"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it."
~Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Sunday, June 26, 2011

observations

...spending a Summer day with my kiddos where we ran through sprinklers, laid on a blanket in the sun, had popsicles and went to the park was awesome. It was totally weird when I realized the boys have school tomorrow. They only have one more week though! :p
...it's not all that helpful for Kirsten to do her (hilarious) interpretive dancing while I'm supposed to be playing guitar in rockband. It's pretty hard to hit the notes when you're laughing. :p
...it doesn't feel like a compliment when people say "Hey, you've lost weight..." Of course, when the scale says the same thing it's totally cool. :p
...days go by fast when you're playing.
     ...and tongue slides are cool. :)
...my kiddos are so awesome! Just sayin' :)

Yeah, I'm trying my best to kick a headache, holding a sleepy monkey princess & taking a break from rockband with Kirsten so I thought I'd poke my head in here to say hi. I don't really have anything much going on - just thought I'd send hugs to those who check in here. Squishy ones! :)

Friday, June 24, 2011

catch-up

It's almost been a week again?! 


Let's see... Well, Summer finally arrived! Yay. :) 
And, um I've been going to the gym a lot. 
The boys have just one week left of school. 
Brandon's been trying to get all of his school stuff done. Gym class being 2 hrs of working out at Golds Gym a day is going much better than his bowling packet did. lol 
Kirsten has had play practices every day this week. The play is July 8-18th. Can't wait to see it. :)
And um, yeah. It's Friday! 


Yay!

Sunday, June 19, 2011

more monkeys

I was supposed to be chopping broccoli & cauliflower this morning for a side dish for today's bbq, but first I decided to get more monkey pics up. It's been so long, and even though it's a jerry-rigged solution, I'm just happy to be able to add pics to a post for once! lol
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ooh, and I found a shot that shows the blondness better. Just please don't tell me I look sad. It's already been said. :p

Hooray for monkeys!
Happy Father's Day!

monkeyness

Okay, so this takes effort, and I'm way tired, but I have to share some cute monkeyness with all of you. Maiah was adorable today at Glen's wedding in her "tutu dress". I even got her to share her knock know joke with a few people.

It goes...
her cuteness: knock knock
mommy: who's there
her cuteness: banana
Mommy: banana who?
her cuteness: nummy tummy!!!

Nobody has a clue where she learned to tell knock knock jokes, or how she came up with hers, but it's unchanging, adorable & if I catch her in the right mood I can get her to share it with random people. lol
I love my monkeys. :)

There will be more when I'm not falling asleep at my keyboard. :)

Thursday, June 16, 2011

just a quickie - pic added :)

I have got to figure out how to get a picture of my new mucho-blonder hair on here. Ashley did an awesome job - it makes me smile. :)


Been kinda feeling down of late though. :(   
I think the get-happy plan for today is to walk to the gym and sweat, move & lift til it hurts, walk home, make my kiddos dinner & play some WoW. It's been way too long since I last played. :p
...and I need to take a picture of the blondness. And figure out how to upload it to a computer without my camera software & how to size it without photoshop so that I can share here. 


Yeah, that's all I've got. I'll attach above-mentioned-yet-to-be-taken-pic to this post when I figure out all of the hows. :)


Wish me luck! And  a fantabulous gym session!
/squishes!!!


K - I'm back with a pic. Hooray! It doesn't even show the blonde all that well - we had some crazy wind gusts, but yeah. (It's the only shot where I don't look pissed or like I'm about to cry, and I'm getting tired of being told how sad I look of late. Yeah, not feeling awesome can do that sometimes. :p) It is pretty awesome however, to show a "hair" pic showcasing a totally bad hair moment. lol There's a LOT of light blonde highlights in there somewhere, I swear. You can tell in person. o.O
Now to go through the same crap I did to share that shot so that I can show off the cutest little monkeys in the world. It's only been forever.
My cute monkeys. ...coming soon to a blog near you! :) 


disclaimer: Sorry for the less than stellar quality image. I miss my PS, and all of the tools that I constantly used without realizing how integral they were in how I did just about everything online. I'll get it all back someday. 
...soon I hope. :p


Hugs!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

smile!

Maiah and Eljah always make me awesome artwork in Paint. I added the background to this one - it makes me smile! I hope you readers are smiling today!

Hugs!

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

!!!

I'm sorry I haven't blogged in so long. It's been gogogo and I haven't sat at a computer in about a week.


So, our interviews yesterday went really well! 
Brandon & I will have our green cards in a week or so. :) We're permanent residents! I'm sure if I weren't completely tired & sore I'd sound more excited. It really is a big deal, it's just been a totally crazy week or so leading up to this. I'm pretty much exhausted. :p 


There's other things I could catch up on, but we'll save 'em for now. I'm hungry and Maiah is looking awfully cuddly. :)


Have a great day!