My son Elias has been talking and waiting for this night since last Halloween. He has his costume all ready. This year he picked a cowboy (we never do scary) his hat, badge and neckerchief is all laid out and ready to go. I love watching the excitement in his eyes. Adam is going to be Piglet. He hates the costume but I hope I can at least get him to wear it for a picture or 2.
This afternoon is a costume/birthday party for 2 of our playgroup friends. He is real excited about that too. Brianna’s mommy is having the party at her house and Angie cracks me up with her posts about getting ready for the party. So today is filled with lots of activities. I will have my camera with me today 
I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Halloween.
I have been a bad blogger…shame shame on me =) My friend Erin, got me hooked on a new scrap book forum and I have to say I have been knee deep in posts and new layouts.
I completed 4 layouts and I am going to more today. I will stop later on so I can take my kids to a fall festival at a local church. I got the bug bad this weekend. I can’t wait to get started this morning and with the time change I am feeling a little out of sorts. It is so early but late. Confusing yes I know. Coffee is my friend.
I am also really proud of myself, I have been dieting for the past month or so and have lost a total of 12 lbs and I can fit into my jeans…woot woot! I figured this is the best time of year to do it, that way I can train myself not to indulge in the sweets of the holidays. Then it wont be as hard the rest of the year. I have a specific goal in mind and I so want to reach it.
The house is coming along beautifully. All but 10% of our sheet rock is up. Filling holes and sanding is on the agenda for today. Then they will start on the 2 bedrooms upstairs. The end is in sight. I get goose bumps thinking about it.
I will just say that my head is hurting. I am in love with Photoshop and I can’t get enough of the tutorials I have found on it. I have had Photoshop for a long time, because of my geeky computer IT fiance’, but never knew all the stuff you could do with it. Honestly, I never wanted to take the time to learn. Photoshop can be complicated, but the results are oh so beautiful!
I have this passion for digital scrap-booking and I want to learn how to make my pages look as good as other on digiforums and also as good as my dear friend Melissa.
On today’s agenda I want to dabble in making blinkies and trying to make torn or ripped edges on paper for my digital pages. Now the tutorial on these 2 things are like a whole page long, so I am thinking this could be an all day project. I have already practiced a couple times with the tearing and I am not happy with the results the more I look at it.
So today is a day of learning and experimenting. I should probably take some ibuprofen now, just in case
Noah-”Dad, you know my brain isn’t remembering things to much anymore.”
Dad-”Oh really? Wonder why.”
Noah-”I don’t know, but it’s like one of those cheap memory cards for the Game Cube, I don’t have enough blocks.”
Dad-”(holding back laughter) Hmmm, really. That’s interesting.”
Noah-”Yeah.”
“Has someone seen the life I planned?
It seems it’s been misplaced
I’ve looked in every corner
It’s lost without a trace…”
~ Beth Moore~
From the poem: “The Life I Planned ”
When I first read this quote I immediately began to think about what I had wanted to do when I got out of high-school. I had all these things in my mind about how I was going move out of my parents house, go to college and become something in the medical field (preferably in nursing). That isn’t at all how it happened.
I found myself a year out of the high-school pregnant. Well unlike things now, I just gave up on everything else and became a mom, housewife and in love with (what I thought) was the love of my life. Of course things didn’t work out there too and I was a single mom. During that part of my life, I did all kinds of things that I am not proud of.
But going through that part of my life lead me to this one. I have a beautiful family, wonderful fiance’, great accomplishments and it has brought me closer spiritually as well. I do have regrets about things that I have done. But where would I be if I had done all the things that I had planned on and not messed up a lot. Would I be here? Would I have all my children or my fiance’?
I truly believe that my life was to be this way, from the very beginning. I believe that my life has already been planned out before I was even born. So therefore no matter what life I had planned and if to me it has been misplaced, it hasn’t. This is the way it is supposed to be.
So at this point in my life I have to say I am happy the way things have turned out so far. There have been really trying times, sad times, fun time and probably a lot of hard work left. But I have a grip on it all now and with guidance, I think it can be awesome!
