This Is Me Today...

....and that is all I'm sayin!

Green Grass and Work Stuff

These are some of the pictures from last weekend I have been meaning to put on here. My dad's yard is always so pretty in the spring. Jayke loves running through the garden with the "boys" on his heels. Brady and Brody, my dad's dogs like to chase him but often get side tracked by fighting with each other.





I have some other pictures of him running around out there but in the few minutes it took me to upload these two pictures I lost the others somehow. WTH! I will have to go back and upload all 500 of them again and see if I can manage to hold onto them. I took a bunch of him at soccer the other night too I wanted to put on here.

I have come to the conclusion that I work with a bunch of lunatics. Our two bosses being two of the biggest of them all. Today the CEO wanted us to go out and try to herd a goose out of the puddle in our parking lot. She actually asked Laura, our receptionist to do it and I jumped up and asked if I could go get my arsenal of cameras out of the car to film/photograph the undertaking. I'm sure it would have been quite interesting. This is not the only reason I think they are all nuts...that is too complicated to describe on this little blog entry.

One of my favorite reasons is something I like to call musical chairs. Someone is always rolling a chair around the office. Laura is always falling out of her chair. I will hear a big crash and I don't even have to look anymore...I just know it was Laura falling out of her chair. Sara crashed her chair into the wall today trying to roll through the door. This was all before we went to lunch where we debated having the pina coladas with our shrimp. We passed on the coladas...just knowing we had to ride back with Laura driving while sober was scary enough let alone riding back with her after having drinks.

Tomorrow Laura and I will be parked at the front desk together. She is training me to do her job so I can be her backup. I feel sorry for anyone who comes up to the front desk for anything. Between the two of us it is hard to get a serious non-sarcastic answer. Good thing our bosses love that about us. They are the first ones to admit it too. The poor mail man may just skip our pick up tomorrow when he sees us waiting for him. It's a wonder we get any work done!

Here She Is!

Here is my cousin, his wife, and the new baby. My mom thinks she looks just like Jaykeb. I agree...they both looked like little babies (okay maybe big babies).

Fa La La la La...

I got a note from the school today that Jaykeb will be performing along with his class in a Spring Sing concert. The two songs they will be singing are If Your Happy and You Know It and One Two Buckle My Shoe. We We had a sneak peak performance tonight and I think I need to practice with him. He sounded like a raspy old man...on purpose of course. He has a hard time being serious.

We got his t-ball pants tonight and they are adorable. He had to wear them of course and got watermelon all over them. They are white. Perfect color for small people to wear out in the dirt and grass.


I have pictures from the weekend to put on here but I can't find them on this laptop now that I uploaded them and I'm too tired to look. I'm still getting used to this thing. Will try again tomorrow.

Congratulations Ry and Serenity!

My cousin and his wife had their baby girl today. I'm sure I will probably spell her name wrong, but welcome Corinne! Sorry if I spelled that wrong. I'm sure if I did I will be corrected. I definitely know what is like to have your child's name spelled wrong.

Speaking of my child...another funny Jaykeism...

Speaking to my dad today, he said,"My mom is a Repelican and I'm a repelican too! Your a democrat P'pa!" I will be so glad when the election coverage is over. My child talks about Barack Obama way too much!

B*I*N*G*O!

Several years ago before I had Jaykeb I was in a Bingo club. Why? I don't know. Probably because Angi talked me into it. I went a few times and basically decided I didn't like it. All the women seemed to talk about was poop. Since I didn't have any children at the time I didn't find these conversations interesting in the least.I never won anything either so I really didn't like it. I dropped out of bingo and swore I'd never go back.

Tonight I went to Bingo. Angi is very good at talking people into things and I try to stay busy these days as much as possible. Tonight it was all girls from Angi's neighborhood who I know, Melanie, and one of the original Bingo girls. It was the same old game but this time I won. And I won...and I won again! Made it even better that the prizes were cash. I was slightly disappointed that the conversation did manage to get on the topic of poop though. I made sure I pointed out the fact that all those years ago they were talking about poop and tonight they were again. Over 5 years and I didn't miss a thing!

