Redneck Rivera

Oh yes!! We are heading out for vacation soon to the Redneck Riviera, better known as Destin Fl. That's where everyone here in the South goes on vacation. The girls are really really looking forward to it. My mom is going and I think we are taking one of our nieces that is the same age as my middle daughters age. We didn't go on a family vacation last year due to buying the mega house and moving back here from Maryland. I can't wait. We decided this year instead of getting a condo we are gonna stay in a resort, that way everything is taken care of for us. We will be on the beach and the kids get their own room with bunk beds, they are super excited about this one. To them bunk beds are like the coolest thing ever. I'm super excited that my mom is going and we get to have an "adult night". Woohoo! The thing that kinds stinks is that we are going so early in the season and it may be a bit chilly to be in the water, but hey we can play in the sand and swim in the indoor pool. I'm really really NOT excited about puttin my thunder thighs out there for everyone to see. UGH, can't we go back to the day of 1920 bathing suites?? Ya know the ones that went below you knee. That would be awesome and make me feel better about myself. Anywhooooo, so I'm so excited to take pic and we are gonna do the cheesy pic of us in white polos and khaki short/Capri's with the kids in white dress in front of the white sand dunes. It will be awesome as a Christmas card that says suck it losers we went on vacation what did you do?? Or I may get a cute as crud pic of the girls building a sand castle and stick that on a card that says something like don't you wish your kids were as cute as mine Merry Chistmas. In my real life I'm mean, hahaha. Now lets just hope we don't burn.

Cake

My daughter had her briding ceromony lastnight from being a Daisy Girl Scout to being a Brownie Scout. She is super excited about it. Me notsomuch. This now means that Yay, we get to sell cookies next year. I hate the thought of pimping out my 6/7 year old for a badge for selling cookies. But hey whatever, she is siked! So I was the lucky one who got to bring the cake for lastnight. I was afarid that there wouldn't be enough cake so I also got cupcake (yes store bought, don't judge me, I'm busy). The cupcakes went over great with the kids and the lady serving the cake cut it into tiny little pieces, there was a TON of cake that didn't get eaten. Soooo that means a TON of cake came home with me. UGH, and since I'm a huge fatty and can't look a cake in the eyes and not give in and eat it, that has been my breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Ugh, I feel sick.

Craft Slump

I will start this post on a happy woohoo note! It's Saturday and that means getting toasty with the ladies! We will be hitting our regular spot, the Saucer and eating stinky cheese and good beer, whoohoooooo! And before said silliness, I will be out shopping for carpi's, makeup and jewelery!

My 6 year old has learned how to make the baby really laugh and she thinks it the best thing in the world. She spends most of her free time trying to get her to really laugh hard. So the other day she asked me "Momma, why does it make me feel so good inside to hear Georgia laugh". I tell ya my heart melted!! That was one of the sweetest thing ever to come out of a child's mouth! Then 4 year old sister said, "Ugh, would you please stop messing with the baby and play with me". Nice hu. I guess there will always be some tension between #2 and #3. I hope they become great friends as time goes on.

And now the whining.

I have been in a craft slump. I don't know what to do about it either. I guess I just need to hop back on that horse and ride?? I want to finish my smocked bishop for the baby, do the kids silhouette (which I have all the supplies for), I want to sew dresses for all my girls and a friend's little girl, make hair bows and monogrammed button ponytail holders, a monogrammed travel coffee mug. I also want to try my hand at painted Dr. Scholes shoes. BUT finding the time is almost a joke for me. I wish I could just put my finger together and stop time so I could finish a project without needing to stop 8 hundred million zillion times to help a kid, or a wipe a kid butt, or fix lunch and the list goes on and on and on!!

On another whiney note. What the Heck man! We opened our pool and it got cold! I mean like wow, you better put on jeans and grab a jacket cold! It's freakin mid May!!

Oh and what the heck man!! They killed my hot Warrick on CSI! UGH, I loved him, now I have to get used to another person on there. Oh will as long as it's not Nick Stokes!! Oh man I loves me some George Eads!!

Suprises!!

In the last post I talked about husband offering to buy me a coach bag and a double strand of pearls, but I couldn't let him do it. Well yesterday he showed up at gymnastics for big girl and wanted to go for ice cream after, ummmm ok! He said he ran to walmart to get shock for the pool and hot tub and was close so he thought he would surprise me. How nice. So after gymnastics we went to TCBY and had ice cream, yum. As we were leaving I had to run to the grocery store for steaks. He helped me put the girls in the van, he went to his truck and I thought that was that. As I was pulling out of the parking lot he motioned for me to pull up to his truck. I got over there rolled the window down and we chatted for a bit about steaks??? Then I was I getting ready to pull away he said "Oh I picked you up something at the store". I was thinking, ok what in the world could you have picked up for me at walmart? Not that I'm above shopping there, because I'm not, just didn't ask for anything. He tossed a Macy's bag in the van and OMG it's the coach tote I wanted. Woohoo!!! I'm a lucky girl to be spoiled like that! Sweet man! So today I'm trying to be the good wife and getting all the laundy done, ahahahahahaha, and put up.

