best waste of time ever!

so i feel like crap today! I'm not entirely sure why, maybe it's something I ate. But I don't have time to be sick, I have too much other stuff to do. But while I can I am just resting trying to kick whatever it is. And what better way to rest than to play on my laptop. SO whilst I was surfing the web I came across the BEST pointless thing to do. It's called line rider and you can expeience the fun here i have to admit I have already spent way too much time on it this morning. But it makes me laugh so hard- especially when I make the little guy fall off the mountain, or have a spectacular crash! Jared comes running to the couch each time because I am laughing my head off. I don't know what is so funny- but it makes me laugh a lot! And apparently linerider is somewhat of an obsession for some people check out you tube if you don't believe me. try it I am telling you- it will at least make you smile.

crisis averted?

I've been debating whether or not to blog this, because it's pretty embarrassing- but as my blog is supposed to be a journal of sorts and I want to remember these times, (right?) here we go:

So this morning was just like any morning,frantic rush, you know the usual. SO I send the kids to the car and grab my shoes and purse and head out the door only to be met by a 3 year old on the verge of tears. "Mommy," he says, "I pee-peed in my pants." I'm not sure if it was embarassment or pain that was causing his tears to well up- it was pretty darn cold this morning! So back in the house we go to find a new outfit. Somehow we managed to get to school only 2 minutes late! yea me! Then we went about our morning errands. I had to stop at the office and Jared was very happy and content listening to "Jedi Knight" and singing along at the top of his lungs so I decided to just run in and back out. As a side note- this was a tough decision because when I was younger and not as wise, I used to leave Hannah in her carseat when I picked up Zach from preschool until one day when I was met at the car by a very irate mother who had called the police on me because how dare I leave my precious angel in the car, etc. Well let's just say I burned rubber getting out of there.. I was not about to be hauled away *wink* she didn't really call the cops she just let me have it with a verbal assault. I probably should have called the cops on her. Anyways, back to today: So I watched the car the whole time, left the door open, grabbed what I needed off the counter (all while still watching the car, I am a little paranoid), then walked back to the car. Jared had gotten in the front seat and was pretending to drive. I went to open the door and....yep you guessed it- LOCKED! no big deal, Jared knows how to unlock it. But no he can't. I am standing outside the car trying to explain to my sweet 3 year old how to push the "other" end of the lock button- he has the "lock" part down pat if you ever need a car locked, he is your man- but he just can't seem to figure it out. SO then I think, okay just open the door. That also seems to be beyond him. Then I start to panic: He can't get this open I am going to be standing here forever! Someone is going to call the police and then I WILL be hauled away when they find out that I left my kid alone in the car. Then just when it seems like all is lost the door opens and my angel- with a grin the size of Texas- says, "Here Mommy, you sit in your seat and I'll sit in my seat." So do you think he was just messing with me?

Christmas came early

So i have the best husband in the world! i know that you all think that your husband is the best, but sorry mine is. He is so sweet and funny. And he takes such good care of me. Plus, he loves trying to surprise me and he usually can't. Mostly because he gets so excited about the surpirse that he ends up telling me. But when he does- it's always so fun!
So Sunday after his finger injury he was cleaning like a mad man. When he cleans it make me feel a little guilty, especially if I'm not helping, but he told me that he was enjoying it so I just let him while I redid the blog. Hannah, however, was so shocked by what was going on that she asks him,

"Dad what are you doing?"

"Cleaning," he replies.

After some consideration she replies, "Dad, I didn't know you knew how to clean!"

Which is funny in and of itself, but Hannah always takes things to the next level. Utterly confused she says something about how Mom cleans and Dad goes to work (I know it would be funnier if I could remember exactly what she said). You have to imagine her little face as she tries to figure this all out. Finally, she apparently decided that Dad was trying to pull on off on her and says,

"Dad, you haven't cleaned in your whole adult life!"

