Me and my Dorothy at her school
Super Doggy!
With her Cinderella pumpkin
The best we could get of all the girls. We couldn't see the witch's face, so this is what she did:
:) See?
Silly girls
Maleficent lit up
Showing posts with label Queen of the Crazies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen of the Crazies. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Halloween
Maleficent lit up
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
My Birthday
(Sleeping Beauty was told right before this picture that she had to clean her room before she played with her friends. Haha)
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Update
So, I needed major surgery and a doctor in Pennsylvania was my only hope. Tim and I flew there had extra time after my pre op appointment. Look where he took me!! I had been trying to get there since 1998. :) Anyway, I had the surgery last Thursday and am still recovering. More pictures to come soon.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
More Praying Mantis Babies!!
Remember this? Well, now we have had two of our own egg sacks hatch!! And the newborn babies were smaller than the one I previously posted about. See below:
Here is one on Cinderella's arm. These little bugs are so cute and loving. They WANT to be held and when we'd put them down they'd reach right back up for us. Sleeping Beauty was there too but it was in the morning and she was looking rough and said the pictures of her were "a horrible." ?!
This was looking down into the little bug cage the hatched in. We put them in a bigger one Tim made until we could get them in the garden. :)
On my lens cap:
On on my hand:
Cinderella got one on her nose. :)
We have kept several in a big bug cage Tim made and we catch them little bugs to eat at night. The girls love have them around and so does Tim. :)
Here is one on Cinderella's arm. These little bugs are so cute and loving. They WANT to be held and when we'd put them down they'd reach right back up for us. Sleeping Beauty was there too but it was in the morning and she was looking rough and said the pictures of her were "a horrible." ?!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
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Today I am celebrating the ninth anniversary of my 25th birthday. Buhahaha I have figured out a way to avoid being older! ;)
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Some More Birthday Fun!
Here is Cinderella, me and Sleeping Beauty the night before she turned four last week:
The big family party pictures will be up soon!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
100 Things About Moi
I copied and pasted this from my older blog - it is mostly still relevant and this will let newer readers get to know me and my craziness! Originally I did this in 2008. Asterisks by the ones that are completely new.
The 100 Things About Me is something a lot of bloggers do, so I thought I would too.
1. I am the oldest of three kids. I have a sister, Amy and a brother, Jason.
2. I have never broken a bone.
3. Before I had kids I was up late all the time. Now I am in bed by 10 at the latest - even on the weekends.
4. I have lived in eight states.
5. I moved too many times to count as a kid. My dad was in the Navy.
6. I lived in Italy for almost two years. My sister and I spoke A LOT of Italian. Years later I had to "forget" it to learn Spanish.
7. My favorite color is red. I absolutely love it and have waaaay to many red tops, t-shirts, etc.
8. I don't know how people live without TiVo, DVR, etc. It is a MUST, especially now that I am home most nights with my kids asleep in their beds. It's a different kind of fun.
*9. Every night I pray for my girls and their future husbands. The world is a scary place.
*10. I have a photographic memory. I could never access it in school but it really helps if I forget my grocery list at home. 98% of the time I remember everything.
11. I am a heavy sleeper. A bomb going off would not wake me.
12. I love Coca- Cola. A good coke over ice is the best! (I don't have these as much anymore but I still love them!)
13. I hate to grocery shop - with or without kids. But if I must, I prefer without the kids.
14. I love playing card games and board games but rarely get to play.
15. I love photography and all things related. I have two very nice cameras and I could not imagine my life without them! I take pictures every day (and if you come here often, you know it to be true!)
16. I LOVE to shop.
17. I love to fix my girls' hair.
18. I love getting packages in the mail.
19. I hate to get bills in the mail - or - GASP nothing!
20. I have to have a ceiling fan on at night to sleep no matter the time of year.
21. I am almost 5 foot 4 inches tall.
22. I hate laundry, but more than that I hate to fold it and put it away.
23. I can do more with my feet and toes than any person should be able to. My girls are learning by watching me!
24. I do not like to ski. I hate to feel out of control.
25. I have had a few surgeries (laparoscopy) and HSG Hysteroscopy because of endometriosis. This was back before I got married.
26. I love surprises. My favorite one is Sleeping Beauty.
27. I am a very forgiving person.
28. I am a Christian.
29. I love to sing. But dance? Not so much.
30. Weird things happen to me. If there is a one in a 1,000 chance - it'll happen to me. I promise you that.
31. More times than not I get sick or start getting sick Friday night when there is no hope of getting to a doctor until Monday. My kids seem to take after me on this one.
