I heart facebook

Facebook is the shiznick.I'm finding peeps left and right......okay, my girlfriend is finding all of our old military wife friends from our first duty station and I'm piggy-backing. Cause I'm honest (and she'll kick my butt if I don't fess, hi honey....you rock! Go get that steak!) and all.Man I love catching up.........

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Proof of my Landscaping Addiction....

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Landscaping Junkie

I've gone off the deep end.That is really the only excuse I have. I told myself that my front landscaping needed just TWO more plants, red I think and it's done. Finally done.Then I went to the nursery on my lunch. And filled my car.Overheard on ride home, Princess talking to The Man on phone:"I'm sitting all crooked.....cause mom went on lunch to get dog food and TWO plants.....no....she got like 40........there's no room in here for us......."Little ratter-outters. They told on me.Tomorrow after work, I'm totally planti...

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Warnings on the Side...of the bottle

Since living GF is not always possible (damn contamination!) I sometimes find myself swollen and in serious pain from my stomach thing. So I have to crawl into the bathroom closet (or purse, which ever is closer) and dig out my tummy pills. Which are half pain pills, which make me looooooooooooooooopy.Normally they make me seriously sleepy, 98% assurance that I'll be asleep within 20 minutes of swallowing that little blue pill. Tonight, the pink elephants are dancing and they are so freaking loud. Rude bast*ards.Turns out you should not take on empty stomach. Says the little know it all sticker...

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Cooking GF...life lessons

Does this look gross? Cause my kids are tearing the kitchen up looking for more, too bad I ate the last piece hiding in the bathroom.Turns out that gluten-free bread sucks. Seriously sucks, unless you decorate it. I had the brilliant idea for a yummy treat (OKay found a good recipe online and figured I could use my GF bread to make it). So I whipped out the rosemary, garlic salt, cheese sticks and butter to slather up my GF bread and broil that baby up good.Now what to make to go with the bread,...

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Slow going, but going....

Our purty little house when we were considering purchasing it. Almost a year ago.... Man the work we've done on this place. Could somebody please tell me next time that a freshly built house is MORE work than a normal house. Please. So notice the landscaping, that is the topic of conversation today.So today the kids and I hit up the store for more soil and 2 more Steve's. (Funny story we spent some time chit chattting with the neighbor's while unloading them all, I'm referring to the shrubs as...

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Another Reason 2 Not "Heart" Utah

So it's April....spring is in the air and all that jazz...So what do you do when you open your door one day last week and you see snow. Alot of snow. If you're Princess, you sleep in. Late. If you're Duchess you dress in mis-matched clothes and forego brushing your teeth or hair and hit the couch with you DS. If you're Murphy, you sit by the door and hope/pray that someone till be stupid enough to let you out so you can roll in it till you're a puppy-sicle. If you're me, you go take pictures, then...

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Curb Appeal

So I did some time on the Homes & Gardens website, which is my crack lately. I just need my fix. And two points became obvious. 1. I live in a cookie cutter neighborhood. All the houses are 1 of 10 styles, they are all the in the same color family and since its a new neighborhood, there are no tree except the skinny little ones on the curbs that the city planted. Thus, my landscaping is the exact replica of all my neighbors, right down to the number of bushes and wood chips. 2. Colors: as I...

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Thinking inside the box...

The one thing that we women tend to suck at is compartmentalizing. This straight from my last psych class, but I can so dig that.We let all the edges of our lives overlap into one another.This tends to make us extremely good organizers, able to juggle the largest number of things at one time. We remember vaguely familiar things and are able to perform at the highest level while wearing all our many hats.Men tend to compartmentalize, again per my psych book. True again. They switch hats, pulling on one distinct hat while pushing the rest of the hats into a box, where they close the lid.I'm gonna...

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The Cure for A Rough Day

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End in Sight?

I'm worried that there is no end in sight......the sprinklers were done this weekend. Now it's muddy and sad looking but with sprinkler heads. Go Man Go. Poor guy was in town 48 hours but managed to work like a mule and get her done. Next visit, in two weeks when we build the deck. You know, where the orange lines are.....lolEaster rocked. What a great weekend. I must say that living in two different states sucks but it really makes you treausre that face to face time. Plus, you talk alot more.....really...

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Do You?

Do you ever get up, shower and then lay out clothes and breakfast then go to wake your children and find this? The little stinkers gravitate to my bed. With the dog. Leaving me no room. They can't help themselves. Thus its even harder to drag their happy little butts out of bed and get them productive. That's the goal around here, making them suckers productive citizens! The lump in the center is Murphy. Who likes to sprawl out in the middle, usually with his paws raised to the roof! No modesty...

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Before I Met The Internet....

Utah has frozen my ambitions. Seriously, I have never been an indoor person till we moved to this place. I see the proof when I dig through some old pics. I got involved, I did things, I went places, some where even places I couldn't take my kids......sigh.I refuse to think I've gotten old, or fat. So hence it must be Utah's fault. Damn weather. :)But it was this unexpected trip down memory lane that just had me in stitches earlier. How quickly time does fly..... In Texas I was a volunteer with...

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A Day With Us

Come spend your day with us! We started our day early as we had a morning time birthday party for a lovely little 2 year old. So instead of cleaning up our house, we merely stepped over laundry, ignored the clutter and dishes, kissed the dog and headed out.To find this: Truly nasty weather early this morning. But it's all melted by afternoon so yeah! Spring may truly be around the corner. Notice my budding tulips! Go go tulips go. My mum planted them hence their not dying from the black thumb disease...

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Hockey Babes...

Last night I took the girls to one of the final hockey games of the season. Princess and I are fans. Duchess likes to eat, so as long as the food keeps coming she is cool, otherwise she's ready to go. Hence the food. And don't be judging, I had little makeup on and my hair was a mess. Fact of life, it was Friday and I ain't looking to impress anyone, lol. However, I should have brought wipes to clean Duchess' face though, cause she was a MESS. Our Canadian hockey loving friends went too, they are...

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Waiting on Duchess....

Every morning there is something that threatens to throw us off schedule. And that just won't do. I have this horrible thing about being to work on time or early. Thank you Ms. Soliz, this job requirement has lasted 9 years!So each morning, I wake early and get myself ready about 20 minutes before the kids get up and then it's on.....This morning it was Duchess and Murphy. After breakfast she disappeared, and this is where I found her. Dragging Murphy out from under her bed, where she hids her Little...

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