easter 2011

it has been a fabulous day! so grateful to worship a God that died for me. i had an amazing time praising him at church today. and my girls looked so stinkin cute!

too bad we couldn't get a family pic. you didn't miss much anyway.....kobby and i work in fin's class first hour so we usually dress down on sunday mornings. even easter! thank you Lord for rising on that 3rd day. happy easter peeps!

wee bit wednesday

{one} how often do you do laundry?
once a week, but should maybe to it more often

{two} what is your favorite type of cookie?
i'm not really a cookie kind of girl. i'm really not a dessert kind of girl. i know....it's weird. but if i had to choose i'd say snickerdoodle

{three} what would you do with an extra $2000 per month?
hmm....this is a hard one. the practical answer is work toward paying off some bills, but i'd really just like to shop more. specifically buy more bags. i have a slight obsession.

{four} what was your favorite subject in school?
in college i really liked criminal justice

{five} have you ever ridden in a hot air balloon?

absolutely not!

{six} what was your high school mascot?
go vikes!

{seven} if you had the chance to go into space, would you?
no. i'm cool here on earth

{eight} how often do you go dancing?
nevah! i'm a terrible dancer

{nine} would you rather drive or fly?
drive, if its just a few hours. but i can only stand the car for so long, so flying if its any longer that that.

{ten} have you ever been caught re-gifting?
not that i'm aware of

so i got together with jillian this evening.......

this jillian

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and i thought we'd get along really well. me and level 1. cuz i've been working out regularly for a while now and level 1 was looking easy peasy. well, it wasn't so easy peasy and i now know i'm gonna be feeling it in the morning. thank you jillian. no pain, no gain right? we will meet again tomorrow! and soon i'll meet level 2. you just wait and see!

advice please. thanks.

there are some things i've been going over in my head lately and i just don't have the answers (not super serious stuff at all) so i thought i'd open it up to the blog world for a little bit of bloggy advice!

• i've been using proactive for a loooooong time now and i've really just grown tired of it. i had fabulous skin in my teens and early twenties, but then my skin decided to go all teenager on me. anyhoo, i need some help in the facial cleanser dept. i tend to have combination skin and i like to feel the little scrubber things on my skin so help me out peeps. what should i be using??




• my next 2 topics are about this little beauty here

this is my sweet and brilliant thinker of a 5 yr old finley grace. she thinks about every little thing and asks really good questions. let me preface this by saying that my parents are divorced and remarried to other people. my mom is granny, her husband is papa, my dad is poppy, and his wife is grandma pat. we recently went to visit my dad in california and as we all rode back from dinner together, finley asked me this question. "mom, do you marry one person when you're young and then when you get older you marry someone else like granny and poppy did?" my answer-"ummmm. let me think about that and talk to daddy and we'll get back to you". gotta love her. i'm stumped. we are stumped.

we are a christian family and believe one marriage FOREVER. now we know sometimes it aint all roses and it doesn't work out that way, but that is not what we are teaching our kids. am i making too big a deal out of this question? i just really feel like this question requires the "right" answer and i don't want to say the wrong thing and miss my chance to give her some good information.

let me give you some background for another question she recently asked. my older brother had a son when he was in college many years ago. that son is now 15. my brother got married last year. finley doesn't really spend that much time with my brother b/c we don't have the same mom and he doesn't live near me, so she really doesn't know much about his son either. so we were talking about my brother getting married and his new wife, etc. and very thoughtfully she says to me, "how can matthew have already had 15 birthdays if uncle mario just got married?" see, in her world people get married, then they have kids. she knows nothing different. not sure how to break it to her. HELP people!!!!!

i love that kid. she is so analytical and so stinkin smart and she really gives me a run for my money.

• ok, now keeping in mind this same kid (if you can't already tell, she is very high maintenance and takes up a lot of my thinking). she thrives off of positive reinforcement and requires a lot of it to be ok. she also loves to be helpful and independent. i've been racking my brain trying to think of a chore/reward/behavior system. i think i left out the part about how she is VERY spirited, a.k.a. dramatic, sensitive, needy,controlling, intense. she is all of these things x 10. a tad mentally exhausting. all of these things manifest themselves by her throwing major tantrums, crying/screaming in her room for 30-45 minutes, lots of door slamming, and foot stomping. i just feel like her behavior could be altered if she had something to work for. does that make sense? she gets stressed if things don't go her way. i mean, really stressed. i can see it all over her. way too stressed for a 5 yr old. we were on the verge of putting her in play therapy. i love this girl so much i can't stand it and i just want her to be happy. a happy 5 yr old kid. and she is a lot of the time, but if things don't go her way.....woohoo! anyway, i need advice on some sort of behavior/reward system thingy. BIG HELP!!




