Temporary Mommy

I am babysitting three kids for three days. Overnight. So basically I'm their temporary mom for three days. They haven't been too bad so far. Davis isn't feeling too well and Anne Mae is getting rather grumpy but other than that it has been going pretty well.

The kids:
Anne Mae(the little girl , bottom left), Corbin (top left) and Davis (far right)

I watched the Royal Wedding with Anne Mae(3 yrs old) and she was fascinating with seeing a REAL princess. She kept saying "ohhhh she's pretty!" lol. The boys got home a little after 3:30pm and played outside but since Davis didn't feel well he came in after a little while. I made pizza for supper and have managed to survive so far! Tomorrow I have to get up and get the boys off to their baseball games. THHHEEEENNNN guess what I'm doing?! GOING TO EDGEFEST!!! I'm really excited, if you can't tell. I've never been to a concert before, which is a little depressing but anywho lol. Ryan's boss gave him free box seat tickets! My mom is going to come watch the kids and Ryan and I are going to go to edgefest!

Mom got me a blender and I made a black berry-strawberry smoothie. It wasn't too bad. Next time i'll need to strain it so the blackberry seeds aren't in it but other than that it was pretty good. If you look at the glass I put it in you will notice that it's the exact same glass the Red Robins (yumm) uses for their freckled lemonade. It may have jumped into my purse one time when I was there... opps :D. 

Well I'll post again tomorrow with pictures from Edgefest! Night!

Busy Busy Busy!

So much has been going on and yet, not really lol. Sooo here's an update!!

MEAGAN IS HOME!!! I'm so excited to have my buddy back! We've been hanging out a lot, which is AWESOME! Unfortunately, Chris went to Afghanistan :(. Me, Ryan, Meagan, Jixer and Busa all went for a walk. Poor Jixer almost had a heat stroke. Apparently being black and walking in 80 degree weather isn't a great idea lol.

This past week my sister, Maegan's, (not to be confused with my friend Meagan) husband was out of town and poor little AJ got sick. Me, Mom and Maegan all took him to the pediatrician at 9pm lol. He had a cold and all they could do was saline suck his nose. For those of you who don't know what that entails... allow me to explain. Basically you pin the kid down squirt saline up his nose and then suck it out. Needless to say, he DID NOT like it! On the plus side, I got in lots of snuggle time with the little man!

I decided that I wanted to go to the Farmer's Market this past weekend so me, Mom, Dad, Maegan, AJ, and Ryan all went. Meagan was supposed to go but she had to do homework :(. We got a ton of strawberries so Mom can make strawberry jam!! We also got green beans and some really yummy balsamic vinegar dressings! They had a bunch of different flavors but we ended up getting the apple and peach. Mom used the apple to marinate some pork chops which turned out AMAZING! After we bought all of our stuff Maegan and I decided that we had to have some ice cream to cool off.

We got new furniture today!!! Mom and Maegan went to Weirs and picked out a sofa, a chair with an ottoman and a recliner. The recliner isn't here yet because Mom had it covered in a solid beige color. The room isn't completely set up but those are pictures of the furniture!


Meagan and I are going to go on some adventures soon so I can post more stuff lol! Well I'm off to get ready to go to Texas Roadhouse!

Homework Homework Homework!

I swear, that's all I seem to do. This weekend I wrote my sociology paper on gay marriage which I think turned out relatively well. It's not quite as long as I was hoping for it to be but, quality is better than quantity! Tomorrow I have to go up to the school and take my math test(which I probably won't do very well on) and on Wednesday I have to resubmit my English paper because she apparently didn't think it was good enough. I thought it was pretty flipping awesome but whatever.

I'm wicked excited because in a few hours I'm going to head over to Ryan's house and see MEAGAN!!! I'm sooooooo excited that she's coming home! It's funny how we weren't really that close through her husband, Chris', first deployment but ever sense I helped her move to Cali we've gotten pretty close. Seeing as how I don't have many friends she's definitely my bestie and I love her to death! WELCOME HOME MEAGAN LOVE!!!

Well I'm off to beautify myself to welcome Meagan back home!

New Kitchen!

My mom and I are so excited! We were able to get a new stove and fridge with our income tax money! We went out searching for the best deal and went with Lowes. They delivered and installed them on Tuesday! We were soooooo excited but we didn't have anything to cook with the new stove so Mom and I went to Kroger to buy something to make lol.

Becky and Archie are in Florida this week so Ryan has had the house to himself. He's enjoying the quiet lol. I went out there after class Monday. I went to the post office to mail something for him and on my way there he texted me with some bad news. He didn't get the promotion that he was practically guaranteed to get. They gave the position to Habeeb, who is so unqualified for the job it's pathetic. Now that they have managed to make Ryan mad, he has put his resume out on Monster.com so hopefully that will help him get a new job. Since he was so disappointed that he didn't get the job I decided to cook him supper. I made roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, and rolls. I had bought a cherry pie to make but we were too full.