Anyways, as funny as Hannah is that is not actually why I am posting again. This is why you are lucky enough to get 2 posts in one day:

and this

i love them so much. When he showed me i actually stood there and watched a load be washed AND they are so cool when the kids got home from school they stood and watched the load dry for awhile.
So the cleaning was sweet, but it was also to clean out the laundry room so the new ultra fabulous washer and dryer could be delivered. Omigoodness you should have seen it before! It was a disaster- my honey really worked hard, and I love him so much for it. Here is what it looks like now:



so now i really need to decorate, and now I have another "happy place" to go and I actually enjoy doing laundry. Now does anyone have an idea to help me enjoy folding laundry?

Super fun night...finally!

So I have been promising my friends, Mindie and Jenni, that we would do something super fun for their birthdays (that fall a week apart) for almost a month now- but it just hasn't worked out. It was honestly hard to find a night that we could all get together. Well last night, the planets aligned -plus my fabulous husband agreed to watch kids- and we finally got to have our fun.
I was joking all night that I had to take the right pictures for my blog, but apparently I need more practice because I did not get very many good pictures and totally forgot to get a few that I wanted. But here is what we did:
At the last minute I decided that I wanted to have party favors, so I hit the target dollar spot- which I am so in love with as I can always find something cute and wonderful, but I digress- this is what I ended up with

in the birthday girls' buckets there were also coldstone gift cards, and i got the idea for the flip-flops from my friend, Kendra here
yes I know that my flip-flops did not turn out as cute, but in my defense I ran out of time (actually I just have really poor time management skills). and I didn't buy enough ribbon.
Okay so everyone met at my house and we drove to our destination: pedicures! (this is where the not so great pictures were taken, so you'll just have to imagine a super fun car ride) We had so much fun! Here's Katie, Mindie, and Jamie

and here is Jenni and me
apparently before I got my eyebrows waxed- shoulda planned that better. So, at first we were just relaxing enjoying the massage chairs and really, is there anything better than a pedicure? and making small talk to the sweet people working there, but by the end we were ALL laughing our heads off and we knew all the ins and outs of the place: who was related to who, who was having whose baby, etc. seriously my stomach hurt I was laughing so hard. here is the finished products:

and now I am thinking that I should have gotten a cute little christmasy design, too- but I am sucker for a simple, french.
And here we are displaying what we learned while watching the tv they had going (obviously some of us learned more than others)

Afterwards, we went to Chilis- and this is the part where I forgot to take pictures. I think that it was a really fun night, but then I always love to get together with friends so I was happy just being there. Happy bday Jenni and Mindie! Hope it was fabulous. and now my kids are going to be late to school- I need to reevaluate my priorities hee hee hee

p.s I was going to post Mindie's evil eye pic, but she did threaten me against posting any less than flattering pics so I'll email it to her and let her decide, but seriously your kids must really tow the line when they see that- I need lessons! *wink*

Blogging has changed my life and Kerry is a little short handed (or fingered)?

Is is just me, or do you fellow bloggers look at things differently since starting a blog? For instance, I went to Black Friday for the first time ever this year. It was a ton of fun, but as I was waiting at midnight to get into the mall I kept thinking, man I should have brought my camera to get a picture of all these suckers! And later upon leaving a store, purchases in hand I lingered near a group of people fighting with a security guard over whose was the last free teddy bear- not because I was interested, but because I wanted to make sure I had the story right before I posted it on my blog! Blogging has become part of our vocab in the Burgess house, as in "that's so going on the blog" and "what did the kids say again, that was totally bloggable." It's good though, because now I write down what the kids do and say more than I ever did before, and my blog has become a better journal than I have kept since I was a kid. So I'm not saying that it is a bad thing that blogging has invaded my life- but I can tend to become a little too obsessed...

