Yay it's Tuesday!

Not really. Tuesday isn't really that great other than it's no longer Monday. Although Glee and parenthood are both on tonight, that's exciting! And it's really amazing what is considered exciting to me now that I have kids. Ten years ago exciting would have been an impromptu trip to the casino at 2am, or going to see a concert at the last second. Now exciting is getting to watch a television show about a Glee Club lol. Funny how life changes.

This past weekend we spent Saturday doing some shopping in South Bend. It was a good time, although I was pretty tired. We finally ate at 5 Guys Burgers and Fries and it was super good. I have a feeling every time I cheat on my diet from now on it is going to be there. And by diet I mean trying to eat healthy and as clean as possible, not fad dieting, I don't do that. So after lunch we ventured to the mall and got some new spring clothes for everyone. I only got a couple of shirts at AE. It's hard because a) I tend to buy work clothes when I get new stuff even though I really need casual clothes and b) I intend on being at least a size smaller in the next month or two so I really don't want to buy a whole lot of stuff. After the mall we went to get Bailey her soccer stuff and then out to dinner.

Megan took a good sized chunk out of her head yesterday. The poor thing doesn't have much hair to begin with she doesnt need any help! I cannot wait for nice weather so we can go outside, the children need fresh air. Bailey is actually playing with a friend right now and they are getting along so well, I'm very happy about this.

Here's a layout I did for Studio Calico's sketch challenge. I kid you not this layout took me 3 hours, AND I WAS COPYING FROM A SKETCH! I hate circles and this didn't come out anything like I envisioned it in my head. Oh well, it's for the kids anyways. Another memory down, a million more to go.

Happy belated Easter. Spring break is almost over, although it wasn't really much of a spring break for us in rainy Michigan.

We had a great weekend with my sister, brother in law, niece and nephew. The girls got along so well as did the little ones. We ended up at Curious Kids Discovery Zone on Saturday since it was pouring down rain. The kids had loads of fun and road the merry go round. When we were leaving there was a "live statue" in the lobby area. Bailey no sooner asked if he was real when he moved and waved at them. The poor thing freaked out! She started crying and hid behind me while the 2 year olds laughed and waved at him. The little ones thought he was just the best. It was quite humorous.

Bailey stayed the night at Kip's parent's house on Sunday and went golfing and out to a movie. I took Megan to the library and the park. I watched The Hurt Locker finally...it was so good even though I had issues watching it. I thought my blood pressure was going to sky rocket it was so suspenseful at times. Watched Into the Wild last night which was very disappointing. Music was good but that's about it. I really wanted to love it too which made it even more of a disappointment.

Today we are heading to meet friends for lunch at McD's so the kids can play (it is still raining). Then Bailey is going to stay the night at her friend's house and we are going to come back and relax. I cleaned the whole house last night in anticipation for my Studio Calico kit which is driving around St Joseph right now. New pics ordered and all. It's going to be a scrappy day!

I better get showered and the last of this laundry done so I can truly relax today!

Kelly

Robot Hands

Megan wears 1/2 of the ZhuZhu pet hamster ball on her head and runs around saying "Robot Megan" all the time. I don't know if the hamster has ever even been in the ball. In the above picture she is showing me "robot hands." She's a trip.

Jane is coming down tomorrow for Easter. It will be the first holiday they have spent down here with us. We are all very excited for them to visit. I think Bailey is counting down the seconds before her cousin gets here. The problem is we are supposed to get rain on Saturday...grr. So I'm thinking maybe curious kids museum will be in order, or maybe Alvin and the Chipmunks II. Bailey hasn't seen it yet and its the kids movie this week. At any rate I'm sure we will have lots of fun!

Bailey spent the day at Livinia's house today. They had her, Olivia, and Zachary over to play. It looks like they had a super fun time outside all day (it was 80 degrees...unbelievable!). Considering that she fell asleep in approx 5 seconds upon hitting the pillow I would call it a success! I'm so happy she has such great friends already. I'm hoping they all can remain close for many years to come.

Happy Good Friday!

eek! I'm so bad at blogging!

I hadn't realized over a week had gone by! I have goals. At some point I would like to put a link to my blog in my signature at the message boards I frequent. However I hate when I click on blog links and the person hasn't posted in a decade. So I swore I wouldn't do it until I could commit to posting regularly. Things are not going well. Sigh.

Another Megan layout. I could add "Really Mom?" to it as well. She ends everything she says in one of the two phrases. Or if she isn't sure how she wants to answer you (ex: she's going to get in trouble) she says "what you say mom?". Clever that one. Today she totally used ninja stealth to drop the pieces of cereal she didn't want to eat in between the couch cushions, while sitting right next to me. It's insane...not only is she naughty but she's quick and quiet too. But then she's so cute when she gets caught she never gets in trouble. I can only hope she grows out of this by the time she's 16 or we are in deep poo.

Running goals? Failed. I am going to be in so much pain come June when I run around Higgins Lake.

