March Desktop Calendar

Honestly, I think this is a waste of time, but oh well it gives me something different each month for my desktop.  Plus, I love scrapbooking and sadly currently this is all I have time for.  

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Week Recap

This is what we've been up to this week:

Potty training Luke.  Now I know why it took this long to potty train Luke.  I always hear, "ah, don't worry about it, he'll do it when he is ready."  Well, that might work with some kids but it hasn't worked that way for any of mine.  I wish it did, but I guess, I was never that lucky.  You see, for me, it has been... when is mama ready to potty train; because as you know, that means, cleaning up accidents all the time, washing a lot of underwear and towels and staying at home ALL the time.  But, thank goodness, I think we are there!  Yay!  No more diapers at the Stovall's residence!  (Okay, so maybe it's a little bit sad.  This stage of our life is over.  No more diapers = no more babies :0(  )

My baby Luke! 

Luke:  "No me no baby, me big boy!"

Carson now walks around saying that he wants to "Bring it!" Here is Carson doing P90X.  In this particular exercise, you need a stool to swing your legs from one side to the other.  So, Carson went to his room and found this little stool:

Keep pushing play Carson!

  

The last several mornings, the boys have been waking up at around 5:00 a.m. and going to our bed to sleep for about 2 to 3 more hours.  So, this is what Dave has to put up with...( you know, I'm already up doing P90X - which is probably why they're waking up this early too.)  Except, this morning we had no visitors in our bed.  Last night I told the boys that they needed to stay in their beds and Luke responded, "me know that Mama."  

I almost passed out when I heard Natalia say to me one morning:  "Mama, I want a salad for lunch"  and then, last night while we were out to eat, she asked for a salad for dinner.  I mean, you don't understand, she is such a picky eater!  I worry about her eating habits all the time.

Well, I guess I'll just enjoy this little phase she is going through and like Natalia tells Daddy every morning as Daddy drops her off at school, "carpe deim, Daddy"  (little tradition between Daddy and Natalia).  

Or as she would rather have it, "freeze the day"! 

 As part of Dave's P90X diet plan, he took the kids to get ice cream (apparently chocolate peanut butter ice cream counts as one protein?).  As soon as Natalia walked into Baskin Robbins, she noticed the "Freeze the Day" sign on the wall.

And Our Third Book Selection Is?

Friday, we had our 2nd book club meeting.  Once again, we met at Tic Tac for a pedicure.  Later, we went to eat Vietnamese food at Pho's.  I love those Charbroiled Pork and Shrimp Spring Rolls with peanut sauce!

After discussing our last book selection, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Brittney introduced our next book assignment:

Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews

Weekend Fun!

We had a busy, but fun, weekend.  Our weekend started on Friday night.  We invited two families to eat Chicken Carbonara.  We had a great time visiting and the kids had a tremendous time playing with every single toy!  You should have seen my house.  Now, I wished I would have taken pictures, but once again, I was a little preoccupied that night.  I didn't mind the mess at all though, all the children were having a great time and at the end of the night, we all cleaned the mess together.  Thank you moms!  

On Saturday, Dave left to Houston for a reunion with some of his high school guy-friends.  During their high school years, they used to play this game called Shogun, which takes hours to play so wives and kids were not invited :0(  ! 

Oh, no hard feelings, I know how to entertain myself and my children.  So, we headed out for a hike.  It was the perfect day for this kind of activity too!  We picked up some lunch at my all time favorite, Chick Fil A and took it to Village Creek State Park for a picnic.  After our yummy lunch, we went for a loooong hike.  It was so long that Carson even thought we were lost.  The kids had a great time looking out for tracks, rabbit and mice holes, bugs, nests and looking at the pine cones and leaves to determine what kind of animal had been eating it.

Later, we went to eat dinner at Matt and Elizabeth's house.  Oh my, they had so much fun.  Matt was building a walkway and they got right into the action... this is right up their alley.  Needless to say, they were a total mess from head to toe.

Matt and the kids built this domino train together.  How did Matt accomplish this, I don't know.

