My Beautiful Day

Not Me! Monday is a blog carnival started by MckMama . It provides an outlet, a way to admit to all of those things that you sheepishly have done this past week! Head over to her blog to check out other Not Me! moments! Almost a couple of weeks ago, in the midst of being tremendously ill, I absolutely did NOT soil myself FIVE times in one week. I always maintain full control of *ahem* that and would never lose control over my BMs! I absolutely did not burst out laughing when my three-year-old came up to me and was very concerned that he was "broken" because he "has a double-jointed face". I then did not have to spend almost a half hour consoling him because I certain had not hurt his feelings by my actions. While I was in Target today, I did not confuse the sweet old man who was standing near me by making him think I was talking to him while I was actually having a conversation using the bluetooth device on my cell phone. I am completely annoyed by peopl...

See this man? The super sexy one holding a dead bird and a gun? This man is my husband, Monte. He sent me this picture yesterday. He's hunting this weekend with his cousin, Blaine. I have an extremely obvious secret: I MISS HIM!! While I'm thrilled that he is out having a great time with the guys in his family, I'm feeling his absence at home. I miss his snoring. Not even kidding you, I miss his SNORING! It's something I've become so used to hearing that I miss it when I go to bed. I miss his warmth at night, too -- I had to add blankets to my bed last night because I was so cold! Most of all, I just miss his smile, I miss the way his eyes light up when he looks at me, I miss his goofyness and his laughter, I miss his teasing, I miss his hugs and kisses, I miss being in his arms .... *SiGh* Have I mentioned that I miss my husband? Cause I really do .... Tomorrow afternoon can't come soon enough. Be safe and come home soon my love!

This is my first time participating in this blog hop! Thanks to Mama M for creating it! 1. What celebrity have you been told you look like? I really don't think that I've been told that I look like a celebrity since I was younger when everybody thought I looked like Jody Sweetin (you know, the girl who played Stephanie on "Full House"). Now, I just look like me! :) 2. What is your all time favorite movie, any special reason why? Truth be told, my favorite movie is "Beauty and the Beast". I know, kinda cheesy that I like a kids' movie, but lets face it, it's a great love story about how the love of one person can win over the bitterness of even the most angry and resentful beast. I love it :) 3. Since we're talkin' movies...Popcorn: overrated, underrated, or 'bout right? All I can say on the popcorn is YES PLEASE! My husband and I share popcorn at every movie, even a majority of the ones we watch at home! It's just such...

This morning I blog entirely because I haven't updated since Tuesday. I blog because I hate it when people don't update their blogs (at least the ones that I follow religiously!). I blog because I'm finally starting to find that thing called energy who has chosen to hid itself from me for so very long. I blog because I just love to blog, even when I have nothing to talk about! Alright, let's talk doctor appointment. I love my doctor, I really do. She never makes me feel like she's rushing me in and out of there, she always takes time to discuss all of my concerns and she even takes time to ask me about my personal life. I'm truly blessed when it comes to my health care! As for the appointment, it went well. We chatted for a long time, I told her my symptoms, she wrote me a prescription to finally stop the diarrhea that's been plaguing me for a week and a half help me feel better. I went to the lab where they drew more blood to run more tests. Al...

That's right, I'm having a pity party. I am frustrated beyond belief that I am now nine days into being sick. Nine days of bland food. Nine days of nausea. Nine days of fevers. Nine days of crabby Kami!! Okay, truthfully speaking, I have not been crabby for nine straight days - but being sick with no reason why for nine days has me wanting to pull out my hair! I am fully understanding the fact that it could be MUCH worse than what it is. I am grateful that whatever has decided to plague my body is not something that is going to threaten my life. I'm thankful for an amazing husband who has stepped up and taken care of the house, making dinners, doing laundry and taking care of our kids -- all while my unhealthy self is laying in bed. My goodness I want my life back. So yes, today I am having a pity party - a pity party because I had plans to get together with a group of fabulous women today and I had to cancel. A pity party because I just am so sick and tired o...

Through my relationship with Monte, I have learned something about myself that I don't think I was completely aware of prior to being married: I am a very black-and-white no-room-for-gray, all or nothing personality.  This doesn't necessarily reflect my relationship with Monte, but it's something that I have learned about myself due to the fact that my amazing hubby has lots of room for gray and is definitely NOT all or nothing.  Is that good?  Is it bad?  Is one wrong and the other right?  I don't think so.  I just know that this is how we are individually, which compliments and sometimes makes things challenging as a couple.  As you may know, I've been sick this week.  I'm still not feeling fabulous, but I'm nowhere near as sick as I was.  That being said, on Wednesday night I told Monte that my goal for Thursday was to get all of our laundry done (being I haven't touched laundry since last week).  I'm a bit of an extremist!  Ca...

