I Had No Idea That Claire's Was A Top Secret Store!!

So the next two pictures you can look at and ponder and decide what you will! I find this really, really ridiculous! hehe

The earring necklace...hmmm...

This is just weird. Anyone buy one of these?!

I had got a shirt the day I took the kids to get shoes for school (reminds me that I still need to order Nathan's shoes online). Well, one of the shirts still had a security tag on it so I had to take it back so they could remove it. Jill came along. We walked around and browsed many stores. We eventually hit up Claire's. Did you know you cannot take pictures in Claire's?! If you do, they'll yell at you then talk about you on the phone! I never saw a sign or anything of the sorts that said we could not take pictures! I had no idea that Claire's was a top secret store!! So yeah, we totally got in trouble for me taking a picture! hehe! Makes me want to go back and take more pictures...but with my camera on silence! Ha!

It is a fancy pirate eye patch! We got in trouble seconds after this!

I really can't think of what all else I did this week. Hmm...I know one day I dropped the girls off at the pool when Jill and Lori went. I took Nathan up to Paul's work to sell some discount cards for feetsball. We thought we could hit up everyone Paul works with but we didn't have luck on our side. Most of the peeps were in some kind of class. He got some cards sold. Then he resorted to texting some of my friends on my cell about it and got a few more sales that way. I ended up buying 4. 1 for me and I bought 3 people's so they owe me money! I sure hope they pay up because the cards were $15 each! Eek! So he had to sell 15 and he sold 14. So he has decided to buy the last one with his lunch money this week and will try and see if someone from church will buy his card on Wednesday to get his money back! hehe! If he doesn't sell 15 then he has to run extra laps at feetsball and he doesn't want to run them. 

On Friday I took my car to a Chevy dealer to get some recall work done on it. I thought about trading my car in on a new one...or at least try anyway. So Jill, being my battle buddy, and I went to the wrong dealership. The website claimed them to be GMC and Chevy and there was a car that both made that I wanted to compare. Yeah, we should have gone to a different dealership. So we walked around for a bit before anyone finally asked if we needed help. The dude, bless his heart, was a fuddy duddy. And off the topic here, if you insert "bless his/her heart" then it totally is not an insult! hehe!

So they didn't have what I really wanted and the dude came back with some numbers. I said that was ok and that I was going to try a different dealer. He said ok and got up and walked off. Didn't even try to keep me. So we had the courtesy vehicle drop us off at my house and we took Jill's car over to the other dealership. What we should have done was have the courtesy vehicle take us straight to this dealership! hehe!

We got there and again was ignored before David (the car salesman) came tripping around the corner. I liked him instantly. He was funny. But he had a sidekick, another car salesman named Randy. The two together were a trip. They played off each other and it was a good experience. We found the car I wanted and explained to them why I had gone to the other dealership and blah blah blah. Then Randy said, "If you buy this vehicle today, I will buy your next tattoo." David said, "And I will tint the front windows!" (the windows are tinted but the driver's and passenger doors). So yeah, someone owes me a tattoo and a tint job! Woot! hehe!

So we go to test drive and Randy tells us to drive to that other dealership to see if my car was ready so they could do a fair assessment on the car. So we drove all the way over there. David was all skerred about them being there...something about having a turf fight or something! hehe! Ok, he didn't say that. But he was afraid they would get in trouble by their boss for showing up at a dealership that wasn't theirs! My car wasn't done so we went back to the other dealership. I had the power of attorney for Paul and everything I needed for a deal. When all was said and done, I liked the deal I got and bought me a new car with a higher trade-in value than what the other dealer was going to give me. And this place didn't even see my car! Did it site unseen! hehe!

On Saturday I had to go to the bank we financed through to add my name to Paul's account there (his truck is financed through them too). They said I couldn't. I said, "Sure I can. I have a power of attorney. I just bought a car in his name without him here. I can add myself to his account too." After taking it all the way up to the bank manager, it was approved. hehe! I was added to the account and back to the dealership to finalize some papers and such and then I was on my way. 

