it's a party!!

So we celebrated Nikoy's 4th birthday on the 16th.. it was so fun! her day started at 8:30 in themorning with a bowl of boo-berry cereal. her choice, it was either pancakes or waffles or halloween cereal, and she chose the boo-berry.... after breakfast we sat and watched some of her favie morning cartoons on playhouse disney, little einsteins and handy manny and what not, then daddy came home for lunch and picked us up, and we had chicken fingers from charley's steakery! where, oddly enough, nikoy and kaylee, both ate all thier chicken.....weird...... anywho.. after lunch i had a dental appointment, so daddy got to spend some quality time with the girls. after all our appointments and cory was done working we went swimming! the girls had so much fun at the pool, as they always do.. the pool provides the cutest little life jackets, it's like water wings with a vest, and it clips in the back, but anywho, they float around the pool, and have lots of fun, kaylee has even figured out how to get herself from point A to B, i REALLY have to watch her now, she's swimming circles around me one second then she's gone the next... Nikoy, my social little butterfly, already knows the lifeguards by name, and they all know her. if i didnt know any better i'd swear she was flirting... anywho, after swimming and going down the big slide a couple times we decided to go home fer dinner.. as we were driving, our good friend merritt called us and asked if we wanted to go to JR rockers with her (its almost like a TGI fridays.....sorta...) we told her we needed to get home and clean for later that night and we were just going to go through the drive thru at burger king, and we hung up. then we decided JR's sounded fun so we called her back and she didnt answer and didnt answer so we decided she must have left and we would just meet her there....we got there, and she wasnt there....so we ate and waited and ate some more, and she never showed up, so we went home to get ready for the party. when everyone showed up at 8 (yeah kinda late but oh well.) we learned she had changed her mind about JR's and went to burger king instead... so we felt really bad.. but we made up for it with cake and root beer float flavored ice cream..:) look i took pictures..

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ask nikoy how old she is and she'll be happy to show you four fingers..ALMOST a handful!

she had so much fun opening her gifts it was so noisy and so loud! i'd apologize to the downstairs neighbors if i liked them......moving on...
grammy gave nikoy the cutest little disney princess purse and an outfit and a pez dispenser (she even got an outfit and a piggy pez dispenser for kaylee,,,grammy couldnt help it..:D)

cory was a fantastic daddy as usual, we got her a disney princess edition bella dancerella mat/dvd, its a dorky little thing that is supposed to teach the basics of ballet....nikoy thinks it's fun, but i think they could have been more aware of who they were making it for, the box says 3 and up, but i had problems keeping up with bella and i've been dancing for a long time........ oh well she enjoys it... thats all that matters..
LOOK AT MY BABY!! she's not a baby anymore!! why is she growing and how can i make it stop!?!!?!!?!!?..can you believe this 35pound little four year old started out at 5 pounds 10 ounces, and looking like an alien??!? now she's gorgeuos!! ......and ready for school...*sniff*..moving on.....*sniff*

after presents was cake and ce cream, nikoy loved her aurora jewelry cake..she LOVES aurora, sleeping beauty is by far her favorite, in fact theres been more then one day that shes woken me up in the moring by telling me shes not nikoy today, shes aurora, and she gets mad if i call her nikoy.. "no mommy i'm aurora.." *sigh*
she had no problem blowing out her candle and thankfully it was slobber free...

after we cleaned up the cake and ice cream we watched a movie and tried on our new outfits, nikoy and kaylee are adorible grammy thank you!!!
the girls unwrapped thier matching outfits and i said, "oh they match!" and cory said. "oh great they match...." ..:) dont worry grammy he loves em too!
and this morning we tried the bella danceralla thing, nikoy enjoyed it, kaylee did too. and nikoy got to wear the new leotard daddy gave her for her birthday, for christmas we're gonna get her a tutu, assuming the dance shop gets them by christmas.. and assuming we're not back in the states then it'll be easier to get a tutu...heck i could make one! anywho.


so yes you heard me right we could be back to the states for christmas.. but then again it could be longer... we had our hopes up that cory would be cross-training, but a new developement has made us stop our planning, cory is going to have to go to an actual medical evaluation where they are going to decided whether or not he gets to stay in the air force... the first doctor we spoke to agreed he just needs to cross train, but the last one thinks he needs to be "officialy" evaluated. so now we are at a point where he'll either be cross trained or kicked out... and much as i dont much care for the military life, i support our troops and all, im just tired of the polotics and cheating, and lying, and lets just say..as a whole our military is amazing and im eternally greatful for the freedoms it allows me, but unfortunatley there are people in the military who arent at all good people. who will stop at nothing to get all the good things they dont deserve, and dont care whose family gets destroyed in the process... and i cant wait to get away from it all, but as of right now the military is doing more good then bad for us.. we live in military housing, we shop at a military grocery stores that have no sales tax, (wa-who i saved 5 bucks!) i dont need to worry about any medical bills, i had 2 kids and never saw a bill for either of them! if one of the girls get a hundred and 3 degree fever i dont even have to think about it, just take her to the emergency room! so basically we've been spoiled.... so yes we are hoping we can get them to just cross train cory into a new job, where he will have time to finish his schooling, and one where i can go to school..and have at least one more baby without wondering how we're going to afford it.. and one where i can leave the base and not have to worry about getting mugged by the rude germans who are mad because theres more americans then germans in this area, (hey we wouldnt be here if they hadnt tried to take over the world....whose fault was that??!?!?!?)

anywho..so yeah. thats our worries and stresses lately... not so bad, just enough to make my hair turn gray and fall out....what ever happens we'll muddle through it.. :) (my cup is half full) anywho, everyone be safe! we miss you all and hopefully we'll get to see you soon!! LOVES!