It's gardening time again...

It's officially that time of year again!  Time to plant the garden.  Michael got the garden ready last week (i.e. he plowed and tilled it) and we planted most of it this past weekend.  So far we have 3 rows of green beans, about 6 tomato plants and 6 cucumber plants.  We'll plant some other stuff in a few weeks!  I'll take some pictures and post them when things start coming up!

Michael also had a wild hair that he was going to put up one of those cheapo pools for Callie.  You know...one of the ones that you can buy for like $250 at Walmart or something.  But wait for it....he didn't just set it out on the grass....he takes the tractor and excavates (LOL) and levels the whole friggin back yard practically.  I don'tk now what he was smoking!  So now we are going to put some of that rubber mulch down and put her play set on that.  Might as well since the whole backyard is dirt at this point.  LOL  He finally got the ground leveled enough for the pool so now all we need is mulch and some rock and maybe a few other plants to landscape a bit since the ground is already prepped for something at this point!  HA!

I desperately need to take pictures....I know it's hard to picture what I am talking about with just words...I will try to take some pictures tonight.  I was gonna take some over the weekend but the camera card was full.  I almost just bought another one so I could take pictures....Yes, I guess I am too lazy to just move the pictures over to a cd....it just seems easier to buy a new card!  :-)

Toodles!
mjr

Weekend wrap-up!

It was a GREAT weekend!  We don't have enough of those.  You know...one of those weekends that on Sunday evening you are sitting back, all relaxed, and you're smiling because you had some satisfying time away from work!  It was one of those weekends for us!

I didn't actually get to see Michael much.  It was shift change weekend so he worked Friday (off Saturday morning) and then he worked again on Sunday (off this morning)...and he went to visit his parents on Saturday and he took Callie with him.  Their neighbors were having an auction of some farm equipment (total snoozefest) and I told him straight up that that didn't interest me in the slightest.  He offered to take Callie so I could relax but instead I asked my mom if she wanted to get out and run around a bit for her birthday.  Her birthday is tomorrow!  So we loaded up and went to Bowling Green shopping.  We hit the mall, then we went to Target, then to Kohl's, then to Smokey Bones to eat, to GFS and Sam's for some bulk shopping!  HA!!  We had a fantastic time!  She has said several times just in the last day or so what a good time she had.  I think it was good for us to have some time without Callie.  Obviously we enjoy being with her immensely....but just like it is for me and Michael...Lord knows when you are out with a toddler or eating or whatever...they take all of your attention.  So it was nice to just sit and talk to her without having to yell at Callie to eat or to stop screaming, etc!  HA!  It was also nice in the mall to just be able to zoom in and out of stores without dealing with a stroller!  Yay for that!  I mainly bought clothes for Callie...funny how that works when you have kids, huh?

Not sure I have mentioned it on here but I am into the new couponing thing!  I've been having a blast doing it.  I decided that I wasn't going to be too crazy.  I just wanted to get better deals on the things that we use all the time.  Here is my haul from Rite Aid yesterday morning....

I got all of this for $12 after coupons and UP Rewards that I had that would be expiring this week.  I will also get $12 in rebates back so all in all I pretty much broke even/made money!  I was THRILLED!!  I LOVE couponing.  I need to get better at figuring out food deals at the grocery store.  I have Rite Aid down to a science now!  I love it!!

We have been trying to work on our landscaping between torrential downpours.  I will try to take some pictures of that once we get a couple more areas done!  Right now I am fighting with myself over what shrubs to plant down one side of the house!  There are lots of things that I love....but most of them have at least a few downfalls too.  So hopefully I can decide this week and we can get that done!  Michael is also gonna use a tractor to scrape the grass under Callie's play set and we are going to try to put some of that rubber mulch under it.  We'll see!!  I will update with pictures of that as we get to work on it!!

Now I am off to look at what types of deals I can get next week at Rite Aid!!

I know this is probably boring....so bear with me!  I will come up with a little more creative content maybe!

mjr 

My two new best friends...

Our old washer and dryer were like 10 years old....nothing really wrong with them, but who doesn't want a sparkly new red front load pair?  So when Michael agreed to let me spend some of the tax return on these puppies you better believe I was at the store before he finished saying the 'k' in 'ok'.  I LOVE THEM!  I love them almost as much as I do my hair dryer!  Callie is obsessed with pushing buttons on them.  I'm expecting any day that she will push something and I will not know how to 'undo' it. 

