Just catchin' up

Praise the Lord! We are all well! And we have been having the fun. I haven't been doing my "Where's Mommy in the picture" blog entries, so here I am. This should count for two or three weeks worth. Please note, I am aware that I am holding the camera out in all of these pictures of me. That's because there is no one else to take the picture. I am also aware that I have no makeup on. I'm choosing to think that I have a little tan and that it works for me in the summer. It's either that or get up earlier than the kids and that just isn't happening right now. Matthew's class had a petting zoo last week. This was the day after he was so sick, and I just took him for 15 minutes to go to the petting zoo. They have it every year and he talks about it all year. I knew if he missed it, he'd be crushed. Disclaimer: the doctor said it was fine to go. Also, not sure why he looks a little cross-eyed in this picture? Please ignore as he is most definitely NOT cross eyed.

Clearly not sure about the goat.

Clearly sure about the bunny rabbit.

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Now here we go. I haven't blogged about this because I have to admit, it's a little strange admitting that I went to the Jonas Bros. concert and I'm not a 12 year old girl. Odd, I know. BUT--my dad has a good friend who works for them and he gave us seats by the stage. I'm talking BY THE STAGE. I could touch it. This also happened to be the day that I got sick, but I sucked it up and went anyway because I wanted to see the new stadium so bad and when do you ever get front row tickets to anything?

Here he (Joe??) is clearly singing right to me. Now, I know that the picture quality is bad, but I just had my little point/shoot, so what you see is what you get.

Just a cool experience being this close and hearing 100,000 screaming teenagers behind you.

I made Mike go. He was a good sport. He obviously just went to see the stadium. I tried to get him to buy a t-shirt. Ha!

Hollie got to go and bring her daughter, so that made it even more fun.

Back to reality! Here's a little pic of Molly and I. Again, no makeup, point/shoot, etc. You would think I didn't just spend a small load of money on all new camera equipment. That's right! You heard me! All new camera stuff! Super excited about that, but that's for another day!

So that's about it. I plan on trying out the new camera tomorrow. I think I'm going to try to take Matthew and Molly's 2year old/5 year old pictures, but don't have any m&ms to bribe them with. I'll let you know how it goes!

Matthew's 20 questions

I saw this on someone else's blog and thought it was cute, so I gave it a try with Matthew. Matthew's comments are first, followed by mine in ( ). I love this!

1. What is something mommy always says to you? Good throw, Matthew!

2. What makes mommy happy? Minding (He's right!)

3. What make mommy sad? Not minding (He's got it!)

4. How does your mommy make you laugh? By making funny jokes to me (We love to laugh!)

5. What was your mommy like as a child? Like a princess (I can hear my parents laughing now)

6. How old is your mommy? I think 45. Are you 45? (OK. Whatever. Last time he said 17)

7. How tall is your mommy? taller than me

8. What is her favorite thing to do? Take care of me and Molly and love us (Absolutely)

9. What does your mommy do when your not around? Make the house clean and suprise us (Does that mean it's a suprise if the house is clean???)

10. If your mommy becomes famous, what will it be for? Tricks that you can do and dancing. (I like to do magic tricks for Matthew--he thinks it's real!)

11. What is your mommy really good at? Dancing (Well . . . I have been watching a lot of Dancing with the Stars . . . apparently I'm getting really good with the new techniques!)

12. What is mommy not very good at? Juggling (Right on. It's a good think that Mike is good at it.)

13. What does your mommy do for her job? You take care of us (And I don't even get any money for it!!!!)

14. What is your mommy's favorite food? Salad (Hmmmm. I do like salad. But my favorite is Mexican or Italian.)

15. What makes you proud of mommy? Doing what I want you to do (I bet it does)

16. If your mommy was a cartoon character, who would she be? John McCain. (Sooo funny!!)

17. What do you and your mommy do together? Love each other (I love that boy)

18. How are you and your mommy the same? We dance the same (Wow--we must really be GOOD!)

19. How are you and mommy different? By being girl and boy. That's the opposite, right mama?

20. How do you know your mommy loves you? Because you love me with all your heart. (He definitely knows me. I do love him with all my heart.)

I love this!

Sept. 11, cont. (One more thing)

Forgot this VIT (Very Important Thing-one notch below a Terribly Important Thing--hee hee hee, get it?)--I joined Weight Watchers today! So Tuesdays will be my official "weigh day" and I'll keep you posted. I've been trying to do it on my own, with not much success--so here we go. I'm doing Points this week, but Andrea has me very intrigued regarding Core. So--wih some planning and proper grocery store buying, I may do core next week. I did get a yummy recipe this morning, at least I hope its yummy. I'm going to try it tonight and if it's good, I'll post it. : )