7 Wierd Things About Me!

1. I cannot stand it when there is time left on the microwave and there is nothing in it! Chris will constantly take things out before the time is up and not clear it!!! It drives me bonkers, it must be cleared!!!

2. I also twitch when I see someone's tag hanging out of their shirt! It bothers me so bad that I have, on occasion, gone up and tucked in strangers tags. The really bad thing is if I realize that I have a tag out! ACK!!! I check several times a day, but you never know when one will pop out!

3. The proper way to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is to lay the bread out side by side (making sure that the sides will match up), spread a nice layer of peanut butter on the bread on the right and a nice layer of jelly on the left side. Under no circumstances do you just put a glob of jelly ON TOP of the peanut butter!!!

4. Corn on the cob must be eaten from left to right! Not right to left, not around the cob!

5. I must have double jointed shoulders, I can put my hands on my waist and twist my elbow around in front of me and make them touch. It's really quite odd!

6. I must have clean feet before going to bed! I get a bath at night, just the thought of having all the days dirt on me when I go to bed just grosses me out! If by chance I cannot get a bath, I will still wash my feet! My sheets must also be tucked in at the bottom of the bed "just so" or I cannot sleep!

7. I have to drive everywhere. I get terribly car sick! I have been known to get car sick when I drive myself too! I cannot ride on merry go rounds or ferris wheels or anything that has any type of circle. Which, sadly, leaves out most of the cool new roller coasters. I love roller coasters, but can only go on the old ones because of this. :(

I could come up with many more, but I think that'll do ya for now!

Mother's Day weekend

We had such a nice weekend! It started off on Friday. Macy's preschool had a special Mother's Day celebration. Chris came home early to watch Jack while I went. They had it all set up in the church social room. The kids made special pictures of butterflies using their handprints with a nice poem at the bottom. They also made us pretzel sticks with chocolate flowers on them. YUM!!

The mom's were all seated and then the 2 classes came out and sang us 2 songs. We then had some food! They had quite the spread! Several flavors of mini muffins, fruit, veggies, pretzels and punch. Very good! It was such a nice time, it was nice spending time with just her and also her friends with their mommies!

Friday evening we went out to eat at Applebee's and then I had my monthly Bunco game. Guess what? I won!! We give $20 cash to the person with the most bunco's, highest score, and lowest score. Yes, I won for lowest score! Last month, I was just 2 points away from high score!

Saturday, I got my Mother's Day present! All I wanted was to be able to go to Glick's Greenhouse and buy flowers and veggies!! And that I did!! Macy and I went and had such a fun time picking it all out!! They always have the nicest plants, and great prices too! We will be stocked on tomatoes this summer! Can't wait!! We came home and planted most of them. We finished up the annual planting this afternoon.

Chris was supposed to work a 24 hour shift Saturday into Sunday, but the helicopter was down for maintenance so he didn't have to go in at all! That was nice!

Sunday, me and the kids went to my parents and then to my Grandmother's. We saw my Aunt and cousin there too. My Grandmother and her husband have sheep and a lot of land, so the kids really enjoyed that! They even took a half hour hike up into the woods!

We got home to find a nice tulip arrangement for me! Orange and yellow ones, so pretty! I was not expecting that, so it was a nice surprise.

So, that was the weekend! Now here it is Monday again and just 8 more days until Macy's last day of preschool, then I will have a kindergarter and a new preschooler! Wow!!

Fun day!

I had to go pick up my Karen Foster tote that I won for NSD, so I decided to make it a fun day for me and the kids.

We headed out this morning and first went to Chocolate World, did the ride and then had lunch there in the food court and bought some cookies. Hit the LSS to pick up my winnings and then headed to Hershey Gardens. We've never been there before, so thought it would be fun! They had a really nice childrens garden. Lots of things for the kids to climb around on. They also enjoyed those small trees and bushes that sort of make it like a fort underneath them.

It definately isn't Longwood Gardens, but it was still nice. There weren't many people there either, so that made it even better!

It was definately hot out in the sun. Luckily, they had Hershey Kiss spritzer fountains in the childrens area. You never knew when they were going to go off, but they usually surprised the kids and got some good squeals out of them!

We were so hot when we were done that we went back over to Chocolate World and got milkshakes. Chocolate milkshakes you ask? No, we got strawberry! Boy were they yummy!! I saw too that they made the chocolate milkshakes with chocolate milk, bet they are rich!

We sipped on our milkshakes on the way home and the kids watched the Cars movie on the way.

Made for a really fun day, but we were all pretty beat!!

I'm a little late, but just wanted to add in Shandy's blog challenge from yesterday. It's pretty sad, but I don't know any "big people" jokes. All I know are 4 year old jokes! So, this is Macy favorite joke right now:

"What do you call a fish with two knees?"

A tunee fish. Like tuna, I guess! lol

8 Wonderful Years!!

It's our anniversary!! We've been married 8 years today! What a wonderful 8 years it has been! Things started out great and got so much better year by year! We started out as two and now are four! We've built such a wonderful life together. How much better can it get? How blessed I am to have such a wonderful husband and family!!!

