i contradict myself...

so i have struggled with this my whole life..

some may call it lazy... Hippocritic.... weird...

but i call it me...

colleen...

i have never felt like i "fit in" to one specific category...

I'll take a bit from there... mix it with a bit form here and a pinch over there...

for instance how my life contradicts each other..

i love love love to go gather the eggs from my 15 little chickens...

and then come in and watch all the reality shows i can get my hands on,

on my 55inch hd flat screen!!!

or the fact that i love a clean organized house more than anything...

but on any given day of the week my house is a disaster...

clutter, dirty dishes, and laundry everywhere...

i guess my love for spending time with my hubby and relaxing takes over and knocks that neat freak away...

another thing is my weight....

i. am. over. weight........

i want to loose weight more than anything....

but do i really? cause i do nothing about it...

i hate the way i look... im uncomfortable... im not healthy....

but i do nothing about it....

that's the story of my life...

i don't do anything... ok that's not really completely true... i work 40 hours a week, i have friends, family and fun...

but im tired of putting things off.... im starting today, not a new years resolution,

just a new better life resolution...

im going to loose weight, keep a clean house, cook every day,

live... laugh... love!!!

life is toooooo short and im tired of always thinking about doing things and im gonna get up and do them...

like blogging, i love it... but the last time i blogged was almost 6 months ago!!!!

cmon colleen! get it together!!!

this is the start of something good...

i just know it!!!!

wish me luck!

babysitting and photoshoots!!

every other week i get to babysit kay fay...

i love that little girl alot and she is so easy and just a ball of fun!!!

so this week mom and i tried to have a photo shoot...

one last picture i had throw in was of mike and donny...

i love picnik and this picture just makes me laugh!!!!

life lately....

Well not much has been going on... but then again some stuff is going on...

like every other week i get the privilege of baby sitting

the cutest gal on earth...

Kaylee!!!

and some times donny gets home in time to hang out with

her and they watch a little tv...

don't tell her mom but they were watching

blazing saddles...

i also have a cousin that lives in ireland...

i have never met her...

but we are good friends...

thanks to the wonderful world of....

FACEBOOK!!!

we started a SWAP a couple of months ago and in her package to me she sent

me the BEST candy ever... MILKY MOOS...

and she is so sweet and sent me 3 extra bags!!!!

I'm so happy to have her in my life and hopefully one

day we will get to hang out in real life!!!!

i also started crafting.... i love making things and being crafty...

i saw these coffee filter wreaths on line and just had to make one...

i also put them for sale on my etsy account

http://www.ellisboutique.etsy.com...

cross your fingers that i will sell a million of them and be rich!!!!!

here is that sweet girl that i get to hang out with...

she is the sweetest baby every and im not just saying

that cause she is my niece....

seriously she never crys... she smiles all the time and she is just such a joy

im in love with her!!!!

i also made a loaf of grandma pegs brown bread....

this is almost like a desert when you put golden syrup on it!!!!

and last but not least.... my hubby gave me a small heart attack...

when he sent me this picture of him in the new rzr....

that looks wild... maybe he will join the X games...

we will have to wait to see!!!

and my birthday is tomorrow... I'm not sad about turning 27 but I'm

not excited either... I'm just OK with it...

but my family is planning a great dinner with build your own burritos and

banana pudding (instead of cake..)

so I'm sure that will be awesome!!!!!

hair bows...

Ok so a couple of weeks ago we went to my cousins house

to learn how to make bows...

i am obsessed with BIG bows for little girls...

so this is our first days creations...

so i love making bows so much i am going to start making and selling

the bows!!!!

i will be putting them on my etsy account very soon!!!!

www.ellisboutique.etsy.com

57 days old!!!!

Well its been 57 days....

seriously it seems like 24...

we just love that kaylee girl so much,

and we just cant imagine life with out her!!!!!

This is little momma smiling thru the pain...

Kathleen did such a great job and made child birth

look like a sunday picnic!!!

Auntie cc!!!

I love you little girl more than you will ever know!!!

First photo shoot... about 5 days old i think...

Kaylee just relaxing!!!

