This most certainly did NOT happen!!!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

It is time to confess...those silly little things that most certainly did NOT happen in the NUT house...

I did NOT lose my little notebook that I had sitting by my bed so that I could remember what little tid-bits happened during the week so I would have a few little "gems" to post on Not Me Monday!

I did NOT fully intend to skip posting a Not Me! Monday list because I could not remember anything that happened this week.

My memory did NOT kick in at dinner tonight when I told the story of going to pick Allie up from school this week on Thurs. I was running a couple of minutes early and thought Yeah! This is a first! I'm NEVER early!! I did NOT proceed to drive to the gym (where the girls spend 4 days a week), park my car and then realize that I drive there so much that my car was on autopilot. I then did NOT turn around and drive to the church to get Al and ended up being 2 minutes late, ruining any chance of breaking my "late" streak.

The following conversation absolutely, positively DID NOT happen around our dinner table tonight, prompting my return to Not Me! Monday. And I am NOT posting this especially for my sisters who I'm sure can imagine this exact conversation and any and all facial expressions that occurred during said conversation.... keep in mind that the fab four and I live with Meme and Poppy...(a.k.a.- Mom and Dad (mine-) Dad...talking about something, I can't remember exactly what, that isn't important..."la-la-la-de-dah.."....knock on wood."

Mom: "Where do you think that expression came from? Knock on wood?"

Dad: "Well, I'm sure I don't know"

Mom: " Well, what do you suppose they knocked on?"

Dad and I look at each other for a split second, incredulously (is that a word?).

Dad: "Well, wood!"

I certainly DID NOT break into gales of laughter, NOT laughing so hard that I could NOT hardly breathe, and I DID NOT look at my father who was NOT laughing so hard that he was NOT beet red. The children DID NOT laugh at their grandmother because I've raised them to be ultra respectful of their elders...my father and I DID NOT cry because we were NOT laughing so hard....when we could all breathe again we DID NOT look down the table at my mother who was just sitting there and DID NOT look amused (really! not amused one bit!!!)

So that's it...that's all I remember ...maybe I'll find my notebook this week or maybe NOT!

Take care everyone...Stay tuned, Love,S

Just plugging along...

I realized today that I haven't really posted anything of interest in a week...except for Birthday info which is HUGE NEWS!! Yeah for Meme and Poppy!!! (aka Mom and Dad)...I have not been happy with the pictures my camera has been taking lately. For some reason they are a little blurry...and I've tried changing batteries and memory cards but I don't know if I accidentally changed some setting or pushed the wrong button. For those of you who know me well, you know that is NOT a hard thing to imagine! So I haven't taken many pics recently. But rest assured my friends...life has been plugging, more like streaking, along at breakneck speed....let's see...we'll start at the top....My Macie...we have been struggling with grades and teenage attitude recently. Her grades are improving and so is her attitude at the moment so great news there! She got her first pair of contacts on Saturday and is looking very grown up all of a sudden. It may be the fact the she looks down at me now but she is not my "little" girl anymore. But I remind her all the time that she will always be my "baby". Holley has been going to the gym like normal...3 days a week. She is getting straight A's at school and we worked at a mini meet together that our gym hosted on Sat. She spent the rest of the weekend at her friend Kyler's house...Scott is just hanging out being Scott. He is also making straight A's and loves to hang out with his good friend Jack after school and play basketball. He likes to call his friend M.J. after school...he likes to talk on the phone more than his sisters which is totally weird to me. Holley and Macie don't talk on the phone hardly at all...but Scotty, everyday he's talking to someone...it cracks me up! And last but not least is Allie...She officially started "team" at the gym two weeks ago. She works out twice a week on Tues and Thurs. It is cute watching her learn the level 2 skills. I don't think I was around much when Holley was at that level. I think I was in school and Meme went to practice a lot. Anyway, she LOVES it!! She has a poster of Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson on her wall that she looks at every night!!! It is super cute!! So I think that catches everyone up on the happenings in the Browning Household!!! I will try to be better at posting and putting pics up. Maybe I need to go camera shopping....I think the problem is I visit so many cute blogs with such wonderful pictures...and even with the best camera in the world...if you have a photographer like me...well...enough said. Take care...Stay tuned...Love,S

Happy Birthday Mom and Dad!

