A Randomness Update...

Not much new and exciting here. Other than, if anyone has been paying attention, you know that I did not post anything on Tutti-Frutti's 18 month birthday. Ugg...We did take pictures. I did think about trying to get something online but the truth of the matter is, my computer has been going nutzo on me lately. I think we finally managed to get it worked out. It had some kind of crazy virus or a cold or a cough or something. Anytime I signed on to my profile, it sent me all sorts of warnings and other crazy random things. I was honestly afraid to put pictures on it, I did not know if by some freak accident it would wipe my card clean or if by opening my picture program it might flub with it. So, I felt better just not taking any chances.

I went and got an anti-virus program and at first that did not even seem to be working. I was on the verge of calling in the professionals but miraculously, I think we are back up and running. My last post was done on my mom's computer and a few of the other ones with no pictures was done from my phone. Boy was that fun.

Anyway, I am hoping to get a little time in the next little while to get the pics up and update you on how our little guy is progressing. He actually does not have his 18 month well check until the 23rd or so. I might just wait until then and do an "official" post. Of course by then, he will be almost 19 months old. Oh well.

We are on the count down to spring break! Woo hoo! Cannot wait. No real plans as of yet, I do have a friend from high school coming in for part of the week, her boys are 12 and 8 so I know the kids will have a great time.

My plan is to NOT have to get up at the crack of dawn, get dressed and go somewhere. I can count on getting up at the crack of dawn thanks to the 2 little guys but I think it is safe to assume that at least I will not have to get ready and leave before daylight, lets hope anyway!

The weather here has been psycho. I heard something funny from a friend on facebook. I think it went something like, we live in the bi-polar state. It snows one week then we are wearing shorts and running the a/c the next. Crazy weather.

So...how are you doing?

5 Question Friday...on Sunday

Rules: Copy and paste the following questions to your blog post, answer them, then head over to Mama M.'s and link up! If you'd like, grab the code for the blog hop...but you don't have to!! She would also love it if you'd link back to her, Mama M., so people know where to go for the next go around!


If you don't have a blog, but want to join in the fun...feel free to post your answers in the comments of any of the blogs along the way!


It's a fun, easy post and it's all about YOU!

1. What's your guilty pleasure?


2. What is your favorite TV series?


3. Can you speak any foreign languages?


4. How many pairs of shoes do you own?


5. What's your favorite kind of M&M's...peanut, almond, straight up regular, etc.?

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1. What's your guilty pleasure?

Humm, that is a hard one...I would have to say my iPhone. With it, I hardly ever get on the actual computer anymore, hence the lack of blogging lately. :( I can FaceBook, blog and blog hop from it. I love it! My next would be Dirty Dancing! I love me some Dirty Dancing!!! I have the vhs and dvd, yet every time it comes on tv, cable or not, you will find me sitting and watching it! Uh, like right now...hehe.

2. What is your favorite TV series?

There are a few actually. We of course dvr them all. I like Desperate Housewives, Extreme Home Makeover, LOST, (I love to hate it and hate to love it!)19 Kids and Counting and Highschool Reunion. I have a love hate relationship with the Bachelor and Bachelorette too. I can take it or leave it though.

3. Can you speak any foreign languages?

Haha...I wish you could call it that. I can understand some but hardly speak it at all. I can read it better than understand spoken or speak. So, I will go with no. Sadly I do not.

4. How many pairs of shoes do you own?

Can I plead the 5th or just say..."enough" and leave it at that? Hehe. Actually, since having children, I have toned down my shoe fettish. BUT, I am guilty of having a children's shoe fettish now. Humm. I do have quite a few pairs though. My new favorites are my black Uggs though. I. Love. Them. 'Nuff said.

5. What's your favorite kind of M&M's...peanut, almond, straight up regular, etc.?

I am really not a huge fan of candy. That said, I like the little mini M&M's and I will eat the individual sized bag occasionally of the plain M&M's or the peanut M&M's. There is something about going to the movies though, I have a desire to have peanut M&M's then. (with a pickle!)

Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not me! Monday, where we can be brutally honest and live to tell about it.

I have not been waiting all day for a phone call that was scheduled for between 9am and 10am this morning. Nope, I never have to wait on anything, espcially a phone call. I have way more important things to be doing...like showering!

When 9am rolled around and passed on to 10am, I did not get a little worked up, wondering why on earth my call had not come in. Nope, not me. I am a very patient person.

When 11am rolled around, I was not getting more agitated and did not call the office and find out that they were running a "little" behind.

I had not been neglecting to take a shower for fear of getting in and the phone ringing. Nope, like I said, I have way more important things to be doing besides sitting around waiting for the phone to ring.

When 12pm rolled around, I did not assume that the office was probably closed for lunch. But instead of getting into the shower, I did not decide just to read my book since Tutti-Frutti was napping. Nope, I jumped right on the chance to get that shower.

