Fall is coming to WA ...~ NoBloPoMo post 5 ~

Gorgeous isn't it???

The ... dah-da-dum... COUNTDOWNS.... ~ NoBloPoMo post 4 ~

Let's start with the Christmas Countdown........ yep........ That's RIGHT PEOPLE!!!   Are you thinking about it!?!?!?  Are you making your lists, checking them twice?!!?!?  Or did you start shopping in July?!?!?  Making that "Black Friday" wish list already!?!?!?   SERIOUSLY ..... ugh....  why is it the last 2 months of the year FLY by and I'm always out on Christmas Eve doing last minute shopping.  I haven't even really STARTED to think about this yet!!  Other then Noah telling me he wants everything (literally everything) since July .... oh oh oh ... he has discovered the joys of the internet!!  He has discovered TOYSRUS.COM!!!  Yep.... shoot me now ...help me now!!

As of today ....... 50 days...... that's it..........

I just figured I'd share my unpleasantness with you ...... aren't you happy???

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Our friends Ami and Jeff are getting married......

(all photos with Snapshots on them were taken by Sarah at Snapshots Portraits ... if you live in our area, check her out!  She's amazing!)

So Ami asked me to be her Matron of Honor........ being the old married hag I am, I get the title "Matron" ... and I can only think of 27 Dresses movie, and this ...

Yep, that's right......... Ami, I love you .... but you are gonna have to figure that one out on your own.

Course, I have been a "Matron of Honor" before too... but ... whatever...

So she drags me off to their engagement photo session and throws me in the pictures.  As Matron of Honor and Mady's Godmother (Ami is half way through her pregnancy with my little Godbaby and Daughter-To-Share...lol..)

I have to say....... I'm am so fat ... HAWT!!!

Anyway ....... Ami has asked me this question .... several times......

WHAT IS A MATRON OF HONOR TO YOU??? 

Wikipedia says:

A maid of honor or matron of honor is the bride's chief attendant at a wedding.

In the United Kingdom, the term "maid of honour" originally referred to the female attendant of a queen. The term bridesmaid is normally used for all bridal attendants in the UK. However, when the attendant is married, or is a mature woman, the term matron of honour is often used. The influence of American English has led to the chief bridesmaid sometimes being called the maid of honor.

In North America, a wedding party might include several bridesmaids, but the maid of honor is the title and position held by the bride's chief attendant, typically her closest friend or sister. In modern day weddings some brides opt to choose a long-time male friend or brother as their head attendant, using the title Best Man or man of honor.


The activities of the principal bridesmaid may be as many or as varied as she allows the bride to impose upon her. Her only required duty is to participate in the wedding ceremony. Typically, however, she is asked for help with the logistics of the wedding as an event, such as addressing invitations, and for her help as a friend, such as attending the bride as she shops for her wedding dress.


On the day of the wedding, her principal duty is to provide practical and emotional support. She might assist the bride with dressing and, if needed, help the bride manage her veil, a bouquet of flowers, a prayer book, or the train of her wedding dress during the day. In a double-ring wedding, the chief bridesmaid is often entrusted with the groom's wedding ring until it is needed during the ceremony. Many brides ask bridesmaids, if they are adults, to be legal witnesses who sign the marriage license after the ceremony. If there is a reception after the wedding, the maid of honor may be asked to offer a toast to the newlyweds.

Wanna know what I say???

I am your whipping b*tch baby ...........  she liked that, laughed... a lot....... oh Lordy!!

So ..... after the pictures were posted, and Sarah did an AMAZING job ...... Ami got a ton of calls from her family, and they were all saying "I didn't know your sister's hair was that long" ...... muahahahahahahaha...

The resemblance is crazy ...  and all my shorty short life, I never would have thought I'd say this...... I GOT THE TALL GENES!!!   Even one of my best friends said we could be sisters!!  Ami's Mema said that it's absolute that Ami's mom had me and put me up for adoption ... and no one even knew it...  Ami says sadly it sounds like her biological mom...  regardless, apparently we should start to research our family trees and see where the link is....  but 90% of her family thought I was her sister and wouldn't take "no, it's not, it's Nissa" for an answer....  even Dennis said "Kenzie is a nice combo of the two of you" ..... secretly, somehow... Ami and I created Kenzie 15 years ago with her egg and my egg... and Mady is going to be the same way, cuz she's my baby!!  I went from having 4 boys to moving here and adopting 2 girls!! YAY ME!!  Seriously though....  they are my  Heart Daughters....

