What A Weekend!

The family and I had soo much fun this weekend! We got up early Saturday morning and got ready for the Renaissance Festival and went and spent the day there. We didn't get to see as many of the shows that I would have liked to see but we are going to go back in two weeks and watch more of the shows.

While we were there this weekend we bought wooden swords for the kids, KK got to do archery and rock climbing and she also got a Henna Tattoo of a dragon fly. The kids rode a few of the rides and we had a lot of good food. We did more sightseeing this trip up but we will relax and watch shows next time. My sis-in-law said that she wants to come with us next time we go so that's gonna be lots of fun. We took one of the maps with the schedule of shows home so I think I am going to look through it and highlight everything that sounds interesting and try to see all of them!

We got home pretty late on Saturday and we were exhausted. We all went straight to sleep -- no baths or showers! We got up on Sunday and decided it was time to do some cleaning. While my husband and I were in the kitchen we got a phone call and our daughter answered it. Unfortunately she thought it was a wrong number because she couldn't understand what the person was saying. Fortunately they called back and we found out that they were calling about the car. After we spoke to the people about the car our daughter explained that when she answered the phone the person on the other end was speaking spanish and she told them that they had the wrong number. She told us that the man started saying, "No! No wrong number!" and she told him, "Yes wrong number!" and hung up on him. We actually got two phone calls about the car on Sunday and one person came by to see it! I am going to put the add back in the paper next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and see if we get anymore calls.

Well that was my weekend. Hope you had as much fun as I did!

New Pictures

If anybody is interested I updated my Flikr photostream. Check it out on the side.

Taking Out the Trash!

Today my husband took off of work to "work on" the car and after two hours under the hood and one hour on the internet I placed an add in the paper that read:

1998 Ford Escort

$500 OBO

Won't start, engine needs work

Restored Salvage title

As you can see I decided when he came home yesterday that I was getting rid of the car ASAP. He really did try to do something with the car but I was totally against it turning into a big red dust collector. So now we are playing the wait and see game while we test the waters with a two day add. Let's see if I can get this thing off my hands.

What A Day!

So my husband just surprised me with a broken car that had to be towed home. Now I have a car on the side of the house that we will probably never fix in the beginning stages of dust collection. I told my husband that we got good use out of the car and it was time to let it go. So now his job is to find a salvage yard that will take the car off our hands. I think he is falling into a little "funk" because he has been moping around ever since he got home with the tow truck driver. Hopefully he feels better tomorrow after he realizes that we only paid $800 for that car and we had it for about six years.

Oh yeah! I didn't exercise today or yesterday.

Goodnight!

Where Did the Time Go?

Five O'clock has rolled around and the only task that I have successfully completed were breakfast, lunch, and snacks. I haven't done any exercising -- unless you count lifting the remote -- and never even pulled out the Biggest Loser Workout. But, that's OK my husband is coming home and he'll workout with me. I did manage to vacuum today and I went through a few shows on the DVR. I really need to do better and start managing my time. Well tomorrow is another day which means another chance so I'll be crossing my fingers for that. Now it's time to get dinner ready!

So Many Distractions

Yesterday I put off exercising until my husband came home and said that it was time for me to do some cardio. Now I thought that the clothes I washed and fold, the closet that I cleaned, and the floor that I vacuumed were considered a small part of my cardio routine but I guess I was sadly mistaken. Today I am supposed to do The Biggest Loser Power Sculpt Workout before my husband gets home -- which I was supposed to do yesterday -- and I am trying to figure out where I should fit it in. Should I do it before the bag of chips or after the the rice crispie treat? The things that I have to schedule. What fun! And to top this all off today is Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras day in my hometown and I am stuck in Arizona. No good seafood, no king cake, and no beads and brass band. I do have burritos, hamburgers, and some CD's. I guess I'll have to have my own little celebration. Now I have to get back to my many distractions!

It's Been Almost Four Years!

I can't believe that I stayed away for so long. I knew I was usually just writing for my own enjoyment but so much has changed since Thanksgiving 2007. I am now a mother of three, I have cut off most of my hair, and I have gained some weight.

