well....

So I didnt' make it  back on here last night. Sorry. This morning is D's K graduation! Wow, can't believe it!! I have to go to work after and Mike will be home with the boys. Wish I could stay home and play too!
Tonight I'm going out for Mexican and drinks with some of the mom's from D's school. It's sorta like a last mom's night before summer starts. Most of them are stay at home mom's so they want a night out before summer! yippe! Should be lots of fun!
Well just a short note for now.....hope everyone has a great and safe holiday weekend!!

Check back!

check back later! I'm going to get on here tonight and post some happenings and pics. Just been really busy around here and enjoying the almost summer! I have to cook dinner now and take care of my motherly duties, but then hoping to get back on here. Nothing to watch tonight that's Tivo'd either so that will help! toodles....hope to be back soon!

Alot of stuff....I think

The week has flown by, I can't believe it! The boys had baseballs games and did really well. Yesterday I had my girls night taste testing party. The lady was a complete dud! I hate to say it, but we hardly knew she was there. She didn't tell us anything about the products we just sampled them ourselves. She didn't tell us about any specials, or how to have your own party. Of course, who would of wanted to with her as the hostess. We still had a good time though eating and drinking. My friend Tiff got the 1st to arrive award. I just made it up a few hours before the party. Just some ribbon with two forks and spoons hanging on it, to represent the first hungry person to arrive! She was a great sport and wore it all night! We had a great time, kinda like we were at any special party, just hanging out. The lady was wierd....anyway..
Today Mike is gone racing and I took the boys to the Y to swim. I figured they need their practice before the swim lessons two weeks from now. I'm glad I did since B was scared and first but did better the longer we were there. We are home for a short break and then headed to a retirement celebration for a lady I worked with. I hope it's not outside, because the heat is scorching today!
Next week is D's last week of Kindergarten and I can hardly believe it!! He is getting a reward of going to build a bear after the end of the week. He told me the beginning of the month that he wanted to go there. I told him if he got all good reports the whole month we would go there. He has done excellent with all big happy faces except one day and it was still a smiling face so I'm happy about that. His graduation is on Thursday and it's going to be really neat. He has been practicing songs at home that they will sing. I'm looking forward to it, but sad that he is growing up so quickly!
B had a rough few weeks at school after the teachers switched again. Everytime the teachers change he acts up. But the last week he has done great and if he does great this whole week he gets a prize from Target. He was in for the build a bear but got too many bad reports so now I gave him the choice of what he wanted. He wants to pick a toy from Target if he's good, so I said OK.
I am looking forward to them being at the same place for the summer. I am also looking forward to some fun summer activities we can do on my off days. I have a feeling we'll be spending alot of the days at the Y pool. Sounds great to me!
I still have girls night out pics to post on here eventually and a few other generic ones.
I'm looking forward the holiday weekend ahead. My inlaws are coming into town and we're having a family cookout on Sat. I always love getting the family together for food and fun! I hope the weather is nice and not to hot so we can enjoy the outdoors!
Well almost time to head out the door. Toodles!

So good

B did such a good time at his testing last week! I am so proud of him. I even got a few pics of him sparring. I tried to upload a video but it won't let me :-(

Not sure why!

This is pretty close to the kind of smiles I get now for pictures! Isn't it so cute!!

My girls weekend to KC was simply FANTABULOUS!!!! Here is a little sneek peak picture. I will post more later. I have to head out for a four hour work meeting, yukko!!

The boys had a good time home with daddy. Only two (that I know of) little problems over the weekend.  #1 the boys mostly mutilated one of my beautiful rose bushes playing sword fighting. I guess the bush was the dragon?? Not sure what daddy was doing while it was happening. But he did get on to them and had them write me notes saying they were sorry. It was so cute! Then they even went out and cleaned up all the rose petals without him asking them to. That was great. Although, kinda wished they would of saved them for me, they would of looked nice in a bowl! hee hee
#2 D went to school yesterday without a snack. Daddy forgot to pack it :-(
But I have to say, those are pretty minor things so I'm so happy!! What a great hubby and daddy!! Well off now to the boring meeting, toodles! More pics later!

