Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

Have you ever read that on the side mirrors of your car? It's no joke, the objects really are closer. Yesterday I was backing out of my garage thinking to myself, "I can make it." Um, I was wrong. My side mirror took a loud crunch, the mirror is shattered, the plastic is broken, and now I have it all taped together. Sure looks silly. Oh well...

You know you're ghetto when...

...you pull into a hotel parking lot - and sleep in the van. And when the sun comes out, you wake up the entire family and tell them it's time to wake up before anyone sees us.

I was the one driving during this, but in my defense... Well, we left San Angelo Friday after work heading to Pennsylvania. I thought, since we had 3 drivers, we would be able to just drive through the 26 hours. With one child and puppy, and 3 other adults who have 3 different types of bladders, this didn't work out too well. I decided to take over the driving at about 11. I was doing fine since I was able to nap during the start of our drive. The rain started pouring and followed us our entire trip up. It was about 3 am and I just couldn't take it anymore. It was raining way too hard and I couldn't see a thing. So I took the next exit and the only thing I see was a hotel. I pulled it and said I was just gonna close my eyes for a minute until the rain calmed down so we didn't have to check into the hotel... The sun was on the rise and my mom woke me up to get going. Uh, I guess I closed my eyes for a few hours - and so did the rest of my family!

Lesson Learned: Don't drive in the rain when you're overtired. Duh!

I'm back!

What a great vacation! I have so much to write about but I'll have to do that after I have coffee with a friend.

It was so nice to pull into our driveway and be home... even if it was at 1 in the morning. I'll tell more later and post some pics!

Counting down...

Two more days til my vacation... then we're hitting the road. Spring break in snowy Pennsylvania! I can't wait!

I'm tired

Why can't I just be a morning person? I want to go back to bed...

Nice to be me...

...for a change. At work, I have been trained to know a little bit about everyone's job. When someone takes a day off or goes on vacation, it is my job to pick up what they need to be accomplished daily. Well, there have been a lot of vacations going on and my side of the brain that has all my work knowledge in it has been going crazy. Today, I finally got to be me. I was able to do just my job and concentrate on it and catch up myself. Sure was nice...

In about two weeks, I get to go on a vacation. Then it will be their turn... =)

Snow

It actually snowed yesterday. Did anyone see it? I looked out the window, tied my shoe, looked up, and it was over... Just like that...

What a weekend!

An absolutely great weekend for hanging out with friends. Good times! Baseball games, outing at the lake, birthday party, the carnival, and just hanging out...

Here is a list of the top ten things I learned this weekend:

1. The letter E on the baseball scoreboard stands for "Errors."
2. Narnia is a country, at least that's what they say.
3. When playing Scategories, any answer said with confidence is believable. (Ex. Did you know that there was such a thing as an Indian Fir Tree?)
4. Carmex, my favorite lip balm that I'm addicted to, now comes in flavors!
5. Grilling on a windy day is a very difficult task that even 10 girls could not accomplish it in over an hour.
6. Never step in a pile of stickers. It's not a pretty sight... or a feeling probably.
7. There is a machine out there that takes individual pictures of you and your significant other, then combines them to make a baby. Amazing!
8. When cooking ravioli, be sure to put salt or vegetable oil with it so that they don't stick together.
9. Never ride rides that go round and round with a bunch of kiddos. I wanted to puke on them.
10. When I miss a ball in volleyball, just know that my mind thought I had it, but my body was too slow... (I actually did that several times Kelli!)

And now it's back to work tomorrow...