I don't know if I will go to Bingo again. If I win like I did tonight I might have to though! Maybe my luck is changing. Got some good, I think, news about my dad and won at Bingo. I'm taking it all as a good sign.

Today was national take your kid to work day. I wasn't able to take mine with me but he did go to work. He helped the guys who work for Jim tear out my grandma's patio so it can be replaced. Jaykeb got over there, saw them working, and went right in to get his tool box. He worked and worked helping tear out all the bricks. When the guys stopped for lunch he got real upset and wanted to go to lunch too. My mom had to take him and Grammy to McDonalds for lunch and the whole time he was worried about getting back in time to meet the guys to go back to work. She had to bribe him to get him to leave. I think I may need to hire him out.

Score!

This is where I spend the greater portion of my life these days...



....my desk. Can I just say I love Administrative Assistants Week! Our boss got us all flowers today. She loves to give her employees gifts. I don't know how many times in a month the employee of the month gets flowers. Anyway...you can also see my mini shrine to the main man in my life sitting there on my desk and on the bulletin board above. I couldn't put much of my desk in the picture because of HIPPA laws. Just a tiny glimpse into my day.


Jaykeb scored a goal tonight! Oma and Opa went with us and we were all VERY excited. I couldn't believe our team. It was like some other team was wearing our grey shirts out there! They were all great. Much more fun to watch. The swamp is finally dried up now too so the ground is easier to run on...maybe that is what made the difference. Whatever it was I was very happy with the boy. The two of us hit the Pizza King after the game for a celebratory pizza. I was doing so well on my diet this week too...oops. Start over tomorrow.

Typical Male...

I know this isn't a very good picture but I don't always have the Nikon on hand so I rely on the Chocolate...picture phone. We start T-ball this weekend so I figured we better at least hit it off a tee once before our game. No problem although in this picture he hit the tee instead of the ball. I'm hoping they pitch to them the first few then go to the tee.



I got home from work today and my mom told me that Jaykeb went into the bathroom to pee today and took a pencil with him. When he got in there and got his pants down he pretended to take a measurement. Where he learns these things I don't know but the funniest part was what the measurement ended up being...101 inches! All I can say to that is they must be born with that desire to have things be larger than what they actuaqlly are because I know he hasn't heard that around the house!

HELLO? HELLO?

It is just a normal thing any more to come downstairs and discover Gramma trying to make a phone call on the television remote control. Strange, but normal if that makes sense. Remember the rock eating post? She takes it all in stride though, laughing at herself instead of getting upset. Jayke now pretends his buses are driving to pick up old people and take them to the nursing home...guess he hears a lot of talk about that. He used to have all the guys driving trucks divorcing someone. I like to listen to him playing so I can find out what he is thinking about. If you ask him he will just say he doesn't know. Typical.

Smokin' Meat!

What is it with men and their meat? They are constantly buying something bigger and better to cook it in or on. If you ask me it is just something else to have to find a place for. Opa got this new smoker the other day and had to smoke some ribs out in the driveway. He first had to destroy my mom's kitchen though whipping up his homemade rub and sauce. I don't know how long it took this meat to cook but they were setting up when I dropped Jayke off before work in the morning and the meat came off the smoker at 6p.m. That is a lot of work when Damon's is just down the road! Seriously they were good though. Jayke loves ribs!




As you can see Opa had an assistant helping him all day. Jaykeb even asked my mom to leave so he could hang out with just Opa. Just a couple of guys bonding over some meat.


There were some other activities going on in the driveway while that meat was smoking too. We will just call this Jayke's version of bobsledding. You take a rolling gardening stool, add one Oma, and one fearless child and you have Garden Carting! No, I did not take a ride on the garden cart. If anyone were to fall off the thing it would be me.


One good push and kiddo went flying all the way down the driveway into the grass. Others were brave enough to take a turn on the flying garden cart and because of my fear of my mother killing me I am not showing the end results of this ride. Lets just say that all three of them, my mom, Jayke, and the cart ended up in a heap in the yard. I have action shots the entire way but I know she would not be happy about them ending up on here. They were not of her most flattering side.


Grammy came over for some spicy smoked ribs too. It was the first really nice day so we all just hung in the driveway with the men and their meat. Jayke is already working on his tan as I'm working on not getting a sunburn. Lucky kid got his dad's good skin. Mine just burns.



