1. max has a special request now when i get him food. for example... i ask him if he wants a cheese roll-up from taco bell and he says "yeah, with no pickles" - do you want cereal this morning? "yeah... no pickles."
2. somewhere in this house there is a whole sheet of brand new bobby pins. one of these days we'll find it. but for now, to try and keep the ones we have all in one place we're doing this...
idea found in the real simple magazine
3. darric and i watched baby mama the other night. (with amy poehler, tina fey) it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be.
4. if you've been around max lately, you would know he has a new frequently used phrase...
"what the heck!?"
this weekend he woke up, in our bed, and said
"what the heck... it's morning? but it was just dark outside."
5. madison's class took a little field trip to UNLV to see the performance of james and the giant peach. before they left yesterday morning, and while i was at the grocery store, she called me. she wanted me to bring her a cold lunch. the lunch she would have to order is really gross (her teacher even got on the phone to tell me that). so i picked out a lunchable, complete with capri sun and dessert, checked out and ran her cold lunch over to the school. she came up to the office to get it and gave me a hug. that made it all worth it.
she enjoyed the performance.
6. mackenzie started a cheerleading group with some of her other friends during recess. she was the team captain for awhile and now some other girl is. she practices cheers at home. in the front room. they used to call themselves the chipmunks and now it's the kisses. they were going to have a cheer-off, but for some reason it got canceled.
7. i ordered a catalog from kraftmaid. and i've been dreaming of beautiful kitchens. here's one that i'm lovin'...

8. this sunday, while the girls were out enjoying a buffet and making cookies with grandma & grandpa carter, i was at home cleaning out the junk drawers in the kitchen. that's right... more than one. after the junk drawers, i moved on to a couple cupboards too. one of these weekends i'll get to the kid's rooms. ughh.
9. i had plans of drinking slim-fast shakes for breakfast and lunch this week. along with sensible dinners. :) but that plan flew right out the window yesterday when i met with jodie and mandi and little ones at town square. i just can't NOT order a white pizza from CPK. i did only eat half of it while i was there. but the rest of it disappeared shortly after i got home.
10. the girls both have class parties on thursday. (i get to help in madi's class.) then they are off friday, go back to school on monday and track break starts on tuesday. what? madison told me monday was optional, but she wanted to go, even if she was going to be the only one there.