Treats and tired...

So we went walking again and it was a family ordeal, my mom, both sisters, my brother-in-law and all the boys went. I was determined, even though we had to wait for Norah, that I was going to do a fast 3.2 walk. I left them in the dust. Hunter, Nathan and Noah kept up with me on their scooters. I would have them race up to a bench so they could rest and I would catch up to them and we would start again. Zach stayed back with the slow pokes. Finally the ones I was with decided they would just wait on the bench. When H and I got back to the car everytime someone came in we would start cheering, it was like our own personal 5k walk race. It was great. After I had got all the boys up on the car and I had them yell out 3.2 instead of cheese, it was fun.My other wonderful accomplishment today was the cake I have been working on. I was determined to give a co-workers son a real cake for his birthday, he has some pretty severe allergies to eggs, dairy and nuts. I was pretty confident in this cake but I am really worried now that even with all the precautions taken he will have a reaction. I am so crossing my fingers that it does not happen. We will see tomorrow.I couldn't find little dinosaurs so they are just little lizards instead. I hope he likes it. It was the easiest cake to frost because it I didn't have to worry about smoothing anything out.

Life it not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Wasting time...

So I really should be working on the cake that I need to have done before Saturday but poor planning on my part and currently I am waiting for the dishwasher to get done so I can work on it. H is playing with a friend so I am taking advantage to listen to RFH marathon day and blog once more.

Okay so there are these apartment buildings across the street from our "driveway". Really there is no way to avoid these because it is the only exit way from my condo. Low and behold there is this group that I have dubbed "The Firepeople" (FP). Really have have no problem with people who are just wanting to enjoy the outdoors, and the fact that they smoke and drink have no weighing value on these guys. I call them the FP because they have a fire pit that they pull out and sit or stand around.

I have no problem with them except for the fact that they are ALWAYS outside. It is such a rare occasion if they are not outside. Usually they will stand around the pit, but they have camping chairs they pull out too to sit on. Well I think for special occasions they pull out the fancy stuff. The picture below is their version of top quality sitting for the pit.

It is office furniture or padded dining room chairs. They don't pull it out that often because I have only seen it once but seriously, what the heck is wrong with the regular camping chairs? They were setting this up all day and later that night there were more of them, like double the number of those that are normally there. I just had to show the hick version of comfy living. I just thought this was hilarious and I had told Mar about this once but I don't think I ever showed her the picture.

Those of you who are The Office fans may actually catch this one.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzy - Michael Scott

Failed attempt at cooking...

I really don't know why I keep appeasing to my sister. I am giving up some sleep just so I can blog about my failed attempt to make a homemade black bean soup. Not that it was horrible or anything just don't think it was a good idea to combine it with the what was suppose to be tacos but turned out to fajita tacos instead. Instead of pulling out the ground beef I pulled out the fajita meat to defrost. So I had some black beans to as part of the co-op share I had gotten so I wanted to try to use those with the tacos. I found a recipe on line and tried following it but when we put it in to blend it up it came out looking like a blue berry shake. H was weary about it anyway but looking at it I don't blame him for saying he was not going to try it.I did figure it got made it is getting eaten somehow. I took a scoop and I put it in the fajita meat and just used it as extra seasoning. I will choke down the rest for lunches and such. Hey I tried making something new failed miserably but tried. I can't tell the boy he can't give up before he even tries if I don't follow that example.

I miss you Big City soup, you did have the best black bean soup even though everyone at work thought I was eating crap, you filled my tummy with sustenance and nutrition.

Also shout out to the Jazz, you rock! Glad you got a win.

Remember when...

Those of you who have know Hunter best know he loves to play a remember when game. That game actually consists of something that has happened within a few minutes, hours or days at most. I laugh everytime this happens because he really starts out the conversation and you think it is going to be a trip down memory lane. But just this night we play kick ball and he just had to point out that remember when we played kick ball, that was fun right? I just had to get on and mention this because I laugh so hard everytime this happens. He had a blast and it was a different form of exercise for me.

Good night everyone. Treat yourself well, you only have one.

Big day for a little boy...

I know I can't always be there for the boy. He needs to venture out and do things on his own. I still worry but part of being a parent is allowing your child to spread their wings and fly. He is riding his bike by himself to school. I have the day off so I can help with their field Trip today. As he rode off down the street I felt the tears well up, it is crazy that I can't keep him under my arms all the time. He is excited that he gets to ride his bike home from school too. It makes me feel he will be driving in no time.

Worry is like a rocking chair, it's something we do but it doesn't get us anywhere.

Sister is still a tattle tale...

My baby sister is a pain, she tattles on everything. I am going to stop telling her things! She is seriously worse than an 8 year old, no wonder her and the boy don't get along!

My brush with fame story. So I always hear about how people I know end up meeting celebrities and such, I just wanted to brag about my encounter because I am a HUGE fan of Joel McHale (he is a man of worship only one below Shatner, but that is another story), I LOVE to watch The Soup on E! on Friday nights. It keeps me from having to watch a lot of stupid shows on tv and it makes fun of them in the long run. With that though I end up getting addicted to some because I think that the shows he makes fun of because I am thinking "really it can't be that stupidly funny" but trust me, he does not embellish any of the clips.

Any hoo, he came to do a stand up comedy show at Wiseguys in Ogden some time ago, I got to go and see. He was great, just as funny on stage as he is on tv. Well just to impress my son I showed him the picture I got with him, of course he just looked at it and thought why is she with some guy and wanting to show me? But then I turned on The Soup and told him to look at the picture again and boy did his eyes light up, I think I earned about 100,000 mommy brownie points with that look. He then had to know who he was and why I had a picture with him.

Just thought I would share it with everyone.

If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.

To Good To Be True...

I told you I sucked at blogging. But I am back only because my baby sister was giving me some real crap because I was so far behind, but I really how often does she keep her's up to date???

H's party has come and gone, he returned on Easter Sunday from a visit with his dad. He was not liking after he got home that his spring break was spent with his dad, he asked if we could spend some more time together at home. It is hard when he puts these requests out, but I got him to get excited about school because he was celebrating his birthday the Monday back so we got on and found the pictures he wanted and we filled out the post all about him (really this kid could go on forever about himself, he is the one that has to have everything with his first and middle name on it and then asks why he can't find one with his last name anywhere). I was happy to hear that one of his favorites things to put on his list of his likes were school and homework. Bless his heart, he can definetly make me smile, but the next day we were arguing that he had to do his homework.

We celebrated his family party up in Ogden this year. He wanted a Jazz Bear cake this year, after some mis-communications between my sister and I (bad week for both of us) we pulled it off.

Yes there is a crack on the bottom that happened while transporting, so point out Mar Bear because I know you will be dying to. We started cooking and making this at 2 and were done by 8 so I say all is well. I had hid his DS and had him open all the presents, he opened them all and did not say one thing. I could tell by the look on his face he was missing something and he would not say one word about it. I finally had to ask him flat out if he was missing something that he had wanted, he continued to say no he was fine. After asking him again he had finally mentioned the DS which then it was given to him. I am glad he was going to be happy with what he was given, it shows he has taken in to consideration that you always can't have what you want in life, when given lemons you make lemonade. I am glad he had fun.

Some people are like slinkies: not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.