Happy Labor Day!

I had a 4 day weekend and I needed it bad, not too excited about tomorrow though but hey, its only a 4 day work week!

Friday we took the kids to Indiana Beach (amusement park). They had a blast riding the rides and luckily it didn't rain! The way home wasn't so fun though, we were stuck in the same spot on the high way for 2 hours. There was an accident with a car on fire. So the normal 2 hour drive home took 4 hours instead with 2 kids who really weren't happy about it. UGH!

Saturday.. what did we do Saturday... oh yea, laundry. Loads and loads of laundry, that'll teach me to keep up on it. (yea right) 

Is that'll really not a word?! I swear it is, spell checker!

Sunday, Corbin stayed the night with his dad at his grandmas for the first time in a few years. He did fine thank God. So we decided to get a hotel room and take Layla swimming, she lovesss it. We hadn't been swimming at all this summer since Corbin is terrified of the water.

And today we, well I, did absolutely nothing!! Corbin was still with his grandma until 6pm and Jacob took Layla to a family picnic. I wasn't feeling that great so I stayed home and had the best nap ever! 

Pictures tomorrow! My camera battery died so I don't have many :( 

Hope everyone else had a good holiday weekend!

 

3 Days No Bloggin?!

Blogging from my phone, sorry for any weird formatting.

 

So I’ve been MIA for 3 whole days. Crazy! A little of what’s been going on.. we were planning to buy a house next summer because I do not like the school district we live in and Corbin will start kindergarten next year. We currently are renting the house I grew up in, from my mom. I was originally buying it from her but long story short, I’m not!

Well, a few days ago she called me saying she needs to move from where she is living like NOW. I have never wanted her where she is living, or with who she is living with. So within the next 2 weeks she will be moving in with us or my sister, most likely us. Her and 2 dogs, that’ll make it 5 people and 6 dogs living here.. not going to work for long. We are buying a house within the next couple months instead of next summer. I have been trying to research as much as I can, we have never bought a house and I want  it done right without any regrets. (I’ve bought a mobile home before but that didn’t require a bank or loan or anything)So the search is on, for our perfect house and it is hard!

I want this house to be one we will want to live in for hopefully the rest of our lives. There is one house I am in love with but not its location, it’s on a main street, and now I can’t get it out of my head! I NEED to find one like it somewhere else! For the next few weeks that’s what we’ll be doing, looking, looking, looking until we find the house we love.

 

Today is my meeting at work. Ugh.. really don’t want to go. It’s just awkward, I work from home and have changed units since being at home so a lot of people I don’t even know. Everyone else who always works in the office all know each other and have no idea who I am. I’m making Jacob drop me off because its downtown and the parking lot I used to park in we can’t use anymore. I hate parking garages and hate driving downtown. Reminds me of my first day all over again where I finally found what I thought was the parking garage, only it wasn’t. Then I had no idea where I was and was walking around downtown for 20 minutes before I finally found someone who told me I was 6 blocks away from where I was trying to go! I never tried parking there again.

Today is my Friday though and I have Monday off too! WHOOHOO!!

 

XoXo

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Goodbye Weekend

The Raspberry hair.. I think I'm glad we only did a little..so from the front its not even noticeable unless I want it to be.

 

 

(Had it curled earlier but I HATE hair spray so now its a mess) 

More pictures from the children's museum..

 

Blown glass 43 feet tall.

The ceiling

Me and Corbin

Corbin could not believe this polar bear used to be alive!

 

In the mirror maze

 

 Huge water clock! Crazy!

 

On the train

Couch Potato!

Spiderman climbing the wall

Ok, I have to stop! We took so many pictures, crazy amount of stuff they have. We'll be going back soon to see everything we didn't get to see on Saturday.

I am not ready for Monday at all! I have a short work week though, meeting on Thursday and off Friday. Plus, Jacob is only working 2 days this week so it'll be an easy week at least! Yay! :)

Hope everyone had a good weekend!!

