okay, lets try this again!!!

Okay, lets try this again folks!! After hours of messing around with my previous blog...in my frustration I completely deleted it! GGRRRR...I know, I am not patient today. Mother nature is getting to me! Ha ha ha...So I am going to try to cutesify my blog again and start over!! Of course, I will have to repost the blogs I did this morning to show off what I was bragging about before, so if the old ones still show up on your dash board, I apologize! :)


So here we go!!

**EDITED TO ADD: Okay, so I played a little more and thanks to Ashley Jo for letting me know I can import my old blog posts into this one! YEAH! SO, I figured it out...go me...and therefore, my old posts are here too! Super excited! Now, to figure out the text and picture problem....which is really frustrating me**

okay....soooo mad

Yeah, I have been trying to "update" my blog look and try to familiarize myself with all this stuff...and in the process have thoroughly and probably permanently screwed my blog ALL UP. Talk about pissed! So after three hourse of making it worse, I quit. ANYONE OUT THERE...HELP!!!!!

I'M SO PROUD OF ME!!!

I am playing with my blog and trying to make it cuter...and look what I figured out!! I got a signature and I got it below my text!!! WOO HOO!! Look at me go!! I am soooo getting there!!

A little late on my picture!!

okay, so like 2 weeks ago when I was bragging on my $4 yard sale find that I love love love?? Here it is! Isn't it gorgeous!! I just love it! :) Go Me!! and I still can't figure out how to make my pictures go UNDER the text...any help??

AWARD TIME!! WOO HOO!!

okay, so I am STILL learning the ropes with this blogging thing....but I did get an award!! The hard part is doing what I am supposed to with it...so I am giving it my best effort.....I tried to upload the thingie below my post, but it didn't work...so I need advice in that department...now for the rest of it :D

Thanks to my friend Ashley (I figured out how to link! yippee!!! I know, so sad right? ha ha ha)
for this award...

Here are the rules for recieving it

1. Link back to Ashley.....CHECK

2. List seven things I love....CHECK

3. Link seven blogs, and of course let them know...Um, I don't know how to let them know!! :( so I will do my best!! :) **note** the little help topic I read said when I link it will let that person know...so I am hoping that's right...we shall she I guess!!

So here goes...

SEVEN THINGS I LOVE:

1. Without a doubt, obviously, my husband is number one. I love my husband more than anything. He is my best friend in the world. He drives me crazy and some days I would like to club him rather than look at him (ha ha ha..joys of marriage huh?!) but at the end of the day, I can't imagine life without him. We have been married for 8 years in October and I was 17 when we were married (a year after we started dating). People told me then we would not make it more than a year or two b/c I was too young and he was still so young (he was almost 20). I smile when I think about how 8 years later, he is still my best friend and the love of my life.

2. Again, obviously, my two kids. Carson and Shanna are my reason for being. I can't remember how I survived in this world without them. I had them at 18 and 19, and to some people I missed out on a lot having kids so young and not "experiencing life" like most people, but I don't regret it and I don't feel like I missed out on anything. Parenthood is not a piece of cake by any means and there are days that my patience is tested to the end and I think 'what the hell was I thinking?' but one smile from either of my kids and I realize that my sole purpose in life was to raise these two to be the absolute best that they can be.

3. Severe Weather. I know, I know. I can hear ya'll going "WHAT?!" As some know, a tornado hit my house last year. Well, it hit my yard (I live in the woods, literally) and threw a fully grown pine tree into my house and my inlaws house next door and all over every where around here and killed my 8 month old golden retriever, Sadie (before you freak out, she was no where to be found when we went into the storm cellar and we assumed she ran under my inlaws house or she would have been with us. I miss my baby girl). But since I was a kid, tornados and severe thunderstorms fascinated me. Something about the fact that in literally a split second it can go from beautiful to terrifying has fascinated me my entire life. I am still not scared of storms, but I do respect them and I don't tempt fate by standing out in the yard looking for it to come. I did see this tornado coming from across the street and was lucky enough to lock the cellar door just as the tree hit it. I used to chase the storms in highschool with a volunteer firefighter. To this day, I still get that rush when the weather gets bad. And as wierd as this is...severe weather relaxes me. The wind, the rain the lightening...its soothing to me. I know, I am a strange cookie. :) My mom tells me that everytime. As I write this blog on Easter Sunday, it is POURING BUCKETS outside and the thunder is just loud as it can be. I think these are the BEST. SUNDAYS. EVER.

4. I love trees. I think trees are beautiful and amazing. What can I say, I was born country and this country is what I love! Again, I know I am wierd like that. When I was a kid, I used to put books and snacks and a bottled drink in a backpack, put it on, and climb up this one particular tree next to our house and read for hours. I love trees. Even though I am terrified of heights. :)

5. I love softball. Its the sport of champions. Softball has been a part of my life since I was 4. It was the one passion me and my stepdad (the one that recently passed away) shared. I played from 4 years old until I graduated highschool. I was a sanctioned umpire my junior and senior years of highschool. Then I had babies so I stopped. As soon as Shanna turned 4, I started helping coach her team. I still coach now and I love it and my LADYBUGS!! WOO HOO.

6. My favorite color is Mossy Oak. I know your laughing. If you live in the country like I do, Mossy Oak is a color. Hell, its a way of life. I love it to the point that about 25% of my house is decorated in it. Not to the point that I have animals hanging from my walls, but my comforter, my ceiling fan, light switches, pillows, the inside of my car and alot of my wardrobe are mossy oak. :) Its an obsession. I LOVE IT.

