HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! Connie, you CRACK ME UP!!!!! So much so that I had to make a post to tell you!!!!!
I promise *hand on heart* that I will never wear socks with capris again. LOL!!!! It was definitely comfort over fashion! LOL!!!
*le sigh*
So funny, girl. Dang... :D
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
DM
Have I mentioned that I'm excited!?!
Okay, so it's not the best video ever, but Holy Flip, I love Martin Gore.....
Yes, don't even tempt me....
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Oh yeah.
Make sure you scroll back to older posts. I didn't have enough room all on one page for all the piccy goodness!
Moving.
So we got up on Monday, all prepared to do the Animal Kingdom and use our last day's ticket and meet up with my friend again......... and it was pouring rain. We could have done the Hollywood Studios but we hadn't been overly interested in that anyways, and we really needed to get going. So we still have a ticket good for one day at Disney. :P
I was so sad that we had to leave. I really wanted to do the Animal Kingdom. I know the boys would have loved it.
But we got on the road instead and drove back up to Fort Rucker to pick up Hercules from our awesome neighbors and a bunch of stuff we had left with our other awesome neighbors. Then we said our good byes and started driving. We stayed that night in Mobile. Then we drove all day Tuesday and arrived in San Antonio late Tuesday night. Wednesday we got up and went to see our new house... which was a mess. They had told us it was ready when I called on Monday. I called THREE times to make sure. It wasn't. Hadn't been cleaned or anything. It was nasty. NASTY. So we called and we were so upset because ABF had already dropped off our moving trailer full of stuff and to have them come move it would cost us so much money!!! So they tried to accomodate us and showed us a few other properties. We had originally chosen a one story, but ended up taking a two story. I think it's a better choice for us anyways. It was on the same street as our original house, so we didn't have them come move the truck, which ended up being a HUGE hassle. We had to carry ALL our stuff about 3 duplex houses up the street. UP. But we had some people from church come over and help us. The new bishop brought his pickup and we just ended up loading stuff into it and driving it up to the house. SO much work. We were/ARE beat!
We have spent the last few days just unpacking and moving in. All that fun stuff. Yay.
And we bought our tickets for DEPECHE MODE in August!!!! WOOT!!!!!!
I was so sad that we had to leave. I really wanted to do the Animal Kingdom. I know the boys would have loved it.
But we got on the road instead and drove back up to Fort Rucker to pick up Hercules from our awesome neighbors and a bunch of stuff we had left with our other awesome neighbors. Then we said our good byes and started driving. We stayed that night in Mobile. Then we drove all day Tuesday and arrived in San Antonio late Tuesday night. Wednesday we got up and went to see our new house... which was a mess. They had told us it was ready when I called on Monday. I called THREE times to make sure. It wasn't. Hadn't been cleaned or anything. It was nasty. NASTY. So we called and we were so upset because ABF had already dropped off our moving trailer full of stuff and to have them come move it would cost us so much money!!! So they tried to accomodate us and showed us a few other properties. We had originally chosen a one story, but ended up taking a two story. I think it's a better choice for us anyways. It was on the same street as our original house, so we didn't have them come move the truck, which ended up being a HUGE hassle. We had to carry ALL our stuff about 3 duplex houses up the street. UP. But we had some people from church come over and help us. The new bishop brought his pickup and we just ended up loading stuff into it and driving it up to the house. SO much work. We were/ARE beat!
We have spent the last few days just unpacking and moving in. All that fun stuff. Yay.
And we bought our tickets for DEPECHE MODE in August!!!! WOOT!!!!!!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Epcot Day Two!!
What a BUSY DAY!!!!
We got a late start today, determined no to wear ourselves out. We got to the park around noon and spent the day visiting all the countries. UK was my favorite of course! :D Nathan went and did a special "Behind the Seeds" tour of the Epcot greenhouses while I took the older two over to a neat play area. Sam went with Daddy! :)
We made reservations for StoryBook Dining at the Castle Akershus in Norway. We wanted a nice sit-down meal in one of the countries and figured we had never had Norweigian food before and it was a castle and there were princesses!!! We had already seen most of the other characters so we figured we'd meet the girls. The boys really didn't care but David thought it was pretty cool. Daddy liked Ariel. :P The food was pretty yummy too! I wonder if Jasmine uses a self tanner....
We spent the afternoon, after lunch bumming around the countries and collecting pressed pennies for Big D's book. He also got an autograph book full of character autographs that he can put pictures in too!
