Happy Happy Hump Day!

One on the nursing instructors keep telling our class that we have to "fake it until we make it".
So this is what I am doing today.
Faking that all is good until it is good!
I'll let you know how it goes ;-)

Things are crazy here right now.
Bai has volleyball (YEAH, she made the team this year!!!).
Mase has soccer.
Shawn is coaching soccer (go soccer dad!)
School started back for the kiddos.
I'm knee deep and 15 text books into the nursing program.

We all just do our best.
Hope you all are having an awesome time.
Catch ya later.
Hugs and loves.
m

Mondays ROCK!!

OK, so maybe I am just trying to convince myself of this. LOL!
Back to school today.
No biggie, just more to do.
Kind of excited to get hands on, and have the bs classes behind me.

Must say a couple of things before I continue to blog.
1. Totally forgot to shout out Donna B's HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! It's late I know but I didn't forget, just haven't got everything ready for you. We will carry on the traditions of late birthdays.
2. Speaking of Donna B...thank you sweetie for the card. Much needed and totally made me smile.
3. Miss sweet Leah....thank you for the card that I received in the mail today. Part of my (real) Monday ROCKS!! And also note, I took your advice...ummmm order, to update my blog. LOL! Thanks for caring girlies and continued support.

Now in other 'm' news:
I got my hair straightened.
OH DONNA....must tell you all about this process.
I have had a hate/hate relationship with my hair and cannot even remember the last time I really loved loved loved it.
But thanks to the talented Kelly, I have a love/like relationship with my hair now.
Seriously straight, smooth, and shiny (yes Donna shiny, smooth hair!) WITHOUT 2 hours of straightening and $50 worth of products!!!!!!!!
In fact went to bed with hair wet, woke up, brushed, and wah-laaa, tamed hair!
This is HUGE FOR ME!!!
I'll try and find a better pic but this is all I could find right now. Note the Bailey pose with Bai in the background. Makes me giggle.

Out on the boat yesterday. Took some friends and their daughter. Did the fun "jumping"pictures! This one was my fav.Mason trying to do a back flip. Didn't quite get there. But he will.
My little ham in the background....
OH.... doing a Stampin' Up party. If any of ya want to order they have a catalog online. Let my know by Sept 12th.

Going to get the dishes done and some homework read. Have a 4-9 shift tonight, so I am off.

Loves and hugs.

m

I Mean Seriously!!!! August?????

Blog.
This one word has been on my list for the past month!
I mean SERIOUSLY!!!!
It is obvious I have not found balance this year not do I manage my time well.
Although I do manage to get some things done (believe it or not).
There will be no way for me to catch up on all that has been going on here.....but here is a itty bitty quick peek. Wii (we) have been bit by the Wii bug and I am obsessed with the wii fit. LOVE, L-O-V-E that thing!!! Totally makes me smile and I feel really great doing the games/exercises. Plus the kids love it. I must say this is a total surprise because I am soooooooo not a game playing kind of girl. Love our Wii!
Made some hula hoops with Nae and her bf. Totally love that girl. She is putting more laughter into my life.
Not saying much about this picture.....but EVERY time I look at it, I totally LOL (literally)!
The family on vacation. We had a cabin on Kentucky Lake. Very relaxing.
My ham....I mean my man. Grrrrrrr, he is such a babe.

I am going.
Gotta flip the laundry, load the dishes and finish my scrapbook gift!
Later-taters!
Hugs to anyone still checking in on me.
OH and GO CUBS GO!!
m

Summertime!

This is what we have been doing.
Trying to keep the kiddos from the summertime boredom.
Enjoying the pool in between running, homework, housework, and everything in between.
Finally got the boat out.
Good times.
Really really good times.
(except when we load and unload the boat which totally freaks me out because I can only picture our Endeavor being pulled into the lake by our boat.)

Don't look directly at the icky hat....he can't help his sickness! LOL.
My favorite picture of the summer so far........a boy and his daddy on the boat. Summertime happiness.

And lastly, in the last few weeks I have gotten to know my cousin again. She is younger than me and I kind of seperated from that side of the family for a bit so we grew apart. But let me tell you...she has been exactly what my soul was needing. Must brag a bit and say my cousin ROCKS OUT LOUD! Thanks girlie!

Off to wash the car with Bai and Mase.
Sound like fun?
Maybe.....
Hugs and happies.
m

Week in Review (last week)

1. I am really behind. In everything. My life is chaos right now. And I have no one to blame be me and possibly food poisoning (see below) that threw my whole week out of whack.