When 1pm rolled around, I was not still reading my book. Nope, I had showered, dried and fixed my hair and gotten dressed by now!

When 2pm finally rolled around, Tutti-Frutti was not up from his nap and fussing. Nope, he is always in a good mood. Since I had yet to receive the phone call, I did not decided that I really needed to get a move on. I mean seriously, it is 2pm and I have not (really) so much as taken a shower.

2:15, I did not decide to just lean over the tub and wash my hair so I could hear the phone. Nope, really? Was the phone call THIS important that I was willing to just wash my hair instead of showering?!?

I was not so afraid that the phone would ring while I was washing my hair and that I would not hear it that I put it on the back edge of the tub risking it falling into the running water. Nope, I LOVE my phone too much to risk that for any kind of phone call.

When 2:30pm rolled around, I did not just resign to the fact that I was probably just not going to get the phone call today. Nope, they said they would call today, between 9 and 10, I am sure they were just running a "bit" late. I then did not just decide to hop in the tub really quick and wash off.

While in the tub, I did not put my beloved phone on the edge once again for fear of missing the call. Nope, remember I would never risk my phone falling in water!

Since the phone had not rang yet, there is no chance whatsoever that the (you guessed it) phone rang while I was IN the tub bathing. Nope, that did not happen.

I had not been looking so forward to this call all day that I just dried my hands off and answered it right from the tub. Nope, I would never talk on the phone while I was in the tub. Who does that?!?

When I was put on hold while on said phone call, there is no way that I just continued to wash myself either. When the lady came back, I did not continue to wash and rinse as if nothing else were going on. Nope, that would have been rude.

I did not get out of the tub, dry off and dress all while on the phone. Nope. Never.

Oh yea, and the lady on the other end of the phone? Well, she never even had a clue what was going on on the other end of the phone! :)

Happy Monday! Head on over to MckMama's and see what everone else has not been doing...

The Sheriff's back in town...

and he sure is cute!

Last week at Boog's school, they had western days. They could choose to wear their cowboy/cowgirl get up any day they wanted. I asked Boog all week if he wanted to wear his cowboy outfit (not that we have a cowboy outfit, but I was willing to go out and buy one!) and he continued day after day saying, "Nah, that's ok. I don't want to. Fair enough, some kids do not want to be cowboys, I am ok with that.

Enter Thursday night already way past bedtime and Boog in his sweetest little brother voice ever says, "Sour Apple, (and no he did not really call him that)can I borrow your cowboy hat tomorrow? I'm going to dress up like a cowboy!" WHAT?!? Are you flippin' kidding me? It is 9:30pm on the evening before the last day of school for the week. I am freakin out. You have got to be kidding me, seriuosly, you want to dress up tomorrow? I have been practically begging you all week and you have been saying no. Great, just great. Ok...humm, mind goes into over drive.

When the older kids were younger, I think starting in Kindergarten, they had Go Texan Days at school and every year we would trod off to the local western store and buy 2 pairs of boots, 2 hats (sometimes), western jeans and shirts, sometimes belts too. Occasionally they wore them after the fact, if we went to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo but generally we were good for a few wears in our new "cowboy/cowgirl get ups" so I felt justified. Anything to make my babies happy. So...anyone that knows me, knows that I "save" things. Ok, well on this particular occasion, all I can find are a small pair of PINK cowgirl boots! Great, just great. We found Sour Apple's hat, I dug around everywhere I could think of, no boots, I did manage to find a little leather vest that must have been Sour Apple's when he was younger, in the top of Boog's closet. We threw together a shirt, with pearl buttons, some jeans and a pair of Timberland boot shoes with the hat and viola...

Meet the Sherriff. I must say...he is pretty darned cute, even with no official cowboy get up. By the way, I am afraid to continue looking too hard for the boots because you know that I will find them! :) The first few pics are from my phone so the quality is not as good but the smiles were way better and that always wins!



Reach for the sky!

5 Question Friday

These were the questions and here is what you are supposed to do. Copy and paste them to your blog then go back to her post, if you like and link up to join the fun. I think I might try to do this weekly. What do ya think? Sound fun?

1. Do you sing karaoke? If so, what is your go to song?

2. What is your favorite coffee drink?

3. If you could choose your own name, what would it be?

4. Were you ever bullied?

5. How often do you eat fast food?

Alrighty, here we go...

