Belated Valentine's

I was not looking forward to this past week as Roland was gone for 5 days. He was in Corpus for a law enforcement class. I have never spent Valentine's away from him. On Friday I got a call from his phone, but when I answered it was Bo and he screamed Daddy's home. I didn't expect him home until around 8 or 9pm. I normally would have dropped everything and gone home but I got slammed at work with so many orders. Anyway, we went out to Chili's for our belated Valentine's dinner. We always say, okay it's just gonna be the two of us. But we usually don't have a babysitter or the couple of times we've gone we are falling asleep before we get our dinner and end up missing the kids terribly. Karina and Lauren were asleep when we got there. It was pretty quite for just a little while. We had a wonderful time and I was so glad Roland was home. That was the best present ever, okay I could of used the wallet for my new purse, lol. Kidding, I love having him around even if we go right back to our bickering.

Lauren's First Hair Cut

OK so Saturday Karina and Bo went to the Zoo with my sisters Jess, Gris, and my mom. From the video and pictures it looks like they had a blast. I actually was in Mission by 9 am to inspect my first property. I made it home at around 1 pm after inspecting 4 properties. I know shocker cause I rarely work on the weekends. Anyway, after I got home we were so bored. Roland suggested that we go to a pachanga for a friend of ours that is running for Constable in Rio Hondo and then out to eat. But of course being the guy that he is he wanted a hair cut first. While he was getting a hair cut I decided to have Lauren get her first hair cut. She did soooo good, she didn't cry at all. After that it was to Applebee's to have an early dinner with Jesse and my littlest sister Vanessa. We enjoyed the company.

I can't beleive I let it happen

My poor baby, I heard her scream last night and I literally jumped off the bed. She fell over and when I found her she was laying on her little back screaming her head off. I'm soooo sorry baby. I'm sure you guys have gone through this before. I was so sick and tired that I crashed out and since Roland was up still playing games there was no wall to stop her from rolling off the bed. I feel so bad, I'm just glad for carpet. It doesn't look like she hurt herself. More than anything we were just super scared. I guess that's why they're supposed to be in their cribs, huh. Well, not my kids. They ALL sleep with us. I have tried to send them to their room, but they just come back in the middle of the night. I guess I'll set up her play pen in the room.

It's been one of those days

I was getting Kari and I ready for work when Griselda calls....she never calls till around 10 that's when either her or I get into the office and realize neither one of us is there. She said Joanna is fine and I thought...I hate these kinds of phone calls, but she's been in an accident. She was supposed to drive to the Valley this evening. Well, turns out on her way to work a lady hit her car while she's on the feeder road. It appears that her car is a total loss but that is the least of it cause she's ok. I talked to her shortly after that but when I told my mom she of course freaked out and started panicking cause we couldn't reach her. We finally got through and she sounded ok she is so crazy she is still gonna come to the valley but one of her friends is gonna drive her down. I was there almost three years ago to the date. I'm sure most of you know about our horrible car accident and how extremely lucky we were to come out of it alive. Sometimes you think why did this happen to me, but in retrospect I think at the time Roland and I were so busy with work that we didn't make time for anything else. God decided that we needed to slow down. We slowed down alright. We are still feeling the effects of that day. Whether it be physically (cause I never got the surgery I needed and Roland's ankle hurts so bad he can't even stand) or mentally (cause you see a car that seems like it's not gonna stop), or financially (we had to file for bankruptcy and lost our house after that). I also was looking at the pictures the other day and I cry everytime I see them cause I realize how I almost lost everything that day. Valentine's has an extra special meaning for Roland and I cause that year we spent it in the hospital just thanking God every minute we could that we were together. Please buckle yourselves up and especially your babies cause you may be driving fine but you never know when someone else is just not paying attention. I thank god that my sister is doing fine and hope that she continues to stay strong.