we are NOT getting a donkey!

We spent a wonderful and much needing 3 day weekend mini vacation in Frisco, Texas visiting my cousins! We arrived late Friday night and didn't return till evening Monday. It was just what we all 3 needed...though it left me most definitely NOT wanting to go back to work :)

We got in some shopping, spent a few hours at Cabellas (or "the man store" as booderbean called it), enjoyed a fabulous cookout with cousins we don't get to see very much, and had some really good hanging out time with my cousins at their house. Booderbean enjoyed himself so much that i really think he thought we had moved there! When we got packed to leave he kept asking me "why, we are leaving Amy and Will's??" then we got ready to leave and he got so sad!

To make it up to him we stopped at Arbuckle Wilderness on our way home...booderbean didn't know what to think at first! he pretty much freaked out when the Alpaca stuck his head in the car the first time...then after he saw daddy feeding them he calmed down a bit.

Honestly militaryman had such a blast there i think i may have to take HIM back to visit! He seriously asked me if we could get a donkey!!! NO SIR :) and booderbean would have loved to have taken home a zebra!!

Amy, Will, Brian, Natalie, Collin, Ella..we will be coming back very soon for sure!!

Friday Ramblings...

Just a few random thoughts for your Friday pleasure...

1. I have had the most annoying on-going cold/allergies for the past 2 weeks. It's about to drive me nuts! I had it for a full week prior to going on a work trip to NYC, then this past Tuesday the stupid cold came back! It's one of those where one minute your sweating and the next your shivering, coughing your lungs out, and blowing your nose till it's red! Like i said, annoying!

2. It's Friday during Lent, there for I will fast today and not eat meat in observance and reverence. But of course my Qdoba naked chicken burrito craving it hitting an all time high today!

3. More on the Qdoba naked chicken burrito...those things are Heaven in my mouth! i love them, Qdoba is within walking distance of my office here on campus and i pretty much could eat it 5 days a week! It's packed with cilantro--my new favorite additive to any food!

4. We are taking a road trip to Dallas tonight for a long 3 day weekend to visit my cousins and i could not be more excited!!! it's been too long since we've seen them and the 3 of us haven't be there together yet. Booderbean and I made the trip when military man was deployed, and military man and i made the trip minus booderbean about 6 months ago. So we are excited to get the heck outa dodge! The stinky weather better not slow us down for our Dallas trip though!

5. Military man thought he need to cuddle with booderbean in our bed last night, so not only is my body aching from being sick but it's aching from having a 2 year old waling all over me all night.

6. As i sit here at my desk I have Twilight staring me in the face...i have not picked up the books once to read them, i was never really interested, i honestly thought the obsession with vampires was soooooo not up my alley. Then a friend in the office decided to lay the book on my desk and make me read it. We'll see. I still just don't have the desire. But i hear that once i read it I'm hooked.

7. I have realized over the past week that i need to spend a little more time with God. There have been some unsettling things going on lately and i think i need my God time!

8. I had my office painted while i was out last week and it's the most amazing shade of creamy green!! i love it! i just really need to get on the ball and decorate now!

9. I ordered a new digital camera (my Christmas present--long story) this week and it's supposed to be today, it has to be here or i will have no photos from our Dallas weekend! Come on Mr. fed ex!

10. Thanks to my in-laws-- booderbean, military man, and i have a new obsession snack--Puff Corn! It's made by Cheetos and it's sooooooooo yummy!! it's addicting as hell though! I honestly went to the store last night and bought 4 bags! oh my gosh i can't believe i said that out loud on here! so military man and i plopped out booties in front of the TV last night with a bag! What?? don't judge me! It's my comfort food!

Thanks Mother Nature

Dear Mother Nature,

While i do appreciate the recent rains (our dry grass really needed), and i do appreciate the large hail (booderbean does love to see it fall), and i do appreciate the strong winds (not sure why but i bet I'm supposed to appreciate them for some reason)...i am not too fond of what you left behind for us. I know it was not your fault, and I know this is just what comes with being a Home Owner, but really.....

