January 15 of 15...

So, I decided to challenge myself and do a 15 of 15 this month... Not really!! I am not sure what happened to me on the 12th but I think it had something to do with the fact that I was starting to not feel too great and that Tim was home and following me around all day. I really did take my camera with me everywhere I went that day, I just didn't take any pictures. Oh well, now you get to see the joys of my first day back to school this semester! As always, 12 of 12 is the idea of Chad Darnell, whose site you can check out here --> http://chaddarnell.typepad.com/runchadrun2/12_of_12/index.html

Since I was such a slacker this month I won't post a link on his site, but you don't need to worry about all that technical stuff, just enjoy the boringness of my day!!

6:30am -- My first day of class, why does the morning have to come so early?? I sure was wishing I could have stayed in this spot for another hour or two!

7:30am -- Ahh, what a lovely site to see first thing in the morning!! Jack from Lost... And just think, only 15 more days until the season premiere!!! Make sure and mark you calendar for January 31st and the 2 hour Lost!! As you'll notice, I have my calendar marked for that day!! (And I also will not be taking phone calls during the hours of 8 and 10pm!!) :)

8:15am -- Aahhh, room TC 101. Back to school I go!! And what a surprise to see new monitors for the computers in this room! It seems like I've spent WAY too much time in the room over the past 2 years!! But this new CAD class I am taking should be a lot of fun! We will be learning several software programs and how to alter pictures and things like that. I can't wait!! Fanart, here I come!!!

11:45am -- Time to get Jensen from the bus. Doesn't she look happy? I think she usually sleeps on the way home, which is good since she is on the bus for about 45 minutes! And joy of all joys that she remembered to bring home her coat!! She already lost her cute little sweater...

12:00pm -- Time for homework and lunch! Jensen has her little routine that she likes to keep so here we have the homework paper (she had 2 for some reason today, but usually there is just one, front and back) and her peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which must be cut into squares with no crust. She then takes a bit out of each piece and then puts them back together so that she can see the circle before she eats the rest. And of course, what lunch would be complete without a Capri Sun juicy? Yum-Yum!!



12:05 -- Time for my lunch!! I don't eat out for lunch very often but since I had a few errands to run after my class I decided that only being 2 miles away from my favorite sub place was too much temptation! Luckily it's a lot farther away from my house than that!! And a Coke with Cherry and Vanilla from Sonic is super good too!!




1:00pm -- And now a few minutes to play the Lost Favorite Character game on my Word Slinger website. All my friends there are so fun!! My friend Jobob made my signature picture for me (with Photoshop which is one of the programs I will be using in school and so I can learn to make these things!!) and it has Sydney & Vaughn from ALIAS, Logan and Veronica from Veronica Mars, Max and Liz from Roswell, and Jack and Kate from Lost. it's so cute, I love it!!




2:00pm -- Yippee!! The mail lady came and brought my new Lost poster that I am adding to my poster collection!! It's pretty cool!!!




2:30pm -- Just enough time for one episode of Roswell before the kids got home from school! Here is my little collection of my favorite shows -- My So-Called Life, ALIAS, Veronica Mars, and Roswell. One of these days I will add those Lost dvds and get the last season of ALIAS. But I need something to look forward to...besides, I have ALIAS season 5 taped on VHS tapes. :)


4:30pm -- All the kids are home!! And playing with the newest addition to our family, a little 5 month old male Min-Pin. Sadly we haven't been able to decide on a name yet for the little guy. The girls want Max, the boys want Spike, and Tim wants Buck. I told Tim that if he names him Buck then I will just call him Dog. So if you have any good name ideas, don't be shy!! Fork 'em over!



5:30pm -- So here is the dinner I WISH I made for the night...Lemon Chicken and Egg Noodles. But, of course, Tim hates it so since I made it a few nights ago it looks like I won't be making it anytime soon. I guess the whole "I'll eat whatever you make" thing isn't true after all, huh? I think he doesn't like it because it's actually kinda healthy and doesn't have too much fat. Oh well, I love it!!


6:00pm -- Here's the dinner I actually DID make! Corn dogs and french fries. Yummy and quick as I ran out the door to my evening class. Well, at least the kids all like this one.


6:50pm -- On my way to school, wow, the freeway is so dark!! Just wait until I am making the same drive in May and the sun is still up! That's one thing I like about the summer, it doesn't get dark until like 8:30pm!


9;30pm -- After my Sales and Marketing class at school, this is the lobby/walkway area outside of the library and my classroom at school. I love the lights, they are just so cool!!



