V-day

Ok, I have been reading how valentines day is purely a commercial holiday, made up by the greeting card company..yadda yadda, which I totally agree, but... for all you girls that are married 2 a husband like mine.. who desperetly needs large signs in stores! To remind him 2 do something special for the woman who keeps his life in order :) plus.... everything is pink! Which is my favorite color and there are hearts and chocolate and kissing and love. Ahhh, what a great holiday. Although I still haven't taken my christmas stuff down yet!! Fase out christmas. Hello. Valentines day! :)

Blogging from my cell! How cool. Let's see if this works.

On the airplane on the way home, what a long trip back! We had 2 switch out planes after waiting over an hour 2 see if the mechanic could fix the problem. :( he only threw one major fit! But it was a dooozie! I had 2 drag him down the gateway while he was screaming and crying!

Holy Snow!

Riley and I are in MIssouri and I am using my cousin Brandi"s laptop :) We went bowling today and it started to SNOW!! I was so excited! It didnt last long but it was just enough to play in. We had a great time! Brandi and Paige hid in the car because it was so cold! :) I will post more pictures and more later!

BooHoo!

I leave for missouri on monday morning.. and today.. I have a cold :(




I hate colds they sneak up on you, and then ZAP! I always take for granted BREATHING! Or when you become very away of parts of your body.. Like your throat, nose, head.. Most of the time I forget I even have those! I forget about them until they hurt :( Riley got it first, and of course he will be over his by tomorrow afternoon! I on the other hand will be cursed my entire trip.. Although I have been taking my ZIcam like a good girl :) Maybe I will get lucky :)
Maybe I am imagining the whole thing because I am at work, and everything feels worse when you are working. Just thought I would whine a little today.

I wish you all a Cold and Flu FREE Season!!!

Welcome 2009

Its a brand new year! :) I love new years because it feels like a fresh start! Like when it rains and washes all the bad away. There are so many things I want to do this year!! So I thought I would share a few of them with you, so.. maybe it will make me work harder at them.
1. get more active! I dont care if I lose weight but I want to feel better
2. Have more fun!
3. Go on a real vacation, some where that no on we know lives.
4. Get my kid potty trained and in his own bed!
5. Have another baby
6. Get organized
7. get financially stable
8. Spend more time interacting with my hubby
9. Figure out what I want to be when I grow up
10. Learn to make pies & cakes with that nifty frosting that you can do cool stuff with

Random Fact... I LOVE new socks.. If I ever win the lotto, I fully intend to buy hundreds of packs of socks so I can wear a new pair everyday! The ones with the little pink stripe at the bottom :-) I know, i'm a weirdo

Hello Baby Noah

Noah Ryan So.. there is a new addition to my family! :) Ok, so its not mine ( I wish) but close its my sister Dani's baby boy! He was born on New Years day! We was 20in and weighted 7 1/2 pounds! I am so proud of Dani, she has been threw more in the past few months then many have in ten years! But Now is a new year, a new chance for her! He is sweet and a quiet little thing! He has rosy cheeks and med brown hair. Riley just loves him. He has been saying Baby Noah all day long! :) Here is a short video of him, Welcome to the family little one :) We Love you already!

It's OVER?? I'm not even finished decorating yet!

Oh my, Christmas is over and I didnt put up all my decorations! Next year, screw waiting till Thanksgiving is over, Unless I am given a bunch of turkeys and a cornucopia for the table, the snowflakes and snowmen are coming out of the closet mid NOV.

We had 2 christmas's this year, One with Mike's mom, and one with his Dad and Jenny. I think every family has their weird things, but it means double the celebrations with family for us :)


Riley Scored! Oh my, this kid has more trains and cars then he could ever had imagined. & the funny thing is, he plays with them all. :) They get equal attention. After we had to wake his up Christmas morning, because we were to excited! When he saw what Santa brought him, I had to BEG him to open his other gifts.

Mike's dad got Riley this Hammer.. Hmmmm.. its a real, heavy duty hammer, just with a short handle.. hmmm... can you say "bad idea"! I am hiding this thing as soon as he is not looking, and it may be used outside, away from windows and other people. :)

we vegged out all day, then went to Mike's mom's house, where you had a less then traditional dinner, but it turned out good :) The kids had a blast! and of course they all got some MORE toys!