I have to give a brief earthquake update. When I got up and went downstairs Grammy wanted to know if I had fealt it. I told her yes and she told me that she woke up thinking my dogs had somehow gotten in the house and were underneath her bed scratching themselves and making her bed shake. I heard many more stories all day at work of what others thought it was and I guess Grammy's theory wasn't so far off...turns out several people thought it was their dogs scratching and making the bed shake. Bed shaking yes, but making the pictures above the bed bang on the wall is something else!

5.4

It's just not right, when you live in central Indiana, to be awakened by and earthquake. It shook the bed so hard it woke me up and that is not an easy thing to do usually. I woke up, laid there a minute, determined it was just and earthquake, rolled over and went back to sleep. It takes more than an earthquake to get me up before my alarm goes off!

Batter Up!

I finally got Jayke into a baseball league playing t-ball. Not my first choice but my second. We are going to be busy now. This means there will be more super cute pictures of the wee one in a cute little uniform. That and he will be playing the sport he is the best at. Hopefully he will be okay with hitting the ball off a tee...he likes to be pitched to. That will take some getting used to.



This was taken after leaving the ballpark the other night. We went to watch Angi's son practice and let the kids play on the playground. We hit the Delta Queen afterwards for icecream. Kiddo was two fisted.

The Boy is still refusing to kick the ball at soccer. He runs all over the field chasing it but won't kick it. He does great when they are practicing their skills but as soon as they start the game something happens to him. Guess we will have to drag our goals out in the yard and recruit some grandparents to play against us to get him used to taking the ball away from someone. Oma went with us tonight so she understands what the problem is now.

Jayke is going to be staying with gradparents during the summer instead of going to school. One good thing about this is he will be learning to swim while at my dad's. I enlisted Meemaw and Ppa for daycare/swimming lessons. Jaykeb is also finally going to get his own bedroom. He doesn't have one right now in Grammy's house but we are going to fix that very soon. I have fealt bad that he doesn't have his own room so we are turning the playroom into his bedroom. He can just play in his bedroom. He has been promised by his dad that if he starts sleeping in his own bed that he will get bunk beds. Jayke has been obsessed with bunk beds for as long as I can remember. He doesn't really ask for much so we figured we can give him this if he does his part. I will probably end up sleeping in the bottom bunk some nights.

It's looking like we are going to have a busy summer. We have already kicked off the season with the tradition of my mom getting the lawnmower stuck in the mud and Jim having to come pull her out with his truck. You would think she would learn her lesson but she doesn't ever seem to. She does this every year! She has a record with lawnmowers. When she was a kid she drove my grandpa's brand new lawn mower straight into the pond. I'm surprised anyone lets her on one anymore. Oh well, as long as my yard gets mowed it's all good!

Fuzzball

When the kid starts looking like an exploded dandelion it is time for a haircut! The Boy has decided that he wants to wear his hair in a mohawk. I've had to bust out the hairspray and gel several times alreay and try to get his stubborn hair to stand up. He ends up looking like a blonde rooster and thinks he needs to run around head-butting everyone when his hair is styled in this manner. This, of course, ruins the hawk and we have to start over. I have enough trouble getting myself to work in the morning without having to style The Boy's hair. He is too young to start that! I also can't afford to double my hair product budget. No, I do not have a picture of the blonde hawk yet. I will get one next time it is requested.

I finally had my review today! Yeah! More money! My boss is very happy with me. She even gave Jaykeb a new soccer ball. I think that makes 6 soccer balls for us now. I have no idea how we ended up with so many. You know boys can never have enough balls...snicker.

We Play in a Swamp!

These late nights are killing me. Late as in I'm out past 6:30. No really by the time we get home from soccer and I strip the boy out of his outer layer of mud coated clothing, get the laundry started, feed The Boy and Grammy then get him hauled up to bed(the bath will have to wait until morning) it is past nine o'clock which is late for us. Late for just getting home from work. I'm not used to this stuff. Coming out of retirement is killing me.