Just a short note

B did so good at his TKD testing tonight. He has now moved on to his orange/black belt, we are so proud of him. He truly enjoys it. I will have some pics to post after the weekend.
So.......I have my suitcase packed, my nails freshly painted and I am ready to go in the morning. I actually tried to pack lightly this time, since there will be luggage of six girls in the van tomorrow! I can't believe I fit it all in one bag and that includes four pair of shoes also. I just cant' seem to ever pack less than 4 pairs of shoes no matter what!! It's going to be so much fun and I'm so excited!
I have some snacks and goodies that I'm leaving at home for the boys while I'm gone (from mommy). They are invited to a waterslide birthday party on Sat. so I'm hoping the weather cooperates and Mike takes them.
Well better get to bed so I can get up early and get the boys to school and hit the road! ROAD TRIP!! whoo hoo! What a wonderful hubby I have for making it easy for me to go. The boys are going to have a great time with their daddy this weekend!! toodles!

A little fun

The weather was beautiful on Sunday for Mother's Day. Although, I started out the day having to go into work for a call back....yuk! But after that the rest of the day was great. The boys were very excited to give me a goody bag of gift items.  Later Mom came over to enjoy the weather and some games with the boys.

We planned for a great shish kabob dinner. Well they turned out more like charcoal kabobs. Mike kinda forgot to check on them and they got pretty crispy critter. There were still some parts we could eat and the corn and potatoes turned out good, so it wasn't a total loss. Comical though! :-) The boys have been wanting to make smores for about a month. We got out all the ingredients and went at it. Good thing we had country Mom here to help with the fire. Us city folk....we weren't doing too good getting the fire to flame up....I guess we wouldn't do well on survivor!

YUM! D was too busy eating to look up and pose for the pic!

I made several attempts for a mommy/boys pic and this is about the best I got! It matches their personalities that's for sure! I just LOVE my boys! I feel so blessed everyday that I have the opportunity to be a mom!

Thanks to all my moms out there also for all that you do!!!

Of course I did try to take this picture after the smores....each boy ate about 3 or 4 including chocolate which totally makes them run circles. I am probably lucky to have gotten this!! Gotta love it!!

Only two work days and then my girls weekend!! oh yeah!!

B has testing on Thursday for his next belt in TKD! He is very excited! I will have pics and maybe some video to share later. Toodles for now.

Two suprises

This has been a pretty good week. The boys have done really good at their baseball games. It's bring mommy to TKD month at B's TKD school. It's only been about 7 yrs since I've done it, but went the other night. It was alot of fun and the instructor found out where B gets his flexibility from. Ha! yes I still have lots of flexibility. D is wanting to start taking it again, so it might become a family thing. We'll just have to see, it's more of a time issue than anything else.
I decided to get creative with dinner this week. I have been dying to do Muffin Tin Monday forever! Inspired by JJ here. The boys loved it! But we did it on Tuesday because they both got in a little trouble at school on monday, so no fun dinner then. But....Tuesday...voila! Muffin tin tuesday dinner! The menu was mac n cheese, baked beans, and pork chop with ranch dressing to dip (of course) and a muffin to add to the theme! I'm such a corny mom i know!! who cares!

Then the next day the boys asked for a breakfast dinner. They said we haven't had one in awhile...so of course mommy to the rescue!! First started with pancakes cooking..........

And then........ it became pancake faces! Hot dog hair, oreo eyes, strawberry nose, and a mandarin orange mouth. Such a nutrituous dinner!! Carb, protein, fruit and sugar, what else do you need? Oh and a glass of milk to wash it down....yes they loved it!! Wish I could of eaten it too, but didn't...boo! I'm not the one with washboard abs like my boys!

Went to Bunco tonight and had a great time. It's been a little awkward the past few months because I only knew a few of the girls. But this time was a blast. I partly attribute it to the two skinny margaritas we stopped and had before we went! Yum! thought I'd try the new skinny margarita from Housewives of NYC Bethenny. It was sooo good. It only has about 50-60 calories. It doesn't taste alot like the regular to me though, I think because it doesn't have the mixer in it. But it was really good, I could definetely get it from now on and save some calories. Considering I didn't have alot to eat today (knowing we'd be snacking at bunco) and then worked out before I went, the two margaritas got me feeling pretty good. Glad I wasn't driving...and it made for a fun bunco night even though I didn't win any money....hee hee!

