on wednesday i finally went in and checked out our local library. they only do story time tues. and wed...we could never make it on tuesdays because gulianna got out of preschool the same time, and by wednesday i would already forget! we still missed it but next week we will go check that out too.
we might have drove the ladies crazy...anthony kept going up and down the stairs and when he couldn't see me he would yell out "mammy!" over and over!
it is just after midnight and i was checking my email...found this post from melody maybe i should have read it earlier! ha ha!
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so two and a half hours later my kitchen is clean. dishes are washed and put away. i started at 9:30pm. took two 5 min. breaks. swept and mopped. almost started vacuuming again...but i decided to save it for the morning. i need a shower again.
i chose to visit with my neighbor today instead of washing dishes. i could have saved it all for the morning again but then it would take away time from taking care of my kids and catching up on laundry. i hate waking up to a messy kitchen. but the last couple days i haven't been cleaning. i save it for the morning and then i feel like it wastes my day! ugh! so i stayed up late and now i'm back on track. {we were going to put in a dishwasher here but then i said i would rather have one more cupboard for storage...so no dishwasher. i only really regret it when i am washing dishes for 2 hours!}
but the truth is have i really done enough today? and every day? i feel like i am constantly cleaning, and i fill my day with lists of things to do and make sure i work on several projects a day to get things done around here...while my kids run freely and play all day! some days it's hard having three little kids. i try and make sure they help in the mornings and get their jobs done and then they are off! some days it doesn't always happen like today...there room is still not picked up. my girls will clean it tomorrow. i never let them get away with a messy room...i want them to know that it is their job to clean it and keep it clean. my girls have been sneaky...and disobedient by running off to their grandma cherrie's house or to the neighbors without doing their jobs first! lil stinkers! i need to spend more time with them, but it's hard when you have too many projects around the house. if our remodeling project was completely done, i would feel more organized in my life. it's hard having my scrapbooking stuff in the kitchen and not in it's own room! it's hard for me to share my little laundry room...then i get behind on my own laundry. etc.. okay i'm done for the night, good night or...good morning now!
the chickens got moved into their new house today, levi has been sick of them stinking up the back of his garage!
he built this for them last week and sided it with old barn wood that he's been hanging onto for a couple years. {half our place is still torn up, but the kids love playing in the trenches and the dirt!}
anthony couldn't wait to hop over the chicken wire to see the "deet deets" that's how he says chickens!
it still needs more work, and the boxes built inside, but they are still small for that! too many projects around here! at least they are out of the garage.
i painted the door green. i really wanted all the old paint scraped off, but i didn't have the patience for it anymore and i just wanted to start painting green! so it has an old crocodile look to it. levi needs his sandblaster fixed so i can use it for my projects.
we picked up a bunch of old windows on saturday...as well as ordered me a new phone, actually levi too. anthony was so kind to run mine in the sink so the screen has been broken for almost a week! levi's on/off button has been broken on his too, and when we took it to the store they had him open up the back and take out the battery just to make sure the water sensors weren't damaged...well that was dumb because then he couldn't turn his phone back on! we were cell phone-less for the rest of the evening til we got home and he got it to turn back on. i won't have mine for ten days or so.
this is my next project i'm working on...
i hope i can get it done by the weekend.
i've always loved this picture of my mom!
happy mother's day to my...
M O T H E R H O O D
is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in.
it is what G O D gave you T I M E for.
elder neil l. andersen quoting rachel jankovic
i am grateful for everything my mom has sacrificed for me.
wish we were in idaho to spend mother's day with her!
levi got the tire on the tractor fixed this morning, so we can get working on our garden! he was excited to be riding on it again.
our apricot and apple trees blossomed a couple weeks ago...and now they are all gone...wish it would last longer!
don't you hate when you find something you love and now they don't make them any more?!
i just realized that i'm down to my last package of pear recipe cards. i guess i better use these ones wisely. i had to do a recount of the ones i have recipes written down on...just to see how many i actually wasted because i hate when i screw up on my writing...
guess how many, 16!!! ugh! i wasted them!
so if you ever come across these and think of me, i will repay you!
gulianna has been wanting to walk to preschool by herself since the first day. i told her today that she could...and then i still walked with her! she said "okay by you guys i love you, mom take care of everything here!" then she left. and then i walked right outside to follow her, she was already past the driveway and she looks back and said "mom i'm walking by myself!" geez! so i went back in and grabbed my camera and then followed her to preschool. "ok, fine! but i'm walking home by MYSELF!"
only two weeks left of preschool...and then summer...and then kindergarten! nooo!
are any of you putting all those "pinned" recipes to use?
a couple weeks ago levi was making cheeseburgers for dinner on sunday and we didn't have any hamburger buns...so i turned to pinterest to search for a recipe. i didn't really want cheeseburgers on sandwich bread! i found one, tried it out, and it worked! first time making bread for me!
i used this recipe from frieda loves bread.
