Let the fun begin!

whirlwind moving week for me....
people here packing today and tomorrow....
loading the truck thursday,
and arriving to our new house on friday :)....
i'm excited and stressed all at the same time.
thought i should update the bloggage before i'm gone for awhile...

i finished up my cj entry for squillen's RAW journal....
(Real Amazing Women....not wrestling)....
Posted that and got it mailed....priorities! ;)
Working on my new cj for my happyscrappy cj group... excited about that one.
I'm loving the whole cj thing....inspires me....makes me think....
i like having one ....soon two .....to look forward to every month.
Such amazing talent in these groups......love it.

in other exciting news...
my van got repaired......
$600+ later...i can say, hmmm, so THAT is why the brake light was on....
actually i'm happy to report i TOLD my hubby that the brake light was in fact on...
to which i got a....."sweetheart...it's a glitch in your indicator light....it's fine"....
hmmmmmmm..... that was OCTOBER....
does it feel good to be right about such things?
yes, a little... ;) shhh-hhh...don't tell colin.

my sofa has been broken for....well, for forEVER.....
colin sat on it...
and broke it.
in his defense....perhaps it was a faulty leg...???
whatever...
anyway...
being the classy individuals we happen to be...
we took all the legs off, and placed said sofa on the ground.
then the boys broke the leg on the ottoman...
yes, there is a trend in my home...
e is not to have nice furniture...
anyway,
we promptly took the legs off that as well...
so my sofa and chair have been lowriding....and
i've been complaining..... asking ever soooo nicely...
to have them fixed...
for hmmm....a year maybe?
never got them fixed....
this weekend..
my husband spends......oh, about 20minutes..
and fixes them both.
WTF?
ok, so i'm happy about that....and confused as to why this took so long....all at the same time.

Because I haven't mentioned it in awhile...
i hope you're all watching Meet the Barkers....
when landon dropped the salt in the oj...
very funny moment for me...
i enjoy that show so.....
nothing mara....notevenapeep....

ok, miss me...
ask me questions...
talk amongst yourselves...
i shall return...xxe

***Thank you for all the fab teacher gift ideas...
i'm going w/ a giftcard for dinner... :)
i wish i had more time to make something to go along w/ it....
the picture of jack shows how he returns from school most days....with streamers made into headbands...tons of artwork....and a happy smile.
the only thing we will miss from here, besides our friends, is that school....

Help a sista out....

We're moving a week from Thursday.....
and....I need something FABULOUS for Jack's teachers.
They're amazing...the type of teachers you dream about...Jack LOVES them.
They have given Jack the best experience ever, and i want to get them something to say thanks...but i'm having trouble coming up w/ clever ideas...
HELP....please. xxe

YAY!!!! These are SOOO great....keep them coming.... :)

Because I'm bored....

and Erin hates me... ;)
(kidding...kidding Erin, I am however B-O-R-E-D)

The rules for this particular tagging are as follows:
Remove the blog name in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add yourself to the bottom slot.
1. Birgit
2. Wendy
3. Kelly
4. Erin
5. Erika

Then you get to select five people to pass the love on to.
(are we really calling this love now????)
1. Rachel
2. Mara
3. Darcy
4. Moon
5. Tara
(but by all means....don't do it ifin you don't want to....I SO won't be offended) :)

Now, on to the questions!
What were you doing 10 years ago?
First it must be pointed out..that APRIL was in the 10th grade.
April....you are the cutest...and I adore you ....but you made me feel like 107 years old w/ this simple statement....10th grade....sigh.....
Wait...Colin were you in 10th grade too? heehee....KIDDING.....(He is a tad younger than me)
OK....so 10 years ago....I was living in a flat near campus in Madison, WI...with my boyfriend (aka my husband now) and jared who was 1 almost 2.
Good times, Colin was going to class and I was working 3-11pm at night...we almost never saw each other...and we had no-ooo-oooooo money....in fact, I think we had less than "no money".

What were you doing one year ago?
Let's see, a year ago....umm, ok, I guess we were here then...I was doing just about the same thing as right now, just w/ a 3 yr old, a 5yr old, and a10 yr old....instead of 4, 6, and 11. ;)

Five snacks you enjoy:
(ok, food, now we're talking...)
1. Chips/Guacamole/Salsa
2. queso dip
3. popcorn
4. coffee...it's a meal, or a snack in my book
5. sour patch kids

Five songs, to which you KNOW all the lyrics:
there is a fine line....when you say knowing all the lyrics ... i probably think i know them all ...
(sometimes e has been known to make up lyrics)
1. most early Madonna
2. Take it to the Limit...The Eagles (my favorite song in preschool...cut me a little slack)
3. Pour Some Sugar on Me...Def Leppard
4. that annoying photograph song by Nickleback (it's on the radio like every 20mins)
5. most of the sugary pop music my boys blare upstairs.....(i actually understand the words to them ;) )

Five things you would do, if you were a millionaire:
1. pay off my debt....
2. pay off my debt.....
3. pay off my debt....
4. build an amazing house by my design....
5. spoil my boys even more ;)
(ok, you know i'd give to charity, go on vacation, and do other stuff too right?)

