Happy Easter...

Just a couple of quick pics to share... First off, don't put all your eggs in one basket. :o)



















Have a Happy Easter Everyone!

Random Thoughts...

I have been super busy trying to digitize hubby's images so he can print. He has his work cut out for him too, every time I finish one he has one more to print. This is a never ending cycle, but it is worth it, it pays the bills right???

Cubs are all doing well. Baseball season is underway and it looks like it will be a good year. Both of the girls won their first games WOOHOO!! We have honestly never been on winning teams. This is the fifth year?? Oh how sad is that???

Cub3 is big on storytelling lately, he's crazy. Funny, but crazy. Cub4 has popped in his 9th and 10th teeth, shortly after hubby's trip to California. He is also walking all the time now. That seems really strange, not because it's too soon, but because he was so cautious about doing it for so long!!! He's a good kid though. I have really enjoyed him.

Things that have been making me go hmmmmm... lately...
1) what attracts people to other people? I can thank my sister for this one.
2) are people more scared of success or of failure? I'm not going to mention names here, but I will mention the situation. weight loss. why stop when you are doing so well? goal is still far away, but why stop while the going is good? afraid you will actually meet it or that you can't? who knows?
3)who does the world revolve around? rofl again, I will only mention situation. someone is getting married. happy time right? it would seem, but just say the bride's future mil is now refusing to go because her ex's new girlfriend will be there. oh the horror. seriously folks this isn't about you, can you please act grown up for one day?? this wedding isn't for another 2-3 months why worry about it now?? I can only guess she is hoping for pity or she's really delusional enough to think she can stop the girlfriend from coming. people are stooooopid.

I survived...

Hubby is back and all went well. It was only tough the first day. After that the girls were busy with baseball, so that took up quite a bit of time. We went to go see Ice Age 2 on Friday and stopped off at Chuck E. Cheese's on the way back. It was pretty fun. It was my youngest sister's 12th birthday on Friday. She had a pool party and a slumber party in a suite in the Hotel down the road. It was fun.

Lastnight, my sister took the 3 older ones which left us with cub4. We took the opportunity to go to dinner and a movie. We ate at Famous Dave's (yummmmmy bbq.) We had a huge 2 person platter and wound up with a ton of leftovers. It was awesome! On the way home we stopped off to see if there was a late movie playing and yes! there was. We went to go see Inside Man and for $16.25 we had the whole theater to ourselves. LOL That was just perfect since Cub4 isn't the best moviewatcher. In our defense, hubby had watched the movie in California while he was down there, so he would have walked cub4 out if he had been a problem. Good movie. Made me laugh a few times and it was very thoughtful. :o)

Cub4 has been walking all over the place, just since Thursday! He has finally gotten up the nerve. I have always had early walkers except for him so this has been quite a shocker to me. He just up and did it!

The girls left with my sister to go see Slither?!? They should be back in about an hour and a half. Hubby went to his first class today. He's actually not signed up for this class though. He's trying to get into this class, but it was filled before he signed up. It's the same professor he had last quarter and he told him just to show up on the first day if he wants in, so he's trying it. I hope it works for him. Otherwise his "real" class starts tomorrow.

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.

The Tale of a Gummy Bear...

It was a dinner like any other. The poor gummy bear, well let's call him a gummy bear (he's actually a gummy dog from Target) had no clue to what was ahead for him. We went to a Japanese Steak House, you know the type, they cook the food in front of you as you seat around the grill with your party and a few other anxious strangers. We've got all the cubs around the table ready for the show.

Cub3 is getting a little anxious, I reach in my pocket where I stowed away some gummy bears and I hand him one. Just one. Well, next thing I know after putting some water in Cub4's sippy cup, cub3 is crying. He's sobbing. I ask him what's wrong and my gosh I look at Cub1 &2 out of the corner of my eye, they have shocked looks on their face and begin to snicker. Of course I look to see what they are laughing about. Cub3 is still upset and pointing to where the girls are looking. I see the gummy bear, he's a clear one. He had landed right on the grill. Of course, I'm looking around at this point, oh geez, this can't be good. He's bubbling! OH NO! the grill is on. *sigh* CRAP! Cub3 is upset saying, "the bear is dying!!!" By this time the guy next to me is grinning asking, "what is that??" I tell him it's a gummy bear *blush* I look over and the guy sitting directly in front of it is playing with it with his fork. The bear is definately black now. He's teasing my girls asking what they put on it. Just then the cook comes out. The guy with the fork jokingly asks the cook, "don't you guys clean these grills?" The cook jokes back, "yes, we do, now what did you put on the grill, you're the one who has your fork in it." By this time, we're all kind of chuckling and cub3 is finally calmed down.

The cook asks us what it is as he's trying to clean it off. We tell him it's a gummy bear. He then jokingly accuses the girls who point directly at Cub3, of course he looks at Cub3 who quickly points back at me. I so wasn't expecting that. ROFL So I get the blame and everyone laughs. Okay fine. Haha, but I still deny throwing the gummy bear to his demise.

I'm glad the cook had a wonderful sense of humor, he was even joking about it as we paid and were leaving. We had them take pictures of Cub4 for his "birthday" and they sang to him, he sure loved it. Unfortunately the polaroid they used didn't have excellent quality, gosh I wonder why. I suppose I could scan it if I knew where my power cord took off too. Hmmmmmm, maybe later :P

Happy Birthday Sweet Baby Boy!!!!

Cub4 is officially 1 year old today. Yes, he is my sweet valentine's baby.

Happy First Birthday Baby!!! You have added sooooo much to our family, thank you for just being.

Did you ever wonder???

Well, we not only went to see Pink Panther, but we went to see Curious George too this weekend. I've always wondered and never knew... The Man With the Yellow Hat's name is... Ted :O)

Anyhow, we celebrated Cub4's First Birthday today, I'll update the Cub Cave and post some pics, perhaps I'll share a few here. I'm not feeling all that great and my head feels as though it will explode.

Update more later!

How much is tooooo much???

I'm sure wondering lately about how we are raising our overachieving girls. It's not a bad thing, but my gosh are they busy? How much is too much? I love the fact they are busy and they are really enjoying themselves, but my goodness this is a neverending roller coaster ride.

We signed them up for baseball lastnight, tryouts are on the 18th (cub1) & 19th (cub2) Cub1 had basketball and volleyball lastnight. Cub2 had cheerleading. Cub1 made All Stars in volleyball so she has to go daily since Tuesday and all of next week.

