The first orchid bloom of the season

We were so excited when we started getting buds on our orchid this spring.

You see, the first stem that grew was accidentally broken and we thought that we would have to wait till next year to see some blooms. Imagine my surprise when Rob informed me another stalk was coming up.

When I noticed that the flower was about to pop I thought it would be pretty cool to capture it in pictures.

I didn't color correct any of these because I took them at different times of the day. These one bud popped in about a day and a half.

So first photo was Wednesday morning

Second photo Wednesday afternoon


Third shot was Wednesday evening

Last shot was actually this morning but I should have done it yesterday

What's great is that the flowers last for several days so I have many
opportunites to take pictures.

Now the orchid that Rob is getting Sunday is a solid pink.

Oy the weekend is here.

We are planning on taking the kids to the cheap theatres to see Monsters vs. Aliens but if those two don't stop fighting I don't want to be seen in public with them.

Rob and I have been planning this all week and were originally going Monday evening but it didn't work out so we set the goal for this evening. We don't have to go I can wait for the dvd. My thought was to do some fun things this summer with the kids and going to the movies is fun. But man are they trying my patience.

Saturday night the plan is to take the older kids to the dirt track races. Their first time. My brother and I went with our parents quite a bit growing up and just recently we began going. Not much has changed in the circle track world, and I think people watching is my favorite part.

Sunday we will be doing some family grilling on the bbq and I will be helping my mom do her presentation for her class. I know we are doing something with the cricut. Should be very interesting.

After more frustration I'm getting rid of the darn signature. It's a pain in the butt.

After much frustration this is the best that I can do with having a signature. It sure didn't help that the power went out for a minute and I had to start over. How freaking exhausting. I hate when I cannot figure something out or get it to work the way I want it to.

Here is Kelly making Chelsea laugh like no one else can.
I love my girls.

Surprise!!

Not really, this is what Rob and his mom call these lillies. I don't remember how many years ago we received these flowers but they are a joy every summer.

The original flower came from Rob's grandmothers home in Mississippi. His mom brought the flowers back from one of her trips seeing family. Once they bloomed and needed to be separated we received some. Now we've had to split them up a couple of times and even in the "dry heat" of AZ they flourish. Granted they are facing north so they don't get full sun but they are doing great.

I love when flowers bloom. I think our favorite flowers are irises and lillies.

I was curious and went looking for other photos. July 2005 Wow.

I know I run the risk of my Dad seeing this but I like how it turned out and wanted to show it off.

See my Dad is a big Earnhardt fan, and not being the typical Hallmark dad finding any type of card for him is hard.

So long story short. I saw a Fathers Day card on cricut.com that had Grumpy from the seven dwarfs. My thought was to make a card like that but it soon spiraled into my dad's interests and since I have the cars cart and Chick Hicks kind of look like Big E's monte carlo I thought I would give it a try. The one embellishment that I was to chicken to put on teh car was the Goodyear sticker done in rubons across the bumper. I was too afraid it wouldn't be straight so I didn't do it. Overall I like how it turned out.

To make it into a card I cut two shadows and a small strip of paper scored and glued to each shadow piece. I'll save the inside for Dad. Granted it's going to be late getting in the mail but that's usual for us.

Wyatt just saw the picture and informed me that,"I did him wrong, he's suppose to be green." Almost five year old what can I say.

Our orchid just popped it's first flower of the summer. I'll post some pictures later today. It looks like we will have about 10 blooms this year. Pretty soon Lady Orchid will have a buddy. Rob's mom is getting him another orchid for Father's Day but since Rob doesn't read my blog I haven't ruined the surprise.

Thanks to the ladies on the Cricut message board for the heads up and my need for pink and purple glitter I was enabled/inspired to check out these cool new stamps at Joann's.

I walked away with 19 of these little suckers, but since I have been making so many cards I feel a little justified in my purchase.

Just please don't tell me husband...okay??.... thx

Naw he won't care. He is good like that. He supports my obsession. Hell there have been times when he has encouraged me to buy a few things.

(mom) remember to click on the picture to make it bigger, cause I think you are really going to like the bulldog stamp.

I think there were maybe two stamps that I didn't purchase. But it has been a long time since I saw cute studio g stamps.

From talking to the lady at Michaels they should be doing a dollar bin redo in the next week or so also. Hopefully new stamps???