Now I am sitting at my "bosses" house holding a sweet little Jack. Michelle took Corbin to Great Wolf Lodge so I spent the night with Anne Mae and Jack. It was rough last night because they were both SO tired. Anne Mae threw several fits but went to bed without a fuss. She woke up at 7:30 and I got her off to school pretty easily. Surprisingly enough I actually went to sleep shortly after 10pm. I don't remember the last time I went to sleep that early!

Well I'm off to feed a hungry little Jack!

Spring cleaning

Since Mom has been gone I have been cleaning like crazy! I started with the kitchen, which I posted pictures of in the post before this one, but I didn't stop and the fridge and pantry. I went on the clean off the counters, the bar, and clean out the medicine cabinet, the glasses and coffee mugs, and the various food storage containers we have come into possession of over the years. By the way, why our family has and entire cabinet full of coffee mugs while only one family member (my father) drinks coffee is beyond me. I moved our deep freeze and microwave too.









Not only did I clean, literally, all day (from about noon to 6pm) I also made baked mac and cheese AND muffins! I made the baked mac and cheese for supper and then later that evening, around 10 or so, I got bored and wanted muffins. I made the honey bran kind, and yes, I cheated, they came in a bag lol. I burnt the first batch because the bag lied to me lol. It told me to cook them for fourteen minutes but I think they should have only gone for like ten.

Not burnt batch of muffins

Baked Mac and Cheese and steamed veggies

Chaos! (warning:LONG post)

I know, I haven't posted on here in a while. I've been CRAZY busy!

First of all, I went to Mississippi this past weekend. My Aunt Kathy was supposed to have liver surgery so I drove my mom down to Mississippi on Friday evening. We didn't arrive until 3am! On the way there we got lost which is funny because we've been making this drive for 16 years. But anywho, not only did we get lost the people on the road were CRAZY! But never-the-less we survived the trip and made it, mostly unscathed.

I came home on Tuesday, leaving mom to fend for herself with the relatives :P. It was my first solo "road trip" and as you can see from the picture to the left, it was VERY boring! The most nerve racking part was having to stop for gas and even that wasn't all that bad. I listened to Glee almost the entire way home (yes, I do have 8 hours worth of Glee to listen to, and yes, I'm aware that that's a little sad lol).

So, Mom and my aunt went to New Orleans Wednesday and found out that her surgery was postponed until Friday (today). Well, long story short today she went into surgery to have blood vessels that were growing on the outside of her liver removed. When the surgeon looked at her liver he realized that he would not be able to remove those blood vessels which rendered the surgery useless. Aunt Kathy is now in recovery, surrounded by her mom, my mom and her two children. She is also now being placed on the liver transplant list so we are praying a new liver become available soon.

Anyways, like I said, I've been CRAZY BUSY! After I got home I had to go to class Wednesday and later Ryan made me dinner :). He made a very yummy Chicken Marsala. I had started to make it but somehow he ended up doing most of it lol. Then Thursday I woke up and cleaned the fridge! I took out and wiped down all the shelves, threw away old food and then wiped down the outside of the fridge! It's empty now and we look like we have no food, but it's clean!

Today I had class again and then after class I went to babysit for a wonderful family :). After that I came home and cleaned the pantry and the cabinets! Luckily tomorrow Dad and I are going shopping because we totally look like we have NO FOOD!

The top of the pantry

The bottom of the pantry

The Cabinet

Who knows what I'll end up cleaning tomorrow lol! Have a great night!

Breeding season?

Ok, so I feel totally accomplished! I am one of the VERY few people from my high school class that is not having a baby. All these people getting their girlfriends prego right out of high school IT'S CRAZY! And what is even more entertaining is listening to them talk about how much fun it's going to be. FUN?! Seriously? What is fun about waking up every two hours, if not more, changing poopy diapers, having your body completely torn apart, being peed/pooped/puked on. Not to mention the fact that infants cry A LOT.. and you can't always make them shut up. Yes, they're ADORABLE and when they giggle or smile at you it makes all the annoying awful things they've done to you worth it but I would hardly say that alone makes the entire experience FUN. ANDDDD most of these people, if not all, do not actually have GOOD jobs. Do they have ANY IDEA how much formula, diapers, wipes, bottles, doctor visits etc cost? Of course not, because they're 19 years old! The only reason I know is because I babysit kids all the time and I have witnessed it with my sister and AJ.

I want kids, several of them actually, but NOT NOW! geeezz people!

That's my soapbox of the day... thanks for reading lol