 

Children's Museum and Raspberry Hair

We took the kids to the children's museum today. Fun! Really, Indy has the largest children's museum and I had never taken the kids so we had to. Jacob and I hadn't even been since middle school. Sooo many pictures! I'll only post a few tonight :)

Bumblebee!

Had to even it out

My kinda hotwheel :)

Dinos trying to climb in!

Oh and I let Jacob bleach my hair underneath and dye it Raspberry red. Pictures tomorrow! The original plan was to just go a lighter brown all over instead of the dark dark brown/black that it is.. but.. I got this crazy idea. I like it I think, if it didn't require bleaching and me freaking out that my hair will fall out then I'd do all of my hair with it. 

I'm a WINNER!!

So I won a giveaway over at Shenanigans of a Southern Redhead! Whoohoo - How awesome is that?! Here soon I'll have a goodie from Bloomin' Idiot Designs. 

Who DOESN'T need a coozie for their red solo cup?!? :) Exciting stuff right there. Made my day! Go check them out. Thanks again Beth and Andra!

Pretty Sweet

Ive been in a really down mood the past week and trying to get out of this funk. Everything just adds up and isn't stopping. BUT this little bloggie of mine is my happy place and although I may blog sometimes about the real life not so happy times, I still want to keep this happy place! So.. tomorrow is happy time and I'll have my big girl panties on and ready :)

 

Penis at the Grocery Store..

Yeah, you read that right..

Nice little story for ya. I went grocery shopping, bought some strawberries - then I thought it'd be fun to make chocolate dipped strawberries so I grabbed the chocolate for it.. Tonight I decided to make these and when I grab the container of chocolate.. I see this.

 

What in the name of love is that!! It really shouldn't have been so funny but apparently I'm a tiny bit immature. could not stop laughing. But really,  who writes that on things at the grocery store?! 

For a minute I thought maybe I shouldn't make them. Only for a minute though.

 

Even made a chocolate covered banana in whoever wrote that's honor! ;)

uhhmm. so in other not.so.dirty news...

My dreams have been crushed. I work full time- x2, granted it is from home which makes people think oh whoopdy do. BUT it is for a very large company that can see when I step away for more than 5 minutes and I have production standards to meet. So for 8.5hrs a day I am sitting in front of a computer while also trying to take care of 2 little kids and 4 dogs. Crazy much?! Why yes, yes I am! The kids could of course go to daycare but I am not ready for my littlest to go (or to pay $2,000/month) and it is pointless to send one without the other. So.. my dream was to work part time, how awesome would that be?? Yeah, well its not going to happen! At least not any time in the near future. 

I could always just quit all together but I've become way too independent for that and I cant let that go. Been on the other end and never want to go back!  (nor do I think my boyfriend would appreciate that very much)

So crazy it is!! :)

Meet my littlest assistant! 

(back in the day before she turned crazy from it all too)

You see the itty bitty time in the center down there? (me neither) but that's all ME!! (I love it but I need it to expand, even just a little would be great!)

Haven't been feeling too good either so that doesn't help anything... and its now way past my bed time.

 

I Never Have Liked Motorcycles

The kidlets had fun at the party Saturday!

1 - It was my 12 year old nephews birthday party. They didn't order a cake so he chose this one. :)

2 - Layla & my niece (sort of), Noelle. (this baby girl has a heartbreaking story, maybe I'll share it someday)

3 - Corbin & my sister in law riding the go karts!

4 - I squatted down to take her picture so she thought she was supposed to do it too.

5 - Layla & her Daddy. (I don't think she knew what to think about it)

6 & 7 - Mini Bowling. soo cute.

It was a long weekend, not long enough but too much going on. Sunday my cousins boyfriend was in a serious motorcycle accident, the brakes locked up and he hit a tree so hard that the tree split. He is in ICU with several ribs shattered, head laceration, legs and arms stitched up, internal bleeding, brain swelling/bruising. They found out today he has a collapsed lung from being punctured by his ribs. He is able to talk now, thank God, but still needs lots of prayers for all the healing and surgery.

