Mi Vida!

losing it

2012-01-27T13:13:00.000-08:00

I feel like we are doing great! We arent necessarily on a diet but instead just 'counting calories.' Theres things we value more then others, and now levi is more regularily under his calorie count for the day! I lost another 2 lbs last week, and he lost 1. However I read the other day you can cut out over 6,000 calories a month by eliminating all ketchup, mayo, and dressing type things. Yet we value our food tasting good over a few extra calories each day. Lol!
I also am feeling like im losing it regarding all this wedding stuff, especially the showers. Wish i could just snap my fingers and itd be september 9th. That way itd be aftr cody and allies weddn, but itd also be peytons 6th bday! My baby is guna be 6 this year! And Isaac just turned 6 this past week. Time flies! Hoping this summer flies by and that things can calm down after that. I just keep repeating every morning 'dont worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself' ... thats all for now! :)

Update

2012-01-21T18:59:00.000-08:00

Well, things have been going great over here. I lost 2 1/2 lbs my first week of 'watching' calories. And my inside of my legs are super sore still from the workout at the gym yesterday with my mom. I'm seriously out of shape badly. :( Like huffing, puffing, feeling like i might pass out after only 10 minutes on the elliptical. Like where when I'm at 6 minutes I'm counting every second with it. Yea. Not good. LOL! So I might need to work on that a lil more.. :P

ANYWHO, i'm still feeling great, especially since I lost a few pounds. I'll weigh myself again tomorrow, since my weigh-in day is Sunday. Levi lost 3 lbs his first week. He doesn't believe he 'lost' them lbs since his weight fluctuates so much constantly. SO we will see tomorrow when he weighs in if he's gained or lost at all. Either way he's eating MUCH healthier, so thats a start. I also am now able to wear a pair of jeans that Allie had given me that before I could get up and on, but would be so uncomfortable to even wear that it hurt my stomach to keep them on for more then 10 minutes. And now they fit! I was very impressed they fit so soon! Like I just tried them on to see! Imagine my surprise! :) Yay! Unfortunately that means the two pairs i did just buy that were slightly a lil too large (since I dont like them too tight) are now actually far to large and kind of like fall off my butt! Yipes!

Hmm besides that I had a great time meeting with two of the other bridesmaids for my cousin deannas wedding the other day. We are just starting to look at shower dates, places, bachelorette party stuff and what not. I finally found a dress for the other wedding (being my brothers) which is in september. So exciting! Something not so exciting is that my laptop made thee strangest "BEEP!" noise, froze, and I had to shut it off the other night. Now it does this weird scan thing everytime it starts up, and works like horribly. Like sometimes it loads pages, sometimes it doesnt. No rhyme or reason to it all really. SO I'm thinking my laptop is on its way out. :( VERY Sad, as it's been one of my closest bff's for nearly 5 years. I guess thats probably a long time for a laptop tho. :( Another not great thing is how loud hubster is snoring next to me right now. Yesh. LOL

Something that was GREAT was our visit with Levis old good friend tonight. We met up with John, Libby (John's fiance) and Alli (their lil 8 month old) in Stevens Point since thats about half way between us and them for where we both live. We enjoyed our short get together with them. Alli got super tired, where she like fell forward and nodded off a few times, so they kind of had to get going. :) It was great tho getting to hang out with a couple that we have stuff in common with, that levi and him used to be such close friends, and Libby and I even get along! Its not often that we find a couple where we both like the couple. :) SO this was wonderful. Were super jealous cause they're going to Mexico in March! They're even going to Riviera Maya, the region we got married in, but not to the same resort we went to. Still super jealous tho. :) We are looking forward to keeping in contact with them and hopefully seeing them again soon! I said it'd be nice to go to a hotel up there near them, and else we invited them to come stay down here if theyd ever like. So we'll see! :) We're pretty excited!!

And besides that I don't know to much. Gotta get to bed to go to early church in the morning and out to breakfast with Grandma & Grandpa! Its going to be one more busy day tomorrow, just like the last two days! Hopefully one of these weekends we have a relaxing weekend, although its not looking like that will happen anytime soon!

Peyton

2012-01-13T18:16:00.000-08:00

Here's some cute pictures of my other godbaby, Peyton! :) Although, he's not much of a baby anymore! These were taken Christmas Eve at my Grandma's house. He's SO cute! :)

Do he look like he wants his picture taken?! LOL!A cute picture of us! Although I kind of look like a blimp.. LOL! And hes definitely ready to open his presents! :)

And Angry Bird! How awesome!And 20Q! Just what he wanted!

And 2 angry bird's shirt! Yippee!And an Angry Bird's hat! Love this last picture! And bet you can't guess what he's into...

Angry Birds!!! :)

Expecting?!

2012-01-12T19:10:00.000-08:00

Are we expecting?

I definitely know that..

I am NOT.

But this picture..

Kind of makes me wonder..

If the other one of US is!
(haha! love you honey! and for those wondering, he's just feeling up his new jacket he got from my parents for Christmas and I happened to snap a picture at the exact right time to make it look like hes pregnant! Bahaha!)

Ry visits again

2012-01-11T10:30:00.001-08:00

Ryleigh came to visit again while mommy worked on a friday. She forgot her one undies from her christmas present so she of course knew they belonged on her head ;) .. anyways she was acting shy from levi.. and fell asleep quickly. It was a good day all around tho. :)

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tidbits

2012-01-11T07:50:00.001-08:00

Hey yall.. dont miss the earlier blog post from late last night. I have them set posting every night this week! Guess i had enough to catch up on.. cuz i havnt evn caught half way up! Lol! Anyways thought id come and update. I made a myfitnesspal for levi and have been tracking his calories too! Hes half heartedly into it, but not ready to let me buy 'lite'it stuff at the store yet! Lol.. he would of stayed under his calories the last two days if "the gut truck" wouldnt come and he didnt buy a 24 oz mountain dew! Seriously, that put him over. Sad. And he doesnt even choose soda anymore at home so i was surprised he bought them at work! Anyways my workouts havnt been full par yet, but shall be tom morn as my jillian dvds will arrive tonight! :) i bought 2 jillian ones instead of a zumba one cuz it was cheaper. I never had any idea how many calories peanut butter had. That was eye opening. We have been taking walks at work the last few days since its been near 50 degrees! I think wisconsin has relocated to florida! Ok maybe not that far! We have 7.5 inches of snow in the forecast for the next 36 hours tho. So today will be our last walk. Emmetts getting one of his top two teeth in. That was the reason for tons of sleepn the other day and yesterday next to no sleeping. He was up most the night with mommy... and slept in later this morn then he ever has. That being 9 oclock. Lol. And now hes just grumpy chewing away at everythin in sight. I also had a first ever for me yesterday. Eli always eats his lunch and gets a treat after hes done. Somethin small and sweet usually. He asked for an oreo yesterday. My favs! Usually id eat three or four of them. Instead i took one look at the calorie count and said no way! Go me! And now i think thats all from me! Later gators!

Ryleigh

2012-01-10T18:50:00.000-08:00

Ryleigh came over shortly before Christmas to open her presents. Of course I'm now just posting these pictures. :)
Ry Ry with her present! Good wrapping job huh! :)

Crazy Levi helping Ry Ry open her present. :)
Its underwear! What do you do with them!? Put them on your arm?! Or look at levi, he seems to know what to do...
Why do you look so silly Levi?
Oh, they are hats huh.. So silly!!!
Ry Ry and us.. We love our godbaby! :) i love this picture, and i only look half way creepy. Lol!
Ry Ry and me... obviously I'm holding her down.. LOL!

Ryleigh and her Christmas present.. a shopping cart and food! How fun!And one tuckered out Ry playing Angry Birds with me. :)

Bread Anyone?

2012-01-09T18:28:00.000-08:00

So in an effort to try and be healthier, I have been making home made bread for our house for well over a month already. Not sure if I've posted much on it, and i took these pictures once upon a time, so I thought i'd share. I've also been getting up to make Levi's breakfast (cause otherwise he wont eat breakfast at all!) and pack him a lunch (cause otherwise he won't eat lunch either!)

Breakfast! Scrambled eggs with cheese, bacon, bread (pretty sure one of his pieces is gone, cause usually theres two! lol!) and a glass of milk.A sandwich for lunch... This was some thick ham, not his fav, but still obviously a sandwich. This is the kind of bread I make the most, its part wheat. Its 2 cups of bread flour and 1 cup of wheat flour. Healthy, but not an over kill on being whole wheat. :)
The loaf of bread all cut up. Yummy!
His lunch all packed. A water, granola bar, apple (usually is a banana tho!) two reese's peanut butter cups, and his sandwich.

Trying to be healthy is hard work ya know! :)

Too big

2012-01-08T18:21:00.001-08:00

I cant imagine what ill feel like when we have our own kiddos.. cause i already feel lost when im off for the weekends from work. I come back and Emmetts grown into a big boy! Isnt he so stinking cute! Love him! :)

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A Beginning

2012-01-07T19:47:00.000-08:00

So I was going to wait until feb 15th to start this, but my dress for my cousin Deannas wedding has to be ordered feb 9th so i thought its more important to start now then have a dress that doesnt fit at all. Reason for waiting til feb 15 incase ur curious is cause the gyms will slow down by then from new years resolutions that failed and id have time to prepare everythin, make sure i got it all set, and then i could have valentines day as my last day of freedom. Lol oh well, tomorrow is my new last day. Only reason its not today is cause i need to get things together, meal plans made, groceries gotten, ad im working tonight til well after midnight so ill prob be a lump tomorrow. :P

Anyways, tonight i did research on my fone looking up stuff. Obviously im talking weight loss stuff. I have a little weight to loss and definitely lots to tone. I about passed out just taking a walk with my boys the other day. That was a definite bonus to almost 50 degree weather in january! Anyways, with two weddings for me later this year, i need to shape up. And incase your going to say it, spare me. If you have more weight to lose then me, thats fine. But dont just tell me im skinny and have nothing to loss. Im tettering at almost 150 lbs right now, biggest ive ever been, worst shape my muscles have ever been in, and unlike a lot who read here, i havnt had a kid so i have no reason to be this way! So i may not have a ton of weight to lose, but ive got a ton of work on this body of mine. Id appreciate only encouraging words of saying its great im trying to get healthy.

Moving on, im going to do mostly at home work outs. I have an exercise ball and mat with a dvd so thats what ill start with this week while my other stuff im ordering comes in. Im ordering jillians 30 day shred and the complete zumba workout. I belong to planet fitness and plan on doing bicycle, eliptical, weights, and the thigh machine there on the weekends. I will do the at home workouts during the week, rotating what im doing daily as to not over work anything, and ill do it in the morning since i get up to make hubby breakfast before he goes to work. I get up at 5 he leaves at 530 and my earliest i have to be to work is 7 so ill have a good 45 minutes to work out before i need to get ready.

The next best part is myfitnesspal.com which Sam introduced me to. They even have an app for it on my phone! Love it! Its free and tracks all your calories for you and your weight loss. Its kind of like facebook so you add your friends. Obviously i have sam, and i invited my mom, but if your interested in weight loss or just tracking your foods you should join! Then we can encourage eachother! :)

Hmm i think thats about it. Except to make healthy foods. Thatll be a work in progress. Ill be searching for healthy recipes tomorrow, and will definitely share anything that turns out great! :)

Anyways, for now thats all ive got. I have tons of great pictures to share, but cant do that from my phone, so that will have to wait. Later!

New Year

2012-01-01T21:18:00.000-08:00

We had a great holiday weekend for New Years if I do say so myself. Now Im just exhausted! But of course I can not fall asleep. Awesome! Anyways yesterday the family was here for supper. Well levis family i mean of course. :)i it was so nice for everyone to be together and be able to get along for families sake. We were missing Erin though, as she was at her other Grandma and Grandpas. Anyways everyone else was here for a sub sandwich supper. Then Karas had to go home ans the rest of us went out for glow bowling. Sam and Travis joined us for this. We had fun and no one lost any toes, just severely bruised some! Lol!! And only one ball got thrown backwards towards the people but it wasnt by either lil people.. actually was by the oldest person! Incase you can figure out who that is! :P .. ill post a few pics the next time im on my computer :)i ... then alicia kind of wanted to see her dad one last time today before hell leave tuesday morning. We were going to go out for lunch, but the packer game was on and that wouldnt work! So since we had tons of left over makings for subs we just went over there and literally chilled with our feet up for the packer game. It was perfect after my feet were throbbing last noght from the nonexistant arch supports in those bowling shoes! Yesh! Anyways, we had a great weekend and have one more day off work with plans to see a lil more family tom evening before the crazy busy week and weekend times two pr three in a row start! Itll be fun and worth it tho! And im so looking forward to a crazy busy 2012 full of a few weddings for us to stand up in! How exciting! :) bring on this brand new year!

Lucky

2011-12-28T12:36:00.000-08:00

Some days, I wonder how I could be so lucky. Lucky to have the job I have. And the extra babysitting jobs I have. Today is one of those days. I had a great morning with my boys at work, loving Isaac being home from school. Loving that we figured out that indeed Emmett is a stomache sleeper. He went from being lucky to get a 30 min snooze in to now sleeping at least 2 hours if not more at a time at least twice a day. Pretty amazing the difference this is making in his life! Lol! Anyways today the boys were great. And now Im working my second job. My next fav family thats forsure. Surprising, theyre the ones with 3 boys. Imagine that. Anyways, the mom had to go run some errands and i was suppose to have all the kids. Well the dad took the two older ones to a movie and the lil guy is napping. Could i get any luckier? So im sitting here playing on my phone. Oh and she said i wont have to be here too long since the movie started a while ago and i prob wont be here even an hour and she pays me for 4 hours.. to make it worth coming.. and their house is literally 7 minutes from our house. Well worth the drive! Anyways today im feeling lucky. But probably more blessed then lucky. Because its not by luck that I am where I am today :)

Guest Bedroom!

2011-12-26T19:43:00.001-08:00

Oh my I am squealing with delight! It has been a L-O-N-G week working on the guest bedroom but it is finally done! Quite a few bumps in the road with things that were suppose to be simple and a few more trips to Menard's then we had thought we'd be making and it now looks amazing if I do say so myself! And by the way, pictures don't do it justice! The golden tan color it now is, is so much more richer in person! But you'll just have to take my word for it! :) And no, the door is not put back on yet. And there's only 2 things hung on the wall, and the rest are sitting in the closet for a later date of when I've decided to figure out exactly where it all should be hung. These are the first holes we've put in the walls since moving in, so I wasn't going to go crazy an hang stuff and then regret it in a week and have to patch even more holes on the brand new painted walls!

Anyways let me tell you a few things that went wrong. I started with painting the closet. We washed the walls only to find the texture would crumble every time we touched it. Hence it hadn't ever even had a coat of paint on it. Totally crazy. So I painted that. And got frustrated enough with that I was ready to throw in the towel. LOL! Then, painted the ceiling. And that's one thing I inherited from my father. Horrible circulation in my arms. Honestly within a minute of having them above my head they start to tingle, and within 2 minutes they full blown have no feeling left. So its a lot of up down up down with it. :) Anyways got one coat done. Realize another coat has to be done. Begged hubby to do it while I had to work that night. He did it, thankfully, and came home to realize yet another coat had to be done. Seriously? Three coats of white going over an off-white color? Who would of thought. Anyways, after three coats there was just a good handful of spots to patch up that looked like roller marks for a fourth coat. Yipes. So thats what we did. Now there happens to be one spot that still bothers hubby, so when we do our next project painting something white hes going to patch that one spot up. Yesh. Anyways that took a lot longer then expected.

Then I painted around all trim with the tan color. That went good. Then Levi painted with the roller all the walls. He pretty much drenched the walls in paint. Thank goodness, because then I only had to go around the trim one more time and it was done! Sweet! So then I remembered the fact that our closet the shelf/hanging stuff is super low. Like if you go in your closet and look at where your hanging stuff hangs, ours is eye level with my eye. Levi stands looking in our closet and he has to look down! LOL! Like he can see the entire top of the shelf, less where the hanging stuff is. So weird! So I thought, shoot I bet the guest closet is the same! Go and check, and yep it is! So I say before we put it all back together, lets move it up! Okay easy right? Yea right! Where they had the braces drilled had studs but go 6 inches up from that and there is no studs! Obviously they rigged something up just to make it possible to hang one right in the middle and one right on both ends of the closet. So another trip to Menard's and we bought a 1x12 to cut the length of the closet and put that attached to the studs and then attach the shelf/poll brackets where they belong to it! Of course we had to paint that two coats and such. Oh and we bought a new fan for the guest bedroom because as you'll see in the pictures the old one was WAY too big for the bedroom. So we bought one that fit much better for the room size! And our room happens to have a small one in it, so when we redo our room we will pull that one out and put the big one in! Yay!

Anyways, I'll stop blabbing! You just want to see the pictures anyways! :)

Looking in at the bedroom before.. of course it wasn't all 'set up' and kind of just thrown together with random pictures and what not laying all over, but you get the point. :)
looking back towards the door.. again stuff sitting all over.
looking at the closet.. and all of the Christmas presents that I had to wrap still! Well not all of that is Christmas present.. theres a random blanket in there, some pictures behind there, and a stack of pants/shorts that don't fit Levi anymore. :) (also note how short the shelf is in this picture!)
Here's during.. the bottom part is the wall.. the top part is the ceiling. Obviously the white part is the new paint. So thats just so you can see what color the wall and ceiling were before. And we thought they were white.. Ha! It actually was a lot worse then it even looks in the picture!
And a picture during.. all cleaned out and taped off painting the ceiling.. took forever!Looking into the bedroom from the door which isn't on yet of course. :) I put the bed together ever so nicely if I do say so myself! Even ironed the bed skirt which I've been wanting to do since I bought it over 2 years ago :) Note the new fan in this picture! It is SO cute!
Looking at the bed.. Definitely need to put something on the wall here... but I am not sure what yet.. or how really. :( Struggling with that part but I love the look of it!
Looking back at the non-existent door. Levi put the mirror back on the dresser, but put it on the opposite way it used to go on (it used to not be stable which was kind of hazardous cause it kept tipping over.) I also switched out the chair to be a more user friendly chair. I put one of the fake plants next to it.. I like it, but it could use something to sit on so its a lil taller.
Looking at the closet. There's the two things we hung! My foot print from 5th grade and the footprint picture. As soon as I saw this bedroom being our guest bedroom I knew that was right where I was going to put that. Kind of big for that wall, but I still love it right there! :)
And a nice clean closet! With a shelf that is a normal height now! You can kind of see a slight line where you can tell the bottom of the 1x12 is. The top of the shelf was below that! So thats approximately how much its moved up. I like it so much better now. :)

Along with all of that, we pretty much cleaned ever service in this room. It has got to be thee cleanest room in the house. I can not say it enough that I think the people who lived here had to have been some of thee dirtiest people ever. I'd just get half way around the room from cleaning just the base board alone and my pail of water would be black. Gross! And the shelf in the closet seriously had 1/4 of an inch of dust on it. Cleaned that off and that original smell of the whole house came rushing back at me! A strange smell of something that seriously reminds me of the smell of warm cat poops. Gross. If it was a shelf that was anywhere else I'd say maybe it was from cat poop but seriously how could it be a shell about 5 1/2 feet up in the air smell like cat poop?! If you have any idea, don't tell me because I'm just going to pretend its NOT possible that a cat would have pooped all over that board as I've washed it 3 times with my bare hands and we are going to still use it. If I do think it had cat poop on it I'd want to replace it and I don't really want to have to do that. LOL! So lets just pretend that's not possible. :)

Okay, that's enough blabbing for now. Later gators!

sleep, paint, teeth

2011-12-23T06:49:00.000-08:00

Yesh! So much for a week off! Ive worked almost every day and hardly got any painting done! And last night worked until 1130 and had to be up at 5 to make levi breakfast and get ready for ortho. Of course he felt terrible knowing i didnt go to sleep til well after midnight and so he said i didnt need to make him breakfast. Great a lil extra sleep. Had to be to ortho in green bay at 7 and it takes 45 minutes to get there. Of course you know what happened! I turned OFF my alarm and fell asleep! Honestly i woke up right smack at 615 when i was suppose to leave! I freaked out, threw a bra on (it under my clothes of course! Lol!) Ripped my braces out, stumbled over a pile of clothes honestly making me fall on the floor, brushed my teeth, put braces back in, ran down the hall way only to hit my 2 toes on the door i asked levi to take off the guest bedroom that is now in the hall way, realized i forgot to put on socks, ran back down hallway, then back down it with socks in hand to hit the door with same two toes to make them bleed now, threw socks on with shoes and jacket and ran out the door. So may not of had the best start to my morning and may not of looked wonderful for ortho in my pajamas (thank goodness the ones i put on last night kind of qualify as sweat pants! Lol!) But i made it out the door in 5 minutes and made it to ortho on time with only a small amount of speeding included. :) of course they had 3 appointments scheduled for 7 so i didnt evn seen the doc until 730! Just my luck! Lol! Anyways i got my teeth shaved down today. I was relieved to find out itd only be for 7 teeth on the bottom. Yay. And i dont have to have any more done. Sweet! Cuz let me tell u.. sand paper on ur teeth sounds a ton like nails on a caulk board and i dont think ill soon forget that noise out of my head to be convinced ever to let that happen to me again! Anyways it feels like its been a loooong say and its only 9 am! And theres a dog barking outside my window? Hm never heard a dog sound so close to my house. Prob could check if hes in my yard but im way to tired to go to look. Now cody just called me to go shopping with him. You couldnt pay me to go shopping today, the day before christmas eve. No way! I have a huge headache, am starving, but what they did to my teeth i cant eat drink for a few hrs. So cant take anything cuz i cant swallow without water. Awesome. Hoping to fall asleep soon then get up and paint and then have to work tonight til super late again. Joy! At least levis dad sounds like he wont be here right away because of his truck load so ill have a lil more time to get the room back together! Yesh! Goodnight! :)

painting...

2011-12-21T05:59:00.000-08:00

SO I am finally painting. The guest bedroom of course since its the only paint color I could decide on. :) But let me tell you, I only have the closet done and I'm ready to be d-o-n-e! Lets just say the people that used to live here werent clean at all. Farthest thing from it. And their white walls in the closet were more like tan/yellow with random lines of 'stuff' (possibly animal urine.. ew!) on them. I will tell you even if that is what it is (because that is what it looks like!) it does not smell. Thank GOODNESS! Our closet has this also, so someday I will be working on our closet, which will be so joyous after I did this other closet which is much smaller then ours. Not that ours is big, its just very tall cause our bedroom has cathedral ceilings. Ugh. Anyways, I didn't take a picture of the closet before, because its gross, but I did take before pictures of the room. Also, painting white over white (no matter how dirty the walls are!) is never an easy task. And so I was covered in paint from being in such a small room having to paint on 3 sides of me and the ceiling and it wasn't very fun. I can not wait to paint the tan color I picked out so that i wont be squinting trying to see where I last painted! Before I can do that, I have to paint the bedroom ceiling. Gross. Not going to be fun. Oh and did I mention that the closet didn't have a coat of paint on it? We found that out when we went to 'wash' the walls. Yes, my husband wants to wash all the walls of our house before we paint. Now that may be the 'proper' way to do it, but I've never done that. It just seems ridiculous since were painting every square inch of our house. So anyways we did the bedroom then went into the closet and the "plaster" or whatever it is texture stuff just crumbles off the wall. Seriously. Lovely!

Anyways, I was suppose to be working today. I worked yesterday. For a long time. I am tired. And I just got a text saying that Harry has the flu so I don't have to work today! Yippee!! So now I'm going to go finish my Christmas shopping today! Not so excited about that, since I'd rather be home painting... OR NOT! Yay for having an excuse not to have to paint! LOL! So it shall wait one more day until I paint the ceiling... gag!

I think I'm ready to hire professionals to come paint the rest of the house! :P (in all joking, i would never do that because i do enjoy painting when its all said and done, but i'm super jealous of matt and jane because they had their entire house painted before they moved in. Not fair! this huge company with a bunch of guys came in and painted their whole huge house in 2 days flat. And I'm on my 3rd day of the bedroom being empty staring at me. awesome!)

Anywhooooo, this is all yous get for now. I want to make it to the mall before the crazy people get there (obviously I'm one of them! lol!) and hopefully get in and out quick! Well see how it goes! Anyways, soon I'll have pictures of the bedroom before.. and then in a few days (or a week! lol!) I'll have after pictures. Its a good thing Levi's dad is coming to spend the week next week so I have a reason the bedroom needs to be put back together... otherwise I'd have a feeling our hallway would have a boxspring and mattress stuck in it for a while! :P

Later dudettes!

I Can Not...

2011-12-17T21:12:00.000-08:00

make up my mind to save my life! Seriously, its getting kind of old! I can't decide what color I want to paint any room except the guest bedroom. And the ceilings. Yep! I can not decide what I want to do, buy a cricut machine or not. Buy some storage containers for scrapbooking/sewing or not. Try to convince my husband to build me something or not.