This is our roof, it shows how the shingles are big pockets.

This is part of our back porch that flipped up and landed on our roof, i have no idea how the 2x4's and steel rods were pulled out of the concrete but they did. And you can see the guttering is gone and the porch is nonexistent.

This is the roof to our porch...or what was left of it. this tree is in our front yard by the road, that's how far it carried it!

And this is the leak/tear or whatever you want to call it to the ceiling in our garage!

Mother Nature, would you mind making the call to our insurance company? I'm not sure they are going to be too fond of us :)

The Big Apple

Ladies and Gentlemen...I am NYC bound!!!

I'll be taking 33 college students and 1 professor on a travel trip to NYC for the week of spring break. This may sound like fun to some of you...but if i can jsut get past all the stress of planning the trip and preparing my family for me being away for a week...then maybe it will be fun!

Top 3 things i want to do while in NYC

1. See a celebrity

2. Get in some shopping--find a fabulous pair of shoes, think Sex In The City style!

3. Get a hotdog from a street vendor

4. Go see the 9/11 memorial site

5. See my friend Patrice and let her show me the ropes to NYC

daddy's proud day

Today was a proud day for military man...booderbean shot his first gun. Yeah, that's right, i said it, my two year old baby boy shot his first gun this weekend. Mind you we were out on the hunting land and booderbean sat on military mans' lap while military man loaded and held the gun while booderbean got to pull the trigger at the tree we were using as practice. But still...military man can technically say that his son shot his first gun.

Before i get any comments on this let me just tell you that military man is the most safety conscious person i know, he comes from military background

and is his training has taught him well.

Of course as we headed out for our fun day i forgot the camera!!! Luckily the good ol' camera phone was there for backup. Sorry, the pics don't do justice!

We just went out to enjoy a nice day in the woods looking for treasures in the fields, of course i ended up with a pocket full of them!

He is showing off his shots into the tree!

swinging into spring

Even though this photos is old...it still makes me smile knowing how much my little booderbean loves to be outside in the nice spring weather! Booderbean, mommy wishes she didn't have to work so we could spend every minute in the swings!

Enjoy the nice weather we have today folks!

last minute valentines

Between me having the flu last week and our fun house problems (see previous post), Valentines day pretty much snuck up on me this year! The weeks before i had all kinds of fun little ideas and things i wanted to go purchase to make cute Valentine's gifts...well none of that happened and next thing i knew it was the day before and i was finally feeling able to go out and about. So i decided to get creative this year and do the little things to make it special. And actually...it turned out better than i planned!

Valentines day started out with me making a "romantic" dinner for 3 (how romantic can you get when you have a 2 year old eating as well!) Friday night and then Booderbean and I woke military man up to a yummy & festive Valentines Day breakfast the next morning!

It was funny that even though Booderbean was included in the whole morning process, he still was so surprised to see his heart shaped waffles and fruit! Funny kiddo!

He didn't want any photos taken of the little valentines gifts he got...no no no, he just wanted to have his picture taken with the dogs valentines bone! He was so proud to go give Gunner and Rosie (the dogs) their new treat!

sick of crap...LITERALLY

So i don't even know where to begin this post...this has literally been a week full of CRAP! keep reading, you'll know what I'm getting at!

