Oh the weather outside is frightful........

"Guys, do not go out there"



















Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow !!!!!!

MOMMY J'S HOME !!!!

Words from Mommy J,
Type what I say....NOT THAT (ouch !!) sorry.
I am SOOOO happy to be home. I will CONTINUE to rack my brain to come up with THE PERFECT pay back. You deserve it.
(OUCH....STOP HITTING ME !)okaaaaay, I'm getting to it.
I will never, ever leave you again. unless.I.have.to...(OOOOUUUUCH !!!)

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Now if I wasn't such a cheap ass and would UPGRADE to the premium package
A) the song wouldn't be this soft porn shit
B) there would be text on the pictures.explaining how she came home, I left, she said whathefuk. (not that I think you are all as dumb as chickens and couldn't figure that out for yourselves) but I like having text on my pictures.

and ONE I can't figure out HOW IN THE HELL to make this montage smaller so that it will fit on my blog.
and TWO...disregard the soft porn comment...because how would I know. (wink, wink)

Had to...TOTALLY had to post this !

This is great !
For the moms. enjoy !


Oh and this one too....after laughing you can be AMAZED !
http://www.childdrowningprevention.com/index.html

WRONG WRONG WRONG

ok, so the accident posted on day 3, really happened the evening of day 2
TODAY DAY 3 has been a complete and TOTAL NIGHTMARE.
If it weren't for my good IM friends Toni and Hollie....and my good friend Ky coming to the rescue with Pizza, wine and of course a couple of cigarettes. I don't know what I would have done.
Love you my friends, and that is not said in a drunk "I love everyone in this circle" kind of way. It is said with coherent complete and total gratitude.

Pizza, GONE !
Wine, GONE ! wait....ok, now it's gone :)
Cigarettes...sent home with Ky because I cannot be trusted !
Kids, ASLEEEEEEEP (insert Calgon commercial)
Day 4, only HOURS away.
My wife, ALMOST HOME !!! (threatening tone) NEVER, EVER leave me AGAIN !

Good night.

P.S. I forgot to announce. Dare I say More.
I TOLD you that I'd have her blogging before we left NJ. :) Welcome family !

Have a nice fall.....see you next trip !

Day 3,
J if you see this, BEFORE YOU OVERREACT. he's fine, every thing is fine, he only cried for a minute. FUCK ! Get off of my back about it already. :)

My mother (bless her heart) invited me over for dinner last night. Instead of cold cereal we ate a hot meal consisting of a meat, HOMEGROWN vegetables, and fruit.

Me, being the MOTHER of the YEAR (echo, year, year, year, year) thought it a good idea, and it was at the time....to make ONE trip in to Grandma's. I unloaded one, he crawled out of the van, unloaded two, again repeat, unloaded the 3rd...held him while grabbing both diaper bags (one filled with pj's and sippy cups)..closed the door. Cam squealing with excitement over being free at last, free at last, went running (more of a trot) down the drive-way and BAM. Actually it was more of a slow motion slide in to home base kind of thing. First the belly, then the chest, ski.i.i.i.i.i.d....stop on the face.

I scooped him up, both boys hanging...bags falling over shoulder....Syd screaming because SHE WANTED TO BE HELD TOO and couldn't for the LIFE of her figure out why I couldn't carry EVERY-FUCKIN-THING. I went in the house, dropped everything (including Spencer) and cuddled my sad boy.

Grandma went outside when Syd hadn't come in yet and found her crying, laying on the drive-way. (poor Syd:)

Here he is. I was trying to get him to smile....(less dramatic OMG what happened to his face, if there is a smile on it) and was playing peek-a-boo. He started playing it with me...only his version is more of a "I can't HEAR-a-boo" as he covers his ears.
Spencer of course played too...so there HAD to be pictures of him as well.

Any ways...Cameron's FIRST bad owie.
WHY....WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE ON MY SHIFT !!!!! AND ALL BECAUSE I AM THE MOTHER OF THE YEAR (insert sarcasm)

Poor boy !














