Crazzzzyyy Black Friday

So I have been asking some of my closest friends.. What is the hype? Why are you getting out of bed at 2:30 am to go shop? Why are you not shopping on line? So after all the questions, I think I have it figure out... if you are going with a list and need big ticket items it is worth it..or you are addicted to shopping (which is where most of my friends fell) you get your fix. I went 2 years ago when I was prego and was in shock that people had tiny babies out and lines galore for something that the store had 2 of in stock. Of course, I guess I had no clue how the process worked but that was the first and last for me... I hope my kiddos don't force me to have to go out in the future to put up with all that...ummm maybe I am just not the shopper kind a girl.

Turkey Bowlin

A bunch of us got together and had a turkey bowl...so it consisted of good food, good beers, good friends, and whoever got 3 strikes in a row got a free turkey.... humm guess who was a bowlin momma??

Our First..Gobble Gobble

Made the best appetizer in the world Raspberry Chipolte and cream cheese with Wheat Thins...just can't beat this one. & Little fudge pie..yummmm

This has to be the first Thanksgiving we have spent it at home with just our small little family. It was so nice no traveling, no drama, heck we may make it a tradition. Oh wait, did I mention that this sista does not cook and I pulled off a Thanksgiving dinner and dessert. Martha Stewart better move over....
In the middle of dinner we took turns saying what we were thankful for this year. I ask my oldest Cooper "What are you thankful for".... "Nandy mommy" oh well maybe next year he will like this Martha Stewart food. :0)

Thankful for...

One of my girlfriends has posted on facebook everyday for the entire month of November what she is thankful for each day. As I get hers each day I have been reflecting on our year and our blessings and thought what a great idea. So I thought I would share our blessings this year and what I am thankful for...

• I am thankful for my kids and their health
• I am thankful for my health
• I am thankful to have such a great husband
• I am thankful for such a supportive family and to be so close to them
• I am thankful to be surrounded by such good friends
• I am thankful god gives me enough strength some days to put up with the assholes (some days I am not sure he hears me!)
• I am thankful for my wonderful job that I truly enjoy~
• I am thankful I am able to see the sun come up every morning and the moon shine every night

I know I have missed a bunch of things to be thankful for ...as we have had alot of blessings this year and alot of challenges. They say god gives us no more than we can handle and OBVIOUSLY he thinks I am one strong woman BUT we are hoping for a much better year next year my muscles are just wore out. :0)

God bless you all ....I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL TURKEY DAY..Gobble Gobble.

Victory!~

It has been 10 long months of my youngest getting up literally every 2 hours. My hubby got up with him most nights umm should I say every night. I am such a light sleeper it woke me up anyway so I guess both of us were up. Either way we finally got little man to sleep in his own bed and all night long.We are 2 nights down and hoping and praying it last. It has been rough we have literally tried everything besides throwing him out the door into the backyard. From cramming him full of cereal, keeping him awake all day at school, padding his bed, letting him sleep in pack n' play. We even had our pediatrician pleading the 5th she said she had never in her career seen such an active kid. Well that he is very active and I am thankful as he had a rough start in this ole world but damn mommy and daddy need sleep. It was the weirdest thing too it was like night terrors when he woke up.. not the normal cry and go on back to sleep. Either way my hubby and I look well rested today and high fived each other as we went out the door this morning. Victory it is... even if it only last 2 nights...

All night on the town~

So a few of my friends and I drug ourselves out last night to see the midnight viewing of New Moon...and WOW. I was on the fence before if it was Edward or Jacob.. and I have made my mind up I am a Edward girl. I liked the movie alot but was upset with the ending. But, I am not sure what I was more entertained with the sea of high school kids that surrounded us and the conversations or the movie. All I have to say is WOW times have changed and I felt like an ancient old lady. I have alot in store for me with 2 boys so close together... and thank god it wasn't girls. After getting home at 2:30am I just couldnt sleep then my little got up for a bottle and then my other little got up around 5 so poof no sleep!! I am sure I will be in rare form later this afternoon... not sure how I used to do this back in the day.

