Saturday, November 28, 2009
Black Friday
Well, Black Friday was a blast!!! Let me give you a little background on my addiction to Black Friday. For me, it's not so much about the sales (although I LOVE me a good sale). It's about keeping a memory of mama alive. When I was growing up, we had NO money. So, if mama couldn't get what we wanted on sale, we just didn't get it. Every year we would go through all of the ads, split our lists up and then a big group of us would go shopping. We had a blast. Being so far away from my family, I don't get to do a lot of my traditions anymore. This is one that I refuse to give up. There have been years when Chris and I were flat broke that I have gotten up and just gone and stood off to the side and WATCHED everyone at the sales. Crazy... yes!!!! But sometimes you do whatever it takes to get by!!! This year, there wasn't anything that we just HAD to have. This was one of the years that it was far more about tradition and "girl time" than anything else.
Celeste and I left for St. George at 2:30am. We got some INSANELY good deals. I'm almost completely done with our Christmas shopping. YAY!!! I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time. You know.. it's never a good sign when you go to a sale and there is an ambulance parked outside of the store "just in case" hahaha
I posted this on Facebook too but Celeste and I laughed and laughed and laughed about this. Seriously?? We want to know who thought of this. Cruel joke or smart marketing?
I think we shopped for about 12 hours before we both crashed!!! When I got home, Chris went to a movie and the kids and I hung out together. When he got home I got to play with my new toy a little bit. (a new camera) I just love these pictures. He and Chris were leg wrestling and Preston was laughing sooooo hard!! Love it!
Right now, I'm watching the Gators play FSU (yet another one of my family traditions) Chris put Christmas lights on the house today. I can't wait until dark to see how they look.
IT'S CHRISTMAS NOW!!!!
Celeste and I left for St. George at 2:30am. We got some INSANELY good deals. I'm almost completely done with our Christmas shopping. YAY!!! I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time. You know.. it's never a good sign when you go to a sale and there is an ambulance parked outside of the store "just in case" hahaha
I posted this on Facebook too but Celeste and I laughed and laughed and laughed about this. Seriously?? We want to know who thought of this. Cruel joke or smart marketing?
I think we shopped for about 12 hours before we both crashed!!! When I got home, Chris went to a movie and the kids and I hung out together. When he got home I got to play with my new toy a little bit. (a new camera) I just love these pictures. He and Chris were leg wrestling and Preston was laughing sooooo hard!! Love it!
Right now, I'm watching the Gators play FSU (yet another one of my family traditions) Chris put Christmas lights on the house today. I can't wait until dark to see how they look.IT'S CHRISTMAS NOW!!!!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
New Hair
Yeah I know it's lame to post this but oh well... Can I just say how much I love my new hair??? LOVE IT!!! Shanette freaking rocks! Not my favorite picture by any means but oh well.... after the week we've had, I don't really care!!!It's been crazy! First Shelby got into trouble at school.... (I will say this though, it says a lot about her and 1 other little girl out of the crowd that they were HYSTERICAL , while the others couldn't understand why they were so upset because they all get into trouble all the time) Then that same day, Morgan had trouble on the bus. One of my favorite girls was pulled from the program that I work at and I didn't get to say goodbye to her. Morgan has strep throat. We're starting into the rush of the holidays, which quite frankly are really rough on me (homesick, missing mama like crazy)....... Needless to say, I've had it this week! But at least I have good hair damn it!! (Try to see the positive in everything haha)
Monday, November 23, 2009
New Moon
Sunday, we went on a double family date with our good friends. We took these squealing, hyper little girls to see New Moon. It was the 2nd time seeing the movie for Sonda and I, but we sucked it up and tortured ourselves through it again.....oh the things we do for our families lol Anyway, the girls had so much fun decorating t-shirts before the movie. I swear they are growing up too fast. I can't believe that I've listened to my 2 little baby girls talking non stop about how "hot " Jacob was in the movie. haha
Preston wasn't exactly thrilled about having a "New Moon" shirt so he pulled out a "parkway shirts" (that's the name of Chris dealership and what we call their junk clothes) and had me write "Indiana Jones" on the front lol Poor little guy was thoroughly disappointed that he didn't get to see Indiana Jones even though his shirt said it on it. lol
Notice all of the "_____ is HOT" on the t-shirts.... growing up WAY too fast!!! lol
Preston wasn't exactly thrilled about having a "New Moon" shirt so he pulled out a "parkway shirts" (that's the name of Chris dealership and what we call their junk clothes) and had me write "Indiana Jones" on the front lol Poor little guy was thoroughly disappointed that he didn't get to see Indiana Jones even though his shirt said it on it. lol
Notice all of the "_____ is HOT" on the t-shirts.... growing up WAY too fast!!! lol
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Long Story!
If you spend any time getting to know me, you will quickly learn that I love to shop! I like to shop online, in stores, window shop.....you get the picture.... there is only 1 exception and that is GROCERY shopping. I hate it!!!
Today, I saw a glimpse of what hell must be like....Grocery shopping at Wal-Mart at noon on the Saturday before Thanksgiving with 3 hungry and tired kids. HELL!! ON!!EARTH!!!
