Monday, May 31, 2010

How Many??

Ok so the question is How Many Blogs do you follow?? I was going through my blog list and I have 53 blogs that I follow!! WOW 53 thats a lot!! I do try to read and follow most of them... I wonder how in the world I have time to do anything else!! Thankfully all 53 don't post daily!! Do my question to you is...

How many Blogs do you follow??

Just When You Think....


Just When You Think you have someone or something all figured out life sure knows how to throw a curve in or a sharp turn. Just when you have come to terms with something and excepted it for what it is life has it's way of changing things. Over the past few months I have been giving it all to god trying to listen to him and knowing that with him all things are possible. I never would have guessed in a million years that the events that happen this past week would have happen but they did. Now I must put my best foot forward move on and do my best. That's all I can Do!
~Let Go and Let God ~

A Real Cowboy

Here's my little cowboy isn't he cute! The whole cowboy thing started over spring break when Wesley put the Colander on his head and went running around the condo saying I'm a "powboy" we laughed and laughed that night. Well now that he has a real cowboy hat and we dug out Kaden's stick horse from when he was younger my little Wesley Man is a Real Cowboy! He runs around the house yelling "Me A Cowboy!" And sometimes his horse will eat you and ROAR at you. I didn't really know that horses went ROAR but Wesley seems to think they do and it is so darn cute!

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Do The Roar!



Well we took the boys over to the Drive Inn tonight to see Shrek The Final Chapter. This was Wesley's first movie and I would say for the most part it went pretty well. The movie was pretty good not as good as the 1st and 2nd shrek but what can I say its shrek so it has to be good right! Wesley was excited that he was getting to watch a movie outside and that the screen was so big!! For those of you that have seen it one of the adults favorite part was "Do The Roar" ...... Too Funny!  Great way to kick off a Holiday Weekend!


Friday, May 28, 2010

Honor Roll & Indiana Beach


Today was a very fun day! I got to go to Indiana Beach with the 3rd Grade Honor Roll Students! Yes Yes Yes Kaden was included in this group of kids!! My little Kaden is a pretty smart cookie if I do say so myself! The kids that got to go had to make honor roll 3 times over the course of the year and Mr. Kaden made the honor roll each grading period this year! So Friday we rode the bus over to the beach and had a few hours of fun in the sun! We had our first Taco's of the year and Kaden got to have some good fun with some pretty smart Tri-County Elementary 3rd Graders!!



Five Question Friday



1. Is there something you've always wanted to try but just can't muster up the courage to actually do yet?



I would probably have to say Karaoke... Unless it is in my car I don't sing out loud! I love to sing but I sound really bad and people would probably laugh!


2. If you had $100 handed to you in cash without your significant other knowing about it, what would you spend it on? $100 thats all.... I would probably buy a new purse something cute just for me!




3. What was your favorite piece of playground equipment as a child?
The Mark Four I loved that thing and now its gone : ( My children won't even know what the Mark Four was! Or the swings and seeing who could go the highest! Those were always good times!


4. Do you prefer a sweet or hearty breakfast?
That depends most of the time I would probably say Sweet... I love cinnamon rolls, monkey bread, and french toast! Biscuits and Gravy are always good too!




5. Are you a Neat Freak or a Messy Bessy?
I am a little of both... When my house starts to get messy bessy I tend to kick into neat freak mood! So what ever the in between would be that is me 90% of the time!

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Thankful Thursdays



Another Thankful Thursday has come and almost gone and I have spent some time thinking today about what I am thankful for as I do every Thursday. Today I want to talk about a very special woman who I have had the pleasure of knowing for about 13 years now. Her name is Thelma Price and she is my wonderful husbands dear grandma! Such a kind and caring woman who always had something funny to say! I am very thankful that I have had the opportunity to get to know her and have her in my life! Just this past weekend we took a table over to my aunt who lives next to Thelma and I decided that I would make my aunt Kim and Grandma Thelma dinner. So I made up a pan of my Lasagna, apple cake, garlic bread and lettuce salad.. The whole nine yards they were set for dinner!
I told Thelma about it and she was thrilled!

~~You see I did the same thing this past Christmas and took it all in to Thelma's and we had our dinner and celebrated Christmas.
Well ever since Thelma has raved about my Lasagna!!!......
I don't think its anything special.......
But she sure does and it makes her happy so that makes me happy! ~~

Well Wednesday night I got a phone call from Grandma Thelma and I was delighted to hear her voice she told me how wonderful my Lasagna was and she thanked me for doing that. She then told me that she was thinking I needed to make that a weekly event and make Lasagna for them!
She also told me that it was the best Lasagna ever and she wanted me to not ever forget how to make it!
I just smiled and told her that I would make some more Lasagna for her!!

