What am I thinking!?!

Today I woke up at 5:30 in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep. This is always a bad situation for me to be in because my mind starts thinking and it won't shut up! My insomnia brain seems to think I am Super Woman because it starts creating irrational and impossible ideas and scenarios of things I need to do! It actually thinks I live in a world where there aren't any distractions! Here are some examples:

-"I will get up, get the kids to school, run 2 miles on the treadmill, and organize my closet, piece of cake"

-"Averi's feeding therapy shouldn't be so hard, all I have to do is start making her baby food and spending at least an hour a day working on this, no problem"

-"I should be able to make a budget and just stick to it! It's not that hard, I just need to get more organized, it's that simple"

Then my kids and James wake up and my real brain kicks in. I am usually so overwhelmed with mundane tasks, I won't do anything my insomnia brain thinks I can do. So I get up, skip running, skip any organization projects and feed Averi her baby food and stress about what I am not doing.

Well, today I actually did something irrational that my 5 a.m. brain suggested! I thought I should look for ways to earn extra spending/fun money. I don't want a real job though! So... I got up and signed up to be a Scentsy consultant! I have never done anything like that before, and James is very scared! What am I thinking!?!

So...you know who to call if you want your house to smell good! I am pretty excited. And...expect me to call many of you to come to, or host a party! It also gives me an excuse to hang out with my friends and family. I will be bribing everyone with chocolate!

P.S.- I found out that there is such thing as cookie dough withdrawl this week!

2 posts in one day! Boy am I chatty or what!?! Anyway, I had to brag. Today at my stroller boot camp class, I had to run a timed mile. I ran it in 11 min. and 57 sec. Now, some of you may be laughing, but this was great for me! I didn't think that I could walk, let alone run after eating so much cookie dough (see the previous blog abt. the cookie dough). I am still in the exercise hole by a long shot, but at least I am trying. Here are some pictures from the hot weekend!

Stay Cool!

Naughty Cookie Dough!

Once upon a time there were 2 tubs of cookie dough. They lived at James and Amber's house nice and cozy in their freezer. These tubs of cookie dough were like no other tubs of cookie dough. They were delicious and tempting beyond what a normal cookie dough should be! Amber and James could hear them calling from their garage night and day! Slowly Amber and James kept giving into temptation. The guilt was terrible.
Each day the tubs contained less and less cookie dough. When Amber and James realized that the cookie dough was almost gone, they decided to just eat the rest to stop the temptation, and they ate it all (There were a few cookies baked from the tubs for Amber and James' children, who were very thankful for the little bit of cookies they received from either of the tubs of dough)! Now Amber and James are kicking themselves because of the fat that has accumulated all over their bodies. They are very sad! (But...it was very delicious cookie dough!)
The End

I got tagged!

Mindy tagged me, I hope I do this right!
See Ya!

Two Names I Go By: Mom and Chooch
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now: Jeans and t-shirt
Two Of Your Favorite Things To Do: Talk and blog
Two Things You Want Very Badly At This Moment: A maid and a chef
Two Favorite Pets: I don't like pets, it's worse than another kid to clean up
Two People Who Will Fill This Out: Jessie and Pam
Two Things You Did Last Night: Went to Christian's Baseball game and chewed out a ref.
Two Things You Ate Today: A double cheeseburger (McDonalds) and a slimfast shake-oxymorons huh?
Two Last People You Talked To: My sister and Pam
Two Longest Car Rides: Idaho Falls to Boise and Idaho to Missoula
Two Favorite Holidays: 4th of July and Christmas
Two Favorite Vacations: I have only been on 1- San Francisco
Two Favorite Drinks: Diet Pepsi and Crystal Light- I don't believe in drinking calories!

Crazy Busy!

This last week was busy! On Thursday we went to Christian's baseball game! They won! He looks so cute in his little uniform!

Friday I went to Mother's Day Tea with Taylor at school, she gave me a flower. That night we went to Taylor's choir concert. She was so cute! She had to wear boys pants because I couldn't find any black girl pants (she doesn't know this though).

