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Crying at the ballet...

So DD2 had her ballet recital yesterday and to say I was a proud mom would be totally understating it!!  It was a  lot of work getting the girls ready and making sure everyone was there and in order but once we got to sit down and watch our little angels it was pure heaven!!!

Mr. M promised not to make fun of me if I cried and even support me....baahaahaaaa!!  Really now when women cry what do men do?!!  They freak out and aren't sure whether to hug you or hit someone right?!!  Yupp well he was a little freaked out but I have to say he kept it down to a minimum. Haha on men..you are all just big softies at heart and your secret is SOOO out!!!

So here are some pics of the recital and they did fabulous...

Could she possibly get any cuter??!!!  Moving on before I start to cry again...

Nutcracker eat your heart out because my little girl is taking the ballet world by storm!!!  Ok so I am allowed to say that because I am her mom..don't  judge the stage mom!!

By the end of the recital we had watched so many kids preform and they all did a fabulous job!  I am not more excited then ever for the Fall season to start so I can see more greatness from all of these kids and yes probably cry just a little bit more!!

It was a busy and great weekend and also a frustrating one at times but we made it through and we will be moving on to more fun this week and the rest of the month basically.  Wow I forgot how busy the end of the school year can get and I am so behind on my summer house cleaning I might just have to hire someone the clean my house..baaahaahaaa....ok I needed a good laugh!!  Seriously though my house is probably crying right about now but I don't have time just yet to give it the attention it needs so it will just have to whimper a bit longer!!  Anyone find the secret to a self cleaning house yet??  I could really use one right about now!!

I hope you enjoy the ballet as much as we do and I would love to see any pics anyone has of their little angels doing ballet. Have a great week and see you here again tomorrow..same time...same place!!

Caio for now!

When plans don't quite work out....

Ok so Saturday was supposed to be a busy and fun filled day and yet somehow it all got ruined..why??!!!!!!!  Well let's start with Saturday morning where DD2 had a rehearsal for her ballet recital that is today. That wasn't so bad except that our rehearsal time started late which made us get out of there late which made me not get all the really good stuff I could have gotten at the community yard sale had I made it here earlier...POO!!!!!
Here is DD2 in her costume during rehearsal...

Ohhh what a proud mama I was yesterday and as Mr. M said to me "you are so gonna cry at the recital" I truly do think I will!!!











Now as cute as her up on stage was these moments are the ones that made me truly smile and want to just ball at the same time..

she forgot what she was doing...













OO...eMMM..GGeeeee....you could not wipe the grin off my face!!!!












So after watching the rehearsal and being so proud I could barely hold it in we hit up the community wide yard sales going on just outside of the rehearsal hall.  I love me some yard sales and love to get good bargains!!  Mr. M says I should try selling some of my junk instead of just collecting more and I always say to him"  It is not junk to me and you will someday thank me for saving us tons of money"  All in all I am praying that when we finally retire from the military and get our dream home that all this junk I have been collecting over the years will actually have a place in our home...cross your fingers for me ladies or I just might have to give Mr. M a "you were right" and I hate having to do that!! LOL

The best thing I found at the yard sale was surprisingly the one thing that both Mr. M and myself saw and said "wow I like that"!! I was floored!!!  Did he really just say he wanted something as bad as I did?!!  Did he just tell me to buy it no matter what the cost?!!!  Ok ok so it wasn't a grand piano but we both wanted it and here it is...

Yupp it's a gigantic bottle!!  Now my thoughts were.."holy cow I could do so many different things with that and it could have so many different functions" and Mr. M's thoughts were "Man I could collect all my change in that thing"  Sooo as you can see from the picture it is...as of right now anyway...a change jar...sighhhhh!!!!

I kind of had to give him that one since we really do have a storage room full of my "had to haves" and he has never barked about it.

Now after that we got ready to head home only to find out our oldest had picked something up for herself...a friend!!!  So we got in the truck and headed out with the 3 girls..we are so gullible sometimes I swear!! Haha!!  Off we went to lunch and then home to try and relax until of course Mr. M got called to work. Now this was the night we were first supposed to be going to see the castle illumination(no cruise tickets and I hate going downtown at that time) and then it was that I was supposed to be going to see SATC2 but what was I doing instead...babysitting!!!  Ughhhhh!!!  So I spent the night watching kids and thinking about how much fun I could have been having if not for the Army....yupp once again they got me!!!!  That would be 1 million and 1 to the Army and 2 to me!!!  Of course I keep count it makes it fun..sort of!!

