Who is Baby Hippi?

Hello all!!! :)  Hard to believe its been a month since I posted....not that I am shocked, but still hard to believe! :)

Okay so to the point....Baby Hippi....lots of people have been asking where on earth that came from. Sometimes I can be a bit of a flower child, but it has nothing to do with that!

Hippi actually comes from my mom Karin, who yes in her day was a bit of a hippie! And so was my other mom Jackie, but this is something totally different! :)

About 2 1/2 years ago Kameron took me on an adventure to pickup a car from a coworker of his.  Now this isnt abnormal that we were going to buy an old car from someone, but this trip was special. They have a pig named Ariel.  She was pretty big, and had just given birth to like 7 piglets...she may have just been a "plus sized" pig or she could have had a little baby weight on her still. I am not judging!

So I had the best time meeting Ariel and her crew. They were the cutest EVER EVER EVER! And that was the day I decided I NEEDED a pig, not a little bit, A LOT. I wanted to raise a pig, and I wanted one bad.

Well a few months later we got a dog....she may eat like a pig sometime but she is not a pig! Kameron said we could get a pig as long as I did EVERYTHING for this animal, or I could get a pig as long as it was cut up, and put in our freezer. (I know you are laughing, this is not funny!) he did agree to build me a pen for this pig, but I had to clean, feed, and take care of the pig, and the only time the pig was allowed in the house was when it was time to put the pig in our freezer.  I wasn't really agreeing to my terms and Kam wasn't agreeing to mine....so we waited and didnt get a pig.

Well this past May I decided I was going to push the pig issue again, after all it was getting warm out and we already had half a pig in the freezer (i mean really how much bacon can one person eat!) and so I was researching pigs one night and how they are as pets. When magically I came along to Pygmy Hippos! Can you believe you can buy a Pygmy Hippo? After Kameron stopped laughing, he said if I can find it, I can have it! I was excited and kept searching online for this new found pet of mine, I mean really who does not want a hippo in the family! Imagine the Christmas pictures!!!! :)  And they pygmys are meant to be pets not wild animals....thought you should know! :)

I was so excited I called my mom with the big news, and told her to be on the lookout, she laughed hysterically and told me we needed to have a baby!!! I already knew that, but I thought a hippo would be great! Needless to say I quickly slowed down on my "hippo hunt" and did some traveling for work and enjoyed my summer. In july when we found out that we would be expecting a baby, I called my mom to share the good news and she told me that I finally got my hippo and that the nickname should be "Hippi" and there you have it.....Hippi it is. The spellings vary which is fine, but I will tell you that I am happy we are having a "hippi" and not adopting a hippo!

We have been "hunting" near and far for hippo things, we even registered for hippo crib sheets, they are so dang cute!!! :) and I will buy ANYTHING if it has a hippo on it, I even bought a chip clip...who am i?  one would think finding hippo things is easy, it is not! do you know how many baby things have elephants, monkeys, or giraffes on them???? a lot more than have hippos on them!!! :) But Target does have some cute stuff and we have found the most random hippo stuff, so we are good to go...

and yes for the record, I have given up my quest for a hippo and a pig at this time. now if someday hippi wants one of them.....he/she will have to talk to daddy! :)

Trust me.....life is an adventure! :)  Enjoy the ride! :)

Thank you for reading.....as always we are "hunting" for hippos for Hippi! :)

The Good, Bad and Ugly Week

Well this past week (Nov 2-8) marked a mix of all feelings.... there were times it was good, others times when it was bad, and some ugly ones too.  Lets get the negative (bad and ugly times!) out of the way first then we can focus on the good! :)

Well knowing Peanuts day was Tuesday was hard for me.  Maybe being prego had something to do with it... but it will always be hard thats for sure. I was fine (or tried to be strong) all day until my dad (Tim) called, then I got off the phone with him and lost it. I actually had Kam come home from work and miss Wednesday to be with me....I was a WRECK! Now I know I could have called any of my friends or family and chatted till the cows come home, but I really just needed my husband.  I hope all understand that.  Things are better now, but lets just say that I cried so much I couldn't get one of my eyes open the next morning. Just a tough time, and probably a little nervous about this pregnancy, as anyone in my situation would be....

