I can do a blog, I have thoughts! Right?

OK, so I saw that on a movie trailor and had to ponder it for a second. Then suddenly felt like a moron, then thought, oh well, what the heck! I have no idea if anyone has ever looked at this blog, and quite frankly I am still honing my blogging skills, so not really sure if I want anyone studying it quite yet. BECAUSE I have an interesting life, dang it!! I really wish I would think of heading to the computer to make a post when funny things happen. I finally get here and am a little tired, maybe a little brain fried and don't post all I could have. So, re-cap of the day and then some CO pics!! Yay. It's summer time. Good 'ol summer time. I had a light bulb moment this morning at 10:13 a.m. when I finally decided to get up. The light bulb said, girlfriend, you are taking the summer sleep in a bit far. I really hate to sleep in THAT late. I mean 8:30 or so should be plenty, considering we must rise and shine at 6:40 sharp everyday of the year. That gives JW exactly 9.2 minutes to get from sound asleep to out the door. We have it perfected to an art. I fix his lunch, YES I fix his lunch everyday. This amazes many folks, but I couldn't imagine telling him, I know you are going out to risk your life to work on heavy equipment at oil rigs, feedyards, and landfills to give us this fabulous life, so I can sell real estate strictly as a hobby, I know you are doing that, but I can't spare 4 minutes to make you a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich because I have some serious sleeping to do? Are you kidding me? I would never, not get up and do it. So that aside, I went back to bed today. I have a crucial decision to make at approximately 6:53, back to bed or not back to bed. I do have Gevalia Blueberry Creme flavored coffee and it is absolutely fab. It did get me in the kitchen for several days after I got it, but even the newness of bb creme has worn off a bit. So, back to bed I went and so groggy I felt all day. Being that I started this post and am now back to finish it, not really sure where I was going with all that, but hoping it was an interesting place. Since then, I have successfully infected our desktop computer with a nasty virus and now have to take it to Cat Man Du, drop about $200, and return home to download pics so I can post some from our CO trip. So, wipe away the tears. I am going to try to get the pics posted from the laptop.

Crunch Time.

Well, leaving for Fun Valley approximately 39 hours. Which would not be any huge deal except for the fact that I decided to COMPLETELY re-do the inside of my little camper. The whole deal, painted cabinets, put on new hardware, painted some old hardware, painted the table, made new curtains, and now all I have left is painting walls. The flooring people are coming Thursday morning, so I 've got until then to get it done. On top of all this, I picked up two new real estate clients at my open house Sunday! Exciting, busy times!

OK, so has anyone had to clean up poop on a little girl with tummy bug at 2:32 a.m.? Taylor had an upset tummy and didn't quite make it, BUT we have it all under control at this point. Nothing a hotwater load in the wash and a little clorox spray won't fix! I needed to do laundry for our outing this weekend anyway, right?? Besides all thought, caught a great episode of "It's Me or the Dog" and "How Clean is your House?" in the wee hours of the morning.
Peyton and Taylor spent the night last night and are spending the day with us today, woo hoo! They are all playing like little angels in the living room while watching Sponge Bob. Chase has outgrown Sponge Bob, so it has been nice to see him again. I forgot how dumb and funny he is at the same time. I will try to post while in the mountains if I can manage to get logged in from JW's laptop. Also going to post some pics of my newly updated 1972 Twinkle travel trailer. We had not hauled except for one time early last summer, so it was so dirty. I have had to pull everthing out and wash everything. Also had a lot of stuff I had put in when we first got it, thinking I would need and havent' touched. Now, you must understand, this is a 14 foot camper. It is little. We love it and it is perfect for us. When both of the beds are made out, you have nowhere to set anything, other than the kitchen counter top, which isn't much, and of course there is a little closet. I learned very quickly that you take the essentials and nothing else. Sunscreen, bugspray, flashlight, t.p., it is similar to tent camping, except about 10,000 times better. All the fun stuff of tent camping and then a little house to crawl into when you need to potty, wash hands, take a nap, or make a sandwich. I love to sit at the little table in the morning, brew some coffee in my tiny coffee pot, and THEN go out by the campfire. I am really looking forward to this trip because Rene and Shannon, Nicole, Tracy and Chris, and Carter, Grandma, Kim, Penny, Betsi and Kemp, I think, and of course JW, Chase and I are all going! Nothing like a good 'ol family campout. We tell many funny stories from Fun Valley, family campouts from the past. These also happen to be my favorite vacations to do a scrap layout on! We haven't taken a vacay with JW's fam in years and this will be the first ever with Tracy and Chris! More to come on the Steelman's Southeastern Colorado Excursion!!

Eavesdropping on little boys.

I mean, it is completely impossible to resist the urge to listen to their little conversations. Little men, finding their place, exploring their desires and passions and instincts, of course. Josh, Tanner, and Chase are explaining to eachother the definition of a lie. OK, mamas, this is where it shows if you dropped the ball or knocked it out of the park. I love it being the kool aid mom!

I am trying to get motivated to do another section of painting the camper cabinets black and then distressing them. It is hot today. I have a very nice barn, for which I am very thankful, so it makes it much better. I will post pics in a bit.

Woooohoooo!!

A new post in just a little over a week, can it be??? OK, pics. South TX, water skiing and lakein' it. Lake Bastrop and Lake Somerville are hot like coffee, just in case anyone is wondering. Very murky, green, but fun! What lake isn't fun?? We had such a great time with MeMe and Pepaw, who are my dad and stepmom, neice Abbie and neice Bryley. JW got to water ski for the first time. He was a natural! I got to ski for the first time in about 7 years. Just like riding a bike. Nothing to it. (Yah right, we were sore for 3 days, but we did it!!)