It Must Be A Kretschmer Thing

This lil girl of mine can drive me bonkers at times but i love her to pieces! She let me take her to one of my favorite photo spots around the corner from our house and take some pictures of her. But, right when i began taking pictures she started doing the potty dance and so i didn't get that many in, but i think this one was my favorite.....she had just thrown her hair in a ponytail, threw on a spring dress and her sperries....i love how she looks so cute so easily......it must be a Kretschmer thing....

Oh, That's What That was...

No Photo Due To Graphic Nature of Creature

I need to first go back to the fall of 2002……we lived in the Bellatrix House on USMC Air Station Miramar (Sand Diego, Ca).  I had heard about these horrid bugs referred to as Sewer Roaches, yes the name says it all!  I have ALWAYS been VERY bug conscientious!  I hate them, I loathe them, and I curse their VERY existence!!  Okay, maybe that is a bit dramatic, but I do know that I am VERY happy to have NOT been Noah’s wife, I might not have gotten on the Ark with those creatures, or at least some of them would not be around today…..I do think I would have discreetly thrown some overboard when no one was looking.  I have wondered if there are less bugs on the earth today due to someone on the Ark who just might have done what I would have done……but, anyways……….back to the Sewer Roaches of Miramar.  I had only ever seen glimpses of these giant creatures heading to their crypts in the late evening hours.  They would be wobbling as they walked down the gutters towards the sewer entrances.  They are very ugly and about the size of my remote for the TV.  One horribly, horrific evening I saw one in MY house!!!  Again, I am VERY bug conscientious and I bomb my house regularly so there will NEVER be any bug invaders thinking they can take up residency in my place!!  I totally freaked!  IT was upstairs.  I grabbed Ryan who was 1 and Ty was 2 and went screaming down the stairs to the living room, yes, I was screaming like I was on fire and hyperventilating.  Ed was a Drill Instructor back then, so yeah, he wasn’t home and he had duty so I knew there wasn’t even the possibility that he could come home and kill it!  Vicki and Jorden were there too, they just got themselves downstairs by themselves because they saw me screaming and running with Thing One and Thing Two.  I explained to them what we were up against.  Jorden and I each put on a pair of Ed’s big ole combat boots from the garage and armed with a can of bug spray we proceeded back upstairs with Vicki guarding the little boys downstairs.  We came around the second corner on the stairs and grabbed hands and tip toed up the last set of stairs where we froze scanning the landing looking for movement.  There was none.  We headed towards the bedroom it had been closest to when I fled screaming my bloody head off, nothing there.  We turned around to check another room and YIKES!!!  It was on the landing coming towards us!  I don’t know who shoved who but Jorden and I were both determined to get out of this creatures way and we screamed and ran for the stairs!  I turned back and it was following us!!  More screams, me grabbing Jorden and pulling him back up the stairs and telling him to step on it!  He said I should because I weigh more and have a better chance of killing it!  True, but I told him he had the steel toe boots on so he could kill it if he ballerina twirled on it!  There was also discussion on me paying him 20 bucks and him telling me I could be 20 bucks richer if I were to step on it…as I pulled him back up the stairs with me.  The bug was gone again!!!  We began looking for it and out it pops!  It either was really enjoying its effect on us or it wanted to die.  I than remembered I had the bug spray and right when I was about to spray it Jorden asks if it can fly…..Fly?  I don’t know if it can fly…..should I spray it and hope for the best?  I sprayed it, it didn’t fly….it just now proceeded to follow me while I kept spraying it and screaming and Jorden yelling step on it Mom step on it Mom!!!!  It began to crawl slower and slower and was now pulling its body sideways and still coming at me.  It was a dreadful moment in my life; this hideous creature was still coming towards me and the poisonous toxins I was spraying in its face!  Jorden was yelling, “Kill it NNNNOWWWWWWWW  Mom!!!!”  (Looking back, it totally sounded like how things in the movies sound when it is shouted out in slow motion and all distorted sounding)  I let out an amazing battle cry, charged forward, and stomped on this heinous creature!!!  My battle cry immediately shifted to screaming mommy cry as I heard (and I swear could feel) all the crunching going on as I squished the life out of this beastly creature!!!  Jorden was soooo proud of me, the kids were now safe and I had the unpleasantries of cleaning up the carcass that seemed to be all legs and antennas that were still wiggling.  Yes, I screamed while I was getting it into the dustpan and flushing down the toilet!!  I flushed 3 times to be safe.  We also slept downstairs that night…..well the kids slept, I had dreams of them crawling through the vents and invading our house.  I kept waking up thinking the ceilings were covered with them and they were now dropping on us.  It was a HORRIBLE night!  I actually considered going to a hotel, but was still too petrified to go back upstairs and get the things needed to leave the house with 2 babies!  The next time Ed was home I told him about our gruesome night and he says, “Oh, that must have been what was in my boot……”  I came unglued and said “WHAT?!!!”  He told me the other morning he had gone out to the garage to get a pair of his boots and when he reached in to get his boot bands something crawled up his hand and he flicked it off, put on his boots, laced ‘em up, and left for work!!!  He had been sitting on the bottom stair…..that ghastly creature had made its way upstairs and had been hanging out all day before I saw it!  I was soooo sick to my stomach and told him flicking a giant insect off of you and leaving it in the house with your family is grounds for a divorce.  He laughed and said it was 3 am; he was exhausted and wasn’t even thinking straight.  I let it slide that time, but he better not ever let a creature that dreadful into our house EVER again!!!  hahahahahah 

