You're How Old??

I am not sure when but this kid:

Decided to turn 14 today.

14???!!!???

How did that happen?

He came into my life at 6...the same age as his little brother.

I don't get it.
Surely, he won't get any older...right?

Happy Birthday Christopher...we love you!

19???

Today is the eldest's birthday.

How did it happen that he is 19 today?

A fine day, too, for a birthday.
We are in the midst of Hurricane Sandy here in Jersey.

Poor kid had to go to work to batten down the hatches.

Now he's home.
Safe.
Dry.
Warm.

Off to bake my now 19 year old son his birthday cake!

They say it's your birthday!

It's my birthday too.
No seriously it really is my birthday!

32, 38, 39 Fine...42 years ago today I was born to the best parents ever.

Can you stand it?
That's me up there.
A few weeks ago.

Sigh.
I can't believe it's been 42 years I've been around.

What did I get for my birthday you asked?

High Blood Pressure.
It's the gift that keeps on giving.

When I turned 40 I passed a kidney stone at work & was riddled with them all summer.

Lucky girl, no?

So I was diagnosed with the High Blood Pressure.
On meds.
Changing my diet.

I have to.
Do you see the size of me?
Yes, Orka called, she wants her dressmaker back.

I actually had a nice birthday.
Quiet.
Relaxing.

Just the way I like it.

They Say It's Your Birthday

Doesn't the Nana have the best hair & fashion sense?

It's her birthday today.

Happy Birthday to the best Mommy & Nana in the world.

Love You!

They say it's your birthday!

When did this happen?
When did this kid:

Grow up into this kid:

Or should I say man because today is his 18th birthday!


Happy Birthday Tim!


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Someone's turning....

That's right.

The big 4-0 has hit someone in this house.

Not me, I hit that 14 months ago.

Instead Bobster has turned the big 40!!!

Have a blast on your day honey as only you can:

Then take a nappers:

Enjoy!

We love you!!!!

Happy 5th Birthday

 

I'm not really sure where the last 5 years have gone.

 How can he be going into Kindergarten in 3 weeks?

It can't be. It is. He's 5 now. A big boy.

 Happy Birthday Buddy! We love you!!!!

41 Things for a 41st Birthday

They say it's your birthday.
Danananananana
It's my birthday too!

Seriously, it's my birthday today.
41.
Sigh.
Where did the years go?
One month from today Cheeks will be 5.
5!!!

I digress.
Today I am going to be totally shameless and post a post entirely about moi.

41 things about moi.

Can you stand it?

Let's start:
1.  My middle name is Kathleen.

2.  I am the 13 years & 6 days older than my sister.

3.  I have a birth mark on my pinky toe, which The Nana thought was poo & tried, relentlessy to remove. 

4.  My fav movie is a tie between "The Matchmaker" w/ Janeen Garafelo & Dennis Leary and "Steel Magnolias"

5.  I was on Dancin On Air in high school.  Local dance show that branched to Dance Party USA which I was on that show.  The show that launched Kelly Ripa's career.

6.  I'm LDS.

7.  My favorite dinner is chicken cutlets, green beans & mashed potatoes.

8.  I split my upper lip when I was little & had a huge bump on it for years, it's since gone away.

9.  I failed gym in high school, not once but twice.

10.   I am math challenged.  It's so sad.

11.  I secretly love iCarly.  She is just so cute.

12.  I was 36 when I gave birth to Cheeks.

13.  Flew to Fl to meet a guy I knew just from the internet.

14.  I married someone (not Bobster) that I met on the internet.

15.  Met Bobster on a blind date.

16.  I lived at home til I was 31.

17.  I didn't drive until I was 21.

18.  Still have my tonsils.

19.  Finding 41 things is hard.

20.  I type with my fingers on the correct keys & do not have to look at the board thanks to taking typing in high school....that's right...typing, not keyboarding.

21.  I was playing with Barbie when I was 12.

22.  Favorite # is 15.

23.  I despise water ice.

24.  If I could cook in my crockpot every day I would.

25.  Chore I hate the most...cleaning the bathroom.

26.  Chore I love the most...food shopping.  Could do it every day.

27.  I love to use coupons.  Love it! Love it! Love it!

28.  Favorite color is pink.

29.  Fav ice cream: Turkey Hill Chocolate Marshmallow.

30.  Fav candle scent: Yankee Candle Cherry Lemonade.

31.  I took Spanish 1 two years in a row.  I am a scholar no?

32.  My degree is in English w/ an Elementary K-5 certificate.  Yes, the state of NJ has deemed me educated enough to teach your children.

33.  I work in customer service.

34.  All time fav song: Rock the Boat by some group from the 70's.

35.  Secretly wish I grew up in the 40's.

36.  Glad I was born when I was because if I didn't have a/c, microwaves & cable I'd go stir crazy.

37.  Addicted to blogs!

38.  Lived in NJ all my life.

39.  I was in Dublin, Ireland on vacation and ran into someone I knew.

40.  Love to thrift store shop.

41.  Glad this list is over.

Now tell me something about yourself.

Caio!

It only comes once a year!

He's catching up with me.
Yes, he's younger than me.


Happy Birthday Bobster!!!


We love you!

Happy 4th Birthday Cheekers

How did my sweet newborn go from this:

To a little boy:

overnight?
It feels like the other day I brought him home & endure sleep deprivation.
I miss my baby
BUT
I so enjoy my little boy!!!!

Happy Birthday Cheeks.
We love you!