32. I got married just after I turned 25.
33. Tim and I got engaged on June 23, 2002 and were married exactly five months later on November 23, 2002.
34. I don't really like to cook but I do it at breakfast, lunch and at dinner almost every night.
35. I married my high school sweetheart.
36. I still get like little kid at Christmas - even more so now that I have the girls to watch.
37. My parents are still married and have been for almost 35 years.
38. Both my sets of grandparents celebrated at least 50 years of marriage.
39. I met Tim when I was 15. I knew by 17 I'd marry him one day.
40. After high school I moved back East with my family, leaving Tim in Washington. My heart broke.
41. In 1999, he came to visit, we got back together and he moved here in April 2000. The rest is history as they say!
42. I can't whistle. (Still can't).
43. I can't roll my tongue. (Still can't do this.)
44. I have not eaten beef or pork since I was 14. Going through Texas on an across the country move and seeing all the cows - I couldn't bear the thought of it anymore.
45. For a time I didn't eat chicken or turkey either but things got bad and I had to have some protein - at my mom's insisting.
46. I am still not much of a meat lover.
47. I love Twizzlers and have been known to eat a whole bag in one sitting.
48. I love potty humor. Childish and immature? So what - it makes me laugh. You know you laugh too!
49. I love pickles. Until we were married, Tim had NO IDEA of all the different kinds to have. We always have at least five kinds in the fridge.
50. The thought that people hunt for fun and sport makes me feel ill.
51. My fingernails and toenails are always painted and they always match. Even in the Winter. And they are usually some shade of red. (Nails not so much anymore but always toenails. Even in the winter.)
52. Cinderella was five months old the first time I painted her toenails. I can't believe it took me so long.
53. I got pregnant with Cinderella after over a year and a half of heartache and infertility. The month we decided to give up and save some money for IVF, because the Clomid was not working, I got pregnant.
54. Later, Sleeping Beauty just kind of happened. We joke that she "willed herself into existence." Now we can't imagine our lives without her.
55. I have gone pier jumping in WA state. COLD water!
56. I hate pantyhose, nylons, whatever you want to call them. I hate them!
57. I love talking to people.
58. I love making new friends.
59. People tell me things I wouldn't dream of sharing with another person.
60. Cinderella had a twin that did not make it. I lost him or her (I feel it was a he) at about nine weeks.
61. You wouldn't believe how it hurt even though the baby wasn't fully formed when it died.
62. I talk in my sleep. I have been known to sleep walk as a child and don't think I have done it as an adult.
63. I can spot a typo or a misspelled word a mile away. The use of "your" for the contraction "you are" (you're) drives me batty and has been known to make my eye twitch!
64. I love Mexican food even though more times than not I feel sick after I eat it.
65. I don't know how many purses I have! It's a sickness! I name them and talk about them like they are my friends.
66. My first boyfriend was a boy named Todd in Kindergarten. He wanted to be a garbage man when he grew up and I was proud of him.
67. Math is not my forte. Not at all.
68. Sometimes things I dream about come true.
69. I almost drowned at the age of five. An older third cousin saved my life. I am forever grateful to him.
70. I have been to most of the states but not too many of the Northeastern states.
71. I have always wanted to go to New York City.
72. I dislike most sports. Watching and especially playing.
73. I'm allergic to blueberries - though only when not cooked.
74. I believe in God.
75. I have never been drunk and don't ever plan to be.
76. I have never smoked or done drugs.
77. I love music. LOVE it. I always have something playing in my head. When I was a kid I couldn't figure out where the music was coming from!
78. I have never lived by myself. I went from my family to college to my family to Tim's apartment. We now own our first (and if Tim has anything to say about it, our last) home.
79. I don't have any tattoos and don't plan on getting one.
80. When I was pregnant with Cinderella I had pre-eclampsia. It was scary and I was on bed rest and very, very swollen. Can you say cankles?? After having her, my blood pressure was dangerously high and I had to be kept a little longer and monitored. I had "morning, noon and night" sickness with Sleeping Beauty and had placental abruption with her. Google it. Scary!! Thankfully I did not know how scary it could have been for me and Sleeping Beauty until later.
81. It was all worth it.
82. The first funeral I ever went to was for my paternal grandfather. A terrible way to start.
83. I have a photographic memory but I can't figure out how to use it for good. The only way it comes in handy is if I forget my grocery shopping list.
84. I love "Christmas Vacation" and Cousin Eddie in that movie. I wish I could "Un-see it" and see it for the first time.