France had the OH MY HECK best pastries evah! I had been waiting for that!!!!! Napoleon. YUM. YUUUM. The hubs was peeved I didn't get him a creme brulee, that's why he's making a face in the France pic. Spoiled boy. :D
I loved the little villages and Hummels in Germany also. Thought of mom.
OH! And Davy JONES!!!! Was playing a concert there!!!!! We didn't bother taking the boys in, but it was so fun to hear him singing as we walked around the park!!! Memories.
That night we stayed for the fireworks, which were pretty cool. The boys enjoyed it and it was a GREAT day!!
Our resort was SO nice!!!!! Quiet and very kid friendly. We spent every night after we got back in the hot tub. We never got to use the rockin' pool though, even though it was heated, it was still a bit too cold for my fair weather family!!!
Oh! And that pic of Big D in Mexico. Dang funny. Had everyone around, even the Mexicans laughing. He must have seen that somewhere before! :D
We got a late start today, determined no to wear ourselves out. We got to the park around noon and spent the day visiting all the countries. UK was my favorite of course! :D Nathan went and did a special "Behind the Seeds" tour of the Epcot greenhouses while I took the older two over to a neat play area. Sam went with Daddy! :)
We made reservations for StoryBook Dining at the Castle Akershus in Norway. We wanted a nice sit-down meal in one of the countries and figured we had never had Norweigian food before and it was a castle and there were princesses!!! We had already seen most of the other characters so we figured we'd meet the girls. The boys really didn't care but David thought it was pretty cool. Daddy liked Ariel. :P The food was pretty yummy too! I wonder if Jasmine uses a self tanner....
We spent the afternoon, after lunch bumming around the countries and collecting pressed pennies for Big D's book. He also got an autograph book full of character autographs that he can put pictures in too!
France had the OH MY HECK best pastries evah! I had been waiting for that!!!!! Napoleon. YUM. YUUUM. The hubs was peeved I didn't get him a creme brulee, that's why he's making a face in the France pic. Spoiled boy. :D
I loved the little villages and Hummels in Germany also. Thought of mom.
OH! And Davy JONES!!!! Was playing a concert there!!!!! We didn't bother taking the boys in, but it was so fun to hear him singing as we walked around the park!!! Memories.
That night we stayed for the fireworks, which were pretty cool. The boys enjoyed it and it was a GREAT day!!
Our resort was SO nice!!!!! Quiet and very kid friendly. We spent every night after we got back in the hot tub. We never got to use the rockin' pool though, even though it was heated, it was still a bit too cold for my fair weather family!!!
Oh! And that pic of Big D in Mexico. Dang funny. Had everyone around, even the Mexicans laughing. He must have seen that somewhere before! :D
Epcot Day One!
Here's pics from Epcot Day One!
We weren't very well prepared for this day. And I had a blister so I was grumpy. :P
We made it through about half of the place but everyone knows, EPCOT stands for Every Person Comes Out Tired. It's HUGE!!!
But... we rode Soarin' which was AWESOME! (Look it up), and did the UK and Canada. We got to see all the beautiful flowers and topiaries for their Flower Festival! The Nemo ride was awesome too! Ike especially enjoyed meeting Pooh Bear in the UK!!
All in all, a good day but we were all tired and grumpy. Home early that night.
We weren't very well prepared for this day. And I had a blister so I was grumpy. :P
We made it through about half of the place but everyone knows, EPCOT stands for Every Person Comes Out Tired. It's HUGE!!!
But... we rode Soarin' which was AWESOME! (Look it up), and did the UK and Canada. We got to see all the beautiful flowers and topiaries for their Flower Festival! The Nemo ride was awesome too! Ike especially enjoyed meeting Pooh Bear in the UK!!
All in all, a good day but we were all tired and grumpy. Home early that night.
Magic Kingdom Day Two!!!!
Happy Birthday, Granni! We spent the day in your honor at the Magic Kingdom! We started the day in Tomorrowland. The first thing we rode was the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin! The boys LOVED it!!!!! You shoot Zurg while riding through Toy Story Space. SO COOL!
We also rode the Speedway. I made the mistake of letting Ike drive and had the whiplash to show for it.
We got to meet up with my awesome friend Sandie, a fellow HP fangirl!!!
