disgusting big toe

since i made hamilton pancakes+bacon for breakfast and me a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch yesterday i thought my cooking needs were maximized for the day so i decided we would go eat dinner for free at my parents restaurant. {why is it that the day i decide to stay "comfy", as in sweat pants + t-shirt, we have someone knock on the door?} after changing my clothes but still feeling like frump girl, i pick up these shoes and give one a light toss- onto my big toe! which looks like this.this was done almost a month ago. i dropped kaylee's little miami dolphins recliner on it. you betcha million dollars baby that i had tears streaming down. that word that rhymes with sucker hurt and having that wood clog hit it again, well let me just tell you it still throbs as i type this.
disgusting huh? and yes i know i need a pedicure.

onto some pretty things. i love these swim "soup" tops as kaylee would call them. they are from modbe.

i love the designs on them and the fact that they actually come down far enough to cover up my trouble area that's right above the bikini line. still have that "muffin top". it hasn't gone away and we have like 17 days before our vacation. mike doesn't like them. i don't like my muffin top so i think i'm going to order one and see how it looks. just don't tell mike yet. wait till i get them and try them on first. hee hee.

today is the day i need to "open house" clean the upstairs again. i don't want too. i want a nap. i want to hire a cleaning lady. one who will do windows too. the upstairs consist of ham's + kaylee's room and the bathroom and a hallway. i do love my dyson sweeper. i use it as a dusting tool too. too bad it cant scrub the tub for me too. then tomorrow its on like donkey kong downstairs and then saturday its clean out the windows and touch up paint them. i know, i still lead that exciting life.

fantastic {scents}

i picked up one of these last thursday when i went to that home/garden+ fashion show in middlebury. its called sweet leafbaby and its by thymes. a little sweet yet a hint of baby powder. kaylee's room smells fantastic. its a little on the pricey side {even with a 20% off coupon} and i hate to admit it but i actually bought it because i like the bottle. i love the shape of it and on the bottom are little pictures of snails, birds, butterflies and such. maybe, just maybe, i will get off my lazy butt and take a photo of it. maybe. i picked up this perfume last summer and loved it. its light and a little sweet. its from the same company and its called kimono rose. it too is fantastic. {fantastic is my new vocab. word for the day}

and while i'm still on the topic of things that smells fantastic, let me continue on and share this. this is called scentsy. its an electric warmer that melts those wax bars. one of the girls at the jewerly party is a consultant and she has some free bars she gave away when the party was over. i picked up the perfectly pomegranate and it makes my house smell like sweet berries. how fantastic is that? i would love to host a party but we leave for hawaii soon and would hate for everyone to wait for their products. plus i really want to wait and host one at the new house. new house? what new house? oh yeah, the one we are waiting to move into but cant because our house isn't selling new house. i vaguely remember what it looks like inside its been so long....just kidding.

i'm feeling crafty

i got these in the mail yesterday. i ordered them from here. i first saw these on tara whitney's blog and thought they were super cute. kinda nervous about painting my family but kinda excited too. ham should be the easiest- black t-shirt, jeans + hair covering most of his face. he would find that be really funny. not.

i hope they turn out as cute as these:

this picture was taken with permission of course from the thompson family blog. she has a side thingy that you can click on and has a few more pictures of them. really cute. of course this could be another one of those projects that just doesn't get done.

i found a few more swaps to participate in from swap-dex. you can look that up, i'm too lazy to get the link for it. the latest one was a sticker swap. something easy + not expensive. been debating on joining one that makes aprons. i love this apron from grand revival. nice and girly. only problem, never made an apron before. i've made curtains, pillow cases and when ham was little, a few outfits. guess the way to do it would be to go and buy a pattern. ah- patterns are overrated!

i 'm going to go and find a statue of st. joseph. not that i'm catholic but the rumor is that he will sell your house. and i whole heartily believe in this rumor. and if someone told me shaving someone's hair off would do the trick i would so volunteer mike and shave his head for him. yep, i'm generous like that.

