Well, I finally did it.  I set up my Orlando vacations deal. There is a conference there in September that I had registered for months and months ago.  However, I was looking for a roommate and hadn’t set up my plane or my hotel yet.  However, now it is done.  I am using the free Southwest ticket I won at BlogWorld last year to fly there (when I called to set up my flight, the lady was so nice and friendly and even spoke English!).  We are going to be staying at the Courtyard Marriott.  I found an awesome deal on their website (better than the deal that the conference was getting for us!).  I wish I would have time to do some fun playing at the theme parks there, but I have to get back to my kids plus the conference has us booked up.  Let me know if you are going to be there too, so we can meet up!

I have been wanting to post this since Monday.  No worries — I am not pregnant and nobody here needs a medical bracelet or anything like that.  Since my husband has had to work late the last two night, we haven’t had a chance to go do this yet.  Figured it out yet?  Well, I’ve blogged about it and asked everyone to tell my husband why we should get one of these.  No idea, yet?  Well, Bill decided (unless he changes his mind again which then I will have to kill him) that we are going to go put a deposit down on a Prius!  We test drove my sister’s car.  My only complaints have to do with things that I will just have to get use to.  As soon as we put our deposit down, then we go on a 4-6 month waiting list.  Unfortunately, we don’t get it right away, but it’ll allow us some time to save.  I really didn’t want two car payments at the same time, but what are you going to do?  The Jeep’s 20 miles per gallon is killing us when gas is so darn expensive.

We just got back from another weekend up in Green Bay.  I had a wedding shower on Saturday for one of my cousins who gets married in six weeks.  Everybody had a great time.  Since my parents only have dial up, I don’t bring up my laptop computer which means I am behind with both my blogs and my emails.  I am slowly but surely catching up, but I probably won’t be completely caught up till tomorrow.  I plan on going to bed soon.  However, I just love this picture.  I took it while we were at the Wildlife Sanctuary this morning (will be writing a review on it over at My Road Less Traveled By soon).  The kids loved the ducks and geese there.  We also checked out the buildings that are located there, and they had a blast.  Somehow, Bill managed to get two mosquito bites.  I think I am going to be going to bed shortly, so I’ll update some more tomorrow.

I finally got the pictures off my camera, and I have to show you all this picture. This is what happens when bloggers meet with their kids. This is Elizabeth from Table4Five with all the kids. Of course, there was no way to get everyone looking at the camera at the same time, so I had to settle with one person. With this many little ones running around, I am so glad I don’t have any glass sinks! Amazingly, nothing got broken and everyone had a good time, so we are going to have to plan on doing this again soon!

I had to post this picture of Madison. It is from last Tuesday. At Kiddie Camp, they had Halloween Day, so I had Madison dress up like a princess with some of her dress up clothes. She was too cute, so I had to take a picture.  It is hard to believe that one day she is using crib bedding and the next she’s dressing up for a fun day at school. Can you believe that next fall Madison starts preschool?

Now, I am only 31.  I shouldn’t be forgetting important things like there being a $10 gas card that I needed to take to go get gas.  I put it out on the table, so I wouldn’t forget it. I’m not quite ready for medicare insurance yet, but man, nothing is worse than standing at the pump at BP and realizing the gift card is still sitting at home. With gas being over $4.30 here a gallon, I could have really used that card. I wish this was the only example of my forgetfulness, but it’s not — it’s just the most recent.  LOL

Am I the only one out there losing her mind?  LOL

So what do you all think?  I think I have had this new template up for a little over a week.  Granted, I didn’t put up any digital signage saying “hey, look at me”, but I haven’t heard a single comment.  Is that good, bad, or didn’t anyone notice?  I did keep the header.  Personally, I love it.  I love the dark green, and I love how everything just flows together.  This template didn’t require a whole lot of tweaking, so I only ended up spending about an afternoon on it.

So what do you all think?  It’s a keeper?