Her shirt said "my auntie loves me"

and she even stole uncle dd's heart!!!

shhh... dont tell mom and dad but auntie cc lets me watch cartoons!!!!

this time has flown by and i love that little chica more and more every day!!!

that baby needs a shower!!!

this weekend we had my little sisters baby shower!!!

its still so hard for my pea brain to grasp the fact that i am...

1. going to be an aunt!!!

(probally the best one there ever was to walk to face of the earth!!!)

2. that my baby sister is having a baby!!!

3. that our lives are going to drastically change (for the better) in less than a month!!!!

so we decided to SHOWER kathleen in oodles and oodles

of pink, frilly, too cute to handle baby "stuff"!!!

seriousally could this little prego get any cuter?!?!?!

um i think not!!!!

i love love love making cakes...

(oh and eating them too!!!)

so i was a very lucky duck to get to make this cute

pink and brown polka doted cake!!!!

we played games and one of them was "what a mess"

we had melted candy bars in the diapers!!!

it was such a hoot!!!

the boys even got in on it at the end of the party!!!

about me!

I love to "creep" blogs and i found this one!! its fun and lets you get to know me alittle!!!

enjoy reading about me!!

ABC Survey about ME

A. Age: 27.5
B. Bed size: king!! and i love it!
C. Chore you dislike: moping and sweeping...
D. Dogs: 1 maltishu "roxy" 1 bloodhound "sophie" 1 mutt "gracie"
E. Essential start to your day: snooze on the alarm...
F. Favorite color: PINK
G. Gold or silver: Silver
H. Height: 5' 4"
I. Instruments you play(ed): Piano...i never made it past the orange lesson book... and drums... i can totaly rock out to pretty fly for a whit guy by offspring!!!
J. Job title: Wife, sister, daughter, friend, clerk
K. Kids: nope not yet... all in gods time!
L. Live: In a little country town but wish it was in ireland!
M. Mom’s name: linda
N. Nicknames: in high school they called me colenna... some times... and my soon to be neice will call me CC and i cant wait!!!
O. Overnight hospital stays: none
P. Pet peeves: when someone is stupid!!!
Q. Quote from a movie: "theres no crying in baseball" i actually said that right after i was hit in the head with a softball!!
S. Siblings: 1 younger sister kathleen
T. Time you wake up: Usually around 7:00-7:30,
U. Underwear: Victoria Secret
V. Vegetables you don’t like: I LIKE THEM ALL!!
W. What makes you run late: over sleeping.. or waking up with a bad hair day!!
X. X-rays you’ve had: arm, nose , teeth
Y. Yummy food you make: cakes, italian!!!
Z. Zoo animal favorites: lions!

# 2... 5 days late!!

ok so i know i started this " blog every day" thing.... yeah i suck at that!! lol but i really am trying.. i have thought about blogging every day just never got around to sitting down to my dinosaur of a computer to actually blog!!

So a couple of days my good friend and i kinda thru a couple of old memories around on facebook... it really got me thinking about high school and my wonderful friends and all our wacky memories!! so thats what im gonna blog about today!!

i know most of you will not even remotly understand why we did the things we did or why we thought they were so funny and why thinking of them today still makes me laugh out loud... literaly...

so i dont exactly know who threw the "first punch" so to say in the toilet paper war... but i know that it started a tp'ing revolution!! my house seemed to get the "brunt" of the tp... but to back up... it was boys against girls.. like all good wars usually are!! so we went all the way out to cherry valley (i think) anyways it was all the way out to josh reeds house!!! in the middle of bfe! so were all out tp'ing our little hearts out, and all of the sudden adrienne screams and sais "there home!! i just saw a face in the window!!!" so we all freak out and run up this massive hill to get to our cars!! im driving this sweet malibu... for some reason i started driving off and poor michelle torres was still trying to get in the car so that was so funny her jumping in and me driving off... and now the kicker is that josh reed wasnt home... adrienne just saw her reflection!!! another funny thing with the tp'ing was that my dad would get so mad!! he acted like it was a plague on our house to have toilet paper in our trees!!