And of course, hear-a-boo and peek-a-boo
















(note to self, next time you take a picture...instead of ridiculously covering your eyes and pulling stupid faces trying to get a smile...make sure the camera is on your subject)

Sing along !

Day 2 without my wife.

Sydney, singing "I was born in the forest, and it was in a weeeeeek."
"do you know that song mom ?"

Me, trying to act enthusiastic "that was a great song Syd."

Syd, "sing along this time mom !"

Me, "I don't know that song Syd, you will need to sing it again so that I can learn it"

Second verse (apparently not the )same as the first, "In the forest, for the weeeeek, and Sadie was there, and Cameron lives in the forest, if you be there in the weeeek. In ta you, in ta you, in ta yooooou, if you miss, if you miss, in the weeek. If you forgot sumping, if you forgot sumping" screeeeching halt to the song. Syd yelling, "Sadie, go ! You are stepping on Spencer ! Go back to sleep my little sweetheart"

I love that kid !

aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaa!

That should do it. it won't, but it should help you wrap your mind around my state of being right now.
My wife is now as we speak sitting at a 5 star dinner, in a 5 star hotel, with her boss and some other somebodys from her work. She will be there until Thursday night.
THURSDAY NIGHT !
(brief pause while I pull it together)

Keri mentioned looking for a note that was stashed away somewhere special. I guess after 10 years I'm lucky if she just comes back....although I still look.
I still look for that little note scribbled quickly at 5:00 in the morning on a piece of scratch paper from the kitchen that says..."Miss you already, 143, J" and then as soon as I hear her leave I get up and read it and clutch it and miss her as if she were gone 3 days already.
(deep sigh) no note.
Did I wake up early before the BUTT CRACK of dawn to slip one in to her suitcase. No. After 10 years she's lucky that I take her back.

Cam was up at 2:30 last night. Can you say it like that...last night....ok, this morning. He was up for good at 4:30 am. Spencer and Syd joined him at 6 am.
I put everyone in their respectable beds and went back to bed at 7:30 am.
They woke up at 10 am.

WHAT WILL I DO IF IT'S LIKE THIS ALL WEEK !!!!!!
It won't be.

She called me. J. Like most days I was spouting off about exciting things in my day, she talked about sleeping on the plane. neither of us really listening or paying attention to the other. after 10 years I guess we're lucky we have anything to say to each other.

I'm kidding.

After 10 years we are lucky. period.

pros :
eating cereal, PB&J's, or mac and cheese for dinner
who cares if the house gets cleaned all week :) woo hoo
more room in the garage to park
I can turn the heat on

Cons :
I just can't do this..my head is spinning...I miss her already...who will relieve me of some of the day to day burden....who is going to talk me down from the ceiling or at least from the bottle. single motherhood SUCKS and it's only been 10 hours and 45 minutes. who's going to watch Weeds with me at 10:30 pm. stay up WAY too late and then bitch about it. who's going to listen to me ramble with both eyes closed and at least one ear closed at midnight mumbling ahuh every once in a while making me believe they are listening. who's warm foot am I going to be able to warm my cold feet on. (well, I could think of someone who I'd like to fill this position..Queen is busy making a movie or something I'm sure. who knows, maybe she has cold feet. maybe she's in FLORIDA TOO)
I miss you baby. I miss you real bad.
The End !

Our Can Can't

I copied this idea from Turtle and a butterfly. I LOVE it !
I am going to cast and recast a million of them.
Everytime we watch them we crack up just as hard.

Arts and Crafts

I decided to let the boys join their sister in arts and crafts time yesterday.
Would the mistake in that last sentence be the word, let, or join.
I could throw in a lot more adjectives and since fuck can be a person, place, a thing or an idea, I could throw it in there too....but it still wouldn't describe it as well as pictures. so here you go.






Cute Right !!!!