It's just insane, she has to make a pendulum by tomorrow and we haven't even been home long enough to do it!?!?! I did finish buying all of the materials so it should be okay, but I hate cutting it so close. She also has to do a science project by Mid-March, we were thinking okay, that's easy enough. That was until Cub2 came home and said her teacher suggested her and 3 other students in the class do a science project as well?!?! She seriously came home with a packet of information and a registration form with her name boldly printed by the teacher up top. So luckily this is the same science fair Cub1 was doing a science project for, but after reading the info packet I realize it's a 2 day fair!!!

I'm sure baseball practice is sure to start by that day for both cubs, so it probably lands on a practice day. They are supposed to sit there with their projects all day long??? What if they are too busy does that mean one parent goes to baseball and the other sits by the project?~~ LOL

Anyway the weekend before that we are going, as a family to watch Cub2 perform in the regionals, we'll stay in a hotel 2 nights, which will be a nice small getaway. How does baseball work into this again? Cheerleading's last competition of the year is March 25th, I believe so that frees up that schedule of 3 nights a week practice and almost every other Saturday for competitions. That still leaves basketball which everyday, it is one of the girls' practice. This also comes to the next question, will Cub1 do after school soccer? LOL Oh geez!

So in the midst of all the delivery and return of children lastnight, Cub2 informs me there is a musical concert on the 16th this month. No biggie, right? Well that lands on one of her "mandatory, or else you don't compete" cheerleading practices. Ok so we have a choice, she interrupts, okay I guess we don't have a choice... she has been chosen to be one of the "dancers" in one of the songs they perform~ YIKES, this girl! What am I thinking, but OF COURSE SHE HAS... she's little supergirl she can do anything ~ ROFL So I guess we tell the militant cheer coaches she's not making it that night and too bad but I'm sure they aren't going to redo the whole routine because she missed one night. BAH!

Okay, it's finally all digested, we let KFC do the cooking and come home to eat... and I hear, "Mom, I have a band concert on February 28th." (cub1) Just smile and say, "of course you do." WHEW! All I can say is I'm glad I had them in two batches or I'd be doing this with the boys right now too!!! *faint*

***Anyhow, I suppose I should add, scholastics are always first and if they both aren't getting excellent grades they wouldn't be doing all the extras. Cub1 with all A's and Cub2 with all 4's (they aren't letter graded only 1-4's)***

Just a few lines to say I'm alive...

Cub4 had a tooth pop through on Saturday. Yippee!!! That's 5 chompers now.

Superbowl was interesting to say the least. My Dad called and was quite upset the Seahawks lost. Sounds like he had fun though?!?! I hope LOL, for the price he paid he better have!!!

Cub2 had another cheer competition, yay!!! Their very first 1st place trophy. We have 3 more competitions and the season is through.

Baseball signups were on Saturday and we were at competition so that didn't work out. We'll be signing Cub1&2 up tomorrow evening.

Yesterday, I was informed Cub2 may have gotten sent to the office for calling another child at school a very bad name. That in itself was quite upsetting as we had just asked her how her day had gone and she didn't mention that!!! So we called her back down and she doesn't even talk to the kid who said she was sent to the office with him. It totally didn't sound like her at all though, which was probably why hubby and I were so disturbed by this. It's just really annoying that someone is out there saying my child says such terrible things! Seriously though, it's not even a word hubby or I would ever dream of using and it just irritates me to no end that child's parents believe my child was right there along side theirs saying such nastiness. BAH! I know I'm just overthinking it or at least I hope I am, but I always thought your children will act as though they are taught and speaking like that is just not mine or my hubby's way. Okay, that's out, it feels a little better.

I got my new lens in the mail on Monday. I haven't had much time to mess with it, but oh my gosh am I loving the idea. I bought it specifically for shooting sports (ie. cheerleading, basketball, baseball, etc.) It's definately not a portrait type lens, I'd definately need a huge room for that LOL... For those interested, and for those not don't read, it's a 70-200 2.8L IS. It's way too freakin' expensive for me to think about, but hubby said go right ahead, so I jumped on it.

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 ;)

I'm horrible at daily life lately...

I'm really not a scheduled type person. I don't ever plan to be, nor do I want to be. That said, the only constant in my life lately is exercise. This is a good thing, really. Everything else in my life is put on hold it seems. Just when I think I'm getting caught up something else happens. It has all been good things until yesterday though. My dad, my grandpa and my uncle came over for dinner, my mother and father in law did as well. That went very well. It was seriously the first time our fathers have met and we have been married almost ten years!!! That's not the bad part though. Shortly after my dad had left, he called very upset. His auntie passed away. Granted, she was very ill and in the hospital for 20+ days, it was still very emotional for him. I didn't grow up close to his side of the family, not that it matters, but it did make me feel very sad for him. His auntie actually did a good portion of raising him as a child. They were extremely close. It's always so hard to hear my dad so upset, it has only happened maybe three times I can vividly remember.

Other than that things have been going quite well. The cubs are right smack dab in the middle of a basketball tournament. It's so fun watching them play. Both have gotten increasingly better with time since last year. I really should be getting to bed, I have to get up in 5 1/2 hours. So quickly I'll say... Cub4 has tooth #3 (top tooth now.) He's busy trying to take off up the stairs~ YIKES!!!! He can stand for a few seconds at a time, pulls himself up, but still not interested in "normal" crawling. He's improvised and does his own thing. He's a little too mobile for his own good, he's scary!!! Anyway, I'm off to sleep.

Quick few lines here...

Art show was great!!!! We should be getting new flooring because of it, so that's pretty exciting!!! Yay!!! We are just not carpet people. LOL Embarassing to admit, but it's true. We've only had our carpet for 2 years and it looks like it's been through some rough times.

Tomorrow we should be moving our bedroom back upstairs. Everyone's been sick the last couple days including myself, so things have been on hold. I did wind up finishing up proofing the baby shower from a couple weeks ago though. FINALLY!

Our current room will be used as a studio/workspace, so that's exciting!! Then to figure out my lights.... hope that doesn't take long.

More from my busy life...

It's been pretty hectic and I swear it has to be on the verge of slowing down here sometime!!!!

Print #4 is commmmmplete!!! It's the first with hubby's signature feather burned onto the print itself. It turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. I figured this is good as spot as any to keep track of when these prints were "hatched."

Cub#4 has two teeth now, don't know if I already blogged that or not, but he is soooooo great at letting me brush them. Man this kid is awesome!!!

