Tagged!

I was tagged by Chris' cousin Jen and his other cousin Angie. This one is actually kind of fun. Here are the rules...



Rules: Each player answers the question themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment letting them know that they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve answered the questions on your blog.



10 Years Ago I...(1998):

1. I was just starting my Senior Year of High school

2. I was a theater junkie and I had my favorite part ever in the school play. I was M'Lynn(Sally Field) in Steel Magnolias. I wore and wig and got to do that awesome monologue, it Rocked!

3. I finally got my driver's license @ 17 and 3 months, and I drove a shiny red Mercury Cougar. Still to this day it is the coolest car I ever had.

4. I was feeling free from my boyfriend of two years... He was a freshman in college and I was an independent "woman".

5. I was obsessed with all things "Dawson's Creek" I never missed and episode! Looking back that just seems pathetic.





5 Things on Today's "To Do List":

1. Pick up my house cuz my parents are coming over for dinner.

2. Look for new work pants for Chris online, his other ones are getting pretty dingy.

3. Find time to peruse other blogs and read "Not Me! Monday" posts.

4. Put the kids in bed in time to watch Heroes on TV.

5. Laundry, always lots and lots of laundry.





5 Places I have lived:

1. I was born in raised in Warsaw, IN

2. North Manchester, IN (once for college and once again after Chris and I moved there and bought a bar/restaurant

3. Leesburg, IN... where Chris and I bought our first house and lived after we got married.

4. Back to Warsaw... where we live now. I know it hasn't been very exciting.





5 Jobs I have had:

1. My first job was working for my parents @ "the big hat"(Arby's Roast Beef)
2. I worked @ a tanning salon called Maxx Tan my Senior year in high school.
3. I also worked at the gas station Chris and I owned for a little while, but I was also trying to finish college @ the time.
4. I did my college internship in the costume department of Wagon Wheel Theatre, which is in my hometown. I actually got paid $250 a week which was a lot more than most interns get paid.
5. As always my life has always involved brief stints back @ Arby's in between jobs. Everyone always comes back to Arby's.

Now I'm tagging:
1. Kam
2. Toni
3. Shawn
4. Kameron
5. Leah

Not Me! Monday

Ahhh another Not Me! Monday has rolled around. I must say I struggled with it this week, I didn't really bother keeping track of all of the things I "didn't" do and so I considered not even writing this post. However, I feel bound to MckMama and I am so hoping she interrupts her blogging break for Not Me! Monday. Plus I must say I enjoy all of the extra comments that Mondays bring. Oh, come on you know all of you do too! So with out further ado, here are the things I did not do this week.

1. I did not cave in and finally break into the Halloween candy I bought. That would be ridiculous and oh so naughty. Why must they put it on the store shelves so early!!?

2. I did not run back into the house to get my camera before taking my daughter to the emergency room. I did not also shamelessly take pictures of her while waiting in said emergency room simply so I would have something to blog about. As a parent I am much more concerned for the safety and well being of my child than to be thinking about my blog in an emergency!

3. I did not spend an entire day reading "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story" over on the Pioneer Woman.com. I have followed her cooking blog for awhile now and surely I already knew she had other blogs. I am not that oblivious! And I would not find a blog I like and then spend hours catching up on it's older posts. I have never ever done that before! :)

4. I did not forget my SIL's birthday present on the kitchen counter as we were rushing out the door to meet them for dinner. I would never forget someone's present on the evening we were going out specificaly to celebrate their birthday!

5. Lastly, I did not spend an hour with an ice pack on my face yesterday because I touched my mouth without washing my hands after de-seeding peppers for chili. That would have been really stupid and it would have hurt really, really bad!!!

Looking forward to reading what everyone else did not do last week!

Yearbook Pictures

Okay so I have seen these on other blogs and I thought they were hilarious but I had no idea how fun it would be to try it for myself though! Let me just say that I spent a little over two hours "yearbooking myself" last night and I had a blast! I love my computer... it is my lifeline to the outside world and provides me with hours upon hours of entertainment and social connection. Even though these photos are completely pointless they are still very fun. Here are my favorites:

Here is what I would look like had I been in high school circa 1966

1960

1964

This one which is suppossed to be 1990, looks so much like my cousin Francie it is scary!

