1st Annual Family Reunion

Me and my cousin Greg brought home the winning prize for the 3 legged race. We oddly enough tied my Mother and his Father (they're siblings) the first time around. The second time we really kicked it into high gear. I have the biggest bruise on my leg because I tied our legs too tight! lol

 

We played a LOT of games and this was an egg race. You put a hard boiled egg in a spoon and then run with it! My sister in law had some family fun up her sleeve. 

 My son found the board game Battleship. The kids had such a great time. Oh the food there was so much food! There were soooooooooooooooo many cookies. I could have ran home from the sugar high! lol Thank goodness I'm going to be doing Murph tomorrow for Memorial day.

The girls took the time to teach our little Silly to catch. She missed a bunch of times before she actually caught one. She is always stuck playing with her brothers so when there are girls around she just loves it! If you are in the mood to see more of our family games you can check out my You Tube channel for the watermelon eating contest, the balloon race and more!

Get Your "Pin It" On!

I was out and about one day and just seemed to be surrounded by all these fun quotes. It just reminded me of my Inspiration/Motivation board on Pinterest. I thought it would be nice to capture some shots and share them with you. Hope you find them as fun as I did. Happy Pinning!

11 Random Facts About Me

Stephanie from Fit Mom in Training is hosting these random questions. Hmmm? Answer some questions or fold laundry? Sorry laundry, you lose!


Questions for You:
1. What’s your guiltiest TV pleasure? Anything on BRAVO. I'm a sucker for anything on that network. It's junk food for the brain I know but I must admit that I do admire Andy Cohen. What a fun job he must have!
2. What is the strangest search term(s) anyone has used to find your blog? i'm a woman
3. What’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen? Bio Dome
4. What are 3 words you’d use to describe the 16 year old you? stubborn, independent, confident
5. You’ve been granted 2 extra hours in each and every day to do whatever you want, what would you do with the extra time? Sleep!
6. Who was your teen crush? C. Thomas Howell
7. Would you rather have a chef, maid or babysitter? NONE, but if I had to choose I think Chef.
8. Who inspires/influences you and why? Positive people because they can always find the silver lining to every situation.
9. Morning person, yay or nay? NAY, I'm a night owl all the way.
10. How long have you known your best friend? Going on 35 years.
11. What’s one item on your bucket list? Meet the band U2. That would be the best.

How to Simulate Being in the Navy

Here's for everyone who was ever in the Navy, especially for those who miss the routine, experiences and living arrangements (NOTE: those who are Navy wanna-bes will also enjoy the list)! 1. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for three months. 2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls. 3. Repaint your entire house every month. 4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you turn off the water while you soap down. Take turns watching each other with a stop watch to limit usage. 5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high. 6. Once a week, blow air up your chimney, with a leaf blower and let the wind carry the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints. 7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and reassemble them. 8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them. 9. Disassemble and inspect your lawn mower every week. 10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water, so no bathing will be allowed. 11. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in. 12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack." 13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc. Re-qualify every 6 months. No ice cream or liberty until all qual cards are completed. 14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 0500, blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up." 15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 0600 while she reads it to you. 16. Submit a request chit (in triplicate) to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 1500 hours. 17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not. "Now sweepers, sweepers, man your brooms, give the ship a clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all **** cans and butt kits!" 18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering the rest. 19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one -- the same one every night. 20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting "Now - general quarters, general quarters! All hands man your battle stations! 21. Make your family's menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator. 22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs. 23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off. 24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. (mid rats) 25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose and put out a simulated fire. 26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog into the pool and shout "Man overboard, port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond. 27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup, "Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoe box. 28. Make your family turn out all the lights and go to bed at 10 p.m. "Now taps, taps! Lights out! Maintain silence throughout the ship!" Then immediately have an 18-wheeler crash into your house. (For aircraft carrier sailors.) 29. Build a fire in a trash can in your garage. Loudly announce to your family, "This is a drill, this is a drill! Fire in hangar bay one!" 30. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand in front of the podium for 4-hour intervals. (Best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time.) 31. Next time there's a bad thunderstorm in your area, find the biggest horse you can, put a two-inch mattress on his back, strap yourself to it and turn him loose in a barn for six hours. Then get up and go to work. 32. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room, and run it all day long. 33. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and let the pot simmer for 5 hours before drinking. 34. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears. 35. Sew the back pockets of your jeans onto the front. 36. Add 1/3 cup of diesel fuel to your dirty laundry. 36. Take hourly readings on your electric and water meters. 37. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the scummiest part of town. Find the most run down, trashiest bar, and drink beer until you are hammered, then walk all the way home. 38. Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you'll take them to Disney World for liberty. At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house. 39. Line your family up and tell then they must be inoculated prior to going ashore due to local diseases. After waiting two hours, stab them with multiple punctures in both arms from a dull sewing needle. Dont let the rubbing alcohol dry so it burns more 40. Buy everyone a single pair of blue coveralls and have them wear it for the next three months. Tell them they can wash it and their skives tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, repeat message they can wash tomorrow. Courtesy of Marine Corps Web Log (http://www.usmc81.com) Posted [in the Web Log]: 16 Jun 2011 09:53 AM PDT

