Nonsense From Wonderland

to my mom, who is an awesome mom, and who I always aspire to be like : ).  I couldn’t have asked for a more loving, thoughtful, fun, caring mom.  I LOVE YOU!

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Wishing a happy 3rd birthday a couple hours early to our Indy dog!  He gets a birthday haircut and wash on Friday (thank goodness, because he is way overdue and a dirty dog!). 

It would also have been my Papa’s 92nd birthday.  Still miss him so much. 

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Life’s been zooming lately, which leads to the blog going by the wayside, so I suppose it’s time for an update. We had a good time at the Nuggets game over spring break. Had dinner at the Hard Rock, drinks at ESPN Zone, and dessert at Cheesecake Factory. The next day we had lunch at Bono’s BBQ, which was fantastic. We spent the rest of the time driving to 4 different Harley stores, which is always cool. I went up to Casper to pick up the boys and my sis the day before Easter. Easter was very low key for us. We had fish for dinner and just spent the day hanging out at home. Jason was supposed to go to Atlanta last weekend, but due to the 2nd crazy blizzard, which resulted in a snow day from school and state offices being closed, he wasn’t able to fly out. I was happy he got to stay, but he does have to go later . My sis came down to stay with us, but ended up going back home after about a week. She’ll be back on Mother’s Day and will stay through the end of the month. We go to No Doubt on May 27th. Can’t wait for that! We’ve seen Gwen solo twice, and she puts on a kick-ass show! We surprised the boys a week ago w/a Wii. Our bundle had Wii Sports and Wii Play with it. I haven’t had a chance to do Play yet. I also bought Wii Fit, and I love it! Now if I can just stick to a regular workout schedule! I bought Animal Crossing, since I’d been eyeing it before we even had a Wii. It is so freaking cute. Spent 2.5 hours playing it tonight. My mom got the boys Super Smash Brothers Brawl to play up at her house, but I think they are sending it back for them to have here.

We are down to exactly 30 days of school left. It would be 29, but we have to make up the snow day next month. I am taking a personal day on the 13th to go on a field trip w/Breck’s class, to a dairy farm in Nebraska. The last month of school is so busy w/field trips and various things (Muffins for Moms, end of year testing, track meet, Earth Day celebration (we had to postpone ours since our principal was gone). I am really looking forward to summer break and getting some things done around here, as well as just enjoying some lazy days and WARM weather. I love sitting on my porch swing reading or just enjoying the fresh air.

I suppose that’s it in a nutshell for now. We’re catching up on the DVR, since it’s close to full! Just never have time to watch a whole lot at once.

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Hard to believe spring break is almost half over! The boys are having a great time at my parents, playing on the Wii! I took them to Casper yesterday. Originally we were going to meet on Saturday, but then had the crazy blizzard, which prevented us from going Sat. and Sun. Last night, Jason and I went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner, then out to see Fast and Furious. I LOVED it!! I was so excited that Jason actually decided to go, because he kept telling me he wasn’t going, so I had planned to see it at a matinee. We were planning on seeing Knowing, but he decided to go see F&F since I have been talking about it a lot. He said it was what he expected, but it definitely wasn’t the worst movie I’ve made him watch. LOL I’m sure he enjoyed it more than Twilight. Today I got Easter shopping done, picked up my license plates for the motorcycle, and went to lunch w/Jason at the new KFC Buffet. Our old KFC was so nasty, so it was good to see how nice this one is. I hope they can keep it that way. I shopped until 4, then came home and did some housework catch up–laundry, vacuuming, bathroom cleaning, dishes. I also did some “spring cleaning”, I guess you could say, cleaning up Brecken’s desk area and their shelf w/the coloring books, etc. I got the guest room picked up too, as it’s been a catch all for everything. I came away with 2 grocery bags of trash, mostly just papers. Jason had to work a little late. We had some bierocks (cabbage rolls) that mom made us, and watched Reaper. I love that show, and need to pick up season 1 on DVD.

Tomorrow we are going to Denver to watch the Nuggets game. Should be a pretty good time, just hanging out with each other and cruising around downtown. I’m not sure where we are eating yet. I had mentioned Maggiano’s (Italian), just because we always walk by it on 16th Street Mall, and it always say that we should go there, but never have. We didn’t make it to a basketball game last year, so I am really looking forward to this one. I think I might shampoo the carpets tomorrow, or at least get the boys’ rooms and their bathroom done in the morning. Jason’s planning on riding the bike to work, and I’m debating if I want to go out for a little ride.

Guess I should head up to bed. Jason is all ready there, as he was up really early for work, since he couldn’t sleep. I woke up to ask him why he was up, then went back to sleep after he left.

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Although I did this on Facebook, I thought it’d be fun to post here too. Just a neat little meme that my friend Mel had done on FB. As always, she finds the coolest stuff! If you want to try it, directions follow.

