It is finally here!

I thought it was never going to make it. I am about to leave for work, so I wont write much now.
But "ARE YOU READY?" I am..


Obviously, this is the box. Under the newsletter is where the adventure begins.



Each DVD has 3 workouts on them.

I plan to start the adventure tomorrow morning. I plan on having Victoria take my "Day 1" pictures.
I am very excited to do this new workout. I will keep you informed!

My Philips MP3 player

This is the Philips SA3020 SA3021 2 GB mp3. It also hold photos and video. Right now it is on charging. It takes 5 hours. I am picking cd's and buying some mp3s to put on it.
This is my list I bought from Wal-Mart.
Who Knew (Pink)
When I Grow Up (Pussycat Dolls)
We Will Rock You (Queen)
Stupid Girls (Pink)
So What (Pink)
Say It Right (Nelly Furtado)
Rockstar (Nickelback)
Pocketful Of Sunshine (Natasha Bedingfield)
Love Remains The Same (Gavin Rossdale)
Leave Out All The Rest (Linkin Park)
Hot N Cold (Katy Perry)
Hollaback Girl (Gwen Stephani)
Hey There Delilah - (Plain White T's )
Gotta Be Somebody (Nickelback)
Call Me When You're Sober (Evanescence)
Glamorous (Fergie)
Broken - (Seether)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Bleeding Love (Leona Lewis)
Big Girls Don't Cry (Fergie)
Better In Time (Leona Lewis)
Apologize - (Timbaland)
(You Want To) Make A Memory (Bon Jovi)

So far I have put only a few songs from cd's. A little Pantera and a little Metallica's Master of Puppets Remastered. I have a very eclectic taste in music as you can see.

I just wanted to share my Christmas present.

A new ornament

I went in the living room to look outside and I found a new ornament in the tree.
Honestly, it was only a matter of time. We knew it would happen.


"You cant see me"


"Ha, this is the best hiding place"


"Hey, Ajax, what are you playing with. I want to play"

Christmas not just for the kids

I was not going to put up a tree this year. Today I changed my mind. I am glad I did. The kids were very excited about getting it up an lit.

It wasn't just the kids that were happy.

Felix was elated! He sat under the tree and looked and looked and looked some more.

Isn't he cute :)

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Hope for Christmas

No, I don't mean what it sounds like. I was in Hope yesterday for the Crime Lab Christmas party. It was wonderful. Just 5 of us. It is wonderful to be included in their little group. We just needed Amy to drop by!
There was lots of wonderful food. I was so stuffed!


At the lab Jeff worked.

Madison worked

Kristi worked

Uh, Diane..played..lol

Danzig the Dog watched quietly

In the TINY break room we had a wonderful buffet. There were crock pots of happiness everywhere.

As things came to an end we had cleaning. Maddie worked really hard yesterday. No one felt too bad since she was leaving Friday morning for Wisconsin. She will be gone 2 weeks.


Kristi had to play some too. Her handsome brother brought in some beautiful pink roses for his "friend". Kristi has aspirations of becoming a professional bride, or something like that. Maybe a bride model for a magazine.

Seriousness can only last so long before our true Kristi came shining through.



It really was a great day. Thank you girls for including me :)

Trying something

I have been playing on photobucket today. I made a "remix". These are photos of me from 2001-2008. I am amazed at how awful I looked.


So we will see if this works.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Today we had our annual photos taken at church in front of the tree.

Another prize win..lol

Diane the saver of coins and $1 bills. Had another How Much Is It contest.
I had worked and was sleeping during the contest. Jeff voted on my behalf. I had NOT intended on entering since I just won!
Jeff in the spirit of Price is Right placed his bid and won.

The total was $321.00.

WOW Diane.. That brings the total to $941.53.
The moral to the story is SAVE YOUR CHANGE (and ones)

ChaLEAN Extreme...Finally!

After waiting somewhat patiently for what seems like MONTHS it have finally been released. I placed my order as soon as I got home.
Hopefully it will ship quickly so I can get started.

Want to order try here
Want to see what the buzz is all about you can go here


Enjoy!

Making Sourdough bread

I have a friend at church that I just adore. She has 5 beautiful grown children and she teaches Latin at the kids school.
Anyway, she has a sourdough starter that she has had since, well for around 20 years!!!! She is forever bringing bread to church functions and it is so delish! It doesn't have a soury sourdough taste like some you get from the supermarket.

I decided I would like to give it a try. So my friend said she would volunteer some of her starter. On Sunday she gave me a bowl with the starter and a 2 page recipe on how to feed the starter and then how to make bread.