And then I went to help the gas man ! The Gas man who was trying to green sticker our furnace. $530.00 later, we got that pretty green sticker....I wanted to kick him in the balls and tell him that my daughter had a whole SLEW of green stickers upstairs and I didn't need HIS GREEN FUCKING sticker to make me feel warm and safe. Well actually, after he showed me the small gas leak with his beeper tool, a tool that if you held it up to a green sticker might beep faster, but what the hell do I know about small gas leaks. Well I know now that he is REQUIRED to shut our gas off if the small leak is not fixed. SOOOOO I put my head down, my tits in a vice grip, hung up the phone with my wife..who I had called, because even though I'm the boss...she really makes all of the decisions and went back upstairs to write a check.
This is what I returned to !

Sydney had no idea that I was taking this picture.














She did know that I took this one however. Stopped her, NO, I think it encouraged her to do her best work !














I'm making them pirates mommy !















Pirates that were apparently in a massive attack with lots of blood shed. oh and earings. All pirates must have earings.














Who says bath time at 1pm is too early.














Oh and just so you know...the damn gas man had me sign papers in the bathroom because I wasn't able to leave the boys in there to find a more appropriate place...and although I was made to wait 2 hours for him to arrive (LATE) he couldn't wait 5 minutes for me to get them out of the tub.

He did say, "I don't know how you do it" before leaving. :) Get used to that Carey ! :)

Sign language and charades !

First and FOREMOST, I have to thank Gemini Girl for her thoughtful gift.
The signing cards are awesome. I have already started trying to teach the boys some of the signs. Spencer seems ready to go. The gift was GREATLY appreciated. Thank you thank you thank you !

My goal now, since returning from New Jersey is to learn sign language fluently. To teach it to my children and to HOPEFULLY better communicate with Toni and Hollie when they come to visit in November ?....December ?.....maybe January ? Well I'm still working on the logistics of that hopeful trip :)

Talking with Toni and Hollie was pretty easy. They were both mainstreamed in the hearing world and are both very good at communicating with hearing people. Toni has talked about her family still not knowing sign on her blog. (something I can't understand)
A lot of deaf people are forced to read lips and speak in deaf talk, never learning sign language. I can't imagine a world with limited communication.

Hollie who has no hearing ability what so ever spoke very loud and very clear. There were times that I felt as if I was talking to a hearing person...other than the fact that her hands were going 50 miles an hour. :)
Toni, my shy sweet Toni :) was very soft spoken. She has a beautiful speaking voice, but would mostly sign. Which helped me learn a lot of signs while we were there.

One thing I did learn is that in order to be deaf you must be able to spell well. HOLY SHIT. They sign words at the speed of light. There were several times that I had to have Toni sign a word out for me like 3 times.....I had the problem of watching her expression and not focusing on her hands. (she has the greatest expressions.....especially when she's in a heated debate with Hollie about something important....like chocolate)

Of course we learned all of the dirty words. sex, masturbate, asshole, fart, poop, bitch. :)
If you wanted to know what the signs were, you would ask Hollie, because it was fun to watch her squirm and blush...and then after terrorizing her for a few minutes you would ask Toni. Once we learned the sign we of course spent the next little while practicing by calling each other bitches :) (yes we are 12)

ANOTHER AMAZING THING, when Mikaela would get in trouble, or when she would argue about something with her moms. (HARDLY ever happened) She wouldn't make any noise. She would argue and cry very quietly. It was amazing. She understands that her moms are deaf and knows that screaming and crying will do nothing for her.
She speaks deaf talk when signing to them.....and under her circumstances speaks VERY well when talking to those of us who hear. She signed when talking to the kids sometimes, and taught the little ones signs too.

It was so much fun to meet these amazing women. To watch their children.
To learn, even though a limited amount, another language.

Here is a website. It's a GREAT TOOL to learn sign language. You click on the letter and then the word and it is signed for you. How awesome is that.
Thanks S for sending it to me.

