stickyfeathers

goodbye 2006!

new years eve.  ah, i can't believe it is here already.

tonight we have plans to go out to the green door with friends.  the band uncle fester is playing so it should be a good time.  lots of dancing!  meagan is going to watch tucker while we are out. 

so far this weekend we have gotten a lot accomplished.  the christmas decorations are down and put away, even the tree!  i am one that likes to take things down right away.  it seems like we have so much more room now!  matt got the drawer handles on tucker's drawers in his room (whooohooo!), and he brought in all the wood for our bedroom closet.  we are going to line it with pine.  tucker's closet is lined in cedar and it is awesome!  we are just going cheapo on ours because nobody is going to see it.  i'm thinking of starting a ROOM for garage sale items.  so many things i want to get rid of this spring.  i also went through all the clothes tucker got and sorted, took tags off, washed...what he can wear now.  he got some cute stuff.  that boy has the wardrobe, let me tell you! 

well, tucker needs a nap.  hope you all have a great new years eve!

600: so long, farewell.

steve 'unofficially' left his office today.  he will not be in tomorrow and his term ends at 0001 on January 1, 2007.  that is just so weird.  his office is bare.  they are repainting the walls and stuff.  it just felt so empty...ick.  i don't know if i will be able to get used to not seeing him.  for the last five years (almost exactly, my five year anniversary was 12.27) he has been the only boss i knew.  now, carey is the new sheriff and a whole new game starts, well, somewhat.  i'm very excited and interested to see what the future holds.  i am still sad that steve is gone.  enough about work.

tucker is having issues sleeping.  i know it is from the teething.  his little rash on his tush is getting better, but his sleeping is all out of whack.  it totally sucks.  i am praying for those teeth to start coming in to give him some relief.  argh.

tonight i had dinner with kim and hollie.  it was so good to see you both!  kim, you are such a beautiful pregnant lady!  you are going to be a great mom.  hollie, i'm so excited that you and your hubby will be together soon!  i am so thankful that we are all still so close.  no matter how many miles or what is going on in our lives, we always can make time for each other.  okay, there goes the mommy in me getting all sappy!  it just was really good to catch up with you both. 

i swear i will post a holiday album soon.  i have been way too busy.  i did not get home until 7ish tonight and then it was t-time for me.  that little guy is getting the crawling thing down now.  he gets his legs to move now with him a bit instead of just worming and squirming.  whoohooo!

...can i open my eyes yet?

it seems like the last week has been a blur!  i have been spending every spare minute trying to reorganize this house, especially with the new and wonderful gifts we received.  a highlight tonight was our new olympus stylus 720sw digial camera from my dad and keri.  it is shock proof and water proof...perfect for when you have little ones around!  i'll be spending the next month playing with that and making digital movies with our camcorder.  oh yeah, and then again, there's the house that needs organizing! 

i swear to you that i will have the christmas album up by this weekend.  here is a funny little preview picture...tucker going for a present at grandma cheryl and grandpa jim's house.

santa is coming!

just dropping in before i put out cookies for santa.  :)

we have been to nana and papa cook's (yesterday) and my grandma lylia and lon's (this evening) and my gramma weezie's (this evening).  tomorrow we head to my mom's, then on tuesday we will have our holiday with my dad and keri.  geesh.  next year, we are having everyone come to our house!  tucker has been having a great time everywhere though.  he just loves all his goodies he has gotten so far...but if he could have stole uncle corey's water bottle today, i think he would have loved that the best.

hope everyone had a great christmas eve!  i will post pictures from tucker's first christmas tomorrow night hopefully! 

merry christmas!

a busy day.

so, today start out with me stuffing my face and drinking as much water as i could so that i would not want to pass out when i donated blood.  well, it worked.  you see, the first time i gave blood was bad.  i was obviously a rookie as i had not eaten much for breakfast and slammed two juices and some snackwells cookies before letting them stick me with the needle.  i started to sweat and i was cold and clammy...getting dizzy, then they made me do the bicycle while squeezing the ball every five seconds...it was hairy.  this time, the nurse dude and another employee from lake county sat and shot the bull for seven minutes, thirty-one seconds.  we talked about everything from fraggle rock to the jackson five.  ah, much better.  did you know that one pint of blood (the amount of one donation) can save three lives?

