brrrr...

I stepped outside & braved a few moments of snow in my flip flops this morning just to share with those of you in different locales just what I mean when I say it keeps snowing here in the Salt Lake Valley. This first one is to show the depth of snow in our front yard - you can see the cement in the bottom corner. Brandon has since shoveled the driveway, so now there's a nice bank along there. Oh, and it's snowing again, so yeah...

 

 

 

 

 

the weather outside is frightful

...but my pomegranate is delightful! (Cheesy, I know. I can't help it. :D)

As was my banana bread (with milk!) that I had for breakfast. Such yumminess. 

...And my house still smells like the pumpkin pies I made. So yeah, I'm surrounded by yummy things. 

I just wish it weren't so very cold outside. It has snowed all day too. Crazy I tell you. 

I did finally kick my 2.5 day headache, and I think my cold is easing up. Yay! I need to get healthy quick. 

I can't believe the 4th is almost here - I've had the least/worst training these last couple of weeks seeing as I've felt like crud and all, but my 10k is in 6 days. I'm just a little nervous at this point. o.O

Please oh please let me at least be able to sleep a little this week. (I've been dealing with insomnia again too. I literally am awake in bed all damn night. It's so frustrating, because it doesn't help my headaches or my cold at all and I'm just constantly exhausted. Yeah...)

I'm hoping we get to raid tonight - I haven't seen my wow friends in days. :(

I'm hoping to put my tree up tonight too. I was going to do it last night, but  had no help and I didn't want to have to drag everything upstairs by myself. :p

/squishes!

thankful

I'm a day late, but thankful nonetheless.
There was turkey, stuffing, lots of yummy pie, and the cutest little monkeys around.

Yeah, I love my kiddos. I'm grateful for their hugs, kisses, cuddles and for all of the joy they bring me.
We had a good (albeit brrrrr-frickin-cold) Thanksgiving.
Hope you all did too! :)

the sundering (a WoW entry)

It's patch day! It's patch day! 

I stayed up all night (well, until they took the realms down at 4) finishing up some achievements I was wanting to get done before the sundering of Azeroth. I took one last shot at a ZG tiger too, but without luck. Finally discovering Teldrassil for my world explorer achievement might not sound all that exciting but I was having fun trying to get those things done in time. :) 

Now I'm just waiting for the realms to be up so that I can be one of the crazy millions of people checking out the state of Azeroth after the patch. It's the last big patch before Blizz releases Cataclysm - it's the sundering. I'm all excited. :) Aw, it looks like they pushed things back to 5 pm. Time to go cuddle with my babe. (We both have colds.)

Have a great day!

My Friday

Just a meme tonight - I'm kinda sleepy. :p

A picture of you right now...

K, I have to grab the flip - I'll grab a still from it since it does okay in low light. :p

Something nice that was said to you today...

Um, "I love you" is always good.  :) Oh, and Vernie's little friend that helped us rake leaves in our front yard said "Oh, you have a young mom." That's always good too. lol

Your Friday night theme song...

Hmmm... Well I just thoroughly enjoyed listening to Kamelot's Forever so we'll go with that.

Favorite Friday purchase...

I have me some fudge shop cheesecake-middle cookies & a Glamour magazine from our grocery shopping trip. :)

This Friday was a good one because...

I have to admit I've been kind of down the last couple of days - not sure why. I had a great nap today though, enjoyed raking leaves with my boys and my dry-skin/teenage like breakout has finally vanished. (Yay!) So today was good. Oh and I have cookies! Can't forget the cookies. :) No workout though, so tomorrow I'll have to hit the gym hard.

Anything on your Christmas wish list yet?

I always have a wish list, but since my gym membership expires in December I was hoping we could get it renewed. That'd be a nice gift.

So yeah, now that I've answered a couple meme questions I'm so ready to cuddle up with my babe & my shiny new magazine.

Happy Friday!

Hugs!

in the end there will be candy

My kids and I have spent much of our day trying to find my authenticator with no luck. I wanna play WoW. :(  I really really hope we find it soon. It's been on my desk forever, but it wasn't there this morning. I'm guessing Maiah got hold of it, which means it could be anywhere in this house.

Then tonight Laurie & I went up to the Draper temple neighborhood for a run. We have the worst luck picking nights to train together. lol It was so crazy windy up there that there was just no way we were going to run it tonight. We did walk three miles, but yeah - not a whole lot of running going on. :p

So yeah, now I'm home - authenticator-less with only a very windy walk to account for my training today. Bummer. All I want at this point is some junk food, some good music & a hot tub. I can at least play me some tunes, since the other two aren't handy. Yeah...

