A day in the life...

Chaos!

2010-06-09T20:16:00.004-04:00

Wow it has been some time. I'm sitting here in our soon-to-be-kitchen waiting on Maddie to finish her dinner. Since we flipped the house around 2 weeks ago, she hasn't eaten much of anything GOOD. Mostly juice boxes, cereal, hot dogs and pizza. Wonderful mother I am huh? Anyway, I just remembered I had a blog and amazingly remembered all of my information to get into it, so here I am. Typing and waiting. Riley's sitting next to Becky barking (LOL) while Becky sits next to her playing the dsi. Oh did I mention that the sofas are in the soon-to-be-dining room? Yup! The living room is closest to being done. We'll head out for paint and primer in the morning and hopefully, put the tv back in the living room in a few days. The goal is to be able to watch True Blood's season premiere this Sunday. We'll see...

The older three girls leave in 2 weeks for Disney with their mom. That is also the week that our kitchen cabinets should be delivered. I.can't.wait!!!! It'll be SO nice to have new cabinets and countertops and space...tons of space (compared to what I had).

I thought this living without a kitchen for a few weeks would be easy. I can tell you now, IT IS NOT!!! I washed dishes in the bathroom sink today. Dishes that had been sitting on the kitchen table for a week. BLECH!!! I don't know where anything is, but chances are if its missing, it is either in my room or the family room. Everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) has a film of dust on it. Not a livable amount of dust either. Yucky, make ya feel dirty when you walk in the room dust.

I can't wait to get my house back. Oh and look! Maddie FINALLY finished her dinner.

Little Girls' room...

2008-09-03T21:19:00.005-04:00

And finally the little girls' room. I did curtains again over the closet. These aren't done yet either. They are too long so I'm going to take some off the bottoms and use them on the windows. I'm also FINALLY using some butterflies my sister used at Riley's baby shower and putting them on the curtains for that whole Butterflies theme. I put a few on to see how it looks and I like it. I just haven't finished yet.

Those stupid windows again @@
You can see in the pics where I spackled the nail holes from Britt's pics. I have the can of paint in there, I just didn't touch up the walls yet. To be honest, I'm going to have to take pics of all the walls to see where the spackle is since you can't really see it when you are IN the room...it just reflects light from the flash different. Don't mind the patch work carpet. We put a remanent in there for Brittany because her bed covered the bare wood. Now I have to carpet the room, but that'll have to wait a few weeks.
And finally Riley's bed...
and the girls who followed me from room to room when they saw the camera. LOL

Little Girls' Playroom...

2008-09-03T21:14:00.002-04:00

Obviously they are playing in there. The room was spotless 15 mins before the pic!

This is the view as you walk in. Eventually what you are looking at will be a hallway leading to all of the bedrooms from the foyer/living room entrance. We are putting a wall up on the left handside and that closet will actually be part of the foyer.
Just lots 'o toys. That shelf is being moved in to their bedroom (soon).
There's kids playing. See the windows!?! I HATE them!!! HATE HATE HATE them. They are going (soon I hope!!) They are in all 3 bedrooms on the main floor.
More toys...stupid toy box ONLY has baby dolls and stuffed animals in it. I can't close the thing, yet they only play with maybe 6 or 7 of the dolls. @@
There's the little chickies. Riley's name is moving to the bedroom and I'm making Maddie's name to match for over her bed...

Brittany's room...

2008-09-03T21:11:00.002-04:00

This is by far is my favorite room in the house now. Back before we put the girls each in their own rooms, one wanted hello kitty....another wanted a surf theme. I found a HELLO KITTY SURF theme!!! Then they both changed their minds. I 'insisted' one of them do the HK surf...so Brittany chose it. Now that it's put together, I'm SO glad I insisted!!!

Brittany's closet!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!! It's a grass 'skirt' curtain.
Her window..and look at the bed skirt!!! :o)
The best view of her 'whole room'
The view as you walk in the door...

