I thought this was pretty neat what they did to help Haiti and wanted to share it with you!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Serious Cuteness
I couldn't miss out on the opportunity to capture the massive amounts of cuteness that is Little Miss even if she was covered in avocado. She was just being so much fun that I couldn't ruin the moment by washing her face off.
She posed for this all by herself.
The avocado is a little distracting but adds to the cuteness.
Where did all the avocado go?
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Ian Axel---This is the New Year!
My cute friend Sara posted this video on her blog and I think I have totally fallen in love! I am not kidding, it's a great song and I think I am going to become a huge fan. I'll keep you posted.
Monday, February 15, 2010
My Demise
My demise, seriously it feels like dishes will be the death of me. I hardly ever get them done on the first night of dishes. It takes me 2 to 3 nights before I get them all done. I do get a lot of time to look out my pretty window and think but AAGGHH a whole hour of standing there!
The sink is full and the pile is onto the counter....there are so many here!!
I am looking forward to having a house with a dishwasher. Oh I can hardly wait. Hopefully I will survive the hand washing experience to feel blessed again with a dishwasher. Has anyone ever died of having to wash too many dishes?
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Love One Another
I am so blessed to have my life surrounded by so many people who have taught me how to love. On this Valentines Day I want to share a video that says it all. Enjoy
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Red Day
One of Justin's favorite colors is Red. He wears his red polos 2 to 3 times a week. One morning he woke up and got dressed as usual. Sariah went to pick out her clothes and came back with a red shirt as well. I thought might as well dress all 3 of us in red and blue today. I didn't get a picture of all 3 of us together, someone didn't want his picture taken.
Here is little miss watching her show in her red shirt.
Justin doing his homework in his red shirt
Mom self portrait in a red shirt.
The kiddos weren't too keen on getting their pictures taken today. They must see the camera way to much. Anyway, it was a rare day with all 3 of us wearing the same color so I had to document it.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Glendale Arizona Chocolate Festival
The weekend before Valentines Day they have a chocolate festival in Glendale, Arizona every year. This was our first year to go to it, most likely our last year to go as well. It was a good memory but not an event that I would take kiddos to again.
We went on Saturday afternoon and it was jammed packed with people. It was seriously way to crowded and I wish I would of brought the backpack instead of the stroller for Sariah. There were not enough chocolate booths. I think the regular type festival booths out numbered the chocolate booths 3 to 1. The best part of the whole festival was getting to see my great friend Nikki! She has the cutest little gal too.
Here is Justin's favorite booth. It was the donut making booth. They had chocolate dipping sauce for the donuts. We didn't get these for our treat because Little Man really wanted chocolate covered strawberries.
Can you just imagine the fat content on those donuts?
This beautiful strawberry cost $3. It was super yummy.
So happy to have his strawberry but so bummed that he only got 1 for his $3.
Sariah's strawberry.
She attempted to eat it.
Didn't like the effort it took to get to the strawberry, she wasn't a fan of the dark chocolate.
Can you see the sarcasm on this face? Seriously 1 strawberry for $3?
This little bee on the ground was once in my hair. My friend Nikki gave me a hug and found him in my hair! She saved my life.
They had all these jump houses way over priced as well. Justin got to jump through this one for $3. Seriously we thought they would let him go more then once. Nope. Can we say rip off?
Sariah was entertained for free with the water coming out of the rocks. This lasted until she got soaking wet.
Nikki and her cute Claire with Justin.
The yummy chocolate covered banana made it's way into the pic with me and Nikki. Love this girl and so glad that she is in AZ again. We will have to hang out in a less crowded area next time!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Camera Giveaway
I have an awesome friend in Texas who is expanding her business in the photography world and doing a camera giveaway as well. Go check her blog out and enter the giveaway! I sure hope to win this for my little man he would love it!!!
House, a work in progress
I have such a handy husband. The only thing he hasn't done on our house is the roof. We got some one to come out and take care of fixing that for us. Here is a shot of the roof before the add the shingles.
