Hunting eggs...or sticks

Last Sunday our church had their annual Easter Egg Hunt. There were a few differences from last year and this year. Last year was warm and Hoss was much smaller.

Case in point:


This year it was freezing and Hoss has grown a bit.


However, the interest in hunting for eggs has not changed. Hoss would much rather do something else, like, oh play with some sticks!




He is definitely a boy. There is no doubt about that!

And the prize is....

Just a quick announcement to let you know I have decided on the prize for the Bloggy Basketball Bonanza.

I will be giving away a $20 Dicks Sporting Goods gift certificate to the winner. So, get to picking your teams.

Good Luck!

Bloggy Basketball Bonanza

Are you ready for some fun??

I've decided to go ahead and plunge in with the NCAA basketball bracket fun. If you are interested in participating, click here to sign up. You do not have to be a blogger to participate, just a basketball fan. Ok, you don't even need to be a basketball fan, just someone who is ready for a good competition!

If you need to enter a password, it is dontgivehim

Good Luck to all. And even if you don't know a darn thing about basketball it's still fun to participate! I just like to pick the teams I have heard of!

There will be a prize for the winner. What the prize will be is a surprise. To you and me! :) I'll announce the prize tomorrow!

NCAA tourney bracket competition anyone?

So I tried this last year and no one wanted to participate. At least I assumed no one wanted to participate since no one said a word. I took the silence to mean that my blog readers at that time are not NCAA basketball fanatics.

Well, I thought I'd test the waters again. I will set up a NCAA online bracket for a fun competition if anyone in interested. We only have until Thursday at noon to do this so please comment quickly if you are interested. Or even if you are not interested.

If I think there will be a few people who want to participate then I will set it up. If not, then we'll be out of luck! :)

Happy St. Patty's day everyone! :)

6, 7, 8, 9, 3, 2, 1 GO!

This week left me in the dust! I have had several things on my brain to blog about, but life has stepped in and hasn't let me write. I even forgot about the Infomercial Extravaganza on Thursday! I'm sure you are all soooooooo upset about that! :)

On a different note, Hoss has been talking a lot more lately. He is cracking me up!

Last night as I was lying with him in his bed at bedtime he was repeating,

"Coz ur eyes. Way down. Go Seep. *Snore* *Snore* *Snore*"

Yes, my lovely child was making snoring noises. We have quite the commedian on our hands here.

At lunchtime today he was looking at his placemat and was telling me what all the numbers were. He would said, "6, 7, 8, 9, 3, 2, 1, GO!" Then, "6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 3, 17, 14, 1."

I didn't even know he knew numbers higher than 10. He's showing me.

He has also been saying his ABCs, but rather randomly. He'll often start with Q or D or a random letter. But don't sing along with him; he gets very angry. He needs his own spotlight.

So I got new clothes!

Yep! Brand new clothing! All for me!

This may not be a big deal to you, but to me it's huge! We have been on an extremely tight budget since Hoss was born (2 1/2 years ago). So tight I have probably only purchased myself 6 articles of clothing since his birth. Literally, 6. Five shirts and a pair of jeans, which ended up being way too big, but I kept them because I'm lazy like that.

I was in desperate need of new clothing. I was literally down to only 5 okay pairs of pants for work and a pair of jeans which would fall down if I walked (which is typically required of me in a day).

Since I do have a dress code at work to wear "business casual" I needed clothes to look professional. Having holes in my pants does not look too professional.

Thus, when our tax return came in and after we repaired the brakes on my car I went shopping. Online that is. (Hello, I work full-time and have a kiddo. When do I have time to actually go to the store and shop?)

I do try to be frugal, so it was a little difficult to spend money on myself, but I did it. And I'm so glad I did. If you are a plus size woman and need a change from the normal three stores which carry plus size women's clothing, check out Old Navy.com. They sell plus size clothing online only.

And I LOVE THEM!

I got these pants.

And these.

And these jeans!

Oh, and I had to get shoes. Really, I needed them, I have no sandals for the summer. So far I have only purchased one pair, from Payless for $9.99! (I actually went to the store and bought these.)

Hopefully it won't be another 2 1/2 years before I buy myself clothes again.

A Snow Day

Well, the forecast was right. It snowed! We have about 5-6 inches at our house. Early this morning Hoss and I went outside and played in the snow. At that time there was probably only 4 inches.

We don't have gloves for Hoss so he had to wear a pair of mine. He wasn't too keen on this idea and we had to make a couple changes while playing.

Hoss had little interest in doing anything except going down his slide. He immediately decided he needed to dust off the snow.

Eventually he was able to slide down.

And what fun it was!

And while I'm down here on the ground I better taste this snow.