older and wiser

...well not so sure about the wiser part but I'm working on it!

I had such a wonderful birthday weekend! Friday night our fAmiLy met up with our friends Corey and Alicia for dinner @ the Green Mill and on the way in I almost ran over the #3 love of my life (after Bobby and Kasey Kahne) CHAY GENOWAY in the parking lot! At least that's what Bobby told me, I never even noticed. Yikes! Oh well he was there with some prettier, YOUNGER woman anyway! :(

Saturday Mason spent the night at his grandpa and grandmas (he had such a blast!!!) and Bobby and I stayed overnight in Grand Forks. After the hockey game we even got to hang out with Bobby's #3 love of his life (after ME and Randy Moss) EVAN TRUPP! And to make a VERY long story short, by hang out I mean that I almost plowed into him leaving the bathroom at Gilly's and then asked him to follow me to the blackjack table and come say hi to Bobby because it would make his day - and he did! What a guy!

Then this AM after doing some grocery shopping (we were up by 9AM of course, can't sleep in anymore!) went to my parents to celebrate my birthday again! Got a very beautiful necklace and "52 More Scrapbooking Challenges" (which I have wanted FOREVER) from my parents. Also got two YUMMY VS perfumes from Bobby & Mason , one even with the fancy poof thing, makes me feel like a movie star! :)

THANK YOU to all of my WONDERFUL friends and family for all of the birthday wishes, it made my day!

Got quite a few things I want to checkoff on my todo list tonight, and the laundry isn't going to fold itself!

"this is the way I live"

Play, eat, take a bath, read some books, go to sleep!

That is our weekday routine. Everyday the same thing it seems! Except Mason is ready to eat the SECOND we get in the door (no matter how much he ate or when his last snack was) so we have to be pretty creative in whipping up a quick dinner that is at least somewhat healthy! Tonight was spaghetti, homemade meat sauce (thank you micro-cooker!) toast and pears. We had been doing a pretty good job of at least keeping it on the tray until the bowl went flying across our white tile floor!

(FYI I took these pictures with my phone then emailed them to myself, so they aren't of the best quality)

so excited for Bobby to come home tomorrow! He has been gone since Tuesday morning, for work. AND it is my BIRTHDAY on Saturday. The Big 2-6 (I say "the big" every year). I'm going to be over the 20's hump. More than a quarter of a centry. Closer to 3-0 than 20. But, much better than the alternative as they say!

Excited to celebrate the day on a "just the two of us" date with Bobby!!! My parents are watching the little bear for us Sat. night and then we'll go to my parents house Sunday for my birthday dinner! Another busy weekend of Sioux hockey Friday and Saturday night as well.

Better get some sleep, I have my alarm set for 6AM to workout with Jenny tomorrow... (we will see where I am at 6:15...)

time for beddie bies!

wasting time...

watching the bachelor SEASON FINALE! I can't believe I have gotten into yet ANOTHER season of this mindless show-- whatever happened to good fashioned sitcoms like Friends?!?! I hate how it is all dramatic now - "will he pick SUGAR or SPICE?" I laughed out loud when I heard that. What is TV comong to. Either way, I hopeTenley wins - she is so sweet and just seems like "the girl next door" I think his family likes them. You know I really liked Jake last season and was bummed when he wasn't picked, but the more I see of him on tv I think he is kind of a dweeb. I will especially hate him if he picks Vienna, even though I think that is who he can pick. Men can't resist THE SPICE afterall!

Excited for Bobby to get home so we can watch Brothers & Sisters tonight... I should be putting away the 4 loads of laundry I just folded, or doing the dishes, or paying bills...but instead here I am!!!

MARCH is finally here! I have cabin fever... ready for spring to get here!

