Free Range Family

I'm not feeling that hot this morning. I was up all night last night with a gruesome stomach ache. :\ It finally went away at like seven, you know, an hour before I had to wake up. Blah. At least today I only have one art class and work only from 3 to 8 in daycare. I might be sleeping the rest of the time... Ha! I wish! Here's Meet Me on Monday! What is your favorite food? Probably spaghetti. Ooooh I love me some spaghetti! Any pasta really, but there's something about how easy it is to make (SUPER EASY) versus how delicious it is (SUPER DELICIOUS) that makes me just want to eat it all the time. Yum! Too bad Lon feels the EXACT opposite way about spaghetti. So we eat it like... once a month. Boo! What color scheme is your bedroom? We do not have a color scheme. Lon is an eccentric inventor and I'm a hippie (duh lol) so we don't believe in conforming to a specific color scheme for just about any room. In our bedroom alone, we have my purple tapestry, bl...

First I want to say have a wonderful trip to Java @Never Growing Old, who hosts this blog hop! I hope you have a great time in Mexico!! :D I also wanted to wish Miss Sophie a happy first birthday today!! :D Saturday was her birthday party, but today she is officially one! I will have to get Alan to stop calling her "Baby Sophie" now (he's been calling her that since she was born lol)! Happy first birthday beautiful girl! We love you so much! Today will be a good day. I have one of my Kindergarten art classes this morning and then I work in Child Watch from 3 to 8. If the weather stays nice (it looks like it could rain) then we will be playing outside again all day! Yes!! :D I love these summer days! Here's Meet Me on Monday!! What feature of the opposite sex do you notice first? Their eyes or their smile. For Lon, it was actually his hair lol, but that was only because he was wearing sunglasses and he had GORGEOUS blonde locks back then. *Swoons* Ooooooh...

I hope everyone has a great day today! I have one of my Kindergarten art classes this morning and then I work at the daycare from 3 to 8 tonight. Nothing too exciting, but its a nice day out again so hopefully we can go outside in our free time! For now, here's Meet me on Monday!! What is your favorite yogurt flavor?  Like regular yogurt or frozen yogurt? Cos both of them are pretty plain lol. :) For regular yogurt, I like just about any yogurt with fruit chunks in it, but strawberry yogurt is my favorite. I'm not really into the whole flavoured yogurt thing, I like my yogurt vanilla with fruit chunks in it lol. Via For frozen yogurt, I like chocolate frozen yogurt. I know lol, pretty lame!! Via Ankle or knee socks? and on the same theme, white socks or coloured?? No socks if I can! I prefer to be barefoot all the time! But if I have to wear socks, its whatever I can find to wear lol. I'll wear long and ankle socks, but only knee socks if I ...

Happy Monday everyone! As of today, it has been a year since I stopped nursing Alan. Unfortunately, someone has forgotten to inform my body and wardrobe of this, as I still seem to wear nursing bras! :D Lol one of these days I'll be able to throw them out, but right now I would have almost no bras. So they will have to work for the time being. I started my Summer Art Classes today with my first Kindergarten class at 10. I had two sisters and a little boy in the class, and boy were they a talkative bunch! :) We were only able to get through two projects lol, The Summer Self Portrait and The Graphic Design Summer Project. But both turned out great! All the kids did so well! I was one proud teacher. Please enjoy today's Meet me on Monday! Its short, but sweet today. :) What is was the last piece of candy that you ate? A Green Apple Jolly Rancher that Korbin (Alan's BFF) didn't want to eat at daycare. Don't worry, he hadn't opened it lol!  Do you "r...

Yesterday was a great day for us. We spent the day hanging out together as a family and then went over to my parent's house for dinner. We decided to not go anywhere in the car yesterday, so we walked to and from Grandma's house. For dinner there, we had fajitas. Yum! They were so good and even Alan ate some! :) Good day altogether. This week I work my usual 40 hours and then Saturday is a childhood friend's baby shower and Sunday is Kari's graduation party. I'm not too excited for the work week, but can't wait for the weekend lol! After co-sleeping with us last night (which resulted in me getting zero sleep), this morning Alan woke up the earliest he has ever woken up: at 6:30 AM! But today is payday for me, which means its really everyone else's payday and not mine lol because all of my money is already being sent off. Blah gotta love adult hood. :P For now though, here's Meet Me on Monday!! What is your favorite bagel flavor? Lol we had bag...

Happy Monday! Today we are planning on getting some more wedding gifts put away, continuing with Alan's potty training, and then I work from 3 to 8. Not too exciting of a day lol. :) But for now, enjoy Meet Me on Monday! Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Definitely smooth peanut butter. Crunchy peanut butter grosses me out for some odd reason. I like peanuts, just not in my peanut butter lol. Weird huh? :) What is your favorite color Rose? I'm traditional when it comes to my roses. My favorite color of rose is red. And do I love red roses! :) They are one of my favorite flowers, right up there with sunflowers and calla lilies. I even had red rose petals in my wedding. :) Love this photo, look how my photographer Jeff Bryson caught the petals falling! Do you remove your shoes when you walk into your home? Yes we do. My husband and I are very clean people and we prefer to keep the outdoors, well outdoors lol. We vacuum all the time to keep the floors clean for A...

