Mission Organization...

I would absolutely love this whole living room set from Pottery Barn...but it's not happening anytime soon, so instead I've realized I need to become more organized while I patiently wait:)

As soon as I finally get off the blog, I'm going to start be more organized! Over the next month (yes it will take me at least that long), I'm going to re-organize every room! Today I'm going to start in the living room... any advice on what any of you do to do keep things organized in your living room??? Take in consideration that we are in a small condo, so any extra storage space ideas would be great:)

Top 5 reasons....

YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE YOUR KIDS WITH YOU TO ANY STORE!!!!!

5. You don't want to hear them saying "I want this!" "Mommy, "I want this!" Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!!!!

4. You end up spending more money, because you end up buying them at least one thing so you don't have to hear them whining!

3. You don't want to hear, "I need to pee pee mommy! I need to pee pee mommy! Mommy, I'm going to pee my pants, I need to pee pee right now!"

2. You don't want them pulling down glass figurines that will break all over the place and make you look like a complete fool!!

1. When you give them the look of death after this happens and explain to them in your nice mommy voice why they should have listened to me when I said not to touch... you don't need your sassy pants daughter to say, "Whatever, mommy don't look at me like that, Luke's the one that did it!"

That is what happened to us today. I had to go to the Dollar Tree to get some stuff for activity days. In my mind the Dollar tree is the best place to take your kids, because if they do make you mad you can easily just leave, and not feel so bad. (It's the dollar store). Anyway, I got everything I needed and went down an isle and I stopped for a minute, when all of the sudden...crash, crash, bang! Luke pulled a glass shelf down and about 20-30 little stupid glass figurines and the shelf fell over and broke to pieces! (he did all of this while sitting in the cart!)Ok, it is the dollar store, but I was so embarassed. Everyone comes running over asking if he's okay! (and the mean mom that I am thought...sure he's ok right now!) When I went up to pay I told the manager I would pay for everything and he told me, we'll pretend it was about $5 worth. I felt so bad because I know it was a lot more than that:) Believe it or not I had cooled down by the time we got to the van, but it just confirmed why I hate taking kids to the store!

Class of '98 girls...

Last night we had our own '98 class reunion. Our Class reunion was cancelled, so all of us girls decided we would get together at Claim Jumper and have our own reunion. (I actually graduated a year early, but I still consider myself a '98 girl!)It was an absolute blast! Much better than a "whole class reunion!" We laughed about everything & everyone! It was so much fun seeing everyone and picking up right where we left off! There was me, Holly, Michelle, Mindy, and Callie.

We we're laughing so hard, a couple sitting behind us asked to be moved...too funny! All of these girls will forever be great friends of mine! It is so easy talking with all of them. We had some great memories of too much kissing, fights (I to this day still feel really bad about), old boyfriends, pink underwear, regrets, you name it, we talked about it.

And sure enough, I was the last one to arrive and do you think I remembered my camera...NO! Oh well, I'm glad all of you remembered yours:) Thank you girls for a fun night! It was so fun talking about our pasts, and loving where we are at today! We need to do it again soon:)

Bonnie Springs...

Today we took the kids to Bonnie Springs. Madi and Luke enjoyed riding the ponies and seeing all the animals.




I'm glad the kids enjoyed it, because it cost $20 to get in, $6 per kid to ride the pony, $1.50 for a can of soda that tasted horrible (we checked the bottom for expiration date and it was January of 2008...it tasted awful!)! We parked and then took this little train ride over to the animals. We were waiting on the train when we were ready to leave and the "train commander" (if that's what you call him) Said hold on a minute, I'll be right back...didn't think anything of it! Well about 30 seconds later Mike says, "Look! Our driver is over in the bushes and he's peeing!" So needless to say he took a pee, zipped his zipper and troddled back over to the train! Literally maybe 15 ft. away! I could have lived without Madison whining every 10 minutes about how thirsty she was, Luke falling every 10 minutes, and flies and other unwanted insects surrounding me, but over all it was fun:)

Reeebels...Reeebels!

