Gooday, Mate.

Thanks for the sweet text messages and emails about my pity party (last blog).
I swear I didn't post it for sympathy! Sometimes you just gotta let the bad stuff out!
I may complain about my crappy days (weeks), but I know we all have to have them....so we can appreciate the good ones, right?
I had a good weekend. My boys were off doing their own things, so I got a lot done around the house.
Friday night I went to Leah's for a while. A couple of her friends and their kids came over. We made homemade pizza. It was really good.
I went home fairly early.
Woke up Saturday morning, ran some errands, and went for a run with Marianne. Well......we walked the lake once, then she ran and I ran/walked once. And she ran a couple more times around while I helped the kids fish, then walked another round with Marianne. She's so hard core! haha. I'm so not.
I did feel good after though.
Sunday......I did ALL the laundry and watched a marathon of a show I've never seen before.
It's called "Fact or Faked".
It takes stories/YouTube videos/pictures of the "unknown/paranormal" and tries to prove whether they're fake or not. It was pretty addicting. I watched it for a long time. I had to finally just turn the tv off.

Anyways, that's all that's up with me. Not a lot.
But I like it that way.

Fun filled Saturday!!

Ohhh, I'm so tired today! We had a fun filled day!!

Leah and I decided to teach our kids how to spend a fun filled Saturday. We went "slummin"

First we went to the flea market! It was sooo beautiful outside, we had to take advantage.

Lauren, Lucia, Paige, Zac, and Gage. (Jack was going potty)

I bought a cute purse. Well, I think it's cute. Gage said it was ugly. What does he know? He's a boy.

my new purse

After spending THREE hours at the flea market, we were HUNGRY! So, we decided to continue the "white trash" themed day and take all six kids to Bar L.
If you don't live here in WF, you're missing out on some AWESOME food!! OMG!
And yes, it is a bar. BUT it is also family friendly. Especially at lunch time. I mean, I wouldn't take my kids at night or anything.

Gage and Zac

Jack. And the girls behind him in their OWN booth. :)

It was a fun day! Now, we're all watching Will Smith's cutie pie son in the new Karate Kid.

Tomorrow is my birthday lunch at my mom's with the fam! :)

Monday always comes too soon....

Oh, Sunday night already! I can't believe we're starting another work week. It was a fun and busy weekend.
Friday night, Jack stayed the night. We were all asleep by 9 p.m.
I woke up at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Zac and Jack woke up at 6 a.m. Ugh. So much for some quiet time that morning! I let the boys play, took Jack home around 11:30. Then we went out to my mom and step dad's house. My step dad cooked out some hamburgers and hot dogs! It was his daughter's birthday. THEN.....me, Zac, Leah, Dustin, Jack, and Lucia went to the Christmas Light parade downtown. Gage stayed the night with his friend Travis. There were two really weird white trash women that kept staring at us and trying to talk to us. When the people in the parade threw candy the women jumped in front of our kids to take it. Then they'd hand the kids the gross candy and keep the good candy. Like they were being nice by giving the kids the candy they picked up. Ridiculous. I was standing with my back to them, to let them know, I was trying to enjoy the parade with my family and to stop staring and talking our ears off. One girl actually started patting on my arm to get my attention, just to tell me that the fire trucks were so loud, she had to cover her ears. Seriously? Maybe I'm a bitch, but it was really annoying. Really annoying.
Lucia came home with us after the parade and stayed the night with us. Zac and Lucia brought the puppies in and played with the most of the night. They had a good time.
This morning we were just hanging out at the house and decided to go eat some breakfast. So at about 10 or so; me, Zac, Lucia, Jack, Gage, and Travis all went to eat at IHOP. Yeah, that's me with a 7 yr old, 9 yr old, 3 yr old, and two 14 year olds. Good times, baby.
Theeeeen, I went home and cleaned some freaking house! I mean, it is spotless!! I'm so very proud of myself. I'm even a little sore from being on my hands and knees scrubbing the kitchen floor. Woot, woot! I rule.
So, after I cleaned house, I went to feed the puppies and realized we were about out of dog food. So, me and Zac drove into town to go by some more. We went to do that and get some McDonalds (ewwwwww). Came home, went inside to eat, then I went back outside to get the stuff that we had bought at the store....and I had a flat tire.
Seriously?
Soooo, my step dad (God love him) came out to change my tire for me. He got down to the last bolt and it would NOT budge. We couldn't get it off for nothing!!!! :(
So, he's coming back tomorrow after work with something or other..to get the last damn bolt off.
UGH! It's been a busy weekend.
Now, here I am, staying the night at my sisters with my boys, so she can take me to work tomorrow morning.
Anywaysssss, that was my fun filled weekend!! How was yours? :)