9:40pm -- On my way home, I hit every stinking red light!! Man, I hate that!! I know I'm not the only one who this happens to, am I???




Well, there you go!! Nothing too exciting, but it's a day in my life! And just think Blake, it's not even midnight yet!! :P Oh, and if you haven't read the comments on my last few posts, you should. My brother Blake is so funny!! I have been laughing so hard at seeing all the famous people posting on my blog... :D

December 12 of 12

(Sorry about the spacing between pictures! It's really late and I have been fighting with this thing for over an hour. AAAAAHHH!!!)

So, it's December 12th and time for 12 of 12! I've had a lot of fun doing this the last couple of months so here it is again. Here's some background info on it -- It's the idea of Chad Darnell, and if you want to check out his 12 of 12 you can go here --> http://chaddarnell.typepad.com/runchadrun2/12_of_12/index.html. People all over the world are doing it, it's a really great idea he had. The deal is that you take 12 pictures of your day on the 12th day of the month, and then you blog it.

Well, here we go!!
7:45am -- When I woke up to get the kids off to school this is what I saw. We have had rain for the past 4 days but today was bright, sunny, and clear, yet still wet. I was glad to see the sun but I was still kinda wishing it was raining...


















8:00am -- When I took the kids to school I drove past the junior high's swimming pool and saw the mist coming off of the water. It was so cool looking!!













8:30am -- Because of all the rain we have had, and the clear sky this morning, we had fog!! We don't get it very often but I love it when we do!! This is the view down one of the streets. You can usually see for miles, but not today!!











10:00am -- I had to go help with the kids school classes (grading papers, fun huh? I actually kinda like it! That was always my favorite part of playing school when I was little!) so before I went I had my breakfast. Yummy huh? I really do like these little shakes, they fill me up and I don't get hungry, plus they are super easy and quick, which is just what I need. Obviously I don't drink them for the weight-loss part...If so, it doesn't seem to be working! :)
Aaah, a breakfast of champions!!!


















10:30am -- On my way to the kids school I went Fog Finding and stopped by a local Riparian Park to see what it looked like. They have these little lakes and you could see the steam rising off of the water. It was so pretty and quiet. It's hard to imagine that there is a place like that in the middle of the city!













10:35am -- As I continued on to the kids school I got into some good fog and was able to take this picture of the sun through the fog. It's a strange thing when you are able to actually look at the sun in the middle of the day in Arizona! And not have your eyes burn to a crisp! :)


















11:00 -- When I got to the school I had to drop off this little Christmas Tree that Jillen was supposed to make for her class. It was supposed to be turned in last Monday, needless to say, I've had a crazy couple of weeks and didn't get to it until yesterday. It's covered in all of her favorite things -- High School Musical 1 & 2, Zac Efron, Hairspray, and Roswell. (I've got her trained!!) Plus it has some family pictures and one of her on her first Christmas. She is pretty excited about it!! But I think she wishes it was hanging up in her bedroom rather than her classroom! But she'll get it back next week...


















1:00pm -- After getting home and eating lunch I decided to read for a little bit before I started the hard core studying for my Final Exam that I had tonight. I was able to finish my Roswell High book #7, The Vanished, so now it's on to #8, The Rebel. Boy, I love these books!! They are pretty different from the TV series, but I still really like them!! But if I'm going to read the last several in the series then I had better start saving my money -- the last one is currently going for about $200. :o
And that's a used copy!!













3:00pm -- Time to STUDY!!! I had the final exam for my Business Procedures class tonight. Luckily this time I knew that all of the questions come from past quizzes, so I just printed them out and studied away!! It worked out pretty well, I got a solid B on the test, which is better than the D I got on the Mid Term... Boy this has been a rough semester!


















8:00pm -- When I got home I was greeted by our Christmas Lights, some of the only ones in the neighborhood. I sure am glad Tim has the Christmas Spirit, because if it were up to me there would be nothing up! My poor kids!! Good thing they have a festive dad to help brighten up their childhood memories!









10:00pm -- Just when I thought I was done with the Business Procedures class, I find out I have to watch a Guest Speaker and comment on him to my teacher. Well, at least Accountant Bob was interesting. Okay, NOW I'm done!! :)













11:00pm -- Well, it dawned on me that I forgot to get my End of the Semester celebration pie. What was I thinking?? Obviously I wasn't, so since I had to go take some dvd's back, I thought I'd stop by Sonic and get a milkshake. Yum!!



















Bonus Picture!!! The Bonus word for the month is BELIEVE.

