The swine flu thing, I think is not as big as they are making it. dunno. The 1 death in the united states....wasnt even an american. he was from Mexico city- and happen to die in Texas. Eitherway, There are 2 confirmed cases in a few towns over from me. IF it hits my area, ill be taking Madison out of school. But other than that,I think it will fizzle. Thats my two cents

Its 90 out today. April and its already 90...we are in for a hot hot hot summer. But today was jays bday....
so we cooked out

So I got a Pullip Doll for Christmas this year. I dont know why I enjoy these dolls so much. I think because they have such a unique look. Eitherway, they are really expensive so I dont think my collection will go further than Ziia. I think today I might take her out to do some photos. Either way here is Ziia. The dress is made by me :)

So me and the boys were bored. And the weather hasnt been so nice lately. So weve been stuck indoors. So we decorated cupcakes. The frosting we used is really soft so they didnt come out too well!

So my last update was 59 weeks ago...EEEK over a year. I feel bad ive neglected my livejournal for so long. I use to live off this thing. I guess for awhile i peffered my paper bound journals. I still do. But I feel so out of touch for my friends ive made on here. So Im making it my mission, to start posting in here again. yeah yeah yeah i know ive said all that before,butttt i mean it this time!

So, where things are in my life.

Im 26 now. I feel Old. Me and Jay are going on 5 yrs together. CRAZY. I still miss NY more and more everyday. Im an aunt to my beautiful neice sophie doll. Which I more than likely wont get to see anytime soon since shes in KY and her mother is a nut job. Thank god for divorces. My brother is back from Iraq. Safe and sound. Hopefully he wont have to go back again.

My Etsy shops have been doing really well this past year. Between the 2 I run, I have over 700 sales! WOOO. I love that website. I buy off there and sell.. Onextruth.etsy.com and Kawaiioutlet.etsy.com

I havent really done any exploring lately. Kinda miss that. Hopefully this summer me and my camera will bond again over a beautiful abandonment. I hope!

Ive taken up learning Japanese. And honestly,its very easy. Ive become very good at it. I started penpaling with a few people from Japan and I love it.

Ive become addicted to the Twilight series. I saw the movie come out, and If I know a movie is based on a book, I read the book before I see the movie. So thats how that all started. I loved the book and the movie. I read all the following books in the saga, and I loved them all. So I am looking forward to the movies to follow. I feel cheezy even posting I like the books, BUT whatever!

The boys are doing wonderful. Ehren is 3 now and Madison is 7. He is doing wonderful in school. Hes in 1st grade.He is really good in Math and Science.Didnt get that from me haha! Its amazing to see him learning how to read. Its nice. Ehren grows smarter and smarter everyday. He even knows how to print his name. They are both wonderful little joys.When they arent fighting! Jays brother is also having a baby in Aug. Its a boy. I swear the chrystals cannot have girls. Jays mom tried 4 times, 4 times she had boys. Jay had a boy. And now devo is having a boy. I dont think I will ever get the daughter I want so bad.

Im going to be going back to school to get my CNA. My mom got hers, so now I am going to get mine. Im excited. Once im certified ill be even more pleased. I might even try to get my nursing degree. Who knows.

Thats the up and up on what comes to mind. Hahah nothing really interesting. But im going to make it my mission to keep this thingy updated.

Much Love!

ok i promise im going to start posting in here from now on. things have been hetic for awhile to say the least. I was teaching a after school digital photography class,but now its over. i had some really talented students! my brother came home on R&R from iraq and hung out for a bit.I havent been working on the dollhouse i got for christmas,mainly because trying to get the electricity in it to work right frustrated the crap out of me.

Madison is having his friend Christopher over today to play.Madison is also doing very well in school.I got his first report card last month! I was excited haha.He also made me a ceramic pot in art class! I was sooo excited when he showed me.My mom still has one i made in elementry school.He's learning to read a lot better.His spelling and writting gets better everyday.

