I had totally forgot that I had ordered them. We were in the kitchen and we had just finished eating dinner. We were cleaning off the table. A truck pulled up outside. I asked Steve who it was. He told me and the kids immediately shouted, "It's our Girl Scout cookies!!!" OH YEAH!!! I forgot about those. I was so excited. Now we had dessert. It was all I could do to pay the girl and then rip the grocery bag open to get my cookies. Before I even pulled the first box out of the bag I could tell something was wrong. The box was smaller than normal. I opened one side of the flap and could tell something was wrong. There weren't very many cookies in there. Then I pulled out the cellophane tube of all that is good in the world chocolate minty put a smile on your face delectably thin happiness. I held them in my hand and looked at them with a disgusted/confused look on my face.
This is how I eat Thin Mints. Frozen. Pop one whole cookie in my mouth. Enjoy. First of all, if you haven't had them frozen, you are missing out. Try it and you will never eat another room temperature Thin Mint again. Second of all, they were the perfect popping size. Well NOT ANY MORE! What the HECK?@#! You don't mess with perfection people. Ya just don't.
I want my money back. Girl Scouts of America my booty.
My sweet little Aubrey turned 5 on Monday. We had a party with her friends on Friday. They came to our house for cake and ice cream and presents. Then I did the craziest thing I have ever done and took them all swimming. It was fun. On Monday we had a family birthday dinner and party for her. I can't believe she will be starting kindergarten in September!
The past 2 Saturdays Steve, Zac, and some very WONDERFUL friends have been working on our roof. The girls and I took them lunch last Saturday. Here are some pictures.
Ash, Max, Aron, Zac & SteveZac who at one point almost fell off the roof while showing off for his sisters Our view off our back deck
It's that time of year again. Arena football. Saturday was the opening night for the Blaze. Aubrey got to go with her daddy on a special date. She was so excited and she had so much fun. I got to hear all about it. She enjoyed watching the cheerleaders but informed me that they were dressed immodestly. She also told me about how boys have to use little potties and stand up to go to the bathroom. I am glad it was so educational for her.
We walked home from school the other day and when we got to the house, Steve's friend's tuck was parked in our driveway. Zac said, "Did dad get a new truck?" (That is a very reasonable question at our house) Then as we got closer he said, "No. Dad would never buy a Ford." I thought it was funny.
I don't know what to do about my 365 Thanks blog. I started it at the beginning of the year and then my dad passed away and I haven't done it since. I don't know if I should try and go back and fill in the missing days or just start from today. (Or just scrap the whole thing) I don't want to do that because I don't want to be abandoning my New Year resolution but (whispered in confidentiality) keeping up with two blogs is a pain in my bahooty.
Steve and I went on a real live gen-U-ine date on Friday. It was a very busy day so when we decided to go I had about 10 minutes to figure out what we were doing while he went and took care of some work stuff. I got online to look up movie times. I found that that was a problem. You see having a DVR means that I don't ever watch live TV. Ever. If there is something on that I am going to watch at the actual time it is on, I will do something else for 15 minutes, then watch it so I can fast forward through commercials. I was looking at the movie times and being that I haven't seen any movie commercials, I had absolutely no idea what I was looking at. So I had to look up each individual movie to see what it was about. I got to the one, I can't even remember what it is called now, with Jack in it (good casting of him in that role though). I had remembered seeing a commercial for that movie when Steve was watching something and I remembered it looked like something I wanted to see. Vantage Point. I think that is what it is called. Anyway, I thought it was about time travel, isn't there a time travel movie out there? So I'm watching the movie and I kept waiting for the guy to time travel. I was really confused. I was a good movie though in spite of the lack of time traveling. I did feel for a few minutes like I was watching Groundhog Day, but Steve reminded me that there are no bombs in Groundhog Day.
Steve thinks I need to inform everyone that we are not doing the kitchen I posted in my last MMM. We had to decide really quick what we were going to do on Friday (one small reason why that day was so crazy) because Steve and his friend Scott are doing a booth in the Home Show this week and Scott needed an idea for a counter top to put in the booth. Steve suggested that he make our island for our kitchen and use it in the booth. So we went and picked out the island cabinets for our kitchen. We decided that as much as we liked the red, we didn't want to commit to a red kitchen/family room for the next gazillion years. We saw this kitchen at IKEA before and fell in love with it. We decided to do this one:
Last night Zac was telling me that the night before he had a really bad nightmare. He said that someone had built a machine that shows you what your spirit looks like. He got into it and it showed that he didn't have a spirit, he was an alien. So I told him, "Zac, your father and I weren't planning on telling you this yet, but......One night we were sitting out in the back yard and this big meteor came crashing down in the corner of the back yard (I even pointed for emphasis). We ran over to see what it was. When we got there we could see that the meteor had cracked open and inside it was this little tiny cute alien creature that was the size of my hand. We picked it up, named it Zac and have loved you ever since." The child is 10 freakin' years old. I didn't think he would actually BELIEVE me. The problem with him is he watches the History channel and the Discovery channel and they always have shows on there about aliens. I have banned him from watching shows about aliens but apparently they have already done their damage. And now I've done mine....
