Monday, June 30, 2008

I'm baaaaaaaack!

Okay... so I took a slight hiatus from blogging. I think I just got so stressed out from preparing for Girl's camp and actually doing girls camp (more on that at a later time) that I just needed a bit of break from everything. Apparently while I was gone, I have been tagged twice by some pretty fun tags. Today I'm going to do one from my friend and old roommate Tamara. Basically it's just showing pictures from your past and the story behind them. Oh, and just so you know, if you click on any of the pictures, you can get a REAL good look of everything!!!! :-) Okay, here goes:


Photo #1: 4th grade class picture
I'm the little beauty right in front in the gold outfit with the parachute pants. Remember when parachute pants were cool? OK, they were never cool... but I sure loved them! I even had a green pair. Sweet.



photo #2: This picture is of me, Tam, Marlena, and Julie at Ricks. I'm not exactly sure how to explain this one. For some reason we found anything butt related really funny.




Photo #3: This was a game we played at Marlena's birthday party -- pin the hand on the butt! I told you, we had a weird fascination with butts at the time. This is a picture of Troy playing. Aaahhh.... Troy. good times. If I recall correctly me and Julie actually found a little kid and traced his hand for the game. So unbelievably sad.....




Photo #4: This is a picture of a friend and me lip syncing to Milli Vanilli. Yeah... I was cool in High School. BTW... that is a mop spray painted "black" on top of my head to look like dread locks. It was really really gross, but the skit was funny!




Photo #5: After my first year at Ricks I went on this program called "Discovery". It was super super super lame. Basically we camped all around Utah, Idaho, and Nevada for a month and 1/2 all while doing 9 credit hours of classes. We had so much school work that you really just spent the majority of your time in your tent studying rather than hiking and stuff. Lame. Anyway, once in a while we would get out and find something fun to do. This is one of my favorite pictures from discovery. My friend and I stumbled upon this old Outhouse. Now, this was not just any outhouse. This was a two-seater outhouse. You know, in case you and a loved one don't want to be apart for more than a second. And the best part? In the back it had a sign that said "Beware of black widows". I remember we were terrified to take this picture thinking we were going to die at the hand of those black widows. So worth it.



Photo #6: A good majority of you guys are in this one. Remember when we did sumo wrestling for FHE???? Okay... lets see who's in here -- Keri, Danica, Sandy, Amber, Heather, Radene, and Daniel (I'm pretty sure Radene and Daniel are on blogger????) My favorite memory was when they called out Danica and Steve Wood to compete against each other. Danica is super short and Steve is super tall. Out comes Danica stuffed to capacity bouncing around all over the place and then totally pounced on Steve and took him down to the ground!!!!! I don't think I have ever laughed so hard in my life!


Photo #7: This is from an 80's dance at Ricks. For those of you who know Shane, he's not the type to get dressed up. He's not exactly an attention-grabber kind of guy (unlike the girl he married). Anyway, Heather and I begged him and Steve to go to the dance but they didn't know what to wear. I told them to go as Run-D.M.C. -- you just wear some track suits and some gold chains. Pretty simple. Well, when we were at DI they found this horrible wind breaker that you see me wearing. They dared me to wear it to the dance. Of course I accepted. I also took it to the next level. I crimped my hair, teased it, wore bright blue eye shadow, hot pink lipstick, and super pink blush. I was hot. Well, Shane didn't exactly think so. He later told me that that was the only time he ever found me unattractive. Nice honey.



Photo #8: This was taken during my lesbian haircut days. Yes I know... what was I thinking? I don't think I really was thinking clearly at that time. Ew... I want to vomit just looking at it.


photo #9: This is a picture of me 6 months pregnant, barefoot, in a robe frying hamburger. I am a true Kentucky girl.



These are picture of me and Shane when we worked for the Salvation Army at one of their summer camps. We actually got engaged at this summer camp. LOL!!! Anyway, I was a lifeguard there and Shane was a camp counselor. I remember when Shane asked my dad if he could marry me and my dad said "You want to marry my daughter and you do WHAT for a living???" Good times. Anyway, I just totally remember how skinny he used to be and how I just thought he was the hottest thing that ever walked the earth (still do)! Love you babe!



photo #10: This is a great picture. This is our 2nd apartment. It felt like a mansion because it had two bedrooms and it was just the two of us. Anyway, we wanted to decorate the 2nd bedroom, but being broke college students we had to do it on the cheap. We found all of these super old outdated maps at the DI for like 10 cents. We put those up along with army men every where and called it our "war room". The best part of the room you can't even see. As a wedding present, my grandma for some reason gave us a a WWII and Vietnam war veteran commemorative blanket. It had a picture of two soldiers with planes flying over head saluting an american flag. Perfect for the war room.

Well, that's it! I won't tag anyone in particular. Just do it if it looks like fun!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Gettin' my ears pierced!

Okay Jennifer and Britany -- I finally did it! Monica wouldn't let me chicken out this time. I'm pretty sure I would have been strangled by her if I didn't do it. Can you say peer pressure??

Friday, June 6, 2008

Get Yer Free Doughnutt!

It's a sweet blessed event today.... Get yer own free doughnut from Krispy Kreme today only! Woo hoo! I love Doughnut day!

Thursday, June 5, 2008

The fonz and the HONK!

This is real people.... a bona fide PSA from back in the day. Gotta love the Fonz and his new friend Tanya!

