Okay Maybe Just a Couple :)

So maybe there are a couple pictures on my iPad worth blogging...either because they are nice pictures or because they are funny...

Let's just say I had a little fun with my nieces last week on my iPad :)

I was showing them some funny photo booth pictures and Kayleigh was getting scared of them so I had to do it to her to show her it's actually funny!

The other pictures are from my vacation to North Carolina. I went to a dude ranch and rode horses all week! I had a great time and there should be more pictures to come but right now all I have are a couple of traveling and group pictures.

I am doing this post on an app for an iPhone and I'm not 100% sure on how to arrange the pictures how I want them so I apologize in advance :)

So I have this blog...

I kinda keep forgetting that I have a blog :( the story is I went to Florida with my parents and Sam and took some pictures and I was going to post them on here when I got home. Well I had been having problems with my pictures uploading and I wasn't able to write right next to each picture so I started working on it and trying to figure it out. I ended up changing a bunch of stuff and messing up a bunch of stuff and I got annoyed and decided it wasn't worth it. Then I got thinking about it I decided I want to keep going with it...maybe :) I'm gonna give it another shot and we'll see how it goes. I've been on 2 vacations and now we are ripping wallpaper off the walls and painting in our apartment so there's kind of lots to update about but not right now because it's time for bed and I'm on my iPad which doesn't have any pictures (well there are some but none worth blogging) ;) Anyway, I'm not even sure if anyone looks at my blog anymore, they've probably all given up on me so maybe I'll just be talking to myself but that's okay :)

And A Very Happy New Year Indeed!

Well the New Year started out a little different than I expected...but in a much better way than I expected :)

Brad and Deanna came home from their trip to IL for Christmas and brought Julie back with them to surprise me! They came into the bank and I think that was the biggest surprise of my life! :) It was so much fun to be surprised. Unfortunately I forgot to use my camera :( I wish we had a video of her surprising me because my co-workers say that I screamed and Kayleigh said I almost dropped Kenzie :) Haha! Anyway Julie and I had a great week together and I'm so glad she came out to see me! I just wish I had pictures to show everyone :(

I've been enjoying quite a few Monday's off lately and today was my last one for a while. I had Saturday off too so it was really a long weekend :) I slept in until 10:30 today and it felt AMAZING! Then I went shopping with Bekah a little bit and then we hung out at her house for a while before I went over to "the other Amanda's" to go ice skating...one of my favorite things to do in the winter :) While we were ice skating it started snowing...finally! We haven't had ANY snow since our wonderful winter storm Alfred in October!

We had a blast tonight. We played freeze tag, regular tag and sardines...it was great! Matthew was on the ice so therefore it's a wonder I never fell :)

Here we are, minus Matthew and Caleb.

What's a group picture without a goofy one?

I love this picture! Laura looks angry, Leah's texting, Rebekah is doing who knows what and Taylor is coming for the camera! :)

Ok so blogger is being annoying again and I can't get my words to go where I want them to to comment on the pictures so I guess they will just have to speak for themselves :(

Merry Christmas

I'm not sure how these pictures are going to end up on the final post. For some reason I'm having issues with them. I don't know why because I've never had problems with it before and I don't think I changed anything. On my last post I thought the pictures were going to be side by side and all messed up instead of centered because that's what it showed when I was composing it but then when I actually posted it it turned out mostly normal. Some of the pictures still weren't in the right spots but they were at least not next to each other.

Anyway, on to Christmas. We went over to Mom & Dad's this afternoon for some light appetizers before our nice dinner at the Publick House. The Publick House is this really nice old restaurant in Sturbridge, MA that has REALLY good food! :)

We opened a few presents also. I got a gift card to Best Buy and a cover for my future iPad! :) The bank refunds their employees $300 if they buy a computer and an iPad counts so that's what I plan to do :)

Sam got a remote control helicopter that is too big to fly inside. It was very very humorous to watch him learn how to fly it just right. They are not easy I have been told :) I have a few videos of it but unfortunately I've never had luck uploading videos on blogger :( I guess all you Illinois-ans will just have to come see me and I will show them to you in person!

After presents were done we drove past a house in South Windsor that has lights in the front yard that are synced to a few Christmas songs. It's really neat. I have videos of that too. I tried taking some pictures but they turned out really blurry :(

Then we went to supper and it was great! I had prime rib and it was soooo good!

Notice the girls were all dressed up...Brad and Dee told them we were going to a fancy restaurant for supper so they needed to dress up. So we're all in the living room eating appetizers for "lunch" and Kayleigh goes "is this the fancy restaurant?" Haha!

The picture of the girls standing outside is them intently watching Sam fly his helicopter :) The last picture is just a poinsettia that one of my customers brought in for all of us at the bank...I'd rather have that than all the food we've been getting!

I would have written right by each picture but it didn't let me so sorry! :/

Eggs Anyone???

