Fashion Faux Pas

Another crazy busy day today - hehe. I guess I do it to myself, right? ha! Too many things that I want to either do or get done, and not enough time in a day :) I'm enjoying myself, at least! Never a dull moment in my life :)

So I got up, got kids ready, and out the door by 7:30am. We had family prayer, and off they all went. Captain America was out the door by 8:15am, and it was just Jake and Jim and I (or should that be me...any grammar experts here?)

At 9:15am, Jim and I headed out to the stores. I fell in love with these bundt cake looking muffin pans yesterday, and decided that I really did need them. hehe. Especially because I needed to make banana bread. So we headed out to Big Lots. Because maybe Big Lots would have something cheaper than Walmart. Maybe, right?

And before we went in, we had to pose on the car. And yeah, Jim took my picture, and I don't know what he did, but he made me look chunky. ROFL! And yes, Madi, those are Socks with Flip Flops. You have to be truly cool to pull that look off...

See, I didn't make HIM look fat. Hmpf!

While in Big Lots, I checked out their Christmas tree display. I love me some Christmas Trees! Mine is 4 ft and ugly. I got it for $7 after Christmas one year. hehe. WELL, I saw some BEAUTIFUL trees. But the 7 ft, pre lit, $50 tree REALLY caught my eye. I decided to spend a bit of designing dollars on a new tree!

So when I got to the front, it rang up as $70, normal full price. Whaaat? I told the chickie that it was only $50. She sent me back to show the dude the tag. It was hiding behind the tree. Yeah, apparently someone forgot to take down last weeks sale price. But I made them give it to me, because the sign was still up there. hehe. I"m tricky, huh. SO, I got the last $50 pre lit 7ft tree :) Yeah me!

And then we headed out to Walmart. Because they didn't have my bundt cake cupcake pans. But they did have cheaper mini loaf pans and cookie sheet. Yes!

Walmart was a quick trip. We got the bundt cake cupcake pan (12), and walnuts, and I think that was it. I was supposed to look for socks for Jake, but I forgot. Sorry, hon. Jim was a little miffed that he didn't get anything at Walmart, but really, we don't get something EVERYWHERE we go....

We swung by the Dollar Tree, and I totally forgot to look for bread, but let Jimmy have a dollar to pick out something. Yeah, he picked a push up ice cream. On a chilly day. hehe. And we headed back home.

Jimmy playing with his gum.

Me (yeah, my shower totally didn't happen...)

Soda!

Jim and his ice cream :)

AND, just because I'm a SUPER nice person, I stopped at Circle K, and got myself, Jim/Jake, and Captain America a soda! Diet Dr Pepper, even. See, super nice.

Jim carried one to the car, and I got the other two. Jim held his/Jakes in his seat, and I put Captain America and mine in the cup holder. But Captain America's didn't go in so well. And I drove away. And then this happened to Captain Americas soda. CRAP!

At least my soda was intact....

And we came in the gate the SAME time as Jimmys bus. Ha! But I drive faster, so we got to the bus stop first. hehe. Jim got on the bus, headed to school, and I went home.

Jake helped me carry the stuff inside, and I put the stuff away. And I only had 30 minutes before Captain America would be home for lunch, and we were going up to the hospital to pick up a prescription and get lunch. Because I LOVE me some hospital pre packaged salads...

SO, I didn't have enough time for a shower. And really, I wasn't stinky. Sure, I'd worked out last night, but really, I didn't stink. Not even my pits. hehe. I'm just not that smelly, I guess. So I washed off the old make up, reapplied a new layer, slapped on some better clothes and a headband, and I passed as showered. ROFL!

And I had to take a picture of my COOL new muffin pans. Aren't they AWESOME!

And I don't think that I ever showed you guys my new zebra purse. Did I?

And then Captain America was home, and we were off to the hospital. Here's a few pics we snapped of ourselves.



And as we headed out of post on Colonel Row, we got stuck behind someone going 13 MPH! The speed limit is 25 people..... GO FASTER!

We drove to the hospital, actually found a parking spot, and got lunch. Captain America and I both got salads, and a cookie, and a Diet Dew, and he got some Tuna. I love love love the hospital salads. See how AWESOME it is! Chicken and slivered almonds and cranberries and mandarin oranges and spinach and iceburg lettuce. Mmmm, tasty!
And then we went to the pharmacy. And luckily, Captain America was in his uniform and got into the soldier line. We only had to wait for 4 people. Unlike the hour wait in the dependant line. Dude, waiting is SO not fun. There were people lined up in the hall, because the waiting room was packed...