So my hubby is now a little less of himself than he was before. A half a fingertip to be exact. We were over at his mom's helping her with some stuff for relief society and he was using the big paper cutter. It was pretty dull so he had to really whack that thing down to cut the paper. I made a comment to him about being careful not to lose a finger, I mean those are the money makers. Not five minutes later I hear, "oww! I cut my finger off." Now those of you who know Kerry understand why I did not call an ambulance or even get up from my seat. But then he says, "i'm serious..well maybe no I think it was just a scratch." SO I run over to where he was cutting and sure enough there near the blade was a chunk of... well, finger. I grabbed it (I know, thinking about it now makes me a little sick to my stomach) and grabbed some ice and threw it all in a ziploc, told Kerry to get in the car and started out the door. My poor mother-in-law yelling, "i'll watch the kids" as we hurry past. It helped that I had watched the Friends episode where Monica drops a knife on Chandler's toe and cuts it off, that's where I got the put it on ice idea. Anyways, for all the crap local hospitals get, I have to admit they got us in pretty fast. The worst part was seeing Kerry in pain and not being able to do anything about it. My hubby is so tough- and has a good sense of humor we were crackin some great finger jokes. Turns out they didn't need my finger-in-a-bag after all, they couldn't have sewn it back on. he didn't cut any bones, and now just has to wear an incredibly fashionable bright blue "dressing" I think they called it. he does have pain medication- thank goodness that thing has got to hurt! But on the bright side, he says if he ever commits a crime and the only evidence thay have is a left index finger print, they will never be able to get him, because now he only has half a left index finger print! Ahhh good times!
So, did I think of the blog during this "crisis"? the answer is yes, more than once- but only while we were waiting to be discharged, and then again when I told his brother what had happened over the phone and he was laughing so hard, I couldn't even understand what he was saying. BUT Kerry is fine. Like I said, he is tough! He will take it easy for a couple of days. He goes to see the doctor again tuesday to get the bandage changed, hopefully they can make it a little smaller. Right now it looks like when a cartoon is using a hammer and misses the nail, all swollen up (the bandage, not the finger), but there is no way he will be able to get a glove over that montrousity (I so did not spell that right)
Okay and lastly, I have to share the sick part of me. So I was driving through Wendy's after and I still had my finger-in-a-bag (I guess I just hadn't thought to throw it out yet) and so (you can see where this is going) no just kidding I did not order the chili, but it was tempting! (that was sarcasm by the way, just in case anyone thought that I would ever actually put a finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili. I would not, in fact I can not even eat Wendy's chili because every onion makes me wonder)

25 more days!

So check me out I am all Christmas-y! THis is by far my favorite time of year. I love Christmas, and the entire season. I am looking forward to all the baking, and shopping, and wrapping, I can't wait to get started. Our lights are up, thanks to a handy dandy stick tool that let Kerry stay on the ground. He was so excited, he was finished in about 20 minutes. I am so happy, because last year he refused to put up lights. Mind you it is only one strand on the front of the house, but he did do the tree also. The people in my neighborhood all seem to be getting in the Christmas spirit too. One if my neighbors has actually had his lights up for a few weeks now. We are turning into quite a festive neighborhood!
So anytime you are feeling blue this season, come visit (me or my blog), sip a cup of hot cocoa and listen to the relaxing Christmas music...sigh I love this time of year.

who was that?

okay so, I'm not sure who that negative chick who posted last was. Man was she a bummer! ANyways, I was reading my poor me post, and I decided that it was all in the perspective. I should have said- I am thankful to have eyes to need contacts for, I am thankful to have friends to go visit (even though I didn't make it), I am soo thankful for visiting teachers (who offered by the way to go get me contacts). I am so thankful to have 3 beautiful, healthy, active children who make me laugh everyday and still need me and want me around. I am thankful for that super yummy bread (hopefully Candice will make me more), and I am thankful for the change in weather, because it has brought with it cool, crisp air just in time for Thanksgiving. SO that is what I should have said. I love the song "Count your Blessings" it really puts things in perspective. So the gloom and doom is officially over- I just need to remember to look for the silver lining. And keep my diet coke supply well stocked! Just kidding it was not the diet coke.

On a different note, I am super excited for Thanksgiving. SOme of my family got here last night and I love to see them. I know that other people are not so lucky- but I love my brothers and sister, and have so much fun hanging out with them. And, again lucky, the people that they chose to marry are great and I love hanging out with them too. Seriously! And I am really looking forward to tomorrow, because we will start cooking and baking and then it will really feel like Thanksgiving. It's so weird not to be traveling somewhere for Thanksgiving- we have never lived here before. But it should be fun. okay enough of my late (well kinda late) night rambling. I'm off to bed, and that really negative alter ego won't be showing her face again any time soon- I have too much good stuff in my life to feel sorry for myself.