Obsessed...

Ok, so do you do this too... get so obsessed about something that you do NOTHING else, but that one thing?  Let me explain...

So, I'm IMing with my buddy, I'm checking out my "feedjit" thingy on here & see someone came to my blog from another blog.  Hey, cool, that blog name sounds familiar, but I can't remember who it belongs to.  I click on THAT blog & start reading.  HOLY COW, it's hilarious, I'm totally LOL.  I'm sharing it with my "buddy", (she didn't read it as closely as I did, but I'll cut her some slack, she's on the east coast & well, she SHOULD be sleeping, but she's cold... whatever) anyway, so, I read more & more & the more I read, the more I'm laughing, but I STILL can't figure out who the heck it is that wrote it.  I decide to play detective... I start out by going to SS & doing a search on the blogroll, nope, nothing, okay, next step, ( I dont' remember what I did next) all I know is that it's now 11:30 & I STILL have NO FREAKIN CLUE WHO THE HECK WROTE THAT BLOG!!!  I'm tellin ya, it's driving me crazy!  I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight.  My "buddy" says it's all a conspiracy, I'm startin to believe her!  She's probably in on it too.  Hmmm, guess I should look into THAT too.  I'm tellin ya, I am NOT getting any sleep until this is figured out!

I even tried to google the blog, nope, came up with a big ol blank.  I keep threatening that I'm going to post a thread on SS just asking the person to "out" themselves.  (She doesn't have a profile on her blog... see why we think it's a conspiracy)?!  The REALLY weird thing is... she has ME (well, my blog anyway) listed as one of her blog list.  The poor thing, she'll probably never come clean now, she's going to think I'm stalking her & now that I've posted this, I'm sure I've scared the living stuffing out of her.

UGH, okay, please tell me I'm not the only one that obsesses over stuff like this!

Off to hire me a good Private Investigator to solve this mystery for me...

Ok, I'm getting yelled at because I didn't tell "her" name, so for those that want to play detective with, or for me, here ya go... www.thealphabetgang.blogspot.com

I REALLY hope this person doesn't get upset that I just linked her blog to this.  YIKES!  (I also hope she doesn't delete me from her list).

More pics...

Bonez...


C-Man...


Bubby...


Princess...

The Princess...

Ok, I wasn't necessarily going to post this, but it was so funny, I decided I wanted to. So, The Princess comes in this morning & tells me that she's "wet" & wants to take a splashy. Alrighty then! I go put her in the tub, get her dressed & decide to try something new & different for her hair today. I saw this & finally decided to give it a try today (a run through for tomorrow's church do). I got all done, got her down off the bathroom counter & told her she could go play. NOPE, wasn't gonna happen, she wanted pics taken of her hair first! LOL I swear, this child is definitely MINE!

Anyway, here are her pics...
1. Side view...



2. Back view...


3. Did you get them all?
Have I told you how much I love my girlie girl?!

More Family Pics

Here are some of the "real" pics that were taken last wknd. I'm only going to share a few today, I'll save the rest for another day.





Here are some of the Princess with her cousin...

Hectic days & nights...

This is officially the start of "hectic season" here at our house. I have 1 in football & 1 in soccer, 2 in scouts (+ me too), 3 in school & all 6 of us busy with church & our callings there. Yep, it's crazy, but we LOVE it! We have 1 day a week where we have NOTHING going on. That is officially going to be our "Family fun time". Not sure what we will be doing, maybe just hanging out here & playing games, or watching a movie, but it's going to be family time.

Ok, so we made a (I think) pretty big decision here on Friday afternoon. It's going to simplify things for all of us, (well, okay, really just for me, but hey, that's all that matters, right)?! Here's a little background...

A new school is opening up a few blocks away from us. Bubby is to be going there, C-man gets to stay at the "old" school since he'll be a 5th grader. I have REALLy fought with the decision all summer about sending bubs. I LOVE the Principal at the new school, love the location etc, BUT, I had some MAJOR concerns about some other things. One of those concerns being how the heck am I supposed to get 3 kids to 3 schools @ 2 different times? Because C is now "out of district" I have to provide transportation. Bubby gets to take the bus, but it would still be tough getting them all out the door at 3 different times etc. Anyway, while talking to D's teacher from last year, she convinced me that I really am NOT Wonder Woman (who woulda thought) & I am INSANE for even trying to do it all. Ok, well, she needed help totally convincing me, so, off we went to Gail (B had both of these teachers for 1st & 2nd grade). After spending lots of time chatting I started working on the switch. The funny thing was, I walked into the school that afternoon feeling like I had made the decision & was feeling okay with it. HA! Guess that's what happens when Gail & Jill get ahold of me huh?! To make a long story short, after more thinking, more phone calls & even more trips to the school... it is now official... BUBBY IS GOING TO THE SAME SCHOOL AS C-MAN!!! I can't even begin to explain how excited I am about this. D will get (we had to even get HER permission lol) Gail as a teacher, she will be PERFECT for him. (He is a hard one to place). I just now got off the phone with the school sec who said "yep, it's official, he's ON her class list, I just placed him"!!! What an answer to my prayers. I am so excited for school to start next week, I know my boys are in good hands & will have great years.

Ok, I'm off to sign all 3 boys up for basketball... luckily that doesn't start until after football & soccer.

Family Pics...

I don't know about you, but trying to get family pics is an absolute nightmare at my house. Of course, even the mention of pics has my entire family screaming & running, it's pathetic actually! So of course, I got it in my head that these HAD to be done today. I set it up with my SIL to meet us at my MIL's house so she could be our photographer. Now, I was already getting the attitude from the boys, but you know who was the worst? MY HUBBY!!! He HATES his picture taken more than anything. Sorry, I don't really care. We haven't had pics done since before Bubby's 1st birthday (umm, he's now 6 1/2)! Yeah, I would say we were BEYOND over due at this point!

Of course, I had to "plan" out every little detail (like how I was going to do the Princess' hair)! LOL I mean, like what we were going to wear!!! When the boys heard/saw what they were going to have to wear, I swear, you would have thought I was making them wear dresses, all while cutting off their own limbs with a butter knife. Yes, it was that bad! No, I didn't give in!

Anyway, the pics turned out great, I'm SO excited to get the "real" shots tomorrow. These are some that my niece took while standing behind her mom, & some I took while we were just hanging out. Here ya go...

Prince Charming & I...


The "boys"...

The "girls"...

Tickle time...


Bonez...


A fun one of all 6 of us...



My FAV out of all of them...


I can't wait to get the CD of the rest of them tomorrow, it's going to be so much fun going through them & then the hard part of deciding which one(s) I want blown up to frame.

Hopefully we won't have to wait quite so long before we do it all again, (but I'm CERTAINLY not holding my breath while I'm waiting)! LOL

This is SO cool!

I'm hoping I can get this figured out so it'll work.  This video is so cool, I had all 5 kids standing here totally fascinated by it.  It was really neat.  Kind of long, but worth it.