No more yucky green carpet and such a cute wheel barrel. Not a permanent fixture in our living room.
No more tile on the ground, stove in the family room?
We are missing some drywall on the ceiling? The roof leak damaged this ceiling that James tore out.
Our once very empty garage now full of all our things that have been in storage.
Can hardly wait to move this stuff into the house.
There has been more work done since these pictures. I have picked out tiles, carpet, paint, and much more. I will update them as I take them. Each day it feels more and more like our home.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Beautiful Ring
At Christmas time I went to get my ring cleaned and the nice sales lady said...I'm sorry your diamond is loose so we can't clean it till it gets fixed. Since I was in Utah I had to wait till I got back to AZ to get the diamond fixed and then cleaned. After 2 weeks of not wearing my ring I finally got it back last week. Wahoo! I had a request to post pictures of the beauty which I call my ring. I love it! James did such a great job picking it out. It looks so pretty all clean and sparkling.
Monday, February 8, 2010
My Type of Crazy
For as long as I can remember I have had to fight "my type of crazy". Although I have a few family members who share the same type of crazy, I still call it my crazy. When exactly it began I am unsure. It seems like I have fought it forever but at the same time I know that there were times when I wasn't sooo crazy. For the past month it seems like all I have been doing is fighting this craziness.
For example a few weekends ago my husband said he was going to the house to work on it for a couple hours so I could get a nap with Sariah, such a nice guy. (Couple means 2 in my brain and the English dictionary.) As he was leaving around 12:30 with Justin, he decided to take the minivan since I was napping. It is his car too. When he left he didn't leave me a key to his car. Nor did he take his cell phone because it had to be charged. So he leaves me with no way of being able to contact him via phone or driving over to see him. Oh and my Dad and his wife who live 2 miles away were out of town until 9pm. The stars were aligned just perfectly for my type of crazy to come out.
Nap time didn't go so well with little miss. After an hour of fighting with her to go to sleep we finally got up around 2 to watch a Veggie Tale. Thinking to myself, "James should be home in at least an hour."
By 3:30 James wasn't home and I was having to fight the thoughts of something terrible. What if he was tearing the drywall off the ceiling and a piece fell and pierced him in the leg cutting a major artery and he is bleeding to death? Or it fell and knocked him unconscious? Justin has no way of contacting me and he doesn't know any of our neighbors and we have taught him way to well not to talk to strangers.
4 o'clock comes and Sariah and I decide to take a walk outside to distract us from my crazy thoughts. What if he got in a car accident on the way home and he doesn't have any id that would send the police to our apartment since we are only living here for 2 months? Plus he doesn't have his phone so they don't know how to call his wife. We aren't Arizona residents yet so they can't look up his info. What if Justin was thrown from the car and they can't find him cause they didn't know he was in the car?
Sariah and I get back from the walk and start to make dinner. 5 o'clock comes and goes and they still aren't here. 5:30 and the sun is starting to set. I fill up the sink with dishes and the thoughts are coming like a mad person. We haven't turned the electricity on at the house since we just closed on it 2 days ago. I see Justin laying next to his dad in a cold dark house crying cause his dad is unconscious from lack of blood. Or I see a murderer who has come in and is torturing them to death. Or the minivan has a faulty fuel injection pump that ignigted and they were trapped in the car as it burned to the ground
As I stand at the sink washing dishes, I start to make plans of how I am going to get to the house to check on my boys. I can call the bishop or the Relief Society president and have them drive me over there. I practice over and over what I am going to say to them so they don't think I am super crazy. I then go through the whole scenario of what I am going to do if my thoughts are really true. How am I going to plan a funeral? How am I going to live without him? Where am I going to live? What am I going to do with our new house that won't sell because it is all torn up and people have died in it? How can I make sure that my kiddos remember there Daddy? Seriously are these not the craziest thoughts?