And for another bad/ugly situation, the Blue Hawk Girls....how sad was that?! They say, "Once a Blue Hawk, Always a Blue Hawk!" All DSU students and alum are like a family, honestly I cannot say that enough, very sad to hear about this situation and of course in my very emotional state, I cried quite a bit. May they rest in peace as this was by far the hardest thing the blue hawk family has had to go through. I was never more proud to be a hawk than last week.  What a great support staff we all have! I was proud to display my Alum shirt, my blue hawk pin, and my homecoming queen ring! It was GREAT! And this is coming from a true Hawk, one who bleeds Blue Hawk Blue everyday! :)

Now onto the good parts of my week.  As a prego lady you go through many up and down emotions so I know all weeks have highs and lows, but this past week the lows were below sea level and the highs were in high in the sky! :)

On Wednesday Kam and I ended up going for a drive and found ourselves in Fargo.  We had a wonderful day together and registered for baby gifts at Target.  It was so fun and as frustrated as it was for Kameron to control the registration gun, and put random things on this registry, i loved how much he got into it! :) he was so dang cute!!!! :)

Another good was having burgers fries and playing cards with friends, sometimes I need to laugh so hard I almost wet my pants, and trust me I needed it this week! :)

Continuing with the goods.......
I went to Bis with my mil Rusty and met my mom and sister Emy to get things ready for the nursery, we had a great lunch with our cousins and then shopped at Lowes for many hours! :)  Headed home and had supper at the Harvest and then started the painting in the nursery. About 2 am (around 5 hours past our normal bed time!) we headed to sleep, Sunday we slept in way too late (missed church-thats a bad!) and got busy finishing the walls and the floor. Kam and my mom worked until they couldn't move to get the floor done and then Kam finished up the trim while mom did the curtains! What a team! Emy held the paint tray for me to do the dots and then she reorganized my pantry! We would have been lost with out them! Thanks again for all your help! we completed the night by having supper with the inlaws and relaxing in the living room looking for baby names! we had a blast laughing and joking about some that we came up with.

Monday wasn't part of my orig week, but it was a very good day! Sadie got a haircut (shorter than we thought it would be!) and my mom, Emy, Rusty, and of course Kam got to go to Hippi's big 20 week ultrasound! It was so fun!!! :)  we chose not to find out the gender even though Kam and my mom think its a boy-or at least they think they saw boy parts! ha! who can tell anything on that crazy ultrasound! oh well we shall wait until march.  Kam and I had an ob appt and she mentioned that she would like us to deliver at 36 weeks, with the possibility of a nicu stay, but we shall see.  all looks good and we topped the day off by stuffing ourselves silly at Carinos and heading home!

Thanks to all for your prayers last week with the 3 yr anniversary and well wishes for the pregnancy with hippi, things are going well, growing and kicking like crazy! :) I have gained 4 lbs so far, not too disappointed with that, and the crazy prego dreams have been nuts! :)  I am starting to get uncomfy sleeping but I am not too worried yet, I know there are wilder nights to come! I remember being up from about 3:45-5:00am with Peanut everynight while he kicked me! :)  ha! At least I was able to catch up on some old Three's Company reruns! :)

Oh well thats all for now...... here is wishing all of your weeks are good and not bad or ugly!

25 years....

I have known I have wanted to write this post for a long time, I just wasn't sure exactly how to do it... Its hard to believe that my mom has been gone for 25 years now.  How time flies...

I still think back to that day and the days surrounding it. I also think back to the wonderful memories I created with my mom. She really was an amazing person, her smile could light up any room, her laughter filled hearts with joy, and she had the fight of a tiger.  There are times I see parts of her in me and other times I wish I had more of her traits! Luckily, I have my memories of her and my parents who tell me stories of how she was and funny things she would do.  In addition, I have my sister Annie, who has my moms physical stature and who has her "fight of a tiger" which is the trait I wish I had more of! :)

Memories I hold near and dear include, going for drives, whippin cookies behind the elevator, driving our big orange boat of a car (which reminds me of the head injury!),   going to the Chuckwagon for malts and supper then walking to "Hum and Canners", watching the brady bunch together, the mice in the trailer (YUCK!!!), hiding my eggs, stealing frosting off of the carmel rolls, riding my snowmobile, and of course the "Don't cry over spilled milk-dead cat" incident, ask me sometime and I will tell you! :)

One thing that my mom did that I will always treasure was that even though I got a million spankings (maybe not quite that many-but a few and I deserved each and everyone!!!) I always knew she was my best friend and I was hers.  We have a couple cassette tapes from our last Christmas' with her, and its so nice to hear her infectious laugh! She was a riot! Speaking of that...I need to hear those tapes again! Being pregnant I am sure I would get a good cry out of hearing them!