I cleaned out the fridge today. There wasn't actually that much to go through, it was pretty much just washing the shelves off. I realized there was a full dozen eggs in there that had been in there for a loooong time and I didn't actually know for sure where they came from. I knew they weren't mine and Sarah didn't think they were hers either. I looked at the date. Nov 9. So I asked my mom how long after egg's expiration date are they still good. She thought maybe they would still be okay. So I cracked one open and it was fine so I figured, hey, I might as well hard boil them and then I will actually eat them and they won't go to waste.

I've made hard boiled eggs before, let's just get that straight right now. For some reason my mind just went blank and I couldn't even remember what to do. Obviously because the results were ridiculous! I boiled the water. Then I put the eggs in. The problem is the water was slightly deep and obviously I didn't want to burn my fingers so I just kinda dropped them in there. They would hit the bottom and crack. Then a bunch of yoke and egg whites would float up to the top. Um gross! Some of them even cracked without hitting the bottom and I couldn't figure out why. I figured they must just be too cold and the water was too hot.

They finished boiling and I drained the water and cooled them down with cold water and then I completely forgot about them. I had to leave shortly after for all church Christmas Caroling. I remembered afterwards that I left them in the sink in cold water instead of putting them away...oops! I got home and tried one (one that wasn't cracked!) and it actually tasted good. Most of them are trash though :(

I don't know what in the world my problem was! I know how to make hard boiled eggs! You put the eggs in the water BEFORE you boil it!!! It just slipped my mind this afternoon. I got home and decided to take some pictures for everyone to see that I am such a great cook!!!

Why am I telling you all this? I should be embarrassed about this, but for some reason I think it's funny :)

Oh and Deanna I think they might be your eggs from the storm. Sorry I ruined your eggs...feel free to come eat them! :)

These are my lovely eggs! :)

Nasty,I know!

These two are for my ANONYMOUS (Hmm, I wonder who it is! ;) comment-er who keeps saying I need pictures of myself on here ;)

Oh and by the way my hair is not greasy like it looks, it's just the flash on the camera and the lighting in our apartment...promise! :)

Just to finish off with something I CAN do! My cousin Sarah Gudeman was here from IL for Thanksgiving and she had made snowflakes for her parent's windows and they looked so cool! She gave us a quick little lesson on how to make them and I went to Target, picked up some scrapbook paper and made some for myself :) They are so fun and I love how they look! I made some to hang up at the bank and I was supposed to make more at home for the bank but decided to keep them here because I like them in my kitchen window :)

Waiting...

I applied for a new position at Rockville Bank a couple of weeks ago and had an interview last Thursday. The position is for a Fiscal Assistant which is pretty much accounting. I thought the interview went really well and Bela (the woman I interviewed with) was really nice. She told me she would be making a decision in the next couple of days because she wants to have someone start by the end of the year since they are really busy now.

It's been almost a week.

I still haven't heard anything :(

Dana (my boss) tells me that's a good thing for me because they are required to call everyone who didn't get the position before they call the person who did just in case it slips out before everyone knows, which makes sense. Apparently someone is very hard to get a hold of because I've been waiting and waiting for a phone call and it still hasn't come!

Dana keeps picking up her phone and saying "Oh, Hi! Bela? Ya, she actually decided she's not interested and she's not going to take the position." or "Oh hi Bela, oh she didn't get it? That's too bad, I will let her know." She's so awful to me ;) Anyway, her and Rick (my other boss) keep telling me how awful it will be and how much I will hate it if I go there. You see they don't want me to go and they are coming up with everything they can to make me want to stay right now. I will say it is nice to be appreciated and wanted at work :)

Right now the Fiscal department is at the main branch but the bank is going to be moving some offices to a Glastonbury office which is quite a bit further and is not exactly a fun commute on the highway during rush hour. That is where I would end up being in the long run. So they tell me I'm going to hate it. I'm not so sure about that because the work sounds like what I love to do. I will admit though that they are making me second-guess myself :(

The pay is better. I had my review in Somers today and it was really good. They are giving me a raise and a promotion which brings another raise but it is still more than a dollar less than I would be making with the other position. It's a tough decision now because they keep telling me that I will have no opportunity to move up in the fiscal department and if I would just stay in retail I could move up more.

So anyway, that's my story right now...I'm waiting for that phone call! Every morning when I wake up the first thing I think is, maybe it will be today! Then the day is over and I'm disappointed again :(

I'll be sure to post with results :)

Sorry I don't have anything exciting lately. No pictures. I haven't done anything exciting enough to take pictures of I guess. Actually I wanted my camera last night when I was at my parents house doing wash. The girls were there and Kenzie came over to me with a blanket and crawled up on my lap, covered us both with it and snuggled. She never does that! Of course I didn't have my camera! I never have it when it would be ever so handy! :(

Typical Kenzie

We had some family pictures taken a couple of weeks ago when Josh & Kate were here. The girls were doing fine and smiling and then all of a sudden something snapped in Kenzie and she decided she was NOT going to cooperate! They were trying to take pictures of Brad & Dee and the girls walking and Kenzie just had a scowl on her face. Brad was getting after her so she decided to just stick her tongue out! Haha!!! Typical! :)