Seriously, Read This!

http://www.naturalnews.com/032558_flu_shots_wear_off.html


This is the article for one of the "random headlines" I posted about yesterday. 

Passed Out

So, this is how I found Cullen the other day.  Asleep.  On the stairs as usual.  This kid is so taken with the staircase that he practically lives on them.  He takes legos and makes stairs out of them too!  And when I ask what he wants to do that day, he always replies with "stairs!".  What a nut!  Just one more reason to love him to bits!

Christmas Crafts

 Cullen looking sweet as usual!

 Grandma Kelley and grandkids

 Eden McFroo

 Such a pretty little girl!

 Asher very intent on what he is doing

 Tristan trying to get his paint just right.

 Jeremy and Froo

Chaser McFee

On December 17th we had Kelley Christmas!  One of the first things we did was some Christmas crafties!  They didn't really turn out but we learned some valuable information for next year! LOL!  We had a good time making them though!!  So much fun!!

Just Some Random News Headlines

Most of you know I am not real pro-vaccination.  I have and my kids have been vaccinated against things like polio and Diptheria.  I however REFUSE to be sold on this stupid flu shot!  And the chicken pox vaccine?!?!  Don't even get me started! People are such cattle...oh we'll do it because the government says it's good......has anyone seen our government lately!?!? Crap Almighty!!  Anyway, here are the random headlines:

CDC openly admits flu vaccines don’t work.

Merck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hilleman admits vaccines contain cancer-causing viruses

Swine flu vaccine admittedly causes neurological disorders

U.S. government recruits churches to push flu shots on congregation members

Eden and the Underware

Look, she's even cute with Buzz Lightyear undies on her head!!  She wore these for at least an hour around the house and since then she has done it again with any other underware she finds lying around.  Notice how she didn't quite get the band around her little head so they are just kinda balanced there! LOL!  She is definitely MY daughter!!!!

Cornflakes Rule!

Asher and I decided to make my favorite Christmas treat to leave on the plate for Santa Claus sometime last week!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the green cornflake wreaths!!!  I had a few leftover from the Kelley Girl Cookie Day but, they were pretty nasty at that point and my mother in laws recipe isn't quite my favorite so we definitely needed more!  Asher and I had a super time, just me and him!  He loved putting the food coloring in and watching the color swirl around!  And of course he HAD to stir!  We didn't make nearly enough because we all know that Santa can eat at least a couple of batches of these bad boys!!  Good time with my Asher!! 

Arbonne and Me!

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2 Fizzy tabs (citrus or pomagranate)
2 fit chews (chocolate)
2 herbal detox teas
1 daily fiber boost
1 feeling fit guide
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Thanks for all the support guys!! Hope everyone has a happy and prosperous new year!!

Can't Wait!

I can't wait!!!  Only a few more months!  Tristan is really excited too!  I'm so glad that he read the series with me!  I agree with most people that the third book was a little "off".  I liked the ending but, didn't quite "get" the rest of it.  Still the first two books make up for the third pretty much sucking.  Maybe on the big screen, the third book might make more sense than it did in written form.  It's almost as if she (Suzanne Collins) was trying to write a great big epic ending that kind fell flat.  Oh well, we will wait and see.

Dumb People

Bad mood this morning.  I'm sick of dumb people.  Some people will just always be dumb.  And whatever comes out of their mouth will be dumb too.  It's their small brains.  And, I don't care what you say because you are dumb too.  Bwahahahaha! 
And to end it:
"When will then be now?"
"Soon."
"How soon?"
"Very soon."

Asher-isms

Just got home from Christmas Eve on the Kelley side.  Asher is coloring with his new Crayola studio thing and he says: "Mom, who got me this present?" 
Me: "Grandma Kelley"
Asher: "Hmm, she must be a good friend to get me present like this."

I LOVE that kid!!!!

Flurg

Well somebody did something to the computer that made the cursor disappear. I have no idea where it went....
In other news.....  Chantelle and Ramona Hallman just stopped by with a plate full of cookies!! (Actually it was just Chantelle but Ramona's name was on the tag too and know she helped too!)  They are not like any cookies I have ever seen before.  I'm pretty sure I would have to use my belgian waffle maker to get these cookies to come out right.  I wonder what they are called?  They are chocolatey and waffel-y.  Yummy!!  That was sure nice of them. 
I'm not ready for Christmas yet!  AGH!  And so darn tired. 
You people just get ready for all the pictures that are coming from my new camera! lol!  Once I figure that bad boy out, there will be NO stopping me!  Mwahahahaha!!

