life recently

well, as most everyone knows.. its been a crazy crazy week.

and thus-

the posting on our life has not appeared for a while. so.. i shall give a quick recap.

Currently, Sterling is in Nevada until this Sunday on a sale's trip. Call me weird.. I wasn't looking forward to him leaving... but I was looking forward to the chance to deep clean our enttttiiirrrree apartment. I don't like cleaning unless I'm alone for some reason.. but really... since probably 8:30 this morning (until now, when i sat to take a breath) I've been seriously sweating my brains out. And honestly truly... i'm getting the biggest rush from it? haha is it strange to get a high from loving to be cleaning? (NO its not the cleaning chemicals). its just an endorphin rush for some reason. yet... i despise putting dishes away from the dishwasher and putting laundry away... (grr. gotta do that, sometime today.) So today's plan:: getting down and dirty with the duster, rubber gloves, clorox, windex, 409 and the Lysol disinfecting wipes. oh... and who could forget about my love of the vacuum. I'll save the best for last. nothing better than a clean floor

i'll stop there before some people really get a little freaked out? if they aren't already.

the last post before shaily's accident was Sterling's birthday... so (forgive my memory) I'm going to try and remember the things that have gone on since then.

The week of Sterling's birthday... we babysat my siblings for 4 days while my parents decided to ditch out and go to mehiko. It was pretty fun, alright. Going from just the two of us- to taking care of 4 sugar-crazed hyperactive kids... was... birth control. for lack of a better word.

No, but really, it was fun. we had fun doing homework with them, getting them up and ready for school, breakfast, packing lunch bags, and taking them.. helping in a couple of their classes, seeing how smart they are, picking them up from school, piano and violin practices, family night, taking them to get frozen yogurt as a surprise, going out to dinner... [which ended up being crazy.. -- for 4 kids.. we ended up going to Burger King, Cafe Rio, and THEN zupas. because no one wanted what the other did, and no one would agree. except morgan who was Switzerland] chores, making a cake, helping with book reports, playing basketball outside, corporal punishments...[[ wait... what? ]] basically we are the best babysitters ever.

Andrea took over for us on Wednesday.. she came over with her naked cat. the kids loved it. that won them over for best babysitter award. whatevs. we're cooler.

My mom and Rich-winter took us to the JAZZ vs LAKERS game for sterling's birthday. My mom claimed that she felt bad she missed his bday while she was in Mexico scuba diving.. but we don't believe that. (the game made up for it. ;) ). Before the game we went to dinner and of course they should have saw it coming, but we had to get an April fool's joke in. So before they picked us up, we printed off an ultrasound picture from the internet (you can already see where this is going). I made them a hand made, cute card and taped the picture on the inside. It said TO: GRANDMA AND GRANDPA MAXWELL- WORLDS BEST GRANDPARENTS!!

then it said something to the effect of... i'm 10 weeks along, but don't say anything! we want to keep it a secret! love you guys!

[[[[[and just a quick fore-word... Its April Fool's day... right? and everyone knows to just expect some crazy made up lie or joke to be played on them. Everyone takes that gullible side for at least the day... or they try to. So the point is.. we were making up this whole plan on how we'll have to convince my mom all night, because we knew she would just call us out on it immediately saying "oh HA. HA. guys. NICCCCE try." so we had made up doctors visits and dates memorized, due dates calculated, doctors names and everything. lol. we were TOTALLY prepared to have to convince her, and we were going to let it go alllll night then tell them when they dropped us off april fool's! well.. that was our plan. ]]]]]

So while we were eating dinner at Rumbi's, my mom kept looking at me saying "why are you smiling like that? why are you being so smug? what aren't you telling me!? tell me RIGHT NOW.. what are you guys up to???" i was all.. oh crap.. she already knows a joke is coming. so a couple minutes later, I pulled out the card and gave it to them.

She opened it... "looked up with tears in her eyes and screamed. literally. "YAYYYYYY! I KNEW it!! i knew something was up!! oh YAYYYY!! CONGRATTTTSSS guys!! *gives us hugs over the table* I'm going to be a grandma!! we're grandparents!!!! *crying*"

THIS. ladies and gentlemen.. was the point where i glance at sterling with DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS eyes (while my mom was hugging rich) and whisper "ohhh crap. i'm not telling her. you tell her.."

i knew immediately i couldn't keep this going all night. she was sooo excited and i felt so bad. hahahahahahahaha.

Rich says... isn't it april fool's day??

My mom: "yeah, but this isn't a joke.. pauses.. wait... its not, right? is this a JOKE??? *looks down with a pouty face/ crumples picture and card* i hate you."

hey... at least we know what her potential reaction will be when that time really comes. lol

seriously NOT what we were prepared for AT ALL.

A couple days ago, Sterling and I spent from waking (9ish am) till about 5pm cleaning and packing up most of our apartment and making like 4-5 trips to the storage unit and also the DI. We packed up all of the things we won't need in the next 2 1/2 weeks and for all of summer. Leaving only the big furniture, bookshelves, tv, couch, dresser, bed... other than that.. everything including decorations frames, rugs, and even some kitchen stuff is all packed. I went through my closet and sifted out probably more than half my shirts and had my sister morgan come rummage through a MASSSIVE pile of clothes, shoes, jewelry and such to take for herself. I took the rest to Plato's closet... got 30 bucks, then took the leftovers of that to the DI.

Seriously a crazy day. but I feel good about getting a lot of it all packed early, rather than all within the same week. because that week is my finals week, and i'll be going crazy as it is.

So.. maybe you can see how i'm loving cleaning right now. the apartment is basically empty, makes it look reallllly clean. nothing on the shelves, or the coffee table, and i can vacuum most the ENTIRE floor!!!!.. ok i can admit the vacuuming thing might be an unhealthy obsession. Sterling thinks so at least. My favorite is vacuuming the whole floor of the whole apartment and just laying on the floor after. haha

that night- Tahnee and Brett and little chubby Kaden came over and Tahnee whipped up her amazing lettuce wraps with ground turkey, veggies, and PLUMMM sauce. mmmm. so amazing. we watched a movie and played games. Sequence, catch phrase, and guestures. . we were seriously having so much fun. those last two games got pretty intense!! and Kaden was good and was watching us all as we were acting like loonies acting things out. They left around 11 and I was up until about 2:30am doing stupid homework then was up at 6am for classes. stupid idiot school.

i mean.. school is great. and i love that i'm furthering my education, and I encourage all young people to go to college and obtain their degree of knowledge... haaaaaaaa. idiot.

ok i'm done.

.and to all a good day.