This week is our spring break. We were so excited to get things started. Oh the adventure that may lay ahead. Then things started going terribly wrong......first M&M came down with a fever of almost 105. Scary. Saturday night she started losing her lunch. Not good. She still isn't feeling better, but she doesn't have a scary fever anymore. I am hoping she is on the mend. I can hear her coughing upstairs right now. Poor kid.
Yesterday we woke up to Christmas. Two or three inches of snow on the ground, and a blizzard. Not what we had in mind. More snow today. Brrrr. I have been freezing since November. We almost hit 70 degrees last week and now snow again. We should expect this in our neck of the woods, and I am very thankful for the moisture that these spring storms bring, but I would prefer it in the form of rain, and warm. It is supposed to snow through tomorrow so I guess we will spend spring break hanging out in the house trying to keep warm.
We are hoping my hubby doesn't have to go in for Jury duty on Friday and maybe we can take a day trip somewhere. I know he is crossing his fingers and so am I.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Honda vs. Ferrari....
This week-end our family stopped for dinner on the way to a birthday part for my nephew. My hubby thinks it is funny that I just can't get what happened out of my head. It's not even that big of a deal, other than I now know that my sweet hubby is respectful and not a slimeball.
Let me explain. We got seated in one of those horse shoe shaped booths with the full circus going on. The baby popping in and out of the bottom of the table, swinging on the nearby rail, anything but sitting quietly. I am always a little nervous about her tripping the unsuspecting servers on thier way by. The other two do pretty good, but it's always and experience to go eat with the kids in tow. As we were sitting there, a very pretty girl, I would say in her early/mid 20's walked by. She even got my attention and knowing that, I checked to see if she had gotten hubby's attention. She had (he later rated her a 9 1/2....which is not something I have ever heard him do outloud before, but I would probably agree). I made it very clear that I understand him taking one good look, but any more drooling would not be accepted. Then we entertained ourselves as we watched the reactions to several men in the restaraunt. One even left the side of his wife, to sit by his friend and get a better look. This guy wasn't even "sneakin" a look, it was an all out stare. Creepy. The manager was over there quite a bit too. Hmmmm.
Then I got to thinking. Because we are a car family I told hubby my analogy. He came into the restaurant with a perfectly good Honda (that would be me). Nothing out of the ordinary, just a good reliable Honda. He appreciates his Honda, but when a newer model Ferrari walks by, of course he is going to look, even though he knows he still has his Honda. Sure the Honda would LOVE to be that Ferrari, but without the $50,000 or more it would take to overhaul the Honda, he will just have to be happy with what he has. I was however very glad to get back to the car and away from the Ferrari. The conversation going on at that table was less than kid friendly. The Ferrari's friends talk like they came out of the county dump if ya know what I mean. Like I said, I don't know why I have been thinking about that, but it really made me appreciate my hubby and the love and respect he shows me on a daily basis. I will keep trying to be a little more like the Ferrari, but I will always be the Honda, a good reliable wife who may need a little tuning up every once in a while, but will always be there when he needs me.
On a side note, anyone who wants to take advantage of sale-a-bration, time is running out. I got some new stuff today and hope to get time to stamp so I can post some new stuff soon.
Have a good one, and don't forget to appreciate the ones you love.
Let me explain. We got seated in one of those horse shoe shaped booths with the full circus going on. The baby popping in and out of the bottom of the table, swinging on the nearby rail, anything but sitting quietly. I am always a little nervous about her tripping the unsuspecting servers on thier way by. The other two do pretty good, but it's always and experience to go eat with the kids in tow. As we were sitting there, a very pretty girl, I would say in her early/mid 20's walked by. She even got my attention and knowing that, I checked to see if she had gotten hubby's attention. She had (he later rated her a 9 1/2....which is not something I have ever heard him do outloud before, but I would probably agree). I made it very clear that I understand him taking one good look, but any more drooling would not be accepted. Then we entertained ourselves as we watched the reactions to several men in the restaraunt. One even left the side of his wife, to sit by his friend and get a better look. This guy wasn't even "sneakin" a look, it was an all out stare. Creepy. The manager was over there quite a bit too. Hmmmm.
