Stress and Trauma at the Park

So today I met up with some of my friends at the park to let our little children play at the playground. They were all having fun and going on the slides and doing really well, so I sat and watched Kaitlyn while sitting with Kylie. Alex showed up for a few minutes, and I had hoped he would stay and help supervise, which would have really been a great thing. Shortly after he left, Kaitlyn was running around and playing on the playground, which is awkwardly close to a very busy road. So she comes up by me on the sidewalk, then suddenly starts running out toward the street!! She ran between two cars so there is NO WAY anyone could have seen her coming. I am literally screaming at her to stop, as I had a baby on my lap and couldn't get up very quickly, but blessed be my friend Shay who jumped up and grabbed her just as a car passed!! I was in like a mild state of shock and it startled Kaitlyn pretty bad too!

So as I sit here shaking, thinking of the event, I make a note to myself.... Don't play at that park unless I have Alex, a large group of friends to help, or there is literally NO cars on the road. I suggest a different park for next play date. Not that it wasn't fun up to that point... just scary and I would feel better at a more secluded park where the odds of a kid getting hit by a car are MUCH slimmer.

Besides that, I'm now going to enjoy my weekly "scrapbook night" and hopefully make some progress that I can soon post something finished! :)

Happy Birthday to ME!

Well... my birthday was actually last week, but I just have to express my joy as to how good of a day it was. Firstly, my husband let me sleep in a bit, which is always nice. Then out of all the fabulousness suprises in the world, my bestest best buddy Ray came all the way from California to see little ol me on my birthday, seeing as how we couldn't make it down to disneyland like we planned. She took me to lunch at the bear paw cafe, where i saw fit to take this lovely picture....


(pardon the quality, these are from my phone.)

So we had fun times hanging out, shopping a bit and redoing my fabulous fireplace floral arrangement, which i failed to take a picture of yet. But it looks totally awesome!!! So after she had to leave me, which was sad.... Alex and I got to go out to dinner without the kids! (thank you erin and i'm sorry they were evil!) We went to this steak place that's kinda fancy, and then got this awesome chocolate fondu for dessert with all these wonderful things to dip in it. And believe it or not, they gave us edible orchids! yeah! cool huh!? I wasn't brave enough to try it, but Alex did. It was kinda sad to drench such a pretty flower in molten chocolate.... it was like you could hear it screaming almost....


ANYWAY... I had a really good birthday, which is special for me cuz those who know me understand how few birthdays i've had without a mini disaster striking (no i'm not being a drama queen about it... my birthday is just jinxed!) So much thanks to my best friend Ray, my hubby, and my brother and his wifey for making it a good day!

Meet Sophie!

So on Friday, January 30th... the Gifford family increased by one! We discovered this little cutie on one of our many afternoon drives we like to take, when we saw a sign for Lab/Wiemaraner puppies. Alex has been wanting to get another big dog since Ruby(our last big brown lab) has been gone. He was so excited at first when he picked one out... then after thinking it over through out the day decided against it... then the next day I managed to talk him back into it and low and behold... we got a new dog!!

Her name is Sophie Ann, and she it about 8 weeks old. She is so cuddly and such a sweetheart. The day we brought her home, she would not leave my side. I cuddled her all day and she would just fall asleep in my arms. I am her comfort blanket since she left her brothers, sisters, and parents. It's sad, but she seems to be very happy with us now. She and our Corgi, Daisey, are getting along very well. They love to wrestle around and cuddle up next to each other at night. I didn't get a chance to take a lot of GOOD pictures of her, but you can at least see her for now! :)

As for me... I'm off to bed, cause honestly... who blogs at 2 AM!?

Isn't she so adorable?!?!

Look how good she matches our couch! Who needs more accent pillows when you can get a dog!