Dresses

It was a weekend of dress shopping, I haven't done that in a long time, probably since my sisters wedding, and I think that is coming up on 10 years this summer. I got to go with Step & Kaitlyn to pick out her Junior Prom dress. She asked a friend, who is a senior, in a very cute way, to go to the dance with her, and he said yes! We headed to Macy's first thing Saturday morning for the dress trying on marathon to begin, there were 14 in all, here are a few of the runners up ~

We all thought that this one was a big strange with the pockets! Don't usually see pockets in formal dresses. Meghan really liked this one! And the winner is, although she isn't looking very happy about it in this picture, I must have taken it while the tag in the back was cutting a slice out of her shoulder!

The color looks great on her and the dress fits her perfectly! Since Meghan didn't get to go shopping with us I told her I would look for an Easter dress for her, which, I didn't do! So I took her to Target today to find her a dress. We came home with an adorable white eyelet dress, I loved it and glad she bought into it. We found some really cute pink sandals, we settled on flat ones, she wanted heels, and two bottles of nail polish, pink & purple!!! She had the shoes on before we got home and then when we drove into the garage she wouldn't get out of the van until she put her dress on! Too funny.

And Daryl found the rest of my Easter stuff, just in time for Easter next week!!!


Getting ready to go eat dinner, made Taco Soup, yummy!

Track Season has begun

Track season has started. I found that out when I got a call at work on Wednesday from Trevor telling me he had practice after school until 4:00, ok, not a problem. When he came out at almost 4:30, and yes, I had been sitting there since 5 minutes till 4:00, he told me he had a Track Meet on Thursday, at 4:00, and he had to be there at 3:30. Alrighty then, so glad we didn't have any other plans, except that I was supposed to be working until 3:00!

Track is all new to me, it looked more like
-->unorganized organized chaos to me, I guess that is how Track is, but you know me, I like a little organization here and there. For the most part of the 3 hours we spent out there we spent trying to find him, there was basically a huge cluster of green, and from the stands they pretty much all look alike!
There was a lot of waiting around and a time where he was doing the shot put and we couldn't see him. Towards the end, well, what I thought was the end, all the teams lined up on the field to do a race 6 at a time, I'm sure this particular race had a name, like the 100 meter dash or something, but I have no idea what it was, but Trev looked awesome when the gun shot off. He's the 4th from the left.


He came in #5, not to bad for his first race. I'm sure once we get him some running shoes this weekend he will do even better!

Here is a picture of Meghan, it was taken right after she lost one of her ladybugs! She got another one at school on Thursday, a sister for "Alison", who had been taking a very long nap since the night before! She had this ladybug out and Mom kept saying it was going to blow out of her hand because it was so windy, and she was right, all of a sudden I look up and this is what I see! Double click on the photo so you can see the expression on her face.

With promises that we would look for more ladybugs when we got home she recovered without too much of a scene, whew!


Here Mimi & Meghan are examining the remaining ladybug, who was also still "napping". Meghan informed us that ladybugs sleep for the summer. So, that's the story we are going with for now.

So, I was really hoping that the Track meets would be shorter than baseball games, but if last night was any indication that is not the case. Meg & I finally went to the car at around 6:00 cause it was windy & FREEZING, the boys didn't make it out until about 6:40. At least it's a short season, only 5 weeks, and practice is right after school, which makes it much easier than baseball practice. Will be a fun new experience for all of us!

Ladybug Ladybug . . .

Meghan is studying insects this week at school and they had a ton of ladybugs in a cardboard house, that kept escaping. One of them had escaped just as we were leaving and Meg convinced her teacher to let her bring it home, so she is telling everyone that she has a new pet!


She brought it home in a paper cup and I convinced her that it should go in a jar, and being the crafty little girly that she is, she got out her stickers and decorated her pets new home. (Can you tell she didn't really want to have anything to do with me taking her picture?) She named her new pet Alison, I'm sure it's after her friend Alison at school.

