Bryan has a blonde moment

Me: Amber, we just bought this case of Sprite yesterday and there's only 4 left.
Amber: BRYAN!! You drank 8 sodas since yesterday?!?!?
Bryan: NO! I ONLY HAD FIVE!
Me: I had 2
Amber: I had 1
Me:There are 4 left
Bryan (redoing the math outloud to amber): Amy had 2, you had 1, I had 5, there's 4 left-How many are in a 12 pack?

Girls don't have weenies...

Yesterday was a pretty comical day-great for a blogger!!

I picked alivia up from the babysitters yesterday and she was wet so the sitter wanted to change her before we left, she laid her down on the changing table and one of the little boys went up to the table and proclaimed "Girls don't have weenies" I about died laughing!!!

I laid alivia down for a nap last night and she fussed a little and then got quiet and a few minutes later she was screaming. I walked back in there to get her and as I'm walking through her room-which by the way is pitch black at 5:30 at night all of a sudden I trip over something-it was alivia-she had gotten out of her bed. Not sure how yet-she was still there this morning! Needless to say, I have been shopping for bed rails online today. I'm really not ready for this yet-she's only 16 months old!! Her bed turns into a daybed so at least I don't have to go bed shopping! Geez....

Then, last night, Mindy and Lilly came over to hang out for a little bit. It was about 8:15 (We were watching Dog, The Bounty Hunter-very important stuff! Lilly said to Mindy "Mommy, when can we go home" Mindy said "In 15 minutes" Lilly says "Mommy, that's a half an hour" We all cracked up!!

The possessed alarm clock

Two years ago my aunt jill had rob's name for xmas. She asked me what she could get him, I told her that we had an alarm clock that would go off every single day whether it was set or not. So I told her to get him a new one and she did. Well, that one does the same thing. I guess it's not such a bad thing because you don't have to think about setting it-it will go off whether the set alarm button is switched to on or off. So I started to wonder-does this thing go off even when we are out of town? We've never come home to it going off. Now that would be REALLY weird. I asked amber and bryan last night and they said that it does go off when we're not home. So there goes that theory. Am I the only one that this has happened to?!?!? Two alarm clocks in a row with minds of their own-very strange.....

Good Suprise

I've been telling Rob for 2 years that I want new living room furniture, since we had the money from the car and with christmas coming up I had really been on a kick. I told him I wanted new furniture for xmas. He kept saying we needed to wait until after xmas and whatever else. Basically he was picking a fight with me everyday about the stupid furniture.

I came home from bowling last thursday night and I had new furniture in my living room!!!! He had gone with my sister and bought the furniture that I had picked out, he picked it up and set it up while I was at bowling. I seriously couldn't believe it!!! He's NEVER done anything like that. The only problem is that this furniture is so huge and comfy that I just want to lay on it and I didn't get too much done over the weekend!! There aren't too many people that are able to pull one over on me. I'm so nosey and I usually figure things like this out but I had NO IDEA!! It was a great suprise.

On another note, I got my new car on Friday, I really like it and I broke it in this morning by getting a speeding ticket! I was running late (as usual) and I got pulled over. Oh Well.

Happy Turkey Day Everyone!!!

Calgon, Take me Away.....

Last night started out like many others, I made dinner, started some laundry, unloaded/loaded the dishwasher. Bryan came home and had a headache, I went searching through my hall closet that contains everything but the kitchen sink looking for tylenol-I couldn't find it but decided then would be a great time to clean it out-it had been awhile. The evening went downhill from there. I did get the closet cleaned out-never did find the tylenol. Amber decided that she was going to do some touchup paint on the bathroom and then decided that she wasn't in the mood for it. Alivia was being very difficult all evening then amber and bryan started fighting-it was not a good night. So alivia and I went to my room and stayed in there the rest of the evening, when I finally got her to lay down I took a bath and read a book-I've never done that before-it was pretty relaxing. When Rob got home I told him that I had a bad evening and he needed to give me a massage!! He agreed!!

I had to have another talk with my babysitter this morning. Most nights Alivia will not eat dinner, I kinda figured that it was because the babysitter feeds her breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. I had to tell her not to give her an afternoon snack because I would like her to eat dinner with us instead of running around like a maniac while we are eating because she isn't hungry. Then I had to tell her not to give Alivia Kool-aid all day. She said she usually doesn't but I think her behavior in the evening proves different. I can only hope that the day gets better.

I'm taking tomorrow off to try to relax a little. It probably won't happen though because I have a cable guy coming and I won an auction on a company car so I have to deal with that tomorrow. Geez.............I need a clone-good thing that bill passed ;)

My sister, the politician

Amber got home from work at about 6:00 tuesday night and we were sitting down eating dinner and here was our conversation:

Bryan:Amber hurry up and eat so we can go vote
Amber: VOTE?!?!?
Bryan: Yea, I feel like I really want to vote
Amber: Where do you have to go?
Me:Just up to the library on Kisker, you better hurry though, you only have until 7
Bryan:I bet it's packed
Amber: (looks up from her dinner and pauses) I swear to god I just said to myself when I was coming home "Why is the library so packed on a tuesday night, what a bunch of losers, who hangs out at the library on a tuesday?"