I also bought a bunch of new toys. I'm just waiting on a few more then I can really play! Hubby told me for early Christmas to go ahead and order those "bees." So I'm just waiting on my softliter and then I can play. YAY!!!

I still haven't printed a Christmas Card this year, oh no!!! I really hope people don't get the idea I've crossed them off of my list LOL.

What else is happening~ For New Years I have been commissioned to take pictures at the local casino, prom style :oP So that ought to be interesting. I've also taken some shots for some company through my brother, it was nothing big, but a part for his quad and they will be using the shots for marketing purposes :o) I finished my friend's order for 2 photo blankets too. I really doubt they will be here in time for Christmas though. That sucks. This same friend also announced her engagement a few days back, guess hubby and I will shoot her wedding too. Like I said, busy life!!!

One mildly interesting inquiry had me grinning though. Someone had seen all the pictures I have been taking lately and asked if I photographed people at all. She was asking hubby, I wasn't there yet. Anyway, she was saying how backlogged she gets with requests for her photography and asked if I would be willing to travel around the US to take pics. LOL That would be interesting. I really don't know if anything will seriously come of it, but that sounded like fun :oP

We have another art show this weekend, so hopefully it will be as successful as the last few. Hubby is trying to get one more print done before then so we have to head out of here soon!!!

When life slows down...

I'll wonder what to do with myself. I took pictures at a baby shower on Saturday, still not done proofing them. It was just a favor for my sis, but still, I don't want pictures floating around there with people knowing I took them. That's another thing!!! I took pics for my friend, I actually had to reshoot. Man, oh man that sucked. Not the photoshoot itself, but the lighting in her house wasn't that good at all. It's ridiculous. I took the pics, put together a collage so she can get 2 photo blankets made from a company on ebay. Unfortunately, they are sending her a kit, that she can send the pic into the company or upload it to their website. Oh please!!! I know we wound up cutting it really close, but wow I really wish we would have bookmarked the company which promised delivery by Christmas if ordered by Dec. 5th. Oh well, it should all work out, sooner or later.

I'm still busy digitizing more of hubby's paintings and he's busy filling orders for the business, it has been doing quite well for itself the last few weeks. I know it's just the holidays, but it's enough to make these holidays happy.

I'm still trying to figure out my dang printer too. I just bought an Epson 2200 printer which can print up to 13 inches wide. It's huge and the ink is supposed to last 100+ years on paper :o) That's fine and dandy and all, but what good does it do me if my pictures look terrible?!?! I'm confused on whether it's my monitor, the printer, the picture, the software, all of them, none of them or just the combination!!!! Ugh!!! I really hoped it would just be a simple hook it up and go, but apparently that's too simple of a wish. The good thing is, I'm learning a lot about the printer, just not the right stuff, I guess.

Tiring, tiring, tiring...

but in a good way. Print #3, put a done sticker on that one!!! Yay!!!!

We had our first snow Thursday. It was gorgeous!!! It's pretty well melted now, but it was great. The kiddos got early release due to the snow, but Friday came along and nada, school as usual.

Cub#4's second tooth is finally making way. He's absolutely wonderful at letting me brush them~ what a great kid :o)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

We were supposed to be hit with about 5 inches of snow lastnight. Ha. Not even an inch. No biggie, it's too cold for me anyhow. They even delayed school even before it started snowing. That's a lot of trust in the weatherman if you ask me!!! :oP

I took Christmas pics for my friend and some of them turned out cute, the others are okay, but I've decided... I NEEEEEEED LIGHTS, and a new wide angle lens. I had to use the stinkin kit lens because it's my only lens that goes down to 18mm. Other than that it was fun. I am supposed to go back today to do the individuals. That's 7 kids!!!!!!!!!!! Yikes.

Just to add a few things that made me smile about cub3, just because... he insists he neeeeeeds a spongebob bike for Christmas. This is honestly the first year he has "requested" anything. He even told my dad that was his wish. Now here's the kicker... I've looked online and they have a spongebob big wheel, but nooooo bike. hmmmmmmm..... anyway the other cute thing.

He put some coins he found in an earring box without the back to hold the earrings, just one of those clam type thingies. He was counting his "moneys." The kid can count in spanish too, it's cute (thanks dora!) and off the topic though. He wanted to know which one was a quarter, I showed him. This went on with all of the ones he had. Well he was pretty good at remembering, so I call hubby in and he does it for him. It went something like this, " a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and a fifty-five cent piece." LOL I have no idea how he came up with that, but it was too cute.

2 prints done, should be 3 by the end of the week. Hubby went to get more paper yesterday. Get this!!! It's official, his prints have made the gallery. A reallllllllly nice one at that!!! He still needs to talk to about 5 or 6 more, but the response was more than he could have hoped for.

I returned my camera. I'm not a point and shoot gal anymore I think. I took about 16 pictures with it and only one turned out with the color I wanted. The rest had a bit of a cyan tint.

We also decorated our tree lastnight. I always have to wait until the dinner with hubby's father is done to decorate, but it feels good to have it up finally. For some reason I was really anxious this year, I could have put it up before halloween and been content. haha.

Dinner went well, although there was a slight change in guests. Hubby's dad and his wife were replaced by my dad and his wife. They were all amazed at the dinner hubby had made. It went really well and they are now officially invited to our Christmas dinner, which also takes place after the holiday.

I think I'm going to try to sneak in a nap, both boys are so wtheck.

Black Friday...

Man oh man, was that tiring or what??? We left to go at 4am. I swear they are opening up earlier and earlier for those crazy sales. We got to Walmart at 4:15, so officially 45 minutes of anxious shoppers, just counting down the minutes to checkout. The lines were huge when we arrived and only got longer. I maneuvered quite easily through the madness though, I played it smart and didn't grab a cart. I was wandering around the electronics/photo center. There was a kodak camera 6.1 megapixel camera I was considering at a whopping $199. It wasn't that I needed it, I just want a camera that sits in my glove box for those moments you can't plan. My 20d is far too bulky to carry at all times. I thought about leaving the rebel under my chair in the van, but I honestly don't trust anyone, I'd hate to be out my digi rebel even if it is just my backup. People just suck, you can't trust anyone.