1.Do you sing Karoke? Oh boy. I should probably plead the 5th here. Other than at home, you know we have Rock Band right, I would normally never so much as consider singing in front of other people. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE TO SING. But wait, I NEVER said I COULD sing. So...here is where it gets good...Once upon a time, not so long ago, my hubby and I got to go out with some couples friends for a few of our friends birthdays. And guess where we went?!? Yep, to a karoke bar. I NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES (short of having a few bottles of liquid confidence)WOULD CONSIDER SINGING IN PUBLIC. Well, guess what? I joined the ladies for a few numbers, started out in the very back of the crowd, next song, moved closer to the front, mic in hand then BEGGED (YES BEGGED) a very friendly man we met that night, to sing a duet with me!!! For the record, Thank God his wife made him leave before that train wreck had a chance to happen! So to make a short story long...YES, I sang karoke and while out that night, informed my husband that we needed to do that weekly! Ha! Oops, I was supposed to say what song too. Humm, at home for Rock Band it is Free Fallin, Shot thru the Heart, Dead or Alive, Summer of 69 and Two Princes. That fateful night, it was Baby got back (come on, get up off of the floor, it was not THAT funny), Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and the one I begged the guy to sing with me (which he agreed to do before his wife drug him home) was Summer Nights. That would have been BAD! Hehe

2. What is your favorite coffee drink? Easy. NONE. I cannot stand coffee.

3. If you could choose your own name, what would it be? Oh wow, really? Humm, when I was younger, I was dying for my name to be Jennifer! I do not know why but I wanted to be Jennifer. My mother said that she almost named me Valarie!!! What? I look nothing like a Valarie, I have tried to picture it, Valarie, Val, Rie...uh, no thanks. It is not for me. Not that I love my name as it is, but thank the good Lord above, an aunt and an uncle, and I am NOT Valarie! Now...Humm, I really do not know. When we name our people on our Rock Band tour, I usually choose some cool flashy name, like Jaysmine, Jade, Sasha or something like that but I really do not feel like those fit either. I will have to think on this one, sorry to disappoint but nothing comes to mind. I do not really see myself with another name even though I am not fond of the one I have.

4. Were you ever bullied? As a young child, yes, by our neighbor. Her name was Kelly and she was my age but she was smaller than me. I remember that she was one mean little girl, I remember she had blonde hair that always looked messy. I also remember her being at my 5th birthday party. What were my parents thinking? I can remember coming home crying because of something she had done to me, pushed me, hit me, shoved me or whatever and my parents (lovely roll models, LOL) telling me that if she hit me, to "hit her back." I remember walking over to her house and telling her just that, "My parents told me that if you hit me again, to hit you back! WAAAAAAHHHH!!!" *running home crying* "She hit me again!"

As a teen and adult, uh...you must not know me very well. Let us just say that Kelly made me tough and after her, NO ONE has pushed me around or bullied me!

5. How often do you eat fast food? Humm, what do you consider fast food? Burger places, hardly ever, Taco Bell weekly, Chipotle every other day, well ok, maybe not every other day but at least 2 times a week. Some weeks we have pizza from our favorite little pizza place in town, you remember the one.

Okie dokie...I am out of here...

Now, go over to see Mama M and take a peek at everyone elses's 5 Question Friday posts! And make sure to link up and join us for some fun.

Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not me! Monday, where we can be brutally honest and live to tell about it.

Friday night, my wonderful and handsome husband and I did not get to go on yet another date this year! That would make 3 in less than 2 months people! Nope, not us! We never get out!

Speaking of the date, we soooo did not need that date. We have not been ugly to each other and just plain crabby in general since everyone was sick a few weeks ago. Nope, we always get along beautifully. We always agree on everything and always slather eachother with never ending affection and attention. We have not been exhausted and mentally drained lately so there was no reason to take a few hours alone together to recharge.

Saturday night, we did not get to meet up with 2 sets of friends for dinner at Chipotle. Nope, for starters, we do not like Chipotle and secondly, we would never be lucky enough to meet friends for dinner, muchless 2 sets of them! The kids did not have a great time hanging out with buddies either. The food was not awesome (as usual) either. Nope, it was horrible. After dinner, we did not meet up with yet another set of friends and hang out and enjoy the cool crisp wind and great conversation. We would never be lucky enough to see 3 sets of friends in one night, ever!

I have not been in a crabby funk lately. Nope, I am always in a wonderful mood, cheerful and happy all of the time. Seriuosly...I really am! I would never been in a funk and not know why. Not me.

I have not been freaked out (yet again) because I have been thinking about my baby turning 5! Good gracious! My baby is nowhere near turning 5 and he certianly does not tell me often that he is indeed almost 5. I am glad too because that just might send me over the edge. And trust me, here lately...we do not need me any closer to that edge!

Speaking of my baby not turning 5, we did not go to the school's open house and pick up registration papers for kindergarten either! Nope, I will not be letting my baby leave for kindergarten. Not me!

Ok, I think that is probably all I am up to confessing for now so head on over to MckMama's and badger someone else! ;o) As for me, I will be hanging out in my funk I am sure! Happy not me'ing.