Is it Saturday yet???

Hubby will be back Saturday. For now he is about a 3hr. plane ride from me. That is insanely far away for me to even think about. I am really handling it a lot better than I was earlier. I was a huge baby before, but now I am ok. I have talked to him four times though LOL...

We spent this evening at my sister's house with dinner and a movie. The movie was soooooooo stuuuuuuupid. LOL It was funny, but not one of those cleverly funny types. It was more of a gross out haha. The movie is called "Waiting" It's nothing to write home about, or even much to blog about, but it is funny if you're too freakin' bored.

Right now as I type, Lost is on in the background and my goodness is this a show to see! It's really an awesome episode this week. I'm definately going to watch it again with a little more attention this time. Gotta love those episodes that raise even more questions in your mind ;)

We looked guilty...

So my sister and I took off with my mom tonight. Our main goal was to get birthday invitations for my sister's 12th birthday. She'll be turning 12 on Friday. WOW! Anyway, we got home and my sister asked if I wanted to go out and play $20 on the slots later. I laughed and told her we were already out, why not now ROFL. My mom was actually game. So off we go again.

We finally get to the casino, which is about 35 minutes away. They can't play at the casino that is 5 minutes away because they work there. Well, we get there and all three of us have to go to the bathroom, so we beeline it to the bathroom. We are about 15 feet from the bathroom and we are headed off by a security officer who says he needs both of our ID's LOL Yeah, I suppose we did look a little guilty, but seriously though PLEASE, don't stop me so close to the bathroom haha. Luckily, all three of us did make it in time ;) Long story short, we all walked out losers... it was fun though :)

Cheerleading...

is over. Competition is done. 2nd place at State. Not too bad, but I thought for sure they were getting first. They nailed their stunts WOW ;) Ah well. Anyway, we still have the awards banquet and the team pictures to do. Then we are done, done. Call me crazy, but I am going to be signing her up for a months worth of classes (stunt, cheer, and tumbling) from another group of cheerleaders. They are a new academy for cheer and they are offering classes. Well, I'm highly impressed with their winnings and it only being their first year, so wtheck. She's super excited and it should work well with her baseball schedule :)

There was one thing we were supposed to do for the banquet, but we got out of that. Not by my choice, by any means. We didn't get back from the competition on Saturday until midnight. Well, on Sunday I was signed up to sell raffle tickets outside of Walmart at 9am. Walmart is about 20 minutes away, plus I had to get ready and make sure Cub2 was awake and ready. This was a long process. LOL

We get to Walmart and there is no one there. wtheck!!?! I drive down to Safeway because I overheard them saying something about that too. Nope, no one there. Back up to Walmart. Nope. So I call home to see if anyone had called to say it was cancelled or something. Nope. Okay, now what??? I have cub1 give me the name of the "team mom" and I call her. She's surprised there is no one there. So she calls the fundraiser mom and then calls me back with this. Okay, the good news is "you get full credit for selling," the bad news is "you have to go back home." Um, how is this bad news??? ROFL I wasn't looking forward to it at all, so the thought of going back home sounded like heaven to me. Okay, thanks I'll see you at team pics, I'm out!!!! LOL

Drive in's are opening...

The drive-in down the road is now open. We usually go every weekend, because we have 3 within driving distance. There's always something new for us to watch. The girls saw it was open this weekend and were begging to go. Unfortunately, they both have something to do tomorrow. Cub1 has baseball practice and Cub2 competition. It would have been a great night to go though. No Rain! What a shocker. LOL That hasn't been the case lately.

We're in the middle of starting a screen printing studio for hubby. It has been going pretty quickly and we are just about ready to print. We are waiting one key element though. The exposure unit. What a pain in the ass. We ordered it February 13th. We knew it was going to be awhile as it was factory shipped. They gave us the estimated date of March 3rd. Well, that has come and passed. Hubby has been calling every other day and noooooo exposure unit. It was supposedly shipped last Wednesday and was scheduled to arrive by the end of the week, nope hasn't showed up yet?!?! They said if it doesn't show on Monday call again and they'll call the factory to make sure it was shipped. Can't ruin someone's weekend ya know ;)

Anyway, luckily my cousin's wife, the one who has been helping us get started called today! She called right when I was about to throw out the plotter ARG! The plotter wasn't cutting the rubylith right. I'm not expecting anyone to know wtheck I'm talking about, so don't worry if you don't know. A few months ago, I had no idea either. :oP Well, the printing preferences were coming up in Japanese and well, I just don't know Japanese so it wasn't too helpful HAHA I finally got that working correctly by using a trial version of Corel Draw 12 instead of the old version 8 I have. I guess I need to come up with some moolah to buy the 12 if I don't want to learn Japanese. Okay, that got off track.

Anyhow~ she was calling to tell us about an art show coming up in July. YAY! It starts again. I guess I need to get busy and plot out these designs so we have more prints to sell. It's that time of year again!!! She didn't have any helpful hints about the plotter but was super excited we have come so far. We haven't spoke in about 2 months or so, so things have really changed as far as our shop has gone!

