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Someone's ready for spring? Where the hell is it???

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Wow. Where have I been? It's been almost a month since I last posted! In my defense I did try to post once, had computer/blogger issues and gave up. But still. Oops.

We've been staying busy and trying to stay warm. Although w/ Mondays high of -4 degrees and a "real feel" of -25!!! We are having a hard time! :)

We went to a motorcycle show, sold our molesterrific van and bought a new one that is just a bit less molesterrific, went sledding, played with Play-doh and markers, took Charlie bowling for her 1st time (she liked it for 4 frames then just wanted to eat popcorn), fit in a couple happy hours and just lived it up as a family. Nothing super exciting but good enough for me.

I hope everyone else is staying warm. I'm just so thankful the days are finally getting longer bc I am so over this winter weather. I'm ready for some warm sun and fun in the outdoors. Fun that doesn't consist of your snot freezing in your nose the second you walk outside.

Cheers~
Kel

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It's frickin cold here peeps!

A post to hold me over...

We just got back from Mexico Thursday night and I haven't had time to get caught back up on life yet so until then, here are some adorable pics of Charlie.  She had a fabulous time with Omi and Paps while Wade and I were away.  And Wade and I had a fabulous time w/ our friends enjoying the beach, pool and unlimited food and drink.  I'm currently going through detox!  :)

Tickle time!

Showing me her "guns"!

Playing w/ one of the maracas I bought her in Mexico

Trying to climb up the slide

Omi helping Charlie go down the slide

Mommy & Charlie going down!

A little bit of this, a little bit of that

We just got back from a trip down to Galesburg to visit the in-laws.  It's always great to get to see them!  Unfortunately Charlie seems to have impeccable timing when it comes to our trips and has now given us all the flu twice while down there!  So we extended our trip by a day so we could fully recover from the bug.  It was awful.  Seriously, getting the stomach flu twice in less than 2 months hella sucks (but I guess if you want to look on the positive side I am now at my goal weight and ready for Mexico).  Ha!

Regardless, before we all got hit with the flu from hell we had a lot of fun!  And luckily Charlie is pretty chill so while she was feeling better from the flu and we were all still immobile she just sat back and hung out!  Thank goodness for Disney movies and cartoons! 

LOVE this adorable outfit I scored for 1/2 off at Target - Harajuku Girls

I swear she's addicted to crackers

We all look pretty good for just puking our brains out.

Anyway, Wade and I are getting pretty stoked b/c in 12 days we leave for Mexico!  Even though our winter up here has been remarkably mild and the temps are now getting into the 50's we are ready for some sun, sand and drinks!  We are lucky that my parents are able to come up here to watch Charlie for the 5 days we will be there and we can fully sit back and relax knowing she is in good hands!  We are in need of a good vacation.  Charlie is the bomb diggity but to be able to get a break is always appreciated (especially when that break comes in the form of an all inclusive resort in beautiful weather w/ some great friends!!)  So needless to say, the only thing on my mind recently is packing and getting everything here at home ready for our trip.  There is a lot to plan once you have a kid to leave them with someone else!  Emergency phone numbers, medicine dosages, how to use the car seat, etc, etc.  I've got a long list of things to remember!

Well, not much else to update on.  I wish I had gotten some more good pics while we were down in Galesburg but I pretty much left the camera in my bag once we all started feeling ill.  Next time...

Later~
Kel

Whoa! Sledding is intense!

Charlie's first time sledding.  She LOVED it.  All she could say over and over was "whoa".  It was so fun taking her out!  I'm so glad the weather was perfect for it!  Warm enough for me to run around w/o gloves and cool enough that the snow stuck around for a bit!  Perfection!

Happy hump day!
Kel

Happy 8 Months!

Little Charlie Monkey is 8 months old today! I can't believe she's growing so fast! Today we bought a big girl stroller for her and she loved taking a stroll around the neighborhood and being able to actually see everything! She also got to try American cheese slices today and seemed to really like them. She's starting to try to use her sippy cup but hasn't quite grasped the fact that she has to tilt it up to get the liquid to flow so she just puts it in her mouth and bites at it waiting until I tip it up enough for her to drink from. She's silly.

Anyway, happy 8 months little girl! You make Mommy and Daddy so happy and proud!

Love~

And we're back!

Puerto Rico was AWESOME! Kara and Todd's wedding was perfect. Reverend Wade (yep, I'm married to a Reverend of the Universal Life Church, ha!) did a spectacular job on the ceremony. The best wedding ceremony I've ever heard! Kara looked gorgeous and like she should be in a picture in a bridal magazine. The weather was perfection at 80 degrees and sunny every day and the pina coladas were the best I've ever had. The only thing that was wrong was I missed my Charlie monkey. But it was well worth it. The smile I got from her when she woke up and saw me on Wed morning was PRICELESS.


