Hold me accountable

I have a million things I want to get done today and tomorrow so I am going to post them on here so I have something to answer to! :)

*Scrub both upstairs bathrooms
*Finish laundry and put away!
*clean up my bedroom
*pick up Kaylee's room
*clean off desk
*list some toys for sale on sale blog
*sweep upstairs
*scrub carpets *may wait till weekend*
*put all the empty Christmas decor. boxes back in attic
*clean up kitchen
*mop floors
*dust
*Sit down and watch medium ;-) (I taped it last week and haven't had a chance)
*Make Kenzie clean her pig sty, I mean room
*Get Candle order in to Barbara
*sit down and write out the girls Christmas lists for grandparents
*do bills
*balance check book
*Go to Kroger for a newspaper and gravy (yes I buy my gravy, no clue how to make it)
*Return ornaments to Target
*cut and organize coupons

I am sure there is plenty more but that is all I can think of for now. I know none of you care but sometimes I have to be forced to clean! LOL I hate it! I am going to go change Kaylee's diaper and get her dressed and then I am off. I am getting a late start cause I worked in the school this morning, which I love and Travis hates cause he is late to work then. He will get over it :)
Oh and just so you know Cami is fine today. I gave her water throughout the day yesterday with a medicine dropper to keep her hydrated and she decided to eat a little food around 6 last night. This morning she got up and ran around like normal playing with Kaylee so I'd say she is feeling much better today :) Off to get started on my fun chores :)

Listen to this crap

So most of you know that we had to deal with identity theft issues over the summer. Someone got ahold of several credit cards and charged them up. Well that has all been taken care of, the money returned ect. Well yesterday we get a phone call from Chase fraud dept. and someone tried to make a purchase with the credit card that Travis uses for work. UGG! This is ridiculous. Luckily they caught it before it went through since it was an online purchase and they had the wrong exp. date. What the heck is wrong with people? I don't doubt that it would be wonderful to buy whatever you want with someone else's money but there should be a little voice in your head saying "yeah this would be great and it's so easy BUT it is just wrong." This world is flying on a fast track to hell. Just so you guys know if you are going to have a credit card Chase is the company to go with. They are the ONLY people who noticed anything was wrong the last time, and they called us then to report it and called us now. Discover and Washington Mutual however didn't have a clue until I called and told them. Discover actually accused me outright of trying to con them when I tried to cancel the card (there was no balance prior to the theft) so I will never have another Discover account in my life. Make sure you are active in your credit history because these people are nuts and they will do it if the opportunity becomes available. You buy something online, you hand your card to someone in the mall, they can all steal your info. Be Careful