It's a sick obsession I tell you.

Well, what do you think of the changes??

I'm still trying to figure a few things out about buttons but thanks to Julie I have gotten a start.

who knows maybe I'll change the background more often.

since I will be blogging more this week I'm hoarding my pictures so that every post has at least one picture.

Our sweet baby Braxton, just chillin on his bed. I think he is one of the Best Dogs we have ever loved.

A big owwie

Sunday after church Wyatt had a mishap. I'm not sure if he ran into the door or pulled the door open and his foot got caught. Yeah he's got a bad owwie.
We are certainly positive that he will be losing his big toe nail. I dread this whole healing process. I know what it's like to lose a big toe nail.
My poor baby, at least once a day he has smacked it on something and that brings a round of crying and we soak it in a tub of lukewarm water.
** WARNING**
if you have a weak stomach don't look at the next photo.

One of the moms at church almost lost it because there was a little bit of blood dripping on the floor.
Wyatt's injury was bad enough that we have gotten calls from other church members checking on him. So sweet of them.

Bring it On!!

So Julie was teasing me a few minutes ago about updating the ol' blog and I issued a challenge. Who will blog the most from now until Friday? It doesn't have to be anything specific but it can't be just a sentence either.

I figure I will win. Ha Ha Ha (insert very evil laugh)

With how much time I spend on the computer, this should be easy.

Of course it also sets me up for why don't I blog as much if I AM at the computer so much.

Maybe this will make me a better blogger, ya know like when I first started.

So I was lurking on the cricut messageboard and saw a cool Father's Day card. That led to a couple of ideas for a card to make for my dad. I will get cracking later because tonight is our home church group (moved from Thursdays to Tuesday's) and I don't forsee much free time.

I also need to make sample cards for a presentation that mom has to give on Friday and use those cards at our Ladies night this coming Monday.

Hey anyone want to come to Ladies night? Food, drink, conversation and crafting or conversation, or learn a new craft, or conversation. You know us women, we like to talk. And hey there is booze if we want it.

And since almost every post for me has to have a photo. Random shot taken Saturday.

It's a struggle to get Wyatt to actually look at the camera, he would rather look at the tv, but the sticker is constantly asking to either take the shot or have me take it.

Photo taken by Kelly

Over the years

This photo was taken a few minutes ago.
I was cruising blogs and came to Cathy Z's, she sparked my curiosity about what photos were taken around the same time every year.
Photo today, of course
Chelsea loves my camera, heck she loves my cell phone camera too. Given the opportunity she reaches for my camera strap or trying to touch the lens.

June 2008.
Chelsea will be here in a couple of weeks.

Kelly June 2007.
a couple of days after I got home from Paris, Kelly wanted to get her ears pierced




Kelly June 2006.
Besides writing on herself she and Wyatt wrote all over her wall.
I'm embarrassed to say that we still haven't painted over their "artwork". But her whole room will be remodeled in August.
Shhh... don't tell Kelly, it's a early birthday surprise.

i miss those curls.




Wyatt and Braxton June 2005
Wyatt was almost one and Braxton was maybe two months old.

I should get a current picture of those two together.

Goodness Chelsea looks a lot like her big brother.




So this is what 4 years of June's looks like, my how my babies have grown. How are family has grown.

I wonder what 4 years looks like at your house?

**Hey! Chelsea has started to clap her hands and say Uh oh!!**
Have a great weekend

Can you believe it's been almost a year already. Can I PLEASE turn back the clock? I spent most of the past weekend just making the invitations for Chlesea's party. I still need to do the birthday banner and the cupcake toppers.
Why is it when you finish a project you almost always see something you would do differently. I'm now looking at them and thinking I should have put some patterned/striped paper behind the scalloped oval. There done, that's all that matters.


Month 10
starting to wave and say no or nananana. wants to stand all the time, and walks along the furniture. Very unsteady. Chelsea is taking 1 two hour nap a day, Yeah!

Still has four teeth, wearing 6-9 or 12 month clothes. Scoots along the floor and is getting fast at it.
For some reason Chelsea likes to eat and pull out my hair. It's almost soothing for her and she has fallen asleep several times doing this.

