Posted in children, family, Love of a Lifetime on November 10, 2008| 8 Comments »
Today we celebrate 18 AMAZING years of marriage!
Happy Anniversary Spike!
I LOVE YOU!
We also celebrate this little cutie who decided to come almost three weeks early and be born on our 12th anniversary… I can’t think of a better anniversary gift than a baby… Happy 6th Birthday Tanner!
Posted in children, family, Love of a Lifetime on November 6, 2008| 8 Comments »
So I am beginning to think my November nights will be spent at Kaiser… Remember last year ? Although I must say this time it wasn’t as scary, but none the less I was there after dark. Our son, Johnny played football during PE yesterday at school. Was collided into by about 4 others from both sides, hurt his wrist on the left hand, his thumb on the right hand, was bleeding from a tooth, his teacher told him to go to the bathroom and rinse his mouth out, on the way… he lost his vision, everything went white and blurry, he had ringing in his ears and fell onto the near by wall… When he regained his wits, he did as he was told, then went to 6th period…. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? It wasn’t until he got home from school an hour later that I was informed of all of this! Needless to say I am NOT happy at how lightly this was taken. I called the advice nurse, and by 5:30 we were headed to after hour care….
Xrays
“wrapping room”
Thankfully nothing is broken, just badly sprained… We also had to keep him awake for 8 hours because of a minor concussion. Of course I think he has the same thing his dad has, and the pain caused the fainting?? Go figure…
On the way home….
Posted in children on November 3, 2008| 3 Comments »
Saturday night was the fall formal, it was a cloudy rainy day {perfect}! My son is just like his mom….
LOVES the rain!
Posted in Bliss, children on October 27, 2008| 5 Comments »
Today was a FUN day at the Pumpkin Patch…
This little charmer chose the first pumpkin for me!
Posted in children, Moods on October 23, 2008| 14 Comments »
Let me start by saying this picture has nothing to do with this post other than it shows FRUSTRATION….
So I decide as soon as I am done working in the kindergarten class, I would come straight home and clean. I did just that came home started the dishwasher, hand washed the rest, cleared my counter tops of week of clutter, put that glass surface stove top wax stuff on the stove, wiped down the refrigerator, dusted the family room….. Then I VACUUMED, oh how I love to vacuum, I was super happy, enjoying myself… I mopped the kitchen and entry, the house smelled of Pinesol and looked beautiful….
So when the kids all arrive home from school I get everyone started on homework, and head out to church to continue on with the never ending hallway murals…. I try to call my hubby for a good ol’ pep talk {he is so good at those and calming my spirit when I am feeling rage}… He didn’t answer…. Oh well deal with it right….
So as I am driving home feeling even more frustrated than when I left…. I am envisioning ALL the work I did this morning destroyed… and I decide then and there that as soon as they eat dinner the two little ones are going STRAIGHT to bed {punishment}….
Dinner is over at 6:15 {it is already dark out} I tell them to brush their teeth, put pajamas on and get in bed, and if I heard one peep out of there room BIG trouble…. To which the 9 year old says, “what if a cats makes a noise”??? UGHHHHHHHHHH I want to scream….
I tell him he has exactly one minute to get in bed and STOP his CRYING…
I am so glad it’s 7:09 pm and no sound is coming from their room, and that same 15 year old is still sitting here at the table doing his homework {since 2:30} he did stop long enough to eat Taco Bell….
I am glad this day is done….
Posted in children, Gifts, projects on October 15, 2008| 6 Comments »
I made these last year for my sons preschool class, it was a huge considering all if the candy that gets past out, the mothers were all grateful!
Supplies:
Black cardstock
Halloween patterned scrapbook paper
Halloween rubber stamp {plus black ink}
Ribbon I used orange and black
Halloween Cookie Cutters
* You can also adapt this for Christmas, Easter, birthday favors….
Here is the recipe you will need to print {mine reads}
Happy Halloween
{Make this fun play dough recipe with your mom or dad}
Play Dough
1 cup boiling water
2 TBSP cooking oil
1/2 cup salt
1 cup flour
1 pkg Kool Aid mix
Stir water, oil, and salt until dissolved.
Stir in flour and Kool Aid mix until cool enough
to knead to desired consistency. Put in container.
Store in fridge. Cut into fun shapes with cookie cutters.
