Just another day :)

It's a hot one in Arizona today!  We had a fabulous weekend.  On Friday we went to Adam's softball game, then out to Sidelines for drinks and dinner after.  Adam's softball buddies are awesome and totally hilarious.  Adam is a very straight edged and serious, so it's nice to get around people who have the same smart ass sarcastic tendancies as I do!  Sidelines is fun, and kid friendly, with awesome food!  I always get fried mushrooms and potatoe skins.  They're fabulous!  Saturday I so desperatly wanted to sleep it, but nooo lol Adam got up at 8 and start fucking with me, which woke me up... At noon we went to Barro's Pizza for Bella's TBall party.  Michael and Jenny met us there, we enjoyed pizza and beer and watching the kids all get their pictures and trophys.  Bella is so proud of her trohpy, she carries it all over the place with her, and is constantly telling me how proud I am of her lol, only her!  We had a great season!  Next year, coach pitch!

After the party, we loaded up the 4 wheeler, the guns, the cooler, and headed out to the desert with Michael and Jenny for shooting and 4 wheeling.  We had a lot of fun, other than a few minor things which I wont get into.  After that we went to M & J's house for dinner and drinks.  We ended up sleeping over.  I love going over there, but holy crap their kids get up SO early!  Like, 6 am and shit, yikes!  Bella never gets up before 8:30 lol, so since we sleep on a matress in their living room, they all come in and out of the bedroom and bother us.  It's moments like that, that make me realize why I don't want anymore kids.  Mine is perfect, why ruin it with more? lol

Sunday we got up and came home.  I cleaned house, did laundry and picked up the dog shit while Adam cleaned the guns and Bella took a 3 hour nap (who could blame her, those damn kids woke her up at the ass crack).  Adam eventually came in and we watched the 2nd and 3rd Pirates movies.  I <3 Pirates!  Hopefully on Friday we'll go see it at the drive--in.  Maybe that and / or the 2nd Hangover!

Robin came and got her doggies today, they were with us for about 8 days.  Over all they were good dogs :) and we enjoyed having them.  Hoping in exchange we can get a weekend baby sitter one weekend as a repayment.  I think Robin will probably agree, so we'll see.  Adam and I are just in desperate need of an adult weekend!  Go to the club, have some fun! 

Saturday is our memorial day party.  We're looking at a nice little guest list, it should be fun!  We're going to make wings, pasta salad and jalapeno wraps.  Adam talked about getting a keg, we'll see if that actually happens.

Schools starts a week from tomorrow, it's going to be a busy 7 weeks, taking two 3 credit courses!  I'm looking forward to the challenge!

Welp, Adam and Bella are home and it's time to make dinner!

Adios!

Summer Break

Summer is pretty much official in the Cochran-Taylor household.  I wrapped up my Spring semester on May 11th, and it was a life changing experience.  I thought school was never in the cards for me, but once I took the first steps and enrolled I realized this is what I want.  Not only for myself, but for my daughter and Adam too.  I am proud to say that not only did I finish the semester with honors, but I finished with a 4.0 GPA!

I never imagined I'd do that well, but I am very excited about that!  I'm taking summer classes, to speed up my graduation date, starting on May 31st and going until July 21st.  I'm taking intro to communications and intermediate algebra.  The math is making me nervous, 7 weeks is a really short amount of time, for me, to take a math class.  I feel like that's the number one thing I struggle with, but I know I can do it.  Thank God for Adam and his bachelors in mathematics or it'd be a lot worse.  For the fall semester I've signed up for my final math class, college mathematics, my final English class, intro to criminal justice and college critical reading.  All of which are required for my criminology and criminal justice degree.  I'm what they call a MAPP student (Maricopa ASU Pathway Program) which guarantees my acceptance to ASU in the Spring of 2013, it all ensures all of my CGCC credits will transfer to ASU, and most importantly it looks the tuition in for me, at today's rate, regardless of if it goes up between now and then.  So technically I am an ASU student.  Pretty neat!

Bella is doing awesome!  She had a dentist appointment on Monday and I am so proud of her, no cavities, again!  She was so happy with herself.  Her top two teeth and loose and should be coming out in the next 3 to 4 weeks.  School is out on the 26th for the summer, her last summer before kindergarten!  I just can't believe my baby is going to be in elementary school, it seems like just yesterday I brought her into this world!  She is sooo excited about starting too.  But, I don't think she understands how much earlier we'll be getting up for school.  Right now we sleep until 8 or 9 everyday, and even later on the weekends.  She's already hard to get out of bed lol.  So it'll be interesting.  Thank God for the Mesa school district and full day kindergarten.  Because of them, I will be able to attend school full time without having to pay for child care.  June 1st she has her surgery on her herniated belly button.  I am terrified!  I've actually considered cancelling it a few times already.  The thought of my baby being put under for surgery freaks me out.  I know she'll be fine, but I'm still freaking out!  We'll see how it ends up!  I know I need to do it, it's just scary!  Tball wrapped up about 2 weeks ago, Bella did so well and I'm so proud of her for doing so well. On Saturday we're going to the end of the season party, and she'll get her little trophy and pictures back!  They're having it at a pizza joint, should be fun.

Adam is well, busting his ass at work.  He's got that electrical job at the Indian Medical Center and they're in the middle of a 2 week shut down.  3 guys working different shifts, 24 hours a day.  If one of them is sick, Adam has to go sit in and watch the job, so he's been working some early mornings and weekends.  He's a great man.  He works so hard so that I can go to school and Bella can have the perfect little spoiled life she has lol.  We're having a Memorial Day party on Saturday the 28th.  We should have about 15 people here.  Adam is going to make wings and pasta salad, I'll probably do up our famous dilish bacon jalapeno peppers.  I'm going to fill up a couple hundred water ballons for the kids to thrash eachother with lol, it'll be fun!

Other than life, not a lot going on here!  We're watching our friends two dogs until Saturday, so I've got a house full at the moment!  Til next time!

CJT