Alone....sort of

Michael has a class Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. It goes from 5pm-9pm. This means a couple of things.

1) I have to entertain my 2 year old while trying to get caught up on house chores that have been slacking due to us never being home! Especially since Marilyn is coming over tomorrow night. Eshk! My plan is to take him outside for about an hour, wear him out, feed him dinner and then let him wind down to a half hour showing of Cailou.

2) Dogs. Hawkeye has been going through this stage. It's not a good stage. Basically the Lab howls the second he realizes Michael is gone. Does he stop? No. If you put him in his kennel he barks and then howls. It never ends. I don't know what the deal is with that dog and Michael. So odd. Plus "the rat" as we call her, gets into everything. That or she is beating up the cat somewhere. I live in a zoo.

3) The Cat. I have never met a cat that will willingly knock over whatever he wants to, no matter the size. He has the strength of a panther. He knocked over the banana holder with 7 bananas on it last night. On Saturday, he knocked over Michael's tool belt because he jumped into it. He wanted to bat at the screws. Not to mention last week when he took Michael's iPod and ran off with it. This is a cat people! Again, I live in a zoo.

4) Lack of motivation. What is that word? I have none of it. At work today, I kept thinking maybe, just maybe, it would surface. Ummm, no. It's been MIA for about 2 weeks and it needs to return. So I am hoping the motivation picks up so I can get some stuff done at home. Work, eh, we don't need to work hard! LoL! I can work at a snails pace and still key enough in a day. I hope at least. Ugh, motivation needs to return. Plus I feel like we are teaching them a little lesson. We aren't machines! Sometimes I feel like they expect so much out of us. Maybe it's just me!

5) Distractions. Numbers 1-4 are enough of a distraction but I have more. For instance, House is new. It's probably 1 out of the 3 shows I can keep up with now a days. The rest are going to be either listened to online or just watched when the season come out to buy. Also having The Office on from 5:30-7 is no help whatsoever. I will just have to let it be on and keep on working.

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UPDATE:

I started writing this when I got home. I would like to report the following:

1) Jake is being extremely good and I completely wore him down outside! 

2) Hawkeye is just laying around instead of howling! I can take that!

3) Zoey ran around outside the whole time with Jake, so she is done in for the evening! Thank goodness!

4) Somehow I gained motivation and cleaned up the whole main floor. Yikes. I even did it in 30 minutes. Crazy what happens when you put your mind to it!

5) I will be able to watch House because I am done with everything I wanted to do and then some! I feel like a kid who gets a reward for doing chores.

Over and out.

Another weekend gone by....

I am exhausted. I think I could have slept all day. I took a 3 hour nap this afternoon and it still was not enough. 

Friday evening we spent with our favorite people! Well, minus one extremely tall bald man. I found others to fill in the gap. We went to the Iowa Cubs game. It was a gorgeous night at the ball park. The storms finally cleared up and the sun was shinning bright. Although the announcer to the game said: "It's a beautiful evening for some baseball. Mostly cloudy with little sunshine". There was all but 2 clouds in the sky and the sun was beaming down. I don't get it. Oh well. The boys were having a great time! They got dip-n-dots, peanuts and some baseball bats! We didn't win the game. We did have a fantastic time. The fireworks display was awesome and just spending time with those 3 makes anything worth it!

Saturday, I don't know where the day went. Before we knew it we were getting ready to head to Alicia and Brian's wedding! It was amazing. She looked absolutely stunning! She always does. She had that bridal glow. You could just tell how happy she was. They are an amazing couple and I am so happy for them. It is always a joy to participate in watching two become one. I cry every time. It's horrible. Also hearing Jen's speech made me cry. They have been besties forever and you can't put a price on that! It was great seeing friends we can't see that often and it was a great night!

Today, well, we have been bums. We skipped church (sorry) because we were so tired from this weekend. Michael is still really sore from his accident this week. Plus I think he re-activated it pulling out his dance moves last night. If you don't know about his accident, this week he was working at a job site and the drywall guys moved some stairs. Michael didn't know the stairs had been moved and he fell out the front door. Landed on his side and has pretty much been in pain all week! This morning he could barely move. The only thing we did today was go grocery shopping. I think I did a few loads of laundry and loaded this dishwasher. We are just pooped. I can't believe tomorrow is Monday. I need another day off!

Things to look forward to this week:

1) Laurel is due Wednesday!! Hopefully Baby Girl will come before Mother's Day!

2) Mother's Day!!!! We have been waiting for this day for weeks. I can't wait for it to be here! The whole weekend in general.

3) Pictures. We have to print off some photos major this week. We are sending family and friends we don't get to see much updated photos. I am a little excited about that.

4) Bible Study! About time we can finally go!

5) Just getting to spend another week with my boys!

Photos from Friday:

Tickets were printed on resume paper!!

Eating Dip-n-Dots

Jeff wants to be the Tequito!

Chef!

Sweet Caroline...bum bum bum

Don't eat me!

Frankenball Man

Vampires love Baseball!

Getting ready for fireworks!

Fireworks!!

Awkward

I was watching Criminal Minds this evening and before the show came back from a commercial break, I witnessed this commercial. I didn't quite know how to feel about it. First off, I get the importance of reminding adults that having a colonoscopy once they reach a certain age but his last comment? Are you kidding me? I felt the crickets chirping. Or I needed Nicole to say "And then I won $20".

