I love that Tyler is very pleased with choking me. I wouldn't blame him sometimes:)

And just for good measure, another one of the little guy.

I wish...

...I had something marvelous to blog about. I feel like typing, I really love to do it. Just when I really want to I never have anything to blog about. Hmm. I'm thinking. Still thinking. Nope, nothin'.

Ten minutes later...

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. We all know those are a couple of my favorite things. Except I hate the rain and would enjoy plucking the whiskers off the kittens. Just kidding, I only hate full grown cats who scowl and plan my demise. Anyway, I guess those things aren't my favorite even though Julie Andrews thinks so.

Ok, so my favorite things. I say a lot of things are my favorite. Of course my husband and my kids are my favorite people, and I love Diet Coke, Milky Way bars, riding bikes, camping and being lazy. But I really, truly love musicals. In fact, I love bursting out into song very much. I love to sing loud. Sometimes I sound good, sometimes I just sound plain ridiculous. I've dreamed of being a singer, a silly thing really. It will never come true and even if it did I would never sell out to what the world would want me to be anyway. So I'll stick to Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Barbara Streisand duets. If you've never heard me and my sister or Hillary bust out our duets in the car then you are truly missing out. There's nothing louder, more ear piercing than three ladies trying to live up to the legends themselves. We, sadly, fall very, very short. But it doesn't matter. It's wonderful, magnificent. To sum it up, I love music and I wouldn't mind if my world suddenly turned into a world of spontaneous musical numbers.

So when the dog bites and the bee stings, shoot the dog and stab yourself with an epi pen. Then make up a musical number about it and dance the night away. Or take a nap. Or go to jail for shooting a dog.

Ten On Tuesday....Late

1. Since I don't have a gym or diet buddy, myfitnesspal.com has been a lifesaver for me. Sometimes Tyler helps me stay on track but he mostly lures me away with his peanut butter m&m's, ha. I track what I eat and all my excersize online and it seems to be working for me.

2. We watched Julie and Julia last night. I'm glad I saw it but I didn't love it. Julia Child's voice is very annoying!

3. Our office is looking for a robot who will cater to my every want and need someone to assist me during tax season. It would be Monday through Friday, 10-4 (hours may increase as the deadline approaches) during March and April. The pay is $11 per hour since it's a temp job. If any of you know of someone reliable, flexible and interested in short term work please let me know. Krista, I know you have a lot of college friends so let me know if you hear of someone!

4. I love that I practically just posted an ad on my blog. What is this, Craigslist?

5. We carved pumpkins this weekend. The kids helped clean off the seeds to bake them. Cole still hates touching the pulp which is totally hilarious to watch! Tyler made chipotle flavored seeds and garlic ones. They were fantastic!

6. Cole and Kayley switched beds. Cole's on the top now and he's loving it! I feel like he's so much bigger now. I'm pretty sure we've reached the point of no return on having more kids. I'm choosing to be content though. Starting over would be such a huge deal for us now that Cole is almost five. Three months until Kayley is 7 (eek!) and Cole is 5!

7. I'm so happy that the Stachurski's will be in California so soon! I'm probably the most excited about being around when the baby is born!

8. Two months until Christmas!!

9. Kayley wants to be an astronaut and Cole wants to be Batman for haloween. I'm still not a lover of the day but will always be a lover of the candy.

10. I'm glad we got Kayley's inhaler because she woke up sick and wheezy this morning. Remember when Kayley was a baby and we called her wheezer?

Photobooth

Steve posted a bunch of photobooth pictures on Facebook yesterday. I couldn't find any of the the ones of just Tyler and I but I did find one of us with Krista and some random little guy. He was a cute kid!

I'm feeling weird today. Perhaps it's the starvation mode I have entered because of my extreme calorie reduction. Or maybe it's because I've been grinding my teeth so much my teeth are being pushed up into my brain. Or maybe it's because I'm allergic to the adhesive on band aids and I'm all red and itchy around my stitches. Or maybe it's because work has been so slow that I want to pull my hair out. Or maybe it's because there is nothing grammatically correct about beginning a sentence with or.

Whatever. It doesn't matter. Right, Kim?

So I've been dreaming and here it is:

Krista, Kim, Hillary, Joanna, Lindsay and I all end up on a cul de sac somewhere up North. We all love Jesus and go to church. We watch each others kids (or my kids can watch theirs, ha), play bunco on Friday nights (poker when we're feeling wild) and take pictures of us taking shots with sippy cups sitting next to us on the table. Our husbands can go on camping trips, talk about brewing their own beer and go hunting and fishing with our boys. We have pot luck night every Tuesday and we force the men to watch Glee with us. When it snows we help shovel each others' driveway and when it's scorching we can all jump in my pool and sip margaritas and have lemonade for the kids. We all go to the same gym and are all our goal weight no matter what junk food we consume. There's a house on the beach in California where us girls go a few times a year to get away. We reflect on our teenage years: youth camps, toilet papering houses, eating at Snapper Jacks, watching kids at church, consuming McD's ice cream, working but not paying any rent, leg ballet, getting way to consumed with boys and buying and wearing clothing and accessories that were very ugly.

Hey, a girl can dream, right? I'm not complaining about my life, I love it. I just wish someday, somehow my friends could be less than a plane ride away. You know how sometimes people end up not staying in touch with friends as time goes on? I just don't see that happening with us. In fact, as time goes on, I seem to like them even more. So here's a tear for you guys tonight. Now I'm sucking it up and going to bed.

Happy Girl

Kayley called me right after school yesterday and told me that she and five other kids from first grade (including Brianna) were picked for the craziest hair style! They got to go up on stage and said their name and who did their hair! Of course, Kayley was the only one who said her dad did her hair!

Ten On Tuesday

1. Wow, Tuesday comes so quickly.

2. We had a garage sale last weekend and made a good chunk of change. It took people a while to start coming (it was really misty in the early morning) but around 9 things started picking up. I've never done so little work and made so much money at one of our sales before.

3. Driving to port hueneme to do a huge shopping trip is totally worth it. The prices are low, plus I can still use coupons.

4. It's red ribbon week at school. As Kayley describes it, "it's where we learn to not to drugs or sonething." Today is crazy hair day because you would be crazy in the head to do drugs. I wish I could take the credit for this hair style but I have to give it all to Tyler.

5. I miss being at home with my kids.

6. 26 days until the ball! Here's a sneak peek of the dress:

I know it looks brown in the picture but it's black. It hugs my curves at the top and then flares out past the hips. Mermaid is the style I think.

7. Krista and I saw The Social Network on Saturday. It was ok, I suppose. I just don't really love the guy who created Facebook. Of course, who knows if his character was even portrayed truthfully.

8. It's a drink hot chocolate and snuggle up on the couch kind of day. I had hot chocolate but it's hard to snuggle up in my swivel chair:)

9. When I went to my Grandpa's house last week I saw a picture of Grandma Eve up on the wall and it made my heart ache. I miss her.

10. I don't know why ten is so hard for me!