Random Thoughts...

The sickness moves on. Unfortunately it has hit Cub3. Poor little man, he's wonderful though, he has made it to the toilet all but once! Okay, enough of the gross talk.

Onto the randomness,

Non-spending spree still in effect... YAY ME!
I filled out hubby's Financial Aid today...woohoo!
I also printed out the additional paperwork needed to turn into the school...yahoo!
I'm hooked on watching sitcoms... ones from the eighties *ducks and hides*
It's a quiet night with the Cubs, we only had volleyball and one for basketball, the basketball was cancelled~ oh darn!
Hubby's still in class, his evening class right now.
Cub2 has another competition this weekend, apparently this one is an expensive one, I have no idea why?!?! We've been paying only 6-8 bucks per competition, this one is $36. It kinda cracks me up the only thing they get when they place is a team trophy~ woohoo (okay, it's cool, but still)
I've watched so many Blue's Clues this last couple days and if I had to vote, my vote is for Steve, Joe just doesn't do it for me ~ ROFL.
Other tv news~~~ 24 is really good this season, I really wondered if they could keep pulling it off, but I'm really enjoying this season too!
Grey's Anatomy... wtheck is code black??? Okay, I would have watched anyway, but you really don't need to torture me!!!!
Desperate Housewives... I hate reruns.
American Idol.... Sammy was so freakin' hilarious. I just loved the look on Paula's face when he broke into "straight up." On with the competition already though!!! The bad auditions are funny, but really now, I wanna see the talent!
LOST... Oh geez, Love, love, love this show. Can't wait to see what happens next!
Superbowl~ my crazy dad is going, he leaves tomorrow morning. Hope he enjoys! That's insane.
Okay enough random rambles~ Later!

Yep, it's the 10th now...

I spent most of the afternoon on Saturday at H&R Block and after all that, the refund is set for the 10th. There were tons of alert flags that popped up and so I opted for the Peace of Mind Protection ~ LOL I really don't want to be dealing with the IRS over their calculations. I usually do the taxes myself, but with hubby's schooling I wasn't sure how to figure the tax and how to report everything. Awwww well... no biggie.

I've got a sick baby on my hands. I woke to him puking on my *ahem* back side. ROFL the good thing about that is, none of it reached the bed :oP Yeah, I know sick, but I found it quite humorous and felt very fortunate to not having to clean up the bed. He's quite the trooper though, still cuddly and really no whining to speak of. Such a happy little guy normally, just a few less smiles today.

Hubby had an interview of all things today. It's really strange to me to even think that someone wants to "interview" him. It was all about art and it was video taped and a few still shots were taken. What the point was I'm not sure. He said it was funner than he thought it would be though, which is good I guess. I just still don't know what the purpose was ?!? Heck, will I ever know??? Probably not.

It's about time to get ready to go. It's my BIL's birthday today, we're having a quiet little party for him. I think hubby will probably have to stay with Cub4, poor little guy probably shouldn't be partying in his state. I just hope no one else gets sick, that sucks when the household gets sick!!!

The only time I don't do taxes myself...

and it's being held up due to an error. I'm still waiting for the tax guy to call back. He had to put it on hold to see if their next download of updates will fix the problem. Anyway, I'm sure that's going to slow down the return. He was giving me an estimate of Feb 3rd for the return, but I'm sure that's more like the 10th now. Oh well, I'm still not sure what I want to buy yet. I really want a new lens, but I really want a 5d *drool* If I could talk hubby into both that would be just awesome. I really don't want to waste all of the return on my toys though. Maybe I'll just go for the lens alone.

As far as spending goes, I have been doing GREAT!!! My non-spending spree is only less than a month old, but we have a lot more money saved than we normally do this time of the month. Very cool. Of course it has me more "window shopping" online than ever. I dream bigger now and that can't be good. *LOL* Oh well. no biggie.

On the agenda for today is Basketball for cub1 and Cheerleading practice for cub2. Hubby is still off doing research for a case he's working on for class, I was really hoping he'd make it back to be the chauffeur today. Oh well, still a little bit longer before it all starts.

Feb4th is baseball signups too. That's one sport I enjoy. I can't wait until the boys are old enough for that. Oh just imagine how busy that will be. Mind boggling.

One more competition down...

Well, they placed this time! YAY! It's too cool watching cub2 and the rest of her team perform. They are doing sooooooo well. Anyway, no more competitions for a couple weeks at least. WHEW!!! They sure are time consuming. I never would have guessed that either!

Today, we just had a lax day and watched playoff games and wouldn't you know it?!?! Seattle is going to the Superbowl!!!!! My dad was at the game, I'm sure he was just loving it. The news people are just going crazy over the whole thing, kinda makes me wonder if it's like that in other states when their home team goes to the superbowl!?!? Any clue?? Are they "over" excited or is that just the celebration in them??? I must admit it was fun to watch though.

I'm busy trying to decide what to do for Cub4's 1st birthday and am at a total loss. It's kind of buggin me because nothing is coming to mind.

Well...