Getting ripped in 90 days!

  

Today Dave and I started P90X!  This work out program is something like I've never experienced before - pull ups, push ups, plyometrics, Kenpo Kickboxing, Yoga?, and AbRipper X.  We should see a tremendous change in 90 days.  We're guaranteed to look like this :)

Yea, we'll see, but it's fun starting a new journey.  Dave wanted me to label the picture above as his after photo, but then he remembered he doesn't own any shorts that color... The program involves taking before pictures (or "good-bye" pictures), then pictures every 30 days after that to document the change.  I promise to keep these pictures private; I would hate for you to have to go through such a horrible experience.

If you are looking for a work out program, I would definitely recommend P90X.  It is worth every penny.  So, needless to say, running has currently been put on hold.  I'm planning on getting back to running after 90 days, and hoping this workout will help increase my speed and endurance.  In the mean time, for any P90Xers out there, "keep pushing play" and "bring it!"

Oh, the things we do for the love of Tennis!

We are in San Antonio and we are loving it!  Dave and his friend Neil left Beaumont on Thursday, after work.  Dave had to play singles on Friday morning and I didn't want Natalia to miss school.  It all worked out fine.  The kids and I left Beaumont by noon on Friday and got to San Antonio by 4:00 p.m.  Let me tell you, they are wonderful passengers.  They listened to the ipods, played with their leap frog and read.  They are truly amazing!

After stopping by the market to say hi to my parents and getting their first doze of spoiliness (is that a word? -Anyway.... you know what I mean) we went home.  

The kids stayed at my parents house while Neil, Dave and I went to have dinner after their doubles match.  We went to Chris Madrid's.  I don't know, but I think they have the best hamburgers ever.  If you don't believe me, ask Neil...

Neil was so proud of himself for eating the whole thing that he asked for a Chris Mardrid's sticker for his truck!  

Hey, it's the weekend and we are in San Antonio, so we decided to go all out and enjoy some dessert too, so we headed to The Cheesecake Factory to get some of this...

After a lot of laughing, and talking, and cheesecake, we went back to my parents house to rest for a few hours before going back to the tennis club early in the morning.  Dave needed to be there by 7:30 this morning.

This morning, after Dave's match, we met Byron and Kristi at Mimi's Cafe for breakfast.  We all  used to play 42 (domino game) while we lived here in San Antonio.  We had a great time visiting and catching up.

Right after brunch, we rushed to a Brody's (my cousin's son) 1st birthday party.  Then, we dropped off the kids at my parents again and Dave and I went to visit my cousin Ceila at the hospital.  She just had her 7th, yes you read that right, her seventh child yesterday.  His name is Thomas and I wanted to steal him from her so badly, but I didn't!  He is a precious 7.5 pound baby boy.

We were getting hungry again, so we went to Papouli's to enjoy some more time alone and a gyro.  We ended the night by going to the Half Price Book Store and coming back to my parents house.  We could have not had better timing.  My mom had already given all three a bath and their teeth were already brushed.  Oh, what a treat!  I will definitely be coming back soon.  I mean, can you blame me?  ;0)

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

 

Dave just finished reading Old Yeller to the kids.  Carson is starting to really enjoy hearing big books like this one read to him.  Natalia, like always, just can't wait until it's time to read and then she never wants to quit reading.  "Just one more chapter Daddy, Please!!!"

The kids were pretty sad the night we finished the book.  As the book was coming to an end, and Travis had just shot Old Yeller, Carson said, "I think I'm starting to cry."  They were wondering why the book had such a sad ending?  

Thanks to Grannie, we were also able to watch the movie this week!  As a matter of fact, we've already watched it twice.  Lia runs into the other room every time she recognizes a scary part is coming, and Carson is upset that the movie left out the scene of the chongo bull and the roan bull fighting.  I guess Carson now understands Tom Clancy's sentiment when he says giving your book to a movie producer is like giving your daughter to a cheap pimp?  (Ah, by the way...this last sentence was added by Dave.)

But anyway...great book and we highly recommend it!