now, and then there is an accident at one of the busiest intersections on my commute so that holds me up for a good 10 extra minutes, once again annoyed, but thankful that's not be in the fender bender because those people are truly having a terrible Monday and that is not how you want to start a week. Finally 8am and I arrive to work, what normally is a 40-45 minute commute turned into an hour and a half commute, BLAH!
This weekend was good, make a great dinner Friday night, according to Luke, it was one of the best so far! I always like to hear that! Saturday I took my rings into to get re-dipped and the lady that was helping me proceeded to argue with me of how much my wedding band was...she tried to tell me compared to something in her store it was only $1200 and I'm like we paid over $3000 for it...I then decided to take the ring back and told her I would take it to the jeweler where it was purchased, I didn't know this was going to be so difficult! Some people are so annoying and soo snobby! Got in a great workout Saturday evening, and had another delish meal for dinner. Yesterday was a lazy day filled with laundry and minimal cleaning.
Nash had his first piece of pizza and he LOVED it! He is such the big boy!
We watched the Colts game and then I watched the movie Crazy Heart, it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Today will be another good workout after work and then leftovers for dinner while Luke goes and eats his wings at Risky's and watches Monday night Football, this seems to becoming a routine with him on Monday's so I don't count on making dinner on Monday's at least while football season is going on :) The Colts won, so that's always a good way to start out the week!
Mom will be here next week, lots to get done before then!

Routines and chaos

It has become very apparent to me that I have a routine in everything that I do, not much has become very spontaneous, mostly because I am such the planner, but from morning routines, to work routines, to weekly and even weekend routines. I do the same thing every day, every night, every weekend. Every Thursday I go to the grocery, and this is also bath night for Nash.
I also make it a point to sit down by 8pm no matter what to watch Grey's Anatomy. I have my nightly routine of washing my face, brushing the teeth, having a good idea of what I'm wearing the next day, so I don't waste any time deciding in the morning. Our whole life is one big routine, and only gets changed up a bit when relatives visit or we go on vacation or we spontaneously decide to go out for dinner one night. But when we get throwin off our routine suddenly we tend to get stressed out a little or at least I do. This morning for example was a little chaotic, from the time I got in the shower to when I arrived at work. The stress actually woke me up a little bit, which is good, but now I actually feel a little bit exhausted. It's starting to get harder to leave Nash with the sitter because he realizes now when I leave and he starts to cry. I know he is in good hands, but it makes it a little tougher.
My Hunter boots arrived last night, but I didn't see the box until this morning, I tried them on, they were too big and the Aubergine was more like Barney purple, so I called Zappos to do an exchange and their customer service is so wonderful. The already shipped me a new pair, a smaller size and Black so that I have them by Monday and then I just have to get the Aubergine ones returned, probably drop them off at the UPS store tomorrow. They are definitely right on the money with awesome customer service, I couldn't be happier, hopefully these black ones will fit better, but I did love the purple ones, or at least the boot itself.
Another weekend ahead of me, not sure what I will be doing, probably should get my house cleaned, but I'm sure I will hold off until last minute like I always do with that. I need to finish up the darn goody bags for Nash's birthday.

Blackberry Crackberry

Well my wonderful husband decided to postpone him getting a new phone, at least for a week :) It's so expensive for us both to upgrade, and he didn't want another Blackberry to take advantage of the buy one get one free, so I have the new Blackberry Curve, they are not even technically selling them yet. I love it! I was pretty much over the whole touch screen from the Blackberry Storm. Now I just need to make sure to mail in my rebate to get the $100 back. My patience was wearing thin yesterday, having Nash with us, of course he is too big and too heavy to be carried around in his car seat anymore but he isn't walking yet, so you try to hold him and all he wants to do is squirm, I don't blame him. Luke cooked dinner last night, so I got the night off, although I skipped working out, I was too excited about getting the new phone I guess :)
Watched some good TV and called it a night after messing around on my phone for a couple of hours.
Today is grocery day! I hate going to the grocery and I especially hate the fact that I have to go to Wal-Mart in the hopes of saving that much more money I deal with the annoyance of going there every week with Nash in tow to get our food for the week. I pretty much know the store like the back of my hand, so it is easier then it used to be, that is as long as Nash doesn't have a melt down in the store, so far this has only happened once.
Last night we put him in the playpen while we ate dinner and he hated it, he threw every single toy on the floor and then just stood there and screamed louder and harder then I have ever heard him scream, of course we thought this was hilarious and so he was laughing too, but I truly hope he never does this public :)
Tonight is my favorite TV night, can't wait for Grey's and some Destination Truth!
Now I need to get on Crackberry to get some songs on my new phone..peace out!