Anyway, I was standing around when they unloaded the pallet of kodaks and I still had 15 minutes to go. My brother was standing around with me, my mom had already gone to the car. To buy or not to buy... Well since I was there :oP I waited out the few minutes and grabbed one up and picked up a 256mb sd card for 13.88? It's all good. There was a woman who was crowding out the line to check out and she hadn't even gotten her stuff yet. I hate that. I, of course, asked the checkout lady to ring my stuff up as I was handing it to her. I could feel the woman burning a hole in the side of my head, but I really didn't care. I had places to go, money to spend. I quickly swiped my card and was swiftly making my way through the gobs of people. I was stopped at the door to make sure I paid for what I was walking out with, which took maybe 7 seconds and I was on my way. 5:04, we hit the freeway. That's not too shabby, considering it takes a minute to get to the freeway. So 3 minutes after the big announcement (on your marks get set go!) we were headed to our next stop.

5:17 we drive by Best Buy, oooooh heck no. People are in line just to get into the place and they'd been open for 17 minutes. I was looking for mp3 players for my girls, just little cheapo ones, I didn't want to make a huge investment unless they really like them. Okay, next stop ToysRUs... well that makes it easy they don't open until 6. Off to Walgreen's, they have cheapo mp3's there, a little tooooo cheap though I still didn't get them. We waste too much time at Walgreen's and the goofy part is, their sale didn't start until 7!!! They had other sales though, good ones for wrapping paper and foil gift tags. (buy one get two free or something like that!) Good deal, but we were missing out. My mom went through the other checkout line and the lady was VERY concerned my mom's tags weren't ringing up on sale. UGH! Anyhow, $1.07 & 10 minutes later it's 6:05. Target is already open and we aren't there. LOL

We fixed that shortly though. My mom dropped us off right at the front door, again I didn't grab a cart. (actually I needed one here.) Here I wanted a printer dock for my girls and another kodak cam for cub1, cub2 already has a kodak digi. I quickly grab all the dvd's that were advertised and looked of any interest to me. (simpson's season w/homer's head, not sure what number :OP, family guy season 3 I think, but lot of good that did, we already have it, and Lost season 1, and sex and the city season 6 part 2 :o) I am running out of space here already and don't have the camera or the dock. I grabbed the camera printer dock a couple aisles over then I hurried to the counter and waited in line, the camera was in the back of the counter. Woohooooo! I'm done. Or so I thought.

Hubby wanted me to get the Tumbling Tigger, and cub2 wanted the operation game. So I head off to the toy department, still no cart. I grab all the stuff plus a battleship game for cub1 and head back up to the front of the store. I am about ready to drop all the items, every which way and my brother came to the rescue!! Yay! We're outta there. We hit the checkout line for 10 items or less and turn around, there's mom at the other lane. Oh the timing. We have been doing this so long together I think it's down to a science. This was my brother's first year. Only time will tell if he got hooked or not.

By this time it is not quite 6:30 and we are headed across town to Shopko, still looking for an mp3 player or 3 :oP We luck out and get a parking spot right up front. Again, no cart. I go in and grab the last mp3 player for $99 (half off) for hubby. (shhh... he doesn't know LOL) Actually it was just a stupid little tag that had the price and the numbers/barcode on it. So I basically paid for a piece of paper. I paid 9.99 a pc. for 3 movies (that travelling pants movie, fever pitch w/Drew Barrymore, and Constantine.) Not really for anyone in general, but it was a good price. We were stuck waiting for them to bring me that player for about 10 minutes, I would have been upset, but I'm nearing my imaginary guesstimate of how much I wanted to spend by this time. Again, my mom is already in the car, man is she quick~ :o) They bring it out and we fight our way out through the crowds again.

My mom then asks if we want to go eat since that's what we do every year, only the restaurant changes. After a quick breakfast, we were across the way from the other walmart and it is not even 8 yet, so the sale is still on. So wtheck, we go again. I picked up some more 256mb cards and a dvd player/recorder for $68. Not sure if that is something we even needed, but oh well.

I was so dang tired by the end of that though, all I could do was come home and sleep. It wasn't the shopping or the getting up early part it was the getting to bed so late factor. I didn't get to sleep until 2:30 and had my alarm set for 3:45. That is just plain stupid. Fun, but stupid.

I was supposed to go out with hubby and make his 2nd print today. He went alone and it is done, turned out quite well. I'm really excited to be giving the business a little boost like that. He has 2 orders to fill right now, so I guess that makes my spending a little easier to swallow.

To top all of that, I got a new cell phone (motorola v276) and a new printer (epson 2200) The price on the two was just too good to pass up, so I don't feel screwed LOL. I still have to figure out the printer, unfortunately my computer froze while charging the inks, so it doesn't recognize them. It's a huge printer though. It oughta help out with the biz quite a bit. We have an art fair coming up on dec. 9th and we will be printing our own greeting cards with hubby's designs on the front. They are pretty good sellers though, at least they are for the people who are helping "boost" our biz.

Well that's it for now. I'm sure I'll find more to blabber about later, so until then I'm outta here.

Happy Turkey Day...

Turkey Day~ Round 1. Every year we have two thanksgivings. This is the one with my mom, sunday will be with hubby's father. YUM!

We will make hubby's second print on friday, if I can get it digitized right (*insert screaming here*) I've been working on it forever and a day it feels like.

Black Friday shopping on Friday~ woohoo. I go every year. Hubby's first year was last year, unfortunately he's staying to watch the cubs this time. That's okay though, I've done it many times without him, I'll survive.

A day of firsts...

Well, that's it!! Cub4 finally has a tooth. It took a whoppin' 9 months, but it's there!!! LOL We also had hubby's first print made, which also turned into his first sale of a print. We also sandblasted our first plate, now that's something cool.
:o)

My brain is going 100 mph...

My oh my... So, last minute my mom tells us we can sell some of hubby's stuff at the holiday bazaar at the casino. That's where I've been. We aren't making anything and probably spending more than we are making. (We have the cubs with us all day long :oP one dollar here, two there, I'm hungry, etc.) Here's the cool part. I am learning corel draw from a cousin of mine. No biggie, I know editing software basics, but this is totally throwin me. If I can get this figured out and done, we'll have prints of hubby's paintings made in a few short weeks. The lady who is teaching me, is going to show us how to silk screen prints as well~ Yikes!!! Completely insane. My head is just whirling and whizzing with ideas, but corel draw is not cooperating!!! :( I guess I'll have to figure out why in the morning, it's getting late.

Email for me later, from me now...

Very cool. You can email yourself anywhere from 1,3,5, 10, or 20 years from now. I just emailed myself for a year from now. I'm sure I'll forget about it, but that's what makes it fun :O)
Link is above in the title or click here!

A Cute Funny...

Not much time to do much else, but thought I'd share this one from my email. :O)

Knock Knock...