Ive always been afraid of riding motorcycles and this is exactly why. I actually really don't like even driving at all!

Parvo Ice Cream Anyone?

No State Fair for us last night. I hadn't been feeling that great and didn't want to do all that walking around. The kids didn't mind or even remember. Corbin got to go visit his grandma while Jacob, Layla and I went out for dinner.

So we are eating at a buffet and Jacob asks me to get him some ice cream. I asked what kind, well he wanted to it to be a surprise... and that it was!

 

gross. I think the ice cream machine may have had Parvo.

On our way back home Layla entertained us. She loves to dance.

Wait til the beat changes at 0:13..

She cracks me up! Love her. :)

Yesterday was my nephews birthday and today is his party so we'll be going to an indoor/outdoor fun park thingy place. Whatever it's really called it'll be fun for the kids!

How'd You Get So Fat?!

Before everyone starts hating me, let it be known I do NOT try to be skinny or lose weight. I hate being so skinny.. and I also know that some people are overweight and it is hard to lose weight for them.

I am underweight and have tried for years to change that. The only time I could was during pregnancy and right after. I also know there are lots of people who want to lose weight, obviously, but I would NEVER tell anyone (especially not a complete stranger) how huge and disgusting they are... 

Some people obviously think if it's the other way around then it's acceptable to make comments about how skinny/underweight someone is. I have had multiple people over the years say things to me that just baffle me and clearly are not compliments. Some examples..

Wow, you are just wasting away aren't you?

OMG, look how skinny you are, do you eat?

You are all skin and bones.

You need some meat on you.

        You are anorexic. (do people not know anorexia isn't a body type?)

My 10 year old is bigger than you.

What are you, like a size negative 0?

Do you need me to get you some food?

I have even had someone ask me if my boyfriend actually likes girls this skinny.. wow..

Would it be okay if I can back with...

Wow you've just blown up haven't you?

OMG, you are obese!

Look how huge you are, how much do you eat?

You are bigger than my whole family put together.

You should really lay off all those sweets.

Do you need me to get you on a weight loss plan?

I have never said any of these things because for 1..  I am not rude and for 2... that is never okay to say to anyone!!

What I really should have came back with was the truth of how and why I am underweight and watched as they all realized how completely ignorant they are. 

Luckily I work from home and don't have to deal with this a lot anymore and I'm sure it'd be worse now that I weigh less than I have since I was a kid.

Do you think its okay to comment if a person is skinny? I do not mean the comments that are really compliments, such as.. OMG you are so skinny I hate you.. and so on.. but commenting on how disgustingly skinny someone is? I have never understood what goes through peoples minds as they say these things and I doubt I ever will.

I was just thinking of all this because I have a meeting in 2 weeks that I have to go into the office for. I am dreading it and hoping its cold enough that day to wear a hoodie.

Love Love Love Love Crazy Love

The Love Story... Its a long one..

We went to elementary school together and I knew who he was because his little brother was in my class.. Jacob had no idea I existed though.. : (

