say that again

A few things that were said this past week:

~Brandon (last night) "Only one more real day of school left!" Technically he has a couple more days, but today all of his books need to be handed in.
~LV this morning "When I get married I wanna have a baby just like Elijah." Awwwww...
~Kirsten (who came home an hour late from her friends house and was grounded) "It's no fair! You never believe me. You're the worst mom ever." (:o\)
~"Woohoo Park!" Elijah, when B took him outside to play
~LV (playing WoW) "Mom, big fat tubby is coming - run! By the way, I saw his butt and it was disgusting." lol You have to know what the undead ogre things in WoW look like to appreciate that one.
~Vern (out of the blue-this never happens) "You look really nice today." Mr.I'm happy if your happy who has no opinion about me or how I look actually complimented me twice this week. I wonder what he did with the real Vern...
~Kirsten (when I let her play with Kaitlyn) "Thanks mom! You're the best!" lol Yes, she's a fickle one, and yes, this was before she was grounded.
~Elijah gets excited and says "Elmo! Elmo! Elmo" whenever we change his diaper. Since he can't say Big Bird or Cookie monster, they get called Elmo too. :o)
~Brandon (to Elijah) "C'mere! Where's my hug?" I love how affectionate he is with his baby brother.
~LV (pvping with Vern) "Hahaha! I'm gonna sheep the priest!" (He's actually pretty good at pvp. That's my boy.)
~Me (at the end of this entry) Happy Thursday!

How I see them.

Well, I think that they're beautiful, amazing, fabulous people. Ages 2, 6, almost 10 and almost 16 - they are my joy. I said I was going to try to get pictures of my kiddos this weekend, and while I didn't get the chance over the busy weekend I was able to today. It was sunny & beautiful again - makes for outside playtime and one happy mama.Of course, each of them gave me about 10.2 seconds to get a shot of 'em, but that's all it took. An image of each of my sweeties to share. Hooray!

Feels like Summer.

Brandon is outside mowing the lawn, Vern went to see Pirates of The Carribean 3 with Ben and Kirsten, LV, Elijah and I have been playing around all morning. It definately feels like summer. Kirsten has been bugging to go swimming. Sounds good to me!
I hope that those who read this little blog of mine are enjoying this beautiful weekend wherever they are!
Oh, and since blogging is more fun with pictures (and my camera battery has been charging all morning) here's another WoW screenshot. I'm hoping to play with my camera some this weekend, so with any luck there'll be pictures of my cute kiddos to post soon. :)

Have a great day!

Sights and Sounds

1 song you listened to today:
Been listening to some older mp3s today. No Doubt just played. Love this song & video even though the opening few seconds of the vid make me squeamish. (Hooray bugs? Ewwwww...)

2 things you can hear right now:
Thomas on tv. Elijah is a happy little boy. :)
The fan buzzing.

3 things you said today:
"C'mere baby" to Eljiah who needed his diaper changed.
"Wow Vernie, you're getting so big!" when LV showed me that he finally lost his very wiggly tooth.
"I'll look into it" to Vern when he called and said we need to find a pediatric dentist. I'm so happy we can finally get some of LV's work done. Yay! :)

4 voices you've heard today:
Little Vern, Elijah, Vern & Brandon. Shocking, I know. :p

5 things you can see right now:
ummmm...
Elijah and his blue gatorade, and Brandon who looks like he's gonna scoop him up for a hug.
Little Vern (fully dressed, lol) watching Jimmy Neutron on the kiddo's computer.
Xbox controllers that need to be wrapped up and put away.
My little "Prepare Him Room" heart that I doodled years ago and stuck on my monitor.
My calendar, reminding me that Kirsten's library books are due tomorrow.

So Jordin won AI! No shocker there. It'll be fun to see what some of these singers end up doing. Not a bad season in the end.

Alrighty, time to go make food for some hungry kiddos. Have a great day!

Another sky.

WoW is down & homework is done, so my kids and I were having fun looking through screenshots together. (That's what I get for leaving acdsee open in that folder. lol) Anyhow, Here's another screenshot of that awesome outland sky. :)

For today.

Quote of the day:
"Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are."
T. Roosevelt

Photo of the day:
Song of the day: Daughtry, What About Now

They haven't released a video for this song, so I just picked the least annoying fan vid using the song on youtube. Go Smallville! lol

Screenshot of the day:
The skies in the outlands (in WoW) are awesome. I think my favorite is Nagrand at night.

absent. sleepy. yawn.

It's been days since I last blogged. Where have I been? Right here. I spent the weekend playing WoW & hangin' out with friends. Makes for a great couple of days. :)

On Saturday I turned down an offer to do yet another wedding. It amazes me how many people still ask & hope we'll make an exception for them. I'm on a hiatus for a good reason, and really won't be making exceptions. I guess it does feel good to be wanted/needed, but I don't enjoy the part where I have to say no. The paperwork for B and I is in the works though, and when I can and do decide to go for it, watch out! lol It'll be a blast. I really do love what I do, even if I'm not able to do it at the moment.

Something I'm thinking about doing is sharing some of my wedding work here. I had a friend ask if I have any of my photos online for inspiration. No, I don't. Honestly, I never got to the point where I wanted/needed more work than snowballed my way, so I hid rather than advertised. lol This being a personal kind of blog rather than a commercial one though, I guess just sharing photos isn't going to hurt. Besides, if it backfires I can stop and even delete stuff. I hope I don't have to. The idea of sharing another of the things that I love in life through this blog appeals to me. It's still just in the thinking stages though, I'm not sure how I'm going to incorporate it.

For now I'm off to cuddle with my babe. He's still all goopy sick and gave himself some pink eye in there to boot. I got very little sleep last night, so I'm hoping for a nap.

Have a great day!