Do you remember when the dumbest knock knock joke would have you laughing? I'm not talking the "ha did you see him trip?" or the "haha she's got toilet paper stuck to her shoe!" kinda laugh. I mean genuine happy laughter.

I was sitting in the car listening to my cubs (ages 3, 9 & 11) tell knock knock jokes back and forth. The laughter was just too much for me not to join in as well. It definately is contagious. (They say smiles are too.) It makes me wonder if the adult in all of us is nothing more than an aged child. Not that it's a bad thing it just makes me wonder at what point in one's life does the laughter turn to a mere smirk and a hmmmph & a chuckle or two? Wasn't life much more interesting and fun when we could laugh openly? Who says we can't laugh out loud? Who says we can't enjoy ourselves? Why do we stop?

I once heard that a child can laugh approximately 300 times a day, while an average adult can laugh at the rate of 8 a day. That's pitiful. We can do better. At least we should try.

So here's my questions...
1) How many times a day would you say you laugh?
2) What is one thing that makes you laugh?
3) Got any good jokes?
4) I'd be the coolest mom ever if you can share your favorite knock knock joke with my cubs, so let me have it ~ please!

Go out and laugh a little, you'll live longer and at least you'll have fun doing it.

Oops!!!

Well, we didn't go take pictures of the salmon. I plain out forgot!!! I did get to sleep in again :O) So it seems a little worth it for now. Of course I'll be thinking differently when we head out next weekend to see stinky fish.

I still haven't watched my netflix movies. I still don't have a clue what the other 2 are!!! I really should get to that. I know I probably won't though. Desperate Housewives is on tonight, so that is usually a late night workout. It's only a half hour later, but it sure seems to screw up the night. I could tivo it and watch it later, but hey guess what????!!?? I'm probably the most impatient person I know. Okay, I do know a few others who are slightly more impatient, but not by much!!

I did watch Little Black Book on Starz lastnight, tivo'd of course. I definately wouldn't buy it and add it to my dvd collection, but it made me smile a bit and also made me realize I like Carly Simon's music. LOL Again, I'm not going out to buy an album, but I just realized I "know" a lot of her songs and can actually enjoy them :oP Going to hide under a rock now.

Yum!!!

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  Now hubby brought these home for me to try and I must say, these are reallllly realllllllly good. They aren't good enough to replace the originals, but they are yummy :o)
  
  
  Are there any other must have cereals???
  
  
  
  
  
  Other meaningless jibberish...
  
  ~Waking up super late on a Saturday feels wonderful.
  
  ~I should go to the post office before it closes, although I'm not really expecting anything.
  
  ~Tivo Rocks!!! I usually try and fast forward through the commercials, but it's those times I forget it's on Tivo I truly appreciate the convenience.
  
  ~I still have 3 movies from Netflix I haven't watched in the last two weeks. I don't even remember what I have?!?! I know House of D is one of them. The others I have no clue. I now have a goal, get these in the mail by Monday.
  
  ~It's a 3 day weekend, I really should get the house in order while I have the help.
  
  ~I went to the dentist last week and my gums still hurt from the dentist forcing the dental floss down into my gums. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal, but she just yanked and yanked until it went down. She was trying to get the dental dam in place. I have no idea why it wouldn't go this time. She was replacing a filling and I'm just very grateful I don't have any more to be replaced or filled. I am soooooo through with the dentist. This is crazy, it's been almost a week and my gums are still sore. She did her whole, "you should floss" routine. Honestly I floss like a maniac, pretty much every time I eat. Another one of those obsessive compulsive things. LOL
  
  ~I am so ready for it to be warm again. It's toooooo freakin' cold for my comfort. We are getting new wall heaters this week. Only 2 of the wall heaters are safe for use, at least I don't deem them safe. They attract way too much dust and junk. We are getting a coil kind, which apparently are supposed to be better? I sure hope so.
  
  ~Almost turkey day. I wonder if FIL will be up for it. Every year he and his wife come over, but after his heart thingie who knows. Hubby's sister was thinking of coming up from Utah too. I suppose I should ask Hubby if he knows if either two are coming...
  
  ~I bought a new tripod, which reminds me!!! Hey I know this is going to sound really nasty, but I better get the kiddos ready or maybe I can do it tomorrow. Here it goes. It's November, which here means the salmon are spawning. Doesn't sound all that cool~ does it? Well, every year we go and check it out and snap pictures. It's absolutely a gorgeous scenary, but if you go up there too late in November it STINKS!!!! It's still relatively early, so it should be okay!
  
  ~Looks like we are going to get the mail and groceries instead. Tomorrow it is!

It's definately fall...

I'm busy trying to gather pictures to put together a slideshow for a group of people of just random shots. This was one of the shots I took and thought I'd share. It's sooooo beautiful around here, this is just 2 minutes from my house. It is gorgeous any time of year, but there's just something about fall colors mixed in with all the shades of green. :o)

I was out late lastnight trying to gather some night shots too. This is abouty 20 min. from my house and only 5 from my dad's. Brrrr.. it was cold. Anyhow here is a picture of a powerhouse???? It's Hydroelectric anyway, it's the building with reflection on the water. :)

Two more, this first one of two was taken down by the post office about the same time the bars were letting out. That made it interesting. Picture squealing tires, racing headlights, a tripod in the middle of the crosswalk, and me rushing back every time headlights came within blocks. This is a lone taxi. I was hoping to get pictures of the street decorated for Christmas, but apparently that is after Thanksgiving, so I shall try again in a couple of weeks.

Lastly, a clock tower down by the post office. I couldn't help but think to myself "save the clock tower!!!" Back to the Future was one of my fave movies ~LOL

It was definately fun and I'm just surprised my brother was willing to help with this project.

*Images have been resized for the web.

Update...

Well, it's official Cub2 is 9. Her party at school was a hit, so was her skating party. Only half of the kiddos made it from school, but it was to be expected honestly. I would have been shocked if all of them made it. The party was about 40 minutes from school~ LOL.

