Hello 2012....

I have not blogged in SO long. I figured all my stalkers were getting a little antsy to find out what was going on in my life, you know, since I am so interesting and all. Whatever.

So, we are completely moved in to the new house. It has taken some getting used too. For the first few weeks I felt like I was on some sort of vacation. It was when I had to clean that I realized that this was OUR house. OUR NEW HOUSE. Wow. I love it. All 1,330 square feet of it! By the way, the neighbors still have NOT talked to us.

A lot has happened and I cannot remember all of it. I will hit the high points...

New Years I offered to be the designated driver. What. An. Experience. No, not the people with me, Nashville in general. A group of us went to the Nashville for the Guitar drop the first year they did it. The streets were not crowded. It was a blast! Not so much this year...TOTALLY different story. The streets were packed. Jam Packed. There was no room to move. I would stop at random times and scream 'head count' to my crew :) It's just the mommy in me. I counted my people and we kept moving. I would compare it to a field trip, but for adults. Ha!! At one point, we lost a person. Then we found him. Then we lost him again. We tried to move closer and ended up in a worse spot that what we started in. Needless, to say my crew was tired of battling crowds so as soon as the music note dropped we started towards the car. A normal stroll across broadway would take about 20 seconds. Not on this particular night, it took us about 45 minutes JUST TO GET ACROSS THE STREET. Then we sat in a parking garage for 2 1/2 hours. Yep, you read it right. TWO & A HALF HOURS. We had a good time. A little Jason Aldean, a little fist pumping, a little mouthing to the car in front of us, and you have some great entertainment. UNTIL the little underage drunk bitch girl in the front of us decided to yell 'What the 'f' are you looking at?' and then proceeded to hold up her 2 middle fingers for NO apparent reason. Clearly, that did not go over well. No need to go into details. Just know, we all made it home, no black eyes, no jail time, just a few exchanged words and it was over.

Fist pumping..............yeah, that happened.

Anyway, Happy New Year. I kissed my husband. Told him how happy he has made me the past few years. Made sure he knew how much I appreciated him & said I love you several times. Then it was over. 2011 was gone. Hello 2012.............................

Work has been WILD. We will leave it at that. I come home and I am EXHAUSTED. I know, I know, I am preaching to the choir.

I am going to share some pics from my phone again. I know you all love those. You never know what you will find on my phone...

I will start with the story of taking Mattellen to work with me. Friday the 13th. Yep. School was out because it flurried. I took her to work with me, she was SUPER excited. I happen to be on the phone and looked through the window of our break room to find her messing with the coffee maker. I finished up my phone call and she asked me to make her some coffee. I, of course, said 'um no.' I then went into the break room to find that Mattellen had already tried to make her own coffee. Yep, she poured coffee grinds in the coffee pot. Nope, not where they were suppose to go either. She had filled the top of the coffee pot with coffee. Where water would go, not grinds. Nice, I know. I stood there and thought how in the hell am I going to clean this up. I proceeded to pry the top of the coffee maker off, tilt it over, and scoop out the grinds. Be advised, she had pour water in there too. So, they were not dry. I had to rinse, scape, scoop, rinse, scrape, scoop...and so on. You get the idea. Needless, to say I did not think to take any pics of this incident. This is not where our eventful day ended. We order Chinese for lunch, Mattellen eats without any problems. About 2 hours later she decides she needs some popcorn. I gave her a bag and said put the microwave on 2 minutes. I know she knows how to use a microwave. No doubt in my mind she only put it on 2 minutes, I am being serious. I was on the phone, again, story of my life at work. I look in the break room and it is FULL of black smoke. I thought O-M-G-W-T-F. I told our operations manager that I needed to go....................I walked in the break room and it took my breath away. I had to put my shirt over my face to try to breath. I unplugged the microwave ( I know, not smart to touch the plug, but so what, I did, I am still alive). Opened the door, grabber the pop corn and took it across the hall to women's restroom, I ran water over it and I could hear the sizzling. Went back into the office and plugged up every fan I could find. We propped open the doors. It was a slight disaster. Thank God the BNA Corporate Center was still standing when she and I walked out at 5pm.

I will end this story with stating that the microwave was white. WAS.

She then found a balloon in a supply closet.

Yes, it says 'butt face' 'fart face'- typical 7 year old language. At 7 years old she is very in touch with her bodily functions.

And, it has a face. With lots of 'peerzings' (that is how she says piercings)

She claims she is going to have several places on her face pierced. I am not sure where these idea's are coming from, I don't have ANY piercings on my face and neither does Kevin. Let's just hope she decides that is NOT cool when she gets older.

My dad gave her pink hair spray for Christmas. She wore her pink hair to Cheddar's to eat dinner with Kevin's family that night. Classy, I know.

My sweet Noodle has something wrong with his eye. We think that he may have scratched it or possibly have an eye lash in it. This is not the first time that he has had this issue. Poor baby dog. He will barely open his eye :(

There you have it. So far, my 2012 has been eventful to say the least...

I wouldn't change a single minute of it. I love my little wild family...