Monday night i went to bed feeling great, had a good day at work and was pretty prepared for a full week ahead of me...then at 3AM i woke up more nauseous than i have ever been in my life!!! and all i could think the rest of the night was "either i am going to die or i am pregnant" because that same nauseous feeling was exactly what i had for about 7 months of pregnancy. I tossed and turned and kept waking military man up to tell him "I'm so nauseous" until my alarm went off at 5:45. I realized there was no way i could get out of bed so i was sleeping in till 7am when military man had to get up and i would have help getting ready and getting booderbean ready. I would just be an hour late or so i thought.
Alarm goes off at 7am, i get up, i head to get ready and realize....NOPE--I'm freaking sick! So i was out for the next 2 days with the worst flu i can honestly remember having!!! no no no readers, no baby here, just the stinkin' crappy flu!!!
And since military man and i work in separate towns and i am the one who takes booderbean to school, booderbean had to stay home with me for the first 1/2 of the day because military man had some major military stuff to take care of...can you even imagine having the FLU and taking care of a 2 year old!!! ladies...this was no picnic!!
I wont' go in to any details here, because lets be honest-no one wants to hear that stuff. But booderbean watched way too much Elmo that morning while we waited for military man to get home! Looking back i feel like the WORST MOM EVER at how sad he must have been when i kept telling him mommy can't read to you she's sick! Luckily military man came home at noon and booderbean and him took of to grandpas farm for the afternoon/evening so i could get some much needed sleep!! Thanks Grandpa for letting him ride the tractors--exactly what both of us needed!
you think this is the end of the post don't you, you think that that's as bad as it got right???

Think again!!

I started feeling a bit better and decided to take a nice hot shower on Wednesday, after showering i walked into the living room to find the living room carpet & wood floors in dinning room/kitchen FLOODED!! water was standing on the carpet which meant it had already soaked clear through! Water was pouring out of the hall closet where the hot water heater/septic tank line/all utility stuff is located! I opened the closed to see it flooded! After freaking out for about 2 seconds, i did what any desperate wifey does...i called up the hubs real quick in panic!! He had me check out a few things then pretty much told me that our septic tank had backed up into our house! WHAT??? gross gross gross!!
I begin moving furniture out of the way and trying to salvage what i could.
Military man wraps up things he had to finish at work and heads our way. THANK THE LORD for our very good friends N&G in town, he headed to our house and assessed the damage while talking to military man using terms and language i didn't even understand! They figured out exactly what to do and go to work diggin a big big hole in my pretty rose garden to find the septic tank and lateral lines (see i'm learning new words!). After shoveling for a few hours it was official, we needed to have someone come out and pump out our septic tank! GREAT! Finally after calling around, by 8pm we had someone there--with the biggest loudest truck i have ever seen! He sucked all the crap out--haha literally--and we were good to go. Yeah right! By this time booderbean is all hyped up because of the big hole in our backyard and the big truck with the giant hose and all the commotion so he sure wasn't ready to go to bed!
Now we have to deal with all the inside stuff!!! what a mess i tell you! what a mess! we have used the shop vac over our carpets i don't know how many times, and set up all kinds of fans, and still....soaking wet, stinky carpet!
So we'll spend our weekend having the carpets cleaned, and actually now it looks like pulled up and trashed and figuring out how to deal with it all!

So, in conclusion of my giant rant, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY to you all--we bought ourselves a septic clean out for V-Day!

I GOT TAGGED

ok ok ok...i LOVE surveys like this! i got tagged to do it and after 3 days of drafting and saving i'm finally posting!


Question & Answer tag! I am it!!
I was tagged by MoreWinePlease



Step 1: respond and rework—answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, add one more question of your own.

Step 2: tag—eight other un-tagged people.



1. What were you doing before you started this post? lets see, having a fun and relaxing weekend in P-town, booderbean and i came for a weekend visit. I poured mom and i a glass of some yummy wine, got a blanket out to get all snugly on the couch, got the laptop and remote in hand. i'm set! oh yeah...and lame too huh! haha



2. What is the last thing you read/are currently reading? i have My Sisters Keeper next to my bed, and i just can't seem to get into it! i really need a GREAT book suggestion!! anyone?



3. Do you nap a lot? every Sunday i take full advantage of Booderbean's 2 hour nap time and snag one myself! when i was off work for 2 weeks for Christmas, you better believe every single day i had a nap!