..had to share

mason & I were "playing photostudio" (it's one of our favorite things to do) during one of the days he was home sick, and I was trying to get him to stand by his name, instead, he picked up the M and did this! I'm so glad I had my camera, he hammed it up! I tried to get him to do the same with the other letters, but it had obviously lost it's touch after the letter M

Tonight I'm trying to catch up on my photobooks I have been waiting to buy on Snapfish -- I like to do digital books of trips, Christmas and other "important" things- it takes the pressure off me to get it paper-and-pen scrapbooked! If you're planning on a big snapfish order, I found a coupon code for 35% off an order of $25 or more - it saved me $25! MTN0100 is the code, you're welcome :)

I have also been debating whether or not to buy a hand-stamping tool set... thought it might be fun to make necklaces and charms, bracelets, etc. but my scrapbook room is a disaster the way it is, I dont know if there is room for one more "project"

sickly-bies

our poor little cub has RSV -- well actually we didn't do the nose swab (ouch!) to confirm it but the doctor told us today that it is going around and he is showing all the symptoms of it. He was gone from daycare Tuesday with a fever- took him to the clinic and they said it was an ear infection... was better Wednesday then today another fever, so we took him to the clinic again, and found out a) he doesnt have an ear infection and b) most likely has rsv.... RSV can be very dangerous for little ones, so the best thing we can do is stay home and share lots of snuggles!!! the picture above was taken about 6:30 on Tuesday night, Mason was so exhausted he fell asleep on the floor in the living room during the time it took me to get his medicine and cup of milk ready!

i was looking at my calendar and realized i have not put in a full week of work since the week of January 4th! Either Mason has had dr. appts, was sick, daycare was closed, or it was a holiday... I am so lucky that my work has been SUPER flexible with me in letting me work from home as much as possible.

this weekend we were supposed to have a family safari trip with the Warren Sno-Cat club, but now it looks like only Bobby will be able to go. I am so bummed, was looking forward to taking Mason swimming @ the "famous" 7 Clans waterpark.

well - better get back to work, have lots to do!!!

ssshhh!!

what a relaxing day it has been! Mason slept in this AM, and so did I! Then we played for awhile, and Mason has been sleeping for the past hour & a half - I worked out for 1/2 hour (Jenny & I are friends again!) and then made lunch and started on dinner.



I was going to work on this project for my scrapbook room -- shown here for gift wrap but I bought an organization kit from lowes (same time I bought the counter top paint-- I have a lot of ideas it just takes me awhile to get going on DOING them!! :) ) and was going to put it above my desk in my scrap room -- however, when i went to the garage bobby had thrown the extra peg-board away! Boo! So I guess it will just have to wait another month before I go buy more pegboard!

Feeling a little bad about not making it to church this AM but since bobby is working, it just gets to be too difficult to entertain Mason the entire time, and then I end up not being able to pay attention to the sermon... but I did come across a charity website that I decided to donate to -- my friend Kristen has been posting a lot on her blog about helping out in Haiti and inspired me to do the same (although she is doing SO MUCH more than simply donating money!).

The website is Feed Starving Children - they have offices based in MN, and of course my soft spot in my heart is children so it just seemed right to me... (and P.S. the IRS says you can deduct your Haiti releif gift on your '09 or '10 taxes)

Going to try to just hang out and enjoy the rest of the day, anxiously waiting for Bobby to come home so we can hang out as a FAMILY, before back to the grind on Monday!

digi scrapping freebies

wow im getting 2 posts in today-- which means that obivously i am procrastinating on getting laundry/housework/exercising (Jenny & I had a falling out yesterday, lol) done, mason is taking his nap.... so I am looking for a bunch of digital files to download - came across a TON @ twopeas website, HERE. If the link doesn't work, at the top I just did a sort low to high and so all the free ones come up first. I refuse to pay for any digital kits because there are sooo many free ones out there. I do need to go through all of my papers that are taking up so much space on my computer, because really you just need to look at the pattern/texture, because you can change the color to whatever color you want.

I should really start to get ready - Mason & I are goign to do some shopping before the game I think to pick up fun things like wipes & diapers @ Target before the game! He is excited because we found out today his buddy Dillon and his parents Drew & Meagan will be at the game as well!