Mindy's scrap's, random thoughts, and a few rants I am sure

July 28, 2007

We're Back!!

Our Vacation to N.C. was absolutely wonderful. I have never seen anything more beautiful!!! The girls had a great time, site seeing, catching crabs, swimming in both the ocean and pool, collecting seashells, and yes they even managed to fit in some shopping!! Other then a few spats, as girls do, they were wonderful!! We spent our mornings usually out and about, we went to the Light House at Currituck Island, and visited the Wet Land there. We went to the driving beach, but first ended up on the wrong beach, the pedestrian beach, and stuck in the sand none the less, even though the girls were about to die of embarrassment the life guard was however very friendly, and if nothing else that’s the girls favorite story to share with everyone, even strangers!! But we went on two beautiful rides down the correct beach, we were looking for the wild horses, well it turns out people were hitting them so they have them penned up so they’re not so wild horses anymore. The girls got to go on a couple day trips with Grandma and Grandpa they got to go to the ocean, and then they got to go on a dolphin tour. It was nice it got to give Grandma and Grandpa time with them, but also gave Jared and I time to ourselves, where we spent it out shopping, I did talk him into paddle boating, we rented it for ½ hr and lasted maybe 15 minutes. Other then that we played in the pool together and just hung out.

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July 19, 2007

1 day and counting.....

Just 1 day til vacation, and I was just telling my wonderful husband, I am going to need a FLIPPEN vacation to recoop from vacation. Clothes are packed and grocery shopping is officially done WOOHOO!! I have to go to the storage unit to get another bin just for the food, which will be fun and exciting. I must say I am extremely proud of my self, normally I would have taken every pair of shoes I own, NOPE not this time, 2 pair of shoes, 2 pair of shorts, 2 pair of capri’s, 3 swimsuits and a few shirts. My plan is to hibernate next to the pool or on the beach, with my Bucket ~O~ Margaritas, and forget about life for a while. I already laid down the law with the girls if you whine and cry go do it in your room, nobody wants to hear it. We will reiterate that on the way down I am sure!!! But the girls really seem to be looking forward to it, this is only Maddie and Laurens 2nd real vacation. So they are soooo excited. And Tori doesn’t get to spend much time with us due Jareds work schedule, so that will be nice.
Dr. Case said he will be screening all calls to me made from the office, not like I won’t be 100’s of miles away and can do anything anyways, but I have never been away from the office for more then a day or two, Well Vegas but that doesn’t really count, since I was with all of them. So we’ll see how that goes.
Well I better get off here and get something else done, or I just keep rambling.

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July 17, 2007

2 1/2 DAYS!!!

Ok there are only 2 1/2 DAYS left until vacation, and yes the girls were packed a week ago, then I bragged because I had all this time to relax, well at 6:30 tonight Jared and I were relaxing watching T.V. and I looked at him and said “Have you figured out what your taking yet”, WELL DUH, of course not, he’s a guy so he threw me a pair of sandals and trunks and said “Yep I am packed”. Great Jared Thanks a bunch!!! No really we aren’t taking much there will be a washer and dryer at the house so we only packed for a few days, then I will do laundry. Tomorrow I will work and Thursday in the morning, then we will go to the grocery, or should I say I will go to the grocery, Jared goes with me a lot, and I really appreciate that he is there with me, as much as it sucks going to the grocery, it’s still time spent together, and since he’s a truck driver and gone ALL the time I will take what I can get, the only problem is I take him and it cost me 10x the amount then if I didn’t. For instance our last trip was to Meijer for shredded cheese, $2.00 at the most, well $78.00 and one cart full later we get home. But then I think that extra $76.00 was well worth it just to have him with me for that hour, plus I usually get a laugh or 2 out of it in the mean time, like when he tells the lady at the deli he wants 48 lbs. of turkey and she just stares at him in amazement, or he’ll try to put a candy bar in lay away, and he can do it with a dead serious look on his face. What can you do but laugh.
Anyways I can’t believe the summer is almost half over and the girls will be back in school, Lauren had an appt with the ENT to have her tonsils taken out which I am still trying to squeeze in yet this summer, we’ll see. Time sure does fly by, and I am noticing it more and more as I am doing my scrapbooking , heck I am doing Maddie and Laurens baby pictures, and they are now almost 10 and 8. Tori jut turned 10 and Jared and I will be married 2 yrs, this Oct and our first date seems like yesterday, where does the time go?
See I just ramble alot, but I use this to get all my thoughts out and then start over again.

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July 14, 2007

Finally some eventul stuff!