It's not helping that Kip has been sick for a week and I've been playing taxi cab all over the county. I had to take both girls to a birthday party on Sat. Two things about that 1. Megan lost her balloons and bless her little heart she went running and jumping after them yelling "I can't reach them mom!". I'm not sure if I was laughing or crying but there were tears. 2. I lost Megan at Curious Kids. I have never ever lost either of my children. That was the absolute most horrible feeling in the world. And nobody was helping me find her. She was only missing for about a minute before I located her but let me tell you it was the longest minute of my life.

Scrapbooking. I started another purple layout. I hate purple. I don't know why I even try to use it. So there it sits, taunting me. Instead I keep going to Studio Calico's site and ordering more stuff. And Kip is no help, he says "well did you get everything you wanted? I don't mind buying you stuff." that doesn't really help the self control at all. http://www.studiocalico.com/ all the goodness awaits!

I need a list that I can't lose in my head. Things that I need to scrap as soon as this purple layout is gone.

1 Robot Megan

2 Bailey and her healed sandals

3 the one that got away (balloons)

4 nighttime routine

5 daytime routine

Those are the ideas that keep popping in and out of my head. Alright, I hope to be back tomorrow or Wed for sure!

Bless her heart. On Friday she was so tuckered out she fell asleep watching her afternoon Dora. (She eats lunch, gets one Dora, then has a nap during the week.) She didn't make it very far and she would not take off her "lifejacket" lol.

We had a beautiful week. Lots of sun and playing outside. Then mother nature thought it would be funny to give us snow on the first day of spring...and it's sticking! Blasphemy I tell you.

I just finished watching Seven Pounds and it kind of disturbed me. It had a mix of sad/happy ending and its probably not what I should have watched tonight. Watching Ghosts of Girlfriends Past now to hopefully put me in a happy mood before bed. Bailey has a birthday party tomorrow, then 2 next weekend. Goodness these kids get expensive! I hope all these parents remember this next year around Sept. 15th!!!

For some depressing news, I have to actually start diet/excersizing. Blah. It appears that eating all the time and not running has taken its toll on my body. I really wish I had made those funnel cakes before the switch! So tomorrow I have to figure out some way to start doing something. The problem is Kip is gone all day on Sundays. Maybe I should go to bed and run in the morning. Hmmm I'm just rambling at this point.

At any rate tomorrow goal: eat healthy. Excersize hard. Fantasize about buying new spring/summer clothes after I get those 10 pounds back off.

I'm going to scrapbook now I think. I finally emailed Studio Calico to subscribe to their kits. I've wanted them forever and I don't know why I haven't joined yet to be honest. I think its the monthly payment thing...but since they sell out immediately each month I'm guessing selling it wouldn't be an issue if there were a kit I did not like. Good night.

they grow up so fast

This past weekend was the big scrapbook retreat. It was so nice. 8 women packed in a church camp house watching movies and scrapbooking...what could be better? I only completed 8 pages hahaha...I won a prize for my lack of accomplishment as well. At least I saw some movies that did not involve a certain Barbie and her 3 Musketeers or a small hispanic girl named Dora.

The layout above is one of the reasons I scrapbook. I tend to reflect alot when I see other people scrapbooking and see why they do it and what it means to them. Some people have a goal of getting pictures on paper. Some people like to try every technique one one page. I personally, like to remember little moments about my girl's childhood. I get crazy every now and then and break out the paints and dyes, but for the most part the pictures and stories are my focus.

A story that will be scrapbooked just as soon as I have a soccer picture...Bailey and I were in Target and I stopped to look at the soccer cleats selection. She took one look at them and said "but Mo-o-o-m, I don't want to wear those they are ugly. Don't they have pink ones?". My little princess, she's something else. She likes to play in the dirt but she prefers to do it while wearing a frilly dress and healed sandals!

Off to get some housework done. We have a new friend coming to play tomorrow, Morgan. I don't want her to run away frightened of our home. Kip did a great job of not letting them totally destroy the place, but it is far from "clean".

Happy Monday!

Tuesday blahs

I think I have a harder time with Tuesdays than Monday. On Monday I can say "well I can just clean tomorrow." On Tuesday if I don't actually do something I feel really behind. I need to get the house cleaned, at least one meal ready, grocery shopping done, and pack all my stuff up for this weekend. This way they just have to keep it semi-cleaned and I will be happy when I come home.

Good news, Pages in Time re-opens this week!!! I'm so excited to have another lss again. I love the one in Niles but she doesn't really carry the products I use so I tend to shop online. It's much more fun to go shop in person. I'm definately an instant gratification kind of girl.

I guess that's it for today. Off to try and figure out this new grocery/coupon thing. I'm making a big attempt to save us some money. It makes no sense to spend what we have been spending grocery wise.

On another side note after trying the Oil Cleansing Method on my face for 3 days I am pretty sure it's not for me. I'm terrified it's making my face worse instead of better so I'm off to get new facewash instead!