Legs of the South!

The spiders here REALLY creep me out!!!



Don't care for Mr. Leggy either!!!



It is officially Spring in the South!  We had our first dreadful spider IN the house!  Vicki was the lucky one; it was in her room up by the ceiling.  It looked like a biter and so we called Daddy in to kill the beast!  Yay, he is home this Spring when the creatures begin making their appearances!  He missed out last year being in lovely Afghanistan and so Jorden had to come to our rescue, and unfortunately Jorden and I still debate over who does the killing…..Jorden always has a very good argument on why I should be the one to do the deed……Ed just grumbled and went in there not even needing something to stand on and squished it in the Kleenex pile one of the kids handed him.  Our ceilings are high and me trying to kill them up there, well it is YIKESTERVILLE! I can’t scream because I am afraid it might fall in my mouth and if I miss it, well it might land in my hair, my back, well anywhere on my person would be just plain horrifying, not to mention me not falling from the stepping stool I am balanced on!!!  Next, an ugly centipede made its debut in the kid’s bathroom….   So, I bombed the house with toxins that say will kill everything!  Again, high ceilings, so smoke detectors went off since I couldn’t reach them to take out batteries, alarm service called while I was hanging out in the backyard with our pets.  They laughed and read out loud the history of when they had called last, October, and it was the same excuse this time  when I bombed my house last time.  I bomb in between the visits from the pest control peeps that come out and spray their stuff too.  I hate bugs….I wonder if I was traumatized as a child when we lived in the tropical country of the Philippines….?  Any who, the house is bug free and should continue to stay that way until next spring when winter goes away and everything comes back out….

The Vampire & Wherewolf One Year Later




One Year Ago

 

One year later....and not much has changed....well, Leah, named after Leah, the wolf in the Twilight Series since Jasper was named after my favorite vampire, has only changed in size and wardrobe.  She no longer has cute swimsuits, skirts, hoodies, and jerseys because she has grown so flippin' big!!!  She still gives Jasper a run for his money and chews on his head, tail, legs, you name it she gnaws on it but they are still the bestest of buddies!



Yesterday

 

Pillow Talk

I was folding clothes while these two silly dillies were just going on and on on my pillows.  My camera was sitting on the bed and so i got a quick little video clip and than they heard something and went a running!

Warm Milk

Recent dinner table conversation.....
Ed "I like warm milk"
Ty "I don't"
Me "When did you have warm milk?"
Ty "From the recycle bin"
Whole family "EWWWWWWWWW!!!!!"
Ty "It was in the neighbors recycle bin"
Whole family *shouts of disgust, dry heaves* and loud "EWWWSSSSS!!!"
Ty tells us "I was playing outside last summer and I was thirsty and saw some milk left in a milk carton at my friends house and so I opened it and drank it and gagged and thought I was going to die and that warm milk does NOT taste good and Dad is gross!!"
Whole family, "No Ty, YOU ARE GROSS!!!!  