Captain America dropped me back off at home around 1pm, and I started baking. I made a double batch of banana bread. Because I didn't need to freeze anymore. See how many are already in my freezer..

So here's the creamed butter and sugar, and the bananas

And at some point, I decided to wear my cool hat. Because I love it - hehe. And here's me, with my cool hat, and my banana bread in 4 little loaf pans.

And the ones in the bundt cake cupcake pan

And then I realized that my candle was burning my bowl. Sigh...

Here's the finished product! I sprinkled powdered sugar on top of them. Yeah, it made a HUGE mess. I think that a cream cheese glaze would have been PERFECT too.

I went to the bus at 2:30pm to pick up Jim, and told Maggie that if she wanted to come by the house that I'd give her some treats. And she came over and stayed for a bit, too! I baked the last few batches of desserts, and it was SO much fun chatting with her. And the kids played VERY nicely together. Their 1 year old LOVED Jacob. He held her on his lap and played computer games. Both were totally content. hehe.

When it was time to pick up AQ kids, Maggie and I both went, and left Jake in charge of the little ones. They all sat down to watch a few minutes of Open Season. Maggie needed to pick up some PTA fundraiser stuff from the school. We gathered the kids from AQ, got Maggies stuff, and headed back on post.

She and her kids went home, and I set my kids about getting their chores done, and I designed for about 45 minutes. It felt pretty good to design. I've really loved it a lot lately :)

And then it was 5:30pm, and it was time to make dinner. French toast night! And I had an idea to dip the bread in the eggs batter (with eggs, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, AND cloves), then into some sweetened flaked coconut. Hawaiian French Toast! 3 of the 5 kids LOVED it :)

Everyone got one Hawaiian French toast, and the rest was made normal. I made some up with Diet bread for me for snacks for the next couple of days. And then Captain America was home, and we all ate together.

And we watched a few minutes of a Civil War movie with Captain America, and here it is, 7:03pm. Kids go to bed at 7:30pm, so it's almost that time :) And I'm all done blogging, and designing, and WOOHOO! I can spend a nice, quiet evening with my hubby :) Gotta love that ;)

Sharon made this AWESOME layout for me, to go with todays WordArt. Isn't she fabulous?!!!


How embarrassing for me, is that, that I have SO many pictures that go with this WordArt? ROFL! Click on the link below to go to my account to download the PNG file, and leave some love if you like my work. Thanks!

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Here's another FABULOUS layout from Sharon! She's AMAZING, don't you think. hehe. I'm glad that someone is scrappin' my photos, because I'm sure not - hehe :)

I'm kinda liking this 'no early morning' PT thing. The duty day now starts at 8:30am. So Captain Americahas been getting up at the same time as the rest of us, and gets to get ready and have breakfast with us :) Yippee! The soldiers now all have PT from 3:30-5pm.

Anyway, we all got up this morning together, had breakfast, and had the kids out the door by 7:30am. But not before some Orange Early Rise. Ever had that? They sell it at Walmart. It's a diet drink, and I like to make it with HOT water. So it's like Hot Tang. Remember Tang? hehe


I hung with Captain America until he left for work around 8:15am. Then I started making cookies. Because I had bananas that needed used. I still have MORE bananas that need used, too. Hmpf!

Anyway, I made my favorite Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chunk Cookies. LOVE them!


12 Dozen cookies. Yeah, I wish I had a recipe that called for a TON of bananas but that didn't make 12 dozen cookies. LOL! I got 3 dozen all packaged up and ready to deliver to friends, and put the others in containers.

The ones that went on the plates got Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting on them. I meant to do the others, but I ran out of time. hehe.


So I got the kids all ready for school, and at 10:00am, I headed out for my therapy session. I left instructions with Jake on how to get Jimmy to the bus, and 2 plates of cookies for little Jacob's family and Elijah's family. And I brought one plate to my therapist. Because EVERYONE loves cookies, right? hehe.

Here's me, on the way to my appointment on the West Side.
And yeah, I was about 20 minutes early, so I went to Savers. Because it was only a few minutes away from the office. AND it was Monday, which was $0.99 one colored tag day. Yellow day, you know :)

I found a TON of shirts, but only 3 fit the way I liked. Some were WAY too big, and some were too small. There's not a standardization in sizes, you know... AND, I found 3 Formals. SO cool. ONE was lavendar and floor length, one was very light teal and floor length, and one was a black, cocktail length dress. And yeah, after trying them on, and then paying, I was late. I texted the Doctor, and told him that I was running a few minutes late. Yeah, I left the part out about Savers. ha!