• ok, last thing. a father's day gift for the man that has everything. my husband. he shops way more than i do and takes up more of the closet. i know.....he's a different breed of man. he's special. love him to pieces. any advice???

BE NICE WITH THE ADVICE PLEASE :)

SUYL-What are you reading?

today i'm linking up with kelly at kelly's korner for Show Us Your Life-What is your reading list?

reading is a true joy of mine. i love it more than most things and i really don't know what i'd do without books. sometimes my friend nikki and i will go to dinner and have the rest of our "date" at barnes and noble just walking and talking about all of the books.

i love the smell of books. the feel of books. i love bookmarks. i really have no desire to get an e-reader because i just love books.

i'm like kelly in that i like just plain old fiction books. fiction books about relationships of all kinds. i don't like any of that vampire stuff either. no sci fi or period books either. present day stuff works just fine for me

i have a ton of books right now and i'm pretty sure i'd get in big trouble (w/ the husband) if i dare purchase any more right now. there are a few that are on my radar right now and i hope to have them all read by the end of the year.

i'm in a book club and we've already read a few good ones this year.

this was a good, fun read

we also read....

i really enjoyed this book and it didn't take me very long to read it because it kept me interested.

and this month we are reading...

its a little slow to start off, but i'm not giving up on it just yet.

i have big plans to read these:

i love most all things jodi picoult. i think she is an amazing writer and she's always surprising.

not so sure we are going to keep this one on our list becaue it isn't getting good reviews and i really put a lot of stock into others opinions of books. we'll see.

i love to see people excited and crunk about Christ! i try every day to be more obedient and follow God's Word and i so look forward to reading this book. oh, and i love the shirts they have too :)

i've just started reading stuff by this author and so far so good.

so that's what i'm reading. what's going on in your library?

the jiggle challenge

i've decided to link up with mrs. smith over at mr. and mrs. smith for the 6 wk weight loss challenge. yes, it is the 2nd week, but better late than never.

i'd love to lose a minimum of 15 lbs, but i'd be ecstatic with 20. the problem is my eating habits. and then there's the coke. i think i'm addicted. i'm talking about the cola, not the white powder.

so i love fast food, i'm a coke addict, and oh yeah....i hate working out. i hate working out, but i've resigned myself to doing it. i've really been trying and succeeding at doing a whole lot better with my workout routine and my husband has been really helpful with this. he has joined the gym with me and we take spin and boot camp class together.

you see, me and the gym don't get along so well. i've been on and off with it for about 5 yrs now. i'll get a membership, go for a while, then quit. i mean, get the cute workout clothes and everything. but this time? this time i've really stuck with it and i'm even looking for a 5k for the hubs and i to run together.

i don't usually weigh myself for obvious reasons so this will be a new thing for me. scary really. i didn't even look at the scale when i went to my weekly ob check ups.

my plan for losing the weight is portion control and working out since i don't want to give up the coke or fast food, if i'm being honest.

i'm really excited to be linked up and i can't wait to see everyone's progress!

wee bit wednesday

today i'm linking up with leigh ashley for wee bit wednesday. i think its pretty cool, so check her out.

{one} have you ever fainted? nope. never.

{two} what is your favorite casino game? the only one i know how to play-blackjack

{three} do you have a good sense of direction? I like to think so

{four} laptop or desktop? i am all over the laptop people

{five} what is your go-to hair style when having a bad hair day? ponytail. sometimes a hat with all my hair to the back, but that can get annoying b/c i HATE having my hair directly on my neck. and also the hat can give me a headache and make my forehead itch. i'm weired i know.

{six} do you read the newspaper on a daily basis? i really only "read" the sunday paper and that's just as i'm going through the ads. i get my news from everywhere other than the newspaper

{seven} do you have a favorite celebrity chef? umm, i guess maybe paula deen

{eight} what tv show would you like to make a guest appearance on? the office

{nine} do you have satellite radio in your car? yes. i don't know what i'd do without it. i loathe regular radio on most days and times.

{ten} what was the last movie that made you cry? probably the last movie i saw. i forgot what it was, but i cry on commercials and on any genre of movie. yes, i'm that girl and my husband is quite embarassed.

hope y'all have a had a wonderful wednesday!