Five bad habits:
1. yelling (bad mommy)
2. swearing (bad mommy) <---i'm working on both of these 3. cracking my knuckles 4. drinking WAY too much coffee 5. not saying "no" enough..... Five things you like doing:
1. taking photos
2. playing w/ my boys
3. hanging out and watching movies w/ my hub
4. drawing/scrapping....
5. reading

Five things you would never wear, buy, or get new again:
1. most of my clothes
2. bodysuits...heehee..i actually thought of this before I read missy's blog...I'm so there w/ you girl.....WHAT were we thinking?....they were cool back in the day though....yikes.
3. tapered jeans....awww-yah
4. a bikini....sad to say
5. spandex shorts....

Five favorite toys:
1. my camera....oh NO WAIT...mine is broken.....urgh...
2. Gabby's camera...(thankfully she got the digi...and i have her film camera on loan)
3. the computer
4. uhhh.....urrrrh.....I'm about as low-tech as they come....my rubberstamps/ink...and
5. my sketchbook????

My husband was sad because i wasn't updating the bloggggg....
I am not sure this is what he had in mind....
but it's something ;)
I've been thinking about scrapping....
worrying about selling our house...
and trying to transfer my son to another club soccer team...
I'm fairly certain that it's easier to transfer professional athletes..
and they get paid more than me.....xxxe

LEGO love

"MOM...come here a minute....I want to show you something...I made it just for you..."

I love U too Colten...I love you too.

Restaurants, Cats, Tats, and a Lake....

"Colin said... You forgot your most important job, mother to our future soccer stars, rock stars, and restaurant entrepreneurs."
awwww..baby ;)
Love this man...yes, i do.
AND...he's coming home tonight for the weekend.
Makes me so happy.
Even when he makes me crabby....he is still nice to have around ;)
SO, I didn't list "mommy" as a job, because honestly...it's a blessing to me, not a job.
Or at least it's a job I love so much that putting it next to hotel front desk is just...well....wrong.

Had to laugh when he wrote our future soccer/rock stars and restaurant entrepreneurs though.
Jared and Colten have come up w/ this rather elaborate plan that involves playing professional soccer long enough to earn the money to buy their own restaurant....
I have no idea how this idea came to be....but they talk about it a lot....
and they have many details worked out....seating, menu, lighting.....
Colten recently added a "little stage, maybe fo some live music".
Oh, and if you noticed rockstar...
yeah, guess which one is aspiring to that?
Yep...the Jack.
Shocked? I think not.
I love hearing them talk about "what they're going to be when they grow up"....
just as long as they stay little for a LOT longer ;)
Oh, and Klala....
how about in 10 years or so I send them to you for a little apprenticeship at Mosaic? hmmm?!?? They'll work for food....and they're cute ;)

SO, last night, after nursing the headache that would not leave the live long day...
I was sacked out on the couch...watching tv...
when low and behold I see they've made a movie about the urban legend that growing up scared me the most....
The one where the babysitter comes over, and the phone rings and the voice says "have you checked the children".....uh huh....
later the police trace the call to inside the house.
OK, yes...soooooo... it looks horribly dumb....
BUT when you're home alone...
and the kids are upstairs...
and as soon as that preview is over the door makes a funny noise...
Yeah, I was on the phone waking my husband up...yes I was....
I believe he called me a dork...
I still wasn't completely convinced someone wasn't in the house w/ me as I went to bed last night.
nope.
hate scary movies...
and their previews...
when Colin is gone....

Ok, so before I sign off for the weekend.
Lake photos are for Darcy....
who is just adorable...and has a funny cat.
She also, come to find out, lives near the lake that my husband
spent EVERY summer as a child at.
So, here are some photos of my boys at that same lake....
some old some new....
(was Colten not the cutest baby EVER?!?)

Secondly....Tattoos.
What do you like about them, and what do you hate.
Like ..."I hate skull tattoos" or "I like bunny ones"
(horrible examples yes...but you know what I mean)
I'm designing one for my hubby and want some input...and inspiration ;)
Y'all are good for that....a very inspiring bunch.
The plan is......
I design something fabulous....we send him to see Garver ....
and I get to see Nunez.... ;) ahhh-yah....
Happy Weekend! xe

Tag...e's it......

Tagged by the very adorable and ooooh so talented Kelly......
here goes....