It's the Holiday Season

Our turkey is bought and so are all of the other trimmings for our Thanksgiving dinner. Of course the day I bought them we got invited to someones house for Thanksgiving dinner. We are just going to stay here though, we haven't had a nice quiet Thanksgiving since before I was pregnant with Kaylee. This also means however, that we will have TONS of left overs this year! I am making, Turkey, stuffing, scalloped corn, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, noodles, apple pie and pecan pie, oh yeah can't forget the rolls! Then we will stuff ourselves with all of that and soon the Christmas cookie baking will begin. Geeze, looks like I lost 5 pounds just to add on 10 more during the next month :)
Our Christmas decorations are up. Travis put up the outside lights yesterday and then while he was watching the Ohio State game I put up the tree. I finally have it the colors I want it too! No more blue and silver, it is now red and gold. Very pretty. I went and bought some suff yesterday and have to take some back cause I spent too much and I think it looks full enough for now, I can always add to it later if need be. I bought a new angel, red and gold ornaments, gold ribbon and a new tree skirt. I will post a picture eventually. I only put decorations in the living room this year. The stuff I have always put in my kitchen I don't really care to have up. I don't really like it, plus alot of it I bought and painted and if you know me, you know how uncrafty I am, so they are not very good. LOL My living room looks pretty, I want to get some new stockings but they will wait for now. The girls like the cartoon looking ones so I will let them have them for another year, eventually I will have pretty ones though.
I have all of my Christmas Cards written out. I still have to address them and get stamps but I figure I have at least a week since people may think I am crazy if I would have mailed them out already.
Now for the Christmas shopping. UGG is all I can say. It is not moving along like I would like it to. I tried to buy the things I wanted for my mother in law yesterday and they don't have them anymore so I don't have any idea what I am going to get her. I should have bought them months ago. My mom still hasn't given me a clue to what she wants, I have an idea for my dad and Travis' dad now! Yay me! And some people are getting candles that I ordered for them at my gold canyon candle party I had on Tuesday :) I have about 4 small things for each of my kids. The puppy is their BIG gift this year. I still have alot of shopping to do for them and still don't really have any ideas. I will probably wait till next week to go shopping. I *may* go out on black friday but it will have to be a GOOD deal for me to do it. I have to take both girls with me so it will take alot to get me out of the house. I will still be up on Thursday at the store to buy my newspaper so I can search all the ads. I am hoping that Target puts their Christmas decorations on sale so I can get an adjustment! lol
Our puppy is sick. I don't know what her deal is she was playing last night and then a few hours later she was throwing up. She hasn't done anything today but lay on the floor, she wont eat anything. We think it is cause she was outside yesterday tied to the tree while Travis put up Christmas lights and we assume (due to the wood in the vomit) that she ate some mulch from under the tree. I hope she gets better quickly and is ok. Poor thing. She still is a good dog and I like her till she poops and pees on the floor! I realize it takes time but my hands are raw from having to wash them so much cause of cleaning up after her. I hope there is nothing awful in that mulch that could really hurt her, we have only had her a week and I will be really mad if something should happen cause she cost a fortune, but also cause she is such a good puppy and we are enjoying having her in our family.

Oops We did it again...

We bought a dog today. We started talking about possibly getting one for the girls for Christmas and went to just check out some different breeds and look to find something that would be a good fit with our family. Well we walked right out of there with a 10 week old Lhasa Apso. She is about the cutest thing, and I am not an animal lover. She has been really good so far, pretty calm but still romping with the girls. Potty training may prove to be difficult but it will be with Kaylee too! I am nervous about her first night, when we got our last dog she got up alot, so I am not looking forward to it. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but hopefully she remains a good dog and was worth all the time and effort and cash that we will have given. We went through many names like Daisy and Angel but we decided that Cami suits her best. So now we have a Kenzie, Kaylee and Cami, how am I ever going to keep them all straight!

Can you say....

COLD! Oh my goodness it was so cold out today. Yesterday it was BEAUTIFUL, sunny and almost 80 degrees, today it was 43!!! BURRR
It was definitely one of those days where you want to curl up in your pjs and do nothing all day. No such luck for me though. I had to take Mykenzie to a Veteran's Day workshop for Girl Scouts. It was a long 2 hours but the girls had a pretty good time and they earned a Wave the Flag try-it for going. After getting hella lost trying to come home (for like 45 minutes for a 10 minute drive) in the middle of cow country no where (who knew I was so close to the middle of no where?) I finally got trapped on a dead end road behind someone else and I flagged him down and he told me where to go. Thank goodness he didn't think it would be funny to mess with me and tell me wrong cause I was running quite low on gas and I am out of minutes on my cell (prepaid phone). I then had to stand out in the cold for gas, and since the election is over the gas prices are going up, which made that even more enjoyable. Then Kenzie and I went to the grocery store. After that I got in my pjs and relaxed. I did some cleaning and relaxed again. Smelled some candle samples for my Gold Canyon Candle party that I am having Tuesday. I am so excited for it! I need some candles and guess what people are getting for Christmas this year ;-) They are so yummy! Now it is 10:00 and I am going to bed. Travis and Mykenzie want to go do something tomorrow, I prefer to be lazy. I am sure they will win in the end though. Kaylee is sick so I don't really want to mess with taking her out. I ran her into the doctor yesterday and she has what I expected, an ear infection and a cold. She gave her omnicef for her ears and a Rx for cough medicine with codeine which makes her sleepy (NICE!! :P ) She has been much better the past 2 days , so now I am feeling like a bad mommy and maybe she has been sick all along with these nasty temper tantrums she has be throwing. We shall see in due time if she is just full swing in the terrible two's or if the poor thing just hasn't been feeling well. Off to wake her and give her some cough meds, she is in there coughing like crazy in her sleep. Hope everyone is having a good weekend and staying warm!

