Rock Stars Take 2

We have played SingStar 2 weekends in a row. We had some new competition last weekend when some friends of mine from work came over to test out their skills. GB was one notch up from awful. But so was I that night. I was having trouble staying on key and my voice was pretty gone. Brother in Law is getting better...he has improved from "jitterbug" to singing "white orchid" pretty flawlessly. I'm looking forward to my rematch with Sleeza on Hubby's Dirty Thirty party in a few weeks. She is my only true competition. She thinks she is reliving her days as a choir girl when she steps onto the SingStar stage aka our living room. So there is the challenge to you Sleeza...You better bring your A game girl!!!

1 800-Dial-a-Friend

I just signed up for Twitter. It is a website that you can post updates of your ever so mundane life. As if anyone cares. But anyway I feel like I have to stay hip with the rest of the Intenet cliques. It is pretty neat and my friend swears it is addicting. Between myspace, facebook, myyearbook, twitter, blogs, text messages and instant messages there is no need to have actually face to face or voice conversations with friends and family. I can imagine that I will call my bff and ask her how things are going. And her irritated response, haven't you checked my twitter today. I know I am guilty of being irritated with friends and family who have blogs that don't update them on a regular basis. Silly me I guess I forget that people have regular daily lives.

Who has time for all this anyway?????

Wait I guess I do since I do all of the above (except myyearbook...I leave that to hubby)

I challenge all myself and my internet addict friends and family pick up the phone and actually call someone. You might be surprised your verbal social skills might still be on the up and up.

Sister Red Beard

Nothing says that you like your dinner when you wear it!!!! And still smile about it.

Three Amigos

Bubby and Buggers had their friend Jillie come over to play on Sunday. She just turned 2 so she is right between my two kiddos. It was so cute as the kids lead her into the house. It was a kodak moment.

Cutie Pies

Picture Perfect

It has been a great weekend here. We spent all day outside yesterday. The kids played and we cleaned up the yard. Bubby spent the majority of the day digging in the dirt and Buggers spent over an hour swinging in her swing. Next weekend I have a tournment but atleast I am off on Monday so I will still get 2 days with the kids. Surburbia can't get any better than this :)

All's Quiet except whimpers and whines

Hubby is down for the count. He started feeling bad last night and just got worse through the day. He is running 102 fever and aches from head to toe. I left my games early so I could come home and take care of the rugrats so he could go to bed. I wish I could take off tomorrow to be home for him and the kids. But grades are due and I am not finished with them. I should be able to leave early.

Bubby, Buggers and myself have all had flu shots. Hopefully he doesn't have the flu. It will be so ironic because he is so opposed to getting it because he thinks it gives you the flu. Well let's hope he has a short run of this ailment and he is over it over the weekend.

Rock Stars!!!!

Pass the Mic

We have been addicted to SingStar. Hubby's brother and his wife came over last night. We played Yahtzee then decided to sing at after it was already really late. We sang until 2 am. It was a blast!!!


Rock it out Hubby

Sing it Sister

Lee finally beat someone!!!

Happy Bday Cat Daddy!!!

Make a free ecard - it's easy!

Boot Scottin' Booty

She is always making a fashion statement!!!!

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

We rang in the new year with some dear friends of ours. We had a great time seeing "friends of our friends" that we see only when we get together with Alana and Darren. We even broke out Sing Star and sang until our hearts were content or atleast our ears.














Happy New Year!!!!!!

2008---Year of ?????

Trying to decide if I should make my new year's resolutions today or not. Every year I make some goals that I try to accomplish. I did a fairly good job last year on my resolutions. 2008 is going to be a rocky road for us I can already tell. Sad that I can say that and it isn't here yet. With hubby graduating it is going to give us some decisions to make i.e. who will be working, will kids go to daycare, will we move, are we both going to have to work, will I be able to coach, will I have to change schools if I don't coach.

I am already pretty apprehensive about the year starting since we will have all these questions to answer. I want to hang on to 2007 for a little while longer so I don't have to face these decisions. When you say new year it has such a positive connotation and feeling about it. So the fact that I am dreading it is such an oxymoron. Maybe I feel differently as the clock strikes midnight.

Anyways..............

C is for Christmas!!

Santa came by our house last night and left some great gifts for the kiddos. The pictures speak for the wonderful morning we had with the kids. I do have to say that the best gift Santa left was the motorized automatic toothbrushes. Bubby got a Dora and Buggers got a hello kitty. They carried them around for most of the morning brushing their teeth. After presents we got ready and headed to Granmomma and PePaw's house. The kids love going over there. They always have so much fun with their uncle Kirk, who by the way is great with them. We had a great time with everyone. We ate, opened gifts, and played a game. Dad did a great job of kicking our butts at the game.

