buckets

i'm going back to my 30 days of awesome. i remembered it once again. its about time.

i've been thinking about taking some of those brain pills that are on the market.
maybe it would help me.

day 11-write a bucket list of things you want to do before you die

i don't like to think of myself as dieing, im living, so im making a slight change.

day 11- write a bucket list of things you want to do before you turn 35.
( i was going to say 30 but that only gives me 6 years, i need at least 11)

• take some of those brain pills.
• have another baby/be done with having babies(this one is when im 30)
• get a van/suv that will fit our family comfortably
• visit all the states west of the Mississippi.
• visit all the states east of the Mississippi.
• be an active member of my children's PTA :)
• go back to school and get a degree in Secondary Education
• go on a family vacation every summer.
• visit another country
• learn to speak a foreign language
• and many other things i'm sure, but i'm tired so maybe i'll add more as the days go on.

any suggestions on something i should add to my list i'm up for anything really?

edit: hey ya'll i've been having a super awesome sunny time in a magical land. i finally have a kick butt tan and my children are finally seeing some sun so they don't look so albino-ish anymore! sweet awesome! happy monday!!

so forgot about this....

I have a horrible memory, it doesn't help that i don't like writing myself reminders either.  So lets just say i forget a lot of things....like how i forgot about my 30 days of awesomeness!
oh lets just say i didn't forget and move on. yay kthxbyeeeee.

any way i'm doing two for you today, cause i'm feeling generous.



day 9 - something you're proud of in the past few days
-uhhhhhhh......i did some laundry?? :)




day 10 - songs you listen to when you are happy, sad, bored, hyped, mad

Okay this one is great....i love music. I will link the song i listen to the most with that artist. i pretty much love everything from these artist/bands :)

I pretty much listen to the same thing in any mood really. it always get me in the best mood ever to just listen and dance to anything. i'm serious i love random dancing & moshing! yesa! i've got a lot of song love.

Happy/Hyped/Bored/Sad: song: britney spears, JT, LMFAO, Kesha, BEP, Queen, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, Weezer, Ace of Base, Taylor Swift, Beatles

the only thing i can think of that i possibly listen to when i'm mad is muse, but i listen to them all the time regardless, but they are probably considered good mad songs. :)
Mad: muse

lame sauce

yep that's right i just dropped a lame sauce on you.
drop it like its hot!

not much going on in this crazy life today.  my fault.
i'm still recovering from the happening of being out of the house pretty much all day yesterday.  so tired.

we went on an adventure to my mommas work, she is retiring after 20+ years of working at the elementary school my siblings and myself all went to. so we went down there with some stuff and some kids.

my kiddos better learn to behave better when they are actually in school. 
i'm sure they will, right?!

we ended up at my sistas house, until we went to my cutie pie niece's preschool graduation.

okay this is were i get serious people.

okay not really, but i've got to know....

when did graduating preschool become such a big hoopla celebration??

call me old fashion but wouldn't just a piece of paper saying "You did it!!" now get out of my class be enough?

It was very adorable to see all those little faces be all excited, but it seemed a bit much.

I probably just don't get it because my kids aren't in that stage of life now, or maybe i'm just a simpleton.

anyway i just thought it was odd, cute, but odd.

are we making too much out of things that should be simple??





day 8 - short term goals for this month and why
a few days behind i think.  i forgot about it. my brain in mushy.

• no soda for the rest of this month. hahaha. oh yeah go me.

gag reflexes

For the record, this does not effect me what-so-ever.  However my husband's gag reflexes are terrible. 

Now for the story.

I'm in the bathroom and i hear Evelyn start running around freaking out (btw, why do things always seem to happen when its time for a bathroom break. there is plenty of time before and after that. geez)  So i get out and here comes Evelyn screaming MOM, MOM MIA MIA POOPOO!! this is all while gagging and swallowing back vomit. yeah it was pretty dramatic.   She quickly handed me the diaper and wipes that she was carrying around in her arms and ran to show me where Mia was. ( i thought about it later, was she going to change mia if she couldn't find me in time?)

Now i know from experience that she wouldn't be freakin out about this unless Mia had so kindly fished something out of her diaper. 

