My Halloween Pumpkins

I'm going to decorate my front porch with butt pumpkins like this!

Don't Know What To Be On Halloween?

Here is an idea for a costume! Now that we are grown up and older we can be a little more creative with our costume designs! Gone are the days of being little "scary" ghosts, precious scarecrows, adorable princess's or cute little witches! This is 2005 people! Anything goes nowadays!

Happy Halloween Everyone! Have Fun!

*Photo credited to Holly. She sent me this one!*

We Couldn't Stand It Anymore So We Got It!

I just couldn't take it any more! I wasted more time waiting and waiting! I'd fall asleep because it took so long! I wanted to travel more and now we can! We absolutly LOVE it and don't ever plan on being without it again!
Can you guess what it is?

I'm baaaaaaack!

It has been brought to my attention that I have not updated in awhile so here I am. I don't know what it is, but sometimes I can just come on here and write about whatever it is that I feel like writing about at the time without hardly even thinking about it. Then sometimes I have such a hard time writing about the most mundane things. I guess that's why I haven't written anything in awhile. Nothing has really come to me. So for now I can start by sharing some good news with everyone. Some of you may have already heard this and some have not. For a couple people, this is about you, so you can just skip through this part and read the ending or read some of my previous posts that you skipped over before because you didn't have time. Or...admit it....you were bored. Anyway......Holly moved out from Marcus's place and got her own appartment. She is renting a very nice 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath in a very nice neighborhood in Thiensville! It's not only a nice area but it is a very SAFE area and that's the most important thing! Now.....are you wondering why she rented a 2 bedroom and not just a 1 bedroom place? Because Ryan is her new roomate! Yes! Ryan also moved out from Grandma and Grandpas house! I am just so tickled pink here! I have waited for this for over 2 years now and it finally happened! I think the two of them are going to get along wonderfully. I am so happy that they both are not just moving ahead with their lives, but they are doing it together! And just for the record, Holly and Marcus did not break up their relationship with each other, in case that's what you are thinking. They are still dating and having a fun time at it too! This makes it a little bit easier on me with what to do for Christmas ideas. Ryan and Holly both need things for their new appartment so I am in the process now of trying to get some things together. The price of shipping things out has went up, so Scott and I both talked about it and we decided that if I am going to play "Santa" again this year that the best thing for me to do is to bring the stuff up there myself so I am going to do just that. I leave the day after Christmas and I won't be back until New years Day! I was going to leave right on Christmas, but Scott gave me those puppy dog eyes along with that little pout of his so I thought I would hang around and spend it at home and leave the day after. I am so excited to go and see their new place but I am NOT looking forward to the cold weather! THAT I can do without! Hopefully they will have some snow up there when I go. It would be fun to be able to go outside and build a snowman! I haven't done that in AGES so Ryan and Holly if you are reading this you better order snow when I come! It will be so much fun.....shopping, relaxing by the glistening Christmas tree with absolutely nowhere to go and nothing to do, watching the snow fall down in big fluffy chunks, eating some hot homemade Chili, ( I know Holly. You HATE Chili but I'm going to make some anyways!) baking cookies afterwards for dessert and spending quality time with my two wonderful children! Just writing about this puts a smile on my face! I really wish Scott and Nichole could come with me but Nichole has to work and can't get off and Scott doesn't have the vacation time right now considering he just got a new job. He's only been there 4 weeks so he won't get a vacation for awhile yet. His job is going real well and he seems to be A LOT more happier at this place then at the place he was. He comes home in a better mood and isn't as crabby as he used to be (wink) so we are both benefitting here! (wink!)
So I am bushed now. Time for me to wrap it up for tonight. I have been upstairs in the storage area half the day cleaning it all out and organizing all those 100's of boxes. Found some really cool things while I was up there too! I love opening a box and finding all those old long lost treasures and going through each and every little thing and having all them memories come flowing back. You know what I mean? It just warms my heart. It even brings a tear or two so I need to bring a box of Kleenex up there when I go clean. It's starting to look pretty good though. I been at it for a couple weeks now and we can actually walk inside the storage part and move stuff around. Before I started all you could do was open the door and look inside. That's all. No joke. It was THAT bad.
Anyway, I'm tired now and my bed is calling out my name. I must go......I must go and follow the voice.................

