30 Days of Blog Posts: Day 18

DAY 18: PLANS/DREAMS/GOALS YOU HAVE


Ay yi yi. These are such bad topics when you aren't feeling 100%....

I'm not even gonna scratch the goal side of this as we've previously talked about goals.

Some plans:

To take a small vacation in March or April with some of the tax refund money
Take a vacation in July to go visit Eric's grandparents in Nebraska
Big dentist visit for the whole family in a couple weeks
Do something exciting with the blank wall in front of me
Get Eric's car fixed so that I am no longer w/o a car all day long

Some dreams:

To be a much better housekeeper than I am now
To live in a bigger house at some point or at least finish our basement

Exciting no? :D

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30 Days of Blog Posts: Day 17

I'm late again...What's new? Actually in my defense I got sick quite suddenly last night and still don't feel well. But I figure while I'm banished to my bedroom (Eric's got friends over) I might as well make some good use of time.

Then I get on the computer and see this as the topic....

DAY 17: SOMEONE YOU WOULD WANT TO SWITCH LIVES WITH FOR ONE DAY AND WHY

What a stupid subject. At least in my opinion. Everyone has their good days and their bad days. Everyone has to deal with life not going the way it should go. True, some have it harder than others, but still.

So my answer to this question is NOBODY. I am actually quite content with my life and don't need to feel good feelings by imagining my life as someone else. Sorry it's not a fun answer, but it's how I feel.

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30 Days of Blog Posts: Day 16

DAY 16: ANOTHER PICTURE OF YOURSELF

What the heck? There isn't many pictures of me that I haven't already shared...So, I will go back in time and share a few from back when up till now. Sound good? I don't really care if it does or not, I'm still going to do it. :P

I'm the baby!
- About 2 months old -

- About 1 Year Old -

I'm the little girl on the bottom right
- About 5 Years Old -

Daddy/Daughter Activity
- Age 12 -

The Mousetrap
- Age 15 -

My Mom wanted a pic of all her kids...They threw Eric in the back cause he's tall, but it makes it look like we have no relationship at all! BTW - Tanis is in this picture too! LOL
- Age 20 -

For those of you who never got the chance to see me with blonde hair...Here you go!
- Age 25 -

Happy Independence Day 2010
- Age 30 -

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30 Days of Blog Posts: Day 15

Ay yi yi. I hate when I am a day late...

However, things being as they were yesterday, it just wasn't going to happen. First of all, Eric and I had forgotten that Tanis had a science fair project due today and I didn't remember until TUESDAY, so that gave us all of 2 days to work on it. (More on the Science Fair to come in a few days)

So part of yesterday was spent finishing up that science fair project and the other part of yesterday was spent in tears of stress, frustration and feelings of failure. Nathaniel took a bottle of water and a bottle of hairspray to our 1 day old LCD television. Awesome, right?

Anyway, here is yesterdays entry...

DAY 15 - PUT YOUR IPOD ON SHUFFLE: FIRST 10 SONGS THAT PLAY

Alright, I actually listen to songs on my ipod and my computer, so I will share both - just because I need to distraction!

COMPUTER SONGS:

1. You - Rascal Flatts
2. Start A Band- Brad Paisley with Keith Urban
3. Wonder Boy - Lesley Gore
4. Come Back To Me - David Cook
5. Endless Summer Nights - Richard Marx
6. Mayberry - Rascal Flatts
7. For The First Time - Kenny Chesney
8. Istanbul Not Constantinople - They Might Be Giants
9. Burn - Shannon Noll
10. Cupid - Sam Cooke

IPOD SONGS:

1. Playing With The Big Boys - Prince of Egypt Soundtrack
2. Once You've Learned To Be Lonely - Reba McEntire
3. Burn Down The House - SHeDAISY
4. Long Trip Alone - Dierks Bentley
5. California Nights - Lesley Gore
6. Crush - Mandy Moore
7. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
8. More Today Than Yesterday - Jordan McCoy
9. Dynamite - Taio Cruz
10. Don't Matter - Akon