7. and last but not least. I love music. Any kind of music. My mood can change instantly based on the music. I can go from happy to sad simply by hearing "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton. I can go from blah to pumped up by hearing anything up beat...I love everything from Bach to the Bangles to Aerosmith and Guns N Roses to Willie and Waylon to Charlotte Church to Ozzy Osbourne to Linkin Park and Disturbed. There is at least onesong in every genre I love. :)

and the seven people I am going to link to...well, I linked all of my followers (except the one who awarded me, cause I didn't think I was supposed to do that) and the blogs I LOVE LOVE LOVE to read and am hopelessly addicted to and still don't have seven...so sorry about that : ) !

1. Mommylicious

2. Love, Meagan

3. Misadventures of a Newlywed

4. My crazy Life with Four Kids

5. Life as a Mom at 21!

6. Not Quite Martha Stewart

You should try these blogs out!! They are spectacular! :)

Happy Awarding!

I feel so retarded right now...

Okay, I know I have said this like waaaaayyyy more than once. I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to blogging. I am so new at this its ridiculous but I am one of those people who like smile and nod and pretend like I totally know whats going on...right? okay, well, I am catching up on the few blogs I follow and I notice that one of my two followers (yay! I am so cool that I have TWO followers! It made my day too - cause it takes so very little to entertain me and make me happy ha ha ha!) well, she is WAY better at this than I am and she so gave me an award!! At least I clicked on the name and it came to my blog so I am assuming....and I will be mortified if I am totally wrong about that. ;)

Okay, question of the day: Aside from reading the persons blog, shouldn't I get some kind of notification when someone leaves me a comment or links to my page or gives me an award? If so, were am I supposed to look for that stuff and how the crap do I do the stuff I am supposed to do with the award?? ha ha ha...I know I am pitiful!! So like, HELP THE CLUELESS!!! :)

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In other news, my sweet little lady bugs won tonight! WOO HOO!!! 9 to 2!! THey were rocking that field. They did spectacular. My baby girl, Shanna Bug, got her first triple and I was so proud. That chick is flat slamming the ball around now. What a difference a year makes. She actually gets it. Last year she was just kind of like "huh"? I am so proud of all the girls. They get better with every game. Laiken is doing wonderful and I was soooo proud of her last night. She got her first hit at a game and I was bummed her mom missed it cause she was at our boys game. Life of a ballpark mom...gotta miss some to make the others. She missed our girls to go see our boys and I did vice versa. I am so excited to see the boys play Thursday. Carson was kind of bummed I missed his first game, but sister had a game and I coach...so I had to miss. But I am so there Thursday and I will be wearing my Haskell Lil Raskell shirt with pride and hooping and hollering from the stands. What can I say? Nothin better than ball season!!

Blonde Moment for the Brunette

okay, so like I have said...I am sooo a newbie to the blogger world. I was looking at my blog's main page thing when I noticed....I HAVE A FOLLOWER!! I know her and I was just SOOOOOOOOO excited that I finally had a follower. It made my night. I know so sad....its the simple things in life that excite me! ha ha ha....So I get to looking at my blog and then I notice something else new...I have comments on some of my posts. AWESOME. I felt so goofy when I realized they were left well over a month ago and I didn't know it! So, there is my blonde moment for the month! Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude and not acknowledge. I just honestly didn't know. :)

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We got our tax return the other day and I don't like to blow money. I really don't, but if I do spend money, I like to spend it on quality things. I am such a product junkie. Big time. And I am all about brand. Some brands don't work and others are great and some products are expensive and a total waste and some are expensive and worth every penny. Shampoo and conditioner are the expensive and worth every penny category. Hair spray is too. I use Matrix and I love it. But I wait and get it on sale. and I freak every time I do it. I like literally have a semi panick attack in the car that I just spent $20 on shampoo and conditioner (even if its the liter bottles and that's a steal!)

I wore Clinique makeup all through highschool. When I had my daughter, I became a stickler about not spending more than $5 on myself at any given time. I buy $7 mascara from walmart and I still get nauseated. I have worn cheap walmart makeup since. I am very very fair and I realized when going through pictures for Dad's funeral, that several brands that looked good in person made me look like a geisha in the pictures. more particularly, the brand I am currently wearing. Very chalky and AWFUL. My hubby decided Friday that since we got our tax return and I wouldn't have to panick so bad....that it was time for me to go back to Clinique for my makeup. I was like so excited so I went and had the little facial thing done and got my makeup. I got in the car and nearly passed out that I spent $40.00 on makeup...but at the same time, I felt so excited because I got good makeup for the first time in years!! Then I went to Target and he was like 'buy more makeup' cause I was out of nearly everything. So I got cheap eyeshadows and some lipstick and new lipglosses that are so pretty!! I was so excited! oh, and a secret....I found a product a few months ago that makes ANY eyeshadow look fantabulous on and last all day without creasing...no matter how oily your skin is...Loreal Decreaser...its an eyeshadow base and I swear by it. My eyeshadow looks good from 7:30 in the morning till midnight. Like I just put it on! LOVE IT...so there you go! Enjoy! ha ha ha...

hhhmm...

Ok, so I am fairly new to the "blogger world". Obviously. I have started following the blogs of a few people I actually know and from their pages started looking at other blogs. I have decided from looking at these blogs, that mine is probably pretty dull. So I will try to come up with better ideas to make this thing more interesting. I guess I am a pretty dull person huh?

We found out Friday that my dad's cancer is for sure back and it is not looking good. So I have been pretty down the last few days. Its not easty to accept the reality of the situation, even though I should be looking at the blessing that it actually is. I got an extra year with my dad, an extra year they did not think he had in the first place. I got an extra year to spend more time with him, say things to him I should have said a long time ago, and make peace with him over things I should have made peace with him over a long time ago. But still, the reality is still hard to face.