Happenings.

You have missed me...haven't you! We have been busy bees since Saturday. If you want me to bore you with the details, proceed to read the next paragraph. But, if you want to skip the "bore", pick back up at paragraph. 3. ha ha!

The highlight of my Saturday...cleaning every inch of carpet in this house, all 2100 sq ft of it...with my new carpet cleaner. I had a blast. I am not being sarcastic. I think it might have been therapeutic. My carpets look amazing, better than brand new. Every stain came out (the stains are a product of Stella and Ava's weak stomach, along with Cali's blow outs on Friday!) I'm pretty sure I even toned my arms a bit pushing around that 26 pound magical piece of equipment for 4 hours. So, if you need a carpet cleaner, splurge on the one I got.

Now the fun part, if you don't enjoy reading about carpet cleaning! Saturday night we met up with great friends for dinner! The girls and I had a great time. I even went out of my "element" (beer and wine) and ordered a "different" drink...a champagne mojito! Yum! Well, at the beginning it was yum, the longer it sat, the more it tasted like the original Smirnoff cooler drink. That was not yum! We really need to get together more often with our Ritter Ct peeps! Thank goodness summer is right around the corner!

Here comes another boring part, beware. Sunday I cleaned my tooshie off before my BFF and my BFF husband got here. First off, Natalie and I have been BFF's since we were 3 or 4...depending on who you ask...we a have a few month's difference in our age. Second, it's the first time I have had a FRIEND come and visit from Texas! (I really hope this statement is true. I am trying to rack my brain on who all has come to visit and I'm pretty sure I'm right. But, if I'm wrong and someone else has been out here, I'm sorry.)

Turns out...they like our house, thank goodnes. They love our kids. They even love our dogs...well visitors can only take about 5 minutes of Cali at a time. So she's aloud out of her kennel is doses. Stella on the other hand, she fell in love with Matt. I think Stella has found her official first boyfriend. So sweet.

We did not do much during their visit. Basically, we stayed in jammies until about 10:30...that's HUGE for me! Our only interesting feat...braving the winery in pouring down rain!

I feel bad they didn't get to experience the whole effect of it. Not being able to walk around or sit down outside stunk! We could only look out the window and wish we were outside!

Layla, I believe, has her first crush. She was attached to Matt. Although she rarely called him Matt. She just called him "him". ha ha.

From the time Nat and Matt got here, the girls had nothing to do with me. I was not allowed in their rooms to play, nor to hear Ava read to Natalie or Natalie read to the girls. But hey, that's really not much different than everyday here. ha.

Luckily, they are coming back on Thursday to stay the night, they even left luggage and pretty dresses. Too bad I don't have anywhere to go or anything to do, otherwise I would "borrow" Natalie's dresses. I did though, give her back two pairs of lounge pants that I have "borrowed" when I go home to Texas. Hey, atleast I returned them, maybe a year late! When Ava got home from school, she immediatly saw the luggage and asked why they left it. I said they are coming back to get it. She said "good, so Natalie left her jewelry too." Yeah, Ava LOVED Natalie's jewelry, she wanted to try on ALL of it. Thank goodness she didn't leave it here, Ava has already searched for it thinking I was lying!

There was even more excitement in our house this morning, and this really should be at the top! We got to Skype Jason for almost an hour this morning. Unfortunetly, he doesn't have speakers, so we have to type, but we get to see him...and the connection on his end was amazing! Layla actually had to go wake up Ava so that she could see him! We ended up running so late because of it that Ava only had a cold poptart for breakfast, but it was well worth it to be able to see this!

So, that was our fun since the last time you have heard from me! All my fun, from cleaning the carpets, to a great dinner with friends to Natalie and Matt visiting...it was worth the break from blogging the last few days. ha. Sorry. Well, plus I have a head cold and really couldn't concentrate long enough to type and add pictures.