I have pretty much moved to my new location. I decided that I wanted to start a family blog and hoped to get the family involved so that we could all keep in touch but so far it has been me doing it all, which is fine too :o) HERE is the link to my new blog. I will probably get rid of this one all together at some point but for now I will just leave it.
We are all moved in and our new house is wonderful! We have had a great time decorating it and have finished off a few of the rooms as far as the stuff on the walls go. We found some great pictures for the dining room and it looks great. I wanted to do scenes from around the USA and mainly stuck with NY and MO. I have 2 amazing pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge and a print of Grand Central Station from 1939 that I just adore. There are a couple of pictures of wooden bridges that are just so beautiful and also a picture of a cathedral ceiling that is awesome. Then 2 pictures of the Arch, one that we got from family and the other one hubby took! The living room has turned out beautifully. We have a lot of pictures of the kids up on the walls and I just LOVE it!! There are still a few other things that I want to do but other than that it is excellent! The kitchen is also coming along wonderfully. We have found some really awesome pots that I have up on top of the cabinets. We are going to hang grapes out of them and also have ivy up there. We have 3 awesome pictures up on the wall. All bistro themed. There are still several things to do in there but it is coming along!

My new furniture will be in my new house in less than 6 hours!!! WHOHOOO ME!!!! I am really very excited that my new furniture is going to be here and it will feel like we have finally fully moved in! We are moved in and our house is fully functioning but the new living room furniture will be awesome!
I think I am going to start a family blog. I feel that our family has finally gotten to the point that I want to have something for all of us. I can share it with the family and it can be something that we can share and talk about with everyone. Most everyone in our families have web access so it would be a great way to share family pics and stories and going ons with everyone. We have so many pictures of the kids that I really want to start something like that. Each week we have a lot going on and it is hard for the family to keep up with all the things we do.
The kids kept us busy all last week. We had ball game after ball game. Cody's team won a game and lost a game. Victoria's team lost but they made one heck of an effort. We have pictures of the games that I need to get up on the web. We also had the stomach flu last week so a few of us were down for the count. My younger daughter had it really bad and we ended up taking her to the hospital. She said that her chest was hurting and and she could not breath. It ended up being reflux and her and I sat at the hospital til 4:30 in the morning. They ended up giving her 1 liter of fluids to get her to go to the bathroom and get her hydrated again.
As far as the Soprano's go, I was pissed at first with the lack of closure, but after thinking about it it was ingenious. The artistic side of me loved it, the anal side of me hates that there was no closure. I do not want to interpret it myself yet, I want to believe that Tony is not dead and do not want to conclude that he is dead or his family. I am hoping that David Chase will come up with a movie idea and make the ending into a movie.
Ok, time to clean my living room so that I can get my furniture into a perfectly clean room!!

Please tell me that school starts next week!!! *sigh* ok, so school has just gotten out and I am ready for them to go back already!! Luckily, they are ALL going to summer school this summer and that starts on Monday. I never remember summer school being the way that it is now!! My older 2 got to pick the classes that they wanted and they have all kinds of FUN things to do!! My oldest will be in eMINTS most of the day and so that means he will be on the computer most of the day! He is really excited about that and cannot wait to get back on the computers at school. My older daughter does not really have to go to summer school so she is taking a bunch of FUN classes. She has Reading For Fun, Math Puzzlers, CIRCUS (don't ask me), Sign Language, and Zoology for her classes. She is really excited about all the fun classes she will be taking this summer and we will be able to do sign language with one another, which will be fun. Yes, I took a college course on Sign Language and I LOVED it!! Yeah, I am a dork and always will be :o) As far as the younger 2 go they will not be changing classes but will also be doing a bunch of fun stuff. Needless to say I am really excited for the kiddos.
My brother graduated Wednesday!! It was a really nice graduation and I am really proud of my lil bro. He kept his grades up all through high school and gets 2 years free at a community college because of the A+ program. So that will really help out with college. After he is done with his 2 years he is going to probably transfer to Mizzou, which is where one of my cousins goes. I am not sure what he wants to go for yet but he has time to figure it out.
