Again I have neglected my faithful blog readers!!! BOO!!
I have to start posting pictures of our life because now that Big Daddy is traveling all the time...this is how he sees the girls and finds out what's been going on in our lives!
So an update on Dong Hung or whatever his name is! I've heard NOTHING!! I went and had my car looked at the Monday after it happened and haven't heard anything. No news is good news right?
Ashleigh is still loving school. I help out every Tuesday. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I can't talk enough about how wonderful her teacher is. It's the highlight of my week, by far, when I am helping. Now there are some whiny kids and I have no idea how the teacher puts up with all 20 of them at once!!! Yesterday i helped with an art project where the kids glued and colored with markers. Ashleigh had orange marker all over her hands. When I helped her washed them she "thought" a marker had exploded. When I questioned her at home last night, she said she "wanted to feel the tip of the marker and got carried away!" Only my child!!
Addison loves having "mommy" time just to herself. We go shopping and run errands. All kinds of fun stuff that kids love! lol She wants to do Ballet. I'm trying to convince her to do skating...again!! It's free!!! She tells me every day that she wishes she was in school. I think I might be ready for her to go to preschool...we'll see!
Big Daddy is gone on a monster road trip out east. He's been gone since the 13th and will get home the 26th....13 days!! We are doing okay but these long trips suck ass! A week is enough for me. The girls really miss him...and I do too! =(
We have started dog training with Gus!! Let me just say he now is a behaved..well more behaved than before and his trainer is amazing!! I can now take him for a walk and he'll walk beside me. He sits and stays. Comes when called. Doesn't bark or chase the cats at much. It's wonderful!! I actually like having a dog!! lol
As for me....I've been crazy crazy busy!! Between dog training, running errands and now helping lead Ashleigh's Girl Scout troop...I barely have time to watch tv!! We have our first Daisy meeting (little Girl Scouts) in a week. I'm super excited to be doing this with Ashleigh. Watch out....we are selling cookies!!!
And one more quick thing before I have to run....Ashleigh won the grand prize at school for their walk-a-thon for the most money collected overall!! She won 4 season passes to the water park here! We haven't been because a one day pass is around $25 so that makes it $100 just for one day. She is excited and we couldn't be more proud of her!! She did an amazing job walking...36 laps!! Big Daddy did all the pledge money collecting so I am proud of him as well!!
Ok gotta run....until next time......
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Look....I Blogged Again!!!
I'm so pumped for myself!! I am blogging and it hasn't been a month since my last one!!! YAY ME!!!
So let's just say it has been an eventful few days! Yesterday was a total day from HELL!! Let me tell you a bit about it...since I know you are just dieing to hear about it!! haha
Ashleigh went to school just fine and then Addison and I began our daily errands. It is sooo much easier to only take one child on errands! lol Poor Ashleigh never goes anywhere anymore! So anyway we are still taking care of our old house for our landlord. He is in China because his father in law is sick. I went over to water and check on things. Then I had to go pick up Rick's dry cleaning. I dropped it off at 9:38 on Tuesday morning. They have a sign out front that says drop off by 11 next day service. So I'm thinking today is Thursday I should be good. HAHAHA That was the beginning of my crazy day dealing with Asian people that don't speak english!!! The girl at the front, Annie (how Asian sounding is that?!?!) anyway Annie came to help me and I could barely understand her when she said it would be ready after 5pm. I think, WTF! I dropped this over 2 days ago. I start to argue with her a bit and she goes...ok 3pm. I was so disgusted I walked out praying that they wouldn't lose Rick's clothes!!
After that wonderful experience, we headed to the library for story time. The girls and I used to go quite often. We hadn't been in awhile...since the booger got flicked on me! We sit down and the very nice and patient woman started to try to read. The kids were so out of control and the parents weren't doing a damn thing that she had to stop and didn't even read one story. Addison just sat, quietly and patiently waiting for the story. It was horrible and I felt so bad for the lady. Then we go to check out books and the computer is down!! Addison has picked out a few books and we have to put them back because they couldn't check them out. Imagine what kind of mood Addison is in now!!!