Well Friday the 13th was actually the BEST day of the week for us! First I had to work, it was Buffies birthday, so we had a good day and a nice lunch! Then Maddie called me in the afternoon just to chat, well since I was at work I couldn't chat long, but called her and Lauren back, they just wanted to see if they could come over for a couple hours and hang out and have dinner with us. Well their father and I have an every other week shared parenting plan, so since he is already giving up his week next week so they can go on vacation with us, I was a little hesitant, but Rob said that was absolutely fine, they have been working on their roof and siding so the girls weren't really interested in helping with all that. So they came over and had dinner got to visit awhile and then we took them home. Well we got to the house to drop them off and Rob and Rene had some friends over so they asked us to hang out for a while, so we stayed and chatted for a few. Again that is wonderful that we can do that, especially since 2 yrs ago Rob and I weren't even in a place where we could speak to each other. But we have both moved on and realize we are both much happier now then when we were together, and it was for the best not only for us but the girls. And he has found Rene, and they will get married next June. I don't think I could have picked someone better for him, she loves the girls, the girls love her and I can call her to ask her a question about the girls and the next thing I know its been an hour and we have chatted about everything from the girls, to shopping, to chinese food, LOL!! So that was kinda neat, especially seeing him and Jared talk like they did when we lived just down the street from one another.
The other more exciting thing that happened was my dad called, I didn’t here the phone ring, we were outside, so I listened to his message which was “Hey hon its me dad give me a call I have some exciting news” So I thought OMG this has to be big if my dad is actually calling me, the man never just calls out of the blue, yes were close, I see him at least once a week, but he’s just not the chatty talk on the phone kinda guy. So I call him back, and boy did he sound like a little kid with a sack full of candy and a can of Jolt. He is over at the Goodguys Car show in Columbus, with his hot rod, and he had been out walking around and when he got back to the car there was a card on the front seat from the editor of STREET RODDER magazine, with an arrow pointing to his cell number and it said CALL ME! So my dad turned to Billy, the guy he was with and said “What do you make of this” Billy said ‘Call Him” so dad did the guy asked him if he was at the car and told him to wait right there and he would be there in five. So he got there and told dad that his car was chosen as one of the top ten of the show by STREET RODDER magazine and that they wanted to do a full photo shoot!! And that he also picked up one of the coveted Street Rodder Top 100 awards of the year presented by Turtle Wax for his '26 Ford and that he would be featured in the magazine. WOOHOO GO DAD!! So he gets do all kinds of fun things, he gets a special parking spot and on Sunday he will be one of the 10 that get to drive their cars into the coliseum for an acknowledgement ceremony. That is a huge thing for him to be chosen 1 of 10 out of over 6,500 cars. That is so COOL!! My dad has always had some kind of hot rod since I was born, if not two and that is what he works so hard for, so I am so proud of him!! I am going to do a special page just for him.
Ahhhh……… Long winded I know sorry.

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July 10, 2007

Not much more...

Still an uneventful week. I did get all the girls packed and ready for vaction next week. Jared and I had a nice almost relaxing day today together, we ran errands, and took our car for an oil change, in which that was almost eventful, since we pulled away and the washer fluid light came on, after they said they just filled it. So we got to go back and Jared got to get cranky with them woohoo!! Did I mention they also forgot to check the tires, after they just told us they made sure they were set at 32 or whatever that means. Then we got to the go to the health food store, so Jared could show me these candles he found, let me tell you they are the neatest things ever, they are called a 3~in~1 candle it is not only a candle but it also turns into massage oil and lotion. He visits there alot, last week he bought me Ginseng soap, which I LOVE!!! and coconut oil lotion for my dry nasty feet. He's such a great husband!!
So I guess I will take the rest of the week and finish packing the odds and ends for next week and then relax and work on more pages before we leave!

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July 6, 2007

Not much...

It has been a very uneventful week, even when things seem like they are going to get exciting they don't, which in our world is great. Heres an example, last evening, I pointed out to Jared the kitchen faucet was leaking and leaking under the sink. Well after he turned beat red and veins popping, we got in the car went to Lowes purchased a new faucet, and plumbing supplies came home, at this point you can just tell he's really fired up and just ready to throw tools, when he went to disassemble the faucet, the sprayer had just came loose from the hose, just needed to be tightend. So no new faucet, and no yelling woohoo!!
Other then that I had a few days off this week with Maddie and Lauren, we had a girls day, shopping and lunch, it was their first shopping spree and they had a blast! Lauren only set the store alarms off twice, she didn't realize you couldnt get that close to the front of the store. Anyways they got new swimsuits and outfits for our vacation to Nags Head in 2 weeks from today yippee!!!
Tonight we will be going to the Dragons game with everyone thats going on vacation so that should be fun, other then that be lazy so I can save my energy for packing next week!

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