4. Who was the last person you hugged? Booderbean when i got my nite nite kiss and hug. He can't just give a hug either...you get a "hands kiss" along with it! my favorite thing in the world!

5. What is your favorite TV series? hands down.. THE OFFICE!!--i'm agreeing with shannon on this one!

6. What was the last thing you said out loud? "ok see you in the morning, you wont' need to set an alarm for me to get up, colemans' my alarm clock these days!"

7. What websites do you always visit when you go online? newsok.com, all my blogger buddies pages, poncacitynews.com, crackspace, and then a bunch of work related ones.

8. What was the last item you bought? bought a few new clothes for my trip to NY.

9. What is your most challenging goal? figuring out what i want to do with my life and doing it, and trying not to be frustrated each day with it.

10. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished- anywhere in the world, where would it be? someplace that is warm all year round! today is a perfect weather day for me!

11. Favorite Vacation spot? i would have to say Eureka Springs...because our condo there is where my family vacationed every year growing up, and now military man and i have started that too.

12. Say something to the person who tagged you: MWP--we met nearly 3 years ago when you were in on my interview with your brother. i loved working with you and i loved getting to know you. i miss the days of GELB and wish i was back with you all. you have the most fabulous hair and style sense!

13. Name one thing you just can't resist no matter how bad it is for you: cheese...everyone who knows me when i was preggo can tell you that i literally ate a block a day! and i could totally still do that!

14. What is your favorite item of clothing? jeans and boots! i am so much more productive on fridays when i'm in my jeans!

15. If you could have any career you wanted, education and money were not an issue. What would it be?: At Risk Youth Counselor

16. Name one thing you can not live with out: booderbean, and wine!

17. Has a celebrity's haircut ever influenced you on your own hairstyle? oh i'm sure it has but i can't remember exactly

18. What is your drink of choice?: Barefoot-White Zin

19. What is something you do every day? talk to my mom!

20. What are you wearing right now?: black capri comfy pants, sleep tank, snugly socks

21. What's your favorite room in your house?: i don't know that i have a favorite right now, i'm in a funk in my house, i wan to redo it badly! our room is number one o my list!

22. If you were to have a baby boy and girl tomorrow, what would you name them?: boy i have no idea. girl--Katelyn LuCinda. this was booderbeans girl name since we didn't find out what we were having. BUT i pray like seriously every single day for twins next time.



OK, I'm supposed to tag people on here...but the some blogs i follow are ones that have been tagged already...but i've noticed they haven't posted yet so i'll tag them agian :) i'm so not following the rules am I!

Greygill Fish

Miss Priss and Me

Occhiuzzo Family

It's A Slow Learning Curve

silly sledding

I kept forgetting that i wanted to post photos from our snow days at home! These pictures were taken our first day of being snowed--er i mean ICED into our house! We actually got snow that night so pictures may have turned out a little prettier, had i brought my camera out with us when we went to sled!

My uncle got booderbean this sled last year for Christmas because we have a big hill on our land that would be really fun to sled on...too bad we didn't get the chance to use it last year. So we did the redneck thing and pulled booderbean around in the grass a few times last year so he would know what a sled is used for. Then it's sat in his closet till last week--and as soon as military man and i realized we were all 3 getting to stay home for the day,

booderbean grabbed his sled and was ready to go!

We figured he would be scared to go down the big hill alone...oh we were wrong!

He LOVES to sled!

Oh how i wish every day could be a snow day...but without the snow!

i'm not much of a fan of the COLD!!

we love ELMO

Do you think this boy has an obsession??? He just loves his Elmo!

We were having a lazy day at home and i was catching up on laundry and house work. Booderbean decided he needed to watch an Elmo DVD.

Then i caught this cutie pie all decked out with Elmo!

he's sitting on Elmo chair, holding Elmo, watching Elmo

He told me that the Elmo's got tired so he laid them down for a nap!

haha he's so imaginative i love this age!

