Whew.

February is here!  How did that happen?  Ow. 

But February brings some fun stuff…

Cara of Sweet Tomato Designs is guest designer over at Scrappity-Doo-Dah.  And for the first week of Feb, she’s got a great sale going on over there!  Perfect time to pick up some new goodies!  I love her stuff!  *images are linked*

Oh and she’s got some exclusive stuff over there at SDD that is just too cute!  This kit called Frolic is one of my new favorites! 

I made this layout with it and printed a small version of it and sent it with the hubby on his business trip last week.  Awwww…I know, right? 

Tonight I worked on some hybrid stuff…waiting til tomorrow to get decent lighting to take pictures of it. =) 

Last week was rough.  KC got home okay and then came down with an AWFUL ear infection and spent five days on the couch and then the ER.  He’s finally recovering, I think. 

It’s photo hunt month again.  I’m seriously lacking photo-mojo right now but maybe this will give me a good rear kickin’ to get back on top of it again. =) 

Sheesh.  I’m gonna have to get back on top of everything again.  Yikes. 

Dino-Man

"Thats a mylanteosaurus. And that's me. I'm scared and I'm running away." -K-man

(PS...this was whispered to me during church. I have no idea if there IS such a dinosaur as a my-lant-e-o-saurus. But I love that "stick K-man" has a screaming face and the giant dinosaur has a scary face. LOL! Click on the picture and it gets bigger...)

5 Ways You Know You're in the ER Too Early

1. You spend twenty minutes staring at the newspaper machine and wondering how it knows which day is Sunday to charge $2...
2. You yawn five hundred times in a row.
3. You can't figure out how a vending machine can really have hot and fresh chicken at the touch of a button like the front is advertising...
4. But you're tempted to go try it, because your stomach is the only part of your body that's actually awake.
5. Everybody in the waiting room has their eyes closed and you're pretty sure it's not because they are praying.

And you're ready to go home, but that has nothing to do with the time of morning...

Oh...and we're here because KC has a bad ear infection (for 4 days now) and couldn't stand the pain any longer.

Naughty Me

Yes, that would be me.  My MIL saw my redneck ladder and says since I’m still alive to beat, she’s going to give me a few good whacks for that one.  LOL.  Yes, I know.  Naughty me. 

And naughty me for taking so long between posts.  KC was out of town for a few days and my motivation flew on the plane with him to Texas.  =)  And let’s face it, I was too busy chasing creaking noises in the house and trying to keep the dogs from chasing ghosts because they are a lot more vocal about it than I am.  And you know, at 2am, it’s pretty important not to run through the house barking because humans need their sleep.  LOL.  Really though, I was kidding about chasing creaking noises in the house though…I got over that a few years ago.  The dogs on the other hand, I was not kidding about.  I leave them out while the hubby’s gone because let me tell you, when it comes to noises or people coming in the house, they are NOT friendly.  Which makes me feel pretty good.  LOL. 

And then my final “naughty” moment: I applied for another creative team…mostly because I didn’t expect to get it…except…lol….I did.  =)  I’m really excited though because it’s a really cool store team.  So I get to do creative work with a variety of designer’s kits.  And it’s the store that the designer I already work for sells at, so it works really well for me.  =)  I’m pretty excited…it’s a little different than I’m used to, but I think I’m getting the hang of it already.  =)  We haven’t gotten our February creative assignments yet, but I’ve already got my additional duties for February pretty much out of the way.  =)  There are going to be some cool challenges and things going on over at the Plum next month (and not just cuz I’m there now either…haha)…so you should hop over and check it out.  I’m thinking with all the scrapping I’m going to be doing, I should totally be caught up by this time next year.  *grin* 

Anyway…that’s been my naughtiness –for now (lol).  Oh and look…isn’t this –->      adorable?  I created it with a kit from a new designer (Farynar’s Wings) who is going to be opening her store on 2/1 at Polka Dot Plum.  I made it for the cell phone challenge…it fits my screen resolution on my phone and I uploaded it to verizon and sent it to myself, so now it’s my background on my phone.  AWWW.  =) 

Okay…off now.  Got to figure out which of KC’s suitcases has my motivation stowed away in it. 