Fast Forward 2 years
We go to the same school again (middle school), he’s 2 years ahead of me but we ride the same bus. Out of all my years in school if I could go back it’d be to the 6th grade and that bus. Seriously. 
So now Jacob knows who I am and he even likes me! One day he decides I’m his “girlfriend” (I guess that’s how it happened, not sure how that really works when you’re 12) I’m kind of a big deal. He draws me pictures and gives me stuffed animals, all that cute 12yr old stuff. 
I have no idea really how long this girlfriend situation went on for but he made sure to remind me of how it ended. Apparently he came over one day with his friend and this friend found a note in my room that was to me or from me, I’m not sure now, but it was about the love business involving me and another little boy. Oops. 
We didn’t talk or see each other anymore after that. It was the summer before he left for high school. I moved away, we went to different high schools...
Fast Forward almost 9 years. Yes, 9!!  
So 9 years later and along comes MySpace…  I’m 8 months pregnant,  in a bad relationship, I’m a SAHS (stay at home sleeper -  I don’t cook or clean *remember that’s the mans job* and no kids yet..  You get it), & I’m in the process of selling my house (with the guy I was with) and buying the house I grew up in from my mom… trying to prepare my escape. 
I had thought about Jacob over the years. He was a really sweet boy and I felt bad for what happened when we were younger.
One day, out of nowhere I get a message on MySpace from a Jacob, no last name on it, I knew exactly who it was. He had been stalking my page, he wrote me to congratulate me on the baby I was due to have 2 weeks later. That 1 little message turned into hundreds (thousands?!) 
Fast Forward 7 months  
I had my son, left the guy I was in a relationship with.. It had been 7 months and the messages from Jacob kept coming.. I thought about him constantly and I needed to see him! We knew each other so long ago and had filled in each other on a lot that had happened since then.
We finally made plans to meet up.  It was exciting and scary, yeah we had been talking for a long time but hadn’t seen each other in almost 9 years! We met at my friends house. I had obviously seen new pictures of him but I still expected the boyfriend I had when I was 12 to walk in.. I was a nervous wreck, thank god I was the one already there and sitting down. 
He comes in and he’s TALL. Over a foot taller than me. I couldn’t tell that from the pictures! Then he starts talking and holy lord, deep voice, he’s a MAN! (with a baby face) I’m not joking, I was in shock, I was really expecting the little boy I used to know to be there. 
We mostly just sat there staring at each other without talking. (I found out later he’s a monk) We saw each other almost every day after that and we still talked every day when we didn’t.
That was the end of his life as he knew it and I bet you he regrets ever is so thankful for sending me that 1st little message for the rest of his life!



Some pictures of us over the past 4 years. While making this I realized I don't have any of us after December 2011. What the.. I'll have to fix that!   The song is Yesterday by Atmosphere. He had it on his myspace and I listened to it over and over not knowing he did too because of me. Love it. :)


P.S. He isn’t really a monk but even he says that he should have been. He doesn’t talk a lot unless it’s needed and goes long periods of time just being silent.   P.P.S. I never did get the video to work that I mentioned yesterday. Boo.    

 

A Love Story?!

Well... I had a post planned for today but that didn't go as planned. So tomorrow will be "Our Love Story" or whatever you want to call it. We have known each other since we were 12 & 14 years old. Way too long if you ask me. ;)

Okay now. I was going to leave you with a video that probably should have never been taken but I'm having some technical difficulties.. maybe its a sign. haha We'll see if I get it fixed by tomorrow.

So, ll I got.. one of our first pictures taken together.

 Such a baby face..

 

Tastes Like Chicken

Sunday night came way too fast. I wanted to spend this weekend doing absolutely nothing and that's pretty much what happened. We only left the house once the whole weekend to go visit the Mamaw & Papaw for a little bit Saturday.

We eat out way too much and Ive been trying to think of things to make that my whole family will like/can eat.. that's hard! I tried to make a list this weekend and it went a little something like this... 

 

Scallion Chicken Pillows

 Baked Cheesy Chicken Penne

Chicken Salad Pillows

 Chicken Alfredo Pillows

 Parmesan Baked Chicken

 Umm.. Yeah. Not gonna work. Is it okay to even eat that much chicken in a week?! I'm gonna have to spread those out some and add non-chicken meals.. Taco Scoops, Spaghetti, Shepherds Pie & some eating out I'm sure, Jacob wont want to cook every night and that's not my job. :)

My weekend of doing nothing was great! 

 Cant believe he really let me take his picture!                           And Smiled! (No pants and all!)

"Say Cheese " means close your eyes & show your teeth! :) 

                                                        Poor baby got her cast off but now shes a cone head :(

Busy Making Time

So I didn't post yesterday because I was taking this lovely lady's advice! She was right on about making time, I know I need to make time more often for the things I say I don't have time for. I tend to go overboard, its all or nothing.. So, I made time alright, used up my sleep time for it and was late waking up for work. I'm really not so sure that was the point. I did feel better afterwards though. I even cleaned my house which is unheard of! (Isn't that the mans job?!)

