Grown Up Lady!

In 58 minutes I will be THE ideal age! In my head anyway. You know the age you think you will "feel" like a grown up? Dream Guy? Check! Family? Check! House? Check! Career? Check! Check! A little more career than I bargained for and a little less children but I'm not finished yet, I hope, and I'm not one of those women (HA! I just called MYSELF that! Oh, I am SO 27!) who wants to be DONE by the time they're 30! Heck no! Not even close...Bucky is a little, okay a LOT, closer than I, actually!
Mandi will tell you I am funny when I'm sleepy, or at least I think I am! But, I think I'm getting too old to stay up this late when my girl has school tomorrow so I can't entertain you for long! However, I wanted to tell you that I truly HOPE that this will be my last blog without pictures! THAT may not be entirely true but this better be the last time I have the excuse of not having a CAMERA! Don't you all (all six of you?) agree with me? Thanks! Now I would tell you to email Bucky and bug him to get me one BUT, he doesn't check his email....SO, if you want to call and remind him, his number is 886-4141! HA! He would be very grateful for your help! Trust me! ;) Good Night!
P.S. I don't FEEL like a grown up and am pretty sure I never will! *sigh* It's quite nice!
P.P.S. Read Junie B. Jones to your kids if you don't already or to yourself if you don't have kids and you've never read them! HILARIOUS! I have to stop readign to wipe my tears. She. Cracks. Me. UP! Seriously, Good Night!

Taco Pie? Or something?

Okay, so I really like to cook, but nothing hard or with crazy ingredients that you can't get at the Marshall Wal-Mart. I like to eat more, actually I might not even like to cook that much, I just get so excited about eating that it makes it worth it! I feel like I make the SAME five things all the time and I get less and less excited about cooking because I never make anything new.....it's not THAT bad because I only cook for my poor family about once a week.
Monday-Bucky works late.....kid food....hot dogs, mac and cheese, etc...this doesn't count
Wednesday-I work late...Bucky usually feeds the kids breakfast...unless it's grillin' weather
Thursday-Dance!....my kids, the Sherman girls and I treat ourselves to one of the fine dining establishments in Carollton..McDonald's, Sonic, or Subway!
Friday-I was raised believing that you are supposed to go out to eat on Fridays! Golden Corral here we come! Just Kidding! I'll talk about that in another post!
Saturday-We're usually busy

That leaves Tuesday and Sunday! So, really it takes me like a month to make my same borring meals. BUT, tonight I made up a delicious kid friendly dinner. By the way, Bucky is working late ...again...AND I COOKED! I started looking on www.kraft.com for something different and easy ....I was missing something for everything I wanted to make so...I got creative..
You will need:
crescent rolls
1lb. turkey burger
1can mild ro-tel
1can tomato sauce
like 2 oz cream cheese
shredded colby jack
-Preheat oven to 400
-Brown meat and add rest of stuff, oh and I threw in some green onion and seaseoned the meat with a little cumin, chili powder and, of course, seasoning salt and garlic salt. I put that on everything!
-grease 9" pie pan, line with unrolled, crescent rolls, seal seams
-Fill with mixture, top with shredded cheese, bake for 18-20 min
Well more like 16 minutes..I couldn't wait!

Averi cleaned her plate (Never happens!) and Will said "Nummy!" the whole time he ate! I think they approved and I liked it too! Poor Bucky missed out!

5 to 15

"Talk to the booty 'cause the hand's off duty!!"-Thank you Hannah Montana's grandma for that great quote! My 5 YEAR OLD is very lucky she was not being told to do something OR getting in trouble when she busted this little saying out..TO HER MOTHER! Okay, it was hilarious and totally unexpected BUT, she probably shouldn't say that to me. While we're on the subject of Averi, not only is she mouthy beyond her years....she is a CLEPTO!!! Not even 24 hours after her "outburst" of her new fave quote, she took MY CELL PHONE to her friends house! WITHOUT ASKING! Yep, she stole my cell phone! She did get busted for that! I wouldn't have been so mad if I hadn't searched for it forever before it occurred to me that the little stinker had to have taken it!
Averi and I had been playing Horse-opoly for quite a while when Carleigh, our neighbor, and her dad stopped by to see if Averi could come up and play.......My mom called while they were here...I let here go...laid my phone next to me on the floor and......GONE! I changed a diaper, checked my email, loaded the dishwasher and decided to go out to my mom's to borrow the movie, Australia. (not a good choice) I thought Averi might like to go with me, SO, the search began..............
Me: Where's my phone????
Bucky: It's not right beside you?
Me: NOOOOOOO?
Bucky: You just had it...
Me: I KNOW! And now it's gone! Will you help me look so I can go get the movie?
Bucky: (very enthusiastic) yep!
So we're searching the house (with Will's help) and it hit me
Me:OH! MY! GOSH! Averi took my phone!
Bucky: no she didn't! don't blame her because you lost your phone
Me: She has it!
Bucky: No way!
So I took his phone, calling my phone, and went to Carleigh's...guess what I found? Two little giggle boxes hiding in Carleigh's room with a nice, new white Palm Centro! Can you believe her?

