{Mother's Day}

I had a wonderful Mother's Day with my family.  My husband and daughter even went shopping for me at my favorite antique store!

An old camera, some old spice containers and a Fiestware pitcher in a cool color!

My brother came and the boys BBQ'd lunch for us.  We sat around visiting and eating all afternoon.

One of my Mother's Day requests was a picture of me and my kids, cause on Mother's Day you get whatever you want, right?! And I do not have enough photos of me and my kidos since I am usually  on the other side of the camera (and much happier there I might add).  Seems like a pretty simple request though, it's not like they are 3 year olds that don't understand the concept of sitting still to take a nice photo . . . some days I do think it was easier taking their picture when they were 3!!

My brother, Mom and Me!  Just missing Gina!

And I was hopeful for a nice family photo too . . .

So, while this wasn't exactly the vision I had in my head of how the photos would turn out, this is a perfect representation of my family right now, my life right now, so really, these are the perfect photos!

Welcome 2010

Wow! 2010 ~ wasn't it just Y2K? Seriously how has it already been 10 years?

We celebrated New Years Eve quietly at home. I was sick on Wednesday and still not feeling great on Thrusday so we had to opt out of our New Years plans and stay home. We watched some movies and barely stayed awake till midnight!


I woke up today feeling great! Yipee!!! I should, I didn't do anything for 2 days. But I made up for lost time today, got all of the laundry done AND folded, finished getting ALL of my coupons organized and into my binder (started that little project while watching movies last night) there are tons of coupons coming on Sunday so I wanted to get what I had cleaned up, made grocery list and went grocery shopping, so much easier to do with organized coupons! Cleaned out the kitchen cupboards, yes, almost all of them, amazing what happens to them when you don't pay attention to what the other people in your house are doing to them for a month or two, did some miscellaneous picking up and now I'm tired. It was nice to get the little stuff done around here without feeling guilty that I should be doing something else, such a great feeling, my head feels so clear and I love that. I should probably take advantage of that before I have to go back to work on Monday, blech . . .

We are looking forward to our 2nd Christmas with Papa and Gigi this weekend, then I will get Christmas put away, I figured we couldn't have Christmas without a Christmas tree, right? So while it's been nice to have an excuse to keep Christmas up, next week I will be wishing I had taken it down already!

Deciding on my word for 2010, I never did settle on one for 2009, but I've got a couple in mind so I just need to decide which it will be. I also decided to continue with Project 365 - even though I got behind in my layouts and sometimes a little bit in my picture taking, I've got a picture to represent all 365 days of 2009 and that feels like a huge accomplishment. Unfortunately I feel like I'm starting out behind since I need to finish up the 2009 layouts, I will get it done.

Here is my first picture of 2010, Meghan put her baby to bed tonight before she went to bed, was very cute, she held her and patted her back and then laid her down and covered her up, such a good little mommy (who was not to amused that I was taking this picture). She did take good care of me when I was sick, she is a good little mommy!!!


Here is to an awesome 2010, I can't wait to see how it unfolds!

Cracking me up

Working on editing the 100's of pictures I took last month and came across these, they just made me laugh! These were from the 4th while we were hanging out with the Tidwells.

The girls were laying so nicely, like little girl cousins do, on the towels to dry off.

Enter boy cousin, Levy ~ looking pretty innocent, right? Notice the little grin on his face??

Notice him tickling Meghan's foot?

And then Cayden's


Quite time was over after that.

Catching up . . .

Where did the week go? I think I left off getting ready for Easter, which was nice, but I was sick, so we never did dye the eggs, or even have an egg hunt, the Easter Bunny did get the little plastic eggs filled but didn't have it in her to actually hide them. I also didn't get any Easter pictures, and that I am bummed about. I might have to have a little reenactment as soon as I get Meghan's little white dress clean!

We went to church and actually got there early enough to get a seat! It was really crowded. Then since Willy's was closed for Easter, we went over to the Tidwell's for bagels and then headed home. I took a nap while we waited for Mimi & Grampie to come over. We had a nice quiet afternoon and a yummy dinner of ham, yummy potatoes, rainbow jello and rolls. I also made a new dessert, it's the one I tried to make last Easter buy couldn't find the cake meal I needed. It turned out really good and very tart. I'm going to have to make it again.


