The things you say

The BEST lasagna EVER

2010-03-03T18:08:00.004-07:00

I keep meaning to take a picture of Lex and his toothless smile. He's only lost 1 so far but if I don't hurry there will be more lost. The problem - my camera is downstairs on Carl's desk. I keep forgetting to bring it upstairs. Lame excuse huh?

So we had FHE with Carl's family and it was our turn last Monday. I wanted to make lasagna but I wanted to make good lasagna. Not the stuff I usually make.

I found this one on food network.

Freaky blue eyes hasnt let me down. Plus she looks kinda like my mom (my mom doesnt have freaky blue eyes or white hair so maybe she doesnt look like her). It took FoReVeR but it was worth it. I used mozzarella cheese in place of the gruyere cheese (I couldn't find it at the Wal Mart so I didn't worry about it). I also added a can of four cheese spaghetti sauce. I felt like it was a little too meaty and not enough saucy, so this was perfect. It made a 9x13 and an 8x8.

It was sooo good. Garfield would have been proud.

Have you people seen this blog? She way into burlap. I used her idea to make valentine subway art. Perhaps I will post a picture when I remember to get the camera. Have you seen this one? Makes me want a yellow dresser. I guess I will settle for my already yellow bench.

I was going to titles this Random but I've used that so many times.

What can I say?

2010-02-02T20:45:00.006-07:00

I'm a sucky sucky blogger. Its been 7 months people! 7 months! As Amanda kindly pointed out if I just wait a few more months it will be July again and I wont have to post anything new. Planning ahead! That's me, always ahead - a year late.

I don't even know where to start. Life is crazy busy and better than ever. We've had a few minor changes in life. Lex started Kindergarten and LoVeS it. His teacher is wonderful and reminds us of Aunt Carolyn. She is so fun and happy all the time (both of them)!
In May we expanded the vinyl. Carl made another website http://www.expressionsvinyl.com/ and it stayed pretty small thoughout the summer. Then BAM it went nuts! We are so grateful. Just when the construction was coming to a complete halt. Carl no longer leaves the house to go to work, he just has to walk downstairs. Its been an adjustment but its been great. We've only had a few disagreements (if you believe that you don't know us very well). It was really hard having someone else come in and make changes to something I had been doing for several years by myself. They have proven to be great changes! It has taken hours and hours and days and days to build up but its been so worth it.

Jessica took some way fun pictures of us a couple of months ago. We used Carl's grandma's house for the background. Here are a few of our favorites....

I don't have blond hair anymore. It was time for a change.

I think that's all the Major things that's happened. I'm not making any promises but hopefully it will be sooner that 7 months before I post again.

Happy July!

2009-07-11T10:35:00.002-06:00

I cant believe it has been a month since I posted. Well ok I can, a lot has gone on. Most of it I cant remember.

But I will never forget what happened this morning an either will the children involved.

Lex invited several of his friends to play.
In the house.
In my room.
Normally I wouldn't care but this morning I happen to be in the shower and had no idea that there was anybody in the house. So I get out and the only towel I could find is a hooded towel that happens to be a ghost. Oh and did i mention it fits around a 5 year old not so much around an overweight adult. I'm so organized and on top of household chores I don't keep any clean laundry in the closets. They are all kept in the laundry room where they are nice and safe from getting used.
So me having no clue there is innocent eyes in my house, walk out into my room. Luckily the towel was covering my front half leaving my back side open to the world. Luckily there was nobody to see that!
The children didn't see much but I'm sure they saw enough.

On to happier thoughts!

Carl's grandma is here from California for a few weeks. Yesterday she taught us how to make peanut brittle. It was so good. I'm sure i could have eaten the entire pan. It's also a lot of work. Luckily my sister in law Christi did most of it. All I had to do was butter the pan and watch the fun cooking lesson and crack a few dirty jokes with Paul.

Last night I made a quick trip to Rigby town to give Jamie her books back. I've done a lot of reading lately. More on that later. I surprised her at her bus stop when she got off work. Then we decided to run to Rexburg and dine on at our fave mexicano restaurant Gringo's. It was so delish we almost licked our plates clean. It was great to have so quality time with my buddy. We haven't don't that in a long time. On the way home from Rexburg we were going 70 down the highway laughing so hard we couldn't breath or see. Still not sure who was driving at that point but it was a fun time!

Carl just started mowing our lawn. Its the first mow! Gotta go take some pictures...........

Super Cool

2009-06-11T09:34:00.007-06:00

Lex woke up at 5 a.m. today because he had puked. Carl is awesome and cleaned it up. When I see puke I puke when I smell puke I puke. A fun little thing I got from my dad. So I still get to wash all the bedding and such but I can handle that. He went back to bed for about 20 minutes then got in bed with us. The he puked again. That time it was on the carpet. Which is great because we didn't have to change all our bedding but suck cause ya cant put carpet in the washing machine. After that we just got up at 5:45 a.m. Its only about 1/2 hour before we usually get up but man I could have used that sleeping time. Then of course Lex falls asleep about 7 watching cartoons. He woke up a few minutes ago and asked if it was tomorrow. Funny boy.

So anyway since my morning started so early and great, I need happy things. So here is what makes me happy.

This super cool girl

is giving away this super cool stuff,

in this super cool bag!

(I totally stole your pictures Amanda. Hope its ok!)

CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW YOU COULD GO ALL THE WAY!!

You should also check out her playlist. She has tons of cool songs! There is "make you feel my love" from Adele on there. Mr. Garth Brooks himself sang this at our wedding. Right out of the CD player. You seen one of my good friends was suppose to sing it in real life but he had to work and didn't bother to call and let anyone know that. So we used a CD player. Anyway the next time we get married I think Adele will sing it cause i like hers better. But see without Amanda's playlist I wouldn't even know that song existed.

More stuff that makes me happy - funny video's. I could waste hours on youtube.

You have probably seen this a million times but it is so funny!

This was also funny! Crappy video sorry!

One more funny video!

Happy Thursday!

Dearest Husband,

2009-06-08T13:51:00.005-06:00

Tomorrow is my birthday.

Oh you forgot? Well here is your reminder.

What? you don't read my blog. Well you should.

Here is my wish list

A Ribbon Ring (or 2 or 3) to hold all my ribbon

This perfect shelf to hold all my scrap booking stuff you love so well. Oh and could you paint it black for me? They have these at Roberts (use a 40 coupon)

I would like some of this so I could purchase

more scrap booking stuff

and maybe some fabric too. I really need to practice my sewing skills.

One of these too please....

I would also like you to add this closet on the side of our house. Oh and fill it up with clothes and shoes please.

I would also like a little (ok so ALOT) of work done so I can look like this.

I would also like either this mirror

or this one for the entry way.

And the last thing - an updated version of this to hang in the office please.

Since i happen to know how much we have in our checking account I will settle for one of these. Maybe if your feeling rich we could be dollar menunairs at the McDonald's for dinner.

Love,

PS. You could also call Z103 and ask them to stop playing that stupid cell phone commercial. Ya know the one where it sounds like she is giving birth to a cell phone. I really cant handle that one anymore.

Blog? What blog? Oh yeah............

2009-05-30T16:53:00.005-06:00

So it probably seems like I have totally forgotten I have a blog. Well honestly I did for just a minute or a several weeks. So here are some things we have been up to.....

Mothers Day - Lex got me 2 flowers to plant and a boxing game for the wii that kicks my butt.

Listened to Twilight while raking rocks. Totally got sucked in and listened to the rest in a few days. Its a good thing we had a ton of rocks to rake.

Lex graduated from preschool! Wahoooo! I know some people thought it would never happen. But it did so they can eat it. The little graduates looked so cute in the caps and gowns. So fun! After we went to the park for cake. Lex got a few fun presents too.

we raked rocks

Soaked in the tub with a Lavender bath bomb that Jamie got me from Disney Land.

Ate snow cones

Got a perm (i know YIKES) but I usually have one and straighten it out so it looks like I have some hair.

We raked rocks

Lex made crabby patties for him and daddy to eat. Lex ate his all gone but daddy was kinda full so he just had a bite. Want the recipe? Hamburger, a piece of cheese, a little sugar, and top it off with lettuce. Sounds delicious doesn't it?

Made cup towers.

Played at the park with Hudson

Tried to take a picture of a raccoon that was camped out in the trees behind our house. I missed.

We raked rocks

Lex got new bedding! Super cute from Wal Mart clearance. Wahoo!

Helped daddy make a sand box, that is still waiting for sand.

Did I mention we raked rocks? Well we did, a CRAP LOAD of them. But now they are all raked up and we planted grass last Monday! Hopefully we wont have dirt all summer. We are crossing our fingers. We will also be watching the dirt for 7-14 days hoping it turns green. :) If it doesn't I am going to spray paint it. I hear that the new thing.

HAPPY SUMMER!

Dont take your kids to McDonalds

2009-04-30T16:21:00.004-06:00

So today I decide to be a nice mom and take Lex to McDonald's for lunch. BIG mistake. While we were eating a little kid kept coming and telling his mom kids were being mean to him. He was so dang cute about it. His mom kept telling him to just ignore the mean kids and keep playing.

After a while she saw a kid hit her boy and so her boy hit him back. She goes into the play thing to get her son. Then all hell broke loose. A screaming match began between the two kids' moms! Then one of the other moms friends pushes the mom of the cute boy. Holy crap people! Then the cops were called. That's about the time we left.

I don't know exactly what happened I didn't seen the entire scene. But way to go on being awesome examples to your kids ladies. Really mom of the year awards should be coming to you any day. Seriously starting a fight in a room full of kids because your 4 year olds are fighting! Awesome! I really wonder where they get their manners from?

So anyway we get in the car and Lex says "We gotta get outta here before the cops come. Those mommies were naughty."

I love that kid. He says the funniest stuff. For example the other day the city of Ammon dropped us off a new garbage can. Lex says "we should get their phone number. I think if we call them they can bring us some grass too." Oh how I wish that was all it took. I gave him daddys number instead.

This girl left a comment on my blog the other day! How cool is that. She is like the queen of craft and has awesome music on her blog. Check out this post. makes me wish I hadnt sold my cricut. She also has yummy recipes for freezer meals on this site.

Sorry I don't have pics of anything. I hear its a sin to do a post with no pictures.