Becky's room...

2008-09-03T20:57:00.003-04:00

I finally got the big girls moved in to their new rooms. I'm going to post each room as a separate blog entry so "I" don't get confused.

Here's Becky's room...

Her bed...

Her closet...isn't it cute!?! Ronnie didn't want to put doors in because I didn't want folding doors and he said full doors would take up too much 'room' in the room when you open them...so this was MY solution!

This is the view as you walk in to her room...I am still working on her outlet covers so they will go in in the next couple days. I have to get my butt to Home Depot to get a 5'x6' piece of carpet padding we pulled up before I cleaned the carpets (stupid dog!!!) and then put the baseboard trim along the bottom once the padding is put in...THEN I'll be done in here...

Her window. The window itself is small...she's in the basement. "I" want to make that curtain into a simple valance but she likes it long. I like less work...so she wins! (for now LOL)

Shel said, "Blog it!" so I did.

2008-07-30T13:31:00.003-04:00

Anyone up for a vent? No? Ok...click that little "X"

Ok...still here....ugh. I just have to vent for a minute.

I finally got to sleep in this morning. I mean REALLY sleep in. Riley must have woke up this morning and turned her tv on pretty early and then fell back to sleep. Maddie was in her crib watching tv. Riley's asleep on her Dora couch on the floor. Brittany is asleep in her room. Woohoo!!! I can go back to sleep for a bit!! YAY!!!

10 minutes later, the dog is going NUTSO!!! I look at the clock and it's 9:30 (ok so technically I DID sleep in, but it could have been longer). Brittany comes running out of her room to let me know the exterminator is here. WTHeck? So much for between 12 and 1 huh? He's out in his truck so we go to lock Dopey in a bedroom and the stupid dog pooped in Ronnie's workroom in the basement (I hate this dog!!!). So Britt cleans it up quick and runs it to the yard before the exterminator comes back in. She SCREAMS!!!! Like really really screams in the back yard. Maddie now is screaming in her room because she's seen me and wants out--NOW!!!!

UGH!!! Brittany comes running in the house to tell me quite adamantly that she is NOT putting the trash in the trash can. Uhh? Why not? Because there are TWO RACCOONS in the trash can!!!! WHAT?!? Ok, give me a second to get a plan in order. 1st...wait for the exterminator to come back in. 2nd...get Madison out of her crib and changed and put the gate across their door so they stay in there. 3rd...call animal control--do we even HAVE animal control??? There's no number on the website or their call in directory @@.

The exterminator did what he had to do, but of course had to have a complete conversation about bugs 1ST!!! @@ Got Maddie out of the crib. Sent Britt in their room to play with them (bad idea on MY part since that ALWAYS leads to screaming matches between the 3 of them). Went in to add my own screaming because I can't make a phone call with that 'noise' in the background (we'd have the cops out here in no time flat!) They quieted down JUST long enough to talk to the snappy woman at the town hall who acts like there is NO reason I should be calling the town hall during business hours! LOL Get another phone number for animal control and call him. I'm glad I pay my taxes because without it, where would I get the brilliance that I did to "put the trash can in the shade (don't wanna cook them on a 100+ degree day) for the day and then at dusk, kick the can over and run" LMAO Awesome plan!!! @@ I guess it could have been worse. He could have CHARGED me for that info right? He said they are 'probably not rabid...they are probably baby raccoons that got in there and got stuck. If I let them out now, they'll wreak havoc over the neighborhood until their mother comes to get them tonight.'

So, now I have bug spray stuff drying on my kitchen floor (that I didn't get a chance to mop before he got here since 12 o'clock was way off in the distance) so I can't let the girls out of their room to come to the kitchen to eat.

Megan calls to remind me to check my email for their flight information home today. It's a good thing their flight is this afternoon since I asked her to forward me the info 4 days ago @@.