About two years ago, I ordered a Disney vacation planner DVD. The boys have watched it over and over and knew what to expect and what rides there were, which was helpful. And I had bought a book and asked some friends and so we were prepared. Ike knew he wanted to ride the "train that goes fast in the mountain". I was skeptical. Big D was determined not to ride it!!! But we got up to it, and I told Ike to come on so we could ride and he went right along with it. I knew it was gonna be scary. The kid's not even been on a kiddie rollercoaster! But he knew he wanted to so he climbed right on! I had the lap bar pulled down SO tight cause he's so small, and I still had to hold onto him tight!!! The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is not known for being a smooth ride. He spent the whole ride saying, "Wheeeeeeeeeeeee-AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" It was hilarious and I could not stop laughing through the whole ride! I knew Granni was loving that on her birthday!!!!!
So, not one to be shown up, Big D rode it with Daddy. :D
We were exhausted by nightfall!!
We also rode the Speedway. I made the mistake of letting Ike drive and had the whiplash to show for it.
We got to meet up with my awesome friend Sandie, a fellow HP fangirl!!!
About two years ago, I ordered a Disney vacation planner DVD. The boys have watched it over and over and knew what to expect and what rides there were, which was helpful. And I had bought a book and asked some friends and so we were prepared. Ike knew he wanted to ride the "train that goes fast in the mountain". I was skeptical. Big D was determined not to ride it!!! But we got up to it, and I told Ike to come on so we could ride and he went right along with it. I knew it was gonna be scary. The kid's not even been on a kiddie rollercoaster! But he knew he wanted to so he climbed right on! I had the lap bar pulled down SO tight cause he's so small, and I still had to hold onto him tight!!! The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is not known for being a smooth ride. He spent the whole ride saying, "Wheeeeeeeeeeeee-AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" It was hilarious and I could not stop laughing through the whole ride! I knew Granni was loving that on her birthday!!!!!
So, not one to be shown up, Big D rode it with Daddy. :D
We were exhausted by nightfall!!
Here's pics of the first day of Magic Kingdom. We got up ealry from our hotel and told the boys what we were doing and showed them their matching Mickey Mouse shirts! They were super excited!
We had a blast!!! The boys loved the Pooh Corner ride and Small World best, I think. The Mad Hatter's Tea Party was great but Isaac refused to look up. Maybe a little heavy for his first ride!! But then again, this is the same kid who wanted to ride the "Ghost House" ride over and over!!! (Haunted Mansion!) :D
We had a blast!!! The boys loved the Pooh Corner ride and Small World best, I think. The Mad Hatter's Tea Party was great but Isaac refused to look up. Maybe a little heavy for his first ride!! But then again, this is the same kid who wanted to ride the "Ghost House" ride over and over!!! (Haunted Mansion!) :D
Graduation Ball
We had the graduation Ball the night before The Hubs graduated. I still can't believe I made a cake. I musta been crazy. Actually, he was crazy for asking. I was crazy for agreeing... albeit reluctantly. We had a really good time though!
Weirdness.
Whilst the pics upload onto the computer from the camera... I'll just share a dream I had this week...
I don't remember much, just the tidbits.
I was in Middle Earth. Aragorn was king. There was a revolution. All the revolters were taking the young boys and putting them into servitude in Middle Earth Grocery Stores (which happened to resemble Krogers). They tried to take Big D. I fought the guy and Aragorn showed up. He said he wished his "men were around so he could fight them." The bad guys laughed at him and then I yelled at him. "You're supposed to be our KING!" Then I cried and they took Big D from me. Then I went back later in my Middle Earth Minivan which looked a lot like my Dodge Caravan, and rescued Big D.
Must be the drugs.
I don't remember much, just the tidbits.
I was in Middle Earth. Aragorn was king. There was a revolution. All the revolters were taking the young boys and putting them into servitude in Middle Earth Grocery Stores (which happened to resemble Krogers). They tried to take Big D. I fought the guy and Aragorn showed up. He said he wished his "men were around so he could fight them." The bad guys laughed at him and then I yelled at him. "You're supposed to be our KING!" Then I cried and they took Big D from me. Then I went back later in my Middle Earth Minivan which looked a lot like my Dodge Caravan, and rescued Big D.
Must be the drugs.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Like Whoa.
Suddenly hubby and I feel the need to reset our browsers and change our passwords and enable parental control. Weird stuff happening on our computers. Someone hacking our wireless??? Weirdness...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Sammity Calamity!
