Missing You.....

I have sat down and thought about writing this post several times in the past week. I just haven't been able to think of the right words. This is my attempt at writing the right thing.

Grandpa Rudy we miss you terribly. I think about you everyday. When I look at pictures of you I think of the all the happy memories I have. Thank God for those memories. You always knew how to make everyone laugh. You filled all of our lives with so much happiness and love. You are loved not only by all of your family but your many friends. I know that you are in a much better place now. You are happy, no longer in pain and you are not tired anymore. You are doing what you loved and missed most, fishing with Pops. I know that you will be keeping an extra eye on all of us, Grandma especially. Don't worry about her too much though she has lots of us near and far to help her with whatever she needs. Praying for you and all those that love you.

WE LOVE YOU GRANDPA RUDY!!!

~Rest In Peace~

Rudolph Aguilar

February 18th, 1935-February 25th,2009

Sharing just a few more pictures......

Mom and Dad's Wedding October 25th,1975----My Baptism 1977 (Me, Grandma Danice and Grandpa)

Laughlin, Nevada Mother's Day Weekend 1994

Me, Mom, and Grandpa---Grandpa, Me, Mom and Grandma Laughlin, Nevada Mother's Day Weekend 1994

Disneyland, California Grandpa, Mom, Grandma, Dad, and My Brother Matt

(Early 90's Not sure of exact date)

Grandpa and Matt-----Grandpa and Grandma @ Uncle Darren and Aunt Gaynor's Wedding 1996

Grandpa, Me (pregnant w/Jacob), and Grandma March 2003

The quality of these photos is not the greatest as some are copies of copies and then scanned. Sorry, hope you enjoy them. :-)

Dinner is Set!

For the most part anyway. Today we are at our 90 day mark. That is 90 days until our WDW vacation starts. At 90 days you are able to start making advanced dinner reservations (ADR). This morning after Breakfast Joe and I sat down and went over what we have planned thus far. Then we called the Disney ADR line and we now have ADR for all four nights we will be at the resort. We debated for quite some time when we first made our reservations for the vacation on whether or not we wanted to add the Disney Dining Plan to the vacation. We finally decided that it would be worth it for us and added it. The DDP gives us for each day we are there, a table service meal, a counter service meal and a snack. It doesn't cover all three meals each day but between snacks and all we will have plenty of food for the four of us.

We are having three Character meals. The most important one being our first one of the trip is at Cinderella's Royal Table. It is at the castle and we are having breakfast. Jenna could not be any happier. She is so excited that she gets to dress up as Cinderella and then gets to meet her at her castle. There will also be the fairy godmother there and a few other princesses but we are not sure of who at this point. We made there reservations a couple of months ago. Reservations for CRT are allowed to be made 120 days out. For any one else planning on going and wanting to have a meal at the castle. It books up really fast. Joe actually called the other day to see if we could get an earlier time for our breakfast and that day is already completely booked no availability for the entire day. Oh well, our time isn't a bad time it's just if we could have got in earlier we would have been able to get in the park before it opens.

Can you tell that I am getting really excited? In about 3 weeks or so we can start reserving our activities for the cruise portion of our trip. I can hardly wait to see what is available for the kids to do.

Most of computer time lately is being consumed by The DIS BOARDS. Just about anything you could ever want to know about Disney vacations is on there. So if you are curious about anything, just even thinking of planning a trip go give them a look. Seriously any question you could ask , you will probably find an answer on there some where from someone. It's very addictive, you can just read and read. That's partly what helped us decided on doing the DDP, and some of the places we decide to eat at. That's what's been occupying my time, lots of reading and planning.

Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day weekend. We had a very nice dinner at The Daily Grill in Tyson's Corner. The kids had an afternoon of fun with Nana.

****One last thing a small request rather, another huge thing that has been on my mind since Saturday evening. My Grandpa is in the hospital in So. Cal. He was admitted for low blood sugar, he is diabetic. After being admitted he had a small heart attack. They haven't been able to do a whole lot for him at this point because he is having breathing complications. My Mom said he looked better yesterday than he did on Saturday. She is keeping us updated as often as she can. Please if you have an extra moment in your day say a little prayer for my grandpa and my grandma who is by his side. I absolutely hate that I am all the way across the country from them, this has been very hard for me. I am so glad that the rest of my family is able to be close to him. Thanks for listening.

Our Butterfly....

Grandma (Great Grandma) Ann Fiocca, we truly miss you and love you. You were and will always be such an important person in our lives. You taught us so much about life. We will always treasure each moment that we spent with you and will always remember you and what you taught us. Every time one of us sees a butterfly we will always think of you.

We Love You!