*Four jobs you have had in your life:
these are going to be sooo exciting...hold on to your seats....and realize i could fill a page w/ past "jobs".....so most "recent" (@8years ago)
1. Reservations at a resort in Lake Tahoe (ok, this one was ok)
2. Nanny
3. Front desk (hotel)
4. Third party liability claims for an insurance company (LOADS of fun let me tell you)

*Four movies you would watch over and over:
(anything that's not too serious really...)
1. Ferris Bueller
2. Top Gun
3. Blue Crush....(yeah, that's two of gabs but we are related..i also would watch happy texas over and over)
4. Legally Blonde

*Four places you have lived:
1. Incline Village, NV (L.Tahoe)
2. Madison, WI
3. Oskaloosa, IA
4. Hope Mills, NC

*Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. LOST
2. Meet the Barkers (nothing from you on this one Mara :) HA!)
3. House MD
4. Miami Ink....forgot about this one...so i changed it.....so bored.

*Four places you have been on vacation:
(e doesn't get to go on vacation...sooooo this one will be short ;)..)
1. Disney World
2. Lake Wauwasee, IN (awww yeah...i don't even know if that's spelled right...colin???)....
3. Vegas, for my friends wedding.
4. New Orleans, " "

*Four websites I visit daily:
1. 2peas (I try to at least peek)
2. my pea-friend's blogs
3. celeb gossip blog (love that crap)
4. Childish/Miniboden to scope out sales for the boylies (although "daily" is pushing it)

*Four of my favorite foods:
1. chicken enchiladas
2. guacamole/salsa/chips (that's going to count for 1)
3. good pizza
4. sushi

*Four places I would rather be right now:
1. right here is just fine....but....
2. i have a ragging headache right now....
3. so maybe back in bed....
4. or on a beach sipping pineabus

*Four bloggers I am tagging:
1. Rachel (hope you're feeling better)
2. Genevieve
3. Christy
4. Sneaky Ash

****By the way.... mara is SO cool. Thank you lovebug. (you've created a monster...look at me linking! HA!) xe
*****Sarah....pineapple juice and malibu. ;) yum...I think Ash coined that drinkage.

ShhhhhAdy fo shizzle....

that's all i'm saying about THAT. ;)

I'm PROcrasTINating.
I have to clean...showing the house at 5:30.
I am soooooooooo either going to come out of this w/ self induced cleaning OCD...
or I'm going to be one of those people you see on 20/20 w/ the bags of garbage in their house.
Ok....probably not...but I'm feeling like somebody needs to come in a tell me to put the pine-sol DOWN. I'm normally clean....but this is absurd....
hAte it....

whiney whiney.....
i know.
SO, we watched the end of Vision Quest at lunch today..
Gabby just choked on her water ;)
heehee...
ok, so it's a REALLY old movie....but it's good.
I dated a wrestler in high school so there was quite a bit of Vision Quest viewing.
Colten wants to wrestle, so I told him he could watch the match at the end of the movie.
I always swore none of my boys would wrestle... WAY tooo much disordered eating for my comfort......BUT....it's Colten.
He'd be one of the guys that in high school will HAVE to eat...to get up to weight...
SO, I'm thinking about it.
I had no idea little ones wrestled.
CRAZY.
Anyway, Matthew Modine looks like a teenager in it....
(he probably was) and Michael Schoeffling is in it...(aka JAKE from 16 candles ;) )
and it makes me feel REALLY old...so I probably will refrain from viewing it again for quite a LO----NG time.

Finished up my cj entry.....

A couple layouts I have out are staring at me....
so perhaps I'll try and get something else done tonight..?!?
We shall see....LOST is on tonight isn't it?
And I think it's new.....?!?!? Priorities you know ;) HA! xe

14 minutes...

14 minutes is how long it takes you to drive what is normally a 25-30 minute trip when the school calls to tell you your son is having an allergic reaction....
That was my morning....
Jack is fine now...
Gameboy is helping "make his tummy better".
Amazing how it does that, huh????

The weekend came and went SO quickly...I can't believe it's Monday again.
I need to finish up Dagmar's circle journal for Erin, and start and "finish" my circle journal for my other supercoolgroup#2 and pass that on to Gab.....
I think having lots of great scrap stuff makes me sort of ADD....I can't focus, and figure out what I'm doing, because I'm so totally overwhelmed w/ options...
Is that weird? xe

Alrighty.....

Let's just put that "game" out of it's misery shall we?!?
heehee...
It was Tara Whitney :)
You all guessed greatness in GG-age though....
I don't think it was really fair, since Tara hasn't really posted as a GG in awhile...
SORRY....bad RAK....