**Oh and I totally forgot the real reason you shouldn't take your kids to McD's. They get a crappppppyyyyy CD! Which your kids will love and you will want to shoot yourself in the face. Don't be fooled it looks like it might be ok.

ITS NOT!!!!

Don't say I didn't warn ya.

Things I loved from Easter

2009-04-17T17:05:00.005-06:00

Easter was sooo last week I know but here are a few highlights.

Easter was a 3 day event this year. (4 if you count raiding the Michael's clearance section today)

We started on Friday with an Easter Egg Hunt at Aunt Carolyn's work. It was super fun. They even had a HUGE live bunny named Thumper, tons of toy filled eggs, punch and super cute sugar cookies. Lex and Hudson had a blast!

Then on Saturday we went to G&G Rosie's for the next Easter Egg Hunt. They have 7 acres of hiding fun. Since there are different ages of cousins the eggs were divided by colors, to make it age appropriate. Lex's color was yellow. This worked out so well. There was no fighting or competition to find eggs. The older boys had fun as well since their eggs were tough to find and filled with $$$. The little kids got money as well - I'm pretty sure that was Lex's favorite part. More on that later.

After the great hunt Lex was opening all his eggs to see what he got and said a few times "This is the best day of my life". Good to know all the kid needs is some plastic eggs filled with loot.

Lex got to drive Uncle Mike super cool Robot he built for school. Its controlled by a wii remote. Yes Carl's fam is full of smart a.... ummm smart people. hehe

Lex got to play all day with his cousins. I got to go shopping for new earring for Miss Olivia who can wear dangley earrings now. She was super excited. Have you been in Claire's lately? That store is tiny and has thousands of pairs of earrings, along with a thousand people looking for earrings. I haven't been in there for oh i don't know 15 years and I swear they have the same stuff! Perhaps I'm just getting old and the trends are coming around again. I tried to get Eva to buy some lovely things that used to be super cool. Like Giant neon hair clips - they were totally rad! Anyway is was fun to go girl shopping. And Olivia is such a fun girly girl!

(Yes I do believe that Lex is picking his nose)

When we got home Paul and Christi made some yummy coney dogs. Then we dyed Easter Eggs.

Sunday we went to church and when we left I asked the usual "what did you talk about in class" question to Lex. I loved his explanation!

"we talked about Jesus being on that post. First he was on those mean guys team and then they didn't want him on his team so they put him on that post and they weren't very nice to him. And then he wasnt on that team anymore."

After church we went to G&G Rosie's and the Easter bunny came while we were there and dropped of some Easter baskets. We stayed just long enough for lex to open all his stuff and eat a couple of Delicious rolls. Carl's mom makes the best!

Then it was off to G&G Tolley's. First the kids went on a scavenger hunt to find stuff from G&G. They loved it!

Then it was time for the 3rd and final Easter Egg Hunt of the weekend. Mr. Mason had snuck out earlier to find the best (money filled) eggs. He was letting Lex know that there was 1 filled with $2. Well McKale didn't like this at all and sat down on the grass and cried. I don't blame her, I would have too. There was a small argument between the 3 of them which no one witnessed.

Lex comes huffing and puffing into the house to tell us she was crying. I asked why and he said, "I don't know - I didn't even kick her!" What a little stinker! Well at least he is a crappy liar.

Then he finished it off with "I already have a bag of money at home and I need more!" Cant you tell what awesome parents we are? I wish I had a bag of money at home.

They all finished the hunt with a smile and when it was over Grandma made them split the money evenly.

Oh Yeah and all my neices looked adorable in their easter dresses. (I didnt get a picture of Payette in hers but it was sooo cute on her.)

It's already been a year?

2009-04-08T11:50:00.005-06:00

Carl and I have moved so many freakin times. I though I would take you on a little journey...

This was our first apartment we moved in the fall of 1999. We lived on the right side for six weeks. I loved it, it was right across from the temple. It was sooo cute and cozy. One day I was taken away by an ambulance and never returned. I tried to die from an asthma attack. The EMT's cut my shirt off and I wasn't wearing any pants. Awesome! Luckily my memory went from "I cant breath I should sit on this chair" to "why am I in the hospital and why do I have a tube down my throat?" But I did miss that shirt - it was one of my favorites.
We lived with Carl's parents for about a month until our other apartment was ready. We lived on the upper level here for about 3 years. We had the nicest old neighbor downstairs. His name was Bob and he would run his garbage disposal for hours. He died shortly after we moved out and sometimes we visit his grave. (ok ok so we have only been there once)

Then we moved into our first house! This is the only place we have ever had a yard with trees and flowers. This is the house where Carl brought me home 2 adorable puppies. This is where I would come home to after a hard day working at the make up counter. (don't laugh it was tough - those rich bitches were well..... bitches.) This is where we brought Lex home to from the hospital. This is where Carl and I grew up and became somewhat adults. The worst part is our good friends built a house just a few blocks down the road. Jessica and I didn't really know each other then. Too bad we could have walked to each others house and been crafty together everyday. I really miss this house and the simple lives we had there.

Then we moved in with our parents for a couple of month until Carl finished this house! We would spend the first part of the week at his parents and then pack up our stuff and stay with my parents for several days. Fun times! This was our first and only house he built for us. I loved this house because I got to pick most of the stuff out. My dad did the brick on it and it was a pain in the ass but he did it because that's what I wanted. Lex had just turned a year old when we moved in.

This is where we live now. Carl built it as a spec and well we all know that went down the drain. When he bought the lot I said I will never live in that neighborhood. Famous last words. We have lived here 1 year now. Until last weekend I had not put up 1 decoration (except for the holiday stuff in the entry). I have very mixed feeling about this house. I love it, I love the neighbors and the ward. It is honestly the nicest ward we have ever lived in. I love the big closets and the flat driveway. I love the little canal in the back yard. But we just don't really fit in. I still feel like we just don't belong here. We just don't deserve to live here.

Last weekend while Carl went to the priesthood session I decided that I needed to make it our home. Even if we don't stay here for long. So I dusted off a few of our decorations that had been boxed up. Then on Sunday there was a wonderful conference talk about making your house like a temple. So its warm and comforting. It's amazing what a few decorations do.

And finally this is where we will probably be living soon.........

Come visit me on the 4th of July!

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2009-04-01T11:43:00.002-06:00

So my good buddy corrected me. The walk in weight loss if you don't have insurance its like $120 the first time you go in then after that its only $35 after that. Depending on what they decide you only go in like 5-6 more times. So it is worth it after all.

Also you get a free 1/2 with a trainer. How cool is that.

some randomness

2009-03-26T14:33:00.005-06:00

I have been meaning to update this sad sad blog of mine for awhile but it never gets done. Busy I guess - doing what I have no clue.

Rambling #1
So a little more info for walk in weight loss (which is a stupid name since you have to make an appointment)

If you have insurance you just have to pay your co-pay. Totally worth it.
If you don't have insurance its like $120 buck every time you go in. Totally NOT worth it.

You only go in like once a month and they measure your fat (my favorite part) and give you new menu's (really my fave part). You only get menus for 3 days at a time. The point of it is so you learn to swap out stuff.

I have only been doing it for 2 weeks now and I feel so much better. I sleep better. The best part is for dinner. You basically have a pile of veggies and some meat. That's not the best part the really best part is Carl and Lex love dinner. Lex has always been such a picky eater and the kid now cleans his plate. Crazy! Well not really they just didn't like the casseroles and stuff I made. Which is fine because cooking a piece of meat and putting broccoli in the microwave is soooo much faster.

Rambling #2
Lex has learned how to snap his fingers. Doesn't it make you wonder why you teach your kids stuff. He snaps all the TIME! At first it was cute and now it is just annoying. You teach them how to talk and then all you want to do is make them be quite. You teach them to walk then you cant find them! You teach them how to snap and now all I wanna do is tape is fingers together so he cant.

Rambling #3
I did some scrapbooking yesterday. It's fun. I like it. I should do it more.

I went to Roberts and they had the Penny Lane stuff on sale. Oh my I am in love! So I contained myself and only bought a few sheets. I really wanted to use it but I need to print the pictures I want it for. So I used some super cute stuff I got for Christmas from my buddy.

Rambling #4
Jamie and I are going to the museum tomorrow! I'm so excited everyone has been talking about how cool it is. Carl thinks I am going to see Leonardo. He is really the only reason I even knew about Titanic. I only saw the movie like 10 times at the theater and the drive in. The drive in was fun except I missed a lot of the movie.

Rambling #5
Boxing on the Wii fit makes my arms hurt. I'm such a wanny.

Rambling #6
Sugar-free Jello and I are really good friends.

Rambling #7
I am down to 1 diet dr pepper a day. Which I have been for awhile now. I just cant give it up. Oh how I love its sweet sweet goodness.

Rambling #8
I have sucked at 365 for the last oh i don't know 3 weeks! I'm not quitting!!! I will catch up.

Rambling #9
All protein bars taste the same. If they show an entire minny marshmallow on the package I think there should be at least 1 minny marshmallow inside not just a spec from one.

Rambling #10
Lex saved and saved his allowance for weeks so he could buy a sponge bob garbage can. He is so funny! He could have bought a cool toy like a slime blaster. I am so glad the garbage can won. I guess its like a toy - I have no idea why its in the living room for this picture.

Rambling #11
This little girl is adorable and I don't get to see her enough!

Rambling #12
I think a pineapple sitting on my counter is cute. Makes me not want to eat it, but then I do eat it. Then I have to buy another pineapple to sit on the counter and then I eat it. Its a viscous cycle. And I am lame.

Happy Thursday!

Starting something new....

2009-03-12T14:59:00.002-06:00

Have you heard of Walk in Weight Loss from Redicare? I heard the commercials and I kinda thought about it. But that's as far as it went. So thanks to my awesome sister in law and her awesome boyfriend I have the opportunity to go. Last Wednesday was the first appointment. I got the lowdown and they measured my fat! It was fabulous. Really I am super excited about it. The program is pretty much common sense. But the best part for me is its doctor directed.

I went in on Friday and they took my blood. A ton of blood. They did a insulin resistance test and some other stuff. If you ever had a insulin resistance test the worst part is sitting in a room for 2.5 hours! You drink some sprite tasting stuff and then they take your blood every 30 minutes.

