Today my lil man turns 3, Happy Birthday Lil Tony!  In addition, my Nicki bear is coming home.  She has been gone since the middle of June visiting family in Illinois.  She has had a great time and I think we all needed a break but I am so totally excited she is coming home and on what better day, Lil Tony’s birthday.

So I just wanted to make this quick post.  I am going to go outside and clean out the truck so we can rearrange the car seats.  Our Ford has 3 rows and so one of the lil ones has to have their car seat all the way in the back in order to get all the kids in.  LOL!

So our plan is to move in 2-3 years.  Go to school get an associates degree in accounting and move back to IL.  Our kids are getting older and outgrowing their current sleeping situation.  Well lil Tony is ok in his and Isabel could stay in hers but Max is sleeping in a play pen.  The same one Isabel slept in until she was 18 months or so.  I know he could handle sleeping in there longer but I am sure it is not the most comfortable.

I do worry that if she sleeps in a big girl bed that she will get up and wander around a lot.  I thought about getting lil Tony and new bed and give Isabel, lil Tony’s bed but I don’t know.  I mean we won’t get them log beds or anything, maybe just a toddler bed.  Whatever we decide I don’t want to spend too much or get anything too big.  Whatever we get we will probably get rid of when we move.  We only plan on taking couches and the table and boxes and clothes.  Most furniture will be given to Goodwill or thrown away.

I think we may wait a bit longer before making any changes.  I don’t think it’s that big of a deal.

The other day Isabel was playing in the toilet.  Well I thought she was just playing in the bathroom and then Tony caught her throwing toilet paper in the toilet and playing with it with the toilet bowl brush.  YUCK!

Well later on I tried to go to the bathroom, flush the toilet and it got plugged up.  Now I know I didn’t stop up the toilet so we are going to have to assume Isabel threw stuff in there.  So the upstairs toilet was out of order for a few days.  Tony just got around to fixing it tonight.  He tried to use the shop vac and suck out whatever was in there and that didn’t work.  So then he took the toilet off.  When he pulled it off he found a few things in there.

I am surprised he didn’t put on a pair of his Mechanix gloves to go digging around in there.  I mean they aren’t water proof but still, sticking your bare hands in the toilet is gross.  I guess he didn’t actually get to stick his hands in there, he was able to pull it out with a hanger.  So I think the toilet is fixed.  That makes me happy because we didn’t have to spend money on a snake or anything.  Yippee!!

I have been trying to promote my online store for about 6 months and wasn’t getting much traffic.  It wasn’t until a couple weeks ago when I decided to have some giveaways.  WOW that drove in the traffic.

I am thinking about trying to get some t-shirts and promotional mugs and tote bags and a variety of other products together with my logo and either give them away or sell them.

I have made a couple sales this week without having to direct them myself but it still isn’t enough, I need more business.  I really enjoy crafting and selling paper craft supplies.  I just don’t know what else to do.

We have had AT&T for about 4 yrs.  We only have cell phones, no land line.  We rely on having reliable service as well as good customer service.  We have had some trouble with customer service and our bill on occasion but AT&T has always taken care of the problem.

I got an iPhone back in February and I absolutely LOVE it.  Tony and Nicki are up for a renewal and Tony desperately needs a new phone.  He wants one that does it all, can play music with playlists, be able to use the internet and have a reliable working phone.  He really wants an Android phone.  We were set on getting the Samsung Captivate but it was a little on the expensive side so we were waiting to save up some money.  Then we thought maybe we should go with a different carrier all together.  Maybe Verizon, maybe T-Mobile.  We decided Verizon was on the pricey side and with T-Mobile we were actually going to get a discount through our Snap Fitness membership.  We checked in to T-Mobile and we would have gotten 2 Android phones for $150 after mail-in rebate.  Plus NO activation fees and our bill was going to be the same every month for more minutes and data usage.  Plus the phones we were going to get were exactly what Tony wanted and they came with a micro sd card.  Added bonus.

When I called AT&T the other day they said we only had an early disconnect fee on one of the lines which we would have been willing to pay.  Then when I called yesterday and spoke to an awesome rep at AT&T she informed me that we actually had ETF on all the lines.

So anywho, after talking to the VERY nice rep, she was able to get me the Samsung Captivate for $99 and also lower our monthly bill.  DONE DEAL!!!  LOL!  I was a little nervous about changing carriers.  I mean I knew what I was getting on a monthly basis with AT&T.  I was worried we would have gotten some sort of hidden charges or something.

OVERALL I am extremely happy with AT&T right now.  Tony is so totally stoked about getting his new phone in a couple days!  :-)

My weight that is.  Now does that mean I am not going to try and lose weight, NO!  Does that mean I will stop going to the gym, NO!  Does that mean I am giving up, NO!  Does that mean I am HAPPY with my weight, NO!  What that does mean is I am going to not stress myself so much on what I weigh, what I am eating or when I can get to the gym.

I am going back to school in the fall and I just think I have more important things to worry about.  My weight is important but I am NOT going to stress myself.  I am going to stop worrying about trying to find the best diet pills.  What I am going to do is continue to eat in moderation, try to eat healthy and make it to the gym as much as I can.

I REALLY want to be smaller, lose all the weight, hit my goal and just be happy but I guess that is not something that is going to happen as quickly as I would like!  :-(