GOLDEN X2

When I was young, I always knew for sure that I would have my bestest friend by my side for life. In 7th grade, I met her, and we have been completely inseparable ever since. Through mistakes, achievements, laughter and tears, we have been together, and I am grateful for every single day. What a blessing she is to me! Happy GOLDEN Birthday to my "old" friend, Mandi! I love ya, sister!

Royal Friday

Oh the history that is being made today! I am head over heels in love with William and Kate! This morning was their amazing wedding live on tv. I'll have to admit, at first I was a little sad when their engagement was announced, because I was still holding on to a glimmer of hope that Prince William was going to call and propose to me, but once I got past that, I have been gung-ho for Princess Kate! She is so classically beautiful and has gorgeous fashion. I mean, honestly, we've all seen the hats, but Kate pulls them off like none other. I am truly honored to say that the year I was born was the year that Charles and Diana got married, and now I get to say that I watched the future King be married! Today is also special to me for another reason. It is my Mama's birthday! She is the best, most supportive, helpful mom on the face of the planet, not to mention, the most amazing Mimi my kids could ever hope for! Happy Birthday, Mom! I love you!

GOLDEN

Today is my handsome hubby's GOLDEN birthday! 28 on the 28th! That's right, I'm a cougar ;)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOE! I LOVE YOU!

3-0!

Today, my dedicated readers, is a very big day! It is my 30th birthday! Woot woot! I am so blessed with an amazing family, gorgeous children, awesome friends, a job to die for and God who has chosen this fantastic life for me and allowed me to live it everyday! I cannot wait to see what He has in store for me in my fabulous years to come! By the way, Nelson's 1st birthday was Monday, April 25th and Morgan's 10th birthday is today (the same as mine)!!!!!

Same old, same old

Do you ever feel like you cook the same things over and over? I certainly do! I always say, "if I had more time" I'd switch supper up a bit, but it's totally not true. There are honestly not a whole slew of options for my family. I get heartburn from breathing air, Myer barely eats meat, Kailyn won't eat anything that has ever touched anything else and she also doesn't like melted cheese unless it's macaroni. That means, poor Joe, nothing spicy, no casseroles, nothing garlicy, no tomato based sauces, etc. When I make spaghetti, I have to make a marinara and a cheese sauce, when we make or order pizza, one always has to have no sauce and when we have tacos, I have to set some hamburger aside so I can have some with no seasoning. See what I'm working with here? I obviously like to make sure we have vegetables with our meals, but Kailyn only likes corn, peas, carrots and green beans. Boy those get old. Every now and then, though, I do throw in some cauliflour or asparagus or something for Joe and I, although Myer won't touch those with a ten foot pole either. Just recently has he started eating meat a little better. What kid doesn't like hot dogs? Mine. So that leaves us in a rut. Meals that are the same every week, with a bit of variation here and there. I guess my family doesn't starve and they don't complain, that's my job!

We'll definitely eat some yummy home cooking on Sunday! Not only is it Easter, it is also mine, Joe's and my mom's birthday dinner. I got to request some of the meal myself AND I get presents! Woot, woot! I love birthdays, especially my own!

In all the fun, don't forget what Easter is really about. Feel God's love in your heart and soul everyday! HOPPY EASTER!

Natural Woman

I wonder when it became the "norm" for women to wear makeup, shave their legs and fix their hair? Obviously there was a time when none of the proper tools existed to do these things, and when you see pictures of the women from these times, they are all very pretty. Let me just tell you that my reasoning behind this post began yesterday morning at 7:45am when I woke up. I stumbled into the bathroom and caught a frightening image of myself in the mirror! Now let's get something straight here, I don't tan (although I should), smoke, drink (maybe I should) or do drugs. I don't eat fried food, although I do love the sweets, and I wash daily. I never had acne in high school, but that caught up with me around 25ish. So back to the image in the mirror of the hungover-four day drug binged-crazy bed headed lady. I remember waking up hungover at friends' houses after all night parties in high school or college and all of us just going straight to breakfast. I remember not thinking I looked too bad, or maybe I was just too hungover to care, but leaving the house right after I woke up these days would not be an option.....EVER. Believe me, I have a few friends that I'll guarantee could wake up, leave the house and be nominated for model status, but where the hell did I go wrong? I used to be able to do that, so does that mean I'm not aging gracefully? Bummer. Can you fix that at 30? While I'm feeling down about myself, I'd also like to mention that I recently stopped nursing my baby boy. I was in some really intense pain for about 2 weeks, and then one morning, as I was staring at my horrid morning image in the mirror, I noticed that someone had snuck in and replace my chest with one of a ten year old.....boy. UGH! Growing older isn't really as fun as I pictured it :(