Every year I say that I am going to "Get back in shape!", but, this year I have actually been exercising. I haven't quite gotten the "eating healthy" part down yet but maybe I'll get around to it. My husband and I have made a "Biggest Loser Couples" type of bet with my sister and her husband and we plan on winning. I think that it is a little sad that it took puttting money on the table to take weight loss seriously. Honestly even with the money I haven't been serious enough. Without my husband I would still be the food whore that I am sitting back popping aything labled extra sugar extra fat!

I was on a roll for a while and I was faithfully exercising and trying to eat more leafy greens; but, Valentine's rolled around and I became the Candy Snatcher. I was actually trying to hide candy from the kids. I even went through my daughter's bag from school and took out anything that even resembled chocolate. I actually ganed four of the six pounds that I loss and went on an exercise sabatical. So on Friday my husband dragged me out of the house and we bought another workout video. I just knew that it would become our newest coaster but we actually got up Saturday morning before the kids and did the workout. I felt so good that I decided that we should go to the park and play softball or fly kites too. Saturday was an all around great day for us. I felt so good about Saturday that on Sunday I got up turned on the music and started cleaning the house while my husband followed suit. He actually did Zumba with me that night and it was pretty fun!

Which brings me to today. I realize that I am like a child that needs constant monitoring when it comes to this exercise thing. If nobody is around to make sure that I am doing it or to tell me that exercising is actually a good thing I tend to keep putting it off. I need to try to make this thing a routine or I will never really get into it.

So my project for the next few weeks is to try and make this a habit and after that maybe I'll try to tackle this eating healthy concept. Anyway, I'm off to try and do this dumbell workout that my husband left out for me to do. Wish me luck!

Our Menu

The Ferrier Thanksgiving Menu

Turkey

Ham

Mac and Cheese

Jambalya

Green Beans

Stuffed Bell Peppers

Yams

Sweet Potatoe Pies

Apple Pies

There will not be any gumbo this year.

It Must Be Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving time and I have so much going on. I am glad that I started some of my cooking early because there is no way that I would have been able to finish at a decent time tomorrow if I hadn't! This is going to be the first time that I am actually cooking the Thanksgiving meal on my own. I am very excited so wish me luck!!!

No Cameras Please!

No Cameras Please!
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Nobody wants to take pictures anymore. But, that's O.K. I took them anyway! So, if anybody is interested I have new pictures in the pictures section.

Have a nice Night!!!!!

So... I am not an original!

Well, I stole this idea from my sister-in-law and added punky moods to my blog. So from now on I will have a "What Mood Am I In" section on this blog.

Gotta go drop my daughter off at school! Have a nice day!

What Were You for Halloween?

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I don't know about you but I have always been a stick in the mud when it came to Halloween. When I was younger I never wanted to dress up because I always thought that I was too old for that. Now that I have kids I am all for the dress up portion even if we don't go out. My daughter was a Pirate and my son was a cute little monkey. The baby didn't get out for Halloween but my husband and daughter had fun! They carved the pumpkin (which I showed in a previous post) and cruised the neighborhood for candy. We took lots of pictures before they started their Halloween venture so feel free to check them out in my pictures section. If you click the Flickr link it will take you to the rest of my pictures. There is a Halloween 2007 set to the right side of the page.

Oh yeah I haven't told you guys my story about our short Phoenix trip yet so I will be back to elaborate!

My Babies

My Babies
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While we were in Phoenix I took a few pictures of my babies. Here is one that I really liked.

Our Halloween Pumpkin

It All Seems Like A Blur

Well, I have discontinued my countdown, my daughter has gotten her report card, we have somehow killed three neon tetras, and my In-Laws have come and gone. All of this has happened in the past few days and it all seems like a blur.

