New Do's

February was an all around S*it*y month! With my grandpa and my aunt passing away the same week, and having a miscarriage the week after! I was more than ready for it to be over! March has begun and so far so good:) I am feeling better as the days go by, but still have my moments. But tonight i decided to go out on a limb and give the girls their first haircut, at home! I was bit nervous, and hesitant. I kind of wanted them to go to a fun kids salon and have it cut by a professional. But then i realized i was talking about MY kids and that sounded great, but would probably end up disastrous!!! So, my baby girl no longer has a mullet! What a GREAT way to start this month :)

Before:

During:

After:

Ta Da!! :) She looks really cute! (If i do say so myself!) Emma just got a trim, it looks cute too, but not too much of a difference.

The end :)

My husband has a new love....

.......a 1930 Ford Pickup
He hasn't decided if it's a boy or a girl yet, (and he's even seen it's undercarriage!) So it remains nameless, for now. I have lots of new projects going, but shrinking their pictures to put on here apparently isn't one of them. I am now off to take Ken to the dr. oh boy. Then Jeff gets to take Em to the movies with his parents. ( I opted to stay home with the sicky! you know, put her to bed early, (because she IS sick) and then do something fun....like laundry...nah, that can wait i want to scrap!!!) Have a happy new year and hopefully i will stick to my resolution and keep up on my blog!

Some cards to share

Here are a few of the cards i am working on for the craft fair, 3 down, 147 to go :)

I still have some playing around to do on my scanner, the colors are a lot brighter on these in person. The top two i am leaving as blank note cards, for Joni's sake :P

blah

i don't even know what to say

my

external hard drive

that held

ALL

of

my pictures

is

fried.

it

actually

smoked.

Services TBA



WARNING: This here by gives me FULL permission to ENJOY some ALCOHOL at the BEACH!! Where i will then take LOTS of pictures and have them directly downloaded to a CD and then to Snapfish. Lesson learned.............the hard way.

CraSh BaNg BoOm!!!!!

My computer did all of that! It was a very stressful time, and we're still not totally in the clear, BUT we did get a new computer yesterday, and HP Pavilion Notebook :) And i am glad to be back among the blogging world! I can't post any of my pictures yet, because i don't have any!! My external hard drive is still at the Geek Squad in Best Buy hoping to come home next week with some of the important stuff off my old computer...we'll see! Other than that it's been a boring and stressed week and i am looking forward to a fun week and then THE BEACK :) :) :) The Pumkin patch on wednesday and then my parents (and Jeffs) are taking miss Em to Pismo with them, they are leaving on Friday and we can't go until Wednesday....that is 6 days with no Emma Sue......I've never done that before.....Kennedy will get us all to herself for the time and i am glad for that....but 6 WHOLE days with no Em.... Did i mention i was going to the beach....

Wow, i really rambled, didn't I! The joys of a brand new keyboard...you just want to keep typing :)



OK, here's where i was going to add a picture of the new laptop, but i couldn't find one!!! I guess it's too new, it just came out last sunday. Hmm, i'll have to figure out how to use the webcam and give you a picture of me.....ok, maybe not!!!!

Edward, how i love thee!!!!!!

Holy crap! That's pretty much all I've got to say! Dawn got me started on this series and i less than two weeks, i had all four of them read!! I can't get the story out of my head! I picked up the last book yesterday when i dropped off Em at preschool and i didn't start it until nap time around 1:00 and i didn't put it down until i finished it at 1:00AM!!!! Luckily JT was working overtime and got fed dinner at work because the girls got Mac n cheese (whole grain does make me feel a little better about it!!! :)) And they went to bed kinda rushed thru the process!!! Now i have to prepare for the movie to come out in November!! I feel like a little girl with a HORRIBLE crush on a fictional hero (who's really a vampire!) EYE YIE YIE!




On another note, i did finally finish some baby shower invites last week and got them in the mail. Jeff's aunt had asked me to make them for her daughter in law for their third baby and it was for a baby shower thru the mail because they had just moved to Washington. It was a little hard to get started, i wasn't sure what in the world to put on them, but i made up a poem and focused on the baby and i hope they come across ok, and not too tacky!!! I also added a tag page to each one in hopes that they will write down a "note of welcome" to baby Clara and when she gets them all, her mom will only have to put a brad through the top and she'll have a little book for Clara from her family. We'll have to see if everyone participates!!
I used Imaginisce Baby Powder Line, with some matching card stock, and some spare ribbon i had.

Dawn and i also took over part of a preschool project and i finished those up last weekend also,

So there it is, a late blog because i am still getting the hang of all this! :) The girls were also sick this last week, sore throats and all! Jeff and I spent the weekend finishing our deck with a redwood stain and weatherproofing it :) (Only a year after it was finished!!!) And now we begin the process to get ready for PISMO!!! Which of course looks like I'll be doing without him as he starts working 7 days a week! Oh well, somebodies gotta pay for our vacation!! :) It will be nice to get out there and for the first time, he'll get paid for being on vacation! Nice! Well, I'm off to clean the house so i can play with all the new Halloween goodies i got at Pocket last week! :)

From wooden signs to castles to twice baked taters!!

Last night i went to mom and dad's and cut out the goods to make this:

(Don't ask! It's a sign for a friend of ours!)

Anywho... when we got home, my left eye was pretty bloodshot, hmmmmm
This morning, it was still red and kind of teary so i decided we'd better stay home from preschool, i am making lots of new friends (as is Em) and we didn't want them all extremely mad at us for sharing pink eye! (If thats what it turned out to be!! but it wasn't, i am fine!) So we built this:


That's right, a pretty princess castle! WITH A WORKING DRAWBRIDGE!!! (I quite enjoyed myself for this invention of the day! :)) and it has custom decorations!
It was fun,

for a little while, then we had to move on


to water coloring, ALL of the 18 "My Little Pony" coloring pages we printed off the computer!
Next it was time for dinner, and a movie! Actually it was more like, because of the movie, we had dinner!!
I called Joni, she told me to do the following and then blog about it. Joni says "jump" i say " how high?" :P
First we throw potatoes in the microwave... then cut them in half
Then scoop 'em out
Then mash their guts up with....what ever you have in the fridge, and fill 'em back up! add some cheese and bake.
Then cover them with some of your homemade salsa (because you have tomatoes COMING OUT YOUR EARS!!! and because your daddy wanted some! :))
and enjoy!
(Please excuse Jeff for this lovely "what in the hell are you taking a picture of me for" look, he is still not use to the blogging life yet! :) But really, Joni, they were great! Thanks! :)

And now i get to run off to this
Our brand new California King Simmons Beauty rest mattress :) Which will soon be apart of this
(except the armoire) which we bought last weekend, which is where the box came from (the nightstand) which brings us back full circle! A busy day of entertaining two crazy kids, tomorrow, the same thing, but hopefully with a lot less mess!!!