Last, but not least... the year 2000, which very much resembles the way I actually looked back when I graduated from high school in 1999

Happy Birthday Rachael!

Today is my sister-in-law's birthday. We went out for dinner with them last night to celebrate. It was nice to sit and have a meal together, just the four of us with no kids. I love my SIL, she is definitely one of my best friends. Considering that our husbands are brothers I certainly think we won the "in law" lotto. When I married Chris, Miah wasn't even dating anyone, so it was kind of a crap shoot as to who my future sister-in-law might be. Once they started dating I was so excited! We got along really well right from the start. I remember telling Miah that if she wasn't "the one" I wanted to know, because I don't think I could've taken it if they had broken up. I'm so glad they didn't! Happy Birthday Rach! We may be family by chance, but we are friends by choice, and I wouldn't have it any other way!

Just for Kicks...

My brother Shawn and Kevin went on a little road trip this week to Florida. They went for a wedding but apparently they are also "taking in the sights." Shawn posted this pic on his flickr account and I laughed out loud when I saw it. Even funnier is that when Reagan saw it she said, "Oh mom, I want to ride that firetruck like Uncle Kevin is!" I didn't even try to respond...

Not Again!!!

Just when I thought we had had all the excitement we could handle for the week, another "accident" fell into my lap. In my defense though, this one was definitely not my fault and it definitely didn't happen on my watch! Tonight before bed, Chris was rough housing with the kids as he tends to do sometimes. He was chasing them around and everyone was screaming and having a good time until... wham!!! Apparently Reagan decided that Dee Dee was "winning" and she shoved her out of her way. She went smack into the double glass doors that lead to our back porch. As soon as I heard her hit, I knew it was bad. The blood came immediately, Dee Dee's forehead had split open from the impact. There was blood on Chris, on me, on Dee's jammies. I started putting pressure on it along with an icepack and as soon as the bleeding slowed down enough I headed out to the ER. Does any of this sound familiar? Did I not go through almost this exact same sequence of events yesterday with a different child? How happy am I that I didn't end up at the ER yesterday? Because if I had shown up there two days in a row they probably would have called CPS on me! Alas, I was surely meant to spend 3 hours of my time this week waiting in the emergency room. Like I didn't have anything better to do! I have said before that Kennedy is my accident prone child. Remember this post anyone? Or this one? Dee Dee always takes it in stride and she actually seemed happy to be there. She got to spend a little one on one time with mommy and Grandma Vicki! They cleaned her up and glued her forehead shut. I think she screamed more about how the glue stung than she did about being hurt in the first place! Seriously though, did the ER ever wind her up! I got home around 11 and it took another 2 1/2 hours to get her to relax enough to go to sleep. And I have to wake her up every four hours to check for a concussion! So even though I would like to be sleeping myself right now, I can't. I have to wait on the clothes in the washing machine to get done so I can put them in the dryer. Otherwise my husband won't have clean pants to wear to work tomorrow!

In the car on the way to the hospital

In the waiting room, happy as can be!

Showing off her hospital bracelet, "one for me, and one for mommy!"

In the car on the way home... a little surigical glue and she's good as new!

It's All Fun and Games...

