Duchess' First Ski Lesson... Intro to Snow

So since Princess has been snowboarding (thank you middle school, you rock for hooking me up!), we've spent some time at the mountain. It rubbed off. Duchess decided that she wanted to try. That is all I've heard for a week straight, so I called up and used the school discount to get her a lesson. :) Except we get there, and she gets butterflies.  So we pep talk....... And I remind her that she's wanted to do this, and that we'd be close by. And that she could always puke afterwards!...

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Celebrating the Big 1-3

Since Princess turned 13 on Christmas Day, we postponed her bday party by a month. This past weekend, in celebration of the big 1-3, we took some girls snowboarding/skiing and then had a sleepover. I'm exhausted. But she's happy. So since they all had lessons through the school and since we are very close to a local resort, the kids get cheap rentals and cheap lift tickets. Sweet deal if you ask me! So here they go, my teen in the white. The whole independent thing cracks me up, but she...

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celebrating my man

okay so the man comes home tomorrow. his birthday was last Sunday and he was on the road so we're celebrating this weekend. It just hit me, I've spent 16 birthdays with him. HOLY CRAP. I actually have a picture of his 19th birthday where I'm sitting next to him opening his gifts. We were babies, so young. We'd been dating a couple of months. He had been really sick and looked rough, poor guy. So the question is now, what do you do for someone you've spent 16 birthdays with? I gotta think of something good cause my guy is 35 this year and it's just too good to pass up, you know...

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To Be Me

So I'm working on homework, international marketing... blah. And watching is snow/rain. And watching Four Brothers. I swear my alter ego is from the ghetto cause I just love these damn movies. The soundtrack alone is ipod repeat wort...

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Glutten for Punishment

Pray for me. Seriously, I need your prayers. This weekend I'm having Prin's 13th birthday party. I'm taking a gaggle of 12/13 year olds snowboarding and then back here for a sleep over. There is apparently no end to the amount of abuse I'm willing to submit myself to. I can already imagine the sheer noise level gauging at the giggly and excited voices calling my house to RSVP. Somebody spell me, please................. please! Oh wait, ;) I have this all set up on the same night that Dave is coming home. Guess I'll have some help afterall. Yes, I'm evil but misery loves compa...

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I'm Bored, nothing good will come of this

So I'm bored. Cause I was a good girl and did all my homework ahead of time. So now I'm here chilling, with a clean kitchen, watching Die Hard movies and I"m bored out of my head. Hmmm, what to do?  So I'll update you, we've had a little snow. Murphy just loves snow. He likes to stick his entire head in a snowdrift so he comes back to the door looking like this....... then about forty times a day I get to towel him off while cursing at him in French. (my new thing, don't feel so guilty...

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I Heart Action

Romcoms bore me; it can take hours to watch one movie due to all the up and down, errands, snacks, laundry and etc I manage to include in my time. However, I adore sports movies. Hoosiers? Damn fine show! Football movies like Invinsible or Rudy? OMGawd, need the tissues. Miracle or any other ice hockey movie? Yum. Boxing? OMGAWD hello! I even love baseball movies. Anything but basketball, I just can't get into bb. I think I'm missing a girl gene somewhere. That said, I have found that I love reading stories centered abour ice hockey or boxing. So since I was sad, moody and couldn't sleep...

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Awkward... oh my hell

So I work out usually in shorts, cause I like having free movement of my legs and frankly tights are too tight. So I've been hunting for ole school legwarmers to wear when I run. Finally found some on a craft site everyone raves about (yeah no free pimping for them b*tches now), see above. Ole School right? Yeah, warm and blah colors. Handmade too. So I bought them and this morning I got an email from them stating that my "order from Stippers-R-Us has shipped".... OH MY HELL I can't wait to...

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This is What Bored Me Looks Like

Thanks to my littlest helper who likes to take a million pictures with my phone and then "effect" them therefore eating up all my memory. I really gotta start painting aga...

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Pedis, snow and more

Name that foot.... Yesterday was spent getting Pedis, shopping for snowboarding clothes in the crap weather and just having girl time. What a great day....

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Do My Eyes Deceive Me?

Because I do have some breeding, I'm not going to post the evidence (ala picture) however I have exciting news. Thanks to my new workout plan......... HOLY SHITE: I have a waist. Stop rolling your eyes. I've NEVER had a waist. EVER. Seriously, I'm like potato shaped for 34 years however when changing tonight, I saw something strange in my mirror. An indention around my middle, one that looked suspiciously like a waist. So I got closer. And then took a picture to send to my girl so she could weigh in on the verdict. Yep, it's a waist. And while I am trying to be too class-y and not post it...

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Internal Monolouge 7,342

I think we are all aware of my notorious internal monolouge and soundtrack tendencies. Yep, I'm a freak. But an okay with herself freak so bite me. As if I don't have a million songs, stories, daydreams and pervy comments running through my head at any given time.... I just got my greedy little hands on Nickleback's latest song. Hello luver........ I heart Nickleback. So since I've not been sleeping all that way (snort), I've started jotting down ideas and random snippets of crap that run through my head......... I have enough materials for 47 books. FUN! Seriously though, my goal is to find...