Christmas Rambles

Jeremy gave me one of my Christmas gifts early (last week) so that I would have it for the Christmas festivities.  He got me a new camera!! YAY!  Except that I think I hate it.  I mean it is the kind I want and it is PURPLE which is awesome but....I can't get the darn thing to work right!!! AGH!  I guess I need to just mess around with it.  I really do appreciate it though and it certainly is better than what I had before. 
I have all the kids home today and they are climbing the walls!  They are so excited for Christmas to come!  I remember feeling especially crazy around Christmas time as a kid.  I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt but the headache I woke up with this morning is only getting worse!  The good thing is that starting this evening my hubby will be home with me and the kids through Tuesday!!!!  woot!!  I'm especially excited for Christmas Eve at home.  I never thought as a child that I would ever want to be Santa.  But, it is so much better!!!  It's a special time for Jeremy and I to reflect on our family and our 6 beautiful children and the life we created together.  I love getting everything ready for the morning and the great spirit that is in our home!  I don't know what I would do without Jeremy here to help with it all!  It is a big undertaking, lol! 
I'm torn today between doing projects with the kids and cleaning the house.  Let me tell ya something....these kids can mess a house up in about a minute flat.  No joke.  I think I will go with projects though.....memories are what it is all about!  Tomorrow night I have some special stuff planned!  I hope they can contain themselves long enough to do it! 

Colista Ruins Christmas

So, a couple of weeks ago I posted about problems I was having finding Jeremy a Christmas present that actually meant something.  I'm not really a practical gift kinda girl.  I don't like to get what is on your list, I like to give the things you didn't even know you wanted on your list!  Who wants boring crap for Christmas!?!?  I got myself in trouble one year with Jeremy when I was telling him just days before Christmas that I didn't want dumb things that I actually needed for Christmas like dishes or pots and pans.....I wanted something I didn't know about, that was truly a surprise, and that actually required him knowing and liking me enough to know what I would like and want....without me ever having to say anything.  Make sense?  Well, it does to me! ha!

Anyway, that was the year that he had spent quite a large sum of money on brand new EVERYTHING for my kitchen.  He got an all new dish set complete with serve ware, glasses, a kitchen aid mixer, a VERY nice set of knives (which every good chef knows is ESSENTIAL in a decent kitchen), salt and pepper shakers, canister sets, .....literally everything I could want and need in the kitchen.  Now, I did not know that he had done all of this and was complaining just two days before Christmas!  Dumb me!  He was really nervous then for me to open my presents.  He got way more for me than I did for him and I just kept opening and opening!  I loved my new kitchen stuff and still use all of it today!  Anyway, I felt like a big fat jerk. 

Anyway, to get back to this Christmas....I couldn't figure out what to do for Jeremy.  I sat at the computer thinking.....what does Jeremy like besides computers?  I know!  The San Francisco 49ers!!  Would they be in our area anytime soon for a game?  It was a long shot I thought but decided to take a looksie around anyway.  And what to my wondering eyes should appear????  Tickets to a St. Louis Rams vs. 49ers game IN St. Louis on New Year's Day!!!!! Holy Crap!!!  Best Christmas present EVER for Jeremy!  He would be so stinking surprised!!  hehe~!  So, I snatched those tickets up on what I thought was the 40 yard line, ten rows up from the field!!!!  Oh my goodness, I was so excited!!!  About 10minutes later I got a confirmation email.  I looked at it to check the tracking and when they would arrive.....and it said Club End Zone on the tickets.  What the crap is Club End Zone?  So, I started looking around and realized that I had somehow purchased tickets in the end zone and not on the 40 yard line!  How, I don't know.  Good grief. 

Well, then panic started to set in.  This is not what I wanted.  I wanted good seats.  This was supposed to be a GREAT surprise.  And then I saw some number that made me think we were in the nosebleed section and I freaked out!  I called Jeremy at work and asked him how I can return a non returnable item?  He said that he needed to know what website I bought from in order to help me.  I said that if I told him the website then he would know what I got him for Christmas (I had bought from StubHub).  He said that he couldn't help unless he knew....I was crying at this point because I wanted it to be a great surprise but I also wanted it to be right....no point spending money on it, if we couldn't even see the game.  So, I told him Stubhub.......and he said that tickets bought through there are non-refundable.  No matter what.  Then he said what did you get.  I was so upset that I had ruined his Christmas that I just told him then that I had gotten him 49ers tickets.  To which he was like "What!?!? REally?!?!?"  He thought it was pretty awesome and said he would look into it some more and see if there was anything we could do to change our seats. 

