20 posts tagged “friends”
It started out with a impromptu get-together at my house when Rob and Nicole arrived to pick up my nephew (I watched him while they were out of town) and Steve's brother, Rob and his wife, Kirsten showed up at the same time Sunday night. We all ended up sitting on the porch for awhile just visiting.
You know what's awesome? Going on business trips with Steve. We get to eat out, stay in a hotel with free breakfast (I love a good free breakfast), and most importantly, I can usually meet up with a Vox friend!
I've ventured out to Target and Costco, baked another turkey, won Apples to Apples, was a sore loser at Taboo, made a big vat of homemade guacamole, laughed a whole lot, and generally have had a lot of fun with everyone that is at my house. Yup, it's been a good holiday.
Today is my mother in law's birthday. I am fortunate to not only call her mother in law, but also friend. I have been blessed with a wonderful godly husband because of the godly mother she strived and strives to be. Today, I just want to let her know what a blessing she is to me and how thankful I am to have her in my life. Happy Birthday Mrs. P!
I'm slapping these bad boys up here finally. It's all way overdue, I know. July was an awesome month. I got to hang out with a bunch of my Vox friends. First Hannah came to town, so Kelly and Jenny came down for dinner. Gary made his delicious steaks.
So, I realized that when I have nothing planned and the kids are gone, I really really miss them. The house just isn't the same. Honestly, I really like my kids, as much as they might drive me crazy sometimes.
Steve doesn't have any leave time right now so that leaves me at home while he is working. Thursday wasn't bad. I got to see Marlen for the first time in what seems like forever. I would've like to have stayed longer, but Thursdays are "TV Thursday" at my house. I make dinner for Rob, "the new girl", and Gary, then we talk and watch lots of tv. I got homein just enough time to run around like a chicken with my head cut off attempting to clean and cook dinner. I made a lovely chicken jerky on the grill (unintentionally, of course). We attempted to finish watching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, but just weren't feeling it. We ended up watching the Colbert Report and calling it a night.
I quickly checked my Vox before bed to see if Kelly wanted to meet up for lunch and she was still ignoring me. That's when a light went off in my head and I realized that it's her "weekend" and she doesn't have internet at home right now! I gave her a call and we made lunch plans. It had been almost a year since the last time we met up! Seriously, I'm not letting that much time go by this time and it's not just because she gave me some Cadbury Flake bars and lent me some awesome books. Kelly is just one of those people that I feel like I've known forever. We talked and talked and then talked some more. We were going to watch a movie from her impressive collection (she has awesome taste in movies), but we were enjoying talking too much. Side note, Sam is ridiculously cute. I completely understand why Kelly is wrapped around his paw.
I could've hung out and talked forever but Steve made plans with Rob and "the new girl" to go to dinner and see Get Smart. Gary and the non-blogging brother, Dan went too. So I had to head home. We enjoyed an awesome dinner that included lots of high fiving over things like meatloaf and Good Charlotte. Ok, Gary and I were the only ones that high fived over Good Charlotte, but we like them and we make no apologies for it.
Get Smart was just good and funny. I didn't go in expecting anything but to be entertained and I was. It may have helped that I have never watched an episode of the old Get Smart, so I had no expectations whatsoever.
Today, Steve and I slept in. We have a cookout to go to later. It'll be weird to go without the kids, but I'm sure we'll have a good time anyway!
For the sake of my friends, I hope the new tv season starts soon. My husband and his brother have taken to prank calling people and harrassing them with their bad foreign accents. If you enjoy that sort of thing, then PM me your number and I'll have them give you a call.
Also, I think I have raccoons living in my ceiling above my living room. Well, that or a rather large man.
Nicole, Rob and Tammy have arrived with children in tow for our annual Labor Day festivities. Homemade pizza, guacamole, chocolate chip walnut cookies, and brownies have been consumed in large quantities, along with old Robin Eggs.
It's amazing what you find when you clean out your cabinets for the first time since Spring.
Since we didn't see each other at Easter, we had to take the opportunity to paint our lips with the robin eggs.
Seriously, the stuff you find on the internet is just amazing! Steve is completely perplexed.
Would you just leave us alone and let us enjoy the homemade guacamole?
So far, we have discussed whether the candy is Whoppers or Whoopers. (The girls say Whoppers, the guys say Whoopers. We win. They are outnumbered.) We have also decided that Tammy had a Tam-mullet back in 2000. We have photographic evidence.
Here Nicole is saying Tammy had just a little mullet. Rob looks quite skeptical. Tomorrow, the rest of the family will be joining us, so more pictures to come.
A couple of weeks ago, I received a lovely package in the mail from Ms. Hannahbanana. It included many wonderful things. Most importantly, it included a package of Burt's Bees products.
Now, I've never used Burt's Bees lotions and potions and salves and lip balms. I usually use Bath and Body Works stuff, when I actually need hand cream or lip balm in the winter months. Then I had the skin at the side of my fingernail cracked and it hurt really bad. I was being a baby about it, whining that it hurt to whoever would listen to me then showing them my poor cracked finger. After suffering for several days, I remembered that along with the lovely lotions that I had been using, there was cuticle cream. In less than a day, my finger healed.
A couple of days later, my lips started cracking. Usually this doesn't happen til the fall at least. I broke out the Burt's Bees lip balm. Less than a couple of hours later, it was fine. My lips were kissable and soft again.
So once, again, thank you Hannah. No more of that Bath and Body Works stuff for me. This stuff must have some magic sort of dust or something thrown in it. Now I know why you sent it and you have me officially hooked!
So I was on the phone last night with Jen. We were attempting to see if we could use up all of our minutes in one conversation. Steve called on his cell to let me know he was on his way home. I reminded him that he needed to pick up draino and a universal remote. Then I ditched him to talk to Jen some more.
Fast forward to an hour later (yes, I was still on the phone with Jen), Steve walks in with 2 bottles of draino and this remote*. Now Jen, you know why I was laughing so hard. I'm thinking the kids won't lose this one!
*Yes, it is a real working remote.