Let me describe our adventure:
We’re driving in the car. All 3 kids strapped into the back seat. The radio blaring to try to drown out the constant bickering coming from the backseat. But for the most part things are going ok. We’re approaching WalMart when all of a sudden I hear:
“(BIG GASP) PUPPIES!!!! Can we get one?”
“No”
“AWE, PLEASE” (in unison)
“NO”
I pull into the parking lot, trying to avoid the whining and begging coming from the backseat. When all of a sudden this blue haired bat in a Cadillac decides she is going to make a U turn right in front of the General Merchandise Entrance. Have you ever tried to turn one of those boats around?? There’s no such thing as a U-Turn in one of those things. I swear she must have done a 400 point turn. Because of the way she was doing this, no one could get by her. No one could get in or out of the store. You couldn’t back up because cars were trying to get into the parking lot, and the cars trying to leave the parking lot couldn’t exit the aisles to make room for others. So after what seemed like an eternity, this woman finally gets turned around. And I’ll be damned if she didn’t park her car right in front of the store entrance and GET OUT!....
I should have just cut my losses right then and gone home, but NOOOOO! I had to actually go inside! I mean after all I’d just spent 10 minutes waiting in line so that I could find a parking space.
So, I drag all 3 of my kids into the store, telling them if they’re good I will let them get a SMALL treat of some sort. (No, I am not above bribery!!!) I walk in, grab a cart, and make it about 20 ft. before the jacked up wheel starts to drive me crazy. I make Shelby take it back and get me a new one. This of course starts the bickering and arguing over who wants to do it and how it’s not fair that Shelby gets to do everything. I give them the “look of death” and they calm down. I reach into my purse to get my list.....forgot my dang list. (Apparently, I forgot to put my grocery list on my list of things to take to town with me lol) Oh well, I’ll just wing it!!!
Have you ever been to Wal-Mart on the Saturday before Thanksgiving? No?!?! Well let me tell you: that is not the time to just “wing it”. I typically organize my grocery list by aisles, starting in the front and working my way back. I bet I made a hundred trips up and down those aisles trying to get all the things that I could remember on my list. Every time we would turn down an aisle one of the kids would say, “We already went down this aisle.”
Finally, I decided that I had everything (or at least that I'd had enough) and found the shortest lane that I could find. Now I don’t know how your WalMart is, but ours has 50 checkout stands but they only have about 10 open at any given time. So I’m in the shortest lane possible. I dig out my cell phone and text Celeste, “I’m stuck in Wal-Mart hell.” Oh little did I know........
Ok, here’s another little tidbit about me. I am extremely anal about how I unload my cart. I have to organize everything. I know I’m not the only person that does this, but it drives Chris crazy. So. I have all of my groceries organized on the belt, when the cashier begins scanning items. As he starts scanning the groceries, he starts digging through my little groups and organizing them differently. For instance he was sorting through everything and scanning all of the fruit together, all the veggies together, all of the BOXED pasta products separately from the BOXED RICE products etc. As I watch him I start to think that there has got to be a hidden camera somewhere because this cannot be for real!! Then he holds something up:
“What is this?”
“Its zuccini.”
(pulling out the produce chart to get the barcode) “What would I find it under?”
“Z”
“It’s not on there.”
“Try squash.”
“Oh. Oh. Yep. There is it!”
Holds up yellow squash. “Yellow...Y”
“That’s probably under squash too.”
“Oh yeah it is. Look at that.”
At this point my attitude has completely changed and it’s taking everything I have not to laugh. Throughout the whole process, Preston had been trying to get the guy to scan his Hot Wheels and then give it back to him. The guy kept picking it up and tossing it farther back, and Preston would go get it and take it right back up there and try to get him to scan it. Finally the guy says, “I’m not ready for that yet.” Well...apparently the look on my face was to much for Shelby to handle because she completely lost it! I pulled her over to me so that she was standing under the purse shelf (yes I know it’s supposed to be for writing checks, but really?? Who writes checks anymore) and she buried her face into my stomach while she laughed hysterically. I kid you not, we were in the checkout line for 1/2 an hour. This guy was the nicest guy you could ever meet, but my heavens........
When we got home, we started telling Chris about our experience. Once again Shelby was in tears from laughing so hard. When we told him about the toy car Shelby said, “Dad you should have seen Mom’s face. She looked like ‘Seriously?’” and then started laughing again. HAHAHAHA
Today, I saw a glimpse of what hell must be like....Grocery shopping at Wal-Mart at noon on the Saturday before Thanksgiving with 3 hungry and tired kids. HELL!! ON!!EARTH!!!
Let me describe our adventure:
We’re driving in the car. All 3 kids strapped into the back seat. The radio blaring to try to drown out the constant bickering coming from the backseat. But for the most part things are going ok. We’re approaching WalMart when all of a sudden I hear:
“(BIG GASP) PUPPIES!!!! Can we get one?”