From left to right
Birthmoms...Darcy, me, Elyse, Toni



Our wonderful wives.....Cindy(Elyse), Mary Lou(Darcy),J,Hollie(Toni)

Life as we Knew it !

We're back. To life as we knew it !
I hope everyone stopped by Life as a Rainbow yesterday. Elyse described the week beautifully. She put our words and thoughts to song.

Now, here I sit. STILL thinking about our week together. As I walked Syd to preschool this morning, my thoughts drifted to our new family most of the way there. I think of them all of the time.

I am taking an opinion poll on my side bar. Tell me what you think about finding siblings.
Our experience being one of several I'm sure.

Flying with 3 kids. Wow. LOTS of comments. I had a woman ask me as I was exiting the airport bus (the train was shut down for some reason) "is this 2 of the 8"
I guess there is a show called "Jon & Kate plus 8" about a family with twin 4 year olds and now sextuplets. holy shit.
I laughed and would say....I guess I know now why the Duggars choose to travel by bus. :) ha ha

We make it to the plane...SEVERAL dirty looks from fellow passengers. I really want to say....my kids aren't making any noise (yet) and you are already giving the OH MY GOD IF I HAVE TO SIT AND LISTEN TO THOSE BABIES SCREAM looks....plus, you probably have kids at home....be a little considerate...compassionate why don't you.
I think it's only fair to give the "look" to someone...if you don't have kids and have NO idea what it's like to try and calm a child who's normally VERY active and isn't made to hold still for more than 15 minutes while awake, and is being restrained in one place for 4 hours.

My kids did awesome. Syd was by far the BEST. She sat in her seat and read, slept, watched her DVDs, and on the way home got a case of diarrhea. :) How fun is that ?schlepping up and down the aisles with a kid with the runs.
Oh and I also had to carry a baby in tote. It wasn't too bad.

The plane lands, we make it to the gate. Sydney says that her tummy hurts and can I rub it for her. People are now standing in their seats, aisles, staring over us as I massage her tummy.
AND then Sydney announces, "Mommy, I need to go poo poo"
There is NO WAY that I could get her to the back or front of the plane at that moment. Emergency or not. Again with the looks.
hee hee hee, I smiled, "we'll be off in just a second honey. Can you hold it?"
"no mommy, my tummy hurts"
"ok, we're getting off of the plane right now" knowing it was going to be another few minutes before we made it to a bathroom.
She waited and we made it to the bathroom in the airport.

I also had to go to the bathroom. After she was done, and I was allowed back in to the stall to help with the wipe up. I sat down and began going to the bathroom.....#1 folks, #1 with a twist and cap. (Aunt Flo was in full force)
Sydney wanted to flush the toilet. EVEN THOUGH the toilets are automatic flushers she wanted to push the button on the top of the toilet.
I agreed and she made her way to the back of the toilet...you know, getting in place so that she could do it before the automatic beat her.

"mommy, what's that red thing?" quite disgusted.
"that's something that bigger girls have"
a quiet breathy chuckle from the stall next to me.
"That's a lot of red...that's GROSS! eeeeewwww"

WELL, I guess that tells you that I'm not pregnant. Yip. Apparently we are still not doing it right :) ha ha ha

I'm leaving you with one of my FAVORITE pictures from the trip. My girls (I'm sorry Callie wasn't there yet)

Miss you guys ! hugs and kisses !

Until there is time !

Until I find some time......there is Life as A Rainbow !

Let me rephrase that ??

*******UPDATED WITH PICTURES********

We are in New Jersey. NOT NY. We did go in to NY. But we are staying in New Jersey.

Toni and Hollie got here on Wednesday night. 3 hours it took them to drive up. I don't know why I thought it was a longer drive ?
I love them. I mean I honestly just love them. It's been GREAT learning sign language. I think we are communicating just fine. (they may think differently:)
They are such good people. (I'm typing on their laptop right now :) hee hee
We have all switched kids. The big girls all come in our van, the boys seem to make their way to Toni and Hollies. Now...my boys babble in sign. :) It is the damndest thing. Spencer comes up to J and will sign "more", when he wants more food. AMAZING. We haven't taught the boys sign. We were bad and wrong for not doing it. OBVIOUSLY they need it and it would help us all out if we could teach them.