 And here is a picture of my little sweetheart hunting eggs!!  It started pouring rain right as the kids grabbed the last few eggs!  So while I was certain it was going to be a bust...it didn't end up being so bad!

 Michael starts working Sundays and Thursdays starting this weekend.  I had so enjoyed him being home on the weekends this month!  (he had been working Mondays and Fridays)  Ahh well...all good things must come to an end...  I guess the same applies to this post?  Have a great weekend!!

mjr

Admit it....You thought I had died!!!

It has been over a year since I even made an attempt at blogging. That is crazy, huh? It certainly doesn't seem like it has been that long ago.

In some ways there have been many things that have happened in that year and in others...it's just the same shizzle - different day.

I still have a horrendous commute, Callie, Winston and Michael are still the loves of my lives, we still live in the same house (although with a few renovations that we didn't have last time) and life as we know it goes on...

We are planning a Disney trip. So maybe that is something I can talk about on here! HA! I realize I sound totally boring and now I know why it has been a year since I posted to this blog! :-)

I promise I will start trying to do some updates....I realize at this point I am probably the only one even reading this! HA!!

Have a great day everyone!
mjr

HI SHELISA!!!!!!!!!! XOXOXOXO!!!! You are probably the only one that still checks this thing!!!!

Delivering on the promise!

A post and some pics!

So vacation was WONDERFUL! It was touch and go last Friday as it rained all.effing.day and Callie just about killed us trying to rip the rental house apart. LMAO We just didn't have enough for her to do, I guess and well...who could blame her. We were bored too! One doesn't really go on vacation to watch Law & Order reruns all fecking day! LOL I digress on that one....

Anyway...the first couple days were total beach days. We went out for 2 or 3 hours and then came in for Callie to nap. Then we would go out for a couple more hours or get an early dinner and then back to the beach.

One day we went to the Dauphin Island Estuarium. It is like a miniature aquarium with local species of fish, sharks, other water stuff. HA! I don't know what all of those things are called. And we went to Ft. Gaines. Cool enough but it was HOT AS ALL HELL and that made the whole fort experience less than enjoyable. There was going to be a second battle there if Michael hadn't agreed to get the hell outta dodge after about 30 minutes. I was DONE! So was Callie. We took a couple pictures and you can tell by the looks on our faces that we weren't having fun! HA!!!

Another day we drove onto the ferry and rode it over the Fort Morgan. Yes, another fort. This time we didn't stop there...we jumped on the road and drove into Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. I have been to Gulf Shores before but it's been a LONG time. So it was nice to see how things have changed. We also drove on into Foley, AL to eat at Lambert's Cafe. If you have never experienced this....it is a must! It is the home of the 'throwed rolls' afterall!!! Callie got a huge kick out of that. They don't just give the rolls to you at your table. They freakin throw them at you. I had already decided we were going to eat there but a couple weeks before we left we were watching the Travel Channel and they were listing the top 10 places to pig out. Guess what was on there!!! OMG! It was sooo good! I got chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes and green beans and corn. Michael got fried chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans. The kicker to this though is that they constantly walk around offering you 'extras'. These extras are fried potatoes with onions, of course the rolls that they serve with apple butter sorghum molasses and something else....And no, they don't throw the apple butter or molasses at you!! HA! Anyway....they also bring around macaroni and tomatoes, cabbage, black eyed peas and maybe another thing or two. All of your typical southern favorites!!! It was definitely a highlight of our trip that day! While in Gulf Shores we also visited a place that Callie could ride some rides and do bumper boats and stuff like that! She had a good time there too!

One other day we went to see the USS Alabama. Very neat place. I think it would probably be neater if it wasn't so hot....at 90% humidity...well....it doesn't take long to get swamp ass!!! And we all know that is not pleasant!

Callie was a fairly decent traveler...Thank God for that!!! Here's a few pictures...if you are my friend on facebook then you've probably already seen most of these! I'll include one that I didn't include on FB because Michael didn't have a shirt on and he would die if he knew I was showing off his farmer's tan...but it is just so so sweet!!!! I couldn't resist!!!

Back from vacation...

We are back physically but mentally is another story! I just now got caught up at work with emails and other crap. I will post tomorrow about the trip and upload some pics!!!

As of today I am back hardcore on WW!! I will do this again. I have to!

Talk to you tomorrow!