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I'm back!

Hi everyone! Well there is no easy way to get back in to blogging but to just start writing. Facebook and life has taken over for sure. Honestly the thought of starting to write something on my blog overwhelms me. I got so behind that I have had a million ideas to write on here and pictures to post.
Dale is officially a real estate broker.
As of right now I am working assisting him in his new company Professional Real Estate Negotiators. Which has been challenging learning everything there is to know about real estate and short sales. This should help him become less stressed and be able to free up more of his time. Also I can be able to train someone else to do short sales processing and train other real estate agents that sign up under Dale. Yesterday I drove Dale all around town, while he worked on his computer looking up information for his clients and answering phone calls. So basically I was his glorified chauffeur. Also I was working at Vista Dorada Dental. I needed to get back in the swing of things with my career and catch up on all the technical computer programs. I worked there for about 2 months and it became painfully slow. I had 3 hour lunch breaks and some days only seeing one patient. It was a relief to finally get laid off and be able to focus more on my family and my other new job. I did enjoy the new experience and loved the office. Everyone was exceptionally nice and fun to work with. I want to go back and visit the office and see everyone again, it bitter sweet goodbye. It is hard in this economic time for dental offices. A lot of them are closing. It is very sad.

Eliza celebrated her 4 birthday this last April. We threw a huge birthday party for her. One was on her actual birthday at Chuckie Cheese with just immediate family. The other one was at my in-laws house where we invited her entire preschool and half the neighborhood. I rented a water slide combo bouncy house and a snow cone machine. I also made Eliza a princess castle birthday cake. Which became very challenging and eventually took the help of entire Orton family and Dale to pull it off. It was called at first the leaning town of Pisa, and eventually with Dale's natural engineering skills became upright. This cake was a huge surprise for Eliza and I couldn't wait for her to walk in and see the awe in her face. It was way worth it! I have a video with her mouth falling open. It was perfect! About 50 people came and it was a big hit. Bart and the guys help put up a canopy outside with chairs and tables. We had a pinata and tons of food. The kids went swimming even though it was a little on the chilly end. I hired a babysitter to watch the pool and be a lifeguard. Which was completely worth it, no one died... 0). I have to thank Eric, Tauni, Bart, and Suzy. This party was the best I have ever thrown and was a huge success. This party was suppose to be Eliza's goodbye to sucking her fingers. We spent several months earning stickers and talking about how she is going to be big now. She told me that she wanted to earn a birthday party for stop sucking her fingers. So I thought awesome .....her birthday is coming up so I will just incorporate this in my plan. Well needless to say she isn't ready to give up sucking her fingers. I had a fun time putting this party together!

Samuel had a birthday as well on the 3rd of November at Chuckie Cheese. He is now officially 2 years old. We invited my family and some friends to come. The party was nice because no one was at Chuckie Cheese and we had the whole place to our self. He loved singing Happy Birthday.... yes he knows the song. Just as he was going to blow out the candle he knocked over his cupcake on the floor. Luckily we had another ready to go for the finale. I also made him a Mickey Mouse cake for him as well. He is such a joy and I just love every minute of playing with him. He is still my little guy! He loves to copy his big sister and wants to be just like her. No one is cooler than she is. He loves wearing her headbands, her princess pink pajamas, princess shoes, and her Dora shoes as of last night. He has decided his plain brown shoes are not going to work for him. I am not too worried he loves all his cars, video games, and especially playing with all his boy cousins and friends. But this is going to be funny when he gets bigger and I can remind him of the girlie things he use to do. He loves Mickey Mouse and anything with the movie Cars on it.

Well I am running out of time but I will catch up more the rest of the week!