my favorite wii game

playground


Includes Dodgeball, Tetherball, Wall Ball, Kicks, Slot Car Racing, Paper Racers and Dart Shootout. Dodgeball was my fave, even though I sucked at it! I won like 2 games out of 20!

If you have a Wii you must check it out!

yum for the day

1 20oz can of crushed pineapple (in pineapple juice)
1 angel food cake mix

Follow the directions on the box!

It's comes out perfect and is SOOO good that you don't even need icing.

aqua training

I went out to Hemet today for an aqua instructor training class. It was awesome! The instructor was so spunky and had some amazing ideas. So todays class was 20 minutes away, with a 2 hour class. Tomorrows training is an hour away for 6 hours. Looks like my weekend is shot! Oh well, better to get it over with. Next weekend will be better!

I have finally mastered pancakes!

Pancakes have always been hard for me, they were always gooey on the inside or burnt on the outside! And the Bisquick batter just wasn't all that great, so we gave up on pancakes for a lot of years. Then I found this recipe and they turn out fantastic!!! If you print the recipe out make sure to change the servings to 5 instead of 12 or you will be making pancakes for HOURS!

I even made my own syrup a few weeks ago, blueberries, cornstarch, lemon juice, sugar and water, wait till they burst and the syrup gets thick...YUM! I also made chocolate chip pancakes last weekend with some leftover chocolate chips that I had leftover from my dad's birthday cookies. We have made it our Sunday morning tradition, Zach eats about 3 pancakes and Isabella even eats them, they have become a family favorite!

Anyway, try them, they are delish!

My poor husband

I just bought him 8 new pairs today. I had to wait until they were on sale AND I had a Kohl's coupon. =)

my weekend projects

I picked this up from JCPenney last week and bought a frame for it and hung it this weekend. Isn't it beautiful?!



I also re-did this wall, it hasn't changed in 4 years and when I originally did it the frames didn't match and I never loved it.

Before:


After:


I still want to add a few more once I have more JoAnn's coupons. I got all those frames plus some sewing stuff for $50! I love JoAnn's, they accept coupons for everything!

Donovan's v-day gift

It's a temp! I got it from this Etsy seller. Pretty cool, huh?

Sunny told me this one

Knock knock

Who's there?

Pile up

(insert laughter here)

wiiiiindy!

My goodness it is windy today, I hope our trees are well rooted!

It looks like Isabella is either sick again or depressed. She woke up crying this morning asking for daddy and hasn't snapped out of it all day. She is still in her jammies, hasn't had a bite to eat all day and barely could choke down her favorite gummie vitamins. Hopefully daddy coming home will help her out of her funk.

my awesome husband!

Got us tickets to go see Wicked! He lined up his parents to babysit so we can have dinner after the show! How amazing is he? I am so excited!

pic-a-nic

The weather is SO beautiful we had a picnic on the front lawn today. I made PBB's and pretzels for the kids.





They ran:





I brought out the Dora tent but they didn't want to eat in it.



We saw airplanes (I think she got that face from me).



Found a .... dandelion? Is that what they're called?



She takes my breath away



So sweet...



Come on over for a picnic, It'll be fun.

Oops.

I guess I should stop weight lifting.

I'm too sexy for my hat, what cha think about that...

Here's my model, Silver. I'm so surprised that he hasn't bit me yet!

here kitty kitty


here comes the bride


just clownin


Here's another photo of him, not related to his shoot. He is such a sweet, loyal dog:


He loves to rest his head on you, he even closes his eyes! So sweet.

crafts

We made Valentines for Isa's friends at school. My intention was to make some custom Valentines but once I saw the kits at JoAnn I was sold! They were fun to make, Isabella had to use tweezers to put the eyes on the glue dots and she did so well...time to buy her Operation!



She had to write her name on them but she can't write small so she had to just write Isa.



Zach wanted to "wash" his cars...LOL!






Our mess:



I bought the little gift bag things at JoAnn also, inside we put a ball with a heart inside and an eraser that lights up when you use it. We got them from abc distributing

We also made this shirt using her feet and fingers for the dots. She loves it! Poor thing has got her mama's feet...huge!

stay away from my house!

All of us have the flu. We were up most of the night with Isabella, she had a 105.4° temperature. We gave her a lukewarm bath and that dropped it a bunch, poor Isa was shivering. Donovan stayed home from work today (which is a VERY rare occasion) I went to the doctor this morning and got some meds but now Zach has it too! Say a prayer for my family, it's so hard to take care of little ones when you don't know what's going on and you don't feel good yourself.

On a happier note I was hired at LA Fitness today! I will be working 2 hours a week, tough huh?! I will get my membership for free, make a little bit of money and lose weight at the same time!

I'm sick...again.

I keep getting sick! I feel like I never really got over my last cold, if I took a deep breath it made me cough. Now I have this crappy cough again, my chest just aches!

On another sucky note my Ipod broke. It hasn't been a good Mac month. Donovan thinks it's the battery, I can have it fixed for $40 or buy a brand new MP3 player that is way cooler for $40! Hopefully I can get the new one. Life sucks without technology, I am used to cleaning my house to the sounds of Wicked...now I have to clean to the sound of nothing! It's not much fun.

Anyway, sorry I'm complaining. Thanks for listening...orr...reading.

Here is a cool shirt...

I like this shirt

too bad it is only available in size 0-2! What is up with that?!

coffee review

So I like "coffee" not straight coffee but coffee with lots of stuff added to it! I also love Chai tea and espresso drinks. So here is the rundown on my favorite local places.

1. Coffee Depot in the old Santa Fe Depot in downtown Riverside
Delicious coffee, great ambiance, excellent service

2. eeer...I don't know what it's called but it's the itty bitty drive through place on Indiana between Madison and Adams.
Delicious Chai and they gave Zach a free cup of chocolate milk once.

3. It's a Grind (now Jazz and Java?) in Mission Grove
although the customer service sucked they made a yummy drink and had some really creative choices

4. Java Bliss on the corner of Arlington and Magnolia
not many options and the service was sorta slow but the drink and pastry (shhh!) were delish and the place was so cool. There was also so amazing artwork on the walls.

5. The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Alessandro near Wood
The service was outstanding, the coffee eh. I also had tea leaves in my caramel espresso thingey (machiatto at the bucks). Zach's chocolate milk was really good though, I may get that for me next time!

6. Starbucks on Day street
I rate this last because almost every week they mess up my order. It's about 50/50 there. Other Starbucks do a much better job but that's the closest drive through so I take my chances!

Let me know if there are any local coffee places that you know and love, I am always down for something new.

this made me giggle

new piano

My grandma bought this for my aunt and uncle about 10 years ago for my cousins to learn on. Now that they are in college my aunt passed it along to us so that my kids can learn on it. Then when my kids are too old for it I will pass it along to a cousin of mine so we can keep it in the family. I called a teaching service that comes to your house so once Isabella is out of pre-school we are going to start that. I hope she takes after Donovan, he is the kind of person who touches a key and says "that sounds like the key from so and so song" and then somehow figures out the entire song within a few minutes! It's beautiful, huh?

My fridge.

I went shopping and cut up all the celery, cucumber, grapes and carrots and bagged them so the kids and I could easily grab them for a snack. I also bagged up olives, pretzels and caramel rice cakes. I am going to try to do this every week to keep me on track. It was really easy too!

I was so happy with my fridge so I took a picture, silly huh?! Yogurt, V8, fruit cups, bagged veggies.