She makes a..... Brick House

Last weekend E and I did the annual gingerbread house crap. I bought a different kind of kit this year. The house was already put together all we had to do was decorate.



My job was the icing and her job was the rest of the crap on it. Boy that icing was yucky. I had to mix the powder with water to form some kind of concrete like paste. It got hard very fast. But it was yummy. Then the bag they wanted you to put it in didn't work right so I had to use baggies. It was a gigantic mess.



Most of the icing would get hard before she would get to put pretties on it so I would have to slather more on it for her. All in all it turned out nice and we had fun so that is all that matters. Except now she doesn't want to get rid of it. I had a hard time finding something to put it in. I think when the trash comes next week it might magically disappear, or better yet I can tell her that Santa wanted to take it with him.

Fun with Friends

A few pictures from the last time I went out with the girls. I was still sick and didn't have much fun but I am a trooper and stayed till like 10.

Ms Mustachio


Me and Desi


Kim, Sarah and Jacquie


Me and Sarah


Em and Jacquie


I haven't been out since, however I get to go out on Saturday night with my hubs and another couple. Should be fun since D is always the DD I will be able to get my drink on and you know Sarah and I will have the cameras. Now I just have to decide what to wear.

Winter clothes suck ass. I mean how are you supposed to look sexy in something that covers your entire body. Plus I hate wearing socks. I don't know why but I just do. Maybe my toes are claustrophobic. I have been wearing my boots to work with no socks then switching to my heels. Really socks suck ass too.

Anyways I hope ya'll have a great weekend!

Snow

Snow is beautiful and magical. It is wonderous and awesome.

Until

You have to drive in it.

Oh the weather outside is frightful

And I wish I had a fire. Or not.

It's really cold here. It was 2 when I drove to work this morning and the windchill was like -15. The high today is supposed to be 12. Yikes. Poor D has to work outside all day in it. E and I loaded the car up with blankets this morning and we both wore our 'boots with the fur'.

It snowed like an inch last night but no freezing rain or ice so that was good. I also finished almost all of my shopping over the weekend when it was in the 60's so that was nice. I also got to get my toes done, that was really nice.

A few weeks ago when it snowed E was so excited to go play in it and I just didn't feel like it so I made C take her. They had a blast.







They went sledding in our backyard and even had a snowball fight. Of course it wasn't very cold at all so I let them stay outside for like an hour. You can bet we won't be doing that any time this week.

This and That

I have been sick. The lingering kind of sick that is not too bad but never wants to leave. It decided it really liked my head. I can't imagine why but whatever just leave already sickness. I feel like that commercial for that mucus stuff that has all the mucus hanging out inside the people. TMI probably but after three weeks of this shit I really don't care.

Anyways I have been busy while sick I just haven't blogged about it so I have to catch up now. Over the weekend D and I went out. Shocking I know. But we went bowling with some of the people he plays softball with. It was fun. Bowling is the only thing I can beat him at. Or should I say used to be able to beat him at. I don't know if he has been holding out on me the last ten years or secretly has been taking lessons after work but he beat me all three games. Oh well I guess he really is better then me at everything.

Here are some of the people we went with




And one of me after a gutter ball


After bowling we decided to go out since it was still pretty early so we went to a bar and grill. And who happened to be there but my mom and her work friends and one of my aunt and uncles and one of my cousins. While we were there one of the people we were with spilled his drink all over me. It was funny.

Here is a picture of my mom and my favorite aunt. You can tell where the eyes closing came from.


One of the three of us

Oh no bad picture here is take two


Finally about midnight D decided he had enough and we went home. I was pretty impressed since he doesn't ever stay out that late especially at a bar. Oh and someone paid for our ticket, the waitress wouldn't tell us who so that was pretty sweet.

Here is D ready to go.

Oh well it was a fun night and we don't go out like that hardly ever so I was happy.

Emo Girl

Add a lot of black eyeliner and she would be set. Sometimes every great once in awhile, she doesn't like to pose and smile for the camera. And how sad is it that she can't wear little kids winter hats. That hat is mine.





She has attitude. More attitude then she should but hopefully it will serve her well as she grows older.

The Holiday Spirit

I love Holidays. I really love them all. They all also have very different meanings to me. Christmas is one of my favorites. I have such great memories of waking up on Christmas day and the living room being full of presents for me and my sister from Santa. My mom and dad really knew how to do it.

Christmas in our house now is more subdued. D does not have great memories of the holidays. So I try my best to make things festive for the kids. I am really thankful this year that we both have jobs right now. D didn't work for like a month and a half this summer which have made things pretty tight but I have buckled down and now we are almost back to where we were.

I am also thankful that we are all in good health. Everyone in our extended and immeadiate families are also. Along with our friends.

This year the holidays will not have as many gifts as in the past but I think our love will more than make up for it. Along with some of the traditions we have. E and I started going over to my moms to help bake cookies. Which E loves to do. She also loves to help me make treats at home. We are also going to try and go on a carriage ride through an area that has light all around. She loves horses so that will be a treat for her.

We started putting up the tree last night. She was having a ball tonight we will finish hopefully. She can't wait to hang up the ornaments. Anf hoepfully D will put up our outside stuff tomorrow since it is supposed to be nice.

We also already had our first snow over the weekend. Not very much but as soon as E woke up Sunday morning she wante to go play in it. Her brother finally took her and they had a blast in the dusting of it. I can't wait to see what she will do when we get a couple of inches.

All in all we had a great Thanksgiving. We ate and played cards and went for a drive around a nearby lake. Then Friday I got to go shopping. I was out for over 12 hours but it was a blast. Saturday I took the kids to the movies and then we went out to eat as a family and yesterday we just chilled.