11 months,
Can I please return for a different model? More teeth are coming in and she is a grouch. Chelsea's hair is getting thicker and a slight curl in the back like Kelly had. Her eyes are still that beautiful blue.
Waves bye and says bababab when Daddy leaves, When Grandmom or Nina leaves she just fusses or cries. Getting better at walking along the furniture and has taken one step here and there but that's it.
Chelsea doesn't want anything really to do with Mr. Bear and I will be happy when I can take this last picutre because this kid does NOT want to sit still and she keep shoving the bear away.
Chelsea is still eating hair but I'm trying to stop her because it hurts when she pulls and she is pulling out quite a bit of my hair.

Wyatt is anxiously awaiting the first day of Kindergarten. I swear he asks every single day.
Lately, in the morning whether I want one or not Wyatt will bring me a can of coke. Most days it will sit beside me for a couple of hours before I crack it open.
Oh and the things that Wyatt says. Oh goodness he is funny. Unfortunately I keep forgetting to write them down so my bad.
A couple of weeks ago I cleaned Wyatt's room, it was looking pretty good. I told Kelly that she needed to start cleaning hers. By this I mean books on the bookshelves and dirty clothes in her hamper. Okay, Kelly decides that whatever she doesn't want to deal with she will either put it in the hallway or she shoved it into Wyatt's room. The cousins show up about an hour later. Between all the kids they thrash Wyatt's room again. So last week I spent 3 hours on Kelly's room and 2 bags of garbage later her room was looking good. Two days later I tackle Wyatt's room again. 2 hours and 1 more bag of garbage and his room is neat and tidy. Almost all of the mess was Kelly's! She shoved stuff under his chair, under Chelsea's crib. Oy a mess. I have been very dilligent since last Friday and their rooms have remained clean. A major accomplishment for me to stay on top of them but dang it that mess was just awful. I can now walk to their beds without fear of breaking my neck. I really should have taken before and after pictures, it was worth documenting.
Off to make the heathens lunch.
I am hoping tonight to get more work done on the scraproom, so that Rob can get his drums up and I can reach all my stuff.

Gooood Morning!

Ahh the day after Memorial Day. Leftovers!! We had a very nice day yesterday.

Two years ago for Christmas I bought Rob a smoker to go along with his collection of outdoor cooking accessories. Well for the last two years said smoker has been sitting in it's box in the shed. Fast forward to last week where Rob sees on a show on how REALLY EASY it is to smoke food. So he decides to try it with some ribs we had in the freezer. After putting it together he reads that we need to go buy chips for it, so off to Wally world we go.

Rob seasons the smoker late Sunday night and the whole house smells gooooood. I can't wait for Monday afternoon.

Yesterday we had our home church over for a potluck. Rob did ribs in the smoker and chickens in the rotiserre, everyone else brought potato salad, broccoli cauliflower salad, chips, salad, baked beans, yummy food. The weather was perfect and the kids did great. By the time everyone left I still felt relaxed. Rob and I kept saying how nice the day was. We realized later that I never took a single picture to document the day. Rob asked me what kind of photographer did I think I was. I said one who took the day off obviously. (picture was from last year)

GREAT NEWS!! Mom passed her accounting class! Now she has one more class this summer and then she will GRADUATE!!! Plans for a huge party this fall, oh yeah we are gonna par- tey!!

Life returns semi-back to normal today. Laundry, dishes, refereeing kids, making lunches, changing diapers, reheating yummy leftovers.

I hope you enjoyed your weekend!

I would like to thank the blog www.Ilovemythreesons.blogspot for this super cute idea to give to my daughters teacher. The card was inspired by one I saw on the two peas gallery by melibean. I had some KI Memories school papers that I had been hoarding that were just perfect for this project. I didn't copy anyone exactly but it was kind of close. The card is signed by Kelly and also has a $25 visa gift card in it.
Remember you can always click on a picture to make it bigger.




One project ticked off my list. I still need to:
Edit Pops wedding photos, make invites for Chelsea's 1st birthday, make the banner and cupcake toppers for the party, make assortment of cards for card making night at Karen's for her Greece ministry trip. One of the ladies at church asked if Iwould put together a scrapbook that she wanted to give to her sister. And the list goes on.
From what I understand my mom is taking the kids saturday so I might try to knock out pop's wedding photos (300 of them), upload and make them into a book. and then I can tackle some cards. I'm really enjoying card making. It seems to be so much less stress for me. Not that I will give up scrappin my kids but I think all around this is good training. I'm teaching myself to think in layers and to think about the little details that make something so neat.