I was right.  standing in a corner of the family room, sweet little Mia had a giant grin on her face (thankfully no poop there) with covered hands and legs. So Mia laid down and i clean her up, all the while Evelyn is applauding me with cheers, and gags, i told her that she didn't have to watch and i could take care of it.  After gagging a few more times she decided i could handle it from there. 

I pray for Evelyn's sake that this is just something now and she will eventually grow out of it.  I'm hoping its only because she's seen her father throw up just at the smell of a stinky diaper. 







day 5 - a picture of somewhere you've been

i have been searching and searching for some pictures, but i couldn't find anything super legit. so this will have to do. in 2004 my family went on a two week road trip across country we ended up in Nauvoo, Illinois but this was in St. Louis. We went to the top of the arch.

me inside the "egg" we called it, making our way up the side to the top of the arch.

it was extremely small and a bit claustrophobic

proof i was up there.

looking down and took a picture of the shadow of the arch.

it was pretty crazy being that high.

four and more

I've been working with Evelyn (my oldest) with developing some more skills for her upcoming adventures with school.

Today she learned the correct way to write the letter E.

I now know with out a doubt (i knew a bit before, but now 100% confirmed) that i could never ever home school my kids.  I would go absolutely crazy if i couldn't send them to school.

she has got some serious selective hearing and she has not selected me to be one she hears.
"School Time" is fine in theory is a wonderful idea, but it's just not what we expected. I'll keep on keepin on, i won't give up, any learning time is better than no learning time.

I applaud all you mommas out there that can home school your kids. You are doing great work! Just not for me kind of work. :)



day 4 - a habit that you wish you didn’t have
many, but we'll just stick with one.
Biting my nails.  i'll go so long and do such a great job, then a slow, or maybe a stressful day comes and i start nibbling, gah!!!

drei w/ a twist

day 3 - a picture of you as a child

 yes this is me.  which i'm pretty sure is me in my kindergarten glory days.

i honestly don't think my looks have changed so much. haha.  straight caterpillar eyebrows, same over the top cheese smile, uncontrollable hair.

this picture is my favorite because i see so much of my children.  its weird thinking that there are little ones out there that look like me now.

i guess that was ment to happen, obvious by the fact that i helped create them. haha.

added bonus:
who looks like me more??

(click to make the picture bigger)

zwei

day 2 - the meaning behind your blog name

so whenever i'm praising my children i always for the standard "GOOD JOB!! you did great!"
well apparently children repeat things. who knew right.
so now when i do something like, oh, make lunch, wash my hands, put something away, i get a big ol' excited "GOOD JOB MOMMA!!" from my girl. its something i hear multiple times a day

so when it came down to thinking of a name it was the only thing i had in my head, because my daughter had just said it to me for getting her a drink, so it was the obvious choice.  

its nice hearing that i'm doing a good job, at least to her and thats all that matters.

30

30 days of awesomeness.

I got this idea from a fellow blogger and friend. who is super cute and just so happens to be doing a giveaway at the moment.  

Any who, I thought it was a creative way to share more about me.

Day ONE:

day 1 - recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself 

(taken at Apple Bee's on a date with my hubby 5/14)

its not all that great but its the most recent

15 facts.

wow this is going to be hard. 

•  i am a shorty 5'4 okay really 5'3 i gave myself an inch on my drivers license
• my feet are ginormous. size 9 to 10 so if any one has some unused clown feet lying around send them over.
• i have 2 sisters and 2 brothers. nope not the middle child.
• i've been married for 4 1/2 years.
• i like to people watch. so naturally i come off being a wee bit creepy sometimes.
• i sing really loud and dance while I'm driving, and with no shame.
• i love watching movies. we've got quite the collection and growing.
• i'm not a planning person. i find planning so boring. (probably the cause to me never getting anything done. hmmm.)
•  i'm a night owl.  i usually stay up till 1 in the morning. so if you ever need someone to talk to, i'm your gal.
• i like to bake. i love how it makes my house smell so delicious.
• i really don't like reading.  not much of a book fan, if it has a movie i'm more into that.
• my pointer finger on my right had in totally messed up. hahaha.
• i've got a fat toe. its pretty funny actually.
• i prefer to watch cartoons over other shows, especially spongebob. (influence of children i think.)
• let go easy for the last one, my all time favorite color is green. in any shade, just love it to pieces.

so there you have it. 

15 totally random things about me. 

this actually took me hours to do.