Weekend warrior!

  It's Monday and let me tell you that after this weekend, I'm totally welcoming this bad boy with opened arms. I think the last time I blogged was Wednesday and since then a whole lot of crazy has happened. By crazy I of course mean a lot of fun (and some not so fun), but mostly crazy awesome fun... naturally. This is my and my crazy life we're talking about here.
  I had the honor of attending my very first Pinterest party last week! It was A LOT of fun to be around the other wives, just enjoying each other's company and getting to know on another on a more personal basis. The awesome crafts and delicious pinterest inspired food/drinks didn't hurt either. I actually wound up making an absolutely ADORABLE twine and felt flower wreath for the front door.

Cute, right!? Right!

Not to mention, three other wives have husband's in ALS with Bryce and we all made plans to go dress shopping for their graduation! Can I get a woot? How about two woots? K thanks. My friends Ayshia also tasked me with making a head band to match her little girls flower girl dress for a wedding that she was in this weekend and it came out SOOOO much better than I thought it was going to, especially since it was my first flower head band. All in all the party was a great start to the week.
  Usually I leave the yard mowing and weeding eating to Bryce, not this week. This week I had an extra surge of energy and decided to help out my man meat and take the yard into my own hands. We have an old school manual lawn mower, no engine on it (Bryce says its better for the grass and I love me some pretty grass... #grownupproblems) Who else just laughed at me calling myself a grown up? Good, you should have. The whole having no engine thing makes it a little difficult to mow, but it also made for one great workout in the sun and to be honest, I'm looking a lot like Casper, so the sun was much needed. Blah blah blah, i mowed the yard, moved the 6 million yard toys that we have, weeded the yard and called it a day. I then hopped in the shower and when I got out, what did I discover? I discovered the Prairies outside mowing my front lawn and running the mower/weed eating my back yard. -_- Bryce forgot to tell them that he's home from deployment so they're still doing my yard work for me. Usually I'd be really pumped about having their awesome services, that day, I just laughed... and really hard. Go figure the one time I trust myself to mow the yard and NOT take any body parts off in the process, somebody else would come do it for me. Oh life, life you are so funny. Thanks life.

It looked so amazing and apparently the Bride loved it!

  My Friday started out bright and early with none other than a... DUN DUN DUN.... puking Emory. She woke up at about 3 am throwing up and it was all mostly down hill from there. I camped out on the floor next to her bed so that when I heard her about to get sick I could catch it in a puke bowl (....oh puke bowls) and all in all it was a miserable 6 hours. After a solid nap and lots of water, she was back to her normal self. You know... trying to ride the dog, bugging her big sister and running from room to room calling for her daddy. Even after almost 5 years of being a mom and 18 of being a big sister, I can't stand when little kids are sick. It makes me feel so helpless, but my girls make it a little easier on me by reassuring me that they're okay even while they're sick.
  Let's see, what else? OH! On Saturday the family and I (after Bryce got back from volunteering at an MS walk that morning... he's kind of awesome) went to my friend Madeline's house for a Bunco/Girls night and let me tell you blog readers, these crazy women that I have the privilege of calling friends are something else! Maddie's awesome husband grandpa Ray played bartender for the night and made us one hell of a drink called a "Sex on the Driveway" and I'm pretty sure it was concocted to make sure that a night of drinking those would wind up in just that way. Quite a few jell-o shots later and A LOT of laughs had, my whole body hurt from laughing. The next day it felt like I had done 6,000 sit ups and my face was sore from smiling. All in all, no Bunco got played, but that's okay. I wouldn't have changed anything about it. Bryce was really awesome that night too, he played babysitter to all of the kids in the basement and everyone was pretty impressed with him, including me. I don't know what I did to deserve somebody as awesome as him, but I'm really glad that I did. NOW, I'm just ready for the next "bunco" night and hopefully Madeline brings the jell-o shots again!

We're an elite bunch, we are. 

  Alright y'all I'm verging on this being a mini novel and there's a treadmill in my garage calling my name. 3 miles won't run itself and June 1st and that Dirty Girl Mud run is right around the corner! Our team is making our shirts now and bless my southern little heart, they're too precious!

  Here's to hoping this week is as eventful and goes as fast and last week did!
  Have an excellent day y'all!!

-Amanda

p.s.
  I'm starting to finally see some results in the working out area and let me say, it feels really good too :)

This just reminded me that I need toilet paper.

Rock me momma like a wagon wheel.

  It's Thursday and while I have no pictures to share (mainly because I'm iPad blogging again) and nothing of real importance to talk about, here I am. I've been missing my mom and dad and bratty little sisters more than ever lately, so we decided to go visit the next best thing this weekend, my moms twin sister and her amazeballs family! Holla at me y'all! I'm so excited, but not excited for the 20 degree weather difference in good ol' Michigan. Besides, this will hold me over until our vacation after our vacation to see my parents/pick up the girls.
  Today was pretty uneventful. It rained most of the day, which always makes for one sleepy momma and two restless little girls. Bryce the great, let me sleep in (mind you sleeping past 8 is a task for me that usually requires me waking up every 15 minutes and making myself go back to sleep until 9) and got up with the ladies. After that it was a pretty relaxed day. Chipotle was acquired by my amazing husband (I love him a lot today) and we went and picked out our flowers for our garden this year and quite a few fruits and vegetables. We're going to go with a raised flower garden this year, because our back yard garden from last year doesn't have the best soil in the world..... And I want an excuse to use pallets in my back yard. Legit, I know. I'm looking forward to getting our back yard back in order, because there are few things in life that I enjoy more than sitting back there around the fire pit with the family, roasting marshmallows and drinking an ice cold.... Water.
  Bryce starts ALS on Monday and I'm dreading it already, but I know he will do just fine. He's seriously one of the smartest people I know, so it should be a breeze. I just know it means long studying hours and not hanging out as much, but that's the price you pay for more responsibility I guess. So we're going to make the most of our family time this weekend and I'm going to see to it that he relaxes a little, since he hasn't been letting me do almost anything since he's been back. Karaoke and beers will be had. Along with lots of laughs and a couple of hangovers, but it'll be totally worth it!

Alright y'all, time to finish up taxes (procrastination at its finest) and do some sewing/packing for our weekend! Here's to one hell of an awesome weekend away from gloomy Ohio!

G'night y'all!

-She who must not be named (see what I did there?! I made it seem like I was voldemort! I'm so funny!)