Saturday, May 31, 2008

This is the way we roll!!!





Tonight was a big night for Emily and her girl scout troop. We had our end of year party that is paid for by our troop's cookie sales. The girls decided that they wanted to go to a restaurant in a limo. So we obligied and took them to Sho Gun, a japenese steak house. Casey went out with his favorite person, Timmy and Emily and I went out on the town. We had the best time eating and laughing with all the moms and girls. Some of the girls had never been to a Japanese steak house so to see their faces was priceless. Emily is an old pro and knew what to expect since we have been there before and also in Maine. The girls got to rock out in the limo while the moms followed in their cars. Let me tell you that limo was rocking and shaking when it arrived at the restaurant. I am glad those girls had a wonderful time!

Friday, May 30, 2008

Swimming Fools!



I told you that my kids wanted to get in as much swimming as possible before we left grandmas, and they did. Last night they decided to take a swim with my brother. Emily was trying to dive off the diving board and between myself and Ryan (my brother)I think she managed to create what looked like a dive. Seeing that his sister was diving, Casey decided that he could dive too. He would run off the diving board with his hands pointed straight out in front of him. I got to laughing so hard because he looked so cute! He would come up and say "I dive Momma". He really didnt but in his mind he was scoring straight 10's from the judges. Well now we will have to settle for our sprinkler in the back yard.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Last Hoorah



We are visiting my mother and brother this week. They are getting ready to move to Mississippi next week. It is sad to say goodbye to this house and the little town that they have lived in over the last 8 years. Emily started school here and Casey came home here after he was born. We have evacuated here for hurricanes and celebrated holidays here. The kids just wanted to get one last swim in the pool. They know that they will see grandma, papa and uncle Ryan next month in their new house. I made my mother ride around town tonight so I could take some pictures of the place (that is the scrapbooker in me LOL) I know we will be thankful to have pictures to look back at this time in our family history. Until next time when I am at my own home...see-ya!

A Tag

My dear friend Annie has tagged me once again. I guess I better stop reading her blog so I dont get tagged. You know I am just kidding, love your blog girl.

A Attached or Single: Attached for 16 years now
B Best Friends: I dont call anyone best friend since they are all my friends except for my husband
C Cake or Pie: Pie most definately especially chocolate cream
D Day of Choice: Sunday
E Essential Item: Right now it is diapers for Casey
F Flavor of Icecream: Marble slab Birthday cake with chocolate sprinkles mixed in
G Gummy Bears or Worms: I really dont like either but I guess bears since my little brother had an incident with a worm
H Hometown: Bangor Maine
I Indulgence: Philosophy perfume and Vera Bradley bags
J January or July: July since it the month of Independence and my kiddos birthdays
K Kids: two lovely Kimball Kids
L Last movie I saw at a theater: I truly cant remember I know it was for my birthday and that was a long time ago
M Musician: I dont have one in particular but I love 70's music and Classic Rock. Anyone from Neil Diamond to the WHO
N Number of Siblings: No true siblings but I have 3 step and 2 half
O Oranges or Apples: Apples..Mcintosh
P Phobias or Fears: snakes, bees and flying
Q Quote: Monchichi Monchichi oh so soft and cuddly (ask Chris it was in highschool)
R Reason to Smile: My friends and family
S Season: I love fall in Maine when the leaves turn and there is a crisp feeling in the air. I love picking apples and pumpkins
T Tag: Kelly, Debby, Suzanne, Lisa and Judy
U Unknown fact: That I was on a swim team in High school and Chris was the captain and that is how we met
V vegetarian or oppressor of Animals: Where's the beef?!!
W Worst habit: eating out instead of cooking
X Xray or Ultrasound: I guess ultrasound since I have had more of those than xrays
Y Your favorite food: My mom's Lasagna (it was my nan's recipe)
Z Zodiac sign: Aries I am a Ram!

Saturday, May 24, 2008

I love that husband of mine!

Let me let you in on a little secret...my husband rocks! Once a month he takes the kids all day so I can scrapbook with my girlfriends. Well today is that day. My car is packed and all I have to do is get myself ready then it is off to the lodge for a fun day with my friends. I usually stay until 11pm. While I am gone he is going to install a new ceiling fan with a light for our dining room. We hate to do things to this house since it is a rental but we will take down the fixture whenever we move and replace it with the unsightly one that is now there. Once he does that I am sure he will come visit me for a bit (just to get some of the homemade goodies that the girls make LOL). I think he is also going to let a rocket off that he built last weekend. Casey loves watching them go up. And maybe a trip to the pet store to look at the kitties. Well I better get off this thing so I can go scrap with my girls. Have a Happy Weekend!

Thursday, May 22, 2008

It's that time AGAIN!!!