I have to at some point today, run to Sam's Club because we are out of Apple Juice and it's the ONLY thing Riley will drink besides chocolate milk @@ (ugh this kid!!). Then hit Home Depot and/or Lowe's for some 'special' tomato cages for the other 9 tomato plants that aren't caged yet and are laying on the ground next to the raccoon filled trash cans LOL Then head to the airport in Philly during RUSH HOUR to get the girls.

Somewhere in there, I'm waiting to hear from someone selling some NIIIICE Mission style living room tables. She's got a 3 piece set with TONS o' storage. I offered her $50 and she said yes!! Now to just wait to hear back from her so I know if I can squeeze her in this afternoon, or tonight, or next month.

I attempted a couple weeks ago to paint my current living room tables with some textured 'stone' spraypaint. Not too bad, but the kids, I have a feeling will like scratching at the bumpy surface so they'll have to be painted over...and over...and over again.

If ya'll don't hear from me in the next few days, rest assured that I'm locked up in the looney bin somewhere safe (preferably with soundproof padded walls).

Oh and to top it off, yesterday was trash day. The trash can that the raccoons decided to set up camp in.....EMPTY! LOL

Just some pics that I found today...

2008-07-29T20:46:00.003-04:00

Here is a lunch I made a couple weeks ago. Home made pizza with vodka sauce, fresh mozzarella & fresh basil. Oh my! It was so good!!

Our first 'harvested' veggie of the year! That bad boy ended up in a home made spaghetti sauce with a few of his store bought cousins.

He had some little brothers and sisters growing so I took a pic of them too. Gotta love the bug damage to the leaves huh?

"Maders" They are growing 'nicely'. Now well over 4 feet tall!!! Anyone need tomatoes by the way? I didn't realize that 12 tomato plants might be a bit much LOL

Yeah...poor cucumbers just aren't going to make it. They were growing BEAUTIFULLY! Then I went out one morning and something had trampled over them. I didn't have a trellis up yet and I guess I was too late. I didn't expect to see much of ANYTHING on those plants, but we do have 3 deformed cukes growing now.
Oh well...that's all for now. I thought I had kid pics on here, but this camera is huge so I don't take it with me ANYWHERE. I really need to start though. What's the point of spending that money so that it can sit on the desk collecting dust right?

Tag...you're it!

2008-07-19T17:04:00.005-04:00

I've just been tagged by Melani. I've never been tagged online before so this should be interesting.
Here are the rules:
1. Link back to the person who tagged you.
2. Post these rules to your Blog.
3. Share 6 unimportant things about yourself.
4. Tag people at the end of your entry.

Six unimportant things about me.
1. I secretly enjoy cleaning.
2. I pretend to be weak so that the kids help me with stuff to prove THEY are strong.
3. I waited forever for summer and now that it's here, I can't wait for fall.
4. I already started Christmas shopping but blew it when I gave the gift to Brittany today so now I'm back to square one.
5. My garden is growing faster than I can get out there to control it.
6. I'm going to VA for Thanksgiving this year so I might not be cooking...but who knows. I'll probably end up cooking there instead.

I'm going to tag:
Shel ~ It's Just Me...and Them
Robin ~ These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive
Amanda ~ Pregnant, Again!
Julie ~ ...If only they could stay little

A Day at the Beach with Samantha and her family...

2008-07-06T10:20:00.004-04:00

I took the girls (and Mike) to Ocean City to meet Samantha and her family. We had a really good time. Riley's still asking about 'her friends'. We are really going to have to get together again before the summer's over and let the girls play. They were all so good together! And I liked having a 'real live grownup' to talk to! :o)

Makenna and Riley...I really have no clue what Riley was doing.

Lexi, Makenna & Riley
Madison and those straps that won't stay up!
A bunch of girls in a hole (that cost me $1.00 to get dug! LOL)
Everyone's looking at once!!! (it only took about 30 pics to get this one shot!)
Ok...all of the big girls out....wait...not ALL of the big girls!
Ok, that's better!
I LOVE this picture!!

