Excitement is...!

A post of things that have made me excited lately!

There is a Chinese restaurant in Pullman called the Emerald. It is by far the BEST Chinese restaurant I've ever been to, ever! My favorite thing there is their almond chicken and pork chow mien! They make a gravy out of the almonds for their almond chicken and it is absolutely devine! Since moving away from Pullman, I've been searching and searching for another restaurant that makes the almond chicken like that. Well, it took 5 years to do it, but I finally found one!!! It's not nearly as good as the Emerald, but still mighy delicious! I'm so super happy!

We got our family pictures done this past week. It's the first professional pictures we've had since Alexis was born. It was a late birthday gift Peter got me! They turned out awesome! We got a deal on them, where when we ordered the package we got a CD of all the pictures we took, not just the pictures we ordered, and the copy release for them, so I can go and print out ones that I didn't get to order! It's a good thing because I couldn''t just pick out a couple, I wanted them all!

I have been subbing pretty much full time this year. Most of the jobs I've been getting are from teachers that have requested me specifically too fill in for them! I even have a secretary that calls me when a teacher gives her the task of finding a sub for them! Now I just need to get in with whoever it is that does the hiring in the district.

We've been invaded!

By LADYBUGS of all things! We came home this afternoon from a full day of being gone and there are THOUSANDS of ladybugs all over the house! Mind you, there weren't ANY when we left, so this is an accumulation of just one day. I've never seen so many ladybugs in one place before! The house seriously looks like it's moving! As you can tell by one of the last pictures, not even I was immune to it as I was taking pictures! We had to all gather around the door, so we could quickly get inside with the minimal amount of invasion inside, it would be impossible to come inside without a few getting in, but I'm proud, we only let in three (that we found at the time)!

On a more positive note

My last post was a bit depressing and I've been meaning to update with a more positive post for the longest time, but I've been very busy with subbing, working at the health club, birthdays, and being a mom and wife that I just haven't had the time. To be honest I only have about 10 minutes now to do a quick update. So you get two funny stories.

Lately, Kathy has been buying gallon jugs of chocolate milk. One morning, Kathy mixed some with regular whole milk (the chocolate milk is too sweet to just drink by itself) and then warmed it up for Alexis. Alexis drank it up and very seriously said it was good "Tchosfee milk!" (Coffee milk). We all about burst with laughing so hard! Ever since then, she's had to have her 'tchosfee milk' every morning.

The other night I woke up to one of the girls off and on crying. I laid in bed for a few minutes to see if the cryer would stop (I honestly couldn't tell which one it was), but when it didn't I got up and decided to see what was the issue. I first checked on Alexis thinking that she'd be the most likely one to be fussing, but she was fast asleep. I then went to check on Natalie, but she wasn't in her bed. She fussed again and it came from to floor so I looked down, and still couldn't find her. Again she whimpered and there was a quiet "Mooommm" and again I looked on the floor. I finally found her and was laughing so hard, but as quietly as I could so not to wake up Alexis. Somehow she had rolled off her bed and then rolled underneath her bed. Being sleepy and disoriented, she couldn't figure out where she was and how to get out.

I love my silly girls so very much. Moments like these make all the rough moments totally worth it! I'm glad these silly, great moments outweigh the trying difficult ones!