Almost an uneventful weekend.

Micah went to change the faucet in the backyard yesterday. Well he was twisting it off, thinking that it just, well, twisted off.
Nope!
He twisted the WHOLE pipe off! When it was done he held his head close to the wall and he looked up at me and said "There is running water!" He put the pipe back in and tried to twist it back on and then listened again. "There is still running water!!!" So he takes off flying around the side of the house and I yell at Saige to come on and follow me. There is water dripping from the ceiling of the garage, water pouring down the back wall and a huge puddle on the floor. Saige thought it was GREAT! "It's raining in the garage Dad!" And she was running through the water.
"Electrical wires! There is electrical wires up there! Get Saige out! Where is the water shut off!!???"
At this point I'm kinda dumbfounded and I'm thinking "Water shut off??? Hell I have no clue!" Then it clicks in my head and I remember in Livi's room. So I tear off into the basement and run into her room with Micah hot on my heels. So he shuts the water off. We proceded to clean up the water and then start tearing into the ceiling. After that dang mess is done. We go back to the backyard and I am to stuff the pipe through the whole. Micah says "Man, I fucked up bad!"
Then we hear a little voice asking "Daddy fuck up?" *giggle* "Yeah Dad messed up. Don't use that word again"
So after a phone call to my FIL, Micah's cousin, who is a plumber is on his way up. $80 later(which if we had to call a plumber in on Sunday it would have been triple that!) The pipe was fixed, we had water and electricity again. Now we have to insulate the pipes back up, that was soaked, so they don't freeze this winter.

The joys of owning a house....

Sauce

Me and Saige got into it at McDonald's today.

We were sitting down to eat and she kept saying she wanted "saulce" . Well her sauce is ketchup for her nuggets. So I told her she had some right in front of her.
"Mom, I want saulce!"
"Saige, it is right there in the tub"
"*sigh* Mooooom I want SAULCE!!!"
"SAAAAAIIIIIGE it is RIGHT THERE!!!!!!"
" No MOM SAULCE!!! SAULCE SAULCE!!!!"
" What in the HELL are you talking about?"
Finally I figured out she wanted salt.

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We are going on our first family vacation. Before we just always went to the lake. April 9th we are going to Omaha! Friday we will be going to a museum Micah wants to go to and Saturday to the Zoo. Sunday we are heading home.

We are also getting gutters first thing Monday morning! No more water drippin on my head as I walk out the front door! (It doesn't take much to make me happy)

So far 2009....

Has been quite the sucky year. Found out some bad news, can't really say much on that. Not my place too. Things have broken, kids are being kids and getting in trouble. Can we just fast forward to summer, I'd be so much happier!

The dryer broke. Worked great one day, the next I went down there and nothing! So I went without one for a few days until my cousin's hubby could come look at it. In the mean time we tear the dang thing apart. Check all the wires, and everything looks fine. Plus I'm having to 1800's things and hang clothes up all over the house. It's looking like a department store in here. So Steve(cousin's hubby) finds that we blew a breaker. So I get a new one. He hooks it up and I start drying a load! YAY I can do laundry again! Well, an hour and a half later, the load is still not dry and it's not hot. The dang heating element went out too! So it was back to the 1800's til today. That's when the part will be in and I can have my dryer back. If something else goes wrong with it I'm going to Wonder Woman the damn thing out the door!

Then the vacuum had been acting up again. Last time it was the belt, easy fix. This time it was just spitting dirt back at me. After I got done vacuuming it felt like I had been going down a gravel road pulled behind a truck. So I stopped using it and started using the stick vac. BAWWAAWWWAAA That was fun! Not really. So last night Micah looks at it and the dang hose it clogged up. We spend about an hour getting the dang thing free of crap. So now it works fine and I can vacuum for real.

If one more thing stops working I am going to flip out!

Freakin out!

Some of my friends from the internet sent Christmas cards this year. Well, most of us have been doing it for 3 years now, since our 3 year olds were born. Well, Saige became attached to Gracie's family card. (Might be that Gracie sent her a Christmas present too.) So she asks to see the card almost daily. Yesterday she asked to see it and I got it down and she went to her room. No big deal. Well I'm on the computer and she comes to me and says, "Momma, I am freakin!" I giggled, cause that is like the first time I heard that come out of her mouth and said, "Why you freakin?" So she drags me to her room and points to the TV and says Grace is in there.