Kelly's last day is tomorrow and from what her teacher told me yesterday Kelly is having a hard time with the idea that she is going into 2nd grade but her teacher won't be there too. I was wondering if this was going to happen. Kelly does not like change AT ALL. but I know that once she gets going this fall she will have a great year. Rob and I will continue to be positive about the upcoming change.
Happy wednesday

This is me pretty much every day lately. With school getting out this week I'm already getting frazzled.

While I'm excited to have Kelly home for the summer I'm trying to come up with things to do so that they aren't killing each other by next Friday.

Wyatt is super excited about going to "Kelly's school" next year.

I have a "to do" list a mile long but don't feel like doing much of anything right this minute.

Chelsea has had a runny nose for over a week and is still trying to walk around with my assistance. I'll leave more details for the 10 month Mr. Bear post.

I think these were taken on Mothers Day. Rob was having fun and the kids were just nuts. I'm not even going to try and explain the photo speaks for itself.

My mothers day flowers. So pretty, there all dead now but i loved them while they lasted.

I have started going through and getting rid of both Wyatt's outgrown clothes and toys and also Chelsea's outgrown clothes.

In a way it's both sad and freeing. I think more it is a relief to be able to free up some space and not feel so cluttered all the time.

This is most certainly my kid or should I say Wyatt's sister. I took this just the other day and I knew I had the one of Wyatt. Might make a cute scrapbook page.

Chelsea is still being a pill right now. I will be so happy when she can start walking.

I need to get photos of her scooting across the floor. She is really starting to hall butt across the floor. Her ankle bone is red from scooting and rubbing across the tile.
Not much else going on around here. I have been playing more with my cuttlebug and it's embossing folders.
I have been making some cards and you will eventually see the gift I'm making for Kelly's teacher that she should receive tomorrow. I hope she likes it.

The heat here(100+) has been driving me crazy because it has come on so early this SPRING but on Sunday those dark clouds started coming up from the south. oohhh, it doesn't matter that it didn't rain but it was so nice not to have the blaring sun. But last night we did get some rain.

It had gotten cloudy so I took Chelsea out to swing. A few mintues later big fat drops started coming down. When it started raining a little harder I pulled Chels out of the swing and we went under the patio and watched it come down.

Already today the day has been cloudy but the heat is stil somewhat high. I'm hoping for more rain, of course.

Wow what a week.

I haven't even uploaded photos in two weeks.

I've been making cards, learning new techniques, cleaning, etc.

Chelsea is at the stage where she is rarely happy. All she wants to do is stand but that means I have to be able to sit in one spotto hold her hand. Should be easy right? Since I'm already at the computer. Except, she is tall enough that her head can easily bump into the corner of the keyboard drawer. But for the most part it is working like this. Me typing one handed while she wobbles a little beside me. If she chooses to sit her toys are right there also.

So how was your Mothers Day? We came home from church and Rob told me to relax and I finally watched Mama Mia. I think I had this cheesy grin on my face the whole time. It's been a while since I watched a musicial and to put it with ABBA music... whoever thought of this was a genius, so off the wall. The movie was kinda cheesy good and I think it would make great background noise while scrapbooking. So anyway I had a good mothers day.

Well I hope I didn't freak anyone out too much about my last post. My phone has been kinda quiet since I last posted and I haven't really known what to say. Monday was the second anniversary of Kim's death and maybe that's part of my trigger. I just miss the companionship, however toxic it was, I guess.

On to brighter thoughts, My mom, wonderful woman that she is has told me several times that I'm expensive to be around. After introducing her to the cuttlebug and all that craziness, I stumbled on a thread from the 2peas about a rolling bag for the cricut expression. Now the one the company makes for the cricut is like $80. well, leave it to the peas to find one cheaper that works just as well. I called Mom to let her know about it cause she wanted one. Without even asking her she told me to order two. They arrived last night, oh and they were $33 a piece. So for less than the provo craft tote she got two. even with shipping it was still cheaper.

Next week is our last week of school. Kind of happy but also dreading all the fighting. I'm hoping to try and keep the kids busy with crafts or practicing schoolwork.