Movies

Since I'm old with 3 kids I don't get to the movies much. So we netfix it all. In the last three days we have watched Eastern Promises. Wow! If you have a thing for Viggo Mortensen than this is the movie for you!! You get to see EVERY inch of him and I mean every! We also watched a documentary by the history channel called Blood Diamonds. Not the Leo movie. The husband and I enjoy documentaries and this one was pretty good. If you have no clue about diamonds and was a eye opening shocker this is one for you. Then we watched a movie called The Orphanage by Guillermo del Toro. This was a pretty good creepy movie! About a lady that grew up in an orphanage, then moves back to the orphanage as an adult with her husband and son to take in kids with disabilities, to only find out there are ghosts, or are there???

Last night we ate pizza and shopped at the mall. It was GREAT. I got three new polo shirts in pale blue, yellow and white. Big girls had a great time they were pretending that they were waling the "runway". It was so funny! Baby girl didn't have so much fun since she hates sitting in the stroller unless it's in motion.
Husband was very patient since he hates shopping with me. I did almost walk away with a new strand of pears AND a coach bag, but I couldn't let him spend the money, makes me feel nervous, I'm an idiot I know!! Well I'm off to lay daughter #2 down for her nap and get a few seconds of quiet before daughter #3 wakes up.

Whoa! My adrenaline has been in override!

Saturday night at the flying saucer was good, I had 3 beers. Sam Adams Boston lager, Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre, and a Blanche de Bruxelles White Wheat Beer YUM! The wheat was by far my fav.
Blanche de Bruxelles

Sam Adams Boston


My friend's Maudite, that was super good


From two weekends ago, Dos Equis Amber and a Leinenkugel Wheat





My mothers day was awesome. I got a box of dark chocolates from Godiva, 3 shirts, a pair of Capri's and a gift card from Macy's. Woohoo! Breakfast, lunch and the night off, the husband did the house cleaning and dishes. AWESOME! We went over to my mother in laws house for dinner and visited with her and husband's grandmother. It was nice and the kids enjoyed the visit. She made some southern goodness (which I don't eat) fried fish, hush puppies, coleslaw and lemon cake.

Today I started the day off with thinking I had thrown my car tag renewal sticker in the trash, AND today it trash day. I had just given the command to the husband to go dig in the trash bags when then thank god I found them stuffed in my wallet. Whooo that was scary for a minute.

I drop daughter #1 off at school I run home to grab my Ipod so I can dash to the gym, its dead. UGH, god knows I need an excuse to put the gym off. So I decide that I'll plug it in run to the grocery store and then I'll go to the gym after I drop off the groceries. So I get on my merry way to the store and HOLY DEER!!! I am on a BUSY street by my house and a doe (everyone sing along, a female deer, ray ~ a drop of golden sun). YES a live deer, on the sidewalk in the city, well suburb. So I start to FREAK out thinking she is going to bolt into the street and get squashed by a car in front of my precious 4 year old daughter. So I pull into the turn lane and lay on the horn. She is still determined to cross the street. UGH UGH UGH!!!! So by this time my crazy self has made anyone near us aware that something is going on. Thank god a India food delivery van (thank you Vishnu)is in on the mission to NOT see this deer become just another statistic. There are two guys in the delivery van so they pull behind me and start honking too. Well this sends poor Bambi over the edge and she darts across 2 lanes, OMG OMG OMG, she makes it. Now said deer is in the grassy median. Traffic is stopped and I'm still laying on the horn to warn folks (yes I'm a crazy animal lover) and BAM she goes across the other 2 lanes. OMGOMGOMGOMG, she makes it again. At this point my heart is FREAKING OUT!!! Now she is stuck between the busy road and a fence. India delivery driver and guy pull to the other side of the road and guy jumps out to try to scare her back across the 4 lanes of traffic to the safety of a field. She sees him and I guess she thinks, OMG HUNTER RUN and she does, toward one of the busiest areas I live by. UGH, so I dart up the street past her, throw my van in park, put on the flashers, jump out and start waving my hands. She looks at me for a second and then darts across 4 lanes of traffic to the field and off she runs. OMG, it was something. I pooped from just the retelling of this story

THEN I finally get home get the ipod and head the gym only to be attacked by the child care worker again about my husband not giving them the proper contract, (Which I don't feel is my job but the sales team). So she just wont drop it and goes on and on and on until I say F this I'm out! Canceled my membership and they can kiss my butt! But not before I told on her to the manager and my husband who were standing on the other side of the door chatting. UGH What the poop folks!