Megan's Prom

2008-07-06T10:05:00.002-04:00

Getting ready...

Look how pretty!

Megan and Mike

Ron said "kiss her..." and Mike and Megan didn't know what to do...was he kidding? Was he going to knock Mike out? LOL j/k

4th of July

2008-07-06T09:44:00.011-04:00

We headed to Wildwood for the 4th to ride some rides, eat some junk food and watch the fireworks. Two out of three ain't bad right? It ended up POURING so the fireworks were postponed until the 5th. Oh well...that's year two we missed the fireworks there. Last year it was because of high winds. **UPDATE** We went back on the 5th for more junk food, more rides and FIREWORKS!!!! The girls had a blast and Ronnie and I had a blast watching them have so much fun.

Ready for the festivities!

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Maddie's 1st 'big girl' ride!!! She didn't want off when it was over.

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Chase, Kenzi, Brittany & Riley (this is a bit closer to Ri's REAL smile @@)

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Another ride for Madison! YAY!!!

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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mmm...cotton candy!

Happy 3rd Birthday Baby Girl!

2008-05-11T18:15:00.005-04:00

These pics are all over the place as far as order, but they are all from Riley's birthday party yesterday. Everyone had a great time. Riley was so excited that her friends came to her party.

Lil Miss Maddie!! Isn't she getting big!?!

We were going to rent a bounce house but the price was a bit high because we were short on time and couldn't shop around. Ronnie suggested buying one instead...so of course I did! The kids ALL loved it!!

The three big kids seemed to be the only ones who 'got' the pinata. LOL I ended up with a bowl of candy sitting on the table for the grown ups to munch on. The kids grabbed their lollypops and ran!

Our party was supposed to be small...then it grew and grew and was going to be big and then last minute ended up being small. It was supposed to rain so I planned it for inside, but the kids wanted out so we moved to the yard (the yard that is in the middle of being cleaned for the summer. Ron's new ride on mower and the kids bikes are our beautiful backdrop for the party @@ NIIIIIICE!!!)

Opening presents.

Riley and her new friend Laurel in the bounce house.

Poor Laurel had no idea what she was getting in to with the 'big' kids in the sandbox. LOL She had a blast though.

Even the girls were 'decorated' in Dora for the party. (Did I mention I hate character stuff on clothes?) Oh well...their cuteness distracts from the screenprinting. LOL

Maddie in the bounce house. That was the last smile we saw on her near the bounce house. She HATED it...until this morning when it was just her and Riley. I think the big kids scared her.

Cake time!!

One of these days I'll catch a natural smile on her. Until then, this is what we'll see. LOL

Our grocery store had some really cool Dora cakes but the girl who took my order had no idea how much they were. @@ So I had to just deal with a plain cake. I think it came out cute though. (there are 2 Dora's because one is a candle)

And this was too cute to pass up. It was cuter in their book but Riley loved it either way. The store said it served 2-4 people. It was big! I got 8 pieces of cake out of it!

Oh well...Ronnie was on the camera again so we got about 10 pics of each shot. So I thought there'd be a ton more, but this is enough.

Happy Birthday Riley Morgan!

First Haircut

2008-05-05T12:28:00.005-04:00

I really didn't want to cut her hair, but it was time. She was looking scraggly. So here's before...

And after...

Not too bad. I just trimmed about 3 or 4 inches off. She sat still in the beginning and then got bored quick and wanted down. I think I may add some layers to it soon though. I was afraid she'd lose her curls but they are still there. Now I hope that layers will bring them back even more. Keep watching to see if I do it!

Tons of random pics...

2008-05-05T11:42:00.020-04:00

My pretty butterfly!

The girls LOVE going to the zoo.

Mommy and her baby girls at the zoo again.

Becky

My beautiful girl!

Aren't they pretty!

Brittany at goalie. GO BRITT!!!

How the heck?

