leaving the big kid behind and a vivid dreams

not much longer and this will be me again! (hawaii 2011)

1.  for the last 2 years, the kids have been on the same spring break. this year, ham is a week later so that means he will not be going with us!  it makes me sad.

2. he asked his professors if he could take exams early but they said they can't do that unless its for a death or something really big like that. a+m gets a finger salut on that one- hahaha!

3. so we told him we would take him somewhere over the summer since this is the second family vacation he's had to miss.  we're going to wing it and wait for cheap flights to someplace and go there.

4. i had the most amazing dream last night, in color even!  i magically appeared to a place called langford market (its a name of clothing store here) and it was cape cod type houses all along the water.  the houses were beautiful colors of yellow, reds, blues.

5. there were clean streets and gigantic pools with people swimming. i was eating outside of course and said to the guy sitting in front of me: "you have a lot of food there." because he did have a lot of food.

6. the girl sitting close to him said, his wife is around here.  which was weird because i was just making a statement, starting a conversation not hitting on the guy. (i find this happens in real life too)

7. so another house that was a contender sold. as of right now, there are 2 left that we're interested in. one of them isn't in an ideal neighborhood- being its not as fancy as the others but its on the right side of town. (the school district we want and on the right side of the railroad tracks and its a brand new house.)

8. also told mike that while our budget is x amount, i really want to go about 50 grand under that. (some of the new houses we liked were 50 grand under)

9. my motto: i want to own our house, not our house own us.  

10. plus, i'm keeping mike to his word that if we move back to indiana, we will be able to do more and travel more.  AND, i'm leaving a kid back in texas who needs a visit from his mom every once in awhile- hee hee!  

back to normal

a birthday present (fathead.com)

1. this guy finally went back to college. he had a whole stink'n month off!

2.  forgot to mention we celebrated this guy turning 22 in my last post.  TWENTY- TWO! how is that even possible since i'm only 29? ha!

3. so today we are back to normal. kaylee went to school. mike went to work and i went to target. (to pick up toiletries for mike to take off shore)

4. the house is a mess and i have a sink full of dishes that needs to be done. 

5. so to keep up with the normal i went shopping. 

6. after target, went to surlatable but didn't find anything. then went to francesca's and found a cute skirt in a size SMALL.  haven't seen that size in a few years. yeah for plexus and bootcamp!

7. speaking of bootcamp. we did a different baseline yesterday and i was the fastest! (they changed the 400M run to a 500M row and 10 pull-ups/rings instead of burpees)

8. looking for some cute stuff to decorate the new house with even though not having a new house makes it kinda difficult.

9. but i've been stalking following my new girl crush (@browneyedfox) on instagram and want to decorate my house like hers. LOVE her style.

10. in the meantime, i've been decluttering and got the pantry all cleaned out.  nothing goes back in that won't get eaten or used quickly.  also been fluttering around each room and getting rid of stuff i don't want to move. (my neighbor said thats what her husband says she does-nothing but flutters around the house)

what we did the last 2 weeks

1. lots of baking: gingerbread cookies, 4 mini bundt 7-up pound cakes, peanut butter blossoms and ooey, gooey pumpkin bars for friends/neighbors.

2. lots of shuffle board tournaments. ham won till mike took over his title a few days later

3. lots of cooking: made thai beef curry with garlic noodles for christmas eve. think i made that last year.  deviled eggs, applewood ham, ribs, roasted potatoes with peppers and roasted garlic broccoli for christmas dinner,

4. lots of gifts from out of town family. (uncle dan + aunt terri, nanny and poop poop)

5. probably the second time in both of my kids life that they were up by 8AM.  ham was by default. kaylee went and woke him up.

6. lots of smiling faces as everyone opened their gifts. (mike got me an anthropologie gift card besides my ixchel triangle purse a few months before)

7. lots of wearing comfy clothes including sweatpants on christmas day. so awesome!

8. my parents came to visit with their dog, mandy.

9. the boys went to the rockets game while us girls hung out or went shopping. not a good shopping trip this year, didn't find anything. did get to eat lots of good food though!

10. lots of board games: pictionary, trivia pursuit, aggieopoly, just dance 2015 on the wii.  * played over and over

11. lots of movies: the maze runner, divergent (numerous times), big daddy...*can't think of any more

12.  lots of sleeping in, chill'n and relax'n.