Monday, May 18, 2009
Me n The Big Dude
... have been waiting for hours for daddy to get home with Ike from the barber... so we found a way to amuse ourselves...
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Friday, May 15, 2009
More n such.
I know I should be blogging. Everyday I think... I ought to blog about that. But I'm just SO tired. I don't feel like doing much of anything.
So I'll quickly sum up our week. Mother's Day and My Birthday on Sunday were both really nice. Having my birthday that day, I think, made it a little easier to deal with it being Mother's Day. A nice distraction. And the boys all spoiled me very nicely. :)
I have been taking the boys swimming at the pool inside the gym on post. I was initially going to water aerobics classes, but until this trimester is over I just don't have the stamina for it. So I take the boys and we all swim together and I get some sort of a workout chasing them in the water.
Got some berries wholesale and made jam. Only burnt myself 6 times. Kitchen was a disaster, but cleaned up quickly... and we'll have jam FOREVER!
Ummm....
Am eleven weeks now. Can I be done yet?
That's about it. Nathan flies every other day and we are just hanging out. Waiting for July when we can go travel and stuff.
So I'll quickly sum up our week. Mother's Day and My Birthday on Sunday were both really nice. Having my birthday that day, I think, made it a little easier to deal with it being Mother's Day. A nice distraction. And the boys all spoiled me very nicely. :)
I have been taking the boys swimming at the pool inside the gym on post. I was initially going to water aerobics classes, but until this trimester is over I just don't have the stamina for it. So I take the boys and we all swim together and I get some sort of a workout chasing them in the water.
Got some berries wholesale and made jam. Only burnt myself 6 times. Kitchen was a disaster, but cleaned up quickly... and we'll have jam FOREVER!
Ummm....
Am eleven weeks now. Can I be done yet?
That's about it. Nathan flies every other day and we are just hanging out. Waiting for July when we can go travel and stuff.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
MY Big Dude!!!
Had his 7th birthday on friday! It was a SUPER busy day... made even more crazy by the fact that mommy was lazy and didn't decorate his cake until right before his party!
We got up on Friday and I took the two little ones to the doctor. I tried to make an appt for them twice but they told me (both times) to just be a walk-in. So I was there 15 minutes early. And the first one there after they opened the door. And I waited for an hour and a HALF before we were even seen by anyone. I will NOT go there again. Then the idiot doctor gave them a prescription for antibiotics. I will REALLY not go there again!! Anyways... I digress.
After that fiasco, we packed up and met some friends at the zoo for a playgroup. (I left the camera in the car so, alas no pictures.) The kids saw a few animals but mostly played in the river area in the water. After we fed the lories we loaded up and got Sonic Happy Hour slushies and came home to get ready for D's party at Peter Piper Pizza! I was so glad our new friends from church were able to join us, and afterwards their guy who is the same age as D, came over and spent the night! I think he had a fun day!
Walkie Talkies... just what he wanted!!! (Can you tell!?!)
My cutie and his Shark Boy and Lava Girl cake. I totally threw it together in like 40 minutes!! I knew I shoulda stayed up the night before and finished it! *sigh* Oh well.... It tasted yummy!!!
We got up on Friday and I took the two little ones to the doctor. I tried to make an appt for them twice but they told me (both times) to just be a walk-in. So I was there 15 minutes early. And the first one there after they opened the door. And I waited for an hour and a HALF before we were even seen by anyone. I will NOT go there again. Then the idiot doctor gave them a prescription for antibiotics. I will REALLY not go there again!! Anyways... I digress.
After that fiasco, we packed up and met some friends at the zoo for a playgroup. (I left the camera in the car so, alas no pictures.) The kids saw a few animals but mostly played in the river area in the water. After we fed the lories we loaded up and got Sonic Happy Hour slushies and came home to get ready for D's party at Peter Piper Pizza! I was so glad our new friends from church were able to join us, and afterwards their guy who is the same age as D, came over and spent the night! I think he had a fun day!
Walkie Talkies... just what he wanted!!! (Can you tell!?!)
My cutie and his Shark Boy and Lava Girl cake. I totally threw it together in like 40 minutes!! I knew I shoulda stayed up the night before and finished it! *sigh* Oh well.... It tasted yummy!!!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Blogging.
So, I've not been very good about blogging. It's not that I don't have things to blog about... just no motivation to sit down and blog.
But I guess since I'm here, I'll go ahead and catch you up to date on shtuff.
I called the engraver who was in charge of mom's headstone last week. He told me he wasn't gonna be able to finish it. That he hadn't been able to get ANY letters on it at all. HELLO!? It's been 5 months. No excuse!!! Should have told us a LONG time ago. Major Grrrr. So Tuesday I loaded the kids in the car to drive to Houston to pick up the stone. I had lunch with some (good) friends of mine and mom's and picked up the stone. The guy was all "I can do what anyone else can do." "No one else is gonna be able to help you." "I've never seen granite like this." IDIOT. It's granite!!!!