Since Kailyn did well on her report card we decided to get her a fish tank. She had been asking for it since the beginning of the year and we told her that she could get a tank if she did well in school. Her grades were great so we went and got a tank and prepared it for fish. The next day we bought five neon tetras and watched them as we integrated them into the tank. The first one died within 15 minutes. The next one died sometime during the weekend while we were in Phoenix and the third one died today while my daughter was watching them swim. So now we are down to three noen tetras and a Beta fish that my husband bought on the way home from work. We are currently taking bets on the life span of the last two neon tetras. I think the Beta will catch them sometime tonight.

I really just had to get on to share this short thought. I will have to come back later tonight to tell everyone about my weekend trip. Let's just say this story is pretty interesting.

I'll be back!!!!!!!

Happy Now Grandma Judy!!!!

Here is your picture mom!

Maybe A Countdown Won't Work For Me

When I started this 21 day countdown I was in it to win it. Now I think it wasn't the route to take. I haven't posted for the past two days. Two days of my countdown to making this blog a habit have come and gone. It's not that I haven't had anything to write about it's just that I have actually been busy. With my mother-in-law and father-in-law in town I have been doing things with them. But, as you can see I did come back even after missing two days. Maybe I just needed a little push -- not a countdown -- to make this work. I think for the time being my countdown is on hiatus. Maybe I'll bring it back later.

The Garden of Eatin'

Yesterday I went to "The Garden of Eatin" with my daughter and her classmates for their fieldtrip and those are the pumpkins that some of the kids picked from the pumpkin patch. My daughter's pumpkin is the one in front. During this field trip they got to pet goats, feed pigs, have story time, go to a pumpkin class, and end it off with a trip through a maze. She had a great time and is ready to carve her pumpkin. So I have to enlist the help of my husband to do that because I refuse to scrape the insides of that thing. The insides of a pumpkin feels like rotten sludge, or what my daughter calls "icky goo". So we will make that a daddy - daughter project.

While my daughter and I were at the field trip my husband and my sister-in-law were on their way to the airport to pick up their parents. They made sure to take a detour and buy keychains with their names on it but they finally got back on track and made it to the airport. When they got back we all ate dinner and played with the "main event" of the trip -- Baby Lou! My daughter kept talking about what her brother can do and how he likes to play. So we all had fun playing with the baby.

Today we all decided to just sit back and relax. Well, all accept my father-in-law. When he got up this morning he decided to fix an outlet, fix our icemaker on our refrigerator, and re-arrange our garage. I kept telling him that he needed to just sit back and relax but he insisted that he needed something to do. After getting a few things out of the garage my husband and my father-in-law decided to go bowling. I was just glad that my husband got him out of the house. I really didn't want him to get bored and feel all cooped up. When my mom and dad came out here my husband and dad got out of the house a few times. So I just want to make sure that they get out too. The rest of the day was pretty laid back. My mother-in-law, my daughter, and I went to the grocery and when we got back she cooked some good porkchops. She put soo many different seaonings that I really didn't know how it was going to come out. Needless to say they were great. Whenever my mom or my mother-in-law comes to visit I make sure they cook a few meals for me. Even though I can cook now there ain't nothing like a home cooked mother's meal. So now I am sitting here full and I feel "The Itis" kicking in and we all know what that means. Well, maybe not all of us. Anyway, I am getting off of this computer and going cure "The Itis".

So, I Missed A Day

I know I did not write on my 5th Day; but, I was here in spirit.

Yesterday I got on the computer logged in and then I got sidetracked. I kept thinking I need to get on the computer but I just never came back. When I got up this morning I noticed that my blog was still up and I just said, "Oh well I can write double today". I refuse to start all over because I did think about writing. Since I did think about it I am going to count that as "Day Five". So I will be back later to tell everybody about the day that I had yesterday and what I did today.

Day 4...

So it's day four and I almost didn't write. I was so busy today with my children that I almost forgot. My daughter was sent home from school early yesterday with a fever so I had both of the kids today. Whenever she is sick she treats me like the live in maid. She calls me for everything. It's like she couldn't make a move today without me being there. She has to be fever free for 24 hours before she can go back to school and thankfully today there was no fever. So off to school she goes tomorrow.

Well I am actually pretty sleepy so I am going to bed. I'll write a longer post tomorrow.

Good Night!