I love the fog. I get the whole creepy factor, how it's used around Halloween and in things like The Headless Horseman and that stuff, but to me it's just so beautiful. It's almost magical, mystical, mysterious. It's so strange to know that something is there, but not be able to see it. I guess it kind of reminds me of life. Sometimes I know there is more to it than what I can see at the moment, so I just have to BELIEVE!! And the same goes for what's beyond this life. I can't see it, but I BELIEVE in it!!















Hope my December 12th wasn't too boring for you. Maybe you should make a New Years Resolution to join me in this next year!! It's super fun!!! :P

September 12 of 12

I decided to try something new. Several of the people at my ALIAS friend site do this and I have always wanted to try it but since I didn't have a digital camera I couldn't. But now I do so here I go!! It the idea of Chad Darnell, and if you want to check out his 12 of 12 you can go here --> http://chaddarnell.typepad.com/runchadrun2/12_of_12/index.html. People all over the world are doing it, it's a really great idea he had. The deal is that you take 12 pictures of your day on the 12th day of the month, and then you blog it. Sound fun? I figure it is kind of like a journal, documenting my day. My life is really boring so none of the pictures are too exciting, but it's a pretty accurate description of my day! :)

7:30am
This is when the 3 younger kids get on the bus and leave for school. Jorden doesn't leave until 8:30, although today he had a late start so he didn't have to leave until 9:45! It sure does make my day go easier when all the kids make the bus. Now I know how my mom must have felt!! :)



11:00am
After sleeping in a little since I got hardly any sleep the night before, I had to get ready for the day. I sure was happy that I bought a new brush yesterday! The old one (which was only about 3 months old) had lost most of the plastic tips on the end of the bristles, the girls hated when I brushed their hair with it! And I was so happy to have some new earrings!! My other gold and silver hoop earrings are about a year old and they aren't looking too good anymore! Luckily these ones are nice and shiny!!



12:00pm
How happy am I that Coke decided to start making a Vanilla cola again?!?! So Happy!!! It's not as good as Vanilla Pepsi, but it's pretty great!! Thanks Coke!!!

















1:00pm
Since I had school in the evening, it was the day that all 3 of the younger kids go to the Children's Center at MCC. They have to take a dinner so it's sandwiches they get!! I think it's so funny that all of them like peanut butter, but they will only eat it certain ways. Jillen has to have peanut butter with honey on whole pieces of bread. Jayden has to have peanut butter with grape jelly on whole pieces of bread but with no crust. And Jensen has to have peanut butter with grape jelly, with no crust, cut into 4 squares. Try keeping that straight every time you make a sandwich!!! :D

1:05pm
Here is a sad, pathetic little doggie sitting and waiting for any food scraps that might fall onto the floor. Pitiful...











1:30pm
Time to start some laundry. Why is it that my laundry pile never seems to get smaller?






2:00pm
Today was my little baby brother Brett's 20th birthday! It's still hard to believe he is getting old enough that he's not a teenager anymore. I still remember him as the little boy that I used to take to baseball games, a baby boy that I dressed in dresses and bows, a little boy who carried around a yellow plastic motorcycle that he called his "Un-Un." I called him to tell him - Happy Birthday Brett!!!





2:30pm
Time to study!! Who knows what IBC means??? Yeah, I didn't think anyone knew. It stands for International Building Code, and that's the class I had to study for. We had a test and I didn't do as badly as I thought I would. Good thing I studied!!



4:00pm
On my way to school, with 3 kiddies in tow! Everytime we go they ask me why we take the freeway. I'm not sure what the curiosity is but I know I hate the traffic on the way home! People are crazy drivers, that's for sure!! The kids go to the Children's Center on campus and for the most part they love it. Jayden has a hard time since he's one of only a couple of boys, and most of the other kids are younger than him. I think he would be happier staying home and playing video games. Oh well...

8:00pm
Time for dinner! I actually made something that almost all of the kids would eat! Shocking, I know! The only one who wouldn't touch it was Jensen, and she won't eat too many things. But it was good, and easy. I like that part!!










10:30pm
Finally, some folded laundry! Well, at least 1 1/2 out of 4 loads that I did today. Some got put away after dinner, and some more is still in the dryer, but at least this much is done. Now to just get it put away...





11:45pm
Time to set out the kiddies clothes for school tomorrow. Boy does it make the morning go smoother when their clothes are already set out and waiting for them when they wake up! Now if I could just get them to keep track of their shoes... Oh well, I guess we need something to work towards.








That's my day!! Hope you enjoyed it! Maybe you'll want to try it next month!! :)