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End of Pre-K Party!

 

 Jump a little....

 

Slide a little....

Jump a little....

Slide a little....

 

Play in the pond a little? Oh no wait that is our community baby pool! Why does the water look lime green? Ewwww!!! You should see the adult pool. It's crystal clear with a brand new slide. What about the little people?

My Silly's little fingers were bleeding from rubbing on the bottom of the pool or maybe it was the side of the pool. Either way OUCH! They had a great time any way. On the way home our street was blocked off. I had to pull the car into the school and walk the children home. There was a motorcycle accident. It turned out to be our neighbor across the street. Luckily he is now safe at home but broke his big toe and his collar bone. What a way to end the day! Thank you all for the prayers. I know they helped. Until next year...

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Family Game Night!

Tonight we broke out the dominoes! My Grandmother and Mother are champion domino counters. The three of us ladies taught my oldest son how to play. What memories! When I was young I was taught by both of them and my Grandfather. We would play for hours. My four year old insisted that we play some Uno afterwards. We did and everyone kept giving him the "Skip" card. He was NOT happy! All in all a great family game night.


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Get Your Game On!

What a blast we had today! It's amazing how much more fun sports are as an adult than when I was a kid. Honestly, I'm more of an athlete now at nearly 40 than every before in my life. That to me is hilarious! Now, we go and do more active things and have so much fun laughing at ourselves. I really believe it's good for the soul. We played a game of sand volley ball today and used a Coop water volley ball. Those type of balls have a lot less sting to them but the wind also has no problem carrying it away. So I say to you....go get your game on! Make it fun and even if you aren't a professional who cares, get out there and try something different. It helps if you have friends who are just as willing to challenge themselves as you are!


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Cops & Cameros

Today on my way home from a #crossfit session in Seabrook I saw red, white and blue lights flashing out of the corner of my eye. Little did I know they were attached to this super cool black Camero! Hello - That's a Seabrook police car, talk about stealth mode. That car was so awesome that it made me want to become a cop instantly. ROFL.... It could be an entirely new way to have a midlife crisis. That would go over well don't you think? I wouldn't have to make the payments, pay for the insurance or gas! I would just have to put my life in danger every day to serve the community and carry a gun. Hmmmm???? Cop cars have come a loooooong way! Remember when they use to look like this?

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Baseball Season is Over!

A brief show that sums up the final day of our t-ball season. We had such a great coach. Now we get to have our Thursday evenings back and our Saturday mornings. He had a great time while it lasted.

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Prayer Tip! - The 5 Finger Method

We got this hand out from our super awesome church and I wanted to share it with you. It's not only a great way for you to pray but a neat little trick to teach your kids too. Hope you will find it as useful for your family as we do.