I have one more week off until I go back to work. I am hoping to catch up on our movies that we have laying around here. Plus we have a bathroom to paint and some light fixtures to hang up.

Hope everyone had a great time with family and friends over the past few days. I know we did and cherish the memories.

HoHoHoHo

We are about 2/3 done with the Christmas gatherings. We did our kids presents last night. They had so much fun opening their gifts. We decided to invest in some movies this year so about half their gifts were dvds. Not that exciting to open but they made it fun. Buggers got her first (well second...her first one is still in the box it is a keepsake since it has her name) cabbage patch baby. She is a newborn and just perfect for her to carry around. Santa is coming tonight and I think he is leaving her a stroller and playpen for her baby. Bubby got a Dora game, video game, and some other toys he has had his eye on for a while at Target. I think Santa might be leaving him a Diego scooter in the morning.

We went to my sister's tonight for my family's get together. Her and her husband fixed a big lunch. It was delicious!!! I am so stuffed still from all the food and desserts. The kids got lots of good stuff. You will be able to tell from the pics. I got to spend some time playing with my niece and nephew. I had a blast and I want a rematch asap. Rea got pretty good and pegging me in the face with the nerf arrow.

We will head to Hubby's family's tomorrow for food, family and fun. I will post pics from that tomorrow night.

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas with their families. Merry Christmas!!!!

Move over so called divas...There's a new girl in town

I know I am corrupting the young minds of my children...but it is just too dang cute!!!

Hip Hop Tods

Creatures from the Great Unknown

You know you need some days off when.....

1. You say to a bunch of junior high teenagers during a game of trashketball, "Grab your balls and come up to the line." You can imagine the comments I got in response.

2. Then you say,"Get your three balls then throw the wads in the bucket." Again I am borderline stupid in saying this.

3. Question to hubby, "Do you want nuts in your fudge?" regarding fudge we receive every year from my aunt. I didn't get why hubs erupted in laughter until I said it the 2nd time.

4. To Basketball girl, "Do I need to have the song "Back that Ass Up' playing when you dribble?"...."You have a bad case of beeper butt...beep...beep...beep." I'm just glad they all thought it was funny.

5. To a few students in my favorite class, "Please all I am asking is that you act your age. I know how to deal with 12, 13, or 14 year olds. But I don't know how to deal with kids as tall as me who act like 3 year olds."

Working with teenagers all day tests your patience to the limit. I try to remind myself that I went to school to become a master in how to deal with these dysfunctional, hormonal, and tempermental children. And I make sure that I also remind myself that I am the adult and I should try to act so. It is sometimes hard not to sink to their level. I just found a perfect definition for teenagers---a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. That is the problem they have raging hormones and don't have the brains or sense on what to do with them. I'm an thankful that I will be getting my much need days a.k.a mental recuperation time in about a week.

Pray for teachers to maintain sanity until next week.

The Queen and her Throne

One night Buggers was suffering from some serious butt burn so I put her in a pair of Bubby's nundies. She was perfectly fine in them until she had an accident in the living room. Just to see if she would take to it, I ran her to the potty. She thought she was so special sitting there. To no surprise she just sat there pulling on the toilet paper and "wiping" then throwing it in the potty. She was such a big girl.

New look

I made a few changes to the blog layout. What do you think? Some of them are very subtle.

"Tis the Season to be Jolly

I have decided to take hold of my Debbie Downer attitude and become Sarah Sunshine. Cheesy and corny I know. Anyway just this weekend there were several things that happened that made me realize that life is good and if not great.

1. I have one of two trees up. The kids and I decorated this small tree yesterday. Surprisingly Buggers hasn't messed with it. She just goes up to it and says Wow. I don't have the motivation yet to do the big tree. I just need to get in there and do it. I know I will be glad once I do.

2. I got $76 worth of fall decorations at HObby Lobby yesterday for only $7.60 since all of it was on sale 90% off. Here is one of my finds. It was originally priced $30.

3. Bubby is willing and eager to do a little housework around here. Guess I need to start giving him an allowance if he is going to do chores. (This actually didn't happen this weekend. I just came across this pic while browsing around and it made me smile)

4. Hubs put up my new lights in the laundry and master bath. He surprised me one day and did it. I didn't expect him to get to it for a while.

5. We have the outside front of the house decorated. We still need to do the back...maybe next weekend we can tackle that.