Holy Cheap!

Well I was just over at EBay looking at Wellies cuz I want a plaid pair. So anyway I was looking at the wellies and noticed that SJP's (for those of you not in the know that's Sara Jessica Parker) line Bitten has some cute wellie/riding boots for pretty cheap. So I looked up her website and WOW!!! Everything is 8.98! Even the coats. I know I'm probably the last person that found this site, but I was amazed!! Of course there isn't a store here in my crap city, but there is one coming, WooHoo!! Oh and I also want these! Are they not the cutest thing ever! I'm on a shoe kick lately since that's the ONLY thing that still looks cute on me since I'm as big as a house. Ugh and I'm blowing off the gym for shopping today. Maybe I'll go later, hahahaha!

Have a GREAT mother's day everyone!! My two oldest beauties!


P.S. I made the design on their shirts, it was so fun and easy.

MIA

I have been so busy with life and haven't had time to post anything. for starters my baby is teething and has a double ear infection, fun!! My house seems to explode every day and it's a NONSTOP battle to keep it under control. It feels like lately that is all I have been doing other than running kids to and from activities. I hate to see my house totally destroyed. That's not to say that it doesn't get that way, because it does, but I hate it. I don't like to live that way. I hate to see a cup on the counter or in the sink at bedtime. So I have been driving myself nuts to clean, beings that I'm the only person in the house of 5 people that will pick anything up. But somehow something always gets me distracted. I hate it. I spend to much time on the computer.

I have taken some awesome picutes but my STUPID computer won't let me edit or post my pics? Something about linksys bitmap error?? Who knows? I just need to get all my pics off here and crash the sucker!

I learned the BEST margarita recipe for this funny lady via this show. And BTW, these chicks are NUTSO!! Especially Alex and her yucky husband Simon!! Man their kid is physco! If you haven't seen the show, catch the reruns and you'll see what I'm saying! I just like the OC ladies better I guess? I can't wait for season 4 of OC housewives! So anywho back to the booze! That is the BEST drink every. You know that flem yuck you get in the back of you throat when the mix has too much sour or something in it? Well this does NOT at all give you that feeling and it is so yummy!!

We had a fun craw fish boil at our house over the weekend. I didn't eat any but my family said yum yum. My neighbor fell and broke her leg (again) while walking into my house to check on my baby, poor thing!

Oh here's a fun one, my mom ran away from home. I swear I could write a book on her week away. My bother has issues and she couldn't deal and so she said see ya suckers! She is the middle child of 11 who's father passed when she was 13. She has been caring for people for a long time and I guess she just cracked? Midlife crisis? But anywho, I called her at 8pm on a Sunday to ask her a question, no answer at her house, strange for her. So I called her cell and she answered and I said where the heck are you? She said "UMMMM, well almost to Little Rock". WHAT! So she went on to say that it was getting to be too much and she needed to breath, she wanted to see the town where Steal Magnolia's was filmed. OK! So she hit the road. She spent 3 days there and the then just meandered around La and Ms. She went to church with some kind older woman she met at a lake where she was taking pictures and did a reading at her church, then went to High Tea whit her. She said she did all kinds of things and that she had a great time. She is a photographer and she said she got ton's of awesome pictures. Well I say good for her! You only get one shot at this life and if you need some room to breath then by goodness take it!!

Well this post has taken me a total of 2 days to compose. What a loser am I!!

Well Mother's day is Sunday and if things go as the normally do I'll be getting a gift that my husband rushed out at 8pm Saturday night to Target and picked a shirt and something that goes with it. That also applies to all birthday gifts too. But hey I'm a lucky woman I have a husband that is willing to at least go get me something. My step dad (whom raised me) used to say when I would ask what we were going to get my mom "She's not my mom, what are you gong to get her". Ummm 8 year olds can't drive nor hold a bank account butthead!

I started hittin the gym again this week. I went on bed rest with my 3 daughter at 17 weeks and then I got lazy after having her. So now that my thighs have gotten as big as a zillion year old tree trunk I'm freaking out!! So today I feel like my bottom half is made of jello and my stomach is so sore too. But that means I'm working something. I hope.

I guess I'm babbled on long enough, time to clean my house, fun. Oh and I know there is a spelling erro in here somewhere I can't find it, UGH!