Okay, that last one I lied. I'm always coming up with wonderful ideas for hubby to make me. He never has successfully made me anything I've asked for yet. Tonight I even used the line "do you know why you should make this for me?" (of course he said why) and i followed with "Because Uncle Glenn would make it for Aunt Jenae!" I got a good chuckle out of that one. Wish more of that Krisher wood working blood ran through my husband! :)

Anywho, I can't even decide which wedding pictures to print. Which is my favorite. Which to get a big print of. What kind of words to put on the wall. Seriously, I just wish I'd come home one day and it'd all be done. Cause at least then it'd be decided!! I really look forward to doing some of the projects, like painting, printing, sewing, scrapbooking... but to make the choices on the paint colors, the pictures to print, the fabric to buy, the backgrounds to use, I'm afraid I might not ever actually do the projects for fear of not making a choice even to begin with.

If I didn't know better, I'd say I was pregnant.

Of course I do know better, so I know I'm not. Incase you didn't catch that part. :P

And to clear up a few comments from the last post...
I'm not usually patient enough to do 10 loads of laundry. And I wasn't desperate for clothes. Sad thing is only 2 loads of those 10 were clothes. Just sheets, more sheets, mattress pads, rugs... you name it! And yes, it all got folded AND put away that day! Amazing for me if I do say so myself! :) And loved that everyone got a kick out of me and my obsession of using chairs and wrapping paper to save me from the boogie man. :) And if I ever found someone, or something, in my house I would SCREAM and run. And probably fall and get caught. But note that I always have my phone in my hand ready to start dialing when I'm checking places for the boogie man. Ya know, cause I'd scream, run, find a hiding place, and successfully call 911 all at the same time! :P And if I knew someone was there before looking, I would text someone to call 911 for me.. cause of course you cant talk out load or they'll know you know they're there! LOL! Too funny. BTW have you ever thought of that? They should SO make a number to text in emergencies. Like so you don't have to talk so the boogie man can't find you! Oh that is genius. Thats enough creativity for this over tired brain for one night. Of to dreamy land since hubbys home to save me from boogie man now.. Night!

2011-12-13T11:53:00.000-08:00

Seriously, I cant believe how quickly Christmas is coming. I just yesterday realized my two weeks off starts next week! Although 3/4 of the days Im 'off' ill actually be working, but its for diff families for the most part and just a few hours here and there. :) not that i dont love my boys, its just been a rough week, and its only tuesday! The week cant possibly get much qorse, but regardless Im soo happy to have my bff to talk everythin out with! I love u sam! :)
Besides having an insane weekend and feeling frustrated, hubby is gone for the week. Its been alright at home, ya know with dining room chairs wedged under both entrance doors to the house. Oh and two wrapping paper rolls in the patio door for good measure. Lets just say i check every closet, shower, and semi large cupboard for intruders before safely locking myself into the bedroom at night. With yet another dining room chair of course. Its better to be safe then sorry! Lol! I can not wait until thursday when he comes home! :)))
I am trying to 'teach' emmett how to put himself to sleep. Thats the cause of not such a good week. They always let him sleep in his bouncy seat thingy, and well hes on his way to 7 months, almost 20 lbs, and wont fit much longer. Needless to say once he falls asleep, on his belly mind you, he sleeps a loooong time. Its a love hate process. I love when he sleeps but hate havn to help him get there. I love hes snuggled up on his belly and can find his hand to sooth himself to sleep, but hate checkn on him evry 10 mins to make sure hes breathing cuz hes on his belly. Ugh.
Oh and i didnt no it was possible but i did 10 loads of laundry yesterday, 5 at work and 5 at home. From 7am until 10pm with a half hr off to drive home of course. I felt like nothn cld be dirty anymore! Lol!
Okay, thats all ive got for now. Sorry for bad grammar, spelling and what not. Thats what you get from my 'smart' phone... lol!

Wedding Pictures!

2011-12-06T16:35:00.000-08:00

Incase yous didn't see it on my facebook page today, our A-M-A-Z-I-N-G wedding photographer posted a slideshow video thinger of our wedding pictures. Seriously, he was amazing before, and now him remembering our anniversary and doing something for it, seriously? Who would do that! I'm amazed. From Alicia finding him online to the phone calls with him to meeting him in person and absolutely loving him, I think this was the best we could have EVER chosen! Anyways, here's the link to the video he made. Click right HERE! You may have to let it load for a while, or for a long while, depending the speed of your internet. If it's going slow, I'd suggest only having that up and not looking at other websites while its loading. Its well worth the wait though! At least I think so! :)

If that wasn't amazing enough, he posted this morning linking to it and saying how sorry he was he couldn't put the "Here we stand" song as the background music, because he wasn't allowed to buy it from 'sunny mexico!'... Like okay really?! You were just my wedding photographer, how do you remember what song was at our wedding?! LOL! I hardly remember it without having to look it up! I mean, I love the song, but forget what its called often! AND then he practically praised me up and down for 'all i've done over the last year for them' and said I can have a session of my choice whenever we come back to mexico 'on the house!' I know how much it costed for them for our wedding, so I realize how much he's giving me for FREE! because of everything I've done?! Really all I did was just tell other brides about how AMAZING he is! Not too hard to do! Anyways, now I have yet one more reason (believe me theres a TON of reasons already!) to go back to Mexico! If only hubby was as convinced. He'll go back, just wants to go on a cruise first. Oh well!

Anyways, that's all! I just wanted to share that. Later!

Anniversary, Birthday, and Boys!

2011-12-05T18:05:00.000-08:00

Incase you were wondering, yea it was our anniversary yesterday. I found myself looking at the clock all day yesterday thinking "last year at this exact time I was _________ (getting room service, waking to the waves crashing in and a Gorgeous day, crackers falling down my boobs while in my wedding dress {ha!} answering the phone to be told "its time!" and then walking down the aisle!) It was quite the day. I had to work for a few hours for the family in Kimberly. They are super easy. They ALSO have 3 boys (incase I haven't told this story, my norm work boys are 6 months, 3 years, and 5 years) who are 10 months, 3 years, and 5 years! Quite insane how similar the 2 families are. But this ones like extremely chilled and laid back and they are quite hilarious. Harry (5 yrs) had a piano recital. Harley (3 yrs) decided he was going to "behave" so he could go along. (he stepped in dog poop walking out the door, they should have known that was a sign of what laid ahead! LOL!) and George (10 months) stayed home. And he slept until seriously 5 minutes before they got home. Yep. I sat and watched the Packers play. And then I came back home and finished watching the game at home. Rough job. LOL! Anyways, heres George! He thought my camera was funny. Its flash is SUPER bright! :)

Isn't he adorable? He just turned 10 months and he is already walking and like full running already! Crazy baby! :)

And here's my Emmett baby! He now is a full 6 months old, weighing in just barely in the 19 lbs still, almost 20! :) His hair is coming in full blown now and it is SOO fuzzy its so cute! :) He's FULL of smiles and crabbies withing the same minute most days. :PIsn't he sweet? Funny baby! :)

Next up... of course my original baby! Sir Elijah! He is full of spunk and crazies lately! I love the lil man to pieces! :)
And he loves my new phone to pieces too! Such a ham! :)

Anyways, to update about the last post (the video) that was at our anniversary party my parents threw for me. Our anniversary is shared with my cousin Kari's birthday. She is living in Hawaii with her 3 year old, almost 1 year old, and is due within a month with their 3rd. And her husbands in Iraq (or some other country?) anyways I thought (and everyone agreed!) it'd be a great idea to sing happy birthday to her! So thats what we did, and sent it to her on facebook since it was 'too large' to send via text! Oops! LOL! Anyways, I posted it here also since it was so sweet. :)

Okay, I think thats all. We've passed our one year marker, looking forward to a VERY crazy week (including 3 jobs on friday.. yipes!) Thanksgiving with Levi's family this weekend, and then next week will be super lame since levi will be gone to 'school' for work from Sunday night til Thursday night. :( Super sad. And I don't even 'work' any evenings next week! I'm thinking about asking some of my families if anyone needs any days since I'll be home by myself listening to every creek and wind blowing thinking someones breaking in. Ugh.

And that's all for now! Later dudettes!

Happy Birthday Kari!

2011-12-03T20:22:00.001-08:00

Choices

2011-12-01T20:12:00.000-08:00

Im trying this blog from my phone while laying in bed thing. Im starting to like and understand my new phone and all its crazy high tech stuff its got going on. :)
Anyways i just stopped by to say i havent made any choices yet concerning my last post and am struggling more with it every single day. Heres the main thing i am constantly going over, can i put a price tag on my sanity?! That may sound a little extreme but ultimately i think it might really be what decides for me.
Until next time, when hopefully ill have a lil more exciting post, later gators! :)

Scared

2011-11-25T18:42:00.000-08:00

The last few days I've been dealing with some stuff... This 'stuff' isn't easy to decide. And I'm 99% sure I've decided what I'm going to do, but every time I actually say to myself I've decided, I break down and cry. I'm very emotional about this topic, and have been praying a ton lately. I'm scared of how this all will play out, but I know God has a plan for me, and for us, and I honestly feel like he's leading me strongly to go this way that is now being shown to me. I lay awake at night trying to process everything out and over analyzing every single thing and then I remember God's in control and I just need to sleep. So I do, and I'm working on trusting him, taking this leap, and hoping that everyone affected by this understands. That's all I have to say right now. Goodnight!

Happy Birthday...

2011-11-20T17:08:00.000-08:00

to my handsome hubby!

(picture is one of my favs from our wedding, hes anxiously waiting at the end of the aisle for me!)

We had to cancel our plans of celebrating his 30th birthday at Chuck E Cheeses because I woke up in the middle of the night with the flu. And I'm starting to feel a little more normal thanks to my awesome hubby running to walmart for some get better foods for his poor wifey. :) But for now, this is all my update is is to say I'm starting to feel human again, hoping hubby doesn't catch it, and hopefully we'll be all normal in time to enjoy Thanksgiving which happens to be my moms birthday. :) Adios!

Kohls

2011-11-16T11:07:00.001-08:00

I love Kohls. Thats pretty obvious. But I went shopping there this past weekend. I blame it on hubby, because usually he bands me from going there (he knows how i get stuck in there with their deals!) and instead he asked me to go there to buy a new shower curtain rod for my bathroom (the main one) so that he could take mine out of my shower and put it in his shower (the master bath.) In case you don't know, I'm terrified to use the master shower because the tub part is got cracks in it from not being supported with the foam stuff from below (because of the curved shape of tubs, they need to be supported.. obviously) but this one is not so its cracked. Levi has brought home his tools with the lil cameras on the end from work to test it to see if its leaking at all, and he has never found any leaks so he continues to use it. However, he goes to work before me in the mornings so I shower after hes gone and it terrifies me that I might happen to shower, fall through the floor and end up dead in the basement naked with the shower running on me all day. Yea, really realistic, but ya no! Bahaha. I laugh everytime I say that 'realistic fear' out loud, but ya know, we all gotta be afraid of something! :) SOO anyways because of this, I just use the other shower. This wont work so well when we have company over Christmas, but at least Levi will be home to save me if I fall through. LOL!! I make it sound like it might actually fall threw when in reality it wont. But anyways, back to my first story, I went shopping at Kohls for a new shower rod. I had 30% off (from my to be sister-in-law) and knew we needed hooks for his shower curtain and we needed a new comforter for our bed. We had a down comforter at our old place and brought it to our new place (after cleaning up bazillions of feathers all over our old room) and within a week there was feathers all the way into our bathroom! So I took it out and we've been using all the other blankets we own in our house that are big enough for our king size bed. SO I splurged and bought us our new down-alternative comforter.. a level 3 for warmth. Love it!! Its AMAZING! And now our gorgeous duvet cover is back on our bed, which matches the shower curtain i had already bought for our master bath. I also bought the 2nd pillow sham cover to match our guest bedspread i had just bought a little while back at Kohls. I had been "too cheap" to buy it that day because I wanted to wait and use my Kohls cash once they were 'valid' and in doing so, the shams were all gone for the past month. Seriously! SO annoyed! And they dont sell them online! Ugh! So I saw them in the store and snatched one up quick! :) SO for 125 dollars I got a shower rod, shower hooks, down alternative comforter, a pillow sham, and a gingerbread rug (for my dad for christmas.) Let me tell you tho, the comforter itself was originally 309.99! Yipes! So i thought i did good. Of course i got 20 dollars in Kohls cash for that purchase. SO i brought it home, and my shower rod from in my bathroom is one that is screwed in the wall. So hubby didnt want to take it out, put the new one in that doesnt screw in, and have to screw it into the master. SO HE took my NEW ONE! UGH! Sooo then after work one day I stopped back at Kohls and bought a 2nd shower rod. And a hand towel for in the 1/2 bath for winter that has dark blue on it to match. Its so cute! SO then i spent 26 dollars (that was the reason to spend it so I would get my additional 10 dollars in Kohls cash back! :P) and so now I had 30 dollars in Kohls cash with a 30% off coupon that is still valid. I found a code online to get free shipping if your an "MVC" meaning most valuable customer lol... and I knew I wanted an electric knife (we've been only eating homemade bread now for everything for over a month, and its kind of a pain to cut lol!) They dont sell them in store, but do online, and with free shipping, why not?! :) SO it was originally 45 dollars and with my 30% off and 30 dollars off, i spent 3.67 for an electric knife! :) Yay! I am stoked! That store is SO addicting.. and my moms already telling me about the specials theyre going to have starting at midnight on thanksgiving night. Yea. SO not going there! LOL! That place is a zoo the day after thanksgiving, so I'll be staying far far away! :) Anyways, just had to share my excitement.. ya know, its the important things in life... Ha! obviously i'm joking there.. :) Later dudettes!

edited: p.s. enjoy the new layout! if you know me you'll know my love for birch trees.. and this pink/white wood grain screamed for me to use it! I only updated it because i realized i STILL had dayanas old picture up! SO now her new picture is up! Yay! And i edited one of my favorite wedding pictures to just show us (without the wedding party is the part i edited out) and i really like it! :) anyways, thats all for now! Byes!

Seeing is Believing!

2011-11-11T06:21:00.000-08:00

This is for my sweet nieces & nephew who have asked me about my braces and don't quite understand how my braces work. I don't really know how they work either, or how to properly describe how they work, but to me, seeing results is believing and here is a few pictures to show yous the results so far! I think they're looking great! And I'm not even half way done yet! Approximately 2 more months from being half way.. So excited! :)

Note: These pictures are of set 1 and set 16. I am currently on set 14, so the set 16 is the pair I will put in, in 4 weeks. (each set is in for 2 weeks... only set that was in longer was set 3 which was 4 weeks because half way through they put on the 'attachments' which look like little bubbles, which help pull the teeth) I wanted to use the one I had the most far out and the very beginning one. And note set 1 moved my teeth too, so my teeth were even worse before set 1! :) Obviously I can't use set 14 because they're in my mouth.. and set 13 is white looking like set 1 so I used set 16 cause its the cleanest (since its not used yet!) and is nice looking. :) I have to go back to the ortho on Dec 23rd to have my teeth all 'shaved' down (by like 3 mm per tooth supposely? i dont really know!) to make room. Of course it would end up being the day before Christmas to put my teeth through crazy pain of shaving them all down and all feeling weird so that on Christmas I can't enjoy any yummy food! Well I can, but ya know, soup and mashed potatoes type of things! :( Oh well, its really the perfect diet plan. :P

Here's the top before:And the top after:
Obviously not totally fixed yet, but the 2 teeth that are on the sides of the 2 middle teeth have made some movement finally! This is not a lot of difference yet, but its because ALL the back teeth had to move back first, to make the room. :) And the tooth on the right of the middle is really looking better, and the one on the left is finally starting to come forward. Before, you could hardly even see it at all. :)

Here's from above them, you can see how much that little tooth is moving. :)
And here's the bottom teeth! These have made amazing movements! They look close to being straight already! Insane!
Here's the bottom before.. Seriously all over the place!
And after! Crazy! :)
This next shot is of the front area of the bottom teeth.. see how crowded they were? They were pretty much over lapped and missing a full tooth space pretty much!
And now after! I'm very impressed. Its crazy because I've not really noticed that much difference looking in the mirror, but now looking back its amazing.
I'm impressed and don't really know 'how' they work, but obviously they must be working! LOL! And did I mention that at my next appointment I get to stop wearing rubber bands?! I didn't know that until today! I thought I would wear them until the end, but guess not! I don't mind the rubber bands at all, so its not like a huge deal, but the ortho was SO happy with how they're doing he said I could stop them today, but just to be overly safe he said just these 6 more weeks. Sweet! :)

Hope yous all think they're as cool as I do! :o) Obviously I must be pretty excited because before I hated showing my teeth or braces at all, but now I'm just ecstatic to show them off!

Vacation!

2011-11-07T18:24:00.000-08:00

So its official, I'm positive God heard my prayers for some vacation time and has granted me it! :) I have off the week before Christmas AND after Christmas. Seriously.love.it. And I didn't think it could get better. But it does! My hubby now has off the 2nd week too! He had 4 days left of vacation for the year and with Christmas falling on a Sunday that means he will have the day after Christmas off so it screws up his over time so he thought he might as well take the rest of the days off that week! So Menards, here we come!!! Yea, not quite the Mexican sunset or snow fallen Michigan Avenue I dream of being at, but seriously I am sooo excited to sit back at home, maybe bake away in my oven, make it smell like Christmas in here, and PAINT my house!!! SOOO excited! Who's coming to my painting party! Every wall and ceiling needs to be done in the entire house, so we have more then enough room for a whole party of people! LOL!! Thats all for now, just got super excited as it was officially "okayed" at Levis work today, and had to share my excitement! Yippee Skippy!

Tim & Deanna

2011-11-06T19:14:00.000-08:00

So recently my cousin Deanna got engaged and asked me to do their engagement pictures. She also asked me to be the maid of honor in their wedding, coming up next August! Yes, their weddings in August, 3 weeks before my brothers wedding in September that both Levi and I are standing up in! Whew, it shall be fun! :) Anyways, I thought I'd share a few of my absolute favs... I told myself I'd only include 5, and believe me it was hard to choose only 5! But these are totally unedited and right from the camera, but I hope you enjoy! :)

In an alley way..

On some railroad tracks...by a river with a bridge..

in the grass... (they were a woot! always laughing at each other!)and the ring!

Shoot, what was I thinking! I forgot about this one that I posted on facebook and didn't have in my "to edit" file.. and I love it!its a tree stump that Tim carved "T+D" in, I put the ring around the + and the left hand is Tims and the right hand is Deannas.. i think its adorable.. :)

Hope you enjoyed!

Sarah

2011-11-02T19:46:00.000-07:00

I was just talking to Levi about Dayana and what not and he said I should look up Sarah. I do this usually at least once a week, just to check on if she's found a family yet. She has not, but then I went to her warriors blog and found this.. Oh my aching heart. Seriously?! She is beyond cute. Oh how I dream of being able to save her. :(

On a much happier note, here's a sweet video of my baby laughing.. Ignore my crazy voice.. and the fact that he didn't laugh at me when I asked if he was nuts like he was before i put the camera on.. lol! anyways.. enjoy!

EEEK!

2011-10-30T16:34:00.000-07:00

Halloween is definitely here! Look at these sights I've been seeing!!!
Why can my husband grow hair instantly and it takes me YEARS to grow my hair anywhere below my shoulder! And he says no, we're not going to Jamaica! :P
Eek! This is quite the sight to see! Seriously it actually made me laugh even though it was kind of creepy! He looks very interesting to say the least!
Its Cody under there of course, my husband would never be caught dressing up again for Halloween! I got a call from Cody asking if I could do his make-up as a surprise for him to meet Allie out with him dressed as her favorite person. So thats exactly what I did! Here he had his hat on.. it didn't fit at all! So we ended up putting the bandana on him instead and it worked much better! :) Anyways, adios Jack Sparrow! :)

Paper Dolls

2011-10-29T17:40:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, when I was suppose to be working for those 2 terrible boys, I ended up very sick the night prior and through the night into the morning. Not throwing up but where I was constantly gagging and felt Horrible! So I ended up calling and canceling, thankfully the place the lady usually takes her boys had room for them. So I talked to Alicia and she said that Granny didn't have much going on, so maybe she could come see me! Yay! So anyways I talked to Granny and was telling her about how one thing I can send to Dayana is paper dolls! Well I have no experience with this, and was searching online and not really aware of what i was looking for! So she all a sudden thought about the one paper doll cricut cartridge she had, and she brought it along! So we were off! And I'm loving it! I can not wait to get them all finalized and hopefully I'm going to laminate them to keep them nice longer and then send them to sweet Dayana. Yay! So Levi took a few pictures of us making them so I would have pictures to show to Dayana. I am seriously in love with this little girl. She is SO sweet! :)
Us "working"... or at least posing for a picture quick... :)
And us actually looking at the camera.. :)
A car for the dolls! It only had it to print out as one thing so I'm going to color it all in.
A little girl! We made 3 girls and 3 boys and I choose 3 different hair styles each. This is the one that I felt like looked the closest to Dayanas hair style in the last picture. We printed these swim suits and I cut off the bows on the bottoms to make them look like underwear instead of swim suits. What do you think? I didn't want them to be "naked" ... so when I laminate them this is the way I will.. like with their hair and underwear/bra already on.. good thought or no? :)
And the boy with his boxers.. I thought this was cute! We just choose a pair of shorts and i trimmed them up a little so that they wont show when other clothes are put over top of them. :)
And a bunch of the clothes! To the left is where the other 5 bodies are and other hair choices.. then the clothes that are up front is for the girl.. dresses and pants.. we made more shirts after this that i didnt take pictures of. In the back is the boys clothes, mostly just pants and shirts.

So what do you think! Cute? I definitely think so! I found this amazing site called OurCompassion. It is pretty much like facebook, but as I have stated before "on steroids!" Cause it has all the same things as facebook, like walls, status, pictures and what not, but 100% of what I've seen so far is all Happy stuff! Nothing negative! All about compassion children. So yea the only thing is that you can only be a part of it if you are a sponsor. But seriously it is thee most inspiration website like ever. SO amazing. Anyways I found some people posted paper doll furniture for like thee entire house, like every single room and all you could ever imagine in a house, on there that you can just print out! So I have everything except a way to make the like backgrounds/rooms. But I'm thinking if I just do like some form of paper that if folded in thirds fits inside an 81/2 by 11 that it would work out great! And then I'll just work on 1 room at a time. What are your thoughts? Anyone got any ideas for me? I am so excited about this. :) Thanks for your help Granny! :)

For real

2011-10-27T18:33:00.000-07:00

Right now I am going to be real. I for real can not just believe at all what all just went down. I may sound like a blubbering mess, but for now, I am sooo done. I am sooo not even going to go there. I have been called names that are SO unnecessary. I am SO livid. I am SO hurt. I am SO ready to cry, but am just holding it back. I not feeling good AT ALL, like I can not control my blood sugar at all today. I feel like passing out pretty much constantly. My bodys all out of wack. I over did at work so badly today, I am so going to pay for it. And tomorrow, my day off, I have to work for a different family. The family with 2 boys who are the worst children I've ever seen. I am so not looking forward to tomorrow. So I'm going to be real right now. Really real. I am going to go sit here, on my couch, eating my saltine crackers and sipping on some soda while watching the possible ending to the world series with my husband. I am going to go dream of Dayana and pick out stuff to send to her since I found out I can send a few more things then I thought I could. For now, I am going to really be real in my real life and be out of this social networking life. Way. Too. Much. Drama.

Dayana

2011-10-24T19:45:00.000-07:00

Nothing could have made my night better then coming home to flip through the boring ever the same mail then to find a letter from Dayana! Yay!! She lights up my days! :) Her letter is oh so sweet! I love that I just wrote her a letter last week.. and now I have a ton more questions she asked that shes wondering about... and I just looked it up tonight and I'm allowed to send her more things then I thought! So now I'm going to be on the hunt for a few things to send to her! Yippee! Things like bandaids! I can't wait to go pick out some cool ones at the store just for her! :) And stickers, paper, calendars! Do they have the same calendar year as we do in peru? I think so but I'm not sure. LOL! Guess I should check that before I send her a calendar thats pretty much useless to her! Hehe! Seriously was the best thing after an almost 11 hour day today that seriously was going sooo terrible near the end of the day i thought i was about to have a melt down myself, like all 3 boys were doing! LOL! I am now rethinking letting eli never have naptime.. he always seems so fine, and he never took naps during the summer, or on weekends with his parents.. but after tonight, I seriously think he needs naptimes back! Ufta! Anyways, Dayana saved the day with her letter! And then hubby okay'd me to get arbys on the way home so i didn't have to make supper. Sweet! but considering i had to make breakfast/lunch/dinner all for the boys its not like i really "got out" of making anything.. oh and breakfast/lunch for levi just like every day.. of course made in the morning before work. LOL Oh what I long Long day! oh and btw didn't start out a great way either when I went to cut part of the lettuce off for levis sandwich and pulled the knife out and shoved it back in and instead shoved it into my top of my thumb. Yea. Lets just say my thumb hurt, but i didnt see anything, so i used my pointer finger to pull on my thumb and then the blood, it just started running! SO gross! And levi was in the shower and i was searching for the cleaner stuff to clean it out and i did end up finding it and a bandage and it did stop bleeding eventually, just totally NOT a good start! LOL!