Project 365

Here are the last 2 weeks. I love the idea of getting free product from Weeds & Wildflowers for continuing to use their products and keeping up with this project, it has definitely kept me motivated and on track and I appreciate that they are giving out free Hodge Podge kits every 2 weeks!

Good to be home

(Warning: Long post with lots of pictures)

We spent the last weekend of Trevor's Spring Break camping, we went to Lake Tulloch and had a nice little campsite right on the water, luckily the water was down or it would have been a little scary with Meghan and being so close to the water, but it worked out pretty good having it down a bit. In this picture you can see where the steps would normally go down right into the water, it was pretty rocky but the kids did fine with it.

Meghan could not wait to get into the water and asked at least a million times to go down there, we kept telling her we had to get camp set up first, which clearly wasn't happening fast enough for her.

Trev is getting quite good at helping his Dad get things set up, it's cool to watch them working together, I can't believe that he's big enough now and can actually be of help to Daryl and not just the "pretend" kind of help. And luckily he can do it, which means I don't have to!


Once we had everything set up all the kids headed down to the water, the water was pretty chilly but they didn't care.

Right before dinner the ducks showed up, looking for some dinner I guess! Meghan loved going down with Uncle Scott and giving them some bread ~

We ended our first evening with a campfire and making smores, yummy!

Saturday started bright and early, before 7 am I believe, since I took the first picture of the day at 7:26, and this was after a night of not getting very good sleep. This was the view from looking out the door of our trailer.

Meghan managed to get down by the water before breakfast, she stayed pretty dry and had fun playing in the mud!

After breakfast Meg & Kaitlyn headed to the showers to get cleaned up. Meg took her bathing suit to shower in, cause that is how the big girls do it, and then refused to get dressed! So she came back in her bathing suit, ready to head back down to the water.

The kids played around until Scott found this raft, and then the real fun began!


I basically sat up by camp with my nice new zoom lens taking pictures and baking myself in the sun for several hours.

This morning we woke up to a wind storm, it was crazy to try and fix breakfast outside and we ended up cooking in the Tidwell's trailer. Packing up was not any easier, it was so windy and so cold, but we finally got everything packed up and we headed out a little after 2:00. Meghan didn't make it long, maybe 15 minutes and then she was out until we reached Manteca, aaahhhh, nice! I think all the water play on Saturday wore her out!

Well, that about sums it up, it was a nice weekend to get away, but it's always good to come home!

Quiet . . .

Can you hear that? Just the music? Yep, me too! It's quiet here, that is a rare occurrence! The kids are at Mimi & Grampies house until tomorrow, and I'm left here alone. So as not to let me quiet time go to waste I stopped on the way home from work for a Double-Shot + Energy from Starbucks.


I haven't had one in a long time, since iced drinks are just to cold for winter time. For the last few days I've felt like I'm either coming down with a cold or the allergies are kicking in, so my thought is that the double shot will override either so I don't feel like sleeping away my quiet! And it's working, well, that and the 2 motrin I just took, either way, it's good! I plan on working on my next photo editing class and scrapping the night away, I need to get my 365 layouts for last week and this week started since we will be camping this weekend.

Scrapped with some friends on Saturday and got this layout done, not crazy about it, but it is one more story documented, and I don't have enough of Mama done.



This is from a quick trip to Target on Sunday, all for $8.08 ~ I put my coupons to good use and also had a $5.00 gift card from my purchase on Saturday, plus I have another $5.00 gift card from this purchase!


Alright off to get something done while I can!

Spring around

The cleaning continued this morning! But I'm done now. I vacuumed and dusted my bedroom and closet, folded a couple loads of laundry, did one load of laundry, cleaned out the medicine cabinet, that stuff seems to expire while I'm sleeping or something, finished dusting the blinds and the rest of the house.

Getting ready to take my coupons and make a Target run, but here are a few pictures first ~


I don't know why I bought these, but they are just cute, and I found some reeeeaaaalllly old ones in this purple jar when I dug it out of my closet the other day, needless to say I threw them out before Meg saw them! As I was wondering what I was going to do with them, besides let the kids get a sugar high eating them all, there just happens to be "Fun Uses" ideas on the back, so I'll have to get a little creative.