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It Started with Tim Conway

I'm sort of in this pickle. It's me versus the need to wear this silly boot to keep my leg stabilized so it can heal properly while still trying to function. I would like to just stay off of it and forget the silly boot and keep R.I.C.E. My Dr. told me that I needed to stop trying to walk the way I was and to take smaller steps so I could walk properly. The image brought me back to memories of Tim Conway. This is the perfect skit to illustrate what I look like trying to get around right now. lol - Oh it just cracks me up!

I'm in slow motion right now. I know there is a good reason for this and I'm really trying to find the silver lining but it's hard. I miss my friends, working out, losing pounds, being able to function, walk without pain, the sun, the track and all the progress I was making.

I'm limited to three places in my house: upstairs in front of the tv with my leg propped up (bored with tv), on the couch downstairs with my leg propped up (kid magnet) and on my exercise balls in front of my computer with my leg propped up. I've been on the computer most of the day getting sucked into updated my resume and information on LinkedIn. I'm guessing this is progress of some sort. I'm just trying to remain open to possibilities of what is to come.

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A WOMAN'S WEEK AT THE GYM

If you read this without laughing out loud, there is something wrong with you. This is dedicated to everyone who ever attempted to get into a regular workout routine

Dear Diary,
For my birthday this year, my husband  purchased me a week of personal training at the local health club.
Although I am still in great shape since being a high school football cheerleader 43 years ago, I decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and give it a try.
I called the club and made my reservations with a personal trainer named Chris, who identified himself as a 26-year-old aerobics instructor and model for athletic clothing and swim wear.
Friends seemed pleased with my enthusiasm to get started! The club encouraged me to keep a diary to chart my progress.
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MONDAY:
Started my day at 6:00 a.m. Tough to get out of bed, but found it was well worth it when I arrived at the health club to find Chris waiting for me. He is something of a Greek god-- with blond hair, dancing eyes, and a dazzling white smile.  Woo Hoo!!
Chris gave me a tour and showed me the machines.. I enjoyed watching the skillful way in which he conducted his aerobics class after my workout today. Very inspiring!
Chris was encouraging as I did my sit-ups, although my gut was already aching from holding it in the whole time he was around. This is going to be a FANTASTIC week!!
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TUESDAY:
I drank a whole pot of coffee, but I finally made it out the door.  Chris made me lie on my back and push a heavy iron bar into the air then he put weights on it!  My legs were a little wobbly on the treadmill, but I made the full mile.  His rewarding smile made it all worthwhile. I feel GREAT!  It's a whole new life for me.
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WEDNESDAY:
The only way I can brush my teeth is by laying the toothbrush on the counter and moving my mouth back and forth over it.  I believe I have a hernia in both pectorals.  Driving was OK as long as I didn't try to steer or stop. I parked on top of a GEO in the club parking lot.
Chris was impatient with me, insisting that my screams bothered other club members.  His voice is a little too perky for that early in the morning and when he scolds, he gets this nasally whine that is VERY annoying.
My chest hurt when I got on the treadmill, so Chris put me on the stair monster.  Why the hell would anyone invent a machine to simulate an activity rendered obsolete by elevators?  Chris told me it would help me get in shape and enjoy life.  He said some other s*** too.
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THURSDAY:
A**hole was waiting for me with his vampire-like teeth exposed as his thin, cruel lips were pulled back in a full snarl.  I couldn't help being a half an hour late-- it took me that long to tie my shoes.
He took me to work out with dumbbells. When he was not looking, I ran and hid in the restroom.  He sent some skinny b**** to find me.
Then, as punishment, he put me on the rowing machine-- which I sank.
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FRIDAY:
I hate that bastard Chris more than any human being has ever hated any other human being in the history of the world. Stupid, skinny, anemic, anorexic, little aerobic instructor.  If there was a part of my body I could move without unbearable pain, I would beat him with it.
Chris wanted me to work on my triceps.  I don't have any triceps!  And if you don't want dents in the floor, don't hand me the damn barbells or anything that weighs more than a sandwich.
The treadmill flung me off and I landed on a health and nutrition teacher.  Why couldn't it have been someone softer, like the drama coach or the choir director?
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SATURDAY:
Satan left a message on my answering machine in his grating, shrilly voice wondering why I did not show up today.  Just hearing his voice made me want to smash the machine with my planner; however, I lacked the strength to even use the TV remote and ended up catching eleven straight hours of the Weather Channel..
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SUNDAY:
I'm having the Church van pick me up for services today so I can go and thank GOD that this week is over.  I will also pray that next year my husband will choose a gift for me that is fun-- like a root canal or a hysterectomy.  I still say if God had wanted me to bend over, he would have sprinkled the floor with diamonds!!!