Anyways I dont no to much else, and hubbys gone to bed so I should probably make my way that way too... but heres 2 cute pictures of my 2 boys who are at home during the day. Sad I dont have any of isaac! maybe i'll take some of him on thursday when he has the day off! :) Yay! but until then..Here's eli.. giving me the eyes for taking his pic.. and hes brushing his teeth... :) Hes looking so much like isaac in this pic! :)
and heres my baby and I! His eyes look crazy blue in this pic.. they are blue but idk if they are THAT blue! LOL! anyways were ready to go out for our walk to pick up isaac from school here.. thats why hes all bundled up! Cutie!

bummed

2011-10-21T21:10:00.000-07:00

I'm feeling very bummed tonight.. definitely not much better then the other night.. but I've lost the lil bit of an upbeat attitude that i did have. I honestly feel like I am in so much need of a vacation right now. I am feeling very frustrated and stressed. I wish it was summer right now... or even just the beginning of fall. I said to levi that I need a vacation, and believe me he does too. Hes so over worked right now, its like things are never letting up and all we do is go go go until 10 pm and get up and go all over again at 5 am. Every. single. day. for at least 6 days a week. Sunday is always a little more calm where we can sleep in until 7, but even then there's a billion things we want to get done and even if I work around the house cleaning all day long I feel like i never get enough done. Theres always things staring me in the face. Like i dont even have to walk from one room to the next to remember the other 100 things that need to get done. Seriously so frustrating. So I asked levi if we could at least just go away for a weekend, and thought maybe we could go 4-wheeling. Although there are plenty of countys still currently open, we cant go before many of them close. Meaning the ones that are open in wisconsin until the end of the month we wont be able to make. So i tried finding other ones, which are in boarding states, and they are open, and we could go, but they will be a long hike and just for the weekend and were getting into very cold months that might not be all to enjoyable. And all i really want to do is fly back to mexico and lay on the beach for a week. I need some warm sun back. And were not even in winter yet. I have a bad feeling i may be going stir crazy by the time january comes around. :( Sooo if anyone has any ideas of where to go (thats within like a 6 hour drive) for the weekend send those ideas my way. I need a vacation, even if only an extended weekend one, very very very badly right now. :(

feelings

2011-10-19T19:31:00.000-07:00

Not really too excited about all the emotions that I have right now. I feel happy, but sad. Excited, but anxious. Ya no! Just a big basket of emotions. Everything seems to be coming at once of course. Wish life would just slow down a little! :) Compassion (the organization I sponsor Dayana through) emailed me and told me about the cool new way to email Dayana. With full blown backgrounds and pictures to be uploaded! So I tried it out tonight and loved it! I feel like sometimes I don't write as much as I should.. So hopefully this will help me! I am soo excited for my cousins baby shower to be coming up! I know theres lots of babies in our family, but I am so excited about this one. Its just a long time coming for them. I am getting anxious about trying on dresses on friday.. for this other wedding... Not cody and allies... And then I am even more excited to try on dresses with allie soon! That wedding, I am over the moon about. Not that I'm not about this other wedding. Its just, well, a lil different. :) My baby Emmett seems to be growing up right before my eyes. Hes pretty much huge already. I love it, but hate it. Ugh. And my bedroom is a total disaster zone. Its a good thing we don't have kids, for I could seriously see losing one of them in there. Ha! Okay thats enough of my blabbing... I must go put my braces back in from a late night Chinese delivered supper after Levi and I sat on the couch all night discussing what we all didn't want to have for supper. Haha! Night all!

6 weeks

2011-10-12T18:49:00.000-07:00

in the waiting and they have finally come! Yippeee!!!
This is box 2 of 2. It came today. 6 shades are in here. 5 were in the other one. It took 6 weeks to get them but I am THRILLED with the results! :) In my opinion, they look amazing. They may not be the top of the line product, but for the price I paid I am so happy with them. I got all cream or white for everything. And I only screwed up on one room. :) It actually is making me think twice about what I might paint the back hallway to the garage and laundry room. Cause the shade was suppose to be white (along with the walls) and its cream. But now I'm considering doing them blue. And an accent wall in the dining room the same color. Hmmmm! I think I'm going to really like this idea! I'm just a little worried because the dining room blue wall will be against the green hallway and the blue bathroom and I'm not sure if it'll be too much or if it'll be alright. We'll see! :)Here's some of the yucky stuff we're throwing away! I am also very thrilled to see this GO! These were in the master bedroom/bathroom and they are nasty. Its like Kara said, like hotel curtains. Eww. I wouldn't of kept them this long if it wasnt for the fact that there was no where else to get dressed considering the only room in the entire house without a window is the other full bath in the hallway. So yea. They had been kept until this point but now I am very happy to see them go! :)
Putting up the bracket thing in the laundry room. This is the one window i screwed up. Oops. :)
Our master bedroom.. windows are open.. shades are up! curtains are down! Yay Yay Yay!!
And shades are down! Yippeeeee! I think they look awesome! :) Someday my bedroom will look awesome too! Btw I just bought a new dresser for in there. :)
Guest bedroom. Curtain needs to come down still. But loving the shades! :)
Office.. same as guest bedroom.. love it!
Master bathroom.. seriously this window looks about double in size compared to before! Crazy!
Living room! I'm a lil bummed with this one cause I got cream because of the couch being tan... well I never thought about the fact that the window part would be shown and its very white.... Oh well! I am still thrilled with the fact that my neighbors cant see in anymore! Not that I don't like my neighbors.. I just felt funny before. Yay!
And this one is my absolute fav. I just love the way it looks and how the light above the sink looks... Yep. Love it. Love them all!

Okay, thats all for now. More later. Hopefully sometime I'll start getting more stuff actually done. Like maybe painting. Hmmm!!! :) Later!

Struggling!

2011-10-09T11:49:00.001-07:00

Eep. I'm struggling over here. I am nothing but excited for Cody & Allie's wedding next September. I am Thrilled its Finally under a year and things are starting to get planned. And its almost time to start going to look at dresses! Yes! Orrrr so I thought. Allie just sent out an email on facebook to myself and the other 5 bridesmaids. Her 3 bestfriends, sister, and cousin. And me. As I already said. Well, I know 3 of the other 5 and seen the other 2 at least once. Anyways I saw their facebook pictures and they're just as I remember them. Well, that is anywhere between a size -0 to a Maybe 2. Seriously. I am by far thee 'biggest' of the bridesmaids. Eep. I am now thinking maybe we should plan on being pregnant for the wedding instead of waiting for after the wedding just so that I have a reason to be big. LOL! Then again I always think pregnant bellies are cute, but I'm sure when its me I'll just think I look fat. Ugh. Anyways, thats me throwing my tantrum for now. I was so excited to go look at dresses, and now I am a lil worried. And I know I'm not fat or huge or anything but still, I don't really even compare size wise to these other girls. Hey, at least she wants long dresses so my fat ankles won't be shown... :) Its about finding the one glimmer of hope, right? :) Uff anyways so I'm just going to sit over here and feel sorry for myself. I am also a lil sad because I was suppose to take pictures for my cousins today and they never like followed through. Its like the absolute perfect time for fall pictures, and the leaves are starting to fall fast, and all I want to do is have a good reason to take pictures. I even thought of asking Levi to go to a park with me and take his pictures. But unfortunately I don't think I need any solo pictures of my husband. Maybe I do need a kid after all, then at least I can take pictures of it! Hmm i think that sounds like a bad reason to have a kid though... LOL! Okay cross that off... :P Annnd how about a few happy notes? I have got 1 other 'side' job persay.... just babysitting of course.. but me loves it! :) I also have another 'interview' for another one on friday... For 5 kids... Hmmm sounds fun! It might be bad though cause then I'll come home telling Levi we can have 5 kids cause I can do it. As a child I always wanted to have 5 kids. Who nos why! I wanted a girl, a boy, twin girls, then one more boy. LOL! Of course the names (in order) were suppose to be Nevaeh, Malakai, Kalynna, Kalysta, and Miguel. Now, I would not choose any of those names. I'm crazy in love with the names Everett and Evelyn. I know my husband will shoot me down on both those accounts, but oh well. We do like some names the same, but those we will save to share for when we actually have a child. :) Anyways that was WAY off topic... but I'm excited to get those 2 jobs (hopefully) because I've been looking at my finances and by next year before Cody and Allies wedding I will hopefully have everything paid off. That meaning me, not levi. We still have our stuff separate. Until we have less stuff to push together, we wont push them together. And of course that doesn't include our house. Lol! That is obviously long from paid off. But woohoo for other lil things. :) Alright, thats all for now. I should go clean something. My house is a mess. But oh well. Soon the brewer game will start and I'll have a good reason not to clean. Yay! haha! Later gators!

Ask and you shall receive!

2011-10-03T17:15:00.000-07:00

This post is for a certain someone who wanted pictures of the outside of our house... I went outside tonight since it was beautiful out and took pictures for you! Keep in mind, the outside needs just as much help as the inside! :) You'd have to look back at my first post of pictures of the house when we officially were owners to see a picture of the outside of the front before we ripped out all the shrubs cause I didn't remember to take pictures before going wild on them! They were sooo wicked and over grown and nasty, I was SO excited to tear them out! Anyways theres lots of pictures here, and ends with the living room which I had skipped and now I've not been lazy and went and found them..... Enjoy!
Looking out from the patio to the left.
looking straight out... its just a concrete slab...
Theres hubby mowing the lawn! :) Here it is pretty obvious the amount of work we've done outside already. The grading was VERY bad when we bought the house. We knew that before buying.. believe me it was that bad it was VERY obvious.. :) .. Anyways the part that is not mowed is all new dirt and seed planted. The concrete slab that you can see in the upper right of the picture is from the garage back entrance. Before, it had like a 2 foot drop off of it, not like immediately 2 feet but thats how much lower it was. The deck was also that bad of a drop off, and now it is even with it and the slope goes away from the house, not towards it! :)
Here's the reason hubby agreed to buy the house, the garage! It is a 2 1/2 stall garage, but the truck parks on the left and my car parks on the right and the trailer fits end to end with my car with a lil over 2 feet to spare. That way, everything fits in the garage! Perfect! :)Theres hubby standing in the garage playing on his cell phone.. :) Anways, going around the side of the garage is some big shrub.. and where i planted the rhubarb (which is only slightly coming up... eeeeeh :/) and more new grass! :)
Around the back yard, obviously this side is the garage.. :)
blurry picture but its the one that shows the depth of the lot the best.. sorry!

The garage back entrance... then the 2 windows: the one on the left is the laundry room and the right is the 1/2 bath.
The next window over is the kitchen window. Obviously patio doors, then our master bath window, then master bedroom window. That master bath "pop out" area helps you understand how itty bitty our master bath is! Even the window is tiny! :) I wonder if hubby would let me take it out when we redo the bathroom.. whats the point of it anyways! although I did just buy a shade for it! lol!
again, back of house.going around the other side of the house. all the way up to the air conditioner is new grass. this back corner is our master bedroom, which is that window on the end of the house with the arch.
back yard.. spotty grass.. :/
side of our house... more spotty grass... and a fire hydrant that is just barely off our lot.. Thank Goodness!!!

side of house.. our master bedroom window... nothing much going on over here!
all those wood chips had shrubs in them.. and my dad and i ripped them out... Yay! we kept that one big plant on the left to cover the air conditioner look from the road.. and the one tree thing on the right... but there is 1 lilac bush in the front you can kind of see from here that we left... :)Theres the lilac bush! I lost count of how many different kinds of plants and how many in total amount we took out! It was nuts. Over grown like crazy and just TONS of them! Ick!
The left window is the guest bedroom and the right is the office. So happy to be able to SEE the front of our house now! :) We plan to rip out all the wood chips (levis not a fan!) and probably go a lil less wide (it is very wide!) with the 'flower bed' area... and honestly i think were just going to do decorative stone for the most part. I am soo not a plant person. If I plant anything its merigolds or petunias. So, i think this area will just be the one lilac bush... :)
the front door, the living room window, the side garage door, and my dutch people! oh and some more watermelon.. yipes! lol! where the dutch people are the shrubs we ripped out we thought were 3 shrubs. it ended up there was 6, just very over grown they all touched everywhere. it was insane. here I plan on doing more decorative stone in the middle with maybe 12 inches around the inside of the side walk (where the dutch people are but only 12 inches touching the side walk.. make sense?) where i'll put some flowers. that way, it'll be manageable. It doesn't look that big, but its HUGE! it would take lots of flats of flowers to fill, so.. no thank you!
and that lil area with wood chips I think I will do some more flowers. Either way, it'll be stone or flowers and no wood chips. :)

And our huge tree in our front yard. I love it. I just wish it was in the back yard. I was going to take a picture of our house from the front when we left, but we never left. It doesn't cover a ton of the front, but it does cover some. its just very big and i wish I could just see the whole front of the house and it didnt block it. So it makes me sad that its soo big.. :( in other news I want to put some apple trees in the back yard.. LoL!

Now, some living room pics!The living room wall looking towards the kitchen from the front door area.
looking from the dining room towards the fire place. lovely hubby.. :)

looking from the dining room towards the front door. theres a coat closet there.
looking from fire place towards the hall way to the bedrooms.. :)

And thats all I've got for now! Hope you enjoyed your rest of your tour around the inside and outside of the house! :) And, your welcome! :))))

Our house

2011-10-02T19:12:00.000-07:00

so you'll have to deal with these pics being all out of order because they're backwards but today my brother was over and he fixed my laptop that the internet doesn't reboot itself every time you exit out of an open box. Yay! But that means there's a lot of updates and now i cant just click and drag pictures around and i'm kind of confused! lol! Anyways, i was posting pictures onto facebook for people to see, so I thought i'd add a few more here too. :) These are pictures of the house since we've moved in. You've seen a few here or there with the stove being replaced and what not, but i'll share a few of each room.. except the living room because i took them BUT there on levi's side of the computer and i'm not signed onto that side right now and i'm too lazy to save this post, go sign on his side, and then upload some more from his side. so for now you get the whole house except the living room. oh and the basement since i forgot to take pics of that. whoops! :P
Here's the 1/2 bath... its the dutch bathroom! the kitchen/dining is all dutch and this is right off the kitchen so I decided i was going to make it dutch. Before we had 2 bathrooms and now we have 2 1/2 so I had one bathroom without a theme and it was that or a birch theme (the living room) but i did dutch since its right by the rest of the dutch stuff and I'm super excited. :)the laundry room. its small but its perfect. :) someday i'll rip that laundry room out, put it down in the basement, and replace it with cubbies for our kids since its thee closets to the garage to hold backpacks, shoes, coats and every other thing under the sun for kiddos. :)
The hall way off the kitchen. The first door on left is the 1/2 bath. The opening on the left after the 1/2 bath is the laundry room. The door on the right is the pantry (its only a half pantry since the stairs go down there) and then around the corner on the end is the door for the basement stairs and the door to the garage.
The kitchen, on the other side of this wall is the living room. To the left is all that stuff that was just pictured. To the right is the dining/living and rest of the house like bedrooms.across from the refrigerator is the sink which is the outside wall. obviously right between the stove is where the hallway goes through.
the dining room which leads to patio doors
looking back at the kitchen from the living room/dining room corner.
main full bath off the hall way for the bedrooms.

master bedroom... lots of work to be done still! eek!master bedroom from the other side of the room. the right door is obviously from hallway. then the closet is right there.. then the left doorway is the master bathroom.
master bathroom.. thee smallest bathroom ever. :) it serves its purpose very well though. that purpose being to keep my tooth brush hidden when company comes over and i dont remember to put it away... LOL!
office... which also serves its purpose very well holding 3 desks... lots of organizing to do in here!

guest bedroom.. which is more like guest bed.. since someone didnt pay attention to what she took a pic of! i should of took a picture more of the room then just into the door way! it makes the bedroom look tiny, when really it is not at all! oh well!

hope you enjoyed the lil tour of our house... i'll add pictures of the living room once i sign onto levis side of the computer.. and then hopefully someday i'll add more pictures once all the rooms are painted! i think the only room in the house that doesnt need painting is the office. yikes. but that room will need painting too, its just that i'll be the first room to get repainted else if i paint it now since that will be the nursery, someday, hopefully, but not in the near future. at.all. thank.you.very.little! :) thats all for now folks!

Craigslist & bathrooms

2011-09-25T19:11:00.000-07:00

Just had to come on here and post that seriously, craigslist is awesome. I'm keeping my eyes on it for a new dresser.. and have found a few potential ones! But thats not the most awesome part. Levi put a few things on there today.. one including our old piece of junk stove. And we got 2 calls on it. One very quickly, and they said they were on their way back from Madison, going to Green Bay and would stop to see it on the way up. It was a very nice couple who just bought a house together and are getting married in 2 weeks and this was the 3rd appliance they bought off craigslist for the kitchen! They seriously paid full-price for what we asked. $195 for what in my opinion was umm not worth more then 50! I mean it definitely was top of the line.. like 21 years ago! lol! But Okay! Levi put it on there for that price hoping to get 150, but thought itd be great if we even got 100! I am SO excited.

Anyways.. One last thing I had to say about funny things about our house.. like how I posted about having too many rugs to fit every square inch of our floor in our bathroom. Well a good thing about having such a small bathroom.. you can now reach the toilet paper that is stored in the vanity if your on the toilet and run out... way too funny. Before if you were on the toilet in our old huge bathroom and you ran out of toilet paper you were seriously out of luck. Now you can pretty much almost reach all 4 walls sitting on the toilet. SO hilarious. But at least you can reach the toilet paper! Well that is as long as theres toilet paper in the cupboard. Haha!

Well, thats all I know folks. Dont miss my last post about our new stove! Later Dudes!

Lil Bit of...

2011-09-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

... This and a lil bit of that.. a lil bit of everything really! (i now have one of Eli's bob the builder songs stuck in my head.. "a lil bit of concrete mixed with sand a lil bit of Bob, the Builder Man!" bahaha!) Anyways this is a post intended to be about my new stove, but in the process I found other pictures on my camera that i wanted to blog.. :) Sooo enjoy... and a fair warning.. Don't view if you're eating your lunch! :P

We'll start out with cute and sweet! That one day where there was that bad weather going on up here and a LOT of people lost power (and we didnt! Yay!) Sam & Granny were over. Ryleigh had spent the day with me (it was a friday.. I had off.) and all a sudden she went to Levi for some snuggles! He was scratching her back and she was just obviously in lalaland as she usually doesnt want to go to Levi. Its not that she doesnt like him, she just acts hard to get a lot! :P Anyways, we had to snap a quick picture as its not often we see her snuggling with him! :)
Yesterday after my new oven came, I invited my parents and grandparents over for supper. I of course had to make pizza! Yum! So I kicked up the bread machine, and rolled out the dough. Levi so kindly took a picture for me. I love homemade pizza crust! This was only the 2nd time my grandparents were over to our new place and the first time was the night we signed on it so it was bare empty except a card table we brought over with a few chairs to sit and have a drink at. :) They really enjoyed seeing the place again after all our "treasures" were in here... and they liked seeing all the improvements we've already made! :)

I had a group of watermelon plants that I started from seed and transplanted into my grandparents garden because I didn't have the space at our old place. So although half (there was 6 to start) only made it, they are producing up a storm! This is the 3rd one off of it, the one prior to it was almost double in size! I gave it to Sam since Ryleigh loves it and I know we'll never eat it all! Grandpa said theres 13 more on the plants... Yum Yum Yum! They all are almost about ready to pick though.. Anyone need some watermelon? LOL!

Anyways.. Onto the not so sweet part of my post.. This is the part not to eat your lunch during.. unless you want to taste it twice! :P

Here's a picture of what I found the 2nd day I started putting stuff away at our new house. Yum! That orange thing is a cat bag.. kind of like a bean bag.. but with a cat head on it and the name Morris. Not sure what thats for! LOL! Anywho, Morris don't live here anymore and neither does his bag! :P So obviously this is below the stove.. We knew the stove was bad as Granny had taken a tooth brush to the inside sill of it, but I didn't know WHAT we were going to discover when I pulled out that drawer. It honestly was worse then this picture even describes.. And in this picture you dont get to enjoy the real pleasure.. the Stench that just bellowed out from below there... It was SO gross! I hardly had the drawer open and I thought there might be some dead Morris left over! :P Anywho, so my mom and dad were coming over so I gave dad the task doing this.. Haha!

Here's the side of the stove. I know sometimes stuff spills over.. but seriously?! I've NEVER seen that many lil things spilled over. Ew! And btw the entire house had been painted after this lady moved out. We know it went to a relocation company, so we assume it was hired out to a company, so therefore not really like kept an eye on. Well we found out they never painted behind the stove.. and probably rightfully so! If I was them and started pulling that stove out and smelt that, I'd of shoved it back too and painted around it! :P BTW they did paint behind the refrigerator.. which is only 2 years old so we cleaned out behind that too but being only 2 years old we knew that wouldn't be bad at all.

And heres one last picture of it. I mean seriously look at the junk stuck to the side of the cupboard and to the stove. Ew. (btw u can see the paint color differences if u look above the lil part of cupboard from where the stove usually sat.) Although we did get this cleaned up, I was still horrified using that stove. Everytime we used it it smelt like pizza.. no matter what! lol! So Levi told me to go to Premiere Appliance, my Uncle Butchy used to work there before he died. We are long time friends between the owner and our entire extended family. He gives amazing prices to us, and to all people in general because he doesnt have some big corporate company to have to make a quota for too... So he keeps his prices low! And So I went there.. and they had 1 stove left that was being discontinued and he wanted to get rid of. So I got a real steal! :) I brought Levi back last weekend to see it and he wanted to get a new microwave for above the stove to replace the hood thing that was up there. That was also original to the house.. 21 years old.. and had the grease accumulated for that amount of time too! So nasty! So anyways, we picked them out, and ordered a part for our washer (explained further below) and got the call for it to be delivered Friday! Yay!!

Its here! Its here! I was seriously grinning from ear to ear I was SO excited!!!

Ehh! The Microwaves in! (the light on down the hallway is the laundry room where he was putting the new part on the washer) Now to bring in the stove!!! Yippee!! Its like its Christmas here all the time! LOL!

My brand spanking new beautiful oven! Obviously its a double oven.. which we texted out last night with 2 pizzas, one in each oven! Its got amazing burners on top (which you can really see!) but the left front one is a double burner, an 8 inch and a 10 inch.. and the right front one is a triple burner.. and 8, 10, and 12 inch! Unless you see it do u really realize it is HUGE! lol! The back burners are your regular small burners.. and they have something special too! They have a radiant heat built into them that is "Lower then Low" as Randy (the owner) described it. Pretty much meaning that the low that the regular burners go, this is even lower.. making it possible to melt chocolate chips on that burner all day long without ever burning them. Sweet! :) And its got a warmer spot in the back too like u can just set stuff on to keep it warm. Lovely! The microwaves so cool.. and Levi was pretty stoked about it! :)

Oookay Now onto the washer.. We got the washer and dryer included in the house.. They are amazing awesome front loaders that work wonderfully! However, the lady (surprise surprise!) never kept them clean! Front loaders are notorious for the smell they give off... but at my work they have the exact same ones (just 2 years newer) and I've smelt that notorious smell. This, this was like 2 skunks got in a fight with the washer and made even a worse then anything else smell. YUCK! So I told Randy about it, and he said hes sure it needs a new "boot" .. so we ordered one. Which btw we did use the "HE Front loader washer cleaner solution" before buying the boot and my husband about puked with all the junk that came off and he said it wasnt worth it to try and salvage the old part and get a new one! So we did.. and Randy had his helper put it in.. they of course left us with the old one... Anyone need one? Ewww! :P

Here it is! Its all bunched up but u get the point.. see all the white and black stuff? Built up mold that would not come off. Even if u could take it off, doing it with it ON the washer is next to impossible because u can not get to the part where its most stuck on and getting it off requires taking the entire front of the washer off. Easy for a washer repairman to do.. not so easy for me to! LOL!

One more close up of some mold in case you cared to see! Not only does it look gross but seriously the stench it gave off was horrible. I did do laundry with it before this was replaced and let me tell u our laundry smelt like mold. If it wouldnt have been for what I use in the dryer (some all natural scent packs that are FULL of Cinnamon and Nutmeg!) I seriously dont think i could of stood to do laundry.

And now.. Here it is Nice and new! The replaced part is obviously the blueish part.. closest to the outside. I cant believe how great my laundry smells now! Yay!!!