2008-03-03T11:16:00.000-05:00

If anyone would like to enlighten me about how to get rid of those big blank spaces between my pics when I post, I would GREATLY appreciate it!

Hey Remember Me?

2008-03-03T10:32:00.011-05:00

Its been a while since I updated last. I really have to figure out how to get myself in here to blog more often.

I might as well start with right now. As I type this, Riley is wanting me to hold on to one of her belts and 'fish' with her. She's so funny...she's telling me Mommy...its not a belt!! Its a fishin' pole! Her imagination is amazing all of a sudden. She loves to ask questions about everything and remembers EVERYTHING you tell her. She makes me so proud!

Out of nowhere, she knows all the words to all the songs we've ever sung to her. She loves to sing along to the music in my car. Its too cute! There have been times where I thought she was trying to talk to us and I turn the radio down and say "What Riley?" and she tells me "Mommy I was singing! Turn it back on!!!"

I think she might finally be potty trained! She spent a few days running around naked all day. I couldn't keep clothes or a diaper on her, but she didn't have any accidents on the floor. She's been in 'big girl panties' for almost a week now and only wears diapers to bed at night (and when we go out---I'm not a fan of pee in my van LOL)

Maddie has 8 teeth now and LOVES to use them. This little girl is going to eat us out of house and home. Anything you put in front of her, she'll eat...and eat...and eat! She's getting so big and smart. I think we are just a few weeks from her walking. She doesn't crawl much anymore. She will hold on to anything--the wall included to get her through the house on her feet. Right now, she just seems afraid to let go and walk. Soon enough I'm sure.

Maddie is SO different from Riley. Riley was a more laid back baby. She was content to just sit on my lap and play with my fingers or just lay back and sleep on my chest. Maddie is my wild child! She doesn't sit still for anything. It used to be so easy to put her to bed for the night. More recently, I thought Riley kept her awake at night until a night last week. I heard the girls screaming (playing) and I assumed Riley had climbed into the crib with Madison. I went to check on them and there was Maddie---JUMPING UP AND DOWN IN HER CRIB SCREAMING-GIGGLING!!! And Riley was laying on her bed, under the covers saying "Maddie! Ssh!! I sleeping!!"

I've got spring fever REALLY bad. We got ONE snowfall this year--last week. It came by surprise overnight and then was gone 2 days later. Unfortunately, it came at the tail end of everyone being sick so no one got to go play in it. I brought some snow inside for Riley to play with and she loved it! I think it was too cold for her because once she built her snowman, she was done with the snow we brought in and didn't ask to go out to play in it again! LOL

I did get some pics I'll post at the end since I have no idea how to put them IN with my text without messing the text up.

I've been doing pretty good with keeping the house clean and organized. I went on a mission at the end of the year to clear stuff out and I think I did a pretty good job. All I have left to get rid of is baby gear that we don't need anymore. I tried Criagslist with it, but only had a few bites. I think I'll just have a yard sale when the weather warms up some.

Ronnie has the stairs built in their new place in the basement. He's got the support wall up too! Its only a matter of time before we start putting holes in the floor and building walls all over up here. I'm excited to get it all done, but not at all excited for the in between part. Hopefully, it goes fast and we can settle down and relax soon.

Oh well...its supposed to be gorgeous today so I'm going to go get Maddie down for a nap and get some stuff done so that maybe I can bring them to the playground or even out in the backyard in a little while.

Here are a few pics that are hanging out on my camera...

My flowers for Valentine's Day...

I tried to get a picture of Riley but she was watching Max and Ruby. This is the best I could get.

Here's Maddie. Her head looks much bigger in this pic than it really is LOL

Wild Child...

The snow...

Riley's snowman...

We put him outside to see if he could survive the night. We found this in the morning...we just aren't sure if it was murder or snowicide :o(

No one reads this huh?

2008-02-06T11:30:00.002-05:00

Oh well. I'll just keep updating once in a while anyway.