Emily's last day of school was today. Now we can sleep in and not worry. No more stinkin uniforms or flat ironed hair. So to celebrate this joyous occasion, daddy took us out for icecream tonight. We love us some Marble Slab. For those of you northerners, Marble Slab is an icecream chain that allows you to pick your base icecream and add extras into it. They take the icecream and smash it on a frozen slab of marble while trying to mix your items into it (hence the name). Casey and I shared a birthday cake flavored icecream with rainbow sprinkles. Emily enjoys chocolate mint icecream with mint patties and Chris ate Amaretto icecream with cookie dough mixed in on a heath flavored cone. Now we have full tummies so we can sleep in Late tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Thought I was getting over this stuff...

Well my illness is still lingering and I finally broke down last night. I talked to my good friend Kim and she talked me into getting an antibiotic and getting this stuff out of me. I was up until 1am last night coughing and I cant function like that. I am now taking my antibiotics thanks to my wonderful doctor's office. Hopefully this thing will go away. I have a scrapbook event to go to this weekend and dont want to miss it. I love spending time with my "sistahs" it is like therapy for me. SO even if I dont feel better by then, I will be sitting there in a chair with yall anyways!

Sunday, May 18, 2008

I'm Back




I have been quite sick the last couple of days. All I can say is thank goodness for my sweet husband. He has let me sleep and rest since Friday morning. I have been feeling bad since Tuesday and really hit rock bottom on Saturday. I think it is the flu because that is what it felt like. I am not 100 percent but I certainly feel better than yesterday.

I had promised Emily I would make a banana cream pie for her. Well she had finally had enough and asked me if she could make it and I told her "go for it girly!"

She made the pie all by herself with a little verbal help from me. It turned out really good as you can see. Between Emily making pie and Chris cooking Sunday dinner, I have been taken good care of. I really love my little family!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

She is still home!


Emily is still home sick with me. She ran a fever last night and coughed up a lung most of the night. She begged to go to school today but I told her not today. I am hoping that she will get to go back tomorrow. She is very bored with her brother and I. I dont want to take her out and she has had it with the TV. When I was out on Monday I picked up a canvas and some paints so she could paint. That was the last time we have left the house. She did paint it for her new room and it looks AWESOME if I should say so myself. She actually used glitter on it(see last post). I love that she is so crafty. We can both enjoy spending time together doing crafty stuff.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

I've got it now!!!

Well I woke up this morning with the worse headache and cough and realized that I now have inherited Emily's virus. I have been "laying low" as my Nan would say. But there is one little person who wont allow this.....CASEY. He is digging himself a hole with me and everytime I think that he is getting out of it he does something else to dig the hole deeper. This weekend, Sunday to be exact is when this whole ordeal started. Emily and I were making meatballs and she went to go to the restroom and passed through the livingroom. Well when she came back in she yelled at me to come here. I walked into the living room to find a bottle of hot pink fingernail polish all over the carpet. Casey had told her " look what I did sissy!" when she was returning from the restroom. Needless to say I was angry. Not just at him but at myself for allowing Emily to paint her nails in the livingroom earlier. I have to go get a rug now to cover up the spot which is now pale orange from my attempts to get the polish out.
Well fast forward to today. I dont feel good to begin with so I am kinda out of it. Emily yelled at me again and I went running to see aqua doodlebug glitter all over my bed. That little sneak got it off of the kitchen table and ran into my bedroom to have some fun. I was cooking in the kitchen and talking to my friend Debby while this must have been happening. I have now concluded that Casey will now be in my sights at all times. How come Emily was so good and he is just the devil? LOL

Monday, May 12, 2008

Another Doctors Visit

Well we have been fighting a fever and cough since last Thursday. Emily has missed school Friday and today. I got her into the doctors office this afternoon. Casey acted like he was getting shots or something worse (screaming his head off). He wasnt even the one seeing the doctor. Well after the exam we were sent to the hospital for a chest X-ray. The doctor felt like the fever and cough might be pneumonia and wanted to rule that out. My good friend Kim came and got Casey from me and took him with her while Emily and I headed to the hospital. Well to make a long story short...no pneumonia, good white blood cell count so it is a VIRUS! No antibiotics or cough medicine, and more time off from school since she is still running a fever. The poor thing is so bored. She just wants to go back to school and be with her friends before school lets out next week. So until we get rid of that fever for over 24 hours we are all home together.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

This is why I miss Maine!!!




Well it is in the 90's and I am cursing already. I hate the heat. I have to start my car and turn the A/C to get it cool before I get in it. Kinda like when I used to start my car and turn the heater on to warm it up when I was living back home. I would much rather be cold than hot and I know that Chris totally agrees with me. Hurricane season starts here on June 1st. Again this is why I miss home. I could take a full blown blizzard anyday instead of a Hurricane. At least my cousin Quinn could plow us out and get us where we needed to be. LOL!