Girl Scouts Rock!

Guess what my whole family had for breakfast? Thin Mints! Yep! Thin Mints! Are you craving them yet? How about those yummy Carmel Delights? Peanut Butter sandwich and a glass of milk? OR Lemonades? My personal favorite! I ordered ALL of these but, back to the Lemonades. I LOVE shortbread, and Nancy's lemon cake! This is a perfect combination of both! They are so light and summery feeling and I don't feel guilty when I eat them because, hello? They are in the shape of a fruit!

For those of you who don't know about Nancy's lemon cake it is the best cake EVER! Mandi is my BFF and Nancy is my second Mom! (Mandi's Mom, thanks for sharing, Mandi! and Julie and Amy!) Anyway, I have gotten the privilege to eat dinner at Nancy's at least once a year since the sixth grade!........Mandi's BIRTHDAY! Which is coming up! She's older than me by the way! ;) Okay, let's be serious, I ate there every chance I got and still do!

I am off to share more t-shirt designs with the girls at High Maintenance, make some people beautiful and then I'm joining Curve's. .........There I said it, now maybe I'll go.....right after I finish this box of cookies!

T-shirts

The camera is MIA so...we're moving on! I will share my "bag" with you soon, but I have a small confession, I changed bags! Sorry, I am revamping for Spring.



I don't know if you've heard but High Maintenance has some great things going on! We now have a great Nail Tech, Mindy Schenk, from Carrolton, Mo! Amanda Neuman, our amazing Esthetician, who has been on maternity leave is back full time! And Estela Villatoro, now works with us, as a stylist! Estela moved home (Marshall) from Springfield, Mo where she worked in a well known Aveda salon, to get her Esthetician license in addition to her cosmetology license! Do you know what that means? We are FULL SERVICE!!! That's right! Any service you would like to receive on your hair, skin OR nails, WE can do it! In the same day at the same place! Watch out Marshall! For those of you that don't already know, there hasn't been a place like that in town before now! So, to add to the excitement, we decided to get t shirts for Spring! That's where I would appreciate YOUR help! I started designing some on Uberprints.com..and the possibilities are ENDLESS! And, of course when you have five women trying to decide on one style..umm...Please vote for your fav!

**Okay I tried to do a polldaddy but I can't upload pics from Uberprints so we'll have to do it this way**

1.Bright pink with yellow High Maintenance, diagonal in front in "punk" font
2. Kelly green with High Maintenance straight across the front, yellow in "space" font (smooth skinny lines with no corners) and the phone number on the back
3. White t with "I *heart* my hair"on front (think I *heart* NY, black writing, red heart)and High Maintenance and the phone number on back

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Any other suggestions would be great also! Thanks!

Bag Tag!

DUDE! The inside of my purse is like a trash can! Kari tagged me and she's gonna be SO grossed out! I can not believe that I am going to share with the public what is at the bottom of my HUGE bag. What can I say? I'm busy and my children and I like snacks! Anyway, Bucky keeps leaving the camera at work...you know, the "family" camera? the reason I don't "need" one? Because "WE" have one? That should also explain the lack of posts for the past couple of weeks. Sorry! I'll go get it from him tomorrow and share my CUTE goldish, silverish BIG Bag....and...whatever lurks below the zipper......

Ice Ice Baby!

Check out Averi's moves! She got 'em from her mama!!

Sorry about having to watch it sideways! :)

P.S. Kaiyln Wise is on her left. She's got some pretty awesome moves too!