Today, Mike had to work, so I got up early to put the turkey in, and got after Christmas shopping at Target! I was all jazzed hoping to get some amazing deals on more Christmas decorations for next year... Sadly to say, I only ended up with a fiberoptic 18' snowman.. they had next to Nothing left.. and it was only 1/2 off.. So I might hit up a few other stores if I get the chance this week.

I came home, GROUCHY! and tired because Target was busy and Riley was being a "train freak!" which means, the whole shopping trip he kept yelling out "No that way"! Track mommy more tracks"





So after a mad cleaning dash around the house, I decided to try my hand at making a pie! :) Yes a real one... not from scratch see, because.. I had the pre-made pie crust and some random cherry filling in the pantry, I thought what the heck, lets add some chocolate to it, and made a crumble top! Pop that bad boy in the oven for a few mins and let it melt together! I call this.. my.. Target was busy and I am grouchy pie... those of you that have seen the waitress know what I am talking about. :) the crumble came out more like a.....playdo pancake.. so I attached the pieces and made a face of the emotion I was feeling.


. needless to say.. the next time I attempt to make a pie.. I will put a Happy face on it.. maybe then it wont taste like monkey crap! :)


The rest of dinner went great! Turkey.. awesome.. This is my 3rd turkey of the year.. and I am getting pretty darn good at it :) The kids opened more presents!! and mike and I got a Fantastically beautiful new set of silverware! Like the grownup stuff! so now, all my forks and spoons match and I have enough for everyone!
On thanksgiving mike had to use one of Riley's toddler forks :)

For Christmas I got, 2 movies The women, and the House Bunny, a CD, Little Big Town, a Yahtzee game, and a charger for my wii remotes. and a really cool chopper for onions and stuff so I dont cry when I cook :) and Mike even wrapped them all separately.. except the 2 movies, he also got me 2 magazine subscriptions to O and First!
Next year I am going to make him save money out of each paycheck for christmas, :) Oh what a year of change this will be for us, I am excited about it, but a little tired already :) But it will be worth it.

Someone had to marry this man... I took one for the team ladies :)

I told him I was going to post this picture! :) He is doing what he does best :)

Christmas eve...

Riley got to open 1 present earlier, as most kids do on christmas eve. So here are a few pics..




Riley scratched his nose on something last week, a few weeks ago it was the other side and he can't keep his little fingers off it!! So its not get better fast enough, so all his pic will have that little sore :( Thank goodness for photoshop!


I forgot to wrap something, I keep finding things I should have wrapped all over the house! So Riley got lucky and got 2 early gifts this year. He Loved it because when he moves.. it lights up!!

Traditions.. 2008

So this is the first year we are really starting our family traditions, Riley is old enough to notice these little things.. so.. Tradition #1 Pizza on Christmas EVE! Saves me from cooking and getting dishes dirty.

Cookies! what the heck happened to my cookies!
Things to improve upon next year..
1. invest in a rolling pin

the cup seemed to work for the most part, but using our hands to smack it down was more fun!

2. make smaller cookies so you can tell what the heck they are suppose to be

3. Take more pride in decorating them


Gingerbread House! I LOVE THESE! Riley helped this year, and we got a kit from walmart for $9... it started out well :)

I love that they give you everything you need.... OOooops... Dang! .. I already have icing all over my hands!, in my hair and on my shirt..

OH CRAP~~~~ Oh well there goes $9... Riley will eat it

Choo choo....

Tonight we went to the Schnepf farms for there christmas lights and to ride the train! Which is all Riley talks about from the time he wakes up in the morning till the bewitching hour.

It was so cold! Poor kiddo's little nose was red and i tried to teach him to put his hands in his shirt, but I dont think he got it.

Ok, you know how when you take a pic of christmas lights you cant get the full effect of the lights unless you turn your flash off, but when I do that and we are moving on a (slow rolling) train this is what they look like, And I am assuming this is what the world would look like on drugs :)

Here is me and mike, I was frozen and numb and he was only wearing a t-shirt!

There is the train depot, which is where people would think one would catch the train! well we walked all the way over to it, and waited for about 15 mins,,

turns out the place to get on thr train was all the way back at the entrance :P DUH! well we needed the exercise anyways.