So on this Thankful Thursday I guess what I am really trying to say is we all probably have a special someone in our life that maybe we don't realize just how special they are.. Stop and take a look and maybe...just maybe you will find someone that you are really thankful you met!



Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Tasty Tuesday!


All right so here it is... I know you have all been waiting and waiting to see what my second Tasty Tuesday would bring and let me have a drum roll please..................................Crock Pot Lasagna and it is starting to smell very yummy! I threw it all together while I was home at lunch and can't wait to taste it!!

Crock Pot Lasagna

1 diced onion
 garlic, oregano, basil, salt and pepper seasoning

2 large cans crushed tomatoes

1 lb of ground something


3-4 cups shredded mozzarella


2 15 oz cottage cheese


1 box of lasagna noodles

Brown 1 lb of something with onions, garlic, oregano, basil and throw in some salt and pepper of course Toss in the crushed tomatoes. You layer everything in the crock pot: broken up dry noodles, meat mixture, cottage cheese, mozzarella. I do about three layers, so just divide up everything you have by three and layer it all us!  5 hours on low or 3 hours on high

Friday, May 21, 2010

Five Question Friday




1. Do you have an iPhone and, if so, how do you get apps and what are your favorites?

Nope  I don't have an iPhone,,,, Just a BlackBerry and I love it.... I kind of wanted an iPhone but AT&T has really bad service where I live so that's not an option for me!!
 2. What is your fondest memory of K-3rd grade?
fondest memory from K-3rd grade.....hmmmm I really loved my 1st grade teacher Mrs. LeBeau she was the best and my son Kaden also got to have Mrs. LeBeau I was so happy about that! Another fond memory about that time of my life would have to be that we could all just be kids play have fun and for the most part get along... didn't have to worry about money or deadlines or any of that crazy stuff!

One other fond memory would be a birthday party that I had I think when I was in second grade.... I had about 8 girls over for a sleepover and we were all downstairs in our sleeping bags trying to go to sleep... When one of my friends ....Grrr I am drawing a blank on her name right now...grrrr really karena this can't be happening.. All right All right I guess I will have to ask my mom tomorrow.... Well anyway one of my friends says to all of us girls that they heard there was a mass murder loose in town and then next house he was going to hit was the Holders!! SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM!!! We all took off running up stairs with our sleeping bags and woke my mom up!! She let us all sleep on the floor upstairs in fear that the mass murderer was coming to get us!



3. What makes you cringe at the thought of touching?


Vomit and POOOOOOOOP yep that's right I hate both of them I can do a pretty good job with the POOOOOP of my children when they were little but for the most part they both make me gag and want to throw up! I think the smell is really what gets me and I get all psyched out!



4. If you could have any celebrity show up on your doorstep who would it be and why?
I would love love love for Kenny Chesney to show up at my doorstep and we could just sit and talk for a while about this that and everything.... I know I probably wouldn't do much talking because I wold be drooling over him because he is unbelievably HOT!! and to quote my husband "yeah and he is like 40"

I would also love for Ty Pennington to show up at my door because this would mean he is tearing down my house and building me a new fabulous one!! Ha I can only wish!!



5. What would you say is your best physical feature?
My husband would probably say the girls!!  but I am writing this not him and I would say my eyes I really do like my eyes they tend to change colors with what I wear and I think that is really cool! I also on most days like my hair!!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Thankful Thursdays



Don't have a lot of time today for this post so I am just going to say one of the first things I thought of this morning when I got up and took my shower.... Wow its Thursday! Thankful Thursday I am very thankful that the sun is shinning this morning! After the gloomy week the sun was something to be very thankful for! So that's it today I am thankful for the beautiful sun our lord had provided for us!

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tasty Tuesday!

So this is something I thought might be neat to start and that is a new slow cooker recipe every Tuesday! I know we are super busy in our lives and slow cooker recipes can be a life saver!! So today is my first Tasty Tuesday and we have Taco Soup in the slow cooker smelling oh so yummy making this momma oh so happy that dinner will be done when we walk in the door!! So feel free to try the recipe or send me some of your favorite slow cooker recipes!



