Midnight ramblings

OK well I'm just updating so there is something new to look at over here. I've been staying busy, just the usual stuff. The kids have all been sick but its just been one at a time, I'm up super late tonight because I took too long of a nap today ( gotta love sundays) and Cooper woke up at aobut midnight burning up and throwing up. Ugh. That will be nice to clean up in the morning. He has a top bunk and I can't really get to it till the morning witht he other 3 boys in there, so tomorrow....ick. I always tell the kids they should film me and send it in to "Dirty Jobs". That would be cool to have "mom" as a dirty job. "aint that the truth. Hmm what else is going on??

I moved all of my computer and stuff out of my bedroom (HOORAY!!) and inot ta-da.......the OFFICE! I know, I'm so brilliant. :P Mydesk has been sitting in here empty (well, except for the papers and crap)for a couple months now. I had to get the wireless stuff so my internet would work, and I got a snazzy new keyboard so I can just push buttons to get to all of my fun places on here. My mouse is stationary with a big read ball to move the cursor (its looks like a big blood blister....ewww!) But its so cool. I also got a cool new printer/copier/scanner so now I can put all my pics of me as a kid and stuff on here. I have already used everything, its so fun!!

I am in the process of setting up my home gym.Its coming along much better than expected. So far I have a heavy bag, and a weight bench with a bar and a few plates. I just need a few more dumbbells and I am ready to rock and roll. I'll be taking pics of it for SURE this week. Its all on the back porch right now (looks like some frathouse or something) but it will have to move into the office when it gets hot because the metal will be to hot to touch, and forget any kind of outside activity when its 110 out for months on end. For now, its outside though. As far as fitness goes, I am totally stagnant but feeling the fire to do a challenge. Spending a little time with Ken on Saturday was very good for me. I LOVE my BFL family!! He really gave me a good pep talk. Of course, pretty much everything out of Ken mouth is a pep talk, he's just awesome like that. :D Anyway, mentally I am "there" and Mark is feeling like a slug too so we are gonna get serious about it together.

The babysitting is going well, I'm also staying busy doing hair which is good, and its almost time for football season for Cade, so that will be fun. Mark is doing great at work, and things are pretty good. Just the usual. Hese a fun picture I found the other day while looking for stuff to scan with my new toy. Its me at about 1 year old, my dad(age 20) and his favorite grandpa about age 65. I'm gonna frame it and give it to my dad for his b-day. My dad will die when he sees it. heee hee

Happy Valentines day!!

I'm not sure why I went so crazy over valentines day this year. Probably because my mom did most of the stuff for me! haha But the reason she does all the little stuff is because she knows I will make good use of it all. She has definetly rubbed off her holiday habits onto me! Oh well, its a good thing. FIrst of all, she brought me some of her awesome papercrafting stuff to put up this year. I am SO sad that I will have to take it down soon. I've had his darling stuff up:


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Its all so cute and such awesome detail. Well then she had made me this darling calendar for christmas and I had found a book kit she'd given me so I put the book together and put all pics of Mark and I (mostly from the cruise) and it turned out super cute. I took pics of a couple of the pages.


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OK so that was fun. THEN I decided today that it would be pretty easy to use the scaps I had left from the book to make cards for the kids teachers, so thats what I did, they turned out cute. I had to take a pic becasue I am giving them away tomorrow..


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and THEN Sadie needed something to bring her cards home in tomorrow so we copied this from family fun magazine, she decorated it herself. Its just 2 paper plates. How cute is that???


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AND THEN ( last one I promise) my mom had also brought over gift bags for the kids so I put it all togehter for a special valentines breakfast where we will have creal and cinnamon toast cut with heart shaped cookie cutters. I set it all up after they went to bed, they will love it especially since grandma also got them each a spiderman toy (and Sadie a shirt) so this is what they will wake up to tomorrow:

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Not really anything fancy but they will think its so awesome.

We are busy all day but Mark and I are gonna try to go out to dinner if we decide to brave the crowds. I guess I just feel so lucky to have so many people to love!!!!