Rob is waiting to hear if he has an interview for the Tucson Manger job for his company. He has found out that the company has also posted the job on Monster and there has been 77 other applicants but he is the only one in company that put in their resume. This is causing some great stress for Rob, which is . The person hiring for this position is also the person who has approached Rob several times about Safford, Lubbock. Rob is wondering why they seem to be so nonchalant about him in this position. He has been told to," put in your resume and we'll see what happens". So lately Rob has been short and grouchy and Chelsea still isn't sleeping through the night again, and last night was especially rough. I'm hoping and praying that one) Chelsea takes a couple of real good naps today and two) Rob gets some kind of definitive answer soon.

We were talking last night and we are both wondering where are we being lead or what are we being called to do. Example, if he doesn't get Tucson, does that mean the company is going to offer someplace else or something better at a latter date? hmm...

I could keep rambling but why??? :)

Reflections from on the mountain.

I'll start by saying that it amazes me how we have the ability to go from 90 degrees here on the desert floor, then in less than an hour the temperature is in the sixties and we are surrounded by pine trees and cool breezes.
I haven't been to our church's annual retreat since Kelly was a few months old. I must say I like them better now.
I'm not really sure where I want to start.
The theme for our retreats are becoming a true spiritual community.


A place for healing, encouragement and intimacy.
We are not your usual church retreat. We don't study a book of the bible we work on learning and teaching what it means to be a child of God.
Saturday morning in our first session the question that was asked was, "What is the message I got from my Dad"?
I have already started working on my Daddy issues in Potters Wheel and I thought I was learning and growing from that but things have a way of sneaking up on a person.
I have found that I have plenty of hurt and resentment towards my Dad and the situation he is currently in. I keep looking for the love,encouragement and protection that my Dad is not capable of giving me but that I have it in Christ. I would dearly love to go into details but I feel this is something that is between my Dad and myself.
I knew what this weekend was going to be about and I was hoping to get some counseling for other issues I'm having trouble with. (Taking a deeeeep breath)

Have you every had a thought that just kept nagging at you. You know the thought is untrue but there are some kernel of truth to it? Here is my issue.

I am afraid to have a best friend, even though my heart is crying out for one, because I'm afraid they will die on me.
Yes I know everyone dies.
Since Kim's death a couple of thoughts just keep presisting.
Kim and Natalie were two of my best friends both have died at a young age. Kristie, Nat's sister is also one of my dearest friends and she is/ has been going through some scary health issues. My friend Julie has already survived one bout of cancer. I'm afraid of getting close because I'm scared they are going to die too early.
Does this make any sense??
I guess in one way to put it simply is I feel like a weird black widow. Don't become her friend because it might kill you.
Sounds crazy huh? And I know it is but the thought keeps presisting.

I want to have those close friends that we are still getting together in our 70's.
I am that person who cheers you on, helps you out, listens and offers advice. I am a best friend, the one you call to vent with or to just hang with the girls.

I actually feel better putting this out there, it makes it less of a fear and more laughable.

So this is my most major issue i wanted to work through and find out at the core why satan keeps whispering this in my ear when I know it's untrue.
i know from typing this it shows vulnerability, it shows my true heart. My love and protection for the people I care about most deeply.
One of the things that i can offer people is my heart and satan is trying to lock that away. Makes you wonder what great things i can accomplish that satan is trying to stifle?

I have forgotten to show Chelsea's 9 month photo.

After a nasty cold Chelsea is once again sleeping through the night. Amen! Hallelujah!

She has four teeth, has tasted mashed potatoes, ice cream, garlic bread, cheerios,

Chelsea is standing up, shakily at best, but would rather stand than sit. Still says Mama.

Can cruise pretty well in her walker when she wants to. Still likes the swing in the morning.

Chelsea has discovered the TV. Hard not to when it is so big. Example; Wyatt walks in front of the TV when an ad with music plays. The kid will lean over to try and see around Wyatt. The obsession begins.

I know there is more so I will update this later.

I went a little wild with my Cricut Wild Cards cartridge. None of these will be given out I just made these to see how large they come and what they would look like. I have lots of the two color side cardstock from Costco that I was given.
The trick is to make the envelope first and then the card, as I made each envelope I wrote on it how large I could go. I believe for some of the cards you could actually do the card and envelope on the same paper.
This is just a handful of the cards you can make. I have written out cards that I would like to really make and the steps to create that card int the colors and extra touches that I would like.