Him, my mom and my grandma are all leaving for Korea on Saturday. I am excited for my brother to see a part of his heritage but at the same time am upset that they are going at all. Things have been rough with our family and I just really believe that my mom going is a mistake. She is being so selfish it is beyond belief. She thinks that she has to showboat for a man that is her sperm donor and nothing more. For a man that has absolutely nothing to do with her or her kids. She thinks she has to act like everything in her life is just dandy and that she has money that she does not have. Why she feels that she has to ACT for her father is beyond me. The man said he would come here to visit, so she gets on a kick of wanting to buy a bigger, new home... he the decides that he cannot make the flight over here so he is not coming. My mom then decides that its important to go to him. So she starts making arrangements to go to him and buys plane tickets for her, my brother and my grandmother. Well, my grandmother buys them, she doesn't. Then she decides that she needs to take a bunch of "gifts" with her. I guess alcohol is expensive there so she buys a bunch of that and honey too plus a bunch of other crap that she should not be buying. Then she talks to the man and he says that he does not think that he can make the drive to where her plane is coming in and why doesn't she come in to a closer airport so that he does not have to drive so far. So she is going to be on a plane for 17 hours from here to Korea and then have to turn around and get on ANOTHER plane to go from one place in Korea to another and does he offer to pay for those tickets??? NOOOO, so even MORE money for a man that should mean nothing to her.
There is a lot more to the story but I just dont feel I should get into it. I just know that the outcome of it all will not be good. Ok, I am done with all this...
My older daughter is on a girl scout camping trip. She will be back tonight. My older 2 have ball games this weekend. Plus it is the weekend that the organization has picture taking and a big fireworks display. So will be doing that this weekend and then our daughter has a game extra early Sunday morning.
Ok, I am off to clean house and do laundry. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

I have been meaning to post and just have not had the time to get around to it. We are pretty much moved into our new house and loving it. I still do not have living room furniture but I am expecting it this week, so in the mean time we are busy getting things cleaned up and set up in the other rooms. My den and kitchen are in perfect working order. I have not decorated the kitchen or dining room yet and have not decided on what I want to do to decorate them. I did have Pooh in my kitchen but it would not look good in my new kitchen so I am going to have to do something else. I was thinking a wine/grape theme for my dining room but now I am leaning more towards Deep red roses/flowery theme. Who knows what I will end up with :o) I did buy a beautiful vase for the middle of my dining room table and my aunt is going to put a flower arrangement together for me. So we will see what I end up doing. The guys have started putting the basement together. The air hockey table is down there and needs to be set up, the tv and game systems are all hooked up and have been played with. I need to get the bedrooms in order and will hopefully get to them this weekend. We are almost completely out of the old house. We still have a few odds and ends hanging around and a lot of the kids toys, but I am not too worried about them since I plan on getting rid of most of them!
In other family news, my cousin's hubby may not have to go back to Iraq after all! If he was to go back he would have left for training out in CA last week and has not left, so we are taking that as a good sign. They are planning on coming in for the holiday weekend since her daughter will be 2 and have a birthday party for her while she is here. Also, my other cousin found out that his fiancee of several years broke it off with him completely and was out with another guy so to drown his sorrows he went out with a few of his buddies and on his way out of the bar was mugged and had the shit beat out of him by 4 guys, cracked a few ribs, broke his wrist and bruised up pretty bad, then when he got back to his car found that it had been side swiped and has a bunch of damage to his car. So needless to say the poor guy is not in the best of shape right now!! He did move home for the summer since he will be interning at a law firm here but will go back to college for the fall. My brother is officially out of school. His last day was Monday and he is really excited about graduating. His graduation is next Wednesday and I am really excited for him. He is car-less at the moment since he screwed up the transmission in the car he was using but will hopefully be able to get it fixed this summer. Him, my mom and my grandma are leaving for Korea on the 2nd and will be gone til the 20th so they are all getting geared up and ready to go. I wish I could have gone with them but am more excited about moving into our new house and getting new living room furniture!!