Who Needs Ladders?

Sunday afternoon, K & I painted our Sunday School room.  It’s a happy color.  Kinda like the boiler room.  LOL.  People will know exactly which paint jobs Faith had a hand in at the church…

Not such a happy color when it’s in a puddle on the carpet though.  They don’t call me “Grace” for nothin’! Heh.  And in case you’re wondering, I was FINE on the redneck ladder.  When we upgraded to a real ladder for the second half of the ceiling trim, I decided to skip the last step--while holding paint in one hand and a brush in the other. Thank God for friends who catch us when we fall.  Even if their husband suggests that perhaps she should have let me fall and catch the paint instead.  LOL. 

And when little guy here said, “That looks kinda dangerous—but FUN!” and proceeded to make his own redneck ladder, I DID say…”Kid, this IS extremely dangerous and you should NEVER try this at home!”   

Now we just have to go back and paint the trim white.  Thankfully the trim is all on my level…no ladders, real or rigged, required.  =)

Dancing Like Wolves

After church on the way home last night we stopped to pick up a snack from…”You know when it’s real” because we weren’t in the “I’m lovin’ it” mood…(LOL). 

K-man: Daddy, can I have my drink? 
KC: Yes, one sip.  And then you can have another sip before bed, but you can’t have the whole thing because you’ll P the bed.  P boy.  (said with humor…he wasn’t being mean…lol)
K-man: Don’t say that.
KC: Boy P
K-man: Don’t say that a-GAIN.  If you say that again…I’ll….shake your hand. 
KC: Really? 
K-man: Yes.  Is that okay?  Does that work for you? 
KC: Well…I guess so. (trying to hide laughter)
K-man: Cause your phone makes me dance. 
KC: (looking at Faith with a confused look on his face) Really? 
K-man: Yeah.  Like a WOLF! 
KC AND Faith: Oh-KAY?????!!!!

Kids do say the funniest things….  Munchkin told me this morning that while I was gone yesterday, that Daddy played the “com-piano” and he was very good.  LOL. 

And today K-man told me that Munchkin has a Chicka-WaWa.  I was like, a what?  “A shi….shick….uh…chick-a-wawa!  You know, her little dog??”

I'm In Heaven

Bottomless caramel mocha.....Ahhhhhhhhhh. I l.o.v.e. Uncle Bob's. =) Sugar, caffeine, unlimited refills (although two cups is enough to jazz me for 24 hours), chocolate, coffee...what's NOT to love?

Still Kickin…

I got a package in the mail today and nearly did the happy dance in front of Mr. Postal Delivery Dude.  I got my 73 scrapbook pages.   SEVENTY-THREE!  PAGES!  I was a teensy tiny bit behind on printing.  But I put all the pages in order and into scrapbooks.  Filled 2 up and then a few random pages for other projects.  *googly eyes*  I’m so happy to feel almost caught up.  I’m not, of course…and putting them into the albums made me realize that I totally missed a few major events…like Christmas—two years in a row.  Oops.  So I have a few holes to fill, but most of 2009-10 is done and I need to finish up 06, 07, and 08 and then it will just be 11.  Yay! 

We took the kids to the big gray mouse place tonight…they did pretty well…we’re finally getting to the place where we can actually have a little fun with them at places like that.  Haha…you know, before—they have fun but mom and dad leave frustrated because the kids don’t listen and they don’t have a clue about how the games work….lol.  Now they actually can play the games so it’s a little more fun to take them there.  Teehehe.  They were cracking me up on the little kid air hockey game…K-man was karate chopping the little puck thing (as in, every time he hit it he had a sound effect—hiiii---yahhh!…lol)  Hilarious. 

I also went to Wally World this morning.  Dr. Pepper was on sale.  Next week I’ll quit for the 783rd time. 

That was a not so proud moment, but I AM so proud of myself for this next part…I put myself on a grocery freeze and I’m trying to use up all the food in the pantry.  You know those things you pick up on sale here and there and before you know it, you have a pantry full of tomato sauce cans but no spaghetti.  And the random snacks that never get completely finished and stack up in the back.  So I’m on a mission to use up instead of throw out.  So far I’ve only bought maybe $80 of groceries this month.  And most of that was just milk and bread and a few random staples that I ran out of…garlic powder, parmesan cheese, taco seasoning…that sort of thing.  =)  Nobody’s gone hungry yet.  =)  LOL.  KC’s diet’s going well though.  Particularly on nights when I’m using up the vegetables…haha! 

