Wii have a problem!

 

Someone in my house is addicted to the Wii, and its not me.

Its not Syd....

 

Its not Jessie.....

 

Its this precious one.....

 

You see last night as he was on his 2nd hour of Lego Star Wars, after an hour of me telling him to get off the thing. I know I should have just shut the thing off, but no I let it go on.

His daddy, walked in and told him, he had until he got out of the shower to be off the Wii.  That didn't happen either, now he is grounded from it and his Nintendo DS.

When I got home from work, I found a sweaty, crying, freaking out little boy.  I asked him, "Logan baby what is wrong".  This is the answer I get......

"I can't live with out it!!! I can't breath, I am shaking all over, I NEED to play the Wii!!! (seriously he said this!)

My 8 year old is having Wii withdrawals. 

I leave the room and a little while later he comes to me and says, "Momma, please go into the living room with Daddy, I need to talk to both of you."

So here I go in the living room, and then here comes Logan....

"I do not think it is fair that I am grounded from the Wii.  How was I supposed to know WHEN Daddy got out of the shower.  I need to be able to play the Wii, please, please, please, let me play the Wii!!!!"

Big Logan, Syd and I are trying not to laugh, ok Big Logan and I are trying not to laugh Syd on the other hand is laughing hysterically.

I tell him to let me and Daddy discuss it and maybe we can come up with a compromise.  He runs out of the room while saying "yeah, you and Daddy compromise!"

He comes back in to get the verdict.  He can play his DS for 1 hour tonight and resume playing the Wii tomorrow.  After several minutes of back and forth negotiations, he finally agreed with the verdict handed down.

I pray we have no more Wiithdrawals tonight.  It could be a long night.......

Right up my alley

 

 

I saw this on Tidymom, Sandy Toes, and Jen at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam.  Its a blog call "I Heart Faces", and they are having a contest in two categories, kids and adults.   I love taking pictures of faces and getting interesting looks and expressions.  I love it even more when I capture a certain something in their eyes.  To top it off, The guest judge is Miz Booshay!!  I am a lurker at her site, I look at it everyday, and sometimes I will comment, but most of the time, I just admire her work. 

So this is the shot I chose.  I have many I could have entered, but this one immediately came into my head.

Its a recent favorite I took of Sydney.

 

There are some awesome pictures entered, go on over and check them out!

 

A.E.P # 3

 

 

Alternate Eating Plan Rule # 3......

Don't go to your friend Lisa's house, who is the best cook ever, when she has homemade potato soup and chocolate cake with homemade chocolate icing.  Especially don't go, if the next day you are supposed to start a program called Scale Down Alabama, and you have to go weigh in. 

 

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On another note, thank you all for wishing me a Happy Blogiversary.  I plan on drawing the name from the comments either this evening or tomorrow.  So very soon, you will know what's going in the box.  I can't wait to find out what's going in there also!!  :)

 

My, My how time flies......

 

It just seems like the other day I started this blog.  I never would have imagined in a thousand years, that I would now have so many new and wonderful friends.  Y'all Rock!!!  I can remember when I was excited about getting one or two comments, and those were from family.  Now sometimes I might get THIRTY, and I have SEVENTY people following me!!!! I really can't believe it, I mean I really am amazed that y'all keep coming back! 

Today my blog turns 1 year old!!!! Yep January 9, 2008 is the day I started this thing.  Ya know if I am not mistaken today is one of my best friends from my childhood's birthday, so Sonja if you are reading this Happy Birthday!