so, then melissa and i went home early.  melissa, i am sorry but i can't keep my eyes open the whole ride home anymore.  horrible!  but i got home early and picked tucker up from grandma weezie's.  we came home and tucker took a little nap before we headed to trisha and alexa's baby shower.

and tucker was the only dude there.  he was good.  of course he left a little something something in his pants right when we got there so we had to get rid of that quick.  first time i changed him in a public restroom.  those changing things are nice.  he liked seeing everyone.  got to have a little icing off the cake and got to see a bunch of family.  alexa is so cute! she looks like zach i think.  thick black hair, and a petite little face.  it was nice we went, but then we left a little early because tucker was getting very tired.  he was just falling asleep when we pulled in the driveway (and we were only about three miles away). 

tomorrow is our holiday (christmas eve) @ work.  i have 99 percent of my presents wrapped and under the tree.  i keep thinking i am forgetting someone, something.  ergh.  i have to get ready for our holiday party in the basement of the muni.  i am very excited about that.  triple threat will be hosting!  i hope the night goes well.  tucker is planning to stay with grandma keri.  then saturday...let the christmas celebration's begin...

in working order.

so, kim, you were probably right about the site issues i was having.  everyone can see the new picture, but now i have to learn how to make it smaller and do a little bit more in photoshop.  i'm doing like something so totally basic a seven year old could probably figure it out. 

today there was a big announcement at work.  we have a (re) appointed undersheriff, jerry norberg.  oooh, now the big question is do i say anything about work on this blog or not.  that's what led to the closure of my last blog.  too bad i wasn't nancy drew or i might of been able to find out who the crackhead was that was sending those letters.  eh, whatever.  today i had my yearly evaluation.  that went really well.  actually, it was outstanding.  steve said that if my path ever led me in a different direction, he would be more than willing to give me a rave reccomendation.  that meant a lot.  i joked that the only other path i would take would be to stay home.  he said that if i ever got bored and my path changed or if i just did not like it any more, he would be more than willing to help me out.  that meant a lot and i am glad that i have his respect.  he really has been a great boss and a friend.  aaah, the days are slowly floating away and he will be gone...and a new chapter starts...giddyup!

just a little something fun...a link to one of the coolest stores online.  i am such a dork. 

garble.

i need your help!  yes you, the person reading this right now!  can you tell me what picture you see at the top of my blog?  i am having some issues.  i changed the layout a bit last night, and when i looked at his from another computer it was the same as before, but yet, when i log on with my laptop, it is how i want it, with changes.  so please, post a comment and tell me what you see! 

steve's party was today.  first things first, there was plenty of food, oh my gosh, i thought i was going to explode.  i think steve enjoyed it.  everyday he leaves with another box of things that he is taking from his office.  it is so empty, kind of makes me a little sad.  he has been so great to work with over the last five years.  i will really miss him.  a huge thanks to melissa for helping me set up for his party.  your coloring skills are fantastic!  sorry for always getting you involved in things, but i really appreciate the help!

tonight my dad and natalie came over.  she wanted to see tucker.  wow, she put the quarter in him.  it was like he was on a sugar buzz or something.  speeding around in his walker, scooting all over the floor, giggling at her and my dad...and i actually got it on tape this time.  that little stinker never even knew he was being filmed otherwise he would have stopped.  natalie asked me what tucker was doing tomorrow at one o'clock.  i told her he would be at grandma weezie's house and asked her why she wanted to know.  she told me that she wanted him to come to her christmas program at school.  how cute is that?  she is the coolest little sister in the whole world. 