Last night was Kelly's last troop meeting for the summer. This fall she will join a new troop and bridge to Brownies. I'm told that leader is super fun and that Kelly will have a blast.

The meeting was filled with making butterflies, writing a courageous and strong list and decorating cookies!


I really wish I could read her mind so that I could understand her better. Yes I could ask her, and I do, but she gets frustrated with me so fast that I don't push because it makes everything worse.
Just another thing we will muddle through on.


On Sunday before and after church I walked around taking photos. The cactus were blooming everywhere and I was on a hunt. Rob is very cool about it too. We have worked out that if I say pull over or go back he will. One point Sunday he was following me as I walked down the side of Houghton Rd.
This photo was taken in a neighbors yard, I love pink cactus flowers.





This was taken out in Rita ranch, I was circling this group of cactus trying different angles when I heard a rustle. I jumped and squealed. I got spooked by a darn bunny.
Rob was laughing at me when he saw the bunny dart out and into a clump of bushes


This pretty hibiscus was taken at the school where our church meets. On all the grounds this is the only hibiscus plant. I think a teacher planted it.

That's the update for the week so far.
The kids' slide came yesterday and Rob is also going to get our cooler running tonight. It's going to be 96 degrees today. Crap, give me back the 70's


Happy Tuesday
Biggest Loser night!

It could have been a lot worse and I'm so thankful it wasn't.
My mother-in-law takes Kelly to school almost every day. Yesterday they were in an accident. My worst fear. Thankfully nobody was hurt. Kelly has seatbelt rash and a small bruise and Inez has bruises and is sore today.
Inez gets the ticket for failing to yield to oncoming traffic, she says she never saw him coming. By looking at the road there are no tire marks from either car. The Durango has a broken front axle and all this side damage. This is the other car. The man driving

wasn't hurt at all, but I believe both cars are totalled
See Kelly sits in her booster seat in the front which isn't recommended but not illegal. Sitting up front allows her and grandma to talk and what not.
Anyway the emt's checked Kelly over and gave her a stuffed bear to name and hold. This bear has been her constant companion since yesterday morning. She named him Tiny.
Our plan is to go buy some more stuffed animals to give back to the station house to say thank you. Every officer at the scene was very nice and I appreciate everything that they did.


Happier news, Kelly was awarded High Honor roll at school on Wednesday. This was the group photo, I haven't rotated the others.

I also got photos of Kelly and Wyatt sitting together and of the boy Elijah that Kelly plays with.



See aren't these the ugliest eggs?
All we did was dye them, no funky decorating dye, nothing.
These eggs are no de shelled, yes peeled and ready to make egg salad. That sounds good for lunch today, and my stomach is growling.
Kiss your kids and have a good weekend.

This strap is calling my name

I really like, no I want this camera strap. Maybe I can ask Rob for it as a Mothers day present. Maybe if someone in my family is interested in getting me a birthday gift, you can go here to etsy.

You know in some ways I am pretty computer savvy and in others I'm just plain ignorant. Drives me crazy. I have spent the last 20 minutes trying to figure out how to post a link to Natalies etsy shop. I love all her camera straps but this one has been calling my name for a couple of months. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23711055 just highlight the link and it will take you to her etsy store. Who knows maybe I'll just buy it myself on of these days.

In other boring news I have succumbed to the ebay addiction again. Sad, I know. I have no will power. Why do I even bring it up on my screen?? Seriously, I hesitate on buying a camera strap, which i would use every frickin day but I can buy a cricut cartridge?? Where the heck is the logic in this??

So what did I end up ordering?? A little back story first

So I'm looking at the May/June issue of Paper Crafts Magazine. I see this cute baby card and it shows that it was made with the cricut. Okay, so i search my carts and see that I have the baby stroller but I can't find what cart makes the card. So I head to 2Peas and ask them. Well it's on this cart called Wild Cards. Come to find out and like Rob said I should have gotten this long ago if I had known how much was actually on there. So I call Rob and ask if he would be willing to stop by Joanns to see if they have it because I thought it was on sale(sale ended Sunday) Rob comes home and I start looking online for sales now knowing that I wouldn't be able to make this exact card for the baby shower and baby gift I'm giving to two people this weekend. So last resort I head to ebay.