the only thing i was confused about was where the recipe says "2 - 2 1/2 cups of flour" i didn't know if that meant two 2 1/2 cups of flour = so 5 cups of flour total? or just 2 cups to 2 1/2 cups, meaning add another 1/2 cup of flour if it needs it. so i just stuck with 2 1/2 cups of flour and it worked. so first you mix everything with 2 cups of flour and the rest of the ingredients, then let it sit for 15 min. and then add another 2 1/2 cups of flour. got it?
everything was homemade...and tasted pretty good!
then last night i decided to make banana bread...actually i was going to make it in the afternoon but procrastinated all day. so by the time i made it and put it in the oven it was after ten.
just as i was about to pour it into baking pans, i realized i put a whole stick of butter instead of 3/4 a stick. so i was telling levi that the recipe had 1/4 cup too much of butter. oops! but then he said remember a stick is only 1/2 cup of butter. which i knew, but forgot because i was too tired! so i added another 1/4 cup and then put the pans in the oven. then i remembered that levi said the oven cooks hot so i turned it down...thirty minuted later when i checked on the bread smelled burning bread i realized i turned it up, instead of down! ugh! this is why you don't bake late at night! i pulled it out twenty minutes early and then just scraped all the burnt sides and bottom off. actually the burnt bottom just stayed in the pans!
here's the recipe i used for Cream Cheese Banana Bread!
we usually make it out to lehi or provo area at least once or twice a month. and it never seems to be leisurely any more! too many places to stop in not enough time. considering 3 hours out of our time is just driving there and back.
we really wanted levi to come with us but he had too much work to do. i was planning on leaving at 9am but then i forgot it was tuesday and gulianna had preschool. so we left after she got out. we dropped off isabella's quilt top to melissa at sew shabby quilting to be quilted...can't wait to get it back!
by the time we got to ikea it was almost 4 we were starving...anthony looks so big now drinking and eating by himself, compared to last years ikea visits! he was just a baby and i fed him mashed potatoes as he sat in a high chair!
i've been desperately wanting to get to ikea for drawer organizer stuff for the two kitchen drawers, they were driving me crazy!
and isa was the perfect height for going into the play area, all last year she was 4 inches too short to go in and play. i didn't like that she couldn't go in just because of her shortness...she can go to the bathroom by herself, but she wasn't not tall enough? she's naturally short! well anyway she sure grew a lot in the seven months that we moved. she was sooo excited to go play with gulianna!
after ikea we went to ross, then costco and then home and we still didn't get home til almost 11pm! and we rushed at every place we stopped! crazy!
so i've been driving with an expired licence for almost a year now... and i did know about it. well really only since last summer before we moved...i was returning something at walmart and they wouldn't let me because my license was expired! hello! i did actually thought i had til 2012...but it was last may of 2011. oops! any way with moving and then not having money, and then when we did have money i just didn't go... blah blah blah... i finally went in today. i missed one, even though i did know the right answer! ugh! well any way, now i'm a legal driver again. ha ha! breakin' the law.
we left the girls with cherrie, anthony was excited to sit in isa's carseat! we really need to find him a bigger car seat poor kid!
"she's a man, baby yeahh..." nice job guys, so i guess i'm a male...
we stopped at walmart, then to ifa to get a bunch of fruit trees and plants...should have brought the trailer! we weren't planning on getting them today but it was the last day of the sale!
anthony...so tired!
well the storm is rolling in...it's supposed to be crappy through the weekend...raining and snow. levi went to our neighbor's who so graciously said we could have as much crap as we want ha ha! levi only had time for one load...so he went and got some.
i love these 2 huge horses!
lucky colton gets the crap in his truck :)
and now as i watch colton through my kitchen window shoveling crap on the garden spot i can't help but think of this! have you seen that movie? it's a classic!
we got baby 9 baby chicks and 2 roosters today...every one was excited! colton picked them up and they said all the customers kept wanting the roosters he special ordered...silver laced wyandottes. even when he checked out a lady said to him, "those were special ordered for somebody." ya...hello!
anthony was so excited to see the little chicks...he just wants to squeeze their heads off!
gulianna and isa were not happy about getting a rooster, and before we walked out to the garage to see them they kept saying "no roosters, no roosters!" our neighbor's rooster is kind of mean...hopefully we can train ours to be nice? we'll see!
making progress...or making a mess?
today i started to rake the backyard...it's going to take a while! the grass is so much nicer over by the trees than in the middle.
levi worked on spreading the dirt around for the garden...this used to be grass as well...up to the dirt road all the way to the left. it's going to be huge! lets hope we can grow something!
the root cellar hole...even bigger than before...did i post pictures before? i can't remember... anthony did slide down it last week, he just can't help himself! hopefully he won't try it again. it's deeper than it looks in photos.
it was really nice outside...a little windy, we have a storm coming in for the rest of the week...trying to get stuff done. i should have been outside yesterday instead of cleaning...it was even hotter! still got sunburned today...pretty nice for april!
