Stick a Fork In Me

I'M DONE!!! At least until Monday! I survived through the worst class in history! Just some advice, never take A&P II in 2 weeks, unless you have a professor willing to cut out the unecessary and focus on, clueing you in also, what is required. We had the teacher who wanted us to learn EVERYTHING! I'm not kidding, 5 chapters, no focus on what will be on the test, actually that was the one question we could not ask him. KNOW EVERYTHING! Then you get to the test, and the questions are about the finite details of certain things, out of 5 chapters in 4 days. These chapters consist of 50 pages each, the book is MASSIVE, and when he asks questions he refers to them as "TRICKY not trick questions" because the answers consisted of 2 wrong and 2 right, but you had to chose the most right answer! UMMMM??? And when you only have no time to study, you can't get that in depth, impossible. The 1st test was 200 questions and the 5 chapters. NUTS! Then we had lab on top of that. It was just craziness! But amazingly someone actually made a 100 in the class!! He was going to adjust the grading scale at the end to accomidate the bell curve, but 3 of the smartest people managed to screw that up. So everyone else got screwed! NO REALLY, there were 4 B's 3 A's, 12 C's and 2 D's. NUTS NUTS NUTS! So depressing. I got a B. Now getting into nursing school is going to be one of the hardest things ever! STUPID SU! They start your GPA over, so when I make 2 B's, I do not have the cushion of the 60 previous credits. NOT COOL! And apparently our class is the last that had Pre-admit's from Highschool's around. If you came straight to SU and declared nursing, then you were pre-admitted. So now there are only 60 or less slots. Ya, not cool! Monday I embark on the next set of insanity. And I have the same teacher for my Pathophysiology class that I had this Winter class for. He's a nice person, really nice, but is the worst teacher I've ever encountered in all 6 of my previous Colleges! THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING!
The kiddo's are doing AWESOME! Kalan finally figured out that normal crawling is much easier than his scooting and does that now. He's been pulling up and cruisin a little bit. He gives kisses when your lucky! He has to be in the mood. Kaiden never gave kisses, so I am eating it up. And he doesn't just give kisses to anyone, usually just me and here lately Kaiden.
DENNIS GOT A CALL BACK FOR FRUITLAND PD! WOO! He goes to take the written test on Feb.2nd. We're pretty excited! And we found out that he can draw his GI Bill for the 6 or so months that he will be in the academy, plus not have to pay for the classes and stuff. GOOD STUFF! Besides that, not anything else going on. Just cruisin on my way to NURSING SCHOOL!!

A Break!

HAHAH! Isn't Kaiden Hilarious? That thing is a lifesaver! So, for those of you who don't know we took a trip to good 'ol' Okiehoma! MAN! 3 planes and 9 1/2 hours!!! BLAH! Kaiden was pretty good and Kalan was just constantly turning around and around in my lap. He didn't sleep too much and Kaiden slept even less. The way home was about the same. It was just the boys and I, Dennis had to work. We left the day after Christmas and got home on the 1st around 5:30. We had a pretty good visit. A bit emotional everytime I went to my grandma's house though. It took me a bit just to get up the nerve to go over there. I wanted to see my grandma, but just the thought of going there and my grandpa not being there tore me up. But I was so happy to see everyone and we alternated staying at My Uncle Ronnie and Aunt Donna's house and my Dad's place.

This pic cracks me up! I got one of both the kids. I would get one of these chairs, but TRUST ME, we got enough goin on, we don't need something else in the mix!

There's my favorite UNCLE!!

And my favorite Auntie with Kaiden learning to skate! He did pretty good for a 1st timer! We went skating for Jayden's 8th birthday, my niece. I can't believe my sister has been a mommy for 8 years!!






And NOW!! WHEW! I'm taking this class. I should probably be studying right now, but I cant't, I'm fixin to go hit the sack after I give the kids a bath. We started on Thursday, had our 1st test this Monday on 1 chapter, not too bad, except he gave us no clue as to what was going to be on the test! Then we had 4 chapters of lab test on Wednesday and a 5 chapter lecture test today. Thursday was little better, but today!! 200 QUESTIONS! It was the hardest test I've ever taken and I'm almost positive, that unless God answers my prayers I FAILED MISERABLY! No joking! I don't actually know my score yet, but I'm sure it's no good! He told us the immune system was only going to be these few questions, and then it turned out being 60!!! Ya, nuts nuts nuts! The class ends on the 23rd, so it's only 2 1/2 weeks. I have been wanting to post these pics and about our trip, but seriously have had no time. I'm so miserable right now! I got 2 hours of sleep on Tuesday and maybe 2 yesterday night. I'm exhausted and sick! I was puking all day yesterday and have felt icky all day today, and no I'm not pregnant there are other things accompanying this wonderful sickness clearly stating otherwise. LOL! I just thought I'd throw that out there in case my wonderful family thought outloud. :) Welp, I"m off to bed. I'll report back when I'm done with this insanity! LOVE YA BUNCHES

Santa Was Here!

