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lmccandless

lmccandless

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Another week is here! What do you have planned?

It's crazy hot here (like 105-110) so we are stuck inside. I am going to make the girls clean their closets with me...so fun. LOL Then, I think we need to plan some play dates to survive this week. On the Pad front, all of our fall plans are kicking into high gear. It's going to be really exciting around here over the next few months. :)
 
It's the last week of winter vacations here so I have to plan something fun for the boys before school starts on the 30th. Other than that I will just work work and work!! :)
 
Lane is gone for his mission trip in Mongolia *sniff*, so I'm going to try to get his room cleaned this week. 16 year old boys are so disgusting!
Other than that, I'll be finishing up the challenges here and trying to scrap what pictures are trickling in from Lane. :)
 
Mark has the week off, normally we go to WI for the annual Greenwood family reunion, but this year we decided to stay home and work on the remodeling... so my job this week is to keep the kids out of the way... but we're planning on doing some fun staycation stuff too just so Mark doesn't get too overwhelmed with working on the kitchen and can enjoy his week off a bit. So, I think we'll be heading to the zoo with my brother and his family since my brother has off too. We might head out to visit with Laura and the girls this week too if it works out. Also, I'm starting my second week on My Fitness Pal and recording my calories and workouts and we've been having fun as a family getting fit. Moriah is learning how to ride a two-wheeler and so I take the boys in the double jogger and Mark helps her on her bike... we're hoping she'll be confident by the end of the week so that I can take them all w/o Mark when he goes back to work :)
 
i suppose i SHOULD probably try to set some general goals for the week, right?

i have a MESSY house now that my kids are back from vacation with Grandma & Grandpa. So that needs to be cleaned.

i have paint supplies EVERYWHERE in the front 2 rooms, so maybe i should tackle painting.

and hubby and i are starting up a fresh round of p90x, starting today. although i have had a stiff neck for the past 3 days, so i'm not sure how far i'll be able to get with it until that subsides... but i'll try.
 
I have a chiro appt Wednesday, and Friday we're going to see my sister in Green Bay {staying til Sunday}. :)
 
Today is all about the cleaning because I have a college friend coming into town tomorrow with her kids. We're going to cookout tomorrow night, and then spend all day Wednesday with them. I haven't seen her since I was pregnant with DD (so about 11.5 years ago and I've not met her kids). We'll say goodbye to them either Wed. night or Thurs. morning and then DH is scheduled off on Thursday (for now at least) so we may try to do something fun as a family...not sure what yet though. It may just be playing games or watching a movie.
 
The Heat continues to drain every ounce of strength so this week is another scorcher. We'll be 100-105 all week with heat indexes up to 110-115! O.M.G.! Mother Nature is not liking us very much this summer and we need rain like something fierce. (Of course, last year we had way too much and begged for dry weather......so.....here it is! Guess you do get what you ask for! LOL)

So, with that said.....we're staying indoors as much as possible. Our pool is taking a nose dive and we're having an issue with getting it all balanced. It's literally turning green no matter what we put in it. And with this heat it kinda feels like bath water more than a cool down. Also, I have to get laundry done since we had 6 grandkids over this weekend and I didn't get anything done. And I will be going through clothes in the house and making one heckuva donation. I think I may have close to 6 full bags of clothes and by bags I mean big, 30-gal bags! I guess if we have that much then we are truly blessed to have the money and means to purchase so much.

Next weekend is our big, biker charity event that we run each summer. Of course, the heat is not going to help bring too many out but we'll take what we can get. So, DH & I have alot going on this week in the evenings to get the weekend prepared for all the fun activities.