Can you believe....

There are only 46 days till Christmas!!!! I hope everyone else is more prepared than I am. I only have 1 person done and that is my 10 month old niece, so really, how hard was that to begin with? I still have to buy for my mom (and stepdad), Travis' mom, my dad (and girlfriend), and Travis' dad (and stepmom), My niece Lily (which I think I may have found something online for her), my nephews Jaden and Neeko (Neeko will end up with money I'm sure) I have a few ideas for my dad and Travis' mom but other than that no clues!

My kids are posing to be my most difficult problem this year. They really don't NEED anything (well clothes, but they aren't any fun) and there are really no toys out there that they or I see as something they would really enjoy. I wouldn't think it should be so hard to buy for them. I see things I think they would like but it is a book or something else small. I usually get them a "big" gift but that may just not be the case this year. I have been online a lot searching but either the things are way too much money or I just don't see anything. I was thinking about getting Mykenzie an electronic globe, I think she would enjoy playing with it but they are $100!! I don't think she would like it $100 worth. I am really having a hard time this year, I had the same problem with their bdays too. The stuff I want to get them just would make for a boring Christmas morning and it is pricey so they wouldn't get a whole lot more. I want to get Kaylee a toy box but the cheapest one that I found and that I like is $100 +shipping, and I would like to get Mykenzie some kind of bin system to put toys in but once again they are like $100. I just hate to get them practical things when they are still little and just want some new toys! LOL I guess I better keep looking huh. Any suggestions out there from those of you with kids my girls ages, I will take them :)

Oh yeah, do you realize that Thanksgiving is only 14 days away!!! That is close. I at least have my menu planned, not that it was hard since we have the same stuff every year. LOL Travis may be inviting someone from his work that I have never met. I hope not but I will suck it up. We will probably be putting up our Christmas decorations next weekend already! I may have a panic attack now! We cant the weekend after because Travis has to work. Last year he hung the outside lights on Thanksgiving while I cooked maybe I can talk him into that again, plus I got out of helping do it ;-) We shall see, I still can't believe how fast time is going.

Where's My Daddy

Kaylee was playing with Travis this morning and Kenzie got a little jealous of the attention so she went over and climbed on him too. Well Kaylee didn't like it and pushed Mykenzie and said "No, its my daddy" and of course Mykenzie had to counter with "It's my daddy" so back and forth they went a few times before Kaylee got up and came running to me and here I am thinking well maybe she will give up and say "It's my mommy" BUT NO she has this horribly sad look on her face and with a pitiful voice said "Where's my daddy, mom? Where's my daddy?" It was so freaking funny I lost it. I sent her back over to her dad and she pushed Kenzie and said "get away from my daddy" It pretty much ended there, but oh my goodness to see the look in her eyes and her that pitiful voice wondering where her daddy was if that wasn't him. Too funny.

Cleaning Frenzy!