Not so bad !~

As some of you know I am always saying "No Shit Kid.. No Shit Kid.." I tell myself that all the time as one goes to time out for back talking and the other gets his leg spanked for wiggling during diaper change. I am hard on my 2 boys about manners and minding. There seems to be more and more kids these days bossing the parents around and doing as they please. Anyway, as part of the whole manners thing and just raising good kids. This year Cooper had to go thru all of his toys and give away to less fortunate kids. I thought this was going to be a brutal lesson. As I went thru the whole story about how some kids have no toys to play with the light bulb seem to have been working. It may be his age but he did it like a champ... he even put things in I really had not thought about giving away. He would look at me and say "mommy nweedy twids?" yes sir, if you want to pass it on put it in the box... I was so proud of him. I know some of those toys he really enjoyed playing with and seemed happy to pass them on. So far he hasn't blown any snot bubbles over any toys missing. Next year may be a whole different story but so far so good...

Thank you my friend!~

I received this from one of my dear friends today. She is such an awesome person and was having a rough way to go these past few weeks...so I helped her out the best I could. Cause that is what friends do right? So I am passing this along cause I know a lot of you read this blog but just never comment...thats ok I like getting the phone calls on my venting days. Love you all and thank you as well for being my friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOqyygAQSX0#watch-main-area

I just can't wait!!~

Oh how I love thee Christmas... I am so excited! I just could not wait one more day to update my blog and start with the festivities. I have several neighbors who have busted out the Christmas lights and have them on the house. I just love this time of year and spending it with my family makes for great memories and fun times. My kiddos are all geared up all the holiday jammies are out. I even put all the Christmas cd's in the entertainment center player. Cooper has been singing Jingle Bells and dancing to Alvin and the Chipmunks... Bring it on I am tooo excited to sleep.

Old Bones

If these old bones could talk.... man they would be cussing me today! My hubby was being super helpful and washing off the deck over the weekend and we had no idea it the water would come into the kitchen under the door. Poof it did and Poof momma had baby in hands and Poof hit the floor. It really scared me cause all I could see is the little guy going thru the glass... so when I was going down I went backwards to try to help prevent an ER visit...I know I have added paddin on da bootie area but still these old bones just are not happy today. They gave me the quick low down that I am not 30 anymore or even 20 for that matter.

Pizza Man

My parents started this little routine while my oldest was in TN a few months back. Every friday night they would order pizza..well it seems like almost every Friday my kid reminds me it is "PIZZA MAN DAY". So we have started pizza and movie night on Friday nights at our house now...it is actually kinda fun. So this morning Cooper got up all excited and telling us "PIZZA MAN DAY ...PIZZA MAN DAY" I guess he got so excited he forgot the movie.. so my hubby ask him "Well what about a movie are we going to watch a movie" Cooper puts his hands on his hips and says.... "suuureeee"

No way....

REALLY... Entertainer of the year & Female Vocalist of the year?? PAAAlease...For those of you who did not see the CMA awards show last night well you didn't miss much. I am in such shock and disbelief that this non singing little girl would even be in the same category as George Straight or Carrie Underwood and then win the damn thing. She can't sing a lick and her poor parents must be broke by now paying for all of this fame. I understand all of her fan base is under the age of 15 and that is some of the issue..WHY?? it isn't like these grown adults haven't watched Britney and Lyndsey crash and burn already...now Mylie is wearing bootie shorts and on the same path... I am just not sure why grown adults are paying money to take their kids to see this nonsense. They are going to learn enough in school no need to take them to a concert and pay over $75 bucks to learn how to be a hooch and listen to nonsense Karoke style music...not to mention if you are under the age of 15 you don't really even need to be at a concert do you?? To each their own I guess... still doesn't make any of it right and I am scared for what our kids have to look up too these days and the fact she just won one of the major awards for the year thanks to her fan base and lots of money. Not becasue she has talent that is for sure.