And this is all of the Easter stuff I found, luckily Daryl thinks he knows where the rest of it is and will get it down for me tomorrow.


Can you see the little bird in this picture? I've noticed he's been hanging around our backyard for awhile now, think we better get some food for the bird feeder.



Have a Happy Satuday

Happy Spring!

Is this too bright? I think it's pretty bright, but these are happy springy colors!

Tomorrow is the 1st day of Spring

And I must have been getting ready for it's arrival today. I had absolutely NO plans of doing any cleaning today, but I guess all of the beautiful sunlight shinning in on my dusty blinds just got me started. After dusting the blinds in the kitchen and family room I brought in what I thought was all of my Easter stuff, but, I think I'm missing stuff, although I couldn't tell you what exactly. I think a trip up to the attic is going to happen this weekend. Since I felt like I was missing stuff I headed to the extra bedroom to rummage through my Partylite stuff, didn't find any of the Easter stuff, but I did get rid of a ton of paperwork and old catalogs. I haven't done much with Partylite in the last 2 years and usually going in and smelling the candles and looking at the product I get a little antsy and want to do a show, but today, nothing . . . I have absolutely no desire to sell candles anymore. I don't know why exactly. When I saw the 2009 catalog I was not impressed at all, hard to get excited to sell something your not in love with, which I used to be in love with more of the product than not. And I guess the other reasons are time and interest, my interests have changed and I'd rather spend my taking pictures or scrapping or playing in Photoshop. Plus with working almost full time the last thing I want to do at the end of the day is go out and do a show. Partylite was a great thing for me for many years, I started selling when Trev was a year old, so I guess I put in a good 10 + years. I loved selling when I was not working outside the home, because by the end of the day I was really ready to get out for a bit! So I happily threw out all my old catalogs and paperwork that I don't think I'll be needing. I will miss the discounted and free products, but I'm pretty sure I'll have candles to last me for another few years and really, how many accessories can one have? I already have a house full of all my favorite Partylite products.

Anyway, I then moved on to the dresser in the extra bedroom, it seems to be a collector of random stuff. In one of the drawers I found these ~


These were Mama's tap shoes, they are so tiny, a size 5! I don't know why I have them, but I think it was one of those things that were in the sauna when we moved into her house, also in this box was ~


This is the thermometer that was also in the sauna, aka: my big storage closet when we lived on Shaddick and before the remodel, hummm, I bet I have some before and after pictures of that ~


So there you go, the before, during and after of the sauna, I mean closet I had for about 10 years. I did have to do some creative storage and purging in order to have this bath tub, but I love love love how this bathroom turned out. This soaking tub was heaven, I have a nice tub now, but I still miss this one!

So I feel like I got a little head start on the spring cleaning, although it is just little things that I will notice, but that's ok, it makes me happy to have everything neat and orderly and in it's place.

I think I will stop typing now, this post ended up in places I had never even thought of!

Because I'm driving her crazy . . .

So my dad calls today and is talking to Meghan, the conversation went something like this:

Papa: How is your mom Meghan?

Meghan: Bad

Papa: Why is she bad?

Meghan: Because I'm driving her crazy.

Papa: Why are you driving her crazy?

Meghan: Because SHE is driving ME crazy!

And that about sums up our day! Oh how many times I've told her that if she would just listen her life (and mine) would be so much nicer.

I keep thinking of the song "Your gonna miss this" and I try and think about missing this little phase we have been going through with my little sweetie! I just don't think I will miss constant battle we have on a daily basis over the simple things, things like getting dressed by our self, something that we have done since we've been about 2, yet this morning couldn't seem to remember how! But I do know that there will come a day that I will not have my babies at home with me any longer and maybe then I will want to come back to these days of constant battle, but for now, I'll be happy to move on to a new phase, and I'll pray it's not worse than this one!