85. My mom and sister are two of my best friends.
86. I graduated from high school in 1996, weighing in at 96 pounds. Ah, those were the days.
87. I wear a size 6 1/2 shoe. (Size 7 now after two kids.)
88. I went to Jamaica on my honeymoon.
89. My favorite song is "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House.
90. I love Journey. With Steve Perry.
91. I remember my sister being potty trained. It was the nightmare I remembered it to be when I potty trained Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty trained herself. I will be forever grateful to her.
92. My brother and I are almost nine years apart in age. I remember changing him and feeding him. He was like our very own real live doll.
93. I have trouble throwing things away because I’m think I’m going to regret it later. I have stuff in my house (and my parents' house) that I never touch or think about.
94. I am very conservative in my morals and political views.
95. My family means the world to me. I was raised that way and my girls will be too.
96. More than anything, I hate roaches. I just can't even explain my disdain for them.
97. I can do some things with both my left and right hand.
98. I get crushes on famous people and most of the time they are not that good looking. And they are older. Case in point? Nicolas Cage. I don't get it either. Tim makes fun of me.
99. Colin Farrell with a shave and shower too...Though that makes more sense than the previous one...
100. There's still a lot I have yet to share.
Please feel free to leave a comment and share something about yourself!
Friday, August 12, 2011
Time is NOT on Our Side
I don't know what is it about time and the way it can pass so quickly sometimes and go so slowly other times. It takes forever and I mean FOREVER to grow up and get through school. Waiting to get a driver's license at 16 takes oh so long. But finally, FINALLY it happens! It seems to somehow take longer still to get to Halloween and Christmas each year when one is a child. Time drags and lags and takes its own sweet time. The exception is the summer when one is a child and school age. Time speeds up then. I promise you I only had two weeks off in the summers when I was in school but listening to my mom tell it, it was a summer that was a hundred years long. Being a mother now, I can clearly see that she was right. Sometimes summer just won't die.
Then something big happens. An event in which most of life's milestones will be based upon: Before high school graduation and After high school graduation. Right after high school graduation someone (Who, a House Elf?) presses the fast forward button. The speeding up of time is subtle at first and it is not easily noticed when it is taking place. Then time gathers momentum and gets faster still. Many don't even notice it until time has passed them by and they are standing there still holding their diploma wondering where all their friends went. But time does go faster. I promise you it does. Maybe we switch to "dog years" after a certain age.
By the time most people get married and have kids time begins to go faster still. Days, weeks and years can go by without one feeling like a time frame of only a few days or months at the very most have gone by. Or maybe that is the case in a good, happy and healthy marriage when things are going the way we want them too.
Depending on the circumstances time can seemingly speed up and slow down at will. Not our will though, obviously. When I could not get pregnant with Cinderella time seemed to stand still. In a lot of ways it did. I felt like I had no hope and I would never get to that place in time and hold a positive pregnancy test in my shaking, scared and excited hands. Everything was measured in two or four week increments and for the most part my life seemed to go at a snail's pace. After a while it finally did happen (and happened again a few years later). Everything worked out though.
After being married for a few years Cinderella came along. When Cinderella was a newborn the days seemed to drag by when she was small and fussy. I was with her a lot all alone and had no other friends close by with babies. Talk about isolating. But the years blew right on by. Before Cinderella turned three we added Baby Sleeping Beauty and time went into warp speed. Yes, some days still dragged and lagged when the Toddler Princess and the Baby Princess were fussy, crabby or sick but the weeks, months and years on the calendar have flown out the window and gone down in the proverbial history books. It scares me to think of how time seemingly goes faster the older people get, the more children people have and the older the children get.
How is it that sometimes the days, as I am living them, be it a good day or a challenging day, seem to go in slow motion or at a normal pace but somehow YEARS of my life are gone?! I have a lot to show for said years - a husband, two children, a home, nieces and nephews galore, tons of writing and journaling, photos, memories, gray hairs, wrinkles, etc but the time has slipped right out from under me. Is THIS how people end up being old?! My guess is yes.
Has anyone else noticed this same unexplainable time paradox? Cinderella started Kindergarten a few weeks ago. Well, it seems like it was a few weeks ago but really she is in first grade now and she started Kindergarten over a year ago.
It blows my mind.
Then something big happens. An event in which most of life's milestones will be based upon: Before high school graduation and After high school graduation. Right after high school graduation someone (Who, a House Elf?) presses the fast forward button. The speeding up of time is subtle at first and it is not easily noticed when it is taking place. Then time gathers momentum and gets faster still. Many don't even notice it until time has passed them by and they are standing there still holding their diploma wondering where all their friends went. But time does go faster. I promise you it does. Maybe we switch to "dog years" after a certain age.
