so this last weekend was eventful to say the least. a lot of ups and downs with my so-called family members, but other than that everything worked out the best it possibly could given the surrounding circumstances.
saturday started up with an early trip to visit my sister colleen for her birthday with my other sister ashley, my dad and andrew. it was fun and great to see my sister whom i don't get to see very often because of the distance. it made me really wish there was some kind of technical culinary program for me to get into in the area, but let's face it, the only thing around here is OC and i'd rather die than go there. later that day i made a bad decision by trying to be the bigger person by keeping my promise to attend and bring a fruit tray to my cousin's birthday party which blew up in my face and sent me home in tears.
despite the bad feelings, vicious name calling (flaming C***) and verbal threats made in the comfort of my own home, i still decided to follow through and go to my family's long planned trip to great wolf lodge on sunday morning. despite a few awkward moments and plenty moments where i felt obligated to bite my tongue i had a good time. andrew enjoyed the water and nick wasn't able to get monday off work so could only stay for sunday afternoon. but i know he had fun. my only complaint was sunday night after running up at least six flights of stairs at least four times to go on the howling tornado i totally fucked my knee joints up and had to break down and take a muscle relaxer and percocet just to get two hours of uninterrupted sleep. and then of course waking up monday morning and running right back up the stairs to go down once more (well, maybe more than once). that kind of rush was worth the pain (: i had a great time sharing a room with my sister, nana, aunt and cousin chelsey. i only wish my mom and nick could have stayed the whole trip. my legs still hurt and constantly prefer to be moving, but i consider that a good thing since i got a lot done today, haha.
nick and i had originally decided that we would rather save a little more money and go on our california trip this weekend since we were originally going to see his family and not to run around san diego anway. i'm so excited. even though it's been long planned, it was canceled recently and now it feels as if we decided to go spur of the moment which makes it all the more exciting. i've read over the travel guidelines of bringing an infant on board several times and while i feel so prepared i'm very nervous. over half the times i've ever flown in my life have been by myself and i'm not used to both traveling with another and being completely responsible for the whole trip.
but other than these two events many other things are going on in our lives. nick is building a dog house for emeril and has almost finished. completely with carpet and siding which we are together going to paint the same color as our house (: andrew can now roll from his back to his stomach (something he did very late compared to other babies). he can also get from his tummy to a sitting position. he says mama and dada all the time. he mainly only says mama when he's in his high chair and wants food. that's how i know he knows my name because i am the only one who ever gives him his solids. nick does the bottles. he's getting so big and his eye appointment in may is approaching quickly along with mine and nick's three year anniversary. i hope we actually do something this year. nick isn't big into anniversaries, but i'd really like to at least spend some alone time together and have dinner in port townsend or take a day trip like we used to when we were dating.
that's about it for tonight. i'll write a new post probably when we get back from our trip.
au revoir!
