Few and far between

are my blog posts. 

But in my defense, it's been a busy, busy month and I have a lot of good excuses. 

We are going to the mountains this weekend with friends. Does anyone else have fun Memorial weekend plans? 

I'll be back soon to fill you in...  

Peace, love and sunshine!

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We had a great anniversary! Brad took the afternoon off and we had lunch on the patio at one of our favorite restaurants.  It was a perfect spring day and reminded us a lot of our wedding day. We had a fun, laid back afternoon and then headed downtown for the evening.  I loved everything about it. 

I believe that Amy and Zach win for the shortest dating period. They married only eight short months after they began dating and Jenifer and Jeremy win for the longest.  They put our six years of dating to shame with a whopping seven and a half years. You know you like someone when your dating years out last many marriages!

I got an iPhone for Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to me! I was surprised because I was set on not getting a new phone until mine went to the grave, but I love it.  I'm determined not to be a junkie like someone I know... not to mention any names... but I fear

 that I am following in his footsteps.

Before Brad even gave me my phone, he signed me up for Twitter. It wasn't an option for me. Follow me @Ingramgang.  It will prove to be as boring as this blog. You in? :)

We have a contract on our house!!! We have to be out in a few weeks and have a lot of work ahead of us.  It makes me tired just thinking of it, but I'm really excited and feel super blessed to have our house sell so quickly. 

I had lunch Saturday with two of my very best friends. Happy late birthday, Sarah!!!  You are one hot twenty seven year old!

My mom kept had Noah and Kayt this weekend, so Brad and I enjoyed our quiet Saturday. Thanks mom, you're the best!!!

Hope you had a great weekend also!

Blah-g Week

Lame. I know. 

I have been busy cleaning the house to be shown. I remember from our last house how much work it is having a house on the market, but having two children whose biggest talent is making messes makes this even harder.  I've started telling Noah that people are coming to look to see how clean our house is and that they are going to be looking at his room as well. I'm not sure how much it's helped, but... hey. 

Today we were at Target and Noah made a scene. When we walked by the bras he yelled, HEY MOM,  THOSE ARE DA FANGS THAT WE PUT OUR BOOBS IN! And then he whipped his shirt off and started demonstrating how to use a bra. I couldn't stop him fast enough, he had a crowd of people laughing. Boys (sigh).

Jennifer emailed me and let me in on a huge story that I somehow missed. All this time, I was thinking that I was no mother of the year, yet I was so wrong. Ha! Check this out. It's pretty funny. 

Tomorrow is our anniversary! From what I've been told, we have a fun afternoon planned. I'm excited!!! Brad and I have been married for four years. We dated for six years before we got married and so I feel like we have been together for so long. We have. I can hardly remember life without him. awwww.

Has anyone date longer than six years? It's not for everyone, but it worked well for us. How long did you and your husband date before marrying? Let's see who the earns the shortest and longest dating award...

A Secret Hiding Spot

Kayt gets into everything. Everything, I tell ya. It is just now beginning to bother her brother because (that's a tongue twister) she seems to go for exactly what he is playing with and he can no longer distract her by giving her another toy. She wants what he has and the girl is nothing if not determined. 

This problem hits an all time high when Noah has to take one of his many bathroom breaks during the day. The boy is nothing if not regular. He is out of commission for a good amount of time and his sister has free reign to ANYTHING. 

In the past few weeks, he has realized that the only place she cannot maneuver her way into is the refrigerator. Thus, his new hiding place. 

The problem is that he usually forgets to reclaim his hidden treasure so guess who finds it? Last week I opened the refrigerator and ten baseball sized balls came rolling out on my head. I've found his baseball bat in there. It's a common place for finding his glove and you can't forget his green Crocs that Kayt loves to wear.  There was a Matchbox ice cream truck in the drawer with the cheese and the new pillows that I bought for his bed were on the top shelf. The list continues with everything from football player figurines to his Harlem Globetrotter brochure.  

All is fair in love and siblinghood. 

But I think I will put a sign on our refrigerator door that says, Open at Your Own Risk! because I cannot be held liable for any injuries that may happen to our friends due to the creativity of my boy. 

Mother Of The Year!

Sunday evening while Brad was working the kids and I went to the grocery store and ran a few errands.  After we got home, Kayt was playing in the car.  I was in there with her until I stepped out to pick up her meme and walk around to the other side of the car to get her out. 

While I was out of the car, she locked the doors. The keys were inside. Dang it.

She proceeded to crawl into the back seat and buckle herself into her car seat. She is Miss Independent and LOVES to buckle her own car seat. 

I had to call a locksmith to come unlock my car and get my child out. 