Tonight we played Taylor with the long hair's team. They smoked us. We are the grey team and the kids chose the name the Grey Elephants. I think it is appropriate for them because they all kind of lumber along. Jayke has some new issue with not kicking the ball. He has decided he doesn't want to kick it. He spends the entire time following either Trenton or Caleb around the field mimicking there every move unless they actually kick the ball. He does't immitate that move. I bribed him tonight with a trip to a secret place this weekend if he would kick it once. He went right out and kicked it then ran down the field looking backwards to make sure I saw it.

As you can see above it is very muddy here. The kids are all covered with mud by the time they are finished. The parents are pretty wet and muddy too. I'm hoping for some warmer weather soon because I freeze out there and I know the kids have to be cold too.

I have yet to have my review at work. My boss seems to think she has more important things to do like the end of the month and hiring 3 new people. I beg to differ with her. Maybe tomorrow she will get around to me. I need a raise so I can buy my kid who has decided to start growing like a weed all of a sudden new clothes. He has grown 4 inches in 5 months! I didn't think I would ever see the day. He is still small for his age though. That is okay with me for now. He is growing up too fast as it is.

What Did You Say?!?

There is something just not right when you hear the following phrases from your four year old...

"Hush up and drive!"
"I'll be on you like stink on a hog!"
"Isn't my peepee cute?"

and my personal favorite...

"Fix me a waffle woman!"

What We've been Up to...

I have a ton of pictures I've been meaning to put on here so I'm trying to get most of them up here tonight. I will try to give brief descriptions when necessary but mostly this will just be pictures.

First is our trip to the Farm Festival. A field trip with Jaykeb's class. I went with them. Isabelle was our partner. I particularly like the one of him milking the cow. He and Isabelle had a big discussion on the bus about what kind of potatos they each dislike. Turns out neither of them like mashed potatos...I think it is a match made in heaven!







Next is coloring Easter eggs at Meemaw's and P'pa's. Look at the green fingers... We called him Shrek for a couple of days.





The next few are of Opa and Jayke fishing the other day. Jayke caught his first fish although he isn't counting it because Opa had to help him. I'm counting it though. It was small and they threw it back of course. They fished a couple of times that day but only caught two. I guess it needs to warm up more. Opa was explaining all the stuff in the tackle box to Jaykeb and carefully going through everything with him. After that Jayke walked into the bedroom and told my mom, "I know how to fish, I don't need all that talk!" Anyone who knows Jim would see why I think this is so funny...lots of talk!





The last group of pictures are of my super soccer star! We started outdoor soccer tonight. I was really pleased that the indoor soccer really helped and Jayke was one of the better ones on his team. He is a little directionally challenged when he gets the ball though and sometimes runs the wrong way. That is when having a loud mom on the sidelines comes in handy. I had to help the coaches out too because they are new at this. The field was a swamp and we were trying to determine who got the most muddy...Jayke or Mommy. I think I was dirtier. I will be glad when the fields dry up a little.

I love how cute he looks in his soccer gear. We are still trying to get into t-ball but it isn't looking like it is going to happen. I waited too long and it may conflict with soccer. If we don't get in I will try earlier next year. I think I can teach him baseball anyway since I played softball in school.










I may have more but I have a sleepy boy who needs to go to bed so I'm off to the other room. I'm trying to get better about blogging again. I still need to get my laptop hooked up. I also have another new obsession...the Wii. I LOVE Smashbrothers Brawl! So much to do and so little time.

Ninety Day review tomorrow...hopefully that means more money. Keep your fingers crossed!

Late Easter Post

Jayke finally sat on the bunnie's lap this year. I did have to enlist Angi's kids to go with us to make this happen though. He hopped right up there and got his picture taken without any protesting at all. I think it turned out really cute too! Best one yet. I wish I had had him take his jacket off but he was already up there before I even realized it. Oh well.



We did eggs at my dad's house and got HUGE Easter baskets from the grandpa Easter bunny. We had Easter brunch at my mom's after a big egg hunt at Grammy's house. His eater eggs had little dogs in them which thrilled him to no end. Daddy had left a bag of goodies last time he visited too so he got way too much crap for Easter. He even said so himself, "Boy I got a lot of CRAP!" Yes, watch your mouth boy.