Peanut Butter overload

I think at some point very soon my body is going to start to hate me because I eat so much peanut butter on a daily basis. Especially this week! I ran out of cereal so I have been eating peanut butter toast, for my mid-morning snack I have been eating peanut butter crackers, for lunch I have peanut butter and jelly and a few mini reese cups, for my afternoon snack I have a peanut butter chocolate chip Quaker bar. For some reason every since I went back to work from maternity leave I have been eating Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch every day, unless I go to Subway or it's Thursday and I don't take a lunch. It's so weird, what worries me is the show I saw recently on TLC where this kid was eating pizza for every meal for like a year or something and it was basically causing him to be really, really sick. Hopefully this is not the same kind of thing that I have got going on :)
On a totally different note, I'm obsessed right now with the movie Catfish...I just watched an episode of 20/20 last Friday and they did a whole story on the movie or documentary and it is just fascinating to me, the things that people out there do..kind of scary and the fact that it revolves around facebook is even better, I still need to go see Social Network, maybe when my mom gets into town Luke and I will take advantage of a free sitter and go see a movie or two:)
Nash has learned how to give kisses, not sure where he learned it, but I asked him to give me a kiss last night and he immediately put his face and open mouth on my mouth, I thought he was going to bite me, but it was so cute, it did it a few more times and then when Luke got home I tried to show him and Nash wouldn't do it anymore. He is so funny, I have rounded up most of his baby toys, like rattlers, most of his teethers, stuff like that and I'm gonna box them up so we can make more room for all his new stuff he is getting for his birthday. I'm pretty sure he could play with the remote, a bottle of water and play tug o war with Bobby and his toys and he would be quite content :)
Tonight Luke and I are going to Verizon to get new phones, we are eligible for our free upgrade, I think I'm gonna stick with the Blackberry but not the Storm, I'm over the whole touch screen thing, I want the original Blackberry. I'm excited, who doesn't love getting a new phone to play with and learn all the cool stuff on, but we have to figure out how to lower our phone bill, it has just been too high lately, so hopefully we can get that taken care of and hopefully this doesn't take all night.
I'm trying to get back on some kind of work out schedule, but I just have lost all motivation lately, plus Bally's changed their hours and are not as open as late as they used to be.
Can't say enough about loving this weather right now or at least the evenings and mornings, I will really be loving it when I can go back to leaving the sliding door open for the dogs when I am home for them to go in and out as they please, I hope for Nash's birthday the weather is just perfect! I'm getting really excited for the party and hope everyone that we invited here in Tucson will be able to come, I have invested some time in making cute Sponge Bob goody bags, so I hope for that sake they do come.
I still have a few things I need to get, some decorations, I am hoping to get some applique to bake on sugar cookies or something like that, but we'll see and Aunt Debby is bringing a bag of crabby paddy gummies for the goody bags too!

