It's hard to believe my baby is 12 years old already! When I asked her this morning if she felt any different now that she was 12 she said to ask her again tonight at 6:18 pm (the time she was actually born)! Too funny!
We will be celebrating tonight by going out to a Mexican restaurant so she can have her favorite meal - a beef enchilada and frijoles (refried beans)!
Tomorrow she will be celebrating with five friends. Hayley is having a sleepover!! And friends are actually coming! (Last year she was supposed to have a sleepover, but then another classmate had a birthday sleepover and all Hayley's friends went to that sleepover being she was still kinda new in town. I felt so bad for her. But this year we actually have people coming!) It should be a fun time!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Happy 12th Birthday Hayley!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
It's My Birthday!
And I'll cry if I want to,
Cry if I want to,
Cry if I want to,
You would cry too if it happened to you!
Boy do I hate getting older!Monday, October 13, 2008
I Am The Mother Of A Teenager!
That literally shocks me every time I say it!!! Where did the time go??? Seriously!!!
My little boy turned 13 yesterday!!! We celebrated with family yesterday. After cake and ice cream, we were going to go bowling but no one (except for us four) wanted to go and we all ended up chatting too long. The bowling alley had very short open bowling hours yesterday due to a tournament and it being Sunday. So the four of us will go bowling this week or weekend.
For the invitation, I created a teenage announcement - a play on a birth announcement - to announce the arrival my teenager. Hey, I thought it was pretty creative! :) (I put the white line across his middle and last name - don't want to give out too much info online!)
It's kinda hard to read. It says:
Happy Birthday Son!It's been an awesome 13 years!!
You've grown into a fine, young man!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
4th of July 2008
A Daytime Pontoon Ride
S'Mores Time
Swimming
Sparkler Time
A Relaxin' Pontoon Ride
Blueberry Pancakes on the Deck the Last Morning at the Cabin
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Color Career Test
So have you been wondering if you're in the right career? Well, I have a solution for you! Take this cool Color Career Test http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/colorcareercounselor.aspx and you'll find out. Mine was PERFECT!! Here's my results:
Best Occupational Category
You're an ORGANIZER.
Key Words: Self-Control, Practical, Self-Contained, Orderly, Systematic, Precise, and Accurate.
These conservative appearing, plotting-types enjoy organizing, data systems, accounting, detail, and accuracy. They often enjoy mathematics and data management activities such as accounting and investment management. Persistence and patience allows them to do detailed paperwork, operate office machines, write business reports, and make charts and graphs.
ORGANIZER CAREERS: Suggested careers are Administrator, Secretary, Printer, Paralegal, Building Inspector, Bank Cashier, Private Secretary, Statistician, Operations Manager, Financial Analyst, Bookkeeper, Medical Records Technician, Developer of Business or Computer Systems, Clerical Worker, Proofreader, Accountant, Administrative Assistant, Banker, Certified Public Accountant, Credit Manager, Store Salesperson, Actuary, Dental Assistant, Business Education Teacher, Food Service Manager, IRS Agent, Budget Analyst, and Underwriter.
ORGANIZER WORKPLACES: Your very careful, conscientious, conservative nature gives others the confidence to trust you with handling money and material possessions. Structured organizations that have well-ordered chains of command work best for you. Suggested Organizer workplaces are large corporations, business offices, financial lending institutions, banks, insurance companies, accounting firms, and quality control and inspection departments.
2nd Best Occupational Category
You're a RESEARCHER.
Key Words: Independent, Self-Motivated, Reserved, Introspective, Analytical, and Curious.
These investigative types gather information, analyze and interpret data, and inquire to uncover new facts. They have a strong scientific orientation, enjoy academic or research environments and prefer self-reliant jobs. Dislikes are group projects, selling, and repetitive activities.
This is all me to a "T"! I graduated with degrees in Accounting and Finance. Currently, I am working in finance and hope to eventually be working in accounting. Evidently I have chosen the correct careers!
However, it was WAY off for my hubby!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Kitchen Makeover
The inspiration - my purple sofas
It's alright, you can say it - BORING!
There's those cool purple sofas again.
Depending upon the light, they "change" colors throughout the day - just as the paint does.
AFTER
The decor above the cabinets is a work in progress - I'm still shopping!
I LOVE IT!!!
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
TICK WARNING!!!
I hate it when people forward bogus warnings, and I have even done it myself a couple times unintentionally......but this one is real, and it's important. So please send this warning to everyone on your e- mail list.
If someone comes to your front door saying they are checking for ticks due to the warm weather and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around with your arms up, DO NOT DO IT!! THIS IS A SCAM!!
They only want to see you naked.
I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid.
Monday, June 09, 2008
That's A Lot Of......
75 degrees - hot & sunny on Saturday (perfect)
62 degrees - cold, gloomy & windy on Sunday (freezing)
60 degrees - cool, sunny & windy on Monday (miserable)
18 dollars for admission
13 hours at the softball diamonds
12 dollar souvenir t-shirt for the player
12 girls on the softball team
7 games
5 beverages
4 losses
4 hot dogs
3 wins
3 days of softball
3 family members coated in sunscreen
3 candy bars
2 bags of sunflower seeds
2 hot chocolates (Monday)
2 days wrapped in blankets
2 days on bleachers (bleacher butt)
1 day on comfy lawn chairs
1 freezie
1 super nacho
1 slice of pizza
1 family member not coated in sunscreen (sunburn)
......Softball!