Tuesday I went through my room, cleaned it, dusted rearranged pictures and cleaned my bathroom. Unfortunately these 2 rooms hardly ever get cleaned cause I can close the door and no one sees them but us. I must say it feels good to walk into a clean bedroom :) I also cleaned my kitchen and both of the other bathrooms in the house.
Yesterday I spent 2 hours in my closet! Sad but that is how long it took to clean and re-organize it. Oh my goodness it is just beautiful now! I'd take a picture but since I don't have a before you can't truly appreciate all of my hard work. I also cleaned out my disaster of a coat closet. I don't have a clue how it gets so messy and unorganized so quickly, well yes I do and their names are Mykenzie and Kaylee. I have shelves with all of our movies in there that never get put back in a nice way, always just thrown and Mykenzie has a 3 drawer cart that houses her coloring books, craft stuff and play doh that she can NEVER keep cleaned up. So I went through all of it and what a difference!!! I got it so my vacuum actually fits and has its own little place! It is the little things that make me happy:) I also got half of my laundry room cleaned (all but the floor) and ALL of my laundry done (and put away). Sound like a productive day if you ask me.
Now for today... I stared by doing dishes like EVERY day. I ended up cleaning out Travis' drawers so stuff fit, on from there I walked into Mykenzie's room to put something away and I couldn't help but notice every little thing out of place. She just cleaned her room yesterday so to the untrained eye everything looked fine. Oh but not to me, I ended up with everything ripped out from under her bed and dumped out of her toy box. I put everything away properly and I feel better now. I then moved onto her dresser, I dumped every drawer and refolded and put away everything. Plus I got her summer pj's out of there so she quits trying to wear them, it is just too cold. All I have left to do in there is sweep. I went into Kaylee's room with no intention of doing anything except put some clothes that don't fit Kenzie into the totes in Kaylee's closet and let me tell you what that led to! I ended up dumping all 5 FULL rubbermaid totes out and reorganizing by size, stuff to sell, shoes,ect. Got them put back in there nice and cleaned up the rest of the closet where I found a blues clues car that I think my niece Lily would like but blue was not with it. I look out at the toy box, and think it has to be in there but I am not dealing with that today. Well I did. Her toy box was OVERFLOWING plus had a bag of toys beside it that were brought up from downstairs. I dumped the whole thing out and decided that it would only have stuffed toys in it from now on. It is a cute cloth house but the walls are made of card board and it is not sturdy and all the stuff crammed in it was making it look like trash. So I have a BIG bag of baby toys to get rid of now and some that are going in the trash. I have my pantry cabinet from my old house in her room that has always had baby blankets and packs of wipes and stuff like that, well now it is toys. I got all of her remaining toys that were in the toy box that I wasn't getting rid of to fit in there. I want to find something else eventually but for now it is working. I went through her kitchen and reorganized it too. So now I just have to sweep in there too. The carpets need scrubbed again. We just did it in the beginning of September but it needs done again. I guess it is good we own a scrubber! Now I am going to clean up my desk and fix the stupid slip covers, sweep upstairs and it will be beautiful up here. Then I have to do the downstairs. UGG There is no school tomorrow either so its a 3 day weekend. I am sure that I will be on here on Monday complaining about the disaster but for today I am enjoying my clean clean clean and ORGANIZED upstairs!!! It is only 11 am, imagine the possibilities to come!
Don't forget to watch Grey's Anatomy tonight it is a new one! WooHoo!

Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I must admit, I was worried about how halloween would turn out as I sat and watched it rain all day. I told myself I would make a decision on where we would go by 4 and it was still raining so the mall it was. I wanted to drive the the Mills but while we were on our way it was already 5 and their trick or treat started at 5, since we still had about a 45 minute drive left we opted to just stick to the mall close to home. We got there and found out that their trick or treat didn't start until 6 so we decided we would walk down to Chuck E Cheese for an hour. Well as we got into the mall we realized that we were not the only people there and the stores were passing out candy, so we said what the hey. We walked the mall and ran into a few friends, and Mykenzie saw some kids from Girl Scouts and school as well. We ended up done with the mall before 6 so it worked out nicely, we were leaving as they were getting busy. By the time we left the rain had stopped so we decided to troll the neighborhood too. I hate for the costumes to go to waste! LOL They were both having so much fun and being good, plus other than being wet it was really nice out. I am not sure what the temp. was but it was perfect. We came home with our pant legs soaked but the girls had a blast and didn't mind at all. They looked absolutely adorable! EVERYONE we walked by commented on how cute Kaylee's costume was, I must say I agree. She made a very cute Jo Jo. Mykenzie was beautiful as Mulan, she is looking more grown up all the time and tonight with her make up made it even more so. Kaylee loved going to the houses and people would open the door and she would ask where there doggy was! lol Apparently since a couple houses had dogs that meant they all did. I think the dogs were her favorite part, well she got pretty excited when she saw the people gave her chocolate too! She did so good and kept her hat on the whole time! I told her over and over before we left she had to wear it to get candy, I guess when she saw I wasn't pulling her chain she was happy to leave it on! LOL Our day turned out great despite the wet weather. Hope everyone else had a great Halloween as well :) Here are the pics from today :) share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AcuWTNo2bNGhy

That's what I'm talking about!