I got there about 10 minutes late, but it was ok. It was a nice session, and we talked about how I've been feeling lately, and what I've been thinking about. You know, it's nice to talk to someone each week about stuff. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who has the chance :)

I hurried home after my session, and Captain America was home for lunch. He and Jake and I hung out until he went back to work at 1:00pm. Then Jake and I headed for the NEW Walmart on Montana. Because I love it over there. hehe. Sure, it takes 20 minutes to get there, but still, it's SO worth it.

Because I wanted a new laptop. Because my old one broke. And the one before that had issues too. And I was tired of legging it along. And I'd made enough money in my last paycheck to pay for it. Sa-weet! Thanks, girls :)

I wanted one that was a Dual Core, and one that had 4GB of ram (that's the right term, right?), and a 500 GB storage space. And a decent graphics card. And this one fit the bill! It's a Sony Vaio Series E. Jake and I looked around at all the different ones for quite a while, and even chatted with the Techy guy there that worked at Walmart about it.

AND, he told me how to hook up my HDMI cable between my computer and my big TV, and get the sound to work. I made sure that Jake listened real carefully, so that we could fix it when we got home. hehe.

Here's my new Laptop, in the cart. Woohoo!

We picked up a couple of things we needed (like sugar free cough drops, tooth paste, and a new yummy smelling candle (hey, that's essential in a house filled predominately with boys...), paid, and headed back home.

I went to the bus stop to pick up Jimmy, and we both headed back to the house. And I proceeded to install all my programs on the new laptop. And yeah, that's not the most enjoyable thing one can do with an afternoon..... It's very tedious, and time consuming. BUT, I made good headway before the kids got home from school.

And then, somehow, it was 4pm, and time to go to the pool. I got the kids all changed and flip flopped and toweled real fast, and out the door we went. Kari and kids and Karin and her daughter met us there. And we even stayed an extra 30 minutes, because the kids were having SO much fun.

Me and my Diet Dr Pepper. I only had 3 diet sodas today, and NO Circle K/Howdys. What is that, only 36 oz. hehe.

Check out the pile of flip flops and glasses they left on the bleachers. hehe.

Here's Karin and I

And little Joe, FREEZING to death. He doesn't have the body fat to keep him warm that some of the others do - hehe

Kari and I

Emeline and Josephine (Kari's daughter)

Sammi (Karin's daughter) and Jimmy

We hustled home, and Captain America was there! He'd just gotten off of work, and was eating dinner. I directed the kids to have one of 3 different kinds of sandwiches (or leftover rice from last night), and changed into my workout clothes. Captain America and I were gonna go to a Spin Class. Should be fun!

But first, we swung by Laurie's house to let Captain America help give her husband a blessing. He was feeling VERY sick, so Captain America and Mark Shoaf went over and performed the blessing. And Laurie showed me her car, where she'd ran into a pole. Ouch! It was crunched all down the drivers side. She'd driven it away, but it was gonna take some fixing to get it back to normal. Poor thing :(

And then we headed to spin. The kids were at home, doing homework and watching "Get Smart", after finishing their chores. SUCH good kids :)

Here's me, ready for Spin.

We got there about 10 minutes late, but still got a 47 minute Spin workout in. I was sweating like crazy! SUCH a good workout. And it was Captain America's 2nd workout today. He'd ran 4 miles at 3pm. Yeah, he's SO much more in shape than me - hehe. See how supportive he is, to come and do extra exercises with me :) Love ya, hon :)

We got home a little after 7pm, and joined the kids watching their movie. I'd never watched the whole Get Smart movie, and it was pretty funny. And I cooked dinner for myself, since I hadn't eaten before going to the gym.

And I finished transferring files over to the new laptop (thank GOODNESS for thumb drives), and even designed my WordArt for today on it! IT WORKS!!! It's now the newest addition to my family. hehe.

See, I love my new "baby"

And then, Captain America and I were teasing Jacob about how much FUN it's gonna be when he turns 14, and Captain America and I can chaperone the Stake Dances at church. Because I have some wicked crazy moves. And then I proceeded to show all the kids the moves. Captain America too, but he refused to be photographed. Me? Bring it on...


And then we put the kids to bed, and I finished up with my blogging, Captain America discussed for a while with Jacob, and here it is, 9:50pm. I think we may go to bed "early" tonight. I had a long day. BUT, I don't really feel sick. So that's a good thing. I think Tom is coming down with something, but hopefully it won't come to me, too...

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