I've Been........

BUSY!!!

Kendalyn moved down to our basement about 5 months ago and her walls were in desperate need of some COLOR!! It was so sterile, and now - well, it has some real personality! She picked out the color and we found this great bookcase and pink bins at IKEA - love it... I am still a little hesitant about how bright it is, but I think it will just take some getting used to. In the meantime, she absolutely LOVES it and I love that...

A FABULOUS FIRST DAY

The Girls
Bongos (aka: Adri)
Little Miss Skinny Jeans (Kendalyn LOVES them)
Today was the first day of school and it was SO great to be back on a schedule, although I am feeling the "tired" effects about now. I LOVE that suddenly, my kids are jumping out of bed, making them, and getting dressed all enthusiastically and if you can believe it (I barely can) no fighting - hurray for school days!!! Kendalyn started 3rd grade this year (that's right - I'm getting old) and she LOVED it and loves her teacher too. Adri had a "meet and greet" with her teacher who is amazing and really nice, but doesn't officially start until next Monday(boo)- it didn't stop her from thinking that is was her first day and wearing her "first day" outfit - oh well, she did look super cute.
So, all in all, a successful first day to a hopefully successful year....

I HEART My Sister!!

So, my cute sister Cindy just left back to Minnesota and I am seriously missing her! We honestly have the BEST time together and I just LOVE being with her. My kids absolutely adore their "Aunt Cinny" and she adores them even more I think. We always have tons of laughs - and I mean TONS, and I am SO glad I have such a fun sister.
Here are some funny pics of our week together and maybe they are only funny to us - who knows!! We went through THE best carwash ever - it was even free, we also saw some super yucky fashion trends that I hope go away VERY soon, we bought four containers of Ice Cream - it really wasn't all for us, we watched Empire Records - a SUPER great movie from our teenage years, and we saw Julie and Juila - a great flick! Anyway - lots of fun - MISS YOU CIND!!!

-Empire Records - I don't know why this pic is SO small
-The "yucky" silver leggings
-At Chucky Cheese it seems I am better at Ski Ball than Cinders
-Yucky STIRRUP trend
-In THE best carwash ever - okay, it helped that it was FREE90FREE
-At WINGERS celebrating my bro. Brent's B-day - worst waitress I think I have ever had

Ticket to Ride - 177 - SERIOUSLY!!!

Our Routes
Me and Cinders
My "nice" 177
Cindy - trying to look mad
Brent and Spence ALSO trying to look mad
Brent - always making us laugh

So, I just had to post this - I cannot believe I have beaten my two (yes, TWO) previous high scores on this game - it is INSANE!! Now, I am SURE someone has gotten much higher than this, but I personally have never seen or heard about higher and we have played this game ALOT! My first highest score was a 169 (see older post) and last Sunday night I pulled off a 171 - AMAZING.. You have to be incredibly LUCKY to get this score, which I was each of the 3 times - hee hee.. Anyway, we got some nice photos I thought:)