So it has been forever!!!!

I know it has been a very long time since I have up dated my blog. Sorry about that.

The above picture Cisco made a hut/fortress in the front room for Jade and Gemma one day.

James has had a huge project this year in rebuilding his trucks engine, for those of you who understand/know he took the engine down to the crank shaft, basically you can't go any deeper than that. Jade really enjoyed herself helping him she was out every time he was and got just as dirty as he did :-) good job guys!
Jade and Gemma wanted a purse so I found a pattern that I then modified to what I wanted, this is what we came up with :-)

My cast

So this is my pretty purple cast. I didn't break my foot... I had surgery on 4-23-2010 for those of you who didn't know I had a tendo-Achilles lengthening done on my left leg. I have been trying to fix my leg for pretty close to 2 years. Basically i had a "charly horse" all the time in my left calf, (it was constantly in spasm mode) stretching, exercise, supplements ( I was deficient in iron,calcium and vitamin D), muscle relaxers, foot doctor, regular doctor, second opinions and on and on. Nothing really was working. So the last time I went in to the Foot Dr. He suggested that this was were we were at. I could have tried orthopedics but he didn't think that would solve the problem.
So long story short I got to have surgery. Apparently it is a semi-common procedure in children and adolescents but not very common in adults, (and it's a painful recovery) mostly because it shows up earlier. It is probably something I have always had, when I was little I would get the worst cramps in my legs and that never really went away. My doctor said that he was going to go in and give the tendon a little bit of length so that it could release the muscle spasms, after surgery he said that he couldn't believe how tight my tendon was, he had to lengthen it about 2" and that was conservative. The nice thing is that I haven't had any spasms in my leg!!! yay!!
So now I am sporting the cast until June 1st.

Pretty Parlor

Gemma got to have her first experience going to the saloon right before Easter. She thought it was very fun. She got a short hair cut and we both love it. Jade was so jealous that Gemma got to have short hair that I took her the next day to get hers cut. Jade's hair was long enough to donate to locks of love again. (I need to get a better picture of Jade's to put on here.)

Princess Gemma

We have a very large basket of tea party dishes that Gemma just loves to play with she sets it up every day.
Gemma in one of her Princess Dresses. She loves to dress up like a princess every day, she calls headbands crowns and we live in a castle with towers. If I tell her she is cute she says "no I am Beautiful!" We went to Grandma Rory's the other day and Gemma told her that "We came to your castle today"
I had some fun colored sugar cookie dough in the freezer that we pulled out and had a good time making cookies one day.

A very important lesson...

I signed up for netflix as a new thing to try out and Gemma has gotten used to getting a movie in the mail, well today she saw the mailman go by so she wanted to go check the box for a movie. Well there was not a movie, and she is VERY upset. She kept saying there was "three mails", and showing me 3 fingers. It took me a minute to get it, she wanted to check all the mailboxes for a movie. Now I dare you to try to explain to a 3 year old why we cannot check everybodys mailbox. There is just no fixing that, so Gemma learned a very important lesson "the mailman can't be trusted"
That is a lesson we all learn sooner or later.
She just keeps saying "there was really no movie" It is very sad.

Jade at 9

Jade is still just a VERY sweet, quiet and loving girl. The first word everybody uses to describe her is sweet.
She is in 3rd grade and wavers back and forth with either loving it or wanting to be home schooled, but if I try to say anything different than what Miss. Green has said I am informed that I am wrong. So I just keep telling jade that it's best she go to school everyday.
Jade still starts pretty much every sentence with "It's sad....." whether it is actually sad or not. She loves to be with me and I love having her with me, She is a Wonderful helper and very good with Gemma. Although pretty much every chore is her "worst favorite".
She is in gymnastics and loves it.
If it was up to Jade she would only have to go to school 4 days a week, she believes in the 3 day weekend theory.
Jade also loves movies. Her favorite foods are still Cheese & Cereal.
She likes make-up, lotion, pampering and she likes to give pedicures, I get the most benefit from that :-)

Gemma at 3

Gemma at 3 is such fun, I enjoy her very much and our days together. She has discovered Dora and Diego, likes the shows very much, of course she has always loved her movies. The other day I spent a Very loooong time figuring out which show she wanted, I record the Go, Diego,Go shows for her and she wanted to watch "Pixie Mmarkasot" Now tell me you know what that is.... after much discussing she finally said "you know mom the smallest monkey's in the jungle" she wanted to watch the episode with the pygmy marmosets! Crisis averted LOL
She is still in her Princess stage in that she only wears dresses, and only certain dresses at that. I was lucky to find that Costco has some beautiful tea-length Easter/Spring dresses right now and they clean up and wash better than the traditional Princess dress-up dresses but still have the Princess quality in that they are pink, have tulle, bows and flowers.
She cracks me up all day long... Lately she has begun hitting and while that is NOT OK.... this is a usual conversation:
Gemma: Mommy Jade hit me!
Me: I sure hope not... Jade did you hit Gemma?
Jade: She hit me first*tears*
Me: Jade don't hit. Gemma did you hit Jade?
Gemma: Not on the arm *tears*
Me: What?
Gemma: I hit jade on the head she hit me on the arm *howling now*
Me: (trying not to laugh) Gemma don't hit... Jade don't hit.

There is also a "blue triangle Rawr, with sharp teeth and a tail" living in Gemma's room. This is what she tells me when she is crawling into bed with me every night, presumably so that I won't put her back in her bed.

Another conversation with Gemma:
background We were at Costco with Grandma Rory....
Rory: Gemma would you wear this? (Holding up a very cute pant and jacket set)
Gemma: I think I shouldn't .
needless to say there is no point in purchasing said outfit after that answer.

She calls our house her "castle" and loves to feed her birds (wild ones)
We recently signed up for netflix
Me: Gemma let's go get the mail.
Gemma:OK
Me: Look sweetie there is a movie
Gemma: A movie? Where did it come from?
Me: The mailman brought it.
Gemma: HE did(awed wonder) In the mailbox?


She askes everyone "How much olders are you" Which means how old are you. And she requires an actual number.
If you ask her what color her hair is she tells you"my hair is gold"

She hates having her hair combed but loves braids and to have her hair fixed, go figure :-) She likes to have control over the T.V. and if it's on anything other than what she picked she says "Not channel 13! "
She is willing to try pretty much any food, her favorites are jelly toast, spaghettio's broccoli, corn, peas and shaghetti., oh and doughnuts. She is a great eater! She is very bossy and opinionated, yet so very sweet and loveable. She loves to help me do everything but especially cook and laundry.