Happy Birthday to my littlest musketeer.... SamBam is 2 today. :)
Alas, Mandie, he left a clean tub this time!!
Alas, Mandie, he left a clean tub this time!!
Updates!!
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Okay, so I'd watch ANY version, but still... this would be dang funny.... *sigh* if only...
Okay!!!!!!!!!! So ... went to San Antonio this weekend to find a place to live. Got off the plane friday and got my rental car, then immediately when to my appointments... had, um, like 6 or 7. It was nuts. Saw some pretty nice places. And some questionable places too. No, I won't pay $950 a month for your stinky, moldy, where's-my-hand-sanitizer house. Nope. But my agent showed me some nice places too. I spent the weekend staying with our friends from here at Ft Rckr. It was so nice to see them again!! They were so nice to put me up for the weekend! (Thanks, guys!)
Anyhow... Saturday morning I got up and met a lady at a house around 10 ish. It didn't have a/c... first drawback. Smelled a little dank... okay, whatever. Then I walked into the kitchen.
Me: "Do you cover extermination?"
Her: "That's the tenants' responsibility."
Me: "Okay, cause there is rat poop all over this kitchen."
Her: "Whoa."
BIG rat poop. Not little mouse poop.... RAT poop.... EVERYWHERE. Ick.... ick ick ick ick ick....
She got on the phone and called to tell them they had an "infestation." Uh, yeah. No thank you. So I followed her to a different listing they managed... yeah. $950 a month for a house with ... bum bum buuuuummmmm.... cockroaches of course. Cute house, bad bugs.... the yucky little brown roaches you can't get rid of. ICK!!!!!! And the back yard had half of the fence knocked down between that yard and the neighbors, who had a lovely yard complete with picnic tables littered with beer bottles and an in ground swimming pool full of moldy dark green water... perfect for my small children to play nearby. Uhhuh. Right...
I left her after that. No thank you.
Then I went and saw a few other places. My primary concern with all of them was my kids. I CAN NOT have my kids playing in yards where the deck is falling in or they have a risk of getting splinters just from breathing out there in the yard. Dangerous stuff. And people expect you to pay for this stuff? Not me.
Now, don't take this the wrong way. I am really looking forward to living in San Antonio, and experiencing the diversity it has to offer. Houston was just a step off point I realize. San Antonio will be much more diversity... One neighborhood smelled like tacos. I'm not kidding.
Okay, so Saturday evening I took advantage of no kids and saw SlumDog Millionaire. SO SAD. Yet sweet. Good flick. Best Picture? Sure! Why not.
Anywho.... Basically by sunday night we had it narrowed down to three choices. One was a stretch, and more than we wanted to spend. Cute house, though. Nice yard. One was very similar to one we rented a while back; 2400 sqft, four bedrooms, loft, two story, big yard. Cute! Plain but cute! (My first choice) And then a 3/2 townhome. Inexpensive, decent area, NO yard to speak of, but SMALL. For us, anyhow. about 1200 sqft. And very reasonable deposit and lease agreement. I wanted the 4/2.5. Bad. It has been on the market for over 140 days and they are wanting to sell it eventually also. And we want to buy. So I liked it! Lots of space! So I called the guy to see if they would consider lowering the rental price from $1050 to $950, or if they would negotiate the application fee since we were military, etc. I took an application over anyways, cause we were really interested. He called me back later and said...
"Hello. I'm not willing to negotiate the price on this house yet. Do you want me to shred your application?"
Um, NO! We still might be interested.
"Okay. I won't waive the application fee for military. I don't do that. I don't know anyone who does."
Other places we have applied have been willing to waive it for us.
"Well, maybe you should go with one of them then."
Okay. Rude McJerkpants. Sheesh. He was SOOO rude. I would have been willing to pay the $1050 for that house, but he was SUCH a world class jerk on the phone. I am still planning on sending them a letter. Gheesh. Seriously. So, needless to say, we went with the townhome. It's a little small, but there's a garage for us to store all our junk in until we either move (fingers crossed that the Hubs gets the counterdrug job) or buy a house.
Right now I'm just glad we have a place to go to. It's not bad. It'll work out. I think though after a month or two of no yard and small spaces, we might be done there. *sigh* I hate not knowing what's gonna happen.