Our final stop is to Petsmart for cat food. I decide to stop at Target to get a brownie mix. Addison has been asking me to make brownies for days and I didn't feel like making them from scratch. I get my big spending amount of $3.99, I got yogurt for the girls as well, and go to get in the car. This is where the story gets good! We get in so that we can run around the corner to Petsmart. I back out of the parking space to be hit! This Asian guy backed out when I was backing out and we crashed. Since my day has been filled with english speaking people...I wasn't surprised when Hung Dung or Dung Hung didn't speak english!! Can you sense my sarcasm?!?!? His first words are shit and fix this. We exchange insurance info and because of my little car wash incident know that the police won't come because it is on private property. He wants my phone number and drivers license. I didn't give my digits out because I didn't want him calling me! My friend got in an "accident" and someone gave her number out and the jerk guy started harassing her and then calling her husband at work...so there was no way I wanted any part of that! This Dung or as I like to call him now, Hung Dong, lives in the hood...and I mean WAY WAY WWAAAAYYYY hood! I think he saw me back out...HELLO I drive a purple minivan!! It's not like you can't see me!! Anyway he saw me and decided to back out and hit and then blame it on me!
I get home and of course, you all know I was freaking out worrying if Rick is going to kill me or what! Rick isn't mad. We aren't even going to fix my damage. It's not that noticeable. I get Ashleigh from school and we are doing homework when the adjuster calls to talk about it. Mr. Hung Dong is saying that he wasn't moving and that it was 100% my fault. The adjuster asked me many detailed questions and I told him what I thought happened. I guess Dong Duck Do told him he wasn't sure if he was moving or not! Seriously how can you not know if you were moving or not?!?!?!?!!! Now I have to take the car a body shop, have my dent measured and documented and wait to hear what happens. Why does this crap happen to me!!?? lol I can look back now and laugh but seriously you didn't see a purple big ass barney minivan backing out and then you don't know if you were moving or not?? Dude I saw his rear backup lights in my mirror!! It should be interesting to say the least!!
Oh and one last thing....I'm now known as the loud Kinder mom!! Yes folks...I am loud and proud!
So let's just say it has been an eventful few days! Yesterday was a total day from HELL!! Let me tell you a bit about it...since I know you are just dieing to hear about it!! haha
Ashleigh went to school just fine and then Addison and I began our daily errands. It is sooo much easier to only take one child on errands! lol Poor Ashleigh never goes anywhere anymore! So anyway we are still taking care of our old house for our landlord. He is in China because his father in law is sick. I went over to water and check on things. Then I had to go pick up Rick's dry cleaning. I dropped it off at 9:38 on Tuesday morning. They have a sign out front that says drop off by 11 next day service. So I'm thinking today is Thursday I should be good. HAHAHA That was the beginning of my crazy day dealing with Asian people that don't speak english!!! The girl at the front, Annie (how Asian sounding is that?!?!) anyway Annie came to help me and I could barely understand her when she said it would be ready after 5pm. I think, WTF! I dropped this over 2 days ago. I start to argue with her a bit and she goes...ok 3pm. I was so disgusted I walked out praying that they wouldn't lose Rick's clothes!!
After that wonderful experience, we headed to the library for story time. The girls and I used to go quite often. We hadn't been in awhile...since the booger got flicked on me! We sit down and the very nice and patient woman started to try to read. The kids were so out of control and the parents weren't doing a damn thing that she had to stop and didn't even read one story. Addison just sat, quietly and patiently waiting for the story. It was horrible and I felt so bad for the lady. Then we go to check out books and the computer is down!! Addison has picked out a few books and we have to put them back because they couldn't check them out. Imagine what kind of mood Addison is in now!!!