Last the kids and I carved 2 big pumpkins. We had the best time, getting all the pumpkin guts out (as Elias calls it). I love this time of year. Thanksgiving is close and Christmas right behind it. I cant wait for all the family filled fun to come.
We had a great weekend! Our niece & nephew spent the night, I have missed them since school started. We saw Pop-Pop on Saturday. After and afternoon there, the boys always come home with a pocket full of acorns or some other kind of seeds. Sunday was their cousins birthday party, what a wild time they had. Pinata and scavenger hunt! They all were exhausted by the time we got home.
Dale worked on the house this weekend and 80% of the sheet rock is up downstairs. So construction on the 2 rooms upstairs will begin this week or next. I didnt get down there this weekend to look, because the kids and I were so busy, but next weekend I will be there for sure. We are still looking at December as our move date. I am crossing all my fingers and toes for that to happen.
If you were doing the right things, making the right decisions, raising your kids right, being the friend that you would like to be, being a good family member or just if you didn’t do one certain thing one time would everything be different?
These are the questions I have swimming around in my head lately. I know I should not let this drag me down. I still have to wonder, IF. I am not sad about it, I am just wondering am I doing what is right? Should I be worried if it is right for me or for everyone else?
Maybe it is the rain. It is a dreary day and I would love for it to either be hot or cold. Not this in between stuff!
This will be a great day to do some scrap-booking Get all the negative stuff out of my head and make a really pretty page. I downloaded some really cute kits on Monday. I feel better all ready!
Adam just loves music and he may have a hidden talent of dancing. Lord knows I cant Dance. He cracks me up. The cutest thing on the planet!
This Bon Jovi song is just perfect for the way I have been feeling about my upcoming move and this house I am currently in.
The title of the song is “Who says you can go home” My favorite line is,
“You take the home from the boy, but not the boy from his home
These are my streets, the only life I’ve ever known,
who says you can’t go home.”
Isn’t that the truth!
Yesterday I was doing yard work and when I was done cutting the grass and putting the kids toys away, I sat on the step and stared at the yard. The back yard has been part of my life since I was 4 years old. Soon and very soon I will be saying good bye to this yard and it will be someone else’s yard.
A different family will be cutting the grass, planting flowers, listening to the neighbor talk about his garden and listen the other neighbors parties on Friday and Saturday night.
I sat for the longest time and just tried to remember what I could about this yard. My sister and I used to have one of those old metal swing-sets. I remember hanging upside down on the side bars. My dad had an old green boat in the yard, I think we used to fill it up with water and play in it. Our old dog Sambo, his chain was out back by the clothes line and he is buried here too. Along with my fish and bird Skeeter. We used to have an outhouse way in the back, where dad had his old fishing poles. I used to love to sneak around in there. The big ole brick BBQ my dad built a long time ago, that we would steal bricks from. The flowers that my mom planted around the tree next to the back door, that still come up every year.
When I got older my friends would grace the yard with their presence. Bikes all on the grass out back. It snowed real bad one year and the boys down the street came and helped shovel my mom out of the driveway. I remember taping songs from the radio and dancing outside or pretending to be a baton twirler.
My children have memories here now. Susan playing basketball with her friends until it was so dark you couldn’t see them. Noah and Elias both learning how to ride a bike. Dale lighting fireworks off in the middle of the yard for the boys. The sandbox that took 5 bags of sand to fill up and Elias hating it. Adam first touch of grass and snow was here last year. Our back yard BBQ’s that always ended up inside. The crabbing and the fishing equipment that was left outside every weekend for a whole summer, because the guys couldn’t get enough. The toys and more toys that filled the whole yard this summer. Elias’ summers with his cousin Jaden, they would play all day long out there. I can still hear arguments and shrills of laughter.
Last but not least the back steps. These old concrete back steps are the ones that I brought each one of my children up when they came home from the hospital. The same steps that I sat on yesterday and thanked god for the time that he gave me here at this house and for each and every memory that was made here.
I just hope the people who buy this house will love that yard as much as I and my family have. It deserves to have more children playing and laughing here. I will truly and deeply miss it here.
