Wordless Wednesday

Her first day!

She's been waiting for this day for quite some time. She's told everyone who will listen that's she's in school. It is just preschool, but she still gets to take a backpack ;) We signed her up at the Big Red House Preschool. Got the reference from Carly. Its about 5 minutes away.
She picked out her show-n-tell item and packed it in her bag. Picked out what to wear, and how she wanted her hair. We all drove her over, and when we pulled up, she says "Mom, you stay in the car. I can walk up by myself." I almost cried right then! Lucky for me, I needed to drop off the payment for the month, so other than i didnt want to let her go... i had an excuse to follow her in and snap a couple blurry shots lol

She had a fun time. It's 6 girls...hmmm sounds familiar ha ha. And she was very excited to show us here papers from school. D kept hugging her, pull away to look at her or kiss her, then hug her some more :) She has gotten so tall, and grown up. Im so proud of her.

WinCo

Well... I'm still there. I hit my one year Winco anniversary in mid July. I cried. For a few days. Off and on. Our department has recently gone thru some rearranging with Mindy (the number 2 gal) leaving. It opened up a morning shift spot that Zach on my freight crew took 4 days of. When Mindy left completly, i asked to try the other days. Its from 6am to 2:30pm. I figured with me sleeping most of the day, or wanting to...it might be easier to sleep all night, and be home in the afternoon ready to play. It's been ok. I started on the 22nd of Aug just working 3 days a week, since Jb's forex is doing better. Its fun having a new challenge, learn new things, and see the sun! I ate lunch outside my first day :) Plus, its just projects. And we all know how much i love projects!! The thing that's been getting me is A's comments. "Mom, you need to be here. Sleeping." "Mom, I miss you when you are at work." "Where have you been?" ugh. So, I feel like im slowly catching up on my sleep and coming around to feeling more like a human than zombie. Hopefully i can go back being a fun mom and having friends lol. We'll see. Til then... I LOVE SLEEPING AT NIGHT!

Craft Crate

In trying to find space in our house for the furniture we DIDN'T have the first time around, i ended up with part of the office desk in the dining room. It's been a great spot for A's craft stuff and puzzles, my kitchenaid, and a cupboard for hiding things =)

I remembered seeing these Undercover Crates and knew i wanted to make some. I finally bought some fabric a month ago, and finally made them last night(JB gone on the first hunting wed-thurs-fri-sat trip). I love how they turned out... i still need to make the button.

A saw them the next morning. "Mom, those are so cute! I didn't know mom's could make such cute things!!" lol I still need to work on the shelf above the crates.. have a few ideas brewing... next hunting trip ;)

TARZAN!

Jb has been doing some major ward work, pulling the vines from the bushes on the north side of the yard. They completly over took the tree and all the bushes. He had a good chunck taken out, and off the side was this one. I heard A yelling and came out to see this!


My girl swing from the vine! Pretty fun! The kids love having a "swing" in the back yard lol

My Wicked Awesome Birthday!!

One for the books! I didnt have to work the night before or that night so i knew i had the whole day...and with that, the planning began! I got to wake up to my kids ;) have birthday cereal (which A said i got the wrong kind lol that's just because her and D both had the same kind so she thinks that is birthday cereal). I took a shower and got dressed in my new turquoise dress i bought with my mom (love ya) and we headed out the door to the free movie at Edwards. It was the Bee Movie. D had never been to a theater before, other than hug-a-bub days, and he sat on my lap for 45 mins!! Then went between me and jb for 10, and then we were out wandering. Pretty good for the little guy. We came home for lunch, opened up a few gifts, and laid D down for a nap while me and Ab got ready for... ROARING SPRINGS!!! A's first time and my second. It's been years since i have been and she had been asking to go this year. They run a special on Thursdays for the PM Plunge 3-8pm. $12 each reg $20. Jb had to work so it was just her and me. And it was a blast. We made it to 7:30 (with a snack run out to the car) and were worn out. Picked up chinese on the way home and fell asleep on the couch to a movie :) Thanks for a great day fam! I love you!