Ty...... Spring 2011

An impromtu performance on the docks...



Sporting Moms hat & scarf



This boy is always singing and dancing.  Michael Jackson has been one of his idols forever it seems.  He has memorized all of his dance moves and as been working on the "Moon Walk" since he was six!  I can not count how many times he and Ryan have watched "This Is It"  Lately it is Justin Beiber songs.....I am sure we will be buying the "Never Say Never" movie.  It is too cute to see him singing Justin songs with his little dance moves going on.  I sadly promised i would not take pictures or videos if i am watching him.  Ty is dressed almost ALWAYS in a pair of jeans, and he prefers jeans with holes in the knees.  He says it is because his knees are always scraped up from playing (usually tackle football with his friends) and the holes keep the jeans from rubbing on his scabs.  He is obbsessed with action figures, mostly Clone Wars Storm Troopers, but also has Lord of the Rings, Special Force Dudes and such included in his various boxes he carries around from room to room and in the car.  I find them everywhere when i am cleaning the house, usually left behind in some torterous position or still deep under cover and hidden so well from a previous battle that they weren't cleaned up.  He loves his mp3 player and is constantly begging me to add more songs.  He knows the words to all the "cool" songs.  He is always singing in the car and it was hillarious to be singing "Hey Soul Sister" at the top of our lungs on the way home from baseball practice the other night.  He is VERY confident in HIM and thinks it is hillarious to try on anybodys clothes!  He is now into clothes and has specifics now when we go clothing shopping.  I currently have a pair of jeans i need to exchange as he says he no longer wears THOSE kind of jeans.  It made me laugh to think i will actually have to take him shopping for clothes now!  The girls love Ty and he comes home from school regularly distraught over a love note that came his way or being told another girl wrote "I Love Ty" on the bathroom wall.  I hope he never changes and he is always in a pair of holey jeans singing and dancing.....

Loves to perform!

My Little Karate Kids

I love capturing these two when they have no idea i have been watching them!  They are usually tangled up with each other, but this time i actually caught them in a shot where they are not karate chopping each other!  I should have videoed them doing all these slow motion moves on the docks, but here is one of my favorite pictures i captured of these two....spring 2011

C'mon Dogs

Leah and Jasper were non stop fighting over a raw hide. They have tons, but Jasper always insists on going outside with something in his mouth, usually a raw hide..unfortunately he doesn't bring them back in, so they dwindle down to one and they fight, fight, fight over the last one in the house! I have to go outside on raw hide hunts regularly.....after a sweep of the backyard i end up with a pile for them........

CLR-2 Christmas Party

Ed's Christmas Party for work was a total blast for Ty and Ryan. They played Kinnect almost the entire time! They spent most the night throwing punches and kicking their opponent. Dinner was actually delicious and the evening of mandatory fun ended up being enjoyable! Vicki was like, "wow, there are LOTS of prego wives here!" Ed and i laughed, like duh, they all just got back from deployment about 5 months ago! Vicki said Ed is the super star at his work because all the Marines have to come over and sit and talk to him. She refers to his Marines as his "Fan Club" because whenever she goes anywhere with him they appear out of nowhere to say hello or holler at him from wherever they are. She says all you hear anytime you go places with him on base is "Gunny K! Gunny K!" lol Ty even let me take a quick picture of him with Santa, but Ryan said "No way!" and gave me the "slice the throat" gesture!

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

Ty and Ryan have decided that the Christmas Tree is a purfect place for them to stash their gloves when they come inside. I ignored their gloves, storm troopers, army men, and even Darth Maul during the Christmas season

It Was Bound To Happen

Just a bit behind and these next few hundred posts will be out of order as i transfer from my family journal to my blog.....We carefully decorated the tree leaving no decorations or lights at the bottom part of the tree. Unfortunately, our dogs are tall. They must have liked the smell....they managed to take down a ginger bread man and eat him. I was able to salvage a few parts before i gave these silly dogs of ours a lecture on eating Christmas decorations. I'm sure it went in one floppy ear and out the other but they didn't eat any more decorations for the rest of the holiday season!!!