I love my ipod. (pathetic)

The ipod lives on. After some work, she is back up and running. Whew!! I know it sounds pathetic but I was almost in tears last night when my entire ipod deleted itself. (or I might have done it by accident, whatever. But Seriously man...I CAN'T run without it. I've tried...my legs don't move. It's stupid...I know. But I can't help it. So today precious ipod and I went for a 2 mile run...my first run in a while since I've been taking classes instead. THEN I took body sculpting class after my run! GO ME!!! I'm pretty excited about being back into shape. I take 4 classes a week now...all in the morning. It's been a full month since I started and I feel AWESOME! If only my body looked like it...I will one day be happy when I look in the mirror. It might be a ways a way...but it will happen. And I wish my bestie, MelB lived closer because she is a HUGE inspiration to me. She gets me and is the one person I can talk to about my workouts who doesn't get annoyed about hearing it. Thanks chicka, I love you. I'm off the aquarium water play area with some friends and a whole bunch of kids today. Have a great day everyone!!!!

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I just deleted my entire 2 gig Ipod by mistake. I'm so mad!!!!!!!!!!! I worked soooooo hard on my playlists! aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Moms Day (sort of)

This is my 100th post! yay! I decided to switch my Mother's Day. Friday was my Mother's day instead of today. Friday was lots of fun. We had a Mother's Day tea party at Olivia's school, then went to a fun Birthday party, then went swimming at a friends house. It was a great day. Today, however, was not. I am SO thankful for my amazing kids but they have their bad days too and today was one of them. Sophia has been in a rut for the past few days and was super cranky today. I took the girls out for happy face pancakes and it was so badly that we didn't even eat our food...I got up to leave in such a rage that I forgot to pay. Of course I went back and paid....but I was mad. Sophia was RI-DIC-U-LOUS. Also..the Hubs forgot it was my special day too. Way to go Hubs. He's lucky I love him.

I know there will be many many more Mother's Days. In reality...everyday is Mother's day because everyday my kids surprise in some way...good or bad...funny or sad. They are great girls! Anyhoo...here are some pics from the tea party.





In Other news...I had Olivia evaluated for speech this past week. I had been told by a few people that I should get her evaluated even though I didnt think it was necessary. I refuse to be one of those naive moms...So I went anyway. Well...Mother knows best! Not only was she testing at a 6 year old level for learning/skills/development...her "speech problem" is totally normal for her age. She has trouble pronouncing r's and l's. So we will work on that. Always trust your instincts moms!

Bitch Fest #2

I'm gonna rant for a sec...feel free to hit the "x" in the upper right hand corner.
I want to be a little bit more appriciated sometimes. *I* think I'm an extremely dedicated wife and mom. Just sayin Not going into details.
On another note...being a mom of a ballerina we are to make the girls costumes for the upcoming recital. Today I hand picked out 56 medium size gems out of a giant tub full of different sized ones. Then I had to hand make 56 teeeeeeenie bows. Then I had to hot glue the gems on the bows. Then I had to hot glue the bows on the tutu's. There are 7 dancers. 8 bows on each tutu, 1/2 inch from the the tule and 1/2 inch from the bottom. o.m.g. THEN had to hand make all the hair bows too! My fingers hurt from hot glue! I felt bad for some of the dads who bring their daughters so I made their tutu's for them to bring home so they didnt have to do it themselves. I also made another extra one because that mom was out sick. By the time I was 15 minutes away I realized I FORGOT MY TUTU! Which by the way I am not even close to completing since I was busy with everyone elses! So then I go to target because I need "toast" (nude) colored tights. Why not just call them pantyhose?? Or Nylons? Anyhooooooo of course Target did not have them and neither does Walmart. Ill check the dancers closet which is all proffessional costumes so I will pay like 20 bucks for a pair of freakin toast tights. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRHHHHHHHH <~that was me screaming.Dont get me wonrg, I love being involved in everything my kids do. But I deserve a good rant now and then. K Im done. Have a fabulous day.

Splish Splash !