I don't want to say this about my most fav-O-rite show, but American Idol is really boring/irritating me at the moment. I know it is because I don't know the contestants that well yet, but come on. They are doing horribly. And last week they had to do songs from the 70's and the week before songs from the 60's. I don't know if it is because they are so young that they have just never heard a song from the 60's or 70's before, or what. Those are the best 2 decades for music. Ever. All the best songs came out of those years and they are picking some horribly boring stupid songs from that time. They need to let me start pickin' their songs, or sumpthin'. There is one exception, my favorite contestant singing one of my favorite songs:
Sorry I'm a day late with my Flashback Friday. Yesterday was a little busy. Last week I tried to scan a bunch of pictures from a party we had at our house when we were growing up. My scanner gave out 1/2 way through. I have finally scanned the rest of the pictures. Here they are:
My friend Diana did a post the other day about a time that she and my sister went to the airport and acted crazy. It reminded me of some of the fun I have had at airports. Here are some pictures of me and a group of my friends at the airport one night. We went around taking goofy pictures. There was another time we went to the airport (I don't have pictures of this instance) and kept causing scenes. One time we were on the escalators and this guy and I pretended like we were married and we were screaming and yelling at each other. We went around the airport all night doing things like that. It is so sad that all the fun has been taken out of the airport. Sigh....my children will never know the joy of hanging out at the airport all night.....or making prank phone calls (darn caller ID).....it's a sad, sad world we live in now.
Last week my I had a voice mail come through on my cell phone and it was an old voice mail I had saved that was about to be deleted. It was a message my grandmother left me with the information about my aunts flight when she was flying in for my dad's funeral. It was so weird listening to that message. I could hear my sisters and their kids in the background at my mom's house. Those few days right after my dad died were so.....sigh.....I don't know. Crazy. 10 million phone calls. 10 million people. 10 million things to do. Running on no sleep. Hearing that message and remembering all that went on in that time, it was like a dream. Like it wasn't real. Like it didn't really happen. It was kinda weird.
I found this video on my mom's flip camera. I took it the weekend before my dad passed away. That was the weekend we were having our kitchen floor sealed and our house smelled so bad so we spent 2 nights at my parents house. This is a video I took one night. I am glad we spent that weekend with them.
I keep thinking about the day my dad died. It was a Saturday. My grandma was in town. We had friends in town who were staying at my parents house. We were going to go up and spend the day visiting. The week before had been so crazy. We had so much going on and we were all running in different directions. When we were getting ready to start getting all our stuff and kids together to go up to my parents house, I started thinking that maybe we should stay home. I was tired, didn't feel like loading everything up, Steve was actually home all day, and we were going to be going to my parents house the next day for Sunday dinner anyway. My head kept trying to talk myself into staying at home, but for some reason my heart kept trying to push me out the door. I didn't want to deal with making the decision any more so I asked Steve if he thought we should just stay home. Steve is a homebody who isn't at home all that much. Usually when given the option, he will opt to stay at home. He thought about it for a minute and said, "No, Let's go. Let's just load everyone up and go." It was strange to me that he said that because that wasn't the answer I was expecting from him. I told him I kept trying to talk myself into staying home because it would just be easier than loading everyone up and I was tired because I had had a long week. I said even though I keep trying to convince myself to stay home, there was something in me that just wanted to go. He said he felt the same way.
So we went. And we had a very good day. My dad was in such a good mood that day. We enjoyed our time with him. I am so thankful that we were able to be with him, just hours before he died. I am thankful my children were able to be with him on his last day on earth. I am so thankful for the still small voice that kept prompting Steve and me to go. I am thankful that we listened.
Disclaimer: This is not my child, or any child that I know. This picture was found on the internet.