6:15 I am half-way through the dishes, (my goal is to finish the dishes before calling anyone for help) and the doorbell rings. Since living in our apartment the doorbell had never rung up to that point. My heart was in my throat and it was all I can do not to burst into tears as I went to the door. In my head the only person who could possibly be ringing the doorbell would be the police.
As I open the door as calmly as my type of crazy will allow, I see a cute little Justin with a big smile. He wanted to surprise me by ringing the doorbell. AAAGHH! They were alive, a huge sense of relief washes over me as I asked Justin why he rang the doorbell. James walks in and I tell him that I was worried. He says oh no need to worry, we are fine.
If he only understood the magnitude of my worrying and the way my type of crazy goes. Leaving at12:30 for a couple hours would be getting home at 2:30 or 3 the latest. 6:15 is almost 6 hours. Seriously!!!Needless to say there was a long conversation after the kids went to bed about being contactable and leaving me with a mode of transportation.
I would like to say that is where the crazy thoughts ended this month but they have not. I have had more then one day this month where I thought someone I loved was going to die. If James doesn't call me when he gets off work to let me know what time he will be home all sorts of things happen to him in my mind before he walks through the door. Not to mention all the thoughts I have of hot women throwing themselves at my super hot husband.
The thought I have almost daily is that someone is going to come and snatch Justin or Sariah from me. That one I can control more readily by always knowing where my kids are and what they are doing. But if Justin is 5 minutes late getting out of school I am practically hysterical, unless otherwise distracted. Seriously when they become teenagers what am I going to do? Hopefully they will learn that an informed mom is a happy mom. Hopefully by the time they are teenagers I will have a bit more control of my type of crazy. Maybe it will be gone. Here's hopin'.
For example a few weekends ago my husband said he was going to the house to work on it for a couple hours so I could get a nap with Sariah, such a nice guy. (Couple means 2 in my brain and the English dictionary.) As he was leaving around 12:30 with Justin, he decided to take the minivan since I was napping. It is his car too. When he left he didn't leave me a key to his car. Nor did he take his cell phone because it had to be charged. So he leaves me with no way of being able to contact him via phone or driving over to see him. Oh and my Dad and his wife who live 2 miles away were out of town until 9pm. The stars were aligned just perfectly for my type of crazy to come out.
Nap time didn't go so well with little miss. After an hour of fighting with her to go to sleep we finally got up around 2 to watch a Veggie Tale. Thinking to myself, "James should be home in at least an hour."
By 3:30 James wasn't home and I was having to fight the thoughts of something terrible. What if he was tearing the drywall off the ceiling and a piece fell and pierced him in the leg cutting a major artery and he is bleeding to death? Or it fell and knocked him unconscious? Justin has no way of contacting me and he doesn't know any of our neighbors and we have taught him way to well not to talk to strangers.
4 o'clock comes and Sariah and I decide to take a walk outside to distract us from my crazy thoughts. What if he got in a car accident on the way home and he doesn't have any id that would send the police to our apartment since we are only living here for 2 months? Plus he doesn't have his phone so they don't know how to call his wife. We aren't Arizona residents yet so they can't look up his info. What if Justin was thrown from the car and they can't find him cause they didn't know he was in the car?
Sariah and I get back from the walk and start to make dinner. 5 o'clock comes and goes and they still aren't here. 5:30 and the sun is starting to set. I fill up the sink with dishes and the thoughts are coming like a mad person. We haven't turned the electricity on at the house since we just closed on it 2 days ago. I see Justin laying next to his dad in a cold dark house crying cause his dad is unconscious from lack of blood. Or I see a murderer who has come in and is torturing them to death. Or the minivan has a faulty fuel injection pump that ignigted and they were trapped in the car as it burned to the ground
As I stand at the sink washing dishes, I start to make plans of how I am going to get to the house to check on my boys. I can call the bishop or the Relief Society president and have them drive me over there. I practice over and over what I am going to say to them so they don't think I am super crazy. I then go through the whole scenario of what I am going to do if my thoughts are really true. How am I going to plan a funeral? How am I going to live without him? Where am I going to live? What am I going to do with our new house that won't sell because it is all torn up and people have died in it? How can I make sure that my kiddos remember there Daddy? Seriously are these not the craziest thoughts?
