i hate car rides

Sorry I have been MIA again, but I have been super busy!  My brother and sister in law just had their second son, so I have been busy being an aunt!!  I would like to announce the birth of my nephew, Ryder Jensen. My brother lives in Maryland, so usually once a month my parents, sister and I truck on down to Maryland to see our family.  The ride is only 2 and a half an hours so it is not bad.  I had a great Easter weekend with my family; I am truly blessed. 

the newest fmaily addition, Ryder

My other nephew, Brayden (the big brother), is 18 months and literally the funniest toddler I know.  I had a great time playing and being a big kid with him from throwing the ball around, to blowing bubbles to running around a tunnel that I just fit in!  It was a blast!

my adorable nephew & BFF, Brayden

It seems every time we go to Maryland to meet my nephews for the first time, something goes wrong with our car.  Last year in October 2009 when we went down to meet baby, Brayden, literally as we got on the turnpike our car started smoking.  We pulled over and called triple A and got picked up by a crazy truck driver!  Little to our surprise, our engine died and this crazy truck driver had to drive my family and I home in a pick up truck.  It was not funny at the moment, but now looking back it was hysterical.  I can just picture my family and I in our pj's in a HUGE pick up truck with this crazy truck driver who was definitely from a different planet!

Well this time... to start the drive down took us 5 hours because traffic was HORRIBLE!  It was miserable, but all worth it for a great weekend.  Then we left yesterday morning, we were doing great!  I took an hour and a half nap and woke up and we were just getting into New Jersey; things were looking good.  Then we left my sister and I started to play the alphabet game (yes, we are big kids at heart) and then our car started to "shimmy."  Ali and I were like "Whoa, we are shimming!" But our dad said not to worry about it.  We have a mini van and my dad knows everything, so Ali and I trusted him because he is our dad.  But we continued to "shimmy," and the big kids that we are we started to sing, "shimmy shimmy coco puff, shimmy shimmy pow," and cracking each other up.  And then BOOM our whole car totally shifted.  Luckily my dad was able to pull over and to our surprise we had the worst flat tire!

the flat tire :(

Luckily, flats are easily fixed and triple A came to our rescue within 30 minutes.  But we all agreed, if my brother has another kid we will wait to meet the baby when they come to Jersey!

bid and bid and bid and bid

I have a new addiction and it is called bidrack.com.  It is an auction website when you can bid and buy great things! 

I am addicted and I am laughing at myself because I am literally just staring at the screen debating to bid or not because it is so competitive.  I am eyeing the Macbook and a Louie bag; I literally turned around for a second and BOOM the Louie sold for three dollars!  I am so mad at myself.  And as a punishment, I am making myself stay off of it for at least 3 hours.  We need some time apart. 

Check it out and make an account, you get 40 bids just for signing up! 
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Tweet Tweet

I love twitter, I have officially become an avid tweeter.  Twitter definitely gets me through my day.  On my breaks I go on twitter on my phone and laugh or catch up with friends. 

Who are your favorite people to follow on twitter?

OR

Who is the funniest person you follow on twitter?

Right now, I would have to say the funniest person I follow on twitter is the BronxZoosCobra.  The cobra's tweets are hysterical....

"@BronxZooCobra: I was named the second most powerful animal on Twitter: http://bit.ly/esoFcZ And yet, I can't seem to get a decent soy latte in here. "

"@BronxZooCobra:You know I like fat bottomed girls. I'm from the Bronx. Duh."

"@BronxZooCobra: Anyone know if Rebecca Black lives in NYC? No reason."

"@BronxZooCobra: A lot of people are asking how I can tweet with no access to a computer or fingers. Ever heard of an iPhone? Duh."

Mad snaps to the person who created this twitter, you make my day brighter and full of laughs :)!

Prom Season

How did you get asked to prom?  I do not even remember how I got asked, I think it was just mutually agreed for my friend, Matt and I to go together.  My cousin, Kelsey, who is more like a baby sister is currently a senior in high school, she had been stressing the past 2 weeks because no one had asked her to prom yet.  It was devastating for her and for all of us to watch her go through this.  No one could bring up the word prom to her because it was a sore subject.  Finally Kelsey decided to take matters in her own hands and asked a boy she thought would have asked her.  When she asked he said he was not sure if he even wanted to go.  She was annoyed and upset and just did not get it. 

I am not saying this because I am family, but Kelsey is an adorable hot 18 year old, she is tall and skinny and hilarious.  There is no reason why any boy would not want to go with her.

So last Friday was the school's fundraiser, Mr. Pinacle, which is a male beauty pageant.  The boy she thought would have asked her was a contestant.  During the talent portion, he sang and played the piano to "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry and was amazing at it!  While performing, mid performance he called Kelsey up on stage and sang to her in front of the whole school and asked her to prom!  It was great and my other cousin (Kelsey's sister) caught this all on film! 

Now after all this, Kelsey is happy and the date explained he had this planned the whole time to ask her this way but he felt really bad when Kelsey asked him herself.  He almost did not go through with this because Kelsey would have to wait another week dateless.  But Kelsey said it was well worth the wait to have gotten asked to prom the way she did.