Let me give you a little background to how this all got started.......

~~~Scooby Doo Dream Sequence~~~

 

I was at the grocery store a little over a year ago, it was probably about October.  As I was grocery shopping, I was on the phone with my sister Lisa.  Here is our conversation (or at least something close to it):

Lisa:  You need to go to this website

Me:  Really what is it (Looking at the date on the milk)

Lisa:  Its called The Pioneer Woman, she writes about her life on a ranch with her Husband Marlboro Man

Me: (stops dead in my tracks in front of the cheese, puts hand on hips and say) What? you want me to go to some website about a pioneer woman???  What does she want me to do grind my own wheat or something?!?!?!?  (Lisa has her own wheat grinder or at least she used to)

(In my head I am picturing an older lady and her husband who smokes Marlboro's of course and live on their ranch, and for some reason my sister is fascinated by this.)

Lisa:  No!!!! You wont have to grind your own wheat!  Just go to the website, your gonna like it.

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So at work a couple of days later I go to the website www.thepioneerwoman.com

and I am hooked.  Apparently like a gazillion other people in the world!  I can get no work done, I am laughing so hard and loud at work that people are coming to check on me, so I make them go to the website and then they are laughing, and so on and so forth.  After a couple of months of reading her website, I started clicking on these interesting things called comments.  I started going to the peoples sites who left them.  That is when I realized that, "Hey, I can do this I think.  Lets give it a shot."

 

And a blog was born......

Not a very good one, but it was a blog.  I didn't even know what to write about, but I trudged on.

Lets read my very first post:

"Well this is my first post, and I don't have any idea what I'm doing. Apparently I am supposed to write down my thoughts, my ideas, my dreams. Lets see how long I last at doing that.
A little about me. I am a busy mom of three wonderful kids, sorry children (they are not goats (:  ), who keep me extremely busy. On top of that I work full time. Thank goodness for my husband without him, I would be crazier than I already am.
So any way that's all , because I don't have anything else to say write now."

Boy that was some great stuff!!! (Can you hear the sarcasm?) I mean since that time I have called my kids, kids a billion times.  Am I a hypocrite or what?!?!

and this is the one comment I had like two months later, right after I met my BBFF Jennifer.

jennifer said...

HEY, I'm out here! I had to read your first ever post (do you do that, read the first one on a person's site so you can see how styles have changed etc? or is this another weird Jennifer thing - wait, don't answer that). I'm totally done stalking you now, and I think I may go clean....I don't know, SOMETHING. Jennifer

I do have to admit I am really really surprised I lasted as long as I have, but oh am I so glad I have.  The experience this has brought me, the friendships are just unbelievably awesome!!!

God has used this blog world in some pretty amazing ways, and y'all I can't wait to see what happens this next year!

Now I am going to do something I have not done in all of my long one year blogging career.  I am going to have a give away.  This give away is a little different though, because I don't know what I am going to give away. 

The only thing I am for sure of is this.  Whatever I give away, will fit in this box:

 

Its about the size of a shoe box, and yes I know its a Christmas box.  You can always use the box next year.  Seriously though I don't  have any idea what I am going to put in it yet.   It will come to me though.  Also I will try my very hardest to get the gift out in a reasonable time frame.  I am a horrible procrastinator, so hopefully it wont be next Christmas when you get this box, and whatever mystery prize comes with it.

So entering is simple just leave me a comment telling me how wonderful I am.  Hahahaha Just kidding!!!

Just leave a comment, I don't care what you say.  Well I do care about what you say, y'all mean alot to me, I just don't want you cussing or being potty mouthed.  Not that, that has ever happened before.  Oh just go leave a comment!  :)

Anywho, Happy Blog Birthday, Blogiversary to me!!!!!!!!

 

Oh Bless My Ever Lovin' Heart

Well its back in all its glory, and I am here, ready to embarrass myself and throw anyone else under the bus with me if they get to close. :)

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Ya Know I just really don't know what to say or do. So I think I will just hold my head in my hands and say "Oh My Gosh, I can not believe I looked like that!"

I had a MULLET!!!! And, And really bad glasses!!!!!!! And look at the V-neck sweater and the button up oxford shirt!!!!! What may I ask was up with that!!!!!!

Then come spring time apparently by the look of the back drop, I opted for my lovely Laura Ingles wanna be dress. WITH SOCKS!!!!!!!!!!

THEN!!! THEN!!!!..............

(Amanda, Robin, and yours truly poodle girl)

Apparently I stuck my finger in a light socket and dyed that yellow sweater green! Cause here I am AGAIN in a V-Neck sweater and a button up oxford shirt! I shudder to even think of the shoes I probably wore with any of those outfits.

I think I am gonna need therapy after this Fro' Me To You. ~sigh~

Ya know what I think???

I think God gives us those awkward stages to prepare us for the future. Cause NOBODY, I don't care how you think you look now wants to go back to looking like that!

For more events that were captured on film, and forever more shaped our lives, join us over at Kristen's. It just might be therapeutic.