Weekend And This Weeks Wrap Up

I just wanted to share a few funny stories from my weekend.  

For me the weekends start on Thursday.  Thursdays are my husband's Fridays.  (He works odd hours.)  They end on Sunday for him but go until Monday for me.  Lucky me! Poor hubby! 

Last Thursday while in the shower my 3 year old came in the bathroom for something, left and closed the door behind him.  No big deal right?  WRONG!  Ya see, our bathroom door has one of those child proof door knob covers on it.  The kind that are suppose to keep little boys out that play in the toilet.  The kind that worked perfectly when the little boy was say, 2 and not potty trained.  The kind that the now 3 year old potty trained little boy has yet to figure out how to open.  I suddenly heard him pounding on the door shouting frantically at me to open it.  I started pounding on the wall for the 7 year old to come to the rescue.  She did.  It was too late.  He came in and said he had pooped on the rug!  Dang!  That child proof item backfired on me!  I felt really bad for him at that moment.  I felt worse when I realized the so called rug was the carpet. 

This is the same little boy who walked into the hitch on our SUV and while giving it a disgusted look I heard him say, "Stupid trucker!"  (I'm just glad he didn't replace the T and the R for another consonant.  He did that once when he was trying to rhyme.  He didn't know it was a bad word.  We had to have a little talk about different words that rhyme with the word duck.)

On Friday I ran some errands kid free.  I grabbed a DC, pumped up the jam, and headed on my way.  I made a few stops and then headed to my tax man's place to drop off some tax information.  (We still have to jump through hoops with our taxes because of our adoptions.  As if we didn't jump through enough when we adopted the children in the first place.  I will say though that I would jump through 500 hoops and a ring of fire if it meant having my 2 little beauties.  They are worth it!  As long s they aren't leaving turds on the rug!)  I got to the our tax man's office and realized I had grabbed the wrong folder.  I drove home and grabbed the right one and headed back.  I got to tax man's office again and was missing 2010 tax info.  Honestly!  I drove home AGAIN and couldn't find the 2010 info.  I called tax man to make sure that it really wasn't there. It wasn't.  I finally found it in a heap of papers that belonged to the hubs.  I headed back to tax man's office for the third time!  I guess the excitement of being kid free took over my brain and it no longer functioned properly.

Sunday we celebrated Father's Day.  I made the hubs a cute little treat that said "World's #1 Dad!"  Kam thought it meant, "World's 1st Dad!"  Cute but that would be wrong!

As we were leaving to head to dinner at my folks the hubs asked me if he looked stupid in his t-shirt and warm-up/lounge pants.  I said no.  He really didn't.  Kam started laughing and said, "Uh ya.  But maybe no one will notice."  He then realized he needed to get back in the house and asked me for the keys to unlock the door.  Kam's reply, "Why?  Are you going to go in and change your awkward pants?"  She's 7 and already embarrassed!  This is the same girl who on that same day told me, "Now that you keep the house clean I can't find anything!"  Never a dull moment!

Last night we had a going away party for my BIL.  He's the one headed off to West Point Military Academy.  We are so proud of him but we will miss him!  When I started dating the hubs he was only 2.  He's grown up before my eyes.  I'm sad to see him go but I'm also very proud! I drove home with a lump in my throat!  Kam's biggest concern is that he will get shot now that he has joined the Army.  I can't seem to help her understand that for now he is just going to school. 

Tomorrow the hubs and I are going on an all day date to Lagoon to celebrate our 13 year wedding anniversary.  It's what fun is!  It's the one and only amusement park here in Utah.  The one where you dream of going with your boyfriend and holding hands and making out on the rides.  The one where you hope your boyfriend wins you the biggest stuffed gorilla known to man.  It ain't no Caribbean Cruise but it will do!  Did I mention we won't have the children?  Holla!  Can't wait!  I'm not as young as I once was so I'm not so sure how I will do on all the roller coasters.  We may be riding the Ferris wheel and bumper cars a lot!

Have a Fab weekend my friends!  

Weekend Wrap Up

I wanted to do a weekend wrap up last weekend but never got around to it.  Oh well!  At least I'm getting around to it this weekend. 

Friday the hubs, the kids and I went to lunch at one of our favorite spots Wingers.  The kids love the popcorn and I love the creamy amazing sauce.  What's not to love?!  We then spent the remainder of the afternoon preparing for a garage sell we were planning to have the following day.  We hauled all our trash (soon to be someone else's treasure) a few miles to my BIL and SIL's house where we planned to have the sale.  We organized, sorted, and priced our items and then called it a night.