Man, I had no idea how much attention it took. Ok, the feeding isn't a big deal, really.
It has to be fed a minimum of 1 x weekly, and as much as every 3 days. For a feeding you have to add 1 TBSP potato flakes, 3/4 cup sugar, and 1 cup warm water. You give it a good gentle stir and then lightly prop the lid on the jar/bowl and leave it out 10-12 hours.
Then you can either put it back into the refrigerator or you go to the next step and begin the process of making bread. If you are making bread you pour in 1 cup of the starter and follow the directions.
The whole process takes a couple of days. Not quite like throwing flour, sugar, yeast, etc in a bowl and in a few hours you have fresh baked bread.

So right now I have 2 loaf pans of bread in the oven on the rise (I hope). It takes 3-5 hours for this process. I am really hoping to have a loaf for dinner tonight.
Time will truly tell.

I was beginning to worry. The paperwork said to let rise 3-5 hours. Well after 3 hours the bread didn't look like it was going to do anything. So I waited another hour. It wasn't quite to the top of the pan but I cranked up the oven anyway. It was already after 6pm and the family needed to eat.
It turned out wonderful! Flavorful! Delish!

I won a prize

My friend Diane had a contest to guess how much change she had saved.

She had saved a whopping $620.53! My guess was in the $400 range. Way low but still higher than the other guessers.
Want to see what I won!!!


PJ says "whatcha got there momma"



Now to go shopping...hmmm

Testing your geekishness

Jeff found a website to take a test to check your geekness.
I am 18.5% geek. Shocking info was Jeff was 39.64497% which makes him a Major Geek.
Have fun and take the test.

The brown shirt sports a molecule of Theobromine. Caffeine is our favorite stimulant. It is easy to get and comes in many forms. But did you know that Caffeine has a sexy younger cousin. Her name is Theobromine, and she's the tasty little number who puts your mind in a happy place while you are eating chocolate. Molecularly similar to caffeine, but with just enough differences to make her a much smoother date, Theobromine is slower to burn out of your system and induces gentle, sensual stimulation to your muscular and cardiovascular systems. Grrrrrrrr!

Check out www.thinkgeek.com. It is a geek superstore of fun clothes, and gadgets.

Raking the yard

We have a few pine trees in our yard which produces obscene amounts of pine needles. Layers and layers of them. Today I decided we would get out and rake the layers up before the next ones fall and makes it even more difficult.
The kids decided to play after we had 7 bags or so finished. Besides it began raining a little.

What is all the buzz about

More info on ChaLEAN Extreme. Man I feel like I have been waiting forever!
Here is a trailer for you viewing enjoyment.

A trip to Benton for Thanksgiving

On Friday November 21st we left Texarkana and headed to Benton for a week long trip.
First stop was my sisters house to leave the kids with her for the night. We don't see them very often so the kids were excited to spend time with their cousins Katie and Camryn.
Saturday around noon Jeff and I headed back over to my sisters house to visit and have a little family party to celebrate Victoria's 12th birthday.


It was really great. In attendance was my parents, sisters Sarah and Brook, brothers Jim and Patrick, nieces Kaitlyn, Camryn, and Wednesday, nephews Jake and Sam. Robert (brooks husband), Nikki (Jim's fiancee), Jay (Sarah's husband) Quad (friend of Patrick's). Only people missing was brother Joe (girlfriend Saundra), sister Angela, niece Jessica. I think that would be it. So I guess there were 17 people in my sisters place. WOW!!

Jeff, the kids, and I spent the night Saturday night. Jeff got up Sunday morning and went hunting. Missed a doe and hit a little tree. Poor tree :)

Sunday afternoon we were back at Jeff's parents house.
Jeff hunted in the mornings and late afternoons. On Monday evening he had taken Victoria hunting. It was then he missed a buck and got a doe. Victoria was so excited to witness it. We stayed up until 2am "processing" the deer. Jeff and I were very sleepy. It is nice to have a freezer of meat though.


Wednesday I had to come back to Texarkana to work for the night. It was Wednesday that Jeff's brother and his family made it to Benton. After working all night I went back to Benton for the remainder of the week.

It was a great visit. Friday afternoon the boys got Mohawks. We had a great laugh.


Friday afternoon was the great game between Arkansas Razorbacks and LSU Tigers Battle for the Boot. I didn't watch much of the game. Jeff gave up toward the end. I watched the last and most important 30 seconds of the game.

Saturday the 29th finally rolled around and we packed up the car and headed back home. I am so thankful for HOME!

I guess that is enough about this for now.