I'm glad she called though. Great timing. Until our exposure unit comes we can expose the frames out there!!! YAY! Whew! One less thing to worry about, but man I hope ours comes soon, dangit!

We had our "hair party" today for Cub2's cheerleading team. It went about as well as can be expected with 14 crazy girls running about. Pizza, cake, and a ton of hairspray to get their hair up. I just can't believe it's the last competition tomorrow. I will be taking her, even though I don't like driving in traffic. I just don't want to miss the last one, I've made every other one, why not this one too??? So I'll buck up and go :)

V...

for Vendetta Rocks!!! I've seen it twice now. Once on Saturday and again on Sunday. The first time we went without the cubs, hubby and I. The next time I took my sister and two brothers to see it :o) Good times ;)

I seriously didn't know what I would think of this movie. Hubby was super excited to see it and I, myself was thinking man, I don't want to see a comic book film. I don't quite know what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised. Natalie Portman can act. I always knew this of her, but her performance was up there in this film.

The next movie we saw. She's the Man. ROFL It was a cute movie. Amanda Bynes was not her annoying self. She was very funny and although the plot line was not a big shocker or anything, it was entertaining and made me LOL quite a few times.

Not a lot going on...

It's Spring Break for hubby now. We've just been hanging out and waiting until time to run the cubs around to baseball andcheerleading. It's been pretty nice :o) Hubby was chosen to go to a symposium in California next week. He is going down with 4 other students from his school, I think. It's a pretty big honor to be chosen, expecially since this is only his first year there. He's a first year transfer student, but wtheck that doesn't stop him ;) Only 3 more quarters until graduation!!!! YAY!

I've been chugging my water at least 64 oz. a day, usually more since the first part of January. Go ME! I'm sitting here watching a tivo'd episode of American Idol and they booted Chicken Little, speaking of I just got back from Walmart... I bought Chicken Little LMAO.

Cub3 really surprised me today and requested to watch Stuart Little. I'm really enjoying how verbal he is. He has always been quite the talkative little guy, but he is really trying his voice lately singing and just talking up a storm. Gotta love that.

Cub4 is still standing by himself, and is now taking 3-4 steps at a time, but refuses to take anymore. He's slowly getting there though. No rush really! I'm enjoying having him a baby still. This is really different to me though, as all the other cubs walked before 11 months. (not that I'm rushing him ;) )

Cub2 is on her last week of cheerleading. The last competition of the year is this Saturday... Let's hope they end the year on a good note! She will soon be testing for a special "highly capable" class and if she is accepted will probably switch schools. The class is just a couple years old and they choose 20 students (1/2 4th & 1/2 5th graders) out of the whole district so it is a huuuuuge deal for her even to be testing. :O) Good Luck Cub2!!!!!

Cub1 is pitching this year. She's usually the only girl on her baseball teams, but this year there are 2 others possibly 3!!! That's quite a difference. Anyway she is one of 4 pitchers for the team. She got her report card just a bit ago and WOW!! She has mastered middle school... only 2 A-'s and the rest A's This is the first year she had letter grades, so very impressive for her to come out of the gate with great grades :o)

I'll write more probably tomorrow, but thought I'd take a few minutes to make a note of how the cubs are doing, so I have something to look back on later and grin :)

Diego is good for something...

*LOL* It's official my one year old son knows more Spanish than me. The boy found the stairs a few months back, so we have to keep a watchful eye out on him or he'll be climbing them quicker than you can blink! Anyway, on Go, Diego, Go! it has one about a baby jaguar who climbs jaguar mountain, yeah, yeah... get to the point. Well when this baby jaguar climbs the mountain he jumps, and the kids are supposed to help him by yelling, "salta?" Well yeah it's cute when he's watching it and yelling along, but now he's put the two together. He climbs the stairs yelling, "salta" *ROFL* Cute little guy. He has no choice but to be verbal in this household or he'd never be heard, but wow! is he ever cute???

One more to go...

Just one more competition and we're done for the year!!!! YAY!!!! Baseball season is pretty much in full stride now. We are getting snow of all things right now??!?? Isn't it a little late for snow?? The girls are actually having baseball practices indoors *LOL* fun, fun.

Only one more week in the quarter for hubby. It will be nice when he can help with the practice schedules again. This quarter has been pretty hectic, but he has handled it wonderfully. He's still unsure which class to take for Spring quarter, but he has a few ideas. Both of the classes he's looking into would change his tues, wed, thurs schedule. I'm all for it if he can get out earlier though ~haha.

We just finished up a science project tonight. It turned out great! Cub1 is quite the little perfectionist anyway, but I was totally impressed with her layout!!! So on the agenda for tomorrow, science fair and two baseball practices. Luckily, cheerleading practice was cancelled due to the science fair, oh the irony.