And Thats all folks! A lil bit of everything... and maybe soon I'll go take pictures of all the improvements we've made that werent just buying things like a new stove... but doing electrical and that kind of stuff! :) But for now.. try and choke back down your lunch! :P

Random Tidbits

2011-09-18T17:45:00.001-07:00

Today I found out indeed I did order the shades from JCPenney's. I wasn't sure as my card had not been charged yet and I hadn't received a confirmation issue. So I called and the lady was SO nice. She was like "you mean you want to know if you just dreamed you placed an order and maybe you really didn't?" and that was to a T exactly how I was starting to feel! Like I might have lost my mind or something! LOL! Anyways they will take the 6 weeks it said to ship so they wont be charged until they ship. Good to know! :)

I also get kind of peeved as I like one certain bra (i know, lovely thought huh..!) and I wanted to get some new ones. So Victorias Secret (the one place I can find one kind of bra I can stand to wear... or shall I go without?! LOL!) has a great sale going on. Not really like a sale on the bras but like a discount if you spend so much and the more you spend the better deal u get. Of course. :P Well so now they do not make the colors I want. I don't like black or patterned to show through my shirts! Ugh. So then I started searching the sale clearance section and of course all the ones that are left are A's. Seriously, whos an A? Obviously no one because they wouldnt be left if someone was! hahaha!

A few things I've noticed with the house is that I have great cupboard space now. Like 1/3 are still empty. (That means i can go shopping to fill them right?! hehe!) Anyways, with a big amount of space that means theres high cupboards. I now can not reach the top shelves. Lovely. I feel like I'm constantly getting the step ladder out. hehe! Oh well, just store the stuff I dont use a lot up there.

Before we had a HUGE bathroom. Now we have thee smallest one I've ever seen. Before we HAD to have 3 rugs in our bathroom. None came within a foot of eachother. We could of used a 4th for by the toilet. Now, if I even tried to put all 3 I have down they'd cover ever square inch of floor space in our bathroom. Its kind of funny. My cousin came over and asked if were going to put a jet tub in like we had before. Seriously?! Theres like 2 feet by 1 1/2 feet of room on the floor of the bathroom! Oh yea I think we'll manage to fit that jet tub in there if we stick the toilet inside of it! LOL!! Some people don't think before they speak.

Ummm what else has happened recently... Eli started his 3 year old preschool. First of all, remember he is not my child. Although I'm like a 3rd parent to him the days I'm there, I do not make choices for him to go to school. But telling me that he should not be going to school doesnt really make me happy because A.) it was not my choice to send him and B.) i don't think all 3 year olds are ready for school but he DEFINITELY is. Absolutely no question about it and he LOVES it and its only 2 hours long. Its more like play time to get him more used to playing with other kids his age. Anyways, after his first day of school he comes home and we asked him what he did and he said "we sang 2 songs... but no lady gaga songs! can you believe it!" LOL!! seriously the kid is SO funny.

Tonight Levi and I had gone to target (we have wedding gift cards to spend and we still havent found anything to buy!) and of course I ran into Sarahs pink sparkley shoes. I started tearing up just seeing them. :(

Yesterday we bought a new stove! I am SO excited! The one left here works, but sometimes when I turn the preheat on it cancels itself out! Frustrating! And it smells like pizza in here everytime we cook. Its awesome. Not. So we bought a new double oven. Yep I splurged. And we even got a new microwave for over the stove. I am SO excited! We have not ever had one and I cant wait to see how it'll look! Oh and we ordered a new "boot" to go on our washer. The washer works amazing but it literally has black stuff coating on the inside of the current boot. It smells VERY bad. Moldy. I cant wait to get rid of that smell!

Next I have to work on ordering wedding pictures for our bedroom. Very excited for that too!!! I was looking through some of them tonight. They are so beautiful coming back and looking at them again after a while. :)

Here's a video of Eli.. yes its sideways... I'm right inside the patio table feeding Emmett and Charlie and Eli are in the fenced in backyard. Eli was listening to his bob the builder CD we got from the library and his fav song came on.. Crocodile Rock! So I got my phone out to take a video. He is pretending his lacross stick is a guitar. And i can not get over him turning his hat sideways. hes sooo cool that way! lol! Oh and the squeeky noise is me opening the patio door so u can hear the music. and then charlie comes and closes it. LOL!

(ugh! not sure why the noise isnt working! its still super cute... just imagine crocodile rock in the background and me laughing! hehe!)

And thats all folks!

Craziest day ever!

2011-09-09T21:41:00.000-07:00

Today was so crazy. Not crazy as in busy. Crazy as in I am still wondering if half the things happened that did. I'm sitting here watching "Four Weddings" and thought I'll blog it for all yous to get a huge giggle and a total confused look come over your day. or evening. or morning. Orrrr whenever else you might read this! :)

First, a few funny things from Peyton... we were talking about how I should have a pink car because i like everything pink.. and how i should have a pink 4wheeler ... thats when i said...

"they don't make pink 4wheelers for big girls.. only for lil girls your age.. but not anymore for big girls like me!"

PJ "well then you know what you should do?"

me "What is that? paint my 4wheeler pink?"

PJ "no, you should get a quarter....(seriously wondering where this might go!) ..... and find a wishing well...... (ummm what? lol!) and then wish to become a lil girl again so you can ride a pink 4wheeler! Duh!"

oh.. yea.. exactly! how didn't i think of that myself! LOL! I thought he was going to say to wish for a grown up pink 4wheeler but I guess that would of been to easy! LOL!!!

Then I asked him how his teacher at school is.. i said..

"Is she nice?"

PJ "Yes, she's very nice!"

me "Is she pretty? (no idea why i asked this.. it was just the next thing that popped out.. and sometimes kids come up with thee funniest things when talking about looks lol!"

PJ "ummmm no, not really!"

me "Oh! but as long as shes nice it doesnt really matter what she looks like, right?"

PJ "yep, your right, and you shouldnt tell anyone about that. you should make sure and keep it to yourself. okay?"

me "umm okay?"

later im talking to my dad infront of pj and am telling him what pj said and he looks at me and says...

"Hey! I said to keep that to yourself!"

hahaha! guess i didnt listen very well huh! oops!

I also had a huge conversation with him about "in this one city.. there were 2 buildings.. and they had a fire.. and they fell down with one thousand people inside"

i was devistated to try and talk to him about what really happened and how and why it all happened. i just tried to keep it simple letting him ask questions. seriously so sad. and i cant believe its been long enough where he wasnt even alive when it happened. of course i realize that, but its still hard to believe. he seems to have been around forever, and it seems like just yesterday that the towers fell. :(

And lastly.. the craziest part.. Walmart. Oyi. This is going to be long. I seriously bout 5 items that took me about 10 minutes to find at walmart but ended up being there for over an hour and was literally ready to cry by the time i left! Seriously, so strange!

So I went to walmart on my way home from Sams new house. I needed just a few things, one being a sprinkler for our newly seeded grass. So I was in that area seaching when i realized this lil girl about 3 no more then 4 years old was running up and down and up and down the aisles. no one seemed to be yelling at her, so i kept looking at her like hmmm she seems to be alone! so i watched her.. kept looking for what i needed and shed be gone for a few mins and then come back. the 2nd time around she actually held onto my cart and walked with me! of course between running up and down like an insane child! I was so frustrated. No one looked to be looking for her! :( So i tried desperately to make eye contact with her without frightening her incase she just thought i was her mom and she thought she was holding on her moms cart! So finally after a lil while of walking with me she looks at me, she def realizes im not her mom, to which she smiles, giggles, smiles, and runs away! I was SO confused! But now she was gone.

Then like 5 mins later I found a guy to tell me where to look while I'm now like a quarter of the way around the store (i was over by the tire section.. on the opposite side of the fishing then i originally was on.. def no where near where i was before!) and all a sudden she comes running up to me again! Okay now this is weird because were not on the same side of the store anymore. So I say "have you lost your mom?" she said yes.. while giggling! I asked if she thought we should find her, which she replied no! seriously while giggling. There was a customer waiting for help at the fishing counter kind of seeing this going on and he was smiling assuming she was with me. I kept looking up at him like with a "ahhhh please help sir!" look and he became very concerned very quickly with me. I again tried to convince the girl we should find her mom and she ran off! I explained to the guy that shes not with me she says she doesnt want to find her mom and all a sudden she was back. at least he knew what was going on now! I asked her if we could help find her mom, and she just kept asking to be taken to the toy department! I was freaked out. If i lost my mom at that young id be crying!

Anyways, she came back to me and the guy slipped away mouthing hed find someone to just STAY PUT! riiight! good luck with a flightly lil 3 year old who must have some form of ADHD or something going on! So I tried talking to her to keep her attention! So I said "do you know what this stuff is for?" prob not the question to ask while sitting in the fishing department to a lil girl! LOL! So we talked about fishing lures for what seemed like forev and then a walmart guy, the guy customer, and a walmart gal walked up. The walmart guy asked me if i needed a fishing license. What! No! Dont you see this horrified look on my face and this lil flighty girl here?! LOL! I was like WHAT!? NO! this is the lil lost girl! So the walmart gal goes "Oh, shes the lost lil girl, okay, can you tell me your moms name?" and she giggles and mutters "jody" and then the walmart lady grabs her arm and says okay lets go find your mom. And the lil girl just continually asks if she can go see the toy department instead. Seriously?!

Fast forward my 5 items are finally found and I had never heard her mom called. Kind of odd. Oh well. Then i hear a lil girl screaming. Sure enough I do a lil searching and its her. Sitting in a cart with a woman pushing it. The woman is entirely ignoring her. I was Peeved. Then i became worried thinking maybe its not her mom. Maybe someone else is taking her! She totally would have left with me if i told her she could buy whatever toy she wanted. seriously she was that out of it! so I kept watching.. she kept screaming "i want out of the cart mommy! get me out!" but her mother sat in the store for seriously another half hour with her in the cart totally ignoring her and her face was pure red and she had tears all over her and screaming at the top of her lungs. It was NUTS!

Well it took me over a half hour to check out because of this horrible cashier and a multiple order infront of me. and oh it was just horrible. and the whole time, i could hear and see the girl screaming. it was killing me. its still killing me! Dont get me wrong, i guess i shouldnt always judge parents because everyone has their own parenting styles and im not a parent at all so what do i no! but im like a 3rd parent to 3 amazing boys and i do have my fair share of experience with highs and lows of dealing with my 3 boys. So it is as close as i could possibly get without actually parenting myself. So just let me judge for 2 seconds. If that was me, I would more then likely grab my child and leave. That girl was with me or around me (well either way away from her mother!) for longer then 10 minutes. And that was like right when I entered! Who nos how long it was before i was there! She could have been SO easily kidnapped! She was like 1 section away from the doors! It could of been so easy for someone to do! If I was missing my child for that long I would prob be a big puddle of tears and when i was reunited i would grab that child and leave and be praising God for finding her. Not walking around letting my child scream and ignoring her! Seriously?! That girl obviously has some issues since she had no desire to go find her mom, but maybe she has those issues because of the way shes treated by her mother! Ugh!

Okay, I'm done now. I'll stop judging. I was just SO peeved. I was like an emotional wreck after having dealt with that! Anyways, now its 2 shows later and I'm finally finishing this post and Im so tired and just need to go to sleep! Yipes! Nighter night!

5 years...

2011-09-09T04:54:00.000-07:00

I can hardly believe it has been 5 years since this lil mister was born! I remember the day that I became a "godmommy" oh so well! I could hardly wait to get up and see MY baby! Unfortunately, he was born a lil too early so all I could do was see him and not hold him. But here is a picture from the first time I saw him, and fell in love with my very first godbaby!he had so much hair and was so darn lil in his big incubator! ugh so adoreable! and he had a ducky blankey on him.. which happens to be my fav! :)

and now, 5 years later here he is! This was from 2 days ago on his first day of preschool! Since his bday falls just after the cut off for the school year, he'll be old for his class, but thats alright! :)

Anyways, today I get to take him out to lunch! He asked to go to chuck e cheeses, but Cody, Angie, and Levi all pipped in to tell him that it burned down! So he resorted to Funset Blvd instead.. LOL! And we have plans to stop at toys r us too, although he now believes it has burned down too. Sheesh people are so crazy what they tell kids... and the kids believe them! LOL!

Happy 5th Birthday Peyton Joseph! I love you to the moon and back! :)

Dirt & Boys

2011-09-08T19:50:00.000-07:00

Today the people came to put dirt in our backyard to fix the grade... They weren't suppose to come til tomorrow.. and we didnt realize they were coming today til after they dumped a dump truck load in the driveway. Oyi! They said they would forsurely be done for me to leave in time to work (i had a late day because its janes call day) so yea! Well it was only 1 man working out there and it was soo slow going.. and then when I had a ray of hope thinking i'd be able to get my car out of the garage and here backs up a 2nd dump truck and blocks the entire driveway. Lovely! So after some calls and me walking out and telling the guy to kind of please hurry your rear and make it possible to get out, I did make it to work. LOL! And more importantly, it was my baby's first day of school today! I couldn't wait to get to work to see him! He was SO cute! He did awesome at school today too! He didn't even cry or look back at all when jane left him there! I call him my baby because i started with them when he was a lil baby, so of course he's still my baby! Even though I have a new baby! :) Of course my big boy Isaac is going to school full-time! We walked to pick him up from school today and he came RUNNING super fast to give us hugs and ask how Eli's first day went. It was so SO so sweet! I absolutely love my boys! And Emmett is becoming SO alert! Today during his afternoon bottle he stared at Eli the whole time, no matter if he could hardly even see him with a quarter of his eye! I can already see the great relationship forming between Eli and him.. especially cause the whole time we go on walks Eli holds Emmetts foot to help calm him down. Its so sweet. I also get a huge giggle out of the fact that Emmett hates his carseat and so we'll get all ready to go and I get Emmett in last and by the time I run around the car to get in hes screaming and Eli always says "Hurry up Kayla, Emmett wants to get out of here already!" Its so sweet.

Oh! And today is 1 year from Cody & Allies wedding! Yippppppy!! I cant wait for their wedding! Ahhh! And tomorrow marks 5 years for something... hmm you know what it is?!?! :) Its something oh soooo important! I can't wait! I get to spend an awesome day doing something sooo special because of it! :) And I can not believe its been 5 years! Yipes!

Oh and tomorrow the people come to spray foam the basement. Hopefully I'll wake up in time! LOL! I think my husband plans things on my day off for super early in the morning so that I have to get up and not sleep in. Its seriously such a bummer. Oh well, I'll live I guess! :)

Okay, I'm super tired... so I'm outa here. Later!

A Second Home! :)

2011-09-05T18:05:00.000-07:00

I feel like the most lucky person ever... Who would of thunk that when we bought our first home, we'd be granted free access to our second home.. for free! Or not so free, as it ends up costing me more money every time I step in that door! Ohhh those doors that swing so freely that I have visited every single day this weekend, and could do without visiting for a long time to come. But no, I know I will be visiting it many times this week and for the rest to follow. Yes, my new second home, The lovely Menards. Oh how we have a love-hate relationship. I hate to go there. I love to look. I hate to spend money. I love to dream of what we will be doing on our future products. Of course with Menards help. :) Or Lowes. Or Home Depot. Which ever has the sale that week. LOL!

We have some venting problems. Well something about the one vent pipe not being secured closed up on the roof properly. So all this lovely rain we've had this past weekend has got into our attic. Not that it was that much that got in, but tom Levi and his coworker will be up there fixing it. And since we have a venting problem.. now I plan to have myself a personal venting problem... Here I go!

Friday it was hot and muggy and we had to have the air on. Now tonight its suppose to be down to 43! And Levi just told me we have to turn the heat on! I told him we can make do without it tonight, I'll just throw more blankets on. But that is so nuts! 3 days and we go from air to heat. I do not like that. Also he JUST turned the pilot light off thinking we wouldn't be using the fire place soon. Of course now I'm wishing it was on. And its very dirty and not clean at all and was a chore to get it on the last time, so to get it back on will not be an easy task. :(

Also whoever lived at our house before was one of thee filthiest people ever! I am SO happy I never met her, because I would not be able to hold myself back from being very angry with her. She should feel bad about herself. We've heard just wonderful stories from the neighbors about her... NOT! We have heard stories from the wonderful neighbors... we are LOVING all the neighbors we have met so far! Levi has a new BFF, who has come over or hes gone over there (just in the driveways) to talk each day this weekend. They are so cute! They even have the exact same Keen sandals! We just have one small disagreement with him... He had that Green & Yellow tractor shirt on today! We definitely will be teaching him about the blue guys... :) Anyways, the lady's husband died over 10 years ago supposely. They DID have 2 children, a boy and a girl. The boy supposely NEVER had ambition to do anything.. and the girl was SO bad, she got sent to boarding school. Lovely. The neighbors on our one side built a fence type thing thats just super tall and pretty with vines growing up it to block out just our back yard from their view while they sit on their deck because they hated seeing our yard before because supposely they would only mow the lawn once a month if it needed it or not! And we have a front ditch that is practically a creek because they kept the ditch grass even with the road! Like you couldn't see the ditch at all! LOL! and its not no small ditch! Anyways, we now are starting the process of drying out the ditch. We also bought some wash machine cleaner for a front loader. We had to use the whole bottle and Levi did it and said he felt like puking it was so gross! Ick!

I bought shades for our whole house tonight. Well, all besides the arch window that is above the big window in our bedroom. We were going to get that one too but let me tell you, ever single window is a custom order blind size. Of course. And JCPenneys was running a sale, they were 65% off custom order ones and an additional 20% off through the weekend. So I got a GREAT deal. But it still costed a lot of money. And the ones I got were "pleated" ones.. because the "honeycomb" ones are way more expensive. And we have no windows to the sun rising and only 1 to it setting so its not like we have tons of sun shining in. So I just didn't go crazy and splurg. Hope I don't regret that later! Anyways, to get a shade for the arch window we would have had to have gotten a honey comb one for it. Well if I would of gotten that one honey comb i would have had to get the one below it that way too and the other window in the bedroom to match. Anyways, the arch window would have been 285 dollars alone! It originally was 880 dollars! That is NUTS! So for the arch and the other 2 windows in the bedroom it would of been just over 500 dollars! That is more then I spent total for all 11 shades I got. Yea that was SO not happening! So since the arch window is high enough that its not like a privacy issue, we are just going to leave it open for now.

I also wanted to address something from last post... I wanted to say that although my heart longs to go get Sarah and bring her home, it is just not possible. I know we could raise money, but it would cost anywhere from 25,000 to 35,000 to bring her home ultimately. And after just buying a house, it is just not possible anymore. I did email a lady from the RR website to see if they found out anymore info on her health problems that accomany her or if theres any info she could tell me about why the family released her. She said the family now is facing a deployment of one of the members and so they have released her and if she is still available when the family member is back then they will go on with the adoption. I assume its the mom or the dad because without both of them they could not go through with the adoption, as both have to be present at court in her country. Yea. It makes me so sad. I'm not sure what I'm feeling anymore. I haven't told my family about her at all. I seriously haven't talked out loud about it to anyone except Levi. I become one blubbering mess. My mom asked me why I was getting shades without cords. All I said is because if one day we do adopt children, the cords are hazardous for children (choking hazard) and ultimately its safer without them so thats what I bought. This way if we do go to adopt, during the home study, we wont be replacing shades. LOL! She knows I dream of adopting one day, but besides that, nothing really. :(

Hmmm... Besides that, Granny was here for a lil this past weekend. We had fun. I miss seeing my in-laws.. especially them sisters of mine who need to come see my house for the first time for one and then the first time with stuff in it (and not just boxes!) for the other! :) I think my moms scentsy order is coming in this week and believe me, I'll be inviting them over to come get their stuff and visit our home! :) Ummmm other then that I'm currently looking for a longer dresser for our bedroom so I can finally order some wedding pictures and make a huge display of them on the one big open wall in our bedroom. Kind of exciting!

Okay, I think thats it. I'm done venting now. Pretty soon I'll start posting pictures. Today, I just felt like typing. If you made it all the way through this post, props to you! :) Adios amigos!

Internet again!

2011-08-29T08:29:00.000-07:00

Yay! Time Warner Cable came yesterday, and they found out why there was cable tv cords in our backyard! Lol! But anyways we finally have tv and internet again! I am SOO thankful! We have downsized our tvs to one, which I am soo happy about, but my husband is still not fully on board with yet. So he had them hook up all the cables in the house, although we have no other tvs anywhere in this house, not even stored downstairs, so not sure how he plans to do that! LOL! Oh well!

This weekend was SO long! Like wonderful, but I'm sooo ready to be back at work to be away from all the boxes at least for a few hours! LOL! I even have the morning off as its one of Jane's 'on-call' days, so she doesn't have to be in until 12:30. Its going to be a crazy day at work today too! Matt (the dad) and Maria (Charlie and Avery's mom, also Matt's sister) their grandma died and they are burying her today. So I will have all 5 kiddos instead of my 3 boys. I'm conserving all my energy this morning! Haha!

Our house is about 1/3 of the way unpacked. I got the kitchen all done. So thats good! Besides that we got new door handles for both garage access doors and the garage door that leads into the house. That is 3 new garage doors that have doors we now have keys for! LOL! Before we only had a key for the front door of the house and we almost locked ourselves out multiple times cause we had the dead bolt locked and theres no key for that! haha! That would of been a mess. But we got that all fixed now, so yay! Now the landscaper people are coming this week sometime, else next week forsure. They got to fix the grade in the backyard. Should be fun! :/

Also I think I'm being thrown for an emotional roller coaster. With all this packing and unpacking and moving and CLEANING, I found something else out today. As I said before I kept checknig on Sarah to wait to see her family and hear more about her. Well today I went on there and could not find her. So I hopped around and found out, she's back up for adoption. I'm so devistated for her. I don't exactly know what I'm feeling right now. As I said, emotional roller coaster is about my mindset right now. :/

Ummm thats about all I know. Just had to come on her and let everyone know everythings going good, or as good as it can i suppose! :) Later gators!

So Far....

2011-08-25T21:45:00.000-07:00

.... SO Good!

I didn't mean to post so much and then go to nothing at all! But I guess thats what happened! Things got crazy on me and I've been busy! Work was great, but a little unknown as Emmett and I are getting eachother all figured out. He is quite the lil stinker! :) He is SOOO cute though, and he loves to give me smiles and giggles and speak "whale" to me.. That's what Isaac and I call it, as we think that he sounds like Dory from on Nemo when she's speaking whale. SOO funny!

But anyways I just wanted to come on here and say that everything ended up going good for closing yesterday and we started moving today! And we got a TON of stuff moved with lots of help from Kara, Terry, Trevor, Emily, Erin, my mom, my dad, Cody, Allison, and Kelvin. It was soo great to have that many helpers, and definitely makes things a little more fun! :) Thanks again guys!

Now tomorrow we'll finish moving the last things and then we'll be finished! Saturday I have to come back to the duplex to pick some vegetables here that are still growing and take care of the neighbors house before their friends will start coming to take care of it on Sunday. But besides that I'll have a nice long weekend to get things put away and organized at our new house! Now if my feet would just stop killing me, I'd be good to go! I really badly need to get orthopedic things for in my shoes again, and I need to start wearing tennis shoes and not flip flops. Yea. But all with good time! :)

But for now, don't expect to hear much from me. Pretty sure I'll be covered in boxes trying to find homes for all the stuff! :)

Later dudes!

Under 1 week!

2011-08-18T19:05:00.000-07:00

Well, whatcha think? I was very open, honest, and real for the last few posts. I was brutally honest even when I wasn't sure if I should be. I cried a lot during some posts, and couldn't help but gut laughing at other posts. Ohhh that was fun! Oh and btw yes my grandma tightening the ring on the jar was def my fav picture of that whole post... That will definitely be a picture that is going to be cherished by me. :)

But for this post, I thought I've given you enough pictures. Now, its me, babbling on again. :) I just wanted to let you know that I may be a lil absent for a while. I'll try to post here, or there, but things are crazy and they're about to step up their crazy-pace like times 5!

You see, I have to work for my reg family on Saturday. Then, I have to work for a diff family on Monday. Then Tuesday, I go back to work full-time. Sunday is our church picnic.. which includes one of our very most favorite Christian Bands from Wisconsin (who we were going to have play at our wedding that was suppose to be this month!) Koine! SO I am thrilled to have a lil relaxing time on Sunday before the crazy week ahead. Today I had to go to GB (45 min drive one way.. :/) to have an attachment put back on my teeth. They fall off. And they're a pain in the you know where. LOL! I told Gma I'd stop at her house on the way back to see if she had to do pickles. And boy she had to do them! We did 10 jars of dill and 6 of chippers. SO I was there til 7 tonight. Of course that included gma making supper for me. YUM! Now tom I have to go to GB again to go to the Valley Bakers Association show with my daddy. This is one Bakery thing I remember doing when I was younger and I love so I am thrilled to be going, although I have a ton of stuff to do at home. :/ Also Tuesday night is my moms scentsy party. Then, Wednesday, we close on our house! Can you believe it?! I can't! In just under 1 week, we will be home owners. YIPES!