Sunday was a lazy day. Stayed home and then Holly came over. She had the girls stay at her hotel the night before. Holly is my sister that is here for her job for a couple of months.  She dropped them off earlier in the day and then came back for dinner. Jill and her girls joined us as well. We had meatloaf, broccoli and baked potatoes. Jill and I are trying to do the low carb thing, so we made low carb meatloaf, which was yummy. And she made mock mashed potatoes with cauliflower. I was skeptical at first but after tasting them, they were super yummy! And surprisingly did taste a little like mashed potatoes! After dinner, Holly left as well as Jill and her girls. And we had to get things ready for the next day because school was starting! WOOT!

Paul had called and talked to the kids and wished them all well in school. Then he and I chatted for a bit. But because I had company over, he told me to call him back. So I did once everyone had left. He is still stressing school because it is getting harder and harder. He is doing well though. Top of class still. He had two big tests today and he passed them both but he said just by a hair. We got his tentative date to deploy after his schooling and we chatted about that too.  Then I let him go so he could go to bed!

And today: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! WOOT WOOT! I still can't believe I have a high schooler! That makes Paul really old now! hehe! Nathan told me when I picked him from feetsball this evening that they put him in a sophomore English class so he has to change it although he really doesn't want to. He liked the teacher. He did well in school and was happy that he had friends that attended it. So he saw lots of peeps and had a blast today. I still can't believe he is in high school!! Paul: you're old dude! hehe!

Nathan - WOOT! First day of high school!

Meghan started 7th grade and loves it. She loved that we repinked her hairs yesterday because she got lots of compliments on it. She likes her teachers. Her only disappointment today was that they didn't put her in the magnet Spanish class, which means she has 2 Spanish classes instead of one. So she talked to the assistant principal about it who said he would try to get her in it. She talked to the teacher who teaches the class and she had Meghan last year too. Told Meghan that she would get into it. I told her that she needed to stay on top of it.

Meghan - 7th grade

Jannie is in 5th grade and is typically my child who dislikes schools. But she raved about it today. She must have some good teachers or maybe she was excited for the first day of school?! She typically doesn't even get excited for the 1st day of school. She was happy that she didn't have to take Spanish this year but she will next year. She said that everyone loved her hairs too with the pink in it. The blue came out when she went swimming the other day so I just put more pink in it on Sunday. So she thought it was cool that her whole ponytail was pink. I should have taken a picture of that too! hehe!

Jannie - 5th grade

Before school. (Nathan said he didn't like smiling in pictures)

Then a friend of mine from Kentucky had mentioned that she hadn't seen a self portrait on Facebook in a while and wanted to see how dark my hairs was. I mentioned on a status that it was supposed to have purple in it but it made it look black rather than purple. I don't even know if you can see the purple anymore in the sun! I used a different brand of purple on Sunday so that might have something to do with it?! So I took a couple of pictures of myself for Anjelique!

For Anjelique since she said she hadn't seen a self-portrait in a while!

Happy that school is starting today! WOOT!

My hairs is looking black rather than purple! I might have to fix that!!

So the other day Lori told me that our FRG leader was leaving during the deployment and that Lori was going to take over. She asked me to be her co-leader. I chatted with the colonel's wife about it and she said that I should start coming out to the things that are typically for leaders and co-leaders. So yeah schedule this week just filled up fast! I have something FRG wise everyday this week! Thankfully only one of them is at night and the rest are during the day while the kids are at school. 

So Lori told me today that some guy in Jill's husband's unit got in a motorcycle wreck and is badly hurt. Not life threatening but needs surgery and such, so now he is non-deployable. So the talk is that they are going to send Lori's husband to take this guy's job, which means that Lori will go back to Jill's FRG (Jill is leader of her FRG). So yeah, uh, I guess that means if that happens, I will be promoted to FRG leader of my FRG! Say whaaaaaat?! It's not official and I don't know when they'll know for sure. For my sake, I hope Rob doesn't move over. But for Rob's sake, I hope they give him that because it only helps with promotions. So I am torn! hehe

Well today is over. Kids are in bed. I am on my patio enjoying the nice weather and view. Maybe I will see what is on Netflix! I hope y'all have a great night!!