Friday, woot woot.

I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday. It's been one heck of a week. I could use a little weekend in my life. :)
It's going to be a pretty busy weekend too, though. Cleaning house, doing laundry, cleaning out the backyard. Beauty decided to tear her pillow to pieces...stuffing is all over the backyard!!
Saturday me and my sister are doing a walk-a-thon for the homeless. We're raising money for thier Thanksgiving dinner. :) Then after that, we have Benjamin's birthday party! (My cousin, Bryan's boy). Sunday, church....and hopefully a lot of napping in between that stuff. :)
As mentioned in a previous post, one of the men in my life, driving me crazy...would be, Gage's dad. Yes, he's back. He's been MIA since about July. But he decided to come out of hiding to jack with his son's head again. So, I'm once again, trying to deal with this situation. Frustrating, heartbreaking, draining.
I got a flu shot today. My co worker threw up in the trash can behind me. gag. Gage wants a tattoo. I told him the only way he could get a tattoo before the age 18 is if it says "Mom". haha. I'd like to see that happen!
I had to get my car back from Jauque. :( My dad came and took it to sale. I felt bad, because she really needs that car. She had it for about 3 weeks, then he decided he wasn't giving me the title....he was going to sell it.
My co workers told me there was supposed to be a huge storm coming tonight...so I'm staying the night at my sisters. haha. I know, I'm a dork. But I've been a little bit of a chicken shit since moving. :)
But it's like 8:30...which is like 30 minutes AFTER my bedtime, so I gotta get off the computer! haha.
Plus Gage is begging me to let him on, so he can look up what he wants for Christmas.
Can you believe he wants a baseball bat, baseball glove, and a batting glove...it comes in a pack for like $175!!! Are you freaking kidding me??? That is ridiculous! Why..WHY must this stuff be so expensive?!?!
On the other hand, I'm very excited that he is loving baseball. :) I can't wait to go watch him play!
Alright, I'm out...ttyl.
;)

THREE DAY WEEKEND....HELL YEAH! :)

I am so excited about our 3 day weekend. This week has been the longest freaking week EVER!!
So, I won the John Mayer tickets, but I gave them away. A nurse at work gave Gage an awesome guitar and guitar case. For free. But I am not able to go to the concert, so I gave her the John Mayer tickets. How sad I can't go :( Oh well....I still have Kings of Leon on September 23rd!! Heck yeah! I'm SUPER excited about seeing them!!!

Last night, I babysat Jack for a little while so Leah could run some errands....child-free.
Zac wanted to tell Jack a knock-knock joke.....this is how it went:

Zac: Hey, Jack...knock, knock....
Jack: Come in!
Zac: No, I say knock, knock and you said Who's there? Ok?
Jack: Ok.
Zac: Ok, are you ready? You say Who's there.
Jack: OK!
Zac: Knock, knock...
Jack: Come in!

haha. That went on for about 5 minutes...Zac got frustrated and finally gave up. :)

Picture of Zac and Jack watching "Signs"...Jack loooooves that movie! :)

Soooo, what to do this child-free weekend? Maybe BWW with the bff tonight? Possibly. I don't know though....I'm feeling kinda lazy and kinda want to go to bed and sleep until tomorrow!!

Lunch with Jauque tomorrow, fo sho! Haven't seen her in for.ev.vor. :)