I love this boy to pieces!!!

2 year old with a gambling problem?

A few weekends ago our fantastic neighbor friends down the road had a birthday party for their little guy at Incredible Pizza! Have you been there? With children? It is literally a MADHOUSE!

Military man and i had been there before actually, on a date, just the two of us and it was pretty fun. Then we went to the party and there are sugar crazed, screaming kids everywhere, with their germie little hands touching everything in site...

and our 2 year old was becoming one of them!

By the end of the night we were all three exhausted, but we had a blast and booderbean had SO MUCH FUN! He has never been to anything like that so it was great for him to just go nuts for a little bit...oh yeah, and i think he may have developed a gambling problem as well :)

he went crazy gathering tickets!!!

I can't tell who enjoyed the toys more???

looking good...ish

I don't typically feel that i am the kind of person that needs to have compliments thrown her way, but come on----

who doesn't' like to hear that you look nice when you are wearing a new outfit!

I know you readers know what I'm talking about, you just have those days when you know you look good-your hair turned out just right, your make up looked especially smooth & pretty, you have on a new trendy outfit that you are sure will spark some conversation......

and then you get nothing...nothing!

this has happened to me for the second time THIS WEEK!

Monday i wore a super cute new pair of pants and trendy sweater dress thingy...nothing!
Today i have on a super cute skirt with coordinating tights and top...nothing!

again, not that i need to hear the compliments...but come on!! :)

OK I'm done with the pity party!
here's to a fabulous Thursday!

My New Nephew!!!

My fabulous, beautiful, caring, wonderful mommy, hilarous sister and her husband recently welcomed their 3rd baby boy into their family!!

Garrett William was born on December 30th and weighed in at 7lbs 11oz!

And that's tiny for us girls! None of us knew how to hold the little man,

we are used to having our 9 and 10 pounders!

I have been instructed not to post any mommy and baby photos because sister wasn't feeling so well for photo ops so instead here are some cuttie ones of the little man!

I plan to take booderbean to visit his new cousin again this weekend and hope to get some great shots of the 4 cousins! Trust me, I'll be posting again on this cutie boy and his cutie brothers!

sleeping away!

so very alert!

booderbean was so proud to meet his new cousin...he calls him "giggett"

Happy Birthday Baby Jesus

Here i sit...waiting patiently to attend midnight Mass with my family! i am so so excited to go this year! We haven't gotten to go for the past 3 years for multiple reasons, so this year when i found out we would be back in our home town--this was my number 1 request! The first year military man and i attended midnight mass together was the year we got engaged (on Christmas eve right before Mass) and now we are going to go and be able to take booderbean!
I'm sure booderbean will sleep through it (as he should, it's midnight right!) but still...he will be with us!
I wish everyone has a very merry Christmas tomorrow! And i wish that we all remember the reason we are celebrating this season!

on a funny note...booderbean and i made a birthday cake for baby Jesus today and i didn't realize that by talking about making Him a cake it would spark funny questions. "I want to watch baby Jesus blow out candles", "i want baby Jesus to come to the party", "I want to see baby Jesus", and finally "momma sing birthday song to baby Jesus".
What a sweet and innocent boy i have!

Merry Christmas everyone!

i spoke too soon!

NEVER MIND!!!!!!!!! forget the post below...last night was NIGHT FROM HELL at the Krout house!!!!
Booderbean ate maybe 3 bites of stew, did not want a bath, then did not want to get out and would only let me touch him, then only wanted daddy to brush his teeth with him, then freaked out because i closed the door to his bedroom and didn't let him do it, then i only read 2 books and he insisted on 3, then outa nowhere he pops up from cozy rocking and runs in to the living room and demands to stay "in dare wif daddy"!!!! so i throw my hands up, military man--it's your turn! finally they both fall asleep in our bed (FABULOUS we're freaking back in "mommy daddy bed")
So i wake military man up and he takes booderbean to his own bed. Then poor poor military man gets called out at 10pm for an "emergency" at work and has to drive his tired self 30 miles away and then back! Needless to say, he was exhausted when he got home! Then 1:45am rolls around, and booderbean is up and yes...of course...he's back in our bed!!! CRAP! Where did our nice nights of sleep go???
Of course the kicking, flopping around, crazy sleepy talk, and flat out AWFUL night is back!!! Military man goes to the couch and booderbean and i sleep soundly till the morning!