Ingredients


2 lbs ground beef
1 cup chopped red onion
1 package of taco seasoning
1 envelope of Ranch-style dressing mix
2 cans of whole kernal corn, undrained
1 can of pinto beans, undrained
1 can of black beans, undrained
2 cans of diced tomatoes
2-3 cups of water

toppings: cheese, sour cream, chips, cilantro
makes 16 cups

1. Cook meat and onion in large skillet over med high heat – I threw some garlic, salt & pepper

2. Combine meat mixture and all other ingredients (except toppings) in a 5.2 quart slow cooker.

3. Cover and cook on LOW for 5 to 6 hours. Serve with toppings.







Kaden's Art Contest

So every once and a while my children will surprise the heck out of me with something they have done. Kaden did this tonight! I know we are raising him right when he began telling us about his art contest that he had with some students at school!

You see last night Kaden told us that he needed two twix candy bars to take to school..... hmmm I wondered why would he need to take two candy bars to school so I ask him.... He told me it was for the art contest that he had and they were for the winners.............. I was like what wait a minute you had an art contest and now you are providing candy bars for the winners??...hmmm

Well he kind of got a little upset with me because i did not follow what he was telling me and I had to ask several times for him to explain this art contest to me!!

It seems that Kaden had a piece of paper for kids to sign up on and they were to enter there drawing in the contest. They were to put there name on the back so it was fair and when he was judging he wouldn't know whose drawing was whose! (pretty good idea if I do say so myself) It seems that 13 kids signed up but then only 6 kids actually entered there drawing in the contest. Kaden judged the drawings and there was a first, second and third place winner. Each winner gets a candy bar.. Well the first place winner wanted starburst... I thought it was kind of odd that Kaden bought a starburst this weekend with his own money but oh well I just thought he wanted some startburst.. The other two kids want twix so now we need to get there candy bars for them!

When I ask kaden why he did this he said just for fun! I thought to myself wow just for fun... He got no personal gain from this he actually ended up buying 3 candy bars for the 3 winners! I guess we are teaching Kaden right from wrong and that it is better to give to others! All our hard work is paying off our children are watching us and paying attention to everything we do! One of my favorite things is helping others and giving back! I am a happy momma thinking of how kaden did this simple little contest and "gave back".. 

Now I am not so sure the school would approve of him holding a contest like this at school but then again it was just for fun and no one got hurt right! 

Friday, May 14, 2010

Five Question Friday

So I am really starting to like doing these 5QF I really look forward to it and it is my time!! yeah yeah I know its just 5 little questions but it allows me to escape for a few minutes!




1. Take your pick...date night, girls night out, or night out alone?





Take your pick huh..... hmmmm well I would not pick night out alone I am not a huge fan of that unless I am really having a bad day or stressing out! I am thinking right now date night and girls night out would probably be a tie! yes I know I can hear my husband now saying hey hey what about me!!




2. Can you touch your nose with your tongue?


I Can Not touch my nose with my tongue! I have never been able to do this.... Oh believe me I have tried and tried and tried.... I even tried again when I read this question... lol... the answer was still NO

3. What is your favorite flower and why?


Oh this is kind of a hard one.... I am a big fan of Orchid's simply because I think they are beautiful the meaning of an orchid is Rare beauty, love, and refinement. I am also a big fan of Lilys.... these beautiful flowers mean wealth, pride and  innocence.

Oh and I also would like to add that Carnations are Awful and my husband knows that he not dare bring me one home!! I would probably throw it in his face! They remind me of Dandelions or something of that nature! Yucky blucky yucky!!  ............... Ok glad I was able to get that out!!




4. If you could go back in time, what advice would you give yourself?
I would probably tell myself to live a little more and maybe to have waited just a few years on having my kids! Don't get me wrong they mean the world to me but I would have definitely lived a little more! I would have also kicked my butt for dropping out of college!!

5. If you won the lottery, what is the very first thing you would do?
I would pay off all of my debt, my parents debt, my grandparents debt and my mother in laws debt! Yeah I'm nice like that!! I would make sure we were all debt free and then we would have some fun with the rest of the money!

Allright well I guess my Me Time is over and I now should get back to work!! Its Been Fun!! See you all the same place next Friday!!



Thankful Thursdays

I love love love Thankful Thursdays! They have become very special to me and give me a little bit of time to reflect on the things in my life that I am thankful for!


Thankful for all 3 of these wonderful women! My Mammaw, Momma and Sister!

Tonight I am thankful for my momma... I love her so much she is wonderful! She has taught me over the years how to grow into the woman that I am today and how to be a loving and caring mom! My mom means the world to me and I don't know where I'd be with out her!

I am also thankful for my beautiful flowers! Last year we planted some new flowers in the front of the house and they looked good but oh boy this year they are thriving! It brings a smile to my face everytime I walk by them! They are wonderful!

