Tales of the 33 pound turkey....

LOL ok.. it's 32 & whatever ounces but it's a huge ass turkey... not to mention the almost 18 pound ham that went with it.... lol this has been an awesome Thanksgiving!

Mike's finally home from Afghanistan... a month early! lol... I had already made plans to come to Fort Rielly Kansas to see friends & spending thanksgiving with them... though I offered to cancel Mike said we'll still come... So here we are in the land of Dorothy & Toto... eating a monster turkey & ham with all the trimmings...planing out our black friday shopping... lol hitting a few stores if possible.. depends on what we can find.. the ads have been a little dissapointing this year... my mom REALLY wants a GPS & the kids want MP3 players... so that's the big things on my list... I'm going with a few friends so we'll see...hoping to get at least the GPS...

burp...lol right now I'm trying to get my tummy to settle down enough to stuff some homemade pumpkin pie down it :)

opps

my love note didn't post... let's try this again....

Whew... ok it's been awhile....

It's been awhile..

well... School started... which was huge for us.. Christi's in 5th Grade... Sean's in 2nd & mommy is now PTA prez... I'm used to working with the PTA I'm not used to having to make all the decisions so this has been pretty interesting having to figure it all out... it's coming along but with anything will take time...

Mike's still in Afghanistan... lol, he came home for R &R for 2 weeks... we did some fun family things & now he's back over there with about 3 months left... if I'm lucky, he'll be my Christmas present this year!

Speaking of presents... while mike was at the Dallas airport, he stopped at the USO & sent some gifts to the kids....

A book for each, beanie babies for Christi & sean & a blanket for Ian...

It was so sweet of him!

They took a Video of him reading the books & put it on DVD for me...

Oh & a little love note for me! lol

It's that time.....

Or almost... lol

School starts next week... so we'll be spending the rest of this week getting them ready for it... starting tonight by going to bed early... yay, can't tell u how well that's going over, lol...

Hard ting is I have to as well... I just haven't been sleeping much at all...damn nightmares....i get about an hour of sleep b 4 I'm jolted awake.. then it takes awhile to go back & just starts all over again... I'm tempted to take something to help but at the same time I won't take that risk in-case Ian gets up... or Sean for that matter, he's been having really bad growing pains again... and with daddy gone, mommys just a poor substitute.... I think a lot of that has to do with me never getting them as a kid, or at least I don't remember them... Mike does & seems to have the magic touch about it... makes me miss him that much more...

It's going to b a lonnnng week....

My Baby's Walking!!!!

My baby's finally walking!!

YAY !!!!!

lol....It's all down hill from here...

I wish Mike were here...but that's why we have video... I'm thinking of getting a regular camcorder... I love my camera & it's takes great HD vids the problem is I can't keep still enough to make it worth it sometimes.... we'll see....

Today I'm taking the kids to the mall to get out of the house... we have left over Chuck E Cheese tokens so were gonna go use them... lol Then I think maybe we'll grab some lunch at the food court... I was just there yesterday for a mani/pedi & the one thing I love about it being close to payday ... everything as empty...lol...

I'm a dork... but a happy dork....

LOL...There are days where it's just the little things that make me smile ... & keep me smiling all day! lol... This morning was one of them... I bought a waffle maker...lol, in the shape of Scooby Doo... this morning I suprised my kids by getting it out & all set... they got to help my make the batter & watched me pour & helped me time it... it was really cute... Sean's 7 & still loves Scooby... Christi just loves playing mommy, lol & Ian... well... Ian didn't really care, he just wanted breakfast, lol We talked, laughed & ate our Scooby faces...It made me really miss Mike that much more... His R&R got pushed back til Sept so the little things just make me miss him that much more.. some days I just hate him missing things like this... *sigh* lol...

Doesn't it look yummy? !!!

Long week...

And it's not even over yet....

Just a week filled with doc appts & BS.. oh & a lotta death, lol..

Things I'm pondering this week:

Why do computer geeks who work in repair shops assume your an idiot when you bring in your system? We had a really bad power outage here... enough to blow my backup battery.. it flickered twice & while trying to shut it down right it killed again & I said F' it & pulled the plug, lol... when all was said & done I turn it back on & my backup battery is dead... & it's been acting funny. So to be on the safe side I take it in a few days ago to have them check my power suppily,fan,etc to make sure nothing got fried in there.... yea... when I went to pick it up today... I guess he didn't read the slip of why it was there B/C he proceeds to tell me he's been playing with my system & starts telling me things he put in my start menu that he reccomends, etc... yea... I had to inform the dumbass I knew my way around my start menu & took those things out on purpose b/c I like to do my updates & etc manually... oh & then he tells me he couldn't find anything wrong... so I'm like great, everythings good in there... so I ask how dusty it was b/c I haven't cracked my case since we moved & I know it needs a good spray with the good 'ol compressed air.. when he remarkes that he didn't even check any of that out!! GGGRRRR He didn't read my slip, he read the one that was supposed to go to a laptop that I saw sitting next to my desktop... blah... so I watch him take it back, open it up & plug it in.. great everything good... all of which took 5 mintues... they've had my damn desktop since Monday!!