HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOAD!!

Happy Birthday to you (even if you left us to go fishing)

Happy Birthday to you (again rudely leaving us, what if we'd had plans for your birthday)

Happy Birthday dear Toadly (you know secret birthday surprise plans which are now ruined)

Happy Birth Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay TOooooooooooooooooooo Yooooooooooooooooooou.

Smooch!

P.S. holy crap your getting old!

P.S.

I will get those pics uploaded... just not tonight!

Sure...

So Tia moaned and groaned about me not updating the blog and lo and behold she hasn't updated hers either. Of course she's probably waiting for the fab party pics which I have not yet gotten off my camera yet. Hmmm.. yep that could be it. Nothing Much going on. oh yea... HAPPY VALENTINES DAY... yesterday. ha ha ha

Todd and I have now officially been married for 17 years. Hey that's a long time anymore. Today we had our traditional breakfast, steak and eggs the I had to go to work. I got off a bit after 7 tonight, came home then we went out to our traditional dinner at the loft... all four of us. We have ALWAYS taken the kids out on Valentines/Anniversary with us. I think its a holiday for our whole family not just Todd and I because you know it is the Anniversary of the start of our family :-) first it was Todd and I then 10 short months later Tia appeared then about a year and a half later Colt appeared. 17 years later here we are. After dinner we came home and played RockBand then random internet stuff while watching tv and now I should be sleeping but I'm not. I was lying on the couch with my head agaist Tia and I fell asleep but then she woke me up because her laptop was dying. Rude. she should have just sat there and let me sleep. Now I can't sleep again. what was she thinking! just kidding. kind of.

Tomorrow we are going to Provo to do a little grocery shopping and to buy Colt some shoes. apparently we are also buying shotgun shells so the boys can go goosehunting with the Gates men in a couple of weeks. We will probably also have lunch somewhere... I'm hoping for Chinese... Mmmmmm Chinese! Of course I already ate way to much today but I guess it going to be a eat way to much weekend and then I'll go back to being good again. My being good is not helping but hey it makes me feel better.

Guess that's it. Hope you all are having a wonderfully lovely sleep (Tia!!)

My week..

*grin* ok, so I have not been very productive this week! I have been off since ummm Wednesday and have not been getting much accomplished. I did do laundry, not that you'd notice now and had good plans to clean the house but it didn't get done. I did get the Milk Shed cleaned out today and Colt and Todd fixed my electrical problems so that I am ready for Tinker to kid if she so desires. I do have a couple of things left to put away out there but I'm done for the most part. I am however hoping that she was just being a slut and didn't really get bred that day back in September. I actually wouldn't mind if noone decided to kid until April. Yeah April. that would be good. I know it won't happen though. After Tinker our next does are due in a couple weeks so again I'm ready but still hope they were all just being slutty.

Bella has been full of teenage angst lately. I have no idea what's up with her but she's making me crazy! she better get over it.

Last night we had a family party .Our family parties have gotten much much more interesting lately . Wes and Brandon brought their band gear again. unfortunately they lost their guitarist and haven't found a new one yet so it was mainly drums and Bass with a tiny bit of guitar and keyboard. Was still great fun and turned into one heck of a party. All boobers friends kept showing up to go along with the various family members. One guy was telling me that he and his wife went into town to the bar and there was noone in there so they started calling around to find out where everyone was and found out they were at our shindig so they came out too. Tia and I did our designated driver routine and then Colt and I went home about 2:30am. Todd had came home earlier as he had to work this morning and Tia stayed over with the cousins. Apparently the music went on until 4 am or so. In all it was fun, there are a couple people in our family group that needs to learn that you do not have to keep drinking until your totally toasted. Jeff passed out early, got a bit of creative pranking done to him and then ended up wetting his pants as he lay there on the bench.. what the crap! It would have been alot less worse if two of his kids hadn't been present. Ok, actually I think the older one can handle it fine its the little one that shouldn't have seen his dad that way. Then there's Boober, who starts out all good but just needs to learn when to quit.

My kids are getting a good education on how not to act and seem to find it hilarious watching people being total idiots. I just hope they actually learn from it and don't want to be the ones being idiots. Mom and I have decided we need to make barriers like they use at concerts to keep the general party people away from the band equipment next time! drunk people near all that equipment just makes me nervous.

I guess that's it. I will soon post a new message that has some of the party pix on it.

Grrrrrr ...

I am sick of dreaming while I sleep. Is there a way to sleep without having dreams? I'm not much of a pill person but I'm thinking I might take one to quit having stupid dreams. especially the last while. I spent seemingly all last night (and many nights before) trying to find someone. Someone who in real life is dead and wanted nothing other then to pretend I didn't exist while still living. well they ignore me in my dreams too as I fruitlessly keep trying to find them to know why, only to have them keep not wanting to be found and just missing them. what the hell. I came to terms with it in my waking hours (not like there is anything I could do about it anyhow) but why the hell do I seem obsessed with finding out why in my sleep. Newsflash to subconscious self YOUR NEVER GOING TO KNOW, so get the hell over it!