So I took the piece over to the Funeral Home to let the guy there just look at the piece and tell me what he thought about it, if it would even be approved if I was able to find someone. He said it would be fine (like he did over the phone when we talked to him last November). And he referred me to a monument company up in Conroe. So the boys and I went and bought some flowers then went to the cememtery. I forgot the digital camera, so I bought a disposable, which means that I won't have pics to upload on here for a few days, but we left her some flowers. I bought a large bunch of blue hydrangeas that said something like Happy Mothers Day or something on them. D chose yellow dutch tulips (appropo), and Ike chose red roses. D spread his out in a circle around her grave and Ike laid his rose bunch first on her "arm" then on her "feet" then on her "heart" right in the middle. Then he said he wanted to "walk on Granni." I told him to go for it. :) So he walked on "Granni's Hill." *sigh*
We walked around looking at some of the other graves. She had a green neighbor, someone buried right next to her beneath the trees. A man, I don't remember his name, but I think he died in January. He already had his headstone, but he was one of the only ones in the place, which made me feel a little better.
So we loaded back in the car and drove up to Conroe. I had already chosen a different place to go, but thought since Shane had suggested this place, I'd check it out. The man there was very nice and said he "knew" they'd be able to do it, but that he didn't see how we'd be able to fit all the words we wanted on the stone. So it looks like we will have to settle for her name and dates. He will email me a time frame and also let me know if he thinks they can fit any other kind of saying or emblem on it. At this point, I just want it done... so I can go put up my shepherd's hook and the windchime I'm making from the shells we gathered at the beach last October. You can only put that sort of thing up if they have a permanent marker. Her little temporary one as still there, and our fern was still there, but there were no wildflowers or anything. Pretty bare.
Anyways... that's about it.
Other than that, our days are pretty monotonous. Nathan is flying every other day and still making money, which is good. :P I go back to the doctor on Monday. Made some crummy zucchini bread. The boys have had coughs and I'm taking them to the doctor today. Homeschool is fine. D's 7th birthday is tomorrow! We are planning what to do with him...
And here's a funny.....
But I guess since I'm here, I'll go ahead and catch you up to date on shtuff.
I called the engraver who was in charge of mom's headstone last week. He told me he wasn't gonna be able to finish it. That he hadn't been able to get ANY letters on it at all. HELLO!? It's been 5 months. No excuse!!! Should have told us a LONG time ago. Major Grrrr. So Tuesday I loaded the kids in the car to drive to Houston to pick up the stone. I had lunch with some (good) friends of mine and mom's and picked up the stone. The guy was all "I can do what anyone else can do." "No one else is gonna be able to help you." "I've never seen granite like this." IDIOT. It's granite!!!!
So I took the piece over to the Funeral Home to let the guy there just look at the piece and tell me what he thought about it, if it would even be approved if I was able to find someone. He said it would be fine (like he did over the phone when we talked to him last November). And he referred me to a monument company up in Conroe. So the boys and I went and bought some flowers then went to the cememtery. I forgot the digital camera, so I bought a disposable, which means that I won't have pics to upload on here for a few days, but we left her some flowers. I bought a large bunch of blue hydrangeas that said something like Happy Mothers Day or something on them. D chose yellow dutch tulips (appropo), and Ike chose red roses. D spread his out in a circle around her grave and Ike laid his rose bunch first on her "arm" then on her "feet" then on her "heart" right in the middle. Then he said he wanted to "walk on Granni." I told him to go for it. :) So he walked on "Granni's Hill." *sigh*
We walked around looking at some of the other graves. She had a green neighbor, someone buried right next to her beneath the trees. A man, I don't remember his name, but I think he died in January. He already had his headstone, but he was one of the only ones in the place, which made me feel a little better.
So we loaded back in the car and drove up to Conroe. I had already chosen a different place to go, but thought since Shane had suggested this place, I'd check it out. The man there was very nice and said he "knew" they'd be able to do it, but that he didn't see how we'd be able to fit all the words we wanted on the stone. So it looks like we will have to settle for her name and dates. He will email me a time frame and also let me know if he thinks they can fit any other kind of saying or emblem on it. At this point, I just want it done... so I can go put up my shepherd's hook and the windchime I'm making from the shells we gathered at the beach last October. You can only put that sort of thing up if they have a permanent marker. Her little temporary one as still there, and our fern was still there, but there were no wildflowers or anything. Pretty bare.
Anyways... that's about it.
Other than that, our days are pretty monotonous. Nathan is flying every other day and still making money, which is good. :P I go back to the doctor on Monday. Made some crummy zucchini bread. The boys have had coughs and I'm taking them to the doctor today. Homeschool is fine. D's 7th birthday is tomorrow! We are planning what to do with him...
And here's a funny.....
Friday, May 1, 2009
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