So 25 years have passed and it seems the more BIG events I have in my life, the more I wish she was here to share them with me. I know she is watching over me and caring for peanut.  I am blessed to know she was the first one to get to meet him! :)  I don't mention this alot but I do look to her for advice from time to time and I also talk "to" her on occasion.  She lived a short and tough life, but I was also a full life.  We can all aim for that!

I am not saying my mom was always the perfect mom, but really what parent is perfect? I was able to enjoy her for 6 years of my life, and since she was such a young mom we learned a lot together! She was only 16 when she had me and only 23 when she passed. A life truly short lived, but lived to the fullest! :)

I am proud to be her daughter and probably her greatest accomplishment! May her legacy live on in me forever and I do my best to display her sunshine to all! :) Thank you for reading....it wasn't my easiest writing thats for sure.

And I have learned one thing for sure...you never really get over someone who has passed, and it doesn't get easier, you just learn how to live without them......trust me on this one.  I have lost quite a few people who were close to me.

Winter....ALREADY????

As many of you know, I am not a fan of the season that includes the "s" word....not at all.  I almost break out into hives when people talk about it.  Not kidding, or being over dramatic here either! :)

Well Oct 6 was the big day, the day I felt like hibernating.  I mean really what is so wrong with that???  I get to eat alot, get really fat, and sleep....sounds like a plan to me! actually sounds like pregnancy to me! ha!

And I will admit, i guess be careful what you wish for...I didn't really want to be pregnant in the summer, since I am such a furnace anyhow, and so here i am....arg.....winter!  but its okay, being pregnant is the best!

This winter will be slightly different as i will be driving to work daily, i got a little spoiled on that work at home thing....but i love my job a lot better than my last one, so its a small price to pay!  i will just have to drive careful, buckle up and I will be just fine.

As far as other things....."hippi" is doing great, growing right along, as is my belly but we wont talk about that! :)  ha! had the 16 wk appt, heard the heartbeat so there was no ultrasound...and we really like ultrasounds, it just makes things so real for Kam.  I mean he knows its real....hello have you seen me!?  but he really likes seeing hippster move and groove.

So i best be done updating.....and get something done.  Big Scentsy party tomorrow night, its my grand opening, and i sure hope someone shows up....I have a TON of food! :)  oh well if no one does, i can start my hibernation stage..... ha!

until next time.....make it a great day!

I'm BAAAAAAAAACK!

Hello all!  Greetings from a 6 month blogging absence..... I am not sure what to blame this on.  Let me ponder that and get back to you!

But we have been busy in the last 6 months.  Lets see-in short- Linton flooded, I got a new job, I had a wonderful "SugarLand" birthday, traveled to Minneapolis for work, I was a bridesmaid in Sarah and Phil's wedding, traveled for work to Kelowna, BC, we went to Kenny Chesney, traveled to Oregon and Texas for work, Kameron placed 3rd in the Linton Derby (we were surprised by my dad, Emy, Travis, and Michelle), we drove to Texas (straight through, no sleep-including the dog) for another job interview, went to Colorado to enjoy time with Travis and Michelle, drove to Missoula for Kam's grandma's 80th birthday party, and not but not least......found out we are having a BABY! :)  UFFDA, that was a lot! And thats not even the details!!! :)

I do apologize for not updating sooner, I have been hounded by many a people.  I have a goal to update more often, not daily but at least weekly.  Wait, maybe thats too much, lets try monthly! :)  So if I mention something in my blog that you don't remember me talking about sooner, let me know and I can give you the details! :)

Thank you again for following us....I just wanted to put this one out there and let you know I was still alive! And this won't be the last time you hear from me! :)

Love to all! :)

March On!

Well i have done more posts this month than the past 2 months, fun! even though Tammi told me i cant do more than one in one day, well she didnt say that, but she did say that it doesnt count! :)

today was pretty boring, crazy boring! we went to church and then did our bible study soup lunch on prayer, its very enjoyable we both get a lot out of it! came home and started the chores, laundry, avon order ready, dishes....blah blah blah

what a beautiful day!!!! love the sun, its amazing to me how much it melted from yesterday, its crazy! well here comes the flood! then we went for a drive and a little mudding, even though kams truck was just washed and waxed!!! its okay it was fun and we had the windows open and Sadie LOVED it she is a HUGE fan of sticking her head out the window! we love seeing her ears flopping around!

we came home, i got my feelings hurt by the ebay guy and then i watched some tv, got the ebay stuff done, hauled out the old tv, ate supper, folded laundry and am watching more tv. getting ready to hang out with kam and watch celebrity apprentice. we are getting into that show!

tomorrow has a lot of fun scheduled!!! we are going to bis in the morn, we have a couples massage, then need to sign insurance papers, then do our passports, then some shopping, chiro appts and finally supper with jeramie and annika. oh and we are gonna stay in bis at a hotel, i have an early tues appt and its not that far for kam to drive.

i will update more tomorrow night! :) i am gonna sign off for now and snuggle my hubby! :) Good night sleep tight!