Ok so we have our recital in a few hours and I will definitely be back here to show you beautiful pictures and update you on anything else going on. Have a grand day and try to stay cool!!

Ciao for now!

5 Question Friday!!

Yay I am so flipping happy that it is Friday again!!  Looking forward to the weekend and we have so much going on that I am sure my next post will be filled with pics and happenings to delight all the masses.  I haven't forgotten about my giveaway either just trying to find the time to do it.  I truly do cherish all my followers and readers alike and will open up the giveaway to anyone really who is interested in winning some Polish pottery...ohhhh blast it I gave it away!!!  Me and my mouth..errr hands...err fingers...oh anywho it's out! Well now you know what the prize is so keep checking back to try and win it.

Now onto the 5 Question Friday..

1. If you could go back to college would you change your major? Or, if you were to go to college right now...what major would you choose? 

Ok well I started college with one major and then decided it wasn't for me...ok ok  it was hard ya'll!!  I didn't like all the work so I quit that and went for something I thought was a bit easier. So I started out doing Interior Design and ended up with a degree in Business Management.  Really..have you ever tried to memorize every type of material?!! It's flippin hard!! LOL  

Honestly though I wish I had stuck with the Interior Design because now it would have been easier to find a good job with that degree.

2. What do you love most about your home?

Well this is kind of hard for me simply because I move constantly and have different "homes" all the time. I guess I would have to say the thing I love most about my home is that I can unpack my entire house and have it set up in less then 24 hours..now that is a total mil spouse trick!! LOL

3. What types of books do you like to read (if you like to read at all)?

I used to love to read romance novels and had tons of them but with all the moves I have now moved onto my ebook reader which I love and my tastes seem to have grown up with me as well. I read a lot of biographies and a lot of how to books now. I still enjoy a good romance every now and then though but mostly I wait for the movie...they always seem to make a movie with the really good books!

4. What is the grossest thing you've ever eaten?

Hmmmmmmm well I guess that would depend on what you consider gross really.  I have eaten snails and clams and oysters and didn't care for any of them but don't really consider them gross. I had calamari once and hated it!  I think I would say though that the time my friend took me to a fish market here in Germany and asked me to close my eyes and try something I was dumb enough to do it and ended up with an octopus tentacle suction cupped to the roof of my mouth..not fun and it was definitely gross!!!

5. If you HAD to be a character on a TV show, whom would you be?

OMG  this is going to be hard to pick just one. I mean I always try to fit myself into atleast one character in any show I have ever watched. Like Sex and the City--I am totally a Charlotte..Desperate Housewives--I am Susan....Everybody loves Raymond(Alles lieben Raymon in Germany)--I am definitely Deborah.  I could go on and on but I won't bore you with all of them.

Wow those were some fabulous questions for this Friday!!  I hope all of you have a fabulous weekend. We are jammed once again with a river cruise, of course SATC2 movie, ballet rehearsal and recital, community yard sale and  hopefully some time in there somewhere to relax and take a load off.  So all of you have a great weekend and I will see be back to blog all about our fun filled weekend as soon as I can.

Ciao for now!

TDML Thursday!

Whoa how did we get to Thursday so quick?!!!!  It seems like time is flying by with all the end of the year events, recitals, parties and socials.  Don't get me wrong I am one of those people that absolutely loves being busy as long as it is not hectic busy but when whole weeks go by and I can't remember what I was doing a week ago then I start to wonder if I am functioning on auto pilot!  Apparently I didn't mess anything up or miss anything though since no angry phone calls were made to me....honestly I like getting those it is sometimes the kick in the butt I need to get myself in gear!

So here we are at another Thursday and I will once again share my life story with all of you.  Last Thursday I had left off where Mr. M was once again preparing to deploy and I was pregnant with our first little girl. Of course he was with me for the first 2 months of the pregnancy..you know the fun ones where you throw up all the time and tell him he stinks and to get away from you.  I will never forget the morning he left though....there we were at 1am at the company waiting on the buses to arrive and take my man away from me once again and as I previously stated I was living in pukeyville at the time so between hugging and cuddling and talking about all the last minute stuff I was throwing up the entire time.  Now for some reason with my first pregnancy nothing helped with the nausea except for milk...yupp ladies I said milk!!  So around 2am Mr. M was still not gone and I was so miserable and just wanted a bed to die in but there was no way I was leaving him to see himself off so he went on a hunt of the barracks for anyone who was not leaving on the deployment and might possibly have some milk in their fridge.  Now you gotta love a man who will run around at 2am trying to find you milk right?!!  So he actually found some and I started to feel a little better just in time for the buses to arrive and him to have to leave..priceless right?!!! Haha  I was in no shape to argue with fate right then so we said our goodbyes and he was off.  I of course went home and crashed into my big empty bed all alone and swore I was not getting up the next day at all....yeah right! 