I use to read her blog every morning, and jack noticed I guess.
He was at the "Who's that?!" stage,
and would ask who everyone was...
This year when he decided to get a haircut he announced he wanted his haircut like "Nates"...
we were all like ..."uh, Nate?"
Well, he meant Tara's little boy.
Yep...
Cuz..."He's a cool skater"...
Kid you not.
So I shared this story w/ her... (It's a mommy thing! HA!)
and she emailed me back and complimented one of my photos..
which coming from her, was huge, and well, it made my day.
(It doesn't take much to make my day folks!)

I think I will come up w/ another RAK....
let me think on that.
If I was rich I would just send everyone something :)
ahhh, but alas, I am not.

Jessie emailed me this morning w/ a very rad site for my guys...(cool t-shirts)
I just love that my 2pea-friends actually think of me when it comes to things like that.
That is just seriously cool....and probably the best part of 2peas honestly....meeting the people I've "met"... I love it. Thanks Jess ;)

See, now Jessie made my day! HA! but don't worry I won't make you guess that one........
WTheck was I thinking.....seemed like a good idea in my mind! HA! :) Duh....
Whew....
ok, now I'm laughing at myself...

SO....
in other exciting news...
My mother-in-law and sister-in-law are coming tonight :)
I am debating what to make for dinner, if anyone has any suggestions that would be GREAT!
I am just hoping we don't end up showing the house ALL weekend...because trust me...there isn't much to do in this town. ;)

OK, off to pick up the Jack...xe

R.A.K.

OK....
So I never knew what RAK meant....
until last week, when I finally asked Gabby.
I kept thinking surely it was something so blatantly obvious....I should know it,
and I was just having another Jessica moment.
I finally gave up and called my sister.
Random Act of Kindness...who knew?!?....
(ok, besides everyone but me... )

SO, here is the deal...
Let's play guess what made e's day today ;)
And Gabby will send the winner a RAK....ur, noooo, wait, I will...heehee..
But Gabby can't play because she already knows, and she'd have guessed right anyway.
I'll tell you the complete story after the guessing....
but hints include...
She was my first FAVORITE scrapper.
She is a Garden Girl.
And she's super cool and fabulous...
OH...AND SHE EMAILED ME this morning... :)
heehee...
ok, it was in response to the story I'll share later..
but guess who?!?
Made my day...yes it did.
Shockingly...two lines can make me this happy....but it did.
I'm a dork.

Later today I got into a cyber fight w/ my "homeschool support group"
because let's just say there is a fine line on what some people consider
"support" and "Christian"...
but that's another story...
and I'm trying to not let it ruin my high from this morning. :)
xxxe

OH, and because I feel every post must have a photo....
there's my skaterboy....w/ his new shoes.
Cool huh?
Yep, he and Jared can now SKATE through stores...schools...streets...
LOOKout! HA! *Great shot Gab... :)

*******OOOOk....little update,
because I'm feeling like when you all hear what the email was about you're going to go...
"ah, e, THAT was dumb".....
So, let's clarify:
Noooooooo GG loved my gallery....
Noooooooo DT was offered.........
actually it was an email I sent, and a reply.....and it all has to do w/ Jack's hair (which sounds really dumb...yet again, I realize this) it was actually completely un-scrap related in context.
And everyone you're naming I LOVE LOVE LOVE .....Lisa McGarvey is AMAZING...
and I really would pee-in-my-pants if ANY of them emailed me...
but this was more like, say, I emailed Martha Stewart (who I adore)
and she took the time to personally email me back type of thing.....
ON the bright side, even if no one guesses......
I FEEL MUCH MUCH better knowing I wasn't the only one that didn't have a clue what a RAK was!!! HA! xe***********

Woofa Oofa 4 Ever......

Yeah, I was going to blog about "my" show last night.....
and borderline on the insanity that is my sister and Veronica Mars....
(heehee...KIDDING GAB!...besides, I don't have a Barkers shirt yet....so I'm noooo where close ;))
Umm....but you see I was gone most of the day....
so people could come and see my home...
not put an offer in on it....
oooh noooooooooo....
just come to see it...
Seriously...
It's been like a tourist site....
people coming to see it all the flipping time...
ITS MAKING ME CRAZY!
Ok, but it can't be...
because no one can buy it if I don't let them see it....
right?!?!?
So....it's fine.....
JUST FINE....

meanwhile the boys enjoyed "homeschooling" at the movie theater today... ;)
not good...not good...

I have to go give baths now and put boylies to bed...
but know I WAS going to post...
and it WAS going to be witty and comical... xe

ps. reason #23 on why not to bring your four year old to a salon for a haircut.....
he now insists that the extremely expensive bottle of aveda nonsense that I purchased..
must be applied to his hair daily...... it was only like $1000/oz...why not?!? HA!...
maybe that should be reason #45 on why e doesn't buy expensive hair product...hmmmm....