SOoo that's about all I know. I have a very busy next few days. And I still have packing to do. Yuck. I can not wait to move and be done with it all. And Paint! Yipppppee! hmmm what else... I know I said I go back to work on Tuesday.. but I haven't said how Excited I am to be going back to work! I LOVE my job.. and can NOT wait to see my babies! I also can not believe they are 5 1/2, 3 1/2, and 3 months old! Not so much of babies anymore.. well Emmett still is but ya no... :) I also can not wait for school to start so we can get into a routine! And it sounds like Charlie might be coming over one day a week (him and eli will both be going to school on Tuesday and Thursdays just for like 3 hours... not to the same school btw!) so anyways I can't wait to get into a routine with Charlie coming over, Eli going to school, Emmett taking naps!, and going to the library on our days off.. which is looking to be Mondays! lol!! SOO exciting!

Well, I'll stop blabbing now.... Time to go do something productive.. like maybe sleep! LOL!!! Later Gators!

The view

2011-08-17T17:49:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we were driving out to my Grandparents house to go spend some time with them in the evening. I ended up helping her can some more pickles (this time they were chippers.. not dill! but I didn't bring my camera so no lesson on how to can those! lol!) and just hung out with them and my parents. Well we started driving there and we were both in awe of the clouds that we had! It almost looked like we were driving into the mountains! It was soo pretty! So I took a few pictures to share! :)

Driving out of Greenville on 15 by Jennerjohn park when we first noticed them.. Beautiful!Coming off the hwys off ramp. It was soo pretty! At least in my opinion! :)And one last picture on the off ramp right before we turned and then the beautiful clouds were behind us. It was a fun ride out to Grandmas enjoying such a view!

Another visitor!

2011-08-16T17:35:00.000-07:00

The other day Ryleigh came to visit while Sam went shopping & out to eat with Travis. She wasn't too happy about being left behind (just like Mason! lol!) but we ended up having a boat load of fun! She was SO stinking cute! She saw the lil purple pool sitting in the garage and we just had to get it out to play! She had a suite along, but was already wet so I just let her play in her diaper. Of course I knew it would explode, but we still had fun! :) Here's a few pictures from the night. We started out by having watermellon with crazy Levi! It was soo yummy she even shared some with her shirt (straight down her chin if you can't see! lol!) Then out to the pool.. She would stand up, dance around and blab blab blab and then go "AAAAHHHH!" and purposely fall down! She thought it was hilarious, and was sooo giggly, such a cutie! :) Hahaha! How can you not love that! Our neighborhood has lots of people walking by and they all laughed and waved as we were right out in the front yard. She was sooo silly!

"Does this diaper make me look fat?" Hahahaha!
And of course, just like with all other kids, I must be boring! She fell asleep right in my arms! What a lil sweetheart! :) Love you RyRy!

The post where I spill...

2011-08-15T19:50:00.000-07:00

This post will be me admitting a lot. I've started and stopped and erased and written this post so many times, I'm not sure it'll ever be "published." I become so emotional as soon as I start typing, I'm not sure I can even breathe. First off, remember this post? Its where I was having an over-load of emotions.. as I was brought to the realization of something fast and furiously. Let me explain a little better...

I follow many blogs. One of my favorite I've talked about a few times. Its myspecialk's where the mom, Renee, blogs about her everyday life with 5 children, 2 who have Downs Syndrome, 1 of which was adopted through Reese's Rainbow. Ever since then, I go out there occasionally and just look at the kids and just love on their lil faces. I just have such a heart for adoption, I have always wanted to adopt and am working on hubby so maybe someday we can. Anyways, I was out there one night, shortly before I wrote that post about being over-loaded. That night, something shook me to my core. Not something, but someone. Her. Sarah. This lil Princess.
When I saw her picture, my heart seriously skipped a beat. I just starred at my computer screen, not moving, not blinking, probably not even breathing. I was so enamored. I read and reread her info, and just googled all the things they had listed about her. I was in love. However, I knew hubby would never go for it. I mean seriously. She is 5, to turn 6 this fall. So I didn't even say anything to him that night.

Then came the next night. My heart was pulling on me. Begging me to go look at her picture again. Of course, I did. Hubby was sitting next to me on the couch that night watching tv. I flipped the screen towards him and said "isn't she the cutest!" And he said yes, she's very cute, and wondered who she was. I told him. I even said I'd love to adopt her. He never says no to me, but instead phrases things like "how will it be possible?" to me. He's very "matter-a-factly" about everything. So, I left well enough alone.

The next night of course I pulled her up again. She was just like starring right into my soul begging me to do something. So I did. I brought it up to hubby again. He said he'd love to adopt her, if I could figure out how. So the wheels got spinning. I wasn't worried about how financially, I worried about how things would be when we got home. So I started shooting out emails. I asked Alicia about the 2 disease they say she might have (they won't know until someone commits to her.) Btw Alicia didn't know why I asked. No one did. Then I sat down and started researching info on open enrollment, for if I would still work for the family I'm with if she could go to school in the same system as Isaac, the oldest. I was researching everything up and down. I found the blog of the warrior for her. I contacted her. We emailed a few times back and forth sharing our love of this lil princess.

I'd go shopping and dream of her. That's where these lil precious shoes come into play..
I saw them and day dreamed of Sarah, running around the house with these on. I would take pictures on my phone and send them to hubby while he worked asking him if he'd be thinking of Sarah. He was really starting to love talking about her with me. :)

Then, one day I was shopping at Home Goods with Granny. I walked past the lil girl room accessories and of course had to take a picture for hubby. Oh how I dreamed of Sarah, loving pink like I do, having a wonderful pink room waiting for her to come home to. When I checked out at Home Goods Granny didn't come to the register with me. But the cashier lady I would swear had to have been from Russia, where Sarah is from. It was like God couldn't send me anymore signs to think about Sarah if he wanted to!

So anyways, I was on a mission to figure out everything.. and then Boom!

The warrior for Sarah had a blog post. It said Sarah's family found her. She didn't know "who" the family was, and I don't know if she assumed it was us because we had been talking with her and we wanted Sarah. But it wasn't us. I stared at my screen. I paged through Reese's Rainbow website searching for Sarah. I had to go to the "My Family Found Me" page, to find her. I sat there, just staring, and the tears were just pouring. I was absolutely heart broken. Hubby was of course on the other side of the couch, and wondered what happened. I tried to talk. I muttered just enough words for him to understand and I pointed to the screen for him to read that Sarah's family found her. He of course was again, very matter-of-factly about it. We hadn't figured out how we would work everything out. And this way, Sarah will have a great home. And quicker then we'd be able to figure it all out. But it still hurt. So badly. I had pictured our lil family. I pictured us, at Cody & Allie's wedding next year. I even thought Sarah might get to be a flower girl. I never should of got my hopes up. But I did.

I have dealt with it, and I'm okay now. Of course, I'm still crying writing this post. I'm still very sad about it. But I'm better then I was at first. But now, I'm waiting. All the other families that are finding their children post about themselves on the website. Almost all of them have blogs. I'm waiting and checking constantly. I want to find out who Sarah's mommy & daddy will be. I thought it'd be us, but it won't. I hope that soon they will post who they are and info about them so I can see them and put all the pieces together and know that was God's plan for Sarah and that she is better off with them. Honestly, until that happens, I'll be fine, but not totally fine. I'll be happy, but more on the outside then on the inside. I'll be okay, but hopefully I'll be better then okay when I can see her family and accept them as Sarah's parents. :/

Btw I'm not posting this for pity. I don't want to talk about this. It still makes me cry thinking about it. And believe me, I think about her with everything we do, every single day. And I realize we wouldn't probably be buying a house if we had gone ahead with the adoption. So yes I get that God has his timing, and for our family God will make it happen when it's suppose to happen. But I just wanted to clear the air, as I know some got concerned with my first post when I was over-loaded. And at that point, it was just a lot on my mind. Never did I think it'd turn out this way. So don't pity me. Don't make fun of me. Don't talk about me behind my back. Okay fine do whatever you want.. but for now, I'm just going to work on being okay until I know Sarah will be happy. :)

Little Helper

2011-08-14T18:45:00.000-07:00

First, make note to not miss any posts as I've got a bunch that I'm working on right now and scheduling them to be posted pretty much once a day in the evening. :) And now.. for the stay tuned part... :) Who do you think it was in my kitchen? :))) Lets take a look! :)
Mason came over on Friday, so Chris could take Shawn to a movie. Mason was not happy about everyone else going somewhere else and him having to stay with Auntie Kayla. Sooo I had my work cut out.. how should I cheer the lil fellar up? The park of course! He played there for almost an hour.. at first he acted shy and upset at me but about 10 minutes in he was jabbering away yelling about this and that and everything else! :)

Then came time to leave. And time to be mad at Auntie Kayla again. Although I promised playtime with the Tractors when we got back home. He still walked all the way across the park to my car with his hands behind his back and his head hung way down low. :(

When we got back, I had thought about making something.. but what? Well scotch-a-roos are Uncle Levi's favorite so I thought it'd be something easy for Mason to play with that wouldn't make a big horrible mess. He LOVED this! He drove his cars and tractors all over the place, and even added mini M&M's to the mix for something fun to "dig up" ... btw he ate probably half of those rice crispies by the end of it too! Want your kid to eat something.. let him play with it for an hour with his tractors.. He'll end up taking a bite or two and maybe even liking it! Silly goose! Then came time to make the rice crispies. He helped me with everything, especially taste testing the different chips (choc.. butterscotch.. peanut butter & mini M&M's because he saw them in there too!) and helped pat down the rice cripies when they were a lil cooled off. :)

Then he wanted to go do dishes. Okay, go ahead. He transfered water back and forth and back and forth between the black pan and the glass measuring cup with a 1 cup pastic measuring cup which he happens to be drinking out of here. What do you think he'd do next?
Spit the water out of course. And repeat, repeat, repeat! He was giggling so hard, it was so cute. I just left him be because he was being pretty good and getting 90 percent of the water back in the sink.. :) Then he saw me warming the choc and butterscotch chips for the top. He of course had to taste it! :)

A finger lick just wouldnt do. After I was done spreading the choc out he took the spoon straight to his mouth. And if that wasn't enough, he went back with the spoon twice more for more choc! One would of thought he'd be running circles from all the sugar! lol!

Too cute! Look at his chocolatey face! :)Then it was time for our chocolate to harden so we went to the living room. We read some books, colored some coloring pages, and then...

watched the "fresh beat band"... which he thought was hilarious! He was belly laughing the whole time! They pretty much sing songs about the most silly pointless things and dance like crazy people so it is pretty cute! :) He was sitting there and then all of a sudden...he fell over and fell asleep in about 10 seconds flat! No amount of crazy chocolate could keep him awake any longer! He slept for about a half hour, then daddy came and picked him up. But boy I think he ended up having a bunch of fun with Auntie Kayla after all! If nothing else, I had fun, and my kitchen floors ended up getting cleaned! :) Thanks Mason! Come play again soon! :)

Who's been....

2011-08-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

.... in my kitchen! I'll give you a few hints...

rice crispies, mini m&m, lots of 'vehicles' and...lots of water spitting! Stay tuned!

Pickles

2011-08-12T23:13:00.000-07:00

Warning: This post is super long. Its taken me a lot of time to write and is near and dear to my heart.. So I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. :)

I have a few really great posts (at least in my mind they're really great!) ahead... today is going to be one of them. Yesterday I spent the day at my grandma's house. She had previously asked me if I'd come do pickles with her. Then she called and said I didn't need to come because there would only be 3 jars and not the normal 9-10 so she could do them herself. Well, my husband sold our washer and dryer earlier this week (because the house we are buying has a washer and dryer there.. but note we don't move for 2 weeks still! lol! they were on craigslist 3 minutes before they were sold! yipes!) and I had laundry needing to be done so I asked if I could do it there while helping her with pickles. So I got to spend a bunch of time doing pickles, having lunch, doing laundry, picking beans, and taking my loving Grandma on a golf cart ride around their land. Everyone always teases saying I'm grandma's favorite, and here's the story why.

When I was younger she taught me many things. One day I decided I wanted to embroider and so she took me to the store to pick out a transfer I would like to do on towels. Of course I picked out cats, because those were my favorite. She helped me get started, and that night I went home and finished it. I was SO proud the next day, ran back to Grandma's house to show her, and she couldn't hardly believe it. Then I had her help me tranfser the rest of the towels, and one by one I finished them all, some within a day, making all 7 done in under a week. Its one thing that I still love to do, although I don't hardly do it anymore. You have to understand my brother and I used to go to a babysitters house during the summer. The babysitter was my mom's cousin, Julie. She had 4 kids, obviously my 2nd cousins, who I loved and grew up with. However, Julie was not the nicest person. She force fed us if we wouldn't eat. And Cody and I were both very picky eaters. One thing she loved to have all the kids eat (because she had so much of it) was squash. To this day, my stomache turns whenever I smell squash cooking. I am SO thankful my family only has it for a handful of events. It is so funny because if you ask Cody or I, that's the one thing we remember. And we were VERY small children at that age. So when I was probably 5 or so Cody and I had finally convinced my parents that we would spend the days with Grandma and Grandpa helping them. They lived right across the road. We weren't allowed to cross the road yet (because we were so young.. and it was a county highway!) so we would go through the creek culvert under the road to Grandma's house. Cody wouldn't spend a lot of time at Grandma's, but I was "Grandma's Girl" and if you wanted to find me, at Grandma's side I would be. Every day I could be.

So anyways, one other thing my Grandma taught me was how to can things. Tomatoes, pickles, beets, beans.. pretty much anything. Well if you know me you know I have small hands. Who knows why, but I do. So Grandma picked and trained the right granddaughter. My hands were big when I was little and they stopped growing so they are little now that I'm big. Well my hands are the only ones that still can fit inside the jars to push the pickles down. Grandma always has to use a wooden spoon handle when she wants to push one way down in there. I just loved it the other day.. I would shove one in.. and then say "Grandma, can I get another one in?" And she'd say no, its fine its full enough.. and then to her amazement I'd stick another 2 or 3 more pickles in. She just would sit there laughing at me. She also made a bet with me that I couldn't fit the rest of them in the one last jar.. so of course I had to resituate them until they all fit in. She was very impressed. :)

Soo anyways.. I said to Grandma if I could ask her something "Crazy"... she said yes.. to ask her something real crazy.. so I asked her.. "Can I take pictures of your pickling process? You know I like taking pictures.. and I want to have pictures to remember how to do it." She was thrown back. Definitely not what she expected. So she said yes, but she seemed reluctant. Well she kind of would chuckle as I'd get my camera out to take pictures of the littlest things. Then when I wouldn't take a picture she'd go.. "Aren't you forgetting something? You need pictures!"... and by the end.. she was giving me pointers on how to get the best pictures! LOL!! Like telling me to put the taller jar infront instead of back! She definitely was right.. the taller jar did look best infront! :) She doesn't know I'm blogging these pictures, but to me, it felt like something important that I definitely wanted to blog and remember. So I hope you enjoy these pictures. Grandma didn't want to be in the pictures, infact I canned the pickles all alone and she made lunch and did laundry and what not. It was nice though I was able to give her a day off from doing pickles, even if only 3 jars. She was very ashamed though, that I was taking pictures on a day that was not a lot of pickles. She just kept saying "wouldn't it be nice now if there was 10 jars sitting there?" Yes grandma, but these will do. :) Enjoy!

First, plant, grow, and pick lots of cucumbers. :)

After Grandpa rinses the dirt off for you, bring them in and scrub them clean. Of course with Grandma's red scrubby brush (note its up in the top right corner of the picture) that is the same scrubby brush I can remember using since I started canning with Grandma.After they're scrubbed clean, get another cake pan and a round one too. This will be so you can organize the pickles by size, small, medium, and large and you cut off both ends of the pickle and the ends go in the round cake pan. :)Half way through.. the cut ones are organized by size in the right pan, if you can't tell. :)All the pickles cut and organized in the pan.Then, pick dill from your garden of course. :) Grandma already had this cut, washed, and bagged in her refridgerator.This is one thing Grandma has never grown.. Garlic! Get your garlic out and cut the pieces out of the shell stuff. Yea.. whatever it is. :)Have grandma wash out the jars. She does it best, with extremely hot water, that I seriously wouldn't be able to put my hands into! :)Take a pretty picture of the jars drying.. :DCut the stem off the dill. Note the garlic pieces in the background that Grandma cut for me. Grandma doesn't like the stem on the dill because she thinks its harder to work the pickles around.. so we just cut it all off. :)Put enough dill and 1 piece of garlic in the bottom of the jar. For the bigger jar of course we put a little more dill and 2 pieces of garlic. Its all to how you think looks best. :)Tip jar on its side and start stacking pickles in.Fill it up with pickles! I had another picture after I squeezed in 3 more pickles to those lil open spaces, but it was too blurry. :(Then, add a little more dill and 1 more piece of garlic to the middle.Then, fill up the top of the jar with the smaller pickles. Note the pickles aren't suppose to go too high above the bottom most ring.Add as Grandma says "One Large Pea-Size" of Alum. This is the step Grandma and I always forget. But we didn't this time! We always remembered before the cans were sealed though, so we could pour a lil water mixture off and add it and then fill them back up. :) We always remind eachother not to forget it now.. and its kind of like our lil joke with eachother while canning. :)Have Grandma get the vinegar, water, and salt mixture ready. If I remember correctly its 3 part water, 1 part vinegar, and 1/2 part salt. Sounded like a lot of salt to us, but we looked it up and yep.. Grandma of course remembers correctly. :) Also have Grandma boil the canning lids.Pickling Salt.. Grandma says she always uses it, not regular salt.. Whats the diff? I don't know!This is me, stirring the water, vinegar, salt mixture.All 3 jars ready with their Alum ontop. :)Get Grandmas handy dandy canning utencils out. Of course these have also always been the same from back in the day too. :)Pour the water, vinegar, salt mixture over the pickles. You fill it just to the bottom most ring.Hard to tell but you can see that its filled to the bottom most ring if you look at the fact the one pickle is a lil bit out of the water mixture because its a lil more green where its sticking out. :)Have Grandma grab a lid out of the boiling water. Its under her left hand as she's tapping it off on the towel. She says its very important not to touch the rubber part. I believe her! :)Grandma also insists you must use a rag to whip off the rim of the jar incase its got anything on it from the pickling process and might not seal. :) Sorry pictures a lil blurry, Grandma's got a quick hand! Then, put lid ontop!Then put the ring on and turn it as tight as you can possibly get it!Put the pickles in the oven at 250 for 1 hour.Take them out and set them on a wooden cutting board to cool of course. And listen for them to pop so you know they sealed. And take pictures of them!And then they go in Grandma's cellar. Here's her stash so far: 33 jars of pickles from this year. Also in the picture is more jars to be canned, some canned beats, beans, and salsa up top!

Oh how I love canning pickles with Grandma... :)

Written & Rattlers!

2011-08-05T10:57:00.000-07:00

Soo its final! We have a written guarantee that everything has been accepted on the house! We also have written guarantee for the duplex too! Well, we assume so. Our landlord didn't call us, but the "For Rent" sign is out of the front yard now, so that was suppose to be the final "proof" that everything went through if we didn't hear from him. Levi is going to call him later tonight while I'm working to verify everything and make sure we know when we can hand keys in and what not. We also got word from the guy we have our insurance through that our home owners insurance is all set and ready and the proof of it will be to Chad (or bank guy) by Monday. He just needed it a week before closing, so lots of time to spare there! And we haven't heard about the appraisal being done yet (it has to be for closing) but the check was cashed for it soooo I also assume that's completed. The insurance and appraisal were the only last 2 things that needed to be completed before closing on the 24th! Sooo as of Monday everything should be good to go and we can fly right through the next 2 1/2 weeks and then we'll be moving! :)

Anyways.. enough talk.. how about some pictures! Last night my mom had her work's day at the Timber Rattler stadium. So we went and took Peyton, my godson, with! He is just way too cute for his own good.. :)

Peyton eating a hot dog at the cookout before the game.. :) Silly goose!

PJ and I playing frisbee with the new frisbee he got at the cookout. He was super excited!

And then Levi took over for me for a little bit.. :)

Silly PJ eating chips while watching the game.

And hubby and myself watching the game.. they ended up losing but we had a good time anyways. :)

Verbal & no tenants...

2011-08-03T11:20:00.000-07:00

Soo I just got an email saying we have verbal acceptance from Cartus, the company that owns our house were buying. It is said that is "good as gold" and we now wait for written. It takes them longer to get the written because of them being a 9-5 corporate company. Our realtor also has said that as many times as he's worked with Cartus, he's never had them given a verbal agreement and backed down from it. So hopefully everything with the house will now be smooth sailing onto the 24th when we close. :)

And lastly, we felt really good after our landlord had showings at 9 and 10 on monday. He said both people wanted the place and said they'd drop off applications that night to his house to secure them getting it. However, he never got any applications. :( He also told them its fine to mail it, but to call him and tell him if they're mailing it so that he'll know to be watching for it. And no one has called. Sooo we're still getting frustrated with this situation! There's another showing tonight at 7 p.m. for a lady whos moving up here from Madison. My hope is that she won't look at a lot of places, just ours and love it, and take it. With being farther away its not always possible to look at a lot of places, so at least one can hope.

Besides that, I had a great day swimming with Kara, Trevor, Emily & Erin on Monday... And yesterday I didn't do much, but got a super bad headache in the afternoon. And now today, I woke up feeling alright.. kind of laid around in bed for a half hour playing on my phone.. and as soon as I got up, like even just sat up, I about passed out. Headache is back full swing and is super painful. :( It is seriously like thee worst headache I've ever had. Everything feels cloudy and like theres ping pong balls bouncing between my temples. So sad. So I'm going to lay it low and watch the Brewers game on tv.. and text my husband updates as they go along.. Hart just hit a homerun.. Yippee! :)

Edit: Our landlord just called and said he has a lady who wants to rent it half way thru September and she hasn't put the money down yet, but its verbally agreed.... Sooo now were waiting on both ends for written agreements but I'm feeling very happy right now! Yay! Oh and Casey McGehee (levis fav brew crew player) has hit 2 homeruns today! This is not normal for him, he's more of a player to bat runs in, but not actually hit homers! So its 5-4 right now, the brewers are winning, and 3 of those points are from Casey! yayyy! Of course he'd do this good when Levi can't watch him.. :P

Garden & Pictures for Granny!

2011-07-30T19:03:00.000-07:00

So I've done my fair share of just writing recently on my blog so I thought I'll post pictures instead. :) These pictures are of my garden and pictures I was telling Granny about today. They are from (hopefully) our house, of the things to put up window treatments at the place.. interesting is a bit of an understatement.. You'll see why. :)

Here's my flower pot on the front stoop.

The flowers under the front tree... Of course I took these pictures when only the marigolds were blooming and not the yellow petunias! lol

The flowers under the side tree.Here's some pea blossoms.. They're growing like weeds! :)

A zucchini starting to grow.. :) Of course its mixed in with grass as it was the only place I could find to plant it. :)
See, literally the only spot left to plant it.. Next to our air conditioner on the side of our house! Hehe!

Cute cucumber blossoms... YuM! :)
The cucumber plants are in the right half of the pic.. the left half is the rhubarb plants.. well one of them.. its by the left side of the deck where the stairs come off the side. :)

Little green bean blossoms and a tiny green bean! Yummy!