The auction went well, hubby raised a couple thousand dollars for their organization. Only a third is ours, but it's fun and any little bit helps :o) My friend cancelled her photo shoot of her family and postponed until after Thanksgiving. That's good honestly, it's been raining for the past week and a half nonstop. I know, I know, I can't complain, it is just a rainy state :P

I left neutral feedback for the lady with the yoda and chewbacca costumes, basically because I didn't receive anything, but she did refund me after a couple emails. (here's what mine said~ "Took a chance, didn't pan out, she did refund like asked though.") I don't know what I expected, but she left me 2 neutrals too. I'm honestly kinda bummed. I don't know if it's the fact I have 2 neutrals now or what she said. It kinda irks me. clearly stated presale item, refund given upon request Seriously~ don't sell crap you don't have. If you're not sure you can get it, why ruin someone's halloween??? If I didn't go with my gut on this one and buy more outrageously priced costumes, the boys wouldn't have had any. She's got private feedback, so what's it matter what I wrote on hers. I guess that should have thrown up a flag right there, but I still sent her my money. I figured she was a powerseller, so it ought to be okay. I was wrong.

I paid in a timely manner, the product wasn't there. Why is this my problem??? It just seems a little retaliatory (sp?) to me. So answer me this... should I have left positive feedback because she held my money for a month and I received no product, but did receive my money back after 2 emails? Would I have received positive in return? Or if I would have gotten nasty and given negative, would 2 negatives been sitting in my profile???

It is just feedback, but seriously how many of you does your feedback matter to you? Am I just weird that it matters?

Okey dokey...

the monkey cupcake cake. The names have been changed to protect the innocent

FIL hasn't heard a thing, the dr. hasn't been in yet. We're off to go party it up at Cub2's class in a sec. Thought I'd drop the monkey pic by for PM

Much Ado About Nothing...

Oct. 1st I ordered one yoda costume and one chewbacca costume for cub 3&4. Time passes I go with my gut and bid on replacements. Apparently, the lady sells them on a presale basis. If I wanted to wait to receive them she says after Nov.1 I can wait or request a refund. Her auction states after 29 days you can request a refund. As soon as the clock hit Oct.30th I emailed for my refund. That was my 29th day. She finally refunded me today. Big sigh of relief here.

Anyhow, back to me going with my gut. I ordered the replacements and they showed up with time to spare. We were able to dress the cubs up 3 times and have loads of fun each time. Poor hubby had tons of school work to do and his sleep suffered severely, but hey we had fun~ right? LOL I think we are just plain lucky it's only one time a year.

We've been busy trying to make sure the auction goes smoothly, that's saturday. A couple of the pictures I shot of hubby's art landed in the paper too. I love that feeling. Before the auction I am supposed to go take a billion and a half pictures of my friend's children for her. I think that will be fun, let's hope the weather cooperates though.

My sister had to get an MRI done on her shoulder. She has been having a heck of a time with her shoulder, they were thinking it was a torn rotator cuff? I think that's what they were saying. Well, she got the results back yesterday. She has a cyst in between the muscles in her shoulder. It's a pretty good sized one too. (5+cm long, 3.5 cm wide, almost 2 cm deep) That's a little freaky, not sure what to think about that or even what they can or will do. The doctor is referring her out to a surgeon to explore her options, but he doesn't want her to have surgery!?!! I'm not sure what his thinking on that is. She's a little freaked out as well, but has to wait until the 21st to speak with the surgeon about her options.

My FIL just got admitted into the hospital. He was there to have a stent? put in for his heart. It's not working as well as they had hoped and they want to do a bypass. We'll find out more on that tomorrow.

Other than all of that, the girls are still busy with basketball and cheerleading. Cub2's birthday is on Sunday. We'll have her skating party on Sunday and her classroom party at school tomorrow. I ordered a Monkey Cupcake Cake. I sure hope it turns out okay. Last time I ordered a duck and it was cute, but not what I had hoped for. Anyway, Hubby just walked in from the hospital, I'm off to see how it went.

Pumpkins, pumpkins.....

Everywhere!!! Here's one of the pumpkins we carved lastnight. Hubby's of course! Just thought I'd share, we had lots of fun.

Cub1's conference went great, it was a little out of the ordinary, I'll have to blog about that later. ttfn!!!

eta... That was one weird conference. Okay picture this, about 20 +/- tables, 20+/- sets or so of parents/child and oh about 4 teachers. The conference was hosted by none other than Cub1. There were 2 teachers who kept coming back between checking on the other students and parents. Cub1 had a checklist to go through and make sure she shared all the reports, projects, and tests she was to share with us. She's doing great. Her teacher is the one I worry about. She (the teacher) lost an assignment I specifically remember helping her with and it is bringing down her grade. She was a little too ditzy for my taste. Cub1 assured me she isn't always soooo scatter brained, but she was a little stressed with 4 days of conferences. With how the conferences were conducted, I can see how!!! The good thing is she told Cub1 she could make up the work or if she can find it, even better.

Her math & science teacher was awesome!! I really like that guy. Apparently, he really likes Cub1 too. He's a real personable guy and is so willing to help Cub1 with anything she needs to help her in her studies. He is just one of those teachers who you can tell the kids adore him and the feeling is totally mutual.

Friday night, we went to the school's Harvest Carnival. Everyone had a great time, we took my littlest sister with us, she was dressed as a witch, but the rest of the gang were all decked out in their Star Wars costumes.

Saturday night, we had another Halloween party to go to, that one was awesome!!!! They hired a company to come do activities and basically this science type experiments for the kiddos. It's called Mad Science?!?! There was also a Haunted House for the older kids. That seemed to go on forever, but it was fun, fun, fun.

I'll post some pics to the Cub Cave later after I sort through them. The actual big day is approaching quickly!~

Sloooooow Down...

she says. What a novel concept. My soon to be 9 year old seems to have inherited her parent's work habits. Her parent teacher conference was today and went absolutely as I had expected. She's great, such a joy, does excellent work, buuuuuut... she needs to slow down. LOL She doesn't need to slow down because she is making mistakes right now, but her teacher doesn't want to get her in the habit of speeding about life and basically reflecting on her accomplishments. Again, haha what a novel concept.

That comment made me think about my life. I feel as though I am the busiest unemployed person I know. Yes, I know I am a stay-at-home-mom, but I can't even get that down just yet. I worked throughout with my pregnancy with cub4 and all the others for that matter, but that's not the point. I still don't have a grip on what "should" be done around the house, I have no real schedule, and you know I hardly "stay-at-home" at all. I thought being a "sahm" involved more staying at home is all. So with that, I need to work on slowing down too.

Back to the conference, the teacher apologized and felt she was wasting our time~ LOL that's a first. I hadn't heard that one before. It went pretty well though, we just chatted back and forth for 15 minutes and that was that. In the spring time she is suggesting cub2 be tested to join the highly capable class at another school. She's already involved in the program, but this would be an actual school change and all studies would be more advanced, rather than just added work. Cub2 is a little worried about leaving this school, but I'm sure she would do fine. It is a brand new program only in it's 2nd year. So we'll see how that pans out.