Feelings hurt....

I am selling a ton of stuff on ebay, which is going good, well it was until today. I had rec'd an email from someone asking the measurements on a pair of jeans. I gladly measured the jeans and sent the person the email back. Then yesterday i got the same email from the same person and it was all in caps, so i copied the email i orig sent and resent it back to this person stating that i had sent it on thurs here was that info again.

then i come home to day to the meanest email i have ever rec'd from someone i dont even know, or care to know at this point. just basically screaming at me about how i sell my stuff on ebay. it sucked, i mean who are they to tell me that. i mean really. its ebay for petes sake. but no one likes to be told that they suck or that they are doing a bad job so it really hurt my feelings. kameron read it and agreed that it was mean. i asked him if i should reply he told me no that i should just delete it, i know that was a good idea because i could have been really mean back. so i did i deleted it. but i cried i got my feelings hurt. kameron was like, its no big deal, and i knwo it wasnt but i hate when people are mad at me or i did something to hurt them and they yell. so it just hurt my feelings.

sorry to vent about something so dumb. i am totally over it, but i just had to get it off my chest! :) Thanks!

Happy Birthday Miranda!!!

Just a note to say Happy Birthday to Miranda! She is my sister in law married to my brother. Did I mention he is my favorite brother! :) Miranda is a wonderful person who keeps my brother in line on a daily basis! She has also provided us with a WONDERFUL niece, Olivia. We are so lucky to have her!

I hope you had a wonderful day Miranda! You deserve it! We are looking forward to seeing you next weekend! :) Thank you for being not only a wonderful sister in law, but also a GREAT friend! :)

The Middle of March!

Well here we are the middle of March already, which means...drum roll please..... SPRING IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!! :) lets hope sooner than later, i have a feeling though that we will have one more big storm before is officially nice for a couple months. but what a winter it has been! :) i mean seriously, i wont complain any more as we all know i declared about 2 weeks ago, i divorced winter! :)

so it was abusy week last week, my last week at aetna, (tear...) maybe a little, i did make some wonderful friends thru there! I will miss them, but know we will be in touch! :) so a recap of the week....

Monday Kameron left for work and then the snow started, Erin stayed with me that night. Sarah circle was cancelled.

Tuesday-snow snow and more snow!!! :) and i had a "snow" day, i didnt leave my house, but i had to take the day off. i actually got the taxes done.... YEAH!!! we all know what a pain in the butt they are! and i listed a bunch of kamerons and some of my clothes that we cant wear anymore on ebay (i have made some good money!) Erin stayed again

Wednesday no more snow! that was the light at the end of my tunnel! i worked all day and went to sarah circle that night. erin drove home the roads had started to clear. I cancelled my appt with my crazy doc (mental health professional) and supper with Jeramie and Annika, i was too cold to travel! and i had a wonderful chat with my dad (tim) about anything and everything!

Thursday i was "sick" yup sick of work! so i did a million things, ran errands all morning, had some avon to deliver, got passport applications, dropped the taxes off, and mailed some ebay packages. oh and i should mention had a wonderful talk with my mother and a LONG overdue chat with my dear friend sarah! i also talked to my dad (dean) about insurance and stuff for quite some time! kam got home late that night. oh and did i mention i did not lay aorund all day, i took all the cushions off the furniture and vaccuumed (with my dyson-the best ever!) and cleaned the floor in the kitchen and hung up all the clothes that were in baskets trust me it was bad! oh and my favorite father in law cleaned my driveway! THANK YOU!

Friday, i had my exit interview with Aetna then worked for about an hour then decided i was DONE! it felt great, kameron and i unhooked my computer and got my scrapbooking desk ready to go, i am so excited to actually have a place to work on scrapping! i love it so much! then we went out for lunch and ran a few more errands and mailed a few more packages... i headed to scrapbooking club for the night. what a wonderful night, i am so happy i am part of this group!!! thank you to Lori for getting me involved! oh and thank you to Lori and Tammi for making this group such a wonderful therapy session for me! even if i didnt get home until 4am, yes you read that right, 4am! but on a positive spin, i got a ton of scrapping done! i feel like i was ran over by a truck!!!