Yikes, there are two!

Or the Christmas gift for a woman?

I will have to put this on my list for Christmas, Birthdays and Anniversaries going forward.

Happy 42nd Anniversary!

Being it's The Darcinator and Sue's 42nd Anniversary, I have to give them a shout out!

I found about 6 sites stating the gift for your 42nd Anniversary is: Improved Real Estate. So I have purchased this for you!

I would like my own wing please. I will be visiting quite often

Here are some facts about 1968:

The cost of the average home was $14,950

The average income was $7,850

The average gas price was $0.34

The average new car cost $2,822

The Boeing 747 made it's debut in flight

911 was introduced

The first ATM was in stalled

The Graduate debuted on the silver screen

"Judy in Disguise" was the top song of the year

The population of the US was 200,706,052

On November 17th NBC breaks away from a pro football game to air Heidi, a TV movie, making viewers furious. (This one made me laugh!)

My dad graduated High School!

Here is a story I found online, could make a great date night! =)

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42nd Wedding Anniversary
by Earlene and Ron Gough

My husband and I have been married 42 years.

We met in high school, dated, and 'went steady'. He was the football guy and I was the 'songleader' (somewhat like a cheerleader but with songs).

We married while he was in the Army, and I had just finished nurses training.

Now that's like everyone else's story. Right.....ok, beat this.....what did we do for our 42nd anniversary?

We filed for Social Security together. When we told the staff what day it was, there were many tears and lots of well wishes. From High School to Social Security.....not too shabby."

 ****Hope you kids have a great Anniversary and I wish you many more years together!!

Jana did send me your prom photo:

Exhaustion

Title says it all for today.

What is a weekend really?!

Another weekend in the books. The last weekend of April. I can't believe how fast this year is going. It seems like only yesterday it was Christmas and we had piles of snow on the ground that we thought would never go away. Now flowers are up, the grass is green and thunderstorms are in our forecast! We have had quite a bit of rain but I'd rather have that then snow. I think most everyone would agree with me on that note. This weekend has, as usual, flown by in a blink of an eye.

Friday we were suppose to go watch my dad play at Church. He got an awesome opportunity. It started at 7. Michael has been working OT all week. He was suppose to get home at 5:30. This turned into 6, which changed to 6:30 and at 7:15, we walked in the door. I felt horrible. I had called my mom prior and told her we probably couldn't get there. Jake was not in a mood that I would want to cart him anywhere. I have a theory that men PMS just like women. I think Jake had a PMS weekend. It's been an adventure. After feeling horrible for a while, we finally ate dinner and around 8ish we watched Avatar. I am sort of thankful I did not see it in theaters. I believe I would have been sick with it in 3D. It still was a pretty good movie. I would watch it again. It's pretty fascinating seeing how the created everything. No wonder it took 10 years. We were up late enough to watch some awesome lightning and hear a pretty great storm!

Saturday the rain continued! Jake was still not having it. With anything. He hated everything, didn't like food, and was just a poopy pants! We headed down to Ottumwa to see David. It was a good trip. We went out for lunch and went for a walk. We went to his church and met a few people. We then headed to Pella. We picked a great weekend for it. The flowers were blooming and just gorgeous. I hope they fly more in or something because I don't know how they will last another 2 weeks. We walked around for a few hours. It was fun! Plus we got caught in the rain so Jake danced around in it and had a blast! We of course had to stop Jaarsma to spend a heft amount of money! We were having a girls night so I picked up a sampler of a few things. Michael of course had to get his 8 Dutch Letters that wil be consumed before Monday is over! We then headed home! It was a great day with Uncle David! That night I went to Beth's house for pizza and a Lifetime movie girls night in! Haha. The movie never happened but we all had a good talk! I enjoy the talks more than the movies! Ellen and I didn't end up leaving till about 11:45. Yikes.

Today has been a very lazy Sunday. Michael had to work from 7-11. I was fortunate to have a very tired child from the previous day and got to sleep in till 9. I woke up a few times to a howling Hawkeye that cries when Michael leaves. So annoying. After Michael got home from work, we went grocery shopping and then did nothing. I mean, laundry and all that, but nothing else. We were all just exhausted! Have another full week/weekend ahead. Wedding season is kicking off on Saturday and we have a baseball game on Friday! Hoping to squeeze a few more things on in later this week too. Now we are just relaxing while Michael watches Armageddon for the 100th time while eating our Dairy Queen treats! Hey, get one blizzard, get another for $0.25. Good deal! Count me in!

On a side not, I got a letter from the court on Saturday. I WAS DISQUALIFIED FOR JURY DUTY!! Ha! I did a happy dance and shredded that piece of paper and my juror information. Until the next round court system!

Here are a few photos from this weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let the drooling and screeching begin!

They released the official trailer today. I will not lie, I was all over it on my cell phone at work. I pulled up Youtube and ran to Derrick's desk. The picture was small but still had a squeal come out! I got home around 4:30 and turned on Oprah. I normally am an Ellen fan but I had to watch it today. So worth it. Seeing it in HD on a 42" screen, was amazing! It looks amazing and I can't wait for the huge fight scene! It looks fantastic in the trailer! I am extremely pumped right now!! Too bad it's still a little over 2 months away.