PITA!

We have been waiting for over two months for this stupid ass builder to pay us the money that Toby has been doing work for. We have invoiced him and have waited and called and tried to get paid. Today Toby finally put his foot down and told him that he needed to pay us or get someone else out to finish his 3 houses that are about to close. This got his attention and he meets with Toby and gives him a folder stating that WE owe him 10 grand instead of him owing US the 14 grand that he does! I am sitting here looking at this Excel spreadsheet and I am not kidding you this guy litterally MADE UP his own amounts. NONE of his amounts match up to what we invoiced him for. The amounts when broken down aren't even the price per piece that Toby does, the square footage is off (thank God Toby kept all the floor plans!), this guy is either nuts or a freaking MORON! I can not believe this jerk is trying to pull this crap. The worst part is all of these houses are already closed on so we can't even put a builder's lean on the home and get paid at closing :(. We are going to have to take him to court, I just have a feeling that it is going to go to that.

On a much better note Kali got her hair cut yesterday. It is much shorter than I would have gone and I totally did not want the bang on it but she did. It looks alright but she has some funky thing w/her hair on one side of her bangs so it gives the appearance of her bangs being uneven. Drives me nuts. I will post a picture that we took later as for some reason it wont load right now.

Funny boy.

I was looking at pictures from Paige's bday and noticed Jake and MIL being silly.

MIL pinched Jake's plumber but from his swimsuit.
He saw his butt was hanging out.
whoops let's pull those up.
Let's make sure I really got them up there.
Ahhh that's better.

Pretty girl.

This is Kira being all cute keeping me up at night.
Look at those kissy lips!
She wore herself out at tummy time and fell right to sleep when I rolled her over.

Now that's customer service!

A local grocery store had an advertised special if you bought 10 items from them you would get a coupon for 50 extra box tops. Well my kids' school is trying to earn the money for new playground equipment so I decided to go and purchase 10 of the products. While we were waiting for a new cashier to come and run the beer through that toby wanted the underage cashier took the coupon and tossed! I was pissed and told him that we wanted it and made him dig it out of the trash. So a few days later I decided that I should get 10 more since the product was only $1 (it was Helper Meals BUT they are ok to use on busy nights or they actually turn out good if they are baked or cooked in a crockpot). So I went to a different store in the same chain and noticed that the coupon didn't print. I found the manager on duty and asked him why it didn't print and he basically told me there was nothing he could do (which is bull-crap he *could have returned and rerand the purchase OR he could have logged into the coupon printer and print out the coupon manually). I had to pick the kids up at karate right then so I let it go. As I was driving home Haley told me I should write them, so I did. I went to the website and wrote them, the next day I was called and informed that the store manager would be calling me later in the day. I got a call and was told that they would be bringing me out a coupon but since I had to take the kids to karate which was right behind the store I told him I would just stop in. I got there and not only did they give me a coupon but they gave the kids balloons, me a floral arrangement, a gift card for $10, a huge thing of diapers (I had told them that their machine doesn't always print out the babybucks either-another of their promotions) AND the best part a $25 cash donation to the kids' school for the playground equipment fund!

On top of that I got a letter from the manufacturer of the coupon machine a few days later and also got another bonus 50 boxtops from them too!

Paige's new belt!

Preemie eval.

Kira had her preemie eval this morning and it went great. They said that she is caught up in size (duh lol I could have told them that by the way my arms and back are killing me from lugging her around!) she weighed 17lbs 4ozs, they measured her head but I must have spaced off when they said the inches. Hey I was still not functioning well, it was 9:30am apt and I was up too late working on my essays and up way to early w/the girls. So they did a few things with her reflexes and head control. They had her track some items and see how well she did on her stomach-holding her head up and if she lifted her chest. She did great on all of them and wanted to see her back in 3 months. They said that she is doing fine and is doing things better than a child at her adjusted age and even her actual age. I asked about her not rolling over yet and about the lymph node on her head (i always mess up and call it an adnoid LOL). They said not rolling was fine and it was a skill that she would do when ready. They messed with the node for about five minuets and checked out her other nodes in the area to see if they were enlarged too and she couldn't feel any others-which is good-but had no real explination as to why the node was still enlarged. I guess it can become enlarged at birth by the fluid being pressed to the head by the birth canal but *should have gone down and not gotten bigger.

You can see it here if you click on the picture above, it is the bald spot behind her head. I am supposed to talk to the dr about it again. She goes back to the dr tommorrow due to her congestion-again! It has gotten bad again and is causing her to gurgle at times when she breathes. Any way so all in all it was a good apt.

Ahh finally!

I just submitted my last two assignments for this quarter so I am officially off of school for the next two weeks! WOOHOO! I know I have a B in one class, maybe a B in another class (possibly an A) and my marketing class..........well lets just say I hope I pass LOL. I am going to have to rethink my Business Admin focus as I think I just may suck at Marketing!

The next two weeks I am going to be focused on Toby's business paper work to make sure that we have everything lined up for the end of the year.

Sittin pretty

Some pics.

Sitting pretty.
I am trying so hard to get a good smiley pic but this little girl will not cooperate LOL!
Jake fell alseep holding Kira, so I had to snap a pic.

4 months!