Time.....? Where did you go??

My boy is 15 years old.
omg.
First of all, how in the world do I have a 15 year old?
It's amazing how fast time flies, especially once you have kids. :(
Next year my boy will already be driving!!
How is that possible?
I think back to when I was 15 and I'm scared to death for him to be this age! This is about the age that I kinda went a little crazy!!
But he's a good boy.
I think.
It will be alright.
I'm sure....
Anyways, Gage's birthday party this weekend was so much fun! I booked an awesome two bedroom, two bath, kitchen, and living room suite....here in town.
The suite was big, but our group was bigger. Me, Leah, Marianne, Adrien, Gage, Travis, Derek, Andrew, Zoe, Ariel, Lucia, Noa, Jack for a little while. He mostly stayed home with his dad, though.
Friday, I left work early to go buy groceries and decorations. I bought a huge Justin Bieber V.I.P. Party door cover. hahahaha. Purple plates, Justin Bieber napkins, lots of balloons, Happy Birthday signs. We always tease Gage about loooooving JB.
Of course, he's like every teen boy and thinks he gay. So, that was pretty funny.
I thought.
Lucia loved it, of course. haha.
So, Friday nights adventures were fun.
We first went looking for Witches Gate, but no one could really remember where exactly it was. So then we went to the old abandoned Insane Asylum. It was super scary!! The cops were called on us. But the (good looking) cop was awesome and talked to us for about 10 minutes. He even told us some stories he had heard about the place. He said we could stay as long as wanted. He just wanted to make sure we weren't gang bangers or drug dealers. haha. We wanted to have him take a picture with Gage, so he'd have a good story about how the cops were called on him on his 15th birthday. haha. But the cop said they're not allowed to do that anymore. Apparently cops used to take pictures with people on scavenger hunts, but they were altered and put on the internet. haha. So, yeah...they're not allowed to do that anymore!
Then we went to an old scary cemetary at the end of a road (out towards where I live..not cool). It was pitch black, but we kept seeing a little light flash in the distance. We scared ourselves silly and ran from the cemetary. I couldn't find Gage and started freaking out, asking everyone,"Where's Gage? Where's Gage?"
Yeah, he and Travis had ran off to run around the cemetary. ugh. They thought that was hilarious.
So not funny.
Then we picked up some Taco Bueno (yum!) and headed to "Pinky's Cave". Which pretty much sucked.
But the rest of the night was fun. :)
Saturday nights adventure was even more fun than the night before. We went to another cemetary. A huge cemetary that has like 3 levels. It wasn't as scary as the small cemetary we went to the night before, though.
Then we went to Shashony Park (I think that's how you spell it?).
This is a big camp site out by Lake Arrowhead. There are tons of trails and it's super dark. We drove around, got out and walked around a few times. The boys would get out and walk beside the car, or on top of the car, or on the bumper, or just sitting in the back with the back open, hanging their legs out.
It was a lot fun.
I think we had more fun staying in town than when we went to the cabins. The boys were able to go to the mall and do other stuff around town during the day.
I loved being able to lay in bed during the day, while they were out, just reading or watching movies.
:)
Happy Birthday to my boy!!

Friday I'm in love! :)

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This Friday I am in love with:

1. Sweet Beauty

I'm not really an animal person. But I do love our pit, Beauty. She is the sweetest dog ever! Wednesday I had to take her to get fixed. :( Here she is resting when she got home.

Gage and Zac slept with her on the pull out couch. :)

2. My crazy "soon-to-be 15 year old" son, Gage.

Today is his girlfriend's birthday, Sunday is Gage's. Yesterday I had to take him to the mall to buy his girlfriend a birthday present. It's funny; he's asking me what to get her and she's texting me asking what to get him. I'm like...come on, now!! Use your imaginations!!

Awww, young love. So sweet. haha.

For Gage's birthday, I reserved a hotel room for the whole weekend. Usually we go to the PK cabins, but I couldn't really afford that this year. With all the hours that are getting cut at work...BLAH!

But this will still be fun. It's actually a 2 bedroom suite! With a kitchen and living room. That way, the adults can have their space and the boys can have theirs!!

We're going to take them to "Witches Gate" and a "haunted" cemetary. Maybe the old insane asylum. haha. This is totally Gage's idea....not mine! But it's going to be fun!! :)

3. Friday!

Yes, this Friday, I am in love with Friday. This has been the longest week EVER!!! And I'm so glad it's finally coming to an end!! Payday, Friday, fun weekend ahead! :) Love it!

I hope everyone has an amazing weekend!! :)

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{one} do you always wear your seatbelt in the car?

always and forever.

{two} do you crack your knuckles?

Yes. Gross. baaad habit!

{three} what is your favorite flavor of gum?

Whatever is in the drawer at work.

{four} what is your favorite piece of jewelry that you own?

No favorite. Not much of a jewelry wearer. :)

{five} who is your best friend?

I have two. My best girlfran is Marianne. and my older sis is also my best friend.

{six} what is your favorite smell?

honeysuckle. looooooove it.

{seven} what is your favorite lunch meat?

turkey.

{eight} do you still have your tonsils?

nope, had them taken out when I was about 3 or 4.

{nine} do you untie your shoes before you take them off?

nope. never.

{ten} what color is your car?

red. ewww. I hate red!

I smell a rat.....

Not only do I smell a rat....but a dead rat! Yes, a dead rat in our attic at work.
First we just smelled the rats bodily function smells seeping through the ceiling. We had our exterminator put some rat poison in the attic. Two weeks later.....we smell a dead rat.
And it STINKS!!!
I'm pretty sure I've always heard, where there's one, there's a nest.
I know this to be true with mice....I'm guessing it's the same with rats??
All I know, is I don't like being in a building by myself at 6:00 in morning, knowing there could possibly be more rats around.
Ok, so apparently I've been working with them for a while, but I didn't know at the time.
I know now. And I don't like it. I don't like it one bit!
Just wondering....have you ever read Stephen King's Night Shift? It's a collection of short stories and one is called Graveyard Shift. Yeah, it's about rats. And it's pretty gross.

Anyways, someone is supposed to come clean our attic. Hopefully there will be only one dead rat in the entire attic, or if there are more....hopefully they're alllll dead! No live ones! At all.
I can't handle that.

Ew.

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! :)