Saturday (TODAY!) woke up with kameron and sadie, as usual, got ready and went to Sheilas for breakfast (a little date thing we do!) ran some errands visited his parents, we came home and sold our wii, sad but true. we just never used it. so then i made kam start to hang about 75 different things for me, oh how he loves his "honey do" list!!! :) then i took a name (i am such an old lady!!!!) we grabbed some supper now we are watching the state a tourney on tv and just listed about 30 more items on ebay! :) SELL SELL SELL!

Tomorrow i will blog again, i hope to be more of a daily blogger, setting a goal for myself! :)
Thanks for taking time out of your day to read about mine! :)

Career vs. Job?!?!

Well we all know I took my job with Aetna to get a change of hours and being off of my feet. so considering my circumstances at the time it was a VERY smart move for me. I took a cut in pay but it was worth it to have a schedule and get breaks and lunchs and normal sleep. i mean afterall i had not only myself but a baby to worry about.

as most of everyone who knows me knows i havent been happy with what i do at aetna for a long time. i am in a call center and yes i have gained a PLETHRA (is that how you spell it?!?) of knowledge on insurance. i am very thankful for that, i love that we now get an eob in the mail and i can read and understand it. before it was like thye were written in chinese, not even kidding. but some things have happened with the company lately and just the fact that i have not been happy for a long time. i have thought about other jobs but its been really hard because aetna pays well. and its hard to have a job that i am not using my degree, i mean i am making money but this was never my passion.

so on a wing and a prayer i applied for a job with activities for learning, the position advertised is not the position that i ended up interviewing for. but i did 2 interviews with the company and on friday i was offered a position. i will be starting the 23rd and will be the school specialist. i will be helping write math curriculum for the company, which by the way does math curriculum for customers all over the world. if you want to learn more go to the website. but anyhow, i will also be traveling a bit to expos and shows, i am excited about that part too. in addition i will work on the website and doing a lot of follow up with current customers. there is about 80% of the business to home schools and the rest to public and private schools.

so needless to say i am PUMPED!!!! :) i am happy to get out of my house, and not to mention use my degree! we were ready to take a pay cut but was very happy to get a RAISE in pay!!! :) I will be a salary employee with a laptop and cell phone. so i cant really complain!

For my sanity this is by far the best move ever! :) there will be lots of changes in our house with me not being home and sadie being alone, but i am so ready for this challenge!!! :)

as for the daycare, that thought crossed my mind. i have always wanted to do that. but you know thats a scary thoguht in town when american express just laid off 50 people, the thought of opening a day care scares me! any type of business in this town is going to hurt when there are 50 moms and dads without jobs. the day care option is out there, this is not a financially smart decision right now especially without having any kids, unless i could sadie and i dont think doggy day care is a money making option! :) AND when an opportunity comes your way you need to take it, especially one like this. i couldnt pass it up, i would have kicked myself.

so thats the big news in my neck of the woods! :) Thanks a million for reading!!! :)

The truth about Texas!

Well kameron and I havent been entirely honest about why we went to texas. sure we went to get out of this dumb winter weather that hasnt ended yet (for petes sake its MARCH!) but any way we had a wonderful time traveling together, as we always do.

but the truth......YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH! just kidding you can, we went to Texas for a job interview.....yup, kameron interviewed with the same company that he worked for about 10 years ago, its actually a branch of north american coal, he works for one of their companies Coteau now, and there is about 7 divisions throughout the us, and this mine in TX, san miguel is one of them also. so we thought about just seeing what was out there and i said i wouldnt move there without taking a visit there first. so thats just what we did.

there were a lot of tears before we went, while we were there, and when we came home. we even took some time to go house hunting. we found some nice homes, kameron had a nice interview and the thought of living that close to a big city was exciting, we would be 30 miles from san antonio in pleasanton about the size of Dickinson.

so we did a lot of thinking wrote down the pros and cons about 600 times or more and finally made a decision. we are not moving. we will be staying in linton. it wasnt an easy decision, but at this time it was the right decision.

so thats all, no more secrets now you know the rest of the story.

oh and that line was a tribute to paul harvey.....i miss him! :)

Happy Birthday Lori!!!