Ok so fun pukey stuff over let's move on to the remainder of the deployment and my first pregnancy.  Now to this day I swear my pregnancy brain had a mind of it's own and did crazy things like allow someone to move in with me for my sake...baahaaaahaaa  definitely didn't work out for my sake!!!  This horrible woman who claimed to be my friend was supposed to be staying with me...rent free..to help me out and yet all she seemed to do was party like she wasn't married, come home in the middle of the night and run up my phone bill without paying it!!  We all have had our stupid mistakes I know but this one was killing me.  Here I am trying to be positive with my husband deployed and my first baby girl on her way and now I had to deal with Mrs. partyanimal sleeparound!!  Let me tell you how much fun that was!!!  Well I think the only times it was fun was when she would come home around 2 or 3am and my dog...a gigantic Rottweiler names Tyson...would growl and bark at her and not let her in the door so she would have to ring the door bell to wake me up.  Well as not fun as that sounds it actually was since a few times I chose to not hear the doorbell and let her sit on the front porch until I decided I wanted to get up..hahaha!! See told you it was fun!  Then of course there was the time I finally told her she had to get out since I was 8 months pregnant and she was living in my nursery..duhhhhh!!!  She totally didn't get that either...some people I tell ya!  So anywho  I told her I wanted her out, told housing I wanted her out and then told the company I wanted her out. Then 2 weeks later I called the company and her once again and said "If she is not out of my house by 5pm today I am taking my 8 month pregnant and pissed off self upstairs and dragging all of her crap down the stairs myself and throwing it on the curb"  I was actually amazed when not only did she arrive on time but a few guys to help get her stuff out of my house and even a few nice MP's to make sure I didn't kill her...would I do that?!!!!  Hey hormonal and pissed off you never know but seriously all I did was stand outside on my front lawn with my beautiful dog on a leash just to scare the crap out of her.  I was told once by one of the MP's to put my dog away that it wasn't necessary to have him out there and I think that just because any time he tried to come up to me Tyson would growl at him..baahaaahaaa some people!!

Ok so I am not usually crazy and again I totally blame pregnancy hormones on the craziness but either way it was my way or the highway and my way really seemed to work well with people so why change it right?!!

So crazy lady moved out of my house and I started on my nursery..yayyyyyy!!!  I had so many caring people around me and by this point I was unable to do alot of the things I wanted to do so they helped me pretty much everything.  My bestie and I put the crib together..I think it only took us a few tries before we finally figured it out....don't laugh those things are confusing!!  I had some other friends come over and help me put up the wallpaper and border and hang up all the stuff for the walls. Another friend came over to help me wash all the clothes and get everything put away.  I was truly truly blessed with a ton of fabulous friends and will never ever forget any of them for all they did for me.

Now I have already told my whole birth story of when I had my first little blessing come into this world and how Mr. M missed it all but you read it here and see just how wonderful it all was.  The only things that were left out of that story were that not only was my mom there with me but 2 of my best friends who had stuck with me through everything and been nothing but total angels to me the entire pregnancy. Also my little brother who had insisted that as soon as I went into labor he wanted to be called. Well my mom and I decided not to call him until midnight which is when it was so far along that we knew she was coming..ok totally my moms idea but anywho she called him at midnight. Now it was a 4 hour drive from Stillwater,OK to Ft. Riley, KS but that boy made it in 2 hours.  I don't even want to know how many laws he broke getting there but I was so tickled and greatful that he was even there I didn't care.  The first time I saw him was when they finally wheeled me out to the delivery room and apparently I looked half dead because all I saw was his face and him saying" is she ok?"  The next time I heard his voice was when the doctor told me "stop screaming you are going to scare the other moms" and my little bro saying through the door"shut up and let her scream"  Ohhh man did I ever love him for that one!!! 