Me and Bryan just shook our heads at her

Worst Babysitter EVER!!

I bowl every other sunday so Rob gets to "babysit" while I bowl. I come home last night and this is our conversation:

Me: How was liv?
Rob:Good, we were playing and watching football and I just layed her down about 15 minutes ago
Me:What did she have for dinner?
Rob: (giving me the deer in headlights look) I thought you fed her before you left!!!
Me:No, that's why I said-she will need dinner before I left
Rob:Well she didn't tell me that she was hungry.
Me:Did you give her a bath?
Rob: um-no she didn't tell me that she wanted a bath-we just played all night
Me:did you at least change her diaper?!?!?
Rob:YES
Me:did you put jammies on her?
Rob:no, just sweatpants because she was hot

I think she heard our conversation because I heard her from her room so I went in and got her and fed her and put jammies on her and put her back in bed. I said to her "I can't wait till you can talk and tell daddy how to take care of you" and then I said to rob "From now on, when you watch her, no matter what, you need to give her a bath" He said "Sure, but only if she wants to"

Lord help me!!!

Too much information...

I'm sitting at the bowling alley last night eating the best cheeseburger EVER!! I am minding my own business when a woman comes up to me and says "There's nothing worse than the first day of that time of the month"
Are you serious-did you really just say that as I sit here and MIND MY OWN BUSINESS AND EAT DINNER?!?!?

So I reply" Well, I've been very fortunate in that department" then I think to my self WHY DID I JUST RESPOND TO THAT COMMENT?!?!
So she continues "I've been telling my gynecologist for years to make it stop-I'm over fifty just make it stop"
By now I wise up" Yep"

then she went away...dinner was ruined forever!!

Happy Halloween!!

Random Conversation in my house...

Rob: Am, Where's my cardinals jacket?
Me: Downstairs, I think it's dirty
Rob: Honey, you need to make sure that jacket is clean whenever carpentar is pitching!
Amber: It's been down there for a week-you just now noticed?
Rob:Why do you always need to put your two cents in?
Amber:Ok-Sorry (The ONLY reason she apologized is because this was about the 3rd time she had throw her two cents in on one of our conversations last night!)
Rob: You just always have to say something don't ya? (still talking to amber)
Amber: You better be nice to me or I will eat ALL OF YOUR COOKIES while you are at bowling.
Rob: You better not touch my f*ck*ng cookies or I will break your neck!

funny...

Update to accident

So, they are totalling my car-i'm very excited. They offered me $12,500. It was all I could do not to shout "YES!!!" We paid 8,100 for the car last month. So now I have to buy another car-trouble is, I have NO IDEA what I want. There aren't any cars right now that I HAVE TO HAVE. I'm going today to get the lincoln registered (didn't have time to do that!) so I can get the title in my name so I can get my money!! I hope they don't give me any crap!

Crazy week

Last Saturday night I went to wineries with some friends for our bdays. We had a nice time. After the bus dropped us off, I picked alivia up, got some jack in the box and then totalled my car! An 84 year old man came across the intersection at independence rd and hwy 94. I smashed into him going about 50. Alivia and I are both doing ok but the car might be totalled! Sunday was my birthday-we went to the boat for brunch-favorite new thing to do!! Then we went to the pumpkin patch in Illinois and Rob and I went to dinner at the melting pot. It was very nice. I am off today because Alivia had a Dr appt for her 15 month check up. She is doing great. She weighed 22 pounds and 3 ounces. She had to get two shots and then she had to get blood drawn-she was not happy!! We went to the bank, postoffice, taco bell, dr office and target today. We also went to take these pictures of the car. You can't really tell from the pictures but both airbags went off and broke the windshield and the sunroof is not exactly in tact!!

I feel so productive today-I might even get to put a dent in my laundry!!

Mouse in the house part two

Here is the card that amber got me for my birthday-she's not right!

