2 Weeks

Two weeks from today I'll be having dinner and drinks in Mexico! The forecast for the next week is in the 80's......with chances of rain everyday, figures! Anywho. :)

Yesterday was my Friday 10-7 shift. Twice a month isn't that bad and I actually get a lot done more after 5 pm once everyone else leaves so it was kind of nice. Once I was done I had to swing out to the Jordan Creek Wal-Mart to help a friend, so I decided to swing into Costco and pick up the pictures I had ordered the night before. Worked out perfectly, I got Piper's pictures Tuesday, got my family orders and got them Friday. One thing crossed off my list!
Then I decided to go to Toys R Us to do some more Christmas shopping. I think I might actually have Piper done! We are almost done with Presley and Boston, Steve and my mom are done. And I think I might order my own Christmas present in the next couple days. So the Christmas shopping is probably 75% done with! Woohoo! Hoping to get the rest done in the next two weeks so I don't have to think about it!

Today we didn't do much, some playing, inside and outside since it was so nice out! We got our new mattresses, Steve has been complaining about his back hurting and we have had our mattresses for close to 10 yrs so we broke down and got new ones. We'll see how we like them tonight (our salesman, who used to be our bartender at Drink said we'll have to spend a lot of time 'breaking it in'.....Steve thinks he is getting lucky, I think the kids are going to get to jump on the bed a lot in the next couple weeks! LOL!)

Presley woke up this morning and said her head hurt. She got the cough that Piper had last week so I gave her some Tylenol and the day went on as normal. So an hour before another birthday party tonight, P said her head hurt again, I took her temp and it was 100 degrees. She still wanted to go to the party, I gave her more Tylenol and off we went. I'm a bad mom. So hopefully none of the other kids get sick from her! :(
The birthday party was a Backyard Adventures, it was pretty cool. It is basically a showroom for outdoor playsets and it is open for free play and birthday parties. So they spent hours running up stairs and rock walls and down slides and swinging on swings and Presley had a blast! It's also nice for us to get to know the parents! Most of these parents (and kids) have been together for years, so we are the 'outsiders'!

So I have been paying more on our mortgage every month so that when our taxes are reassessed on our house (not just the land) that the payment increase won't be TOO much of a shock to our bank account and monthly budget. Well you know that? That kind of backfired b/c today I got our payment adjustment. Now our payment is going down and I got a $1400 check for our overpayment! I really should just take the check and pay it back to our escrow account but heck with Mexico, new mattresses and Christmas coming up, this might have worked out ok after all!