What a wonderful day! The boys and I had an awesome day! Our Moms Group did a group tour of the place and the kids got to do so much. There were 30 total that came, moms and kiddos together.
They had a great hay ride, went into the pumpkin patch and picked their own pumpkin. Elias was so cute because he just couldn’t decide on 1 pumpkin. He would pick it up and decided it wasn’t good enough and investigate 4 or more others. Until he found the perfect one. Adam just wanted to run off the whole time. I turned to one of my mom friends and I said, “Boy this is like work!”
It was, but great exercise! Today we will carve it, he has had the pattern picked a long time ago.
Feeding the goats was so interesting. Elias had no trouble, but Adam of course didn’t care for it. I would give him a piece of corn to give the baby goat and he would take it and shove it in his mouth.
All of us got some really great pictures. A photographer from our local paper was there and got some shots of our kids in the pumpkin patch. One of our kids was in the paper this morning and another was on their website!
I was with one of my girlfriends and we were talking about what we did before we had this group. I mean I was home for over 3 years by myself before I discovered this group. What did I do with all that time. How did I even make it through all those mommy trying times without the support that I have now. It is mind boggling to me.
Our kids are so much better off because we have each other. The pumpkin patch was a great example. Elias’ best bud came and he was so happy! The kids enjoy each others company. Who needs daycare socialization when you have a Moms group as big as ours.
I can’t wait to do a scrap book layout with some of the pics I took. Maybe that is what I will do today during nap time. Tonight we are on the go again. It is the elementary’s school’s country fair. Maybe Susan can win another cake doing the cake walk again
This morning while browsing CWO I came across a new blog Called Laced With Grace. What a great blog this is and will become. I was inspired this morning when reading today’s post. This is an awesome qoute from the blog.
“It doesn’t matter what is behind you as much as it matters who is beside you.”
Isnt that so true? Sometimes I get so busy with life in general and worrying about everything that I forget I am not alone and that he is beside me, worrying and taking care of what is behind me.
Well it is new to me. Evidently this has been there for a while and I just passed it forever and never noticed. It is really nice. The equipment is in really good condition and the ground is soft so you don’t hurt yourself. I think we will be going there more often.
I really cant wait until thursday. We are going to the pumpkin patch. I think I may be more excited than my boys. We get to pick our own pumpkin, go on a hayride and feed the goats. I bought our pumpkin carving kit today. I want to carve them up and get them outside all lite up.
Fall is my 2nd favorite time of the year. The smells and just the crispness of it all. The temperatures will be dropping soon. And it will be time for soup (we all were talking about soup today at the playground). I am going to search for some great soup recipes. Soup and hot buttered biscuits or bread. MMMMM Just thinking about it makes me want to do it now.
I have this love hate relationship with the laundry. In the summer time I dont mind it so much but in the winter; oh I hate to do it. Seems like it take twice as long and 3 times as more room in the washer. You need so much more clothes on in the winter and they are so bulky. This I am not looking forward too and a cold car.
I did get started on my ABC book for Adam. The first page is completed, so tonight I will start on B.
Today was the big Doctors appt to see if any further treatment was necessary and we got the all clear! I can not tell you what a big relief this is. We were really worried about it. Now just a couple more appts for the new problem we are having and we will be great.
Also a big hug and thank you to Erin & her husband, for their wonderful help today. They are life savers! I dont know what I would have done without them, they are people you can count on that is for sure.
This week, I have in my mind to start Adam’s ABC Book. I love Erins & Melissa’s. They are so cute and look so easy. I am doing this one digital and hopefully I will be able to have it bond in a small book. I think those are so adorable and hope it looks as good as the paper kind.
Tomorrow is playdate day, I cant wait to get out of this house for some mom talk! Laundry is done for the week, so I can have a little more fun without worrying about that.
I have been saying that I am going to do my header and do some more pages. But with all the blah things going on I have not been in the mood. Until this afternoon, when Maia & Jaden came over. Elias was invited to a birthday party and so was Jaden, so they went together. Best friends together again. Jaden came in and it was just like the summer all over again. Jaden is the sweetest boy on the planet.