A Little Under the Weather

Since Friday evening I have been feeling a little under the weather. Friday wasn't so bad but Saturday morning I woke up with a horrible sore throat. The kids have also come down with colds. Although the kids just seem to have runny noses and a little bit of sneezing. It seems that I have gotten the worst of it, sore throat, sneezing, coughing, and just plain ol' feeling yucky. But enough about that.
Let me Explain....
I am sure a few of you are just a little curious about the not so normal for Jamie quote on my last post. It was best for me to just put a quote that would some what explain how I was feeling.If I would have written a post that night it just would have been completely depressing.And I'm not really sure that,that would have been the best thing for me. The last two weeks have been a little rough when it comes to the things that have been going on at work. In the last two weeks we (Wal-Mart store#1406) have lost two associates. The first one was two weeks ago from today Helen Friddle was a long time associate at my store.Without going into all the gory details it was something everyone knew was coming but still it was hard. It was amazing how many people turned out for her wake and funeral.There was just squeezing by walking room it was truly amazing as she was a wonderful person. Moving on to this past Thursday. It was supposed to be just like any other Thursday. But it was far from that I walked into work swiped my badge and then there it was. Yet another note by the time clock.Only this time it was a complete shock, like something out of left field. I was left speechless. My friend Becky saw me and said "what's wrong Jamie?" Again I was silent for a moment and then I said "Susan Loftin" Becky said what about her? I then said she passed away this morning. Susan had been in remission from Breast Cancer and most recently was having some heart problems.I still don't know exactly what it was but she is gone. The worst part is that it was about a week before this that I had spoken to her.She continued working and she wasn't one to complain about not feeling well. But the last time I saw her she really wasn't feeling well, I know this because this day she did say something. She asked me if she could go home early, I told her to go ahead and go.She called in everyday that she was scheduled for the next week.On last Wednesday she called in and said she was going to have to go on a leave again. The next morning Thursday her daughter called and said she had passed away earlier that morning. Susan was a cashier she was someone that I saw almost everyday that I worked. She was a great person. Like I said earlier not one to complain about anything.She really had the opportunity to complain about a lot but she choose not to.
Why sweat the small stuff? I just have to say with these two passing of these two wonderful women I am seeing things in a new light. I have never really been surrounded by a lot of death in my life. I have lost very few people close to me,and I thank GOD for that everyday.
I have been really thinking about those close to me a lot more than usual lately because of these two passings.I really hate that my parents,grandparents and the rest of my family is so far away from us. I really miss them all terribly.
When I talked to one of my friends on Friday from my old store (Sterling) she had more bad news to give me. One of the CSM's there lost her husband this past week,and a former associate also lost her battle with cancer.
I am sorry that this is such a long and sad post. I just really felt like I needed to put my thoughts down and explain my thinking when I posted that quote. In the beginning of this post I was kind of complaining about feeling yucky.These are the kinds of things that just don't seem right anymore.It doesn't seem right sweating the small stuff.We should be grateful for each day that we have because who knows what tomorrow brings. We should live each day to the fullest and appreciate what we have. Cherish each moment even if it seems small because it could turn out to be something big later on.Again I am sorry for the long post and for being so depressing.I really am doing better just felt like I needed to explain myself. I am also sure that I have repeated myself several times throughout this post and again I am sorry.I hope that everyone else has had a good week thus far.
Other than being a little under the weather the kids are doing great.Got some cute little pics of the kids from the weekend and I'll post them soon.Take Care all......

The Last Week and a Half....

*Edited*
I have to add a little something here at the top so now my post is completely out of order. I need to ask everyone to say a little prayer for my Grandpa. After talking to my mom yesterday I found out that he had to have yet another Angioplasty. He got through the surgery good and is doing well and hopefully will get to go home today. He has had this done before but for a different artery and swore he would never do one again because of how much pain he was in afterwards. So if everyone could just say a small prayer that he doesn't have a lot of pain and pulls through this with flying colours. Thank so much,
~Jamie

We love you Grandpa Rudy!

I can't believe that a week and a half has went by since my last post. Well there's really a lot that has been going on this past week and a half. I sat down and attempted to write this post on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. But I have been really sleepy and so I feel asleep on the couch in the middle typing my post and well I really haven't had a good moment to sit down to type an updated post to that unfinished post, so here I am several days later.

Okay so back to Friday the 11th, Jacob and Nana went to the movies in Martinsburg and they saw The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie. Jacob really enjoyed the movie and was so excited to tell Mommy and Daddy about the movie when he got home. After Nana and Jacob got settled in Mommy and Daddy headed out the door, for our reservations that I made for us at a fairly new restaurant in Broadlands. It's called Willow Creek Farm and it's a Clyde's Group Restaurant. The restaurant is in this huge barn I mean huge I have never seen a restaurant this big. I felt like we walked a half of a mile to our table. The food was great and it was pretty reasonably priced.

We had some sad news on Sunday the 13th Joe's Aunt Mary(his mother's sister) passed away. She had been sick for some time and had gotten worse as the week progressed and on Sunday evening passed away. Aunt Mary you will truly be missed.

On this past Thursday the 17th we drove up to Pittsburgh,PA to go to Aunt Mary's services. The weather was really bad on our way up. There was a lot of roads that weren't treated yet and it was still snowing for most of the drive.So we decided that we would not drive home that night as we had originally planned. It was good that we stayed the night we got to see lots of family that we hadn't seen in a long time. Some that Joe hadn't seen in a while and I got to meet a few people I hadn't met before. We took some pictures of most of us but I plan to post those if not tomorrow the next day. I decided going into this post it's going to be a picture free post. Sorry!

The rest of that weekend is kind of a blur now. Any who on Monday the 14th We had our first play date in like a month. The kids had a ball they were so excited to see all of their friends. Jacob and Johnny got this cool new Playhouse for Christmas from Santa. Jenna really loved it she spent most of the time we were there in that little house. I wish I had some pictures from the play date but I don't Daddy accidentally left the camera in his car.

Okay so I know I'm kind of jumping all over here and I'm sorry hopefully I haven't completely confused anyone. We got home in the early afternoon on Friday and just relaxed. Both the kids,Joe and myself came home with parts of a cold. Yuck! Saturday the 19th is kind of a blur also because I had a pretty bad headache all day and spent most of the day on the couch wishing my headache away.he!he!

And well you know all those days in between, most of them I spent at work, Oh and I must mention that price of milk has seemed to go down at least temporarily. I will also mention in this very erratic post that I have had some really bizarre and rude customers at work this past week. Just thought I'd share. I won't get into all the gory details about who did what to piss me off but what a week, I tell ya. I honestly thought we had a full moon everyday there for a while.

Hope everyone else's week was good and I will post some pics soon from our short trip.Hope everyone has a good week and try and stay out of the cold if at all possible.It's been really too cold out, Winter's finally here.