Ok so you now know all about our second deployment together and my first pregnancy and all my fabulous friends I had. Ohhh and just in case you wanted to know yes I still talk with most of those people who were there for me through that deployment and one of my besties is still and always will be my best friend in the whole world as well as both of my kids guardian along with her fabulous hubby!!

Alright ladies so I will leave it there and figure out the perfect place to start up again next Thursday.  Until then enjoy your life, hubbies, kids, boyfriends, girlfriends, pets and all those moments that make our lives truly blessed!!!

Ciao for now!

Blogger 101!

Happy hump day everyone!!

First I want to say thank you so much to everyone who left such sweet congrats and comments on my blog yesterday and welcome to my newest followers!!  I am so new to all this blogger stuff still but learning more and more each day. I have learned so much in my life and this is just one of the many things that I am determined to figure out in time.  In my life there are so  many important messages I have come across and so much information that is relevant to me and my life so I thought I would share just a few things with all of you my lovely followers and readers alike.  So here goes...
1. Houses do not clean themsleves...we have all closed our eyes and wished upon stars but it doesn't work ladies sorry!!

2. Husband do not train themselves..alas we must actually take the time to teach our men to put the toilet seat down, clean their whiskers off the bathroom sink and put their dirty clothes actually in the hampers..don't cry now some of them actually start to learn relatively fast!!

3. Those extra pounds you put on over the years will not just fall off if you wish hard enough...it is a sad fact that gimicks, diets and rubbish pills will not make that spare tire around our waists just fall off.  Unfortunately we actually have to do the dreaded  workouts to make it happen.  Don't shoot the messenger folks you knew it you just didn't want to admit it..now stop spending money on the gimmicks and use the money to buy new clothes once you actually get the pounds off on your own!!

4. Banks will never just put money in your account just because they love you....this one is one of the worst truths I have come across.  Now they value you as customers so where is the love right?!!!  Apparently we have to love ourselves and make those deposits on our own..sighhhhh!!

5. If you don't take the time to teach your kids right from wrong and what is acceptable behavior and what is not then how do you expect them to do right and act right?!!  I have seen way too many people who are actually surprised when their kids act up in public or get caught stealing or vandalising when the parent knows full well that they gave up being a good parent a long time ago.  Now I am not talking about those parents who do everything in their power and still end up with the trouble makers..I swear it is predetermined in the womb who will be troublesome or not...but those parents who just gave up a long time ago and let their kids do as they pleased and then act surprised when they get that call from the police.

6.You can not make life long friends with people if you do not put yourself out there.  Seriously folks on this one I am so guilty!!!  I have no idea why no one is begging me to be their friend and why no one is calling me to do lunch or go to the movies without me having to go to them first?  I mean I am fabulous after all and they should all want to be my friend..baaahaaahaaa..Yupp I do live in a fantasy world and for the most part it is nice except when the realization kicks in that you actually have to put yourself out there or else people think you are stuck up and unsocial...wow is that hard for me to write even knowing full well I am so guilty of it!  I can tel you though that I have turned a new leaf and am now actively persuing friendships and making things happen for myself!! Yay me!!


Ok so maybe these are all my learning experiences and some may pertain to you and some may not. So what are your life long realizations and do you have any advice for others who might be in your same shoes?!!  I would love to hear what everyone has to say so please don't be shy(like me) and leave a comment or do your own blog about it and let me know!


Oh and btw I was totally shopping yesterday for the prize I was going to give away and found this fabulous "thing". I will come up with some fantastic thing to do to give it away I promise!!  Here is a hint...it is from Poland and you can bake in it!!  Are you dying now???    OMG I am!!!!

Have a good one!!  Ciao for now!

PINT and my 100th!!!

Yayyyy not only is it Post it note Tuesday but this is my 100th post!!  I am so excited that I have made it this far and I am so greatful to all my lovely followers.  I love you all and I would love to see my blog get to 100 followers for my 100th post..now I know this is a lot to ask but please please please if you have anyone you think might enjoy my ramblings and nonsense and fabulousness then please ask them to stop by and follow me.  I just might have to figure out a fantastic prize to give away if I can actually make it today. Of course being in Europe I know I can come up with something absolutely fantastic so let's see if we can do it and I will start thinking of the fabulous prize right away!!

Ok now go click that button up there and share your post its with us all!!!  Ohh and don't forget please please please help me try to get to 100 followers today!!!! I am BEGGING you!!!!!!!   I promise the prize will be fantastic and as soon as I get it I will post how to try and win it!!  Luv you all and have a fabulous day!!