Miss the 80s?

Someone posted this on a board I visit regularly and I had to comment on it.

You Know You Grew Up In The 80's or Early 90's If:

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE.
I STILL DO THIS WITH MY KIDS!

2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
I OWNED LOTS OF THESE...LOVED THEM.

3. You can sing the rap to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and can do the Carlton dance.
YEP, AND STILL DO AS I WATCH RE-RUNS ON NICK AT NITE.

4. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
AH..YES..BIKER SHORTS! HEHE

5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
I DREAMED ABOUT HAVING MY OWN BABY-SITTERS CLUB.

6. You can still jam to the theme song for Thundercats. Thunder, Thunder, THUNDERCATS, OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!
NOW, THIS ONE I DON'T REMEMBER. GUESS I WASN'T A FAN.

7. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom
IN 7TH GRADE, MY TEACHER CALLED ME BLOSSOM BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT I LOOKED LIKE HER.

8. Two words: Hammer Pants
I STOLE MY SISTER'S HAMMER CASSETTE..BUT NEVER HAD HAMMER PANTS.

9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock"
I MISS FRAGGLE ROCK!

10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars... and spokey-dokes or playing cards on your spokes for that incredible sound effect
I HAD SPOKEY-DOKES..AND THEY WERE AWESOME. I HAD A BANANA SEAT ON MY BIKE TOO!

11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales" (Woo ooh!)
USE TO..IT'S BEEN TOO LONG.

12. It was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday.
TOTALLY WORTH GETTING UP EARLY. NOT ANYMORE.

13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
ALL THE TIME!

14. You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen..and still know the turtles names.
DONATELLA, MICHAELANGELO....HMMM...SHREDDER....THAT'S ALL I REMEMBER.

15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
I LOVED OREGON TRAIL DAY! THEY WERE THE BEST! FUNNY I WAS JUST THINKING OF OREGON TRAIL THE OTHER DAY WITH JOE WAS WATCHING AN OLD WESTERN MOVIE AND A HORSE DRAWN BUGGY WAS GOING ACROSS A STREAM! HAHA

16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
MY MOM STILL HAS THEM!

17. You played the game "MASH"(Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
FORGOT ABOUT THIS ONE! PLAYED ALL THE TIME.

18. You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
JORDACHE WAS GREAT!

19. L.A. Gear....need I say more?
THEY WERE MY FAVORITE SHOES. I HAD ONE PAIR WITH COOL SHOELACES.

20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten. (She's Truly Outrageous.)
MY BOYFRIEND IN FIRST GRADE GAVE ME A JEM DOLL FOR MY BIRTHDAY. MY PARTY WAS AT PUTT-PUTT AND HE WAS THE ONLY BOY THERE.

21. You remember reading Tales of a fourth grade nothing and all The Ramona books.
I LOVE RAMONA..JUST BOUGHT SEVERAL BOOKS FOR MY DAUGHTERS.

22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
KARATE KID!

23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
NOPE, NOT ME.

24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (some of us...head-to-toe)
I CAN PICTURE IN MY HEAD SOME OF THE CRAZY THINGS MY BROTHER AND I WORE THAT WERE FLUORESCENT. I SHUDDER TO THINK HOW WE THOUGHT WE LOOKED SO COOL.

25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted.
LIKE A MAN! LOL

26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
YES, WHY? ANYONE KNOW?

27. You took lunch boxes to school... and traded Garbage Pailkids in the schoolyard.
I REMEMBER MY FAVORITE LUNCH BOX WAS MY PUNKY BREWSTER LUNCH BOX THAT MY AUNT BETH BOUGHT FOR ME. AND I GOT IN TROUBLE FOR BRINGING HOME A GARBAGE PAIL KIDS CARD A FRIEND GAVE ME. MY MOM THOUGHT THEY WERE NASTY.

28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
NEVER KNEW THEY WERE BANNED...BUT I HAD PLENTY OF THEM.

29. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.
ALL THE TIME...THAT OR SIKE!

30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
I WAS DEPRIVED..NEVER OWNED ONE, BUT SURELY REMEMBER THEM.

31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
ABSOLUTELY.

32. You thought She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should hook up.
IT WOULD'VE BEEN THE PERFECT MARRIAGE.

33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
THAT AND THE BEST FRIEND HEART NECKLACES.

34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
I LOVED MY JELLY SHOES!

35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"
YEP, IT WAS A FAVE LINE.

36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
I REMEMBER IT WAS OVERUSED. HEHE

37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
YEP AND GOING ALL THE TIME.

38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
STILL HAVE THE SCARS TO PROVE IT! ON BOTH KNEES.