Well, we are just about packed. We are loading the truck on Sat. morning, but we will have the truck here till Tues. so we can add stuff to it as the weekend passes. They will come pick the truck up on Tues and then we have his Ball that night, graduation Wed. morning, check out of the house that afternoon, stay the night in the cabins here on post, then HEAD SOUTH!!!!! WOOOOOOOOhoooooO!!!! I will post pics later!!!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
I'm going to Disney! I'm going to Disney! Uhuh!!! Uhuh!!!! Woot!!!!! Wooot!!!!!!!!! We're going right after hubby graduates, and staying in the Disney Port Orleans French Quarter Resort!!!!!!! BAHHHHHH!!!!
Yay Disney!!! They give hubby a 5 Day Pass FREEEEEEE and Me, D, and Ike get a 5 day pass for $99.00 each as part of their military salute!!!!!
WOOOOT!!!!!
*shakes booty*
Yay Disney!!! They give hubby a 5 Day Pass FREEEEEEE and Me, D, and Ike get a 5 day pass for $99.00 each as part of their military salute!!!!!
WOOOOT!!!!!
*shakes booty*
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
EEEEEEEPPPP!!!!!!
I'M GOIN' TA DISNEYWORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA!!!!!!!! For reals!
*squeaks*
Help.
*faints*
Why, oh, WHY does NO ONE call me back!?!!?! Don't these silly people WANT me to rent their homes from them!?!?!?!?! Oi. Tomorrow is gonna be rough... let's see... finish laundry, finish packing food storage closet, begin packing boys' bedroom, clean up kitchen, make sure that I have babysitters for the boys for friday while I'm gone, make sure there are easy meals for the boys while I'm gone, make sure the house is clean to minimize damage while I'm gone, find babysitters for the boys, and, oh yeah, CALL ALL the management, real estate people AGAIN!!!!!
*cries* WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhh!!!!!
If you could see my office now, you would realize the state of my mental capacity. Eeeeep!!!!
Help.
*faints*
Why, oh, WHY does NO ONE call me back!?!!?! Don't these silly people WANT me to rent their homes from them!?!?!?!?! Oi. Tomorrow is gonna be rough... let's see... finish laundry, finish packing food storage closet, begin packing boys' bedroom, clean up kitchen, make sure that I have babysitters for the boys for friday while I'm gone, make sure there are easy meals for the boys while I'm gone, make sure the house is clean to minimize damage while I'm gone, find babysitters for the boys, and, oh yeah, CALL ALL the management, real estate people AGAIN!!!!!
*cries* WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhh!!!!!
If you could see my office now, you would realize the state of my mental capacity. Eeeeep!!!!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Credit.
I AM SO PEEVED!!!!! ARGH!!!!!
My hubby just checked his CReport. Apparently our loan people on our car have screwed us. We bought the car in July 2007, and busted our butts to pay it off in a year, sending every spare cent we had to paying off our van. It was paid off in June 2008. Wahoo, right? Except that in March 2008, we sent in a request for a lower % rate with the Soldiers and Sailors Act and they took 3 months to file it... the whole three months we were calling them asking why none of our payments (which were ALWAYS on time and WAY over the minimum due) were showing up on our account, and they said it was b/c they were still processing this request. They told us it wouldn't hurt our credit. We had to call them SO MANY TIMES to ask them why they were dragging their feet to get this done. Eventually it was done, about the same time we paid the car off. Now on his CR it says that we were 180 days PAST DUE and it was a CHARGE OFF!!!!! WTF!!?!?!??!?!!!!!!!
AAAAAAARGHG!!!! And they are closed today.
*GROWLS LOUDLY*
WE ARE BOTH SO PISSED.
My hubby just checked his CReport. Apparently our loan people on our car have screwed us. We bought the car in July 2007, and busted our butts to pay it off in a year, sending every spare cent we had to paying off our van. It was paid off in June 2008. Wahoo, right? Except that in March 2008, we sent in a request for a lower % rate with the Soldiers and Sailors Act and they took 3 months to file it... the whole three months we were calling them asking why none of our payments (which were ALWAYS on time and WAY over the minimum due) were showing up on our account, and they said it was b/c they were still processing this request. They told us it wouldn't hurt our credit. We had to call them SO MANY TIMES to ask them why they were dragging their feet to get this done. Eventually it was done, about the same time we paid the car off. Now on his CR it says that we were 180 days PAST DUE and it was a CHARGE OFF!!!!! WTF!!?!?!??!?!!!!!!!
AAAAAAARGHG!!!! And they are closed today.
*GROWLS LOUDLY*
WE ARE BOTH SO PISSED.
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