Ehren has been doing good and not so good at the same time.We are in a standstill with the potty training.His vocab is amazing.he can count. health wise things with him are a bit rough.He had a siezure last month and had to be rushed to baystate. they said it was a febrile.doctor told me not to worry etc.which i was fine with.until, he had a seizure on monday.i saw this one, and it scared me to death.i handled myself ok i guess,minus hualing ass through red lights and stop signs to get to the er.(we were in the car when he started it).after i parked the car i ran into the er and saw ehren on his side on the floor still having a siezure and no receptionist at the desk so i started screaming somebody help. after i filled all the paper work out i go to go back where ehren and jay were.they had ehren stripped,hooked to a ekg,o2 and a million other things, and were taking his blood. i freaked out and couldnt walk in the room out of fear. i thought my son was going to die.he had a CAT scan done,Xray's and a cathider (i cant spell and poor kid) they dont want to say 100% sure it was another febrile.the likelyness of another is very slim only 40% and the fact it was only a month apart from the prior is very unlikely.so there was a standstill on what caused it.I took him to the docs the following day.the doctor also didnt want to say it was a febrile,because there is a high possiblity it was a epeleptic siezure.jay suffered from epilepsy until he was about 6 yrs old,along with 5 over generations of first borns in their family.so the doctor wants to wait till ehren has another before sending him to a nurologist.if it does happen ehren will have to be put on medication to help controll his siezures.i rather they test him now which i will be calling the office monday.than wait till he has another. its better to just find out now.it hasnt really hit me yet.im still upset over the one from monday. jays father doubted ehren was jays for some time,but because of recent incidents his father said "you know i would have settled for a simple blood test". siezures run in their family,but not mine.

jay is working a lot more hours now and i miss him a lot.its crazy we had our 3 yr anniversary in dec. time flies!

ill post some pics later on.now i have to get the house ready.

ok some pictures from soulfest.

Back from NH.
fast recap
Erik and The home office from VA picked me up tuesday night. We were suppose to get to gilford NH that night, but decided to crash at a hotel.
Arrived at Soulfest the next am. found out the gates for vendors and what not to drive up with their stuff was closed, off. sooo in unbearable weather, we unpacked the trailer of rfl gear and walked up the hill a million times. around 5pm we finally got all the merch out of the bins and the tent halfway set up to our likeing. which ended up changing multiple times throughout the weekend.
It was hot all week, reached 103 one of the days. camped, waited in line for showers, then decided fuck it and washed our hair in the water faucet outside.thankfully there was a pool there, so went swimming on off time.had a lot of people come to the tent thanking us for being there. sold tons of merch,had a great over all time,got to see MXPX play woohoo.
the whole 5 days i got about 10 hrs sleep. ended up sleeping the entire day i was home yesterday.

i will post pictures once i get them uploaded

been doing a lot of ue. hit b.s.s for the 100th time over the weekend with some deg5i boys. oh yeah im apart of deg5i now. sweet deal. anyway. hit b.s.s and m.t.s (3rd time and last) planning to hit eastern ma for a few days soon. i leave for NH next tuesday to go work soulfest with rock for life.news on rock for life. i officially became a staff memeber. erik and phil are awesome and i cant wait to see them again. i havent seen them since i was in D.C


personal news: My brothers daughter was born, what a situation that was. im posting that in here because i know a lot of you havent been updated because ive been sooo busy.my niece was born last mo by c-section. Sophie :) however things didn't go so well for my sister in law. they realized hours into labor she couldnt deliever vaginaly so she had to go in for an emergency c section, which ended up with her almost dying because they screwed up. something went wrong, she started to hemmorage and was unconcious for several hours and sent to ICU. so last min my mom and i flew down to KY to be there for her and my brother and baby sophie.My sister in law is fine now, and so is baby sophie. they were all up for a visit earlier this mo and it was a blast. 4th of july the whole family went to Tolland state park. Then that weekend we all went to Hampton Beach in NH.

ok now for some heavy pictures!



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