i feel like easter came and went too fast! i was going to put out my easter decorations last weekend during conference, but i was too busy cleaning and organizing all the cupboards again...and didn't get too it. too many projects it seems like.
i think i'll keep them out til this weekend then pack them away.
i woke up saturday morning and noticed that my little chicky was broken...probably anthony, i heard him slamming something guess that's what it was.
i love my easter bunnies...i had to glue the chocolate bunnies head back on last year...isabella got that one. i've come to realize that most of my decor is glued together, thank goodness for E6000! i'd fix my lil chick up but i can't find the piece anywhere.
some shots from instagram...i still need to go through my pictures i took with my camera. i filled the plastic eggs on saturday. we were just about out of money right before easter. i had spent our last $25 dollars on diapers, a few groceries and chocolate for the easter eggs the week before. sometimes i wonder how we even make it, but we always do, we are blessed with all that we have. i told the girls we probably won't have money for new easter dresses, like it matters any way they have a lot of dresses and skirts! we didn't buy anything for them last year either.
so the day that we went to walmart i looked in the little girls section to see if they even had any dresses left, there was 2 that the girls liked. one 5T and one 3T, they were the last ones, but like i said, we had $25 to our name! we got lucky and four days before easter we had our tax returns direct deposited into our account. we weren't expecting them until the week after easter. we went back to walmart to buy more groceries, i checked on the dresses and they were still there. lucky lucky!
we drove to payson that evening to pull out most of it from the bank and then to provo for the mall to see if we could find a new dress shirt for anthony, but i couldn't find anything...and i only had 40 min. to look! much harder to find what you need when you live an hour away from the convenience of shopping! i went home and pulled out his pink striped shirt from last year to see if it would still fit him...it did, minus the sleeves went up to his elbows! so we just rolled them and let him be cool like that :)
here are the girls excited to go to the mall! {we just stopped at the gas station to go to the bathroom...they were in their carseats before.}
no luck at the gap for anthony. i did love this jacket...but i couldn't spend $30 for it. still needed to be clearanced more! i'm very picky on what i spend for clothes!
we always seem to eat at red robin when we make a bank run! gulianna said "take my picture!"
dancing...
you can't tell, but this basket is big! it's the girls' basket for "picking up sticks" in the yard to burn.
my mom is always good about sending packages in the mail...they were excited to see what they got from grandma and grandpa!
i was laughing when i read the presents...mom, you forgot the y on happy! ha ha!
easter coloring books, stickers and socks! they love stickers!
thank you grandma & grandpa!
we've really been missing a few of our favorite places to eat out at...one being cafe rio.
but we just discovered this new place that is sort of imitating their salads! yes! besides a few cafes, the malt shop, and the "mexican restaurant" we basically have no where really good to eat! oh wait...i did fail to mention all the pizza places...how many pizza shops can one town have?
now to get a roxberry down here... hmmm?
i can't seem to get with the program today...layed in bed til 10:30, gulianna threw up 4 times last night. isa threw a tantrum in the middle of the night as well! gulianna's stomach was still a little upset this morning so we gathered up some change and went to grab a sprite for her from the soda machine on main street. a dr pepper was also calling to me...i rarely drink soda...once in a GREAT while!
i was going to check the mail while we were out but then i remembered gulianna lost our mail key from last week. she dropped it in between the back seat, but i can't find it. we got back home sat outside and i shared the last of my dr pepper with anthony and he wouldn't give it back to me!
slurpin' it up!
*no chelsey i did NOT go and buy a dr pepper just because it matches his pants...ha ha!
we didn't have breakfast til 2pm...and now i can't believe it's already 5!
*so i realize that gulianna threw up because yesterday we went to walmart to buy diapers and candy for easter eggs, and i wasn't going to open up the "chocolate treats" until sunday but we couldn't help it. we all had a couple pieces. we haven't had any real sugar for a long while...and so when we did we all kind of got sick. guliannna especially, she has a weak stomach. anthony had major crappage down his legs because of it! (ya i'm sure you didn't want to know!) even i don't feel great! then we had to top it off with soda for breakfast! you don't realize how bad sugar is until you haven't had any for a long time!
ok...i better get my chores done...i can't stand it anymore!
slowly trying to catch up my pictures and happenings on here.
and on my photo blog too, i think it's easier to do it all at the end of the month!
this is what happens when i tell levi to take anthony and stand at the back of the church. instead he took him outside, and he fell down the steps and scraped his face up! geez...
still he's pretty handsome...
and now nineteen months old!
our neighbors asked if we could take care of their chickens for the weekend, and of course the girls were excited! and scared of the rooster...isa has already been pecked on last week! so far we still counted 13...they come home tonight.
we went to check for eggs after we got out of church...we found 2, gulianna was scared to grab one because one of the chickens was sitting in the coop. but then she was excited because it was an aqua one. her favorite color!
i wanted a picture of both of them holding the eggs...here isa is pouting because gulianna got the aqua one...geeez! soon we will have our own chickens...i can see the egg fights and yolk every where now...well probably once anthony gets involved.