In other news, I am LOVING my new Blackberry Curve. This phone does it all, and I will never go back to a Windows Mobile based smartphone again! My favorite apps so far are probably iheartradio and Slacker Radio. I am becoming a SERIOUS BB addict .

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It’s spring in Wyoming, so we’re having a little blizzard right now. We were released early from school. I was there until 2, since I had bus (kids were out at 1:30). We had the same thing happen Monday, although we were released due to “predicted adverse weather”, and we didn’t get it like we were supposed to, leaving a lot of people asking why we were getting out early! The northern part of the state was getting hit at that time. There were some major wrecks on the interstate this morning (something like 40 cars). I’m trying to catch up on my shows, as our DVR is almost full! Jason was told he could leave work at 3, but he’s finishing up something, so still not home, and apparently they are still having bowling (even though everything else has been closing down, including the mall!).

Brecken’s non-fiction story he wrote for Young Author’s was picked to go to district, and we found out Tuesday that he got 3rd place!! He’ll be recognize at the YA Tea, which will be fun for him : ). We’re very proud. He also finally pulled his 2nd loose tooth last night, by himself. It was just hanging there, and I was getting a bit fed up with him being so scared to pull it, so I just left him alone w/his dad, and didn’t get to see him do it. Hopefully we don’t have to go through this with all his loose teeth! Peyton just finished up his PAWS testing today, and he’s very relieved to be done! He’s been reading like a fiend too, and went over his AR goal!

I think I might have to watch Twilight again tonight when Jason goes to bowling! I’ve been watching the extras that I got from iTunes…very cool. My obsession only grows every day !

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Going out to buy my DVD after bit!! I bought the Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke the other night, and am halfway into that. Loving it!

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Last week the boys had their Reading Independently ceremony, where they received their medals for meeting their goals. We run the RI program for 7 weeks, and each grade does something a bit different, as far as reading logs, projects/book talks. In honor of Lincoln’s bicentennial, our theme was “Leaders are Readers…Make History, Read”. We had Lincoln and his wife visit our school (which Peyton and I unfortunately missed due to being home w/the flu!). The entire school had silhouettes done by a parent volunteer, which were hung in the halls. We had a “log cabin” built in our library, by our RI chair woman, which made for a cool reading spot. Along w/the medals, the kids all got personalized book plates, and one of the new pennies being released in honor of the Lincoln bicentennial. The boys both did a lot of reading to meet their goals, and we were very proud of them!

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….I just hope the next one, which is close to ready, does not take as long, or involve as many tears!!

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These weekends just don’t last long enough for me! We did get some riding in today, which was nice–just a bit chilly at some points w/the wind. Mostly it was just my face and ears that were cold, because I hadn’t put my face cover on. We rode over to Dana’s to show her my bike, then out to Target to get a few things. I got Prince Caspian on Blu-ray, so am hoping we can watch it tonight. We didn’t eat lunch, because the time change messed us up, so by the time we ate breakfast it was 10. Jason made a yummy egg bake that was filling, and we had donuts left over from yesterday morning. Peyton had Blake over for a sleepover on Friday. We cleaned out the garage after taking the boys to Taco John’s and Coldstone. Once Blake left we headed to this little motorcycle store south of town to check out coats (they had none for me), then over to the Harley store for the bag sale (if you got a bag in the mail, you got 20% off what you put in it. I got a cute hat and this leather sleeve that goes over my ponytail. Jason got a stocking cap and a new tank cover thing (not sure of the technical name!), that has a pouch to hold his MP3 player. We had to go to Walmart after that, which was a headache as usual. I made this cordon bleu potato soup for dinner, out of the cooking magazine I get. It was so good and very fast and easy. Tonight we had pepperoni pinwheels, also out of the magazine. They were fast and easy too, and we all enjoyed them.

This week I have a class on Tuesday, but I will be leaving early for the kids’ Reading Independently gold medal ceremony. Every year they do the RI program, which lasts 7 weeks. All grades have different goals, and everyone has weekly reading logs. If you meet all the goals, you get a gold medal at the ceremony. It’s always cool to see the boys go up on stage and get their reward for their hard work! I can’t think of much else going on this week. Ammie’s bday is Saturday, and I can’t wait for her to open presents! We’ll probably watch over the webcam. Brecken still has not lost his teeth that have been loose forever. I asked the dentist last week, worried that he’d need them pulled right away, but he said it was fine. I am still a bit concerned, because the big tooth behind one has broken through. The tooth is just barely holding on, but he screams anytime I try to pull! Frustration!

Dana and I are going to see Jim Gaffigan in April! He’s at our Civic Center. I’m bummed Jason won’t be able to go, since he’s the one that got me to listen to him. My sis will be here, so will watch the boys.

I suppose that’s all for now, since I’m just babbling. Going to work on Breck’s tooth and wait for Peyton to finish showering so we can hopefully watch our movie!! Jason’s obsessed with finishing this level on LBP w/out losing any lives, and he’s been at it for a while. You get special outfits for making it through w/out losing any lives! It’s downright difficult on a few of them!

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