Here is a pic of the kittens

Hey Guys. I am just posting a quick one b/c I am running back to work and I have to finish packing. I hope you guys have a great week and I will check back in once we get home. BYE GUYS!!! I'l be thinking about you while I am laying on the beach with a nice cold drink in my hand.

Have fun Kempy!!!!!!

Well, the RV just sold. I have mixed emotions because it represents getting a vacation but in actuality we just dont have the time to use it so it is better not to have the payment but....

Gotta go find some supper. Talk to ya later

Have fun at the beach Kempy

Angie, you are so funny with your cat names. They are adorable. Sorry your RV had to go but at least you have that much more $$ in your pocket now. At least you got to visit FL a few times in it.

Cherie, hope everything goes smoothly in getting those SS benefits for the girls. Don't give up, they are entitled to every penny.

So does anyone have plans for the weekend? I'm excited because tomorrow evening we're having a girls night out--my best buddies from high school. Well, not exactly a night 'out' as we're hanging out at my sister's house, but it's 6 of us who haven't all gotten together since my wedding 10 years ago. It's gonna be great fun I can tell. I even made a mixed CD of a bunch of heavy metal songs that were popular in those days--we're talking almost 20 years ago . My gawd! Where does the time go??? I have to go and color my hair

Well, have a great weekend all. I'll see if I can get some pics if we do anything wild and crazy. enjoy!

Just wanted to pull us up.
Angie: The kittens are adorable.

Not feeling well tonight. Will call it a night.
Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Cal

Good Morning Girls, I hope everyone had a nice weekend. I will be back to chat some more in a bit.

Hey girls I am back now.

Angie, cute kitties!! Love the name Tyson. Sorry you had to sell the RV, it must have been hard....your family has some great memories from it though. I know I am so sentimental about selling old cars, even moving here to this house, just thinking about the memories. How do you like your new living room set, was it delivered or did it have to be ordered? We have a sectional also and it is old. We really need a new one. I might want to get a couch and a loveset this time....I don't know yet. I saw a Broyhill sofa I just love. It is like a red and tan design with oak legs and big comfy pillow backs on it.

Dips congrats on the loss. You are doing great. Pat yourself on the back! Did you take the promotion?

Noelle so tell us all the juicy details from your party night!! I can't wait to hear about it and see some pictures if you got some. I bet it was a Motely Crue night .

Cherie, did you get the girls all unpacked? I am so glad for the girls to have such nice teachers this year. They will be in good hands and that has got to be one less thing on your mind. I wish them a fun first day at school tomorrow. I hope your lip is better, our body does weird things to us when we are under stress. Can you pm or e-mail me your new address and info when you get a chance? Thanks!

Cal I hope you are feeling better today honey.

Kempy soak up those rays .

My weekend was pretty busy, more school shopping and we went and picked out a new mattress for dd and then picked that up brought it home and set it up, I had my head-board, from when I was a kid for her (kind of an antique now). But I polished it up and it looks really nice. I took her to the store and let her pick out a new comforter and sheet set. Yesterday we went to another church picnic and had a bowl of booyah, you probally all don't know what booyah is, I think they just have it around here....it is like a chicken soup that is cooked outside in a huge kettle over a fire. Yum! Not to mention all the other bbq items they had. But I was pretty good. Just played games with the kids. The weather was just beautiful yesterday here, finally dropped into the seventies and had a cool breeze. We also took my mom out to eat to our favorite pizza place. Well enough of boring you all, lol, blah blah....I might try and get these highlights out of my hair, as you all know my hair is pretty dark and the highlights I think are just to blond. That whole hair episode with the crabby stylist was a nightmare. Haha...
I will check back later to see how everyone's weekend was. Have a good one.

It's Monday.... I can't believe it's been two weeks since Steven died... finally, I feel like things have slowed down, and I am making steps to get everyone back to normal.