So, that is my way late Easter post which I am cramming in real quick while my mom is waiting on me to go help her haul stuff to and from the barn. I will have to put a post up later about the neighbors butchering our pine trees and the impending law suit that is heading their way. Sick people!

Yummy!

It gets scarier by the day here at casa de crazy. Jayke put a bag of rocks that he picked up at Oma's on the kitchen table the other day. The following day My gramma told my mom that she thought it was salt water taffy and tried to take a bite out of one. Okay, I can accept that, even though I'm wondering why she wouldn't have tried to unwrap the rock taffy before chomping into it. What I'm finding hard to accept is that the very next day she saw the same bag of rocks on the table and this time thought it was toffee and tried to eat ANOTHER ONE! Two days...two rocks. WTH?

Yeah...I know St. Patty's Day is Over...

I'm BACK...again! I know it has been a while and you probably thought I'd given up on this blog thing. I actually thought I had but I got ambitious tonight and decided to put something on here. Let's see...I missed St. Patrick's Day. Turns out this is my boss's favorite holiday and she gave away a great gift...which I didn't win...that day if you wore green.

Both Jayke and I were totally decked out for the holiday which is also the anniversary of my grandfather's death. We figured Grammy could use some cheering up that morning so we came down wearing LOTS of green...see below...





It worked...she was cracking up at the leprechaun and his side kick.

I don't really feel like a whole lot has happened since I last blogged. There was a field trip that involved milking a cow but I will save that for a later post since I don't have the pictures uploaded yet. I did get 8 inches of my hair cut off and am ready to go back in and get more chopped off. Okay...the 8 inches only came off the back and the front is still as long as it was, think Posh Spice, and I love it!

I made a new friend at work, Laura. She and I hang out, go shopping, and out to lunch together. She has a daughter, Hannah, who is almost 5 years old. She is going to play soccer with Jayke starting April 7th. We have been practicing and I got Jayke a super cute bag that has his name on it to haul all our gear out to the sports plex twice a week.

Another friend at work is Sara. She is my office mate. Our jobs kind of go together and we help each other a lot. Laura is right next to us and it is a wonder we get anything done. I do get tons done though. My boss and the CEO of the company tracked me down the other day to tell me that since I've started credit card payments are higher than they have ever been in the history of the company and they think it is because I have gotten so many closure letters out to collect from patients. My review is coming up in a few days...should be getting a raise then. There is more going on with that too but I will talk about that another time.

Jayke and I both got rollerblades and we are going to start skating. I took him to the rollerrink the other day and he amazed me. He put those skates on and went right out there. No fear! I had to have bigger kids chasing after him half thetime to bring him back to me. He was heading out to the center to do the hokey pokey at one point...all by himself! Crazy. Next time we go I'm going to lace em up with him.

We had Easter at our house, my mom's and my dad's. Got way too much candy and several Nintendo DS games from the Easter bunny. We are now on a search for a Wii. My sister had managed to buy two and is looking for two more now. Jayke and I have become Mario junkies so we have to get a Wii so we can play Brawl, Paper Mario, and Mario Galaxy. We are obsessed! Nintendo has taken up my blogging time. It has actually taken up my tv viewing time too.

Well, that is enough of what's going on with us for now. If you have emailed me and I have not answered it is because I am never on the computer anymore. I sit in front of one all day so coming home to one is not what I want to do. I will update now and then when I can though. TTFN!

Monkeying Around

Two monkeys playing games. We are obsessed, addicted, whatever you want to call it to the Nintendo DS. Super Mario brothers and Sonic to be exact. Here The Boy is laying on his monkey Daddy got him for Valentines Day playing his game.

Not much going on in our lives. Work, school, and soccer. Soccer ends next weekend and will start outside in April. I can't wait.

My boss is adding more things to my job...I am that good. I am fast and she loves that because I have totally caught them up with MDPREPS which is when we turn people over to collections who have not paid their bills. I also require very little training for some reason. Tomorrow is the big employee of the month thing so I may win something again...who knows. Not really like me to be lucky and win things but maybe my luck is changing for once since I won last time. I have yet to watch the movie I won last month. I just don't watch much tv anymore. I'm not on the computer much anymore either. I'm not home that much when I think about it. What the heck do I do all the time?