So starts another week

Happy day everyone! I don't really have a bunch to share today-Just wanted to say Hello. I have been off of work for the last 4 days. It was a nice break but at the same time it didn't feel like I really had any time off. I spent the first two days doing school work and the last two days just flew by.
I did win my first video game this weekend-that was very exciting :) I have three boys so I have had many years of video game playing and well I totally suck. So usually anytime that I actually do play they spend the whole time giving me a pep talk. I think that they are scared that I will quit playing if they actually come out and say how bad I really am-Like I don't already know- I mean come on I lose everytime. Anyways-we were playing Wii sports on Saturday night and we were bowling. It took me alittle while-But I did it :) Only once but still. They were all shocked and I think alittle scared :) They way they all reacted you would think that I had found the cure for cancer or something else truely amazing.
Anywho-Have a great week!

Wednesday!!! YAAA!!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!! This week is moving by so slow it is about to make me crazy :) How was everyones halloween? Ours was a lot of fun. Just thought that I would share a few pics with everyone.

My oldest loves Halloween and everything Halloween related. He was the only one that wanted to get all dressed up. I was really impressed with his choice and how he put everything together. The wig is a bit crazy but I love the face paint. He was Gene Simmons last year and this year I think this is Ace Freley so I wonder which one he will pick next year?

I was really disappointed that my 9 year old didn't get all excited like he normally does. Usually he has decided on a costume months before Halloween but not this year. So his brother painted his face so he would have something halloween related. Next year I will have to try harder to get him all excited :) He is my youngest I should still get atleast a few more good years.

The middle one is always in his own world :). He did not want to dress up at all. His big costume was to have his hair straightened and to wear some sunglasses. We had a bunch of people over

that night and he was grabbing whatever he could find from other people and came up with this. This is silly enough-But the poses were seriously priceless and freakin hilarious-Sorry didn't get any pics of the really awesome ones.

Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween. Enjoy the rest of your week-I am seriously trying to :)

Take care.

Blah!!

Happy Halloween-2 days early :) !! We have made it to Friday-YAAAA!!!! I must really be a glutten for punishment or I am just a big oh whimp. I decided for some crazy reason that I wanted to go back to school and so I started back this week. I have no idea what I was thinking-Yes, education is great and it would be awesome to make more money but I am starting to feel alittle overwhelmed. I do not know why I thought I could handle a full time job, 3 kids, teaching one of them driver's ed and take a course. Ok maybe I am just wanting to whine a bit. I do feel like I have a lot going on right now and I may go crazy trying but I know that I can handle it. After all I am not a quiter-Atleast that is what I am trying to tell myself :)
Anyways-Enough of my whining:)
I love Halloween-It is always so exciting to me to see all of the creative costumes that people come up with. This year my oldest is the only one that has really mentioned a costume idea, and that kind of makes me sad :( My youngest said that he will dress up in whatever I want him to-So maybe we can get alittle creative with it. We shall see-I will take some pictures of what we end up with. We usually go to the town's get together so the kids can hang out and see their friends. When they were younger (and I was a stay at home mom) I used to plan a sort of family party and that would be our halloween. We would carve pumpkins, eat junk food and watch scary movies. They would get all dressed up and run between our house and their grandparents. Sometimes I really miss days like that-we didn't have to leave the house and we would have a blast.
Have a great weekend-and a happy and safe HALLOWEEN!!!!

I crocheted!

Good morning everyone! I had a wonderful weekend and I hope you all did too. I had absolutely no plans so I was able to do whatever I wanted. I chose to work on my afghan or blanket or whatever you would call it. It may not look like much, but considering it is 90" long, I made some pretty good progress. My stripes are going to run lengthwise instead of width wise. I am also doing a lot of color changes, but in another couple of rows my pattern will become clear. If you look closely, I also worked in a new stitch I learned. The white stripe is a half double crochet. YouTube is awesome for new beginners. Thank you sis for pointing that out to me!



One thing I did do this weekend was go horseback riding with my awesome friend from the UK. I haven't rode in a long time and it is nice getting back up on the horse again (ha ha! Pun intended). I hope you guys have a great week and I will post again when I get a bit further on by afghan blanket.

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Happy Friday! I hope we all have had a great week. I can not believe how fast this week has been. I was expecting a very long week since my last weekend went by sooo FAST. Last Friday my oldest got his Learner's Permit to drive-so we have spent the week learning to drive. He is currently in driver's ed, which I volunteered to do the parent taught version. When deciding it seemed that this would be easy and not a big deal. Do you know how hard it is to be in the car with your child learning how to drive? It is a very scary thing-Not because they are doing bad but because they are your kid and we as parents try to do everything we can to keep them safe and out of harms way. The first few days we stayed in our neighborhood which doesn't have a lot of traffic so that was easy. There is a highway that runs past my house that is busy at certain times of the day but for the rest of the day pretty calm and quiet-so I decide what the heck lets give it a shot. He is doing great until a car comes up behind us-He gets nervous and I get nervous. I tell him that it is ok, just let them pass so he starts to move out of the way and I realize that his steering isn't all that great and I just see us heading off of the road and I panic-which totally caused him to panic. I don't think that I have ever seen him so scared in all of his 15 years-I felt horrible. We pull over all is well, except he is terrified and never wants to drive again. So we head home and call it a day. He texted all of his friends and told them about how he almost died :) He's alittle overdramatic. The next day I decide to take him to a back road out by our house. He did amazing. He felt so good about it that he decided he wanted to try the highway again-So I gave him a few pointers and on the highway we go-He was wonderful, alert and careful. He still got nervous when cars were behind us, but he would take deep breath and slow down so they could go around us. As much as the previous experience scared the crap out of both of us-I seriously think that it ended up really helping him. When we got home he told me that he was proud of himself because he didn't almost kill us again-see overdramatic :) Keep your fingers crossed for me this weekend-We are getting out again. Good Luck to all of you that are in my same situation :) It does get better.
I have a few projects that I plan on working on this weekend. I am going to get my magazine purse done (hopefully), fix the hem on a few pairs of pants, crochet another hat and hopefully get a chance to go thru all of my photos and memory cards and get that totally organized. Other than that I have no plans-YIPPEE!!!! No leaving the house and no one coming over :)
One last thing-(I know totally random) I LOVE the way that Damon pulled Mason's heart out of his chest last night on Vampire Diaries and I almost liked Stephan at the end when he was teary eyed :)
Anyways-Ta Ta for now!
Have a great weekend-I totally plan on it.