So I got the results back on Monday. I am severely insulin resistant. Terrific! But seriously how could I not be. I have eaten so much sugar in the last 28 years its ridiculous. Also my cholesterol is 207. I am very thankful that I could do this. I've done other weight loss programs but obviously haven't succeeded. But now having some testing done I don't have a choice. I have to make this work. I really don't want diabetes. That scares me! So the doc put me on some medication to help with that. A side affect is diarrhea - until my body gets used to it. Oh baby I'm so excited for that.

So yesterday was my first day of the diet. They give you a menu based on things you like or don't like. It was a ton of food. Its normal food too. Not my normal sugar sugar sugar but normal.

Anyway I'm super excited I if you've thought about it you should go. Its awesome!

Let me tell ya

2009-03-09T15:37:00.003-06:00

about my day! So Thursday was an awesome day. Started of normal. Doing normal things. Then at 1:00 I had to be at the church to help set up for the RS Birthday Dinner. That is when the fun began.

While we were setting up and there was an extra kid helping us set up. He was adorable, and I thought he was our neighbor but not sure. He seemed to be there by himself. He's about Lex's age so they played. So we are setting up tables, unfolding chairs, setting tables, putting up decor. Then the last step - frost cupcakes. After shooing the kids away so they wouldnt cough on them we got started. The cupcakes were suppose to come with the frosting on the side. They did not. So we tried to push the marshmallow petals into the frosting so they would stick. They did for the most part. See how cute....

First hick up no problem. After comforting Lex because the mystery kid knocked him down for his marshmallow I went back to applying marshmallow petals. Myself and about 5 other women are standing in the kitchen when the mystery boy pulls the fire alarm. Right in front of us! Awesome! We were all too slow to stop him. So they called various people to figure out how to turn it off. Then his mama shows up. He's sad. she's embarrassed. Apparently another presidency was having a meeting and didnt realize any one else was there. So we spent the next 20 minutes listening to the fire alarm and crying scared children. It was very relaxing.

My only assignment for the dinner was to pick up rice. at the collage. in Rexburg. Don't ask why someone ordered rice from Rexburg. I just do what I'm told. My mom has the cousins for the day and I thought it would be fun if we ALL went. That was my 1st mistake.

picture it. Mason & Lex in the back row McKale and Maddie in the middle row and then me and my mom in the front. I'm still not sure who was driving. anyway Between telling the kids not to fight my mom and I discussed how many mandarin oranges and Ice cream bars Mason had consumed. McKale was so hungry since the only thing she ate at lunch was a super hard grilled cheese at school. "Do they have an Applebee's" she asked in her best weak voice. "No but they have burger shots at the king of all burgers we'll swing through."

6 burgers between 4 kids later we have the rice (which comes in a special container that has to be taken back the next day between 8-6 great another trip to Rexburg) we are on the way home. About 1 mile from home in fact. Mason proceeds to spew his oranges, ice cream, and 2 burger shots all over my car. Apparently sitting in the 3rd row playing ninteno ds makes Mason a car sick boy. I pull over as fast as I can. My mom opens the back to get him out and he spew's again. The barf falls short of getting outside and lands all over the back of my car. Terrific. In the mean time I'm watching Lex as he dry heaves. Luckily he controlled it. Just what we needed 2 puking boys.

I did feel sorry for Mason. But this is the 2nd time hes puked in my car. The last time it was my white car so its been a few years. (If I recall right I got out of cleaning up that one too because I was gagging.) Anyway I must be and excellent driver. So we drove the last mile with the windows down and laughed at Maddie who was plugging her nose.

My mom cleaned up the chunks. I tried to help her but it made me gag. There was puke everywhere and i mean everywhere! Gross. Luckily Carl learned exceptional car cleaning skills when he worked at majestic. The bottle of fabreeze didn't hurt either.

Maybe its time to trade in the car.

Are ya still with me? Well the dinner went great and the rice was good. Not sure if it was that good but I am glad that is all I had to do.

Oh and last night Carl tried to start the house on fire while making popcorn. Instead of grabbing anything to put out the fire I grabbed my camera. I had to get my 365 picture for the day.

The things you say

2009-03-04T13:14:00.003-07:00

So when I named my blog I had all these intentions of writing about all the funny things Lex says. The kid says something hilarious like everyday. I don't think I have yet to tell you all what he has said. So here is the stuff I can think of right now.

Carl, Lex and I are driving down the road. Carl and I are talking all the sudden

Lex Says "Hell No"

I Say: What did you say?

Lex: "I said Elmo"

This happened when he was 3.

Jump forward to last week. We are listening to the new song from all American rejects and of course Lex starts singing.

I Say: "Buddy we shouldn't sing that song it has a naughty word in it."

Lex says: "No it just says give you some help"

It has already been decided when Lex starts kindergarten and the principal calls Carl has to go. You know your screwed when your 5 year old can think faster than you. Of course that's not hard for Lex to do with me. I'm a little slow.

A couple of weeks ago we were having fhe with Carls family. Gary (Carl's dad) answered his cell phone : "this is Gary Tyger" to which Lex said "Scary Tiger!"

The next week we were at Carl's parents house and Grandma Rosie had the table set with place mats. Lex looks at them and then asked me why there were little rugs on the table.

I have way more but this is what I could think of right now. Maybe these are only funny to me.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from 365...

It's about time...

2009-02-24T15:20:00.003-07:00

The laundry is caught up - this is a once in a life time event for me. It has never happened before and probably will never happen again. That is why nobody in this house is changing their clothes for a week. Just kidding I will to the laundry to avoid the stink.

The boy is asleep - this is also another once in a life time event. He has not taken a not since i don't know 2004. He is grounded from cartoons because he lied to me, so I guess he had nothin else to do but go to sleep. Yesterday I told him he could not take his sunglasses to preschool. Then as we were heading out the door I asked him if he had anything in his bulging pocket. He said no. I gave him the you need to tell the truth because you will get in trouble for lying speech. Again I asked if there was anything in his pocket. He said no I pulled the sunglasses from his pocket and let him choose no Spongebob or no Simpsons for a week. He chose Spongebob. Thank you!!!!! His punishment is my reward. I hate Spongebob and yes hate is a strong word.

Anyway since two once in a lifetime things happened in the same day I did these.....

The best valentines gift ever...

2009-02-13T20:10:00.004-07:00

I know its not the big V day just yet but Lex is the cutest kid I have. (it's tough competition around here) So this afternoon Jamie, Lex, and I were just sittin' around. This is how it went down...

Me: Jamie your shirt is so cute. I love it.

Jamie: Thanks you wanna borrow it?

Me: Maybe someday when I want to be cute.

Lex: Mommy your already pretty.

He is the best! Totally made my day. He is forgiven for leaving his underwear on the floor for the next year now.

Jamie also bought me a yummy valentines chocolate bar. As you can see Lex had a few little nibbles.

I have so much more to update......

You gotta see this!

2009-02-02T21:04:00.003-07:00

This is the funniest thing EVER.........

I think there is something wrong with his man junk.

I thought we were over this...

2009-01-24T16:02:00.007-07:00

(outside our front door)

What the hell? I thought it was going to be spring. Ok I was dreaming it would be spring but now I remember....

We live in Idaho where it snows until June. Ok Ok not really.

Last night Carl found out that his friend Adrian was in town so we went to dinner with Tomm and Jessica (as usual) and Adrian. We went to All of it Garden, as Lex calls it. Then the girls and lex did a little shopping at the Michaels while the boys did this.... Did you know caring is sharing? Well yes it is. So Michaels has these super cute paper packs for let say $10.00 or so. You want to buy one and use a 40% coupon. Then the paper pack is only $6.00. But what are you going to do with 4 sheets of the same paper? Lets be honest. You will use a few sheets and the rest will sit in your stack of unused paper. Right? So split it with a buddy! Then the paper pack is only $3.00 and that my friend will make you holler.

( top is making memories and the bottom is colorblok)

So last night Jessica bought 1 super cute paper pack and I bought 1 super cute paper pack. Then while the boys where playing rockband we split it up. I don't know why we didn't think of this earlier. Now we each have 2 sheets of each design of paper for much cheaper. With the state of my bank account right now I've got to be cheap. These were actually nice thick paper not the flimsy that is usually in the packs.

We have also been doing a little something I like to call slavery. Just kidding. Lex has chores now and gets an allowance. Its our first week wish us luck that the smile will stay. Yeah I know dreaming again.

I'm a little obsessed with vinyl. As of late I'm also obsessed with birds/owl/animals. So why not make bird out of vinyl? I would show you the rest of the wall but then my freak flag would be waving (as Amanda would say) and I'm just not ready to admit how ridiculous it got this time.

Happy Saturday.

Oh I also wanted to say - if you ever want people to comment on your blog just post a pictures of a chic in her undies. I got the most comments I've ever had! 5 - that's just how cool I am!

Whoops!

2009-01-15T21:04:00.003-07:00

I got this......

When I was looking for this.....

So heard Fancy Pants has a cute valentine paper line out so I looked it up. I typed in...

http://www.fancypants.com/

Although a scrap booking product that doesn't ride up would be nice that is NOT what I was looking for! So if you ever want to look up Fancy Pants scrap booking line I suggest you type in...

http://www.fancypantsdesigns.com/

Certainly I cant be the only one who has done this?

It's beginning to look a lot like...

2009-01-14T10:44:00.006-07:00

I have abandoned by blog! But rest assured I have not. Wow that was a big word. Anyway here is a big long review of what I would have posted the last few weeks.

We opened a present everyday to count down to Christmas. They were cheap Christmas books. I read about the idea last year (I don't remember where) and thought it was a fun idea. We started on the 1st. I think next year we will start a bit later.

Lex turned 5! I cant believe it! We had a great time bowling and had yummy Sponge bob Square Pants cake.

He got lots of fun stuff including this Spidey sweatshirt he has yet to take off. Not really it just seems like it.

We sent fun Thank you post cards made from this kit.

We made fun gifts for all of Lex's teachers at preschool out of the same kit.

I made a fun rag quilt as Christmas gift for the new niece we were waiting for.

We had a silly string fight with all the cousins, and of course the daddy's, uncles, and even grandpa had to jump in!

We made a quick trip to the ER with Lex for Croup. That was a blast! Steroids are awesome! (only when you are sick)

We decorated for Christmas with lots and lots of vinyl!