Happy Anniversary, Chris!! I know we have decades ahead of us to fill with more wonderful memories!!

How I spent NSD (blog challenge #25)

For those non-scrapbookers out there, NSD stands for National Scrapbooking Day!! It is an excuse for all of us scrappers to get a free day to scrap!

NSD was this past Saturday, May 5th. While I did nothing scrappy at all on that day, I did have a blast the night before!

Friday night, we had our GNO (girl's night out). My friends Tracy, Mimi, Mary and I get together for a fun time every 6 weeks or so. We used to crop at one of our houses but lately we found that it's much more fun shopping and eating out!

There is a store in Hershey, PA that was having 30% off your total bill all weekend. What scrapaholic could pass that up? So, we hopped in the van on Friday evening, after the hubbies got home, and headed on up to Hershey! It's an hour ride, so you can imagine all the giggling and silliness going on during that time. We also had some guy in a pickup truck hot on our tail for a mile or two. It was like being in high school again! Luckily he turned the opposite way at an off ramp! Getting too old for that stuff!

So, we arrive in Hershey and go to eat at Red Robin. No wait at 6:45 on a Friday night! Maybe we would actually stick to the itinerary that Tracy had made up. [Her husband was the late one, so we were about a half hour behind schedule!] That was not the case. All the people that came in after us were getting their food well before us. We waited an hour for our food! Tracy, the outspoken one that she is (thank goodness), got the manager! She explained to him how we drove an hour to eat there, how we were going to miss our movie (we were planning on taking in a movie too), blah, blah, blah. She asked in her professional lingo "how are you going to rectify this situation?" Such big words. Mary, Mimi, and I had to hold in some little giggles while she was chatting with him. The manager was probably 8-10 years younger than us! I think we scared him! We thought we'd get a gift certificate for our next visit or maybe the appetizer free, well, he told us he was going to take care of our entire meal! :) Woohoo!!! Yippeeeee!!! They pretty much sucked up to us for the rest of the time we were there!

Finally, after all that, we went over to the store. So much fun! We consulted about some purchases, giggled alot plus some other things! We probably spent about an hour and a half there! They didn't have much more than what we already had, but it was fun and we managed to do some damage! For every $50 you spent, you got a ticket to win 1 of 5 Karen Foster totes that have the seat built in. Can you believe that I got home today and had a message that I won one? Made the trip even better. Now I just need to figure out when I can go and pick it up!

The topper to the night was heading down to Starbucks after we shopped. They were open for another 45 minutes and we stayed that long. Apparently we must've gotten a little loud or too giddy for them because they turned the music on loud soon after we got there and sat down with our drinks!

All in all, it was such a great night! It's always fun to get away with the gal pals minus the kids and have a jolly good time! :)

Looking forward to the next GNO!

She's getting big!

I called and reserved this years birthday spot for Macy's 5th birthday!! We are having it at www.thejumpfactory.com. It should be a lot of fun!! I hope most of the kids can come!

Tonight, Daddy took Macy to get a new big girl bike! We have a tandem bike that hooks onto my bike when we go on our bike adventures. Her little "around the neighborhood" bike is the same bike that we got her for her second Christmas (it was kind of jumping the gun then!). It is a 12 incher. Well, this tall girl is way too big for that, so they went to Walmart tonight and Macy picked out a nice new 20 incher! It looks so big! She also had to have an alien flag to go on the back and some streamers for the handles. Currently, there are just one set of streamers because she had one little accident where she tipped the bike and broke the one set off! LOL She's all good though, Dad gave her a pep talk and she hopped right back on! We told her that all the kids would see just the one set of streamers and they would think it's cool and she'd start a new trend!

Of course, she had no problem modeling while Mommy took some pics!

May already!

Wow! It's May 1st! Where has this year gone? Our anniversary is only a week away and we've both almost forgot about it! I changed my music on here to our wedding song - I'll Be by Edwin McCain. Just a little tribute to the hubby and our wonderful 8 years of marriage! 8 years of marriage means 13 years of being together! It took him 4 years to ask me to marry him. To this day, I still say that if I hadn't taken him to look at a ring, we'd still just be dating!

Jack is still feeling yucky, he's napping on the couch as I type! My allergies decided to kick into full gear yesterday. I am currently sporting my "man voice". Hopefully not many people will call the house. I already had to talk to one of Chris's friends on the phone - embarrassing!!

Don't have a whole lot to say today! I'll leave this post with another pic of a project I created for the ilove2create.com cybercraft this past weekend. My challenge was to use alcohol inks and masks to create a great picture frame! I masked off an area in the center

of the frame that was just a tad bigger than the picture I wanted to use. I then placed a Heidi Swapp daisy mask and alcohol inked over it, just picking it up and moving it around as I went! Turned out pretty cool, huh?