actually isa was very careful with hers. they brought them home and washed them forever. i told them that we have to gather the eggs otherwise they will turn into little baby chicks if the mom's sit on them for a long time! ever since then gulianna has been opening up the fridge every 5 minutes checking on her egg! now she just wants her egg back so she can carry it every where!
starting today? ugh...everytime i open this door, i shut it!
this is my future scrapbooking room...aka the "sun room." before it was used to house however many dogs...and they used it as their bathroom too. levi ripped out the carpet, or "furrpet" as i like to call it, swept it and then colton unloaded all my stuff in here. actually no that's not how it went. he was suppose to unload it here, instead he put the trailer load of stuff that didn't need to go in here. and all my stuff went in the chicken coop. ya i remember now. i was mad. so i had to switch everything, and dig for my scrapbooking stuff it was completely piled high in the other storage place. aka chicken coop.
anyway...this is where it is now. since i've been trying to scrapbook i've had to go through every box to find what i needed. first up was photo printer paper...then my tools, then my stamps...etc...so everything is everywhere now.
my job is to clear it out so levi can start to work on it. finally! new wiring and sheetrock, this will be the only room that has "real" walls...sheetrock, everything else is cheap woodpanelling fake walls. levi wanted me to move it all to the chicken coop, but there is no way it is all going to fit over there, it's completely full! so either i stack it all in my bedroom...OR...i move my hutch into the house right next to the kitchen table...yep, that's what i'm doing. actually it is what i was going to do when we started moving furniture in and he said no way! hmmm....
the only problem is that my big black hutch is 7 ft 3/8 inch tall and this room is 6 ft 11 inches tall...can you believe it!? so i'm sure hoping that when he rips off the hideous ceiling...we will have some room to work with? please i hope so, or i guess were cutting an inch off my hutch. there is a lot of windows...i have to decide which one(s) to cover up. i need some wall space for my decor. but i will love all the light to work in!
remodeling...as you can afford it...ugh, such a pain. i envy people that have money and can remodel in a matter of weeks, instead of months... without waiting! oh well...at least we are out of debt. almost...paying off our car loan this fall! enough complaining...i know i know.
ok...off to tackle this mess.
more scrapbook pages for jen over at the project girl!
you know that little strip on the bottom of the 12×12 patterned papers that shows the pattern on the back side? well i love to use that on my pages! sometimes if i only have that one sheet, but need another little piece to coordinate, this works perfect! and i added that cute little bicycle stamp, fits perfect in that little collage on the patterned paper.
i found that my butterfly stamp is just about the same size as my butterfly punch…so i layered the punch on top of the stamp! love it!
this "19" sticker worked perfect for my page...isabella and anthony are 19 months apart!
products used: my mind's eye lost & found 2, heidi swapp stamps.
*saturday night just as i was starting this post, levi came walking in the house with crutches...in pain, we thought he broke his leg, he fell through the top stair at his mom's place, luckily his workbelt caught and he didn't fall all the way down. he's fine now, so glad no broken bones, just very bruised!
our "chocolate treats" didn't last but a couple days...in this house!
we got up at 7 this morning to go and get our bountiful basket! finally! i've been wanting to order these since we lived in rigby. gulianna was so excited, she wanted to go, but when the morning came, she was sound asleep. i woke her up and told her she could stay, but she insisted on going!
we've had such warm weather the past couple weeks! in the upper 50's, saturday it was 61 degrees! our grass is starting to turn green, and it's really green over by the wood pile. can't wait for summer!
finally! here's are produce from our first bountiful basket.
$15 bucks! +$8.50 for the "mexican pack"
can't wait for more! check it out http://bountifulbaskets.org
it always pays to enter contests and giveaways!
design house digital had there 'mad march memories blog hop' this past weekend with lots of fun giveaways on their designer's blogs...and i won on gennifer bursett's!
i won! and my name is first :)
pretty exciting! and her's is the one i wanted to win the most!
so for the next couple of month's i get to be a guest designer on her creative team! lucky lucky!
yay ME! ...that's me sounding like london tipton...ha ha!
i tend to "screen capture" my blog when the top photo matches my banner! like yesterday...
here's a couple more i had saved...
it's hard for me to have a general blog look...i love to change it up every month or so!
here the 12x12 page i was scrapbooking yesterday for the project girl...
more details on jen's blog!
products: everything is my mind's eye lost & found 2, alphabet stamps are heidi swapp.
i thought that since we got our internet again...i'd be blogging a lot more...NOT.
what do i do ALL day?! ha ha!
working on projects, taking care of kids, cleaning, changing diapers...etc. life! i finally made isabella an apron that i've been promising since last fall. i made gulianna one when we moved here...and then i never made hers. she loves it! hung up are pictures in the laundry room this morning.
i'm going to do laundry today, ugh! i've never really been "behind" on laundry...i just take a day and wash everything, once a week...but lately i haven't been wanting to be in our little laundry room. the furnace closet stinks, as well as the hole in the floor that is covered up with a board and some carpet scraps. can't wait til levi gets the tile done! how many times have i said that? so...i have a lot of clothes to wash, from the past couple of weeks. doesn't help that the girls think they have to change twenty times a day!