39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
NOPE, NEVER HAD ONE.

40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
I CAN'T REMEMBER..BUT I PROBABLY DID.

41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
OKAY..FESS UP...COMMENT ME..DID YOU NOD THROUGH IT???

42. You remember Popples.
I HAD AN ORANGE ONE! IT WAS SO COOL.

43. Don't worry, be happy
OOO-OOOH-OOOAH-OOAH.....DON'T WORRY!

44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
MY MAX WAS TWO (AND MY MOM GOT SO MAD BECAUSE I WAS DIRTYING UP SOCKS SO QUICKLY)..BUT I WAS COOL

45. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do..getting yelled at by younger hip members of the family)
EVEN SCRUNCHED DOWN, THEY REACHED MY KNEES. GOSH..I SHOULD DIG UP PICTURES!

46. You remember boom boxes and walking around with one on your shoulder like you were all that.
I REMEMBER MY FIRST BOOMBOX..IT WAS FROM SERVICE MERCHANDISE!

47. You remember watching both Gremlins movies.
I REMEMBER BEING SCARED OF THE GREMLINS. I'M SUCH A CHICKEN.

48. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
LOVE THE CARE BEARS!

49 You remember watching Rainbow Bright and & My Little Pony Tales
THEY WERE GREAT! I GOT THE GREEN DOLL FROM RAINBOW BRITE WHILE I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL BUT MY LITTLE SIS MESSED IT UP WHEN SHE WROTE ON THE FACE! GRRR. HAD PLENTY OF MY LITTLE PONY

50. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.
DOOGIE WAS AWESOME. NOW I CAN WATCH HIM AGAIN ON HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. CRAZY HE STILL LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME.

51. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
ALF...ALF WAS SO COOL.

52. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool...and don't even flinch when people refer to them as "NKOTB"
JOE WAS MY FAVORITE..AND JORDAN SANG LIKE A GIRL.

53. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell," The ORIGINAL class.
AH...YES, ZACH WAS SO CUTE!

54. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME
NOPE, DON'T KNOW THE WORDS.

55. You just sang those words to yourself.
NOPE

56. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
NOPE ON THIS ONE TOO.

57. Homemade Levi shorts.. (the shorter the better)
NOT SURE THEY WERE LEVIS..BUT THEY WERE CUT-OFFS!

58. You remember when mullets were cool!
THANK GOODNESS MY PARENTS DIDN'T LIKE THEM..MY BROTHER WOULD'VE LOOKED AWFUL WITH A MULLET!

59. You had a mullet!
READ #58

60. You still sing "We are the World"
WE ARE THE PEOPLE....LA LA LA LA

61. You tight rolled your jeans.
THANKS BIG SIS...SHE TAUGHT ME HOW!

62. You owned a banana clip.
I THINK MY MOM STILL HAS THE BANANA CLIPS TOO!

63. You remember "Where's the Beef?"
DON'T REMEMBER THIS ONE

64. You used to (and probably still do) say "What'chu talkin' 'bout Willis?"
YEP, BUT HUBBY SAYS IT MORE OFTEN THAN I DO.

65. You ever had Sweet Secrets jewelry (the little jewel that opened up, then the doll's head and arms and feet would fold out and you'd close the jewel again).
NEVER HAD THIS.

66. You remember Schoolhouse Rock.
I REMEMBER IT!

67. Atari was the best game system EVER!
I HAD ONE BUT IT WAS ON THE BLITZ WHEN WE GOT IT HAND-ME-DOWN. I REMEMBER MY NINTENDO THOUGH! I WAS COOL WHEN I GOT THAT.

68. You know what happens when "water" or "I don't know" are said on a particular Nickelodeon show.
OH YES!

69. You remember Nickelodeon's early days.
WE DIDN'T HAVE CABLE SO I WATCHED AT THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE...IT WAS THE COOLEST THING ON TV.


So..did everyone have a nice flashback to your childhood days? It's so funny how many of these things I'd completely forgotten about. Ahh...good ole' memories!

A few wedding shots

I never did add pics of the wedding, so I'll add a few now.









The lighting was awful and it was hard to get good pics. This will be my last wedding shoot! LOL

Reporting for duty

Today is the day. I'm photographing a wedding today...for a non-family member. It's a fairly laid back job. The client just wants pics on a disk for her to print. I don't feel pressure to have to do post processing. Just take a bunch of good pics and give her the disk. It's a paycheck. Of course it's the worst day for a wedding...it's raining! Hopefully it'll stop by tonight.

Wish me luck!

Merry Christmas!!!

First off...Happy Birthday to Jesus! For he is the reason for the season.

