july 24 to aug 6

July 24 to Aug 6 It is 5 am and I am wide awake, yes I know I should be sleeping .Arianna is still sleeping from 10 30 last night, im not used to her sleeping so long so I wake up numerous times expecting her to wake up. Derek just got in from work. We left off in san Francisco where it was cold. Headed to napa valley (wine country) where they have beautiful vineyards. I mean just hundreds of large fields of perfectly manicured green lush grape rows. The wknd was kinda broken up as we had to move to a dif rv park on sat. A Friday night job they snuck in that was not in the area we would be Sunday night. Derek usually works sun night ( likes to start after midnight so we can have a little more relaxing day ) through thurs night ,but the last 4 weeks we have had a fri night job too so we are ready for a full wknd off. The rv park we were at sat to tues was nice and roomy, whew a breath of fresh air compared to the tight ones in the SF area. We are slowly making our way farther inland and with that comes warmer temps. They had a little kiddy pool area where Austin loved to play in on the hot afternoons. And he had lots of room to push his little stroller around. I did find him down the lane a ways one time, he was just a goin for it. But I told him that if he goes where Mommy caint see him other people will take him and then he stayed closer to our camper. He does really good with knowing not to get on the road ( cause the cars will get him and he will get hurt  ) .if there is cars coming and we are walking he will stop and not walk till the car is gone so it takes me forever to walk some where with him if we are close to a road but I guess better safe than sorry. Wed july 29 we started our travels to salt lake city. Had a 2 hour drive between jobs tues, wed and then for thurs night we had a 9 hr drive. That was a long haul and poor Derek had to work that night. He had gotten about 4 hrs of sleep . We left the napa valley and headed north east to the beautiful mountainous area in northern ca. We had been talking about a certain job we had done 4 years ago in ca and would you believe it we had that same taco bell again this time. That was the only taco bell so far that we had also done with the other project . 4 years ago we had also been in Sa Francisco area. So it was quite something to come back to a taco bell we had worked in before. And it was one of those jobs that were special, that we still talked about. It was way out of town nestled in the mountains, quiet (almost too quite like there would be a bear come running out of the woods if you didn’t watch out at night) but in a beautiful location. A breath of fresh air. From there we went to south lake tahoe . One of the most beautiful lakes I have ever seen. Crystal bule lake up in the mountains, surrounded by mountains and trees. We even saw a few white snowy mountain peaks in the far distance. Austin and I picked up some humungous pine cones 10 inches high. We had a quiet place to park behind taco bell and as Derek is sleeping and we are just relaxing in the camper with the door open Austin was watching some people down the street. All of a sudden he hollers out the door, “ Hey guys , Hey guys!! What are you doing ?!!!! I see you !!! “ I hope they didn’t hear him. Thurs am we had a 9 some hr drive to salt lake city to do 2 jobs there thurs night.the children did really well, he was only out of his car seat for the last half hr. thank goodness for kids who do alright traveling. We had stopped at a rest area in the middle of the day and Austin got to run but other than that we hammered down. We lost an hour being it was a dif time zone so Derek had to start work as soon as we got here. And we will be here for 2 weeks. So nice to park for a little while. We are at a nice rv park. I have went with Derek a few nights to help him on his jobs. Arianna goes with us and sleeps in her carseat, Austin stayed with Brians next door. He has enjoyed being entertained by their kids . and it gives me a little break to sleep or get some work done. Some days I don’t get much done other than takin care of the kids, keeping them semi quiet while Derek sleeps. Arianna is sleeping real good nights, up to 8 hrs at a time most nights though last night she was up every 3 hrs. She is 2 months old, loves to coo and smile when we talk to her, smiles at her big brother too and wails when he hits her on the head . she takes short cat naps during the day but I can handle the long nights. She is holding her head and loves to sit up and look around. Not near as needy as she was a moth ago, when she thought she had to eat all the time and would not go to sleep with out it. Now during the day she will drift right off with her paci if a take a little walk around the campground. She loves being outside. next step is to lay her down and let her put herself to sleep, any help on that?? How do you other moms make your kids go to sleep by them selves? I didn’t do very good with Austin on that one either. Austin is a busy boy,loves to run and push his little stroller around the campground, playing on the playground, playing with his tractors and trains. Not into his books as much as he was but that could be my fault cause I haven’t taken the time to read to him like I used to. He picks up on every thing we say. There have been a few nasty taco bells and we have talked about them and this aft he informed me as Derek went into home depot. That store is dirty, it’s a nasty home depot, oh and then the mcdonalds was nasty too lol the expressions added to it were hilarious. Love him so much. He still takes naps most of the time but fights them some days, thinks he doesn’t need them I guess. And if he doent get one he does arlight on day, is a little more whiny maybe but those days its early to bed and hell sleep 12 hrs. he loves his fruit, will eat that over mcdonalds. Specially watermelon and cantelope, he'll eat it like candy. He also likes gummy bears etc and strawberry soda. Derek still likes his work, I enjoy going with him to help him and its just so nice to be able to work together but I caint help all the time with taking care of the children yet too. I am hungry all the time it seems and need to start eating healthier stuff so I can get back in shape