3rd times a charm....

A typical day in the shoes of Raquel Corral: I usually wake up when Mikes alarm goes off which is around 6-6:30ish, I try really hard to go back to sleep, but that hardly ever happens so I lay in bed until 7ish get up say my prayers, read my scriptures, get dressed (sometimes) and then I go downstairs and start the daily blog stock. At 8 most days the little boy that I babysit comes, so I check his bum, swaddle, fed and put him down then I facebook stock or watch one of my many shows. Around 8:30-9 o'clock Isaiah wakes up from the dead so I change his bum, get his bed made, get him dressed, start breakfast, eat/fight with Isaiah to eat, then I usually let Isaiah watch a movie so that I can clean up breakfast do some laundry sweep mop vacuum clean the bathrooms fold some clothes whatever it is that needs to be done for the day. At 10 baby P wakes up from his morning nap so I get his bum changed, play with him and Isaiah until about 11-11:30 then it is fighting with Isaiah to have a nap, feeding P getting him down for his 2nd nap which then is time for me to get the rest of the list I made earlier done and if I want to get ready for the day now would be the time After naps it is lunch, outside time if it is nice if not I hate to say it but we usually watch another movie p plays fed p again, sweep the floor again, start thinking about what we can have for dinner. P's dad comes and gets him around 4:15 then it is on to making dinner eating/fighting Isaiah to eat, then clean up dinner, Family Time, Bedtime for Isaiah, then sweep the floor tidy up the house, shower, maybe watch a movie or spend time as just a couple then it is off to bed we go. Then it starts all over again!!

{Two} Turtle Doves....

Meaning of my blog title... Really well my blog title is LIFE WITH THE CORRALS because I write about what is going on in our little crazy world :)

Numero Uno

Five last Facebook statues:

• Dear today, I hated you all day tomorrow can we please be friends again?? Thanks bye! -Raquel


• Wonderful, Isaiah decided to put my phone in the sink then he thought it would be a good idea to turn on the water and let it run until I looked down and saw that my phone was getting soaked! It turns on and everything works BUT the touchscreen which means if I don't answer phone calls texts its not because I hate you it would be because my phone didn't its bath!


• Just got done loving on baby Jace, oh my goodness he is a doll! It makes me want another tiny little baby I would even be ok with another boy! blah now to get mike on board haha :) good work Jeff and Erin he is Beautiful!


• My baby isn't a baby anymore :( he went pee pee in the big boy potty, he is now in a twin bed and LOVES his BIG boy bed, and he is talking a lot more why must they grow up so fast where is the pause button in life??


• Really.... there is snow outside talk about starting the day off bad!! Hopefully it will go away as fast as it came! I was totally ok with the rain in fact I was loving it!! Now there is snow again blah!

30 Days

I feel like all I post is Isaiah's monthly posts so I thought that I would give this a try... Maybe it will get me in the mood to blog more maybe not we shall see! So this is what you will be seeing around here:

• Day 1: Last 5 Facebook status


• Day 2: Meaning of my blog title


• Day 3: Description of my typical day


• Day 4: My best friend


• Day 5: Something that makes me happy


• Day 6: 15 Random facts about me


• Day 7: Someplace I have been


• Day 8: A bad habit I wish I didn't have


• Day 9: The first 10 songs on my Ipod shuffles to


• Day 10: The last item I purchased


• Day11: My Celebrity crush


• Day 12: Something I crave


• Day 13: Someone I'd like to switch places with for a day


• Day 14: Five Tv shows I watch


• Day 15: My favorite movie


• Day 16: My favorite foods


• Day 17: An animal I wish I had


• Day 18: My favorite place to eat


• Day 19: Something I don't leave home without


• Day 20: A family photo


• Day 21: My favorite musician


• Day 22: My Idea of a perfect date


• Day 23: My Idea of my perfect wedding


• Day 24: Myself as a kid


• Day 25: Myself as a teenager


• Day 26: What has made the biggest impact on my life


• Day 27: Three good things that have happened recently


• Day 28: Something that means a lot to me


• Day 29: My house


• Day 30: Where do I want to be in ten years

Enjoy friends!

19 Months

Wow is it just me or is this year just flying by my word! I feel like i just wrote Isaiah's 18 month post, but here I go again! 18 months has brought in a few new things:

• Poor kid got his shoots once again I will say the older he gets the more I dislike taking him to get them done he was so happy and talkative then the mean mean lady stuck him :( tears and no longer a happy boy. He would point to his legs and say oh ouchie!


