Slip Slidin' Away

This is how we spent our day instead of watching paint dry.

It definitely made the time fly! Nothing like chasing toddlers around a waterpark to make you forget everything else!

Big kids went to, but not only are there too many rides to ride for them to be bothered with having their picture taken. "Gosh Mom.." Plus there were some kids from school to hang out with.

Otherwise, it's just a whole lot of this....

A MEME

I'm playing this meme that I got from my friend Jeff at View from the Cloud. A little diversion from the fact that painters are sloooooooooooooooow. Every day we go out and see a whole lotta nothin'!

The Mosaic Picture Meme

The Rules:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Google Image Search or same type of search engine for pictures.
2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image. You can’t search forever for a certain image.
3. Arrange the pictures into a collage.

(I was not as nice as Jeff, I did not link my pics to their URL. If you want to see who I stole them from, look it up on Yahoo images.)

The Questions and Answers:

1. What is your name?…Justine ( I was thinking that I would come across a picture of Justine Bateman, but NO, this is the most family friendly picture of the bunch.)

2. What is your favorite food?… Ice Cream (makes me happy)

3.What high school did you go to?… Alamo Catholic (Isn't this funny, it's an Alamo Cactus.)

4. What is your favorite color? …Pink (appropriate in my current situation.)

5. Who is your celebrity crush?…It used to be Tom Cruise but but before that, it was Adam West. (Oh come on! Batman was HOT. back in the day...)

6. What is your favorite drink?… Diet Dr. Pepper (Which cannot be found as a fountain drink in many parts of the country including Florida, where they evidently don't think much of ice either)






7. What is your dream vacation?…Hawaii, I’ve been there once, but was too young to properly appreciate it.

8. What is your favorite dessert?… Chocolate Sheet cake (okay, maybe I should have picked something different for food. HA!)

9. What do you want to be or do when you grow up?…An Artist (or just wealthy and retired)

10. What do you love most in life?… Too cheesy to answer

11. What is one word that describes you?…Couchpotato

12. What is your blog name?…In The Weeds (Diner slang for being swamped)

I wish I had laryngitis.

I know, it's been a week. And I got nothin.

Oh, there was the trip to the Dr. today because Ace has pink eye again. And because Peach is attached to him at the hip, I made the appointment for both because she'll get it next. Yes a fun exercise in trying to remember the name of my kids, their birthdays, their Dad's employers address, and all manner of information that I do not have memorized. I love to spend money to go someplace where I have to say "Sit down. Sit down. Be still. Be still. No you can't write your name on this paper. No. Because. Because only mommy's get to write on this paper. No. No. I'm serious. Sit down. Be quiet. Because I said so. Be quiet. Mommy said be quiet. I can't think while you're talking. No. No. No, they won't call your name until I turn in this paper. I can't, because you won't quit talking to me. I don't know. I don't know. Be still. Maybe. I'm not sure. They might call your name first, they might call his name first. ACE sit down. ACE SIT down. I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. Go sit down. Go sit down. I'm almost finished. I'll be done in just a second and then they can call your name. No, go sit down. ACE, GET DOWN. No. Go sit down with your brother. No. No tattling. Are you bleeding? Then no tattling. Go sit down. Yes, she's talking to you. No you're not getting a shot. She's just going to look in your eyes. No. No blood test. Yes. Yes. No I didn't say you had pink eye. I said you might. No. No, I don't have any tonsils. Yes, you can talk without tonsils. No, that's laryngitis. No, you've never had it. I don't know. I don't know. She just wants to look in your throat. She's going to tickle it with a Q-tip. No, it's not going to hurt. No. No. I promise. Don't cry. Come on, don't cry. Come on now, open your mouth. Yes you can. Yes you can. It won't hurt. No. No. It might feel funny. Yes. Yes, like when you brush your teeth. Yes. Then let's lay down. Yes you can. Yes you can. If we have to come back another day, Daddy will have to come with you. No, we can't come back tomorrow. No, I shouldn't have said that. No, we're not coming back tomorrow. We have to do it now. Yes you can. Yes you can. Come on now. Come on now. Yes. Yes, you can have a treat..."

I'm not the only person who wishes I had laryngitis.

Of Course it's More House Updates!

Tile done and grouted!

My fake carriage house doors! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THEM. I might even marry them.

Sexy master shower and the boy who thinks he's going to shower and bathe in my big tub anytime he wants to. What's wrong with kids today?

Doors and trim and shelves in the closets!!

Check out the new walk in pantry! I'll be shopping in bulk!


Master closet, with envious son counting the shoe shelves. Yes, dear, we have everything that's special, and you guys have nothing.

His and hers shelves!

Getting ready for the driveway and sidewalks! And the painters are due to start on the interior paint on Monday..... And BEHOLD THE COMPROMISE!!! We went back to the granite store when they got in a new shipment and both fell in love with this one. My original pick on the right and Charlie's on the left. Amarello Boreal. Fitting eh?

The paint chip on the very left is the overall color for the interior. And the sample at the bottom is the cultured marble that will be on the bathroom countertops and the laundry room countertop and the powder bath shower. (Which I suppose technically makes it not a powder bath, but that's what we call it.) Consider yourself up to date!

Where the Boys Are (Were)

I wasn't kidding when I said he was the cutest navy blue jellyfish in the sea....