UGH!!!!!!!! I'm tired, I'm frustrated, i can't get enough coffee, and I'm just plain DONE :) anyone want to trade kiddos for a few nights??

sleepy time

HOT DOG!!! This cute little boy below has slept in his OWN bed ALL night long for the past 3 nights!!!! I wake up every morning at 5:30 and am so elated that he's still in his own bed sound asleep--and not in ours with his feet in my back!

Bed time has now become my favorite part of the evening, it's mommy and booderbean time! Military man does the bath and then brings the cute little boy to me all wrapped in his monkey towel, we talk softly and get dressed for bed. We read 2 books, always Goodnight Moon as the finisher. Then I sing our good night song and place him in his bed! He puts himself to sleep and then STAYS put all night long!

ok ok ok....we're still in a baby bed!!!!! i know i know this doesn't seem like a big deal now huh! but let me tell you--IT IS :)

wooooah momma!

Ok first off i cannot believe i am about to post this photo of MYSELF!!! and i know that when those few of you that actually read my blog see the photo..you will be thinking the same thing "what in the world did she post this for?". But i have reasoning behind it...

When we left my office Christmas party last Friday night THIS is what i left looking like...

GROSS huh!!! my lips had randomly swollen to at least 5 times their normal size!!

And the really crappy part is, we have no idea why!

Talk about frustrating!!!

For those of you readers that worked with me at GELB, you may remember a few times when this happened. It sure looks like an allergic reaction to some food i ate huh? well nope! we have no clue what triggers the swollen fat face! it just appears out of nowhere! I have seen the best allergist in the state, i have had all sorts of needles poked in me, i have had all kinds of tests ran but nothing shows to be highly elevated! Military man is convinced it is something in the air.

All that i can really do is get a steroid shot and pray!

Or take a crap load of benadryl and sleep for 20 hours!

well now that we've all had a good laugh...enjoy the rest of your day!

oh and pray for me that this never happens again at an embarrassing moment...like an office Christmas party, or the time before this when i had a HUGE presentation to give in front of the college (yeah that was NO fun!!)

fun family time

I can't believe i forgot to blog about this....we had Military Man's National Guard Christmas party last weekend and booderbean got to see Santa!!! He's been so excited to see Santa, and he talks about Santa all the time, but when we got in line...he just wanted his daddy :)

Military man and one of his best buddies whom was deployed with him, and their boys!

tried this picture more than once and could never get them all 4 to look at me! not gonna get too close to Santa!



Showing mommy what he got form Santa

The next day my sister and i and military man took all our boys (well boy #4 is still in sisters tummy) to Bass Pro Shops to have pictures taken with Santa and play on all the fun outdoor toys!

Her are some fun pictures:

CLASSIC!! i love that nephew Jacob is crying, it's perfect!!

uncle military man teaching Carter to shoot!

military man and booderbean shooting

me and my funny funny nephew Jacob!!!

I love my nephews!! and nephew #3 will be here in jsut a few weeks!!

christmas questions...

Because GreyGill did it...so am I! i LOVE these things!!