Happy Monday! And what a happy Monday it is, after last night's presidential address! :) Via I actually did not watch Obama's address last night, it was dinnertime and we have a strict no tv rule during Family Sunday dinners. But Osama Bin-Laden is dead! Now I'm not one to normally celebrate a living creature's death (I have been known to cry over road kill lol) but this man has been involved in terrorism for too long. He has caused too much death and destruction in this world, so his death is a very celebratory thing for some people. We are not celebrating it like most, per say, but we are very happy. :) Thanks to the military and all those fighting for good. Patriotism and our military is very important to my family. We have three uncles in the military (Uncle Cameron, Tyler and Aaron) and Uncle Cameron has even been on active duty in Iraq. We are very blessed to have all of our brothers safe today here, but not so many families are that lucky. Please rememb...

My poor son is super sick. :( He's gone from bad to worse over the weekend. I'm starting to think that the diarrhea isn't from teething molars, as it usually is, and that its another symptom to whatever he has. His doctor appointment is at 11, I'll keep everyone updated. I just hope its not something contagious, or I will have to get the night off of work. I'll also be sure to post his weight and height. But for now, here's Meet Me on Monday!! Caesar Salad or Garden Salad? Totally gonna say Garden Salad because Caesar Dressing just grosses me out. I can't do Caesar Salads, I haven't been able to since I was pregnant with Alan. There's no going wrong with a Garden Salad, I love just about all vegetables. Throw the whole garden on my salads lol, just no bugs and dirt please. :) Will you be watching the Royal Wedding on April 29th? ???? Clearly I won't because I have no clue what royal wedding... Oh wait, is one of Princess Di's kids...

Good morning everyone! Today looks like it will be another beautiful spring day! :) Alan and I are watching Seasame Street and Alan's coloring Lon a picture of Elmo and his daddy. So I'm gonna go ahead and start my Monday blog hops. :) Here's Meet me on Monday!! Who would be your dream celebrity date? My husband thinks this is so weird because this man is so old (well older than us lol) and so not often seen as "hot" lol, but my dream celebrity date would definitely be Jim Carrey. Ooooh he's so attractive and so funny, I've been crushing on him since Bruce Almighty. <3 Now I know he's dating Jenny McCarthy, but I like her and I love them together, they're so adorable and perfect for each other. But a girl can still dream right? Lol love him in this pic, I love him with his long hair!! (This photo thanks to http://www.meltedreelonline.com) Do you have any food restrictions? I do not but my poor sister does. She has gone most of he...

If you had to eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Hmmmm, this is a hard one. I don't really have like "favorite foods" persay, but I guess if I had to pick one food I'd choose.... pizza lol. (This photo thanks to http://www.junkfoods.net) Lol, does that count? Cos let me explain my theory- My husband and I have both worked at pizza places for 5+ years, so we have gotten very used to living off of only pizza. I worked at Chuck E Cheese for five years, and Lon still works at the Village Inn and has for eight years now. And, my next arguement about pizza is the ingredients- if you get the proper ingredents, like a combo, there's a good variety of food on there aka something you could actually live off of. :) Now I am in no way saying people should live off of pizza lol, but if your situation is right (like ours is) then go for it lol! :P Do you write your blog posts in advance or the day you post them? It depends. If its a norm...

Hope everyone has a good Monday today! Today will not be busy for me, but this week I've got quite a lot of things to do. I work all week, have some last minute wedding planning to do with my maid of honor, I have to remember to sign Alan up for April art classes, we're going to try underwear on Alan, and I have a baby shower to go to on Saturday. Hopefully Saturday comes fast! :) And now, for my first Monday blog hop- Meet Me on Monday!! Crunchy or soft tacos? It depends really. I mostly will go for crunchy tacos, but every once and a while I will go for a soft shell taco. I also tend to like chicken tacos in soft shells and beef in crunchy shells, but when it comes down to it I'm not really that picky. Food is food lol. :) Do you scrapbook? I do, when I have the time lol. Which I haven't lately, at all! :P But I started getting really into scrapbooking when Alan was a baby. He has a really detailed baby book that I scrapbooked for him. I've been trying ...

Because I've got another blog hop that I just got invited to! Whoo I'm so popular... Just kidding, pahahahahahaha! :D Okay so tonight after I got off of work and had put Alan to bed, I decided to watch The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasuss on Starz because their wasn't much else on tv. And frankly, I really wanted to know what the eff was going on with this movie lol, because I had seen the previews and had been intrigued not only by the fact that it was an unreleased Heath Ledger movie, but by the sheer oddness of the commercial. And let me tell you, having just had finished it, I still have absolutely NO IDEA what happened lol. WTH???? :) I mean, I paid attention and got the idea of the Imaginarium and the Devil's contract and all that good stuff, but I still am super confused as to what really happened, when it was actually Heath Ledger and not Colin Ferrel or maybe even Johnny Depp? So confused!!! Anyone else feel this way after watching this movie? I really need so...