The Swing

16 months old and he still likes to sleep in this swing


Rehearsal round for the real thing coming up in 6 weeks

Found it!

Have you ever lost something and spent time and time looking all over the house for it and it ends up somewhere obvious? I misplaced my badge for work and had to check into security for temporary access the last two days. I searched all over my car, all thru my coat pockets, thru both purses I've been using lately, my scrap bag, and my camera bag and couldn't find it. It's a $10 replacement fee and i was about to give up today and guess where it shows up? In the front pocket of the purse I've been carrying around. I really need to clear out all the receipts I have in it!

Micah is sick again. He's been getting up a LOT the last few nights. He's burning up and puked some. This boy can't stay healthy for more than 1 week straight.

My boss is turning 50 this Friday and we've been making plans all week. We're gonna fill up his truck with black balloons, replace his KU license tag with one that say's it's nifty to be fifty, bring wheelchair, canes, depends, and prunes as gag gifts. And I offered to make up posters to hang all around the building. I really wished I knew how to use Photoshop better.

I joined an exercise challenge. My goal is 30 minutes 4x a week. Kickboxing is tonight. Kenzie wanted to celebrate her b-day last night, (yes, even though it's not for another 6 weeks) so we baked a cake with green frosting, sang to her, and she blew out the candles. I"m so proud of myself for not having any cake. I'm giving up sweets for LENT. It is going to be harder than I think because I have it almost daily.

SB ETC

I love my sub to Scrapbooks ETC. It is by far the best scrapbooking magazine. This layout was a complete scraplift from Kelly Noel's layout.

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For the not your ordinary A to Z class

DW Calendar day 21

Scrap your everyday life class #4 at nycscraps

Bad Day

Saturday I took the kids swimming at the new Cessna Activity pool. We arrived around 11am and I was disappointed that the slide wasn't open yet. The water was too cold and Micah was ready for his nap so he was cranky. We saw some relatives there so Kenzie played for 30 minutes then we showered and came home.

Kenzie had a 4:00 appt to get her hair cut with Tia. Here's is her new bob, it sure does bring out her cheeks!


AFTER


BEFORE




We tried again Friday night and this was the best photo we could get. Not exactly what I had in mind but it's still pretty cool.

I started getting my feminine cramps Saturday night and they really hurt. After being with the kids all day and doing housework etc and Lam didn't get home until 8pm. I wasn't in the best of moods with him. I just wanted him to play with the kids for a couple minutes so I could lay down and all he wanted to do was surf the net reading the news because he heard Anny was one of the 26 people indicted for drug trafficing. Any how we had a match out and I hate to argue when the kids are in the same room but what can you do when your husband responds "just take a pill". Somedays I wished the Lord would have just stopped with Eve, my world would be in a better state, well except I wouldn't give up Micah...he's my boy.

Icecream PhotoShoot

Last night Lam fell asleep around 8:30pm and the kids were still wired up. Micah has been taking his 2nd nap around the time we pick him up which is 6pm so he naps for an hour when we get home and him and Kenzie will be up until 11 or 11:30pm even! So I had them both to entertain.

It was a photo shoot. I saw this awesome awesome picture when I was at applebees last week and it inspired me to copy it. It was the cast from the tv show Friends. They were all sipping on straws from the same milkshake cups and I thought that would be a great valentines photoshoot. My idea was for the four of us to try that at home with the camera on a tripod and automatic timer.

Since Lam was already out I dressed the kids up in pink & red, we took a dozen of me and the kids & then 3 dozen more of just Kenzie and Micah but they wouldn't sip them at the same time. They were having a blast because I put 3 scoops of peacon vanilla icecream combined with rasberry dr pepper in a huge glass cup and they loved the taste. Think I'll try it again tonight, at least it killed some time.

Lao Bamboo Soup Recipe

We ate this last night and I asked my MIL how she made it so I can try next time. (Got one of my New Year's resolution done)

Ingredients:

Chicken Bones
Red Curry powder
Sliced Bamboo shoots
Pork
Fish Sauce
Salt
MSG
Can Chicken Broth
Can Coconut Milk
Noodles
Sliced Cabbage
Carrots
Bean Sprouts
Celantro
Mint leaves

For the soup base:
Boil the chicken bones for the broth, then discard the bones. Fry the curry powder with oil in a pan. Add bamboo shoots and pork. Bring to boil then add fish sauce, salt, coconut milk. The extra can of chicken broth is only needed if you don't have enough bones for the broth, it's all a taste test as to how much of everything you put in.

For the veggie topping:
Mix together the sliced cabbage, carrots, bean sprouts celantro and mint leaves

Mix the noodles with your toppings and soup and enjoy!