Ok that got me freakin. LOL So I ask her and eventually I understood that the picture was in there. Wheeww I really didn't want to be in Poltergist or anything. So then I get a flashlight and I'm looking and it's no where in there. It must have gotten shoved way in the back when she closed it. She told me she wanted to see Gracie on the TV. Makes since to a 3 year old I guess....She is calling Gracie on her phone saying sorry and can I get another one. So I had to ask my friend if I could get another "Gracie picture".

New Year!

I'm thinking one of my resolutions for this year will be to post on here more. I'm slackin.

I have started the Project 365. It is a picture a day for the next year. I hope I keep up with it and don't slack on that. So far so good, but I have only done two days. :) It's just trying to think or see ideas. Kinda hard. But I think I will muddle through it. Should be interesting this time next year looking at all the pictures and remembering this year then.

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Christmas was, well busy. Last minute shopping, wrapping, making. I made memo boards this year for some. They seemed to like them. The girls want one now too. So I guess I ain't done with making those yet. I think I want one too, in my newly, painted red kitchen. I love it! Love it! I just sit in here and look at the walls and smile. I know, doesn't take much to make me happy.

Well I guess I'm off to find something interesting for Day 3 on the 365 Project. :)

AHHH COOKIES!!!

I had a cookie party yesterday. My 2 cousin's, me and my mom, plus 7 kids were going to bake and decorate cookies. I thought everyone would bring A recipe and we would mix, bake, decorate and be done within 2 hours.

I was sadly mistaken. Very mistaken.

Mom showed up first, she wanted to make no baked cookies, cool, I planned on making Buckeyes(peanut butter balls). My cousin Jennifer showed up next and wanted to make rice krispy wreaths. That was also cool. Then Kim came. I should have known something was up when she walked in with 4 grocery bags full of shit.

She wanted to make like 6-8 recipes! WTH! I thought hell, we will be here til midnight up to our asses in flour.

The unprepared one that I am still needed to go to the store and get a few things, so me and my cousin Jennifer went. On the way out the door Kim yells, "Get me some cinnamon!" I was like "No More cookies Kim!"

So we ventured to the store, I needed to stock up on the Diet Coke anyway, I should have got my friends Jack, Jim, and Captain too.....

In the car on the way back, Kim calls, she wants something else, I'm like sorry we are out of the store. I hang up and look at Jen. I'm thinking she is going to kill us.."Jen, we forgot Kim's cinnamon!" So we break the news to her when we get back to my house.

They already got 2 cookies going. Then a third and fourth, hell I lost count.

The kids really enjoyed cutting out sugar cookies. We baked them then Kim tasted. They were dry. She forgot to put in the butter! LOL So we let the kids decorate them anyway. They liked them. They had red and green icing on them and colored Twizzlers. heehee

We had a plan to give some to the fire department here in town. Finally at 9:30 I'm like we really need to get those cookies there. Still making snickerdoodles.... So we pack up a plate minus the snickerdoodles, and take it there at 10pm. I think the poor men were alseep. We rang the door bell and waited. Kim told the kids to say "Merry Christmas" when someone opens the door. Finally a fireman in stocking feet opens up and we all say "Merry Christmas" except for Doodle he shouts "Happy Birthday!" *giggle* So he thanks us and we go back to finish up the snickerdoodles. Finally at 10:30 we are done.

8 hours, 7 cranky kids, and a shitload of cookies later we are done.

Til next year....

I'm not ready....

I'm not ready for a teenager. Yep, Olivia is going to be 13 on Friday. I'm too young!!!

I'm not ready for the boys, the clothes she's just "gotta have Moooommmmm!" The almost 13 yr old trapped in a 16 yr old's body. I swear in a year she is going to have bigger boobs than me!

The random texts I get from random boys..."Waz up" "Elmo Rox" "Hey sweetie" I could go on.....I may have to change my cell #, I have told her repeatedly NOT TO GIVE MY CELL # OUT!!!! That is why we have a land line.....One night I got into it with a 12 yr old boy....

And last night I came home from Wal-Mart and she said she "accidently" got Nair on her arm. WTF she hasn't used Nair in a long F'n time! So I look closer and she NAIRED HER ARMS!!!! She "accidently" naired both arms up and down each arm! What is WRONG with these kids! Yeah, I can understand if you have an overload of nasty arm hair, but her's is BLOND!!!You can't even hardly see it. And what do I say to that! Do I get mad?..Do I tell her NEVER to do it again and let it go?....Do I throw the damn Nair out the front door? WTH!

I can feel the grey's coming in.......