Posted in children, Decorating, projects on October 4, 2008| 6 Comments »
I was asked by the children’s director of our church to come up with classroom themes and a hallway theme to tie everything together…. What I came up with is… The nursery will be a “Garden” theme with trees, birds, and nests. The toddler room is going to be “The Farm”, preschool/kindergarten is “The Jungle”, First through 6th grade will be “The Beach” and an overflow room as “The Forest”… Rooms decided now how do you make that work with a L-O-N-G hallway…. I decided to go with a road theme, imagine driving down the road and seeing different sites… I needed help from a real artist with the design how do you flow a forest into a beach? A farm into a forest? The there is the whole depth perception aspect {not my area at all}… So with the help of Diane… here is our progress so far… I thought about waiting until completion before posting, but then if my posts are far and few between you may wonder what I am up to… So 4 hours of Thursday got us drawing outlines on the blue walls and all the brown road, fence posts, and tree trunks done…
Friday morning we started painting at 7:00 am and stopped at 6:30 pm…. 11 1/2 got us to this…
We still have a ways to go and I will update with more photos as we go along…
*Did you know if you spend 4 hours squatting on Thursday, and paint for 11 plus hours on Friday that on Saturday, you are BARELY able to move your legs… I am talking PAIN people serious PAIN…
Posted in children, Uncategorized on September 29, 2008| 8 Comments »
Our oldest had his wisdom teeth removed today {all 4}… What a terrible experience… As soon as his eyes were opened from surgery, they had him in a wheel chair and asked us to pull the car around to the back of the building, that right there should tell ya something… Like they don’t want the other patients in the waiting room to witness, all the BLOOD, that was pouring out of his mouth… I looked at the attendant and said, you expect me to take him in my car bleeding like that?? He said oh it’s normal to bleed after surgery… I’ll change his gauze one more time and then you can change it for him every 30 minutes for the next two hours… Let me tell you, we went through the entire bag of gauze before we even got to Lodi. By the time we got home from the pharmacy with his antibiotic, and 2 pain meds. He was throwing up… Apparently the anesthesia made him nauseous… Figures, {that happened to me too} so by noon, when my hubby was at the drug store buying more gauze, I was on the phone crying to my mom pleading for her to take the other three boys to her house when she got off work this evening, {I really didn’t have to plead she was way more than willing, even got off right then and there drove around the corner, she works directly behind my house and picked up the three little brothers}… Not that they were being difficult or hard, our boys are SUPER easy… but… Let’s just say Chris has serious GRUMPY issues after being put under and when in pain, the noise and distraction was just too much. FINALLY as of 6 PM this evening the bleeding and throwing up has stopped… What an EXTREMELY hard day, I am so very thankful my hubby was off to help, I am also beyond thankful my parents are so near and willing to take my kids and fill their days and nights with GREAT FUN….
I would be very grateful if someone would come over and decorate my house for fall, I am thinking it will never happen, and after today I am not in the mood… Here’s to hoping for a better day tomorrow and praying for quick healing for our son.
Posted in children, family on September 16, 2008| 5 Comments »
Our family was blessed with another BOY, my cousin Lyndel and her hubby Jose, just welcomed
Remington Jett
8 lbs 14 oz
21 1/2″ long
I wanted to personalize something for him, and after talking to Lyndel, given Jett is his middle name a nursery with planes would be perfect!
I was hoping to post pictures of him, but when we went to visit {they were supposed to come home this morning} they weren’t home, apparently Lyndel has had a horrible MIGRAINE since delivery. They should be home soon, and I will post his too CUTE picture then!
Posted in children on August 27, 2008| 4 Comments »
This week my house has been filled with 120 toes, yep you read right… I have had 12 people here Monday, Tuesday, and they will be here again today. I told my hubby I haven’t blogged I am going through withdrawals, but I haven’t been crafting, junkin, or doing any other interesting stuff lately. He suggested I blog about 120 toes, he even went so far as to suggest I have them all sit in a circle and take a picture of there toes… That would be WAY hard considering the ages range from 1 to 15. Plus they aren’t all here at the same time. If they are it is only for about an hour. This has become the hang out for the high school kids {which is fine with me, I am HOME and know what’s going on} 😉 and I have been watching a friends little ones. So there you have it, 120 toes and finally a post. I have crafts and baking on the calendar for later in the week stay tuned!
Lipstick and Laundry 