See What We Get To Look Forward To?

GAMES FOR WHEN WE ARE OLDER

1. Sag, you're It.

2. Hide and go pee.

3 . 20 questions shouted into your good ear.

4. Kick the bucket

5. Red Rover, Red Rover, the nurse says Bend Over.

6. Musical recliners.

7. Simon says something incoherent.

8. Pin the Toupee on the bald guy.

SIGNS OF MENOPAUSE:

1. You sell your home heating system at a yard sale.

2. You have to write post-it notes with your kids' names on them.

3. You change your underwear after a sneeze.

OLD IS WHEN:

1. Going bra-less pulls all the wrinkles out of your face.

2. You don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go along.

3. Getting a little action means I don't need fiber today.

4. Getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot.

5. An all-nightie means not getting up to pee!

My 10 Scrapbook Mantras

What is a mantra? A commonly repeated word or phrase, AKA what you think, believe, do right now. I've changed the ways that I've scrapped lately so those changes are my mantras right now.

1) Something is better than nothing – I can’t document every day of my life or the kids life. First I don’t have enough time and second they would have to get a u-haul to carry the scrapbooks around.

2) Just say No to Chronologic scrapping – I still try to put them in my album in chronological order, but I do what ever I want when it feels good. I just go back and add them to the album later.

3) If I don’t enjoy it don’t do it – I love scrapping. I get little time to actually do it and get most of my stuff done on weekends . But if I didn’t truly love doing it I’d just put my photos in an album and call it good.

4) I don’t have to keep up with the Jones’. I enjoy seeing all the new stuff and techniques that come out, but I pretty much have a simple style. I give myself permission to pass on the latest and greatest.

5) For my family - I do this for my kids and for me. To record our awesome life and to reflect on their childhoods. I don’t do this for anyone else.

6) Use what I have – don’t buy anymore supplies. I have a room FULL of scrapbook stuff – enough paper for a small army. I’ve been scrapping since 1997 so I have some old stuff that I am now getting rid of. I am getting much better at not buying stuff until I know what I am going to use it for.

7) Don’t break the bank – I have a hard time justifying putting lots of expensive embellishments on my pages. I think you can make amazing pages with just paper and less expensive add-ons. I try to spend my scrapping money on things that will last, like tools.

8) Lost your mojo, steal someone else’s – its all about inspiration and if I can’t seem to get any I just stroll over to 2 Peas or open an idea book and steal someone else’s inspiration. It doesn’t have to be totally original all of the time. You can borrow from what other’s have done.

9) Remember to tell a story – Journal, Journal, Journal! The journaling is what we will smile about in 10 years as we read it. Without it we will be wondering “whose party was that?” “Why were we there?”, “Who is that?”.

10) Getting those photo's in a book is better then those precious photo's just sitting in a shoebox!

10 Weird Facts About Me

1.) I don't like being naked. I don't know why, I just have a fear of someone walking in on me and seeing my fat ass. I don't want to be responsable for their death.
2.) I hate fruit. I just like watermellon, bananas and cantelope.
3.) I like dogs more than people. Sad....but true.
4.) I wish I could be a "Martha Stewart".
5.) I'm the most unorganized organized person ever.
6.) I'm a compulsive list maker. I even make lists of lists. No joke.
7.) I worry about being forgotten when I die. I want people I love to really miss me.
8.) I always have to eat something sweet after eating something salty.
9.) I need an even number of kisses. If Scott or the kids kiss me, I need at LEAST 2! Don't kiss me once and walk away. Ohhh nooo! I'll go nuts!
10.) I don't like Scott touching my nipples. There. I said it.