The kids love it when it get warm because that means swimming and sprinklers. We christened our new sprinkler the other afternoon. I didnt think Casey would like it since he didnt like it last year. Well I was WRONG! He and his sister had a blast. Our backyard is perfect for a pool, it is flat and large. Emily always wants a pool and I have to tell her that we dont own this house so we cant get a pool. She wants to talk to the landlord herself to see if he would put one in. Good Luck my little one! Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms, Grandmoms, Godmoms and anyone who is a mother figure!

Friday, May 9, 2008

I've been tagged or should I say Emily has been tagged!


Our friend Annie has tagged Emily to answer these questions about her dear old mom. She happens to be home today with a fever and headache so we can do this right now. Without further ado here are her answers...

1. What is something Mom always says to you? I Love You.


2. What makes Mom happy? When Casey and I both get along.


3. What makes Mom sad? When Casey and I fight.


4. How does Mom make you laugh? Saying funny stuff like "toot your brains out."


5. What was Mom like as a child? I dont even know


6. How old is your Mom? are you 33?


7. How tall is your Mom? 5ft 2in


8. What is your Mom's favorite thing to do? Scrapbooking


9. What does your Mom do when you are not around? Go out to lunch with Grandma


10. If your Mom becomes famous what will it be for? Probably write a book


11. What is your Mom really good at? Scrapbooking and Cooking


12. What is your Mom really bad at? Drawing


13. What does your Mom do for a job? Stay at home mom


14. What is your Mom's favorite food? Quesidillas


15. What makes you proud of her? That you have to take care of both of us without Daddy


16. If your Mom was a cartoon character who would she be? Jimmy Neutron's Mom


17. What do you and your Mom do together? Make crafts


18. How are you and your Mom the same? We both like to scrapbook


19. How are you and your Mom different? She collects stuff and I dont


20. How do you know that your Mom loves you? Because she always says she loves me and lets me sleep in her bed.


So there you have it. I was surprised by some of the answers. I dont have many people to tag who have blogs but here it goes....Donnie Hamilton, Amelia McAvoy, Randi Evans, Kristin Hale.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Sidewalk Art



My kids have been bugging me for two weeks now to get them sidewalk chalk. They finally won when I went to Walmart the other day. Crayola comes up with some unusual sidewalk chalk. Emily got 3d chalk and Casey got a kit that had some cool writing utensils. Yesterday afternoon we colored away and had a blast, that is EMily and I. Casey was a big GROUCH!!! He would come up and erase everything that Em and I created and then would run off. Emily drew a big green box and lettered it "Grouch Space". We made Casey stand in the box but he wouldnt stay. His mood didnt change a bit last night. I think he woke up from his nap too early and was ready to give me and Em a hard time. I hope today is better. It is too early to see yet.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

They're Back!!!


For all you folks that arent from Alabama this will be a science lesson for yall. For those of you that are from here then you can feel my pain and I feel yours!

Twice a year(May and Sept) we have an outbreak of a little critter called the love bug. They are two seperate bugs that attach themselves together on their "butts". They are attracted to gas fumes so they swarm around on the interstate and stoplights throughout town. You can be walking outside and they land on you and stay. They dont sting or bite they are just bothersome! When driving they will splat on your car and if you dont wash them off they will eat the paint off of your vehicle. Car dealerships even coat cars with special stuff to repel them (just ask my Mom). Well excuse the next line of this blog post but I dont call them love bugs, to me they are f******bugs. I hate them and will not miss them when and if we ever move from here!

Monday, May 5, 2008

Emily's New Snack



Emily came home from Feild Day at her school a couple of weeks ago and told me that her friends had informed her that Pickles make you happy. She is now on a pickle kick. I dont think it because she is unhappy I just think she likes the taste of them. She told me her friend Abbie brought her one to school and that she wanted to start bringing one for a snack. I remember when I was in school we used to bring big ole pickle too. Well a trip to Walmart yielded a HUGE pickle in a pouch called the Big Papa. She thought that was cool but a little too big to bring to school. I would think so since it was the size of your average cucumber you purchase at the grocery store. I tasted it and it was quite dill to say the least. Well yesterday we got a smaller version in the large jar. Off she went this morning with her pickle in her lunch box. She told me that she is definately going to have a good day because "Mom, you know pickles make you happy!"

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Finding fun in the strangest way!



Emily had one of her friends over on Friday and of course they head directly to her room with her little brother following. The next thing I know I hear uncontrolable laughter from the room. I went in to find them laughing at clothes flying off of the ceiling fan. I didnt get mad at first because I thought it was quite imaginative and funny too. Chris didnt think it was funny at all and of course it stopped once big bad dad found out what they were doing. LOL!

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Maid to Order


Casey and I have been cleaning today. Yes you heard me right...Casey was cleaning too. He loves to clean with me. I think he just likes doing the fun stuff like using the swiffer wet jet and pulling all kinds of clorox wipes out of the container. He also loves to help take dishes out of the dishwasher. When he was younger he liked to run the vacum cleaner. He is going to make some lucky woman a good husband one day. Until then I can rent him out for the hour. LOL!