I thought we were over this...

(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!

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...

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....

Bedtime!

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving review

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

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!

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.