I just have this HUGE BALL of RAW emotion sitting in the bottom of my stomach.
I can't seem to find the words to describe what I'm feeling.
The only word I can come up with is home.
I feel like I'm home with these people. I want all of us to move to some community someplace and raise my children together. OH MY GOD...did I just write MY children ?? :)
There is this maternal bond that I INSTANTLY felt when meeting the other children. First with Elyse and Cind's kids...and now Toni and Hollies. I want to kidnap and take them all home.
I know that I'm sarcastic and ha ha funny all of the time. But I am being completely serious when I tell you this. I am going to bawl my eyes out when I leave these people in 3 days. I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

Elyse is going to post pictures. She's the only one with a plug...and we are all taking the same pictures any ways :)

There was a study done on orphans. They were adopted in to these great homes with loving, honest, and hard working parents. They followed these kids and found that when they grew up, a lot of them committed crimes and they were the same crimes that their birth parents committed.
I believe that there is a lot of unexplained DNA affecting our character...our likes and dislikes. Even the way we say things.
My Syd and Olivia for example. They both said "yay-esss" it was this southern dialect that neither of us could explain. Coincidence, NO WAY!! They don't talk like that any more. It was something they both did when they were 2 and it just happened to come up in conversation.
Spencer and Kyron do the same things. They mumble the same. They hold their hands the same...make the same shy face.
Sydney and Mikaela don't look like each other....but they both sing..make up songs. We were walking to the car and they were both singing together, making a song up together. They are both silly. They love to laugh and joke.
The girls get along like sisters I imagine would.
Here I go again....getting all fahklempt. I wish they could grow up together. They could move to Utah and we could build a community....just like a normal polygamist family.

Darcy is the next to join our group. I imagine the love will be there for their family as it has been for everyone else.


UPDATE

NY !!!!

I have no time to post. Jan doesn't know that I'm sitting in here. (the business center)
I went to the front desk to check in for Mommy, Mama, and Cubs...(getting them a discounted rate) and LO AND BEHOLD !!! HAPPY HOUR !!!! I grabbed a glass of white wine and made my way to the business center as NOBODY was in here.

Ok. So many of you may have read Elyse's blog. Life as a Rainbow.
(by the way...I have my camera. I took pictures today....I have NO way of downloading them...unless Elyse has something that I can use...and she's just feeding you full of none sense)

I have to tell you....she told you all of the details that happened. I'm telling you first impressions.
LOVE THEM !!! Like LOVA LOVA LOVE them.
They are SO awesome. Elyse is SO my people. We are the same in too many ways.
LOVE THEM ! Did I already say that.

OK, so this sweet thing came to the hotel...and pulled up JUST as we were checking in. She was going to drop off some stuff and managed to MEET us there. She went to the store and bought me size 4 diapers for my boys, milk, and had HOMEMADE COOKIES and a birthday card for me. OMG I LOVE HER !

I went to her van and Olivia said "Hi" FREAKED ME OUT !
They are SOOOOO similar, Syd and Olivia. I mean it. Their characteristics. They say things that are the same. The say it in the same way, tone, attitude. It is the WEIRDEST THING EVER !!
I kept pointing to Olivia when referring to Syd....and then would go...I MEAN SYD and redirect my finger. A LITTLE WEIRD.
I can't WAIT until Toni gets here with her brood. They should be here in a few short hours.

THIS PEOPLE.....IS FUN !!! A LOT OF FUN !

I hope to get some pictures up. If not, Elyse will for sure.

crossing my fingers for those of you waiting out your 12 weeks.

wines gone...gotta refill before happy hour is up :)

TOOT TOOT !

