Reality TV

I love reality TV! Something about other peoples drama just sucks me in. Plus I think the fact that these are "REAL" people and real lives feels kinda like I am snooping or peeking in on something that I shouldn't be. I like that! Secret voyeur in me maybe?

This weekend I watched The Real Houswives of OC and Tamara had a dinner party were they, OK she, got Gretchen hammered! It was really a mean thing to do and I kinda had trouble watching it. I had to fast forward through some of it as I felt really bad for her.

Then on Rock of love.......OMG! Were do they find these women? And what are the chicks thinking! There is one gal, Brittany she drives me nuts! Ugh! So irritating. I would drop like a rock. She is always crying and freaking out. I think she is a few sandwiches short of a picinic!

Then last but not least, The Bachelor. I like this show. I am a sucker for people falling in love and happily ever afters! But come on, how can you be sooo in love with a guy you just met last week! Come on really! The girls who did not get a rose after the first week are soo dramatic. " I gave my heart and I guess for nothing! It could have been true love". Umm Hello! It was only a week and you didn't even go on a date with the guy!

I mean OK I am in love with him but I have been on three dates with him and been involved in every conversation he has had since he arrived, of course this was all vicariously through the magic of television but that is just a technicality right, so it make sense for me to already be in love! I me come on right?

Nice weekend

Weekend is over, boy do they go by too fast! I had a nice enough weekend. I had to drive to Kirkland to meet up with my daughters freinds parents. Breanne's freind Tasha has just moved back to Washington after living with her mom in Texas for 2 years. She is now living in Stanwood with her dad. Stanwood is about 2 hours north of us. We decided to meet in Kirkland as it is the half way point. This reminds me of when I was young my best freind and I moved away from each other and our parents would meet in the middle to exchange us for weekends. Most of the time though Tammy's mom would make the entire trip. I am sure that I will be doing this too in the months to come. It was nice to see Tasha. She really has grown up quite a bit. Mike also had a freind over on Friday so it was a very full house. Saturday Mike went to sleep over at his freinds and the girls and my mom and me went to see Bride wars. It was a cute movie! Then we went to Applebee's for dinner.

Sunday was a girlfreind day. While Ron slept I met Liz and Carri in Renton for pedicures and lunch at the Olive Garden. Can you say PEACH BELLINI! Yumm! It was a very nice afternoon. I spent the rest of the evening watching shows that I had recorded. Episode 2 of Rock of Love, the second half of the Bachelor,Real housewives of Orange County and some nanny movie. So a pretty lazy evening al in all. Ron slept until 6:00! I did not even make a real dinner! Had such a late lunch I was not hungry, girls had cereal and I made Ron a sandwich, only because he was pouting about NO DINNER!

Blogger catch up!

I have been a very bad blogger and been MIA for a while. I am attempting to catch up to today. I have posted several updates and will add some photos to those posts later tonight. I will endever to be a better blogger in the future!

The day after!

Even though we had not planned on staying then night at Janies it was the safe thing to do so we did. I woke up at about 8:30 and got Ron and Mike up so we could get home. I stopped for Espresso before getting on the freeway, gotta have my morning Mocha. As soon as we arrived at home the boys went right back to bed where they spent the entire day! I took a long bath read a book and then went to lunch and a movie with my mom. We saw Benjamin Button, it was sad but really good!



Mike was supposed to go to his mom's right after school let out for Christmas break and return home late Christmas Eve night but due to all of the snow and ice Tammy was unable to come and get him. Since things have pretty much melted away and she has Thursday's off she is suppose to come and get him today. I assumed that since she hasn't seen him him in a while and missed spending any Christmas time with him she would want to get him early and spend some time with him. But I guess I was wrong as she didn't pick him up until 4:00. Oh well at least he will get to see her and have the evening and a little time on the weekend in between her work hours. Tommorow - back to work!

Happy New Year!

Ron, Mike and Myself headed over to Janies for New Years. We planned for a night of cards and pictionary. Carmen and her boys Luke and Logan were also going to be there. When we arrived we were suprised by Jean! That was a really nice suprise as we have not seen her in a while. The boys headed into the game room to play Xbox and we sat down to play poker. Janie had whipped up a batch of her famous margaritas and after just 1, I was hammered! Since I had not eatin all day it was no suprise. We had a blast! I finished off the magarita and made up some Strawberry Daiquiri's! YUM! I stayed pleasently liquered up for the entire evening and before I knew it it was midnight. We went out to light off some fire works and then returned to our Pictionary game. We had been playing boys agains girls and we kicked the boys butts! We had planned to head home but by 3:00 in the morning I was too tired to drive and Ron, who is not used to drinking, was not in any shape to drive. So I crashed on the hide-a-bed and the boys stayed up until 5 or so watching 300 on the BIG screen.

A better day.

Tuesday, Dec 30th. To make up for the Birthday debackle after I got home from work Ron took me shopping for my b-day present and out to dinner. We went to Victoria's Secret to get my favorite perfume - PINK!