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

We won!!!!!

Yesterday we went to the family story time at the Library. We usually don't go to the family one because it is at night and it's an hour before the kids bedtime. However, we went this time because someone from the cast of The Little Mermaid was supposed to be there to read to the kids. We had no idea, however, that they were going to have a drawing to win 4 tickets to the Derby Dinner Playhouse to go see The Little Mermaid. When they did the drawing first, someone else got picked. However, the mom felt bad because they had actually just gone to the Derby dinner playhouse the weekend before and wanted someone else to have a chance to go. So they re-drew and they pulled out Kelly's name!!!! We're soooooooooo excited! Apparently the Derby Dinner Playhouse is one of the largest and oldest continuous dinner playhouses in the country. Pretty cool, huh? So yeah, our tickets include parking, breakfast (or lunch, depending on what time we want to go) and then the play. The kids are totally excited and so am I!!!!

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Mighty Big Weekend and Tasty tuesday

This past weekend was filled up to the rim as usual. I think Shane and I are trying to make up for the first 5 years of our marriage where we had no money or friends to ever go and do ANYTHING. Literally, we did nothing. So for the past 2 1/2 years we've been packing it in to make up for it. This past weekend was no exception! On Friday we got a sitter for the girls and we went out to eat at PF Chang's with some of Shane's clients from work. They were so much fun!!!! They were a "younger" couple from India (I say "younger" because they were both older than us, but younger than the people we usually hang out with!!! lol!). The guy is a nano technologist and his wife has her masters in something smart. They both speak several languages and were really hilarious. My favorite part was when his wife commented on how even though her husband is Indian, everyone always thinks he's Hispanic. From that time forward we kept calling him "Jose". It was pretty funny!

On Saturday we decided to take the girls to the Science Museum. We had received some free tickets a while back and were just now getting around to using them. The girls had a blast just running around everywhere and getting their hands in all the good stuff. We also got to watch a movie at IMAX -- it was something about fish. (Very descriptive, I know) . The girls enjoyed the science center a lot, but I still don't understand why anyone would pay full admission for it. It's not THAT cool. Anyway, here are some pictures:





Sunday was filled with meeting after meeting and fun walks. But also, it was filled with finishing up my brother's birthday present. This is the same brother that gave me the awesome Jean Luke Picard plate. Monday was his birthday and I really wanted to have it finished for him. Now, as a fair warning, I think my brother and I have a very different sense of humor than most. Just about anything dealing with poop and farts makes us giggle. So yes, fair warning to what you are about to see:

Knitted toilet paper and crocheted poop!



I love the picture of his cat sniffing the poo.... it totally cracks me up! The best part is that the poo is stuffed with this rose petal scented stuff, so it smells really good! I'm a freak, aren't I??? I'm definitely not classy, that's for sure.

Alright alright alright... I'm done with the "potty" humor. For now at least. Well, if any of you are still interested, here's the recipe for today's Tasty Tuesday:

The recipe for today I got from a friend of mine a long time ago. I'm not sure if she made this up or it is a widely known recipe. All I know is I really like it and it's pretty easy to make. Also, if you haven't noticed, we eat a lot of chicken in this family. We also like to eat things more "mexican" in nature. So here it is:

Green chili Chicken Tacos

6-8 chicken tenderloins
1/2 red onion (
more or less depending on your taste)
1 can chopped green chilies (
for some reason, the wal mart brand tastes disgusting! This is one of the few times I spend extra to get the name brand!)
oil for frying
cheese (cheddar or colby jack)
taco sauce
sliced green olives
taco size flour tortillas
Sour cream (optional)

Cook chicken, onion, and green chilies in hot oil until chicken is cooked thoroughly. then, cut the chicken up into bite-sized pieces. Place cooked chicken mixture and place on top of flour tortillas. Use the rest of the ingredients as toppings. Serve with Spanish rice and refried beans.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Stinkin' Peggy.....

So Peggy tagged me -- here goes:

A: Attached or Single: Attached for 7 years
B: Best Friend: Shane
C: Cake or Pie: Pie, without a doubt
D: Day of Week. Sunday -- but probably not for the reasons you're thinking of
E: Essential item: computer
F: Favorite color: Orange
G: Greatest Accomplishment: um..................
H: Hometown: Springfield
I: Indulgences: Reese's peanut butter cups
J: January or July: July
K: Kids: 2
L: Life is incomplete without: food
M: Marriage date: Sept. 9th
N: Number of siblings: 4 -- all boys
O: Oranges or Apples: blech.... I guess apples....
P: Phobias: being on a deserted island all by myself
Q: Quotes: "That's what she said"
R: Reason to smile: friends, church, family
S: Season: Fall
T: Tag five friends: Heather, Cassie, Collete, Melissa, and Denise
U: Unknown fact about me: I'm not a baby person. I think they are cute for all of 10 minutes and then I'm good for at least another year. Thankfully, Shane's not a baby person either. If we had our way, children would be born no earlier than 18 months.
V: Very Favorite Store: Ann Taylor (they have the most AWESOME clearance section!), Unique Thrift, and the Salvage Store
W: Worst Habit: being extremely lazy
X: Xray or Ultra sound: Ultra sound
Y: Your favorite food: Just about anything I'm eating at the moment I would consider my favorite food -- especially if I didn't cook it!
Z: Zodiac: Taurus