This weekend, I did alot of unpacking. In the midst of it, I felt like I wasn't making any progress at all, however, all the empty boxes says otherwise. I got the girls unpacked, and most of the spare room (den/girls hangout room) unpacked. I have a couple of boxes of books that I need to get rid of (pregnancy books and paperbacks) and about 4 boxes of office stuff that I need to go through, then that room will be finished. I also need to finish my room. I will tackle that this week. From there.. I'll move to the garage, and hopefully by then, my brother will have come up and taken the couch and dressers off my hands. I would really like to have my garage soon.

The girls start school tomorrow. Both are really excited, and want to ride the bus. Guess I will put them on the bus, and then meet them at school to walk them into their classes. Back to school time is always exciting.

Julie... your weekend sounded nice... my nephew has my bed (bunk beds) from when I grew up. Its nice they made furniture that lasted back then. I need to find some headboards for the girls... but now Hannah is asking for a bunk bed again. Not sure what I will do... it would free up a ton of space in their room... so I may have to consider that once I can afford them.

Angie... sorry about the RV. You can still vacation! :-) and the kitties are so cute. My girls want a pet so bad... but I am not up for one just yet...

Noelle, how was your weekend? Cal, I hope you feel better... and Kempy.... how is the beach? I would love to be there!

OK.. well, I really need to focus on work now... I've been having the hardest time of just zoning out. I guess that is normal and to be expected...

Oh... forgot to say, I picked up Steven's ashes on Friday. that was SO WEIRD. I carried Steven. In my car all the way home. He is in an urn, inside a black velvet box. I haven't told the girls yet... he stayed on top of the computer armoire til Sunday, when I put him on top of the bookshelf in the den/girls playroom. I'm still trying to figure out how to tell the girls.. and what to do with him for the time being. It seems so cold just to stick him on top of the bookshelf... out of sight out of mind sorta thing... but I don't want to be desrespectful. I am hoping in about 5 years, I might be able to buy a small crypt at the masolumn (ms) for the urn, I don't think I want him around forever, you know. I would scatter his ashes.. but I don't know where he would have liked that.. decisions... it's so hard... anyway.. he's got his wish.. he is "living" with me once again.

Talk to you soon....

Cherie

Hi girls, how is everyone doing?

Dips stay cool girl, everything will fall right into to place for you! I know it must be hard trying to get everything done for before school starts, you will make it. Keep your chin up .

Cherie, I can't even imangine how it felt to go pick up Steven's ashes. I hope the girls had a good day at school.

Well sorry so short, gotta go make dinner. I have been out all afternoon shopping for sil's b-day present and the kids were looking for watches so I called around and finally Wal-Mart said they had a scooby doo and winnie the pooh ones that they wanted for six dollars, I was like yes that is so cheap....got to the store and they were 20 dollars each , but I got them anyway because I told them before we left they were getting one. Oh well....it was there back to school present. We also stopped at a frozen custard shop and got take out and I just a one tiny scoop, could have ate the whole container though . Check back later after the kids stop fighting and dh stops asking me what we are having for dinner !

Hey girls. My sister just came and picked up my old sofa so my new one can come tomorrow. I gave it to her she needed a different one but doesnt have much money. My couch was in okay shape it was just old. We bought it about 10 years ago. So now I am sitting in my empty livingroom. So while we were looking for sofas we happened onto the bed section. Needless to say I bought the sofas and desk and coffee table cash but wanted a new bed but didnt have any cash left over to spend. IThe store was running a 1 year no interest special so I picked out a King size Serta memory foam bed. That wont be in until next week but hey at least we can sleep good. The mattress we had was one my inlaws bought for us when I was pregnant with the twins. I wasnt allowed to walk upstairs and we had to sleep downstairs so they bought us a new bed so we wouldnt have to move our downstairs.

Julie, We had a sectional too. This time I wanted an actual sofa set so I could change the livingroom around. I like moving furniture every once in a while but cant with a sectional.

School starts here on Monday. YEAH!!!

Well, I better get movin.