also the night before prom we were all at amandas house and the boys tp'ed her house but also brought us an old bike and an old tire and some other junk... we also got in an orange throwing fight and an orange found its way into the neighbors pool... and they called the f***ing cops on us... (side note... we all think they were drug dealers! cars coming and going at all times of they day and night... we dont know fore sure, but were just sayin it was weird) so the cop shows up.. and age has her hair in the weirdest spaghetti rollers (prom is the next day) and her hood on... and he makes her take her hood off... i also think he was like 4 years older than us.. and was trying to be cool and flirt.. oh and he also called us his " peeps"

when we were at the store at 2 am buying massive amounts of tp... we stumbled upon easter grass... you know the kind that you put in the bottom of easter baskets,,, mainly blue and pink and green!! so it was after easter and the grass was on sale for .5 cents a bag!! well we couldn't pass up a super sale like that!! so i think we bought about $20.00 worth = around 400 bags of easter grass!!(and the stupid checker scanned each damn bag... she wouldnt take our word that we had 400 bags.. no she had to scan each one of them.. oh and she had a facial hair that would compeet with a mountian man!!!) now that we have all of this wonderful stuff what do we do with it?!?!? well on monday during bible class amanda adrienne and i, and maybe diane, we all need to go to the bathroom all at the same time and our teacher "heb" lets us all go!! well we didnt go to the bathroom we ran to the trunk of the car and got all 400 bags of easter grass and filled sarahs little car!!!!! it was so funny, im not sure how sarah loved it.. but we all had fun doing it!!

speaking of cars... we all had awesome rides!! age was the first to turn 16... she got a 67?!?! thunderbird!! it was blue.. the seatbelts didnt work.. and the gas gauge didnt work!! but it was hers and she was gonna drive us places!! so one day amanda and i "stole" more like borrowed her car and did some sweet doughnuts in the dirt field next to school... age also took us off roading in it thru the orange groves... and we quickly found out it didnt have shocks!! one day someone spilled a coffee in the seat, and ages solution was to cover it with a blanket.. that blanket rode in the car for like months!! but that car smelled like the best cup of coffee!!! age had to keep track of how many miles she went... because her gas gauge didnt work... well one day we were on the highest overpass... and i hear age say "oh shit" and i say what? and she said " i just ran out of gas..." so luckly we were at the top of the super tall overpass and we coast down to the bottom... to a call box... and the stupid lady on the other end wont let us call our moms they will only call a tow truck for us... so us 2 girls have to wait on the side of the 215 and wait for a trucker to come get us and haul us to a gas station!!! the next day my mom went out and bought me a cell phone!!! another one of ages vehicles was her dads big ass ford truck!!! that had a cb radio in it!!! we tried to talk to truckers on it but no one ever talked back to us.. we all had awesome names... i was big juggs... WE ALSO NAME THE TRUCK... myrtle!! after a street in laguna beach!! i think that was also the truck we were in when age went the wrong way down a ONE WAY street!! ahh good times..

we also had good times just sitting in the bed of amandas parents PICKUP... that i used as a wheel chair one night when i was a 700lb scottish person! no i was not drunk... just crazy...

we basically had the best 4 years a group of girls could ask for... yes we had our fights, and yes we had problems but looking back i dont remember any of that i just remember the good times!! like when the girls thru me a surprise luau birthday party! and for some reason we were all watching fast and furious and we told tyler that the movie was gay.. and he yelled at us that we were all lesbians... hahah that anger didnt last long cause then we went to cold stone!

all the millions of road trips we took for volleyball basketball and softball!!! priceless!!! making fun of a team mate and then having the volleyball smack me in the face !!! (karma is a bitch) thank you amanda for taking me over to get ice!!! running down the long hall way of the queen mary in our prom dresses!!! there are so many memories i cant remember them all right now... i just know i had the best friends ever!!! i love you girls and the memories we shared!!!

365 days!!!

ok i have seen on other blogs where they take the 365 days oath to blog every day!!! im biting the bullet and im going to commit!!! looking back over my blog i have captured so many great moments and in my long breaks of blogging i have missed great moments!! so i pledge to blog every day!!! im sure there will be days where i miss but im really going to make an effort!! ... starting tomorrow!!!

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