Looking at the deck.. the green beans are in front.. and the peas are in back. The peas are almost done.. and green beans are just starting. The peas if I could stand next to them (it is impossible as the green beans have invaded the entire area) would be taller then me. They seriously are like jack and the bean stalk.. i mean pea stalk! :) I didn't plan to have the beans growing ontop of the peas.. it would help if someone paid attention to what she bought and realized they were climbing beans before they were already climbing.. Oops! Lesson learned for next year! :)

Looking down.. see hardly any room anymore between the 2! And they are planted as far apart as possible. Oh the joys of small space gardening.. just wait til next year and I have space! Yippee! My husbands probably already dreading that! :)

And the right side of our deck.. Carrots are in the back.. and onions in the middle.. radishes were on the outside.. but they have all already grown and been eaten up and with us moving I didn't replant any for the later part of the season. Oh and marigolds mixed in to ward off those nasty animals.. or at least try to! :)

Some of my peppers.. I planted all these things from seeds (well actually every single thing except for the zucchini cause I didn't have zucchini seeds on time.. :/) so mind you I didn't plant them til it was warm enough for the heat to work properly as I dont have one of those fancy seed warmer blanket things to plant my seeds early. But the 2nd one from the left has the beginning of some peppers already! Yippee! 2 of these are jalapenos (the left I believe) and 2 are jimmy nardellos.. we heard about these special kind (the jimmy ones) at the class i went to at the library as she (this master gardener lady) was raving about them saying they are sweet as candy and you just eat them like they are candy! So me not liking peppers and levi loving peppers I thought they were something worth trying! So found them online and had to get them. :)

Looking out our patio door. Some more of the peppers and then some tomatoes.. also planted from seeds.. rather late in the season.. and i've never planted tomatoes from seeds so I'm just kind of playing with them. :)

Next year I'll have to try and do my seeds early to get everything on time. Its just so hard with the season so crazy hot then cold then freezing then humid all within a week at the beginning. :) I also planted cantaloupe and watermelon from seed but they are at my grandparents as i had no more room and they need to sprawl out. :) They both (well theres 5 in total) have blossoms already :) Now onto the part for Granny.. and everyone else who wants to see a few silly things about our house.. :)

Here's the thing in my sewing room I was trying to describe to you tonight Granny. :) For everyone else.. its just thee most random strange looking thing I've seen! The paint job and style makes me think of gladiators or something! :o) Its got a shelf area on top.. not sure if thats what its suppose to be or if its just like that! It also has thee strangest light switch in this room.. just the plate part.. but I dont have a picture of it.. Then as I went through my rest of my pictures I took.. I found these next 2 things that perfectly go with this thing in th sewing room.. but they are in the half bath.. which is literally way across the house and no where near it at all.. but why not duplicate the ugliness somewhere else! :P

See! Thats a better picture! Its really hard to describe.. and it doesnt look as bad as it actually is. In person its lime greenish and copper. Just strange. :) That is a towel bar thing. Yea!

This rod matches the towel bar and pretty much matches the sewing room one. The curtains.. No idea! They kind of look mexican colored. not sure whats going on with them. They dont match the rods in my opinion.. but hey! whatever works! :) As you'll see next the person has had to of been an older lady.. oh and did i mention theres matching curtains to this in the laundry room too? But on a normal rod. I'm saying shes maybe older so maybe shes color blind. And style blind. :) I wonder if there is such a thing! Haha!

Again, interesting rod.. Not horrible at least though. But look! Maybe Granny will like these curtains! :) There is....

Lace slits on the bottom! Oh wow! These actually aren't that bad. I actually did think of Granny when I saw them. Not that I mean that in a bad way! Its just something I could see to go in her house. It definitely doesnt go with my beach themed guest room which is where these currently are hung. :) Hopefully yous understand what I'm saying.. and not taking that the wrong way! :)

And one last curtain rod. Or whatever they're called. Talk about gladiators.. anyone need an arrow? Hehehe! This is in the dining room! Not horrible.. Probably will stay.. just not what I would of choose!

And here's a random picture of my favorite thing.. The hall closet.. Thats exactly like the hall closet at our duplex. I love these type of closets.. "Linen closets" I believe .. its where all my sheets/towels go. Love it! :)

And while I'm showing you closet space.. Looky here! This is above the basement stairs. It opens to the kitchen. Its a full door for what is a half of a closet. I think its quite silly to have a full door. :o) But what really made me giggle was the carpet! My aunt has that same carpet on her walls going down into her basement. Anytime I see carpet like that I just get flash backs of her carpeted walls! Anyways, this area will be a nice pantry area! I really do like its purpose.. Just a lil different.. :)

Well.. thats all for now! Hopefully I didn't type too much.. and hopefully you enjoyed more pictures of our home.. and my garden! :)

ants, amendments, & birthdays

2011-07-29T11:45:00.000-07:00

Seriously, I am ready for winter so the ants leave. In winter, do they die? That sounds so stupid but its like every time it rains, they all come inside my house. So I'm thinking if they are doing that maybe when it snows they will come in. Can they do that? We better be out of this duplex before it snows though, so no worries. Until then, me and my ant spray will be living it up pretty close bffs! :) I wish they made ant spray smell good. My scentsy warmers can only overpower it so much. LOL!

And amendments.. Amendment this, amendment that. Oh how I wish I wouldn't have to hear about anymore amendments! I am ready for the home closing to be done! We are suppose to get the most recent amendment figured out by the end of today. It was suppose to be done by midnight on Tuesday. Needless to say I'm sick of waiting. And I'm sick of keeping my house clean for showings. And our landlord pretty much gives me 5 minutes of notice to pop over with people. I won't complain too much cause I'd rather have people come look at the place but seriously. I have to keep it spotless constantly. Oh the joys! :)

This weekend is going to be crazy busy.. both levi and I work tom til 1.. and we have to quick go to Shawn & Mason's bday party tom.. then Sunday is the July bday on my side.. so that means its Birthdays for me, My brother Cody, Cousin Angie, Cousin Josh, Cousin Eric, Cousin Brevon, Uncle Dave, Aunt Sandy, and an anniversary for Sandy & Frank! I had a ton of bday cards to buy today at the store! :) Should be a good time though! And I think were going out tonight for Cody's bday.. cause its his bday today. :) Yay! I had the hardest time choosing a card for cody.. The one I choose says "Happy Birthday Brother! I know there have been times when I bugged you, teased you, and pestered you, but on this special day I just wanted you to know... (turn to inside) I plan to continue!" hahaha! It is super cute! The other 2 runner ups said "I'm so glad you're my brother.. (inside) because you would of made one ugly sister!" bahaha! And it has a picture of a monkey with curlers on! Seriously SOOO funny! and the last one was "Happy birthday to a great brother.. if you were any smarter, prettier, and happier, (inside) you'd be me!" haha!! See! All were very strong contenders! LOL! Oh how I love my brother!

Well, thats all for now! Hopefully soon our duplex will be rented.. and our amendments will all pass.. and our ants will go marching somewhere else! :) Until then, I'll see yous all later! :)

Showings & Fishies!

2011-07-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

Our landlord just had a showing at 9 for the duplex. I got the place nice and clean just in time too. By clean I mean quick throw everything into boxes and stack them neatly in the closet as to make it look like we arent big slobs. Yep! Thats my style of cleaning! :P

They were here for 2 hours! Seriously! I called the landlord once he left and he said that the guy is very interested, he just has 1 problem because he currently has a dog and our landlord doesnt allow pets. So he is supposely going to see if his ex-wife (who he doesnt get along with supposely?) will take the dog. We'll see. He has 2 more showings this evening, and one tomorrow night. I'm praying this all ends quickly! I was ready to offer to take the darn dog if that means he'll rent the place! LOL!! And I do NOT do dogs.. FYI!

Although I don't do dogs, I do do fish. Bahaha that statement could be put a little better but Oh well! You know what I mean. :) Me and my fishies are like *this!* (imagine me holding my fingers criss-crossed meaning were tight! haha!) Sometimes, I think even if no one reads my blog, I think I'm hilarious and so in the end, at least I think I'm funny! Hehehe! Anyways about the fishies.. I'm kind of freaking out because there's already talk of getting rid of my beloved fish. Its being talked about because theres no real spot for my fishies.. and because if we have to move quickly (if someone wants the duplex levi said we'd be out by the end of the month.. as in this month.. july! we don't have a house til the end of august! Oyi!) we will be able to put our stuff into the house but won't be able to live there til the 24th. Well we can't exactly take our 28 fish to a different place with us without their tank.. meaning we cant exactly keep them if thats what happens. And considering moving them twice (say we have to move early and temporarily stay with someone else like my parents or someone!) we cant really move them to my parents and then move them 2 weeks later to our house. Moving a 46 gallon fish tank is NO small task. It has to be entirely cleaned out and catching those 28 fish is seriously like a week long project in and of itself! You have to start one day, and continue the next when they've calmed down and aren't going crazy again. But why I'm so sad is because there is 1 fish thats still in there that is from the very first time I bought my fishies.. which is 4 years ago. Its the one that is seroiusly evil, but it has a spot in my heart and I'd feel horrible if he (or she?!) got flushed. LOL! So I know how animal lovers scream animal cruelty all over the place.. but I wonder what they'd say about fish? Like what would they tell me to do? Its just kind of a funny thought. :)

So anyways, no I'm not having an ulcer (alicia!) and I have calmed down.. I was just really upset when it was happening because our landlord said one thing and did a totally different but whatever. So for now, I'm going to be excited and hopeful and Yay! :)

Home Inspection

2011-07-21T20:44:00.000-07:00

We had our home inspection today! It went great! There's a few issues, but seriously nothing major! We are asking for 2 things to be compensated.. and we'll have to wait to hear if they will be. Even if they're not, they aren't big deals. One is the tub in the master isn't inforced underneath so its cracked. You could see all the cracks when you'd push your hand down on it.. imagine if you'd stand in it! Yipes! so obviously the water would get out this way.. and leak.. into my basement! SOoo yea! But the master bath in levis eyes had to be gutted anyways, and the other bath is larger and much cleaner... so we will be using that bathroom til we redo the master. Not really a big deal cause seriously, its got issues that we didn't like from day 1 (like dirty issues.. and idk if any kind of cleaner would get that clean! loL!) so I'm fine not using it! Of course, we'll use the toilet, sink, and what not for getting ready.. but the shower is just kinda scary. LOL! Soo anyways, if we get compensated for the tub having a problem when we had planned to take that bad boy out anyways, thats a plus in my book! Lol!

Tonight, I'm feeling annoyed. I have felt a lil peeved all day.. like I just have lots to do.. and lots of activities getting in my way of doing them. Like yesterday I worked for Maria in the morning.. til 1:30 and Jane wanted me to babysit Emmett (for the first time!) at 3. So their houses are about 2 miles away.. and I had time to kill.. and it was horribly hot outside and definitely not just a sit in your car enjoying my spare time. So I went shopping. Which was fine.. I didn't even buy anything. But it just felt like such a waste of time when I had so much other stuff I could do. Oh well. I got to spend time with Emmett.. so it's all good. But then today.. I had to get out and weed my garden/flowers and what not so I did that this morning. Then I came in.. got showered up.. picked Levi up from work and we went to the home inspection together. then we swung through the bank to sign a few papers. then through kohls to find my shower curtain that matches the bedspread.. they are getting rid of it and i couldnt even get it online anymore so I knew that store had it and I had to go get it! :) But then I had to come home, quick eat, then go to work for a diff family at 6. Now I'm home.. not tired (even though I woke up super early today after going to bed at 1am last night!) and I have to be up in GB at 7 for my ortho appointment. I know I'll be dead tired and won't want to come home and work. And then tom night I have to work at 7. And so goes my summer life of "not working" but really always working (4 different families will keep you kind of busy!) and having a bazillion things that never get done. Joy!

But to top this all off, Levi finally got ahold of our landlord. He talked to him right after we decided to move and we knew we'd be approved for a home loan. Or I mean for one in the price range of what we wanted to get anyways. So our landlord had made it sound like he wanted us out forsurely by august. Hence us choosing a closing date thats right around the corner. He wanted to have it open for people to move in before the school year starts. Well now tonight.. after we've already got an accepted offer on the house.. Levi asked him if we could have a paper stating its fine to move out. I wanted to do this to cover our rears.. ya know! Well he said we have to write him a paper, so he can actually post it as "for rent".. saying we are moving out at such and such a date. He also told levi if he doesnt get it rented right away, we have to continue to pay. Lovely. Totally NOT the toon he sang to levi the other day AT ALL! I'm like irrate right now. And Levis so matter of factly about it (while hes half sleeping cause he was asleep before i got home) saying well it is our lease still and he has the right to do that. Like seriously? Oh and he didnt ask if we will be getting our security deposite back. Awesome. Its a thousand dollars in security deposite that would really help fix part of the master bath at our house. But ya know, why not just keep that too, lovely landlord! UUUUURGH I'm soo annoyed! The only good thing is he did put the for rent sign in our front yard and within an hour and a half levi said the landlord called him and told him 2 people already called and are going to look at the place on monday night. So I am Praying that someone snatches up the place super quick and we don't have to spend anymore money on this duplex rental before we move! Ugh!

And now... after that.. I'm going to try and calm down and go to sleep. At least I got my ranting off my chest. And 2 good things came of today.. The home inspection went wonderful and I got my shower curtain. Maybe tomorrow will go a little better? My mom has off so I get to swing through there on my way home from GB tom and pick up boxes to come home to pack. Maybe then I'll be a lil happier? :/

Accepted!

2011-07-20T20:16:00.001-07:00

Our offer was accepted today! I was working this morning and kept my phone right next to me, only to get the text about an hour after being done working! lol! Our realtor's text said "i got the call about 25 minutes ago, stating you're now in debt up to your ears.. Congrats!!!" lol why thank you! He is SOOO funny and I couldn't imagine him having said it any differently! LoL!! Then I called Levi.. and of course he didn't answer. So I texted everyone telling them they accepted and also texted Levi to see if he also got the text from the realtor. He finally responded a half hour later, saying he didnt.. and why? He didn't even know yet! I was so pleased to tell him.. and he was so happy! :) Yay!! Sooo a few pictures from the listing is what I have for yous!!! I can't wait to get in and paint and take down some WAY outdated curtains (seriously.. look at those things!) and call it our home! Yippee!
Our adorable new home! :) I'm in love with it.. and all the potential it has! :)

The living room with its beautiful fire place... and beautiful ceilings.. both statements my husband disagrees with me on.. but thankfully, he's not the one decorating our house.. :) Oh and now as I'm typing this I'm JUST realizing this carpet is not the carpet thats in there now! LOL! The carpet thats in there now is much darker then that.. the whole house (well.. where theres carpet of course) has new carpeting. The kitchen thats open to the dining on the left. The hallway behind the kitchen is (first door) 1/2 bath.. (second doorway) laundry room.. and then at the end of the hall is the garage entrance.. and around the corner is the basement stairs. Theres also a pantry area above the stairway. Super cute kitchen.. just to pull the soffits out.. another disagreement with the hubster.. lol! The dining area leading to the patio... it has a brand new concrete slab for the patio too. :)

The half bath off the kitchen. The laundry area.. and the washer and dryer are included! Right after we seriously looked at getting a new washer and dryer! Score! The master bedroom.. love the ceilings.. :)

The master bath.. needs some updating (and new curtains! lol!) but we can make it work.. :) Notice the sink/toilet/bath are gray! I say its fine.. it actually matches our black/white/gray/red bedroom and bathroom stuff.. levi hates it.. again.. another lovely disagreement.. lol! I make it sound like were fighting over stuff.. not at all! We just have 2 very opposite opinions for what we like.. thankfully I'm the one who will be choosing what replaces stuff.. LOL!

The master closet with the master bath doorway to the left. Now let me just say yes, I know I can make this closet work. But mind you its about 1/4 of the size of our closet now.. lol! Just saying! :)

Either the guest bedroom OR my sewing room. Not sure which yet. One is 10x11 and ones 11x12. I will have the guest bedroom be which ever is bigger as our guest bed is a queen size bed. And my sewing room will be the smaller one. :) Both of these rooms have nice closets too.. the same as the masters.. you can only see half the closet in this picture.

The guest full bathroom. Its in the hallway on the way to the bedrooms from off the dining area. As soon as I walked into this bathroom I said to levi "Granny's inheriting some mirrors! .. cause they have roses on the top of both of them! They are super cute, just don't match my taste.. :) This is the bath that happens to be missing the 2 doors for below the sink.. So this bathroom will have to be the first updated.

The other bedroom.. still not sure which is bigger.. all i know is those curtains have got to go! :)

Well, thats all for now! Hope you enjoyed a quick sneak peak of our new home! Our closing date is August 24th.. So now I better get packing! :)

Counter Offer

2011-07-19T18:02:00.000-07:00

I've been nervous all day.. only to find out we got a counter offer this morning already but our realtor only emailed levi and not me! so much for checking my email all day! lol! but our realtor should be over soon and we are going to counter them back.. were super close between our offer and theirs.. soo hopefully they accept our offer! Did I mention it took 3 hours and 45 minutes last night to get through the paperwork and write up the offer? Thats cause we are buying a house from a lady who got relocated, so this company bought it from her. So we are working with a coperate relocation company... So what would usually have been 20-24 pages was 68 pages... yipes! Anyways.. only 2 more pages tonight and hopefully they accept it and we will be homeowners! Yay!

Offer & peas!

2011-07-18T19:57:00.000-07:00

We just put our offer in for our house! I am soo nervous and can not wait to hear! We have placed on it saying we need to hear by 2 p.m. on Wednesday, but our realtor is hoping to hear by the end of tomorrow! Yikes! We put a closing date of August 24th on it.. so things could move quickly still.. although there'll be enough time for everything as I don't go back to work til August 23rd.. which isn't ideal moving right after that, but it'll work out. :)

All I've been doing is ranting about life so I thought I'd share a picture. :) I planted probably about 30 peas in a row by our deck.. and they are the climbing ones.. and we didn't think they'd get even half way up.. they started flowering at that point.. looked like theyd climb a few more inches so we put up some more fencing, never dreaming they'd grow all the way up and would go if we'd give them more.. but alas they've climbed to the top of the deck railing.. and we cant go any higher! They are literally TALLER then me! So crazy! I've never seen climbing peas get that tall! Its nice, no aching back from bending over to pick them though! The pea pods are right at the top of the plants! And my first zucchini is growing! I've had about 30 flowers on there now, and all just fall off as soon as they open! So I am THRILLED to see one actually producing something, and theres a second one starting tonight now too! Yay! And my beans should start going very soon! They'd be farther ahead, if someone would pay attention and realize they bought climbing beans and would of had the fence up earlier for them to climb! LOL! Not until they were climbing right up my pea plants did I realize they were climbing beans.. Haha!

Anyways, here's a picture of the peas I picked tonight. Theres tons more out there, but I just pick them every other night when they're ready and cook them up for supper. I love how fresh they are! It can't be beat.. fresh picked and cooked within an hour before we eat them.. sooo yummy! Can't wait for more produce.. and I hope I can keep up with them with everything else I have to be doing with moving!

Mmm yummmmy! Love me some fresh peas! :)

Home Sweet Home?

2011-07-17T18:17:00.000-07:00

Sooo we've gone through a few homes in the last few days. And we've gone back and forth and back and forth. Levi wanted a brand new one. The whole not having a lawn yet and having to build up the land with dirt to the house kind of scares me, just a little. Not that its a huge deal, its just strange to me. Anyways, the first day we went to 4 homes. Levis fav, my fav, a brand new one (that was actually sold, but another was being built) and then the realitors "mystery home." Needless to say that night we were ready to buy the mystery home. That night, I went home and really thought about the layout and it was driving me NUTSO! The dining area which was with the kitchen was only like 9x10. And the kitchen wasnt all that big either. No island area at all. Really not a lot of counter space at all! So sad for a new house! :( And it was only a 2 car garage. So all our stuff wouldnt fit in. Not huge because it doesnt currently at our duplex either, but kind of would like it to. So I hated the layout and was not ready for it. We then considered buying the one like the brand new one that was 3rd that we saw that was still being built. But it doesnt have a yard, driveway to the road, and actually doesnt have road at all yet as its a new subdivision. So curb and gutter would be an expense also. Kind of like a lot of unknown costs, and when theyd do them and when we'd need the money and yeeeea. So I sat back and kept looking at "older" homes. As in, my fav, was between 20-30 years old. Not like old old. But Levi kept saying all the bathrooms need gutting (I don't think they need it at all, maybe the master, but not like urgently) and the kitchen/dining/hallway need new floors. Needless to say I think next summer will bring me doing quite a few updates to our house, if we get it! :) It also only has a 2 1/2 car garage, but its actually like 'technically' 3 cars, but just 1 stall is 2 deep. So the trailer with the 4wheelers on it can go in the back and my car can be parked end to end with it, and it'll have about a foot to spare. Tight fit, but hey, it'll work! And its on over a half acre lot, with lots of room on the side of the garage so we'll be able to add to the garage in the future if we want to. :)

We haven't put an offer in yet, but we plan to tomorrow night. The only slight prob we will have might have to do with who owns it now. The people arent living there anymore, so we probably will have a pretty short turn around for moving, but the people moved because of a job relocation. So I guess the company bought the house from them, so I'm not sure what we'll be able to do on the negotiations of the price, but we'll see! I am soo excited! And I hope we get an accepted offer before Thursday, because we have an appointment made with a really great home inspector for then! We made it last week before we even knew if we'd have a house, because he's a very busy inspector usually 10-12 days out! As long as all that goes good, we should be good to go! :) And all the rooms are freshly painted white, sooo looks like some more painting is in my future! Lovely! Who's offering to come help? I'll make cookies! Maybe Mr. Mason would love to lend a hand again.. Hehe!

Ohhh yea.. So anyways, my week is looking very busy and crazy and you know, never a dull moment! I've been told to start packing, so tomorrow I will probably do that as I have a little bit of free time in the morning. Fun Fun! Well, thats all I know for now! Later Gators!

At Granny's!

2011-07-14T11:01:00.000-07:00

Hey there! I'm at Granny's... and will be a while still.. well at least until tomorrow when I have to be home for something important (more on that later!) and we are painting! Her kitchen is done, and we have half of the living room done, and the hall way done. We only have the other half of the living room (its a different color.. and requires moving this computer!) and the bathroom to go! I am so excited for her! Its so pretty, and colorful! :) Then again, I'm not afraid of color so bright and dark are totally in for me! :) She's been taking pictures while the process is going and were hopefully going to rearrange her living area too as shes got rid of some furniture and could use a lil change. Exciting! Also very exciting is our little helper. He sure keeps us on our toes! Painting and his lil fingers seem to find eachother quite a few times.. but for now, nothing bad has happened... yet! haha!

Anyways.. on the thing that I have to be home for tomorrow night.. we are moving! Or I think we are! :) Its Thursday today, and last Wednesday was my bday.. and the day before, so Tuesday, our landlord came over. Needless to say, we never call him unless we really need him to come over, and well a certain chipmunk friend of ours trying to become our roommate meant we had to call the landlord. Well he came over, and fixed the sprayer hose thing in our kitchen sink while there too, and then sprayed the yard for weeds. Yea. And killed much of my little garden. Yea. To say the least, Levi and I had planned to live at our house for a long time to come. Its very big, and roomy, and would accomidate at least 2 kiddies (our bedroom is huge so it could have a crib in there) and those 2 kiddies arent coming soon AT ALL so one would think wed be there for at least 5 more years. That was the plan. But when lovely landlord comes and kills my plants and doesnt really fix the sink right and doesnt even take care of chippy friend, then lovely husband gets really angry. So lovely wife hops online, and sees all the great home prices that are going on right now. And yep, within a weeks time we've been preapproved and tomorrow night we are going to look at 3 houses. Levi is in love with the one, and doesnt even care to look at any others. I convinced him to look at atleast 3, so we will, and then we will more then likely write up an offer on Saturday, call our landlord (who already nos were thinking of moving) once the offeres accepted, and we'll be moving. And he wants to have new tenants by the end of August. Holy cow this is moving quickly! LOL! You know, we just moved my parents out of their house where they lived for 23 years and we had SO much fun and I just LOVE to move, that we wanted to do it again, right away! Right! Thats exactly what I was thinking. Oh and I go back to work full-time RIGHT when we'll probably be moving. Awesome on the timing part! LOL!

Anyways, for now, thats my story and I'm sticking to it! I mean, thats all I know, and I'll probably post info on Saturday after all this excitement calms down a lil! Yikes, I could use a nap! LOL!

Blimp

2011-07-03T21:45:00.000-07:00

Today, I'm soo tired. Have a horrible migraine. Ready to crawl in a hole and not wake up til Wednesday. That's my day, of course! :) Ufff. Nothing much to report here except I'm still very full of thoughts, questions, concerns, a few answers, and a lot of Hu Hot. Yep. I'm stuffed. Filled to the brim still from lunch. I feel like the Good Year Blimp! lol! But we had a wonderful lunch with Levi's family (and Alyssa!) today. And it was delish! I can't wait to celebrate mine and Terry's birthdays later this week with all of them. Yay!

And can I just say how wonderful bestfriends are? They are wonderful secret keepers and ear lenders to let me rant and rave and sound like a crazy lady til I'm blue in the face. All I can say, is thanks Sam! I love you so much! :)

Moving!

2011-07-02T20:56:00.000-07:00

Well hello there! Here's an update for yous.. Didn't mean to leave yous hanging thinking I was going to loose my mind! Yipes! Yes I'm having some difficulty with some stuff right now and having to figure some huge decisions out.. but I'm working on it! And I'm SO thankful for the long weekend so that I can get more of my research done tom and Monday and have my hubby's help a lil! I also am sooo ooberly excited as I have off the whole week except one night... and its someones birthday this week! Hubby took off (or is taking off.. who nos! lol) for said birthday (yours truly incase you didnt catch it!) so we can spend the day together! Yay!

Anyways onto the story...

