i'm back but just being lazy

after doing this for 11 days for at least 10 hours a day, its hard getting back to "normal" life. i want to sleep when i should be awake. i'm awake when i should be sleeping. i want to get on my swim suit, people watch and drink mai tai's rather than laundry, cleaning, cooking or blogging. with this view, can you blame me?

ham's open house

1. this photo cracks me up. that's ham + his uncle burk from his dad side. i told them they eat/chew alike. it must be a family trait.

2. open house was AWESOME! even though i didn't get to talk to my nerd herds as much as i would of liked.

3. that's always the down side to having large parties- always moving.

4. we got a bounce house and a chocolate fountain. both were big hits.

5. we also got 2- 96 piece fried chicken, 2- large veggie trays, 10 dozen dinner rolls, 2-6 ft. sub sandwiches, 20 lbs of cole slaw, 20 lbs of potato salad and 2 full size sheet cakes.

6. plus 300 wings from buffalo wild wings since ham told us that's the only reason his friends were coming over. [plus food for the chocolate fountain]

7. we gave a lot of food away since we wont be home to eat it. i did freeze lots of chicken and dinner rolls.

8. i gave whatever cole slaw, potato salad, bdub wings and some cake to our neighbors behind us since they take in foster kids. they said between all of them, what would last us a whole week would last them 2 days.

9. did i tell you i have some awesome friends?

10. even though i hope to make new ones, i will still miss my nerd herds.

kaylee graduated too!

1. kaylee had her "graduation/awards" ceremony tuesday afternoon.

2. she ended up with the highest award possible for an elementary student. i think its called the citizenship award.[mike took it to work before i got a chance to read it]

3. she also got very high marks on her report card. she even completed first grade reading level.

4. she still needs to work on her social skills and self-confidence but that will come with time. [heaven help us- look who her dad is!]

5. i spent the day running around again getting last minute prep stuff and a swim soup.

6. tomorrow will be the last of the errands, then party prep time.

7. but i think i have everything ready to go. as soon as the last wave of people show up, its comfy clothes time for cleaning and packing.

8. not sure what time we will leave for chicago on sunday.

9. i went and saw one of nerd herds the other day. she gifted me with our pass back and forth can of spotted dick and a new york coffee mug which i love! [she's from jersey]

10. i hate to say it but mike came up with a creative way for me to display ham's photo's. i will take pics after i set everything up. fingers crossed it doesn't rain tomorrow.

ham graduates!

1. see that "hi mom" on the hat? that is NOT ham.

2. ham is officially graduated. *phew* now to get him to graduate from college.

3. today i got to relax a bit but still went open house shopping. who knew that plates, napkins, table cloths and a few graduation decor could cost over $100?

4. and i really hate graduation decorations! so ugly!

5. of course i ran out of time, has nothing to do with me procrastinating, did not make any cool decorations.

6. though i did go through all my photos and will be making a photo wall of ham with friends and family.

7. ham is 18. is that old enough for me to stop waiting up for him? [i have 2 hours + some odd minutes left]

8. he hasn't been staying out very late lately, much to my relief.

9. he did try to say that he's 18 and old enough to come home whenever. i told him he's old enough to go to work too. he said 3AM will be late enough

10. i'm very proud of him! and of myself. i did not cry like a baby during his ceremony. i did get misty eyed.

whitey needs a tan

riding his grandma's bike

1. today i got to wait around for 4 people to show up and look over the house. [termite, appraiser, realtor + a full house inspection]

2. tonight i got to run around like a crazy women thinking and buying gifts for teachers and bus driver.

3. 1 day till ham's graduation ceremony.

4. 1 day till i get the rest of my bedroom furniture too.

5. 3 days till ham's open house party.

6. 4 days till we leave for chicago.

7. 5 days till we leave for hawaii.

8. 11 glorious days of doing absolutely nothing but drink lava flow's and eat hula pies.

9. 2 days ago cleaned out my closet to de-clutter and found a dress to wear for ham's commencement.

10. 3 days ago got to hang out with my in-laws in their basement for 30 minutes because of tornado warnings. good thing i like my in-laws.

brain dumping thursday

flowers for kaylee after her dance recital

1. we're starting to get lots of emails. about moving. lots of stuff to read. i think i'm nervous going through this process than moving everything ourselves. i think its a schedule thing. i'm usually on my own schedule.

2. long story, kinda short. went tanning last week. i asked for 8 minutes, shut it off at 10:20 and got billed for 15 minutes.

3. the girl i talked to about it today looked like she couldn't give a shit so i asked her " you really don't care do you?" she said "there isn't anything i can do about it".

4. so i told her to call the girl i know that runs the place. she gave me my time for free today which was not my point but she apologized and said she would look into it.

5. my concern was getting burned. if i hadn't had checked the time who knows what could of happened to my skin!

6. today was my last day helping kaylee's class. i might try and eat lunch with her next week so we can eat lunch with some of the kids who didn't get a chance too.

7. and i'm not geeking out yet with all that i have to do around here- open house, hawaii and the house hunting/moving stuff.

8. i like to procrastinate so i can yell at my husband.

9. only 4 more days of school.

10. even though i haven't lost any weight, i'm starting to feel better. a little taller even.

too upscale for us

1. saturday we stayed home and cleaned the house up a bit. then mike's buddy and daughter came over for a bonfire and pudgie pies.

2. yup. we love pudgie pies and s'mores. we love them so much we even stayed while it was raining. we're hardcore like that.

3. lucky for us, the trees umbrelled us so we didn't get soaked.

4. then mike and brent went out and came home really really loudly.

5. our "upscale" neighbors were watching from their balcony. [brent was laying in the middle of the road cursing] see what i have to put up with??

6. i call them upscale because i heard at our hoa meeting that they want people to bring up their trash cans as soon as its dumped and that grass clippings shouldn't be left anywhere in the yard because we live in an upscale neighborhood and they want everyone to chip in $800 up front for something or another for the neighborhood.

7. um hello?! not all of us bought our house at a reduced price. $800 smackers pays for ham's graduation food or something for our hawaii trip or something for us to do to the house or car repairs.

8. sunday we headed up to new buffalo to eat lunch, walk along the beach and ice cream.

9. my allergies are super bad. so bad that i got my hair done at an aveda salon and i couldn't even smell it. and if you ever smelled aveda, its some strong stuff. [though the fumes did make me light headed]

10. ever since i was pregnant with kaylee i have really sweaty armpits. like soak through a shirt like a man sweat. [ok, maybe not that bad but it does bother me!] so today i went and got certain dri. i will report back if it works or not.