So, remoted into our home computer from work and started looking around.  What he found out was this:  I had actually bought really super duper good seats!!!  The Club End Zone is actually like THE place to sit at the games in the Edward Jones Stadium!!!! You get all these perks with it:

2011 Club Seat Holder Benefits:

• Exclusive access to private Rams Club Level, Club lounges, and the newly renovated Rams Club
• The greatest food and beverage variety in the Edward Jones Dome with high-end options located throughout the Club Level
• In-seat food and beverage service - never miss any of the action
• Complimentary FanVision hand-held unit with live stats, scores, and video from around the league including the NFL Red Zone channel
• Extra-wide, padded seats with abundant leg room
• Club Seat Holder Gold Card status in the Rams’ Rewards Program offering you special opportunities with Rams’ partners
• Club Level concierge service
• All new HD flat screen TVs throughout the Club Level
• Complimentary issues of the Rams Insider magazine available on the Club Level for each home game
• Post-game on-field access once per season for all Rams Club members
• Exclusive Club Seat Holder Newsletter with inside access to exclusive Rams content 
• Access to the Clarkson Jewelers Club Waiting List. Click here for more information.

2011 Additional Club Seat Holder Benefits with Membership:

• Club Seat season ticket savings over those without a membership
• Opportunity to purchase Club seats for non-Rams events including the 2012 NCAA Mens Basketball Regionals
• Annual Training Camp event exclusive to Rams Club Seat Holders
• Annual Club Seat Holder gift
• Price protection over term of agreement
• Those with a Club Seat Membership enjoy first rights to purchase their same seats for home playoff games
• Club Seat Holders without a membership will have access to a playoff pre-sale before the general public

The guy who sold them is a season pass holder with VIP parking spot as well!!!  We did a panoramic view from our seats on the Rams website and we have some pretty awesome seats!!!  

If I had just kept my mouth SHUT and not freaked out, I could have given them to him and it all would have worked out great for Christmas!  Instead he knows and now has nothing for Christmas.  DUMB ME!!!  UGH, sometimes I just can't figure myself out!  Crap Almighty!  But, he's really excited to go!!! I am too, even though football bores me to death....I know once I get there I'm gonna get really into it and be cheering my butt off!!  LOL!  Next year, I'm gonna get him something super duper!  I WILL surprise him with something he LOVES!!!

Christmas Funnies

We Need A Cat...And I NEED To Complain (about a few things is all!)

Today I am going to a halfway house for Cats to get one!  lol!  For real, some old lady here in Carthage has too much money so she bought this huge old house that she has given to cats that have no other home.  I guess a butt load of cats live there.  I don't understand why so many people pay so much money for dogs and cats with pedigrees and stuff when there are so many that are neglected and need homes.  Stupid.  But, the world is full of stupid people.  I digress.  Anyway, we had to put Cammie to sleep last week.  It was heartbreaking.  She had a tumor and it was her time.  She had a good long life and hopefully we made her life good!  Now, I would like another kitty.  Not a kitten.  I want to help an adult cat that needs a good family.
Sidenote****I have had so many people tell me that my kids need a dog.  A freaking dog.  It's like having a really annoying kid.  It can't understand you even more than your baby can't understand you.  I don't need another kid.  I want a pet.  A pet should enhance your life, not make it more difficult.  My kids need a dog like they need a hole in the head.  They wouldn't take care of it, I would.  That is why I love cats.  They take care of themselves.  Also, I grew up ALWAYS having a dog and cats.  I NEVER liked the dogs.  And we had many.  I am just NOT a dog person. What if my kids are not dog lovers?  You can't make a person like something just because it is there. I don't think them not having a dog is going to scar them for life.  You know what else I really like....OWLS.  Maybe I should go adopt an owl.  Stupid huh? 
They can decide for themselves when they are older.  I like cats and that's it.  Leave me the crap alone about dumb dogs already!!  Bah!  
So, I'm looking for an adult cat that needs a good home.  I LOVE cats and so do the kids.  Preferably litter trained but good outdoors too. 


Onto the other subjects of the day.  Trapp Christmas is on Christmas Day this year.  What a rip off!  We like having Christmas day to ourselves as a family.  Junk monkey.  We must go though because when Trapp's gather there is much FUN to be had!!  And it doesn't happen a whole lot so there's that too.  My sister Vicki is cooking a goose I think!  Never had goose and a little frightened to be honest. LOL! 
Growing up, I did not have 82 Christmases like I do now.  We had one Christmas on Christmas morning and it was great!  I believed in Santa forever!  I loved it. 