Tomorrow's Friday though, and I'm one of the few people I know of at the moment not fighting some form of the sickies - so I can't complain. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have an awesome run. And maybe we'll find my authenticator soon. Really soon. And hey, the stores still open - I can go for a little walk and get me some junk food. Yeah, it's not so bad. Before this night ends I will have me some candy. Rawr.

'night blogland!

I love it when...

Photoshop, my monitor settings and the provider I use for all of my prints agree on color space. Having them not in sync while in the middle of a few important projects is so not fun. (I was ready to smash something. Really really hard.) But I have things running smoothly (with no off color tones!) once again.Go me! :)

I have a good run. Long enough. Fast enough. Yeah. Good runs are the bestest!

I get to have pudding. For breakfast. Mmmmm...

I wake up feeling pretty. You know it's going to be a good day when you wake up already feeling good about yourself.

Maiah gives me nice (non-zerbert style) kisses. :)

I have Lore on vent to play music for my round of fishing.

...and Gig in WoW to relay my typed messages to him since my mic is broken. Again. :p

My head doesn't hurt.

I feel strong.
I have a beautiful little monkey in my lap. Even though she likes to press the buttons on my keyboard a little too much. :p

We have a good raid night. Heroic ICC10 is going well. Fun times!

A good song comes on the radio when I'm cooking or cleaning in the kitchen. That's where the dancing happens. :)

My kiddos say I love you, just because.

There's lots more to love on this beautiful Friday, but I have got to get this pretty little girl to eat something, switch the laundry & finish editing these photos now that I can color correct in PS again. Yay!

Have a great day! :)

coming up for air

It has been a crazy busy week for me, and today I figured I'd better come up for air. 

After staying up until 5 again editing pictures & designing  announcements (I can concentrate better once my kiddos go to bed ) I was completely useless this morning. I actually ended up going back to bed - I was too tired to be of much use. :p
I ran 5.5 miles on Monday at almost goal pace. It was awesome. Of course, I haven't been running since then, so tonight I have got to get another good one in before my raid. I really shouldn't let life interrupt my training this close to the race.

My boys are loving being off track. I'm wishing they were more into getting their room clean & less into having turns on the computer.

It's so cold again today. The snow from this week's storm didn't stick at all though. It's just brrr frickin cold. 

I'd better get running or photo editing, just wanted to say hey. :) 

I'm here, just busy enough that I need to remind myself every once in awhile to come up for air.

Hugs!

Bring the Noise

Our family has had an eventful week!

Brandon's been sick - it turns out he has an inner ear infection (viral?!) and that's why he's been dizzy and feeling cruddy for days.  He's got some medicine to help with the equilibrium/dizzy issue and gets to wait it out. Fun!

 It was important that he feel better enough tonight to enjoy the game. We took our kiddos (minus Maiah) to the Jazz/Raptors game. It was so much fun! Kirsten & I were the only ones cheering (loudly) for the Raptors, B got to wear his personalized Raptors jersey to a game, Elijah got to see himself dancing on the jumbo-tron thing (maybe he made it on tv!), Vernie danced too and found out that games not involving a mouse & keyboard can be fun too and Vern escaped work for a few hours on a crazy day. I had forgotten how much I love cheering for an underdog team in a live game, and I always love crowds - so yeah, it was a good night. Even though the Jazz won. lol  Kirsten did do a good job of taking the advice of the Jazz' slogan. She did "Bring the Noise!" Just a little louder for the Raptors is all. :)

Maiah had a good night too I think! It was her first time ever being babysat outside of Brandon & Kirsten at home. She even let Lauren paint her toenails & do her hair. So fun! Now let's hope she sleeps well tonight. I have a busy morning ahead of me with parent/teacher conferences and an afternoon temple run planned with Lauren (with hopefully a nap before raid night) so a rested Maiah would be such a beautiful thing.

Oh, and a crazy thing happened today. My Canadian passport arrived! I thought it was going to be Brandon's, so was shocked to see my name & picture when I opened it up. Now we have to find out what's up with his. They responded to my status check e-mail with a "please have him call this toll-free number" thing that has me wondering why they've held his this long. They accepted his money in early October, so I just figured it was slow to arrive or be processed or something, but with how quick my turnaround was after my resubmit I'm now just hoping nothing's wrong with his application. We'll find out soon I hope. Please pray, cross your fingers or whatever other helpful thought comes to mind for my B and his passport. We need things to keep moving forward for sanity's sake. :p

Okay, so I'm up way too late again with so much more I'd like to do & say but I had better go find my pillow.
'night blogland!