Then I got to thinking. Because we are a car family I told hubby my analogy. He came into the restaurant with a perfectly good Honda (that would be me). Nothing out of the ordinary, just a good reliable Honda. He appreciates his Honda, but when a newer model Ferrari walks by, of course he is going to look, even though he knows he still has his Honda. Sure the Honda would LOVE to be that Ferrari, but without the $50,000 or more it would take to overhaul the Honda, he will just have to be happy with what he has. I was however very glad to get back to the car and away from the Ferrari. The conversation going on at that table was less than kid friendly. The Ferrari's friends talk like they came out of the county dump if ya know what I mean. Like I said, I don't know why I have been thinking about that, but it really made me appreciate my hubby and the love and respect he shows me on a daily basis. I will keep trying to be a little more like the Ferrari, but I will always be the Honda, a good reliable wife who may need a little tuning up every once in a while, but will always be there when he needs me.
On a side note, anyone who wants to take advantage of sale-a-bration, time is running out. I got some new stuff today and hope to get time to stamp so I can post some new stuff soon.
Have a good one, and don't forget to appreciate the ones you love.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Card swap, sweet card swap
This has been a rough week at our house. I don't know why, just can't put my finger on it. I have been trying to get a minute to sit down and share my treasures I got at my monthly Paper Chain meeting (card swap). I look forward to this every month. I have even been known to dream about what I might create.....or recieve from our monthly swap. This month it was scheduled the same day as my older girls piano festival. I knew I would be late, but my dear sweet hubby saved the day and stayed in town to work so I would only be 15 minutes late instead of 35. The girls ARE more important than stamping even if at times they might feel otherwise. By the way, they both got superior's, earned the coveted "cup" and I am hoping we are done with festival. Now, back to paper chain,
The theme this month was "anything but a card". I decided to make a small scrapbook I saw Roxy make on splitcoaststampers. Although I have neve met Roxy, and probably never will due to the fact she lives in Canada, I think she is very talented. Here is what I came up with.
The top picture is picture of the book closed. The bottom picture is a poorly taken picture of half the inside open, and half closed. I just couldn't figure out how to make it look right.
Here are the pictures of what I got from the very talented group of women I swap with. I always feel like I hit the lottery.
One of the boxes is full of treats, the other has bath salts that have been colored with Stampin' Up! reinker's and scented with essential oils. The little white box has a beautifully embossed seashell scene on it and inside is a sand dollar and a poem about sand dollars that is amazing. I love the new way the notebook is covered. May have to be my new place to keep my scedule or something. The red square is actually a canvas that has been painted and then designer paper glued on top. They are meant to have a picture modge podged on top and used as a wall decoration. The project we made is the little book with all the ribbons. It is made from name badge holders and we decorated a front cover and back cover and the middle one's are meant for those store cards you can never find in your wallet but always need. I have to say the women out did themselves again and I have all my treasures still sitting on the table where I can enjoy them.
Now I need to start thinking on my next months project. Let the creativity begin :).
The theme this month was "anything but a card". I decided to make a small scrapbook I saw Roxy make on splitcoaststampers. Although I have neve met Roxy, and probably never will due to the fact she lives in Canada, I think she is very talented. Here is what I came up with.
The top picture is picture of the book closed. The bottom picture is a poorly taken picture of half the inside open, and half closed. I just couldn't figure out how to make it look right.
Here are the pictures of what I got from the very talented group of women I swap with. I always feel like I hit the lottery.
One of the boxes is full of treats, the other has bath salts that have been colored with Stampin' Up! reinker's and scented with essential oils. The little white box has a beautifully embossed seashell scene on it and inside is a sand dollar and a poem about sand dollars that is amazing. I love the new way the notebook is covered. May have to be my new place to keep my scedule or something. The red square is actually a canvas that has been painted and then designer paper glued on top. They are meant to have a picture modge podged on top and used as a wall decoration. The project we made is the little book with all the ribbons. It is made from name badge holders and we decorated a front cover and back cover and the middle one's are meant for those store cards you can never find in your wallet but always need. I have to say the women out did themselves again and I have all my treasures still sitting on the table where I can enjoy them.
