Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers, mothers to be, soon to be mothers, and non mothers. I got a wonderful breakfast made for me this morning, and a wonderful lunch as well. Both were made by Marcus. Just being lazy today. Jacob is sleeping because he has to work again tonight. But I took a shower this morning and just put my pajamas back on. lol. I don't feel like doing anything today, first because I am so stuffed from breakfast and lunch, and second becasue I just can do that today.
I think later when Jacob goes to work I will sit at my desk and do some scrapbooking too. I used to bring out a bunch of stuff while he was sleeping and scrapbook out in the living room, but it is just so hard to lug it all out, then most of the time I want something that is still in the bedroom, and then I have to lug it all back and put it away. So I don't really do that anymore. Which that is fine, I will just scrpabook tonight after he goes to work, and then this week when he is off of work.
I am bummed that they changed his work schedule and we will NOT be able to go on vacation to Disneyland this coming weekend. URGH! But since he didn't take a vacation, they can make him work. So we are thinking of going to the Aquarium of the Pacific one day next week when he is off. Since they close at 6pm, we don't have to worry about missing stuff and having to head home early. Right now you can buy discounted tickets at Ralphs and all 6 of us can get into the park for about $75.00. That is a great price really. So we are hoping that it works out and we can go. We don't know exactly what his schedule is going to be the next week so we will see.
I am finding so many blogs online with such great inspiration that I think I should share some of them. I love all the blogs I read, but right now I am so drawn to a couple blogs and their scrapbook style. I will work on a post for that and share it.
On a quick last side note. Caleb can talk, but usually choses to just not talk. Or at least we say he is just not talking English. However when he wants to he says words, or phrases just as clear as day. Well today I asked little Jacob a question, and then said "Oh, nevermind". Caleb walks up to me and says, clear as day "Nevermind". It really sounds more like Nebermind, but still that is what he is saying. It is so darn cute we have been having him say it all day long. :) Oh the little things that amuze us when it comes to our kids. lol.
Off to change a stinky diaper...oh for Mother's Day I wish he could change his own lol.
Enjoy your day.

The party is over.

Well the party was great. My mom was TOTALLY surprised. She instantly started crying when she realized what was going on. She walked in and was giving the babies kisses and then she saw all of us in the kitchen and she was in shock. LOL. So the orange and green theme was great. Funny that it is the same color as her bathroom at home, so she took home some flowers and the wreath (which that was my intention to give them to her).
I am so mad at myself for not getting a picture of my mom and me together like I had wanted to do. I was having such a good hair day today too. Oh well. Then I had the birthday banner hung up with some orange green and white lanterns, and it kept falling down, so I never got a picture of that either. Oh well.

So here is the table with the white, orange and green food and decorations on it.

Here is her pineapple upside down cake with some flowers on it.

Here she is blowing out her candles.
Here is the jellos that I made. We ended up with this many left over. lol. I think I made alot of jello. But that is ok because the kids will eat them. I put cool whip on the ones that we put out, but even with the air on it was hot from the oven and it was starting to melt.

It turned out very nice and I am so glad that she was surprised. I really was afraid that she did know about it, but she didn't so that is good.

I am working on some scrapbook pages, but I am worn out too, so I might just relax tonight. I don't know. Maybe I will just play on the internet looking at some of my favorite sites. I dont' feel like moving from this chair that is for sure.

I can't believe that tomorrow is Mother's Day. The kids claim they are going to make me breakfast in the morning. A great Mother's Day would be no fighting once from any of the kids, no crying, no yelling, and me scrapbooking all day. lol. YEAH RIGHT. There are tears shed at least 6 times a day, the babies are always yelling at each other and they all fight with each other. So we will see.

I am thinking tonight since I am here in the living room on the laptop we should put in a movie and we should all watch it together. Well all being me and the kids since Jacob has to work again tonight.
Off to find some fun stuff online. :)

Orange and green

I am seeing in orange and green. LOL. No really. My moms surprise party is tomorrow at our house and the theme is in orange and green. I have been getting everything ready tonight along with folding tons of laundry I am way behind on.
For decorations I have:
Orange, Green and White lanterns
orange, green and white gerber daisies
clear and green crystals
a beaded wreath
a orange, green and white happy birthday banner I made
orange and green balloons
white streamer

orange and white napkins and silverware
orange and white napkins
plates in orange
plates in white with green and yellow on them
tablecloth in orange (if I can find it... :) )
green cloth squares to accent the table
orange cups

orange, clear and green bowls, dishes, and serving trays

Menu is

Chicken (white)
Salad (Green and some orange)
Carrots (orange...I am sure you see the pattern here)
Green Beans
Rolls
Mashed potatoes

Fruit (honeydew and cantaloupe)
chocolate covered strawberries
pretzels dipped in white chocolte and sprinkled with green apple sprinkles
orange and lime jello in little 3 oz. green plastic cups with cool whip on top and a pineapple inside the jello.

For dessert we are having pineapple upside down cake and vanilla ice cream and orange and green sherbert.

For the drinks we are having orange soda and sprite (the bottle is green) and of course diet coke for my mom.