They had a great time. Neither one wanted to leave. I took pictures of Elias & Jaden with their spikey hair. At that moment I knew I had to do a page with the 2 boys. I think it’s really cute. I also finished my blog header. I am not to happy with that, but it will do for October.
Tomorrow is a busy day. Dale and I are going to a wedding. I have not been to a wedding in a while. This makes me think about all the planning I will be doing for our wedding. I get goosebumps when I think about it. I have most of it planned in my head. All my girlfriends are so ready to help me paint my new house and plan my wedding. Gotta love girlfriends!
I will start with the good news. Our new house has passed inspections and we can finish the inside! The only inspection left will be the final walk through when we are completely done. I cant tell you what a great relief this is to us. Weseriously thought we had a long road ahead of us with these inspections. It is finally coming all together. So these next couple of weeks, we will be putting up walls, laying carpet & tile and painting. Exciting stuff!
Bad news is the health situation here isn’t good again. New and more doctors appts are needed and even surgery. Keep my family uplifted in your prayers. I know we can get through this.
All my kids are home this week, so the house and myself will be in chaos 
Today I need to get somethings done around here, because the next 2 days are busy, busy, busy. Friday is the only other day I free and I think I am walking that day.
I want to make a new fall/Halloween header for my blog. I haven’t even started yet, so that will take most of the afternoon. I need to go to Wal-Mart for odds and ends. The snacks in this house seem to vanish in one week. No one ever knows where they go, I think we may have snack gremlins, their names are Susan, Noah & Elias.
Elias is excited about Halloween. I need to find which box I put his costume in. That will be a search in its self. I have more laundry to do, the vicious cycle of clothes.
Last but not least I need to call my oldest school. Apparently she was using the wrong locker, so yesterday they cut her lock off and put all of her stuff on the floor in the hallway. I am not so much upset about the lock itself, because they have no way of knowing who’s lock it is. The books should have been put in the office. If anything had happened to her books I would have to pay for them. Have you seen the prices for school books? Insane I tell you. Crossing my fingers that goes ok.
I was over at Chelle’sthis morning and she did a cute MeMe. I thought I would play along. Its called Five by Five.
1) Five Minutes to Yourself. How would you spend them, ideally?
- I would lay on the couch with Dale. Spend some us time, quietly.
2) Five dollars to spend right now. How would you spend it?
- I would probably buy a really awesome digital scrap-booking kit or go to DQ and get a caramel moo-late.
3) Five Items In Your House You Could Part With Right Now?
- Can I say this whole house
- All the boxes up against my living room wall
- The clean folded laundry sitting on my bed
- All the odd and end toys in the toy boxes
- The bills that have to be paid on Friday
4) Five Items In My House You Could Absolutely Never Part With?
- Our coffe maker
- Washer & dryer
- Elias & Adam’s blankies
- All 6 of our computers
- Cable
5) Five Words You Love?
If anyone would like to do this Me-Me feel free. So consider yourself tagged
It is Monday and so far so good on a good morning. It is a better morning than last week, for sure. I am going walking this morning. I cant wait! The weather is going to cooperate this morning, so it should be perfect.
We all had a nice weekend. I scrapped all day yesterday. Elias was at Mom-Moms & Susan was at her friends. So it was just me and Adam. It was nice and quiet, well for the most part. I finished a sweet page for Susan. I wasn’t really into it when I started, but I really like it now.
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Saturday the kids and I went to a 1st birthday party for our little friend Larry. We had such a good time. Maria gave the perfect party for Larry. I am positive when he gets older he will know just how much she loves him and that he will forever be their son too.
This week isnt as busy as last week. I have two events to attend for the moms group. Regular playdate on Wednesday and on Thursday Maria is hosting a Brunch. Now I was embarrassed to say I had never been to a brunch. So I have no idea what to bring. I was being silly and told my friend Erin that I should fry up some scrapple and call it a day So off I go on an internet search for a fabulous, knock their socks off brunch recipe.