Our final stop is to Petsmart for cat food. I decide to stop at Target to get a brownie mix. Addison has been asking me to make brownies for days and I didn't feel like making them from scratch. I get my big spending amount of $3.99, I got yogurt for the girls as well, and go to get in the car. This is where the story gets good! We get in so that we can run around the corner to Petsmart. I back out of the parking space to be hit! This Asian guy backed out when I was backing out and we crashed. Since my day has been filled with english speaking people...I wasn't surprised when Hung Dung or Dung Hung didn't speak english!! Can you sense my sarcasm?!?!? His first words are shit and fix this. We exchange insurance info and because of my little car wash incident know that the police won't come because it is on private property. He wants my phone number and drivers license. I didn't give my digits out because I didn't want him calling me! My friend got in an "accident" and someone gave her number out and the jerk guy started harassing her and then calling her husband at work...so there was no way I wanted any part of that! This Dung or as I like to call him now, Hung Dong, lives in the hood...and I mean WAY WAY WWAAAAYYYY hood! I think he saw me back out...HELLO I drive a purple minivan!! It's not like you can't see me!! Anyway he saw me and decided to back out and hit and then blame it on me!
I get home and of course, you all know I was freaking out worrying if Rick is going to kill me or what! Rick isn't mad. We aren't even going to fix my damage. It's not that noticeable. I get Ashleigh from school and we are doing homework when the adjuster calls to talk about it. Mr. Hung Dong is saying that he wasn't moving and that it was 100% my fault. The adjuster asked me many detailed questions and I told him what I thought happened. I guess Dong Duck Do told him he wasn't sure if he was moving or not! Seriously how can you not know if you were moving or not?!?!?!?!!! Now I have to take the car a body shop, have my dent measured and documented and wait to hear what happens. Why does this crap happen to me!!?? lol I can look back now and laugh but seriously you didn't see a purple big ass barney minivan backing out and then you don't know if you were moving or not?? Dude I saw his rear backup lights in my mirror!! It should be interesting to say the least!!
Oh and one last thing....I'm now known as the loud Kinder mom!! Yes folks...I am loud and proud!
Saturday, September 5, 2009
NEGLECTED!
My Blog has suffered some severe neglect in the past...oh 9 months! I really have to start getting back on the wagon since the summer is officially over and Big Daddy reads this to figure out what we have been up to!! haha
So....let's see.....I need to totally do a quick recap of the summer so I can finish dinner. Yes, I know, I choose the most opportune times to blog!! haha Hence the neglect!!
We enjoyed a relaxing visit to Missoula. Too short as it always seems. We did many things we hadn't done before. I will post pics soon. Like I always say I will!! We just love going home. I really think Rick feels at home as well. We've been going there about every summer for the past 10 years so I guess it kinda wears on you! Of course we enjoyed our...well my favorite local cuisine. I wish I was able to get home more often. I just love it there and the girls have such a good time.
So after we got home it was a quick week or so and......SCHOOL STARTED for Ashleigh!!!! She LOVES LOVES L O V E S it!! I can't imagine not sending her to school! She already has a group of little girlfriends that she eats lunch with and everyday after school they ask me for a play date! Its been wonderful her going! She is learning so much its insane! Her teacher is the best on in the department. Everyone wants her. We were destined to have her because she spells her name, Shirlee, like my mom! lol Its been a really good transition for us. Its great with just Addison and I during the day. I get to spend time with her that I haven't been able to do before. I was going to send Addie to preschool, but decided that I wanted one more year with her and then next year school.
Okay so that's been our big stuff. I will get pics up and blog more...because I know you all are just dieing to know what's been going on in our crazy world!!
So....let's see.....I need to totally do a quick recap of the summer so I can finish dinner. Yes, I know, I choose the most opportune times to blog!! haha Hence the neglect!!
We enjoyed a relaxing visit to Missoula. Too short as it always seems. We did many things we hadn't done before. I will post pics soon. Like I always say I will!! We just love going home. I really think Rick feels at home as well. We've been going there about every summer for the past 10 years so I guess it kinda wears on you! Of course we enjoyed our...well my favorite local cuisine. I wish I was able to get home more often. I just love it there and the girls have such a good time.