Until somebody gets poked in the eye with a pencil! Yes, this did actually happen at our house tonight. God must be smiling on me because we are so lucky that no serious damage was done! Let me back up a bit. Tonight Chris was working and so I was on my own in the parenting department. I had just feed the kids dinner and I was standing at the sink cleaning up the usual mess. That was when I heard Jack scream. I turned around just in time to see Dee Dee running the opposite way with a pencil in her hand. When I looked at Jack there was blood gushing out of his eye. I panicked, I'll admit it. I screamed at Dee and I immediately got a wet paper towel and ice pack for the eye. Jack wasn't screaming too bad, so I was hoping for the best. I popped Dee Dee on the poto(Spanish for bottom) and set her in the corner. I took a breath and called my mom. Isn't that what we moms always do? I was thinking emergency room and my mom reminded me that our eye doctor is a friend of Chris' family and lives two houses down from his parents. So I called Dr. Thallemer and he said to come on over. I dropped the girls @ Nini's(Chris' mom) and then went to his house. He looked at it and luckily none of his actual eye was affected. He did have a little gash in his eyelid, but it's nothing that can't be healed with Neosporin. After the adrenaline rush I am just trying to wind down a bit! The kids are finally in bed, and Chris won't be home until 12. I guess I'll spend some time on the computer catching up on blogs or maybe go watch one of my many shows that the DVR recorded this week! What a wonderful device! Hope you all enjoy your evening/morning whatever the case may be.

Sorry the picture isn't great,it is fuzzy and I waited too long to take it. But, you can tell his eye really does look fine. It did look worse earlier, however it would have been truly cruel of me to take a picture while blood was still pouring out of his eye!

Here is a better shot from this morning, see is eye is only a little red. Please excuse the snotty nose we are all battling a cold around here!

How Young is Too Young to Have a Boyfriend?

On Saturday night we went out with some friends and ended up back @ our place with all of the kids in tow. We decided it was cheaper to hang at home, than to pay a babysitter and drink overpriced cocktails at the bar. It just so happens that all of our kids are around the same ages and they always have fun playing together. The little boys were having fun chasing Dee Dee around the house and she was just smiling, laughing and letting them chase her... the little flirt! The next day she asked me when her "boyfriends" were coming back over to play. I laughed so hard I couldn't keep a straight face. What made this even funnier was that Reagan was so jealous! She wanted to know why Dee Dee had two boyfriends and she didn't even have one! This lead into a whole other conversation with daddy that ended in Reagan telling me with desperation that "Daddy says I can't have a boyfriend till I'm 15!" Oh, the agony! Who would have thought I would be have to worry about boyfriends at age 5? I can only hope that this conversation can be easily forgotten, never to be brought up again (or at least not for a few more years!)

Dee Dee and her "boyfriends" Braeden and Lucas

Not, Me Monday!

It is time for "Not Me!" Monday again! I have been trying to keep track of all of the things that I did not do all week long! Here are some of the more humorous ones...


I did not find a cookie crumb on Reagan's face and then proceed to pick it off and eat it without even realizing it. That would be gross, and I certainly wouldn't have done that!


I did not and would never allow my children to eat leftover chocolate birthday cake for breakfast. I certainly did not rationalize this a la Bill Cosby; eggs + milk + wheat = healthy breakfast. I am not that bad of a parent.


I absolutely did not forget that it was Dee Dee's snack day at school and then have to go back to the van to find something off of the floor for her to use for show-and-tell.

I did not find an old sippy cup in the basement that must have had milk in it. If that would have happened to me, surely it would not have been there so long that it began to grow mold inside. I most definitely would not have tried to wash it out, only to give up and throw said sippy cup away.

What did you "not do" this week?

Party Pics!!!

Yesterday Reagan's Superhero birthday party was quite a success! We had 12 little girls come! I also had the help of Chris' cousin Alexis (who is a sixth grader), my sister Valesca, and her friend Maggie who lives next door to Nini. They played oustiside and ate cake and ice cream. Reagan was bound and determined that she wanted to do makeovers instead of playing games. So, I checked with all of the parents and no one objected. After the makeovers, she opened her presents, and I must say the girl has very generous friends! As crazy as the party was, I am so glad I was able to do it for her, I know she had a great time and I hope her friends did too! Since I was so busy during the party, Alexis took over the picture taking duties, and she took a ton! I had a really hard time deciding which pictures to post. Once I figured that out, I was still left with so many pictures! I just hope it isn't too many!

Reagan blowing out her candles

Doing makeovers on her friends

Opening up presents

Barbie Peek-a-boo Petites!!!

Friends playing outside on the swingset

Reagan with the doll her friend Elena gave her