Back to School

The kiddies went back to school today! YIPPEE! I think they were getting kind of bored. Peyton was FOR SURE ready to go back. Griffin notsomuch. But whatever. That’s just how it is I guess.

I forgot to mention about Peyton loosing all of his teeth at one time! They just kept falling out and now he’s all snaggly! haha! Actually he lost one of his front teeth, then he lost the tooth on the other side of the other front tooth..so he looked like a pirate! Then he lost the other front tooth and sometime in there he lost another top tooth. I think it’s cute!

Reece actually started her new room at school last week. I was nervous because the teacher she has has only been there a few months, but ReeRee seems to love her!

And then there’s Griffin! Apparently he HATES school and he HATES me. ha. I try not to let the kids get under my skin when they say ugly things to me because they are mad at me but sometimes…like I don’t know after I’ve spent a TON of money on them for things, it really jabs me when they are mean! I also tell myself that if they think I’m mean every now and then, then that just means I’m doing my job as a mom! Annnnddd this is how he was really looking at me all morning…

If anything, I’m honest!

Road Rage

Most of y’all I’m sure saw my tweet yesterday about almost getting shot. I really wasn’t kidding, I thought the big ole black lady was indeed going to shoot me or harm me in some way.

I was out running errands for work yesterday and was in a turn lane to turn left onto a main road. For you local peeps I was on University Blvd. making a left onto Lurleen Wallace. Well, for umpteen gagillion years now there has only been one turn lane there. And unless you are looking down at the road you have NO idea that they made the lane beside the main turn lane a turn or go straight lane now!! The traffic was too heavy for me to even see the road in front of me…so I had no clue. Well the lady in the lane to my right started driving straight and then decided that she was going to turn left and almost hit me, so I blew the horn…to keep her from hitting me. Once we turned we were at a red light and she was in front on me. She proceeded to open her door and get out and walk towards my car.

I kid you NOT, my friends!

So I ignored her but acted like I was reaching for something like, I don’t know, a gun! She then got back in her car and said something to her son, who looked to be about 10 years old. He jumped up in the back window and SHOT ME A BIRD!!!!!

I do not kid. That’s how we need to be teaching our kids. Way to go.

Our Weekend

I’m going to try my best to get back on the bloggy train! I’ve just had blogger’s block I guess! We went to the beach for several days last week and didn’t really even take enough pictures to do a blog post with! Lazy, maybe?

My step-sister, Katie, is getting married in a few weeks. Allison and I are hosting a lingerie shower for her at my house! Sounds fun! And it will be except I still don’t feel settled enough! So I spent a lot of my weekend trying to settle in a little more!

The kids wanted to cook, so we did! They made Whoopie Pies…which were Yummo! And they also made those little english muffin pizzas that we made a while back! Well, I should say Reece made the whoopie pies because the only thing the boys wanted to do was put the sprinkles on!

Yesterday was Open House at the boys’ new school! I was SO nervous because they don’t post the class rolls outside of the school anywhere beforehand. You have to just walk to where the classrooms your grade is and the list is posted outside the door! Insane? I think so! It really ended up not being too bad, once we figured out where the classrooms might be. The teachers were SUPER nice and very welcoming for us newbies! Peyton’s teacher actually taught Allison! I remember her from elementary school and she was so nice and a great teacher so I’m excited about that! She was also excited when she found out that Peyton came from the same school she used to teach at! :)

Here’s to my favorite 2nd and 3rd grader having a fantabulous new school year!!!!

Wordless Wednesday:Sassy Crab!

House decorating: Reece’s Room!

Let the decorating begin! :)

I’m pretty much done with Reece’s room. For me, that was the easiest room in the house. She’s at an easy age to decorate for and girly things are not hard to find! I already mentioned that her room was done in owls and we finished her mural last night so now I can post pics! When I bought her bedding at Target they had these sticky wall decals that matched the bedding. I usually don’t go for that sort of thing but the owls were just too cute to pass up…so I bought it.

Here’s what we started with… And a fresh out of the tub princess to help… Hubs did most of it on his own..go figure.

Sleepy little helper… She was SO excited to help him! And the finished wall Close up of the SUPER cute lamp! The mushroom pull sold me!

Sweet girls ready for bed! Daisy is yawning, not screaming! haha Chippie chip helped too, but she STILL hates my camera…

I still have little things to do around the room but for the most part it’s done and the princess LOVES it!

Wordless Wednesday-I Gots the Fever!

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Oh the joys of a new house…

Oh geeze! I have a mess! Let me start out by saying that when I said we were redoing our house that we were moving into I mean we redid pretty much everything! New roof, new heat/cool system, added a bathroom, new paint, new flooring, new cabinets…lots of stuff. Pretty much the only thing we left alone was the hot water heater because it seemed to be fine.

This morning I woke up, showered, took the little dogs outside to potty and started putting on my make-up. Chippie went back to bed and Daisy was running around the house like a maniac trying to see which kid she could wake up. Everybody else in the house was still asleep when all of a sudden I heard a really loud noise and then a gush of water and then just water water water…

Scared the bejesus outta me!

So I ran around the house trying to figure out what was going on. I got to the laundry room, flung the door open to a room FULL of water and water was gushing I mean GUSHING from the top of the hot water heater. I screamed for Josh, he came running and turned it off.

The plumbers were there within the hour and now it is fixed.

Thank goodness because I HATE cold showers!!!

And now let me tell you how flippin fabulous my husband is! You know how I talked about allllll those boxes yesterday? Well, when I got home from work, the kids rooms were unpacked! I heart him. I honestly would rather him do the unpacking, especially the kids rooms because he is a really good organizer and yours truly is NOT. I wish wish wish I was but I’m just not an organized person…don’t get me wrong, I LOVE for things to have a place…I just have issues finding the best way for them to have a place. Does that even make sense?

And speaking of Officer Hubby, he goes back to work tonight. Boo. He’s been off for a little over a week and I think he should be a stay at home dad! I kid.