My relaxation techniques...

Whew what a week already! Blah... :( I, too, am kind of in another funk these days. Why can't it be nice and sunny and warm on the weekends for my enjoyment? Why does it have to be cold and rain all the time? Even a cute new hairdo hasn't brought about any new happiness. (But I do promise to post pics and updates soon.) :) Don't tell me it's this Arkansas weather...that part I won't miss. Well, actually I just might. I hear winter in Germany is brutal. Oh no...and it's almost April which means we are closer to getting there. Yikes!

Last night I took time out for a pamper me session. I DESPERATELY needed one. Yes, desperately. So I made the homemade sugar scrub I've read so much about. Yep, 4 cups of pure cane sugar to one cup of olive oil. Mix it up in a bowl or a cute jar if you are feeling all Martha Stewart-y. Take the hottest bath you can get sans kids...yes I said sans kids...I locked myself in the bathroom. I just didn't feel good and needed to do something for myself. I NEVER do that! Use the scrub wherever you choose. I hear it's even good for your face but I wasn't that brave. And it was pure heaven in a bowl I must say. I was in there for an hour! :) And I enjoyed every minute of it. I highly recommend it to all of you.

Now I'm trying to be my old self again and this week isn't as crazy busy as the past few so hopefully that will help to cheer us all up.

Have a great rest of your week!

EXHAUSTED!

After yesterday's fun-filled day, we can barely even move around our house today. Hair appointments, a birthday party at Party Central and an evening full of fun at Playtime Pizza was just about too much for us. So we're taking today off!

Will share more soon - - -

Wow!

I was looking at some maps on the internet yesterday and came across this map of Germany again. And...Yikes...see that red rectangle/square? Yep...that's where we're heading in a few short months. OMG! So.far.away!!! **Gulp** We can do this, We can do this...ok, that's not helping. And we will probably be overseas for quite a bit longer than three years it is looking like. We're not really sure and won't know until about 2 years from now what that part of our future will hold. Wow! So many changes...

A Blizzard? What?

Look at what Ronnie's going through right now, and I'm quite sure this isn't even the worst of it...Wow!

My first job: retail

Oh boy, that first job at Wal-Mart scared me to death! I was there for a whole 2 months I think! :)

Have y'all discovered these silly prompts from Plinky? Silly I know, and half the time I mess up the way they are presented on the blog but they are fun nonetheless! Enjoy!

Yes More Pictures...

I had forgotten all about these pictures I've had sitting in my email inbox for a while to include here for all the world to see. :) These are just some fun times we've had lately-buying new sunglasses, a day of fun at the beach, and being picked as a special helper during the Upward Bound awards program... Enjoy!









A couple of these are terrible pics because I forgot my camera and took them with my phone. Bad Mommy!

Ronnie's Pikes Peak Adventure

I am SO disappointed in these pictures. Of course, they had to be there for PT at like "oh-dark-thirty" so no wonder you couldn't really see anything good but here ya go...I am hoping he gets some better shots sometime. I am wishing their weather would be better this weekend...I told him to get adventurous and for them to go sightseeing so we can see it all too. I'm still so jealous! :)



This one has their class mascot in it. Not too sure about that one...:)



Hopefully we will have lots more pics to follow...

Sorry For The Bloggy Hiatus...

We've been just a tad bit busy around here. Showing the house continues to be a thorn in my rear end! :) But that means it will catch someone's eye sometime soon, right?

I finally finished New Moon and am still not impressed. I did pick up Eclipse and have read just a bit of it but am so far not so impressed even still. Neeley and I watched Twilight on PPV the other night and she LOVED it but I am still so-so. I really have no imagination :) and tend to be a realist I think. Hhhmmmmmm.....

Neeley got to wear her jammies to school on Friday of last week (as long as she brought $1) as a fundraiser for ACH. And since we love that place, this is what she looked like that day...

Such a silly girl! She got so many compliments on her crazy hair and I've even had a few mommies ask me how I did it because their girls wanted to wear theirs the same.

We've also been cooking a lot more here at home, or trying to at least. Do you know how hard that is these days? After having another crazy weekend, and finally having some time to get organized and try to get myself back on track, I found this recipe and we've been snacking on these off and on for the past few days.

So yummy! This is just sugar free vanilla wafers, strawberries, blueberries and sugar free/fat free Cool Whip layered with a mixture that is fat free cream cheese/sugar free-fat free vanilla pudding/sugar free-fat free Cool Whip. Yum! Healthy heaven...well only if you don't eat them all in oh say 2 days. :)

And tonight for dinner we had these...

We have a favorite restaurant out of town that makes these yummy BBQ baked potatoes and we love them so much that tonight I tried my own. Absolutely none of this was actually homemade/from scratch: Lloyd's bbq, baking potato nuked in the microwave, a can of bbq beans, slaw mix with slaw dressing, s & p, shredded cheese. Dump it all on a plate and there you have it...

And that's been the highlight of our not-so-fab week. Hoping this weather will straighten up soon. And I mean like right now...there's heresay that we will get off at noon tomorrow so I am hoping to take my book and a sammie and enjoy some "me" time out somewhere...the park, the lake, in my bed, wherever... :) . Because the next few days are going to be crazy busy finishing up some small projects and then we have several birthday parties this weekend and a hair appt. Oh what fun!

Good night!

I wish I could get a new If I could change the fact that we even have a mortgage right now, I SO would. :) Come one, someone buy this house!

I Cheated!!

The biggest chocolate chip cookie you've ever seen and a HUMONGOUS Diet Coke from San Francisco Bread Company. Yep, I did. That's what an afternoon of shopping will do to a girl on a diet. I'm sorry! :)