It all went pretty well. All that for a whoppin' 2 minute routine LOL but it was soooooooo worth it to see her just grinning away and loving every second. That was the very first competition I have ever witnessed and omgosh that is such a different sort of thing. I never in my life thought cheerleading could be so intense~haha. They sure get into it!!! They didn't place, but the coach was super pleased with the scores. We'll see how next weekend's goes!!!!

itter and the star on her face, they did that shortly before we left for the school. I blacked out the name of the team, basically because it also happens to be the town we're from. *wink*

Well, we got back very late, late Saturday night. Early Sunday morning Cub4 had a fever so I was busy holding him the majority of the day yesterday. He's doing much better now, so I figured I better update the blog.

Today was a very lax day, I actually just watched tv for quite some time. I ran into this crazy game show though, it was funny to watch. It's called CashCab and it's on discovery channel, I think?! It was so interesting to watch the "contestants" as they caught the taxi cab realizing they were actually being video taped and on a game show. I think the most people walked out with was about $600 or so. I was watching it with hubby and we're both such information hogs anyway, there were only probably 2 questions of the whole 2 episodes we watched that both of us didn't know. Why can't that happen to us ??? LOL

Anyway, back to the show... they had a bonus question double or nothing, if you got the question right you get double what you already won or if you got it wrong you get nothing. Of course you have the option of just walking with what you already won. Hubby's choice would be to walk with his winnings as is. Mine of course is try for double, because you have nothing to lose, it wasn't yours to begin with ~ right???? So my question to you is, are you a double or nothing type of person or are you a better safe than sorry type??? :oP

Off to Competition!!!

Cub2 has cheerleading competition this weekend. Her first one ever, so we'll see how it goes. She's super excited and it ought to be lots of fun for her!!!! Good luck to her!!!

Pretty decent day...

Overall, it's been good. I drank all my water, I didn't forget any kids anywhere *LOL*, I worked on a couple of pictures, did a whole lot of counting with Cub3, cleaned the livingroom early this morning, (can't tell now, but that's beside the point), and nooooooo spending!!! YAY!!! I'm really good at this!!! haha I honestly don't know how much longer I can go. There is a couple of books I want and I can't help but peek at more camera stuff, I'm not doing anything about it though, so that's a good thing.

Cub2 has cheerleading practice every single day this week, in preparation for the competition. We'll be leaving Friday afternoon to go stay overnight at a nearby hotel, it ought to be fun. Hey though, I was just thinking... Non-spending spree will have to be on hold for one thing~ it's my mom's birthday tomorrow (thursday)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! I know she doesn't read but hey it's in print now :oP I have no clue what to get her though, I've honestly been thinking on this for about a month and still I have nothing. She buys everything before it becomes a need or even a want. Of course that makes perfect sense now where I got that. *blush* I'll have to figure something out, maybe a big fruit basket.

We signed up for a 12 week challenge at Curves. I don't know how fair that is, I only work out there maybe once a week, I use the other gym almost every day ~ oh well it's still the same bod, so that should count. One cool thing though, my mom was voted by curves employees as 1 of the 4 women of the year at curves. They gave her an 18 inch statue?? I don't know, I haven't seen it yet, but it's still kinda cool. Go mom!!! :o)

I had an interesting thought though. I was picking up Cub1 from basketball, I was talking with the coach. Let me start off by saying, the coach has a really strange sense of humor and can come off as rude at times, but he's harmless. Anyhow, we were talking and one of the girls from the team came up and muttered something and he had a rude comeback anyway, something about her natural beauty. The girl just giggled and went back to playing. He then looks at me and tells me what the girl had told him earlier. This girl was complaining about how the rest of the team doesn't like her, and she blames it on the fact she has natural beauty. The coach just absolutely lost it when she said it, he assumed she was joking. Of course he thought it was a really good joke until he saw she was serious. He said he stopped laughing and tried to play it off, unsuccessfully I'm sure. I just kind of stared at him then looked at the girl. I then looked back at the coach and said, "you know what that is don't you???" He stopped joking and says, "no, why???" I then proceeded to tell him that's all stems from her mom. LOL He thought I was joking. So I explained, when a girl comes home complaining about not being accepted one of the reasonings moms come up with is, "it's just because you're so pretty" or other such compliments turn reasoning. He kinda laughed and said yeah I guess huh. Then mumbled something about her "actually" believing it being weird. LOL Now seriously I don't know if that's what happened but it sure made sense to me ROFL I must admit it kind of cracks me up she would openly announce that at practice.

So that was my thought for the day. Influencing children can be easy when you talk with them, what a novel concept~ *wink*

Off to go exercise!

Just what I wanted...

I "re-learned" fractions. I can add, subract, divide, multiply and this is with mixed number might I add. Woohoo, I'm on a roll. Gotta love how your kiddos in school teaches you right along side of them. I was really great at math, now since those skills have been dormant they are a little rusty. Never fear though, it only takes a couple problems for those gears to get going again. *rolleyes* YAY!!! Can you tell my excitement???

Anyhow, I survived the mom taxi today and everyone made it on time!!! YAY ME!

