Birthday Plans

my birthday is coming this week. i have some fun stuff coming in the mail(some dvds), and a 2nd b-day card from tom. he said he mailed one, and he did at the beginning of the month, but it didn't get here till this afternoon. i had told him earlier i would take care of my birthday if he would send me a card.

so, my plans include: getting my hair trimmed--layers need fixing. i learned to trim my own bangs this week, so those are where they should be; cross-training shoes--my running ones give me no side-to-side support for my non-running cardio days; and getting my wedding ring cleaned. i also have andrew being watched for the better part of tomorrow & all the kids watched on saturday for a couple hours--with a backup babysitter, just in case.

this month...

it's almost the end of the month, and i haven't posted much. a couple weeks ago the computer decided it wanted to pay me back for us going out mid-way thru the 2nd session of conference. we had an open house at collin's therapy group & they had bounce houses for the kids. the computer was gone for almost 5 full days(early monday when the repair place opened till friday evening--they didn't start working on it till wednesday afternoon). i still managed to get ward bulletin done on time thanks to borrowing a friend's computer for 20/30 minutes.

the first day or two, i felt what i imagine is similar to a drug addict going thru withdrawl. i use the computer for sooo much. less than 2 days later, the computer stopped working again(after i had started putting programs back on) & i ended up reformatting the whole hard-drive & start from scratch. i didn't want to have another week of it gone for a 3 hour(max) job. luckily, we had the repair place backup all our data for us on an external hard-drive so nothing important was lost.

the computer has behaved itself quite well since the re-format. i just had to put it in its place that i am in charge, not it...LOL

hmm, what else? andrew is becoming quite the little parrot. his favorites he has picked up from ivy are "watch me" and "no collin." he has also learned how to kick a ball in the direction he wants it to go in. he also loves peeling stickers from sticker books and sticking them on my arms, legs & face.

spring break is over! yay! we had so much therapy that we enjoyed our time when we were by ourselves.

ivy is becoming obsessed with littlest pet shop & isn't thrilled about delayed gratification. i make her earn stuff. apparently she thinks 1 day=enough to by a ridiculously priced stuffed animal.

April Fools' Dinner

I normally don't care for April Fools' Day, but I thought Ivy might enjoy it. We made cornbread cupcakes/muffins with chocolate frosting and meatloaf cupcakes topped with mashed potatoes. I let the kids pick out the food coloring colors for the potatoes. The cornbread was a big hit. Ivy helped frost it and was fooled till she tasted a bite of corn in it. If I had not added the corn, maybe she wouldn't have known. The meatloaf was only a hit with Andrew. Ivy told me "it's not nice to trick [her]," even though she tried to pull an April Fools' joke on me after I picked her up from school. Everything is soo one-sided with her.

Yes, she is wearing her swimsuit while frosting.

The meatloaf in cupcake wrappers and the colored potatoes. Ivy chose pink, Andrew picked blue & Collin picked green.

sign of aging?

my birthday's in a few weeks. i must be getting old or something. i cannot think of anything i really, really want this year. maybe see a movie and eat a favorite meal? or take a nap? nothing's really jumping out at me yet. perhaps i'll get an idea in the next few weeks, just as the law of attraction stipulates.

in other news, i have an idea of when tom will be back. i'm not allowed to say yet and i'm hoping they don't change it. we have made the halfway mark!!

All I want for Christmas....

Well, Collin won't be getting it for Christmas this year or probably not even next year. He had his major dental work done while being sedated, and had to have a front top tooth pulled. Poor kid, he is a trooper though. He is almost back to his normal self, just a little less than 24 hours later.

The funniest part was that Ivy's jealous Collin lost a front top tooth before her. She has had both top front teeth loose for awhile, but still intact. Luckily, we don't have to do the Tooth Fairy bit with Collin--we don't have the tooth, and he doesn't understand what money is. He probably wouldn't understand the whole Tooth Fairy concept either. :)

Update on Action Hero Babe

In the past 7 weeks, I've lost 8 lbs and 11"!!

Action Hero Babe exercise

Official results coming on Monday. Missed some & swapped for some shorter workouts for a couple weeks--me & the kids taking turns being sick and at one point sleep was a higher priority so I could function the next day, but i stuck to the clean eating the whole time. My goal pants are fitting me! I just wanted to drop that last pant size I was holding onto, and now I'm there.