Dinner

I made some porkchops, steamed zuccini/summer squash and rice for dinner last night. It was very yummy.

Eowyn was a really good sport. Normally she won't even TRY something that she doesn't like the looks of, but I was able to get her to 'bite' a piece of zuccini 'like a cookie' and try it. She kept gagging, but kept on chewing for a bit before she mumbled, "I don't like it"... She ate a lot more of her pork chops than I expected, and even some rice :)

Ok...and apparently there's something wrong with my connection on my lap top. Maybe it's not fast enough when I'm connecting WiFi to get my pictures loaded to blogspot... This one loaded fine from my work computer...Sigh...

Also- I feel like crap. I was thinking maybe I had some allergies or something, but it feels more like a cold. I don't think you get fevers with allergies... Not impressed... And I HAVE to go to the gym tomorrow... it's been WAY too long...

Cranky

I haven't posted much over the last few weeks. I've been cranky with Blogspot and it's inability to upload my pictures to my blogs. It will go through the motion of uploading and the progress bar will fill... but it will not go to the next step of actually LOADING the pictures into by blog.

BOO HISS

Anyways- for a boring update (without my cute pictures), I will give a quick rundown:

5/21: Unistock. I have pictures on my Facebook. It was pretty fun... we ended up being outside almost all day.

5/22: Emily and Kassidy's birthday. The party wasn't until Sunday. Kassidy turned 1 and her mom, Emily, turned 21.

5/23: TAP Party at Paul's. I made one batch of Jell-O Shots and thought that would be enough. Last time I made 3 batches and had to push them on people... Plus, this time I only had enough vodka on hand for one batch. Ended up sucking at Tekken, ate almost a whole pizza (this is combined snacking over the night, and after voiding what was in my stomach part way through the night- PUKE AND RALLY! WOO!).

5/24: Woke up to some stupid people re-shingling a neighbors roof around 7am. Not cool. Then went to Em's to help set up for Kassidy's birthday party. Had a good time at the party and was glad that Eowyn was there. I don't like going more than a day without seeing her (when she is visiting her dad)... and this time it was Sat night, all Sunday and all Monday...

5/25: Memorial Day. Again, stupid roofers woke me up early (so much for getting to sleep in when I didn't have Eowyn....Thanks, jerk wads). Ended up running a few errands with Shayne and then playing Farm Town on Facebook throughout the day. Shayne seemed content- he was able to read and watch whatever movies/shows he wanted without me whining.

5/26: Back to work. Gross. Finished up the required trainings. Was ticked off to see that a few of them I had already done, but it doesn't show you that when you enroll. I mean, why WOULD it say, "Hey- you've already done this training. Do you REALLY want to do it again??"

That's about it in a nutshell. Again- most of the exciting pictures are on my Facebook until I can figure out what is up with my laptop and blogspot...

Note to self: MUST GO TO GYM ON THURSDAY

Mother's Day

On Sunday, I hosted (with my sisters and cousin, Bonnie) our annual Mad Hatter Mother's Day Tea Party. My mom normally throws the bash, but she was vacationing in Florida and was getting back the Saturday before...so we decided that us girls (the daughters) would try our hand at it.

Emily and Katie came over early so that we could decorate and put together our salads and other snackies. We all brought some tea and did a little decorating.

Emily had some cute 'home spa' recipes that could be made with common household items. So I had printed out little booklets for each lady to have... We had originally wanted to do a couple of the recipes at the party, but decided that our main activity would end up taking up too much time, so we just handed the booklets out.

Everyone arrived with their funny hats- my Aunt Karen and Gram had the most outrageous hats... I felt a little bad because my aunt had commented that she felt a little overdressed with her crazy hat... but it was honestly just that we (meaning Emily, Katie and I) were so busy trying to make the party fun that we forgot to embellish our hats... And the hat that I found seemed ugly and appropriate when I purchased it (for a whopping $7.95)... but then I came to like it. A lot. Lol. Unfortunately I only have a picture of Eowyn wearing it- the downfall of being the one taking pictures.

Our 'main event' was to paint our own personal tea cups to start using each year for our tea party. I had ordered a few sets of cups/saucers (that are technically cappuccino cups, but I liked them) and Emily had a bunch of paints to use and will be spraying a protective coat over the paint so that we can start using them :)

Everyone seemed to really enjoy our project and it was fun to see the different ideas that each person had for their tea cups. I wish that I had been able to concentrate more on mine, but I just couldn't focus on a good idea...so I was less than impressed with my final product, but it was still super fun!

After our tea party, we had a family BBQ. Basically the men-folk came and were made to man the grill. Lol. My mom had left a grill at the house that I am renting from her, but she had warned me that you basically had to stand on your head and chant some archaic spells or something in order to light it... Lol.

It was nice to see my Uncle Bill (Aunt Karen's husband), grandfather, Joe (mom's hubby) and my Uncle Ben. We don't get to do things as a family very often... We are all at so many different places in our lives right now...

Oh- and I got a LOT of compliments about the potato salad that I made (that I had been worrying about for weeks because I hadn't made one before). :) That made me very happy! Seriously- there was only a little left of the big bowl that I had made. And I saved it for Shayne to try, who said it was potatosalad-riffic! LMAO!

Dina's Wedding

Saturday was Dina and Matt's wedding. It was absolutely beautiful and I am so happy that I was able to be a part of it =)

We started the morning getting our nails done (a few of us got pedicures as well...giggle) and then we headed to the wedding site. There wasn't too much for us to do, as the wedding location took care of everything. We ended up really just needing to finish up some of the wedding favors (super cute little cards with heart shaped cookie cutters).