I just wanted to share a few pictures of our Christmas morning. LJ was extremely excited to see the GeoTrax train set that Santa left for him. He's been playing with it now for almost 2 hours!
















I can't wait until the girls get home tomorrow night so they can see what Santa brought for them. They're spending Christmas with their dad this year. I'm very sad that they aren't home. It's the first year they've been away from home on Christmas morning.

Here are a few pictures from yesterday's visit with Marie and baby Caroline.

















And we can't forget Annie and Marie!

Elf at work

This year I took the handmade pledge for Christmas!



With the combination of an overwhelming supply of craft items and the lack of work for 2 1/2 weeks because of surgery/holiday break I was forced to compromise on my Christmas gift splurging. I brainstormed for ideas for all 3 kids as well as for the nieces and nephews. I'm happy to announce that spent less than $300 for all christmas gifts that were purchased this year. And the amount is that high only because the girls are getting new bikes. So that was $160 of the total right there. Everything else is being made with love by me!

It's been exciting to come up with ideas and turn them into reality. I've worked with supplies I had around the house with the exception of lining material for the girls' tote bags that I'm picking up tomorrow. Only 13" of fabric needed for each bag so the cost will be minimal. Oh and the tshirts for their Christmas jammies.

Here are the pics that I got of their gifts. Not everything is finished yet...but I plan to finish everything up tomorrow after my doctor's appointment.

LJ's jammies


Trini's jammies


Loo-Loo's jammies


I embroidered shirts I bought at Walmart and sewed the flannel bottoms.

A Christmas iPod cozy for my new iPod Touch. Merry Christmas to me!




I added a clip to the back so I could clip it to my purse. With my new larger purse I keep losing things!

And my wrapping paper this year is being replaced with these cute drawstring bags. Why didn't I think of this earlier? I refused to wrap and have LJ unwrap all the gifts, so I didn't put them under the tree. I found a tutorial for a simple drawstring bag and I whipped up several today to wrap the kids' gifts in.



Don't they look cute under the tree. And I used up those extra pieces of Christmas fabric from prior projects.



The nieces all got bottlecap necklaces as their gifts. And the nephews got bottlecap keychains. Taylor loved his Go Dawgs keychain.





Not a great pic but here are the keychains


I think those are all of the pictures I have of the items I've made. There are more, but I didn't take pics of everything. More pics to come Christmas morning.

It's been very rewarding and exhausting at the same time. I plan to do this more often...just need to get an earlier start!

Surgery update

Can we go back to Tuesday? I'm hurting! Surgery went well. I arrived at the hospital at 6:00am. They called me back to prep around 6:15 and then allowed Joe to join me. The sweet nurse was great at IV sticks..I didn't feel a thing. Of course you would think it had killed me by the bruise it left! I asked the nurse that would accompany the Dr. during surgery if I would have stitches or tape and she said that dreaded word. STAPLES. Hello?! Staples do NOT belong in my stomach. So I turned red as a fire engine and about started to cry. All while whining saying "NO". Then it was time to go and they wheeled me to the OR. It was a very cramped room. I remember thinking it looked like a storage room with a huge light. LOL I guess they have every available piece of equipment and med in case things go wrong in the sterile environment. The surgeon arrived in the OR and said hello. This is the point where I proceeded to beg for stitches. He said he could do stitches and I relaxed after that. They laid both of my arms out beside me (like during my c-section) and that's all I remember. I was out after that.

When I woke up it was around 9:15 and I woke up cranky! I was in a lot of pain. The nurse told me to relax so the meds would work better so I tried my best. They finally let Joe come back. I made sure he'd called everyone to let them know I was okay and he had. He said the surgeon had finished at 8:00am and came out to talk with him. So I had slept another hour before waking up. I was in recovery for about an hour and then decided to try and get dressed. I felt like a princess as my sweet hubby gowned me. Ok..he just put my undies and pants on because I couldn't get them, but it was still sweet. I managed to get out of bed and into the wheelchair to go home. We stopped at Kmart to pick up my pain Rx and it ended up taking 30 minutes. I stayed in the car though and went back to sleep while Joe got the meds.

I'm recovering as well as to be expected. I'm having a lot of pain in my right side. It feels like it would if I'd run and my side started aching. The nurse at the hospital said it's a combination of gas pains and the manipulation of my stomach insides during surgery. The incisions are tender to the touch, but no constant pain coming from them.

I'm off to try to finish up some christmas gifts.

I was so wrong!

The entire 9 months I was thinking boy. Well I was wrong. Introducing Caroline Elise. Isn't she the most adorable thing ever?