LTNS!

Ok, I'll admit it's been too long since I've posted. We've been pretty busy at the Baggiore home. I have had time to look at other friends pages on regular schedule though. Well.. we finally got our upstairs finished.. and it looks GREAT!! I have a bunch of before and after pictures.. which will be coming up soon I promise! I just have to orginize them and get them ready.. but need more time to do that. . . SOO in the mean time, I'll give you something else. This past weekend my husband ran the Demolition derby at the state fair. That was really fun. He and his brothers put together a car and Scott ran the first night, then his brother kevin ran the second night. I just so happened to attend both nights. And was able to be on the pit crew the night Kevin ran. Here are some exciting pictures of the car.. before and after! :)



This is before it went in the magical pit of death..




And this is after.... (the first night)



And after the second night!

That truly was a fun experience. I told my husband he should do this every year. Gabe and Dominic LOVED it too!!! so when they get older, they can help getting the car ready. Yay!

We're excited for Halloween too.. This year Gabe wants to be a pirate.. and we're still not sure on what Dominic is going to be. I'm trying to convence Scott to dress up, but it's really not his thing. He did it last year to humor me.. so maybe I can get him to do it this year too! mouah:)

Well thats all the time I have right now... Next time I'll post pictures of my upstairs.!

Moi~

School/ tagged My 3's

Ok so this past week has been Long with School. Tough week.. but we're almost done with it! I even looked into putting Gabe back into regular school... I emailed his teacher and she called me and really talked to me with good advice. Gabe is really good at math, and I think part of things is he's bored with the work.. so his teacher let me test him with math and we placed him where he should be. Man, I sure can't wait until the upstairs is finished. I think School will be a lot easier in the school room/office. Speaking of the attic we FINALLY have a floor!!! YAY! Not much left to do. Soon it will be my turn to work up there by painting the walls. Hopefully my so nice/sweet sister-inlaw's love me enough to help :)

Oh.. I realized I was tagged by Dustie.. so here I go with that..

My 3's

My 3 JOYS:
1. My Family
2. My Friends
3. My Car hahahaha

MY 3 FEARS:
1. Obama becoming president
2. Never finishing our house
3. Not being able to sleep!

My 3 GOALS:
1. Losing all my fat
2. Finishing the BOM before the year is over
3. Making more goals!

CURRENT OBSESSIONS:
1. My Husband
2. hmmm
3. double hmmm

REGRETS
1. Oh gosh.. August 25th 2001.
2. Letting my mom having control of big choices in my life when I was younger
3. Not telling my grandpa a few things before he passed away

FACTS
1. My life is great
2. The Gospel is the best thing anyone can have!
3. My family is beautiful!

Soo I guess I'll just say I tag everyone on my list... =)

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And now I'm going to head to bed!

Happy happy joy joy

Soo.. yesterday.. My sweet adorable husband decided to buy me something extra ordinary! Well he say's,"You wanted it, so we got it" LOL ya.. but really.. it was him letting me get it that really counts. Anyways.. down below is a picture of what we brought home last night.. Isn't she beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007


This is and always has been my dream car. Obviously the year hasn't since 2007 has just happened last year.. LOL. But anyways..

So I've been making great improvements with myself as well. The gym has been visited by me and will continue to be visited by me. I'm again reclaiming my self image to be a good thing.
My children are just adorable.. something to live for! And my husband.. well... he's just amazing too! One in a million! no no.. one in a billion! I truly am one lucky girl!

We are going to try to go camping with everyone in our family some time soon.. Hopefully everyone will want to go..
Well I guess I should start getting ready for church..

:)

Hurricane Phoenix

So last night we had a HUGE storm. And where we live usually misses all the rain and such. But not last night! I think our area got it the worse. I'm calling it Hurricane Phoenix! I've added some pictures below too. It all started around 9ish last night when the wind really picked up. Then it started to pour hard. We enjoyed watching it and having the power out.. although the powered ended up being out for about 12 hours. I think Gabe was a little frightened so he snuck in my room at night (he does that from time to time anyways). I think this actually was one of the worse storms that Phoenix has had in awhile. The wind power I heard was 79 mph.

