Easter egg hunt and a neutering

Today was our Easter egg hunt with our playgroup friends. Unfortunately it was rainy and yucky so we had to have it indoors, but the kids still had fun. I also took the kids to see the Easter bunny at Walgreens beforehand. Rob didn't go because he was still a little sore from his vasectomy yesterday. It was a sad sight....swollen, bruised, and with a few stitches. I've been affectionately referring to it as "Frankensack" ;)
I've got some pictures to share of the Eastering fun, but none of the balls. Sorry.

Home again!

We got home this afternoon and it feels good. The weather was really warm....like 80 degrees and it was nice to come home and have the windows open and such. I gave up on trying to post pictures on my mom's computer. It just wasn't working. So I'm going to have quite a few today. The first is is one that I took today on our drive home. This was what someone wrote on the back of this semi:

I just thought it was a wacky thing to write and had my camera handy.
The next ones are from the St. Patrick's Day parade in the Quad Cities and the Irish Heritage festival.

St. Patty's

We got to my mom's on Friday and had a busy weekend. We took the kids to the Quad Cities on Saturday and Sunday. Once for the parade and once for the Irish heritage festival to watch the Irish dancers. I don't have the proper plug for my camera here to upload my photos so that will have to wait until I get back home but here are a couple that my mom took at the cold-ass parade on Saturday:

I can't get the photos to post at the time so I'll try again later.

We're outa here!

We are off to eastern Iowa to visit my mom for spring break. Kyle gets out of school early tomorrow and we'll be leaving right from there. Rob and my brother are going to paint the master bedroom, bathroom and the kids bathroom while we're gone. I'll leave you with a couple of pictures of the kids playing in the backyard the other day when it was 80 degrees.

Outside

Ahhhhhhh, warm temperatures. The snow is almost all melted except for the huge mound that was at one point covering our mailbox. The past couple of days have been so great. We've gone on walks, bike rides and just been outside. It's supposed to get a little colder towards the weekend, but still nothing like last week. I even sat outside in the lawn chair and read while Emma played. We have a trail by our house that leads to a pond/marsh area and a tree had fallen over covering the path about 3/4 of the way. So Emma and I just left the stroller in front of the tree and she and I walked the rest of the way. She was loving jumping in the puddles, picking up sticks and throwing them in the water and pretty much just getting messy. Last summer we rode our bikes over to the marsh/lake/pond thing and that was all there was to it, but since then they've added a lookout area with benches and a parking lot. So it's a little more user friendly.

Dragonlance

OK, so I admit it. I am a reader of sci/fi fantasy novels. I have been reading Dragonlance since I was about 15. With over 150 books in the series, it is possible to read them for 2 decades. I am a little embarrassed about the whole "I must go play D&D" (spoken in Conan O'Brien geek speak) nerdishness that is associated with sword and sorcery type books, but I can't help it. I love them. If a book takes place on Earth, I'm just not interested. Middle-Earth, yes...Earth-Earth, no. ;) And being female the stereotype isn't so bad....I still got laid in high school. Guys certainly don't care about what books you read, just that you said yes to their pathetic attempts to "woo" you.
Anyway, my point is that they are making a Dragonlance movie. Something I've been waiting for, for a long time. It's animated, but that's OK. So I was looking at the official movie site today and holy hell if they haven't got Lex Luther (Michael Rosenbaum) and Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland) doing two of the main character voices. Oh and Zena, warrior princess (Lucy Lawless) doing another. I guess I should reserve judgement until I've seen it, but none of these people would have even crossed my mind for those roles.
Sorry, I'm sure this means nothing to anyone who has never read these books, but I was really quite surprised and felt like bringing it up.

http://www.dragonlance-movie.com/

A tag

I don't normally get into that kind of thing, but the blond chick tagged me and I guess....since I don't have anything else pressing to talk about, that I'll comply:

Five Reasons Why I Blog

1. I like to toot my own horn
2. I like to write
3. I like to make people laugh
4. I like sharing pictures/stories about my kids
5. I like knowing that people who don't even like me still care about what I have to say. ;)

Money

I fucking hate money shit. Especially since I'm the one who does all of our book keeping/finances. So if anything is awry it's my fault. I yearn to blame things on others. ;) We got our taxes back a few weeks ago and I'm totally anal about not having bills, so we paid off everything. Then, the bill for our car insurance came in yesterday. Shit! We pay every six months so it's a pretty large bill and I completely forgot about it. Now we are scrambling because on top of it all, Rob has been dead at work and not getting his 40 hours in per week. Ugh, one thing on top of another....I hate that. Anyway, so today I go to the bank to deposit a couple of cleaning checks and the chick tells me I'm overdrawn by $.71 and that I'll have a $26 finance charge because of it. ARRRGGG!!! Apparently a check that I'd written to Kyle's school on December 19th was posted today. Of course, I forgot all about it as it's been over 3 months since I wrote it, and I immediately started yelling at the bank girl that there must be a 90 period or something for checks that hadn't been cashed, etc. And then she referred to me as "ma'am" and told me that checks had 6 months to be cashed.
So there I sat in the bank drive up wondering how I was going juggle things around after this, pissed that the bank girl thinks I'm old enough to be a "ma'am" and really pissed that I had no one to blame my money issues on but myself.
I fucking hate money shit.

Star Jones

I haven't thought about her in quite a while, as why would I?....but I ran across this picture of her on the internet today:

Can anyone say "Gehehe-ross". What is up with the long boobs? Did she not look at herself in the mirror before leaving the house? Those things start at her neck and end.....I can only imagine, where no boobs had ever gone before. I never thought I'd say it, but she looked so much better when she was a fat ass.

Ugh, more winter

So I'm tired of it already. More snow, more being trapped in my house. Kyle missed the first 2 days of school this week because of his strep throat. Then he went back on Wed. for a regular day, and yesterday they let school out early because of weather. Today they had off for teacher in service but that got cancelled too. Rob was supposed to have "snippety-snip" surgery today which got postponed and Emma was supposed to spend the night with Grandma and Grandpa. So here we sit, bored, waiting for our satellite go go out again, getting tired of each other's company. We would have never survived back in the pioneer days. Our poorly constructed wagon would have never made it across the "mighty Mississip" and we all would have drown. We were born in the correct era, I think. ;)
Being cooped up did give me a chance to finish up some of my winter/snow scrapbook pages. It is good that I got them out of the way because now the thought of looking at snow makes me gag. Supposedly by next week we'll be in the 40's. I am so ready for spring!