We went to a Hillary rally that Bill Clinton spoke at last week. Stood in the rain for a bit only to get turned away. Luckily, my sister overhead that they had an overflow room and we could go there to hear the speech. Afterwards, we were on our way out and she overheard again that he was coming in there!! He heard about the overflow room and felt bad that so many waited so long only to not be let in, so he came over and shook hands and talked for a bit. With both little ones there with me, I didn't get many pics and the ones I did get didn't come out well...but here's a quick clip of his motorcade leaving...

After that we went for lunch to Nifty Fifty's with my sister. I got a few pics of the girls playing while we waited on our food.

She didn't want me to take her picture LOL

Maddie just wanted to eat the hat so my sister put it on her head, I clicked and then the hat came off LOL

She's so pretty! But I'm not biased at all!

We started some cherry 'ma-toe' seeds. I'm hoping to grow enough to give Riley her fill this summer. She LOVES them! We are going to do a few more veggies and herbs but have to wait until after the last frost and although its supposed to be 72 today, we are nowhere near the last frost until April some time.

She's so cute. She tells me every day that her seeds are done.

The girls are a mess, but Ronnie almost never lets me take his picture, let alone one of him smiling.

Super Bowl Sunday. Maddie didn't last much longer after this picture. But Riley surprised me. she sat through the first half of the game yelling at the tv just like Mommy. For some reason, I think she 'gets' football. She was really into it and kinda knew when and why she was cheering!

She'll be walking any day now :o( (oh and I know she doesn't match but she got her pants dirty so I put sweatpants on her)

I finally got around to making a bow board for their hairbows. Not bad for my first time...now we just need more bows. I'm making memo boards for the older girls too...I should probably get on that pretty soon.

Feel free to leave comments so I know at least SOMEONE is reading besides me! Thanks!!

Happy Halloween

2007-10-31T21:44:00.000-04:00

So pretty!!

Isn't she cute!?!

Mommy's Flower and Butterfly.

Almost all of the girls.

By 5:30 Riley had had enough!

Mmm...blue raspberry lollipop!!

Finished it!!!

2007-10-28T23:22:00.000-04:00

Ok...so I decided to make Riley a tutu to go with her butterfly wings. I knew I didn't want it to be flimsy so I decided to double it up and squish each piece tight together. BAD move! This thing is SO full!

Here's a pic of Becky modeling it. It was only about 50% done at this point and Riley wouldn't put it on.

Then Riley decided she did want to try it on. Mind you...still not finished.

And finally the finished product! Like I said---much fuller than it needs to be, but still pretty dang cute! I put some blue and purple satin ribbons in with the tulle and added a few jingle bells (her wings have bells) and then finished the waistband in satin ribbon too. I'm thinking of making a few and putting them on ebay to see how they sell. Anyone want to buy one?

Brittany cut her hair!!!

2007-10-26T23:02:00.000-04:00

Brittany's been bugging me for a while to get her hair cut. Out of nowhere today I was just in the mood to bring her. I was tired of seeing her hair the same way every day...so off we went...

I almost forgot to take this picture. She was on her way back with the woman to cut her hair and I called her out again LOL

before:

after:

If I had to guess...I'd say she cut about 8 or 10 inches off!!! Brave girl! She LOVES it!!!

Random pictures...

2007-10-26T22:53:00.000-04:00

Here's Maddie!!!!

Miss Riley with a sticker on her nose...LOL
Maddie is learning to scoot....but backwards only so she ended up under the table LOL Not happy with that outcome.

Riley trying on her tutu for Julie...LOL

Then Becky wanted to try it on too!

And this one is here just because its my favorite!!

They are growing up...

2007-10-22T13:29:00.000-04:00

With Ronnie gone for a while now, he asked me to email him current pictures of the girls. Maddie and Riley were the only ones home. I figured since I hadn't posted recent pics of either of them anywhere, I'd add them here too.

Riley's 'smile for Daddy' grin...