So other than that.... Gabe's school work is fun.. He's enjoying being home.. BUT sometimes he's not as motivated in doing his school work with me.. so after hounding him for awhile he eventually gets it all done. And some day's he does more work to be ahead of the game. His reading is pretty good. And his math is pretty good too. There are some challenges of homeschooling.. but over all I think it's well worth those challenges. :)

Right now Gabe is playing rock band with Georgia's boyfriend.. it's rather cute. He LOVES Georgia's boyfriend.. haha.. and he gets overly excited when he comes over.

The other day (Not last night) there was a rain storm. We all went outside and had ton's of fun playing in the rain... there are pictures of that too.

And .. I think that's about it for now.. everything is pretty much the same.. busy busy :)


Here is a tree that was in the Park.



And another one...


Here's a power line that's uh... bent???


And a Street light...


Sooo.. this.. was a tree... on a house... (obviously) poor house :(



Our friends house just down the street... their neighbor's tree went kabloom on their driveway..Luckily their car wasn't there!


Different storm... Dominic playing in the rain!


Cuteeeeeee lil'boy!


Gabe wanted a turn on that bike.. Dominic was NOT happy!

Well thats it :)

School, house, life.. est...

So Yesterday was Gabe's birthday. For his school we went bowling. It was meet the teacher and get to know your classmates. And today was Gabe's first day of School (First Grade). It was pretty much like I expected the first day to be. Gabe had a little trouble listening to me, and wanting to play instead of doing school. But as the day went on, he did good. Staying on the schedule we have set should be fine *crossing fingers*.

The house is looking so great! We have all the framing done! YAY! I took some pictures a few minutes ago, and here they are. I know it doesn't look like much, and it is hard to see the rooms with framing, but take my word for it... it looks AWESOME! I can't wait until it's D.O.N.E. ! They're doing the electrical right now. Looks way too complicated for me. Here's some pics...


This one is Scott at the top of the stairs. He hate's it when I take his picture. ;)


Here is the 'office' aka school room. It's a bit dark.



Here is looking into the bedroom.


Here is in the bedroom looking towards the stairs. It's all complicated. lol.


And last one... this is the dormer ..AND good lookin Scott holdin da baby. :)

Other than that, everything else is good. And last but not least... here is a cute picture of mi'boys. :)

crazy times

The more I think about life, the crazier I think things are! This week is going by fast.. and so much to do. Gabe starts School one week from today.. we get his books in the mail tomorrow.. so they say. I'm getting excited to try this out!

My birthday was on Sunday.. Even though it is just another day.... my sweet husband went way out of his way to make it a special day. I just love that man to death! On my side of the family, Only my brother Sam wished me a happy birthday.. And really he didn't .. since he said he wasn't going to wish me one.. LOL I think he was joking though. My husbands family all wished me a happy birthday.. some did it twice!! My Husband took the cake on making my day though. I got rock band for my bday.. and dishes!!!! LOL.. We played rock band today.. it was awesome. Gabe LOVED it. . . I decided to share RB with my son..but still claim it's mine.. for liability reasons..lol.

Gabe's birthday is coming up next week.. my 6 year old to be! We're throwing him his party on Saturday though.. his favorite cousin (Elvis) has his birthday ON Saturday so we're doing a combined birthday party. It shall be fun.

We took Gabe and Dominic to the water park the other day.. Of course the kids both loved it. Dominic seemed to love the wave pool.. so did Gabe.