Saturday we went to some Cage fighting in Idaho Falls. Sorry, I don't have any pictures dang it! I wanted to get some good pictures of crazy guys beating the crap out of each other to share with everyone, but I forgot my camera. I was so mad! The guy who is going to do our basement was fighting, it was awesome! I epically liked to people watch, it was a mix between a Nascar event and the Eastern Idaho State Fair! CRAZY!

Sunday: Mother's Day! I got to go spend it with my Mom, Sister, and Grandma Empey and the guys too. It was really fun. We had a BBQ, and pigged out like crazy! We got to ride the 4 wheeler, Christian and Taylor are great drivers (very scary)!

O.K. girls! Have I got a treat for you!

1) Go to my music player push pause button on the music.

2) Go to the 2 movies near my slide shows at the bottom and push play.

3) Sit back, relax and relate!

Need I say more?

Have a GREAT one!

SSDD!

So...today I was running errands. I had a 1 hr. window to do them while Averi was at therapy, so I was in a rush. I was on the way back to pick her up and I must of been deep in thought. I all of a sudden couldn't remember if the light I just went through was green or red or what! I was so insecure and then I started to doubt if I had even ran any of my errands. I had to actually mentally rewind my last 30 min. and make sure I really did what I thought I had done! I was really scared for the safety of the public at that point! I think I just drive around in auto pilot all of the time. I go to the same places so often I can't remember if my memory was from today or last week! I have probably already wrote this blog and forgot about it! I have been known to have many blond moments so far in my life, I really worry about my mental stability!

For instance...(I know a lot of you have heard this story, sorry!) About 1 month ago I was pulling into a parking place and I thought it was a little tight, so I backed out and tried again. I still thought it was tight, so I decided to park somewhere else. I drove to a different spot and accidentally hit a rope tied to some cones. I just kept thinking that I was so lucky I didn't hit a car. Well...that evening a cop pulls up at my house and asked me if I owned an Armada and I said yes! He said that he had a report that my car had been involved in a hit and run incident earlier that day! I was like "who hit my car?"! He said that nobody hit me, and then informed me that I hit somebody's car. NO WAY! He wanted to see my car and of course he was right, I had "rubbed" along the car in the too tight of spot! I didn't even notice. I guess somebody else saw, and left a big note that I was a "hit-and-runner". I was so mad that they didn't even say anything to me! I was not a "hit-and-runner", I was a "hit-and-parker". So this is my latest blond moment. Oh yeah, on the way into my garage as we were walking along the back of my car, I was bragging to the cop how I never hit anything, and I have never even been pulled over. And that is when I noticed that he saw my broken tail light, and I thought "crap" and had to add in "except my garbage can in my driveway". He just rolled his eyes at me!

So, chalk another one up to my hair color. No offence to you other blonds. I have to have something to blame. I don't want to blame it on my malfunctioning brain. I think I need therapy now-chocolate therapy! James hid the M&M's from himself (me) so I am having a chocolate crisis right now (yes, I do self medicate with chocolate and diet Pepsi). I am going to have to search my whole house. On top of all of this, I think my house is haunted! When I got home today, my front door was open and I made sure it was closed tight when I left! Or, there could be another serial killer hiding in my basement right now! GREAT! I don't have time for that again!

The theme to my life is SSDD! This is supposed to say Same (swear word that starts with "s") different day, but since we all know that I "abstain from being profane", I changed it to SAME STUFF DIFFERENT DAY!

P.S.-Please don't ask my children about me swearing, they sometimes lie!

Nicknames, nicknames, nicknames

Amber, aka:

Mahannana
Mahannamamma
Christian's mom
Taylor's mom
Averi's mom
James' wife
Mrs. Williams
Sister Williams
Mamalady
Mom
That's not fair
Chooch
Feechuchi
Crazy Freakin' Chooch
Crazy Lady
Crazy Mama Lady
Yo
Just to name a few..................


P.S.- It took James approx. 4 hrs. to come up with this post! This posting stuff can be a lot of pressure. He made up the nickname Feechuchi about 12 yrs. ago and it has since shortened to just Chooch. That is what he calls me most of the time. Mahanna is a nickname from college that I got. Probably because I was ugly!?! Who knows, but it really stuck!

Why?!?

*This is my yard today:

*This is my attitude today:

(James changed our blog title to Put another Blog on the Fire because he just got home from 97 degree heat in Arizona last night)