Regardless, we had a great time at the photo shoot.... Sarah is awesome, and we're going to go get family pictures done through her for Christmas.  Soon... hopefully.  (pic above, Sarah, Jeff, Ami & Me taken by Kenzie w/ my camera) ... 

This one was "Seriously Kenz, are you enjoying my camera" LOL...

Jeff and Kenz posing Charlies Angels Style...

 Kenzie .... Kenzie..... Kenzie...........

Wordless Wednesday ~ Nathan's Self Portriat ...

Nathan's Self Portrait ..... 

Ugh..... ~ NoBloPoMo post 3 ~

So we are facing moving again.  This time we are just moving about a block away but a lot a lot of things have lead us here.  From the crazy neighbor, to the sucky management... to things just NOT getting done.  We've been here almost 6 months now (6 month lease) and the porch (which is rotting and we've been hearing promises of it getting fixed SOON since we moved in here....)  Dennis has fallen threw, Kaedyn has fallen threw... our stove needed fixing and it took them a week and another phone call to even start the ball rollen (when we called again - they played dumb saying they had no idea when I had talked to them face to face about it) ... and then they said they were going to come pick it up on Sunday, didn't show up until Tuesday morning, and we didn't get it back until Saturday. 

I hate moving. 

I hate moving where we aren't going to have any space really, but we need someplace cheaper and doing what we are going to, it will save us a lot of money, it'll allow us to get our finances in order and it'll allow us to save up ...  we still don't have a van that will fit our whole family yet, and we've been in WA for 6 months. 

We're moving in with some friends.  We're gonna split bills straight down the middle.  She's got diabetes and she's half way through a pregnancy after losing twins 8 months into a pregnancy, a year ago.  Now she's pregnant again and her fiance is working almost 2 hours away and gone half the week.  So we're going to move in and help each other out financially... for awhile.... that way someone is always with her too.   It's going to be cramped, but it'll be cozy.  LOL... 

We're going to miss the view ...  we're not going to miss the management, or the BS.... 

NaBloPoMo.... what is it? ~NaBloPoMo post 2~

So I'm having a hard time getting back into blogging from our move and such.   It's hard!  Got a lot of stuff going on with the kids and I just have the time to purge my feelings right now.

Seriously ...... this maybe a good thing! LOL....

BUT .... I really need to get back into blogging!  When I was on Open Diary, I would blog almost every day and we had this thing called NoJoMo .... November Journaling Month ... It's where you write in your blog (or journal for that matter) every day for the month of November.  December was DePhoMo - December Photojournaling Month .. LOL...  Anyway, it's something I really miss about Open Diary ...  So I thought, "well, I'll do NoJoMo in my blog this year, that way, I'll get back into blogging and ... yay!  It's win win!!"

So....... I'm going to be blogging every day this month!!  That's my story, and ... I'm ... sticking to it!

Happy Halloween ~ NoBloPoMo post 1 ~

Our Pumpkins ....  Noah's was a Wolf, Nathan's is Blues Clues, Kaedyn's is a cyclops, and Cal's was 2 parts, Gravestone (RIP) on back and Skull on the front...

Mr. Nathan dressed up as Buzzzzzzzzzzzz Lightyear!!

Mr. Kaedyn dressed up as Woody

Mr. Noah as the Blue Ninja!

We went downtown to trick or treat... they had fun!

Noah collecting loot....

Kaedyn is sooooooooooo excited!!!

Nathan found a whistle...

Kaedyn had a sucker for each fist, and funny part is.... I didn't open them!!  Either of them!!!   Nathan just had a blast hanging onto his basket...

The boys in the Cadillac of strollers ..

At a little photo op point....... course they wouldn't behave and all look at me.......oooooooooooh no, that's asking to much!!