6:15 I am half-way through the dishes, (my goal is to finish the dishes before calling anyone for help) and the doorbell rings. Since living in our apartment the doorbell had never rung up to that point. My heart was in my throat and it was all I can do not to burst into tears as I went to the door. In my head the only person who could possibly be ringing the doorbell would be the police.
As I open the door as calmly as my type of crazy will allow, I see a cute little Justin with a big smile. He wanted to surprise me by ringing the doorbell. AAAGHH! They were alive, a huge sense of relief washes over me as I asked Justin why he rang the doorbell. James walks in and I tell him that I was worried. He says oh no need to worry, we are fine.
If he only understood the magnitude of my worrying and the way my type of crazy goes. Leaving at12:30 for a couple hours would be getting home at 2:30 or 3 the latest. 6:15 is almost 6 hours. Seriously!!!Needless to say there was a long conversation after the kids went to bed about being contactable and leaving me with a mode of transportation.
I would like to say that is where the crazy thoughts ended this month but they have not. I have had more then one day this month where I thought someone I loved was going to die. If James doesn't call me when he gets off work to let me know what time he will be home all sorts of things happen to him in my mind before he walks through the door. Not to mention all the thoughts I have of hot women throwing themselves at my super hot husband.
The thought I have almost daily is that someone is going to come and snatch Justin or Sariah from me. That one I can control more readily by always knowing where my kids are and what they are doing. But if Justin is 5 minutes late getting out of school I am practically hysterical, unless otherwise distracted. Seriously when they become teenagers what am I going to do? Hopefully they will learn that an informed mom is a happy mom. Hopefully by the time they are teenagers I will have a bit more control of my type of crazy. Maybe it will be gone. Here's hopin'.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Ponytail!
Little Miss has such beautiful long hair that can now fit in a pony tail. Wahoo!
Happy Kiddos.
After an hour of her hair being in a pony it started to come out, her hair is so thin.
But she is still cute and we will try again when it grows a little longer.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
House, Closing Day
After months of house searching, loan processing and the run around from too many people, we finally got the keys and closed on our house the day before my birthday! It was seriously the best birthday present ever.
I think the pictures don't even begin to do justice to the size of the house. Especially the shot from the front of the house.
Here is Little Man in front of the house with the Silver Bullet to the side.
I think he was trying to get Sariah in this picture as well.
Goodbye for sale sign.
I was amazed that he got it out of the ground. This house was on the market for a very long time...sat empty for like 8 months.
Little Miss and James with our amazing relator Rick.
So excited to open the door for the first time to our house. Yes I have been in it many times before this picture was taken but this was the first time that it was opened and we owned it!
The Entry Way...you can see Justin and Sariah running away. They love running around the house.
Laundry Room off the kitchen.
Work Bench in the Garage.
Justin in the middle of the Garage.
Kids possible playroom or James' office.
Dining Room
I don't know what to do with this room...I really don't like the color and it's just a weird place for it to be...I might make it the kids playroom so I can see them from the kitchen. Yes that window is the kitchen, it's weird but might be helpful.
Maybe they did daycare from their home? It has a two-way door thing. So weird.
Really, yellow door?
Justin so excited for his own room.
Standing in the Master Bedroom looking to my bathroom.
LOVE MY TUB!!! (Maybe I could do a home birth next time.)
Hallway away from the kids rooms to the master.
Hallway away from kids rooms to the living area
Looking from the family room to the kitchen and dining room.
From kitchen to family room
RV parking and shed
So the backyard is a little small but we will make do. The trees are awesome and Justin already has plans for a tree house. There is also a jacuzzi that needs repaired and I think would be fun as long as we could keep it safely from the kiddos.
We are doing some major remodeling on the house before we move in at the end of February, so I will keep you updated with pics as we go through the different stages. Our family can hardly wait to move into our new home!!
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