Then we all started getting our hair and make-up done. I was a little freaked out about the make-up... I was kind of uncomfortable wearing so much make-up. I normally just wear a little eye make-up and call it good... I felt like I almost didn't look like myself. But I did feel pretty... and I guess that's all that matters. Lol.

The ceremony went well and Dina looked absolutely beautiful! The reception was in another room at the wedding site, so that was nice... to not have to drive to another location. We had our pictures done and then moved to the reception room for the party! YAY!

Shayne came to the wedding and I felt bad because he didn't really know anyone and was sitting by himself. But everything was very laid back and the wedding party was able to go wherever we wanted, so I was able to sit with Shayne and keep him company.... Though I'm sure that he was wishing that there was something to keep me from trying to make him dance. He was okay with slow songs, but has that guy-dance-phobia when it comes to fast dancing. By the end of the night I think he had danced to 2 or 3 fast songs... and he's not a bad dancer...just needs to be more confident.

Spaz

Eowyn has been in such good moods lately... and she's been listening much better and doing as she's told. It's really nice.

Normally when I am making dinner or clearing the table, she will play with her Leap Frog Alphabet magnet set. She's doing a really good job with recognizing her letters and associating correct words that start with the letter she is playing with. A few nights ago, she was being quite the spaz while singing along with the ABC Song... it was pretty cute!

Terrible Twos Over?

Last night, I picked up Eowyn from daycare and was informed that she was completely out of Pull-Ups. Sigh... It's possible that they told James that she was almost out when he picked her up on Friday, but more often than not, I am told when she is out... so I then have to either bring in a partial pack from home, or directly go shopping...

Eowyn and I zipped home and ate a quick dinner of hotdogs... I was actually planning to make something more home cooked... but didn't have the time. I basically have a 2-3 hour window to get everything done with her when I get home... this includes making dinner, eating dinner, tubby and then chill out time.

After dinner, I informed Eowyn that we would be going shoPPing :) We got ready and went to the Super Wal*Mart in Brewer. While there, I realized that I had to pick up a few dinner items and a few things for the Mad Hatter Mother's Day Tea Party on Sunday. I also found Eowyn a cute pair of shoes to go with her new dress.

We ended up bumping into my sister, Emily, and her husband (Matt) and daughter (Kassidy). The whole trip ended up going well. Eowyn agreed to sit in the seat part of the cart (I did have to bribe her with a piece of gum) and basically was unusually well behaved.

Here's a picture of her with her new shoes and dress:

My mom's birthday was on the 3rd, but she is on vacation and won't be returning until Saturday. Thoma had done a pencil drawing of one of Eowyn's adorable groups of angel pictures (she was 6 months old and I put some angel wings on her and snapped away on Valentine's day). I can never thing of anything to get for my mom... she's one of those people that has everything that they need, so it's always hard for me to find the right present for her... something that she'll use or appreciate... not just gather dust in a closet somewhere... So this year, I had a few copies of Thoma's drawing made up and put one in a neat frame that I found (I got the same one for me too... Lol).

I think it came out pretty well:

When Eowyn and I got home from shopping, she wanted to go out and play in her sandbox. I was able to talk her into opening the porch door for me while I brought in the groceries. The first pass went well and she was all excited to open the door and 'help' me. The second (and final) trip seemed to be going well... until I got to the bottom of the steps. I looked up and saw my little munchkin crying and in pain. She had closed her thumb in the door while she was waiting for me to get back! I quickly opened the door to release her thumb. I put down the load of groceries and scooped her up and gave her a kiss. She was very upset and said, "The door pinched my thumb!!!!" I brushed her hair out of her face and the tears off her cheeks and told her how she was being such a good girl helping me. Then I kissed her thumb and asked her if she was okay. "Yeah"... and she took off. Lol. My kid's so bad-ass. There was no broken skin or nail, so I wasn't too worried, but I still felt really bad.

After the groceries were put away, Eowyn had her tubby and then we sat on my bed and read her new book for a little while. Around 8:15pm, I told her that it was time for her to go in her own bed and I would check on her after I was done with the dishes, etc. She didn't struggle or fight... !!!!? I did have to allow her to have her book in bed... which was just propped up next to the guard rail, but she was asleep when I checked on her 15 minutes later.

I'm wondering if the terrible twos are almost over...? Will I really have my adorable little girl back? Someone needs to kick that terrible twos monster in the butt. He's a jerk.

Outside Fun =)

Saturday was a beautiful day to be outside. Shayne and I brought Eowyn to the park and then we got some ice cream. She wanted pink ice cream... then decided it was gross (and it was) and then ate mine...

Here is Eowyn climbing the rock wall with determination...

And here she is having a blast on the slide...

Back at home, I was finally able to get her to try her 4wheeler that she got for Christmas. Being outside was better for her (as it was not so loud). She did end up running into things because she couldn't quite get the hang out of steering...

Sold out...

Last night, Shayne was very upset to hear one of his favorite songs on a commercial for USC. Thinking back, I'm pretty sure that I have heard a little bit of the song used before, but this advertisement had quite a bit more of the song in it... Poor Shayne...

Middle Distance Runner - Sea Wolf

Stop and Smell the Flowers

Last night, Eowyn and I ate our dinner on the sun porch and then went outside to play. She spent a fair amount of time in her sandbox, and then we went exploring around the house to look at the flowers that had been planted before we moved in.

I thought the White Violets growing between the few bricks at the bottom of the steps was cute looking... so I took a picture of it.

There were a lot of White Violets on the lawn, so I put a few in Eowyn's hair.

This one came out pretty cute. I have to clean out the pond... I really don't want to...

Adorable picture of Eowyn smelling some Tulips :)