Parent Teacher Conference~ Round 1...

Well, Cub2 has her parent teacher conference tomorrow afternoon. I just love those. Talk about a big pat on the parent's back~ LOL I know it is their doings and what not, but I just love hearing how well they are doing, how sweet they are, what joys they are in class, etc. It always makes me smile. I'm just sooooooooo proud of how they do in school, it's just all that much better to have someone rave about their accomplishments to you.

Cub1's isn't until Friday, I'm a little anxious to see how that one will go. She's in middle school this year and has 4 different teachers now. I think we are only meeting with the homeroom teacher, but nonetheless it will be different!!! I'm honestly not sure how she is adjusting to middle school. She seems to be doing okay. They sent home progress reports and she hadn't turned in a few things (due to us keeping her out to go to the fair back in Sept. tsktsk) It makes me feel a little guilty, okay a lot guilty. I know the teacher's gave her a chance to turn that stuff in, but I just hope she did it and it's all good~ hope, hope! I honestly forgot how much work counted in middle school, it's a lot more intense than elementary.

Cub1 started band this year. She's playing the flute. I played the flute for 4 years in school. Strange, but I did. I have heard Hot Cross Buns being played waaaaaaay toooo many times to count since the beginning of the year. She is getting better though. whew! LOL I found it kind of odd, the song mixture they have her playing. Hot Cross Buns, yeah okay I can see it, Jingle Bells, but of course it's almost Christmas Kinda, Good King Wenceslas, okay same reason, the Funeral March??? uhhh I don't get it. Da-da-dmdm-da-dmmdmmdmmdmmmmmm (sorry the best I can spell it out.) It's just kinda freaky is all.

Both the girls started basketball up again. UGH!!! So that means basketball twice for cub1 for a couple days only next week, but still... basketball 4 times (for both) plus 2 days of cheerleading. (for cub2) Busy, busy, busy. I'm not complaining really, it's just sooooooo much running around to do in such little amount of time.

A boring photography post...

After reading Mel's comments in the blog entry below. I figured I could at least explain what camera and such I'm using. I've provided links so you can get an idea of how to get the same stuff relatively cheaply. (I know Mel is interested in getting a DSLR, sorry to bore anyone else~ LOL)

I have 2. Yes...2. My hubby was kind enough to encourage me to buy the best I could at the time and after reading many reviews almost 3 years ago, I bought a Canon Digital Rebel(the 6.3 mp, like I said this was almost 3 years ago, the xt wasn't released yet, at least as far as I knew.) I have the 18-55mm kit lens I bought a sigma 28-80mm macro lens and that was and still is a lens that doesn't go far from my camera. I also bought a4gb Hitachi Microdrive, so it saves mega pics *wink* Next Joining my camera bag was a sigma 100-300mm, this soon became hubby's favorite lens, he loves taking nature pics.

I was fully content with this setup until I started reading photog forums and reading more about photography, it was time to move up. First I added a 50mm 1.8 lens. This was a great addition, but I wanted more and quicker. I told hubby the top of my wishlist was a Canon 20d.Canon 20d. So after fireworks season, he told me for my birthday (Aug 2005) I could buy it, but the rebel was his *LOL* oh what a sacrifice :oP I got it early in July :o) Love, love, love it!!!! It's soooooooooooooooo quick! The rebel is and was great, but the 20d is instant power on and shoots so quickly after powering on and rapidly! I also bought 580ex Speedlite Flash and also ordered anOmniBounce for diffusing the flash.

Finally my latest 2 additions (beginning of this month) to the camera bag... my all in one zoom, Sigma 28-300mm Macro, which has only left my camera a few times to be replaced by the 50mm to take portrait shots. Lastly, my Sekonic L358 Light Meter. I think that's it!!!

Anyhow, I have shot a few events for the casino down the road, that's the need for the light meter. The lighting in there is terrible!!!! I, along with hubby also shot my sister's wedding back in August. This has also been a great help for our side business in taking pics of hubby's artwork. He has a few art auctions every year and it's that time of year again. The next one is Nov. 5th. We are busy trying to build up enough images for a gallery to add to our website. It's also been very helpful in taking pics of his paintings and digitizing them. So, as helpful as these cameras have been they have honestly paid for themselves and surely will in the future too in one way or another!

What's next??? Bees! and a Photoflex Litedome Softbox & a Photoflex Litedisc 52" Silver/White and most of all space!!!! LOL

Just one...

pic. These aren't there costumes, but I bought them anyway. (just for pics :oP) It's a Pumpkin Costume and a Spider. Initially, they were both for Cub4, but Cub3 fit them as well, so wtheck.

I'm posting more to the CubCave That's where I've been posting a few pics here and there if you wanna see.

It made me grin...

It was probably an evil grin, but nonetheless it curved upward. I read this joke in my email a short moment ago. It reminded me of sooooooooo many people. It wasn't the situation, just self proclaiming bs that people say.

I don't even know if that's the right way to say it *LOL* I guess it's just the disclaimer people add to before they are going to do something they normally don't do. Such as, "I'm not one to judge..." Seriously, here guess what follows??!? That's right folks... JUDGEMENT!!! ding~ding~ding We've got a winner!!!! Or "I normally wouldn't say anything, but..." insert gripe here. ahem, yes you probably would or you wouldn't have made such a deal of it in the first place. Like adding those key phrases makes it any better, seriously folks it just draws attention to it. People can benefit a lot from Thumper, you know with the whole "don't say anything at all" bit. Ya think that will happen though??? Prolly not.

Anyhow, onto the joke!!!!

A guy walks into the local welfare office, marches straight up
to the counter and says, "Hi... You know, I just HATE asking for
assistance. I'd rather have a job."

The social worker behind the counter says, "Your timing is
excellent sir!

We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants
a chauffeur and bodyguard for his nymphomaniac, underwear-model
daughter. You'll have to drive around in his Mercedes, but
he'll supply all of your clothes.

Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be
expected to escort her on her overseas holiday trips. You will
have to satisfy her sexual urges. You'll have a two-bedroom
apartment above the garage.

The starting salary is $200,000 a year".

The guy says, "You're bullshi@@ing' me!"

The social worker says, "Yeah, well... you started it."

Just a quick check in...

It's another week already. Still no costumes for the girls.

The party arrangements are set, the invitations printed and now we need to send them out. How far in advance are you supposed to send an invitation to a bunch of 8-9 year olds? Her birthday is Nov. 6th, also the day of the party. It lands on a Sunday this year.

