Helloooooo!!!! (Spoken like Mrs. Doubtfire)

All three of you who read this blog!!!! LOL!!

So...

how've you been?

Me? Oh, good. Thanks. Just been busy. You know, the usual... closed on our house, moved, got another dog, found out I was pregnant. Hahaha!!! That last one is a joke. A joke!!!!! Not really pregnant. (Thank Heaven.)

So, not a lot of time to update. But, we are in the house. We love it! Hate the scorpions. Love the house. :/

And we adopted a homeless girl. Her name is Roxy. She is the sweetest thing. She is not house-trained. She likes to wake up at 4:30 am to play. At these moments I think I would rather not have another dog. At these moments I think I would rather have another baby. At these moments I realize I am crazy.

:)

Here she is:

Sammer and Roxy = Kindred Spirits.
Big D loves his puppy!

We think she is a Jack Russell mix... one lady said mixed with Pitbull. I don't see it. Another said mixed with Beagle. I don't see that either. She just looks terrier to me. Maybe Chihuahua mixed... *shrug* All I know is that A) she loves to chew ANYTHING and B) I am glad my floors are all tile downstairs...

Anyways, she is pawing at me. She is the loviest little thing. Apparently, I am mama.

:)

*sigh*

Whose idea was this????

WOW!

Two months? For reals?

Sheesh.

Life in this household has been seriously busy.... I'll just show you! :D

1. Hubs got his promotion...

Slammer helped.

2. We had two birthdays... I lovingly torched one of the cakes... Oi.

That was exciting! :)

3. I was in charge of Big D's Blue and Gold Banquet. A success!...

Yeah. Uh-huh. I made that too.

4. Pinewood Derby.... Big D took first place out of 40-some odd boys... BOOYAH! Legit.

That is a big trophY!

5. Sammer got potty trained... somehow... finally...

Now if I could just get him to stop exposing himself in public or keep his hands out of his pants...

6. I saw Wicked...twice!

No picture. Just awesome.

7. I stage managed/assistant directed/technical directed a play... (I so miss doing that more!)

Crazy business...

8. We found some time for hiking! :)

This picture cracks me up. *cough hack*

9. We found a HOUSE!!!! And we close in two weeks!!!!!

Upstairs game room

YARD!!!!!!!!! ...sod will come this week...

Look out, neighbors!!

I love it!

Kitchen.is.huge.... CAKE.

Appliances will be in this week!

A shot of the master bathroom...reclining tub. Yo.

Nook in upstairs game room...

Bay Window in Master. Hello.

Needless to say, I am so excited! Our first house! Yippeee!!!

And to close, here's a few shots of my adorbs girly moo!!!

I squish her.

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Loves!!

My man.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm now the wife of a Captain.

He's so hot.

:)

...been a long road...

I have five minutes...

Before I gotta get ready to go to the store...

And I just heard Slammer downstairs moving a chair...

That can't be good.

...


Just trying to get to the leftover candy. Now has a tootsie pop in hand. Sometimes it's not worth the fight.

Snuck back upstairs and now Mags is waking up.

...

Seriously.

I better make this quick.

The pictures I posted yesterday actually uploaded pretty quick so hopefully we'll get lucky again... seeing as that really is the only way that I can seem to keep track of what's going on. Which is sad because someday I'm gonna want the written memories. I've always been bad at journalling.

I gotsta do better...

Ok. I'll start with Christmas. We left a week before to head to Utah for Christmas with the hubby's family. We stopped our first night in Vaughn, NM where the kiddos were able to enjoy their first real snow. Deep enough to play in, anyhow. It was 9:30 at night and FREEZING and yet the kids wanted to do nothing but play in it. Except Mags. She was pretty irritated! :) Part of our traveling adventures is staying in those private, semi-scary, Bates Motel style motels. Often times, you'll find a gem. Often times you'll not wanna take your shoes off. The little place we stayed in at Vaughn was pretty good. The bathroom was SO OLD. I almost fell in the toilet as it was so low to the ground! LOL! But I always check for bugs... and saw none. So it was all good! :D

And it was the only place for 50 miles either way!




While in Utah, we froze our tooshies off at the zoo...



(That's N's mom and her husband. N calls them Lou and Andy. If you like British TV, maybe you'll figure out why. LOL)

We played with cousins... (these 3 cuties were all born within 3 months of each other! Love!!!) Yes, N has a huge family...





We had Christmas... (The kids usually get jammies on Christmas Eve, but they have so many jammies we went with slippers instead. So cool!) ...My kids love their daddy!




We waited for it to snow.... A Green Christmas?? In Utah?? :( Finally, two days before we left, Mother Nature obliged! My awesome hubby built a bunch of snowmen with the kids... before they turned into zombies and ate them...





I like that pic of the two of us. Sad it's blurry. :/

This is your kid on snow...



