so, i got a haircut on sat. it's shorter than the picture i showed my hairdresser but i still like it. it has taken me so long to post pictures cause i was waiting for a good hair day....see, i am still playing with it....shower after shower. on sat, i took like 4 showers to do and redo it. and of course the day i got a good hairdo, i was home by myself and had to try to take self portraits of the back of my head.

easter

we started the morning by giving the kids their easter baskets from us (or the ones the easter bunny left at our house for mady and kian!!)

then we went to grandmas for an easter egg hunt and dinner. between the 5 kids, there were over 150 easter eggs they had to find...outside. it was a sunny but windy day so it was cold. we are pretty sure we got them all. mady, auntie jennie, lily, mack, masen and me walked around for over an hour to make sure there were none left behind. for as cold as it was, i was surprised to see mady stay out so long. her hands were like ice when we got inside. i would have loved to gone in sooner but since she was having so much fun, i stuck it out longer for her!! we had an early dinner, we ate at 2:30 so basically by 4 our whole easter day was done. we stayed at grandma's til 5pm then came home. kian was on a sugar high and mady was tired right out. once kian's sugar high ran off, he ended up going to bed 1.5 hours early and mady napped til 7pm so she stayed up 1 hour past bedtime. and that was our easter. hope everyone's was as fun as ours!!

time to begin the countdown

from this minute exactly, kian will be 1 years old in a month or 30 days, whichever way you wanna look at it (he was born at 3:47am 5/5/08). i couldn't imagine the past 11 months without him but at the same time i can't believe it's already been 11 months. it's time for me to get serious about birthday party planning. you got any ideas for me, brittany!! :)

the only problem with having madisyn and kian's own blogs (which by the way are updated) is that i don't have anything to post on mine. so now for meaningless ramblings.... i got a new cell phone, the iphone. some of you may not know about it cause i don't know if it's out in canada. but it rocks. it's all touch screen and there's not a thing it can't do. there's a lot for me to learn how to do but luckily for me, tony has had the same phone for months now and can teach me.
we went easter present shopping for the kids and lets just say there's not a easter basket out there sold that is big enough to hold all their presents!! :) they got clothes, pajamas, sandals, toys and there will be candy as well. i got some new clothes. 4 shirts, two pairs of capris, work out tank, work out pants. tony got workout shorts, workout socks and running shoes. we were shopping for a new treadmill since ours broke or more or less was burned out from being used too much lately and both of us are into hardcore workout routines right now and the longer we are without a treadmill, we are worried we won't get back into our routine. but our saving grace is that we both workout away from home. i run on the treadmill in physical therapy at work at about 3am when i need a pick me up and tony uses the gyms at the hotels when he is on the road. i have lost 11 pounds but more importantly i am losing my baby tummy and getting way more toned and fit. tony has lost around the same (11-12 lbs), he hasn't weighed himself in awhile cause he doesn't like our home scale. but i don't blame him, i don't either. even i use the scales at work to weigh myself but only once a week. anyways, the treadmill we liked was out of stock and we weren't interested in spending an additional $500 for the only other one that we liked. so for now, we will just have to continue working out at work and using our bowflex revolution at home.
both my babies are sick right now. kian's got diarrhea, throwing up and he's also very lethargic since yesterday and mady has got a fever and acting blah-ish since yesterday as well. a fever was exactly how kian's started about 3 days ago so we hope that mady's won't turn into diarrhea and puking in the next few days. in the past week, we have had 4 kids under the age of 3 admitted to the hospital for the same kind of thing. i really hope my kids don't get that sick. as least they are both drinking lots. sometimes it's a fight to get them to eat though. i took tonight off work since tony left this morning and we didn't want jen's kids exposed to it. hopefully they both will be feeling better by tomorrow night by the time i have to go to work.