Another thing, the stupid garbage company that picks up garbage here in Carthage is the worst!  (Area Disposal, INC.)  How can you suck at picking up garbage?  HOW?!!?!?  IT's freaking garbage!!!!!!!!  I want a new company so bad but the city has a deal with them or some such nonsense.  Why can't I decide who picks up my garbage!  They have stupid rules and they are FORCING me to recycle because of their stupid 6 bag limit!  6 measly bags for a family of 8!!  Are you kidding me !?  Even with the 55 gallon bags we are hard pressed to get in under the 6 bag limit.  And the 55 gallon bags are entirely too large for my kitchen trash can.....

Busy Little Miss

Today my goal is to empty the house entirely.  This little girl of mine in in to EVERYTHING!!!!!!  Holy crap!  And the things she can do!?!?  There is no end!  She really does just decide to do something and then does it.  I don't recall my boys acting so grown-up at this age. She thinks she's 32.  Really she does. 

Oven Nearly Kills Me.....AGAIN

Lots to post about but little motivation to actually do it.  Today I did the unthinkable.  I cleaned my oven.  Yes, that's right, I cleaned my oven.  Only once before have I ever cleaned my oven myself.  It was in Utah when Jeremy and I first were married.  I nearly died.  Seriously.  Somehow I inhaled VERY DEEPLY when I was spraying the oven cleaner in the oven and I almost passed out!  I should have probably went to the doctor because I was so sick the rest of the day.  Puking and all.  The whole house smelled of that wretched oven cleaner!  Three days later I was hacking up my lungs still!  I swore right then and there that I would never clean my oven again!  And I never have!  For reals.  I've had people clean it for me.  But, I won't go near oven cleaner.
Well, today I decided it was high time for me to do something about my oven because the girls who used to clean it are gone and the oven was FILTHY!  I put it off long enough.  I opened up my whole kitchen and set to work with rubber gloves a face mask and all.  I still smelled that nasty crap though!  Made me sick and took all my motivation away.  Stupid oven cleaner. 
But, I got my floors scrubbed and my nasty oven kinda sparkling.  Now, I'm afraid to cook in it though because it smells like freaking oven cleaner!?!?!?  Isn't there some other way?  I'm gonna google it.  My head hurts now too.  Oven cleaner should be banned.  I hate it.  I don't think I will clean my oven again, EVER.  I need a new oven cleaning lady.

Present Problems

I'm stumped for Jeremy's Christmas gift this year.  Absolutely nothing.  He likes computer related items but he owns a computer store!  What am I supposed to do then?!!?  Bah!  And to top it off, he always gets me the most thoughtful and special gifts.  How am I supposed to compete with that!?  I need some help here........any ideas, oh blogger world?

What?

I finally got my kohl's order in the mail, that FedEx took three weeks to deliver (sheesh!), and I had ordered two new bras.  When I looked at the tag on one of them I saw that it was called Disappearing Act.......wth?  Do you think it will make my boobs disappear?!?!  Or maybe disappear and magically reappear somewhere else?  I wonder who came up with that name?  An out of work magician that had to take a second job at a bra company would be my guess.

Cookie Day 2011

On Saturday we had Cookie Day at the my mother in laws house!  I love cookie day because it is full of cookies!  Even though I was trying to be good, I got to sample tons and tons of yummy goodies that we slaved over all day long just for those we love!   And it was fun spending time together too!  Soon the camera is coming and I will start going a little picture crazy! (maybe Trisha will post some that I can steal, haha!) But, seriously it looked like a freaking cookie factory in there!! lol!  SO FUN!

Monday Can't Come Soon Enough!

Here are a couple of indications of how cold it is in my house right now.  On Sunday I accidentally left a pound of butter in my dry good cabinet.  (that's my life.)  When I discovered it, it was still fully formed into sticks and hard.  Not softened in the slightest! I couldn't believe it.  Another great thing....our liquid soap pumps....they can't pump the soap.  It barely comes out in small little cold lumps!  Another thing....Asher asking to put on more clothes! ha!  That kid loves nothing more than rumming around in just his underware. 

Today's Funny

Too true!  This is me in a nutshell.....and a couple of my kids I think!

Brrrr...It's Cold In Here! There Must Be Some Toros In the Atmosphere!

Every morning is worse than the one before!  LOL!  In terms of heat that is.  We get a new heating and air conditioning unit plus all the duct work to go with it on the 12th.  Until then it is space heaters.  The problem with that is for some reason, no matter where we are in our house, we can only plug in three space heaters at any one time without throwing the breaker in the basement.  Then we have to reset everything in the house.  Pain in the butt.  Yesterday, I had my oven on the entire day and I was like a sweaty pig.  Maybe I should leave my oven on all day long.  We do have an infrared heater that my sister let me borrow, that is pretty dang awesome.  But, in the mornings, nothing can keep up.  It's COLD in here!  Only 10 more days though! woot!  Thank goodness!