So, it's like this. I finally decided to buy Addison a new car seat. I know, it's about time. She is still 2 pounds underweight to be forward facing but I figure I feed her a lot of candy this week and she will be fine. I could not believe how easy it was to install her car seat. Five minutes. Five minutes to open the box, take the seat out, install it in my van, adjust the shoulder straps to the right height, adjust the tension in the strap, tighten the seat down. FIVE MINUTES. I didn't have to take the seat apart to adjust the shoulder straps. If she is wearing a coat, pshhhh...no big thang. Two second adjustment. HELLO!!! If you are a new mother let me just tell ya how easy you have it. Life and car seats were not always like this. When Zac was a baby it would take me 30 freakin' minutes to install the car seat and make sure it was in ok and put the locking clip in place and then heaven forbid I would have to adjust anything. You had to take the whole dang seat apart. And once I got that sucker in, ain't no way I was takin' it out and movin' it to another car. They have improved over the years but even 5 years ago when Aubrey was a baby, that was my last time dealing with a car seat, they still took some work, honey. Five minutes. I am so excited. It's like hummmm, let's put your coat on. Oh, look, I don't have to squeeze the life out of you to do up your car seat I just push this little magic button right heara and you can breath. I'm lookin' for excuses to go somewhere so I can put her in the seat. Sometimes I put her in a coat, sometimes in a jacket, sometimes in just her clothes. I vary it up so that I can adjust the straps every time I put her in. Who knew a car seat could bring so much joy and entertainment to my life?
Last weekend Steve had a job down south where the weather was nice. He took Emily with him and taught her how to ride a 4 wheeler. She enjoyed the time with her dad.
I really hope when glue says it is non toxic, it really is. Aubrey made valentine picture with candy conversation hearts glued on it back around Valentines day. She left it where Addison could get it and Addison picked off and ate every single heart. Emily just brought a picture home this weekend that she made at school that also had candy hearts glued on it. I just found all the hearts in Addy's mouth. Maybe that's why she's so sick.......
Addison has all of a sudden become very opinionated. And she has learned how to express herself and try to get what she wants. JOY.
This morning Addison learned that she can now reach my makeup drawer. And she learned that she can open it. And she learned that she can pull EVERYTHING out of it. And she learned that she can open everything in it. And she learned that she can make pretty pictures on herself and anything around her with the contents of the drawer. And she learned that it is really fun to dig around in a lipstick case with tweezers.
Steve and I were watching a show last night on HG TV and it was a top 10 kitchen show. We have found the EXACT way we want to decorate our kitchen. I am so excited. It is just what I wanted in my head and now I have a picture to go with it. I just looked it up and here it is:
We found these red cabinets at IKEA and wanted so bad to use them but we thought it might be too much red. I love how they just did some of the cabinets here in red and the rest in maple. These are the exact colors I have been wanting to do. You can't see the rest of the kitchen but they have pear green accents in it and like I said, these are the exact colors and style I wanted. I had pretty much talked myself out of the red cabinets, but I am back on track. Aren't you excited for me?
Yesterday, I exhibited extreme grace as I tripped on something and stubbed my pinkie toe. I swore it was broken. But I am thinking now that it isn't. It is just all blue and purple from the top of my toe all the way down about an inch into my foot. It is killing me to wear shoes but when I don't have my shoes on I seem to have a problem of re injuring it. Just call me Grace.
(Grace, she passed away thirty years ago. GRACE. They want you to say GRACE. THE BLESSING!!!! I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.....)
Just in case you have no idea what just happened:
Yesterday Zac got in a little trouble. Ok, a lot of trouble. So I took away all of his privileges for this whole week. This morning when he was getting ready to go to school he said, "Mom, shouldn't I stay home from school today? You did take away all my privileges and going to school is a privilege. There are a lot of kids in the world who don't have the privilege of going to school."
The song now stuck in my head:
Why? Because of these lyrics of course: GRACE Kelly, Harlow, Jean Picture of a beauty queen, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire Ginger Rodgers, dance on air They had style, they had GRACE Do you know Madonna turns 50 this year. HOT DANG!!! I'm 34 and I can't do what she does.
I had totally forgot that I had ordered them. We were in the kitchen and we had just finished eating dinner. We were cleaning off the table. A truck pulled up outside. I asked Steve who it was. He told me and the kids immediately shouted, "It's our Girl Scout cookies!!!" OH YEAH!!! I forgot about those. I was so excited. Now we had dessert. It was all I could do to pay the girl and then rip the grocery bag open to get my cookies. Before I even pulled the first box out of the bag I could tell something was wrong. The box was smaller than normal. I opened one side of the flap and could tell something was wrong. There weren't very many cookies in there. Then I pulled out the cellophane tube of all that is good in the world chocolate minty put a smile on your face delectably thin happiness. I held them in my hand and looked at them with a disgusted/confused look on my face. 
