Dogbowl Fights

Seriously????
I am pretty sure my dog would freak the F* out if I tried to get her to eat or drink out of this thing. The chihuahua looks tame but those beady beagle eyes would stare Josie down saying "come on b*tch, you know you want to try and take this food, bring it!"

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Connor's three, I'm losing it, life is fun :)

My youngest baby turned three last week.

Hard to believe. He's so dang adorable and funny and witty and smart and snuggly and cuddly that I don't want him to grow up. I said/thought the same thing about Logan though and I love the little man he is now too so it's all good right? :) He had a King Kong themed party. He loves the movie (both the old black & white one as well as the new color scary one).

I made a pretty cool cake if I do say so myself.

I also made a cake for Grant's dad, just because, the other day that turned out well.

I got promoted at work, yeah me, but am anxiety-riddled. I absolutely LOVE my job so not taking the offer wasn't an option but I have a standard of service I live by and the person working for me has a different one. Not that hers is wrong but now that I manage her the people we do our work for expect her to be like me. This is proving interesting. Trying to find the balance between getting her where I want her to be and not being a total a-hole has been interesting to say the least. I also just got accepted to grad school for my MBA and the company approved to pay for me to do it. So, that's another awesome thing giving me anxiety. Grant reminded me by quoting Jack from Lost, "close your eyes and count to five". Helps but does not cure the stress.

Oh well, that's where my life is right now. Full of wonderful things, most of which have me on edge. I have a stress-eating problem so I've gained 8 pounds in three weeks. That causes more anxiety causing more eating causing the circle to start over. I wonder whatever happened to that 'Stop the Insanity' lady, maybe she could help me? LOL, oh well, happy Thursday my online semi-private journal...

I can't get no... satisfaction (in cars)

I've had my Ford Fusion for about 2 years now and I like it, I really do, but I already want something new... It has some bang ups on it from backing into a car parked weird in my driveway and having Grant back into it when I was in the driveway. I hate it, I hate walking to my car and seeing the crack in the bumper and the scratches. I want a new car. I don't need a new car. But I want a new car.

I miss my VW. I want another Volkswagen. I miss my Jetta and want a new sport wagon one but one with the turbo 0 to 60 in 6 seconds or the VW GLI sedan with 0 to 60 in 5 seconds

Wahhhhhhh :(

Kindergarten... *sigh*

Grant and I took last Monday off so we could take Logan to his first day of Kindergarten together. It was a big day. I cried Sunday night but made it through Monday tear-free. Just a couple pictures to share. Have a great day!

Getting ready to leave for school:

Family shot thanks to the timer on my camera

At his desk a couple minutes before teacher arrived and class was to start.

A funfilled weekend

Last Friday night was spent at home, nothing too exciting. I was a little under the weather so just wanted to vegg out. Saturday morning we had T-Ball at 10 and then came home for lunch and to set up our tent for our first camping "trip". We camped out in our backyard. Our friends who live behind us did as well the night before and were going to again so it was going to be a fun night for sure. Jessica ended up camping out with us too. We shared an air mattress, Logan & Grant shared one, and Connor had a little one he crashed on. Gotta love that we have a shared best friend that we can plutonically camp out with. :) It was a great time.

At 3:00 Logan had an eye doctor appointment. At his 5 year check up the nurse said his vision was "meh, not real great but might just be he's not into the exam." It has eaten at me a bit since then and I've noticed he sometimes skips ahead when reading a word and that's not like him, he's very detailed for a five year old so I wondered if there was more to it. There was, a lot more... He's farsighted (not uncommon in preschoolers) but also has astigmatism. He needs to wear glasses and see a specialist in a few months. Since by age 9 kids eyes are about done figuring out how they want to work (muscle wise) we need to work on it now to prevent more hard-core vision problems later. He'll be just fine, just trying to keep his prescription from hitting coke-bottle status. :) He looks super cute in the frames he picked out. He wanted ones that were as much like his daddy's as possible. He said he loves them and will wear them forever and ever. We'll see how long that lasts! With three weeks until Kindergarten starts it looks like we did this in just enough time for him to get used to them. We picked them up last night. he looks nice in them but is a little embarassed at all the attention the new specs are bringing him. I'm glad he has a couple weeks to get used to wearing them before school starts.

Me and Grant watching neighbor Steve get his dog a little drunk:

Logan and Kimber getting ready to make s'mores:

Connor playing in the tent while me, Grant & Jess made our s'mores:

Logan at the eye doctor trying on the glasses he wanted:

Screw you Ticketma$ter!

Seriously? I wanted to take Connor & Logan to see Walking with the Dinosaurs in a couple weeks and looked to see what the best seats were that were still available thinking that something like that really will only be enjoyable up close. I'm willing to pay for a good seat but I am not, I repeat AM FU#*%NG NOT willing to pay the Ticketmaster fees to get them.

Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, INFri, Jul 10, 2009 07:00 PM
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Tickets (Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular)
Full Price Ticket
US $59.50 x 4
Total Convenience Charge(s)
US $11.50 x 4
Order Processing Charge(s)
US $5.35
Standard Mail
No Charge
TOTAL CHARGES
US $289.35

$11.50 per ticket for Convenience? What is convenient about this other than getting raped via internet instead of in a dark alley? That's 11.50*4 = $46, yes I can do math, seriously? FOR WHAT?!? Then a $5.35 processing charge for them to pay minimum wage to some poor soul who takes them off the printer, folds up a piece of paper and licks an envelope? That may even be automated. But, how kind of them not to charge me for the $.44 stamp to mail it to me.

Well, thanks a lot Ticketmaster for ruining the prospect of a lovely memory for my children. Glad I was able to fight off your attempts to rob me blind. Have a great F*(%NG day.

What a great weekend. Friday night our dear friend Jessica came over and hung out. She is home from vacation so we had missed her. We ate pizza, watched What Not To Wear and chatted. THen my mom arrived from South Carolina and hung out a bit before we all went to bed. Saturday morning we got up and took Logan for his first T-Ball game. Grant had been his soccer coach for the last two seasons but wasn't going to to coach T-Ball after the challenging group of kids he had in this last soccer season. The coach of our T-Ball team has older kids but volunteered to coach our team when the YMCA didn't have enough coaches. He had an overlap with his other team and asked Grant to coach. Being the wonderful dad that he is he agreed. It was really fun. The kids were so stinkin' cute in their little hats and like five would converge on the ball every time it was hit resulting in kids falling, Logan getting a couple cleats to the shin, etc. Quite fun to watch. Logan was a great base runner and had fun. He said he likes it better than soccer (a boy after his papaw's heart) but he still wants to play soccer again this fall.


My mom and I took the boys to the mall for lunch while Grant















had to run into work for a minute. Then we came home and tried to get them to rest with no luck. We got the house and backyard ready for the Happy 30th to me BBQ. We were supposed to go to my friend Jenn's son's 2nd birthday party too but Connor finally fell asleep for a nap at 3:30 so we were sad to have missed that. Almost all of my favorite people - friends, family, neighbors, came to the party. Coop brought his Badminton set and it's always fun to watch tipsy people play sports. Grant grilled a bunch of brats and hot dogs.
















Frantz, our favorite Haitian, brought Jamaican Patties. They are my favorite little treat so thanks Frante! :)

Logan and Connor helped me blow out my candles and they put the first strawberry of the season from our garden on my cake. It was very sweet. I would have to say that this was my favorite birthday every. Viva la thirty! :)