Now I'm not one to watch football all that much, but I watched the UNLV vs. ASU game w/ Mike tonight and that was a great game! Rebels won 23-20. It was great to see UNLV win:) I'm hoping they have a good season ahead of them!

Look at me...being frugal!

Oh yeah, baby! I went to Walgreens today and after coupons and rebates I spent a total of $11.07. Most of you reading this are probably in shock for the fact that I usually spend money like it's growing on trees:) If you look on the side of my blog on my link that says "Being Frugal is Fabulous" you can get a low down of how this all works. I do have to say it is a little bit complicated and part of me was thinking..."Is this even worth my time?, and I'm going to look like a weirdo going in there w/all of my coupons!" After I did it I felt like yee-haw I am awesome!LOL. Anyway, I think everyone should try it to do it at least once.

Tagged 8's...

Michelle tagged me, so here we go...

8 TV shows I love to watch:
48 hours Mystery
Dateline
Nancy Grace
LOST
The Office
Desperate Housewives (shame on me:)
John and Kate plus Eight
Oprah

8 Favorite Restaurants:
Claim Jumper
P.F. Changs
Cafe Rio
Don Antonios
Chevy's
Olive Garden
Montessano's
Osaka

8 things that happened yesterday:
Woke up early for RC Willey to deliver our new fridge
Went and got lunch
Heidi and her kids came over
Went to the grocery store to finally get some milk for my deprived little Luke.
My activity days girls came over
Went and got dinner w/Mike and the kids
Worked out on my elliptical...it's a miracle!
Attempted to put the kids in bed(Madi's not cooperative these days), took a shower, went to bed.

8 things I look forward to:
Renting out our condo (we have completely outgrown it)
Buying a house
Paying off student loans
Seeing my kids grow up
Eventually having another baby
Luke being potty trained
Being better about working out
Becoming more business savvy like Mike

8 things I love about fall:
Change of weather
Going to the pumpkin patch (Madi's favorite)
Trick or Treating
Fall candles
Thanksgiving Dinner
After Thanksgiving sales
Having lots of family time
Christmas (my favorite)

8 things on my wish list:
Student loans to disappear
To have no debt at all
To go to Hawaii
Have a maid
My kids to grow up to be respectful, great people
Have a cabin somewhere
Have a scrapbook room in our house
To become more organized

8 people I'm tagging:
Tara
Mandy
Heidi
Katie
Carly
Natalie L.
Kenna
Nikki

Five less know facts about me...

Here we go...

1. This might come as a shock to some of you, but if my house is a mess and in shambles it totally reflects my mood...maybe that's why I'm so pissy lately:) I try to have my crap together, but most days I just have to remind myself that I have a 4 yr. old, and a 2 yr. old. and I need to let them enjoy life! (even when they dump out a whole bin of toys I just put away or Luke getting in the pantry and dumping out a brand new box of Lucky Charms:)

2. That being said, I really, really want to be more organized. I think for the most part I'm semi-organized, but semi doesn't cut it these days:)

3. Some of my favorite TV shows are Nancy Grace, 48 hours mysteries (love this one), Dateline, Court TV or any grandma shows like that...I know weird! But, I can't get enough of them, I even DVR the 48 hour mysteries:)

4. I love, love (did I say LOVE), cola slurpees from 7-11. I used to blame it on a pregnancy craving, but not the case these days...and let me tell you I looked up the calorie count on one of those bad boys, and YIZER...now I know why I'm not losing any more weight! LOL.

5. I have to have my toenails painted all the time...my fingernails too sometimes, but mostly my toenails. Even in the winter time. I just don't feel complete if they're not painted...I know that is really dumb:) So if you ever see me w/out them painted, don't point it out...it's probably a rough day....hehe.

I want to hear 5 things about everyone else that I don't know. I tag everyone.