Oh my doom, my failure. I look up wild cards and make a bid, but I'm smart(so I think :)) I have a limit to my bidding amount. I lose out on two tries. While I'm looking I see a couple carts ending soon that have low amounts. Like the Disney friends cart of characters, the cheapest I have ever found it was $30 on sale. So that is how much i would spend, well I lost out on it. no big it wasn't a necessity. The Storybook cart, every one raves about this cart well it has never gone below$40 yet. Oh forget trying to explain. The addict that I am ending up buying flat out Wild cards for $45 because I kept losing in bidding for higher than this amount. Then thinking I would be outbid but ended up winning Storybook for $40 and then I got a second chance offer for Disney friends for $25. Aw hell, Rob's cool with it all but I'm freaking. I now have over 20 carts. Not to reason it out but I've read of women who have EVERY cart out there, that's over 60 carts. I will not get to that point. I have been researching some cool projects to try and make and I'm going to ask mom if I can borrow her fiskars plates for embossing the papers for added texture.

I got the email this morning that Wild cards has shipped so maybe if I'm lucky I'll have it by Friday and make the baby card. If not I can do something else. See I'm very literal minded. I see it, like it, copy or scraplift it. I like to see how things are used before I will jump on the bandwagon.

Kelly has an awards ceremony this afternoon that I will try not to forget this time and hopefully get a couple of pictures of.

Last night was funny. We took apart Wyatts bed for his new captains bed, he is/was so excited, We start to bring in the bed from the carport, it barely fits in the door, we head down the hallway, it won't make the turn into Wyatt's room. Rob and I back it up to the living room stand it up and have to measure all the openings to make sure it fits through, barely, we drag it down the hall and squeak it through his door, now we have to lay it down. But wait, we have the ceiling fan in the way. I'm talking rubbing against, squeaking by, wiggling here and there to get his darn bed into place. Of course Wyatt really has no concept of what a captains bed really is but to him it sounds cool to him and he likes it so who cares right? I'll get a picture later.

Our church's annual Easter Egg hunt. This year was cold, windy and thankfully the rain held off till the last minute. Because I took my kids out into that mess all of them now have snotty noses.

Of course a little snotty nose won't stop kids from trying to overindulge in Easter candy all weekend.

we spent Saturday evening dying eggs and making a mess, what's weird is that the dye was scraping off the eggs before they were dry.

Otherwise it was nice that Rob got to do the eggs with us this year.

On Sunday Kelly comes in our room at 6am to let us know that the easter bunny had arrived and left them presents. The big kids got nerf guns, bts & balls and cool bubble wand blowers. Later that morning we dressed up and headed for church and for lunch/dinner went to Grandmom's for an egg hunt and good food.

My munchkins.

Rob and I loved Wyatts shirt, it had skulls and swords on it, which he was so happy to wear his "pirate" shirt. Kelly looked lovely in her baby blue plaid dress. The dress that I picked out for Chelsea was a little to thin to wear so Inez picked this outfit out for Chels.

Since we all were looking good we took a quick photo before we headed back out the door.

I rotated but have not cropped it yet.

Oh wait before I forget...

Chelsea said MAMA!!!!!!!

She started saying it Thursday night while I was saying the closing prayer for our homegroup. She just kept saying it over and over. Can you just see my grin??

During this week Chelsea's top front tooth broke through and I noticed this morning that the second top tooth is barely breaking through. Also, Chelsea now wants to stand all the time, if you make her sit she cries, if you put her in her walker she cries. I think I'll almost be happy when she starts to walk. She is just so fussy all the time and I'm not sure if it is the cold or not.

Oh by the way, happy 12th anniversary to us. That's how low key we are. Rob said to me sunday morning that he could have gotten me a card. I started laughing really hard, when Rob asked what's up I told him I never even thought about a card, it's just a day.

When we recapped the story for our mom's Inez said that Rob was bad and that his dad never forgot their anniversary and always got her a card and flowers.

I think for us it's always about everyone else, the church and the egg hunt, the kids, family dinner. We both don't put our day above everything else. After typing this out I'll have to talk to Rob about how he feels and see if this is actually a problem. hmmm......

So today I have a grumpy sick baby, kids having fun playing with their new stuff and I'm just relaxing (as much as I can with said baby)

Oh what a week so far.

