Our First Anniversary

One year ago today this was us...

It hasn't been the easiest of years, but I wouldn't have wanted to go through it with anyone but you.  Thank you for all that you do as a husband, a partner, a friend, and a father.

Hoping we have many, many more years of dancing together.

I love you SO much!

My week in Wyoming

I NEVER pictured myself going to Wyoming (of course I thought the same thing about Nebraska and Iowa and look at me now).  Not that it's a bad place (in fact it's beautiful!), I just never really saw myself going there for anything.  In late June we found out that we won a project for the National Guard.  I and a co-worker were going to plan a training conference for them in Laramie, WY.  It was a scramble for 6 weeks.  We had almost no time to get it all planned and do everything else we needed to.  Remember my post about a bad review?  That was for this project.  Somehow she and I pulled it all off and on the 15th we headed for Laramie to pull off the conference.  What a week.  I worked almost 90 HOURS!!! It was a LOT of work, but we had a lot of fun too.

First Day of School 2010

Jr.Ms.S - 5th grade, LMS - 2nd grade

They're so big!!

I mentioned before I had to go to WY for the week.  I left Mr. S a long list of chores the kids needed to do during the week and all of their activities.  I even explicity wrote down that he MUST take at least one picture on the first day of school.  Of course he didn't and couldn't possibly understand why I NEEDED it.  Grr..He made it up though and sent me this at the end of the day.

Big Birthday Weekend

The weekend of the 14th was a big weekend for us, both Mr. S and the Twin Snowflakes celebrate their birthdays that day, so we (I) had a lot to get ready for.
Friday evening while Mr. S was at football practice with Jr.Mr.S, TS2 and I did a WHOLE LOT of cooking!  In addition to party cooking, I also made the twins their b-day dinner so Mr. S could chose what he wanted on their actual birthday this year (TS2 chose last year).  Since TS1 LOVES shrimp pasta - that's what I made for them and even though I made up my own recipe (I forgot all of the ingredients for the recipe I have), it went over REALLY well (almost better than the real recipe).

Happy Bithday Twin Snowflakes!

Happy birthday you two silly little guys!  SEVEN!!  What a big year for you two!

(Yes - I thought we had candles so I didn't pick any up - my bad - we made up a pretend 7)

You two have grown SO much since I met you.  This year you're in 1st grade and you're turning into big boys now.  I can't believe it.

Happy Birthday Mr. S!

Happy Birthday to my honey!

Happy Birthday to the best man in my life.  You're loving, hard working, caring, and the most wonderful father ever.  Here's to so many more great years!

Bad, Bad Blogger...

 

So I had every intention to write my honey's and stepson's b-day blog on their b-day.  However I cooked, and cooked, and cooked for their party/b-day dinner and ran out of blogging time - I even have a blister to prove the hard work :(

I mean to make it up the next day, and then the next and the next while I was on my work trip to Wyoming.  As boring as WY is (sorry, but it was most of the time) I still didn't find the time to make up the b-day post and talk about my trip, or the first day of school or anything.

My plan was to blog about everything in addition to JrMrS's first f-ball game this weekend, but after working almost 90 HOURS last week, I decided to completely veg this weekend - I'm such a slacker. 

So please bear with me, I WILL catch up this week - It's just going to be in one HUGE chunk - sorry.

So if there was a Bad Blogger award going around - it'd be awarded to me.

Stay tuned....

Fill in the Blank Friday

In honor of birthdays (I'll have a double/triple b-day post tomorrow), here's some fill in the blanks for birthdays...

1. Birthdays are: I'm not a fan - I don't like the attention that I'm getting older.  If we're celebrating anyone else's, then no problem - I'll go ALL out.

2. My favorite birthday memory was I'm not really sure - like I said - I try to block them out...

3. A birthday tradition I (or my family) has is my mom used to make strawberry shortcake only on my birthday every year - it seemed to be right when strawberries came out and she was craving them (she didn't make them because they were my favorite cake - it was all about her)  :)

4. If I had to choose one birthday meal to eat for the rest of my birthdays hence forward, I would choose: can I order anything from Bonefish - that would probably be my favorite place for a b-day and they YUMMY food.