Wrapping paper or gift bags? oh wrapping paper for sure! i love to wrap and have even thought of doing it on the side for extra holiday cash! i have a country cowboy theme to the gift wrapping this year and i'm loving it...black, red, khaki, and red toole!!
Real tree or Artificial? artificial, if we had a real one my mom could never come visit! allergic!
When do you put up the tree? depends on our Thanksgiving plans...usually we are out of town most of the Thanksgiving holiday so as soon as we get home we get it up...this year however it just got completed this week!!!! i hate that!
Hardest person to buy for? In-Laws..hands down!
Easiest person to buy for? my sister...she's so much like me i know she'll love anything i love!
Mail or email Christmas cards? mail mail mail!!! it's the highlight of my day to come home and see the pretty cards waiting for me to open! so send them my way!
Worst gift you ever received? i really don't know....oh wait, not "worst" just "most embarrassing" was when Nana (if you know her, you know she would give something like this) gave me some peach colored lingerie!! yeah, i was 20, in college, opening that in front of everyone! haha!
Favorite Christmas Movie? i'm really into the Charlie Brown one and all those old cartoon ones, ya know the snowman one and all those.
Lights on the tree? of course, white only please
Favorite Christmas song? Little Drummer Boy
Travel at Christmas or stay home? not sure...we are still in discussion about this one. we'll probably travel still since little man is still young. but when he's older we'll stop that and see family another day. or just move to them :)
Can you name all of Santa's 9 reindeer's? sure can...only because of the song though
Angel on the tree top or a star? neither, we have a big bow streaming down it
Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning, if we ever move back to a town that has midnight mass then we'll go to that and then open stockings when we get home.
Most annoying thing about this time of year? when people get frustrated at the traffic or amounts of people, and you can see them yelling in their cars..i just want to say "you are out here too buddy!!!"
Favorite ornament theme or color? i don't think i have a favorite, i try to do a different theme every year.
What do you want for Christmas this year? to figure a few things out about our future and location and such. oh yeah--and twins sometime in my future would be fabulous!!! i think the original poster and i are thinking alike on the baby thing!

Dear Santa,

Will you please stop off at my house this year!

I've been a very good boy!

Booderbean is so funny lately...he loves to talk about Santa Clause and points him out every time he sees him (even on the Coke can of daddy's!), he loves to look at Christmas lights and i can't wait to take him to the light parks in Yukon!

NOT that we are planning or even remotely hinting at anything--but when we ask him if he wants a brother or sister for Christmas he looks at us like that is the craziest thing we could say and says in a funny voice "noooooooooooo".

But after much coaching from military man,
booderbean will tell you he needs a puppy for Christmas!

such a fun time of year...

Before it gets too cold i wanted to take some cute photos of booderbean playing in the leaves...the little STINKER wouldn't hold still long enough to get a good front shot!

But i still think he's the cutest little man.

belated--thanksgiving photos

oooooooooooh i just love love love the holidays!!! maybe i loved loved loved being off work and being surrounded by wonderful family and friends for the past 5 days!!! This year we spent Wednesday-Friday with the Krouts, and then did Friday-Sunday with the Bridges. We had such a great time and such a great Thanksgiving day. We had lots of food, lots of family, lots of black Friday shopping, and lots of funny booderbean moments! Here are just a few photos from the weekend, the rest will be uploaded to our shutterfly page, so go there and check them all out.

Hope you and yours had a blessed Thanksgiving!

Now my mission is to get military man up in the attic to get my Christmas decor down :)

booderbean loved washing dishes at Aunt Tonya's house!

he loved to help her cook as well!

military man was tired after an early morning of hunting!

we must have been praying for an OSU win! We didn't pray hard enough though.

me and my hubby on Thanksgiving! we never got that family photo though!!!

booder bean wanted to be a photographer!

can i get a NAP?