The following morning I woke up at 6:30 and thought to myself, "So this is what 6:30 AM looks like?  Who knew?"  I don't do mornings!  I'm more of a night owl.  I was running a bit behind schedule and hadn't had much sleep so stopped at McD's for a DC and decided to try their fruit and maple oatmeal.  Holy goodness Batman!  And not just because I was washing it down with a Diet Coke.  It really was good! 

Our garage sale started at 8:00 AM.  It started slow and then gradually business picked up and then slowed down again.  People kind of trickled in and out all day.  We weren't as successful as we had hoped so we decided we should have another sale next Saturday.  Apparently not everyone realized how valuable our crap really is so we want to give them another chance to purchase.  This time we are changing our location to a busy street where we're sure our sales will sky rocket!

I did learn a thing or 2 about people at our sale.  I learned how attached we become to "stuff."  My hubs was having the most difficult time parting with a receiver that he had bought at least 17 years ago.  He paid over $300 for that thing and it was in perfect condition. (This is what he told me)  We used to lay on his bed when we were dating and listen to the radio with that receiver.  (Note to self: Never let daughter lay on her boyfriend's bed and listen to the radio.  Better yet...don't let daughter have a boyfriend!)   It pained him to let it go for a measly $15 bucks!  As I was laying stuff out to sell I noticed myself putting some stuff back in my car.  I couldn't bear to let it go quite yet.  Can you say hoarder?   

The thing that surprised me the most is the junk that people are WILLING to pay for.  We thought for sure our clothes and baby clothes would be the first things gone!  We're talkin' nice, well taken care of clothes.  Name brand even.  Oh no!  We wondered if some of our items would really even sell.  We wonder no more!  If you ever think to get rid of toys that your children get from a kids meal don't do it! They're big sellers!  Jewelry=Hot items!  My favorite is how my SIL told me that she sold some earrings to a lady and the lady put them in her ears immediately.  Wow!  I think I would have at least taken them home and doused them with alcohol first!  If nothing else you should try having a garage sell for pure entertainment.

Oh....and Kam sold homemade brownies and rice krispie treats!  She ran out within 15 minutes.  One man bought 8 and her grandma bought 10.  At first she seemed annoyed that she ran out so quickly.  I had to explain to her that she made $12 bucks in 15 minutes.  It had taken me 2 hours to make the same amount!

We snuck out of the sale a tad early to attend my Gpa's 97th Birthday Party!  It was great to be able to see my grandpa and all my other family members.  We ate lunch, played games and then had Birthday cake.  That's after we sang to him and told him to blow out his candles that were nonexistent.  We're mean!  He's practically blind so it made no difference!

Sunday I took the kiddo's to church.  (The hubs was at work.) We were late!  Kam was ticked that we had to go because "church is sooo boring."  And, "why do we have to wear dresses to church?"  And whine whine whine!  Moose just runs away when it's time to get dressed or comb hair.  When I do finally catch him and try to change his clothes he is constantly flopping and jumping all over the place.  I don't know how many times I've been headbutted while getting him dressed!  By the time we made it to church I was NOT in the mood to be there!  By the time I left I was much happier!

On Sunday my man and I celebrated 13 years of marriage.  I guess I wouldn't say we celebrated anything!  Basically we said, "Happy Anniversary!  Love you!"  It was just like any other day.  Pretty pathetic!  On a happy note we do have something fun planned in a few weeks to really celebrate.  I'm looking forward to it! 

Sunday evening we had family pictures with my hub's side of the family.  Pictures give me stress!  It's so hard making sure everybody matches and stays clean.  I about died when I heard the hubs tell Moose that he could have a Snickers bar as soon as he was dressed and ready for pictures!  Really?  And what would make a person think that giving a chocolate bar to a 3 year old right before pictures is a good idea?  By the time we made it there the hubs and I were in a fight (which had nothing to do with Snicker's bars) and the last thing I wanted to do was smile let alone be near him holding his hand!  After a minute to calm down we were fine and happily smiled for the camera.  We even held hands!

Did I mention there were 23 of us there for pictures?  10 of those 23 being kids.  Talk about chaos!  Following pictures gma and gpa treated us to to ice cream and Diet Coke!

Lastly a funny story from the Mooser:

He is obsessed with saying Booyah!  He says it all day long!  I asked him where he learned it and he said, "Jesus.  I heard Jesus say, Booyah!"  Wow!  Who knew?  Even Jesus knows a 'lil bit o slang!

Overall it was a nice weekend!  My house is trashed and I have my work cut out for me today!  Wish me luck!