“No”
“AWE, PLEASE” (in unison)
“NO”
I pull into the parking lot, trying to avoid the whining and begging coming from the backseat. When all of a sudden this blue haired bat in a Cadillac decides she is going to make a U turn right in front of the General Merchandise Entrance. Have you ever tried to turn one of those boats around?? There’s no such thing as a U-Turn in one of those things. I swear she must have done a 400 point turn. Because of the way she was doing this, no one could get by her. No one could get in or out of the store. You couldn’t back up because cars were trying to get into the parking lot, and the cars trying to leave the parking lot couldn’t exit the aisles to make room for others. So after what seemed like an eternity, this woman finally gets turned around. And I’ll be damned if she didn’t park her car right in front of the store entrance and GET OUT!....
I should have just cut my losses right then and gone home, but NOOOOO! I had to actually go inside! I mean after all I’d just spent 10 minutes waiting in line so that I could find a parking space.
So, I drag all 3 of my kids into the store, telling them if they’re good I will let them get a SMALL treat of some sort. (No, I am not above bribery!!!) I walk in, grab a cart, and make it about 20 ft. before the jacked up wheel starts to drive me crazy. I make Shelby take it back and get me a new one. This of course starts the bickering and arguing over who wants to do it and how it’s not fair that Shelby gets to do everything. I give them the “look of death” and they calm down. I reach into my purse to get my list.....forgot my dang list. (Apparently, I forgot to put my grocery list on my list of things to take to town with me lol) Oh well, I’ll just wing it!!!
Have you ever been to Wal-Mart on the Saturday before Thanksgiving? No?!?! Well let me tell you: that is not the time to just “wing it”. I typically organize my grocery list by aisles, starting in the front and working my way back. I bet I made a hundred trips up and down those aisles trying to get all the things that I could remember on my list. Every time we would turn down an aisle one of the kids would say, “We already went down this aisle.”
Finally, I decided that I had everything (or at least that I'd had enough) and found the shortest lane that I could find. Now I don’t know how your WalMart is, but ours has 50 checkout stands but they only have about 10 open at any given time. So I’m in the shortest lane possible. I dig out my cell phone and text Celeste, “I’m stuck in Wal-Mart hell.” Oh little did I know........
Ok, here’s another little tidbit about me. I am extremely anal about how I unload my cart. I have to organize everything. I know I’m not the only person that does this, but it drives Chris crazy. So. I have all of my groceries organized on the belt, when the cashier begins scanning items. As he starts scanning the groceries, he starts digging through my little groups and organizing them differently. For instance he was sorting through everything and scanning all of the fruit together, all the veggies together, all of the BOXED pasta products separately from the BOXED RICE products etc. As I watch him I start to think that there has got to be a hidden camera somewhere because this cannot be for real!! Then he holds something up:
“What is this?”
“Its zuccini.”
(pulling out the produce chart to get the barcode) “What would I find it under?”
“Z”
“It’s not on there.”
“Try squash.”
“Oh. Oh. Yep. There is it!”
Holds up yellow squash. “Yellow...Y”
“That’s probably under squash too.”
“Oh yeah it is. Look at that.”
At this point my attitude has completely changed and it’s taking everything I have not to laugh. Throughout the whole process, Preston had been trying to get the guy to scan his Hot Wheels and then give it back to him. The guy kept picking it up and tossing it farther back, and Preston would go get it and take it right back up there and try to get him to scan it. Finally the guy says, “I’m not ready for that yet.” Well...apparently the look on my face was to much for Shelby to handle because she completely lost it! I pulled her over to me so that she was standing under the purse shelf (yes I know it’s supposed to be for writing checks, but really?? Who writes checks anymore) and she buried her face into my stomach while she laughed hysterically. I kid you not, we were in the checkout line for 1/2 an hour. This guy was the nicest guy you could ever meet, but my heavens........
When we got home, we started telling Chris about our experience. Once again Shelby was in tears from laughing so hard. When we told him about the toy car Shelby said, “Dad you should have seen Mom’s face. She looked like ‘Seriously?’” and then started laughing again. HAHAHAHA
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Meebos
Shelby and Chloe share a birthday. This year they each wanted the same thing, so they gave each other a Meebo. Here's how they work. They are basically a Tamagachi but inside of that cylinder is a Meebo. Once you complete all of the levels of care, the cylinder pops open and reveals your Meebo. There are 7 levels and it has taken these girls ALL month (plus some help from mom and Sonda) to get these things to open. And this is what they got.......Are ya kidding me????? Shelby said, "Well that's disappointing." when it first opened and she saw it. After a few minutes she held it up and said, "Mom, I feel like a mother that just gave birth to an ugly child." .......ok, I seriously thought I would fall over laughing!!! I have no idea where she came up with that.Look at these things. Sonda and I decided that they look like a really bad Home Ec. project! I mean seriously.... $20+ plus a months worth of work and listening to the stupid music and beeping that these things make (there's no volume control on them either) and this is what you get???????? Sheesh! I will admit that we have laughed hysterically over these things all weekend, but I still don't think they are worth all of the hassle! haha
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