You know life is passing you by when....

you completly forget that you have a BLACKBERRY bush in the back yard that is ripe and ready to eat!!!!! Holy Moly! Slow down, take a deep breath, and explore the great outdoors. Well, the back yard at least!

i went for it!!!!

It's gonna wash out in 28 days says the box...

never been anything but a blonde for almost 27 years...

but i'm so proud of myself for finally doing it!

Happy Fathers Day!!

I think this is the favorite so far... "Awww... Chargers shirts!!" lol

Wordless Wednesday - Jb's Birthday 6/6/09

It's offical...

We are Nampians! We moved the mattresses in on the 27th and spent our first night back in Nampa. It's been.... interesting, lol, to be back in this house that we started out in. That we brought baby A home to. That we started the contruction business in, that has now helped us come back here ;) I walk around and just laugh. Laugh at the memories of this house. That is now closer to what i wanted it to be when we lived here the first time. Color on the walls and NO INDOOR CARPET!!!!, a decent couch (which isn't hard concidering the huge piece of crap of a couch we had before) , and a bathroom that i have fallen in love with[still work to be done, but i see it] . So the kids are now sharing a room which only took a couple of days to adjust to. The first night it was past 2 hours before D finally gave in that we weren't going back to the Meridian house, and A stopped complaining about him being too loud and wanting him to be in his own room. "Where are we going to put him A? There are no other rooms" i asked her. lol. (the first couple of times we went to the house while fixing it up she would ask "Mom? Where's the upstairs?")

I've still got boxes to unpack, furniture to rearrange and LOTS of yard work to get done, but here we are. It's already feels less stressful. Simplified. Only one bathroom to clean, and only so many places for toys to be played with =) We feel grateful to have a roof over our heads, and are humbled.

thanks

so I just wanted to say thanks to mom and M for helping at the house and with the kids. It's been a longer process that i think we first intended, so i appriciate the willingness and support :) I picked out the shower curtain, so i needed to get the bathroom painted so everything can get installed. I called M this morning and asked if i could drop the kids off for a couple hours to get it knocked out. Ab thought it was great and couldn't wait to get there. Thanks again! How about sending me over a pic of A and A to post, M? love ya

e-mailing my friends

"Well, I think this Sunday will be our last in the ward. We are just moving to Nampa, so I don't feel like I'm really leaving. I have to come to Meridian most days(well, nights =) ) for work so I feel like I'm still gonna be around. Plus, I really feel like I have friends. Here. In this ward. So I know that i'm gonna stay in contact, and try to be better about e-mailing and calling, and coming to play groups and such.
We have a few friends that we still know from the ward we are moving back into. The other day while working on the house in Nampa, Jeramiah made a comment about wondering who will still be in the ward. "So are you planning on coming to church?" I asked him. He smiled and said, "Well at least the first week." I think it will be a blessing for our family. He went more than he ever has when we lived there, so maybe getting back into will be easier. It's a smaller ward, in an older neighborhood.
The house is smaller and hopefully our stress levels go down, and we can simplify, and within the year i won't have to work anymore. Then maybe life will resemble a little of what it was before.... lol. "

Wordless Wednesday

open for business

well, reading at least. Yes, I switched over to an open blog. No more signing in. I figure it's the least i could do, so it's less hassle to see that I haven't posted anything new ;) lol. /// We are in the process of moving back to the Nampa house. The place it all started hehe. The carpet and vinyl are getting installed tomorrow, and then we'll start taking loads over, and hopefully be sleeping there next week. "Preferrably on your nights off" says Jb, since it might be long nights with the kids getting use to the house. We feel very blessed, and humbled, that we have a place to go... and i am looking forward to simplifying. I do love this Meridian house that my husband built with his two hands, but it's always been overwhelming to me. I look forward to less time cleaning, and a backyard with a fence :) Hopefully I'll have more time, cross my fingers, to blog. I do miss it. But i feel like i've missed out on lots over the last 10 months.... of well. We're alive and healthy. And about to return to being Nampians! [so another post might be awhile ;) You still love me]