It was beautiful today!!! What a gorgeous day out. We spent a majority of the day outside. We carved our pumpkin, played on the swing set and went for a walk to our subdivision's playground to play, followed by cooking burgers and roasted potatoes on the grill. I wish the weather would continue but it is going to rain Tuesday followed by cold again. I am hoping we don't have rain long enough to go trick or treating on Tuesday, if it does we will end up at the mall instead. Here are some pictures of our fun day.
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Wreck

Yep, I got in a car wreck Friday. Guess who's fault it was, oh yeah, it was mine. Good Lord. These poor people sitting at a red light and I don't know, I guess I am in a Jeep so I think I can just run over things so I thought, what the heck, lets try a mini van!!! No seriously though, I am not really sure what happened as I can't really remember anything but the van getting really close I panic and BAM! So I assume I thought the light changed started to go, realize my mistake but rather than hitting the break I accidently hit the gas. I plow into her, she hits the guy in front of her, lovely. I get out ask if she is alright, go call Travis to have him get Kenzie since I was headed to the school to pick her up. I go back and talk to her again, are you sure your alright kinda stuff, and I realize that she has 2 little kids in her car too. So now I felt WORSE. They were just sitting there unaffected by it all though. So a firetruck pulls up, they make sure everyone is ok and get us out of the middle of the road. The woman I hit said her head and neck hurt a little and they told her that it would be best if she got looked at so she agreed and here came another fire truck shortly followed by an ambulance. She later told me when we were standing there talking "geeze, all I said was my head hurt a little, I really didn't need another fire truck and ambulance" My neck was also a little sore and my head killing me, but my head hurt before I left, I had just taken Aleeve for it. I didn't have them check me out though. So then the cop show up I tell him it was my fault and that I thought the light changed and he needed the usual DL, Ins, and registration. So I get my DL and ins and search my car only to find last years registration. I have NO clue where the current one is. So the guy that the van hit gave a statement and drove off without getting my info, so we shall see. There was no visible damage at all to his car. So the lady I hit left and then the cop came to talk to me, asked if I found it, I said no. So he said to make sure I get a new registration cause I could be ticketed on it but he said he wasn't going to. Then he gave me a case # and told me to be on my way. He was so nice. He could have ticketed me for the reg. and for the fact that I still have my SC Drivers license. He didn't even write me up for the accident. Thank the Lord. So, her car has damage, not a ton but enough that I am sure she will be filing a claim with my insurance co. My car the hood got knocked out of place and you can see on the bumper where it bent, neither of which seem to be a huge deal. We are still gonna have it looked at but if there is nothing wrong internally we will probably just skip getting it fixed and paying our $500 deductible (which I was supposed to lower to $250 last week, and forgot) Luckily we have no out of pocket expense to fix her car so that is a relief, but most importantly no one got hurt. I already have horrible guilt about it I can't imagine how I would live with my self if someone would have gotten hurt.

A day out, a day in

So yesterday I was just going to stay home and do some stuff around the house but I got a phone call asking me to go to Logans for lunch, I decline but she continued to sweet talk me and make me feel all loved so I went. It was really good and I had a great time hanging with the girls. We headed over to Kohls and on the way Jenna got great news. She is in complete remission!! Woo Hoo! I am so excited for her! She still has a ways to go but she is doing great and is on cloud nine right now! So I had a great time eating and shopping and I am glad I have friends who care about me enough to do whatever they can to get me to hang out with them. It really made me feel loved. So we had a pretty good day, the kids were pretty good for me yesterday too. Grey's Anatomy was a repeat though so that sucked. I cut my coupons and made my shopping list for today.
So today, I get up and it is pouring down rain. So my plans of going to The Childrens Place, Target, Kmart, Publix, BiLo, Kroger, Foodlion, and the post office, oh and to pay my water bill have instantly been made even more difficult. I decided not to go but then I thought what the heck, lets go do a few of the things at least. So we get ready and head out the door. 1st stop the post office, I had some stuff to send to Angie (my sil), I mailed my mom her pics of the girls I had done a month ago almost, the first ones I've sent out too btw. So I get there, Kaylee wants to walk so I put her down and what does she do, yep, run in the other direction. She refused to stand with me so I picked her up. To this she decided the best course of action would be to scream as loud as she could in my ear. She continued the whole time we were in there. So that pretty much shot my plans in the rear cause there was no way I was going to attempt doing all those other things with a screaming kid. So back home we came and into Kaylee's room she went. Now I am just going to relax and maybe do some cleaning up. When it is nasty outside though I just can't get into the cleaning mood so I am not going to hold my breath. Ahh, who am I kidding I am hardly ever in a cleaning mood! LOL Well I am going to find something to do while Kaylee is quiet and napping