The hubby, who humors me, got me some derby t-shirts. Funny man.


Okay, this is taking longer than five minutes. But blogger is being quick!

On the way home, we went through Roswell, NM and stayed in the nastiest motel ever!!!!!!! It was late and we were all tired and there weren't any bugs, it was just dirty. So we stayed. But ick.

Ick.

Roswell, however, was cool.

I loved the alien street lamps! We took a few hours and did the UFO museum also. So fun... except that Sam was bored and mildly terrified of the aliens!






One more pic from New Years and I gotta get off this thing... okay, maybe two...

Got cocoa?

Okay.... let's see if I can make it less than a month before I do this again! :D

Here's the problem...

It's 9:15 at night, the kids are in bed, it's quiet... and blogger takes too long to upload photos. :P

Cause, seriously, if you were to ask me what I've been up to for the last month I'd totally draw a blank. It's been gripping nonstop drama.

No, not really.

But it's 9:15. PM. And I am tired.

And now the hubby wants me to log off his computer so he can find something on his desktop.

*sigh*

Just when I get started.

I gotta move my computer out of the baby's room...

For now... here's one:


Raisins are nummy.

Okay, he's distracted. Here's a few more:

The other reason I can't blog... or seem to get anything else done. A perfectly clean folded basket of kitchen towels...


Hubby's birthday. He wanted pie. Fruit pie. It's winter.

And yet I obliged.

Raspberry Grapefruit. It was also nummy.



And would you believe it... now the baby is crying.

FOR REALS?

Yes.

I suck at blogging and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! :)

December 8th

Happy Birthday to my sweet, tiny love! I can't believe she's already a year old!!

I didn't know how much I could love a little girl till I met her!

Giveaways... for fun.

I'm digging this giveaway. My kids have a Sonic right next to their school and every friday, if they have done well in their behavior folders, we go for a treat! I'd do it everyday if I could! :) This might make that possible. ;)

http://www.twoofakindworkingonafullhouse.com/2010/11/sonic-guinness-world-books-wacky-pack.html

http://www.sonicdrivein.com/home.jsp

Simple Woman

My good friend, Leah, uses this format on her blog occasionally. I like. I steal. :)

FOR TODAY
Outside my window... is a bunch of garbage pouring out of my neighbor's trash can. She moved last week, but the people next door to her (one of whom works in the neighborhood office) have decided to put their garbage in the can... even though service has been discontinued and isn't being picked up. The maintenance man from the neighborhood has also been seen dumping trash in the can/on the ground around it. It's in our leases to have your own trash service. Some people just suck.

I am thinking... about chocolate.

I am thankful for... a hubby who took his 3 year old son to Chick-Fil-A an hour ago for a Daddy-Sam date.

From the learning rooms... Therapy was good today. I shouldn't have let Sam have a sip of my Dr. Pepper right before he went in though. :)


From the kitchen... Cookie Exchange this weekend. Making 13 dozen (whoa!) Michael Jackson cookies. That's not really hteir name. I just haven't come up with a good enough name yet, as they are my own creation. :) Half black, half white and full of nuts.

I am wearing... some new jeans, a black camisole and a floral button up.

I am creating... a housewarming gift for my friend. It's still in the bag. I need to get it out and finish it. :P

I am going... to pick my kids up from school in about 30 minutes.

I am reading... Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

I am hoping... to stay within our budget and not have ANY MORE broken cars. EVER. At least till January. Sad I missed out on going to Houston to place flowers on my mom's grave last week due to stupid broken cars. Maybe before Cmas... we shall see..

I am hearing... a band I was recently introduced to, playing on youtube. Mumford and Sons. Go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCg_QEHtkY Not my favorite song of theirs... but the one I like best has a "naughty" word. :)

Around the house... *ignoring*

One of my favorite things... is my hubby, who just came home with half a cookies and cream milkshake for me. :)

A few plans for the rest of the week: Christmas party tonight, Date night tomorrow (Harry Potter on Imax!!), Cookie Exchange on Saturday! YAY!

Here is picture I am sharing...
Our TARDIS gingerbread house. The boys wanted to do Hogwarts. I didn't have it in me this year. So we went with simple. :) See the Dalek, k-9, and adipose? :)

A quickie.

Busy day. Can only stop long enough to share a few photos from last week...

My awesomely silly friends and I dressed up for the opening of HP:DH. It was a blast. My cheeks hurt from laughing so much! And we had random strangers coming up asking for pictures with us. So fun!!






I spent the next day curled up in bed, puking my guts out. Yay. Too much partying apparently. ;)

We've been really busy lately. Just life in general. I don't expect them to slow down anytime soon, but maybe after Christmas. :)

Oh yeah, my friend Kelly (The other in Quidditch gear) made our robes. She did awesome!