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best family portrait ever.....

{questions????}

saw some of my blogger friends doing this.  do any of you have any questions you'd like to ask me?  anything?  anything at all?  i'll answer them all right here.  in a few days.  :)

{insta-friday....4/27}

here's another week via my iPhone. :)

i'm in a big hurry to go have a lunch date with my love so for now all you get is pics. i'll come back later and put in words too. or better yet, do you have questions about a certain pic? go for it. ask away.

and why is this the icon for catalogs???????

{the one that loves you the most}

this song came on on my ipod and i felt the need to share. i love love love this song. :)  do you have any hidden gem songs that you forget about until they pop up on your playlist and then you stick them on repeat?

{books i want to read}

yes.  i take pictures of books at the store i want to read with my iphone so i won't forget.  yes it works.  kind of.  anyways, here's some of the ones on my list. 

i just finished the hunger games trilogy and i'm now working on the 50 shades trilogy.  :)

i totally judge books by their cover. these two caught my attention for cute factor alone....

the next two are written by bloggers that i love. :)

sophie rocks. as does ellen.

have you read any of them? did you love/hate/ehhhh 'em???!

{saturday ramblings}

it's saturday am.  i'm at work.  {on my break :)} and i thought i should share with you some random crap.  :)

1} i had cheerios and a banana for breakfast this am.  what i really wanted was a big fresh baked cinnamon roll that they make at my local coffee shop.  i've had a couple of ehhhh days during my diet this week.  there are some days during the month where diets just don't work.  {if you know what i mean}.  every single one of those days i went to get my coffee and fingers crossed hoped/wished/prayed that they would have some.  and they didn't.  jerks. 

then today, the i'm-back-on-track-right-now-day, after i had my cheerios and banana, i walk in to get my coffee and immediately want to punch the nice owner in the face.  really?  REALLY????!  it smelled of heaven and rainbows.  i half expected a unicorn in a princess tiara to be behind the counter ready to spoon feed me the nice fresh baked cinnamon roll.  i took a deep breath and ordered my coffee.  when she asked me if i wanted anything to eat, i secretly cursed my metabolism/older age/weight watchers/children/uterus/sweet tooth/years of not eating healthy/and her and said "no thanks!"  {insert sweet-i-want-to-kill-you-smile}

so there!

will power - 1
sweet tooth - 0

{for now}

2} speaking of said diet, i was doing pretty well.  and with my diet set back, my weight is back too.  i'm still going to the gym.  i'm still losing inches.  {up to 14!}  just not pounds.  but hey, i'll take inches anyday!  i'm planning on attending my first 5k in july.  it's the color me rad 5k.  it looks like a ton of fun.  the artist in me is super excited!  and i love that it's not timed and there's no winner.  no pressure.  just fun.  plus, i'm probably gonna walk/jog it, so yeah.  i'm excited though.  i hope to have lots of pictures!  :)
3} sometimes i listen to pandora at work.  not often though.  my ipod doesn't have wifi and i hate sticking my iphone in the dock.  it's just a pain in the butt.  if i see someone i think might be stealing, i have to grab my phone out of the dock.  that extra step?  too much hassle for my lazy butt.  but today i'm listening to it.  i typed in american idol and i am listening to the "american idol finalists" station.  i know right?  total dork.  i know.  it's ok.  what's your favorite pandora station?  enlighten me!

4} i'm reading 50 shades of grey.  it's hot.  like really really hot.  you-should-read-it-and-thank-me-later-hot.  i totally expected the author to be a man.  and she's not.   but yeah.  read it.  just make sure you buy all three.  i did but my next installment isn't here from amazon yet.  how will i spend the time waiting?  i'm sure i'll just go back to the best chapters and re-read them.  for there grammar and intellectual content, of course.

5} i spell check every single post.  i hate bad spelling.  maybe more than i hate bad coffee.  yeah that bad.  and still, sometimes lisa finds things.  that erks me.  and i blame blogger.  if they'd just get that i don't use capital letters and stop telling me that i spelt things wrong because they are "supposed to be" capitalized than i wouldn't miss the things that really are spelt wrong.  thanks for making me look like a loser blogger.

6} i really just put 6 here because i hate odd numbers that much.  think about that. 

and 1} because my posts really feel naked without a photo and 2} i'm a geek....do you remember facebook flair????! of course you do. here's one of my boards. lol.

{insta-friday....4/20}

last friday Ian had his kindergarten screening. this mural is in the cafeteria at this school. :)

yeah i let my kids use my camera. :)

he's a great big brother....

the kids killed this bike last weekend. they had a great time. :)

we brought the kids to the providence children's museum yesterday. so much fun.

we went to target on the way home and i bought this....

{just the book. not the kids you creep}

and me. post gym. :)

and for fun, here's some flashback shots. i found these little gems. :)