Lex played with all his new toys. The Tag reader is his favorite. Its mom and dads favorite too because it has a headphone jack! It's actually really cool. Technology is amazing! and yes we are still wearing flip flops around the house.

Played at the hospital with Hudson while waiting to see his new baby sister.

Waited for miss Payette to come home from the hospital so we could see her in real life! She wasn't suppose to be here until the first of February so she had to stay a few extra days.

She is home now and doing great. All 6 lbs of her sooo teeny tiny cute!

Carl looks pretty cute with a pink one doesn't he? It almost makes me want one. Almost.

Yesterday my mom dyed my hair. Its brown. I don't know who I am in the mirror now. I'm still deciding how it is. Maybe I will post pictures. I have spent so many years trying to be a blond, but just gave up yesterday. It's just too hard.

Anyway Lex found my camera and took 27 pictures of the tv while I was getting my hair done. Surprise he was watching sponge bob. What a shocker!

If your still reading this I apologize. I will do better at blogging in 2009 hahaha lets be honest maybe in 2025.

It's beginning to look a lot like....

2008-12-24T23:11:00.004-07:00

Bedtime!

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving review

2008-12-12T15:40:00.009-07:00

Finally our Thanksgiving pictures. I'm sure you don't care by now but its better late than never.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Carl wanted to cook so we had fourteen people at our house. Carl cooked a yummy turkey. Lex wouldn't eat it because he says you are only suppose to eat chicken not turkey. Apparently all food is made from chicken. Funny boy. Anyway we had A TON of food!

Ya gotta start the day by reading the ad's. Lex would like one of everything - except for the pages with girl stuff. Nobody wants that stuff.

Tons and tons of yummy food

Notice Carl's shirt. It was made just for him by Old Navy. See it has a Tiger on it and he is a Tyger and it has 79 on it. The year he was made. Cool huh!

We wrote what we were thankful for on pieces of paper and tied them to balloons and let them go outside. (Note for next year: get high float in balloons and don't use cardstock for the super cute tags.)

I'm pretty sure he's the only one who ate the cranberry sauce. In fact he was going at it face first but by the time I got my camera he found a fork. Do people really eat this stuff? I do but I think after dinner we had twice as much as we had set out.

In other news my son is a genius. He wrote this all by himself! How cool is that? I didn't even know he could spell without someone telling him every letter. He even knew what he spelled. I think its the cutest Ice man ever. I am his mother I can think that.

He also draws pretty cute dogs. It was Lex's birthday on Saturday and out of all the toys he got this white board his is favorite. He loves to draw and his Aunt Christi and Uncle Paul picked a winner with this idea. He also hasn't taken off the spiderman hoodie he got. Birthday pictures coming soon....

We also got new phones. I picked the same one as Carl so I wouldn't have to waste time reading the manual. He's into that type of thing. (weirdo) He thought it would be sooo funny to put a background on for me. He is so sweet....

Yes that is a dogs butt with sunglasses on it. Cute. Since the only thing I know how to do on this stinkin' phone besides dial, it may be on there for awhile. Carl you are a jerk!

A funny jerk.

Some random info & a late Thanksgiving review

2008-12-10T10:02:00.010-07:00

Lex went to see Santa on Saturday. Last year he was so nervous about a man coming into our house in the night. This year he is all about the man bringing toys!

This girl had a birthday last week. We celebrated by having Garcia's for lunch and a couple hours later we had Sub Zero ice cream for dessert. YUM!

This girl has a blog again! I'm so excited she has the funniest stories and a great play list.

My cell phone just died mid call, a few days ago. Fine time to be buying a new cell phone. So if you have tried to call me I'm not ignoring you my phone just doesn't work and well we don't answer our home phone. So best bet is email until i find time to take a break from vinyl and go get a new one.

Speaking of vinyl I just want to let everyone know I will stop taking orders on December 15th (I need a week to get caught up before Christmas. Hopefully I will get them all done) and will resume January 5th.

The cold medicine and I are really really tight right now. In fact we are inseparable. I am so sick of being sick! This is the 3rd sore throat I have had this year. What the hell - I'm done with it already. Luckily Lex has only had 1 ear infection so far. I am knocking on wood. Oh how I am knocking hard.

So now I've done a whole lot of typing and I'm out of time. Thanksgiving pictures coming soon.......

Picture overload!

2008-12-02T15:23:00.008-07:00

A couple of weekends ago my good friend noticed that Target had Gingerbread Houses on sale. So we quickly bought some. We were going to do them a little closer to Christmas but Lex just couldn't wait. They were super fun and I recommend it to anyone.

First you need some very large soda's from your favorite gas station so they can be in every picture you take.

Then you need to read the instructions very carefully.

Then you need husbands who claim they don't really want to participate. (then they just kinda take over)

Lex even put a candy cane heart on the back of his! I cant wait until next year when we do it again.

*It's obvious blogger and I are not agreeing on where the pictures should be placed, so this post looks fantastic. I'm sick of trying to fix it.

Merry Christmas!

2008-11-21T17:18:00.003-07:00

What it's not Christmas yet? Then why do my neighbors have there freaking Christmas lights ON? I am sorry but I think there should be a law - No Christmas lights on until the day after Thanksgiving. You can have them on your house but not turned ON. That is going to be my first law in my kingdom. I am all about the Christmas festivities but lets take a minute and enjoy Thanksgiving.

OK I'm done now.

So the winners from the last post Bonnie, LeAnne, & Kim! Bonnie I owe ya - let me know what ones are your favorite.

Happy Friday!

My Kenny/Donny Moment!

2008-11-09T21:42:00.012-07:00

Growing up I heard my moms story about how Kenny Rogers pointed and winked at her during a concert sum 30 years ago. She melted and I didn't get it.

Then a few years back I went to a Donny Osmond concert with my mom and her friend Patricia. Patricia is somewhat of a fan - she was in tears when he came out on stage and screamed like a teenage girl with each new song he sang. I didn't get it.

I didn't get it until Saturday November 8th 2008....

I'm starting from the beginning. On Saturday we decided to go on a quick road trip to Logan. Carl really wanted to ride his motor bike with Taylor - who just got a new bike last weekend. So we decided to take a day trip. Tomm & Jessica came with us and we left Lex with my parents.

The boys of course had their plan of action and spent the day before packing and getting ready. Jessica & I also had our plan. A shopping plan.

*Cosmo

*Hobby Lobby

*Sei

*some scrapbooking store about a carousel

*Chocolate covered Cinnamon bears in bulk @ Macy's

*Pier 49 Pizza

I have always loved cosmo. If you remember I proclaimed my love to them on THIS post. How could you not they have the best stuff. Jessica, Eva, Olivia, and I found the address and what appeared to be their warehouse . Not thinking we could shop we decided we would just get out and take pictures.

Then we saw someone inside.

We checked the door.

Open.

Hearts soaring,

Jessica and I were as nervous as a 12 year old boy at a school dance - Eva walked right in! She said she would go ask if they had somewhere to shop.

We were going to take a picture of us by the door that says cosmo cricket

but in all the excitement we ended up with this one - just as good.

We wait...

then Eva comes walking around the corner with Mr. Lindsay as he is explaining to her we can shop out of the warehouse across the parking lot. He just happened to be there checking on stuff. Normally on Saturdays no one would be there. We are lucky girls!

He's the one in this post - funny stuff!

So he takes us over to the other warehouse and lets us shop for awhile. We were so overwhelmed we didn't get many pictures. It was wonderful being around pallets and boxes full of awesome stuff.

Jessica and I with the Cosmo Logo

Jessica with a fabulous find!

Eva, Olivia, and I shopping in the best store ever!

So we have PILES of fabulous supplies and Lindsay takes us to the font to settle up. On the way shows us shelves of super cute displays and their fun project room.

He told us a little about how Cosmo got started and such then we come around the corner and on one of the desks there are 4 piles of more fabulous supplies. One for each of US! Lindsay had gathered up some fun prizes for us - just for coming! It was really our pleasure.

That's right he gave each one of us this entire pile of goods! If you will notice in the very back of the pile is the Chemistry Crafting Kit. That's right the latest from the greatest! We also received a Mr. Campy crafting kit, blackboard, rub-ons, a blackboard mini album, a blackboard memory box, and some Jacks world stamps! All I can say is we were in scrapbooking HEAVEN.

If that weren't enough to make us jump up and down like a fat girl on the price is right when it was time to settle up on our piles of goods - Lindsay made us a screaming deal - and I mean screaming!!!!

He also let us get our picture taken with him. He made our day! He was soooo nice and so excited about the company. He totally could have sent us on our way but instead he made our day, month and year! Thanks Lindsay! It was an awesome adventure. I am convinced Comso Cricket is the funnest company ever.

The rest of the day was great too. We bought our Chocolate covered cinnamon bears and also bought about 3 pounds of some yummy fudge at Cox's honey. (Yes there is one in Logan too.)

The only things that I'm having a hard time with is the fact that I have waaay to much work to do this week to play with any of it. Good thing the ETM crop is on Saturday!

OK in the spirit of pay it forward I'm going to give out some of these cute magnets (sorry I am greedy and wont be giving away any of the fabulous stuff I received this weekend.) Post your Kenny/Donny moment and I will pick a winner winner on Friday.

*Most of the photo's are courtesy of Jessica. I forgot my camera.

Happy Friday!

2008-11-07T15:10:00.008-07:00

So I finally put pictures in my banner. Lex looks like a chunky boy. He's really not but I thought that was a cute picture.

Last weekend we went to Logan to see our niece Olivia get baptized. It was a very fun to spend Halloween with them. It went by Super Fast.

This picture is of Lex the night before Halloween trick or treating at my parents house.

This is Lex at his preschool Halloween party. There were only like 5 other spidey's.

This cute guy was the cutest incredible frog ever! He's just lookin' for his candy.

The "diva's" - Rosie and Eva!

Taylor dress up as a pumpkin head. He was getting rolls of toilet paper - we all though he was going to cause some mayhem, but he was just using them to hold up his head.

This is Miss Olivia - just waiting for some trick or treaters.

On Saturday we raced home from Logan so we could go to this adorable girls 1st Birthday party. Kanani is my cousins daughter. She had a cupcake birthday complete with a cupcake cake. They had decorations and frosting for all the kids to decorate their own cupcakes. It was so fun!

