The Simple Life

my thoughts...

{from this morning}

• I am back to driving my Bronco. Still no shifter cable. Apparently Levi forgot to order it...hello? So that means that it is manually in drive the whole time. Meaning I can only drive forward...

I start the Bronco and drive, and when I park, I shut it off. So no body better park in front of me where ever I go.

If you happen to see me somewhere...perhaps in the mall or Target parking lot, and I am underneath the Bronco it's not because I ran myself over, it will be because someone decided to park in front of me, and so I am manually shifting the transmission.

{yes very annoying, but at least I can do it. and it's a pain in my butt}

greasy hands, hot pavement. hurts my back.

• On the way to work this morning...we {us girls} were getting ready to rock out with Ms. Jackson, only someone had to take her out of the CD player. And when I am driving the Bronco...I can't really just drive with my knee. Broncos tend to roll over if you do crazy stuff...{hence the roll cage for safety}

But I did it anyway...and almost took out some Wild Asparagus pickers along side the road. Just Kidding. But that totally could happen if I did that.

Anyway Gulianna loves the Bronco, and she loves music. It is so funny to see her dance while she's strapped in her carseat :)

so does Isabella. she jams out in her carseat too. It's just some thing about the whole Bronco experience I guess.

and we ♥ it.

That's why I'm broke...

So the other day Levi was looking at some of my scrapbook paper that I was getting rid of...and said

"what a waste, I know for a fact that every inch of paper is about thirty dollars, and I would know because I was standing right behind you, when you would buy it!"

sadly enough, it is true.

All those fun shopping trips in Utah. And countless trips to Roberts.

But that was before I had a store, which now I buy wholesale. okay, except when I go into other stores...shhhh :)

{you can never have enough paper?} right, that's what I keep telling myself.

I often wonder if I stacked up all my personal stash of paper at home, how high it would actually be?

{can you hear my evil laugh? I can and it's scaring me :)}

But luckily enough, I am married to someone who also has {ahem...expensive} hobbies as well. When Levi is done with his Bronco, he will have spent well over $40,000. So glad he finished mine first at around $16,000. Because he loves me. But then he said that mine is going to look like a piece of shit compared to his Bronco.

Well then guess I will be driving his :)

{Happy layout}...

I finally got one layout done...the first page took me about 5 minutes, while the second was a bit longer, running up and down the stairs to & from the computer. eating dinner.changing diapers.and feeding the girls all in between.

but I got it done.

{using my scanner for the first time} nevermind...I can't upload a tif, ugh...I was trying do post the lazy way...ok, scratch that again, I got it to work!

okay...not impressed with the scanner, but I will wait for the morning light to take pictures, these will do for now!

Products used: Cosmo Cricket "Girl Friday" paper {available at Scrapalicious!}  Making Memories "Noteworthy" paper & flower stickers {which by the way, my first time using them...very hesitant, but I have to use my stuff} Heidi Swapp chipboard heart, photo corner, and date stamp, Designer Digitals Ali Edwards handrawn brush.

right this moment...

I am at home...getting things done? Trying anyways...to long of a list, but slowly working at it. It is so nice to have the internet at home again. I can't even begin to tell you.

Gulianna is back & forth doing whatever she pleases, playing in her room, then back downstairs watching HSM3 and eating fritos with sour cream, and cupcakes. Hmmm...ok me too. I am nursing Isabella as I type this. Too funny. Like you really wanted to know, but that is how I get things done.

I haven't been posting on this blog very frequently, but I am going to try harder...

Isabella is now 5 months old...

she is ALWAYS smiling! We call her ...

• Isabella
• 'happy'
• 'Isa'(pronounced "eeesuh"...ok, not I'm not really good at spelling pronunciations){Gulianna started that before she was born...she couldn't quite say Isabella}
• 'lil 'lil' got that from American Idol, along with...
• 'lil isa' ...(and Levi thought I was calling her "Louisa") lol 
• 'dufus' because we call Gulianna "Roo-fus" and it rhymes...yeah about that, Levi made it up!

I know she has more nicknames...but of course because I'm typing this I can't remember!

Isabella just smiles so much more than Gulianna did...Levi likes to disagree, but it is true. I remember always trying to take pictures of Gulianna and she would just make her same face...while she would usually always smile at me, it was hard to get her to smile for others. (when she was around this age, and younger)  Isabella and Gulianna look very similar but different...Gulianna has my eyebrows, Isabella definitely has Levi's. Isabella is darker and has dimples. Isabella definitely has hair, while Gulianna practically had none. Gulianna had a bigger head than her, but Isabella seems chunkier in her legs. But I still think Isabella is smaller in size, compared to Gulianna at her age. I will try to find their wellness checks so that I can compare. It's bugging me!

Off to find those...and to make a scrapbook page or two!

Remember...

when Chatterbox came out with some of these trunks!? I do...and ordered too many. But Idid sell them all.

 And I desperately hung on to the pink one for.ever. But never used it.and finally ended up selling it. But now I miss it, as I am looking at these. Rusty Pickle just came out with these, you can buy them here.

I will take the pink+white, or pink+red ♥ which ever you choose to buy me. Thanks!