2. This is what the bathroom looked like at the beginning of the week. Good times here. I have an entirely new outlook on being grateful for my one bathroom (which I complain about having only one bathroom instead of being thankful for that one bathroom!). There is something odd about brushing your teeth at the kitchen sink all the time or putting on your makeup in the dining room deco mirror. 3. Found this picture of Shawn's bleeding hearts on the baby cannon taken by Mason. Thought it was pretty dang creative. I liked the perspective.

4. Had a bad case of food poisoning on Monday. This is totally self diagnosing. I was in class and started not feeling good. So much so that I left class. By the time I got home it was over for me. I won't go into the gory detail....but let me say.....I don't ever want to be that sick again. However, I did lose 3.7 pounds in 2 days (isn't that a silver lining in the cloud of life?).

5. Another picture found on the camera. Little boy toes. Mason makes me totally LAUGH OUT LOUD! Oh but speaking of cameras...I am having issues with my big Cannon. Something with the battery. Cannon wants me to send it in but I am a bit hesitant. Grrrr. Anyone ever had problems? I wish it was something simple....sigh.

6. Had a nice 4th of July. Something was off this year but not sure what. The weather was beautiful. Mason was picked and made it to the semi finals for Kids Fear Factor. He lost to a 14 year old and was devastated for about 2 hours. Bai "hung out" with her friends. I felt stretched thin this year and I am not sure why. Maybe it is the summer school stuff and the bathroom junk and sickness....who knows?!

7. Getting to know some cousins who I haven't spoke with in YEARS. That is nice finding those connections. Maybe I do have some thin little straggly roots after all ;O)

8. Leaving ya with this sideways picture. Loves and hugs. m

Hip and Updated

Hey!
Just started a myspace thingy.
Why, you might ask??
Well...the main reason is that I have some cousing who I need to make better relationships with and they are all connected on the myspace.
It is kind of strange but I feel updated.
Kind of like the time you got your first cell phone and you felt like you were total coolness.
If feel totally cool!
LOL!
And by the way - I have been informed by the next generation (AKA Bai) that "no one types LOL anymore." Well baby girl not only do I LOL, but I also LMAO and SLOL! So there.
Anyhoo...MUST DO HOMEWORK. I keep putting it off. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Loves and hugs.
m

Following Donna's Lead

This is the summer stuff going on here at the Moore home.

1. Have you heard the saying "It's all about Bailey"? Well we have. A lot. And then if for some reason we missed something ... I see pictures of my beautiful Bailey EVERYWHERE. For instance my cell phone wallpaper is changed to a picture of Bai with the banner saying 'Bailey is my favorite'. (Totally made me LOL!)

2. Did I mention that it is all about Bai? HEHEHAHAHA! Seriously, I was going through the June pictures and 98% of them are of Bai. This means A.) I need to start taking some more pictures B.) It really is all about Bai, or C.) I am too flippin busy to take some pictures and Bailey has some extra time on her hands. I will say though that I am totally diggin' the photos she comes up with. They scream to me to be scrapped!
3. Sometimes it is about us too!!! Even if it is just an arm and leg of Shawn and me with some bugged out sunglasses and pulled back hair.4. I have a love/hate relationship with our Booda-pug-dog. But a few weeks ago he had an allergic reaction to his shots and almost died. It was a scary moment in which I knew this crazy little animal is truly a part of our family.
5. We are smack dab in the middle of a bathroom remodel. It really couldn't have come at a better time ....BWAAAAHAAAA! (super duper sarcasm going on here) We only have one bathroom - I KNOW!! craziness! So we have been working around it and making do. But tempers are short and patience are thin. ALTHOUGH the leak behind the bathtub in the wall (which began this whole process) is fixed! Yes, my hubby rocks out loud. And our buddy Mikey too.

6. School, School, School. Bleck. Not going into too much detail here but four days a week and I have 3 weeks and 1 day left.

7. Shawn and Mason went to a local fishing derby. They didn't catch anything which bummed them both out but the matching shirts were priceless. Let's see which tree did this apple fall off of?????

8. Mason FINALLY got his haircut. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I really do like the shorter hair. Call me old fashion but all that hair in his eyes was driving me bonkers! OK...just came up with a new picture to get and share with ya all....cutie patootie Mason with his new do (adding that to my list)

9. Reading. Mason and I have been doing a lions share of reading. He is in the summer reading program at the library and has been a reading machine. The other night I crawled into his bed with him and read my book while he read his. Side by side. An awesome moment. By the way, I am reading the new Jodi Picoult book Change of Heart and OH MY...a good one.

What I haven't been doing....

scrappin'

bloggin'

connecting

picture taking (mentioned that already)

cooking (fast food, FFA's (Moore-speak for Free For All, and frozen pizza have been the menu)

But I am crossing off blogging, I have chicken set out for dinner and I am going to finish up here and go S-C-R-A-P. I am giddy with the thought!

Hugs and happies to you.

m