Getting Fat :(

I realize that I could be a lot bigger than I am, and I know that many people are bigger than me. Many people get mad or think I am crazy when I say I am too big or have too much fat. I actually start to believe them and justify that I could be bigger than I am but the proof is in the pudding. I have been noticing my pants are pretty hard to button in the mornings now and I have gone back to my pants that I wore right after having Kaylee on some days when I am a little bloated. So today I step on the scale and sure enough I have added an extra 5 pounds. This puts me at 135!!!! I am way too short to be that heavy. To prove it look at this

BMI Categories:

Underweight = <18.5
Normal Weight = 18.5-24.9
Overweight = 25-29.9
Obesity = 30 +

I, my friends, am at 24.7. Now this is technically still in the "normal range" but I am only .3 away from being considered overweight. This is a problem. I guess it is time to stop talking about it and make something happen. I have got to get on it. Of course this is all going down right before the holidays when it is hard to try and not gain weight, let alone lose it. UGG. It is going to be a difficult road for me, cause I love my food and my sweets. First thing I plan on doing is cutting out the soda. I have to. It is absolutley my downfall. I don't drink any water, so if I replace soda with milk and water, cut my portion size, and cut out most of the sweets I should be able to do it. I am also going to have to add in some excercise. This will be hardest after the no soda thing. I am not one to enjoy excercise so this could be tricky. The things I like to do are walking and bike riding and it is so freaking cold that I don't see those happening. I will come up with something though, I have to. Now is the time, I am not getting any younger. Do you want to check out you BMI score too? You can at www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi Wish me Luck :)

Our weekend

So my plan was to do absolutely nothing this weekend. I wanted to just totally veg and not hardly move! LOL Hey I can dream right. It ended up that I decided on Saturday to go out and clean my car. It was disgusting! I got it all cleaned out and armoralled up and it looks sooo nice! I was going to scrub the carpets and seats too and I had it all ready to go but then we got the phone call (from the post below) so I had to get my house picked up. During that phone call though, Travis asked me if I wanted to go out with Candy (below) just us to get away. Well hell yeah I want to go out. LOL So after I made lunch and picked up the house I got ready to out to dinner with Candy. They didn't get to our house until 7:30 and we ran out the door, and decided that we would go to Carrabbas. We had about a half hour wait so we got seated about 8:20. We pretty much knew what we wanted (Alcohol) so we ordered our drinks and she says Martell (her husband) really likes calamari and that it is pretty good. I am a little nervous since I know what it is but I will try it so we order it. I was expecting the legs deep fried on a plate. NOOOO that is not what we got! We got whole baby octopus, heads and legs attached together and fried. Well there was no way in hell either of us was eating that. So that was a big fat waste of $7. We order our food and it is ok but I hardly touched it. My drink was yummy though! So I basically paid $32 for a strawberry dacquari. I doubt I will go back to Carrabbas ever. It was nice being out and away from the kids though (even though she talked on her cell most of the time). Afterwards we decided we were not ready to go home so we drove by the movie theater to see what was playing and nothing really sounded that good, especially since it was already 9:30. A few things I want to see, but they are like war movies and I just wasn't in the mood. So we went over to Kohls and they were having a huge sale that made them stay open till 11! So we shopped. I bought Kaylee a sweater and 6 shirts and I got Mykenzie a sweater and 3 shirts and myself 2 candles for like $85. So I am getting there as far as getting the girls clothes for fall/winter. I love the way the candles smell but I tell ya they definitely don't fill my house with scent like my gold canyon candles do. I guess I am spoiled. I just couldn't wait any longer to get a pumpkin candle. I now know that cheap is not the way to go on candles.
Sunday, I got the sudden urge to paint Kaylee's room, so that is what we did. We had a can of purple paint already from our old house. It is not the color I wanted, it is too dark, I wanted more of a lavender. I tried to mix some white paint with it to lighten it but it didn't work at all. It looks nice though, just not excatly what I wanted. I am just glad it isn't cream anymore. Now all of the rooms in my house have COLOR!! Well the girls bathroom is still cream, but it is going to stay that way. Kaylee likes her new purple room. Now I need to get some new decorations for the walls. I put the stuff I already have back up but I am wanting new things. I have a few but I don't want to hang them till I get some more. That is far back on my list of things to buy right now though so it will have to wait. After we got that done we relaxed and played and then ate and Travis helped Kenzie with her homework and he lit a fire in the fireplace cause it was so cold. Now he is all pumped up about using the fireplace again, since we couldn't last year cause of Kaylee. Last night she was in bed when he did it so I still don't know how she will be with it. Should be ok though, she stays away from the oven when I am cooking. We shall see. We had a pretty good weekend, got to relax and accomplish somethings too :)