 

Randomness...

• Gulianna is driving me nuts at the moment, getting into my makeup bag for the millionth time, smashing her goldfish crackers in the carpet, pulling Isabella's thumb out of her mouth...
• saw some crazy asparagus pickers on the side of the road for the first time...so glad they had to park half way in the road, idiots!
• we have not had sunshine forever...so much for sunny days.but at least the grass is green.
• Isabella is always happy and smiling. except when I hosted a watch/bracelet party the other night, she was sick, and not feeling so great. I only made 2 watches, because I had to tend to her...and then by the time she fell asleep, I wasn't focusing right, and kept dropping my strand. {would love to take a picture of what I made but...}
• my sister dropped my camera on May 30th...luckily only the lens was busted, still waiting for my new one to be shipped.
• getting ready for the Express the Moment Expo in 2 weeks, wow...always creeps up too fast!
• I finally have internet at home, so I am back in the real world forever. Whenever I drive home, I feel like I am leaving the world, I live slightly out in the middle of now where, but as soon as I pull into my road...my cell says "Emergency Calls only" so frustrating sometimes...ok everyday really. but then I get service, like 15 minutes later.
• Gulianna talks and talks and talks, with occasional swear words here and there. it's hard :) but really funny!
• my shifter cable went out on the bronco, I think this is the 4th time now? and it was a brand new B&M shifter what the...so I have been driving a different vehicle every day, depending on where Levi is working.
• This week I have been driving Kevin's red Jeep Grand Cherokee...and the alarm is super annoying, because there isn't really a panic button on the key chain?
• Gulianna and I ate a whole bag of Chip's Ahoy Cookies in 1 day, Levi was mad, until I pulled out another bag :)
• we have listed our home again for the second time since we moved here, so far we have been showing it like crazy, hopefully this time it will sell?
• speaking of which...yesterday some realtor was showing our house when I was just stepping out of the shower. luckily Gulianna happened to shut our bedroom door. And they were knocking, on our bedroom door!! I ignored them, and frantically put some clothes on.
• my scrapbooking room has been clean for almost a month now? wow, that in itself is amazing. {just don't open the closet}
• so much for a weight loss journal, haven't really done much, speaking of haven't even seen it to motivate me. must be in the closet.
• didn't go to the circus on Monday like I planned. I heard one guy fell...hope he's okay, I bet everyone was freaked out watching it happen.
• Behind on birthday cards, presents...as usual.
• I want to scrapbook...instead of typing this. and doing everything else that needs to be done.

Out and about...

there is just too many things to blog about, but it all takes time...and internet, which I don't have at home, because I am rarely there, but maybe if I did? hmmm...I really can't believe we have gone this long without internet. Levi says it's about time. On that note, we haven't had our dish since April 1st, no joke...so eeeekk, bare with me as I say, I haven't been watching American Idol, and now that it's over, while I know tv isn't my life, I do enjoy watching. Which it comes down to this...

maybe if we had internet at home, I could be more productive at work. my blog might be updated more often than every two weeks, if that. I just might be home more? Who knows? But then that just means I would be home to watch tv too...now that SYTYCD has already started, and I'm missing the auditions!!! So if I...

{wow...that is one clean desk area, and shelves too...sure doesn't look like that anymore, this picture is way old...}

and get me some internet...and move my computer/printer up here, and I just may never leave this room! But then I would have to close down my store...so that I can be home! 

Too bad we have to rely so much on material things...{I am human...and my weakness is really cute things!} but that is not really what makes me truly happy, the gospel, and my family is first and I love them all! 

Which leads me to say that we had quite a scare with Isabella on Tuesday night. I met up with Claudia at Ross that night, and right as I was trying to pay for my stuff, I heard choking sounds...I turned around and Isabella had thrown up all over herself...it was coming out of her nose, and she was trying to gasp for air...she started convulsing a little, her eyes were shaky and went bloodshot instantly. It all happened so fast...but she seemed to be struggling to breathe, I didn't quite know if she was having like a mini seizure or what, I dropped everything tried to pat her back, freaking out...we rushed over to the ER, only to run in and find no one at the desk, I had to run into the next room to bring some attention to 2 ladiesthat were just standing there...I felt so helpless. Was it that important to get her name and birth date just then...there is no time for that when someone is ready to pass out. Then we had to wait for a nurse to come and take us back to the ER, only to find that her and someone else were debating which empty bed to put us in...because there was "no room." I was furiously pissed off, as my poor Isabella needed some oxygen and her vomit sucked out of her. I should have done it all myself...

They took xrays as she was moaning...It all was very fast, but in slow motion...she had her eyes only cracked open for 2 hours. Gulianna had been sick with throwing up...and so Isabella had got it as well...only when she threw up she aspirated it into her lungs. I can't tell you how scared I was, looking at her struggling for some air to breathe. We stayed there till one in the morning...she was doing better...and back to being happy, but you could tell she was still scared of what had happened to her, I can't imagine being that small and going through all that. After that I thought to myself, what if she actually slept in a crib, in another room, and that happened in the middle of the night. So many things could happen, really, but I think too much, and it freaks me out. I am just thankful that she is alright, I love her so much!