As I thought back about 2008 there were A LOT of changes. A LOT.

NEW: I moved back to Texas. This was huge. The kids have adjusted well. Sei loves his job. And I am a lard. Obviously I’ve had the hardest time adjusting. I miss our old neighborhood. I miss our old ward. I miss my friends. But I know we are suppose to be here, so I will continue to adjust the best I can. It has been nice having my family near. The kids deserve to be close to at least one set of grandparents!!

OLD: My ex still lives in Texas.

NEW: I started watching kids in my home this year. I actually just started watching 2 more this past Monday. So, now I watch 3 kids everyday and a 4th on Tuesdays. It’s been interesting. Thankfully I am now watching an almost 5 yr old boy and Taj loves having a playmate!! The money is very helpful as we pay off debt and save for missions and college and our Florida vacation this year!! The extra kids is why I will not be writing many blog ads anymore. I was tired of blogging because I had to. I want to blog when I want to. I will do ads occasionally if the pay is ok, just fyi.

OLD: I am still doing paid links in my posts. So if I stick in a weird words that don’t seem to go with the post, like shipping boxes, for example, that’s why.

NEW: I have 7 kids that pee in the toilet.

OLD: I have 6 kids that poop in the toilet…

NEW: My new fave song is “Gives You Hell” by The All American Rejects

OLD: I still love orange.

NEW: I enjoy exercising again. It’s my stress relief and break. And Seiuli has been wonderful about facilitating my time.

OLD: My big butt. It’s still here.

NEW: I traveled by myself several times this past year!! I got to go to Vegas for my brother’s wedding. Oregon for the highlite of my summer! And Kansas City for the NKOTB concert. Note that 2 out of 3 involved Y’ALL!! Yay!!

OLD: I came home everytime to my wonderful husband who I love so much. I can’t believe I am married to such an awesome man. I mean, I think back on our lives, how we met, etc… and I am just amazed. I know we were meant to be together. He’s my lobster. (What’s that from??) And I didn’t mean for this post to get mushy, but Sei went in for an endoscopy today. Basically they stick a camera down your throat and take pics. When he got one 3 years ago he was diagnosed with Barrett’s disease which is pre-cancerous. So, today he went in for another and thankfully a lot of the scar tissue has healed and he no longer has Barretts. YAY! I love him and I am thrilled he is getting better.

This will be my last post with pics from Oregon. It was just an awesome, awesome weekend. I told Sei it was probably the best weekend of my adult life that didn’t involve him. There are tons of great recaps- I’m kinda lame at stuff like that. I just know I enjoyed myself so much. I loved meeting Aubrey, Yvonne, Heffalump and Glittersmama for the 1st time. And I was stoked to be able to hang out with my twin, Nobody, Annie, Millie, Carronin, Klin, Amanda, Elastic, Carrot and Suzanne once again. I can’t wait til next summer!! Thanks again NCS for organizing the entire weekend. You are so awesome and I am blessed to call you my friend. ???

A lot of these awesome photos were brought to you by my Ghetto Fabulous camera. Livie broke the battery door off and my genius twin gave me an idea how to fix it. Hairband + driftwood = The Coolest Camera at the beach! Don’t hate.

My favorite Summer Party ’08 moments:

~ Eating lunch with Millie at the Isolation Table at Mo’s.

~ Blessing Heffalump’s baby girl with Fairy Godmother blessings. I blessed her with a booty.

~ Having my booty complimented and smacked a couple of times by fellow bloggers.

~ Late nite confession booth where we learned about man-handed wives of old boyfriends, run-ins with the cops and kisses with John Bytheway

~ Accidentally leaving Aubrey and Glittersmama behind in Seaside. We all thought one of the other parent’s had them…

~ Asking if the waterfall was all natural or man-made and having my twin tell me, “It’s all real. Oh- except for the bridge.” She’s so cute.

~ Meeting my twin’s family and having her DH say, “Oh! Tori!!” in recognition when I met him. I also saw my Christmas card on their refrigerator.

~ Walking with friends to the little store that opened at 9-ish and closed at 5-ish to get my coke fix.

~ Having lines from my grandma’s romance novels explained to me. All I had to do was ask.

~ Listening to Elastic say “She is sooo naive!!” and sing in Spanish in her sleep.

~ Hearing Millie yell, “SOILED IT! SOILED IT! SOILED IT!” and knowing instantly it was a Spongebob quote. Millie and I are kindred spirits when it comes to speaking thru quotes.

~ Not wanting to go to sleep on Sunday/Monday because I knew I had to leave in the morning. So we stayed up until almost 5am only to wake up at 6am.

I’m heading out tomorrow morning to go to Oregon! I’m goin’ to hang out with some bloggy friends including but not limited to: My Twin, Nobody and Suzanne. There will be 15 women total so it’s gonna be a par-tay!! I’ve met most of the women I am going to see, but I have not met 3 or 4 of them, including Yvonne!! Jealous???

My pre ordered copy of “Breaking Dawn” has not arrived and I am pi$ed. It is in my city post office right now, but I’m not sure if it’s out for delivery today or not. If it does not come in the mail I am heading straight to the store to get me a copy. I want to read as much as possible before I arrive in Oregon. I called Walmart yesterday to see if they had any copies in stock and after waiting on the line for 10 minutes I finally hung up. I could have driven to the store to check in that amount of time. Sheesh.

So… that is all. Wanted to give y’all the heads up that I won’t be around until probably Tuesday. I know you will miss my blog ads. Don’t worry. I’m sure I’ll have plenty to do to catch up when I get back.

Ciao! (I have never used that word in my life but for some reason I felt like it.)

Word to your mother.

I’m out.