The Simple Life

new {scrapbook} projects...

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!

Sunday pictures after church...

{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...

valentine's...

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!

still 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!

can you believe it...

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!

 

 

tv shows/movies...

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?

 

hello.

sick again. the girls got sick last week around wednesday, then i caught it early sunday morning. i'm sick of the pressure in my head, and my eyes are burning! no fun.

we did go back to civilization on friday. it was nice! almost seems surreal that we used to live amongst all of the fun shopping places...etc...i'm starting to forget dream about it. ha ha! levi took anthony and went shopping with jeremy, curtis & jesse. they had sushi for lunch, anthony loved it!

friday: jeremy's house, cafe rio, old navy, met claudia, hobby lobby, thanksgiving point...checked in to our hotel. us bank. texas roadhouse for dinner.

saturday: vacuumed out the durango. thanksgiving point, met chelsey & annareigh. dear lizzy, in & out, platos closet, h&m, gap, visited with my brothers for a minute, chick-fil-a, and roxberry for our drive home.

levi had training friday morning, and i was already planning on going saturday. so instead of spending $70 to drive back home, we got a hotel. and it was crappy! next time we'll stay by thanksgiving point...

i did get around to making my blog look valentine's-ish, no more christmas.

still have lots to catch up on. i always seem to be stuck in this rut. i've backdated lots of posts, so in case you get bored, feel free to scroll on back :)

i got my new photo a day blog almost caught up last week. i know i know, i didn't even finish my one from last year 2011. but i have reasons remember...i lost all my photos. i guess i could fill it in from end of july to december. the middle will be empty. that's another project to add to my list!