the versitility of peanut butter

so i am sitting here using a kit kat bar as a spoon on refrigerated peanut butter. i like this combination. after the gym last night i came home and had frozen chocolate chips on room temperature peanut butter which i though was wonderful, but wished the peanut butter was cold. i also like snickers bars dipped in peanut butter. toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are topping my lists of snacks i like as of late also. it has been years since that has sounded good. i only like my bananas and apples with peanut butter on them. i think peanut butter is quite possibly the best all-round snack out there. just so you know.

70 on a sunday

i took 4 boys to the park yesterday for the afternoon. ian elected to go to the movies with our neighbor which i think he regretted later (they saw alvin and the chipmunks), which when asked if he enjoyed it, he looked at me with an aggravated scowl and said "mom, like i said, it was alvin and the chipmunks." okay, now that we are through that................................owen, jule and marios kids christopher (3) and troy (turned 1 saturday) and i all hung out at the skate park for the day. we took scooters, bikes peanut butter and jelly sandwichs and cupcakes to celebrate troys birthday. aside from not being able to pee except when mario showed up to drop off baby wipes for me, we had a great time. it was 70 degrees (yeah, in january- totally rocks) and just beautiful out. no wind (the trademark of a desert winter), no clouds, just sunny and warm. the boys went non-stop on their scooters and bikes and had a blast. they had several friends there also which made for more fun for them. saturday they went to the park for a birthday party after martial arts and got to play all day also. they were really happy about having such a great weekend so the pressure is on for next weekend. i finished the pool house yesterday on my lists of gut it out and clean it. i did the storage room last week so now i am down to the workshop and laundry room. progress happens. i am the cleaning machine baby! marios lease was up on his apartment and so he is staying in the pool house until he can find a suitable place for he and the boys. in more important news, ian will be 13 in less than a month and owen 10. what the hell????????????? by the way, this, by no means, shows that i am getting old. it is scary.

a bit sore

i resumed my workouts monday after a full 7 days off with NOTHING. i feel much better but am not as strong on the right side of my pelvis as i was. the physical trainer said this is normal after an injury and it will get stronger again which is good news because i feel great and i am trying to get through the regular workouts but i found out i can't get my right leg up normally. i tripped over a bag jumping because it hit and running my stride on that side is not full. annoying, but it will turn around. i made it through two workouts monday and three yesterday. the boys brought their chess set last night and played which was really cool. they usually bring books, but it was nice to see the three of them getting along doing something. i love those short people. i think i will keep them. hahah.

its a new year

the boys came back home yesterday and are starting school today. it is a brand new year full of oppertunity and interest. i managed to gut the kids rooms while they were with their dad so they have a nice clean slate to start off with and i did our closet last night. this is very exciting for me because i love organization and clean. i have to conquor the storage room, laundry room and workshop next, but at least progress is being made. i am off doctors hold on my pelvis so back to the workout schedule today. i am looking foward to getting back to normal. we took over the other half of the building at work last week which is really good for us. we are growing despite the economic struggles of the last year and are quite busy although our compeditors are not. i do wish everyone was busy, but i am not complaining. we are working hard and have a positive outlook on the new year!

its in the mail

so the mail came yesterday and what do you know, there was a long awaited check!!! i can pay all of our bills now (thank god) and am still waiting on the resturant person to make good on her bounced check, but mabye that will happen soon too. we are very fortunate to be so busy with some good jobs, i hope this continues through the year. the boys are with their dad in overguaard playing in the snow and building legos. i have to take the week off from all of my training per chiroprators orders. i have been trying to cut back on the really twisty exercises but i am not healing, i knocked it out of place again and it has been really painful. i thought if i worked through the pain it would just go away, but that is not happening. so, i am off this week from kids and exercise. i would like to get the house finished being cleaned out. last night i didn't make it very far on that though as i laid down to read a bit and fell asleep. it was by the fire though so that was nice. mom sent me a book called gargoyle that i am going to try to finish this week since i have new found time. it seems interesting so far...................

holiday pics

dad in his "christmas shirt and hat". he was very christmasy in his outfit.

the bag i made for mom. i needlepointed this over the last couple of years (yes, i am slow at finishing things) and finally made it into a bag for her. will send it off this week.

the bag. it is all leather (yes, real leather) with upholstery fabric lining. the needlepoint peice is set on leather and is a pocket.

mike and i (notice my way cool fingerless mittens that jovi made me). i wear them all the time.

two excited boys. owen was with his dad so he was not here. jule is very proud of the tie he borrowed from mike to look handsome. he has on his oldest pair of jeans with holes in them and his converse tennis shoes too, but he was looking good buddy.

no lights

with only two days until christmas left, i have determined that there will be no tree this year as we have yet to get it out of the box (fresh ones are fire hazards here in the desert), no lights up as we have not gotten them out either or had the time to put them up regardless, and am still two jackets short of finishing the christmas gifts. we have the girls sent off as of yesterday, but i am running a bit behind on the others. work keeps getting in the way of elfdom. promises of checks in the mail are turning out to be lies so the headache of filing with the courts is lingering over our heads. i am not really feeling the holiday season this year. mike and i will drive jule and ian to williams christmas day. owen is already there and thrilled to be without his brothers for the week. the drive should be pretty as there is much snow that has fallen. i will post pics of the girls bags after they receive them. they are spectacular. everyone here wants one now. including me.