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Tactical Planning Plan A

So due to the concussion (I think) my insomnia is pretty darn bad. So at 2am this morning while I was reading and chilling by the fire, I heard a noise. Outside on the deck. So I did what I normally do, grab my 9mm, check the safety and chamber then grab the flashlight. (Normally this is totals Dave's job but he b traveling) I realized quickly that even if I live here forever (doubtful, very doubtful) I'd never buy this house. I love it, it's spacious and gorgeous however it's a tactical nightmare. Too many windows and I hate the floorplan. Doing a sweep through the house is a stressful thing....

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Restrictions SUCK

I am not a good patient. Seriously, I can whine, b*tch, gripe and make a saint completely contemplate strangling me in my sleep when I'm hurt or injured. I'm such a stellar person ;) but for the next two weeks I'm on restrictions cause the doc says I scrambled my brains. Nice. Even though I passed all the nuro testings and everything perfect (yo I'm intelligent didn't ya know?) I can't see straight and with my glasses on, I manage to for short periods keep 20/20. So I'm on emergency only driving. Which means I'm stuck in the house. Huh, I never leave the house anyway. So why in the world is that...

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Concussion

I fought the jeep cargo door and the jeep cargo door won. Doc made it official. Dayu...

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I'm A Perv

Yeah so I'm turning 35 this year. For just a second can I ask you something? HOW THE F*CK DID THAT HAPPEN? Okay I feel better. Cause I don't feel almost 35. I'm thinking I look almost 35 but if you agree with me, I'll spit in your oatmeal so shut it. Anyway, so I'm bored and can't sleep. All due to a pesky little accident this morning: me, taking trash down the road to our dumpster (cause I live in the freaking BOONIES), jeep rear cargo door slamming down and busting open my head, so I slept pretty much all day to rid myself of the headache. It's better but dang how long will that crap last.........

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H4G Body Inventory

FML.... second day of my new workout. One that Dave and I crafted together cause I hate public gyms, wedgies that have to be picked out in public and any type of machine that requires sitting on. So thanks to the home gym we've built up, I'm making my new years resolution... so far. (let's not count our chickens before they hatch luvers) Except, as I type this I hurt...... in so many place. My neck is sore - probably from looking at the ceiling to concentrate on keeping accurate count thus eliminating the need to start over from 1. Also praying that God will keep me from dropping a dumbell...

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A Cross, A Fire, A Gun and A Glass of Wine

So what do ya do when your man is traveling... and you hear noises at night and can't sleep? Well you blog of course. With a big ass glass of strawberry wine (cause I'm class-y yo). Now logically I know it's the deer moving through the yard since it's a full-ish moon, but the paranoia sets in and well, frankly I can't sleep anyway. So here I sit. In my log cabin with a ginormous cross hanging off the front (keeps those pesky missionaries away), four flood lights (boonies yo) and my handgun. Now to be safety conscious I'm not gonna give you the number of guns in this house but please be assured...

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Moody

adele set fire to the rain mp3 downl...

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Family Smamily Time

Well we are enjoying ourselves and our family time! This week was quite the activity as Dave drug us out of the house for activities. He's currently away on business so we got our fun in while we could!   We bowled. Left handed so Duch wasn't left out. I rock left handed bowling dudes! Me and Prin in our cheesy we havne't washed our hair in days look.  Murphy napping in the midst of what could be the largest pile of doggie toys in the state of Idaho.  Duch watching LSU...

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Is That An Echo?

So up here in the boonies I sit, waiting for the massive amounts of snowfall that has yet to hit us. It's suppose to be here any week, except it changes weekly, lol. We'll see. I'm sure I'll be snowed in shortly so there you go. But while I'm busy working with my kids, cooking meals, doing laundry, napping with the dog and starting my business. I'm staying busy. And I'm so thankful for my friends. M and Case you guys rock. You keep me on the chain, you answer my emails and text me to come out of my shell. When you move away you really truly can become isolated very quickly. I"m trying very hard...

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Friday night in the boonies

What we do on Friday nights .......

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Throw a Prayer Our Way

Just when you think you're on the path you'll stay on, the Lord smiles and says "yo, watch this though! I gots something for you..." and so there is some uncertainity in front of us. But it's not a bad uncertainity, it's just a curveball. One we didn't see coming. So while we are awaiting news and details, throw a prayer our way. We aren't asking for a certain outcome, just that our walk on faith will lead us exactly where the Lord wants us. Cause when the Lord makes the way, it is smoother than a knife through hot butter baby. So yeah for all my loud trashy mouth (and thoughts), I walk...

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Ding Dings and Beavers, Lord Help Me

So this has been quite the enlightened weekend up in this mug. Besides being sick as crap, I also had my hands full with everyone home for the holidays. I do so love this family bonding time. (Not to mention, the extra dishes, laundry, and shortage of hot water ;).... So we managed to put together the combo table which includes a pool side, an air hockey side, a ping pong side and the other side, who the hell knows. I can't figure it out. So we've had quite the ping pong tourney going on here. It's like that scene from Forrest Gump, except much less coordinated and patriotic. I can't tell...

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Ringing the New Year!

Sicker than a dog! Jesuit, it's nasty up in this booger. My tummy is revolting, dang meds and Dave has the sinus crud he's sharing, so it's just a nasty ordeal all the way around. But Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace, Love, and A...

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