Angie way to go on the new furniture. It is going to seem like a new house with all the furniture coming. I know what you mean about moving a sectional, darn near impossible....ours is a reclining one and the old thing is so heavy. I wish we could get some new stuff around here, but money is kind of tight, **** I wish I could afford some new clothes for fall, haha....
maybe dh will get me something new for my birthday....I don't know though, remember the home depot gift certificate for mother's day lol. Such a romantic .

Noelle, Tommy goes to college is on tonight and also an A&E special is on about him tonight also. Are you recovering from the party last weekend?

Hi out there everyone, going to get going....kind of tired tonight.

Bumping us up!! What is going on everyone, anything new? Not much on my end. Hope you all are having a good day. Check back later to see if anyone popped in.

Hey girls!! Well, they came to deliver my furniture today. I was supposed to have 2 chaisse lounges,1 sofa,1 bureau and 1 side table. They forgot the sofa and second chaisse lounge so I have one seat in my livingroom right now. BUT.... Jay talked to the owner of the store and they will send them up first thing in the morning. That is good customer service since they are located over an hour away from us.

Tomorrow is my 15th wedding anniversary. I cant believe we have been married that long. We have been together for 17 years...we met when we were 16 and have been together every day since then. Time sure flies when you are happy.

I am going to get my hair cut short and highlighted tomorrow. Brit has really blonde hair and she is getting darker streaks put in it so we will see how that comes out. Alicia is just getting a cut since she is such a tomboy and doesnt care about appearance just yet.

oh yeah, Jay is going to buy me a new diningroom table this weekend too. They have the 12 months with no interest so I figured I would get that and my mattress with that but the livingroom set is paid for. Thank god. We have lived here for 6 years and havent bought a single new thing for the house so we figured that since we wont be getting a vacation this year we will get some actual nice furniture for the house...+ this way we can eat supper like a family.

well, that is about it for me.

Hey girls, I'm not able to post from my work computer since my browser keeps freaking out. I can check email though, so feel free to drop me a line there. Otherwise, I have to wait until I get home to post and honestly, sometimes I just don't have the energy. I just realized that I said nothing about my weekend with the girlfriends. Hmmm, I think I've just fully recuperated today. There was lots of good food and drink, lots of laughs, tears and just plain fun. We had tons of photo albums being passsed around, both past and present. It's really weird how we fall into our old dynamics of friendship. I just found out that one of my girlfriends husband now owns his own hair salon so I'll be checking them out before my trip to CA and NV. My sis gave each of us our own new rock t-shirt--you know, those 80's black tee's w/ Motley Crue or Metallica logos on them? I can't wait to cut the neck and the finished hem...maybe some slashes along the sides? I think we stayed at my sis' house til 2 a.m. It was great fun and maybe we can do it again soon. One of my girlfriends still lives in UT so she only comes once a year. Gawd, I can only imagine how much fun we'll all have when we get together .

Angie, early congratulations on 15 years of wedded bliss . Wow! You guys got me and Rick beat by one year. We've been together 16 years as of July this year, only 10 years we've been married though. We took 6 years to decide if we wanted to get married....lived together for 14 though Enjoy your new furniture, I'm sure you'll have fun w/the bed oops, did I say something inappropriate?

Cherie, so glad you're getting back into a normal routine. I'm sure you will find the right words when presenting(?) the girls w/the ashes. Maybe just find a nice framed photo of Steven and have a special place on a shelf in the girls' room?

Kempy, how was your beach weekend? Hey, I know you probably don't follow Little League games or anything, but one of the teams from Hawaii (West Oahu) is doing real well in a 'world series' tournament up there. I think they either played in LA today or will be playing soon.

Julie, I only watched a few bits of the Tommy Lee show, was that the same episode as last week? or were they doing a recap? I turned it off and went to bed. So how do ya like my new yummy avatar? Just found that online somewhere...

Gotta run for now, Lucky the bratty pup is nipping at Michael's heels. I have got to get her into a puppy class for some training.

to Dips and Cal. Hope you all have a good evening.