i'm going work on some layouts for jen allyson this afternoon...and maybe sew another apron. but then i look outside and it's been so nice i should be painting bed frames and sanding doors! we'll see how many things i can start on today...
i actually scrapbooked this past week! even though i almost forgot how...i had everything set out and realized i didn't have any adhesives! kind of hard when all my scrapbooking is still packed in boxes.
anyway...i enjoyed scrapbooking again...it's been so long.
this is what i created with the february moments kit from express the moment.
these next couple of pages, i *scraplifted* from amanda, because i just loved them sooo much! you can see her layouts here.
i made a coordinating page for this one...
can't wait for some new photos to print and complete these pages!
{9.25.2011}
these were taken after church, a couple days before we moved last fall. i really wanted family pictures with these outfits...but i can't ever seem to make that happen. timing and money always seems to be the problem. either we have the money, and levi is too busy working. or levi has some time off and we have no money! and it's hard to coordinate and have someone commit to taking our photos for free...so here's where i take my own photos of my kids before more time passes by.
gulianna is always willing to pose for a photo! isa is not. she is stubborn, she doesn't care, especially if she's doing something better...and if she isn't she will find something, like pick the grass and stare at it. really?! then she starts to pout. and then i have to try really hard to make her give me some sort of look at the camera. i want her face in pictures, not her hair! we have plenty of those! anthony is too hard to keep still, always moving. which is why i had to tell gulianna if she could "hold him down" while i hurried to take some pictures. she wasn't torturing him, and he just wanted to get away and play in the bark!
i may never have a perfect shot of all three looking into my lens, but i do have lots of candid photos like these. this is our life, and these are our rugrats! here's to a family picture with me and levi in it...SOMEDAY!
you may remember this one...i used on our christmas card...
gulianna's valentine cookies for her class...we got them at the bakery, she was so excited about her valentine party!
on her way to preschool...with a cough drop in her mouth!
after she got home i gave them their valentine presents from chelsey, thanks! isa...whining...too impatient to give me 5 seconds worth of photos, geeez!
poor anthony...still sick, but slowly getting better!
they loved the little valentine cards and the tiny markers...anthony was wondering where his were! and since the girls have been taking over his sickness, and not playing with their stuff, anthony's been playing with their markers coloring on himself and his clothes.
at least we still managed to have fun with valentine's despite being super sick!
it's times like these that i wish we had health insurance. what would it be like to just go to the doctor without worrying about being billed an outrageous amount?
then again...i hate just wasting money away for premiums...when it could go to something else.
ugh!
anthony has had a high fever since last thursday. he is teething too on top of being sick. we finally saw a few smiles 2 days ago. yesterday he regained some of his energy back enough to want to play instead of laying down. he doesn't have much of an appetite, except he'll gladly eat gulianna's valentine chocolate! stinker! the girls have had coughs and have been slightly sick...they had their share of fevers yesterday and now today.
i've been somewhat sick off and on. i got a sore throat early sunday morning, started to feel like crap...then monday night i was ready to drive myself to the ER with horrible earache pains...i thought my eardrum was going to burst. i had to give in after several hours, and take some ibuprofen to stop the pain. i then woke up yesterday {valentine's} with robot hearing. meaning...everyone including me sounded like a vibrating, echoing robot. it was horrible.
gulianna begged to go to school, she has been looking forward to valentine's for a month now! monday night we did go to buy some cookies for her valentine's, and put them in little heart bags with a heart tag...i told her i would just drop them off and her teacher could pass them out. she got dressed and ready, and we sent her off with a cough drop in her mouth. that was "the deal."
we also had a family valentine's dance at the church that night, that both gulianna and isa have been looking forward too. i told them that since anthony was still sick, dad would be taking them and i would stay home.
levi was already planning on making a trip to payson...{the closest us bank to us} and even though i knew he was just driving there and back, all i wanted for valentine's was my ears to pop, to get out of the house, and some quiet time. the only time all three rugrats are asleep at the same time, other than bedtime, is when we are driving. long distance.
so we made the trek...45 minutes there..
then back on I-15 to nephi. i stopped at a cute store, and found a scrapbook store next to it. then we went to big o tires...for an oil change. we sat and drank water and ate popcorn while we watched some annoying disney show for almost an hour. levi started to get sick. grrrreeaat.
everyone fell asleep on the way home again, and then we were almost home when gulianna woke up and said her stomach was sick. i should have known better.
she started to get a fever and chills. i helped her in the house and she took two steps inside and threw up on the carpet. nooooooooo! not the new carpet! i grabbed her and barely made it to the kitchen sink. it was the popcorn from big o. geeez. i got her cleaned up and changed and she climbed right in bed and went to sleep. we had one hour til the dance that she really wanted to go to. right before she fell asleep i said we won't be able to go, we need to stay home. and she was fine with it.
