The Simple Life

fleaology...

saturday morning claudia and i drove to payson for fleaology! i've been wanting to go for a year now! every single time they had their market i didn't have money or couldn't go. groceries before antiques i guess ;)

well i wasn't gonna pass up another one...so we made it happen!

i love looking at antiques! and i always suffer from flea market A.D.D.

you know where there is so much stuff to look at, up down, all around...and you are instantly overwhelmed with creativity and ideas and you start hyperventilating and can't focus on any one thing!? right? v i n t a g e  m a d n e s s ! that's me in every scrapbook, fabric and antique store!

i loved this vintage owl lamp! and this vintage apron, the coral and lime green...so cute!

this guy was so cool...making jewelry out of old silverware right on the spot!

afterwards we went to lunch with andrea (who is also looking to adopt, check out her profile--->http://itsaboutlove.org), aly, ashley and cobilynn at a cool cajun place called boudreaux's bistro.

after lunch we went to a couple more antique stores, checked out spanish fork, and then made our way to orem and to lehi...to the new outlets! why did we move?!

 

i need this sign for my front door!

another round...

now jeremy caught rsv! sooo tired of everyone being sick.

this was wednesday morning. anthony let him use his monster pillow because he was sad! sweet kid. and the day before, he was miserable and whining, anthony was trying to care for him and he kept saying "shhh shhh, awww it's ok jeremy, no crying rock a treehouse!" get it? his little version of rock a bye baby :)

so i took him in on wednesday to check his oxygen and make sure he wasn't bad enough to be hospitalized. he was up all night on tuesday, i got maybe an hour of sleep. the doctor said his oxygen was good, so i was glad to hear that. one of our neighbors let me use her diffuser with some doterra oils: breathe and frankincense...so i was using that all day until i took him in. i know he would have been worse off if i didn't use them. it just so happened that i was going to go learn more about doterra too!

here's jeremy patiently waiting at the doctor's office...

patiently waiting for the doctor...only to find out he was delivering a baby! yes, that happened last week too when i took isa in.

and then we waited at the pharmacy...only to find out that the doctor sent in the wrong prescription. i should have known better...and had him write it, that way i could check it myself!

we had another long night...but today he his back to feeling much better. so thankful for those oils!

sunday drive...

we drove up the canyon after church. i went by myself, levi stayed home with the kids since isa was still contagious from having rsv, and they all have those lingering annoying coughs. no need to infect others and catch something else, which always happens i swear!

jeremy couldn't make it any further with his bald tires...

here's where they decided to get out and walk, i thought we were just going for a drive not a hike! i would have dressed the kids a lot warmer! had to laugh because jeremy jumps out of the suburban as well as his kids and then jesse slams the last door shut, and then jeremy realizes everyone is out and it's still running! rule #1 always take your keys out! good thing we were there. luckily the driver's side was unlocked.

it was too cold to take baby jeremy so we stayed in the durango and waited for the circus to go on a hike. {i say circus because anytime we are all together it's complete chaos, but quite entertaining...especially in public!} they took longer than normal...of course curtis took off and jeremy had to catch up to him to tell him to stop and go back.

curtis and jesse were the first ones down.

then gulianna...she cried because she was freezing!

then levi came around the corner and i laughed because he was carrying anthony. he should have known better than to go so far! he said anthony just stopped and wouldn't move, he was done!

isa being whiny...

the view on the way down. this valley sure is pretty! just missing those tetons...

sick...

we have a sick family! we welcomed twentyTHIRTEEN with colds that turned into the stomach flu, that transformed to the regular flu and then everyone recovered for a couple days and now back to colds, and now this week isabella has rsv! seriously! i took her in yesterday...i knew she had it because of her breathing and fast heartbeat.

this was her at the doctor's office yesterday.

she fought me getting there...i had to carry her to the durango.

yes she's like me. hates going to the doctor!

she out of everyone has been to the hospital the most. i blame it on her being born in JANUARY! yes...after the doctor we were sent to the hospital to test for rsv and get her nose sucked out. i had to sit on her just to make it happen.

she fell asleep while waiting for the doctor...we ended up waiting an hour, he was delivering a baby!

i kept gulianna home from school yesterday and today because she won't stop coughing. she has a bad headache from it. anthony and jeremy are fine and well now. i hope that jeremy doesn't get rsv. trying to keep isa away from him, it's hard! i am fortunate and haven't caught anything...just a cold and i had a fever while everyone else had the stomach flu but that was it. i TAKE my vitamins, i give my kids theirs...levi tends to slack off!

here's to getting better!

isabella is FOUR...

isa is four today! despite her happy face she was sick all day.

we were going to go to the pizza place again but we cancelled for this weekend...and are changing it to a bowling party! levi took her to the grocery store to get a mini mouse balloon and pick out treats for her preschool class tomorrow. she picked chocolate milk and chips a hoy cookies! and donuts for us tonight :)

she didn't believe me when i told her it was her birthday when she woke up. she was super grouchy...we'll just celebrate another day!

F O U R things about our Isabella:

1. she loves preschool and going to her class at church.

2. she likes straight hair lately. no curls.

3. she loves to take care of jeremy and anthony.

4. she is happy, stubborn, feisty, caring, and pouty!

 

what i wore...

i match my bedroom AND my blog!

i love polka.dots!

cookies+phonto...

levi made a batch of chocolate chip cookies yesterday...and then no one got to eat them because everyone had the stomach flu...but me. i also figured out phonto on instagram! finally.

my one little word {2013}...

it wasn't very hard for me to decide my one little word for twentyTHIRTEEN...

cReate.

create something. anything. but everyDAY.

because i need to or i go crazy!

create something for myself. for my family. for others.

cReate happiness.

creaTe my business.

create relationships.

create aRt.

just CREATE!

{is it me or this word doesn't look or sound right anymore. i've said it too many times!}

 happy NEW YEAR!