By the time most people get married and have kids time begins to go faster still. Days, weeks and years can go by without one feeling like a time frame of only a few days or months at the very most have gone by. Or maybe that is the case in a good, happy and healthy marriage when things are going the way we want them too.
Depending on the circumstances time can seemingly speed up and slow down at will. Not our will though, obviously. When I could not get pregnant with Cinderella time seemed to stand still. In a lot of ways it did. I felt like I had no hope and I would never get to that place in time and hold a positive pregnancy test in my shaking, scared and excited hands. Everything was measured in two or four week increments and for the most part my life seemed to go at a snail's pace. After a while it finally did happen (and happened again a few years later). Everything worked out though.
After being married for a few years Cinderella came along. When Cinderella was a newborn the days seemed to drag by when she was small and fussy. I was with her a lot all alone and had no other friends close by with babies. Talk about isolating. But the years blew right on by. Before Cinderella turned three we added Baby Sleeping Beauty and time went into warp speed. Yes, some days still dragged and lagged when the Toddler Princess and the Baby Princess were fussy, crabby or sick but the weeks, months and years on the calendar have flown out the window and gone down in the proverbial history books. It scares me to think of how time seemingly goes faster the older people get, the more children people have and the older the children get.
How is it that sometimes the days, as I am living them, be it a good day or a challenging day, seem to go in slow motion or at a normal pace but somehow YEARS of my life are gone?! I have a lot to show for said years - a husband, two children, a home, nieces and nephews galore, tons of writing and journaling, photos, memories, gray hairs, wrinkles, etc but the time has slipped right out from under me. Is THIS how people end up being old?! My guess is yes.
Has anyone else noticed this same unexplainable time paradox? Cinderella started Kindergarten a few weeks ago. Well, it seems like it was a few weeks ago but really she is in first grade now and she started Kindergarten over a year ago.
It blows my mind.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Craziness!
We are still here. We have been crazy busy this week. I will be back in a day or two. The King of the Crazies had a little outpatient surgery today and it has been a day of taking care of him. Thank the good Lord my mom has the kids for the day. They got to spend the day swimming and sunning and eating with her and their Uncle Jason. It is a lot easier for me to have one charge at a time when someone needs all my attention. It is hard to deal with a 200 pound, 6'4" man on my own. He insisted upon going into Walgreens and renting his own movie right after we left from surgery. (I have a few stories about this too - wow. I was amused and slightly embarrassed.) Then we got home and I got ice cream and pain meds down him. He napped off and on and watched "Tron Legacy." And then he got up to go into the other room and he nearly passed out - fun times. Pray he is better soon. I have never seen someone so pale as he was earlier. He was hot and sweat was dripping from his forehead. On a funnier note, he made me video tape him after surgery when he was all hopped up and it was hilarious. :) I have to let him come out of it and see it first though - doubt I can share. I am not allowed to share much about him on here - his rules. :)
Monday, July 11, 2011
What are YOU lookin' at?!
I'm not sure why people were staring...
I found these and had to buy them! Stick on 'staches! I knew the little cousin would enjoy it too!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Wordful Wednesday: Greg Brady!
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Graduation and Time Flies
It didn't hit me until this evening.
I graduated from high school 15 years ago today.
I couldn't be more shocked. Not because the time has gone by so quickly but because I know it will go by faster still. This past school year, with Cinderella in Kindergarten all day, every day the school year just seemed to fly by. I know that the older my two girls get, the school years will go by faster than the one before it. I will be 48 in no time. (That is in 15 more years.) Not that there is anything wrong with getting older. ;) Though apparently, after seeing the below picture, my mom doesn't age!!
(Now I want to go to my old bedroom and scan in a picture of me with King of the Crazies on this same night.) I think back to that Thursday evening 15 years ago, when I was 18 and it seemed I had my whole life before me. I remember the lavender dress I wore under my blue gown and the silver high heels I borrowed from my mom. I remember the way I felt walking from the fairgrounds back to the school to go out with the graduating class. I was elated. I was FINALLY FREE! I felt fully grown up and like I could do whatever I wanted. I sometimes miss that young, innocent girl. I was excited but also filled with a little worry because of the unknown. I also knew that in a matter of weeks my heart would be broken.
After the graduation ceremony I went out all night with the kids in my graduating class and had fun. The school had sponsored it and I don't remember much of what we did, just that I had fun. I remember I forgot my shoes so I had to borrow a friend's NINE YEAR OLD SISTER'S shoes to wear for the night. They were Keds and had "ABC's" all over them. HAHA I also remember we got on Greyhound type buses to ride to where we were going. There was laser tag and video games, good food and a lot laughter.