Life is crazy busy...

2008-10-15T17:30:00.005-06:00

How is yours?

I made this super easy board to hold all of Lex's artwork. The kid comes home with like 3 pages from preschool. We will have to change the board weekly. Instructions are HERE. She has some really fun ideas. I did add the yoyo's at each end to cover up where we screwed it into the wall.

Vinyl has been crazy! Its been fun though - I'm doing like 3 Super Saturday's. It is so fun to see all the different projects. I have so many ideas for Christmas now I don't even know where to start. In between all the vinyl craziness I went a little crazy decorating our entry way.

Lex went a little crazy while I was taking pictures of it....

Speaking of Mr. Lex W, he went on his first field trip for preschool. They got to go to the pumpkin patch. He rode a bus and everything! They even got to pick out pumpkins to take home. His was awesome and he was proud! He's also hiding a candy bar behind his back in this picture. Silly boy!

We have not been playing enough of this lately!

Rockband is awesome and you should play it!

HEY...

2008-10-01T13:04:00.000-06:00

Can you see my banner? Just makin' sure!

It's been awhile...

2008-09-27T17:18:00.004-06:00

How do people blog everyday? I will never know - I always want to be better and I just never can do it. Here is my view outside the office window right now...

Today has been great! Nice and relaxing. We ran some errands this morning went to lunch at MCD's - we even got to go in - Lex was happy about that one. Then we came home - Carl worked on his RC Car, Lex ran around & I cleaned out my car. Now Lex and Carl are outside with the rest of the neighborhood children. They all seem to swarm when the RC Car is out and about. Then Lex pulls out the Popsicles and they stay awhile. It's great, both my boys love it. I do to since I am inside with myself listening to Bishop Allen catching up on my blog. I found the Bishop Allen cd while cleaning out my car. I forgot how much I love them. They make me happy.

Now down to business....

Turns out we didn't freeze like I thought we would in Redfish. Nor did we get eaten by the big red fish (haha Bonnie!). But we did get to see them jump up the dam. It was sooo cool. We went to the fish hatchery and they were going crazy! Jumping and flopping all about. Not a good picture but you get the idea.

The hungry boys just came in so I will have to finish the update later.

Were off...

2008-08-28T21:47:00.003-06:00

leaving bright and early to freeze our butts off @ Red Fish. It's our first, and I'm sure last camping trip of the year. Hopefully I will take tons of pictures so I have a good excuse to buy this paper!

Have a GREAT labor day weekend! On Monday morning when you are sleeping in, all cozy and warm in your beds think of me sleeping in a tent on the nice hard ground probably freezing to death.

Weeks Review

2008-08-13T10:04:00.010-06:00

So a lot has happened this week. Saddle up partner - It's going to be a long post.

Last Wednesday Carl and I celebrated 9 years of wedded bliss. Yes I said 9! I cant believe it either. It seems like yesterday.

Please note: It was a windy day and I am really not sure what is going on with my hair

Sometime over the weekend I made some really yummy cupcakes that I found on a blog. I cant remember who's it was but you use this recipe for the cupcakes (Its a strange site - the recipe is towards the bottom of the page.) and this recipe for the frosting. They were super tasty.

Anyway the reason I tell you all this - we renewed our wedding vows with one of the cupcakes. I had just got my self a Dt. Dr. P and a scrumptious cupcake when Carl walked up and acted like he was going to take a bite. Then he shoved it in my face. 2" of frosting went up my nose. I was pissed and tried to smash what was left in his face of course I miss and it lands on the ground so I get as much frosting in my hand and wipe it all over his face. It was funny afterward - so we decided since we didn't do the whole frosting thing all over the face at our wedding 9 years later was better late than never.

My scrap break is over and here is what I did for moments...

It was a great way to end my "break". I loved these papers - so fun!

On Monday this guy started Preschool. He is going to a preschool that is also a daycare. I think he will do much better there than in someones basement sitting in a chair for 2 hours. Last year did not go well and he only went until October. The one he is going to now is much more hands on learning and they have like 5 teachers. He even gets to take his own lunch. He loves his Spiderman bag from the target dollar bin. He begged to go yesterday. He was so funny he said all the teachers wanted me to come back today! We are hoping this year goes much better.

Random Thoughts

2008-08-02T15:13:00.004-06:00

So its been awhile has it! I don't really have much to blog about. Life is crazy as usual. Here are some random thoughts that I have thought lately. (say that 10 times fast!)

Water makes me pee --- a lot
I am taking a small like 2 week (its almost over) scrap break. Here is my thoughts - I never think I do it enough (scrap booking that is - geesh get your mind out of the gutter!) and I always think I should. So I am taking a break so I wont feel guilty.
Why doesn't anyone in Idaho Falls carry the LOVE ELSIE stuff? I DO LOVE ELSIE! and cosmo and october afternoon and pink paisley and and and.......
I hate white sunglasses
I wish we could sell a house
I want to learn how to sew - the apron (my dads still wears on occasion) that I made in the 7th grade does not count. I want to make this. Cute huh - I bought the pattern so am I a little closer.
Lex and Carl make me laugh everyday - that makes me happy.
Wish I could go shopping and eat sno-cones with this girl every day.
I wish the person who has checked out the work and the glory Vol. 4 on CD from the Idaho Falls Library would take it back. I would like a turn.
Happy Birthday to Jimmy John Sandwich - you know who you are! Your finally as old as me! I hope you have a great day!
Loving this girls playlist. I heart Bon Jovi. Thanks for reminding me!
I wish we could sell a freakin house - like yesterday.
Missing these guys.

WARNING: Gross!

2008-06-30T16:50:00.003-06:00

Lex apparently has allergies. His eyes were so red and puffy today he could barley see. So we went down to the WalMart and got some medicine. A couple of hours later he kept asking for a drink and said his mouth tasted yucky.

This is a conversation that followed....

ME: Did the drink help your mouth taste better?

LEX: No, but when I eat my boogers then it tastes better.

YUCKY! Boys are gross!

So I leave you with this and hopefully you wont have to eat boogers to get the gross taste out of your mouth.

Well I was going to post a picture but the computer is stupid or blogger is stupid or maybe I am stupid.

I think its finally summer!

2008-06-24T14:43:00.004-06:00

It is so nice out today. I love it!

I got totally spoiled on my birthday weekend a couple of weeks ago. I have been meaning to blog all about it but I just haven't done it yet. So today is the day.

It started on Saturday - we went to dinner with THESE guys to Olive-it Garden (as lex calls it). The food was super yummy. As if that weren't enough Jessica got me this book!!!

I'm in love! I have gone through it almost every night. It sleeps by me. did I mention that I love it! I had tried to get it but it was sold out every - or so I thought! She also got me other fun goodies like big scallop scissors. oh ya baby!

Then on Sunday (a day early) Carl gave me a wii. It is so much fun! I kick butt in bowling and tennis. We also got a wii fit - you can hula hoop and everything!

On Monday (the actually day of my birth 28 years ago) I went shopping all day with my mom. We didn't even argue. It was amazing. Then that night we went to Rosie and Gary's for a party. Paul and Christi did a Fiesta party! It was awesome! They had a Hannah pinata complete with hannah montana candy! Funny story about that from our Vegas trip, I will tell you when your older. We ate super yummy chicken taco's.

It was a great weekend! I have no pictures of it. But I'm so grateful for my family and friends! I am really blessed to have you all in my life. Thanks for a great weekend. You all made me feel really great! I love ya all!

I love you COSMO CRICKET!

2008-06-18T18:29:00.016-06:00

Dear Cosmo,

I love your stuff! I love your paper, stickers, rub-ons, ribbon, albums, chipboard, I love it all! Here's proof...

This is a fun little book I am making for Lex to help him learn all his letter. I used the Cogsmo line with the Retro Mix Blackboard, and baseball card holders.

I am also making an album from our road trip to Vegas. The Get Happy line is perfect!

Fun layouts from the past years!

Also if you go to THIS post and THIS post you can see I also like to decorate with it.

Just wanted to let you know that I love ya!

My funny boy

2008-06-18T18:05:00.003-06:00

On Tuesday Lex and I went to Roberts, Lex loves to throw pennies in the water fountains. I am sure the employees love this. When we went to the fountain I asked him if he was going to make a wish. Very loudly he said " I wish mommy was nice to me". Lovely! I am sure everyone in the store heard how great of a mother I am.

Anyway I decided today I would be nice, I let him eat chocolate covered Cinnamon bears for breakfast, we went to Shelley to meet Carl for lunch at Mr. Pizza, and I took him to get a sno cone. We usually go through the drive-thru one in front of Smiths, but since I was being nice today we parked the car and walked up to the window. Lex even ordered his own (blue, green, and red striped). While waiting for me to get mine and pay he went and sat on the bench. After he got settled in he said "ahhh what a day" very contently.

So have you seen THIS? I need to start posting pictures. How fun would that be! If you know me you know I lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove Cosmo.

June Moments Kit Projects...

2008-06-10T07:57:00.006-06:00

Here are my ETM projects for June. Once again I loved this months papers. They were so fun to work with.

I think this is my very favorite layout of all time...............

CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS

Life is going...

2008-06-07T15:35:00.010-06:00

way to fast! I don't know why but I am always out of time, much like everyone else I'm sure. Anyhow here are some updates....

THIS GIRL has a blog! Super Fun! Speaking of this picture I am so glad it's snow cone season! I couldn't live without them. Funny story about this picture. Jessica and I drove all the way to Rigby to go to the scrapbook store there. Much to our dismay it was closed. So we tried to drowned our sorrows in GIANT snow cones. We ordered larges - not realizing just how LARGE they were! mmmmm they were tasty! So if you are ever in Rigby go to Main street and get a snow cone. I suggest the medium size, unless your upset go for the large baby.

I have also been doing some projects lately and listening to THIS GIRLS music - perfect for scrapbooking. Also been listening to a lot of THIS. Love it too. And my new favorite music for cleaning the house is the extreme rock channel on tv. Oh ya baby gotta love Whitesnake, Van Halen, Queensryche, Aerosmith, Meatloaf, Tesla and so so many more. Anyway back to projects.... I love the MM Animal Cracker line - it is soooo cute! Baby card to go with baby bag for our great old neighbors. This is the invitation Christi and I made for Hudson's 1st Birthday Party. Kit I did last week for ETM

I also did a fun layout with this picture for the June Moments Kit. So fun - you'll have to wait and see.