Some People!!

Tell me if I am the only person who thinks this is completely rude. So we get a phone call asking what we are doing, followed by can I come over and hang and watch football on the big screen. That in itself is kinda rude but it is not the first time they invited themselves over, many times it has been for dinner too. Anyhow, so Travis says yes and then calls back a little later cause he was hungry and wanted to see what the plan for dinner was. So he says he will stop at KFC and pick up some chicken. He does and he racks up a $37 bill at KFC to feed 2 adults and 4 kids (one of which was Kaylee who hardly eats) So Travis gives him $20, and then when they left he took all the leftovers home!!!!! There was a TON of chicken left and he took all of it. What he did leave was half of a thing of mashed potatoes and half a thing of coleslaw!!!! First of all, we didn't tell him to buy all that food, second Travis paid MORE for it!!! I am still pissed off about it and it happened on Saturday! Is it wrong to be so mad? I wanted the left overs for lunch on Sunday. I was ready to call him up and drive to his house and get some. Travis wouldn't give me his phone number though. I totally feel like they owe us for this and I am officially done with them. I said it before but this threw me over the edge in what selfish people they continue to be. They are just plain rude. There have been other things in the past too, so I am not throwing away a friendship over chicken. LOL We helped them move 2 weeks ago, not only move but UNPACK and we hardly got a thank you. I am not going to be the people who always give when they just take advantage and walk all over us. Did I mention that Travis is his boss, and that if it wasn't for him, he would still be in SC making alot less money and living in their tiny apartment! GRRRRR! OK my vent is over. Now I will go post about our weekend :)

Thank Goodness!

The girls Halloween costumes are here!!! I ordered them from disneyshopping.com on Tuesday and it said 7-10 business days. I was so worried I wouldn't get them on time since 10 business days from Tuesday would have been Halloween. Talk about cutting it close. But they came today!!! Mykenzie is going to be Mulan, and it is such a pretty costume, I am really glad she decided to be that. Kaylee is going to be Jo Jo from Jo Jo's circus, It is sooooo cute and looks adorable on her. Of course she SCREAMED when I put the hat on but she has to wear it cause it just isn't as cute with out it. I think when she starts getting candy she will wear it! lol Well at least I hope so.
Here is the link to Kaylee's http://disneyshopping.go.com/DSSectionPage.process?Merchant_Id=2&Section_Id=13811&Product_Id=187622
And here is the link to Mykenzie's (hers is a little different and has flowers instead of fans, I'm glad cause hers is cuter) http://disneyshopping.go.com/DSSectionPage.process?Merchant_Id=2&Section_Id=13811&Product_Id=187598