Now I need to start thinking on my next months project. Let the creativity begin :).
Saturday, March 7, 2009
The new do's
Yesterday we went up north to see my sister and take the camcorder to Best Buy. I needed a haircut desperately and my sister is a saint and takes very good care of me and my family's hair care needs...thanks sis. B has been thinking about cutting her hair for quite some time. She has had really long hair for her whole life. She wanted to cut it for lock of love, which means so long to 10" of hair. She went back and forth all day. Yes, I am cutting it, well, I need to cut it, I don't want to cut it, I think I can cut it.....you get the idea. M&M has been wanting to chop hers again for a while. Silly girl. She loves her hair short. Daddy doesn't like short hair so much but was a really good sport yesterday. I told him it would grow fast if B didn't like it and by the time she starts jr. high in the fall, it will be pretty long again. So we took the plunge and chopped the main.....and she looks fabulous. I am hoping she will let me play with is a little bit today. We left it A line becaus it would have been really short in the front if we hadn't. Anyway, here are some pics of thier adventure,
I am hoping to get some better pics today or tomorrow, you know how freshly cut hair is less than cooperative, but I think they sure look cute. But then again, I am thier mom and I will always think that about my girlies!
I am hoping to get some better pics today or tomorrow, you know how freshly cut hair is less than cooperative, but I think they sure look cute. But then again, I am thier mom and I will always think that about my girlies!
Monday, March 2, 2009
This week-end the hubby and I attended a Luau at the church. He was asked to be part of the "syncronized swimming" team. He said he wasn't real happy about it, but I know he was secretly excited about it. He has this hidden party boy inside. Not many have seen it, but it's in there. Anyway, he ended up leading the swim team....and did a fabulous job. I don't think I have ever seen a group of sync. swimmers do the "bicycle" so well. I took the video camera and got it all on tape. (I was secretly going to post it here.....but don't tell him that.) Just before the swimming, there was a hula hoop contest. I thought that would be fun to watch. A bunch of grown women up trying to hula hoop.....what a kick. Then I heard my name called. Who me???? I do not hula. I can not hula. Are you kidding me? Next thing I know there I am standing there wondering how I am going to pull this off. The music started, I took a breath and spun the hoop. Holy cow, I can hula hoop. Never have been able to keep a hula hoop up in my life. But I ROCKED. Never dropped the hula hoop. I had the contest in the bag....but due to the fact I was sort of hiding in the corner the MC didn't notice and the award was given to the woman who was right in front of him. I was robbed. But not really. I was more in shock that I had just hulla'd for that amount of time. Plus my friend had thought to pick up the video camera and get it on tape. Now I had proof.
After the swimmer's were done I went to watch the replay and the dang disk won't play. I know it recorded. It just won't play. What the?????? This is the second disk the camera has done this to. I went on line last night and the Sony peeps said I have to send it in. After much searching for a reciept and no success, I called Best Buy where my husband bought the camcorder for me. Not only do they have the reciept, but he bought the extended warranty. He is amazing. Now I just need to take it up north and see if they can fix it. Hopefully we will be able to prove to our girls that their mom and dad rock.....or that they should be really glad that they were not there to claim us. Did I mention Nate should have won the best leg contest? I am sure he definately had the best legs of all the swimmers. Either way it was a great night and we had a great time hanging out with our friends and neighbors.
After the swimmer's were done I went to watch the replay and the dang disk won't play. I know it recorded. It just won't play. What the?????? This is the second disk the camera has done this to. I went on line last night and the Sony peeps said I have to send it in. After much searching for a reciept and no success, I called Best Buy where my husband bought the camcorder for me. Not only do they have the reciept, but he bought the extended warranty. He is amazing. Now I just need to take it up north and see if they can fix it. Hopefully we will be able to prove to our girls that their mom and dad rock.....or that they should be really glad that they were not there to claim us. Did I mention Nate should have won the best leg contest? I am sure he definately had the best legs of all the swimmers. Either way it was a great night and we had a great time hanging out with our friends and neighbors.
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