Constant Changes. UPDATED

I too have decided to try and create my own header just like my friend Jennisa. I also have Photoshop and istockphoto to thank. HOWEVER, I am not so certain that I am 100% happy with how it looks so be on the lookout for changes, many, many changes as I too am just learning.

SCRATCH ALL THAT.

I am in desperate need of a blog makeover and am waiting for something to miraculously happen.Until then, it will stay boring as heck.

Oh Me. Oh My.

• "My do it myself"
• "My full mommy"
• "My no like"
• "My can't see ... Hoya!"
• "My all done....Mommy"
• "My see it" (Say please Landen, "Please")
• "My get down" (from either the able or if you're holding him)

My sweet little chatter-box.

Slacker McSlackin'

...yep, that's me! I have not been to the gym since I fell an sprained my ankle. Now, it was only slightly sprained so I could probablly go back now, but I just don't feel like it. Why ? Well, here are a few reasons:

~I want to sleep in.
~It's cold outside.
~Because sometimes my honey-bee is in bed with us and he can be a good snuggler.
~My car won't even slightly get close to being warmed up by the time I arrive at the gym (we live 3-4 blocks away, yes I could walk but like I said before, it's cold.)
~My body has been really achy lately.
~Because it's hard work and I am enjoying being lazy, even if that does mean I have to stay fat.

Maybe, just maybe I will have another burst of motivation to go but until then, I have to live with being a failure at fitness and I'm okay with that.... for now.

Bang. Bang.

I haven't had bangs since midddle school but I thought, "What the hell, why not."

So..... bangs: Yey or

(It's ok if you say Ney)

Lazy Boxer meet SpotBot

Rib popping?

Well apparently it CAN be done.
Yesterday morning when I was trying to get Landen and I out the door so I could get him to school and I could get to work on time he thought it would be funny if he hid behind the couch where mommy couldn't reach him.
I bent down to tell him to come out from behind there or I was leaving without him (I wouldn't seriously leave without him although I was highly contemplating it!) and when I stood back up I felt a pop but though I just pulled a muscle really bad.
All day it hurt and I couldn't turn my head to the left hardly at all.
Today it was still so incredibly painful I HAD to go see my chiropractor, and she said I popped a rib out of place!
WHAT?! Who does that, and how is that even possible?
Well she popped it back in and that was some pain right there. But no need to fear the RIB is back where it belongs!

Boy oh Boy, is he all BOY!

Lol..... and that he is. My sweet lil Land loves his trucks, jumping of of things (his mommy doesn't like that very much at all), wrestling with the dog, chasing the cat, playing with his sword and being rough any way he can. Although I must admit, he loves to watch Noggin. It doesn't worry me AS MUCH because I know that Noggin channel is geared towards pre-school learning and cognitive development.
He's 2 now and those "TRYING 2's" are here. He is starting to push a little, he doesn't always listen like I would like him to (I know wishful thinking), he gets mad easy and knows how to throw a fairly good tantrum, he throws his toys everywhere and doesn't always help me pick them up. When I try to get him ready for school he thinks it's funny to go and hide behind the couch where I can't get him, and this morning, trying to get him out from behind there I pulled a muscle in my back, yeah it hurts, and it hurts bad.
Sometimes he stresses me out, and I hate that I get that way b/c there are so many other families in this work that would love to feel stressed out by their child but they can't b/c they are either sick, can't have kids, or maybe even they have lost a child. So I can't help but feel overwhelmingly guilty.
This post really has no significant purpose, I am just typing to pass a little time and to try to relieve a little stress.

-14...

... -14! That is the temperature outside right now. Yuck.

Baby steps...

Ok... so I know (as most mothers do) when Landen is going #2. I am constantly asking him if he has to go potty, or if he wants to go sit on the potty and the reaction is always a head shake followed by a "No."
Tonight before Landen was getting into the bath, I got him undressed and asked him if he wanted to sit on the potty. HE DIDN'T SAY NO!!!! So I gently coaxed him onto his little potty and he sat down and just sat there, patiently waiting for something to happen, as was his mommy.
Waiting.....

... still waiting...

...and a little more waiting.

So nothing happened and I praised him so much for even just making the attempt, put him in the tub and then he pooped.

I am SOOOOOOOOOO PROUD of my little dude.

I LOVE YOU LAND!

Woke up this morning and saw this.....

Look at those clouds! It's just like a wall, kinda' creepy if you ask me!


EDITED (1-19-08), those are bluffs on the lower part of the screen, however look at the top of the picture where it's a straight line across.... THOSE are the clouds.....

Kitchen Blogging

....is much better than basement blogging! Yah for new laptops!!!!!!!!!!!

GO...PACK...GO!

Yes... I AM considered a CHEESEHEAD, I am from Wisco, and we LOVE THE PACK!

We are gearing up for Sundays' Game!!!!

GO...PACK...GO!!!

May god forgive me for being so selfish...

..... about whining about the spill that I had yesterday at the bank with only scraped knees when there are clearly other people in this world who struggle to get by and are in much more need of prayers.
I have crossed this blog many a times and as I was reading some of the blog entries I just started to cry, it tugs at my heart so much to know what this family has gone through. This family is in much need of prayers and support. If you have a chance please go and visit. and just read the story of how much faith and strength they have.

Contest time

My favorite MCK Mama is doing a contest again! (YES!) If you would like to participate go here
it'll be worth it, I promise.

If you want your jeans to be in style, just give them to me....

...because I can go to the bank for you and step down off the curb, twist my ankle and slam down on my knees and slide a little ways, all in front of EVERYONE at the bank, to get "instyle, ripped jeans".

Say What?

* Don't forget to pause the music to listen to the video *


This is what Landen has learned to say after watching football with his daddy and Uncle Chad. As you can tell Landen wanted a "Boys Only" room, I was forced to leave by a 2 year old.

Deep in thought

Dang.....

... they're cute.

I have a confession to make......

...I have gone out and purchased something for myself. I always buy things for Landen and sometimes I will buy things for Trav, but I usually don't have to buy things for him b/c he just goes out and gets what he wants, lol.
We have a PC at home and I love it, it does it's job and that's that! Although, it's big and bulky but it's downstairs and I hate not being able to sit in the same room as my boys and play around with my blog or Photoshop, etc.
SO........here is what I have purchased..... isn't she pretty?

On another note.... THANK YOU to all of you who gave me advice on what to take to put the smack-down on the cold that is about to try to attack my body. I decided to take Zicam Cold and Flu. I took the one with the pre-measured amounts of medicine spoons, and it WORKED! So far it has worked and I will be taking it as suggested. I am going to keep all the suggestions that everyone gave me so in the future I can TRY THEM ALL! I say that like I look forward to catching a cold..... trust me, I'm not.
So thank you, thank you, thank you , and THANK YOU!!!!!!!

You didn't know this BUT.....

.... I used to be a smoker. We never smoked in the house or around our child and I quit while I was pregnant. However I had managed to start the bad habit up again.
I am proud to announce that I have been CIGARRETTE FREE FOR A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!


On another note I am starting to get a cold, I can feel it coming on, do any of you have any suggestions on what I could start taking now to make it so that it wont get so bad?????

Thanks ladies, you are the best!

Wordlss Wednesday & Posh?

Kieran honey, this is for you!

(These were taken with my cellphone, really crappola quality)