Mouse in the House

Rob and I are laying in bed last night at 11:00 when I hear a knock on our door-I say come in

Amber:Can you wake rob up?
me:why?
Amber: There's a mouse downstairs
me: ok so kill it
Amber: Rob needs to kill it, we don't know what to do
me: have bryan kill it, rob has to get up at 5 in the morning
Amber: But Amy, (whispering) "There's a mouse in your house"
me- (cracking up)
Amber-ROB WAKE UP AND KILL THE MOUSE
me-get out of my room

so i lay there a few more minutes and hear banging downstairs-i go down there and amber is standing on the couch, apparantly the mouse had run into a closet so bryan was standing in the doorway of the closet with a budlight bucket i guess he thought he was going to catch it-then we all see the mouse scurry out of the closet so then i jump as fast as i can over the side of the couch to join amber! they both cracked up-i look over and amber had put a towel under the door of the bedroom that brayden was in because she didn't want the mouse to get brayden-i told her i didn't think the mouse would be scaling up brayden's bed to attack him-i stayed down there a few more minutes and then went to bed-i heard bugs (their cat) run as fast as he could up the stairs at about 6 this morning so i don't know if he saw the mouse again or not- there's never a dull moment in our house!!

The Chaos that is my life....

So, Amber and Bryan are moving back in with us and somehow that involved me cleaning out my basement! I really needed to though-the only bad thing now is that I really need to have a garage sale and it's October. Oh Well. Also now my bathroom is under construction (amber didn't like the decor) that's also fine-I was ready for a change-we went to walmart the other night and spent $100 on duck decorations! They also painted the room that they will be "living" in and have now decided that they want to paint the living room downstairs-also ok with me-because they are doing all of the painting-i'm not much of a painter-keep your comments to yourself please :) So they slept there last night for the first time as well as bryan's brother.

I recently moved my office at work from 40 & mason to clayton. And, on oct 30 I will be moving it again to St.Peters-long story. So I have been dealing with that too. OH-I now have myspace. www.myspace.com/aliviawhitehouse
I was putting off doing it but I found a bunch of people on there that I went to school with so I though I would get on there so they could find me too.
That's all I have for now-as if that isn't enough!!

These are some pictures from the Oktoberfest last weekend

I love technology

I love technology!

I love technology. I took this picture last night with my cell phone and just sent it to my blog-how weird. Anyway this is a picture of my monkey (daughter) alivia. She climbed into this position all by herself

What did you say to me?!

I swear my mother runs across some of the weirdest people. Here are some of her stories:

A few years ago her and my dad were at a concert at riverport and I guess there were some kids behind them being obnoxious. Someone said something to the kids about the way they were acting and the kid responded with
"Why don't you go throw up on yourself or something" Everytime they tell that story we all crack up laughing.

A few months ago my mom went to a gas station near her house to get some coffee-nothing else. She went up to pay and the kid that was working there had a button on that said "If I don't offer you the rain-x carwash-it's yours for free" or something like that. So he rings up her coffee and says see ya later. She then says "You didn't offer me the carwash-so I get it for free right?" He says to her "Well, ugh, I didn't know that you were going to pay with a dollar" Not really sure what he meant by that but she got the free carwash. Those are like $14!!

Last night she went to Jack in the Box and ordered some ice tea (They have THE BEST ICE TEA-I'M DRINKING SOME RIGHT NOW!!) Anyway-they handed her the tea and said "Would you like any cream or sugar with that?" She said "Um, no thanks"

geez!!

Mall Rats

Amber, Bryan, Brayden, Alivia and I went out to dinner and to the mall last friday night. Not sure why we thought that would be a good idea to go to the mall on a friday night. Anyway, Bryan was in a wedding on saturday and Amber needed something to wear (as usual!). So we walk into the mall and it's much worse than I expected. There were LOTS and LOTS of teenagers with black clothes and bad haircuts walking around. There were a few girls walking around with those stupid child development baby dolls AT THE MALL, one of the girls actually had her fake baby in a STROLLER!!!! Amber says "When I had that doll it spent the week in the trunk of my car" Nice-luckily her real mother skills are better than that!!

So Bryan and I are about done with the mall and Amber wants to go back and look at a shirt she saw. Outside of this store were a few couches and a few chairs. Bryan walked over and sat down and I followed him. Next thing we know about 6 of these punk kids came running over and were laying on the couches and about 3 of them were sitting in one chair. They were wrestling around and dropped their overly large can of jolt. It spilled all over the floor and they thought it was hilarious. As people were walking by one kid (that looked like a girl) was asking people to give him money to lick the jolt off of the floor. He didn't get any takers. I looked over at Bryan and said "Hey, Bryan, do you have a dollar?" He grinned and said "Yea" so he reached into his pocket and said "Hey, I'll give you a dollar to lick that off of the floor" So the kid went over and PULLED HIS HAIR BACK and licked away. He then came running over to Bryan for his prize. Then another kid said "Hey, I'll...I'll, Um, I'll snort it through my nose for a dollar" So Bryan said "Ok" Then he did. Bryan paid him off too. The kid kept sniffling and his nose was bright red. It was cheap entertainment for a few minutes.

I forgot to mention that when amber was trying on something she came out of the dressing room without a shirt on-she forgot to put one on-I was outside the store when it happened but I thought that was pretty funny!!

Everyone loves a blue eyed girl!