isa was not. she waited impatiently...actually as soon as she walked in the house she ripped off her jeans and was waiting for me to give her a skirt for the dance. anthony was sleeping, and so was gulianna. i told levi i should just take isa and go and eat and let her dance for a bit, then come home. he insisted that he wanted to go...i had him get colton to watch gulianna and anthony while we went. i told isa to go get her pants on...{not thinking about her "dressups"} and she yelled "no, i can't wear pants to church ONLY A DRESS!" oh yes...sorry i forgot! she was excited that she was going to go and not gulianna, so she went into their room and said "i'm sorry we have to leave you here, i'm going to the dance." and gulianna and her magical ears instantly woke up and said "i'm going, i'm going, don't leave me. i'm better now!" yeah right...but she did fake it pretty good for an hour. they had fun, i'm glad we still got to go. we took home a plate of treats to eat at home, and as soon as we got home they quickly changed and went right to sleep. their sickness kicked back in full gear. 8:20pm...that is unheard of in our household! by 9pm our sickly little family was fast asleep. here's to a miracle to get over this sickness!
whitney houston is dead.
i can't, but then again i can. look what she's done to herself...it's very sad to see someone with such singing talent waste their life away.
i sure loved her music...i have these two albums of hers.
her songs are classic. they remind me of my childhood and growing up.
i want to dance with somebody...birthday party at chuck e cheese.
greatest love of all, saving all my love for you, you give good love, all at once, didn't we almost have it all, where do broken hearts go, run to you, i have nothing, i will always love you, i'm every woman, how will i know...i can still hear my mom singing all of these in her firebird. and me lip-syncing them in the backseat to my cousin making her laugh!
when you believe...love that song from the prince of egypt movie. sung with mariah carey, my favorite.
heartbreak hotel, exhale, it's not right but it's okay, my love is your love, fine, i wanna dance with somebody remix...i played these in my firebird along with her older songs.
she has sooo many good songs...love them all!
we usually only have tv in the winter...to make the time pass by! although we haven't for several years. some times you miss it, and other times you don't because there is nothing on.
i've been getting by with watching biggest loser online. i finished season 12 in a week! it was kind of nice not having to wait each week. now i'm caught up to season 13. last year we signed up for netflix, so i would watch whatever on my computer while i scrapbooked. it would have been better if we had an updated flat screen, or a wii or playstation 3, we are a bit behind on technology. so we only got to watch shows in the living room or in bed when levi got home with his laptop :)
we did finally get our first flat screen 3 months ago...can you believe it!? so now we can hook up the laptop to it and watch netflix on a bigger screen! levi has been wanting one for a long time...but i told him to wait until ours finally gave out. last fall when we moved...kevin thought it would be "easier" to just leave the tv in the armoire while they moved it. uh huh. levi said no, but still did it anyway, and as soon as they lifted the armoire, they forgot the tv was in there and it went flying out and broke. ha ha!
we watched these movies last weekend while we were sick,
and we started watching Jericho,
it's pretty good! one episode left...and then no more, why did the show get cancelled? i'm pretty sure this is the show that caught my eye years ago as they were promoting it on commercials...that's where i got the name Jericho, because it was old and different, you don't hear it anymore. that was the only boy name i had saved...in case we ever had a boy, and when we finally had anthony...it just didn't fit, he was definitely supposed to be an Anthony it only took us ten days to make sure!
i do miss watching american idol...i've missed the last 2 years. but at the same time, i know it's not that great anymore...i do still like to watch it.
the girls have been watching dora and a few girly movies, also blues clues...which i can't stand to hear! they've been getting lazy and not wanting to clean their room now that they know they can watch netflix. gulianna clicks on the mouse to change to the next episode, and makes the screen bigger. they've gone a whole two days of leaving their room filthy. of course i didn't let them watch anything until they finally cleaned it. then i had to take away their lalaloopsy stuff and a few other things. it's hard to get by these months after Christmas, with more toys to pick up. can't wait til the summer where a few of them can mysteriously end up at di. i can't help it. i have too! too much stuff, is just TOO MUCH STUFF! they really don't need it.
any way, what are your favorite shows to watch?
after being sick all week, and stuck in the house, i couldn't take it any more! and i felt bad for anthony too...as soon as i said "anthony do you want to go outside?" he instantly started hyperventilating and walking fast saying "shoes, shoes" as he was looking for his shoes! poor kid! the girls go outside every day, but not him! i was going to have him play in the back, but now we have a huge trench out there along with the huge hole for the root cellar. the toys were all wet, and as soon as he figured that out he went straight for the water that was melting off the roof. that's when i grabbed the wagon.
we went for a walk to get a candy bar at the gas station. "brutus" followed us for about 5 blocks...and then ran off somewhere. i was secretly hoping he found a new place to hang out at, but he found his way back the next day. he's such a mangy cat, and the first time he ran in our house i gave him a good kick off our front porch. the next time he does that, i'll get the gun. the neighbor girl insists that it's "our cat" and we need to feed it. they have a cat, and so the girls like to say this one is their's. levi says "he's not our cat. he's is own cat." ha ha! ya that's right. i'm allergic to cats, so therefore i don't like being around them.