So after we got home it was a quick week or so and......SCHOOL STARTED for Ashleigh!!!! She LOVES LOVES L O V E S it!! I can't imagine not sending her to school! She already has a group of little girlfriends that she eats lunch with and everyday after school they ask me for a play date! Its been wonderful her going! She is learning so much its insane! Her teacher is the best on in the department. Everyone wants her. We were destined to have her because she spells her name, Shirlee, like my mom! lol Its been a really good transition for us. Its great with just Addison and I during the day. I get to spend time with her that I haven't been able to do before. I was going to send Addie to preschool, but decided that I wanted one more year with her and then next year school.
Okay so that's been our big stuff. I will get pics up and blog more...because I know you all are just dieing to know what's been going on in our crazy world!!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
We've Been BUSSSY!!
Ok so it's been ages since I have last posted. We have been so busy that I feel like I barely have a minute to breathe!!!
First and most important...WE MOVED!!!! We are officially out of the ghetto!! YAY!!! Can you tell I'm pretty pumped?!?! lol We found a great house right across the street from a great school. I am so happy here it's crazy! i think if we would have found this 2 years ago...I might have liked CA a little more! Anyway the landlord is awesome...so far anyway. We have met all of our neighbors and there are even some Sharks fans! Its just great to be in a nice house and a nice neighborhood.
I have so many things to update....that I don't even know where to start! The hamster is good...escapes about every other day but we always manage to catch her....unfortunately!! lol The zoo loves the house. Gus is good....went to the vet yesterday with a piece of foxtail embedded in his paw...good times!!
I hear my monkeys fighting...time to be the ref!
First and most important...WE MOVED!!!! We are officially out of the ghetto!! YAY!!! Can you tell I'm pretty pumped?!?! lol We found a great house right across the street from a great school. I am so happy here it's crazy! i think if we would have found this 2 years ago...I might have liked CA a little more! Anyway the landlord is awesome...so far anyway. We have met all of our neighbors and there are even some Sharks fans! Its just great to be in a nice house and a nice neighborhood.
I have so many things to update....that I don't even know where to start! The hamster is good...escapes about every other day but we always manage to catch her....unfortunately!! lol The zoo loves the house. Gus is good....went to the vet yesterday with a piece of foxtail embedded in his paw...good times!!
I hear my monkeys fighting...time to be the ref!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Randomness
I finally decided to put up a few random pictures since I haven't posted any in a LONG time! Apparently I am still totally blog lazy! I'm working on being better...not doing so good...but I'm a work in progress! haha
So not much has been new. We are adjusting to life during the off season. Its weird to be a family again. We have been used to just being the girls and I, but love that Big Daddy gets to be here! He still is going into work but that will end soon.
We are still planning our summer. Not sure if we will be visiting anywhere this year or not. Its been difficult to coordinate with everyone's schedule and with having to move and pack...its going to be a busy summer without travel. Our summers aren't Bronwell summers without stress! haha
That's about it. The girls are going to Vacation Bible School next week and Ashleigh wants to go to a day camp the week after and then soccer camp...oh and we still have skating. I'm exhausted just thinking about everything going on!
Here are a few pictures from about....well the end of April! I haven't downloaded anymore on the computer yet. I've been soo slacking!!
Addison decided to put herself in timeout and I, of course, had to take a picture because she just looked too cute!!
The other ones are of Ashleigh at her birthday party with our friends. She was totally surprised and had NO CLUE what has going on!
And the last one is the stash on its last day before Big Daddy shaved it off! I can say I hope he NEVER grows it again and am so happy he has his chin hair back!!
So not much has been new. We are adjusting to life during the off season. Its weird to be a family again. We have been used to just being the girls and I, but love that Big Daddy gets to be here! He still is going into work but that will end soon.
We are still planning our summer. Not sure if we will be visiting anywhere this year or not. Its been difficult to coordinate with everyone's schedule and with having to move and pack...its going to be a busy summer without travel. Our summers aren't Bronwell summers without stress! haha
That's about it. The girls are going to Vacation Bible School next week and Ashleigh wants to go to a day camp the week after and then soccer camp...oh and we still have skating. I'm exhausted just thinking about everything going on!