Happy Birthday Dad!

2008-05-30T16:09:00.005-06:00

Yesterday was my dad's 60th Birthday. We had a fun party, complete with lots of balloons and yummy food!

Moments projects

2008-05-14T12:47:00.007-06:00

Here is the Moments projects I did this month for ETM. I loved this months papers - so fun to work with. The rub ons were also awesome! They were the nice ones that go on very easily and there is a ton of them. Enough you can spell every word in the dictionary. At least every word in the dictionary I know the meaning of any way.

I really like doing the kit. I have been looking through old pictures that I want to scrap but just haven't done yet, to find ones that will go with the papers. They are not in order by date at all, but I don't care because at least I am getting it done.

Grandma Rosie's birthday in 2004. She got a birthday bear from Build a Bear, that sings. Lex absolutely loved it.

They day Hudson Gray Tyger was born. I can't believe it was almost 1 year ago. I remember looking at Paul & Hudson through the hospital glass. Paul was so cute he was just grinning from ear to ear. Christi was amazing and looked great after just having a baby, still with makeup and earrings on.

Michelle's graduation in 2002. I flew to Tennessee with her parents and brother. I have more pictures I think I am going to add a second page to this one.

A fun bag that fits a bath and body soap perfect.

New post

2008-05-08T16:53:00.001-06:00

but it ended up HERE - not sure why....

Its a long one folks but there are lots a pictures!

2008-05-05T15:48:00.016-06:00

More Vegas pictures. OK these are going to be totally random! For one I don't know how to use blogger and whenever I load a new picture it goes to the top even when I don't want it to. For two at this point I don't know what order they should be in. Lets just be honest.

Paul and Carl with the Van Halen tickets! Expensive pieces of paper but they said it was an awesome concert! Carl is a concert virgin - well not anymore Van Halen has taken that away from him and I think he thoroughly enjoyed it. Have a mentioned that Carl is on a hair cut strike? Well he is - more on that later.

The first picture we took after dropping our camera in the middle of a casino. Let me rephrase that, Carl dropped the camera but it was my fault.

Lex doing the Vana.

On top of the conference center - awesome view!

This is about 1 hour into the trip. Lex slept all the way to SLC. We didn't leave Idaho until about 7 p.m. so I was afraid he wouldn't sleep when we got to the hotel. To my surprise he slept all night!

This is the gas station where Lex HAD to go to the bathroom. We were driving down the highway on our way home and Lex said in a very panicked voice, "I gotta go poop". We weren't sure where the next gas station was so we pulled off at the next exit. We drive down the road in the middle of no where. Finally there is a sign that says the town is 7 miles away. To which I said to Lex you better really need to go. Lex is what you would call a "home pooper". Ya know the type that just needs to be in the comfort of their own home to go. I guess he gets stage fright. Anyway we stop at the one and only gas station and rush to the potty. It was a good thing we stopped, I'm pretty sure he was prairie doggin' it. Anyway I think the town was called Kanosh - nice folks if you ever need to use the facilities. It's somewhere between here and Vegas. Now Lex can say he pooped in Kanosh. Can you?

Lex pulling yet another great pose. I would really like to know what is going on in that head.

Mountains anyone?

Lex's favorite part of the trip was the pool at the St. George hotel. I am really glad we drove for 4 days so swimming could be his favorite part.

I think this bucket of crab legs and various other things were Carl's favorite part of the trip, next to the concert of course. If we had a Joe's Crab Shack I would be in trouble. At least they had chicken.

We went to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay it was really cool. Lex got a hat for free and a really expensive piece of crap water gun. I think the hat lasted longer than the water gun - but that's OK he was one happy boy to get it.

This was inside the shark reef again not sure what is going on inside this kids head but he makes me laugh!

We moved...

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and no it didn't take us 2 weeks! I just am a crappy blogger. It's not that I didn't want to blog it's just I need a few more hours in the day.Old House

I was going to show you a picture of the new house but I cant find one. I could get off my butt and go outside and take one but its windy and I don't want to. Maybe later.

We also went to Viva Las Vegas last weekend. It was fun - we drove there with Carl's brother (from the same mother hehe) Paul, his wife Christi and their baby Hudson. We all loaded up in Grandpa's Suburban and away we went. I was a little nervous taken a 4 year old and a 10 month old on such a long road trip. It was so fun! The boys did great! We stopped a lot to see all the sites along the way and on the way back. Here are a few fun pictures. I wont share all 223 pictures but here are a few highlights....

Carl eating a bagel breakfast thing at the McDonald's in SLC, Utah. The McDonald's had video games you could play and the food cost double what it does here. You should go!

Can you find Lex? This is us at the start of a tour at Temple Square. Don't you love Carl's bag! It doesn't match his shoes - but he still loves to carry it for me!Fun sign just as we got into Vegas!

Mr. Lion playing with the ball - he was fun to watch (2000 other people also found him fun to watch). I'll post more pictures.... I'm not going to say tomorrow because we all know that probably wont happen!

Were moving.....

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be back next week!

Cute Maddie!

2008-04-03T16:05:00.006-06:00

I did something amazing this weekend! I did some pages! It started with the crop on Friday night. In a total of about 4 hours I got 1 page done! Thats right 1 page = 4 hours. Saturday I did much better. I worked on this fun page of my neice Maddie.

I am also starting to do the moments kits for ETM. This month was really fun bright colors.

Long haired hippie people!

2008-04-01T15:33:00.007-06:00

HELP! Carl is on a hair cut strike! He says he doesn't have the will power for a hunger strike. He won't cut his hair until one of these houses sell! Its getting bad! OK so it's not as bad as Harry Dunn's. If you have seen Carl before the last few months you know he usually keeps his hair short. Really short like #3 guard short. We usually buzz it right off. I am really looking forward to when the strike is over.

Easter cont.

2008-04-01T10:49:00.013-06:00

Day 2

We went to church and Lex wore the cute outfit my mom got for him. She found it on Target's website for like $7 for everything except the shoes.

Sorry the picture is blurry Lex cant hold still for the life of him!

I made these little cute handouts for my young woman. I found them from this girl and this site. I'm not much on digital scrap booking but these were fast and easy!

Then we went to Grandma Tolley's for dinner and fun! We ate lots of yummy food!

I got the recipe for the yummy veggie pizza HERE. They have the best recipes. They are usually so easy and you can actually find all the ingredients. I hate recipes that have stuff in them I've never heard of.

Cute nieces in their Easter dresses.

We saw a mangy moose in the field behind my parents house and then the hair coloring began...

McKale got a barbie for Easter that included a hair coloring gadget. It was actually pretty fun. Everyone Else's has dark hair so it didn't show up as well, but since I'm a natural blond - hehe she went to town on my hair. Luckily it washed out!

Easter weekend pictures!

2008-03-30T18:38:00.013-06:00

DAY 1

It started Saturday morning. We took Lex to the neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. It was so much fun but freezing cold!

Lex found lots of eggs with Carl's help! Lex showing off his goods!

Later on Saturday Lex requested we go to Grandma Rosie's to dye Easter Eggs. She was kind enough to let us come. I don't think Grandma's have "no" in their vocabulary. We had the first grilled burger of the year and lots of other good food! Yummy!

Uncle Paul practicing his balancing during the prayer. (I don't know who took this picture because we were all being very reverent!) OK - The truth about the picture is I tried to take it during the prayer and missed so I had him pose for this one.

I don't know where this kid got his sense of humor from?

Tyger boys sure know how to dye good eggs!

Then the real fun began when we tattooed are young! Actually we tattooed everyone! Luckily they were just temporary. Although none were as good (good meaning big) as the one Paul sported on St. Patrick's Day.

2008-03-26T10:08:00.003-06:00

Febuary 7th? That was my last posting! Yikes! I've been a slacker! So.....
Happy Valentines Day
too late for that

Happy St. Patrick's Day
too late for that one too!

Happy Easter!
still too late!

I will post some pictures of our fun Easter Weekend as soon as I learn how to use photoshop... Maybe that's not a good idea, that might be awhile! OK so I wont wait until I learn how to use it - I'll figure something out. I took the Kodak software off my computer hoping that would make me figure out how to use elements. Well that was several months ago and I don't think it was such a great idea!

Anyway it was a wild weekend that included tattoo's and hair coloring. Not just blond or brown hair coloring I'm talkin' pink and blue. Pictures coming soooon......................

Lets clarify ....

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a little -

I have 3 nieces - they are ALL my favorite!
I have 5 sister in laws and they are ALL my favorite!
I have 5 nephews - they are ALL my favorite!
I have 3 brother in laws and yes they are ALL my favorite!

They are all my favorite and all for different reasons!

So I had the weirdest conversation the other day. Heres how it went down...

Me: "Hello"

Lady: "Hello Jessica this is soandso (names have been with held to protect the innocent) I was wondering if I could still come and visit you this afternoon?"

Me: "Yes that's fine, but if you want we could do a phone visit since the roads are so bad. Are you OK to drive on the slick roads?"

Lady: "Yes I'm fine I was just drinking milk."

Me: (thinking inside my head) WHAT???? Congrats on the milk drinkin!
What I really said: "Ok we'll seen you soon."

So I start thinkin' - does this lady think that I think she is some kind of drunk? I have no reason to think that - I hardly know her. Then I decide not to care because she is crazy. And I am totally normal and not crazy at alllllllllllllllllllllll.

So last night we put Lex to bed and went into our bathroom to get our selves ready for bed. To our horror we found a WAR in our closet. There were many fallen soldiers as you will see in the pictures.

We will announce the date and time of their memorial service.

Anyone seen an ipod?

2008-02-05T14:14:00.001-07:00

I lost my IPod and I'm sad. I am frantically cleaning out drawers and such. The sad thing is I had it in my hand on Sunday and I put it down somewhere and I've been looking for it ever since. It's all my fault. Maybe it grew legs and walked away. If so please walk back to me ipod - I miss you!

Happy Birthday Christi!

2008-02-05T10:43:00.000-07:00

We had Christi a birthday party last night and I didnt delete the pictures this time! Go me!

