whatta week!!!!

ok first off, it's been one heck of a week! cory was FINALLY able to take leave starting monday after working a month straight of 16-18 hour shifts having the occassional sunday afternoon off..... but the good news is all the inspections that they were doing went fantastically! his shop passed with flying colors!! so hooray!....anywho, monday and tuesdays went by without a hitch, we sat around and were lazy all day...:D... well i had to get up early tuesday because i went to see the dermotologist about my face..he agrees its not rosacea!! YAY! its called perioral dermatitis...and thankfully its easier to treat then roscea, however, its not easy to treat when pregnant......*sigh*.. so the doc found something that seems to be making it at least calm down, i dont feel like im a lepar any more..... anywho, so i got the girls these way cute hats and they LOVE them... so i took pictures...




Kaylee(^^) as usual has to try to run from the camera.... oy.. and nikoy actually smiled for me... granted the cats looking a little disgruntled...




we also decided since cory and i got fun "toys" with our tax return our girls should get something out of it too, so we went ahead and bought them each a Vsmile handheld Vtech gameboy thingamabob.. lets just say THEY LOVE THEM! they never put them down..unless the batteries die...im just going to say, whoever invented recharable batteries should be knighted.......





kaylee's had a hard time figuring it out but she's getting there!!

anywho..

wednesday we decided to completely spotlesize the house, which sucked because after being so lazy all day monday and tuesday,...we had our work cut out for us.. :D so we managed to get 90% of the house clean, and we called it a night, had some dinner, thursday was AWESOME!!! we got up and finnished what we had left of the housework, and decided to go out and about and have some fun! so we decided since the gartenschau (garden show) in kaiserslautern was opened for the season we'd go have a looksee! and it was well worth the 12 euro we paid to get in!! (children under 6 are free...

they had pretty gardens to walk through (hence the name "garden show") with LOTS of photo ops!

I love tri-pods and timers... wish i had my wireless remote....:D (hint hint cory)

cory actually took this picture, proving he's got just as much of an eye for art as anyone else i know..

the girls found an old phone booth and it was cute..

and i LOVED this statue, if i had a garden this would be my center peice... its so cute!!!

nikoy and kaylee posing on a giant rat....thingy...

now we're walking across the bridge, lets go see some dinosaurs!!

cory and the girls sitting on an ancient aligator thingy..dont ask me what these are called, i am NOT smarter then a fifth grader...:D and dont worry it cant bite, cory's holding the mouth shut, see?

and anyways its not real..

pretty flowers...again "garden show"..

awww dinosaur love...

this was a cool scene, the brachiosaurs are trying to protect thier baby from the naughty alosaurus! (the actual names of these dinosaurs may be wrong, do i look like a dinosaur expert??)

i loved these flowers, they smelled SOOOOOOOOOOO good!

this is one of my favie dinosaurs, its a toss up between stegosaurs and ankylosaurs...notice the pregger tummy...yeah...its there....

he he, my superman takin on a torosaurus! its part of the triceratops family...
see? i learned...

this is one fella i wouldnt want to meet in a dark alley...

the girls HATED this! they may look happy and smiling, but thats only because cory's on his way over to save them from the hungry dinosaur head....

he saved the girls, but got himself digested,,,

:) whenever we go to the zoo corys always pulled towards the rhino's so it only seemed appropriate to take his picture with the ancient ansestor!

this was just a cool stone thing sitting in the middle of a grassy field, i dunno if we were suposed to touch it, but we did anyways...

this was nikoys favorite flower at the show, its called a pink diamond...very pretty huh?

now we're walking towards the playground... nice view huh?? :D

good ancient doggy....

cory took the girls down this HUGE slide that looked terrifying. kaylee came out without a scratch or bump but she didnt want to do it again..

nikoy came out backwards and upsidedown....she refused to even go near it again...

but she did seem ok with climbing the rope ladder.. untill she looked down..

lots of rope stuff...

kaylee enjoyed the giant sand box...

and cory was just being his usual yummy self...

i sat and watched from the sidelines..:D

they had these awesome swings that were like those bird nests that hang from the trees, the girls climbed in through a hole in the bottom, and...

sat comfortably while it gently swayed, cuz the mom of the 8 year old next to nikoy freaked out that her son was scared of heights and therefor none of the other kids could have fun...

nikoy and her daddy on the cool springy...thing..

they had a big wooden dinosaur that the girls got to climb all over too.. thankfully we got out of it splinter free..

then it was time for a game of tag!

daddy won.....

yay! icecream!!

so after an awesome time of running playing screaming and icecream eating, we let the girls each pick a souvenier, nikoy got the cute duck looking dinosaur,

and kaylee got her pink "sara-tops"

(more pretty flowers..)

so that was our thursday, we walked back to the car, and went home, cory grilled some steaks, we sat and watched a movie together and it was nice... so friday, (oh today!!) we got up at o'dark thirty (about 7 this morning...:D its too early for me..) and cory had an appointment, after his appointment we went swimming and we learned that 9 am is the PERFECT time to hit the pool! the lap lanes are normal, but the kiddie section was empty, the girls had the whole pool to themselves!! after swimming we went and had lunch, and then cory had another appointment, we finnished with that and we went to the BX (military store kinda like kmart..it sucks just as bad.) and then we came home ate dinner played some halo and now im updating a blog, and wondering, why now? its five to midnight, and sunday is easter which tells me i'll be updating again mondayish, so,, oh well huh? anywho.. i would like to announce that as of monday (april 13th) i'll be 30 weeks along! and the baby is doing FANTASTIC! he's kickin like a pro, wakes me up at about the same time every morning with the thrashing and kicking and he must have changed positions because im starting to get the annoying foot in the ribcage...*sigh*... other then the petty annoyances all is well and good!!! and no, still NOTHING on cory's MEB, hopefully soon...hopefully.... anywho, i'll be hitting the hay now, im tired... :D.. LOVES YOU ALL!!