Here are a few pictures from about....well the end of April! I haven't downloaded anymore on the computer yet. I've been soo slacking!!
Addison decided to put herself in timeout and I, of course, had to take a picture because she just looked too cute!!
The other ones are of Ashleigh at her birthday party with our friends. She was totally surprised and had NO CLUE what has going on!
And the last one is the stash on its last day before Big Daddy shaved it off! I can say I hope he NEVER grows it again and am so happy he has his chin hair back!!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
I Just Realized....
that I am a total slacker and haven't posted in FOREVER!!! I've seriously got to get off my booty and get back to the blog world!!
So let's do a quick recap and pray extra hard that I can actually get things caught up and back to the current state of our lives!
Ok...what's been going on the past month that my 5 readers would love to hear about.....
1. Just found out yesterday that a convicted rapist lives across the street in the townhouse complex! I'm pretty pissed about this! I have to find out how long he has been living there because by law our AWESOME asshole of a slumlord had to provide us with a website that has all the registered sex offenders listed.....and he didn't! If he has been there longer than we have lived here....then I'm going to figure out what to do next! Maybe we can get out of our lease early!!
2. We already have been planning on moving to get in a better school district....but with item #1....We for sure are moving!!! Living in the hood BLOWS! And it's not that bad of a hood! So now it means....cleaning and cleaning and throwing away and throwing MORE away and packing! Those of you that know me and my family...the pack rat gene runs in the family and I am no exception! Unfortunately for me, Big Daddy doesn't have this gene!! The hardest thing for me to do is throw something that is perfectly good away. Now I know donate donate donate....but this is why donation centers piss me off. I'm a fat girl...so I sent some clothes that I can't wear anymore with my mom to give to Goodwill in Missoula. I figured the fat girls of Missoula would like them..especially since there isn't a fat girl store there. So Mom takes the clothes yesterday and the Goodwill worker replies "I don't know where we are going to put them!" She only had 2 bags!!! I'm about to the point where I would rather throw things away than donate! We are giving them things to make money and they ALWAYS are jackasses about it!!! Last time we had a Goodwill incident my Mom ended up dropping an F-bomb out front!!
3, We are planning our summer trips home. I am super excited to get away for a bit! It's been a long time since we have been home.
4. So in addition to summer trips, packing, moving, hot summers, Rick's summer schedule...we have school for Ashleigh!! I enrolled her a few weeks ago. If we move we just transfer to a new school if in the district. If we are in a new district, which I pray we are, then we have to re-enroll. I can't believe we have a kindergartener!! Where did the time go?!?!?!?!!
5. Oh yeah...the Sharks sucked ass and lost in the first round of playoffs. Things around here aren't good!! The team is PISSED...well owners are pissed. I'm worried about the changes next season. We will have a job....but things definitely are going to change. I know change usually is good.....but I'm not sure that is the case here!
6. Big Daddy finally got to shave his stash off!!! I'll post the final picture soon. Of course he hasn't got his reward and not sure if he will! I tease him that he sold his body for nothing! haha
7. At the library, I got a booger flicked on me by dreadlock wearing dad.
Good times we have had!!!
I think that about catches everyone up. I'll try to get in gear and post pics! I miss my blog! lol
So let's do a quick recap and pray extra hard that I can actually get things caught up and back to the current state of our lives!
Ok...what's been going on the past month that my 5 readers would love to hear about.....
1. Just found out yesterday that a convicted rapist lives across the street in the townhouse complex! I'm pretty pissed about this! I have to find out how long he has been living there because by law our AWESOME asshole of a slumlord had to provide us with a website that has all the registered sex offenders listed.....and he didn't! If he has been there longer than we have lived here....then I'm going to figure out what to do next! Maybe we can get out of our lease early!!