Rosie made a yummy cake and Lex got to help blow out the candles! (I think he only spit a little tiny bit)

Christi is my favorite sister in law because she is so dang cute! She has great style - she cooks really yummy food, and she adores her hubby! They are a great example of a happy couple. Their son, Hudson is 7 months old and walking! He is a very happy little guy - I think its because he is so loved!

Happy Birthday Christi!

Happy Birthday McKale!

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McKale Lynn Tolley is 7 today. I took pictures of her birthday party on Saturday but they got erased. OOPS! So I am using this picture of Mason, Lex, and McKale! She is my favorite niece because she is hilarious, she loves sweets, and she likes making things. She also had the cutest chocolate cupcakes with white frosting and pink sprinkles. Happy Birthday McKale!!!

LOVE

2008-01-30T16:26:00.000-07:00

So I have rethought the Cosmo dilemma. I only need the Cogsmo and Get Happy lines. The Honey Pie line is negotiable. Anyway - I made this fun thing today for my entry way. I bought the garland at Roberts and the other stuff is the Cosmo's Sugar Sugar stuff I bought from Express the Moment.

Last night we had New beginnings for Young Women. We had the girls wear their PJ's - the theme was "Become the Girl of Your Dreams." It turned out great and I am glad it's over. Happy Wednesday!!!!

Just wondering....

2008-01-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

where I am going to get enough money so I can buy everysinglepiece of this? Black chipboard - LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! It's not just the chipboard I love its every piece of paper - all the rubons - every chipboard shape. I just love it allllllll. How cute is this face going to be with the robot paper! AHHHHH Cant wait!

I also cant wait until This comes out - I NEED to buy it. Not just a want but a need. What am I going to do until May?

I have so much to post about. More coming sooon (I hope)!

My name is....

2008-01-15T14:24:00.000-07:00

Jec and I am a crappy blogger! There I said it.

Have you watched THIS show? I am totally hooked. We have FHE and eat dinner with Carl's family on Monday nights so I watch it on Tuesday while I am working on the computer. I really like watching on the computer because I get to rewind.

My goal for 2008 is to work on my blogging skills................

Santa came ...

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Now its time for bed!

Are you...

2007-12-21T16:44:00.000-07:00

Ready for CHRISTMAS? I'm not!

More Pictures!

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Here is a few of our favorites....

This is so Lex ~ in deep thought!

There are so many more that I love! Thanks Jessica - your awesome!

my worthless day has been fixed

2007-12-10T21:01:00.001-07:00

Lex's Christmas is done - he's not getting a kitchen and we are all good with that.

I got the tote from Michael's I wanted, in pink instead of turquoise. Way cute - pics to come soon

Carl's Christmas is also done. I hope he likes it! More on that later...

The pants are clean! Well they were clean - he has now wore them for the 2nd time.

Coming tomorrow (or next time I post)

more family pics! I printed A TON today - they are so fun!

What the Hell?

2007-12-03T15:03:00.000-07:00

Today was one of those days when I wonder why I put on makeup and take time to do my hair to go out of the house.

1st stop - Fred Meyer. I love Fred Meyer - the main reason is the play place - Lex loves it and I can shop all by my self.

They had a play kitchen for $40 in the ad yesterday. (Yes I was going to buy my almost 4 year old son a kitchen.) He plays with the kitchen at my moms, it keeps him busy for hours. The only problem is its outside (they live in Rigby don't ask) and since it is so stinkin' cold he hasn't played with it for awhile.

Anyway they were out of the cheap kitchens.

I have now done some research on the world wide web and decided I am glad they were out. I just don't think it could hold up to the abuse Lex would in flick.

2nd stop - lunch at Micky D's. I asked for a chicken nugget happy meal with apples and a sprite. They forgot the apples. Lex was sad but I do think he will live.

3rd stop - Michael's for one of these and some ribbon. They were out of the totes and I couldn't find any ribbon that wasn't pretty. I was going for cute.

4th stop - Chesbro music to get Carl a music book of Van Halen for his drums. They didn't have Van Halen. He is getting a different one. SHHHHHHH - don't tell.

5th stop - The dry cleaner on 1st street by the hair place. I don't know what it is called but it doesn't matter because they are closing on December 7th and are currently not taking any clothes.

6th stop - Dry cleaner on 1st street by Godfathers.

Carl got a suit last year for Christmas. He has worn it a total of 1 time (see picture above). There are 2 huge spots on the behind of the pants. The dry cleaner doesn't think they can get the spots out.

I was out all morning and did not get a damn thing accomplished. I should have stayed at home and finished the laundry. Which is almost done now! Oh happy day!

Jessica took our pictures today....

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and she is so awesome she sent me some teasers! They are so GREAT! I am so excited! She does such an awesome job.

I will write more later - life is so crazy there is 1 million things to do!

Happy Turkey Day!!!

2007-11-22T12:35:00.000-07:00

I totally ripped this off of another blog - I thought it was really good....

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep - you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace - you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness - you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation - you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If your parents are still alive and still married - you are very rare, even in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful - you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold some one's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder - you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Things I am Thankful for...

My wonderful husband & son - they keep me laughing.

All our great family and friends - they all do so much for us - We Love You All!

My house, car, cell phone & Ipod - I don't know what I would do with out these. I am really thankful to live in this day and age. I would never have survived as a pioneer.

What are you thankful for?

Cute Boy!

2007-11-10T14:29:00.000-07:00

Hey every other day for posting is pretty good!

So every night to put Lex to bed our routine usually goes something like this...

Carl gets his PJ's on, I help him brush his chops and get him in bed and Carl reads him a story. A couple of nights ago we added another step. Heres how it went...

Me: Lex how many blankets do you want on?

Lex: What will I be if I have 1 on?

Me: Freezin' Cold

Lex: What will I be if I have 2 blankets on?

Me: A little bit cold

Lex: What will I be if I have 4 blankets on?

Me: Roasting Hot!

Lex: No I will be Roast Beef! How about I have 3 blankets on.

I love the stuff he comes up with! He is one funny kid! He rarely says "I Love You". He has told me on very few occations. So last night I say "goodnight Lex, I love you". I was waiting for his usual response "ok". Instead he pushed the hair away from my eye and said "I need to see both your eyes - I love you". It was so sweet! Totally made up for all the "ok's" he's given me in the past.

Now I am off to make signs! I will leave you with a layout I did awhile ago - I heart Elsie stuff!

Happy Saturday!

As promised...

2007-11-08T13:42:00.000-07:00

So here is the story about Jessica and I in the bathroom.

Background

The ETM crops are held at the Idaho Falls activity center. In the center there is a Girls bathrooms and a Boys bathroom. Sometimes they are switched because the boys bathroom has more stalls than the girls. There aren't many men at the scrapbooking event. By many I mean 0. When you walk in the Boys bathroom there is 1 stall 1 urinal & 1 sink, but there is second door. Behind that door contains more stalls and more sinks.

Story

Jessica and I decide we need to use the restroom during our fun day of scrapbooking. We atomically go to the Boy's (since its usually the girls). They haven't been switched this particular day. We (I think I) decided we should use it anyway. We use the stalls behind the second door (refer to above). After we are done washing our hands we go to open the door - but wait! We hear someone coming in. Thinking its probably another woman we listen to make sure....

What we heard was Not a woman! We listen to the man pee and then wait for him to wash his hands. What? No washing! Gross!

So that day we were very grateful for the second door and our great timing. Although it could have been better - it could have been worse. I have very thankful I only had to listen and not see!

Here are some of the cute projects we did that day....

This is the cover of the mini book that the incredible Amanda taught.

These are the fall pages. There are also winter, spring & summer. Stinkin cute!

We did some way cute Christmas cards and a really cute Halloween layout. I will post pictures of them as soon as I can find them.

This is the layout that I worked on ALL FREAKIN DAY!

Sorry for the crappy pictures I was in too much of a hurry.

Happy Thursday!

Does anyone still read this thing?

2007-11-06T12:53:00.000-07:00

Life has been crazy busy the last couple of weeks. I am now one of those annoying bloggers that never post. Sorry!

Here is what we've been doing.....

Friday Oct. 19th Took Lex to the doctor because he had croup. Doc put him on steroids and an antibiotic - he was good to go. I also packed for Kim's Crop

Saturday Oct. 20th Started the day going to the big Roberts sale - didn't want to wait in line so Jessica and I went to subway for breakfast where I was pleasantly surprised. I recommend the Subway on Channing. Carl and I went to the one on Woodruff and it wasn't the same. We went back to Roberts and did some shopping. Then we went to Kim's crop, made really cute stuff and got stuck in the bathroom listening to a man pee with Jessica (more on that later).

Sunday Oct. 21st Lex missed his primary program because he was sick.

Monday Oct. 22nd Our church has a fire in it and so for the next 2 weeks we couldn't use it.

Tuesday Oct. 23rd Mutual canceled because of church fire. It was nice to stay home on a Tuesday, I haven't done that in a while. Lex was upset because Tuesdays are him and daddy's night to play - no girls allowed.

Wednesday Oct. 24th Went to the temple with Young Women presidency. It was really great bonding time. Also ate yummy, cheap temple food.

Saturday Oct. 27th Super Saturday for our ward. They really had soup on Saturday. I made a lot of vinyl signs the past week and I was very glad it was done. They made some really cute projects. We also went to the pumpkin walk in Shelley with Carl's family. The Alan and Eva Tyger family came from Utah for a fun visit.

Sunday Oct. 28th Went to my parents for dinner. Went to Carl's parents and carved pumpkins. Carl's dad grew white pumpkins and we grew the regular orange variety. There was plenty for everyone. I forgot my camera so I will have to get pictures later from grandma Rosie.

Monday Oct. 29th We went to Boo at the Zoo with the Tygers and the rest of Idaho Falls. Don't think we will be attending that next year. Livee was a darling little red riding hood, Hudson was the cutest bee and Lex was spiderman. We only saw about 20 other spidermen there. We went to Pizza Hut afterward for dinner. Yummy! Then we came here and ate some yummy Orange pie. I will post that recipe cuz its good. Lex got to play Pokemon with Dallin. We all just got to hang out. It was really fun.

Tuesday Oct. 30th Mutual at our house for a baby shower. One of the other leaders is having a baby boy any day. We played fun games and learned how to make a diaper cake. We also ate yummy popcorn balls. Need to post that recipe also.

