short and sweet

so THIS is why i need girl's weekend now more than ever...

as i got ready this morning for a very special "aunt" of gerry's funeral, carter did this. i looked in the living room and he was sitting there, quiet and sweet, watching tv. so i decided it was safe to run the straightener through my hair quick... and 4.7 minutes later when i finished, this is what i found.

these were the toys in my tank... enough to fill the bathroom sink! and don't forget the 31 cents!

it is 6:30am yet???

girl's weekend in chicago!!!!!!!

so this picture is a bit deceiving... these are NOT the girls that i am going on girl's weekend with. these are 2 of my best girls, kelley and courtney. this was taken last weekend after courtney's wedding-shower-planning party. she is getting married in september (and i'm the fat girl in the wedding). i'm not sure exactly what is going on with my hair in this picture... but i did go back to blonde!
well, i am leaving thursday morning for girl's weekend in chicago and i can NOT wait!!! i will be back on sunday and will post whatever pictures i can... :)

MONSTER PRRRRRRRUCKS!

so i took the boys to the monster truck/dirt bike show on friday night. gerry was snowmobiling, and apparently i was going for the coolest mom ever award... i'm not going to lie, i had a pretty good time! i bought the "cheap" seats, and we ended up dead center in a box! my boys were so excited that they were actually speechless! who knew that was possible???

carter is yelling "CHEESE!" they were so cute... carter kept randomly yelling out " GO MONSTER PRRRUCKS!" and every once in a while he would bust out into an air guitar solo... clay and i laughed our butts off every time he did that!

clay's favorite... "the general lee"

they did a little kid quad race... clay could have crushed those kids! we need to get him started racing this summer- i can't believe i just said that i WANT to get him started racing!

we found alyssa (litta as carter calls her), my cousin, my babysitter, and my boys favorite girl on earth! she's so sweet and caring, and yet she rips on a dirt bike... if they were older, my boys would probably fight to marry her (if she wasn't a relative too of course).
"the prowler"
and when we finally left, my boys were completely broken... clay was folded in half snoring...

and chip passed out before we were even out of the parking ramp! it could be because he never napped all day... "no nappy! monster prucks!"

i'm a plumber now.

so here is a really long story short. i came home from work yesterday to a sink that was leaking water out of the cupboards. this is why... a plastic knife (circa 1990 i think) was stuck in the pipe.

this is the hole the knife left in my pipe. i forgot to mention that gerry was at a school union negotiations meeting and was completely unavailable. my dad was a maintenance man, i could figure this out, right? well, i made a phone call or two and got a little advice and decided that i was going to impress the hell out of gerry and fix this myself.

clay thought this whole thing was hysterical and kept taking my picture... for this one he told me "mom, look REALLY mad"...

look at me... all confident in my skills as a plumber. so i packed up the kids, and off to the hardware store we went. now, my BIG mistake happened at the hardware store... i listened to the older gentleman working there are bought the parts he told me to buy. i brought my rusted, busted pieces with me, and could tell from comparing them that i was not getting the right parts. i gave him the benefit of the doubt though... for all i knew he could be a plumber himself! well...

i had to cut the one pipe because it was far too long...
yeah, i had to cut it a few times... i finally got the right length, but as i thought in the store, he sold me the wrong parts. i will say, gerry was THOROUGHLY impressed (as was myself) at my attempt. after getting the correct part (which i'm pretty sure is the one that i had originally thought) gerry fixed it today and all is well.

now, the boys and i are off to the monster truck show tonight... the boys are so excited they can't even focus. i on the other hand... wish me luck!

i am NOT a copycat!

so my girl tina, over at polkadotbug, just posted an ADORABLE picture of her girls in the bathtub. it just so happens that i took a pic of my little hellians in the tub tonight! there is really no point to this post, other than i have a cute pic of the boys to share.

and then there is bean... when chris sent me this picture my immediate response was "who does she think she is? olivia newton john?" i LLOLed (Literally Laughed Out Loud- not to be confused with the incredibly overused LOL... i LLOL when i LITERALLY laughed out loud) when i got this picture...

:)

if you are easily offended... DO NOT READ THIS POST!

so there is a new requirement at my school where the teachers must have a "word wall" posted in their classrooms, showing current vocabulary. the social studies teacher that i work with is a man... and therefore has TERRIBLE handwriting, as well as a COMPLETE INABILITY to spell words correctly. so i did him the favor of writing his word wall on the side board in his room. his last period class took it upon themselves to "edit" the word wall as seen above.

RECONSTRUCTION- was kept the same (i don't think they could think of anything clever)
PARDON- became pucky (not sure what that is)
BLACK CODES- became black cooch (no explanation necessary)
IMPEACH- became sweet peach (again, no explanation necessary)
CARPETBAGGERS- became "T" baggers (this one almost made me pee my pants)
SCALAWAG- became swag (in front of swag it says booty got... booty got swag)
SHARECROPPING- became sharecrotching (my other favorite)
TENANT FARMING- became ant farming (not that funny)
INFRASTRUCTURE- another one they couldn't touch...
SOLID SOUTH- became dirty south

call me immature... this is STILL making me laugh...

please empty your bladder before watching this video

so lets face it, for those of you who know me... i'm not exactly an "athlete". i actually feel like i have to put the word in quotes because it is so amusing.

notice the form in this picture! i almost look like i know what i'm doing!

and then there is this video. need i say more?