As for my kids, they are all doing great, my youngest kiddos last day of school is tomorrow and we will really miss all his teachers and friends that he had here. We have made many friends, including a Korean boy that was adopted by American parents. He has a Korean brother who is also adopted and the mom is super sweet. Hopefully we will be able to stay in touch with them and stay friends. Someday I would love to adopt a Korean baby! :o) The other kids last day is Friday. My kindergartner will have her graduation on Friday!
All the kids field trips are finally over!! I went to the zoo with the 4th graders, there were 2 boys and a girl in my group and we stuck with another group of girls so there were 7 total kids that we were with. They had a great time looking at SOME of the animals, since we did not make it through much of the zoo. The girls wanted to SHOP at every place and then wanted to ride the carousel so that took up a lot of time. The boys were happy just monkeying around. Then my older daughter had her field trip to one of the pizza places and got to make their own pizzas and see how the place worked. They had fun making pizzas and I had an all girl group that time so they were nice and giggly. We were supposed to go to the park afterwards but got rained out so it was a fairly short field trip but we all still had a lot of fun!! Then my youngest daughter had her field trip to the zoo and that was a lot of fun. More than I thought it would be with 4 classes of kindergarten kids!! I had 1 other little girl in my group and we stuck with another group of little girls and really had a good time. They loved seeing all the animals and had a great time with the penguins and learned quite a bit! All in all it was a lot of fun. We also had a Talent show at school that week. My older daughter decided that she wanted to try out and sing Jesus Take the Wheel by Carrie Underwood. I was shocked that she wanted to do that but she practiced and did a really good job!! I was very proud of her for getting up in front of people and doing that!!! She has really come out of her shell and is becoming quite outgoing.
Baseball and Softball are still in full swing. The girls have been losing a lot of their games but are just happy to get out there and play and have fun. The boys are a little more competitive but are still having a blast. We have 3 games just this week for the boys!! They won last night due to forfeit but they went ahead and played a scrimmage game with them since we were already there and did manage to beat them in that too! We are back at the ball field again tonite and my younger daughter has an ice cream social for girl scouts that I have to go to so it will be another full evening!! Then we have one final baseball game on Friday and will be done for the week!!
That is my life in a nutshell. It has been crazy crazy but we are taking each day as it comes!! I am sure there is a bunch of stuff I am missing, but I will eventually either get back to it or never blog it at all :o) I hope that all is well with everyone out in the world!!

OK, I have 2 major complaints today... I have not really kept up with the political stuff since we have been so very busy but today I read some stuff online and heard about the Rosie thing on the radio and really do believe that it is too good to pass up and not blog and bitch about!!
First, the comments by Rosie,her comment that floored me, “I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7—building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes—7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.” Is she for real?!?!?!?!? Wonder how they get steel to do the things they need done to them... think they call Superman to twist it or bend it or anything else that needs to be done to it??? She is such a stupid bitch. Ok, rant 1 over...
