A Disneyland New Year.

Happy New Year! No, I do not do New Year's resolutions, so you will not find any here. Instead you will find pictures of the awesome time we had at Disneyland today. It was not crowded (atleast compared to the last time we went) and we got on TONS of rides: Space Mountain, Big Thunder, Haunted Mansion, Autopia, Indiana, the train, Pirates, Jungle Cruise and Astro Blasters. It was a great day.

It was Gwenie's first time on the train and I am all about documenting firsts.



Apparently we stayed out alittle late last night.



I gave Gwenie my gun so she could beat Brett, I am not very good at this game. I like to watch and take pictures.



We tried a new ice cream place and their portions are huge!



We are having so much fun seeing movies (7 pounds, Benjamin Button) and going to Disneyland since Brett is off of work. I don't know what Gwenie and I are going to do when he has to go back and we are all alone again.

Here is to a year when Brett and I turn ages that we both do not want to acknowledge and Gwenie turning 2!

My awful day.

National Blog Posting Month does not require you to post twice in one day, but I had such a crazy afternoon that I had to share it with you all.

It all started with me calling Abby to see if she wanted to swap watching the kids so the other could vote, but she had already voted with an absentee ballot. She offered to meet me at my polling place and have Gwenie wait in the car with her and Sawyer. I agreed and thanked her tons (Thanks Abby!) but I forgot one important thing: I didn't have my car!

Brett switched cars with me so that I could go and get him an oil change across the street, within walking distance. I then had to get the carseat and install it in his car, which by the way, is small and my electronic key does not work so I had to make sure I pressed the unlock button to get Gwenie out otherwise I had to walk around the car again to the drivers side to press the unlock button. Might not seem like a huge pain, but for those that have kids should understand, it was a pain.

I meet Abby and she watched Gwenie, who cried for me the whole time. Sorry Abby, I really hate this "I only want mommy" stage. I always get stressed out with voting and this time I was because of the major issues out there and being careful to vote the correct way. Hearing Gwenie cry from inside the polling place did not help, either. I knew she was in great hands with Abby, I just felt sorry for Abby that she had to deal with it.

Gwenie and I leave and drop off the car and walk back home, then Gwenie did not want to take a nap, which is not helping the teething process!!! I get a call from the oil change people and they tell me that the cars water pump was broken and would cost almost $600.00 to fix. WHAT?!?!? I tell them I will call them back. I frantically call the dealership and ask if the water pump is under warranty and they assure me it is. Gwenie and I walk across the street pick up the car and drive to the dealership.

The dealership takes FOREVER to get all the paperwork done and that is awful when you have a very active little girl. As we were waiting Gwenie walked by and touched a tire, but not just a tire it had nice heavy rims/wheels also. As she touched it and walked by, it FELL ON HER! Luckily I was right by her and got it off of her really fast, but IT FELL ON HER!!! I was all alone hysterically thinking that she was really injured, Gwenie is screaming and none of the employees offered to help us or ask if she was ok. I was close to tears. How did that happen?

They then tell me that they will need the car overnight and they will get me a rental car. We then wait almost 45 minutes for the rental car place to come and get us. By this time almost 2 hours had passed and I just wanted to crawl into bed and cry. Poor Gwenie she always has crazy things happen to her.

To make both of us feel better I am eating my new favorite ice cream from Target (we stopped to buy it on the way home)

and Gwenie is eating her favorite Gerbers chesse crunchies.

ice cream.

I love ice cream. I grew up where ice cream was a main course. There were always those huge buckets of ice cream in the freezer just waiting for you to scoop out a bowl full. My family is big on ice cream, and not so big on cakes, pies, etc.

When Brett and I were first married I dished him and I up a bowl of ice cream and as I handed him his bowl he said something to the effect of, " What is this? I can't eat this! I need like a 3rd of this amount." I was so surprised, how could you not eat all of that ice cream? I did not think that I scooped up an amount that garnered that reaction. Apparently not everyone thinks the way my family does. We now have nicknames for a bowl of ice cream.

The (Brett's last name) scoop

and

The (my maiden name) scoop

Let me tell you there is a HUGE difference between the two. We always ask each other which one they want, we usually stick to our own namesakes. My little issue, at least Brett thinks so, is that I HAVE to have a big spoon to eat my ice cream with. Otherwise you can't get enough ice cream on your spoon. He has a small spoon and his reason is that he just likes it. As you can tell this is a big deal in our house.

The reason that I started talking about this is that there is a NEW ice cream flavor that is out, that I just found and I am in heaven!!! It combines my two favorite ice cream flavors and eliminates the issues that I had with them. It is a perfect marriage.



I always hated that Mint Chocolate Chip had those big hard chunks of chocolate chips in it, I just wanted the Mint part. My all time favorite is Cookies & Cream, so when I saw this ice cream I bought 3. I continue to stock up on it, really in dread of when they stop making it. Please go out and get it, it is just so yummy. PLEASE eat it with a BIG spoon!