No Picture Update......

Sorry, no pictures this time. I am HORRIBLE about grabbing the camera and just taking snapshots. The big news in the Martinez household is....Aniston's potty trained!! WOO HOO!! We had given up trying and knew that when she was ready, it would happen...and it did! She came home from daycare two weeks ago announcing she is no longer going to wear diapers, sat on the potty and has been potty trained since. We are lucky to have a half bath off the living room so we just leave the light on in there and she goes when she needs to. My little girl is growing up so fast!

Two weekends ago Erik and I spent three nights in Seattle and mom stayed at our house with Aniston. Erik had Lasik surgery in Bellevue on Saturday and is completely healed. Sunday was his follow up appointment and he already had 20/15 vision. They said two days after that it would be even better. He loves it. He still has a little trouble driving at night with the headlights coming at him but other than that, he's doing great.

Last weekend we spent Sunday in Quincy. Erik and Uncle C wanted to go to the gun club for the Quincy Turkey Shoot. They did well. Erik won a turkey and we got to see some friends we hadn't seen in quite awhile. Aniston did so well. It was SO cold but she was a little trooper and kept wanting to stand outside and watch the boys shooting. She kept cheering on Grandpa and everyone thought it was pretty cute. After the shoot we went to dad's for dinner and the boys shot more clay pigeons off the canyon.

We're going to spend Thanksgiving at dad's this year. Of course the boys are looking forward to more shooting of pigeons so dad is on his way to Cabelas to stock up. It's so nice to have the canyon in the backyard so they can just walk out back and do boy things. Mom and I are heading to North Bend/Bellevue on Friday. I haven't bought any clothes for myself in over a year and am in desperate need. We're going to make a weekend of it and spend the night in Bellevue. When we were over there for Erik's surgery we had dinner with our good friends Nick and Betsie and she told me to try using Hotwire.com. I did and got the Red Lion in Bellevue for only $50 a night! Through Red Lion personally the room was $109 a night! I'm definately hooked! I have such a hard time justifying spending money on myself...but with mom there, I know she'll convince me that I need it and help get over the guilt. It's so funny as I don't have ANY problems spending money on Erik, Aniston or the house....but not myself. Mom said all mommy's go through the same thing and she still has problems with it and I've been out of the house for 10 years.

We hope everyone is doing well, is healthy and ready for the holiday season. I can't get over how every year the time seems to go by faster and faster. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and I PROMISE to have pictures of Thanksgiving on here.

Love, the MTZ's