well, got some more cleaning done around the house tonight.  i really feel like just putting a blindfold on, going around the house and grabbing things to throw away.  i have no space, it sucks.  sometimes i really think that we should move, then i think we should add on to our house, then i think it will work for a while.  who knows.  i need like extreme makeover: we feel sorry your house is so unorganized edition to hit up nelson drive.

only a few more presents to wrap.  better get going...christmas is coming!

going away...

so tomorrow is steve's going away party at work.  i can't believe that in like two weeks the only boss i have ever had will be gone and we will be starting a new round.  the party should be good.  i'm hoping that all the guys make it to it.  i would like to get one last department photo for steve with all our current officers.  if not, what do you do?  life goes on. 

today was a drama filled day.  by the time i attempted to put tucker to sleep, i was beat.  from the time i left for work until then it was insane.  i really do not feel like going into all the details, but throughout the day i just kept thinking...the government should require everyone to be on happy pills.  speaking of that...i gotta run.  there is someone else who might need one of those happy pills as we speak.

say it ain't so.

i do not want it to be monday tomorrow.  can i please have like two more sundays?  matt and i (with corey's help) got quite a bit done today.  okay, so matt and corey did the brunt of it.  they moved the one big piece of our couch (do not ever get a sectional house unless your house is HUGE) to corey's basement and also put in the door to tucker's room (yeaaah, that's right, finally).  i cleaned, dishes, laundry, organized tucker's room some more...oh yeah, and we threw a bunch of stuff into storage.  tomorrow i hope to clean off the shelf, whoops, i mean table.  does anyone else have that problem?  where stuff, papers, camera equipment, money, junk, junk and oh yeah, bills and mail pile up on your table or counter or somewhere?  i hate it.  my table is big so yeah, it holds a lot of stuff.  horrible.  i need to fill a really huge bin and then go burn it in the backyard. 

tomorrow i am going to call the muni as jenn, house, matt and i decided that it would be a very good idea to see if we could have our holiday party in the basement of the muni.  we always seem to have the cops called on us when we have people over.  NO.  i do not break laws or anything, but there has to be one neighbor around that hates us.  it is crazy.  one night there was eight of us (and half of them were family members) here playing poker at our dining room table, talking in normal tone voices and we had a fricken noise complaint on us.  i think people being able to see into our huge window where our table is does not help matters.  if they see people i think they call us in.  weird.  i work at the sheriff's office and i am this repeat offender.  i wish i knew who called us in (the cops won't tell us...maybe because there is nobody...hmmm).  i would want to atleast maybe try to do something different?  ah hell, you know what, it's not like we are crazy party people so whatever.  the case for the holiday party is, i don't feel like cleaning up my house after one of our get togethers.  been there.  done that.  didn't have kids at the time.  not doing it again...for a while anyways.  hahahaaa! 

i can't leave you without a little something about my little dude.  today we had an awesome day.  not that anyone isn't awesome, but gosh, this kid is something.  he has this thing with tipping over anything he can get his hands on...and i mean throwing things.  my little he-man.  he is pretty good at staying away from things he shouldn't be into, but i see that changing...real soon.  he is such a talker now too.  he's got such a cute little voice.  no first words, just tucker language, but it works for me!

ufdah.

christmas shopping is 98 percent complete.  i have a few more things to pick up but no worries there.  i can get that done during lunch hour on monday.  it was a pretty good day, except for of course all those people who should just not even get behind the wheel of a vehicle.  it was insane.  that is what makes people go crazy.  i did not have to wait in line very long, parking was not too bad, except for at the mall, and we found everything we needed.  wow.  next year we vow to start early and be done before the craziness begins.

grandma cheryl got to spend the day with tucker while we shopped.  she did not want to see us when we got back there.  said we were too early!  funny.  he played a ton and michael came over too.  michael asked lisa if they could take tucker home to live with them.  how cute. 

i am addressing my holiday cards as we speak.  that was so sweet to just walk in the store and pick them up.  sorry ladies...no stamping them all this year.  well, back to getting everything done under the cover of darkness.