we got our chocolate and then went to cherrie's house for a bit, to warm up and visit. and then headed back home. it's nice to be outside after being cooped up in the house for ever!
anthony fell asleep right before we got home, about a half a block away...his second time doing that!
this was my scrapbook room in our last house that we rented. other than the white walls, {not being able to paint and the hideous carpet} i loved this room! it was fairly small, i just needed more room to have a bigger table for when i make a mess. but it still worked. at first i complained of the tiny closet, then i soon found out that it didn't matter. it was best NOT to just stuff a bunch of stuff in there to be hidden. i put everything out that i actually use. it's much easier that way than running back to the closet to pull out one more thing. i didn't have room to put the little table i had at my store. in my new room i will, then i can have my sewing machine out!
full of my favorite colors combos, favorite things, eye candy every where!
i've had lots of fun finding the perfect bowls, buckets, jars...etc...
to store all my fun things in.
can't wait til i can unpack my stuff again!
my dad made this hutch. holds everything perfectly!
my favorite corner of my room!
here's where i'd sit on the floor looking through scrapbook idea books when it was too hot to sit outside!
my favorite pictures...i still need one of isabella and anthony up there.
my idea books on an old step ladder shelf.
i love to store embellishments in cute bowls and cups! especially if they have polka.dots.
bottom shelf holds: patterned paper in accordian organizers. more heidi swapp stuff, idea books, cardstock that wouldn't fit on the top shelf. and my printer. anthony sure loved it at his level! makes me sad to see this picture though. in that corner is where my computer tower and external hard drive. that's the time it was trying to be worked on. i lost all my photos and files from 3 years. still makes me sick. please back up your files!
here's when i painted this frame...
more old wooden boxes to hold my punches, chipboard, bind it all.
red + aqua! can't get enough!
this little aqua mug...from the di, see my kids get in my stuff! E6000 has been very useful!
my mini red polka.dot bowl is perfect for holding my memory cards and pink shuffle.
button jar was from an old candle.
green tin containers hold my wooden alphabet stamps and all my adhesives.
aqua lid: i bought it at the di...i loved it so much, levi told me not to buy it because i would never find something to fit it! i left it in the durango, so that everytime i was out on the hunt i could see if it would fit something, anything, a jar, bowl, glass hurricane. it took me a year, but i found it! see? NEVER say never. yes. i love justin bieber's music!
my very FAVORITE picture of levi...
all my favorite patterned paper is kept on these black 12x12 letter trays...
my 8.5x11 cardstock is organized in black magazine holders from wal.mart.
heidi swapp product...labeled and stored in wooden boxes with my very favorite scalloped gingham ribbon!
my fabric stash kept in a basket.
i got lucky and bought this brand new pottery barn organizer at a yard sale, ten dollars! there is one more piece, i didn't have room for. works perfect for my stamps and smaller patterned paper.
tiny alphabet stamps, tiny attacher, loose chipboard alphabet letters, vellum tags stored in glass jars. some were from my wedding reception. and some i had to buy back after we dropped them off to the di. seems like they always have them!
red and pink buckets from walmart, during valentines. i got lucky at di with the same red one for twenty.five cents, years later! they hold my pens, scissors, misc tools, foam brushes, decorative scissors and hole punches.
i painted my ribbon jar lids to match my hutch as one of my summer projects. they look so much better! can't wait to paint my bakers rack this summer. it'll be black.
these were my curtains i made for my store, scrapalicious. i love them! i wish i didn't lose my pictures of my store. i wanted to make an album with them to remember it.
my cupcake jar...holds my hidden chocolate!
only levi wasn't so sneaky one day so now the girls know.
closet stuff:
photos stored in cropper hopper cases. all my embellishments, stickers, etc...sorted by theme or holiday and are in these drawers. scrapfolios: all my stickers, rubon sheets organized in dividers. pink accordian organizer is all basic grey paper organized by lines. other scrapfolio has all chatterbox paper. oldies...but goodies!
i used to have all my carded ribbon and embellishments hanging on my black shelf in my old room, but now i use that in my living room, so it worked perfect to hang them on the rod in the closet. and i finally got smart and put all my flower jars up HIGH. my girls loved to empty them out and sort them daily. fun for them...not me! + my hallogen...always need a hallogen light for some serious scrappin'...
my framed quotes i made. the red one was from an emergency preparedness event i did for my church calling. it's a good reminder!
i took apart my SHE book and made this. i'll get a new book, my cover faded from being in the window.
this was my mother's day present from levi! ahhh i love it so much! still need to add a few things to it.
this is where i would edit pictures, blog, pinterest...
on my not very comfortable stool.
the only thing i'm missing that i really want is a vintage typewriter! and one that works so i can use it for journaling. i'll take one in pink, red or aqua!