talking Nash

It seems that when Nash is blabbering he really is trying to have a serious conversation with you or so he thinks, and then he will do his little fake cough and fake laugh. He has some kind of personality, can't wait until he is really talking. We worked this past weekend on his walking with the hat game. He loves to take Luke's hat off his head and then put it back on his head, you could play this game with him for hours.
So I put the hat on my head and made him stand up and walk to get the hat, it worked, he has the whole standing up on his own and keeping his balance down, and he would take a step and then just fall, but he was getting better, we just need to keep working on it.
I finally took the time to fill his wagon with all the toys and clothes that I have been purchasing since June, the wagon is pretty full, but I just can't help to still want to buy more stuff, maybe just a few more small things:) And then I guess I can start my Christmas shopping soon, or maybe wait until after his birthday, bc anything I buy from now until then I'm gonna want to give to him for his birthday. I spent the weekend working on the goody bags for the other kids, now I just hope these other kids actually come to the party! I pretty much have everything, just need to get a card table, a few more table cloths and maybe some Sponge Bob center pieces, and decor and then the Balloons and cake will have to wait until much closer to the party.
I ordered the Hunter boots that I have been dying to get forever, I finally caved and ordered them yesterday through Zappos, I got the Aubergine color instead of going with black, this way I think I can wear them with more color options and they are still dark, so not too flashy. Here is to hoping that I don't have any buyers remorse. Luke okayed me getting them, considering I really never splurge on myself anymore, I get small, cheap or on clearance items here and there for myself, but not like this, so I am one happy lady today, hopefully they arrive by the weekend.
The nights and mornings have been very cool here lately, down in the 50's, so I have been able to open up the balcony door while we are sleeping and let the cool and fresh air in, it has been so nice. But it is still getting up into the mid 80's and 90's, now we just need that low 70's and 60's weather to get here and I will be happy :)
I always stop myself from buying Nash too warm of clothes, bc I feel like it's a waste, maybe I will wait a little bit until closer to the time we go home in January to get him really warm stuff, or at least get him a few things for Christmas. Really can't wait to put up our Christmas tree!

Cooler weather has arrived

Since the weekend we have had perfect weather and even lots of rain, it's odd this time of year, but I am loving it. Too bad I can't go get the Huntsman boots that I really want, or I guess I could, but I might be looked at oddly. This morning it was actually a little chilly, I guess I need to start watching the weather instead of assuming it is going to be hot and sunny.
Luke and I just celebrated our 2 year anniversary yesterday. I came home to big vase of flowers, with lots of Lillies, my favorite and a new copy of my new favorite movie "It's Complicated" I can't wait to watch it. Over the weekend we had a garage sale on Saturday, I had a lot of stuff and a lot of good clothes, we made less then $50 and $40 of it went to the babysitter we had Saturday night while Luke and I went out to dinner and a movie. We enjoyed some Outback and then saw that movie "The Town" it was really good. It was a late night, and Sunday Luke let me sleep in while he watched Nash, I don't remember the last time I was able to sleep in, I forgot how nice it is. It was pretty much a lazy day. Luke went to Riskys to watch the Colts game, and I stayed home with Nash and watched HBO all day. We got HBO back for the next 6 months. I also forgot how nice it is to have HBO.
Yesterday Luke put together Nash's Radio Flyer wagon and we just had to put him in it to test it out, he LOVES it. But it is his birthday present so I'm gonna hold off on more rides, I need to fill it up with all the toys and clothes that I have been buying since June :)
We went to Applebees last night to take advantage of the 2 for $20 meal deal they have, it was pretty good, then we went over to the Party City so I could look at some stuff for Nash's birthday party. I picked up a few things for the goody bags for the kids, but I don't want to commit to too much until I know for sure who is coming.
Last week we received some good news, or at least we think it is good news involving the lay offs.
The US Department of Justice has chosen Tucson Police Department as one of the agencies they are giving money too. They get $12 million which will pay for 50 officers salaries for the next 3 years, so we think this means that Luke will not be getting laid off and hopefully no one else from his academy class as well.
But the Chief said nothing will be done with the money until after November elections, they are still waiting to see if that 1/2 cent tax will go through. So things around here are a lot less stressful that is for sure. After refinancing and not having to pay a mortgage payment last month, we were able to put that money in our savings, so that we now have a tiny bit of a cushion should we need it. Now I need to start focusing on my Christmas shopping for Nash, got to make it a good one this year since it's just us.
We still don't know what the future holds regarding Luke's employment, things could change within the next year for better I hope or they could stay the same, which I would be totally fine with, I love our house. But we are looking towards the future and looking at different options, very exciting times could be ahead of us.