These are the only 2 other pictures I got, but it is nice as it represents the kids actually playing a game together, working together and not arguing about it!


And a very blurry picture of Mimi, Grampie & Meghan being silly.


And then here are the eggs that never got dyed, next year we'll do double!


Tuesday was the Retirement Party, it turned out really nice and so did the slide presentation, whew!

Wednesday's track meet got cancelled, I'm guessing because the weather was so bad, thank goodness, it was freezing and I wasn't looking forward to being outside in the cold for 3 hours. Instead Michelle, Mrs. Jeannette's daughter, came over and used my scanner to scan a bunch of old family pictures for a scrapbook she is making. While she was using my computer I got my scrapbook room cleaned up a bit and a little less clutterly looking.


Thursday I decided I had better just get the grocery shopping done, otherwise I'd be out with everyone else on Saturday, and Winco on a Saturday makes me really grumpy. For some reason putting the groceries away always make me want to straighten up the cabinets, so I started on the two that I didn't get done on my last cleaning spree. I had all of these Tupperware containers pushed to the back of my container cabinet, I thought I was already using most of my Tupperware storage containers, but apparently not.

I went on a little binge a few years ago buying this stuff, it was after I found little buggies in my spices! So I try to put anything that is in a box that won't get used all at once in Tupperware, not I have lots to fill, I'm not sure that my cupboard will hold all of these filled up!

Friday was Trevor's re-scheduled track meet. It was about 80 outside and very pleasant to be sitting outside, I actually should have put sunscreen on Meghan, her little checks got some sun. Trev did the shot put again, he won't know how he did until Monday and then the 200 meter, he came in 5th out of 8, an improvement over the last time.


Well, I think that about brings me to today. We are hanging out at home catching up on laundry and stuff. Later we will go over to see Kaitlyn all dressed and ready for her dance.

Have a great weekend!

Happy Easter Eve

It's been a busy day getting ready for Easter, grocery shopping, cooking, baking, although the egg dying will have to wait for tomorrow. Little Miss Meghan must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, and I told her if she didn't start behaving that we would not dye the eggs, she has been waiting for weeks to dye the eggs, I figured that threat should get her attention, lets just say it didn't, so the eggs are boiling and we will dye them after church tomorrow!

Last night was Bunko at Karen's house. Yummy dinner and snacks, especially the speckled malt ball eggs! I won 2nd place with 14 wins! The prizes were flowers, what I great idea, I don't think in all the years I've played bunko (I think more than 12) anyone has done flowers. I was very happy to bring home a big pot of pretty flowers for Daryl to take care of for me!!!!


Spent most of this week trying to stay one step ahead of what was happening! Daryl worked a different schedule this week, which meant I needed to take Trev to school, which means Meghan was later to school and I was late to work. I'm guessing this is just a small taste of what I have coming when Daryl gets a new job. Getting to work late seemed to make me a little off on those 2 days, then there was the track practices & a meet, but one practice got cancelled and the meet got cancelled, thank goodness since it was raining and cold! Meghan had an Easter party at school, wished I could have gone to take pictures but I still need to take a day off to go and take formal pictures of her class and for the zoo field trip, I thought I better just work, had to send 6 filled eggs and make "jigglers", that was interesting, they didn't jiggle, so I cut them up into squares and mixed it with cool whip, yummy, but not jigglers! Trevor and Meghan were both out of school on Friday and Monday, Meghan is out of school all next week, time for her spring break now! Spent most evening going through pictures to finish up the slide show for Nancy's retirement party on Tuesday. Took pictures yesterday so I just need to get those edited and added in and I think I'm in pretty good shape to not be up all night on Monday getting it ready!

ok, better get back to work, trying to decide if I'm up to making cut out cookies with the kidos, the butter is thawing but I'm not sure the moods are right to make this a happy memory, so we'll see!!!

Have a great Easter.