Time out for Women

The pictures aren't that great... I'm a little upset because normally my camera takes great pictures, but for some reason it really didn't do a great job. A lot of fuzzy blurry ones came out. :(

Anyway. Me and four other mom's (and one babe) from church went together and we stayed at a hotel that night and went out to eat and stayed up till 3:30 am! There were also some other friends that were there that didn't stay at the hotel with us. We had a great time though and I'm so glad that we did this. In the pictures the baby is almost always in a different person's arms... we just took turns holding the baby throughout the day and we all enjoyed our time. :)

I was tagged with this:

If you were on a deserted island.....


1. What 3 foods would you hope you could find on the island?

2. What 5 full albums would you have to have with you? ( play the game, dont think about how to play them LOl)

3. What Gilligan's Island character would you want with you?

4. How you would spend your day?

5. What 3 items would you hope washed ashore with you?


So here goes... :)

1. What 3 foods would you hope you could find on the island? chocolate, water, pizza

2. What 5 full albums would you have to have with you? ( play the game, dont think about how to play them LOL) Um... I'm so not a music person... I listen to it, but I enjoy silence... :) Some compilation cd of various christian rock bands. Songs from a secret garden- it always soothes me when I'm stressed. Compilation of church childrens songs/ hymns. Some compilation of more upbeat dance music- but I have no idea what the names of the songs or artists are...

3. What Gilligan's Island character would you want with you? Isn't Gilligan the goofy one??? I want him. Then all the funny accidents can happen to him and not me. :)

4. How you would spend your day? Sleeping, eating, walking, sleeping...

5. What 3 items would you hope washed ashore with you? A change of clothes, A laptop with internet connection??? (hey if we don't have to think about how to play the cd's on #2.. :) ), Books.

Yet another example of the odd places my kids will fall asleep

Saturday night we got a babysitter for the kids and Dave, Amanda, Rich and I went out on a double date. I went to pick up the babysitter and drop off Ashley at a friends house for a birthday party, I took Alyssa with me, but I didn't want to take Angela with me because she hadn't had a nap that day and I KNEW she would fall asleep in the car if I took her with me.

I came home to find this:



Angela had cried when I left and Rich tried to console her, but she kept crying and running to the garage and crying for me. After a little while Rich just left her alone and made dinner for the kids so it would be ready when I got back. She must have just fallen asleep right before we came home. We left her laying there and told our babysitter to move her after we had left. We didn't want to try and move her and wake her up and then leave her again while she was crying for me...

A surprise visit

The following conversation is real. It was not staged or scripted in any way. I may have forgotten the specific words, but it'll give you the general gist of the conversation.


Thursday night- 9:09 pm.

The phone rings- I've just gotten Alyssa to sleep. Angela took a nap today and she is still awake. Rich picks up the phone, see's it's an arizona cell phone and hands it to me...

Me: "Hello!" {I know it's Amanda- she's coming out the next weekend to go to Time out for Women with me}
Amanda: "Are you ready for a fun filled weekend?"
Me: "I'm getting excited!"
Amanda: "I had the worst longest day today and I kept telling myself- just till 5 o'clock, and then I'm done..."
Me: "chuckle"
Amanda: "so I told you our flight stuff and you know we are coming in really late right?"
Me: "yeah- your landing around midnight, so you'll get here close to 1am right?"
Amanda: "Yep- are you guys going to be asleep- do we need to come in the side door?"
Me: "no... we'll be up that's fine we won't make you sneak in like you normally do at 3am... :)"
Amanda: "Okay, we'll we are just about to get on the plane"
Me: "Huh? Your at the airport? Your coming today?"
Amanda: "Yeesss..."
Me: "Um... Time out for Women is Next weekend..."
Amanda: "Your kidding me right? Your joking right? Your going to say Gotcha any minute right?"
Me: "Uh... no?" laughing... "but you can still come... :) Rich actually has tomorrow off of work so he'll be around the house anyway and we'll just hang out and do something other than Time out for Women."
Amanda: "I can't believe this..." laughing...
Me: "really... we'll still have fun... :) I'll see ya at 12:30 or so... "
Amanda: "Okay, (in the background) I can't believe I got the wrong weekend, see you in a few hours!"
Me: "Bye" click. "Well Rich- Dave and Amanda are going to be here tonight at midnight! "




Fortunately the house wasn't in too bad of shape and we just had to move Ashley over to the girls room to share with them for a few nights and change some sheets and pick up some toys upstairs...

We had a fun time with them this weekend and are glad that they came, even if it was a week early. :)

Pinewood Derby pictures

Here are the pictures from the pinewood derby.

We need to give a great big Thank You to Rich's parents who helped Alex make the car. They worked with him to cut it out, sand it, and paint the base color on the car.

His car is the blue with yellow and green stripes all along the top and sides.