Madison and Cooper

Madison and Cooper

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Ghetto Scrapbooking

So I have gone scrapbooking the past three weekends! I usually go one Friday night a month but there were a bunch of crops this month and with Ryan rebuilding the shop he didn't have cars to work on so I was able to get out more this month.

I enjoy scrapbooking. It is relaxing and I'm out of the house but I am still creating something for my kids. In the past 3 weeks I have completed 114 pages!!! I use this awesome power layout from Creative Memories and I can get a ton done! Madison's book is caught up to her 3rd birthday party (she will be 4 in March) and Cooper's is done up through 15 months (he just turned 18 months) so that isn't too bad.

The past two weekends both crops were at churches. It was a bit chilly but not too bad. There was a TON of food. I'm talking doughnuts, bagels, chips, candy, pizza, ice cream cake, etc. Lots of snacks, drinks and just lots of stuff period! They had nice comfy seats, big tables and good lighting. Fast forward to today. It was at a Community center that was pretty dumpy and holy crap was it cold! By lunch time I had my coat on with my arms wrapped around me trying to stop the shaking because I was that cold! I thought I would have some hot chocolate to warm me up so I grabbed a pack of cocoa mix and poured the water in my cup and the water was yellow. Seriously, it was yellow!! Wasn't drinking that. They finally brought in some space heaters and since one was right next to our table I finally warmed up a bit to scrap some more. I was starving since they didn't really have much for breakfast so when they said lunch was ready I was up like a shot! I walked back there and it was a tray of meat (no cheese) and a couple bags of bread (no rolls) and some soup. W.T.F I was hungry! I don't like bread. So my lunch was a bagel! They didn't have any bottles of water. They put out a pitcher of ice water. Once the ice melted in my cup there was crap floating in it from the ice cubes! Yummy! Maybe I am spoiled by the other crops I go to but I don't think that is it!

By about 3ish I was tired and feeling very unmotivated. I thought it was just from scrapbooking 3 weekends in a row and not spending time the Ryan and the kids. But as we were playing in the basement I was looking at my scrapbooking stuff thinking it would be nice to work on it some more tonight so I think that my lack of motivation was due to my surroundings!!

I don't believe that I will be going scrapbooking there EVER again!!

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Honest Scrap Award

Lisha and Courtney tagged me in their "Honest Scrap" post. Thanks!! I feel so special!

The honorees are to:
A) First list 10 honest things about yourself - and make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep!
B) Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of the Honest Scrap.

Here goes!

1) It took 3 years to go through nursing school. I then worked only a year and a half before I quit to stay home full time with Madison.

2) When I was a child I wanted to be a pediatrician and then when I graduated from High school I was accepted into a pre-pharmacy program.

3) Being a Mom is the hardest job in the world!

4) I hate how my belly sticks out. I look like I am 5 month pregnant still. Seriously.

5) I love to read. I wish I had more time to lay on the couch with a good book.

6) I truly enjoy being a Mom and wife.

7) When I was 16 I was in a car accident. When I was 18 they tried to sue me for millions of dollars. They got nothing.

8) I think of the baby that we lost often (I miscarried in between Madison and Cooper).

9) I don't do enough things for myself. Therefor I am EXHAUSTED!!

10) I am the obnoxious Mom at preschool that is signed up first for every activity they need help with!!!

I don't know too many bloggers. I won't retag you all. So here are a few:

Sarah
Debby
Erin

That's it! Those are all that I have to tag! (Since Courtney, Lisha and Cheryl have already done this!)

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Priceless

Today Madison and I went to Disney on Ice. We had a great time!! It was Madison, myself, my Mom, my Sister-in-law and my nephew. Madison's favorite was Belle and I think that my favorite was Toy Story. So here is the run down.

5 Tickets $150.00 on Debit Mastercard

Lunch at Mcdonalds before the show $18.00 on Debit Mastercard

2 Programs at the show $30.00 on Debit Mastercard

A Cinderella barbie and buzz lightyear toy $32.00 on Debit Mastercard

Snacks and drinks for the show $46.00 on Debit Mastercard

The expression on Madison's face as Belle came out- PRICELESS!!