I had a pretty good start to this week. Yesterday Olivia had a DR. appt after coughing for 5 nights. A quick prescription and she's fine. My prescription on the other hand cost $22! WTF? I know almost all Tricare scrips are either $3 or $9. Lame. I FINALLY got rid of like 7 bags of stuff to Goodwill. It's been in my garage for ever. I started off today with having the lawn landscaped. It's one of the things around the house I just don't do. It's a mans job. (and way too hot out). I had a body sculpting class that was awesome. I'm feeling sculpted :) When we got home I did some serious spring cleaning of the downstairs. It's sparking! I have to admit...I was thrilled to move into such a big house but didn't consider the cleaning aspect of it. It's too much to clean in one day for sure. Ill tackle the upstairs next week perhaps. I made some home made mac and cheese for the girlies and filled up their pool. They had a fun hour splashing around before dinner and we called it a night. Here a couple pics.




Such a beautiful girl.

I have no problem bragging about my own kids. Sophia is just stunning.

After a long day of swimming at the neighbors house, my kids are asleep and I'm catching up on laundry. What better to do than a survery?!

1.How long have you been a Military Wife? Almost 6 years! AAHH!

2. How many deployments have you gone through? Many...1 year to Okinawa, 5 months in Qatar, another 3 months in Qatar, 7 months in Afghanistan, 3 months out on ship to the Philippines, then little tid bits when he was away at courses and stuff.

3. What do you like about being a Military Wife? The Pride I have for my husband.

4. Do you live on base? Hell to the no, we will never live on base.

5. What is your favorite base so far? Okinawa Japan was our favorite duty station although I love Tampa too.

6.What's the hardest part of the military life? watching my husband walk away too many times and having to explain his absence to our crying kids.

7.Do you go to the grocery store or commissary? The grocery store, the commissary makes me attend anger management classes.

8. Do you prefer Dress Blues or Dress Whites? Blues of course!

9.Do you have a lot of Military Wife friends? yes, but I have a lot that are not military wives too.

10. Do you prefer wal-mart or the BX/PX? Neither, they both suck. Target is where it's at.

11. So how did your Husband propose? He didn't. We discussed getting married very early (when I was still in high school). Long Story short...we eloped.

12.Did you marry him after he joined or before? After...He was in MOS school in Pensacola when we eloped.

13.How long have you two been together? 9 years

14. Any kids yet? The cutest daughters in the world!

15. Any kids yet to come? Negative. This factory is CLOSED!

16. Is your husband one of those (I am army hear me "HOOAH"/ I am Marine Corps hear me "OOHRAH") kind of guys? No thank God, he is a great Marine and has a ton of pride but he isnt a motard.

17.Have you ever done combatives with your husband? Of course....what military wife hasn't been a test dummy?

18. How many bases have you lived at? 3

19. If you could change one thing about the military what would it be? That when they give you a date, they stick to it.

20.Do you like military balls? Yes! They are always a blast.

21.Where does your family live? both of our families are in Massachusetts

22.Do you have a job? yes, wife and mom

23. Have you ever gotten in a fight with a CPO's wife? No, I'm not into that catty drama.

24. Name one thing you do when your husband is gone? Make goals.

25.Do you think other wives do that too? of course.

26.When you see movies about the military, do you notice when things aren't right? All the time! It's annoying! Get it right Hollywood!

Weekend Randomness

First of all, HELLO to all of my new followers :D I look forward to reading your blogs and sharing mine with you!!! Welcome aboard!

Second, I am excited today because I bought our tickets to VA!!!!! The girlsies and I will head up there June 14 (my wedding anniversary eeeeeek!!) to see The Hubs. He's only been gone a week but the girls are begging for him already. Ill watch the lil graduation from Sgts Course then hit DC to see the sites. My bestie lives close by so we will be visiting with her and her family too. Then "DUN DUN DUN" driving back to FL!! Yup. Driving. Not too sure on how thats going to go....kinda scared.

Third...I just want to recognize the funny stuff Big Sis says now a days. Today I asked her to go get me the baby wipes and she responded with "Why, are your legs broken?" WTF????? Hilarious. This kid is only 4 people! Anyway...it's an early bedtime for my kiddos tonight so off I go. Have a GREAT weekend!