Sunday, February 27, 2011

What Seana Missed: November

Okay, so we've all had times in our lives that kind of suck, yeah?


November contained a day kind of like that for me. The 4th of November, actually. It started out good enough. I was busy at work when one of the partners pulled me into his office. He cut straight to the chase:

"Jason, this is a termination meeting."

I was floored. I hadn't been laid off since right after 9/11 decimated my former employer's New York City headquarters. My boss did a very good job at comforting me and telling me that I wasn't being fired, but laid off. See, I worked at a Construction Law firm. In Las Vegas. During the worst economic downturn in Las Vegas' history.

My LSAT-taking friends will be able to follow the logical reasoning that's about to come up.

I worked at a Construction Law firm. If the economy is good, people are building stuff. If people are building stuff, they are hiring subcontractors. If they hire subcontractors, sometimes the subcontractors don't get paid. If the subcontractors don't get paid, they hire attorneys. If they hire attorneys, they would usually pick our firm. If they pick our firm, I get enough work to justify my employment. I did not get enough work to justify my employment.

So yeah, that hurt a bit. But it was all for the best. I got to hang out with my family, study for the LSAT (more on that in probably next "month's" post. Epic fail.) and just generally chill out for the first time since I graduated high school. PLUS I get to collect unemployment. I figured I have paid into the system for the past 12 or so years, so now I get to reap all the benefits.

But enough about me.

We discovered something REALLY cool about November...

No one takes their kids to see Santa.

Seriously. The opportunities abound but people refuse to take advantage of them. They'd much rather wait until right before Christmas and spend 87 hours in line to see a Santa who may or may not have their kids' best interest at heart.

But not us. We took our kiddos to see not one, but TWO Santas.

(For those of you who have children who can read and still believe in Santa, that should read "We took our kiddos to see Santa not once, but TWICE")

Once at the Santa's Village at Bass Pro Shops at Silverton and once at the Cactus Garden at Ethel M's... we waited a total of 5 minutes combined for both.

Because we're awesome.

And because people don't realize Santa is just as likely to get you a gift if you ask for it in mid-November than if you ask in late December.

Also, our girls were not terrified of Santa. This wasn't a shock as far as Kate went, but Reagan was like, 10 months old and in the middle of her stranger danger phase. Yet she didn't freak out. I wouldn't say she LOVED Santa, but she didn't scream.

Here's the proof.


And of course other fun stuff like Thanksgiving happened, but we got zero pictures of all that. I know, I know, bad blogger.

As a way to make it up to you all, here's a picture of Reagan being naughty.


Ciao, suckers! See you all in December,

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

What Seana Missed: October

Okay, so I guess since LSAT stuff is all done with and I'm not gainfully employed and I only do school 2 days a week, I can afford to commandeer the blog from its neglectful owner.


So what I'm going to do is this: Go through the pictures on my laptop by month and make a post per month. Counting October through this month, that's 5 posts. So enjoy it. Enjoy me. And enjoy...

OCTOBER!

First thing: We went to Disneyland. Yeah, it's no big deal. Our girls were cute. We brought Seana's mom and dad along. Being able to pay for your parents to come to Disneyland feels cool... like you're a real live grown up or something. Anywho, good times were had.

Reagan went through a stage for a few months there where, if she saw a mirror at her level, she would go to the mirror and begin to make out with it. Like, graphic making out. As in, if the mirror were a boy, it would be talking to the business end of my 12-gauge by now. Apparently she's just that cute. She can't even resist herself.

Katelyn was very happy to be there, obviously. She proudly rocked her Tangled shirt.

Oh, and she met Tinkerbell. Again. This was like her 4th time. It's getting to be old hat at this point.

What wasn't old hat, however, was riding Splash Mountain... I need to say, I've ridden Splash Mountain countless times before. I love the ride. One of my favorites. I had never gotten all that wet before.

And then I rode it this time. I don't know if they put more water in the ride or what, but I got absolutely soaked. Katelyn, too.

And it wouldn't be a trip to Disneyland without a visit to Ariel's Grotto for the Princess Lunch. This time around, we had Reagan. They loved them some princess dresses. And some Snow White.

Seana had a great time. It's always fun to see a baby on their first trip to Disneyland.

Well, that was pretty much it for October. Please join us next time for November. Thanks for stopping by.

Updates.

Seana's not very good at doing them.


Yell at her.