A New Day Has Come!

So I am going to try and stop sounding like the boy who cried wolf and just blog when i remember to and I have something good to talk about. Most of the time i feel like life is pretty monotonous around here. Nothing bad about that but just not much to blog about lol. Anyways.... things are finally starting to pick up. What I mean about that is that I finally got a job. And it's not a job that will end up being a dead end job doing something I hate and being there 9-5 and never seeing anyone around here. I get to still stay home with Olivia and I make my own hours.

You may be asking yourself, what is this job you refer to??? Well.... I am on my way to being a financial planner. I get to help families become properly protected (with things such as the right kind of life insurance, etc.), get out of debt and have financial freedom and in the process, learn how to manage and properly save my money. I mean, in this economy, who doesn't want that? It's a light at the end of the tunnel for some people and I am soooooo psyched! The name of the company is Primerica. They have been around for 33yrs and have an impeccable track record and are going public in the stock market this week! So It's actually a really important week for the company and it's such a great time for me to be joining the team and for business.

Oh man there is just so much I could tell you right now it's ridiculous. I am so excited!!!!! :D

One of the main reasons is that I get to do a job, fall in love with it and most importantly - Help People. I knew that whatever I was going to do with my life needed to be something where I can help other people some way. I never thought that It would be this, but i know in my gut that it is.

Ok.... in other news hehe .......... Chris just got a job too!!!! Seriously, God i lookin out for us. We've been trying and trying to find jobs and then all of a sudden the door just opened up and we literally walked right into them... (that's another story haha)

The girls are doing great! Saying lots of new words and everything. I'm going to try and get some pictures up here later.

And I'm getting a new phone.... Samsung Omina 2 ..... friggin sweeeeet phone! Plus i need it for work woohoo

Ok and now to leave you with the song that is currently running through my head and the inspiration for my blog title

We've got fish!

So, I play this game on Facebook called fishville. It's your own virtual fish tank and it's pretty awesome. On top of that I've wanted a fish tank for a while.... soooo we got our act together and cleared off a corner of our kitchen counter in a rare spring cleaning motivated moment and got a 10 gallon tank and some decorations this week and went and got some fish for it today.

We have 2 dogs named Orion (a black lab/pit mix) & Apollo (an american bulldog). Then I found out that 2 of my sisters got fish for their kids and I decided it was time to follow through and get some finally for our kids (and us too of course hehe). My 1 niece J named her 2 fish Hermes and Neptune. Then my other sister's 2 kids A & M wanted some fish so they got 4 and consulted J about names and named theirs Jupiter, Venus, Triton & Poseidon. So in true family spirit (and the compulsion to follow through with an existing pattern lol) we decided to name our fish in the same fashion. :D

So meet Artemis, Athena, Medusa & Zeus. (We are getting another one and naming it Persephone but we wanted an angelfish and they didn't have any at petco today)

Top to bottom: Zeus - a Marble Lyretail Molly, Athena - a Gold Gourami, Artemis - a Blue Gourami & our Algea eater Medusa - a Plecostomus.

Above is a better picture of the 3 fish... the neat thing about the gourami's is that they can change color. like get brighter and stuff. Weeeee! :D Fish are soo neat.

A good view of our ancient ruin tank (and all the randomness on the counter behind it - lol sorry)

Like the fallen ruins? lol I do :D I couldn't resist.

To all my new blog visitors....

Welcome to my blog!!! :D

I am in a blog swap on Swap-bot currently and the partners will be assigned sometime in the next day or so. I love blog swaps!!! I love making new friends and finding new projects and recipes to incorporate into my life and reading about other people's lives. So.... thank you for visiting my blog!

*sidenote - i'm in a blog lull at the moment.... I seem to be so busy that I forget to upload my pictures and such to share about my life at home with Olivia, Chris and Rachel and all the new friends that I am making here in Arizona... So yet again I promise to try harder and whip out those blog posts :D*

Here are some recent random pictures

Olivia playing in fallen leaves at the college

Olivia and Kylee - best buds

Olivia :D - she's trying to get that headband out of her hair... i wish she would keep stuff in her hair cuz it is soooo long and gets in her face... ohhh well :P

Olivia and Rachel at the park - I love this picture

Christmas morning. - Sitting in front of the tree in their brand new Christmas PJ's... Olivia got minnie mouse and Rachel got spongebob :D

Christmas Pictures

Ok this post is out of order from all the rest being that I have about 5 more drafts left to post but I am too excited about these pictures to keep them from you.

I took the girls to get their Christmas pictures taken today and boy do they look cute!!!!







We Got the first, second & last pictures.... I didn't have money to get anymore of the individuals otherwise i would have. We got the package of pictures of the first picture of the two of them and then a sheet with 4 wallets and a 3 1/2 x 5 of Olivia and the same for Rachel. I can order more prints if I want to from the site i got the proofs off of. If anyone wants to order yourself some like a bigger picture than might get sent to you, I can send you the login and pw to get into the site to order these pictures :D I think they came out really great :)

Ok off to bed.... nighty night! Xmas tree pictures to come as soon as I put my tree skirt on and get a good tree topper

Halloween

We did a lot for Halloween. The weekend before we Rachel and Olivia to the Gilbert Halloween Festival. It was cute and we all dressed up for it. Olivia was a princess, Rachel was a ladybug, Chris was a Winged Reaper and I was Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. The festival was cute but kind of a bust cuz the girls were still too little to do anything like the bounce houses.

Here they are - The Princess and The Ladybug

Olivia wasn't too sure about that hat and Rachel wasn't too sure about those wings.

As you can see these 2 are sans hat and wings at the Halloween Festival lol.

see her princess shoes? ^ :D I love them




On Halloween we went to the Arizona Irish Festival during the day for a music project Chris had to do for his Music in Culture class. We walked around the Irish cultural center and everything was really cool. There were people in period dress and people playing instruments and lots of little kids in costumes. It was a lot of fun.

(Hey... I didn't know Doc was Irish lol)


The main band we saw - The Knockabouts. They're pretty darn good :D



We got home in time to go Trick-or-Treating to the other town homes here and we had a blast. Olivia had her little Glow stick flower wand and her princess shoes and we were off.



We had lots of fun :D

Camping in Tonto National Forest

In October we went Camping with our friend Michele and her 3 girls and the babysitter. We bundled everyone up and drove about an hour and a half north east to the Tonto National Forest where it was about 25 degrees cooler than at the house. So it was pretty chilly that night but we kept the fire going and everyone had a blast. We made taco salad for dinner and we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for dessert and had a blast. Idk how soon I'll go camping again though lol
Here are the pictures I took:

Rachel & Olivia banging on the picnic bench


Playing in the dirt with Sydney






Rachel probably walked on the cement beam for a good 30 minutes with Chris back and forth. I love this picture of them. / Sydney being cute / Rachel bringing her plate to Ray Ray (the sitter) ...somehow Michele's oldest, Tatum managed to escape my pictures lol


Olivia, Ray Ray & Aubrey / I love this picture of Liv & Aubrey - The girls fought over who got to play with and watch which baby. I love it. They love Olivia and Rachel so much & we love them.


The campsite. I particularly loved that old tree that has been used multiple times for firewood (we left it alone though and sent the girls to go get wood that was already scattered through the woods)

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