My revival

Well, since I totally have missed 2 pregnancy announcements, it is time to reblogify.

Gabe is now 2 and thoroughly 2. My mom thinks it's cute. I don't. I do know that he is a future food fighting champion though. You would not believe how far he can throw food and which walls you find it on, until you came to my house. We go through about 5-6 fits a day and I am getting pretty good at getting him in his room and shutting them out now that I put a baby protector on the handle so he can't get out. There are only a few new dents in the walls since we started that. But, when he isn't throwing his fits, he is the smarted, best talking 2 year old I have ran into.

As for me, I have turned into a rising exercise fanatic. Matt and I bought P90X (the infomercial you have all been tempted with, but we bought it off ioffer.com for $30). I love the workout! They are brutal. I don't want to loose weight, but I was getting sick of telling people that it was all my genetics. Now I can tell people that I work hard and eat right. I love it, highly recommended to anyone that is anti getting ready to go to the gym and would rather work out in their underwear in their basement. I have gotten serious results by week 5. Matt is as sexy as ever.

Oh yah!!!! 4.5 weeks and counting to graduation!

Well, we are alive...

Hi everyone, we haven't blogged for a while. I have been working a lot more lately, and have been a little busy. I have found a new hobby that I am having fun with right now... Photoshop Elements. I just finished a page this morning (can't get it to upload), and it helps me remember how precious Gabriel is while his is hitting my computer and throwing everything within reach. I just think about how precious his life is and how blessed I am too have him while he screams and hits me.

Tristen is a 4 year old that has a sass of a 14 year old, but can play barbies for hours.

Matt graduates in a couple of months and we are applying for new jobs in the area, hoping to get something close.

This picture represents how we feel right now. We need sunshine. Every afternoon, Gabe gets his hat, shoes, and coat, comes to me, and asks me to go outside. We need summer!!!!

My amazing dancer

I am so proud of Tristen right now. She did her dance performance yesterday and she was incredible. She knew every single move and did them all right on time. I really didn't even practice with her at all, but we have had Christmas music going all month and every time "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" she would start doing the dance. Here are some of the awesome pictures my dad took.

We ended the day by going and seeing the Nutcracker together. She loved it and says that she can dance on top of her toes like that someday. I better start saving money to pay for it now.

A little update...

We have been super busy the last couple of weeks, but here is a little update. Matt made it through another semester wth flying colors. Only one more semester to go before he graduates and then starts his MBA.

Tristen is getting ready for her dance recital this weekend. She knows every single move to "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and she can now read 25 words and sound out a lot more with Mom.

Gabriel is as insane as ever. We are starting to wonder if maybe he is possessed. Especially when we want to go to any store whatsoever. Yesterday the people at downeast asked me if he was okay since he was kicking and screaming on the floor of the dressing room and wouldn't come out. I told them "Yes, I am just trying to ignore his fit thank you." Haven't they ever seen a massive fit before? He can sing the entire Jingle Bells song in key though. I think he is my music prodigy.

I am doing great. I have been trying to work full time over the last few months so that we can have a little extra money for our bathroom remodel. I have sold over 75 dresses or skirts, and I am very excited about it. I have made enough money to cover my overhead and buy and new dishwasher and a lot of my Christmas. Other than that, I am trying to keep sane.

Well, that is the Cassity Fam. We are all safe and well.

He may not survive to age 2, I may not make it to 26

After my very busy boutiques the last few weeks, I definitely was ready to clean my basement toy room and sewing room. So, after getting everything picked up, I started to vacumn. Then, I heard a thud, thud, thud. I could just think, "Oh God, please don't let that be my baby." Well, it was. Gabriel fell down the whole entire flight of stairs that are not covered with anything, just linoleum. I found him at the bottom, with blood all over.

He must have hit his jaw on one of the stairs, because one tooth was laying on the floor, and another was dangling sideways in his mouth. After a lot of shaking and throwing the teeth in milk, we made it to the dentist. Don't worry, the don't do anything for baby teeth. My son is just going to be missing two of his bottom teeth for the next 5 years.

I think to myself how grateful I am that it wasn't more serious, but I probably would rather have had a broken arm. At least that goes away in 6 weeks. He won't have teeth until he is 7 and we loose teeth late in our family. Ugh.

I would take a picture, but he won't open his mouth for us to see it, and it is pretty nasty.

That same night he also fell off the couch head first and smacked into the bottom of my bed. He has no short term memory or recognition of what could possibly be dangerous, or what he has been told "no" about. I love him though, hopefully he will just survive for many more years.

Well, I finished with my craft fairs for the year, and I did alright. I sold about 15 items at them, but I did get a lot of networking going. I had fun getting to meet people and see how talented people are. I don't want to do anymore though. I am tired of them and I miss my kids. I sell lots more stuff online and can make them in Tristen's size that way too.

I had fun though and made a couple extra hundred dollars to go to my bathroom remodel before the toilet falls through the floor:)

I needed a 5 minute break from sewing, so I thought I would put up pictures of the kids on Halloween. Gabriel loved knocking on the doors and telling people "puppy" and saying bye over and over again. It was fun and Tristen looked beautiful. I am always jealous of little girl's long eyelashes:)