Happy Easter

Ok, I need to get things moving along here. My poor little ol' blog is feeling very neglecgted.
It's not like I'm super busy doing anything.
I've just become Super Dee Duper LAZY!!!

Well, we got ourselves a new vehicle. Yay! Well, it's new to us. If you didn't see my facebook post, the car was totalled, which I just don't really understand, because according to the report from the insurance company it would have cost them about $4800 for the repairs, yet they gave us a check for almost $6000 when we signed the pink slip over to them. Wouldn't they have saved themselves money to just repair it????

Well, I'm not really complaining or anything because it did enable us to purchase a FAMILY vehicle.
Got ourselves a 2003 Dodge Caravan (that's a minivan). Yay! Now we can go places together, instead of in two separate vehicles.

So, naturally I figured that this would give us a great excuse to go visit my mom and dad for Easter.
So that's where we'll be this weekend--sunny Palm Springs. Can't wait, I'm so excited!

Hope you all have a beautiful and glorious Easter weekend rejoicing in the wonderful miracle that is our Savior.

Ain't it the truth?

I love this song. It's just so true, and I'm finding it very applicable to my life right now.
Enjoy!
P.S. sorry, you'll want to turn off my music player over there.

insert frowny face....

So Friday was payday, supposed to be a good day right?

Look what happened on my way to pick up my last severance check......

I was going straight, through the intersection, the light had just turned yellow and I was too close to stop, so on I went.  The guy in the oncoming left turn lane, decided to go for it though and didn't see me cause there was  a big vehicle kind of blocking his view; to top it off the lady behind him was apparently honking at him to get a move on, so he tried to make it through before the light turned red. So, he turned left in front of me and I didn't have nearly enough time to stop. Whamo-bango! I hit him.

 My girls were with me, thank goodness nobody was injured! I got a few scrapes from the blasted air bag though.

 A burn from the stupid air bag. It's blistering now.

 This kind of cracks me up. Also from the air bag. Can you see the sad face?


So, the auto adjuster came and looked at my car today. Can you believe it? He thinks it might have to be totalled! Doesn't seem like enough damage to me to total it. But apparently it might cost more to repair than the car is actually worth.

We are not happy with the prospect of having to try to get into a new vehicle.

SERIOUSLY not happy with the thought of car payments. :(

I think if the air bag hadn't deployed I could probably still drive it around. Not sure I'm sold on airbags as of this moment. Of course, I don't know what would have happened without it, so maybe I should just be grateful?

wow

I haven't posted anything in 23 days. I don't think I've even visited my blog in all that time. I think that's the longest I've been away from my blog since I started blogging.

No job yet.

Loving the time off :)  .....just wish I got serious $$$$ for the time off.

Our house sold----Yay!!! We are very relieved about this little tidbit. One less thing to worry about.
Can't say I'm crazy about apartment dwelling, but I think it's definitley cheaper for the moment, so that's a good thing.

I'm FINALLY reading the Harry Potter series of books. I can't believe I haven't read them before. Know what I'm finding? That I want to watch the movies all over again. Love it.

Jason and Justin are (mostly) potty-trained. WhooHOO!!!! They do well during the day time, but still have  a few accidents at night. I can deal with it. SO glad not to be dealing with diapers and pull-ups anymore.

Well, I'll try to catch up more later. Hope y'all are doing well!

Forget the blogging slump....

I'm in a slump slump.

I'm grumpy
unmotivated
disgusted
tired

I can't find the whatever to do any of the following things on a regular basis:
cook
clean
dishes
laundry
blog

All I want to do is read and eat, or play on Facebook.
I've gained five pounds in two weeks.
Not good.
And oh yeah, I'm supposed to be looking for a job.
That just isn't like it used to be either. I think everyplace these days just expects you fill out applications on-line. There's no face to face interaction. How do they know if I'm really worth considering if they haven't even met me?

ugh (and that's an ugh with no exclamation point after it, because I just don't have the energy).

You know you're in a blogging slump when...

• You neglect to do a birthday post for your hubby (Happy belated Birthday Jon, I love you!)
• you post your daughters birthday pics four months late
• you look at your blog reader thingamabob and find out you have almost a thousand posts to catch up on. Yikes!
• You spend more time on Facebook than on your blog

Ok, random....Have you seen the Snickers commercial with Roseanne Barr???? I freaking LOVE it! Cracks me up every time.

How I'm spending my free time

The nice thing about being out of work is that now I have my weekends free to spend time with my family.

Last Saturday we drove out to Bonnie Springs Ranch.

It was originally built in 1843 as a stopover for wagon trains going to California.

Since 1952 it's been used as a tourist attraction.

It's pretty cool that we have this here, it's fun to walk through the little town, which is definitley a bit rundown.

Scenery of Red Rock Canyon on the drive out.

They have a fun little train that takes you from the parking lot to the little town.

Remnd me not to wear this shirt again. Not very flattering....

They have a funny little show they do in the old saloon. Very silly, very bad acting, but fun.

They put on a shootout and hanging as well.

...some questionable potty humor during which they blew up the outhouse.

Pretty nice guys. The boys didn't want to get in the picture thought. :(

I need one of these at home.....

They have a small non profit petting zoo as well.

These horses were gorgeous!

 a cute little prairie dog.

 A Canadian Lynx.

 A buffalo. I'm curious as to how they got this guy and also why one horn points up and the other down?

They have more animals which include emu's, llama's, wolves (gorgeous! Jon wasn't able to get a picture for some reason), rabbits, and goats of course.

 Wild burrows which roam around the area outside the ranch.

 I love Joshua trees. They're just so unusual.

 On our way out of  "town".

The End

popcorn already?

The sweetest things

Little boys who love to help.....

 I threw the towels on the sofa, and they got busy. I didn't even have to ask them to help. Wish their sisters would take a lesson!

 Valentine decorations.

Since everyone else seems to be posting theirs, thought I'd follow along.

I made these the other day. I think the S's are upside down. How can you tell?

 And my exclamation point is crooked on this one. Oh well.

This one says it all....

Pure bliss! 

strangest. movie. ever

My boys love this movie.

It's SO wierd.

What's even wierder?

I secretly find it very amusing.