Hope everyone takes it easy in this summer heat and has a great week! :)
 
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Hi everyone!!! :ballonhang crazy time at Spain too (105-110º) we can't doing anything :stars I have tried to scrap the a bit but the heat beat me, I'm working on two traditional layouts, a new blog and placing all the digital files on my external hard drive... everything in slowwwwwwww mode :giggle

a greeting for all the pad! :beat
 
I am hoping for a pretty uneventful week! The kids have VBS at our campground resort where we are living now, so we plan to stay put most the week for that except Thur. and Fri. when I work. My hubby is heading to the U.P. with a bunch of guys, so that always makes it more quiet as well! And another hot week here as well - sounds like most of the States are unusually hot this summer - WOW!
 
My son gets back from his two week hiking trip to New Mexico on Thursday night late. So, I'll finally have someone to talk to other than the pets! I'm excited to hear about his trip and to see what photos he has that I can scrap. I'm lucky that my boss went on the trip too with his son and will share Nikon photos with me! The scenery is bound to be gorgeous!

And I'm excited for the opening ceremonies on Friday night. My family are Olympics junkies and will watch coverage (whatever is on) anytime we're home for the duration.
 
Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

This week I'm settling back in to normalcy after a week away and gearing up for school which starts in nearly two weeks (!). So it's errands and laundry and worksheets and planning and such. And then I'm hoping to really get some good designing time too!
 
Work, pool, swimming lessons, and the highlight will be babysitting my niece! I don't get her very often, so I'm super excited! I'm going to do a photo shoot :)

And we got all of our homeschool materials in the mail last week, so I have literally 15-20 boxes of books and stuff to go through, label, read teachers manuals, etc. So fun!! I love getting read for school stuff :)
 
well, I just added the Rachel Young chat to my To Do list, and
have 3 July challenges left to do, and a new DigiDare this week too
:hummm I think the handyman is supposed to come this week,
to start a few projects, I'd better call him...

and I'm hoping to make some fried green tomatoes this week :thumbsups

hope ya'll are having a great day!
 
bleh. well i spent some time at urgent care this morning... I'm freaked out about my back/kidney. They were pretty useless.. I did manage to get them to run the whole renal panel, and they did the standard pee check etc. He wasn't sure if they should do a cat scan or not so told me to just talk to my dr. This is pretty much what everyone does bc my situation is all "complicated" pass me off to the next doctor :p

I didn't even get more pain meds so i'm just laying here miserable till they figure out if it's my BACK or my Kidney exploding again :[ la is not a happy camper.
 
ooh we had nice weather today too,i think summer may of finally arrives,done some washing some chilling in the garden some reading and of course went to work
 
Not much here. Had to reschedule Monkey's dentist appointment for next month, so that's off the schedule now. It's still too hot to do anything outside, so we just go to work/daycare, come home, eat dinner, hang out, get ready for bed, scrap/clean/hang out sans kids, sleep, and repeat.

I'm excited that it will be August soon, though! Lots of fun stuff going on that month.
 
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bleh. well i spent some time at urgent care this morning... I'm freaked out about my back/kidney. They were pretty useless.. I did manage to get them to run the whole renal panel, and they did the standard pee check etc. He wasn't sure if they should do a cat scan or not so told me to just talk to my dr. This is pretty much what everyone does bc my situation is all "complicated" pass me off to the next doctor :p

I didn't even get more pain meds so i'm just laying here miserable till they figure out if it's my BACK or my Kidney exploding again :[ la is not a happy camper.
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Oh La, :( that's soooo frustrating... I hope they figure it out quickly for you so you can get some relief
 
Oh La... feel better! And I hope you get some answers (good answers!) soon!!

I told my 12 year old that after he finished reading the Lord of the Ring books then we would have a movie marathon. He finished the last book yesterday so I dropped the littles all off at my mom's this morning and he and I have been watching the movies ever since. About half way through #2 right now (and that'll probably be all we have time for today). The rest of the week is busy busy busy - trying to cram in as much as we can during these last two weeks of summer!
 
We have a whole lotta nothing going on. Yay! :) The only exciting thing, and it's super exciting, is that my hubby bought a new Jeep on Saturday and he's eagerly awaiting it's arrival. It could be tomorrow, weds or thursday. The waiting might kill him. LOL
 
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