I had a fun summer and continued with my job serving ice cream - HAHA- but I was already wanting time to slow down. This would be the first of many, many times I would beg the hands of time to slow their ticking. When summer ended I knew I would be moving to the other side of the country and leaving my friends and my soul mate.
It was hard for my mind and heart to grasp how I would marry the guy I KNEW I was going to marry when I lived over 3,000 miles away from him. I prayed a lot and wished on a lot of stars for good measure just in case some of my prayers weren't heard. And, of course, we both JUST KNEW we'd end up together one day.
We all know how that story ended but it was a hard road for the both of us. I would cry myself to sleep at night and wish I would wake up older. Funny how that works: I wanted time to speed up. In some ways it did seem to speed up. I kept in touch off and on with my soul mate but more as a "friend thing." I had fun, went to school and made new friends. About three years went by and one day I woke up not knowing it was the day my life would change forever and for the better. I got a call from The King of the Crazies and life was never the same again. He was coming to visit me and during that visit he said he would move here to be with me. I never asked him to. :) I never promised him a future if he moved here and he knew that. He took that leap anyway. We've been together (again) ever since. He moved here after seven months of dating long distance and we married about two years later.
As I look back at the past 15 years, there are things I didn't do that I thought I would. It wasn't all fun but a lot of it was. I went through a lot even with The King of the Crazies by my side. But I am happy and I have everything my 18 year old self could have dreamed for my 33 year old self. How I wish I could go back a la "Back to the Future" and tell myself that it would all be fine, no matter how awful it seemed, it would all work out and I'd be happy. And by the way, you will marry the only one your heart ever wanted and you'll be a mommy to two gorgeous little girls. :)
I graduated from high school 15 years ago today.
I couldn't be more shocked. Not because the time has gone by so quickly but because I know it will go by faster still. This past school year, with Cinderella in Kindergarten all day, every day the school year just seemed to fly by. I know that the older my two girls get, the school years will go by faster than the one before it. I will be 48 in no time. (That is in 15 more years.) Not that there is anything wrong with getting older. ;) Though apparently, after seeing the below picture, my mom doesn't age!!
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| Dad, me and Mom |
After the graduation ceremony I went out all night with the kids in my graduating class and had fun. The school had sponsored it and I don't remember much of what we did, just that I had fun. I remember I forgot my shoes so I had to borrow a friend's NINE YEAR OLD SISTER'S shoes to wear for the night. They were Keds and had "ABC's" all over them. HAHA I also remember we got on Greyhound type buses to ride to where we were going. There was laser tag and video games, good food and a lot laughter.
I had a fun summer and continued with my job serving ice cream - HAHA- but I was already wanting time to slow down. This would be the first of many, many times I would beg the hands of time to slow their ticking. When summer ended I knew I would be moving to the other side of the country and leaving my friends and my soul mate.
It was hard for my mind and heart to grasp how I would marry the guy I KNEW I was going to marry when I lived over 3,000 miles away from him. I prayed a lot and wished on a lot of stars for good measure just in case some of my prayers weren't heard. And, of course, we both JUST KNEW we'd end up together one day.
We all know how that story ended but it was a hard road for the both of us. I would cry myself to sleep at night and wish I would wake up older. Funny how that works: I wanted time to speed up. In some ways it did seem to speed up. I kept in touch off and on with my soul mate but more as a "friend thing." I had fun, went to school and made new friends. About three years went by and one day I woke up not knowing it was the day my life would change forever and for the better. I got a call from The King of the Crazies and life was never the same again. He was coming to visit me and during that visit he said he would move here to be with me. I never asked him to. :) I never promised him a future if he moved here and he knew that. He took that leap anyway. We've been together (again) ever since. He moved here after seven months of dating long distance and we married about two years later.
As I look back at the past 15 years, there are things I didn't do that I thought I would. It wasn't all fun but a lot of it was. I went through a lot even with The King of the Crazies by my side. But I am happy and I have everything my 18 year old self could have dreamed for my 33 year old self. How I wish I could go back a la "Back to the Future" and tell myself that it would all be fine, no matter how awful it seemed, it would all work out and I'd be happy. And by the way, you will marry the only one your heart ever wanted and you'll be a mommy to two gorgeous little girls. :)
Friday, May 20, 2011
A Few Of My Favorites...
I love this handsome lil guy...
And this gorgeous, done with Kindergarten big girl...(More on the turtle below)
And this high energy, spirited lil girl...
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