Only 8 days till girls weekend! whoo hoo! Yes Kelli I'm counting the days girlie!! I'm so excited!!
Toodles!

Wierdo!

So I was taking a picture of my newest purchase and my husband walks around the corner. I just started laughing and he gives me the "you're a wierdo" look. He asked what I was doing and I told him I was taking a picture of my new best friend. He said "you're not posting that on facebook are you???" Ha...no I'm not thank you. But he didn't ask anything else, when the truth is I was taking a picture to post on my blog..ha ha. I might be weird but this is awesome! I found this at Target yesterday. It's a clothes hamper with a handle and wheels! WOW! I love it!! Who would think you'd love a clothes basket, but it's so much easier than trying to carry an overstuffed laundry basket all around the house and up the stairs. Of course it won't wheel up the stairs, but once I get to the top....whew....i get to pull it!! Yippee! I know it's the simple things in life, isn't it!!

 Anyone watching survivor?? Ugh!! I really wish they'd get rid of Russell, although it was good that they didn't vote him this time since he played the idol, but I still can't believe these people think he is really telling the truth ever!! I sure hope he goes soon!  Americal Idol...boo! I really liked Siobhan. It just has been very mediocre this year in my opinion.
We have a week full of baseball this week. Three games between the two boys. They really enjoy playing and it's so entertaining to watch. D's team is scary though. They are just old enough to kinda be able to play. They throw the ball pretty good, but the scary part is they throw it whether anyone is looking to catch it or not! There were a few close calls last game that someone almost got nailed by the ball because they weren't paying attention and the other kid threw it anyway. He has a fairly poor coach this year. The coach isn't very communicative to the kids and it doesn't really seem like he tries to coach them. I mean these kids are 6 and 7 yrs old. If they are running way across the field to get the ball from their own player he should be talking to them. I know they are kids and playing for fun, but they should be told the rules also.
Counting down the days to my girls out weekend!! whoo hoo...only 2 more weeks and six of us will be in Kansas city for the weekend to have fun and the hubby's will be home with the kids and chores! I am really looking forward to this fun weekend!! Girls just wanna have fun!! We are always taking care of everyone else, it's OK to treat ourselves once in awhile!
Well, almost time to go pick up the boys from school. Toodles

They weren't kidding

So the weather said lots of rain and that's what we got. Luckily we haven't had actual flooding at our house but closer in the city it's been really bad with cars under water and houses with 4 inches of rain inside of them. We have had rain almost all day long and too many tornado warnings to even keep count. It's been pretty scary and we've been in the closet with the boys multiple times today. There were some tornado's spotted not far from our house but luckily we didn't see one or get any damage from one. We were supposed to go to a couple's night out tonight but we had to cancel. It would of been fun with the good food and a band playing old music like Motley Crue, Def leppard, Poison and others. But...the weather has been too bad. We had a quiet time from about 6pm until now at 9pm but now the tornado warnings are starting to come in again..yuk! This started this morning at 430am and has been constant all day.
The boys are really enjoying Harry Potter. They have watched it in two parts so far and have one little part left before it's over. They even found stick toys around the house to make their own wands and B was casting spells...it was too funny. They did get scared in a few parts but overall are really enjoying it. I am so glad.
We also re-rented Wii Donkey Kong, D really loves playing it. He has unlocked several levels and different characters. We are going to look for the game at the used game store to see if we can find it. Mike did get super mario bros for Wii from the used game store. It's fun watching D play it. I played it myself for quite awhile last night. Wow, I remember playing that game forever and forever when I was ....uh hmmm. just a little younger....hee hee...on the nintendo!
Well hubby should be back soon with our take out Mexican to replace our dinner out. Boys are asleep and we get to try to watch a little tv among the tornado warnings and the weather radio going off about the watches, warnings, and flood warnings. I sure hope tonight doesn't bring many more storms...it is very unsettling to try to sleep knowing they might really pop up! It is supposed to rain till Monday so I guess I'll be trying to come up with some fun indoor stuff for the boys to do...hmmm. I better put my thinking cap on! Toodles.