The family is coming, except my grandma and Jim who are out of the state on vacation, and my aunt who has to work. Then Don invited a few friends of theirs. I think she is going to be so surprised.
I will share pictures later.
I have to get up early and finish up some stuff to get ready and vaccuum the house and mop too.

Off to bed now...I am tired.

Still dreaming of that house too. I am meeting the lady on Monday to get the application.

Thrifty Thursday

I found these two guys at the Thrift Store today. I believe I was at the American Way. I have found that I don't like the American Way, even though it is much bigger, as much as I really like the Salvation Army. TSA is cheaper. I was finding used stuff for expensive prices at TAW.

However I did find these two things. Each of them were only $1.99. I don't think I would have bought them if they were any more that that. The little urn vase has a little chip on one corner on the stand, and the tray is just down right ugly. They are currently drying in the front yard with a nice few coats of black spray paint on them. I really like that tray with the black on it, but I am still not sure about the urn vase. I am thinking the urn vase needs more of a brownish color to it. I will have to check out the spray paint colors next time I am at Walmart, or make a special trip to The Home Depot.

Ok I talked to the lady about the house again today. She said that she promises she will not rent it out. She is going to meet with me on Monday to give us the applications. As long as it all checks out the house will be ours. :) She has to make sure that we are not being evicted, or ever have been evicted and we don't go around writing bad checks. :) Which neither of those are us, so it is looking like it is going to work out, but I still don't want to get my hopes up until we have given our deposit and we are ready to move in. She is having the new brown carpet put in at the beginning of next week as well. Then she wants me to go look at it with the new carpet as well. She told me today that we should just like the kind of people they are looking for to put in this house. She has had about 30 other calls on it as well.
I am praying that this is meant for us. :) I think it was so meant to be becasue this was just the third or so house I called about, and only the second person I had actually talked to. The first guy was real nice, but he gave me the wrong address, so I couldn't find the house. The kids and I thought we found which one it was, but it just didn't jump out at me you know.

So I thought I would just share a couple pictures of the house....just so you can enjoy them with me. LOL.

I AM SO EXCITED still thinking about it. OMG I so hope that there are no problems and it is for sure ours.

Here is the front of the house.

Here is the BIG kitchen. I love how open it is. I am standing in the area where you would put a table and chairs in there.

Here are the stairs. See that wall there, I would so put a few pictures of the kids in black frames on that wall. Then in a vinyl quote have it say, "We do not remember days, but Moments".

Ok I am off to dream so more. I have the entire house decorated in my mind already. LOL. Ok I will stop now. No really I am off to finish up some stuff for my moms surprise party on Saturday. I am making a cute orange and green happy birthday banner with beads hanging. It is turning out real cute.
For her birthday I am making her a camera strap cover in a really pretty fabric. Acutally I am thinking I am going to make her two of them. I will share them later though.

That house

has been consuming all of my thoughts. lol. We went with Jacob this morning to look at it again. Then we were busy all day so I didn't get home until 8:30pm. The lady had called twice to see if we looked at it again. I called her back, but she didn't answer. So I am looking forward to talking with her tomorrow.
I really hope that it all works out. I am afraid to get my hopes up so much and then have it not work out. So I am just going to leave it as if it is meant to be the house for us then it will all work out.

I fell in love with a house today

We decided that we could afford to look for a little bit bigger house. I looked at 2 today and I fell in LOVE with this house. Ok it is only 150.00 more a month than we pay now.
CURRENTLY we have
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3 bedrooms
master has a shower and toilet in the bathroom
one sink
2 car garage
2 bathrooms
Dining table is in the kitchen area
Decent backyard
one hall closet
one entry closet
no overhead lights

THE HOUSE I LOVE HAS
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4 bedrooms
master has 2 huge closets
a shower and toilet in a behind door area
and a seperate whirlpool bathtub
double sinks
1 den
1 rec area
upstairs laundry room
one entry closet
one big storage area upstairs with a counter
2 rooms upstairs
master upstairs
1 bathroom upstairs
1 real room downstairs
the den is downstairs, but Marcus claimed that room already. lol
a nice backyard with a dog house already
a dining area
an area in the kitchen for a small table and chairs
they are putting in BRAND NEW carpet in a brown color
just painted a nice bright white
a window and ledge on the stairs


OMG I want this house so bad. I really hope that it works out for us. I am firm believer that everything happens for a reason, so if it doesn't work out I will be ok with that, but I REALLY hope that it does.
Jacob is still at work, so me and the kids went over and looked at it. I took pictures of it so that I could show Jacob tonight when he gets home. (He's going to the baseball game with some guys from work after work tonight).

I HOPE SO!!!!!!
The lady said that 5 people looked at it today and 4 of them were currently being evicted, and they won't rent to someone being evicted. Good thing for us. :)

We will just have to wait and see......

Happy Birthday to my Best Friend.

Today is the *^th birthday of my dear sweet best friend. Even though we don't get to see each other often, or ever for that matter, or talk on the phone hardly I still think of her daily. I wish we lived closer so that we could hang out and our kids could become good friends too.