My mom and dad (and my brother who still lives with them.. he's bout to turn 25! yipes!) are moving. They've lived in their old house since right before I was born. And I'm about to turn 23. Yea. Needless to say they had a lot.. I mean.. A LOT of stuff accumulated. My old bedroom was filled with stuff. My bed was in there, and lets just say, you could not see my bed anywhere. They are not quite as bad as some of the "hoarders, buried alive" series thats on tv. But they were close. Oh and incase you wanted to know they picked to move on the hottest days yet. The one day (friday) with the index it was 105. Bleech! Today, it wasn't as bad, but going up and down the stairs at the old house to my old room to get all the stuff they had stored in there down going up and down and up and down over 100 times.. yea, it was hot. But I am so happy for them. Their new place is so nice. And the old place is not. It actually will more then likely be condemned. Even though I'm sad, its a new chapter of our lives. Our lives that are ever so changing so very quickly before my eyes. Life is sure crazy sometimes.

So I just wanted to let all you commenters from last time know I'm sorry if I made it seem like I was ready to jump off a cliff. That is not the case. I am just struggling through a lot of information and trying to gather all we need to make educated decisions. We shall see how it all goes! I am ever so very thankful for all of your support and kind thoughts though! I really loved them all! :)

For now, I must go give hubster his pillow back (I'm laying in bed typing this and needed his pillow to prop me up higher lol!) and go to bed. Another long day of unpacking tom.. then fireworks and going to Allies (my bros fiance) bar she bartends at tom night. Then Monday Grandmas having a 4th of july party and we will celebrate that birthday I spoke of before! Yippee! So for now, sleep tight! :)

Over-load

2011-06-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

My mind is over-loaded. Its confused. Frustrated. Racing. Wanting. Longing. Upset. Wishing. Hoping. Praying.

Until my mind sorts out all the details.. I will just keep repeating Jeremiah 29:11. My graduation verse.

~For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.~

... just going to keep repeating.. repeating.. and repeating.. :)

Unlucky neighbor & Dayana

2011-06-20T19:19:00.000-07:00

If you didn't read the last post about my neighbor cutting part of her pointer finger off.. make sure to read that first. But I forgot to tell you about the last lil bit that happened to her! She feel asleep in the room while waiting for the hand specialist to show up. Mara was trying to talk to people and figure out what was all going on and didn't think she had to worry about Jennifer. So one would think she'd be fine as she's in a hospital! The next day when Jennifer woke up (at home mind you... they released her after doing a skin graph to cover her top of her finger.. yes released her without her ever even fully waking up! Mara said she was wheeled out in a wheel chair and lifted into the car and slept the whole way home never even waking up! seriously? why did they rush her out?) anyways.. she woke up with blisters on both her legs! Only for them to realize she fell asleep at the hospital with the ice pack on her hand sitting on her legs for over 2 hours. So wake up the next morning and have frost bite all over the top of her legs. Wonderful. This girl could not get any less lucky! It is just so crazy!

Anyways just had to say that too as that is just a lil too funny in my opinion. It was like 1 thing after another for her!

Also today I got a news letter type thing in the mail from Compassion. I didn't really pay attention at first and read through it all. Then went back and looked at all the pictures. Then I realized there was an updated picture of Dayana on it! Isn't she thee cutest! She looks SOOO grown up! Now I'm going to have to update my blog header with the new picture! For now, I just took a picture of the news letter with my phone so i could show you all my lil girl! not really little as she'll be 9 in a few months! :) I got a letter from her recently too and it was one responding to the letter I wrote her a while back. It was cute. She wrote that she is so proud of me for my writing. Like meaning as in how it was written and what not. It was so so so sweet. I definitely have to re-read the guide lines on what I'm allowed to send her. She could use some real writing paper. They always have her writing on pages that have a coloring spot and already written questions like "I'd like to know about you..." "I enjoy activities like..." "Please pray for..." so the letters from her are pretty much the same all the time. I'd like for her to write a letter where she just writes what comes to mind and isn't prompted with what to write. We'll have to see! :) Anyways.. isn't she adoreable? I love her headband! :)

And her shoes! she is sooo sweet! :) Thats all for now! Just had to share a lil piece of my heart. Maybe Levi is a "father" after all. A sponsor father.. and that's all were ready to be. :)

Neighbors & Fathers

2011-06-20T08:47:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted recently, although i have tons of things to post about. I have come down with a seriously painful cold recently and have not felt like doing, well anything. It started with a sore throat that I could of swore was strep. I've had strep a lot and it felt just like that. However, I'm sure it was not as this sore throat left on its own 2 days after arriving. I also realized how incredibly difficult have these braces makes it for having a cold. You can't just take them out all day long in order to suck on cough drops 90% of the time. So I had my aunt searching at walmart for cough drops that didn't have color in them (because the braces will dye whatever color you eat.. hence having to take them out every time you eat or drink anything besides water) and didn't have any sugar in them either because that would get up under the braces and cause cavities rather quickly. Anyways she came home with some Ricola Lemon Mint cough drops. Sounded horrible, but tasted alright. So I ate them sparingly as I'm not really suppose to be eating anything with my braces in and I know my ortho would freak out. Needless to say I was thrilled when my sore throat left. But now, 5 days later, my nose is still stuffed up/dripping snot and I HATE that! Its like you can't blow anything out of it, yet its constantly running, and you can't even breathe out of it! Seriously so frustrating! Hopefully soon, as I want to be better for 4wheeling this weekend! :)

On top of being sick, we got a pretty good scare on Friday night. I had talked to our neighbors (we live in a duplex.. so the ones on the other half of the duplex) that day a few times and we were all planning to hit the Farmers Market on Saturday morning. Anyways my Aunt and I were both sitting with our backs to the dinning room window at the table on my laptop looking up info on Oakley replacement lens for Levi's 4wheeling goggles. Levi was sitting at the end of the table, and had gotten up and was standing by the island in the kitchen, so we were facing him and kind of turned so we could see the window out the side of our eyes. Needless to say, seeing the neighbors RUN by our window was kind of frightening. They are never on our side of the house, so it was kind of like "what in the world are they doing?" (we learned they tried to run to a diff neighbors house who are an EMT and a Nurse and they didn't answer their door so they were running back to their house the quickest route.. ie through our yard! lol!) Well Mara ran by and kept running and Jennifer kind of half ran/walked holding her hand and saw Levi standing up so she came up to the door asking where the nearest hospital is as she cut her finger pretty bad. Okay, I say Appleton Medical Center, and then they say well, where is it? I say that I can ride with them to tell them where to go. That's when Mara came back around the corner screaming for Jennifer to find out where she went. Her face was WHITE. Thats when I grabbed my purse and said I would drive. They were in NO condition to drive. SO then I open the door for my car and let Jennifer get in, my aunt grabs more paper towel and an ice pack and throws it in. Now I back up and am waiting and waiting for Mara to come out. Finally what seemed like FOREVER, probably more like 2 minutes, Mara comes out and gets in. She exclaims she looked everywhere and couldn't find it. Find what?! What do you mean?! She says "I even shoved my hand down the garbage disposal and it wasn't in there. Your finger wasn't anywhere" WHAT! This is while I was driving and then, my nerves started kicking in. My leg was shaking so bad as I'm realizing whats all happening. I drove like a crazy woman to the hospital, going 15 mph over the speed limit. This is crazy fast for me. Usually, I go 2 mph over the speed limit. I just kept saying, if we get pulled over, the police will escort us to the hospital then. We'll make it either way! :) They went from slightly freaking out and being worried to laughing their butts off when we heard word from Levi that him and my aunt found the finger then to screaming bloody murder and crying like a crazy person. Yea. And on top of it, I learned that they had been drinking shots. Awesome. Anyways, I got them to the hospital. Then Levi and my aunt arrived with the finger that they put on ice. All this happened within a 1/2 hour. Craziness. Levi brought their phones with him to the hospital. Then we came home and called their friend who met up with them at the hospital. We went back to their side of the duplex and made sure their cats were still in the house and then we placed our extra key for their house outside in a hiding place as they obviously didn't grab anything. It was so crazy. In the end, they did not attach the finger (something about the specialist didn't arrive for over 2 hours and by then it was too late to reattach the finger) and then she was released that night still. Shes home, on lots of pain meds, and is in looots of pain still. So on her left hand her pointer finger is 1/3 gone, her middle finger the part that was cut off was still hanging there so we believe its going to be fine, her ring finger is all cut up, and shes even got a few stitches in her thumb. She did some major damage! How you ask? With a meat cleaver cutting up chicken. Yea. Now pair that with my description of how much I hate cutting up chicken and then don't feel like even eating it, yeeeea. I can't even bring myself to try and get chicken out of the freezer. Bleech! Anyways, obviously they didn't make the farmers market the next day! LOL!

Anyways, all that action paired with the fact I am sick, I was ready to have a relaxing weekend doing nothing. So literally all we did then was go out to breakfast with my parents after early church yesterday. We took them out for Father's Day. :) We went to Apple City Family Restuarant, where we've heard great reviews, but haven't gone ourselves yet. Anyways, we all loved it! Then we got teased saying that Levi can be a Father by next Fathers day. Well yea, of course he can, but he wont be! LOL! Its kind of like always saying "mom, I want this toy" and mom saying "you may want it, but you don't need it!" Or "you can want all you want but you wont get all you want!" lol! Anyways the possibility of Levi being a father by next fathers day is yes, just that, a possibility. But if we have any opinion on the situation, it won't happen. :) We want to wait a while still, although I will admit that my "motherly desires" are becoming more and more. Sometimes I look at Levi and just feel like yes we definitely could have a child. But no, I know where not ready yet. :) So we will wait. God has a plan, and hopefully it fits our plans. :) LOL! I'm just excited having my father's day with my daddy. :)

Weddings & Sisters

2011-06-12T19:03:00.000-07:00

When I was growing up, I remember begging and pleading with my parents for them to have another child. I wanted a little sibling SO bad! I remember doing this til I was 10 or so and at that point they started telling me they were too old to have babies anymore. Then I started telling them to adopt. Needless to say, I am still the baby of the family. I had always wanted a younger sister, but when they used the argument of not being guaranted to have a girl, I said I'd be happy with a brother too. Obviously Cody and I are the only children my parents are having as they are both close to turning 50. So whats the moral of this story you ask? Its just to prove how much I actually DO appreciate and love having my sister-in-laws. Obviously I have them because I married my wonderful husband. But one more thing that is oh so exciting is that in just over a year, I will be receiving another wonderful sister-in-law with wide open arms! My dreams of having sisters couldn't come any more full-circle!

As if that couldn't mean anymore to me, it was expressed to me last night how excited this soon to be sister of mine is to have another sister for herself. I was not surprised with the request she placed before me, but I was surprised with how open she was with telling me about her feelings about it! :) I never had a relationship like that, what with just 1 older brother, I had to be a tough tomboy growing up. Sports was my game, not girly things or feelings. So now I am just loving this. As I mentioned, a request was made, and I'm sooo excited to share a picture of the request with you! Allie (the soon to be sister) is so creative and I LOOOVE the lil request card.. Hope you do too! I am already dreaming of ways to scrapbook it! LOL!

The front of the card

and the back. :)

So my husband had been asked a few weeks ago at a Brewer game to be a groomsman and now I'm already dreaming of the colors she'll choose, the tux hubby will wear, and all the adoreable pictures there will be. We talked a lot last night at my aunts wedding about their wedding that will happen next September 8th, and how her ideas aren't quite clear yet but she is SO excited! And I am so excited for her! Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved our wedding, and if had to do it again, I'd do it the same way. But not having the big party and dance and reception and what not makes me want to help her with every lil detail she needs anyone to do! Being at my aunts wedding last night totally made me feel that way too! I love weddings, and not having to be so crazy into a big wedding of my own make me willing to throw myself into her wedding as much as she can stand possible! LoL! So now I'm getting ALL excited! Yay!!! So happy for weddings & for all of my sisters! :)

Mr. Mason!

2011-06-03T05:34:00.000-07:00

Mr. Mason came over to visit for a few hours with his daddy a few weeks ago and I hadn't got to posting these pictures yet. So here is thee oh so adoreable red-headed nephew of ours!
First stop: Check out the fishies. What are they doing in there?

Make goofy faces and motions to make Auntie Kayla laugh and laugh and laugh. (btw.. I love this picture! His face is so cute!)

Get an itch and scratch it. While crazy Auntie Kayla still takes pictures of you. Yep. She's losing her mind. :)

Have Uncle Levi feed me chocolate! Yum Yum!!

Make some more silly faces while eating the chocolate still. Yummmm! :)

Make a face that says "C'mon.. enough with the pictures already!"

Decide that crazy Auntie Kayla can't take pictures if you get behind the camera. So sit next to her to take other peoples' pictures.

Oh look! There's another person! Hi Uncle Levi!

Try to figure out what she's going to do now!

Realize she's taking your picture again and insist on making it impossible! Close your eyes and act silly so the pic wont turn out!

Act like a crazy boy every time you see the camera light up red as its about to take a picture! You are far too smart for yourself Mr. Mason!

And let Auntie Kayla fool you into 1 picture of you looking at the camera as she had prepped it with the red light going off before she turned it on you. That way.. you kept smiling and waiting for it and it never came, instead she got a slightly blurry adoreable picture of you actually smiling! Then proceed to run away after you realize she fooled you and act like a mad man all over again! :)

Love you Mr. Mason! Come visit again soon! I'll make sure to get more pictures of you!!! :)

He's Here!

2011-06-02T13:08:00.000-07:00

Yes, our baby is Finally here! :) I finally got over to their house today to meet him and snuck a quick 2 pictures of him. He definitely didn't like those pictures.. making his eyebrows scrunched up after the pictures! Anyways, without waiting any longer.. Here's the newest addition to the family I work for. Emmett Benjamin Schultz!
Isn't he a sweetie! :) His hair looks more blonde in these pictures then it actually appears to be in person. Now if you flip back to older posts of the 2 older boys, Eli's hair is WHITE blonde and Isaac's is light brown-ish. Well I asked Jane if Eli's was that light at birth and she said yes his has always been white. So in person Emmett's actually has an orange-ish tint! His oldest cousin Hannah is very excited and the possibility of him maybe having a little orange in his hair, as she's a red head herself. :)And Emmett and I of course! :) Emmett was born on 5/31 at 4:42. He was 7 lbs 11 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. He is definitely got 2 proud big brothers to boot! :) My opinion is he looks a lot like Eli... But I knew Eli as a baby and didn't know Isaac. But most of his family agrees that he has Eli's features.. Only time shall tell! I'm sure he'll be a wonderful mix of both of them! :)

Chicken

2011-05-28T06:45:00.001-07:00

Although I have a lot of pictures to upload (a lot off my phone.. which I email to myself.. and are a pain to open on my computer! :( ) this post will be me complaining and letting it all 'out!'

I dislike that the weather is so chilly that our gardens are going to be so far behind. Next weekend is the first farmers market in downtown Appleton, and I'm seriously wondering if anyone at all will have anything fresh to eat. I am highly doubting it. :(

I am also disliking that work was SO busy lately that my house has suffered. It went from crazy busy to nothing! Now I'm off for summer, although it definitely doesn't feel like summer! And I think summer is going to be back and forth for me. Working crazy busy one week to nothing the next. This next week I work for 2 different people on Wednesday, but have the other days all off. The week after that, I work 4 days. And thats the week when our guests come for a month! I am jumping for joy and can't wait to see my cousin Alyssa! :) Also that means its almost my Aunt Jeanne's wedding. Can I say "Finally!" ... and not in a good way! I can not wait for her wedding to be done and over with. Time to MOVE ON! :) Then my other cousins wedding in October, and THEN we can focus on my brother's wedding! Yippeeee! Next year can't come soon enough!! I am so excited to finally be getting closer to it as we (meaning Allie!) can finally start planning details! People shouldnt get engaged and then wait 2 1/2 years to get married. Driving me crazy! :)

Today, Levi's 4wheeling with Kelvin. I was suppose to go along, but I had to put my new tray for my braces in last night. Last time I put them in in the morning of Friday. But I wanted to enjoy food yesterday (which as you'll read later, i totally didnt!) so i waited to put them in right before i went to bed. This is the way the ortho suggests, because you sleep through most of the pain and tightness. Yea, you're suppose to sleep through it. Well, that didnt happen for me! :( I woke up at 2. Was awake for like 10 minutes. Woke up at 3. Was still awake tossing and turning at 4! Finally feel asleep at 430 only to wake up an hour later and be awake for good. When I woke up, I felt like I hadn't slept at all. And its not that my teeth even hurt! They so dont! So idk what is up with that! Needless to say, I'm SO tired and my teeth (as they always do although they don't 'hurt') can't eat anything besides soups today. So I opted to stay home and texted my mom saying "i need my mommy to make me hamburger soup today!" ... So i'm going over there for lunch today. I'm excited cause Levi hates hamburger soup, but my family loves it. And that is totally what I feel like eating right now! :)

And lastly.. does anyone else have a phobia of cutting up chicken? Maybe its just me, and it probably is. Levi doesnt have any probs, and my mom never did. But I HATE it! It is SO gross, and it creeps me out so bad that I literally like gag my way through it. LOL! See I buy the 3 or 5 lbs bags of frozen boneless chicken breasts. Then I cook it ALL up. Then I spend 2-3 hours cutting it all up and freezing the stuff I wont use right away. I have to do it this way because if I dont, I have happen what happened last night. I used some of the chicken immediately that night for chicken enchiladas. Levi's really been wanting them lately and I finally got around to it. Yea. Mistake. I can be starving hungry and the enchiladas come out and take 1 bite and feel like I could lose my marbles! I force myself to eat enough to not be hungry anymore, but I do not enjoy it at all. Its like my hands still smell like it from cutting it up, and I can still smell it and feel those lil fatty pieces and little blood veins (which btw, not a single one can go into my chicken that I will be using.. GROSS!) and I can't enjoy the food I've just made. Now today I will eat the left overs from supper last night, and believe me, I'll love every bite of it. It'll taste SO different! I do not understand this, and its super annoying, but its the way God made me I guess! All my strange lil querks! lol!

Oh! And I almost forgot! On top of Linda and Alyssa coming up in a week and a half.. and our 6 month anniversary coming up in a week (who knew! lol!) and going to the dells next weekend and my crazy aunts wedding... My parents have signed a lease for a new duplex! And the landlord sounds awesome! Levi and I met him and got to see the duplex.. but we didnt realize what was all going to be possible when we were there! The landlord is going to seperate another room area and put a vent out of the basement so my dad can have all his bakery equipment downstairs! This is huge! If anyone has ever used a fryer for food and know the smell and how the air feels while doing it.. You'll know what I mean. Except you have to multiply what you know by about 10! I've only been around when my dad used his frying bench thing one time. And let me tell you, I couldn't even keep my eyes open! The air was so full of grease and nastiness that my eyes watered! Its like cutting up 5 onions at one time! lol! It was so bad! So having that all down in the basement with its own vent and away from the main living area is going to be huge! :)

Okay... That's all for now.. Next post I'll do cute pictures and not so much complaining! :)

Handsome Hubby & 4-wheeling

2011-05-17T18:27:00.000-07:00

Here's my handsome hubby all ready to go to the Brewer game with my brother, 2 cousins, and 2 friends on Sunday afternoon. What a cutie! :) (sorry pic was taken w/ my phone!)

And here's pictures I stole off Alicia's facebook to post on here... :P

Me on my 4wheeler! First time driving on the trails.. I was very nervous!

Here's Miss Emily & I! We were getting nice and muddy! :)

Levi's just cut out of the picture on the left.. I'm coming through the mud in the middle, and Robbie's following me

And this last picture is of the group of us. I love this picture! :) From left to right: Me, Levi, Terry, Emily, Robbie, Alicia, and Chris

I can't wait to get my thumb extender and go again! LOL! Oh and my jacket came perfectly clean! Amazing as it was almost brown by the end of the day! lol! I didn't need it to come clean as there's lots of other stains on it and its my "play" jacket, but still, I was impressed! :)

Recent Pics

2011-05-11T19:13:00.000-07:00

Here's a few recent pictures from at work the last week.. Cute!
Eli at Memorial Park on Friday with me. :) He loves these cars. Yes, I was scrunched up in the red car. Eli must have thought it was a funny sight, he kept telling me to take a pic of me! loL!

Eli running away from the water that was spraying him at City Park last Wednesday. Love that cute grin! :)

Eli and his sucker from the bank.. Love that lil goober who goes "bumming" with me while Isaac's at school. :)

And here's the other 3 goobers! Charlie (who I wouldn't let go of cause he insisted on being in the tree only too purposely fall out 2 seconds later.. I caught him all the other times but couldnt let go to take a pic! lol!) Isaac and Ava climbing the tree today at work. Silly kids, they are always so full of energy! Yesterday I even climbed the tree. Then thought how dumb I was for getting up there and almost ripping my pants and didn't know how to get down! loL!!

Works been fun and the school year is coming to a short end very soon! That means Emmett will be here soo too! :) And then it will be summer for me, and as Isaac told me I can "stay home and rest for once!" lol Love them! :)

Mother's Day Treats!

2011-05-09T05:41:00.001-07:00

After my friend Sam got her mom some chocolate covered strawberries for Mother's Day, I soooo wanted some. And knowing we were going to see Levi's mom for Mother's Day, and she likes Chocolate (then again, who doesn't! :P) I thought I'd quick whip some up! Bought some big strawberries from Festival, got out my chocolates and some nuts, and tada!
And they were sooo yummy if I do say so myself! :)

C'mon May 31st!

2011-05-07T07:45:00.000-07:00

Things are moving and changing. The boys are SO excited! They got brand new bunk beds, put into Isaac's room. There was a new dresser bought for Eli, and I changed all his clothes from his old room into Isaac's room. They've been sleeping in there for about 2 weeks now, and are doing wonderful! :) Now theres itty bitty diapers put in the changing table, lil teenie tiny clothes put in the drawers, and a crib ready to be changed back from a toddler bed into a baby's crib. And were almost there! Jane doesn't think she'll go early, with her due date being May 31st. She did have her schedule changed to the easiest schedule to cover incase she does go early. But these 2 big brothers can not wait much longer to meet their baby brother Emmett! There's baby toys that have come out when their lil girl cousin was over last week and since then, the new game to play, is of course baby! I just had to take this picture of Isaac, as he's SO ready for Emmett, that they can not keep their hands off these baby toys! I have told him numerous times to quit playing with the baby toys, and if he doesn't I'll put him in there! Well, I didn't have to, he climbed in himself! What a goof! And the look on his face is how he talks like a baby, not him not ready for a picture. Silly boys, Emmett will be here soon enough! :)

Mother's Day Gifts

2011-05-06T09:44:00.000-07:00

Of course Mother's Day is a very special day, complete with gifts for the moms of the kids I take care of. I had Isaac & Eli's mom (Jane) Charlie's mom (Maria) and Ava's mom (Amy) to do a gift for. Of course each child is different so I wanted something that they could personalize, with whatever they think their mom likes, even if it is cannon balls, pirate swords, tornadoes, rain storms, and star wars characters. Yea, obviously the boys are BOYS! lol!
So I took Isaac, Ava, and Eli to the plant shop here in town one day. I couldn't take Charlie because I don't have enough carseat spots for all of them. So Isaac wanted purple, and of course Ava did too. Eli is crazy for the color Yellow, so of course, he got his mommy a yellow flower. We all agreed Auntie Maria would love a pink flower, so we picked that for Charlie. :)

Then we went home and made cards. Ava's is the first, with a beautiful flower that she then scribbled over.. Strange! LOL! Eli's is center, incase you couldn't get that with the Yellow writing! And Isaac's is last, he writes good, just never keeps his letters in order! lol!

When Charlie came over, I helped him use finger paint for the I <3 U and he colored fish and snakes on the left.. incase you can't tell. :)

I got these adoreable buckets at Michaels. I wanted flower pots, but they only had super big expensive ones or super small ones that our flowers wouldnt fit in. So I found these buckets.. all in the kids fav colors.. and 40% off! :) Ava's is the pink one.. she didn't want to paint it. Isaacs is the orange one thats already done. Eli's is yellow (of course!) and Charlies is blue. :)
And here's our mother's day flower pots all planted and ready for some loving for their mommies. They were soo proud of them, as am I. :) And I didn't even have a heart attack with all the painting and coloring and dirt all over. Hehe!

Worm Rescuers!

2011-05-02T17:41:00.000-07:00

Last week Isaac & Eli got the surprise that I think they could never have dreamed of. First off, their mother would never do this with them, she is a clean freak! Second off, their dad wouldn't do it with them because they stick to playing star wars. Third off, Kayla usually has a lot of other house projects going on through out the day that I don't usually tend to make extra projects for myself to do. Like ahem.. an extra load of soggy mud filled worm slimmed clothes to wash. I must have been ill.

But surprised they were! They were SO into it! Putting on multiple layers of clothes so we could go out at 10 a.m. to play for an hour in the rain. Of course early enough for me to wash all those yucky clothes before their clean freak mother got home! :) But the weather in Wisconsin is not yet all too warm, especially during the rain at 10 am! Oh yea. So we ventured outside. Me with the camera hiding under the umbrella just hoping not to get too wet. The boys have extra clothes. Me, not so much!