2. We already have been planning on moving to get in a better school district....but with item #1....We for sure are moving!!! Living in the hood BLOWS! And it's not that bad of a hood! So now it means....cleaning and cleaning and throwing away and throwing MORE away and packing! Those of you that know me and my family...the pack rat gene runs in the family and I am no exception! Unfortunately for me, Big Daddy doesn't have this gene!! The hardest thing for me to do is throw something that is perfectly good away. Now I know donate donate donate....but this is why donation centers piss me off. I'm a fat girl...so I sent some clothes that I can't wear anymore with my mom to give to Goodwill in Missoula. I figured the fat girls of Missoula would like them..especially since there isn't a fat girl store there. So Mom takes the clothes yesterday and the Goodwill worker replies "I don't know where we are going to put them!" She only had 2 bags!!! I'm about to the point where I would rather throw things away than donate! We are giving them things to make money and they ALWAYS are jackasses about it!!! Last time we had a Goodwill incident my Mom ended up dropping an F-bomb out front!!
3, We are planning our summer trips home. I am super excited to get away for a bit! It's been a long time since we have been home.
4. So in addition to summer trips, packing, moving, hot summers, Rick's summer schedule...we have school for Ashleigh!! I enrolled her a few weeks ago. If we move we just transfer to a new school if in the district. If we are in a new district, which I pray we are, then we have to re-enroll. I can't believe we have a kindergartener!! Where did the time go?!?!?!?!!
5. Oh yeah...the Sharks sucked ass and lost in the first round of playoffs. Things around here aren't good!! The team is PISSED...well owners are pissed. I'm worried about the changes next season. We will have a job....but things definitely are going to change. I know change usually is good.....but I'm not sure that is the case here!
6. Big Daddy finally got to shave his stash off!!! I'll post the final picture soon. Of course he hasn't got his reward and not sure if he will! I tease him that he sold his body for nothing! haha
7. At the library, I got a booger flicked on me by dreadlock wearing dad.
Good times we have had!!!
I think that about catches everyone up. I'll try to get in gear and post pics! I miss my blog! lol
Monday, April 20, 2009
All Alone Again
My Mom, Boom and Mike left this morning. It was GREAT having them here and we were so busy that the time just flew by! The girls are pretty upset that they had to leave. That's the part about leaving family that sucks. The girls are getting old enough to be sad and then that makes everyone else extra sad! It really makes me wish I was able to get home more this season and even lived closer to them! Even Gus is sad!! He misses his play buddy, Belle! I have so many pictures to post that I'm sure I won't post all of them! haha I don't seem to be doing well with the picture posting!
Rick is in Anaheim for 4 days and hoping the team wins 2 games...they are down 2-0 so if they don't win...the season could be over Thursday. It was so nice him being home for a few days. I am really anxious for the summer to come! I miss being a family!
It has super super hot today! 95 flippin degrees! Supposed to be the same tomorrow and then go back to normal....upper 70's to lower 60's. It's a good thing we spent some time in the car cause the house was like an oven! On top of being sad that everyone is gone....Ashleigh and I are sick. Rick has been sick so of course we all get it. Addison doesn't seem to be sick...yet anyway! Ashleigh woke up today and said, "Mommy, I don't like the way my voice sounds!"
That's about all for now. I am going to get pictures up soon....I like posts with pictures so much better anyway! I have a mountain of laundry to do and try to stay cool!!
Rick is in Anaheim for 4 days and hoping the team wins 2 games...they are down 2-0 so if they don't win...the season could be over Thursday. It was so nice him being home for a few days. I am really anxious for the summer to come! I miss being a family!
It has super super hot today! 95 flippin degrees! Supposed to be the same tomorrow and then go back to normal....upper 70's to lower 60's. It's a good thing we spent some time in the car cause the house was like an oven! On top of being sad that everyone is gone....Ashleigh and I are sick. Rick has been sick so of course we all get it. Addison doesn't seem to be sick...yet anyway! Ashleigh woke up today and said, "Mommy, I don't like the way my voice sounds!"
That's about all for now. I am going to get pictures up soon....I like posts with pictures so much better anyway! I have a mountain of laundry to do and try to stay cool!!
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