New Decade

Well, I've talked about it enough this month.
It's D Day.
Yep.
I have entered a new decade today.

I am officially 20, err, 30, 39 again, OK! fine, I am now 40.

How shall I ring in the new decade?
Any thoughts?

Happy Bday Christafus!

One day he's dying to carve a pumpkin.

The next he is too cool for pumpkins & just wants Tech Deck skateboard stuff.

Where did the lil boy of 6 go?

He's now 11.

Happy Birthday Christafus...we love you!

Happy Birthday Sesame Street! You are looking good!

It is Sesame Street's 40th birthday.
40!!!
The show premiered just a few months before I was born.
Quick.
Do the math!
Sad, but true, 40 is looming on the horizon for me.

Anywho, can you believe that Sesame Street has been on the air that long?
I love Sesame Street.
I have always felt like kindred spirits with Big Bird, he being so tall & all.
Elmo & Abby Cadabby are my favorites now.


Cheeks got to meet Abby back in May when my sil & I took the kids to Sesame Place.
He loved her.


He loves to watch Sesame Street.
I love for him to watch it.
Such a fabulous education show.
I think my fav segment is "The Lady Bugs Picnic".


Can you believe that Gordon is still on the show?
What I can't believe is that his real name isn't Gordan.
I know!
I was shocked too.


Tell me, who is your fav muppet/character from SS?
And what is your fav segment?


Late!

Sweet Sixteen

Do boys do the whole Sweet 16?
Well it doesn't matter b/c today is TimBob's 16th birthday.
Really?
16?
I remember when he was 11...tee hee.
I can not believe he's 16.
When did this happen?

We love you TimBob!!!
Happy Bday!

They Say It's Your Birthday! The big 38!

Happy Birthday Bobster!

We love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 3rd Bday Cheeks

In my absence, this little man turned 3 on Aug 16th.

How is he 3 already?
Seriously?
Where is my chubby baby?


I love you Cheeks, so does daddy, TimBob & Christufus!


Late!

39? No you mean 29!

Oh Snap!

How did I get to be 39?????????

Well, happy birthday to me. (and Torreh!!!)

Late!

They Say it's Your Birthday

That's right.

The Nana celebrated her birthday this weekend.

Woooohoooooo!

Isn't she the best Nana ever!!!

Nana turned.......................................................

Well if you would like to wager a guess g'head.

I will keep it a secret unless someone guesses then I will let the cat out of the bag when someone get's close.

Muahahaha!

Woops out!

Oh Ridemakerz, you make us all happy!

Yesterday was my 10 year old's bday.
I was fortunate enough to get a chance to review a radio controlled car from Ridemakerz.
Ridemakerz.com is like Build A Bear for the elementary to adult set. Except you build a car, not a bear, hence the name.
They have a few stores across the country in South Carolina & Maryland to name a few.
But their website is just as good as the store!



Anyway I have to say this company knows how to please a 10 yr old & his parents (even his little 2 yr old brother who stood at the edge of the table & whined "Cah, Cah, Cah" ~ he has a Boston accent even tho. we are outside Philly...go figure!)




Here is Chris opening his cool gift! He was thrilled. Check out the stylish box. Ooh la la!

With Ridemakerz.com each piece is sold separately which gives you the chance to customize the car to your liking. In our kit we got a hot green Mustang & all the parts to "trick" it out! The nice thing about Ridemakerz is you can purchase the radio controlled underbody of the car or not, leaving it a "free" car. We got the radio controlled underbody much to Chris's liking. Look at the top of the pic & you can see Bobster figuring it out. Honestly tho., it's really self explanatory.

To assembly everything you get a Hex wrench in the shape of a ignition key. Too cool!
You also get to pick out your tires (like I said, you customize it to your liking). We got the Tattoo line of tires, they are $3.00 a set, not bad.

Now while Bobster fiddled with the radio controlled underbody & the actual body of the car, Christopher got ready to "trick" his car out with the sheets of stickers included. He made his car the #37. EZ Peasy to put on & if you don't get the stickers on in the right spot the 1st time, you can reposition them. Love that factor, especially when you have a kid putting them on.

Check him out....very intent. Has to get just the right look!

Here you can see a lot of what came in the kit. You even got a "wheelie bar". I had no idea what it was & after some eye rollin from the men in my abode, I learned this was to keep the car from tipping when doing wheelies. We also got an exhaust system to put on the car & nitros. I know about nitros from the Fast & Furious movies (a very special shout out to Vin Diesel....I am here for you if things don't work out between you & your girlfriend). Ok back to the real reason for the post (Vin...call me!)

Check out the motor on the hood. It's magnetic so you can easily switch it out for something else that is cool.

Getting the nitros ready.

Now comes the fun part, getting the controller for the car together. Oh that's right, gotta have control baby!

Here it is, almost tricked out.

Check out that motor. Look at it's shine! Ridemakerz is like a boy's dream come true! And a mommy's dream come true because it kept Bobster occupied as well (like I said a boy's dream....tee hee)

And the finished product!

Oooh la la!

Ridemakerz.com has a very special offer for all of my readers.

They have gifted me a code to get $10 off a purchase of $30. Go here: Ridemakerz.com & at the checkout enter promo # 93462.

I am serious, go get one of these cars. It is freakin awesome!!!

Remember, $10 off of $30 with code # 93462.

Do you have anyone you think would like this?

Let me know!

Woops out!

(Vin, leave me voice mail!!!)