Aunt Roaslie - THANK YOU!

Samantha was so excited and kept saying how nice it was of you to make her communion bag. She loved it! I got it on film for you -




She's thank you here!



Thank again! It was perfect and Uncle Tony did a good job giving me the details!! Feel Better soon

xoxoxoxo

Steve's Fantasy Baseball draft....

So here is a glimpse into the infamous baseball draft of Steve's. This started many many years ago. These group of boys have known each other for what seems like forever. They grew up together and now our children will have the privilege of doing the same. It's mass craziness and from the looks of it you would think it is completely disorganized - but it is the complete opposite. In the beginning they came with their notebooks and player stats and it took much longer. Years later now, quite a few pounds extra and some less hair they are much more technical with their laptops and such. It is so advanced now that one of the guys (Farmer I hope that little problem with the itch clears up :) )who could not make it up for the draft had these tech savvy boys Skyped him in for the whole 7 or so hour event.

My dinning room was left unharmed. Minimal scratches left on the floor none on my table THANK GOD! No children were harmed during the event only over fed. No dogs were harmed either. We had an incident with gummy bears one year...oh that's a story. Bell's a bastard!




All joking aside this right here is the best of the best - these boys would do anything for each other and for that I am always thankful for their friendships that have continued year after year. Some have moved away and some have stayed but no matter where they are they will always be great friends.

Cookies, Cookies and more cookies.....

OK so last weekend I needed to make favors for my good friends baby shower. As per the request of the guest of honor it was cookies that were in demand. So here's the kicker there was 70 people going that meant that I needed 70 favors - I started baking early:



Here was the beginning of the packaging. Look at that plate of cookies teetering on the edge....


This is what 500 cookies look like later:


Another view for all you cookie fanatics - believe it not I had not 1 left over. I ate 1 cookie myself in the beginning - you know to make sure it tasted right and the rest went into a box

Don't really have anything to say right now

I know you'll laugh but I am speechless right now. I am a bit bored to be honest. This where I am sure you are screaming at the computer saying I have lost my mind. How can she be bored with being pregnant with her 5th having the other 4 running around like maniacs and lets not even count the dogs. We had a busy weekend. I had a baby shower for a very good friend and I had to bake 500 cookies for the favors. YES I said 500. I started at 10am and finished at 2pm. It wasn't too bad really and NO there are none left over. Steve had his fantasy baseball draft on Sunday with all that craziness. I have pictures but that would require me to remove myself from my current location of the couch and I have the good spot. So I know if I get up Steve will steal it. No it doesn't matter that I am pregnant there are no rules when it comes to getting the good spot.

I finally caved and hired a cleaning lady(s) and they spent over 4 hours today cleaning this house from top to bottom. They found more missing things then I could have ever imagined. Now I know where all the socks go.....just anywhere and everywhere where this kids leave them.

Sam and Bella are having a sleepover with Grandma and Grandpa. Steven, Jr. and Sophia are sleeping. All my current "projects" are up to date. My Easter baskets are for the most part filled and ready to be wrapped but I need to go to the store to get those bags that you just stick the basket in and tie with a ribbon.

I'm hungry but again that would require me to get up so I guess I will starve. So here I sit bored. See I knew I shouldn't have hired a cleaner. Oh and Steve just asked me who betrayed Jesus...see how exciting we are :)

Waiting for Daddy

So as most of you know Steve's last 8 weeks or so has SUCKED! He has spent more time on the trains and planes then.....well it's been a lot. So he is home for the next 10 days. When I say home I mean he will still go to work at the crack of dawn but at least come home at some point at the end of the day. Well tonight he was really coming home early at 6:30pm. To some - you would say that is late but to us that is the equivalent of him coming home at like 4pm for someone with a job with normal hours. I was trying to get dinner ready and the kids (meaning just Bella and Sophia) were being crazy. So I told them that Daddy was on his way home and to go wait for him. This is were they patiently sat and waited for 25 min.



Oh and it was a shock to all to even be coming home in the DAYLIGHT!

"MOM why are your slippers still on?!?!"

I left the house this morning to run some errands with Bella and Sophia. Bella pointed out AFTER WE WERE ALREADY IN THE STORE that I still had my slippers on and she wanted to know why. This is where I could have responded with - "Well my slippers are on because I have lost my ever-lovin mind. I'm a bit....ok a lot cranky, tired and over-worked. Daddy has been away for what seems like forever. I have 3 kids in 3 different schools with insane after-school schedules that keeps me out of the house every week night. I put more miles on my truck in one week then I could have ever imagined. Your sister has decided she would like to complain about her new teeth coming in and has been a pure delight about it. I don't ask for help because honestly it's just too much trouble and easier to do myself. I really really need a gun of sorts to take out the deer, squirels, and racoons that won't stay out of the garbage." I don't know what I am feeding you for dinner tonight not that it should matter because you will have eaten enough snacks before then to last you a week. I am trying to figure out how to get all the bubbles out of the washing machine because I didn't buy the detergent with the "he" symbol on it and now I have made a mess. We need to go get the oil changed in the truck and the guys are so going to make fun of me wearing my slippers or at the very least think I am some crazy mother who has lost her mind. Luckily when we go through the car wash after wards we don't have to get out of the car so no one will see the slippers. Hopefully 20 years from now you'll appreciate all I have done at the expense of my own sanity......really who wants to live a sane life anyway this is much more fun"

Instead I explained it was "National Wear your Slippers Day" and then she cried because she was wearing sneakers.

Sometimes there just isn't a title

~ 1/2lb Roast Beef (a week ago)- $5.99

~ Staying with a sick Dexter in the Vet till 1:30 in the morning while the Vet was trying to figure out what was wrong - putting him thru blood tests, x-rays (which they had to knock him out for), drugging him with too many pain killers. Only to leave with NO diagnosis and agreeing it most likely was the roast beef that STEVE fed him earlier in the day - $741.00

~ Knowing this was not my fault at all and that I can totally blame Steve and give him a legitimate hard time for no set period of time WHILE HE IS AWAY ALL WEEK FOR WORK only leaving me with the sick dog that needs 3 different drugs every 8 hours for the next 3 days - PRICELESS.