click on either picture to get to flickr and my photostream for more easter egg-citement.




basically it's the kind of cute that borders on painful.

well, let's see...the days after christmas have passed in a thick pink sticky amoxocillin fog.

in case you don't know, that's the antibiotic they give kids for just about anything that ails em, in our case -ear infections and snotty noses galore. just as it seems they are all well, the snot begins to flow, then it simply moves along from child to child.




bubby boy has morphed into a chubby little caveman baby who has fifty million hands and does not like the word "no."




and the monkey girls turned 5!- click the picture above to get to flickr for more photos.

i am still working on my weight loss but i was sidetracked 2 weeks with sinus and respiratory infections so i am just finishing the antibiotics myself and about to get geared up again to lose the final 30 pounds to get to my goal of 100 lost. the closer i get to my goal the slower the weight is coming off though. i have been doing a low carb/low glycemic index diet i invented myself.

sorry so fast and boring- i still have to do everything here to get ready for the a.m.

xok8

ps refresh my memory on the whole google pagerank thing if you know about it. since i stopped blogging, my pagerank has actually gone up??? from 4 to 5. crazy.

so everybody, the reason i stopped with the blogging since like forever is that i decided to lose weight- 100 pounds to be exact.

since this involves exercising, and since i have three kids and since i work full time, i have had to re-prioritize things in mi vida loca. unfortunately, in the daily hierarchy of importance, this beautiful blog has gotten shoved violently to the lower portion of my mental list entitled things i think about doing and if i did them it would be nice but realistically aren't going to happen in the immediately foreseeable future, right above 'clean garage' and not too far from 'irrigate sinuses.'

as much as i love dumping my emotional garbage on this here precious piece of web real estate, i have had to let it go right this second. but i still love it and think of it often. and i think of all my beloved readers/ friends/ stalkers and wonder how they're doing and wonder if they wonder how i'm doing.

so far i have lost 60 pounds fyi and i will lose the rest by May. more details on why and how i did this forthcoming in the easily foreseeable future- maybe tomorrow or next week so come back soon, ok?


ps vote pro-life. and check this article out.

bub teaches his light up music toy a thing or two, then tries to eat it.

bub and santa


girls at the santa train- although they waited forever in the bitter cold, they refused to talk to santa.

that's over 500,000 AMERICAN babies that have been killed.
everyone can make a difference even if you're not old enough to vote! ask everyone to support pro-life candidates. see this link for more info and a printout.

http://www.nrlc.org/Election2008/allcandidatescomparison.pdf


this is an actual photo of surgery on a 21 week old baby still in it's mother. in virginia you can legally have an abortion up to 20 weeks.

think about that.

they call him bubba.


trav and his cousin griffin- 1 week difference in age!


da boys

Life goes by pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

...and the winner (finally) is

Lisa Marie Mary of The Hippie Spelunker!!!!

congratulations!

i feel bad- i wish everybody could win!

but i do have a whole new box of scrapbooking stuff to photograph and give away as soon as i get back into the blogging groove. so stay tuned!

lisa- email me your address and i will get your stuff in the mail sometime this year. just kidding- sometime this week.


i also hereby pledge to start back blogging on a regular basis. and commenting your blog. and stuff.

have a contest that gets everybody worked up then abandon the blog?!

well it's like this people. having 2 4-year olds and a newborn and a job and a husband and a house and laundry and having to get everything done and get everywhere on time and feed the people living here is kicking my butt. the first week of teaching is draining all my energy. i forgot how much juice it takes to keep the energy level up all day. the night before last all three kids were up at various times then as soon as i got to sleep BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! alarm clock.

on top of all that, last year we got a new textbook and i wrote lesson plans for every day of the year. then my computer died and they don't think they're going to be able to get the documents off of it. so do you know what that means? yep, re-write and re-plan everything. it's a major bummer and time consumer. hours and hours of work flushed down the potty.

so please help me! if you are reading this and you entered the contest, leave a comment and tell me how many entries you have based on the rules of the contest, and i will trust you. then i will go back and check the people who entered and did not comment here to add those up. unless you want to do that for me too. just kidding. no not really.

if someone has time on their hands and wants to do that i will give them a bunch of paper too and some cool stickers and embellishments for helping. just let me know!

ok my planning period is just about over and the troops will be attacking. adios!

this week has been totally whirlwind crrrrrrrazy with the girls back to school and me back to work. (i'm a spanish teacher.) unfortunately on the list of priorities blogging has to be pushed to the bottom when everything else is calling.

i got issued a new laptop at work- woo hoo!!! i get to keep it year round so it's kinda like, mine, but it's not mine.

this weekend and monday i will be working on the contest, then tuesday or wednesday i will be announcing the winner. maybe i'll get to do a couple of posts depending on which children are screaming when.

please don't abandon me- i promise i'll be back ASAP!!!

xok8

sorry to leave you guys hanging for so long. i'm posting real quick from my parents' house while the girls are in the bathtub-
first week back at work
girls back at school
work laptop not working- waiting on repair
very little time to fit everything in but tomorrow afternoon hopefully a real post!

xok8