This shall be interesting. 20+ kiddos skating about. Yikes. Good thing it's only 2 hours.

I almost have a 9 year old...

I'm busy masterminding a party for her and I think I have it set. We will have a skating party. We will be renting the skating rink. (I'm always so confused on that?!?! what is it a skating ring or skating rink?) We will order the party favors from Oriental Trading. We will have a monkey theme. We still have to check into a cake. We have to print out the invites. Then we have to wait.

Waiting. Waiting for the invites, waiting for the rsvps, waiting for the favors, waiting for the day.

I actually have never thrown a party and invited "non-relatives," she wants to invite some of her friends from school. She has been begging me since Kindergarten for that. I'm finally caving this year. The price I pay for having such a social butterfly child.

*Questionable content below...*

Anyhow, we watched History of Violence lastnight. WOW! That was actually a really good movie. There were a few scenes in the movie that had me a little shocked I was sitting there witnessing that... (hint, hint*69*) I've never honestly seen that in a movie. Not that I'm against it or anything, but it was just something I've never seen in a movie, like it's almost an implied action in other movies or just simply taboo. Who knows?!?! Hubby really got a kick out of me discussing that after the movie with him, but it just threw me for a loop they were so explicit ~haha. Once hubby thought about it, he couldn't remember a movie with that type of scene either so ~ HA! he knows where my shock was coming from. Although, I must admit he must have found that funny it was the first thing I brought up, but what the heck it was on my mind, may as well say it!!! :oP

I sure liked the movie though. It kept me watching and actually interested. Hubby told me he had read a review somewhere that the less you know about the movie, the better it is. That was hubby's response when I asked him what it was about. I left it at that and was genuinely glad I did. I enjoyed it probably more than I would have if I had read about it.

The other movie I watched on dvd, thanks to netflix, was Maria Full of Grace. That captured my attention immediately. Hubby had started watching it without me, so I walked in on the movie halfway through. I did actually watch it from that moment on, but started it over to see what I had missed. I had seen it on the guide for HBO a couple of times, but figured if I was going to watch it, I'd better do it on my own time. I'm really glad I did. Another good flick!!

Okay, enough is enough. I'm off to catch some zzz's, I'm a very tired mommy right now.

Much to his surprise...

Thought it was cute. Took a double take at first, what can I say, I'm lacking in the sleep dept.

I met hubby for lunch today. It was a nice break from the ordinary, whatever that might be. I'm still not set on what I "should" be doing. We (cub3&4) went to get the mail today. I totally forgot what it's like to be out with two little ones in tow, by myself. They were pretty good overall though.

In the mail was this letter from the school for cub1 to set parent teacher conferences. Realistically, we can only do it on Friday, due to hubby being in school Tues-Thurs. So it was really important to get this preference list in by the due date. Hubby hasn't missed a conference yet and I don't want him to start now! I look at the due date... Thus Oct. 13. Dangit, wtheck are they thinkin'???? So I rush it up to the school and turn it in, making sure I comment on how I had just gotten it in the mail 10 minutes prior. She apologized and explained how they were supposed to mail it out last week, but it didn't get mailed until Tuesday. Well the good thing is, I'll probably get my preferred day because most people won't get it back that quickly. HOPE HOPE!

Anyhow, we have 2 costumes down, 2 more to come in. The girls' are in. The boys' ( the ones I am really worried about ) are not. I think I am going to email the lady to see if I should be looking for new costumes or how much longer I'll have to wait. I guess I shouldn't worry until I have a definitive no, but I'm really impatient :oP

Finally, one last pondering for the day... I have Go Diego, Go! on season pass for Tivo, which is fine and dandy until I go to play it and it's LazyTown~ ARG! I hate LazyTown, well cub3 does ;) Why the heck is it recording LazyTown when it's supposed to be Go Diego, Go!?? That's happened like 4 times~ LOL talk about disappointment for a 3 year old.

Would you like a little cereal with that???

Here's what I found in the cereal box *LOL* It's sitting on my desk now. I just don't have the heart to throw it out. Although you know with a little santa hat, it could be the likeness of St. Nick ~haha.

34 weeks...

Well pictured over to the right here is cub4 ------->
It's hard to believe he's almost 8 months old. I'm still torturing him with the weekly pics, every monday. It makes me wonder how long I can actually keep that up! *LOL*

I've got all the cub's costumes ordered and I am seriously hoping they make it in time for Halloween. One of the places I ordered from is just about 20 minutes away from me, but I ordered it online and it was a "pre-sale." I hope she doesn't email me back saying they are out of stock. They are totally HTF costumes too... ARG! I ordered a Yoda, a Chewbacca, and Amidala from Episode 1 & another Amidala from Episode 2. (2 girls what can ya do??) As always hubby will be a Jedi. He's leaning towards a Darth Vader next year, just to have the option. I'm still undecided whether I will dress up or not. I was going to be the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland but my whole family has this theme going, it doesn't fit :oP Who knows? I usually hand out the candy anyways, so I wouldn't even be with them while they are out and about. We usually get 100+ trick or treaters, so we always load up on the candy trying not to disappoint!

Anyhow, I'm still alive. We went to a birthday party for my littlest cousin (he's 8) He had it at the skating party. It was so much fun. I actually roller bladed myself. I went and bought an umbrella stroller to push cub4 around in and he absolutely loved it. Cub3 is getting the hang of skating very quickly. The lighting was terrible, so I don't have any good pics though. Ohhhhh well...

Before I go I thought I would throw out a few questions for anyone willing to answer...
1~ Do you dress up for Halloween? If so, as what?
2~ How many trick or treaters do you get every year?
3~ Do you roller blade or skate? When was the last time you had?

It's been far too long...

Hubby has started school. It's going quite well. YAY! I've been just super busy with the kiddo's basketball & cheerleading. Cubs 1&2 are loving it though. Cub 3&4 are keeping me super busy during the day, it should calm down here in a bit.

We did go to the zoo with Cub2's class. I took some awesome pics and the boys had lots of fun too. We just met her class there. I've been pretty busy with pictures honestly. I shot an employee anniversary dinner/reception dealy last week, and a baby shower. That was pretty fun. I bought a new "all in one" lens last week too. It is a 28-300mm zoom for my Canons. It came yesterday, so I spent a lot of the evening messing with that.

Time to go exercise again. I'll make sure and blog more often, I can't believe how much time has passed!!! I must start making this habit again!