I AM SPARTICUS!!!

....or not!! These are the pumpkins I carved. I'll post Kevy's later. I took 2 pics. One all dark to get the cool effect. Then a 2nd one to show that it really is a carved pumpkin in my house! (for you non-believers!)


I told kevin this one was very romantic! he thought i was crazy! what do you think??




One of my fave people..(i love listening to him talk... he's hilarious!) ALICE COOPER




and for my carving pleasure..(couldn't stop) brendon picked the WOLF!

I made this one for my sister.. i couldn't get the picutre to come out clear, but it's still recognizable.. it was so cute! she's O.C.D. Tigger, so i surprised her with it!

Gee, thanx Carey!

Carey [miller-careyt-tops.blogspot.com] has tagged me... oh JOY! Seven random things about me.. I don't know seven things about myself... HAHA (wish me luck..)

1. I'm the baby of the family.. by a long shot! The next closest sibling is 12 yrs. older than me. And--I do mean baby literally... and I'm sure Kevin would agree.
2. As of this year... I'm a huge pumpkin-carving-fan! I've always done it, and even last year I put a little more effort into it. But, I'm almost obsessed this year..(I'll post pics) and I must say I'm pretty darn good.
3. I LOVE MY BED! Tired or not, daytime/nighttime-- every time I go on my bed.. I just sigh, and say how much I love it, & I really don't want to get off!! I even tell it to Kevin often..."ahhh, I love this bed"-and he just laughs.
4. [this is getting hard] I actually like the smell of coffee & cigarette smoke.. Smokes--to a certain extent..Maybe the brand or concentration of the smell.. not sure, but I do like it most of the time.. (i know... weird)
5. Kitchen gadgets are the best! I don't always cook, & I don't own really that many things, but I love chopping food (with good knives) big pots, pans, spatulas... the kitchen aisles are the best in walmart. I could stand there all day!
6. I hate the GHETTO that I live in. People just driving by freaks me out. I almost always wonder.{esp. if they look "odd"} if I'm gonna get shot! HAHA! Sounds funny but most of the time I'm uncomfortable!
7. And last but not least... let's see if this is a good one....hmmm I'm in love with my hair! I'm always playing with it or combing threw it, or smelling it (yikes). A friend of Kevins once asked me if I wanted to be alone with my hair. I always tell Kevin, my hair is soo soft. I take good care of it, and much pride & joy. But don't get me wrong, I have gone days without washing it, and wearing ponytails... but I often look in the mirror and play with my hair [esp. if I've taken the time to wash & style it].

Okay, well I don't have friends to tag, cz Carey & Dendi already are.. So ANISSA!!! you are my one and only... GOOD LUCK!

Ummm... WHAT?

Tonight Brendon is practicing his spelling words (we're going over the words) and I ask what word goes w/ the definition *being calm while waiting for something* and all this week he's given me the same answer--PATIENT. Which is technically right, but for homework it's PATIENCE. So I tell him, yeah but it's patience. Then I'm saying things like I'm being patient, or I have patience. Trying to make a point that they're used differently.. yadda yadda.
Then he says ---yeah, a patient is at the dr's office. yes, you're right. then he says yeah, those words are homonyms!! I'm all what? He says, they're homonyms. And so I ask him what the crap is a homonym???? And he gave a pretty close definition of what it was, that they sound the same & are spelled different or something. He was pretty close, and knew what it meant. So I asked him--where the crap did you learn the word homonym??? And my freakin' kid looked at me & did a finger pointing/twirl thing and said, SCHOOL.... DUHH!!!!

Kids are GREAT!

Yes, this is a picture of a shirtless Vin Diesel...(yummm) but I have a reason for posting it. Not sure if anyone has seen the movie The Pacifier, with him in it. Well, my kids have seen it a few hundred times, anyways, at the beginning of the movie (when he becomes the babysitter) one of the girls *Lu Lu* asks him why he has boobs?? and he says in his--not ammused--gruffy voice-- THEY'RE NOT BOOBS!! So later in the movie, he doesn't know that Lu Lu has "brownies" over for their troop meeting, and he comes downstairs w/ only his towel around his waist. Well, you then hear all the little girls giggle, and Lu Lu says, TOLD YOU HE HAD BOOBS!! Seriously funny. Well.. the other day Kevin had got out of the shower, and was showing me & the kids his chest flexing moves. You know, that guys do when they go up & down(again---hot!) and they thought it was cool of course. Yesterday, he got out of the shower & Kiersten came in & said Dad, wiggle your boobs!!! Yeah, I couldn't stop laughing...

I love her teeth!!!....

I just can't get over how much I love her big teeth. Every time she smiles I just laugh. I love the gap, and how noticeable her two front teeth are. My beautiful blue eyed girl....

Was this week for REAL??

What is this a picutre of... you might ask?


Although I don't have an OFFICIAL name.. it came from the refrigerator. The same day I posted my washer fiasco--the fridge was acting up. It's only 3 yrs.old and it's a nice Amana one. Well, the part we took to Sears would take 7-10 days to order and I'm like.. hello?? how do I live. So the guy told us to call the repair line, and have someone look at it. Yeah, they can't come til Monday!! My point --- you ask? SEE BELOW!!






I've been living out of an ice chest since then! When we got groceries, I had to make sure I bought frozen things (we have a huge freezer), and that's really hard for us, cz of the diet thing and needing certain foods. AAHHHHH LIFE!

SIGH....

(I'll make this a short story!!) So, I'm finally in the mood to bust out w/ some cleaning--and I start some laundry, picking up stuff here, looking at the sink going"where do i start??" and a weird thing happens..no the dishes didn't clean themselves... but a little water comes up the drain. i think.. hmmm, that's weird, our things don't do that. oh well...so i proceed to do more stuff, and i walk in the laundry room & the FLOOR'S ALL WET! yep, the washer backed up. so i'm grabbing towels, yadda yadda. so all my attention is focused on this--which is where this came in to play

1st point: i think i'm done w/ THAT jar of jelly!

2nd point: have i ever mentioned how much i truly love this child?

The Long Awaited.....

FAVORITE DEF LEPPARD PICTURES....ENJOY---THEY ARE YUMMY!!

My Kiersten Girl

Only Kiersten (my child) would do this....so the other night I was up with Raegan at like 2 in the morning. I could hear Kiersten sneezing- she did it like 4 or 5 times- and I had a feeling that she'd probably wake up after that. (If she stirs around too much during the night she comes in our room). So I head back to bed expecting her to come in. Well I think I hear something, so I look over shoulder (my room is lit by those blue night lite things) and I don't see anything. So I'm like, okay my imagination. I'm just now getting comfy, and I hear her sneeze again, but it's in my room this time. I turn over and there she is on the floor, IN FRONT OF THE NIGHT LITE. It almost freaks me out because she almost looks possessed. She's just staring at it. I whisper Kiersten.... she doesn't answer. And I'm thinking Oh My Gosh! what is wrong with her. She's just staring at the light. I whisper louder Kiersten- and this time she acknowledges me, but doesn't really do anything. I finally just start talking to her & ask her what she is doing!!! She FINALLY gets up & walks to the side of the bed and hands me her CAPRISUN & STRAW! This child of mine, at 2 in the morning, went to the kitchen & got a juice, and was using the night lite to see to put the straw in. I was so relieved to know that she wasn't hypnotized or something... she was just thirsty!