Home alone...

Well, since nobody's done this in a while, Ill give it a shot. Amy and the kids are in AZ at the moment, leaving me home alone for Father's Day with my Father's day Present, a PS3 and MGS4. Guess who's not putting on pants and playing video games all day on the couch...

Bad Day

It's been a bad day. No, it's more than that...it's been a HORRIBLE day. Cameron woke up in the night with vomit everywhere and has continued this cycle for a while. Then Devin couldn't find his wallet and he thinks he might have left it in his truck. Of course, it's not there. His passenger door was unlocked and not closed tightly, different than normal. I still tried to hope for the best, until I went to take the trash out and found his ice scraper on the side where his passenger door was. So yes, I believe it was stolen.

He has spent all morning calling credit card, bank, DMV etc to get everything cancelled. He filed a police report and put a fraud alert on his credit report. *sigh* long day and it isn't even 11am yet. I really hope that everything turns out well, but with his social security card in there, I don't know. He will go get another drivers license today during his lunch break and then we can see about the social security card.

Luckily he only carries one credit card in there, so that one was easy to cancel and he didn't have too many people to call. Of course, his debit card was in there too, so I will have to get him some money until his new one shows up...oh yeah, and another wallet! Dang it, he liked that one. *sigh*

Twilight Series

I'm not usually a book review person. I love reading, but don't do it often. However, I finally caved and bought the Twilight book while in AZ. I read it in 1 1/2 days and was hooked. Thanks to Lexi, I am now obsessed. I read the other 2 books in a day each and have since read them all at least once more, if not more. I agree with Lexi's review that the 2nd one dragged in the middle since I am apparently a vampire girl too!

So I am one of the obsessed. I am glad I'm not as bad as some though. I was looking on Etsy and saw someone that makes wood block things with quotes from the book. Silly, but cute.

I am excited to read the 4th book (I already pre-ordered in through Amazon, so it should arrive by August 4th). I was really excited to go to Stephenie Meyer's website and read the first chapter of the Midnight Sun book that is the book written through Edward's view rather than Bella's. I can't wait to read that one either.

New Camera!

I am so excited to be getting my new camera tomorrow! I can't wait. Devin bought it for me (using money I made writing!) so I will be the owner of a Nikon D40. I am too excited, I can't wait to start taking pictures with it. So hopefully I will get some great shots up here soon.

Free Photoshop

Adobe is now offering a free online PhotoShop! You sign up for an account at www.photoshop.com/express and get 2GB of free storage space for your pics plus some fun features to edit your photos. Have fun with it!

New Bikes

Contessa & Collin got new bikes Monday! They were very excited and are doing well on the bigger sizes. We were supposed to be buying Devin a bike, but ended up with bikes for the kids instead. Poor Cameron wanted one so bad! It's kinda funny to watch him try to get on Collin's. Maybe next time we will find something to fit him.

I will post pictures when I find my camera!

Cameron the Star!

Our local paper comes out once a week on Wednesday's. Well, we had a community Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday and one of the reporters for the Ely Times asked if he could take a picture of Cameron. So I said he could, even though Cam had been crying (he had finally figured out what the egg hunt was all about and all the eggs were gone!)

So here is his picture in our paper. My baby is a star!

I'm such a procrastinator!

So I had 10 article to write this week, and then was asked to write 2 reviews for a new client. I did the reviews since I knew the other articles weren't due til Sunday. My new client then asked for 4 articles on Wednesday. So I got 3 of those done when he asked me to write another review.

I procrastinated way too much. It is now Saturday night and I have gotten all but 1 article done for my new client, but I still have 4 more for my original client that are due tomorrow! So what am I doing, blogging and watching tv. AAAHHH! I have issues.

But if I hadn't procrastinated tonight, I wouldn't have seen the tv show I talk about in the next post! So I guess that's good.

Anyway, I am heading back to work right now...now...here I go...I'm going...okay, really I am going to get back to writing my articles...now

Never expected this...

So Devin & I were watching a show on Spike TV tonight. We started watching it because someone Devin knew growing up is supposed to be on the show Joes vs Pros on Thursday. Well, I was quite shocked to see David's best friend on it tonight! I can't believe Trent Madsen was on a game show...and won!

It was pretty shocking, but cool. Doesn't seem like he's changed much since we were growing up! Pretty much like Dave, the same attitude is still there, they are just getting old!

SEAWORLD!

We took a spur of the moment trip to Seaworld this past weekend. We found a hotel online Friday morning and left about 30 minutes later. It was a long drive, but we had a great time. I thought my camera was in my purse, but it wasn't and I have no idea were it is, so we didn't get good pictures. There's only so much a cell phone can do! It was cloudy most of the day, but Amy & Devin took turns going on the shipwreck rapids and getting wet (Devin more than Amy because he advised her to buy a poncho...Thanks honey!). VERY FUN!

Anyway, we were thrilled to feed and touch the dolphins (well, everyone by Collin) as well as the sting rays (again, not Collin!) Our passes are good until the end of the year, so we may have to try and go back again sometime. The kids really enjoyed it. But, we will will stay an extra day or two next time, these turn around trips are hard!

Here is what the kids have to say about Seaworld:
Contessa - I liked it so much! And, all the shows were so cool. It's hard to chose a favorite part because I liked it so so much.

Collin - I liked Seaworld. I really liked the sharks.

Cameron - (As observed by Amy) I loved watching the animals. The shows were cool because the dolphins and whales jumped out of the water and splashed people.

We are hoping other's will want to join us next time so we have even more fun. So if you are interested, let me know and we will start planning another trip!