Send this to a friend who needs to laugh.  We all need a good laugh


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Car Art

 Amazing what we can catch with our camera phones these days. We were shopping last night at Sam's and when we made it back to our parking spot this truck was beside us. We were all thinking "WOW" - that's a whole new level of car art. Of course I had to take a shot to share with you. I've honestly never seen a portrait painted on a vehicle. I've seen wolves, Jesus, and other religious figures but this was my first time to see a self portrait. What do you think? Would you want a portrait of your kid painted on your car? Have you seen this type of "car art?"

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Breaking News From My Inbox

   

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Easter - Kramer Style

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Awesome Mom


Before I was a Mom,
I never tripped over toys
or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not
my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.

Before I was a Mom,
I had never been puked on.
Pooped on.
Chewed on.
Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind
and my thoughts.
I slept all night.

Before I was a Mom,
I never held down a screaming child
so doctors could do tests.
Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night
watching a baby sleep.

Before I was a Mom,
I never held a sleeping baby just because
I didn't want to put her down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces
when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small
could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.


Before I was a Mom,
I didn't know the feeling of
having my heart outside my body..
I didn't know how special it could feel
to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond
between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small
could make me feel so important and happy.

Before I was a Mom,
I had never gotten up in the middle of the night
every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth,
the joy,
the love,
the heartache,
the wonderment
or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much,
before I was a Mom





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5 Minutes of Fame

My husband was annoyed I didn't post a photo of his famous dragon fly. Instead I decided to capture it on video because the photos don't do it justice. It took him 5 minutes to draw it free handed with a Sharpie. We were in awe! What do you think? Silly loves her new place.

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Best Singles Ad Ever Printed

My former boss just sent this to me in an email and I had to share it with you. This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It is reported to have been listed in the Atlanta Journal.

SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work, wearing only what nature gave me.. Call (404) 875-6420 and ask for Daisy, I'll be waiting....

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Over 150 men found themselves talking to the Atlanta Humane Society.

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A Real Push Present For Your Wife

You know that diaper cake I was working on? This is the little extra that is going with it. I hope she finds it as funny as I do. Thanks to my followers on Twitter for all your help!

A Real Push Present A non expiring coupon book

No worries honey, I will take care of the grocery shopping this week! Hand that list to me and I will take care of it.

Relax honey, let me take care of the dishes. I can put them away too if you like.

Where is that lotion that you like? I am going to give you a nice long foot rub.

Honey you look like you could use a break. I can watch the kids, have some time to yourself.

Our new baby sure is going through a lot of clothing changes. How about I take care of the laundry today?

You have been doing such a great job with the baby. How about I take the night shift with the baby so you can get some extra rest?

You have been changing so many diapers lately! Let me take on the diaper changes this weekend.

Where is that lotion that you like? I would like to give you a nice long back rub.

Would you like to go shopping for a new dress today? Here is some money, have fun.

We have not had a lot of alone time together. Would you like to go out on a date with me tonight?

You really are the best ! Go treat yourself to a day at the spa. You deserve it.

Mother of The Year!

My Mom just sent this to me and I had to share it. Who couldn't use a good laugh!? This really looks like something I would do.