Hello all, I am going to just take a minute to wish Lori a happy Birthday! :) I havent known Lori for all that long, i mean I have known of her, but not really KNOWN her! afterall she lives basically on my block and i am kind of a neighborhood spy!!! :) Anyhow, Lori, thank you for your friendship, you bring a lot of sunshine to my life! :) Thank you for bringing scrapbooking back into my world and i so enjoy our Friday nights together, thank you for the laughs...keep em coming! :) You are a wonderful friend. Have a wonderful day! :)

Lawrence

Well we had to say good bye to a dear friend this past week... Kameron has known lawrence for a long time, hes bought, sold, and traded parts and cars with this man for years. Now i wont say that lawrence was the most loved man by everyone but we held a special place for him. I still remember when he showed up at our wedding reception in Linton, we were shocked, he didnt go to a lot of public events, but we made sure to send him an invite. We always got a nice Christmas card from him, i will miss that dearly and we always sent him a birthday card, afterall he shared the same birthday with Kameron. Lawrence had a wonderful heart even if he wasnt dealt the best hand in life. We will never forget you Lawrence and your ability to keep us talking to you for hours! :) RIP

Its Friday I'm in love!

Well really its Saturday now, but last night we saw the moving "hes just not that into you" LOVE IT! and that song, its friday i'm in love played, i think its by the cure! so good.

and the movie, rocks my socks off. and kameron came with to a sorta chick flick, but it wasnt that bad of one, lots of guys were there! so tell your men to go, or go with friends, see it, for sure, its awesome!

well i better wrap this up we are hanging out in sunny texas 78 degrees yesterday and so thats nice and today we will do more sight seeing, oh yeah and celebrate valentines day too!

okay happy valentines day and this will be to date the only valentines day i have been able to wear flip flops and i am going to love every moment of it! :)

LOVE to all, give the ones you love some extra smoochies, and i am sending mine across the miles to my nephews and neices, dayden, sawyer, ashur, and olivia and to my "adopted nephews and neices" aidan, emersyn, jackson, coralea, colter, kaylyn, karady, kyler, megan LOVE you all! :) we will try to update soon! :) oh and we do miss our dog something terrible! LOVE TO SADIE MAE!!! she probably doenst care because she is driving kamerons parents crazy no doubt!!!! :)

have a wonderful day!

Fake Bake

Now I am talking about tanning, not making a pretend cake! Just to clear that up!! :) So anyhow, i started tanning, which i thought i better get some color before we leave for Texas (Which is TODAY by the way!) so anyhow, i got a bit too much color. yup lobster. well maybe not that bad, but i am a little overdone!



i like to tan, i like how it feels, i like how i look tan, which is hard to get for my albino skin. but i get there sometimes. i like the 10 minutes to myself thinking sleeping whatever i want to do! i like that many days its the only quiet time i get. you know, NO ONE bothering you. I dont even bring my cell phone with. forget that noise!

but i am slightly bothered by the cancer scares that come with tanning and i also dont want to be orange like some people i know. so yes the cancer freaks me out, i try not to do it too much, but every once in a while i cannot resist!

anyhow in other news, i quit my second job last night, how fun is that. i will no longer be making your pizzas, yup i am done. well i have 2 wednesdays left but then DONE-ZO! I am excited about that, its gonna be like getting my life back. i mean i dont have much of a life, but getting my sanity back. its like every 2 years or so i suffer from workaholic syndrom and i feel the need to work like a crazy lady, sometimes it lasts longer than others, and then i get over it. i can get PLENTY of ot at my currect job so there is NO need to work 2 jobs, and i was just doing it to get out of the house, and lets hope spring is around the corner so i will be getting out more anyhow.

It feels good to be done. honestly it does. i may have a clean house again and get back to sleeping at a normal time, yes folks dont call after 9, i like my sleep! :) ha!

Okay so i better get to work, 5 hours left before VACATION!!! :) kam said the roads were pretty crappy last night so lets hope we make it to bismarck just fine. I am excited for this trip, we dont have anything fancy planned, just to get away from it all! :) oh and leave the cold for a little! :)

So have a wonderful day and an amazing valentines day weekend. You should always tell those you love that you love them, each and everyday. but on valentines day make it special! :) thank you for always reading my randomness! :) I love all of you! Oh and thanks for the MESSAGES!!!! they totally make my day! muah!

Love and Marriage!

Well today is a big event for us....its our second anniversary. Can you believe it?!?!?! Not that being married 2 years deserves a medal or anything...because really its not that long, BUT i feel special considering that 50% of the marriages end in divorce. So yes I am proud of us.

I was thinking back to where I have come from as far as love with the male gender. I dont know if you can call it love, but in preschool and kindergarten I was OBSESSED with Austin Spain. I mean borderline stalkerish, as much as a 4-5 year old can be. My heart was broken when he and his family moved, our love would not be going forward.

