Quitting Facebook?

As much as I don't care to admit it, I am addicted to facebook. I love reading about what everyone is doing, seeing their pictures, watching their kids grow. Part of what I love about Facebook is watching people air their dirty laundry. Watching someone share pieces of their life that should (in my eyes) kept private. Even though I think these things should be kept private, I still read about it. 

Another thing, Facebook can both make you feel better and worse about your situation that the same time. These people airing their dirty laundry? They are way worse off than I, because I don't really have that dirty laundry to air. But then their are the people who are in a great place, maybe a place you want to be, physically or emotionally. Maybe they are super fit, or they are living in some wonderful place, or maybe they are just really happy with themselves. 

Then there is all the random shit on facebook. I am so sick of seeing "give this kid with cancer 1 billion likes" or "like if you love jesus, ignore if you don't". Seriously? neither cancer nor jesus care about facebook likes. Then all the "woe is me" stories that turn out to be pathological liars? Where someone was discriminated against and thousands of people donated money or gifts, and the person turned out to be a liar? Those make me me a little jaded about all the "oh no, poor me" stories on facebook. Who can you really trust when we are all behind computer screens?

Recently, two private groups I am a part of had serious drama. Drama that has caused people to leave/be removed from both groups. Although I wasn't directly involved with either dramatic instance, I found myself lurking and reading all the posts, almost feeding off the drama. I found my heart racing to see what would be said next. Looking back at these I think I need to stop caring too much about other peoples lives, and focus on my own. 

I'm not leaving forever, hell I will likely be back on tonight. But I need to scale back the presence of facebook in my day. I need to refocus and not have facebook be the first thing I look at on my phone each morning. I need to not take a bunch of pictures and have my first thought be "that'll be a great profile picture!" And mostly I need to stop caring what drama is going on in other peoples lives. I am half tempted to leave all the groups I am a part of on facebook, but some of them have real good friends, and it's nice to have a private place you can go to a group of like minded (or at least similar minded) people to weigh in on something, like parenting or christmas gift ideas for your husband. 

I will not deactivate my account, I am not going to lurk and just not post, but I am going to step back and refocus on what's important on the internet. 

Cats. 

Evelyn is 18 months!

banana face

Evey is a whole year and a half old. She is such an amazing little person. She is running, climbing, trying to jump. She is even talking, but just a little. She can say "mama" "dada" "cat" and "woof". Woof is the cutest thing ever, it sounds more like woo-woo, it's adorable.

bubble fun!

She is eating just about everything us big people eat, the only thing I don't give her is spicy stuff, some things she can handle, but I'm very careful. Evey's favorite new food is Japanese curry, we just tried it a few weeks ago and she loved it, even ate leftovers! She loves to play outside in her backyard with bubbles or on her slide. She is becoming quite an agile little monkey, climbing up things and impressing us with her smarts every day

Evey naps about once a day for an hour or two so mommy can get some diapers washed. We haven't started potty training yet, but we are letting her explore what the potty is. Evey is still breastfeeding and Co-sleeping part time. She has her own bed, set up in our room and she can climb into bed with us if she wants. She will normally spend most of the night in her bed and move when daddy gets up for work. She breastfeeds a couple times a day, mostly just for nap and bed time, but we get one or two extra in there depending on her. 

are you watching me?

She has all her teeth except 2 year molars and canines. but one top canine is cutting right now. We try to not watch too much TV, but she really loves Yo-Gabba-Gabba, and Turbo. Really anything with upbeat fun music, she loves. At her 18 month check-up she was 33 inches long and 24 3/4 pounds. She is growing like crazy, especially the last couple months, she has grown two whole shoe sizes and at least an inch or two since we left Montana. 

chubby little tamale 

A day at the beach

I've lived here a month now and only been to the beach twice, and once I only got out of the car to take a picture. I think I need to remedy that, and go to the beach again. 

Evey loved it, she loved the sand, the cool water, the sunshine. 

We went over memorial day weekend, while my parents were here. We didn't bring swim suits, we only went so we could say we had gone, and to let Evey have a little beachy experience. 