• Isaiah "says" prayers every night before going to bed ADORABLE


• Isaiah has never really been a here sit on my lap and listen to a story baby which I will take full blame in, anyways for the last 2 weeks we lay down and read a story before bed and he is actually holding still and really listening to the story!


• He still is in LOVE with his papa all you have to say is papa and he lights up!


• When we are at Grams and Papas house he always gets candy he know right where it is and will take papa right over there first thing.


• I know I say this a ton but he is so SMART it kills me he fully understands me and does pretty much whatever I ask him to do unless of corse it is something I ask him to stop doing because it is naughty or he could get hurt... the other day I said randomly Isaiah could you shut the bathroom door for me please, and he runs over and does it! Or Isaiah could you bring me a spoon, and he brings me a spoon not a knife or a fork a spoon! I wish he would learn to listen when I really need him to tho!


• He is now in a twin bed blah He LOVES it! I tried to lay by him and he pushed me off saying no no momma haha what a butt


• He WENT POTTY IN THE BIG BOY POTTY! I have a feeling that potty training is just around the corner {CRAP} he will point to his diaper and I will say did you just go pee pee and he says yeah and if he does the other he will point and plug his nose and say pu haha


• The other day we were in Old Navy, I always have to look at all the little girl things {not sure why it is like putting salt in a cut} I asked Isaiah boogie do you want a baby sister he threw up his hands and said YEAH haha now to get mike on that boat haha

We just love Isaiah to pieces he is so much fun, and so loveable! We are very lucky to have him in our little family I don't know what I would do with out him and his sweet tender heart! We are truly blessed!

GIVEAWAY

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St. Paddy's Day

We had a GREAT St. Patrick's Day!! I love holidays everyone of them and I want Isaiah to look back on his childhood and LOVE IT and be able to pass some of our little traditions to his kids!

He woke up to Rainbow Waffles with cottage cheese clouds (the waffles were a pain I will have to find something a little easier) He LOVED them, lately he hasn't been eating good he had two FULL waffles and he ate all his clouds I was such a happy momma! After breakfast he got to pick out a show to watch he picked BOLT he LOVES this show haha!

After he woke up from his nap he ate his green lunch, then we walked over to the park behind our house! He is such a boy!! I took him down the big slide after going down a couple time together he decided that mom wasn't fast enough so he ran up to it and went down by him self! He LOVED it, the second he got down he was climbing right back up to go again so CUTE!

Later we went out to Grams and Papas house to tell them HAPPY ST.PADDY'S DAY haha! We hung out there the rest of the night Isaiah LOVES to be there he is always such a SAD SAD boy when we leave! My Parents are so AMAZING last Oct. the decided that they were going to start doing Foster Care they went to the classes and everything passed the home check on the first visit which doesn't happen very often, then the office did their paper work in record time which again doesn't happen they told them it would take up to a month maybe longer because it was right before Christmas! So the case worker had said that someone must NEED to be in the Barretts home! In Feb. they got their fast placement, things didn't go like everyone hopped so she was placed with a different family, My mom had a really hard time with it because she felt like she was giving up on this girl, so the social worker told her that she could be the girls life couch and that my mom could still take her and do things with her which made my mom feel a little better about it all! Last wed. they got another call about a placement it was a group of siblings 3 brothers my parents prayed about it and felt like it was good idea so they now have a 11 year old, 10 year old, and a 8 year old they are so CUTE and it is such a different feel then the first placement the boys are so EXCITED about everything when my mom pulled up to the house for the first time they all said OH I LOVE MY NEW HOUSE! IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL! then when they met all of us OH I LOVE MY NEW SISTERS, I LOVE MY BROTHERS! I just LOVE them already they are all so fun and cute with Isaiah, they love babies! The youngest brother D asked my mom how long they could stay with their "New Mom" she said well how long do you want to stay, he said with a huge grin Forever and EVER! J the second oldest told my mom that he doesn't want to go back to live with his real mom he wants to stay with her she asked how come and he said because you are a better mom to me and my brothers, you take better care of us and I LOVE you! Blah how sweet is that! I can't even think about them leaving without getting sad! My mom is just WonderWomen to me she is not only a mom to me, Kayla, Gabby, and Austin she is now a mom to R, J, and D and she is a life couch to C, then on top of all that she is a WONDERFUL Grandma to Isaiah and a way cool PE teacher as well! She ROCKS my socks! I hope to be half the women she is when I grow up!