Enough feeling sorry for myself already! I started a new book yesterday called The Compound by S.A. Bodeen. It's one that I found while reading the Hunger Games Series. You know how you search a certain title on book company web pages and they give you the "customers who bought this also bought" section? This was one of those books. The synopsis reads: Eli’s father built the Compound to keep their family safe. Now, they can’t get out. He won’t let them. It started off with a bang, quite literally, and is, so far, pretty good! It's always exciting to find a good read!

Happy Monday!

Take a Look

I don't think it's any big secret that I LOVE READING! Every night after the kids are put to bed, Mama gets to snuggle with her Kindle and make magic. Recently, I was turned on to a book call The Hunger Games, by a friend of a friend. My mom and I were out to breakfast one morning and my friend and her friend were at the booth behind us. A conversation was started about, none other than, Myer's vampire teeth ;), and that blossomed to The Twilight Series. The friend asked if I'd ever heard of The Hunger Games Series. I had not, but I am SO glad my mom and I went to breakfast that day or maybe I am SO glad that Myer had vampire teeth, but anyway, the series is really good. There has even been tons of talk recently about a Hunger Games movie! Are you kidding me? Of course I'd love to see these awesome books turned into a movie!

My FAVORITE author is Jodi Picoult. I'm sure I have mentioned this a few billion times before, but she only puts one new book out per year. Therefore, I wait until March, this year April because I was right in the middle of The Hunger Games Series, and snort her book up like a professional crackhead. This year has been a bit different. In every Jodi Picoult book, there is something that creates a spark. Maybe someone with whom I identify indefinitely or someone my heart bleeds for or a topic I am extremely passionate about. Sing You Home, in my opinion, does have valid points, but it is a fight between to alternative lifestyles, neither of which I lead. I find myself yearning to connect to a character so I'll love this book as much as I love her others, I just can't. Don't get me wrong, it is a good book; great story, beautifully written, it's just not her best. :(

Awards Show

I graciously accept this award for Blogger of the Year! I would like to thank my wonderful family, friends and loyal readers. What's that you say? When you're a crappy blogger you don't get awards? OH! My fault..... I even promised to blog 2 days ago and didn't even get that done. So here I am, geared up and ready to get caught up.

I'm sure there are lots of goings on that are extremely important and intriguing, but let's just fast forward to this past weekend, where I received a multitude of amazing awards!

Friday I received the prestigious award of Dessert Finder of the Year. We went to Dairy Queen with the Bolling's to have some dinner. Of course you can't go to DQ without getting ice cream, so when the time came, I was checking out the big menu in hopes of finding something new and delicious. BINGO! They have a new yummy treat called a Peanut Butter Bash. It is like like a hot fudge sundae with peanut butter sauce too. It also has some chocolate chunks sprinkled on top (all of which I threw in Joe's butterfinger blizzard because they were a bit much). Let me tell you, that thing was AWESOME!

