Book Tag

"What am I going to do?"

The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

Rules of the tag:
1. pick up the nearest book.

2. Turn to page 123.
3. Find the 5th sentence.
4. Post the 5th sentence.
5. Tag some people.

I'm Tagging Mel and Lexie whom both think tags are lame!! And MJ, Liza, and Mimi.

A little dirt never hurt anyone!

Happy Mother's Day to me! We were all sitting at the table enjoying mine and Mel's Mother's Day dinner when Bella came in looking like a coal miner! Her and Xavier and Alexis had gotten into my pot of dirt! There was dirt EVERYWHERE! When Mel went out and saw her dirty daughter all I could hear was NOOOOOOOO!!! She never lets Alex get dirty! I thought it was pretty funny. So they all took a nice little bath together and for the most part got clean! The bath water was brown and when the water drained there was tons of dirt in the bottom! Yuck! Needless to say I got rid of that pot of dirt and have been doing after math clean up all week! Oh and Yes that is Bellas church dress that is filthy!

Scrapbooking Weekend

Mel was SOO tired! She quite literally fell asleep in mid sentence!
Camille and Rilee
Jenn and that dang lap top!

Mary brought the most stuff and worked the hardest!
Me spending WAY too much time on this layout.
RiLee making paper bag books.
Jenn "worked" all weekend but really she was just chatting with her long distance love.

Camille finally got started on scrapbooking at about 3PM Saturday.

Mel was also here but her picture didn't turn out. Plus she disappeared for half the day because she just couldn't stay away from Steve or vice versa.

So as you can see Friday I turned the kids play room into my play room! We had a great time scrapbooking and eating and talking! It was so much fun! We stayed in our PJ's all day. We would love to do it again but i don't think the husbands would be so keen on the idea! We'll see! I had to throw in the sleeping shots as well! So fun!!

Field Trip

Bella and Xavier at the zoo
Inside a huge egg shell
Mommy and Xavier on stage for the dance party
Don't feed the animals!
Xavier and his teacher Ms. Powers.

Xavier had his first field trip ever. We went to the Turtle Back Zoo. It was such a beautiful day and we had so much fun! We saw all the animals and even got to do some extras like a few carnival games, played in a huge nest with eggs, danced on stage with a DJ, and even got our picture turned into a button! When we got to the car I asked him if he had fun at the zoo and he said,"Yeah, I danced a little, played basketball, sat on a lizard and played in the nest. It was fun" I wonder if he knows the zoo is actually for animals?!?!

Harlan Coben

Here we are meeting Harlan Coben. Before I tell you about that I must start at the beginning. Joanne, Mel and Lexie had been saying for the longest how much they liked Harlan Coben. So a few months ago I got his book Tell No One and am now a huge fan! He lives here in Jersey and all of his books take place here. It's so cool to read about these places that I know so well! Anyway I decided to email him and after just a few emails he was my BFF. Well maybe not that tight. But we did email a few times and he seemed so cool! So while I was checking out his website I noticed his last stop on the book tour was close to home and at Costco of all places! So I emailed him again and he said there wouldn't be a lot of people and we should come.......so we did! Well when I told the girls they thought it was so cool that I was emailing Harlan Coben. Then I told Joanne and she rained on my parade. She said there was no way that it was really him. Could me and Harlan being BFF's be my imagination? Well we got to the book signing and when he was right in front of me I brought up the emails and he said he remembered the emails and what we wrote and that yes it really was him! Hallelujah! So he signed my book "To Shandis, You Rock! Best wishes, Harlan Coben" What a day! I mean Costco and Harlan in the same place?! Does it get better than that?