happy mothers day

i hope all you mothers had a great mothers day. i had a good one. we ended up spending the day recouping from the night before over at mike's parents house. on the car ride home, kaylee wished me a happy mothers day. it was really sweet even if she did hear it first from a commercial. rest of the evening she kept wishing me a happy mothers day and gave me 2 of her stuffed animals for presents. really sweet. once ham got home he also wished me a " happy mothers day gimp". such a sweet boy.

thursday evening was spent going out with my female parental, sister and two sister in laws to a home+ garden, fashion show in middlebury. {amish country} it was a really fun time. we got to eat and win door prizes and got some home decorating + fashion tips. afterwards, went and did a little bit of shopping. i ended up buying a tank top that was featured on their runway. the other items i liked were way too pricey for me.

friday, i went to the jewelry party. had a good time. its nice being able to go and socialize and not be "mommy" for a few hours. got to see melissa and her two adorable kids. bought a way overpriced necklace.

saturday mike ran a 5k. got his personal best time of 19 mins and 52 secs. he came in 3rd place in his age group and 13th over all. i think there were 600+ runners. after that we headed home to get ready to go to mike's parents house. later we ended up meeting erron + shantell and uncle eddie + dawn for appetizers and drinks at hacienda, went to the comedy show-funny funny guy and then went to linebackers. a small local bar in the area. we had a great time being able to request pretty much any music we wanted to hear since it was still early. once the place got crowded with all the young'ns we were ready to head out. mike ended up puking on the way home. he did end up drinking 6 beers at the comedy club. i wasn't in the mood to drink yet and they have a minimum of 2 drinks per person. we got a bucket of beer to cover that. he also had 2 shots of royal butt and 2 jager bombs besides the beer at his parents house + hacienda. yeah, he was pretty toasted by the time we left the bar.

its a fine monday morning and i'm already feeling the stress of what all needs to be done this week. we have yet another open house planned for sunday. groceries need to be bought, laundry needs to be done, things falling apart in the house needs to be repaired. all the windows need to be bleached and repainted. saturday my day is shot. going back up to laporte for mike's cousins baby shower. laportes about an hour away from us and it doesn't help that they are an hour behind us too. do plan on hitting the outlets after the baby shower. got to make use of the drive up there. sunday morning mike's running another 5k before the open house. i guess i still have time, just doesn't feel like it in my mind.

randomness thursday

i know that i complain a lot about everything and anything on this blog and that's what its for. for fun + to clear my mind. i realize my little complaints are nothing compared to others. i am blessed. now this is not a "feel sorry for me" blog so go and visit fatcyclist. i love his writing style and he's funny too. love wicked sense of humor + sarcasm in people. he tends to blog about his mountain biking expeditions but currently he's been posting about his wife's battle with cancer. its sweet+ sad. sad that its happening to good people. oh, he posted a recipe on there for "the worlds best cake ever" {oatmeal chocolate chip cake} and i made it last night. its pretty darn good. because it's pretty darn good + i'm that lazy, kaylee + i are eating it right now for breakfast. hey, its got oatmeal in it so its healthy, right??

some other news: i'm glad to report that we might have kicked one of our "battles" in the ass! mike came home yesterday and started working on the "frame" to block in the space in between our house + chimney. while watching "in the land of women" last night, i didn't hear any funny bizness going on our rooftop or ceiling. meaning, the pesky little critter needs to find somewhere else to live. hahahaha {evil laugh}



i've decided that i'm going to start using the laptop and need to move all my pictures, photoshop elements and download pcs 3 onto it. i want to "embellish" some pictures that i have and i would also love to learn how to do some graphics with it. hopefully in the near future i will have note cards, stationary, posters etc.... all handmade by me. so the next few days i might not be getting anything done around the house, not that it matters since NO ONE IS COMING OVER TO SEE IT!!