So Santa was here! Kaiden got a card from Nana that had a place setting for cookies, milk, and a snack for the reindeer. So we set that out for santa and his reindeer. Daddy read the night before Christmas and it took a bit of coaxing, but we eventually got Kaiden to sleep. To Kalan it was just another day! LOL!


Then this morning bright and early at 7am!! The kiddo's embarked on finding what Santy left! SO Many toys! With more to come! We're headed to Mee-Maw's right now for more! Kalan LOVED ripping the presents apart!! That's the best part for him. Kaiden loved all the toys, even Kalan's! :)





And here it is! The toy we heard the most about. "Santa's going to bring me a tar!", the words Kaiden said everyday until Christmas. Well here it is, Kaiden rockin out on his Tar!

Kalan's Army Crawl

So, Kalan has been crawling for a month or so now and still, has not stopped his Army crawling!! I took this video when he first started, but just figured out how to get it on here from photobucket, because my camera files are too big to load straight up. I think it's hilarious Kaiden calling Kalan more than me. He's good at that and does it all the time. But it's the best when he doesn't wear any pants, which he does all the time, and Kalan goes straigt to grab his Mr. Pee-pee!! HAHA! Kalan is Grabby McGrabbers!

Santa Clause

So today Kaiden and Kalan saw Santa Clause! Kaiden was ecstatic and Kalan could care less. Kalan was very tired and cranky by the time Santa decided to grace us with his presence though. We had gotten there right as he went on an hour break. So we had to be around for an hour and Kalan was already on his way to being cranky. Then we get there and they got a decent pic at first, but then I made the mistake of asking if they could try to get one of Kalan smiling also. Well, they weren't fast enough and missed him smiling and then he got upset. Well, he was like half smiling mostly being upset in the pic that they picked to print! They called this a smile??!! I was upset and said couldn't I get the 1st one? They said well this is the only one with the baby smiling and we already printed your pictures. And well, This mall is nuts with their picture prices. What happened to being able to get 1 pic with Santa for like 5 bucks? Ok, maybe 10 now, but they have crazy packages and you can't even buy 1 you have to get a package. The cheapest one is 16!! Oh well! Kaiden got all shy when Santa was talking to him! LOL! But he was happy and the pic is ok. It's so cute, Kaiden talks about Santa all the time. But the whole, if your not good Santa isn't coming thing, doesn't work yet. He keeps talking about a guitar. It's the ONLY thing he's told me he wants from Santa so I've gotta go get one of those. I thought he would have forgotten about it, but he reminds me EVERYDAY, all day, that Santa is going to bring him a tar! LOL! HO HO HO Merry Christmas Everyone!

GOING HOME!!

So, I wasn't planning on being able to go home this month as I had hoped to, but Santa brought me a present that REALLY helped and the rest I put on the CC instead of waiting to save up for it. Dennis has to work, so it was only 2 tickets. Yes, I'm sure everyone knows how the GAY airlines charge full price for a 2 year old, but I'd just like to point out that I'm not happy about it at all. Anywho, so we leave on the 26th bright and early and come back on the 1st around 5pm. I'm excited. My family is super excited. They are sad they don't get to see Dennis, but are ecstatic they get to see the kiddo's!! I'm going to be SUPER busy though, trying to get a visit into everyone. That should be interesting, but well worth it. I can't wait! I'm sorry Maryland, but I DESPERATELY needed a break from you!!! And in addition, if anyone cares, I still have 20 lbs left to lose from Kalan's booty that is SUPER glued to my body. I started running today again, ignoring the agonizing pain in my back and the numb foot, because I don't know what else to do! I have about 5-10 more lbs before I can fully fit back into my regular clothes without doing the infamous tug and pull on everything! LOL! Oh, and the not drying of anything, so they don't shrink back!! LOL! Anyways, I just thought I'd add that in so no one would be surprised when they saw my big booty walking through the door! LOL!

Beware of the Stairs!!!

I just had the scariest moment EVER, while holding Kalan!! I had just put Kaiden to bed and forgot Kalan's pacifier downstairs, so we go down to get it, but at the 1st step of the decent, my bare foot got no traction and slipped out from under me and I slid on my right side and butt cheek all the way down to the bottom of the stairs. There was no stopping it and I was holding Kalan the whole way, terrified he was going to get hurt!! He was crying, but he never came into contact with anything but me holding him tight, so I think the extremely bumpy and fast ride freaked him out, because as soon as he got his pacifier he was fine. So, after I changed underwear, HAHA not really , I began to chuckle a bit. Classic Tarin clumsy act huh? THANK GOD I didn't really get hurt or the baby. And ironically, almost everytime I go down the stairs with Kalan in arm, I imagine that happening, so that's another reason why I was so terrified going down. I was trying to get traction with my feet going down, but nothin was stopping that train!! MAN, my side HURTS!!!!