Rant 2... There was a March of illegal immigrants in LA and the rest of the country today. My thought on that, why the hell did they not have buses there to load their sorry asses up and take them BACK to the border and shove their fucking asses out the damn door and tell them to bitch to their own damn governments???? I am all for shoving them back into the ocean and throw them back to Mexico!!!! Screw you people who think that you have the same damn rights as I do!!!! My damn tax dollars pay for their sorry asses to have a march and so that they can BITCH at our government?? I don' think so!! They should NOT have rights, what rights should they be given? The illegal aliens and their rally is COSTING our government money!!! Screw that!!! I think that they should all be shipped back to their countries and told to fuck off. *deep breath*
Ok, those are my rants for the moment. I am sure I could come up with a whole heck of a lot more to complain about, but those are my most recent complaints. :o)

Well, we managed to have 2 of the 3 ball games this week. One of our sons got canceled due to rain and the following night was our daughters game. It was a bit chilly and quite muddy and they lost 17-0 but it was still a lot of fun. Then on Thursday night it was our oldest sons turn and it was really chilly that night and they lost too, but they had a great time and we loved being there. Friday my hubby got a photography job and was taking pictures of choirs, he had a blast doing it. That night we had the girls Girl Scout bridging ceremony. It was great to see our daughters move from Daisy to Brownie and the other one Brownie to Junior Girl Scout. Then our oldest daughter had a sleepover with her troop. This morning was the continuation of hubbies photography job of more choirs and I went along to help. It was a lot of fun to set the kids up and to see their funny pictures that they came up with. I am finally home to do some packing! Or at the very least organizing so that I can get a lot packed up!!
This coming Thursday a girlfriend of ours is coming into town. We are going to be taking her bridal pictures for her and we are really looking forward to seeing her and spending time with her. She is coming in from Colorado and will be with us til Sunday. We have been really busy with all the activities that we have going on that I do not know when I am going to get all this packing and moving stuff done! Not that I am complaining, cuz truly I am a very happy that our girlfriend is coming to town. Now if only my house would magically pack itself!
Luckily a bunch of my brothers friends are willing to help us move. They are a good bunch of guys and I am glad that they are willing to help out. They are happy at the thought of pizza galore.
In other news, my brother, mother and grandma are off to Korea in June. Since we are moving to a new house, I thought that was way more important than me visiting Korea this time so I am not going to go. They are going for 16 days and my mom moved the date up since her dad is doing badly. She did not pick good timing, but she rarely thinks of anyone but herself. My brother graduates from high school at the end of May and starts college in the Fall. There is a lot more to this story, but nothing I really care to share right now. Ok, well the kids are driving me nuts so time to get them to wind down and get ready for bed.

I have considered posting a few times, but then got to thinking about everything else that needed to be done and decided to do those other things. Things have been really hectic around here and I have been really busy, plus sick to boot.
I was on that cortiosteroid for my poison ivy and it said that my immune system would be down, well the hubby had a head cold and decided to SHARE IT WITH ME!!! So I ended up with a nasty head cold and finally about over it!
We had Girl Scouts April Showers over the weekend, it went really well. The girls collected over 2000 items for the local food pantry and had a lot of fun collecting it all and marking out the bar codes and separating it all out. There were only a few disgusting items, like USED deodarant, and opened toothpaste and floss, but luckily we did not get any used toothbrushes!! I managed to get in about 8 hours of scrapbooking and got 20 pages done.
I went to a baby shower for one of my girlfriends on Sunday and we had a great time. Her hubby is someone I have known all my life and he is a major sports freak so they got a ton of sporty stuff for their baby. Luckily its a boy :o) I had a blast shopping for the baby and have to admit that sooo many things have changed since I have had a baby!! I got the cutest Rams windbreaker outfit that should fit the baby this fall. Plus other stuff that was on her registry. It was great to sit and talk to everyone and do the "remember when" stuff.
This week is an extremely busy one. We have 3 ball games this week and a wedding to go to on Saturday. Plus, we have packing... yes, I said packing! We have been at our current location for 5 years and have decided that it is time to move. We are going to finish out the school year here and then move! We got a 4 bedroom ranch and I am sooo excited!! We have been living in a split level and I have really started hating it!!! I hate walking in the door and having to walk up steps. So we finally found a ranch that only has stairs to the basement :o) Plus the kitchen is a dream. Its not THE perfect kitchen, but its damn close!! I don't know if I will ever be able to afford my dream kitchen :o) Considering the houses I have seen it in is 300,000+ lol. Yeah, I have expensive taste! I am really excited about moving and cannot wait to move!
I am sure there is a bunch of other stuff to say, but I don't have time right now!