Blog world

Ive been really boring lately.
But a lot of my blogger friends have not.
Here are some of my favorites of the moment.

Annalia R.
She has got to be the worlds most awesome sister!

Lisa J.
First- her family is the most adorable family around.
Second- they are the most crazy :)

Sarah G.
She has been crazy busy with remodeling an old house. Something I can indeed relate to. It looks AWESOME so far.

Brooke C.
This mama with 4 handsome boys lived without a her hubby for over a year while a new job (half the country apart) and a house that wouldn't sell held them apart.
They are finally all together, as a family in Denver. With baby Jude.
Who Im in love with and have never met. But if my babe happens to be a boy- he will be his namesake.

Kimi B.
Besides her damn dog, I love everything about this sister of mine. But Im particularly fond of her newly re-modeled table and chairs. swoon.

Emma G.
A fellow Midwesterner, her posts are guaranteed to make me laugh.
She is private but I had to steal this pic because it was so hilarious!{The horses tail/hair of the man. Go ahead laugh. Its funny.}

Kathy J.
And just because Im in love with this little girl.
I mean how can you not be?

Free Stuff
Im trying to be more coupon savvy. Not crazy savvy. Just save a dollar here or there. This website makes it a cinch! And...my mailbox is full of free stuff all the time. :)

Mary S.
Having never met, she is married to a distant cousin. Technically Im classified as a stalker, but you will be too once you see where she lives/lived (they are moving back to America soon)....and she takes pics of everything. Switzerland! I must go one day. Or tomorrow....

Annalisa N.
One of my very best grade school friends. This lovely lady married and Italian. She lives in Italy and blogs about her daily life.
I think we all are jealous.
Shes another private but I must post about her grocery shopping for it is something we will all swoon over...
"I love to go grocery shopping in Italy,
The pasta aisle is like the cereal aisle in the states.
fresh foccacia daily
fresh milk
fresh basil, parsley, rosemary
ice cream
fresh cheeses and meats
fresh seafood
It brings me joy."

Jealous much? ya, me too.

On the days when the skys dont open and give us a gorgeous downpour,
{which has been a lot lately}

Its HOT
blazin
swealterin
sticky
stuffy
miserable

So out comes the hose
Out comes the pool
Out comes the water table
Out comes the slip n slide

And out comes the bossy overlooker.
Oh you better not spray that my way.
Im busy
facebooking
just kidding...
not Im not....
yes I am...
no Im not....

Nachos

1. Im just a wee but TICKED. The contractor we hired to paint our house just backed out.
Ive been waiting 2 months (or a whole year) for this ugly house to get painted! And now that its the middle of summer, every other contractor is booked till the end of August.
SHEESH.

2. Wanna know how much it would cost to re-place a furnace and air conditioner from 1987? oh just
6000 DOLLARS!
Why did we buy an old house?!!....oh ya- we had know clue what we were doing.

3. Does crappy nacho cheese sound good all day everyday to anyone else or is it just me? I mean
Have you seen this commercial?!
Made especially for pregnant cheese loving women everywhere...come to mama...

4. And we have a pooper. Maya has FINALLY figured it all out.
Maybe Ill save a little money now by not throwing out pooped panties.

5. Every time I come back from visiting family, Im depressed. Over the years it has slowly gotten better but you can count on about a week of me moping around, regretting living so far away, and crying. Paul does not understand this, gets frustrated, and swears he will never let me spend time in Utah again.(ya right ;) I tell him Im a girl and hes a boy and we are different.
Please tell me Im not the only one who does this.

6. Im still just so damn ticked about my house.

7. And I dont want to drop thousands into a new furnace that sits in the creepy smelly basement I never see.

8. Lets move.

9. Lets build.

10. Lets let some other young couple, fall in love with the charm of an old house blindly.

11. I feel like nachos. Like nachos and watermelon.

12. Ashers new favorite phrase is "so and so is freaking fat!" "this is freaking fat!" "that is freakin fat!" "freaking fat!" "freaking fat!" "freaking fat!"
He only says it if he knows Im not around.
But he doesnt know how loud his voice is and I can hear him right this very second.

13. Excuse me while I go spank his bum and eat some nachos.

thirty five

It all started when this fox

Met this hound

And decided to do this
(looove her train and his shoes)

A few years later they had the perfect family of 5
with awesome glasses, feathered hair and polyester

A few years after that its still a perfect family of 5. Minus the glasses but we now have the perm and framed bangs :)
But then years go by, the older kids must account for their own style since mother is too busy with 4 more little girls and now has one big haired, kooky,cute cute family complete with a curly haired, buck tooth, poor poor looking 3rd child (who was hit with the ugly stick). HAPPY 35 YEARS SCOTTY AN JOANIE!!
(go celebrate)
You deserve it, look
what you have created...