As I sit here and write this it is starting to rain... We have our windows open at home and that sweet smell of rain.... Oh I am so thankful for that I love that smell in the Spring time it is just wonderful!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

To Be in 3rd Grade again!!

So today I helped in my son's 3rd grade class for teacher appreciation week. Today the teachers all got to go out to eat at Bell's Pizza Plus and we had volunteers come in and stay with there class. Well I got to go to Kaden's room and me and another mom watched.... no supervised all of the 3rd grade students.....Now I would say there is about 55 kids and for the most part they were pretty good. We really had it pretty easy they watched a movie and then we took them to lunch and then recess and then movie again until the teachers got back!

Well you see I forgot how being a 3rd grader felt like until being at the school today and seeing them interact with each other and the things they did... so funny... If only as an adult we could have the problems a 3rd grader has.....

There was a little girl who was very upset at Recess because her friends did not sit by her at lunch and she has only sat by this friend 2 times the WHOLE year!! She was crying and so so upset! Another little girl came over to me and the other mom and told us all about how her friend was so upset and she just didn't know what to do she really needed help! At first I thought maybe the little girl that was crying was hurt well not the case just hurt feelings! It was so cute how they cared for each other! I just told the little girl that I am sure her friend would be fine and I think her feelings were just hurt!! Well then a few minutes later another little girl comes and tells us all about it! Once again we told her that the little girl would be fine and her feelings were just hurt.....Then as I looked up here comes this little girl with hurt feelings and another friend rubbing her back telling her its allright..... oh so cute! I looked at her and ask Maddie are you ok.. she looked at me and said yeah i will be fine... She then got in line and we walked back to her class... walking back to the classroom she then started to tell me all about it! I told her that she would be allright and I understand that here feelings were hurt and it would be ok!

All in All the day went rather well and I was only there for about 90 minutes!! It was nice to let the teachers go out for lunch and be able to supervise there class while they were gone!

Friday, May 7, 2010

Five Question Friday


1. What is your worst memory of your siblings?


Fighting... I would have to say looking back on it now I always fought with my sister over the stupidest things!! I wish instead of fighting we would have been doing something more productive! Oh well that fighting is probably what helped make us who we are today!



2. What was YOUR naughtiest childhood memory? (Must be something YOU did, no pawning it off on someone else!)

Well I am not real sure here when you think childhood I think of small child like 10 and under! I have plenty of bad things I did in middle/high school.... hmmm I remember this one time I was probably in 4th grade and we had a music contest and the winner got a gift certificate to the pizza kind for some garlic bread.... Well this other girl had told me the answer and I just so happened to have music before her and I used her answer!! Well I won the little contest and was so happy but then felt oh so bad......... So being the nice girl that I was I ask her to come and eat the garlic bread with me!!

Then when we were in middle school I would always get the Captain Morgan down and fill up a mountain dew bottle with it and take that to my friends house... Well the Captain Morgan was slowly disappearing and I needed a reason for why... So I told my parents that when I opened the cabinet the bottle fell out and busted.... A whole bottle just gone... So sad..... They believed me!! So as you might imagine this started something even more I now knew I could get away with it!!



3. Where do you like to go to relax?

I like to go to the beach!! Panama City Beach is my favorite spot! If I need to relax during the other 51 weeks in a year I would have to say on a walk is always nice or laying in my tanning bed for 20 minutes usually will do the trick and recently I have started going back to Barnes and Noble that always works for me get a few books and some wonderful coffee and sit down and read!



4. What was the last thing you won?

I won some tickets to Indiana Beach!! Woo Hoo I am sure we will use those this summer!!



5. If you could be on a game show, which would you choose?

Deal or No Deal! I love that show.... However when I was little I loved Family Feud and Supermarket Sweep!! LOL this would really probably be a hard one I would just be thrilled to be on any game show!!


Thursday, May 6, 2010

Thankful Thursdays

As I sit here and write my Thankful Thursday this week I am seeing things in a whole new light tonight and I know that I have one thing that I am very very very thankful for!

My Wonderful, Caring, Awesome, Loving Husband Zach!

You see tonight Zach was away at a class for work and he didn't get home till about 1am.. Well what is the problem with this or what was my light bulb moment in this! Well that was the whole night.. Usually we get the boys nightly things done together or Zach takes care of them while I am away doing one of my many things! I never realized how much work he does on his own while I am away working on stuff for PTO or working on things for Sorority or Leadership White County or the White County Youth Chamber... It just really made me sit back and think about all of that tonight and realize how lucky I am to have him and how Thankful I am to have him in my life!
I love you Zach with all my Heart!! I don't think you will ever know just how much I love you!!