Which as I look back to all my former "loves" and there have been a few crushes, we wont name them all cuz who knows who is reading this.......I am happy that none of them worked out, cue music, enter Garth Brooks singing unanaswered prayers.....cheesy I know, but it makes sense right! :)

Now Kameron and I dont have a typical marriage, technically we dont even live in the same town. Which is okay for now, we make it work. Do we struggle with it? yes but we make it work. We also didnt have a typical dating relationship. Did we struggle with it? yes but we made it work. Its one of those things, never give up, always tell the other what is going on in your heart and head. I dont know how much Kameron likes this part of our marriage, but he works with it. He talks a lot more to me about stuff then he ever did when we dated.

They say happiness is being married to your best friend, i used to think my mom was a nut for saying this, but really kameron is my best friend. I have a lot of friends, i wont deny that, and i have a lot of best friends, i wont deny that either. Obviously my best friend relationship with Kameron is a LITTLE different than it is with Sarah, Kelly, Heather, Tanya, Tiff, Leslie, Lacey, Tami, Nicole, Lynae, Crystal, Heidi for example.... :) All best friends, just in a different element.

Considering Kam and I dont get to see eachother every day we do talk on the phone about 8-10 times a day. I feel so sad if i miss one of his calls, because i know he cant call me whenever he wants, well technically he can, but...you get the point.

Really i didnt realize how easy this marriage thing would be. its really not that hard, are there days i grit my teeth?!?!?!? yes and there are days I am sure kameron goes to the shop to not hear me gripe at him, but all marriages have these times and thats okay! But really we made a promise a while back that there are NO secrets in our marriage. NONE, not one. So I feel that works out good.

I would be lost without my husband, its funny how this short amount of time with someone brings out that dependance in you.

Alright I better get to work....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to the best husband ever. 2 years and counting. I love you with all of my heart and you truly make me smile each and every day.

Alright enuf mushy stuff for the rest of you, have a wonderful day! :)

Routine

I love routine. I love doing things in the same order each day. I love knowing whats going to happen. I like having a plan, tradition, you see...ROUTINE! I love getting up at the same time everyday....

EXCEPT TODAY!!!!! I would love FOR ONCE in my adult life to sleep in. Wouldnt that be AMAZING!!!!! :) I woke up today at 6:45am having to go to the bathroom, and it wasnt a stumble through the hall and go potty and back to sleep. Nope my brain is saying, time to get up, get ready...blah blah blah. I really do love routine, but I really wanted to sleep in today. I was up until almost one, hello thats late for me, all of you know that, i go to bed EARLY. and sooooo I really need my sleep. Needless to say, no sleeping in for me today. Dont kid yourself, I may sneak a nap in at some point! :)

Well I think i am going to hobble outside and get the newspaper in my robe, no one should be up in the neighborhood so I think I am safe.

HAVE A SUPER SATURDAY, and lets hope you got to sleep in........

Crabby pants

Wow, am I crabby today or what...and a little sassy too. Goodness maybe working 600 hours a week is getting to me....who knows! :) ha. i hate when i get this busy that i forget to think. i just spent a half an hour on the phone with kameron complaining to him....now what husband needs to hear that...but hes a good sport and just lets me vent. love him more than words.

well today is my great grandmas 95th birthday, and so my plan was to blog about her, but i cant do that when i am crabby. even though she is sunshine on my rainy days. so keep posted i will get a rockin blog in about her..... soon to come

i think i really need a vacation. good thing i am getting one. i am SOOOOOOOOOOO excited to go to Texas next week. We leave on Thursday and fly back in on Tuesday, how fun is that going to be! just a nice time to get away from the cold and work. 2 things i never really enjoy! even though today was nicer, not spring, but hope that we may have spring once again. a girl can dream.

okay i need to get to bed. these crabby pants need to go in the wash so i have a fresh, fantastic new attitude in the morn. i mean after all it is Friday tomorrow.....and thats usually not too bad of a day at either job.

So sweet dreams to all....I shall be back in a better mood soon...I hope!

Scrub a dub dub....

I just got out of the tub, are you kidding me, why on earth do I not take more baths....THEY ARE AMAZING!!!! i really should everyday. i just dont ever take the time....when i get home at night i just crash, two jobs is a lot of work. but this is my new month resolution....MORE BATHS. Trust me, I shower so I am clean, but I really need to take an actual bath more often, just me, bubbles, hot water, a mask on my face, and a people magazine. Oh and the dog, she cant be alone (wonder where she gets that from...I hate that she got traits from me...) but all in all its a WONDERFUL time. so now i am refreshed, but if i am going to be taking more baths, i need to get some lavander vanilla bubble bath from bath and body works, i am gonna put that on my birthday list, along with more pillow spray....