Isaac, was SO happy! He knew exactly what to do! Eli, he was horrified. Hiding under the umbrella for quite a while at the beginning. Seriously! The kid who loves diggers, tractors, and dirt. Oook then! Lets just say I couldn't believe it and had to keep forcing him out there. You'll see, he did warm up to it.. but then got pretty peeved when he went down the slide.. Bahaha! :) Isaac right off the bat found a worm. He declared we were going to be Worm Rescuers! So that we were. We... I mean They went around saving worms and placing them back in the grass... Too cute! :) Eli just continually walked away from Isaac walking slowly in the water to not make splashes.. Obviously Isaac was Not agreeing on the less is more theme that Eli had going.. :) "Eli, jump like me lil buddy! Jump like me!" "See, like this Eli! Jump like this!" "I'm dancing in the rain Kayla!" What a goof! :) He made sure to hold onto the sides as to not go too fast as he knew what waited at the bottom. He needed to stand under the umbrella for a while.. :) Didn't mind sharing my umbrella with such a cutie.. :) "Eli, I'm splashing you!" ohhh what are big brother's for? LoL! the comment after this picture was "Kayla did you see that! My splash hit my own face!" yes buddy, your face already looks like its been splashed plenty! lol! Eli's first official Splash! He was happy and unsure all at the same time! :) More worm rescuing in the front yard.. :) Whats that you got there lil fella! Oh, another worm of course! :P "Look Kayla! Another worm to rescue!" Great buddy, you do it! LoL! And another one of course! Oh My! What is that you've got there! And then, he broke it! Oops! :o) And one last creepy crawler making his way across Isaacs hand.. Bleech! "Oh you want me to go down the slide?" Oh yes, yes I do Eli! "Okay Kayla!" Loooove this picture! He was SO not happy when he stood up and his "butt was wet!" But he lived and his pants came clean and it all worked out in the end! LoL! "Isaac, I need a picture of your face.. it's all muddy!" And although you cant really tell, it was! :) And he had to go back later and stomp in that mud pit that got the better of him. hahaha!

All in all, they had a blast! And now, everytime it rains, they talk about the day and how much fun they had and how they wish they could go do it again. All I can think is "What was I thinking!" LoL!

The not so perfect diet!

2011-04-29T18:04:00.000-07:00

So I've found a great diet that will help with my recent gain of 5 lbs! Eek! We were having my life insurance redone since we got married and so I have to get a check up done by this nurse that will come to our house. Well for fun I went and weighed myself. Mind you, I have not been watching my weight since after our wedding. In December. I'll be real honest with you here, if you don't want to hear me complain, then stop reading now. If you promise to not look down at me and say "oh get over yourself!" on my comment section if you do continue to read, then go ahead.. continue. :)

Prior to our wedding, I always sat right between 135 and 140. I'm being real and relevant with this post. I had tried to go work out prior to our wedding. I never really loved it, but I wanted to tone up and look good on the beach. Yea, never happened. Although the weight I was at didn't truly bother me, some of the pictures of myself on the beach after the fact DID bother me. But yet, I went on, eating away at Christmas and again at Easter. Loving on the boys' Easter baskets at work and enjoying my basket my mom gave me with all the sugary wonderful-ness. Yea. Until 3 nights ago. When I weighed myself. 145. That is thee heaviest I've ever been. I used to be able to eat my heart out and it wouldn't make 1 or 2 lbs of difference. Never 5 lbs. So before I have my appointment with my nurse I decided I must lose the weight and be 140 as I told our insurance guy! LoL!

So through my horrible sore throat that encumbered my entire body and being for 2 days and my nose that was stuffed so bad I couldn't breath at all out of it but yet was still dripping all.day.long. (how does this happen?!) i dragged my butt off the couch at 8 pm last night and went to the gym. My husband thought I was nuts. I just thought I lost my mind. But I did it. Worked out for an hour and twenty minutes. Today, I can't hardly move. But I can breath! And my sore throats gone! :) I feel like a million bucks, just a million bucks that can't move her legs! Haha!

So first step of my diet, get sick, and insist on going to the gym. My wonderful sister-in-law might not agree with that being a wonderful idea while sick, but hey, I'm not sick anymore! LOL! Next step, get these bad boys put into your mouth!
Sorry the pics are kind of blurry, but it'll have to do. :)

These bad boys are my invisalign braces. Yep! Had them slid right onto my teeth today. Felt great! Went to visit my Grandpa after I got done at the ortho because he had surgery yesterday to fix his carpal tunnel in his wrist. Sorry if I spelt that wrong, I typed it into google search to be able to come up with how its spelt as I have NO idea! :) Anyways, Grandma and Grandpa liked my invisalign and I even popped out the top tray to show them how neat they are. :) Then after that I went to check on my dad as he just had (TMI Alert! :P) a kolonoskopi done today. Again I popped out the top tray to show him and was still feeling really great! We went to see his friend who does that carnival popcorn booth type thing and bought some popcorn... then bought a hot dog for lunch.. then went to Tom's to have fries and a drink. We did this because I wanted a hot dog but would need to take my trays out in order to eat and then needed to brush my teeth before putting them back in and they need to be back in within like a half hour. So we went somewhere where there'd be a bathroom for me to brush my teeth. So we did that all. Then went back to his house and created him a facebook page. Yes, he's now lost his mind too. :) Then I went to Walmart on the way home.. then had supper with hubby.. then brushed my teeth again and put them back in.

Let me tell you, I brushed my teeth GOOD this last time and will not be brushing them when I go to bed tonight. Ignore me while I vent here. My teeth hurt. They feel sad. Bruised. In pain! My gums bleed every time I take them out. Not because my gums have probs, but because I keep poking them with this pointy thing to pull the trays out and it hurts. Dont get me wrong, I'd still choose these over having real braces on at my age. But I'm sad because I felt great before, and now, my trays are obviously doing their job, because I'm definitely feeling my teeth moving. Boo-whoo on me!

So as Levi has already commented, there goes my snacking! Oh and mind you, the first few times I took the trays out they all just popped right out. Now, the bottom one especially, is sooo hard to get out! Now looking at food and wanting to eat it has a whole different meaning! Knowing how much WORK I have to go through to be able to even eat a tiny lil bite of chocolate, oh Forget it!

So here's to my not so perfect diet plan! Getting sick and not wanting to work for food kind of makes me feel pretty sure that I'll be able to lose that 5 lbs no problem! :)

*I take all comments I get from this post to heart, and I promise next post, I won't complain so much! :P*

Snow & Hotel

2011-04-25T18:41:00.000-07:00

So I forgot to post these pictures from the snow we had last week! Only in Wisconsin! I was going to post them because it was my cousin Alyssa's birthday and she lives in Texas but loves snow! I meant to post them just to tease her cause she wasn't up here to enjoy the snow that had freshly fallen the night prior to her birthday! Here's a few pictures! The night/morning of April 19th & 20th. We received approximately 10 inches of snow. So thankful it didn't stick around long!Looking out our back deck. Brrr! Where'd our 80 degree weather go! Not that I want the tornadoes back! But no more snow! :Pour front yard.. and our street.. at least ours was plowed a lil.. still all slushy from the warmer temps the previous day.. but the side street was not plowed yet! Oh and Levi cleaned off my car that night at like 10 and it was still covered in snow the next morning when we thought it was starting to slow down! Bleech!And our side yard.. poor trees.. you can't tell it with these 2 but the snow was sooo heavy! There was lots of power outages that day because of branches breaking off and taking our power lines. Matt & Janes yard had some branches that previously made it thru all the bad weather (even the tornado like stuff) and then were taken down by the heavy snow. So sad!

Moving on! We drove to South Dakota on Friday, went to Grandpa Krisher's showing Friday evening, then the funeral on Saturday, then drove home Saturday night. Although we weren't there very long, we still enjoyed the family time! And I officially have met most of the family now! :) Anyways here's a few pictures from in Alicia & Chris' hotel room on Friday night! :)

Scrub-a-dub-dub Mason's in the tub! He is a crazy lil bather along with his truck that was getting a bath with him! Silly lil boy! :)Kara just hanging out and although here it looks like Emily is watching tv ridiculously close she actually was just snuggling up to her mom.. :)Erin hanging out watching tv and Trevor playing his DS/ Chris & Al's laptop.. not sure how that all worked but he had it down pat! :)And Alicia giving Harold a haircut Friday night so he could look nice for the funeral :)And tried to snap a quick picture but it didn't turn out too well.. on the way to the funeral.. Lowell Ave... :)

to the road we shall go...

2011-04-21T22:02:00.000-07:00

As we knew it was coming, yet we weren't prepared at all, we now are working through the sturggle of dealing with Grandpa Krisher's passing. Although I only spent 1 weekend with him, and I didn't truly know him 'back in the day'.. I do still know he was a wonderful spiritual man, a great example to live by. So from that morning text from Alicia, to now 2 days later still working on packing our bags to go, we shall prepare to lay a wonderful man to rest.

So tomorrow morning we plan to leave at 5:30. It is now after midnight and I have lots to get done still. Although I am a little bummed about missing Easter as it is a big holiday for me religiously, I am so looking forward to spending family time with a lot of close family members and some I haven't even yet met. And while I really sit here thinking about it, the whole Easter celebration probably couldn't be more appropiately celebrated then at a funeral. To me, that was the whole reason for Jesus' ultimate sacrifice, so that we can have eternal life, exactly where wonderful faithful Grandpa Krisher is now. Here's Harold, Grandma, Grandpa, and Levi last May when we visited them. So happy we had that chance to spend time out there with them. :)

Well, again this will be all from me for a while. Tomorrow was my first day off for how long, but obviously we will be traveling. And I need a break so I'm going to leave my computer home. Happy Easter to all! :)

Bride & Groom

2011-04-19T19:15:00.001-07:00

So I finally got to play around with them.. and literally I just put together 8 of them, and these were the best.. and I know they aren't perfect.. but I was lacking quite a few of the supplies to properly make them.. like the white dots for the buttons on the groom and necklace for the bride! And the grooms bow tie is suppose to be 2 black hearts together with a black dot to join them. Yep, didn't have that either! But just wanted to play and see if I think I can do them for my brother & his fiance's wedding that's not til next year.. :) But I'm excited! They would be for the rehearsal dinner, so not that many needed. And a wife of a cousin of mine is thinking of trying to do them for her sister's rehearsal dinner that is in June.. so that is why I tried them already... Anyways, besides the lack of proper supplies and not being able to properly make straight lines.. what do you think? Oh and sorry for the horrible lighting.. its dark out.. and our lighting in our house is either not much at all or all on! So it was either super bright or turn the flash off and be able to see it but then the pic is fuzzy.. You'll have to deal. :P

Here's a much better picture of what I'm trying to go for from Bakerella... Kind of jealous of the perfectly straight lines... I'll learn! :o) ... and LOVE the lil ribbons on them too.. I'd probably do that.. :)

That's all for now! Later!

Spring Cleaning Weekend

2011-04-11T18:02:00.000-07:00

So to tell you the truth, I had a 4 day weekend, that I didn't get too much accomplished in! I am kind of sad about that, but I was really not feeling very good for part of it! Doing much better now, and had a fun day with Granny, and now getting ready to head back to work tomorrow and have a super busy weekend! By the next time my next actual day 'off' roles around, I know I'm going to be burnt out! So, don't look for too much more out of me for the next 11 days!

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Here's how we started out our weekend.. :)

Levi using his shop-vac to clean out behind the refrigerator. We cleaned out that and behind the stove. Just spring cleaning yea know.. then... cleaning out levi's underwear.. bahaha! I did that to him while he was messing with the front bottom of the refrigerator cause prior to this he kept sucking up one of my pants legs! So, I got him back. :) I think its funny at least! Then my mom and dad came over cause something was going wrong on their van and they wanted levi to take a peek at it. My dad is a baker and he loves my pizza crust and always says that its the best and he cant do any better. Well they had bought pizza ingredients at festival and brought it all over (including pizza crust) and I quick threw crust ingredients into my bread machine and then we had it out. I'm pretty sure I won since mine looked prettier and tasted better of course! lol!!Then finally yesterday Levi and I got to cleaning our bedroom and rearranging it. We got everything out of there and moved and now the projects needed to be started. So here's one of them! Its a table thats been passed all around and no one had a home for it anymore. Well, I did! :) I wanted something kind of like this with some chairs on the sides to have a lil reading area in our room. So Granny came over today and we made 2 trips to Joanns and now we just need a staple gun that hopefully she'll bring over next Friday when I have a day off again! Wonder what we'll be doing?Here's a hint! :) Until then, you'll just have to keep your minds wondering. Later gators!

Ranting & Raving

2011-04-08T14:38:00.000-07:00

Just dropping in to state that my most favorite blog out there that I've been following for a very long time, since before I started my own blog, has had some great posts as of recently! My Special K's is a mom, Renee, who has 5 children, 2 which have DS (1 which is adopted) and a husband in the military. Anyways, these 2 posts recently have been wondeful! The first, was a fundraiser to raise money for another family that is adopting a son with DS from Eastern Europe. They were going to do a 7 day fundraiser to raise 15,000 dollars! And they did it in under 4 days! (it wasn't just Renee's blog, it was other mommy bloggers too!) They are continuing the fundraiser for the rest of the 7 days to raise more money for another adoption of a DS child. I say this because the entries are only 10 dollars, they go to an amazing fund, and the prizes (10 of them total!) are AMAZING! Just thought I'd mention it incase someone wants to get in and have a chance (even if its really a slim chance) to win something and help a great cause!http://www.myspecialks.com/2011/04/kirills-army.html

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The next blog post she did was a sad sad story on a family. The dad being diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer on Valentines day and 9 days later the mom being diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. Seriously. What a mind blowing thing to have happen. I can not even imagine. Its been all over the news, and internet, so you might of heard already, but just thought I'd share the story incase you havent. http://www.myspecialks.com/2011/04/bond-family.html

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Anyways, thought they were pretty good posts. Now I'm on a high/low today. High because we received our english translation (that i do NOT believe to be a legal copy.. but ummm we'll just let that fly by at this point!) of our marriage license. I went to the social security office and the guy took the first spanish copy we got (that we signed at the wedding and INSISTED on getting a copy before we would leave the resort.. otherwise we wouldnt of got that!) and used the english version to have the person who speaks spanish at the office tell him that it did say what the english *photo copied translation* said it said, but without that first original one that I Begged and threw a fit for I wouldn't of been getting my last name changed. Mind you we got a 2nd spanish copy with the english translation that we just got got. It is a certified copy, but it doesnt have our signatures or our finger prints like the ones that were at the ceremony. So I don't really know how "legal" those are either. Anyways, now I'm going to wait to get my new social security card before I go to the DMV. And I have NO idea how that whole process is going to go. The people at the DMV (at least here, but seems to be the idea of DMVs all over!) are less then helpful. And me having a spanish version would help if I lived in the south where they have a much higher spanish 'friendly' lifestyle. Not that we don't have it up here, because a lot of stuff is in spanish up here too. But my cousin in Texas is forced to take spanish class from Kindergarten on. Up here, its an option, but not mandatory. Its just a lil diff. Thats my opinion anyways, so don't jump at me if you don't agree. :) I speak spanish (well, i took 4 years of it anyways.. I can listen to it and read it a TON better then I can speak it) so it definitely annoys me having something that I can understand and I know what it says but other people dont so it makes it impossible for me to get things done when I already know what it says.. i feel like screaming at these people "Just believe me! Its for real, it says Levi married Kayla in Mexico on Dec 4th, now just change my name please! And thank you. Of course." Bahaha!

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I'm also on a high/low, because I feel like we know exactly what we want for our future, and now were being told by some people.. not naming any names.. that we should just buy an already built house, not land and build. Not our dream. Not what either of us want. Not what will make us save our pennies for our future. Just my opinion. Again, opinion, don't yell at me. LoL! I guess when someone tells me its too expensive to buy land and build, that only makes me want to do it more! And telling me to buy an old teeny tiny ranch that is like well over 50 years old and is NOT taken care of at all, well lets just say is NOT going to happen when my dreams are to build and design my own home. Yes. Deal with it.

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By the way, the person I am talking about doesn't read my blog. So if you feel like I'm talking about you, don't worry, I'm not. :)

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So anyways, my scentsy order came in.. and Aleigh brought it over last night.. So now I have to deliver lots of amazingly smelling goodie bags! :) And maybe while I'm driving all around the Freedom surrounding area, I'll be watching for land to buy. :) Just to prove my point. Love it!

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I have a 4 day weekend (well, including today which is like already over lol!) this weekend.. I'm all excited! Were going to do some extreme spring cleaning.. So exciting! :) Then were going to finally clean out the whole bedroom and rearrange it so Granny can come to sleep over again on Sunday and hang out with me on my Monday off! We can hopefully figure out all my bedroom projects.. and maybe I'll even get started on some of them or the living room ones! :) I am so excited! Just need to not get too many projects going at once... cause then I don't get any done.. LOL!

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Okay enough of my ranting and raving! Later gators!

Living Room Projects

2011-04-02T20:33:00.000-07:00

So over a year ago I asked my cousin if she'd like to paint a picture for me. I knew kind of what I wanted, but the exact painting could be determined. I just wanted something with birch trees in it that had more color pulled in, meaning blues & greens. (if you don't know.. I'm in love with birch trees.) Everything I have or have ever seen is black, white, tan, and brown. Which yea, thats the colors of birch so of course! But our living room is so beige.. its SO boring! And with renting, we cant paint the walls, or else I'd probably paint them dark brown.. which wouldn't help either! LOL! (kind of funny side note.. i have an 'emo' cousin and he was talking about painting their house and he said 'its not like i'd paint it black!' and I said 'really? i want to paint our bathroom black.. but then again it has a sky light so i think itd kind of be a neat affect!' ... anyways call me nuts but we got lots of natural light going on in our house i think we could pull off dark colors!) Anyways, we traded 'skills' and I took pictures of her for her to paint my picture! I bought all the materials and finally, she had a chance to finish it! Now I'm elated! Only prob is our living room is big.. bigger then the pictures I'm about to post really 'show' (mind you.. our loveseat is not usually covering up our fish tank.. its usually in between our dinning and living kind of serving as a barrier to seperate the rooms.) so this 'half wall/ceiling' I'm about to talk about is what is above the loveseat normally. Hopefully, that makes sense to those who have never seen our house! lol!

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Anyways... moving on... I want to incorporate more colors other places instead of just on the painting, because, well, it wouldn't all go together else! So I went to joanns and bought fabric! And now hopefully my mother-in-law will come over and help me not let my imagination get the best of me and bring me back down to more realistic thinking! lol!! What I have in mind is to cover 2 square canvas (that have yet to be boughten.. probably about 2 ft x 2 ft.. thats what I'm thinking for now.. lol!) with 1-2 inch strips of fabric sewn together of all the diff colors of fabric i bought.. like some this way and some that way and really speratic and crazy looking.. not perfect in line. Thats the idea ... for now at least! Then I'll make 1 pillow to kind of match those for on the love seat.. and then 2 square pillows that will just use 3 of the fabrics for on the couch.. yep thats the idea! Crazy, but thats alright! :) For now I'm thinking its do-able. Maybe not after Granny tells me I'm nuts.. but ya no! :) Anyways, I'll share some pictures so you can better understand how nuts I am! :)

Here's a picture looking toward our dining area, then to the kitchen. Theres the half wall/ceiling thing up there in the air. Yep so I want 2 square.. 1 on each side. I plan to do some big circle clock in the middle. Thoughts?Here's a look back towards the living room. Mind you our tables never this long.. its got all its leafs in it still from supper last night with the in-laws. So the love seat is normally right where the chair is that mason sat in last night.. :) The brown picture on the wall right now to the left (right above my sleeping husband! shh! :) ) is where the new painting will go. See how its all just beige! Bleech! Need.Color.Now!This is a picture of our guest bedroom. Yes, that is the new painting. I didn't want to spoil it and do a straight on picture of it as that might just give it all away. :) But do you see whats up by the pillow?Its the fabric I bought! :) I may have gone a lil over board... but it was hard to decide! And they all go together with the picture SO well! Now when/if Granny comes tomorrow night (I invited her to sleep over as Chris & Al's will be gone tom night and shes coming into Appleton Monday morning to see a friend) this is what she'll find.. Me ready for a 'play-date' with the sewing machine! :) Way too fun!

Dreaming...

2011-04-02T11:02:00.000-07:00

I'm crazy in love with my new background & header. I'm pretty proud of myself with the header.. as I've created it all by myself. Like it wasn't one that I just slipped pictures into. Then again yous probably look at it and think "yea, I can tell you did it all by yourself!" :P .. LoL!

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Today I'm dreaming... Finding no motivation to do anything productive. I felt productive yesterday though! I got our whole main area of our house nice and clean for the in-laws to come over (and my parents!) and cooked a nice meal for everyone. After everyone left I felt like I should of took pictures, just to have something to show from it... but at the time of it all happening I was just enjoying having everyone over and chit chatting that I hadn't even thought of it. :) We had chicken potpie, pizza, apple crisp & scotch-a-roo's for supper. And Granny brought a salad. :) I thought everything was delish but then again I was So busy during the day I didn't eat a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. all day so when I finally sat down to eat, no matter what it was it would of tasted good to me! lol!!

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Now I'm dreaming of cleaning our bedroom. Our room is so close to the main area, I feel like I want it to be clean, to be able to have the door left open when guests come over and not shun everyone out of there. But alas, it is the grounding place for all our 'treasures' .. not junk of course! So I'm dreaming of cleaning it, while sitting on the couch not actually doing it... :)

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Of course I'm dreaming of cleaning my 'sewing' room downstairs.. I say it like that because, well its never been sewn in yet. Hopefully I'll clean it and sew in it before we hit the 2 year marker of living here! lol!! Now that is sad!

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Oh and last night I told my husband I'm going to clean the bedroom tomorrow (meaning today) and he must have heard me say this one too many times and doesn't believe me anymore cause his reply was "yea, and the president is coming to Greenville tomorrow too!" ... yea okay honey, love you too! Lol!

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I'm also dreaming of building a house.. which is absolutely no where in our near future. But a girl can dream! Of course that means I'm dreaming of buying land. That is something we might try working on in the nearer future. We'll have to see, I guess!

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Oh and of course I'm dreaming of my husband taking me on an anniversary trip, since our 'honeymoon' was more like 2 days after our wedding and then home.. I feel like we never really had a real 'honeymoon'.. and no I'm not trying to be a spoiled brat when I say that! lol!

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Anyways, now that my husband is home from work and is cleaning the shower I feel kind of bad about not getting anything done so maybe I should go and get started on that bedroom to make him eat his words! Bahahaha! Later Gators! :)

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p.s. sorry about the ~~~~~~~ things.. this post and the last post when I push enter it looks like itll be in paragraph form but then i go and view it and its just one big long paragraph which to me is hard to read.. so now i'm usuing those lil swirly things.. :) Hope thats alright with yous! :P

Blog: Updated!

2011-03-31T19:05:00.000-07:00

Now I was looking for a blog background that was spring-y... but I'm just not that into pastel colors and what not.. So I went Bold! :) And of course it looks a lot like my wedding colors (go figure huh!) but thats alright! Its more like bright summer splash instead of spring. Anyways, the snow flakes are gone and I'm Hoping that the snowflakes that cover our driveway & yard will be gone soon too! I'm really hoping that the weekend will take them away! For crying outloud.. we're Almost in April! Its funny because last year I remember going to Memorial Park quite a few times with the boys in March because Isaac would of course have to go to the bathroom right after getting to the park and the bathrooms said "closed until April 1st" .. and he'd pee in a bush behind the bathroom. Lol! Not this year! The park is still covered in snow and the bathrooms will be open before the park! Crazy! Today I heard back about the possibility of maybe just maybe being able to get our English LEGAL version of our marriage certificate. Which would make it possible to actually legally changing my name to Krisher. Wouldn't that be nice! :) The email Ana, our wedding planner from MX, sent me made it sound like she didn't know I wanted the English translated version to be a legal one. Like WHAT!? Why would I want one that isn't legal? What would I do with that?! Put it on my wall as a picture?! Seriously people! Besides that I don't know too much else.. I'm working on finding a job for the summer and working on not letting my family make me go crazy! lol!! Some people just need to learn to mind their own business! :) I had planned to post a picture of my fabric I bought at Joann's this last weekend, but not now.. I too tired! And I'm so excited the 'in-laws' are coming over for supper tomorrow night! Hmm maybe I should be sleeping so I can clean & cook tomorrow! Hehe! Oh well! Later gators!

Under Construction...

2011-03-27T20:00:00.000-07:00

Please ignore my blog while its under construction! I am having difficulties and am not in love with the current background after deciding that maybe the weather would change if I got the snow flakes off my old background! LOL! So as it takes the weather a few days to start turning over into spring this week, that will give me a few days to get my blog going again! But for now my husband says I have been putsing with it long enough and must go to bed.. Good Night! :)