And here's Maddie...don't mind the hair...it ALWAYS looks like that (or something similar). The back where it sticks straight up isn't long enough to get into pig tails yet and I had just taken a barrette out of the front of her hair. Oh and now that I look, there's a bit of drool too! LOL
The 'yuck' behind Maddie is where we tore the cabinets out of the kitchen a few weeks ago. I was going to fix the wall and paint, but Ronnie and I finally came to a decision on how we were remodeling the house and this wall is coming down (probably early in January). With everything else going on right now, I decided we'd just leave it and just not look at it LOL so you aren't allowed either!

Megan's last Home field hockey game is today so I'll try and take some pics there too (I always hold the camera and forget to take pics).

A tooth!!

2007-09-29T21:20:00.001-04:00

Finally!!! Madison turned 9 months old the other day and FINALLY cut her 1st tooth today! I can't believe in 3 months she'll be 1 year old already!! She's doing really well though. She sits up on her own, loves blowing raspberries, says Dadadadadadada, loves playing with her toys, and will stop at nothing to get something she wants and she's cute to boot!

Other firsts...I just got finished taking Riley's bedroom door apart. She locked herself in and was so scared. I had to take the doorknob off (we are replacing it anyway) and she freaked when the doorknob fell on the floor! LOL She keeps me on my toes. I'm afraid to see how Madison is going to be after Riley!

Ronnie is on his way out of town tomorrow. He flies to Alabama for 2 weeks and from there he'll go to Arizona until THANKSGIVING!!! Gone for 53 days! :o( BUT...I think we decided that mid-November, I'll be packing up the kiddos and DRIVING out to see him! I know its crazy, but I've always wanted to go out there anyway. I decided that I'm going to try to meet some of the May Mommies on my way...I'm not sure who will meet us in Oklahoma City, but I think Amanda is going to try to get down to Las Vegas to meet us or she'll drive and we'll meet somewhere in the middle. I've been talking to them all for a few years now and feel like I've known them forever so it will be so cool to finally meet in person and let the kids play together for a bit. I can't wait!!!

Oh well...off to get the kids in bed. They've had late bedtimes this weekend since Ronnie JUST got back from being in VA for 2 weeks. I'm tired from them being awake late! LOL

passwords!

2007-09-13T06:15:00.000-04:00

I just sat down thinking I had a few minutes to devote to this before getting the girls up for school. You'd think I'd remember my password or log in information, but no. I had to spend all my 'free time' trying to get into my account just to be able to type this. @@ Oh well...hopefully, I'll be able to sit and type some later now that I know how to get in.

What a way to start!

2007-07-10T21:54:00.000-04:00

I finally get this all figured out and the oven beeps. Time to make some chocolate chip cookies! The blog will have to wait...

Ok timer is set--9 minutes and counting! I have this big tub of chocolate chip cookie dough so that whenever a craving hits, I can throw in a few and I'm good to go.

So anyway, here's what's going on lately and my reasons for this blog...

Ron's in VA training for some new welding technique that will give him the opportunity to travel the world to work so its just me and the girls. We finally finished the girls' bedrooms in the basement the other day. I'm so excited. We are officially living in a FIVE bedroom house!!! Megan and I finished Brittany's room last night and we spent the better part of today moving her in. I'm SO tired, but the best is yet to come. I can't wait to get Riley and Maddie's room done at last. We are going with a light green that matches their bedding and I plan on painting a border around the room of butterflies and flowers. Its only been in planning since December 2004 when I found out Riley was indeed a girl. Oh well...the time is here!

I was just thinking tonight that I need to get going on getting both girls christened. We need to join a church before I can do that...and I can't decide what one to join. I miss my church in North Jersey. Its SO pretty and really the only church I know. I really wish we were close enough to bring them up there.

What else? What else? Hmm.. I guess nothing. I'm just exhausted from all the work around the house we've been doing. I hope to have everything done and in order before Ronnie gets home in a couple weeks. I guess we'll see.