I'm a good cook!

Really I am. But here is why I feel I must announce it. Sunday Cody was sick. He had some kind of stomach virus. He did not have a temp and he did not throw up. Just felt sick to his stomach. But this kid never throws up. Maybe 2 times ever (takes after his mom).

Then he still did not feel the best on Monday. Monday night I made the chicken taco soup. Cody and I both liked it. But Brayden did not. I made him eat it. Late that night, or early Tuesday morning about 3 AM, Brayden woke up and went to throw up in the bathroom. He proceeded to throw up a couple of more times between then and 4 AM. Now this one has a very sensitive stomach. He throws up all the time. But around 4 AM he proceeded to tell me that it was the soup that made him sick! I tried to convince him that he got it from his brother & he agreed somewhat but then said it was the soup too!

Both kids are better now, thank goodness - I ate the soup & I am fine. How good of a cook are you?

Garage Sale

This weekend was pretty restful. It was GREAT weather. I had a garage sale Friday and Saturday. It went really well. I sold a TON of JUNK. A lot of stuff that I wanted to get rid of and actually planned on selling & a TON of stuff that I thought would never sell - sold. I just told these guys that came in that anything on the two shelves that I had was for sell too. There was so much stuff on the shelves that I did not even know what was on there. Several men rummaged through the shelves & bought some stuff. THEN on Saturday morning this one guy bought almost 80% of the stuff on the two shelves. I WAS and still am so happy. I just cannot believe that I got rid of all that stuff. THEN he came back today to buy something else that he was looking at & of course never sold. I would definately call it a success.

We had great weather for the sale too. Yesterday and today rained a lot. It was good to have the rain, and good for me to stay in and get a lot done around the house.

Saturday night we went for a cook out at some friends' house. We had a really good time. We had tons of great food and then some of the teens and adults played volleyball. Good times, good times.

I started tanning last week - 1st time I have been in a tanning bed in almost 11 years!!! And today I received a call from my tanning place that I have won a free tan & free tanning lotion!! Just what I need - not. I only wanted to go a couple of times. I burned myself last time, in very uncomfortable places. Places that have not seen the sun in 11 years! So I guess I will go again tomorrow & see what damage I can do. Do you fake & bake?

Never too old to hunt eggs...

Unless you are Cody. He decided that he did not want to hunt eggs this year. I think it was because he thought that he was going to have to choose between Paint ball or egg hunt. He chose paint ball. But paint ball got off to a late start. So let me back this train up. Last Saturday, we went to our friends house & had an Easter egg hunt & cook out. That was pretty fun. I got some sun. First "sun" of the year.

Sunday the boys were with Shannon. I went out to mom & Marvin's where we had Easter dinner. That was nice. The grandparents were there, Al & Evelyn, Uncle Phil, Mia, Aunt Teri & Cody. We thought the Easter bunny had lost his mind since he could not remember where the last egg was, but apparently we just cannot count. Because after we gave up hunting, we recounted and discovered that Cody had more eggs than he thought.

So then we went down to the doc. It was so nice out. Cody went swimming, it was a little cool. The water temp is about 65 degrees. The lake is WAY down. But it was really windy. Mom wanted to get the jet skies out, but too windy. I went home and mowed the lawn. All in all a pretty relaxing weekend.

Easily Amused

A couple of weekends ago, I was in an Ikea. I have been in Ikea before, but not this one. This one had an escalator for my shopping cart. How fun is that??? I was so amused by it I had to take a picture. Thank goodness for camera phones. This is my actual cart (with my new purse in it). Anyway, do you watch American Inventor? I do not. So I do not know if there are any "great" ideas on that show. If there are tell me about them. Because I am continually amazed at this kind of stuff. There are some clever people out there. Not that I think that they are necessarily smarter than some of the people that I know. They just "see" things and are able to make it work. I just thought this was crazy cool.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CODY