She was just in awe of Belle and didn't take her eyes off of her the entire time she was on the ice. She LOVES Belle!

(BTW- Thank goodness it wasn't MY debit card!! Thanks Mom!!!)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Pet Peeve

I can't stand it when people are late or don't even bother showing up! I put a bunch of toys on Craigslist and someone called me and wanted to come at noon today. The kids and I met some friends at the Sandbox this morning and they were having a great time! I rushed them out at 11am much to Madison's dismay. She didn't want to leave and I had to get home because they were coming at noon. Well by about 1ish I figured they weren't coming! So irritating! The kids could have stayed longer and I didn't have to rush around. Stupid people.

I also can't stand when people are late. I'm not talking about a few minutes because that is understandable. If I'm not 5 minutes early than I feel like I'm late. It drives me nuts when friends show up for play dates 45 minutes late, chronically. Get it together people!

I'm done complaining!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

My Weekend

This past weekend was great! We dropped the kids off at Grandma and Grandpa's house after naptime on Saturday and they got to spend the night there and all of Sunday as well.

Saturday after we dropped the kids off we went grocery shopping. I know not very exciting but it needed to be done. Then we went to McGregors for dinner and headed home for a movie and popcorn. We watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall and it is a movie that is horrible! Not funny at all.

Sunday Ryan left at 8am to go four wheeling. That meant that I had the entire house all to myself for the entire day!! I have been alone in my house 3 times for no more than 30 minutes since Madison was born. After he left I layed in bed and read a magazine. When I was done with that I stayed in bed and did an online infection control course so I could renew my nursing license. Again not something that I wanted to do but needed to be done. By the time I got out of bed it was 10:30am!!! I then hit the mall and spent a butt load of money but everything was clearanced! KB is going out of business so I stocked up on birthday/Christmas presents. I also went out to lunch. Then I went to Target and it was clearance heaven!! I am almost done Christmas/birthday shopping for my niece and nephews! After that I came home and cleaned out the car and then I layed on the couch and read a book until I went and picked up the kids!

Madison had so much fun that she cried all the way home because she wanted to sleep at Grandma and Grandpa's again =)

It was soooo relaxing and it was so nice to be all by myself. I am now re-energized! This weekend starts my marathon scrapbooking time. I am going this Friday night, next Friday and Saturday and the following Saturday and I am super psyched!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Date Night

Last week a friend from highschool emailed me to see if I wanted to meet her (and some other girls from our class) at a wine tasting. It sounded like a lot of fun however I didn't want to go by myself. I haven't seen these girls in 12 years! So it would be nice to bring someone with me that I have actually had a conversation with in the past 12 years. The dilemma: all of my friends are pregnant or have just had a baby and are nursing. So they aren't really into the whole wine thing right now. I really wanted to go so I should just go by myself but I dind't wanna! My wonderful hubby offered to go (even though he thought it would be horrible!) just so I would feel comfortable!

We got there and it was 5 girls I had gone to school with and 2 other girls and Ryan! We had a great time tasting all the different wines. They all tasted like crap to me! I would take a sip and Ryan or Durinda would finish it off. They also said that there were food pairings to go with the wine. Yep, the food consisted of a tiny piece of fruit or something REALLY small to go with the wine. The potato soup- super yummy and I even tried salmon and it was good! So needless to say we drank a bunch of wine on empty stomachs and were feeling pretty good! We headed up to McGregors after the wine tasting for some real food and had a great time catching up.

Ryan had a great time. He really did. We got to hang out and laugh and relax and he had so much fun with me and my friends he wants to go with me again next month! I don't know why we don't go out more! Oh wait, yes I do. I got to bed at midnight and have been dragging ass all day!

On a side note. I haven't gone through the drive thru and have lost 2 pounds!
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