Attitude

What is it with my 6 year old having such a bitchy attitude. I realize who she gets it from, but my mom is bitchy and I am not so sure that I had the attitude at 6!!!!!!! She is driving me insane with her back talk. I told her to get her coat on today as we were leaving the house and she said "I told you" I was like "what" she said, "I was talking to dad, I told him that I would have to wear a coat, that's what" with a totally bitchy, who do you think you are asking me what attitude. That is just one example, I am sure there are worse ones. Between the attitude from her and the tantrums from Kaylee, it may be the death of me! Geeze! They look all cute and sweet and innocent don't they! LOL Most of the time they are great and really are sweet, they play nice together a lot of the time, but when they are bad they are horrible!
Last night I was trying to get Mykenzie to do her take home reader and she is reading it, needed help with some words like "night" and really having to work at sounding stuff out but was reading words like, summer and camping. She gets to the word "also" and oh my goodness. It was like she completely forgot how to recognize letters!!! She started acting all whiny and rolling around on the couch telling me she couldn't do it and she didn't know what the sounds were. Then she proceeded to do it with almost every word from then on! We finally got through it (took about an hour to read a TINY book) and this morning I had her read it again in the car, and she did the WHOLE book with no problem. She sounded out the words she didn't recognize and that was that. GEEZE, why can't she just do that to begin with? I can't stand when she acts like she can't do something and just gives up. She is smarter than that. I think that gets me more than anything else that she does wrong. I suppose I just want her to always do her best and she doesn't particularly care. I made sure to go on and on about how great she did this morning and how proud I was so hopefully she will do better on her book for tonight!

Shopping with the girls

Kaylee and I hit Old Navy and the mall yesterday with Barbara, Chandra and Jenna (yes I said Jenna, she is home from the hospital for a few weeks!!!) I ended up finding Kaylee a much needed coat and Jacket. Luckily Mykenzie's coat still fits her from last year but Kaylee had nothing. I walked out of Old Navy with the coat and jacket for Kaylee, 2 long sleeve shirts for Mykenzie and a Halloween shirt for her, and 2 pairs of socks for Kaylee for a grand total of $43.30!! The coat I originally looked at for Kaylee cost more than that so I am pretty happy! I got it in a 4T though, so it is a bit big but not to the point that it looks ridiculous, and she will be able to wear it next year too, provided she doesn't destroy it between now and then. It was a great day out with friends, not that I didn't just see them the day before but I will take all the time hanging out that I can get!!! It sure beats the alternative of cleaning my house!!

And the light is off!

So I finally got my car in to have the check engine light looked at and it turns out I had a vacuum hose leak. I don't know, something about the air pushes the fluids to where they need to go and my air was leaking out. So for the diagnostic and to fix it cost me about $150. Not wonderful but hey the last time I went into a car place it cost me over $1000. The light is off and it is fixed. Hopefully we can stay out of car repair places for a while now. It has been like every 3 months, brakes, tires, now this so hoping we are done. Well after tomorrow anyhow. That wont cost me money though, it is just fixing the recall.
My garage door opener is installed. They got here an hour after the 2 hour window they gave me, but they were done in time for me to pick up Mykenzie. It is working again just in time cause the weather is NASTY. When I wished for fall this isn't exactly what I had in mind. It went from hot to cold. I thought it only did that in Ohio! I am missing my South Carolina weather right now. I will really be missing it when we are in the middle of winter. I got a bit spoiled there. I have been missing a lot about it lately. Funny cause when I lived there I was so focused on moving back to Ohio I didn't enjoy it like I should have. Now I have no desire to move back to Ohio so SC is looking pretty good, other than the car tax that is. I miss the friends I had there. Well one doesn't live there anymore but she is talking about moving back so that would only really give me one friend there and one about two hours away till she moved back then I would have 3, LOL. It is not the quantity it is the quality :) I am really happy here though, I love the friends that I have made. I guess that I am just sad about not keeping up with my friends there and in Ohio. I move too much! I have to keep leaving people behind, not fun. Ok, I was happy about things being fixed and now I am making myself sad and missing my friends. I guess I can call them and chat and that will make me feel better. Even though we are far away from each other we will always be friends.
Wow, see only my good friends can follow the way my mind works. I don't know how I got from a check engine light to missing friends. LOL good thing that they at least understand (well maybe not understand, but can follow) my minds madness! LOL You all know who you are, know that I am thinking about you and I love ya :)