So its groundhogs day, I LOVE this holiday, i am not sure why, i just always thought it was neat, i am not happy we have 6 more weeks of winter, but really its ND so we ALWAYS have more winter! maybe i like this holiday because i love the movie groundhogs day....it has my all time favorite song....I GOT YOU BABE!!! Crank it up....LOVE IT!

its a monday, i love mondays, not really but its usually the only day i work only one job, that part i love. and there is a lot of good tv on. of course i watched the bachelor, why i do, i will never know. but i do. then i caught bits and pieces of jon and kate. but luckily for me its tlc so they will reshow it a million times this week. normally i dont work tuesdays at the pizza shop but i needed wednesday night off so i had to switch with someone. which is okay with me, have wednesday off might be better and break the week up a little, i am working another saturday night again.... hopefully i am home early so that i can see the bud shootout....the first race of the season.....

and i used to think nascar was dumb....then i went to a race, that will change your mind. VERY FUN!!! trying to decide where to go this year.....

okay i gotta stop typing, call my husband, let the dog in and get some SLEEP! I have a massage tomorrow, paradise! really looking forward to that.... i best be getting to bed. good night.

Oh Deer!

So Kameron hit a deer tonight....not good. I am not happy, but at least he and his dad are okay. The dog, who was not wearing a seat belt, flew into the front seat and hit the dash, she is a LITTLE shook up, needless to say I am looking forward to seeing her tonight... now about this pickup....GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR but it was an accident and really you have to chalk it up to that. and i am impressed that Kam already called the insurance company, got a claim number and they will be calling next week. GREAT JOB HUSBY!!!

Long day, i mean for not doing anything for about 50% of it i sure am tired. I worked at 4 at the pizza shop, hello Saturday night church rush, for goodness sakes, talk about some hungry people.... but i was home by 8:45 and am still on the computer an hour later....grrr to Tammi and Lori for suggesting blogging! Just kidding, love ya, love the blogging!!!!

I just realized in my rampage of cleaning that i washed our sheets today, which is great, but they are still on the dryer not on the bed....how the heck did that happen, why dont they just put them selves back on the bed. I tell you what i can do laundry ALL dang day long, but the second it comes to folding or putting it away, i quit. i HATE that part. i think i need to be like Jon & Kate plus 8, minus the kids, and have someone who just comes and folds my clothes. Too bad i dont know like a little neighbor kid who could come do that for me, they can fold and put away. I really hate that part.

alright, good night, sleep tight. I am mad a blogging, but i love it, i am mad at it because i am always thinking of new things to blog, and i love it because it gives me a way to vent about life and stuff. its like talking to myself (nothing wrong with that!) but a little different. :) Thanks for reading my nonsense!!!

Pork Rinds

Okay so first off I can't believe I am posting again already, and I never thought I would use this!!! :)

The concept of Pork Rinds freaks me out a little. I mean really the name doesnt even sound yummy....But I found out that they are a no carb snack, hello the Heavens are singing to me!!!!!!!! But i am not a fan of BBQ flavored anything (except little smokies, no comments here Kelly, Sarah, or Tami) and so Kameron got me the plain flavored ones...interesting. I dunno they kind of tear up the roof of my mouth, like honeycomb cereal. So that part turns me off a little. BUT on the flip side, I LOVE bacon and they kind of taste like fluffed bacon, obviously! But I am wondering what to dip them in...... so any good comments let me know. I am interested to see what people like with pork rinds.....or if anyone even eats them!

Loving today!!!

Happy Saturday, I love a day when I have nothing to do... WAIT! I shouldn't say that, i have a ton to do, I mean really there is cleaning, laundry, dishes, taxes, and the list goes on.... But I am still in my pajamas and loving it.

Kameron & his dad left this morning for Minnesota to get some parts for a derby car, don't ask me what, I really have NO clue!!! He took the dog, so it was kind of lonely falling back to sleep after they left at 4am. But not having any responsibilities this morn has been great!

I work tonight at 5pm at the pizza shop, am i looking forward to it...not really, this will make 4 nights in a row! But i LOVE the extra money and have been known to become a bit of a workaholic! My down fall and thats okay...

This whole blog thing is crazy to me, but i love the idea of it. Honestly I have been meaning to journal more but when i crawl into bed i just want to watch trashy tv and waste my time. So maybe this will be a little more fulfilling for me. Lets hope I update it. Thanks for the idea of doing it Lori and Tammi, I can only hope my pages are as cute as yours!

Well i am going to sign off for now, i may be back later today....