Well.. I should try to sleep.. it's been a problem at night time for me. When I finally get to sleep.. it's a problem to wake up.LOL! jk. Dominic helps me out on that one. I'm still trying to get Gabe back on his normal sleep patterns. He probably is still awake right now laying there in bed. ... alright.. I'm going to sleep now!

loud noises

Yes, I am experiencing Loud noises from my children. Gabe has found this new game to play with Dominic.. it's what I'd like to call a screaming war. Oi!! lol. So It's very very good to have Gabe back from his daddy's house. I missed him WAY too much! I know Gabe had tons of fun with his dad.. but I also know he missed being home too. He told me he had to fight off crying in his bed at night time cuz he missed me.. awee.. bless his little heart. I was however, extremely dissapointed in his dad though. The last night he was there, evadently he watched Ace Ventura Pet detective. You wouldn't think that was a bad movie.. Although it IS pg 13.. and yes, there is a reason for it. There's also a reason why they suggest people 13 and over should watch it.. or shall I say, under 13 shouldn't watch it!!! Parents SHOULD atleast screen movies before they let youngsters watch them. I had to try to explain to my 5 (almost 6) year old son why the words "Holy S*** Balls" Parden my language.. were NOT appropriet words to say. The last thing I need was for someone to come and blame me for allowing my son to have such a potty mouth. And I had to figure out a way to explain how a girl is a guy but is a girl.. SHEESH!

Anyhow, Life here is pretty normal now.. Gabe is trying to test my patience with him wanting to play his Game ALL day.. I wonder how school is going to be.. and I'm really hoping we don't have to argue on doing school work. I love the idea of this school and I would hate to have to put him back into public school.

Dominic is growing so fast.. all his new little tricks he's learning are so fun to watch. He's learned to climb on the couch and look out the window. Most of the time he's just pointing to one of my husbands cars.. And some of the times he's pointing down the side walk crying for dada.. since he see's him walk down there when he comes home from work. He is such a daddy's boy!!!!
Today we had to wash.. I mean -I- had to wash his hair and skin off due to the fact of him finding the vaseline. And his hair is STILL greasey! oi oi oi... 1 year olds!

well .. thats about it...
:)

Peru!

So we're finally back from our wonderful trip to Peru.. I am glad to be back, only because there's no place like home!! AND I missed my boy (boys) like crazy!!!!!!!!
We had such a good experience.. too much to really write down.. so I'll just share all my pictures now :)


This is my padre in one of his friends house in huacho we stayed in...


This is the little old lady who lives next door to my dad's property in Huacho. I think her name is Victoria.


Scott.. on my dad's property.


My dad and Victoria's donkey.. on my dad's property..


The Beach in Huacho... and the dirt is where they have drivers ed.. on the beach, in Huacho!


People washing their close .. this is actually at the beach.. just some yards from where the drivers ed dirt is.


BEAUTIFUL Machu Picchu!!!


Llamas in Machu picchu








Two love birds!! ;)


Scott being silly!


lol this was fun!

Well I have SO many pictures.. but I can only be on here for so long..lol. We also went to other ruins... we went to this place called Paramonga.. we went to Sacrid Valley (in cusco).. and a few others in Cusco.. Some time I'll post more pictures up :)
until then... ciao :)

sweet

so it´s day 5 here in peru.. what a day today was too.. most of the actual day was pretty good.. towards the evening every mixed emotions.. hahaa.. but it´s great. i cant wait to upload some pictures. i forgot my plug to do that .. oh well. so we went to huacho saturday and sunday.. coming back to lima monday. tomorrow we´ll be going to the lima temple.. which i´m excited for. some places in haucho have no toliet seats.. actually most places.. i think maybe i found 1 toliet with a seat.. man those ppl are strange. there´s tons of little things that i find odd.. but who am i to say thats not normal.. haha.
well i´ll write more when i have time

moi

life in the fast lane in a car.. haha

so this computer sucks.. here i am trying to type normal, like i really ever type normal.. and the computer wont let me. anyhow, i´m here on my vacation and learning a lot of fun things. this has been an adventure since before we even left!! started at my dads house, which i wont really get into details yet. all i can say now is that peru is like i though, but when you´re actually there, its different. if that makes sense. the cab drivers are crazy.. just like new york.. maybe a bit crazier. the cars are death traps my husband says. the streets are ghetto as ghetto can be. and it smells funny too. now keep in mind i´ve been here for only 1 day, and have only seen very little of lima.. so from what i hear there´s lots of nice places too..lol. we´re going to machu picchu wed. and hopefully will have a blast. last night we stayed in thïs ¨hostel¨ hahahaa.. ya.. that fun interesting. the boys didn´t seem to mind all that much, it was a bed with a hot shower.. need they say more. but i´m sure most of the ppl who quickly go there say it has a bed so who cares. i guess i should be grateful there wernt bugs or stains anywhere in sight.

