"The best way to spread Christmas cheer..."

Soooooooo tonight we watched Elf for the second time in two weeks...only this time was different.  About 30 minutes into the movie, I get a text from my across the street neighbor that says, 

"Are y'all watching Elf by chance?"

It took me a minute and then it hit me.  

By the time I made it to the front porch I can see Heather, her husband, and their two little girls on their front porch.  And before I can open the front door I am laughing hysterically.  

You see, when we built our house, we had most rooms and our porches wired with speakers.  SO we had been broadcasting ELF to the entire neighborhood.  It was so loud they heard it from their back porch!  Needless to say, we had a good belly laugh from our porches....and I turned the speakers off.  

Guess it's true what they say, "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!"

TMI

1. My baby tooted so loudly yesterday the dog barked.
2. While trimming Jackson's fingernails this week I noticed he had been biting them again...I asked, "Jackson, have you been biting your nails again?"  To which he responded, "No, I've just been cutting them with my teeth."  ok. 
3. I just noticed on my settings page from blogger that people have found my blog by searching Google for "bare butt" and "singed arm hair."  As long as it wasn't "singed butt hair", I guess I'm ok with that.  
4. In related news, my blog has been viewed by someone in Poland and someone in the Ukraine...I wonder if they were the ones looking for the bare butts???  
5. I went to the gym yesterday for the third time since the baby was born...it was not pretty...apparently pregnancy has affected my ability to hear a beat, move my arms and legs simultaneously and know my right from my left.  I looked like a drunk chicken.   

 MY SHOW Modern Family is back on!  My favorite quotes from last week's Dude Ranch episode...

Mitchell: “So, we haven’t told the family yet but we’ve decided to adopt a baby boy!”
Cam: “From America this time, you might say we’re buying domestic.”
Mitchell: “In private. You might say that in private.”

Phil: “I've been practicing like crazy all my cowboy skills. Shooting, roping, pancake eatin’.”

 and from "When Good Kids Go Bad"...

Alex tells Haley to shut up: “Could you L a little less OL?”

Phil free-styles: “Girl you crazy. I’m mad fun to shop with. Trapped in between two whole wheat slices. Pastrami and Swiss are my only vices.”

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Black and White Weekend

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Well.  hello there.  let's use bullets, shall we?

• I have NOT been doing a good job with this blogging thing.  For some crazy reason, I envisioned that I'd have hours of free time when the boys started school and I only had Hampton at home.  wrong.  I didn't factor in that a lack of sleep and showering on a semi-daily basis would get in my way.  As all mama's will tell you, the first few weeks with a newborn are foggy.  I am beginning to feel the fog lift..
• I am getting more sleep now because I finally bought the MOM'S ON CALL 0-3 Month Seminar.  I first learned about Moms On Call through my friend Erin.  After the first night, I called Erin to tell her IT WORKED!  AND OH MY GOSH I FEEL LIKE I COULD RUN A MARATHON!  I am sure she hung up laughing while doubting my sanity.  It's amazing how enthusiastic a few straight hours of sleep will make you.  And if you aren't reading Erin's blog Blue-Eyed Bride you are missing out.      
• This is my last week of "taking it easy".  I had my 6 week appointment Tuesday and got the go ahead to jump back in at the gym and {mom, stop reading now} to jump back into "other things"....ewww.  That's all I have to say about both of those things.  Seriously though,  I have to lose these last few 10-15 pounds and it's not gonna happen eating the wonderfulness that is a Triple-Double Oreo.  
• I worked for the first time this week since having the baby.  It felt good to squeeze into my fat pants and use my brain for something other than "mommy stuff".  It didn't feel good to leave my little man.  My future-sister-in-law came to our house to keep him...she is a nurse {and a baby nurse at that} so I had absolutely no concerns with leaving him with her.  Knowing her infant CPR is up-to-date and that she could put in an IV with household items if need be didn't hurt either.   
• This came in the mail yesterday.  Does anyone else live for this trip to the mailbox once a month like me?  

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• Funny story.   When Lee got home, he picked my magazine up to flip through it and I literally flipped on him.  PUT IT DOWN.  I look at it first, mister. 
• And Facebook.  Why do you keep changing?  I don't care that much, but now everyone's post for the next week is gonna be about how much they hate you.  I saw this on Pinterest and spit Coke through my nose.

•  I also got a new planner a few weeks ago.  And if you are related to me, have spent any amount of time with me, or are breathing near me, I have told you about my new planner and may or may not have pressured you to buy one and be as cool as me.  I am literally making plans JUST to have something to write down EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING. DAY. AND. NIGHT.  {If you own said planner, you totally got that and are laughing out loud right now because you do the same thing}  Case in point, on Monday, September 5th, I wrote "Home All Day."  Really?  I die.  Now if you want to buy one too...go here and tell them Misty sent you.  That will mean nothing to them, but everything to me.  ha.  

• Look at these cute football players!  This football season we had several away games to start the season so we just had family and friends over here to watch the games.  When Lee and I were building, we dreamed about watching football on our back porch!  We have loved it and can not wait to have a fire out there....and watch our own "little team" play in the backyard!

• One last thing.  If you just read all of these bullets and are still with me will you please comment on this post?    One year ago, I convinced Lee that I needed a blog makeover because I had "so many readers"  ha!    I want to show him that tonight that people are actually reading this.  For me? Please?