haven't been feeling so great.
actually i've been sick since last friday.
i blame it on mc donald's. spicy chicken sandwich, then some new chips ahoy cookies, levi's leftover mexican food, and ice cream! too much crap i guess? i would say so!
i haven't really been anywhere other than the post office or church since the new year. and i couldn't take it any longer. plus we were out of bread for sandwiches for lunch, so i decided to have lunch there, and then walmart afterwards. i let the kids play in the play area, anthony crawled all the way up to the top, then couldn't find his way out and started crying, so i went up to get him and down the slide. then he was happy!
but ever since then i've had bad stomach aches, stayed on the couch all day friday, saturday and sunday. i think i feel okay now. i also finally stopped nursing anthony since the 12th, and i was fine until wednesday night and i was hurting so bad. i almost gave in again, i couldn't take it. then i prayed to please let me get over it, i'm tired of nursing it's been four years! so i woke up with the worst stomach ache, dizzyness...etc...that's what i get! geez!
anyway...almost caught up on all the dishes throughout the weekend. i didn't do a single thing. levi did them once yesterday. but i can't complain, because he cooked every meal! ok, i did complain once. then i can start uploading photos from my old scrapbook room...i'll post them tomorrow!
i miss my scrapbook room.
it's been a LONG while, since i've been away from it.
for now i miss my old room. just being in it was enough for me!
i know i will have a new one, but it may be a couple more months before levi has time to start working on it. it needs completely gutted out. i'm excited that it will have "real walls." i get new sheetrock, new carpet. it has lots of windows, so i'll have to make a plan on how i will arrange my decor. i have to have my stuff on the walls...it's my inspiration and makes me happy! i sometimes feel like my time is being stolen, because i could be scrapbooking right now! at the same time, i still have a lot of house projects to be working on, so i try and make use of that and get them done. i'm almost done going through my photos of my old scrapbook room...i have too many, it may be a long post...i love all my photos!
for now i will leave you with this one...
ahhh...i love polka.dots.
♥
got my window hung up outside on saturday! another project done and checked off my list!
levi took down the white numbers off the house, i couldn't wait not to see them anymore...they just bugged me everytime i looked at them!
see! SO MUCH better!
2 major events happened over the weekend...
levi installed our 2 light fixtures and finished tiling the shower!
let there be LIGHT and WATER for showering!
we've had the tile since november...but with all the other projects levi has been working on he hasn't been able to work on ours. everyone seems to be in need of his skillz...between cherrie, kevin and jeremy it's a fight most days to have him work on something of ours...soon it will all be done!? maybe?
our island light fixture has been backordered since we paid for it in november. they finally got it in on friday, cherrie picked it up for us on saturday with colton. which gave levi a free day, so he went to work on the shower and got it finished. we have had the dining light fixture since november but he wasn't able to put it in until after the island one, because he had to rewire everything. that was another nightmare. this place is a mess...people who do NOT know what they are doing should just hire work out. enough said.
then i had to do the dirty work that i've been dreading this whole time...scrubbing the filthy disgustingness and hard calcium off the bath tub. i can't believe people are just so lazy to not clean their bathtub, and they still used it. makes me sick! we were originally going to just replace it, but then soon ran out of money. i put a good 3+ hours in scrubbing and scraping it with a razor blade! most people are out having fun on a saturday night, that night i was doing that. levi even put in his hours of scrubbing and scraping before me... anyway, it's done now!
we were able to say good bye to the big ol' hallogen lights we've been using as our main light source in the kitchen/living room! yes! no more hallogens! and no more trips to cherrie's house just to shower! no more packing our "shower bag" for the day.
*levi still needs to install the small light fixture above the sink. yes i'm tired of staring at those wires...
this is the chair that i painted last summer...maybe in july/august? i can't remember now. right before we moved from idaho, i had to make one last stop at the d.i. and i found a few things. one was this chair for one dollar. i was originally going to put it in the girls room...that was before i painted it.
this is my aqua window. i'm going to put our address on it in vinyl and the star and hang it outside today...can't wait. i painted the window just before halloween. i actually ordered the vinyl then too, and the lady got the measurements wrong, so she had to redo it, but forgot i guess...she just dropped it off to me yesterday! any way, can't wait to have another project completed! the window and star have been sitting in my living room since then...glad it didn't get broken!
it's almost done! just need to drop it off to be quilted! i love this fabric so much! i used most all the red + pink fabric from the Lost & Found collection. my favorite part of quilting is selecting fabric patterns and colors! i may not be a good quilter…but i’d say i’m a pro at colors, no fakin’ it here! i've been waiting for the perfect fabric to use. i knew that i wanted the same colors as gulianna's quilt: red, pink and brown, but i couldn't find anything until recently...thanks to jen! sometimes you just have to wait for something that perfect!
check out my guest post for the project girl HERE!
pattern used: shortcake
This red and pink stripe fabric is my favorite!
we picked up gulianna from preschool today...she was excited that we were walking home today!