I'm not one to toot my own horn.....but I just got back from :
-The post office
-The library
-The grocery store
-Walmart

ALL with 3 kids in tote. AND, it was the boys nap time.
AND ALSO, I managed to keep them awake and laid them in bed for their afternoon nap. (HOPEFULLY 3-4 hours)
The best part...it's not even noon yet.
DAMN I'M GOOD !!!


Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow, we're only a day a-waaay.
We fly out tomorrow morning.
I CAN'T WAIT !!!!
I sure hope that it works out that we get to see some of you while visiting the big apple. We will be in the city on Thursday.
Jennifer, don't worry if Nanny Annie isn't with you...you will have 3 other moms there to lend a helping hand. GRANTED we each have 3 kids of our own 3 and under....:) but who can resist those cute little mugs you post pictures of. Hell bring Nanny Annie, Nanny Jo, and the Super Nanny...I think we could all use the help. It will be the twins club.

I leave you with a couple of pictures from the weekend.
Syd rode the bull, the boys rode horses. :)

(yes she has a necklace on, but check out the little mini riding glove she's wearing:)














Look at that form ! Still one handed and can't be thrown :)














Spencer already one handing it !














Cam was all about lounging back on Mommy.

Do you know the Muffin Man ?

Sydney is my little chef. She can crack an egg better than most adults.
She makes the BEST breakfast, cookies and now muffins.

(TIME OUT)
OK, this post was supposed to be about my little muffin (wo)man.
TOTALLY my mistake to think that I could get caught up on my blogs while the boys took their morning nap.
Silence fell over my household and as I started downloading pictures for the original post I realized that silence is NEVER a good thing in my house.
OH GOD WHERE WAS SYDNEY ?
I headed for the garage door, expecting to find her in the van with gum in her mouth.
Oh no, I walked out the garage door to find an ENTIRE Costco box of dog bones spewed out across the floor. Sydney standing there with a towel and some kind of red liquid seeping in to every crack and crevice in the garage floor.
I covered my mouth and said, "Syd, what are you doing ?"
"I'm just giving the dog a bath mom"
"With GATORADE?!"
"Ya, she was dirty and it was her bath time"
"Syd, do not go in the garage any more. It is off limits for you"
I started cleaning up and Syd patted the dog, walked up the steps in to the house and said, "I'm sorry mommy, I'm sorry for making a mess."

It wasn't an apology with any empathy or feeling. It was a very matter of fact, boy that sucks kind of an apology. :) ha ha

Syd is now in her room taking a few minutes because shortly after cleaning up you know, trying the blog thing again...because COME ON...SHE CAN'T get in to trouble AGAIN....she tried to go back in to the garage. We had a short butting of heads and now here I am, and there she is.

Here are some pictures of happier times.
The whole time she was cooking, she was singing "Do you know the muffin man, the muffin man the muffin man" song. She is an amazing little person. I love the time that I get to spend with her.
(even right now, listening to her talk about Swiper as she plays with her Dora play dough at the kitchen table)


















On to other news. We are heading to NYC next week. We fly in to Newark airport on Tuesday. Me, J, and 3 kids. Oh ma gaw marsha, what were you thinking ?
Thank God it's a non stop flight.
We are meeting 3 other 1/2 sibling families. I can't wait. You all know Life as a Rainbow and Mommy, Mama, and Cubs. We are also lucky to hook up with a 2 mom family with a little girl named Callie. (don't worry, by the time we get back they will be bloggers too :)

I will be blogging from the big Apple.
Can you just see it...Elyse, Toni, and me fighting over who gets to use the computer first. (note to self, check to see if hotel has a business center with computers)

I am so excited ! We have forged a relationship through email and phone calls and it will be SO fun to meet them face to face.
It will also be fun to compare kids. We already have an idea who looks alike. I guess we will see.

WHO KNOWS....we may be on Dateline. Just wait and see !

Discovery !

Thanks to the library, Jo, and reading by my lamp light at 11:30 pm for a few nights. I've made an important revelation about my sweet little Sydney.