Wednesday Oct. 31st Halloween! Lex went trick or treating to Granma Tolley's, Grandma Rosie's and Tomm & Jessica's. We kept it short because we had to be at the hospital at 5:30 AM.

Thursday Nov. 1st Lex got his teeth worked on. They pulled 2, capped 1, and filled a few cavities. He did really good. It went by really fast - I am glad Carl was there. We played Nintendo's against each other while we were waiting. Lex has to go back in 2 weeks and get a spacer. He was pretty mad when he realized they took out his teeth. Learning about the tooth fairy made it somewhat ok. My cousin Tel and his wife Emily were at the same hospital having their 1st baby the same day! She wasn't born while we were there but I hear she is a doll. Her name is Kanani Jewel! Love it!

Saturday Nov. 3rd stayed home all day! Carl cleaned out the vehicles I love him for that. I cleaned of my desk's. They are still a mess. It was a really good relaxing day. I didn't even put on makeup - love days like that.

Did you make it through that? Holly Molly! Now that I am caught up I promise to post fun things - like pictures!

Shows we watch!

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We watch

Pushing Daisies - Fun show and I love Ned and Chuck

Greys - Cant wait for tonight! What is going to happen with George and Callie?

Private Practice - Wasn't sure at first but I like it now!

Desperate Housewives - At first I was really appalled that my mother would watch such a show but now I Love it!

With out a trace - Good drama but not bloody and gutty like CSI

Simpsons - Carl and Lex's Favorite

I am getting really excited for the ETM crop on Saturday! It will be a fun girl day with Jessica, Jamie, Amanda. The girl that does me and Jamie's hair is also coming with her mama and sister. I am going to try and get organized so I can get lots done!

Oh - also I think Lex can spell - This morning Carl and I were talking about taking Lex to the D-O-C-T-O-R for his cough. Lex said no I don't need to go to the doctor today. Maybe he's a really smart kid or maybe his parents just think so.

Have a Happy Thursday!

A pretty shitty post

2007-10-17T12:57:00.000-06:00

I have just been such a blogging slacker! I apologize!

So today I went and picked up Lex from preschool. We drive down the road and something stinks so bad. I thought it smelled like puke or poop or something nasty. I check Lexs shoes, Miss Janet does have a cat and sometimes they get to play in the backyard. Maybe the cat left something in the grass and Lex stepped on it.

Clean shoes.

So I look in his backpack totally expecting to see somebodies hurled breakfast.

Nothing there.

So I tell myself I am being overly sensitive to some little smell. (I always think my car smells like burning peanut butter and Carl tells me I am crazy, maybe I am since the last 3 cars I have owned have smelled like that at 1 time or another.)

Lex and I go to Walmart and pick up some cute pictures from Jessica.(a entire summers worth. Note to self - get pictures printed more often) A couple of times while I am talking to her I smell the gross smell. Then I think well maybe Lex crapped himself. It's never happened before. So after chatting with her we leave and I check Lex's shorts. Notta. Thank goodness!

So finally we are getting in the car and I look at my shoes. Yellowish greenish some kind of animal crap all over one side and on the bottom! Let me just tell you it was GROSS! With a capital GGGGRRRRRR!

So to everyone in Walmart who thinks I smell like shit - I am really sorry! I did smell like shit. Have a happy day and think of a nice good clean smell!

Good Quote!

2007-10-08T17:13:00.000-06:00

"Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are." -James W Frick

this is so true! Happy Hot Monday (ok maybe not hot but a hell of alot warmer than saturday)

A Week in Review

2007-10-07T13:09:00.000-06:00

Saturday

Jamie and I went and got our hair did. (Tennessee talk) This is the only picture we remembered to take so you will have to use your imagination on the outcome.....

Sunday
Ate dinner at Grandma Tolley's and played with Maddie. She is so cute! She sucks her fingers just the way I used to (ring and middle finger)! Mason calls her precious. He says things like "where's precious?" How precious is that? Watched Desperate Housewives. Cant wait to watch it again tonight!
Monday
Ate dinner with the Tyger clan, I made Turkey spaghetti with whole wheat pasta. YUM! We also got to see this lil punkin...

I think my camera spooked him

Tuesday
Lost my voice
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
Drank a lot of this....

Saturday

Merry Christmas! Oh - wait its only October. All the snow really makes me want to get out the Christmas Decor and have a legitimate reason to listen to Sarah's Christmas CD that I have been listening to all summer. Lex and the dogs loved all the snow. Well Lex did anyway. Carl tried to save our pumpkins.

Carl and Lex also built a snowman. It was a dang cute snowman! He had corn for ears, beets for eyes, Carrot for his nose, and a big smiling cucumber for his mouth! I took pictures I promise, but somehow they have disappeared. So you will have to use your imagination.
We also watched Polar Express. HOT!HOT!HOT! HotChocolate! and sang that song several times.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Cute kids!

2007-10-01T11:55:00.000-06:00

How cute are these kids!

Take your kid to work day...

2007-09-28T10:05:00.000-06:00

Lex has had some issues at preschool. He has gets time outs almost everyday. So we have a deal, if he gets no time outs he gets to choose a prize. Wednesday he got NO time outs! So he was thinking about what he wanted his prize to be. He had come up with renting the Yankee movie (Everyones Hero) or this...

Lex: I know what my prize could be

Me: What

Lex: How about you take me to daddy's work and then just go away!

So I did just that. I was thinking I would go pick him up in an hour or so. Well he stayed all day. He got to go to lunch and everything. He loved working with Daddy, Uncle Paul, and Jason. Carl said he was really good. He just played in the dirt all day. Carl said it was fun to have him there. I love my cute boys!

Did I say 10?

2007-09-26T10:33:00.000-06:00

Did ya notice in the last post it was titled "10 Random things" and I only did 8.

I smart!

I just dont know what else to say today, so I will leave you with this picture of Lex being the "normal daddy"

10 Random things

2007-09-24T17:04:00.000-06:00

10 random things.

1 - Carl vacuumed out the couch. Yes the entire vacuum is on the couch. I guess I need to show him the attachments, or maybe this is how I should vacuum the couch! Whatever the case a smiling man with a vacuum - I just felt it should be documented.

2 - Lex and I went to lunch with Jamie last week. While in the parking lot at Jamie's work Lex started coughing. Then he puked in my hand. Then I tried to puke Jamie laughed. It was fun for the whole family.

3 - Spiderman came for a visit. It's never to early to break out the holloween custume. You should wear yours tomorrow!

4 - We watched the season finale of Greys. I almost cried again. Cant wait until Thursday to see Meredeth, Kali, George, and all my other friends!

5- New James Blunt CD! I love it! Thanks James!

6 - I think Maddie & McKale are the cutest sisters ever! What do you think?

7 - Lex asked us what Heaven was. I think Carl did a very good job of answering.

8 - Carl and Lex did alot of this over the weekend.

Hope you had a great weekend!

grab a tissue!

2007-09-23T13:23:00.000-06:00

Toilet Talk

2007-09-18T15:18:00.001-06:00

So yesterday Lex was going potty and I had a nice chat with him. This is how it went....

Lex: Grama Mana has handles on her potty.

Me: Oh!

Lex: They help you go poop!

Reality - Grandma Nana (also know as Grandma Great, Grandma Bodily, and Grandma banana) does have handles by her potty - but I think they are for a different use. What do you think?

Today we went to visit Dr. Smith, the dentist. He is our very nice friend. We will be paying him lots of money and he will make Lex's teeth happy. Lex was very good. I think Recky (Shrek) playing on the ceiling helped.

You may remember last year when Lex went to Dr. Tom. We paid him lots of money and he made Lex's teeth happy for a while, by putting silver caps on 2 of his teeth. Now those teeth get to be pulled out and replaced with a very expensive piece of metal to hold the space.

I need to be grateful that Lex is a very healthy boy except his teeth - I will work on that after we find $3,000 (again) to get them fixed.

What does love mean?

2007-09-13T09:37:00.000-06:00

My mom sent this to me and I thought it was cute!

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?"

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca- age 8

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." Billy - age 4

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." Karl - age 5

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." Chrissy - age 6

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri - age 4

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." Bobby - age 7

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday." Noelle - age 7

"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." Tommy - age 6

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken." Elaine-age 5

"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." Mary Ann - age 4

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." Lauren - age 4

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross." Mark - age 6

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." Jessica - age 8

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry"

I think love is when a grandpa and grandma go on rides with their grand kids - even when they don't fit...

The day tragedy struck

2007-09-11T08:45:00.000-06:00

Yesterday was Lex's third day of preschool. He was so excited to go - we rushed out the door. In all the excitement we forgot his backpack. The backpack is the most important thing at preschool. As some of you know we had quite a time finding just the right backpack before preschool started. Luckily Miss Janet had a spare.

A nice grocery sack.

I never thought a grocery sack could be used in place of a Silver Surfer backpack. It worked great and fit very nicely around his shoulders (just like a backpack would)! Lex was really excited to show me his new backpack. Miss Janet saves the day!

I also did this yesterday...

I really like the 1 in 48 class so far!

So how do I do this?

2007-09-09T16:38:00.000-06:00

I decided to start a blog - Why you ask? Because Lex started preschool last week!
We are all excited .....

Lex is excited to go see Miss Janet and friends.

I am excited to have 2 hours with myself. (yes going to Winco with myself is one of my dreams!)

Carl is excited (not sure if he really is but will say he is).

Since Lex started preschool, I have a list of stuff I am going to do....

Go to Winco by myself.
THIS I am excited to get caught up on some scrap booking
Ride the treadmill 2 miles a day. (yes I did say ride, I am starting of slow)
Get lots of signs in the eBay store like 100 of them.
Clean 1 room in my house everyday
Do 1 load of laundry (including folding and putting away) everyday.
Drink at least 64 oz of water everyday.
Scrapbook
Read books on how to be a good mommy
Keep up my blog (my way of journaling)

We will see how it goes.

Lex loved his first week of preschool. Everyone told me how fast the 2 hours would go by, to my surprise I was waiting for 11:00 to come. The first day I took movies back, went to Carolyn's work and saw her display, went grocery shopping, went home and put the groceries away, and did the dishes. To my amazement I still had 15 minutes before I had to pick him up. Maybe I missed him just a little. I'm sure as I get used to it I will run out of time. Happy day!