Next weekend we are taking the kids to the state fair for their first time! I cant wait to eat all of the food!!! Black Shelton, Sunny Sweeney and Caroline Kole will be there.. We wont be going to the concert though, the kids wouldn't handle that business well. We can still walk by and pretend, right?!

I don't know if everyone knows what happened here last year at the Sugarland concert, I for sure never want to be up front at a concert! There were high winds, a thunderstorm coming and the stage collapsed just before Sugarland was about to perform. In the end, 7 people died and around 50 were injured.  

 So sad for all of them that were hurt and the ones that lost their life. I don't even want to imagine what it was like for them, trying to run away from it as it fell. oh god

No more sad news!

 I hope you all are having a great weekend. I plan to be doing a whole lot of nothing and enjoying every minute of it!!

Long... Long Day

Its only Wednesday?! Longest week of my life.

Today has been extremely long and trying for me so I thought I'd do a post of all my babies.. you know, in case I give them away tomorrow or something.

 We'll start with these two horribly rotten kids, that never go away. They act like I'm supposed to make them food and play with them or something.. Really, you are 4 & 2 and cant even make a sandwich?! You'd think someone would have had enough sense to teach them that in utero! It just disgusts me, kids these days..

Moving on...

This an aggressive chunk of puppy meat. If this picture were taken a second later you'd see him viciously attacking (or teething on, same thing!) my innocent 2 year old who was only trying to squeeze him hard enough to release his bowels.. I just cannot see why a puppy would have any problem with this sort of help!

 

Any takers for this.. thing.. right here?! That pretty little couch she's laying on, well it's not too pretty now! She thought it was okay to just get an urinary tract infection (that's her excuse anyway) and then sleep on MY couch. Not her bed oh no she couldn't do that, and PISS... yes, piss! All over every single pillow and... cushion.

The pillows came first, okay big deal, I can get new pillows. But now I have to get a whole new couch and someone's getting a new, well slightly used, dog!

 

He's a monster! He has a good 20lbs on me and thinks he's a lap dog. I could die but nooo he doesn't even care! 

And yeah, I'm a pale white girl. Who are you!?

Last but certainly not the least ugh..

 

Cute, right? Yeah I thought so too until she decided to break her leg and rack up a lot of $$$. (or did that horrible 2 year old have something to do with it.. either way..) She only did it so she could stay, instead of going to a new family weeks ago. The pain had to be worth it, I know!

My Husband Cheated on Me

I could always update my Facebook status about this... but...

Sometimes (ok a lot of times) People post things on Facebook that make me say What in the..?! In my opinion there are just some things in our lives that shouldn't be broadcast to the whole world. 

I'm talking about people who complain a lot, broadcast their drama then post about how they are sick of the drama, and the best ones, like "My husband cheated on me he's a low life piece of S#*& @*&%#!!!" Then the comments come, everyone now hates your husband.. The next day that same person updates her status with how much she loves her husband/family.. He's all of a sudden amazing again! Uhh like I said... WOW!! Is it just me or does everyone have "friends" on FB like this??

 

 Then again, it is their facebook, maybe I should mind my own. or better yet just delete them. No I wont, that's my entertainment!

I do delete people who constantly complain though! (Wait.. is that what I'm doing?!) This is what I mean... 

You say you “need a break” from your kids/not working (understandable) BUT I can’t even count the number of times their status has been about going out and/or someone watching their kids... Wait what?! Maybe I’m just jealous but it sure seems like your life IS a vacation!

On that note, I really do try not to compare myself to anyone or anyone else to each other for that matter... Someone thinking or feeling like something going on in their life is so bad, may really be that bad to them. If they have never had any worse happen or felt any lower, it may actually be as bad as they say. FOR THEM! But there are some things where I can’t help but think... Really?! Get over yourself!!

Did you think this post would ever end?.. Holy crap.

P.S. Thought I should add that my husband did not have an affair.. in case there was any confusion. I don't even have a husband.