5. My birthday is on March 8th.

6. If I could take a birthday trip I would go to I don't know - that's REALLY hard - Mexico, Hawaii...just anywhere fun!

7. The best gift I've ever received for my birthday was two things stand out the most in my mind.  The first was my kitty I got when I was ten - my dad HATED cats, but he loved me enough to pick me out a great one.  The other would have to be the time Mr.S bought me blue tulips, but they weren't.   He'd been SO inistant that I HAD TO have blue tulips - silly HyVee PAINTED purple ones blue!

How would you fill in the blanks?

Best Sight in the world

A couple of weeks ago I showed you the saddest sight in the world - this is the BEST sight in the world...

They're back home!!

I've gotten the most/best-est hugs ever today. SO worth the 2 weeks apart!!

Have you ever gone kid-less?

Snapshot

It's been a slow couple of weeks for the Snowflakes - at least in our definition of slow.  The hardest thing for me has been the lack of kids around the house.  The girls left on Thursday and yes we had the boys, but it's still not the same.  On top of that, work has been INSANE!!!
A week ago Friday, Mr. S's mom informed us that her father passed away - almost three weeks to the day after her mom. We took her to dinner that night - I feel so bad because I don't think it's sunk in yet - she's been so busy between her parents and now it's all over.  I just don't know what I would do without mine even though we are separated by so many miles!
Monday was the begining of football season - Jr.Mr.S is having fun working out with his new team - too bad it's SO hot. 
Wednesday I got stuck working super late at the restuarant and then Thursday my boss there asked if I could come in for a while since someone called in sick.  Ugh - I totally should have said no - I was a walking zombie for some reason.
Like I said, on Thursday I was pretty much a walking zombie, on top of forgetting all parental duties since I did not have any around last week.  About 4 pm a mom of one of LMS's friends texted me that she had to do an unthinkable thing - go home and tell her daughter that LMS and her were not in the same class this year.  Hmm...how did she know that?...Oh crap!  I forgot it was school registration day!!!  I raced out of work and got to the school in record time (35 minutes!!).  When I sat down with the school secretary to get the girl's paperwork she double checked I was only there for the girls - I said yes, but would take anything for the boys if I needed to.  She was very adament that she knew their mom had been in earlier that day.  When we got to the part where she asked about pre-paying for school lunches, she started acting all weird.  She asked if someone else was responsible for paying the girl's lunches and then mentioned that she was "TOLD" the boy's dad was responsible for theirs.  She acted all scared to ask me.  I paid and confirmed the story she was told but she just kept apologizing and explaining she was just a "messenger"  What the hell did the boys mom say/do to upset her that bad?!!I felt so sorry for her.  School secretaries are the nicest women and this one was all fearful of my reaction - sad that apparently the EX had to be such a BITCH to her.
Friday was another long stressful day, Mr. S and I finished it out with him meeting me at the restaurant for dinner when I was done.
Satuday the "big" event was picking up our beef - woo-hoo!! I also worked at the resaurant and then since Mr.S didn't want to watch anything good when I gt home and finished showering and eating dinner - I ended up working my other job from about 9 to 11:15 pm!
We had a pretty good day today, we went to brunch in Omaha, went to the mall and got Mr. S, Jr.Mr.S and I some stuff, went to Walgreens (they have really cheap wine), and then went groccery shopping.  Brunch was nice - I think we have a new place to pick from - Mr. S really loves his breakfast places. 
So that's pretty much our last week - just lots of work and a HUGE LACK of kids stuff - I'm not functioning well.  Can I admit that I don't know how to act without my girls?  It's just too weird to not have those two little butts around all the time and has made me think a lot more about Mr. S's idea for the complete custody.  I can't go back to them being gone and dealing with stupid's aftermath when they do get home. Ugh.
They'll be home Tuesday and I can't wait to hold them and sqeeze them and never let go. :)