Then to Olive Garden for dinner. It was a really nice evening. Dinner was yummy! I love the Salad at Olive Garden.

Happy Birthday too me!

Monday December 29th! Happy 41st (Ugh!) Birthday! What did I do for my birthday......worked! Then I got to come home and clean the kithchen and prepare my own b-day dinner! The kids were away, they had been gone all weekend and my mom was at work. Ron was sleeping, as usual. I really had thought that ONE of them would have done the dishes but NOPE! They left it for the Birthday girl. Normally Breanne cleans the kithchen but since she is away it did not get done. I was waiting to see who would step-in because I am tired of having to do EVERYTHING! But alas nobody did! Why am I suprised. Needless to say I was very un-happy. I did not want at party or any fan fair but come on they could have at least loaded the dishwasher and got a bucket of chicken right?

Christmas continued

After we finished opening our gifts we headed over to Mother and Kenny's. When we arrived Janie was there and Kenny had already started Breakfast. I had been up since 6:00 baking crumb cake for breakfast and getting stuff ready for Christmas dinner. We ate breakfast which was de'lish and then did the presents. Ashley and Arianna were both here for the morning and were supposed to head to there mom's for dinner in the late afternoon. That is the main reason why we originally planned everything for the morning.

Patiently waiting for things to get stared. G-ma Sue, Breanne, Mike, Arianna, Ashley.

G-ma Carol's Tree! Gypsy wondering which presents are hers.

Ron helping with breakfast

Me and Janie Lou! Hey Janie that is almost a smile!Ron wondering if we are every going to get started!

Ron playing Santa.

Gypsy getting her presents. Squeeky toys!

The morning was fun and I think we all had a good time. Ron was very tired as he had been up all night so around 1 ish, after all of the festivities were over we headed back home so Ron could get some shut eye before dinner.

Mother and Kenny arived at our house at 5:00 for dinner with Ash and Anna! We thought they were going to their moms that afternoon so this was a nice suprise. Breanne's boyfreind Todd came over and we had a really nice dinner. Pot Roast, Ham, mashed potatoes, corn, peas, coleslaw and I am sure more but it escapes me. Mother, Kenny and the girls ate reather quickly as they were meeting the girls mom after dinner for the "child exchange" so after they ate they rushed off to meet up with Tonya. Unfortunatly they never showed up to get the girls! Tonya , the girls mom, and her boyfreind Jason have some real issues with being grown ups! Thus someone else has been raising her kids. So it seems Jason picked this night, Chritsmas, to throw a fit about "Not my kids" so why do I have to drive around to get them! Good Grief! Grow up already! So the girls ultimatly ended up not going to there moms.

Friday Ashley and Arianna came over to spend the weekend with us. We had a Wii marathon. They kept me up untill after 12:00 both nights playing Raving Rabids TV party and bowling. We Wii danced and Wii ski'd on our butts and a ton of other hysterical games! It was tons of fun!

Christmas

The plan for the day is to head over to Ron's moms at 8:00am when Ron gets home from work. We will exchange gifts and have a nice Breakfast over there. Janie is coming from Olympia and we are all going to meet there at 8:30. Then after Breakfast we will come back home and open our presents here. Well that was the PLAN! When will I learn not to make plans as it never seems to workout quite right.

At 8:00 Kenny called and asked if we could push everything back to 9:00-9:30 as they were up late and weren't ready yet. I told him fine but lets try for 9:00 as the kids really wanted to get going, remember it is Christmas and we are talking about presents here! Ron got home at 8:00 and I told him about the delay. Then at 8:30 Kenny called again to tell us that Janie had just now left Olympia, she was supposed to be her at 8:30, now it was going to be an hour before she arrived. It was not her fault I know, we had alot of ice and snow and its was really bad so she wanted to wait until it was light enough to drive safely. I am just such a stickler for plans and schedules that I find it hard to "roll" with the changes. So rather then getting upset or frustrated I popped open a bottle of Champagne and made myself a Mimosa (or 2)! That will help me get in the holiday spirit! Then I announced that we would open our gifts now and head to Mother and Kenny's when we were done!

So Stockings first.

We really had a nice time just our little family dong the gift thing, usually we get the WHOLE extended family together and it is great but quite a mad house. It was really nice to see each gift opened and to get to share a more intimate time with just our family. Brutus never left this spot the whole morning. Even though the kids covered him with bows. I think he was comfortable!

Among the many thing the kids got. Their Favs I think, Mike got Guitar Hero for the Wii - He was excited. Breanne got a Digital Camera- She was thrilled.

Ron and I decided not to exchange gifts this year we wanted to focus on the kids and family. We did take the kids shopping so they could pick out gifts for each of us. Here is what I got from the family:

Coffee pot
Electric snuggly blanket

Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker - now I can make protien Ice Cream!

Hot rollers

Pink Leather cover for my iPod

Pink Headphones

Jammies

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