here are a few pics i had some fun with. love the out come of all 3. the first one is straight out of camera shot or sooc, as they say in the professional world. love how soft it is. the second one is hard light at around 50% it gave it a little boost of color and definition and the last one is hard light at 100% which gave it a an overload of

of color +definition.

would love to go to this tomorrow night instead i have a jewelry party to attend too and it is a little far.

ok going to go and clean up the house a little then hopefully finish up my project that i started a few weeks ago. would like to get them done for mother's day.

weekend recap

i ran my first official race on saturday. the mayfest in shipshewana. i definitely started out too fast and had to slow down after the first 1/2 block and numerous of times i had to ask myself why was i doing this to myself. i found it to be harder to run on the grassy trails and got passed by a few runners. i'm happy to report that i did end up passing a few of those few runners once we went back to the concrete road. i did not stop or walk at all though there were times when i wished to be ran over by a horse + buggy but i'm glad that didn't happen and that i did finish the race. i just found out that my time was 36.11. that's 9 minute miles. i also came in 6th place in my age group out of 17 and i also came in 67th place over all. there were 107 runners this year. last year, if i would of ran it and gotten the same time, i would of placed 2nd in my age group!! it was sort of fun and very painful and i plan on doing it again next year. keep on runnin'

saturday evening we got mikes folks to take us out to dinner. went to hacienda and had a good time. of course they came to see their grand daughter but the grand daughter decided to sleep the whole time till we got into the car to go home. figures. and yes, she is that way.

sunday i went to donda's baby shower. she is married to my cousin jim on my female parental side. they have a beautiful house, one i wouldn't mind moving into but its in the wrong school district. their baby girl will be one well dressed baby + she will not have to wear the same thing twice even if she spits up!! i'm very happy for my cousin jim. {he picked out her name: allison kathryn ralston} beign at the baby shower kinda made me want to throw a party. love entertaining and coming up with all the little stuff but don't know what kind of party to throw. guess i'm waiting to move into the new house so we can throw a pool/housewarming party....*sigh* hopefully soon!

after coming home from the baby shower i guess mike didn't want to do anything more around the house. kaylee helped him edge, sweep + do some other stuff around the house. we headed down to syracuse even with the gas prices the way they are today, ($3.72 a gallon) to eat at the frog. i've never been there but mike has for lunch. it was a cute little place along the channel of lake wawasee. after dinner, we headed to the "public" beach access + park. kaylee had a great time going playing on the playground.
she was afraid to go down this "big+ dark" slide so she spread her legs open to help her go down slowly. it was a pretty funny sight to see.

the 3 of us cheesing the camera. yes i am that short {5'2"} kaylee cried as we headed home around 8ish. she didn't want to leave. i love being around the water and didn't blame her. the cost of houses to live on the water is outrageous- who would of ever known that you must have at least a million dollars!

love these two!

hate to admit it but this is the last photo of ham i've taken and this was back in march for easter. its all blurry because i had to sneak up on him. he usually gives me head full of hair shots so i'm going to be happy with this very blurry photo.

hamism:

gimp- very uncool person {said mostly to mike}
my interpretation i.e: "mom, your a gimp." actually means "mom, i love you."
isn't he a handsome kid? i love him.

and kaylee, well this is her signature mark- sticking out her tongue! i cut her hair last weekend and think it turned out pretty awesome. when freshly bathed her hair curls more. i'm lucky that she's got some curls because we all know i can not cut straight. i love that it looks like a 20's flapper do- my favorite time in history.

kayleeisms:

balentines- valentines
stomach cake- stomach ache
crosting- frosting
crisbee- frisbee

isn't she the cutest thing? i love her.

i love how much they look alike yet their personalities are completely different. ham's laid back + doesn't need a lot or talk a lot. he was this way when he was kaylee's age too. he's pretty funny + sarcastic+ smart. he's got a thing for farting on or around us.

kaylee's talkative+very needy+ smart. she's got a great imagination + is very funny too. she has a fascination with saying boogers. and for some reason a thing for farting on or around us. hmmmm...love these two!!