To Dyson or not to Dyson, that is the question!

Yup, time for a new vacuum cleaner. I researched and researched and it boiled down to The All Floor Dyson, (because the Animal Dyson is the same only with a couple of extra attachments and a floor cleaner kit for $150 more), or the Kenmore Progressive rated number one by consumer reports. After much debate, the Dyson won out. Kohls had it on sale for 399.99 and I just so happened to receive a 30% scratch off from the flyer. I snatched it up for roughly $280 plus tax. Not too shabby. I'll keep you posted on how it works :)

The Sneaky Chief

I just received a book order I made from Olivia's school. We ordered some new books, and I purchased a cookbook called the sneaky chief. All the recipes have a unique way of incorporating healthy fruits and veggies into everyday meals kids love. There are even things like Breakfast Ice Cream which includes ingredients like avacado, yogurt, bananas, cocoa powder, etc. I'm anxious to try some out. I know the trick is to not only make it look normal and yummy, but give it a fun name as well. I have served them chocolate malt-o-meal for breakfast, and I introduced it to them by calling it hot chocolate cereal. They love it and even ask for it at dinner sometimes, ( which I don't do by the way :)

Could we possibly get any more snow??

I don't know, the weather chanel said 5 inches of snow....I think they forgot a zero in that number. Luckily Olivia and I stayed home all day today. I don't think the van would be able to leave the driveway anyway. Yesterday Livy had a Valentine party at school. They made mailboxes out of paper plates and exchanged Valentines. She had a lot of fun. Today, we exchanged Valentines with her daddy and I. Daddy got her a big marshmellow sucker looking thing with frosting on it. I got her a card that had a princess barrette attached to it. I also snuck a Valentine in Jenna's backpack since she was going to be at her mother's house after school today.
Olivia has a very fabulous imagination. Everytime Grandma Bonnie comes over, she asks for "mousy" which is acted out by Grandma's hand. Of course my hand is something too....I'm spider. They are apparently both babies. Grandma will head home after a visit, and that night Olivia will say to me, "I hope mousy is having a nice sleep over at Grandma's".
Tonight, Olivia and I made bead necklaces, colored, played catch, popped popcorn and watched Strawberry Shortcake Berry Fairy Tales on the big screen.

AGGGGGGGG

I cannot believe it!! My memory disk for the Playstation is corrupted. The three months of playing guitar hero with points, purchases, and the high levels I was at are all LOST!!! I'm not feeling so good. Poor Tyler tried to help me start to build it back up. We lost all songs. I think I'm just going to go buy memory and keep it for just me. sniff sniff....I'm so depressed!

Dinner and a Movie

Daryl and I had a X-mas party to go to for his B&I Business group. Unbeknownst (is that a word? my spell check did not correct it...huh) to us, the party got cancelled which we did not know until we were on our way, got lost, and called for directions. When we were informed it was cancelled, (we were semi dressed up and had 5 pounds of shrimp waiting to be eaten) we decided that since my mom was already watching Olivia and prepared to spend the night, we would turn our night into dinner and a movie which we NEVER get to do. We ate at Arby's, I know, not fancy but we wanted to make the movie. Besides, their salads were FABULOUS. They grill tortilla strip chips and add almond slices to the salads. Anyway, we ate and went to see I AM LEGEND. Any movie with Will Smith is bound to be great. I loved the movie but the very ending as many have agreed sucked. If he was staying back to protect the woman and child from the zoombies getting them, fine. But if you have a stinkin grenade in your pocket anyway, then throw the sucker and get your butt in the protective compartment with them and SAVE YOURSELF. Just that part made me mad. The rest was great.

A Taste of Spring

Check this out!! The kids love it!

http://www.procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf

Pogo Crazy

Okay, I know it sounds like I am wasting a lot of my time playing games, but I'm really not. I LOVE Pogo and am getting mom hooked on it too. My favorite game currently is Rainy Day Spider Solitare. I'm playing it all the time. Come join me, my screen name is Swgdncr1970. If you catch up with me, I might just play you in a game of cribbage, or backgammon. :) Mom loves Poppit.

Guitar Hero Pro

Yup, that would be me. I'm totally addicted to Guitar Hero. I am one song away in the easy catagory from completing every song with gold stars, which means 100% no errors. I have almost 5 stars for every song on medium and can make it through the hardest song "Through the Fire and Flames" on medium, and I have six more songs to complete (barely finishing the songs without getting booed off) on the hard level.
We just bought Rock Band last week. I don't like the guitar that comes with it, but I like the drums, and I love the singing. That is the only thing on the face of the planet that says I sang AWESOME. I can get at least 85% on every song I sing on easy or medium. Probably because I have a good low voice and the majority of the songs are men singing them. Daryl wants to create a video. If we do, I'll publish it on my blog :)

Poor Princess

Olivia's poor beta fish. Princess (who is actually a boy, but we won't tell Olivia) for the past week has been floating sideways at the top of the tank. He looks like he has a small gash at the top of his head and maybe trouble with a fin on one side. I have no clue how this happened. Just when I think he is done for, he flips himself upright in a very labored effort and positions himself just so in the grooves of the tank to help hold him upright. At night her resorts to sleeping sideways at the top of the tank again. I'm a freak. I cannot bear to flush him, nor could I let Daryl take him away. What if he recovers? I dread the day he finally passes away and I have to tell Olivia. She knows about death, but I don't think she fully understands it. I don't want to hide it from her, but I have to make sure it is explained the right way in a gentle manner. Wish me luck, I'm sure that time will come relatively soon.

Olivia Won

Olivia had a dentist appointment scheduled which got cancelled because of bad weather. She hadn't been in for about 6 months. Apparently the dental office has a yearly drawing of all children that made it through the year with no cavities. The winner receives a prize. Since Olivia missed her appointment and she didn't have any cavities at her last visit, she made the drawing which was held after her scheduled appointment that got cancelled. They drew her name and she had the choice of either receiving an MP3 player, or a $100 savings bond. We took the bond. We still have to reschedule her dental appointment, but I'm willing to bet she doesn't have any cavities anyway ;)

The Dog Ate My Homework

Yup, it was actually a true statement! Jenna had to create a montage of items that add up to 100 on a large piece of contruction paper for school to celebrate the 100th day of school. I got a whole bunch of supplies together for her including stamps, stickers, balloons (mini), noodles, marshmellows (do you know where this is heading?), fruit loops, pipe cleaners, flowers, etc. Well, I layed her montage on the bench by the front door to dry and so I wouldn't forget it in the morning. Needless to say, Sunny (our golden) found it and ate all the food items off of it. The really funny part was that she did not destroy the paper that all of those items were glued on. She must have very carefully nipped at the marshmellows with her front teeth, and half of the fruit loops were still attached (the part that was glued obviously). Jenna actually got to tell her teach that her dog at her homework. Fortunately I had enough time before school to reattach new items onto her project, so all was well.

I'm Back

It's been a busy holiday season and finishing up on the videography business for 2007 which I just completed last week. Unfortunately the videography business for this year starts next month already. How time flies. I held off blogging because I wanted to create a book of the entire years worth of blogging for 2007 before starting up this year....but I don't think I have enough entries to fill up a book worth, so I'm going to wait until the end of this year to create a blog memory book. Which now allows me to start blogging again. YAH!!