I picked Colin up from his first day of preschool today.  As we're driving away, I asked him how his morning was and if he liked preschool.  His response? "The guy teacher said 'Oh!!' really loud when I pushed on his butt." This was immediately followed with a long conversation as to why we are not allowed to touch people's butts!  Oh the things he says ....

Please forgive me for being away - but it was a busy, busy weekend! Friday night was family movie night - we rented a movie and relaxed together, it was so great! Saturday I got the chance to finally meet my bloggy friend, Christy, and three of her kids - what a wonderful time that was! We were able to chat and play and enjoy lunch while they were here and it was every bit as wonderful as I anticipated it would be! After they left, we kicked it into high gear and cleaned cleaned cleaned the house, as we had our first showing on Saturday. Once the house was clean, we headed out to the Incredible Festival (a.k.a. the local fair). We spent a few hours there letting the kids ride the rides, chatting with some of our friends and wiping off the sweat from an insanely hot day! Yikes it was hot! After a few hours in the heat, we headed back home so Monte and I could wash up and head to his 25 year class reunion! Yep, that's right, my love graduated high school when I was almost si...

I finally did it! After being an avid user of the BlogFrog, I've finally decided to start my own community. I would love to hear from you all - stop by the forum, start a discussion, add a comment onto one that's already there .. just make some noise! :) To visit my community, click on the My Community widgit (that green box in my left-hand column!) or go here . Can't wait to hear from you all!

I was a senior in high school, sitting in Mr. Tweeton's class. The class ended and I was walking out the door when I overheard our Dean of Students having a quiet discussion with my teacher, saying that the World Trade Center had been hit. Let's face it, I'm fairly naive as far as travels go, and I truly had no idea what the World Trade Center was! It took only a matter of about 10 minutes for me to truly understand. Instead of going to my next class, we were all to go into the library to watch news footage of what was going on. The horror before my eyes was more than I knew or could possibly understand. I sat with my eyes glued to the television screen for the rest of the school day. I had no comprehension of the fact that I hadn't eaten lunch, that I had skipped the few classes that were still being held, or of what was truly going on. I couldn't grasp the fact that someone would be so truly filled with hatred that they would want to commit such a heinous c...

Today, while I was helping Colin get dressed, I noticed that his sweat pants (which are my FAVORITE sweat pants of his, by the way) are seeming to be a little bit small. I noticed this and told him, "Colin you must be growing into an even bigger boy - look how your pants are getting short!" To which he responded, "Kami, can you please tell God to stop growing me? I just wanna be little like this." Me too, buddy, I want you to be little like this forever :)

I'm a newlywed, but I'm not a normal newlywed. On December 6, 2008 I was bound in marriage to the most wonderful man I've ever met. On December 8, 2008 we left for our honeymoon in Kaua'i, Hawai'i. We spent nine (eight? ten? I'm honestly not sure!) glorious days together in the pouring rain visiting tourist traps, eating out, enjoying our cottage by the sea ... it was a dream come true. Aaahhh the life of a newlywed. I'm a newlywed, but I'm not a normal newlywed. On December 6, 2008 I was bound in marriage to the most wonderful man I've ever met. On that same day, I was bound in marriage to the four most amazing step-children any woman could ask for. On the same day that I was began learning how to be a wife, I also began learning how to be a mom. Upon arrival back home from the sunshine pouring rain of Hawai'i, I became instant step-mother. I became the reader of bedtime stories, the kisser of owies, the preparer of dinner, the receiver of t...

Earlier this evening, I was at our local grocery store picking up produce when I ran into my sweet neighbor Susie. In the midst of conversation, she made an observation of the fact that I tend to put the miles on (my truck) when it comes to visiting people - and boy was she ever right! The more I think about it, the more I realize that I have absolutely no problem jumping in the car and taking a long drive to go visit a friend or family member for a few hours, and that I do it quite frequently. Take this past weekend for example. Monte and I took the kids to my mom and step-dad's house to spend Labor Day weekend fishing and relaxing. That's approximately 180 miles one way. Then today I spontaniously decided that Colin and I were going to go to visit my sister to have a "girls day" (Colin is NOT included in that definition!). That is approximately 45 miles. Trips like this are not all that uncommon in the day for me, especially when the kids are back in school....

When my husband and I began the project of fixing up our house to list for sale, I never imagined that it would consume me to the degree it did! I was overwhelmingly busy almost all of the time. Thankfully, however, the projects are very close to being finished and I just had to share some of our hard work with all of you! These are pictures of my flower gardens (and yes, I realize that my shadow is right in the middle of the first one, but in order to get this posted when I want to, I just had to take that picture then!). Seeing these look so good is a big deal complete miracle! This is the first time that they had been weeded at all this summer - add the mulch on top of it and they look great! I couldn't have done it, though, without help from my mother-in-law, Marion, and my good friend, Kristin. Thanks so much ladies - I appreciate you both so much! Right next to the flower gardens is our huge driveway. What good is a driveway if it is old and cracked and needs to be replaced...