The Jelly Man

The waves really weren't big enough for the Boogie Board, but we had a heck of a lot of fun trying. The boys were lucky that I was able to tame my ever-present fear of being eaten by sharks.

This is my favorite picture of the entire vacation. This is my sweet baby. Which he rarely ever let's us see anymore. I couldn't talk him into asking any of the bridesmaids to dance, despite the fact that I told him, not only were they desperate to dance, but they were also highly intoxicated. But he did dance with his grandma. Awwwww!


I was really surprised that Peach was the star of the dance floor, because when we were standing in line for hors d' oeuvres, he was pulling out all the stops with his dance moves. Including the Pulp Fiction dance. Then he ate dinner and pooped out and fell asleep in my lap while the Party Girl stole the show.

This was one of the highlight for these two knuckleheads, they blamed it on one of their Aunts. They walked around flaunting their faux drinks during the rehearsal dinner. Melee' said "I finally feel like part of the crowd!" I swear I only had a Mai Tai. Okay maybe I had two. Oh yeah and the blue lagoon. And the last day I guess I did have a couple of Pina Coladas. HEY! I WAS ON VACATION!!! They spent the rest of the vacation pandering for virgins, if you know what I mean.

If you can click on these pictures they are hilarious! The first one is Melee' and although he's not open-mouthed screaming, his body language says it all. The next one is of Ace. That's his hat preceding him down the three story slide. We ended up buying them an all day pass and he went up and down that slide as fast as the line would allow. He said "Mom! You HAVE to ride with me!" And I said "It looks too scary for me." And he said "It IS Scary but is is SO fun!!" Best $30 I ever spent! They had a power outage during the middle of the day. Melee' asked if he could have a strawberry daiquiri for saving his little brother when the slide went down. Witnesses on the ground reported older brothers practicing the "every man for himself" defense and that one of the operators at the top of the slide had to drag Ace down by his ankle.

And to highlight once again, what a crappy photographer I am, we took over 190 pictures and it was not until we were loading the mini-van that I realized we had not taken one family photo. A nice lady in the parking lot offered to get us all in the picture. The van was also one of the highlights for the kids. Ace was so excited about it that he called it the RENTAL 3000.

She Partied Like a Rockstar

Mild Mannered Flower Girl....

Turns into a Party Animal!!

Rude People Suck

Right now, I should be telling you all about our wonderful vacation to Florida.

How Lovely the wedding was, how beautiful my niece was in her gown.

How Peach was an adorable flower-girl and downloading the pictures of her dancing the night away.

How Ace looked like the cutest navy blue jellyfish in his over sized beach hat.

But instead I'm still fuming over the douche-bag in row 19 on Continental flight 1807.

Of course they don't give out Olympic Medals for getting four kids and a husband through an airport, because if they did, I'd be wearing the Silver right now. They would have had to deduct points when I went through the metal detector still holding my wallet, while wielding my I.D.

The security attendant yelled ,
"MA'AM! MA'AM! YOU HAVE TO GO BACK! MA'AM! GO BACK!"

Sorry dude, it's a pink leather trifold and a driver's license, not a glock.

Anyway...we're sitting in row 20, Ace at the window, Melee', me on the isle, Charlie on the other side of the isle, John and then Peach at the other window. We were delayed for lightening or something, so we sat there for about 20 minutes or so. I of course, am the holder of all the goodies so everyone keeps saying things like "Can I have some Starbursts?" "Can I have some crayons?" "Can I have my gameboy" Charlie leans across the isle and says "Can I have my ipod?" So he puts on his ipod and is oblivious to the fact that Peach has started playing with her seatback tray. So this old Asshole gets up from his chair, turns around and leans over, looks at Charlie and says "I hope this isn't what we're in for for the entire trip!" Charlie got the gist of what the guy was complaining about, although he missed the nasty tone and shitty sarcasm. Because he had his ipod on. (Having the husband that doubles as the fifth kid factors in to the total Olympic scoring.)

So I spent the better part of two hours thinking nasty thoughts about this stranger. By the time we got off the airplane the best thing I could come up with was "Hey Jackass! I hope her snoring didn't interfere with the enjoyment of your flight!" But of course I didn't say it. And I tried really hard not to imagine his rental car careening down an embankment and bursting into a fiery inferno after being cut off by a bad driver on the highway. It's the first time I've felt the need to go to confession in a long time.

It's All Fun and Games..

Until Somebody Hurls

We made it to Houston yesterday. Today we made it to Whataburger and three minutes into the trip to the airport Ace was carsick. The Dramamine had not quite kicked in. He kept it together, we got checked thru security without incident. Then we got on the airplane, started rocketing down the runway and I decided it would have been a good idea for me to have had a dramamine.... ugh...

We made it all the way to the beach, without blowing chunks! Let the vacation begin!!

Intervention

House...

update..

withdrawal... gasp ... wheez...

I keep checking this damn blog and no new pictures are appearing. What. is. up. with. that?!

How can I be expected to go on vacation when

THIS
is going on at my house?!

Well, it's a sacrifice...but I guess I'll go. If you twist my arm, I might pack a bag and get on the airplane and rent a mini-van, and drive out to an island off the coast of Florida and check into a resort. GAH! What I won't do for SOME people!

Some of us might be trying harder than

others...