March 29th was the Code-man's birthday. 11th to be exact. Like I mentioned before, I am behind on my blog postings. 4 more weeks of school and I am done for the summer - things should calm down for me then. I digress - anyway, last Friday Cody had his friends over for a sleep over. We went out for pizza and then went ice skating. He had Dallas (Brayden's preschool teacher's son), Colin (Cody's band teacher's son) and Josh (the Principal's son) over (am I supposed to be a teacher?). Anyway, the boys had a really good time. They were really sweet. They kept saying, "Miss Kira, this is really fun." I tried to get them to quit calling Miss Kira, but it did not work. We all had a good time. Minus the "incident".

Before pizza, I needed to run into Blockbuster to rent a movie for school. I was in there less than 3 minutes. I was paying & Cody calls me from the car. He informs me that Colin has gotten the boys wrestling. I could see them from where I was standing, so I tell Cody to put Colin on the phone. I tell Colin to sit down & that I can see him. So, I head out to the car. When I get out there, one of the boys Josh has a bloody nose. NOT from Colin - which I assumed it was from him. Well Josh is sitting there, blood running down his face ALL over his shirt. I freak out - like a good mom & tell him to pinch his nose. He pinches & lets go. I ask, "have you ever had a bloody nose before?" To which he informs me no, as blood is still dripping all over him. I tell him to pinch his nose & HOLD it until I get back. So I run back into Blockbuster, get some papertowels & head back out to the car. By then the nose has stopped bleeding. I had to take him to the restaurant with blood all over him & his clothes. Luckily they had clothes with them. So I sent the boys into the bathroom to change & get cleaned up. Josh handled it all very well. They all thought it was no big deal. They just kept apologizing to me, sweet boys. It was not big deal to me either except for the fact that this kid gets his first bloody nose under my care!!

So what happened? Josh jokingly pushed Dallas into the side of the car, Dallas pushes Josh, but in the face & causes a bloody nose!

I am used to bloody noses. I used to get them all the time, for awhile I had one EVERY night. Cody got them all the time. I would go into his room when he was a toddler & blood would be everywhere. Brayden has gotten one or two. Have you ever had a bloody nose?

Good Bye Katie

I discovered today that Katie (we are on a first name basis) is leaving the Today show. I am most disappointed by this. When I worked from home I would watch the show every morning. I like Katie. I think she is cute & fun. I was sorry to see that the producers made her dress so conservative & "old" though.

I do not watch evening TV, so I guess I will not get to see how she is doing. But good for her for being the first evening solo anchor woman!! I am happy to see her move to CBS, as I like CBS new better than NBC. Do you watch morning shows? How does this effect my life? It does not. Just something random that gets my mind off the "real" drama in my life. Good useless junk to blog about!

Belated Postings

Now that I am working full time it apears that I cannot keep my blog updated regularly. So, not only am I updating only weekly lately, I am behind the times. I am blogging about things that happened the week prior. Hopefully one day I will get caught up.

This is a picture taken last weekend in Tulsa. The boys & I went to the Tulsa International Soul Winning Workshop. I used to go all the time. I have not been in 10 years. I had a really good time. I got to hear Max Lucado. I really pleasure to hear such a great Christian author.

This group is part of my old youth group. It was like a reunion of sorts of the "girls". The man is our youth minister. I really enjoyed catching up with such great friends. I also got to see some other friends from the youth group. It was just a really great weekend to catch up. I miss them and remembered what great times those were & what great friends that they were/are.

I drove around my "home" town of Tulsa. So many memories there. I really never could say where my "home" is, but I think that label now belongs to Tulsa. That is my "home" and I have many great memories of that place.

Not to mention the fact that I still have family there. My brother, his girlfriend, my soon-to-be nephew, sister, her husband, niece & nephew. I did see my brother for a baby shower last weekend too. I am so excited for them. Funny thing, my youth minister in the picture above is the uncle of my brother's girlfriend. So we were at the same baby shower. SMALL WORLD!