Mmmm Waffles

I love breakfast. It is by far my favorite meal. And of all of the breakfast fare out there, waffles are my all time favorite. Sometimes I just get a hankering and make some. No particular reason. And these are not the pull out of the freezer and pop in a toaster kind of waffles. Oh, no. These are the make from scratch and then pour gently into the waffle iron kind of waffle. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

A special day is coming up *wink* and Jarum offered to make breakfast. I've been trying to decide what I wanted. I thought, waffles of course! However, he doesn't make them the right way. So, I decided not to wait and I made them for myself this morning. He can me me eggs. :D

Gosh, I love waffles!

Still "Borrowing" Internet Hence the Shocking Lack of Pictures

I promise. They are coming. I am slightly embarrassed that my last pics are all of the way back from Easter. *sigh*

I'm thinking of attacking the kids' rooms today. They aren't really bad, and it is pretty much all toy related. I spent most of yesterday just trying to get my room cleared out and ended up going through and sorting through clothes at the same time. My room does look much better (I can actually see the floor!) and I'm down to just a few piles lining my walls. Anyway, I want the kids, well, mainly the boys, to have the same joy of bare floor-age as I do, so that's the project today.

Yeah. Um, the end.

Update: It is now lunchtime and I have completed the boys' room! WOOT! They are all unpacked, organized, and posters put up. I'm feeling slightly accomplished. I think I'll keep Kaylee's and Josh's room until tomorrow, seeing as I can't do it after lunch as Josh is in desperate need of a nap.

Background Noise

I am one of those people who has to have something going on in the background at times while I am working/puttering about/crafting/cleaning. And it has to be of a talky nature i.e. no music. I would much rather listen to talk radio or have a movie/movie commentary going on in the background. My movie of choice at the moment (because we live so far out in the stix that we don't even get AM radio!) is A&E's Pride and Prejudice. Needless to say, I think I've watched it three times in the last three weeks. I have just begun the first DVD again.

*sigh*

Oh well. What can I do? I LOVE LOVE LOVE this film, so I don't really mind. :p

Yes, I am in fact still alive!

You know, life is funny sometimes.

We have moved from Utah and our now in our own digs in Georgia. We love the new house. It's larger than anything we have ever lived in before. It's really the first house we've ever lived in where we didn't feel completely smooshed. Well, we've lived in other places like that, but now that the kids are getting bigger, it's nice to have a place with less potential for smooshiness.

That's not the funny part.

Anyway, we left Utah a week ago last Monday and drove across the county. We spent the first two nights in Denver because we wanted to get a feel for our possible future permanent residence. However, I became quite ill the day we spent in Denver. Body aches, sore throat, you know the drill. Anyway, I've been sick ever since, and we're now going on two weeks! I no longer have body aches, but my throat is just a beast and I have itchy eyes and a drippy nose. NOT COOL!

Still not the funny part.

We closed on the house on Friday (yes, we drove out here on faith that we would close on the house) and had everything moved over here from storage that afternoon. (THANK YOU, dear friends who fed us, watched the kids, and helped us move that day!) We got the mattresses on the floor and the crib set up and called it a good day.

It's coming.

The weekend was spent unpacking. Mainly the kitchen and washing ALL OF OUR CLOTHES. I swear we used up a months worth of water in that first weekend. We then went to Savannah to make a Sam's Club run to refill our food stores. We are now poor, but have food. It's very nice to have food. I like food. *gives food a small hug* I'm still sick during all of this, but I can't just seem to stop. I know it's allergy related (thank you so much cottonwood and now dogwood) but we still keep pressing on. By Tuesday we have the wii/tv/dvd/vcr all hooked up for the kids to watch, even though they have been spending most of their time becoming reacquainted with their toys. I also got most of the clothes out of my room so that we could at least have some walking space. My closet is now beautiful. Thank you.

Really.

Yesterday (Wednesday) I spent all of the day, and I mean all of the day, in the kitchen organizing, putting stuff in our make-shift pantry, washing stuff. My kitchen is now practically beautiful. Thank you.

Are you ready?

So, I wake up this morning with the now customary sore throat. I'm tired. I've been working hard. I tell myself, "Nomes, you have just got to take it easy today. Seriously. You're never going to get better if you keep this up." I totally agreed with myself and decided to take it easy. I've earned it, right? I've made a ton of progress on the house. So what do I do? I notice that the kitchen needs a sweep. Okay, that's not a lot of work. I can do that and then rest. Then I think, well, if I've swept the kitchen, I might as well mop. Next thing I know I've swept and mopped the bathrooms as well and I am now dying to sweep and mop the rest of the house! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME! Isn't that funny? Not more of a funny ha-ha but more of a funny that's just interesting.

So, yeah. There you go.

More updates to follow, as soon as we get "real" internet. We are now on the "catching a stray wi-fi signal" plan. And once we have real internet, I will post pics. Really. I promise.... don't look at me like that Kimmy/Tara/Rachel! Really!

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter weekend! It started off by having a neighborhood party at zero eight o'clock in the morning. The kids hunted for eggs and then we all got together for breakfast. It lasted a total of 30 minutes for us because it was flippin' cold!

We then had good times dyeing some eggs. The two little ones had to sit far away, because, well, it's dye!

I think the kids looked quite nice in their Easter finery. Josh is not happy, however, because this is right after we got home from church at 2pm and he was very ready for a nap!
After nap Matt had a great time snuggling with Aunt Megan.
Our own, private egg hunt. Thanks to Megs for taking the pics!



We hope that everyone had a great Easter holiday!

Desktop Meme

1. Go to your desktop and press the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12)

2. Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and doing a Paste (CTRL + V). If you wish, you can "edit" the image before saving it. [Ignore this step if you have a decent OS]

3. Post the picture on your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop if you want. You can explain why you prefer such a look or why it is full of icons. Things like that.

4. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a free view of their desktops as well.



I tag all five of you who read my blog!

My mom and I took the kids to the Hogle Zoo (or "zoom" as Matt calls it) a couple of weeks ago and had a really good time! The following pics of the kids in front of the gorilla are funny because the last time we went to the zoo as a family, it was just me, Jarum, and Jacob. We have a pic of one year old Jacob in front of this very gorilla, so I thought it would be fun to show how much he, and our family, have grown!



I also got a haircut. I love it. A lot.
And as far as the rest of life is going, things are going pretty well! Jarum is doing well in Iraq and having fun playing in softball tournaments and such. The kids are all doing incredibly well and are excited to be going to California in April to visit the Boyers. And I am here doing whatever it is I do here. But whatever "it" is, I'm enjoying it and doing it really well. :D

Oh, and I am highly amused by this. *giggle*