SERIOUSLY i don't know if i can be more tired than i am today!!! I think i even got more sleep when booderbean was a newborn than he is giving us now!!! Yeah, so the no ray ray thing is going great, we don't have it, we threw them out, he goes to sleep so so so great with out it!! BUT the boy doesn't' STAAAAAAAAAAY asleep!! here is a break down of last night (and the past few nights as well!!):

8:00pm--bath time, read books with mom while rocking, rock and sing
8:20pm--sound asleep with no pacifier and clutching blankie
anywhere between 11:45pm and 12:30am--STANDING in bed, awake, will NOT lay back down in own bed
12:30am--sound asleep in mom and dads bed with feet and arms kicking and punching all over the flippin place, AND having what i would assume is a nightmare b/c he's asleep but screaming and whining till military man talks him back to sleep--all in our bed
12:35am--military man gets called out to work, booder bean and mommy stretch out and sleep soundly
2:30am--military man home, well sleep good
3:37am--booderbean is whining and upset and demands to sleep on the floor with military man..WHAT??? this kid is nuts, i think he's sleep talking?
5:20am--military man moves booderbean back to our bed and we are all sleeping soundly
5:40am--my alarm clock goes off and i of coures hit snooze
6:07am--i jump up and get my day going (27 minutes behind schedule!!) booderbean and military man sleep soundly
6:25am--booderbean walks out to living room, dragging blankie like Linus from the Peanuts, and is up for the day

LORD HELP US....we have the ray ray gone but the sleep thing is literally going to drive me off the edge!!!
you all better believe some wine will be had tonight!!!

OH HAPPY DAY!!!

Like my good friend and fellow blogger KJ, i have been so excited for this day to write up this post--yet at the same time i was very leery to post too soon as not to jinx myself!

BUT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN....WE ARE A PACIFIER FREE HOUSE!!!

i know this may not seem like a big deal to many of you but oooooooooooh my lord i am about to jump out of my skin i am so so so excited!!!! Not that the ray ray (this is what booderbean has named his pacifier since the day he could talk) has been a problem at all. He actually hasn't been THAT attached to it at all, for the past year it has only been at nap time and at bed time (ok and the occasional trip home from school when he's fussy) but that was it, he wasn't one of those kids walking around w/ a ray ray hangin' out of his mouth! No way!!!

Military man and i have been ready to kick this thing and just get rid of it but i wasn't looking forward to the nights of no sleep (i had it built up in my head that i would go a week with a screaming 2 year old all night). So we decided that over Christmas break we would do it, I get a wonderful 2 weeks off work and decided we would do it then so we could nap during the day.

But the good Lord had something different in mind when we left Friday morning for work/school. We went to Ponca City for the weekend and since booderbean has only been using the ray ray for bedtime for the past month i didn't pack it b/c he wouldn't' need it during the day anymore for naps. On our way to PC Friday evening i called military man and asked if he grabbed it before he left to meet us in PC. And nope, we didn't have a ray ray!!! So we decided that there was nothing else to do but tough it out and try, we were not going to buy another one because that would defeat the purpose!

And you know what....all my fears were set aside because it was not a battle at all!!!! Booderbean did so well! of course the first night was a little rough but after a few minutes of crying he was out, and second and third night it's been so wonderful!

As booderbean would say "Momma Happy? Momma Happy?"

Yes, baby boy...i am happy!!!!

the band-aid

we have a bit of a problem at our house,

you see, we have a 2 year old who is addicted to BAND-AIDS!

it's quite funny, if he bumps his knee or scratches his arm (even in just the tinest way) we need a band-aid on it quick. i'm sure many of you moms and dads out there are laughing right now because i'm sure this is a common thing for a 2 year old.

but the problem is...this particular boo boo is on his head, meaning the band-aid is in his HAIR!!! and this is day two of the band-aid being in the hair, and he is showing absolutely no signs that it will be coming out anytime soon! in fact, we've tried, oooooooooo how we've tried! and each time it's "no, band-aid stay in mine hair".

here's a visual for you...it's not the best picture but i had to snap something!

this was taken this morning on our way to school.

booderbean, i don't want to have to shave your head (oh LORD no!!!)

but this thing HAS to come out :)