I also broke my non-spending spree. Not badly and it wasn't even fun, I'm afraid. $8 for competition this weekend, $25 for the cheerleading bag (embroidered), and $51 for more of hubby's school books. I'm still under $100 for the day though and it wasn't anything I could have gotten away with no payment ~ so there *wink*

After reading the other comments to the blog below... yes, tabs are registration for your vehicles. I was just curious over price because a few years back ours were in the hundreds and it was calculated through year and weight of vehicle and such. Some guy took out a petition and had a law passed we would only pay $30 a year a few years back. Now the state is charging different fees to raise the cost. I imagine the state lost a ton of money in that deal though, so you can't really blame them for trying to make it up somewhere. Anyway, hope that clarified it.

There was an old man named Michael Finnigan~

BEGIN AGAIN!!!!!! It's the first day of school for hubby so it's just cub3&4 with me today. Girls are in school and seem to be super glad to be back. Basketball just started again lastnight. Cub1 also just started Volleyball at school. So here's how the evening went yesterday (let's see if I can duplicate it tonight alone ;)) Pick Cub1 up at school from volleyball, hubby dropped cub2 off at basketball at the same time, Dropped Cub1 off at basketball, pick cub2 up from basketball 1/2 hour early for cheerleading. Drop Cub2 off for cheerleading, come back pick up cub1 from basketball(hubby did yesterday) then go get cub2 from cheerleading. This will be for today and tomorrow. I think I'll have to call on my mom for some of it, can't be in two places at once... or can I??? muahahahaha *LOL*

Anyhow, the whole reason I get to be taxi by myself now is because hubby is taking a night class in addition to his day class, this will help him finish earlier (a whole quarter anyway) Of course that lands him finishing Winter Quarter, and that's not really seeming very advantageous, but there's gotta be some pluses to it~ right?

I'm so proud of myself though, I have made a conscious effort not to spend money so carelessly. I'm terrible at just spur of the moment purchases and just simply buy too much stuff, allllllll the time. (whether it's a necessity or not) I've been really good though. I'm in charge of finances so hubby honestly didn't even notice until I straight out told him. LOL so he's trying it too now ~ ROFL. So I bought $50 of groceries yesterday and the time before that was $43 for tabs, two days ago, the time before that was $18 for fruits and veggies and before that lands me right around the end of december!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!

Question for anyone who will answer though, how much are license tabs for your vehicles wherever you are??? They passed a law that limited ours to $30 about 3 years back and they've slowly been tacking on fee after fee to get it climbing back up there. This year was a mandatory $10 weight fee?!?! For a car!!! We used to only pay a weight fee for a truck, but apparently it's the new one for this year. Anyway~ what's your tabs cost ya???

A little late but I'm sharing anyways...

Okay Mrs. Fun, this is "proof" LOL I did go ahead and seat 4 kiddos, but just didn't print for cards ROFL All in fun of course, but I thought I'd show you anyhow.
Sorry there are quite a few. These are just outtakes and me practing with my lights which still boggle my mind in trying to figure them out. Seeeeee I wasn't SKERD *wink*




Here he wouldn’t sit in the box


The final one to go down in history of Christmas 2005

Well things have finally slowed a bit!!!

It's simply amazing how busy it was around here for quite some time. I honestly don't think I've ever been so busy in my life. Hubby neither, we just discussed that earlier today. I'm busy trying to get the house back in order, or I should say WE are...

I've still got some wedding pics to proof from way back on Christmas Eve. I'm not too worried about it, it's just a "freebie" for distant family anyway. Not that it makes it any less special, it's just not very pressing for time.

Cub3 has a cheerleading competition coming up on the 14th and basketball practice resumes next week, so does hubby's school. This week is pretty much free.

That's us in a nutshell!!!

Happy New Year!!!!

I spent midnight at the entrance of a casino waiting for pics to print out, while hubby moved the van. LOL Not exactly what I envisioned. Not bad though. I don't know if I had written about this, but on New Year's Eve I was commissioned to take basically "prom shots" of the patrons of the casino down the road and print on site. Yikes! I had no idea how it would work and was honestly thinking of "not doing it," but I am glad I did, it was quite a success!!! For the record, they asked me, that's seriously not something I would have thought of.

People loved it though and it was honestly pretty fun. Only complaint, my dang printer is slooooooooow. People just love the Epson 2200 and I must say I'm a fan too, but for big volume quick printing, little prints it is not!!!!! Photo quality yes, Quick??? that's lacking. That and it's HUUUUUUUUGE!!!!! LOL

The girls had their basketball tourney and were eliminated after two games, both of their teams. They are in separate age brackets this year, so that was cool, twice the games to watch. Both of them received all stars, Cub1 for her all around get up and go, and Cub2 for having the best defense. Now that was hilarious. Cub2 was scaring those poor little 10& under girls ~ HAHA. She was right up on 'em. The coached teased her she was "on 'em like they stole her lunch money."

Overall everything is finally slowing down. The girls go back to school on Tuesday, hubby goes on the 9th. Then it's just the boys and I again!! Cub4 has his fourth tooth today (top right)

I do feel horrible though!!! No Christmas Cards were sent from us this year!!!!! So if you read this and normally get one, I'm sorry it wasn't you, it was me... Seriously~ Sorry!!! I hope your season was magical ;)