"yummy, green trees are good!"

one of my new year resolutions was to put more vegetables on the table for dinner.

up to this year the only vegetable my boys would eat were green beans.

i know, i know shame on me!

i don't like many vegetables myself & my thinking is "why even buy them if i won't even eat it?!?!

last year i changed... a little! remember i made & tried chili for the first time & like it?!?!

so friday night we had a nice dinner of grilling out & eating some vegetables that kaden actually tried & liked!

this is a HUGE deal! the boy is extremely picky... nothing but meat on his hamburgers, no kind of sauces, no rice or pasta... sounds a lot like me when i was younger! (my mom is thinking... payback time!!!)

so i've learned my lesson... put new things out there on the table & one day they may actually eat it & like it.

just wondering now... does the same work for cleaning up the playroom? if i keep saying it will it eventually sink in & he will remember without me having to tell him???

perfect day...

my thursday looked like this:

my mother-in-law gave me a few more garnier fructis style coupons so i hit the closet walgreens & bought 5 more of their products. walked out of the store paying ZERO $$$!!!! love that!!!

then heading over to old navy. didn't find what i was looking for (jeans for the boy who thinks sliding into a room is the way to enter & has holes in every pair of jeans!) but i did find these - for $3.50 a pair.

it was BEAUTIFUL outside so we went to the park for a little while (the little girl in the picture is my niece)

then we headed home to clean up. we had long time friends, (college friends) coming over for dinner. it was such a fun night catching up.
its now friday... yea! another nice day here - close to 70, so we are having a family work day outside after kaden gets home from school... putting those boys to work!!! teaching them young!!! ha

fianlly... i can post pictures!!

not sure what happened...

i have pictures to post from the basketball game last night.

it won't let me.

i've tried & tried & tried like ten more times.

it still won't let me.

i have to give up now... fix dinner for the boys, get dressed & go to church.

and i doubt i will try after that - i'm usually ready for bed after a youth service.

so check back tomorrow.

sorry about such a lame post today... :)

osu cowboys!

a nice family (thanks peri!) gave us 4 osu basketball tickets for last nights game.

we went up there with chad's brother & his family, who have osu season tickets... HUGE fans they are!

we ate at a hole-in-the-wall place. why is it that such small & run down places make such good food?!?!

it was a fun night.... being with family, good food & they won!!!

are you ready for this....

12 garnier fructis styles products for $1.40!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it was a high leaving the store - i was super pumped!

how did i do this you might ask?

well, walgreens has it on sale for $2.99

then they have a walgreens coupon for $2.00 off

i then had coupons from the sunday paper & ones that i got from church in the coupon box we have there

gave the lady everything & all i had to pay was tax!

CLEVER BOYS...

while on the phone yesterday... in the closet were i go so i can actually talk, listen & have a conversation without being interupted... anybody else do that?!?!

i come out & this is what i find...

my boys had gotten every pillow off my bed, from the living room, their room & the dog pillow (the big tan thing on top - that is what the teenagers call it even though we have no dog!)

they stacked them just right & then the fun began!

i'm glad no one got hurt & i had a nice long conversation, too! ha

smell that???

i smell something familiar & it takes me back to that time, location, what i was wearing, doing. its crazy.

anybody else like this???

let me explain a little more in detail...

i was the winner of a $30 gift card to victoria secrets last month at a christmas party with some friends.

my husband is thinking yes!

i thinking yes, too! but only because i have been wanting some lotion & shower gel from there.

i used it back in my college days, honeymoon, & first few years of marriage.

in the store i smelled "love spell" first (the purple one) & in just a few quick seconds my mind raced with memories that took me back to the warm beach, miami airport, gay week (ha ha), first trip alone with my husband, key lime pie, hard rock cafe, hand in hand walks on the beach, great view, sunrises & sunsets, good food, renting bikes, swimming, riding sea doe's in the ocean... my honeymoon in the keys.

and i think to myself... got to get this one!!!

i smell a few more before i found "amber romance" (yellow) and this took me back to my first year in college... living in a dorm, trying to find out who i was, being very homesick, college classes, homework, making new friends - some great ones & then some not so great ones. i decided i had to get that scent as well.

i had a few more dollars to spend & a decision had to be made to what i would get... something new. so i got "sweet daydream" (pink)

i am hoping that in a few years i will go into victoria secrets & pick up the sweet daydream bottle of lotion & my mind will flood with memories from today, from this time in my life, the happiness of my boys, their smiles & laughs, being so in love with chad, not regretting anything... living life FULL!!!