I really have no idea where to begin. Well I guess the fact that I'm typing this at a quarter to 5 in the morning could be a good start.

Couldn't sleep, having some asthma issues and kept coughing, then I start to think about all the stuff that I want to get done, gets my mind racing, combined with a fussy baby, I might as well get up and do something.

I took photos at Pop's wedding on Saturday, it took me till yesterday to upload them because I was afraid to find out that most of them would be blurry.

My prayers were answered and I got some really good shots. Oh Lord thank you! I have worried for weeks about doing Pop's wedding and having all those special moments blurry. All the photos are in RAW and still need to be post processed so I can't post them on here but I am very relieved.

Since I had rented that 24-105 camera lens I also did a quick photo shoot of our friends Alonzo and Julie and their daughter Aliyah before Julie went in yesterday to have her 2nd daughter by c-section. Still haven't found out how it went. but oh well. I still need to process those shots too.

Now that I have returned the lens and looked at my photos I must say that I could of liked it. Granted it's a $1200 lens but it came through for me. Would I like to own it? I would like to check out the 24-70 lens and then compare the two.

I also have pictures of the new finished play set for the kids. It is way too cool because even I can play on it but alas, they are also in RAW and I haven't had the time to process them. It's on my list though.

You know all day long the thought wanders my head to blog about this or that but then I finally get on here and all the stuff that wanders doesn't seem like really much to talk about. I can say that I do not like being this busy, I feel like I'm missing something or not giving my best at one particular thing.

Today is somewhat free for me to do whatever, I need to make signs with Mr. Cricut for the Easter egg hunt (that might get rained out) and tidy up the house just a bit for homegroup tonight. Tomorrow I'm helping Rob with his landscape job because of his arm (yeah), then we have to load up the stuff for the hunt. Saturday I will be there at the hunt for a little while then I will bring back 3 extra children at my place while their parents continue to work. Sunday of course is the big day when the bunny comes to visit and ~cough~cough~ it's our 12th anniversary on the 12th. Kelly has school off Monday so as of Tuesday I'm pretty much back to my normal boring, but I like it, routine.

I have some things I want to try out with the cricut and I'm looking forward to doing that next week and also we are moving the craproom around again. Robs drums will go back up by the window and I'll have the front half. Maybe I can try and get rid of some junk. I would like to actually be able to work at my table and right now that is a horrific joke.

Happy Easter weekend.

This is mostly scrappin' related

I will start by saying I have a wonderful hubby.

I ordered and received a box the other day with the cricut carts 50 states, and doodlecharms along with my very own Jukebox. Now when I get with the girls we will have even more fun. Also this week we stopped by Rob's old workshop, the company moved to a new building, and picked up a desk for me to use. I now have to get my room organized or at least cleaned out so I can even think about putting a desk there.

I still have a wonderful hubby because there is more.

So yesterday I tell him about a cricut cart sale for these two new carts that I would really enjoy. He says to me are you telling me you bought them or are you asking? I told him neither that mom was buying them, more on this later.

We went shopping last night at Wally world for pants for the wedding on Saturday. We are walking by electronics when I see a 13" tv with dvd. I have been telling Rob I would like this for the scraproom for 8+months. Rob says we have the money do you want to get it? Well we have already been given a 13"tv I would just need to buy a dvd player. So trying to be money smart I said no that I will just spend $30 and get a dvd player. Rob then tells me he has a wall mount for my tv. whoo hoo I love saving space.

When we arrive home I hopped on ebay and I won Lyrical letters( one of the new carts that mom got on sale)for $45.00!! Ten dollars cheaper than Mom's sale! You can't buy it that cheap anywhere. I have decided that I will borrow Mom's Life's A Beach and save myself the money. The only full cart I would still like to get is Cars for Wyatt but I will wait for a good deal.

Today I am cleaning house and waiting for two things 1) the camera lens I have rented for the wedding on Saturday and the kids' playhouse is coming today!! Sadly to say it may be a couple of weeks before we can put it together because we are sooo busy the next couple of weeks.

Tomorrow I'm hanging with Julie as we head to IKEA to pick up a few things. This will be the longest we have ever hung out together I hope I don't bore her or drive her crazy.

I would so love to go crazy in IKEA but I will behave myself and just pick up a few things. I wish they had one of these in Tucson I think I would be a frequent visitor. sigh.