A little bit of random, I had a weird dream this morning. Actually I’ve had a lot of weird dreams here lately, but most of them are so awful I can’t even repeat them…lol.  This morning I dreamed that I was sleeping in my bed and the dogs were curled up on the bed with me and I woke up (in my dream) and saw Ahsoka coming down the stairs but it wasn’t Ahsoka because she was laying on the bed next to me.  It was just a dog that looked just like her and I was freaking out because we can’t keep THREE dogs and I couldn’t figure out where this third dog came from and then I picked it up and it wasn’t as big as I thought it was, it was a puppy but it was like a special needs puppy…it had a second head growing out of it’s main head.  Oh it was bad.  I was so upset. 

And finally, I’d like to report that after KC cracked my back for me, most of the pain went away and I just have a bruise on my hip from my trip down the stairs.  LOL’ed at all the comments from that one.  *grin*  But I am still alive and not in too much misery. =) 

Off for now!  =)

PSA

The best way to go down stairs is on your feet, not your back and rear end. 

Because if you do go down on your back and rear end, you will sit on the bottom stair and wonder why nothing hurts terribly bad and then you will go along about your day and then half an hour later, you will move and you will feel this awful pain from your neck all the way down your spine and into your rear end and you will remember that you wondered why nothing hurt terribly bad and you will know it was just a delayed reaction. 

And then you will wonder how long it will take to stop hurting again. 

Just sayin’. 

Really?

So KC had a rough day at work today and after he got home he was ready for some wind down time.  So I cleaned the folded laundry off the bed so that KC could lay down, got the kids settled into quiet activities, took the basket back into the laundry room, came out and shut the door behind me, and then quietly called the dogs so that I could take them downstairs to complete the circle of quietness for KC.  Only, only one dog showed up when I called.  So I retraced my steps, quietly calling the missing dog.  After I walked the house and no dog, I started opening closed doors.  When I opened the laundry room door, there she was.  Quietly standing there in the dark, waiting for mommy to come back and open the door for her.  She wasn’t whining, not scratching the door or ANYTHING.  I didn’t even see her come in behind me when I took the basket in there…oops.  Poor puppy. 

And then I turned on a kid flick for K-man and told him he could go up and tell Munchkin that she could clean up what she was playing with and come down if she wanted to watch.  And she came downstairs to tell me that “thank you, but no.”  REALLY?  This from the child who a-DORES mindless entertainment?  Seriously…she prefers it 9 times out of 10 to having to actually use her brain to play…lol.  But tonight she played with all the barbie peoples…ALL evening.  Didn’t want to leave her room.  The world is coming to an end.  =) 

Anyway, that’s about it…I’m tired…think I’ll hop off here.  =) 

Bored

I’ve got the Munchkin syndrome.  Boredom.  LOL.  She can never ever find something to do…she prefers to stand around and stare at people in hopes they will entertain her.  Bless her heart, apparently it’s contagious.  *wry grin* 

I’ve read all the blogs.  I’ve checked my mail five hundred times.  I even scrapbooked with PAPER today (as opposed to digital…lol).  And by the way, digital has completely spoiled me.  LOL. 

I’m just totally in a Munchkin mood.  Argh.  LOL.  My nerves are shot.  Here’s hoping tomorrow is a better day…for all of us. 

Who’s A Hero?

Random conversation in the car on the way home from church last night:  (We went to the church which is almost an hour’s drive away, so plenty of time in the car for random conversations!  LOL)

K-man (playing his DS): Momma?  My hands are getting all sweaty!

Me: It is a little stuffy, I guess.

K-man: *sigh* Yeah, it is.  (like he knew what “stuffy” meant…lol)

KC (rolling down the windows a few inches): *pause*  There…how’s that?

K-man: Yeahhhhh, that’s good!  *pause* Daddy SAVESSSS the day!

Yep, that’s my honey, a window-crackin’ super hero!  Hahahah!