the little things

show me da money

can you believe this?  i can handle that.  oh, i can soooo handle that.

it came!!

the ups man finally arrived and i could have slapped him for not showing up sooner or hugged him for showing up with this:

i did neither, but instead thanked him and shooed him away so i could open the box and meet my new bff.

i am now the proud owner of this:

EF24-70mm F2.8L USM

the start of a beautiful friendship.  i can't wait to play.

ain't she sweet?

cam made biscuits for lunch.

who dat?

dang.  i thought i heard someone at the door.

it's 12:00pm

and i am still waiting...they have had my precious since 5:15 this morning and newbury park is only 10 minutes away from my house.  clearly the ups man does not know that he is carrying special cargo and my house should have been the first stop on his list!  i mean seriously!!  i have not showered or moved from the front of my house so i will not miss him.  we are homeschooling in the livingroom today man!!  oh wait- i hear a truck in the distance...

waiting

i keep checking the status of this package that was supposed to be delivered to me yesterday.  i'm so excited about getting it and the waiting is hard :(
out for delivery...that means any minute now, right?!!

while we wait, check out this beautiful flower from my yard. 

shame i don't know what kind of flower it is...

weekend in review

what a fast this weekend was!  well, you all may remember that i said i didn't remember what i did on friday, still don't, so moving on to saturday...
there was the track meet, then i took drew, his friend, camryn, deacon, and carter to the pizza place for pizza and video games.  jay and devyn met us there and afterwards drew, the friend, two more friends, devyn and i went to the bowling alley because drew wanted to have a bowling party with his friends.  since we celebrated his birthday as a family last weekend, this weekend i let him do something he wanted with his friends and a sleepover.  we had so much fun at the bowling alley, i really forgot how much fun bowling can be!

here i was thinking that the teen boys would be loud and stay up all night.  i was only half right.  they don't make as much noise when playing the wii.  they stopped for a while to watch zathura then back to the wii.  i went to bed around 1am and they were still playing the wii.

sunday we just hung out.  no church as i didn't want to wake the boys and rush anyone out of the house.  jay and i looked online at the mls listing for houses and then drove around to see a few.  no comment on that.  i grocery shopped, i crocheted,

and i scrapped. 

national scrapbook day kinda got away from me, but i still got to shop a little.  i scrapped another san antonio layout.   april, helen, and myself hope to scrap enough  pages between the three of us to  make a shutterfly book.  can't wait to see it finished.

well, that's it! that was my weekend!

can i brag? so proud

drew and devyn did great yesterday at the track!  i was worried about drew because last year he ran everything and won.  during soccer season he had a knee injury and has not run the same since, plus he didn't really seem motivated.  so this track season he seemed to concentrate on only one event, the 800m.  it's been kind of sad to see him only doing the one thing when it seemed like he could be doing so much more if he didn't have the mental block that he might hurt himself.  today he ran the 100m.  it was like the old drew was back!  he won first in his heat, his time did not qualify him for varsity, but i was just happy that he did it.  the season is over, we have two more meets left, i wish he would have done it sooner...i am still smiling over it.
devyn killed in the 800m.  she was just on fire!  but then, she always does.  this is the child that usually brings home all first place ribbons.  she has been trying to beat the club record of 2:52 but always falls short by a couple of seconds.  today she ran a 2:55, but she qualified for varsity so it's all good.  you'll beat that record for sure next season sweetie!
keith and deacon did great too, but this is their first year of track and they don't really care about anything but running. as long as they can get out there and run around, they are happy and they look so cute out there!  i didn't get any photos because as a coach i am lucky that i even got to see them race today!  it was a hard coach day for me as i had to pull three kids from running because of disciplinary issues.  but that's the life of a coach, i guess.
aside from that, the weather was even beautiful- it was a great day for a meet.

fight the frump friday

how bout i don't, and just say i did?
i rolled out of bed and met a friend at the gym to take a class that kicked. my. butt.
i came home and went right into school mode with the kids.  after that, i am too tired to remember whatever else i did today.  i never made it out of my gym clothes.  it was a horrible day of frump and what makes it worse is that jay had the day off.  if i was not feeling the need to fight the frump for myself, i should have at least done it for him.
it's now 10:30 and i am doing laundry getting the kids track uniforms ready for the meet in the morning.  all i really want to do is go to bed, it's all i have wanted to do all day long. i don't know why i am so exhausted lately...

drool

aren't these the yummiest looking cupcakes you have ever seen?  stie, this looks even better than cookie dough!