She is a wonderful friend, a great mom, hard worker, beautiful, a survivor of many things, smart, funny and just an overall great person. We don't talk to often on the phone, we usually email each other, but when we do talk it is like we talk everyday on the phone. We met back in 7th grade. I had just moved to town and we had the same math class together and we ended up going to the same church, and really the rest is history. We were instant friends. I remember when she came up to me at church and started talking to me. We went through the rest of junior high together and then all of high school until I moved away. We continued to keep in touch and have known each other now over half of our lives. I really wish we lived closer, but that is just life sometimes. I wish she would move closer here. :) Then our kids could hang out. Jacob and Jack are only a month apart from each other. We could go shopping together and scrapbook together. Oh how I could only wish...... Maybe one day we will live closer together. This is the only current picture I have at the moment. (I copied it off her profile from this parenting site we used to go on).

Happy Birthday girl. Hope it is a good one this year. :)

Another completed layout.

This is the layout I did this morning. Well ok I have to admit that I had most of the layout done along time ago. I did it before Hailee's birthday party, I just had to add the photos. Well I printed them out this morning and added them. Then I got out my stickers that matched the paper and added the embelishments. The picture is dark again, sorry... I don't have good natural light in my house and it is too windy to take it outside. All the papers and stickers are imaginisce, then bazzill bling in white and light pink. The number 3 is from a set of chipboard numbers I got at Joanns for $1.00. The colors matched perfectly. I originally got them so I could paint them whatever color I needed, but heck why not use it if it matches.

I am waiting for my clothes to dry so I can finish getting ready for work, but I just wanted to share this layout.
My goal is to blog everyday for one month. Let's see...ya right.

I DID IT!!!

I actually did start AND finish a layout yesterday. I really love it too. I don't know if it because I got to use girl colors or just because the fact that I acutally got to scrapbook. Here is the completely layout. I love the little button sprinkle as I call it. :)

I used some Basic Grey paper, Imaginisce, Autumn Leaves, Bazzill Kraft Cardstock, Karen Foster and Memory Makers. It was so much fun to actually sit down and play. Even more so now than before because I am all reorganized in a much better system that works great for me.

I know the pictures aren't the greatest, but it I just took them and there was no good light today. It is cloudy and really windy outside today.

I have to work today and it is my last day to work. The store is open for about 2 more weeks, but I can't work any day during the week, next weekend is my moms birthday party and then mother's day, and the weekend after that is the stores last and we are on vacation that weekend. So I am so sad. However, I am going to be getting my hands on some Basic Grey Lime Rickey today. :) Thank you so much Cheryl.

Off to create something else before I have to get ready for work.

Bad Bad Blogger

We have had so much going on since the wedding I still have not had a chance to actually sit down and scrapbook anything. :( I had good intentions of doing it today and that hasn't worked out yet either. We just seem to be on the go every single day lately. Last weekend was Jacob's brother's fiancee bridal shower, last week we went to San Pedro to buy a boat, Jacob has been working on writing his ABC's, I finally finished up the thank you cards for the wedding and my bridal shower, the kids caught a lady bug and we made a home in a jar for it. I have gotten a few new things at a few different thrift stores to go around the house, a school board meeting we had to go to for Ryan to get into Excelsior, facilitator meetings for both the older boys, doctors appointments in LA and up here for Daddy Jacob, working, birthday party for Marcus, reorganizing all my scrapbook stuff on my desk and in my closet, putting up and away all the wedding gifts, school work with the older boys...you get the idea. I am also planning a little surprise party for my mom for next Saturday. Her birthday is May 12th. I am doing it in an orange and lime green theme. I have found some really cute stuff and think it is going to turn out nice. I am excited. I am working on some stuff for that still as well too. Yesterday we finally went big grocery shopping because we were tired of eating out so much the last week. I just never had time to go to the store. :(
The store that I work at is closing in 2 weeks :(. So this Sunday is going to be my last day working. I am sad. The poor store looks so empty when I go in there.

We are SUPPOSED to be going on vacation the weekend of the 15th, but they keep changing Jacob's work schedule so I don't know what days we are actually going to get to go. We are going to Disneyland and California Adventure. I am SOOOO excited. We just need to get away as a family.

So I am going to go print some pictures so I can sit down and maybe get something done today. Even if I just start a page.

Our ladybug home.

The magazine rack? I bought at the thrift store and spray painted black. It was $3.00. I don't know exactly what it was, but I am using it for a magazine holder in the living room. It looks nice now with a few coats of glossy black spray paint.

Our wedding and my bridal shower thank you cards.

A picture I took in San Pedro.

(No it is not even close to the boat we bought). Ours is just a 20' boat that Jacob wants to use for fishing and taking out on the lake or to Big Bear and stuff like that.

Jacob working on writing his letters. We are first working on A, B and C.

My soon to be sister in law at her bridal shower. She is also pregnant and expecting their baby in mid August. They were going to get married on May 31st, but just yesterday moved it to the end of August. They just can't afford it at this moment.