We went on a tour of the rainforest and also kayaked into a bioluminesence bay (I'm 99% sure I spelled that wrong). It's the water that glows from algae when it is disturbed. Very cool! Other than that we drank a lot, ate some Puerto Rican food (Mofongo is delish!) and cherished the sun. Two hangovers in 5 days isn't too bad, is it? We even skinny dipped in the ocean and stayed up until 5 am on Kara and Todd's wedding night. Who says we're old farts now!?!?


So who wants to see some pics? I've got a couple hundred!

And now, to enjoy the high of 1 degree today. Man I miss that weather...

Adios amigos!

Blah, Blah, Blah

Just because I'm a lazy bitch I'm going to do a list post b/c I can.

• Looking down at my growing belly it looks as if I swallowed a bowling ball.
• I absolutely LOVE feeling our baby girl move. Ask me this again in a month though and I may have a different answer. Especially once she starts kicking my bladder.
• *Schmoop warning* Wade is a wonderful, supportive, loving and caring husband. I couldn't ask for a better man. He's going to be the best father.
• My pumpkin has been uncovered by the melting snow. It's 1/2 eaten by squirrels and in the middle of our yard. Anyone want to take bets as to if I will grow another pumpking plant this year?
• This new show "High Society" on CW is ridic. This guy blew through $200,000 in his trust fund and then asked his mom for an additional $50,000. WTF? Then he threw a drink on a girl at a club, it got in her eyes and they called a 911 b/c she was crying hysterically that it hurt. For serious? Rinse w/ water. It's just some Jack. Damn girl.
• I really, really, REALLY want a big glass of wine. Like really. Now.
• We're driving down to Iowa City this Saturday for a friend's wedding. It will be a huge drunken mess and I will be completely sober. Sad face. But I did get a new kick ass red maternity dress for it that shows off my bump just right!
• Kobe will no longer cuddle w/ me on the couch. I think he hates my bowling ball belly and that makes me cry. :(
• It's starting to feel like spring and that makes me so excited! I want to wear open toe shoes! I'm totally getting a pedi tomorrow and wearing some to this wedding. Rain be damned.
• I always thought I'd like having bigger boobs until I got them. These suckers are hard to dress. They make even the most conservative shirt look like I belong in a whore house.
• I'm wondering when my nesting mode will kick in b/c as of now the only mode I'm in is couch mode (interrupted by eat mode).
• Is ANYONE on this "High Society" show normal? Wow. This is like Lindsay Lohan train wreck good. :) This is taking over "Jersey Shore" on the trash list! Setting up DVR to record weekly now.
• I've got nothing. Nothing else. I have come to realize that my life now that I'm pregnant is pretty dull. But that is only temporary. :)

Hope ya'll have a great weekend!

We Partied Like It Was 2010 (or something like that)

So I would love to update ya’ll on our New Year’s Eve shindig and show you pictures and all that jazz but I only took like 3 pictures the entire evening. I don’t know what I was thinking! We had friends over which included 5 little boys (and 3 dogs) all under the age of 6 so things were a bit rowdy for a while! Our house has never seen so many little kiddos and didn’t know what hit it! We had to baby proof our place and fast!

We had food galore and kegerator beer along with some mixed cocktails. The evening started early with the ISU/MN bowl game starting at 5:00. ISU managed to pull out a win (1 point is all that is needed and won me the bet w/ my boss so I scored a 6-pack of beer!) and we celebrated their victory and the new decade. So we partied from 5:00-2:30am! We may be 30 now but we can still hang! (Although the hangovers are worse… Sorry Brad!)

(One of the few pictures I took. Brad, passed out w/ his tongue out. Priceless.)

Other than that the rest of our long weekend was relaxing and uneventful. We rented movies, (District 9 was dumb, Terminator Salvation was decent and GI Joe was meh) went out to dinner, and I was a lazy bum with Kobe and he loved it! Cuddle time!

How was all of your New Year’s Celebrations? Is it as cold where you are as it is here? The high today was 1. And it isn't supposed to get above the teens for the next week! WTF? I can't handle this shit. I need to move south.

2010 ~ Here We Come!

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I'm sick of all this snow. It is snowing again (on top of our 15+ inches we already have on the ground). I miss warm weather...

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I See The Light!!!

Today I got to do something that I haven’t been able to do since November 7, 2008.

I wore open toed shoes!!! One of my favorite pairs!

Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty! We are free at last!

Halleluiah!

My feet are so grateful to have the fresh air on them! I decided to thank them for being hidden away for over 3 months and I gave them a beautiful pedicure last night in preparation for today.