Saturday and Sunday were huge days! I made Taylor Swift at last year's Grammy's look like a chump. It all started when I got Daughter of the Year first thing Saturday morning. I was supposed to be up and have the kids ready by 7:45am to go to the MS Pancake Breakfast with my mom at 8am.....we got there about 8:30am. I moved right along to Most Forgetful when I dropped my mom and kids off at my house to head up to my office to clean and was met in the parking lot by 862,000 people participating in David Kemm's Clean Up Marshall Day.....I turned around and went straight home. My mom and kids were playing outside as Saturday was a BEAUTIFUL day, but my mom and gma were going to take a road trip to the lake just for fun, so she didn't stick around long. She did ask if it was ok if Kailyn road along and I said it was up to her. I bet you're shocked to find out that she about pooped her pants to get to go. We packed her a "car bag" full of activities to supply her time and off they went. Since it was just Myer and I home alone (Joe had a baseball game at the school and yards to mow after that), I decided to accept the award for Wife of the Year and pick up our yard for my hardworking hubby. I picked up all the sticks in the back yard and efficiently moved on to dog poop. We have a poop-picker-upper, which consists of a mini rake and dust pan really (I should've patented that), but I could only find the dust pan thing. Well I didn't want to be stripped of my new award, so I took one for the team, double gloved my hand and picked up the poop. I love my 3 dogs, but they really poop a lot :( Anyway, after that, the backyard was complete and Myer and I moved to the front, where I proceeded to pick up sticks and pine cones (sticky ones, mind you) and Myer proceeded to run from me as fast as he could either toward the street or back to the backyard. To keep him occupied, I went in and got him his juice and he sat on the front porch like a nice little boy and drank it while I pulled weeds around our bushes. After a few minutes, he stood up on the step and was setting his drink on the railing, then he would step down one (there's only 2) and move his cup along. He thought this was pretty fun, and he's really good at steps, so I let him do it. However, as I bent down to pull my next weed, I hear him fall off the second step onto the sidewalk. I ran to him, scooped him up and we went inside. (Please remember this moment, as not only did my son scrape and bruise his outer right eyebrow, but this is also my first nomination for Mom of the Year). Inside, Myer napped and I continued my wifely duties by cleaning and doing laundry. Like I said, Saturday was a really great day, weather-wise, so even after Kailyn got home, we played lots outside. I love it that both of my kids love the outside so much! When we finally came in, both kids were covered in sweat.Joe and I both decided that Myer was in bad need of a hair cut! It grows super fast and was starting to curl around his hat! I asked Joe if he thought we should get him an actual cut or just clipper cut him (I clipper cut Joe's hair at home), and he said clipper. We used our smaller trimmers and Joe picked the second to longest length and said, "Let's start with this one and we can always go shorter." NO NEED! This is where I received my Trimmer of the Year Award. The second to longest, my left butt cheek. My baby boy was scalped!!!!! It does grow on you, and of course he still looks adorable, but the big fat pile of soft blonde curls on my garage floor almost made me throw up.Sunday I started off the day by jumping directly out of bed and going straight to the office to clean. We had a Klinge Family Easter Celebration at 12pm, so I needed to be on top of my scheduling! When I got home, I started getting the kids ready. I bought a curling iron not too long ago, because I really want to curl Kailyn's hair for her dance pictures this year, so I was going to practice by curling it for the Easter Celebration. I got her all sat down, separated her hair, got the very first piece to curl, and BURNT THE LIVING CRAP out of her ear. This, my fine friends, was my second and final nomination for Mom of the Year! I would like to thank my kids for loving their really awesome mom and DFS for not taking my kids away. Luckily, the rest of Sunday went well and we had a really nice day.

Ladies and Gentlemen, that concludes our Awards Show for this sunny Wednesday, thank you and good day!

Now, in the mean time, I (along with my besties) am preparing for the party of the century. Three of us are turning 30 VERY soon and have decided to have an 80's blowout at the skating rink. We have been diligently working to find perfect outfits for, not only ourselves, but also our husbands! Myer is still very ornery and, as you read above, has started running from you when he knows he's not supposed to. He is definitely a daredevil too, that kid will climb ANYTHING! Joe has transitioned into mowing season. He is nowhere near as busy as he used to be when he used to run the business, but he still does our families yards and after a couple crazy storms, cleaning up has been a big job! Kailyn amazes me everyday. She has days when she is an attitude filled, hormone crazed acting, mouthy diva, and other days where she is my sweet, helpful baby girl. She is SO smart and is an excellent reader with a very vivid imagination. She is positive she has the entire world figured out. Ah, to be innocent again. For example, this past Monday, we were watching Dancing with the Stars. Lil' Romeo and Chelsea Heightower were about to dance when Kailyn says, "Her name should be Juliet." I said, "Yeah, that would be cool, huh?" To which she responds, "Taylor Swift's song 'Love Story' must be really popular, did you know they made a book AND a movie about Romeo and Juliet?" I said, "Oh, honey, Romeo and Juliet has been around for a very long time, that story was written by William Shakespeare". She was floored that Taylor Swift was not the orignal author.

People, I am so glad you stick with me, even though I don't blog like I should. I don't want to promise I'll get better, because I probably won't keep that. I always feel like my stories just aren't very interesting or exciting! I used to be a pretty good story writer in high school, maybe I'll just start making stuff up ;)

I certainly hope you're enjoying this weather before the rain sets in and the temperature drops! Have a great week!