100% pure fun

i love it when i am pleasantly busy. after my last blog post, kaylee + left for story time at barnes + noble. i guess they only read one story because we missed it even though we were only a few minutes late. we did get to do craft time and look around. i found a few books that i wouldn't mind taking with me when we leave for vacation for that just in case moment that i do get a chance to read. {have i ever mentioned how high maintenced kaylee is? if i haven't, she's really high maintenced!} afterwards, we ate at the starbucks located in the bookstore. kaylee got a big reese peanut butter cup cookie and i got a panini sandwich. we then headed over to kristi + megan's house for some playtime. found kristi and i have some more things in common besides speaking our minds. we both spell our names the same way, we both like grape kool-aid or pop, we both have the same necklace + we both have food allergies. and her daughter megan is a cutie girl. she's maybe 6 months younger than kaylee. later that night we get a pleasant surprise phone call from the riley's. we haven't seen them since mikes 30th birthday party, i think its been that long. they wanted to know if we wanted to go out with them friday night before cofey, yes that's his first name, has to start working for 32 days straight. i called my female parental since mike's mom works 2nd shift. she said yes, she would watch kaylee for us!! wow! what luck. so we made plans to drop her off and eat at stray dogs. i love that place. not that the food is spectacular or anything, i just like the vibe. kinda reminds me of california + eating near the docks at the marina's. love that feeling!! we stayed there for awhile. i drank 3 red bulls and vodkas. then we headed out for a local bar in laporte since we were on time table. had to pick up kaylee at 11 the latest and we have an hours drive to boot. i had 2 more red bulls + vodka and i was off the charts. mike's cousin jessica's husband was there too. it was much needed fun! we were an hour late in picking up kaylee. yikes! i sent in mike to go and get her since the parentals seem to like him for some reason, oh yeah, they said that he was good for me??? saturday planted some flowers in the pots, had the lawn mowed+ got the house cleaned up for the open house. then i headed over to another friends house for her house warming party. sunday, we left for the open house but drove by twice to see 2 different people going through it. got us all excited and giddy with some excitement- that our house is going to sell feeling. neighbors {the scheidts} said they counted 6-7 cars came for the open house and our realtor left us a note that everyone made comments about how nice the house looked and what a great job we did with it. makes me proud of the work we put into it. now were are just waiting for the call back. for someone to come back and look through the house one more time before putting in an offer. fingers crossed, prayers being said and kaylee yelling outside "come buy my house!" {she learned this from little bear and when he yells and it echos}

wonder women

its 9:35 am my time and this is what i have gotten done since waking up at 6:10am, kinda in order:

1. brush teeth
2. take out real butter from fridge so it will be soft enough to spread on ham's bagel
3. check emails
4. wake up ham
5. clean bathroom- sink + mirror+ toilet {outside}
6. wake up ham
7. clean off hallway mirror
8. wake up ham
9. put away kaylee's clothes
10. make her bed
11. wake up ham
12. check out few blogs
13. make ham bagels + chocolate milk {kaylee now woke up}
14. get her "cock cock" + outside edges of toaster strudel {she wont eat the middle part, my favorite part}
15. kaylee goes pee pee
16. take ham to school
17. breakfast dishes done+ kitchen clean
18. clean inside toilet
19. made ham's bed
20. clean my bedroom+make bed
21. start laundry
22. shower, make-up + dressed
23. swept floors- all of the downstairs. upstairs done yesterday
24. kaylee dressed + hair done
25. brushed teeth again {hate having stinky teeth feeling}
26. put in another load of laundry
27. blogging

this is the most i've done in one morning in a loooonnnnngggg time!!! i wish i could just get into this routine everyday so that my family can make fun of me and call me neurotic like we do my mother in law. hee hee.

i am now famous- autographs later

i was on the 6:oopm local news. some guy came to the front door as i was roasting marshmallows on the stove and asked if he could do a little interview about the crappy housing market in our county being that is has been the slowest in 17 years. {he didn't say crappy but i know that's what he meant.} i asked if i had too and he said yes. i asked if it will help sell my house and he said it might. so i said ok. got some make-up on but forgot to change my shirt. i was wearing my michigan football shirt. yeah, i know. classy! they asked me some questions and i gave them what i thought. they did get on there that our house is 4 bedroom + 2 full baths, that its a great house. that we can always lower the price if need too in order to sell + that i hope the house we want doesn't sell in the meantime. they totally made me look good. i smiled alot + laughed alot. like i tend to do when nervous. i called mike immediately and told him the news. he was pretty excited about it. {free advertisement!} i called our realtor and she didn't seem to be too thrilled on the idea but afterwards she called me and said that it was job well done. they showed the open house sign + her sign at the very end.

inspired

image by: irene nam

this image inspired me to write this:

i was born there but never been

taken away before i got a chance to really see

to remember

eyes misty. heart beats with a familiar ache

dirt paths, trees lining the way. colors of home?

my imagination- its all black and white

want to breathe in the image

maybe catch a little breeze

just to see if home comes back to me

funny office supplies

i need to order some of these file folders for mike to use the next time he's in a meeting with the head honcho's.

i know mike would put this to good use:


this and other funny stuff can be found at knock knock

twenty- sixteen

today is the day that i gracefully entered into this beautiful world twenty- sixteen years ago. i woke up to roses + a sweet card from the husband. {he can be semi- unannoying sometimes, just sometimes though} he also made an appointment for a pedicure and manicure but i told him to cancel it. we are not suppose to buy anything this year for each other besides dinner out. (we have enough money coming out of our butts this year) i chose houlihans for dinner. they have real yummy jambalaya + food and they give you free dessert if its your birthday, no candle though. before we left for dinner, my parentals called from their vacation with their 2 boys {+their family} to wish me a happy day. that was nice. came home and our good friends kim+ gary came over to give me a birthday present. a HUGE wine glass + a bottle of sweet red wine. its really good + really cheap. you can usually find it on sale
for like 6 bucks most of the time at your local supermarket. sweet kaylee with her much loved hello kitty umbrella from the easter bunny. we "heart" the easter bunny!

and this is booah drinking water from the facuet. i swear he thinks he's a dog sometimes.


and that wraps up a day in the life of this twenty- sixteen year old. it was a good day. a really good day.

spring break

this is nicky our neighbors dog. she's a big teddy bear!! and she stays in her own yard. i took these yesterday and think they turned out pretty well. did just a little tweaking on them- pioneer women style of course.


even though we are not doing anything special for spring break, i am loving it. the weather has been semi great. {no snow! + some sunshine} kaylee has been sleeping in till about 8:30-9:30 in the mornings. last night was the first time in a long time that she actually stayed in her own bed. usually i hear a little thump- thats her feet hitting the floor which is usually followed by her shutting her door, footsteps coming down the stairs + her making her way to our bed. now i dont mind this really but for as little as she is, she does take up a lot of room.

i ran/walked 3 miles last night. it wasn't as painful as i had anticipated. if the rain can stay away till later tonight, i plan on doing it again. need to get in shape. i'm down to my ideal weight but cant seem to get rid of the dunlop tire thats stuck around my middle. i also want to do a race this year. the mayfest in shipshe and thats less than a month away. its a 4 mile run through the country + a little off pathing too. mike says not alot of people run that so i'm in. i get a little competitive and know that if theres a lot of people, i would go all out + then get discouraged as people pass me etc... i need to learn how to run my own race.

ok, i am off to do some laundry + pick up a little around the house. been keeping it clean for that "just in case someone wants to come over and look at the house" since it is on the market thing.