The end of winter is in sight! Most of our snow is melted and I couldn’t be happier. Springtime is on it’s way and will be here before I know it and that makes me full on giddy.

It's Alright Now, In Fact It's A Gas!

This Saturday we have decided that we are going to go watch monster trucks at the Monster Jam in the Metrodome. (You may start your white trash references now) This kind of event is fun to me for two reasons:
1. I get to get schnockered
2. I get to laugh at all the inbred, wife-beater wearing, mullet growing hicks that are sure to be there.

The white-t seriously flock to these events like zombies to brains. Or like me to alcohol. Either way. Anything to do with motorized racing, crashing, smashing, etc, and you can guarantee that they will be there and screaming their heads off.

Wade and I decided to go to this after figuring out we have absolutely no plans scheduled for this weekend and it is a freaking arctic frozen tundra up here as of lately. (Seriously, the high today was -5 degrees. NEGATIVE! Screw you winter!) After we determined we had no plans we tried to come up with something that would be fun to do. We decided that getting trashed and going to the Monster Jam could prove to be fun. So we are going to go bar hopping prior to the event and by the time we get there we will be sloshed. Do you think it is sad that this is our idea of fun in this cold ass freezing state we live in? Personally I do. It’s a sad day in my social life. I never thought I’d see myself resorting to getting lit while watching hicks drive big trucks over small cars and smash them up. Super smash!

I’m sure by now you all are probably thinking that I must be the most hick chick to go along with this. Heck, I play Big Buck Hunter, go to dive bars and even go shooting over my holiday vacation (which is another option of something we may do this weekend). I belong in a van down by the river. I’m pretty sure that the next thing you know Wade and I will be moving to Arkansas and living in a trailer park with my Aunt Maude and Uncle Cletus. Seriously I think this boredumb will be the death of me.

Wade and I's wedding picture (aren't we smokin?)

Coming up next: I’ll be showing you pictures of my mullet growing progress. Boy is it getting long!

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Happy New Year my Internet Friends!

Baby it's F*#%ing cold outside

It’s currently 17 degrees out and it feels like a flipping heat wave! The past 4-5 days the high has hovered around 5 degrees so this is some serious heat. And that my friends really makes me sad. Seriously, just call me Debbie Downer. Or Sad Panda. I go by both. 17 degrees feels warm?!?! WTF? Also, I’ve been outside a total of 3 times today and I’ve almost fallen on my ass 3 times. I’m batting at 1.000. I’m so good, I’m perfect. Do you know how ridiculous I look when I "almost" fall on my ass? I think I'd rather fall all the way down b/c it would look better plopping my ass on the nasty slush covered ground than it does with me trying not to fall and my arms flailing around in the air attempting to balance myself as my feet are slipping in different directions trying to make me do something I haven't done since high school (the splits). Yes, I admit, I am a total klutz. I think it is attractive. It totally brings in the men. They are basically knocking my door down. I have to fend them off w/ my karate type moves that I learned in kickboxing.

Also, this snow/ice shit is slicker than snot. Not only do I nearly fall w/ every step I take but my car slips around corners, nearly slides through stop signs and spins out every time I attempt to move from a stopped position. Watch out pedestrians, you ARE in harms way! You’d think I was driving too fast but nope, I’m going an average of 8 mph. The plow trucks seriously suck. You’d think they’d get out and actually know how to remove snow from the roads being that this is the fricking north pole (well, ok, it’s not, but it feels like it is) but noooooo….. That would mean someone would actually know how to do their job! To top it all off some piss head cut me off today and I had to slam my brakes and attempt to stop on the slippery shit covering the street. Seriously people? Don’t you realize I WILL hit you? You cannot stop on this crap. What a stupid ass chunk. MN drivers can blow me. They are the most wretched drivers I’ve ever seen. I’m not kidding. Ask any of my friends from out of town and they swear they have almost lost their lives while driving up here to visit me.

Beware: Visiting Kellie = 71% chance of losing your life to moronic MN drivers

(Other than that I have nothing against this cold mother fucker of a state. I actually quite like it. But seriously, learn how to drive Minnesotans.)

And that is my rant for the day. Thank God I have happy hour tonight. Followed by kickboxing. Maybe kickboxing will be added to my list of things that are fun to do drunk. Or maybe it will be added to my list of things to NOT do when drunk. We will soon see I guess. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it is more fun b/c then I’d have an excuse to go to it drunk all the time. Then I'd be "living the dream". Haha! (Beth will get that quote, everyone else will probably just think it's dumb).

If this post doesn't get you in the holiday spirit then I don't know what will! Bah Humbug!

Sincerely,

Scrooge McGee :)

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