Thanks for the warm welcome California!

A couple of weeks ago San Diego county was all ablaze, like I think at one time there was 10 or 11 fires going at once. It was crazy. It was also all started the day we had our stuff moved into base housing. It was a bit scary, I won't lie, I was a tiny tad worried for a day or two. Fire scares the shit out of me. But the wonderful firefighters on Camp Pendleton and San Diego County did a wonderful job of keeping us, and thousands of others, safe.

From Evey's bedroom window

Out our bedroom window

Fire scares the shit out of me. But the wonderful firefighters on Camp Pendleton and San Diego County did a wonderful job of keeping us, and thousands of others, safe.

PCS Adventure Log Part 2

When we last posted, we had just left Virginia and we were on our way back West, working our way towards our new home in Sunny California! 

Our first stop was back in Albuquerque to rescue Aunt Andrea from all the animals! Because 3 dogs and 3 cats, makes her an animal hoarder. 

We then adventured back to Tucson, to spend a couple days with my family before we checked into California! 

Sadly here my camera stopped working correctly and don't really have any pictures until after we got to California. 

PCS Adventure Log Part 1

It's been about 2 months since we started our adventure out of Montana. On April 8th the movers came and packed us out. That was a big day for little Evey, Her first move (from Helena to Butte) she was only about 3 months old, so there was a lot more going on, that she was aware of.
To keep her out of the way we played outside, it was warming up, but as you can see there was still plenty of snow on the ground. 

On April 9th we drove out of Montana and headed South, our first night we spent in Salt Lake City, and then drove on. That second day we stopped at Bryce Canyon. Fun Fact: I'm distantly related to Ebeneezer Bryce, the dude that place is named after. 

Evey was a teeny little monster at Bryce Canyon, so we didn't stay long. She wanted to run up to the edge of the canyon, and mommy wouldn't let her. 

We stayed that night in Page, Az. At not the nicest motel, but that's what you get when you wait until 5pm to book a room in a small town. We got up bright and early the next day, and continued on to Tucson. We made our fun stop that day at Meteor Crater. I have been there once, but I was very young. Paul had never been there. It sounded really cool, but it's really just a big hole in the ground that you pay $15 to look at. At least Paul was free since he is Active Duty, and Evey was free since she is teeny tiny. 

That night we made it to Tucson, after getting caught in Phoenix and Tucson rush hour, and me almost ending up in tears. I don't handle traffic well and after driving all day I was tired and frazzled and Evey was screaming at the top of her little lungs by the time we hit Tucson. No matter how many times I said "we are almost there, We are so close" she would just cry. 

But we made it, and we spent a lovely weekend at my parents, relaxing and avoiding being in the car.  We enjoyed fun in the sun, and considerably warmer temperatures. 

From Tucson we went on to Albuquerque, where we stopped at Aunt Andrea's house and dropped off our monsters. The pets were going to stay with her while we continued our adventure East. Andrea has a Boston of her own, so when we added our two into the mix things got a little crazy at her house. She sure is brave to take on three dogs for us. I know her house was bananas for nearly three weeks. 

Next we continued on East, not many pictures of the drive, it was boring, We did stop a couple times, once in the middle of Oklahoma to let Evey burn off some steam because we decided to push all the way to Arkansas that first night. The second day of our adventure East was equally boring, and that night I had horrible food poisoning or something and was sick all night and most of the next day, BTW being sick and having to check out of a hotel and get into a car is the worst. But I was able to pull it together when Evey got sick too. Needless to say, that day was horrible, but we made it to Grannys in Northern Virginia, and we got a little food in our tummies and slept like angels. I also slept most of the next day, because I was still feeling pretty dead.
We had a wonderfull time at Granny's. Evey got to meet her Aunt Maggie, and her two Uncles, Pat & Ben, she got to spend some wonderful quality time with everyone. She loved spending time with Granny. We had a wonderful Easter and loved picking the flowers in Granny's back yard.

Sadly the time came for us to head back west so we could make our way to our new home in California. 

Check back in a couple days for PCS Adventure Log Part 2!