DRAT!

I need another do-over. I kind of blacked out last night and made a cake just so I could eat the batter, but then came to my senses when TOM arrived. I thought it was over but then I baked the restof the batter and ate the rest of the cake today. Well there was no frosting on it, OK??? Who has time for frosting when there is CAKE???? Bottom line though, I am WAY to addicted to my fit body to keep on this kind of path to insanity. Even though my life is up on its end right now and I'm getting ready to head into 3 days of Mark being home and Valentines day, I have GOT to eat clean the rest of the week, drink some fricken WATER and get my fat ass to the gym. My official challenge will have to start monday but I am too miserable to keep this up. I am TERRIFIED of getting on the scale and taking measurements. I mean PETRIFIED. My diet over the last week or so is actually quite perfect if I were an A-list celebrity trying to gain 30 pounds in 2 months for a 20 million dollar film role. HAHAHAA!! Yep, I'm yur girl! I'm so done. I don't even what to LOOK at another candy bar. You know its bad when you wake up with little flecks of snickers stuck to you because the last thing you did before you shut your eyes was stuff one in your face. ewww. Just the thought makes me ill. I didn't get any zits this time though. Yay me!!

Hopefully watching the Secret tomorrow will help me out of my funky funk and get my mind right. I will get it all back off and then some. 4 weeks from monday I will post new pics and you all will be SO amazed!!

The Family Does Disneyland

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Mark and I decided that we'd take part of our tax return and take the shorties to Disneyland. It was so exciting!! We decided not to tell them until the day we left, just to have it be a cool surprise. Besides, then I wouldn't have to listen to a zillion questions every minute till we left :D. We have been telling them we wanted to go for a couple years now, they had really given up hope of EVER getting to go. I got everything all packed up on Saturday night whle Mark worked his last shift for the week, and hid the bags and snacks I'd packed in the office. We went to church Sunday early in the am while Mark slept a couple hours, then when we got home we told them we had a surprise......"You guys have been such good kids, and we didn't get to do very much fun stuff while daddy was in the academy, so we are going to take you to Disneyland TODAY!!!!!" They were just STUNNED for a second, Sadie screamed and we got some BIG hugs and kisses and jumping up and down. It was SO fun!!! So Sunday afternoon we drove to LA where Marks Aunt lives and stayed the night (we'd been promising to do that for about 8 years!!) and then in th a.m. got up early and drove to Disney.


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It truly could not have been more awesomely perfect. The weather was gorgeous, Dayton was tall enough for all the rides except Indiana Jones, and there were NO LINES!! I am not even kidding, we literally walked right on to Pirates of the Carribean, walked right on the the Matterhorn, (3 times) it was about a 10 minute wait for Space Mountain. We did that twice. It totally rocked! Most of the rides were less than a 5 minute wait. It was SO AWESOME! We did the Haunted Mansion 2 times in a row, just for fun. The kids had a blast. We kept telling them how spoiled they were by not having to wait in line. We had been worried that we only had 1 day to spend there and if we'd be able to do everything we wanted to....HA! It was really a fantastic day, just to be out having fun with our great kids, enjoying Disneyland. Not only that, we came in under budget on food, gas, souveniers, AND hotel.


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Mark got picked by Merlin to try to pull the sword out of the stone. Hee heeee. Of course its rigged so that a big dad can't do it but a little 6 year old does it. hehe Merlin made Mark do the "dance of shame" it was HILARIOUS! Its on video, of course. LMAO I even ate pretty good. I had brought some snacks for myself (apples, balance bars, BFL shakes) and they were really hitting the spot for me. Unfortunately, I also had onion rings for 2 meals in a row, too so that was pretty bad. I do think you could stick to bfl at Disney. I can see it being done.

Well I am going to have to officially start my challenge tomorrow, but I am totally energized and ready to rock. It was really worth it to postpone my challenge to do this with my kids. Definitely a "high point!!"

On the drive home we stopped at the big dinosaurs and ate lunch. The kids loved it.


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