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30 Days of Blog Posts: Day 14

DAY 14 - A PICTURE OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

August 2010

December 2010

My Family - August 2009

My Parents & Siblings (Minus 2) - May 2010

I would post a pic of Eric's family, but there isn't a current one in existence. The last family picture we had was when Lex was like 2 and one of his brothers is no longer married to the girl in the picture, so we won't share it. ;)

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The Freaky, Fabulous Age of 9

I suppose I am a bad mom...Shaylyn's birthday was a week ago and I am just BARELY getting around to blogging about her big day... Ah well.

Anyway, so this year Shaylyn was set on a friend birthday party because Tanis was able to have one when he turned 9. Ay yi yi...I really, really dislike hosting kiddie birthday parties. I don't like chaos and I'm never quite sure how to entertain kids. But to be fair to Shaylyn we had a friend party anyway.

We did her party on Friday the 28th. We let her invite 11 kids - thinking that only about half would show up. Well 1 kid didn't show up, one girl brought her sister and another girl brought 2 of her sisters (Yes, they all asked if it was okay and I am too nice to say no). So we had 17 kids in our house. 10 Invitees + 3 Siblings + 5 of our own kids = 17!

Shaylyn is really big into Monster High right now, so of course we had to do a Monster High party. I was lucky and found a website where a lady had come up with all sorts of games to play for a Monster High party. That made it easy.
I made the invitations on my own, they turned out like this:

Then Shaylyn and I had the same idea (without talking to each other beforehand) that the kids should each get an id card like they have on the website, so I came up with this:


I had planned to do 6 games and we only ended up having time for 3! I learned a few things. #1 - Make parties longer than 2 hours if food is involved and #2 - Some older children still SHOULDN'T be allowed to use food coloring!

The first game we did was a PIN THE TAIL on the Donkey type game, but since it was Monster High, I used Medusa's son and used his snakes as the 'tails'. The kids absoultely loved this game. Then we made slime, also a great activity - but also a messy activity. Finally, they played a game where they had to get their teams frogs into the correct bucket. I'm not sure how that went over as I was cleaning the kitchen and preparing things for dinner and the cake.

We then did presents:

Then it was cake & ice cream time...I was excited for Shaylyn's cake, until I made it. I tried to use fondant, but it ended up really crumby. It worked out okay and served it's purpose, but I was sad it didn't turn out as well as I had hoped...Oh well.

Parents were coming at this point and so some kids were sent out the door with a napkin and a piece of cake. Wow, I really didn't plan well.

Sunday morning, (her real birthday) we let her open her gifts before church. I went to a store that carries the Monster High Apparel and wasn't going to pay $20 for a t-shirt, so I found her a necklace and earring set instead. She also knew was probably going to get an mp3 player like Tanis got for Christmas, but I wanted to surprise her a bit and I wrapped it in an empty rice box. Shaylyn gets the wrapping paper off and says, "Rice! You got me rice for my birthday!?" And because I was laughing so hard she followed it with, "It's not funny!" It took Tanis telling her to look inside the box for her to realize she didn't really get rice for her birthday.

Sunday night, we had the family party and it was a little bit quiet. 2 of Shaylyn's uncles and 1 of her aunts couldn't make it and her great grandparents had to leave before we really got to the good stuff. Oh well, she still had fun.

I didn't want to mess with fondant a second time, so for the family cake I just iced it...Again, I got annoyed...These cakes just didn't want to cooperate.

Luckily for me, Shaylyn was still thrilled and thought they turned out just fine.
For all her birthday pics, you can check out the website in the next week or so.

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30 Days of Blog Posts: Day 13

DAY 13: A LETTER TO SOMEONE WHO HAS HURT YOU RECENTLY

Well, I have nothing to say with this one. I haven't been hurt by anyone recently. Honestly. So, um, yeah. Sorry this post was so super exciting...

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