It's birthday time for two of my very favorite people!! Yesterday was my mom's birthday...we celebrated with the birthday girl's menu of choice...pork spare ribs, green beans, spinach and pineapple upside down cake. Yummy!!!
Today we will be celebrating again. This time it is Dad's birthday!! I'm not sure what the menu will include...but I do know that I will be making his requested cake...it also happen to be MY favorite...yellow cake with chocolate icing...oh yeah!! Yippee! Happy birthdays Mom and Dad!! We love you, Stacey, Macie, Holley, Scott and Allie.

What a way to end the season....Yippee

Today, Holley competed in the Alamo Classic Invitational meet. She has requested I put each of her events on this blog as well as any awards she "may have won"...There are people that were not able to come to the meet that Holley really wanted to be able to "see" her routines. You will have to (suffer-J/K) humm...enjoy each event and then watch the awards...wait a sec...Holley wants to post a note...(truly her, I swear!)...she will be finishing the comments on this post...I'll finish up the end...

Yay!My best (almost)bars!!! Please leave me a comment and let me know you saw me!!

Awards for bars...listen carefully... (I'm even suprised of what i heard!)

My floor was great! (at least Ithink it was!)Prepare to be(almost, hopefully) blown away!!!!

I'm really excited about this award !! (I feel like I'm winning the Ocscars!!!)

This is my VERY good beam routine that I did!!!!!! (kool!!)

Do you like my routine? I thank my 2 coaches (Kristin and Svetlana) for teaching me the right stuff!!!

We'll here's my V-A-L-U-T!! I've been kinda struggilin' with this.

I dont't think anyone was more suprised of the results than me!!!

Hih-huh hih-huh! (that is deep breathing) I was VERY nervous waiting for the all around scoresto come in!

So there you have it folks....if you have made it through all of the events and the awards...you now know the results. ...(this is Stacey again by the way...) I am super proud of my little monkey....4th place bars, 2nd place floor, 1st place beam and 1st place vault, and 1 st place all around level 5 Sr. A...way to go Holley. What a way to end this season....'til next August....Stay tuned...Love, S

Macie's Birthday celebration

Make a Smilebox slideshow

I love you Macie girl....hope you had a great 13th Birthday...

A Teenager is in the house...

Happy Birthday to my sweet 13 year old Macie!! I love you...pics to come...I'm SO proud of you.

Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Here are a few of the things we have NOT done this week!

Macie did NOT come home with a flower from a (gasp) b-o-y, because she knows that if she did it would send her mom over the edge. Nope Macie has already declared that she will not start dating b-o-y-s until she is 30 at the very earliest.

Holley did NOT tell me that she had no idea where her very expensive green leotard was. She did not suggest that she had taken it to her Dad's where THEY must have lost it, prompting me to call them and inquire as to the whereabouts of said leotard, only to find it stuffed down behind her night stand, wadded up in a ball. No, she never would treat her leotard like that.

Scott most certainly did NOT eat the entire box of valentine candy that I gave him (Sat) night at dinner by lunch time on Sunday. That would be totally gross....and way too fattening for my fitness conscious little guy.

It is totally NOT true that I have started keeping a spiral next to my bed so that I can jot down fun, interesting, or embarrassing things that happen during the week so that I can remember them to post each Monday. Because if that were true...that would mean I'm a total blog nerd and I'm way too busy keeping up with the fab four to obsess over this "blog stuff ", not to mention that would also mean that my memory is less than stellar!

It is most definitely NOT true that I took a week off from blogging because I was throwing a "virtual" temper tantrum. No way! Not me! Never happened!

I certainly did NOT dye my hair darker this week because I'm too cheap to spend the money to keep up with the highlights that were starting to look very "interesting" on my head.

I did NOT tell my youngest "No more candy! We don't eat candy at bedtime." Only to be caught 20 minutes later eating a piece of candy myself. No way would I ever set a double standard like that!

I have so Not gotten the cold that the fab four have passed around this week. I mean come on...I'm a nurse and way too focused on proper hand hygiene to allow myself to touch something and then infect myself with their cold!! What kind of nurse would I be to allow that to happen? Oh, and our Meme most certainly has not gotten it too.

And no matter what you've heard or who might tell you otherwise, I did NOT laugh out loud when my little girl slid down a 20 ft. inflatable slide at a birthday party, stood up, and was then "taken out" (laid flat, knocked down) by another kid sliding down after her. No way would I laugh 'cause that would mean I am not a sweet mommy who runs over and scoops up her injured child, wipes the tears and kisses the ouchies away! Actually, this mommy DID run over, scoop her up, wipe away tears, laughing the WHOLE time!!

What have you NOT been up to this week???