The book that was recommended was "Raising the Spirited Child" not only was it a great book for helping those of us RAISING spunky, spirited children to not feel alone and self critical about how you are doing as a mother.
Mostly it helped me unravel my little girl.

I was reading about Extroverts and Introverts. I thought it ironic as a lot of us had taken the personality tests a while back. For any one who knows me and any one who doesn't for that matter....I'm tagged quite easily as an extrovert.
As was Sydney.
I read through all of the extrovert traits....how to handle them....what to do....and as I was laying there. J sleeping soundly next to me. I decided to go back and read the introvert section, the one I skipped over the first time as it didn't apply to Sydney. You know, because Cam seems to be more of an introvert and this way I can kill 2 birds with one stone...as we all know that NONE of my children will escape the spirited feature.

As I started reading it I would reread paragraphs...sentences...words. They were describing Sydney. Each characteristic, situation, all sounded JUST like her.
If harps could have played and a halo of light surrounding my head come on...that's how enlightened I felt.
WOW ! Sydney is an introvert. She masks it with an outgoing personality. She's not shy.
Now the way the book described it to me....is like this.
Introvert and extrovert is a way for a person to obtain his or her energy source.
If you are an extrovert, you need to get that energy from other people.
If you are an introvert, you get that energy source being alone or with a single person...maybe a mother or father.

I have been handling her all wrong. Pushing her in to social situations and expecting her to use all of that personality to get her through tough problems.

What I NEEDED to be doing was watching for signs of a much needed break. When she gets low on energy and starts to act out, I need to pull her back and let her unwind and build up.

THIS. THIS FOLKS, has been the most amazing and exciting piece of information.

This means that Syd has a chance at being a good student. Not acting out for attention like her mother :) (this was the first thing I thought of)
It also explains a lot of her misbehaving.
I understand her now. (again with the harps)
That is HUGE. These little people DON'T come with directions and figuring them out is as easy as trying to figure out how 54% of Americans still think we have a chance of winning the war in Iraq.

To quote a quote.
"I have found that sometimes people just need a hand to hold and a heart to understand them"

Romantical weekend and obsessions.....(schreech)

Yes it was our 10 year anniversary.
10 years and on a budget. It was all mine to plan.
J came home with a beautiful bouquet of flowers on Friday and Saturday had some sexy lingerie (aka. Pajama's from Victoria Secret) on the counter for me.

Saturday Night.
I secretly arranged for overnight babysitters, took her to dinner at our favorite restaurant.
View from the truck. There are more pictures....but you will never see them ! hee hee









After dinner I arranged a couples massage. Totally over rated by the way. I mean it's OK to have your partner in the room...but I just don't get the erotic thing.
Unless you all have sex afterwards with the masseurs...I don't see it as "ROMANTIC". :)

After that it was 9:30 pm.....we drove to the hotel where some friends had decorated, set up some wine (A lot of wine) strawberries, raspberries, chocolate, a goody basket of treats, lights strung up on the ceiling, candles throughout the room, bath stuff and of course some nipple nibbler :) ha ha (thanks girls)

It was a good weekend.

Ok, now to the SCREECH part.
We are sitting in the restaurant. We ended up on the private club side because we didn't want to wait to sit down. (what does this mean...small fee, 3 week membership....only in Utah :)
They have TVs over the bar. (ok, when I say this you are picturing a sports bar....it isn't, it's nice, I promise) We are sitting there....I'm trying to gaze into J's eyes. I'm talking to her about how it's been 10 years and how much has changed....and J says. (pay close attention, here comes the screech part)
"I can't believe they don't have the BYU game on ONE of the TVs!"
WHAT ! Are you FUCKING kidding me ? We are at a NICE restaurant, on our TEN year anniversary....and you are not only WATCHING the TVs, but concerned as to what is playing on them.
I gave her shit....we both laughed. The end.
Oh, and I told her I was going to blog about this. She straightened right up...the power of suggestion :) bwaa haa ha haaaaa