Thankful

...for the crazy job I'm lovin' so much (I'm headed there, so it comes first. gogo Black Friday!)

...for the very cutest monkeys in the whole world, who give the me the bestest cuddles on a regular basis

...for the people in my life who make me smile :-)

...for naps & bubblebaths

...for my family even though I haven't seen so many of them in so long

...for pudding! Deliciousness. 

...for the most awesome friends, who mostly live way too far away

...for energy drinks & pain meds

...for a happy sort of place to work & fun people to work with

...for the support of the people around me

...for comfy shoes & a cheap gym close by

...for whipped cream in my hot chocolate

...for my babies, even the fully grown ones ;-)

Happy Thanksgiving!!! :-)

one word

An easy kind of meme for a busy, sleepy girl who needs to blog more! :p

You: exhausted o.O
Life: busy!
Feeling: cold
Home: messy (grrrr...)
Enjoying: squishymonkeycuddles (it's one word, I swear :p)
Mood: better :)
Want: chocolate
Need: pudding
Love: pudding!
Like: working
Tunes: random! :p
Clothes: sweats (comfy!)
Comfort: bubbles!

K, so the mood is better because I got to see Kirsten perform tonight at OHS. She's so awesome! I would do anything for some pudding at the moment, but will have to settle for a bubble bath. Been buried in finishing up these pictures (yeah, I'm late yet again - was hoping to be done by Halloween - so sorry - technical difficulties! Almost there!) Tomorrow's going to be a busy day, and I work tomorrow night. So yeah, bubble time! Then more pictures! Then sleep.


'night! :)

Halloween 2011

Ok, so I'm sicker than a dog with the flu, but had to share some pics (and hopefully vids) from today. My monkeys are the bestest!!! :-)

Oh, and I should clarify - being sicker than a dog, I slept half of the day away & it was Vern who took Maiah to the boys' school Halloween parade and got the hilarious footage of my monkey's awesome dance moves. Thanks Vern!
...and while I was out trick-or-treating with them tonight, it was Vern who I asked to get videos then too. (His phone's camera is much nicer than mine.) I did take the photos before we headed to Riverton, but yeah, the vids were all taken by Vern.

And yeah. It's supposed to maybe snow tomorrow.
Happy November?!

Smile! :)

apologies

I have been told that I am constantly apologizing for everything lately, so I thought I'd get it over with first here. I am sorry that I've been slacking as a blogger. :p
It's been forever since I last tried to put into words my life of late, so lets see what I come up with today. :) lol

Okay, first of all, I have a job! I'll be working at Target, overnight stocking. (Yay!) I was originally going to have my orientation on Nov. 1st, but they want me to come in on Tuesday instead now. I'm nervous & excited all at once! The orientation isn't an overnight shift - the first real overnight shift will be on Wednesday. Go me! 
This past Wednesday I had oral surgery. Pretty much it was just like having wisdom teeth out, except that it was 2 molars & 1 wisdom tooth, and two of them were broken & had to be kind of dug out. :p It's actually hurt more the last 2 days than it did at first. :p I'm hoping to be feeling 100% some time soon. Oh, and I've had the cold my kiddos started passing around this past week too. Swollen glands, a cough & sore throat. Such fun timing. :p lol 
So yeah, I've been in bed a bunch of late. Haven't been able to sleep so much though. Still struggling with headaches on top of the aforementioned stuff I've got going on. I'm one exhausted girl, who unfortunately finds that sleep does not come easily. (I'm even blogging from bed - since today my head is threatening to explode & my jaw is not so happy.) Oooh, I must say that my husky, 2 octaves lower voice has been fun though. lol
Brandon finally got his first paycheck and built himself a computer. it's beastly & awesome. It's fun to see him doing things that make him happy.
Kirsten still votes that we move back to Riverton. There are lots of things about school here that she's not lovin' but there have been some good opportunities mixed in. I say there's hope where her feelings about Orem are concerned. (totally crossing my fingers there)
Alright, I'm sorry but my head is hurting & I think I'm gonna hide under my pillow & close my eyes. I'll try and do better about sitting at my computer and keep people posted. So much is changing here, and I've just been focusing on surviving.


Happy Sunday peoples! keep on smiling!

so yeah

Wow, it's almost been a week again. Time flies when you're hiding your head under a pillow fighting headaches?!     I'm trying to think of something that I personally accomplished since I last wrote. Stuff has happened for sure, but I'm not sure I can claim to have accomplished anything of note myself. There have been monkey cuddles, and I've made cookies, helped with homework, searched job listings & done some laundry but yeah - just the same old stuff, and less of it. :p I do have photoshop open, and plans to get these pics done once and for all, but that's more in-the-works than anything. There's a million things I should be doing, and my guess is that the stress that probably helps cause said explosive-head syndrome is going to go nowhere until I get moving, so yeah.


Hugs!

an easy way

...to break the silence is a meme! I haven't done one in forever. Of course, first I have to find one. Let's see...

Oooh, a simple one. Will make for a short little entry. Five things that you'd say to you right now if you were someone else:

Smile! :p
Trust your own instincts. Pray. Things will get better.
It's not selfish to take care of yourself too. Kiddos need a healthy mom.
Chin-up! If you keep trying someone's bound to hire you!
You have such beautiful children. :)

she blogs?!

It's been pointed out to me by several people that I've been seriously slacking in the blogging department. I am so sorry. Sometimes life gets crazy and you really don't have much to say about it. :p I'll attempt a little bit of catch up for now, and promise to do better.

Okay, so...

Kirsten made it into her school play. They're doing Honk! Should be awesome. She also made it into the Shakespearean Festival competition. She gets to be in a scene, competing against schools across Utah. Go Kirsten go! Overall I think school's sucking a little less for her, though she'll still tell you it sucks. :p
I still have no job. :(
Brandon's been landscaping though. He's saving up to go to Toronto with Keith in January. I have to admit, I'm kind of jealous. I'd love to go to Toronto for 3 weeks!!
Maiah's growing up way too fast. She's so beautiful though! I love my princess monkey. She loves Caillou. :)
I got to take some pictures of Zoey the other day. She's a beautiful baby. :)

It was a good chance to see if I have my photoshop ready to go for bigger things. I was still missing one or 2 important actions, but re-wrote one & re-downloaded the other. Now I just have to replace all of my fonts, figure out how to organize files, create slideshows and batch process finishing touches without acdsee. (Unless I can remember the info for the software - it was a downloaded program purchase :p) It's funny how much I took for granted from all of my software that I've had forever. I found the disk to re-install ps7 and was like "Yay!" Then I opened it up and everything was at a default setting, I had no actions - no anything & I about cried. lol  I think I do have it almost to where it was (except the fonts, a few brushes & such) and now I'm just missing the workflow support programs like acdsee & nero. A big deal, but with ps7 running (almost) properly I can at least start working on Kori's wedding stuff again. Having to work without those other programs will just make me slower. At this point, when their stuff was on hold for sooooooo long, I'm not sure that me being slower is any sort of good news, but at least they'll know they have pictures coming to them. Soon-ish maybe. I'm sorry. :p

So yeah, I'm here. Just praying for a job and excited to finish a project that was put on hold for way too long. The kiddos are good.
I'll try to blog more.
Yeah.

Hugs!