my padre and aunty like to act like brother and sister.. or sometimes even a old married couple. its funny to watch them argue.. sometimes it gets frustrating though. sometimes it drives my husband insane to see how slow and unmotivated they are to move on to the next step. hahahaa. this may be a long 2 weeks. í´m ready to take it on though. too bad i cant upload pictures here.. i guess that will have to wait until we get back.

i miss my lil´boys though. so thats going to be challanging.

well i suppose i should share the computer with my goodlookin husband.. even though he says he has no need for the computer, i´m sure he can find need. or wait time and money ... well.. chow chow or as they say it.. ciao

Family!

So this weekend was grand! My brother, his wife, and friend Mike came down to Arizona for Memorial weekend. We had a bbq with family... that turned out fun. We went hiking on Squaw Peak Mountain which was fun! I think I want to hike more.. I learned alot about myself doing that.. LOL! We also went to the Grand Canyon, which I had never been to!! That was very beautiful! Gabe had a fun weekend playing with our guests! He loved Mike! What a good sport he was playing with him :)

Here are some pictures from my weekend.. Enjoy =)



Sam and Jessica.. during our bbq... looking so in love!


My dad and Aunt Nancy.. of course there's my dad's classic photo look!!!


Cute Tata.. mmm!


Tres Amigos on our hike! Ju can do it!!


Mike.. on top of the world!


Goof balls enjoying the Grand Canyon.


aww.. he .. or she... wanted food!!!!


Dominic and Scott... lookin good.


Mike and Gabe.. Gabe is trying to copy Mike. .haha..


sooooooooo pretty!!!

Well.. thats about all... Hope you enjoy da pics :)

TBall

No pics.. just boring typing! lol.

Well Gabe finished his T-ball :( He enjoyed tball A LOT! But he's excited to have summer come too! He's also excited to go see his daddy in Utah.

I've been looking though old boxes that I haven't really even seen since I got divorced from my previous marriage! How pathetic..lol. But anyways I'm really glad I decided to go through them. I found a whole bunch of cute pictures of Gabe when he was little. Along with other things from way back when I nannied in 1998. Brought back such good memories of the family I use to nanny for. They had such cute little girls!! I was very lucky to have been able to nanny for such good families (atleast 3 of them were good experiences!!) I was such a baby back then.. and so immature! That whole nanny experience sure did prepare me for my future with my own children.. along with helping me grow up! Heck I probably still need growing up to do!!! I guess getting married to my ex made me grow up some. That was something I rushed into and I wasn't really thinking. But I'm glad it happened, I sure learned alot about myself and life. And got an amazing child out of it! No regrets here!

So now that Tball is over I have to try to bring back other things for Gabe. I like it when he's busy, even though it makes me busy. We were doing TaeKwondo for awhile and then other things came about.. I should get him back into that, exept it's kind of pricey. We missed a few months of it so I think they're going to let us make it up with out paying more! Which would be awesome.

Well.. it's getting time to pick Gabe up. Dominic the sweet thing is sleeping so I need to go prepare him for waking up. Poor little guy is teething 8 teeth all at once!!

Goodday~
MOi!

D back take 2

So we went to the diamond back again.. this time it was for Gabe's T-ball League. They got to go out on the field and do a walk around the field thing.. hah. Gabe had fun! Mommy had fun watching him have fun! Daddy.. well.. he was bored..lol! I got some random pictures of Gabe walking on the field.. and when I was waiting for them to come out, I saw one of the New York Mets signing balls. Of course I'm not really into base ball.. so I don't really know who this guy is.. all I saw was that he was number 27.

Other pictures are ones of Dominic playing outside next to daddy's car.

The stairs are finally finished! yay! Scott's going to do some framing soon.. hopefully him and his dad will start it this week.

Well other than that... there's nothing much to say :)