Monday, June 02, 2008
Things I Learned This Weekend - Updated!
- Just because eight people RSVP on Thursday for your Friday Pampered Ch*f Party does not mean that eight will attend on Friday - something will inevitably come up that requires half of them to cancel on Friday morning.
- If for some reason I were to lose my day job, I could get a job as a bartender. I make EXCELLENT chocolate martinis!
- Even though guests are aware that the Pampered Ch*f Party is a Chocolate Bliss theme party, guests will still expect something more substantial (supper-like) being the party begins at 5:25. (Evidently Nutty Caramel Brownies, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake, Oreos, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Sticks, M&Ms, Chocolate Milk, Strawberry Chocolate Shooters, and Chocolate Martinis are not considered a "good" supper.)
- No matter how well you coat your daughter in sunscreen does not mean she will return the favor. (But hopefully she will learn her lesson as she will now be coating her mom's back in lotion twice a day for the foreseeable future.)
- If you head to the pool to take advantage of the sunny, cloudless skies, that does not mean the skies will remain that way. (In only 45 short minutes, the skies will turn a deep, dark grey with the threat of rain - oh, and the wind will pick up tremendously!)
- If you run out of white milk for breakfast, chocolate milk will work great with chocolate flavored cereals and chocolate malt-o-meal.
- If you are knowingly going on a 3 mile walk, flip flops should not be the shoe of choice.
- Two parents walking cannot keep up with two kids on scooters.
- If you go golfing and are wishing for a partly cloudly sky along with a gentle breeze, it will not come. (It will be completely sunny with very little breeze - a great day for the pool.)
- Even after three coatings of bug spray, if the mosquitos are determined enough, they will still bite you.
- When you get excited and finally decide to add a line for the kids to your cell phone plan and instead of allowing the kids to pick their new phone, you pick a new "cool" one and give them your old one, you will quickly become disappointed when you find out the new phone is crap! (Supposedly batteries on phones these days only last 8 to 12 hours?!?!?! And I can't make or receive calls because the signal keeps disappearing!!! Are you kidding me??????? I want my old phone back!!!)
- When I play (and I use this term loosely) tennis, I look like a ballerina - according to my daughter. I take this as a compliment - I'm a very graceful tennis player! So if you're looking to combine tennis and ballet into one - I'm your girl!
- Backhand swings in tennis are very tricky! (This is usually when I look most like a ballerina.)
Monday, May 12, 2008
So How Did You Spend Mother's Day?
Saturday we decided to head to SF for Mother's Day Eve. We spent the day shopping, of course. However, I was not shopping for myself nor did I buy a single thing for myself. I know, poor me! My hubby said I made up for it the past few months, though! :) Instead we were on a mission for Hayley. She has a rather difficult body shape. It's VERY had to find bottoms to fit her!! Poor girl. Old N*vy jeans are/were the only jeans that would fit her right. But we're in kind of a predicament. She's at that stage where she's basically outgrown kids' sizes but she's just a bit too small for juniors' sizes!! AARRGGHH!!
She outgrew all her jeans that I bought at the beginning of the school year so I recently bought two more pairs but that's all I'm buying because spring/summer is supposed to be here! It's been hectic trying to make sure she has clean jeans to wear every day!
She actually jumped two sizes since September - lately she's been wearing jeans that are two sizes too small!! We can't believe she didn't say anything. At this age, we expect her to tell us if things don't fit and also we never noticed because with the flowy, loose shirts over the jeans you just don't see it!! Poor girl must have felt like a sardine!
(On a side note, since last April, Hayley has grown 2 inches and Tanner has grown 4 inches!!)
Anyways, we were in SF trying to buy her shorts because I am determined that summer will eventually be coming. Store after store after store after store.........disappointment after disappointment after disappointment after disappointment............when all of a sudden, we finally we hit the jackpot! At Yo*nkers we found a skort and pair of shorts that FIT!!! I actually started singing "Hallelujah, Hallelujah" in the dressing room!! Seriously!! :) I was so excited I never even checked the prices of them. Just took them straight to the register and just about died when the total for those TWO items came to over $63!!!!! For an 11 year old. They're shorts for cyring out loud - hardly any material!!! (Yes, I still bought them.) Hayley later says, wow, they were overpriced!
Our last stop was JC P*nney and we found two more pairs of shorts there - B*ngo brand!! And they even came with free flip flops! WOOHOO!!!
Brands we've tried that just do not fit her right are: T*rget's Circo, JC P*nney's Arizona.
Brands we've loved over the years: Old N*vy, Ch*ldren's Place, and some L*vis.
OK - enough about that!
We had lunch at R*by Tu*sdays. Yum-o!! And supper at J*ohnny C*rinos! YUM-O!!!
Sunday, Mother's Day, I didn't do anything fun or relaxing really. Dean & the kids cooked me breakfast. Had to go through rummage sale stuff as my sale is Friday, had laundry to do, went to my mother-in-laws for a bit, and then Dean & the kids took me out for a hot fudge sundae at D*Q.
So how did you spend your Mother's Day Eve & Mother's Day?