This was not the first time I have done this. I locked Noah in the car when he was about eighteen months old.  The second time around is not near as traumatic on mama. I was calm as a cucumber and Kayt was a trooper until a big burly man walked up to her window and began prying. Poor baby. 

I think I have officially disqualified myself from any mother of the year awards there may be. At least for the next eighteen years. 

He interrupted my crying...

We had our hot water heater replaced today due to a leak. I am sure you can imagine the scene with two sick children, a house that was minutes away from being shown to a prospective buyer and a  garage that was a wreck with men working to replace our hot water heater and drilling holes in our brick. Don't ask. Just picture chaos. 

We fumbled out the door to feed our lil' ones dinner and get to small group on time. 

Hours later after small group, we pulled into our garage and were overcome by the smell of natural gas. Brad called the 24 phone number and they dispatched someone to our house.

At 11:00 pm, a man named Dennis rang the doorbell. Not once, but twice. Whattha? Then he proceeded to stomp through the house and he was not talking in his inside voice. 

Now don't get me wrong, Dennis is my hero because he solved the problem so that we would not die of toxic fumes and he took care of a second problem of low water pressure that we had just discovered, but my guess is that Dennis DOES NOT have children. 

What is yours?

When Dennis came I was sitting on the couch crying about India. Yes, India. Sometimes it still overwhelms me. But I will have to get to that post on another day because Dennis made me loose my train of though. 

Dennis, my hero, the man without children, who interrupted my crying. 

Is it me?

If we move, I am planning to re-do our bedroom. We have had the same comforter for three years. I'm over it.  

I don't really have anything particular in mind, but I found this and I think I like it. Granted, I do NOT like the sheets it is paired with nor the shape of the bed. I would do white sheets, fold them back further and lots of big pillows. You could do so many colors; orange, white monogrammed, brown...

This is not something that I would normally pick, but that is one reason that I like it. With light walls, it could add so much color to a room. 

Also, the reviews say that it washes beautifully (music to my ears).  Reason for liking it number two. And it's super reasonable. Number three. Something about knowing that little feet will be jumping on it and snotty noses will be rolling around on it makes me not want to spend lots of mullah. 

What are your thoughts?  I am NOT sold on this. At all. I just started looking. Have you found any great bedding lately? 

BE.

I wish you could have seen what I saw last night. Hundreds of women from our church and beyond gathered for an ALL women's worship night. A team of women led us in worship. A woman spoke. Women prayed. Women of all ages, shapes and sizes with one common bond were on their faces before the Lord.

The concept was great and the Spirit was heavy. God broke many women of who they have BE.en and he encouraged others to press into who they are BE.coming.  He encouraged us all to BE. an image bearer. 

Thank you Hillside Women and thank you to all of my friends who gathered for dinner before, hung out during, and had coffee afterwards. It was a great night!!!

Bye, Bye Birdie

Do you know this bird? Yeah, me neither until as of late. 

It's a dove. 

Not the sweet, white dove that you may think of or the cheery turtle dove that we sing about at Christmas time... no, not this one. 

It's the annoying kind of dove. 

The kind that lives in the tree just outside my bedroom window. 

The kind that wakes me up each morning hooting his brains out. 

That kind of dove. 

I am about to find a BB gun and shoot it. You think I'm kidding? No more playing nice gal for me. If this is illegal, please tell me now.  This dove hoots ALL day long and it is really getting to me. Obviously. For the last four months, I was convinced that we had an owl living in our backyard. I'm sure that shooting an owl is illegal. Owls are the mascot for the elementary school across the street. I couldn't shoot the mascot for crying out loud. But it's a dove. Not an owl.

I think I can shoot a dove. 

MODNAR

- It has been a beautiful week here! We've spent 98% of our days outside taking in the sunshine with NO wind. Praise Jesus! I turned the air conditioner on for the first time on Monday. This is a big deal! And I don't want to hear any bragging from my friends who have had their AC running since January. Life's just not fair. 

-Have you ever heard of swagbucks? It's a website that you login to and use as a search engine. Unlike Google, you earn points for using it that you redeem for items (gift cards and such). A cool concept, right? I figure that I might as well be gaining something from all of the internet searching I do. Or maybe you don't call the internet your friend and consult it for everything under the sun, like me?!? 

-Happy Earth Day!

-Does anyone use Bare Minerals make up? I want to try it, but it is hard to find time to go to Ulta to let them demonstrate how to use it. What are your thoughts on it? I like light make up, but don't have the most even skin tone, would it work for me?

-I went on a shopping spree at Target yesterday. Why is that so easy to do there? I go in for one or two items and leave with bags full of randomness. It was fun though!

-Are you confused by my title?