Big Muscles

Dinner is always such a challenge at our house with an active 2 year old boy who had rather be outside collecting bugs, along with all the other moving pieces a 9 month old, cooking dinner, trying to do a load of laundry, just picking up and cleaning. We are on him seems like almost every night about eating all his food...so last week he decided to be a full blown 2 year old and protested eating. I gave him his choices eat or go to bed. So poof guess what? He found himself in bed at 6:30 flat.. no questions ask no second chances. Every since that night Cooper has been the best eater and he will tell you "mommy, me no eat me go to bed" Yep that is right little man. One of the things we have been telling him over and over about eating all his dinner is that he will get big muscles. Well this kinda backfired on me this week but is so funny... Cooper can't drink juice or milk while he is eating dinner cause he seems to fill up on it and doesnt eat. If he eats everything he gets his drink.. so in the middle of dinner he had eaten alot and ask me for a drink of my tea. After his drink of tea he said mommy "duess what?" Me belly has food and tea going sheewwhsshhh like dwat (doing circling motions with his little arms). So I ask him "Cooper if you eat all your food what does that mean?" thinking I was going to get the answer "me get big muscles Mommy" BUT NO that is not what I got at all... here is what I got " goes out me ding ding and bootie" Ummmmm yeah that would be the correct answer thanks for filling me in sweatheart.

The Jury is in...

Over the weekend, I attended my first Longhorns game. After a short deliberation I knew it was hands down unanimous decision... SEC football games are DA BEST!! Don't get me wrong we had a blast and Cooper hung in there like a champ and I am sure there will be many more to come. BUT there is just something to be said... to be in the middle of REAL fall weather in Knoxville, Tn, in the 3rd largest stadium, watching the REAL orange play hard core football. I'm just saying!~

I see it!

You see this picture? yeah there it is ..there it is.. the light I see it down there at the end of the tunnel. I know some weeks are easier than others but for some reason this week as been CRaZY... running on NO sleep and crabby pattie kids and ton of things going on at work...this time change has given us a run for our money. Humm wonder if there is a beer waiting on this tired old momma at the end of the tunnel ?

The word on the street

So you can tell I live in a two year old world most of the time and I kinda like staying there too. Makes life much easier to deal with most days..LOL. If any of you watch Sesame Street you know there is the "word on the street" section it is like the word you listen for throughout the show and you learn the meaning of as well.
So here is the one that my girlfriend at work was throwing around today like she owned it...
Parsing -4. Computer Science- To analyze or separate (input, for example) into more easily processed components.
so yeah breaking down distro list falls into this... I guess! Way to just own it and throw it out there my dear friend...you had the rest of us pondering that one! :0)

Super Woman

Up, in the sky!It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it is my crazy self working 60 hours a week, taking care of 2 kiddos under the age of 3 and wondering why I am exausted!~

The superwoman thing has to do with wanting to do it all and do it well. I like the busy feeling- I thrive off of it. I like being a good friend, a good family member, a productive member of society, an honest but still polite coworker, a good mom. But I still want to be young, go out, have fun. I want to have it all and do it all.
But then there’s the drain of trying to do it all. It’s too much. It’s too hard, It’s exausting and It’s unnecessary. If I drew my lines like I should- if I went home after a 7 hr day, if I didn't carry around a blackberry I wouldn't be tied to work 24/7, if I had thought twice about how much work 2 kids so close together would be, if I only worked one of my jobs, if I had a house keeper, if I had a nanny. When was the last time I even watched a movie and didnt also check my email or write a blog post? Maybe if I forced myself to relax I would enjoy things more, relax more. Maybe drink more beers.... but there is never time.
The superwoman complex isn’t all bad- it pushes us to be better, to want more. It both motivates us and pressures us. It is us, only some days we wish it wasn’t. But other days, we can see that it makes all the difference in the world.

Wake up Mr. Sunshine

As most of you know I am NOT a big fan of Halloween at all...this year for some reason was quite different. We started the day waking the sunshine up for a great cause that affects both sides of our family. JDRF (Jr. Diabetes Research Foundation) I have attended this event as a team captain every year for the past 5 years but this year due to the fact diabetics can't eat candy they did it on Halloween and put their own spin on it. It was great fun they had alot of events and awesome entertainment. Then later in the day after a SHORT nap, we all took a train ride where they told scary stories and everyone was dressed up it was super cute and Coop even won the costume contest..

We had alot of goblins visit our house and Cooper went for a short trip around the hood and decided that giving candy out was way more fun. We ended the night something like this....it was alot of fun but to be honest I am ready for Christmas... when is it again we can OFFICIALLY start decorating..I may set my own date this year.