do you even LOOK at me??

I often will get home after being out with Donovan and find some odd thing on my face or in my hair.  More times than I can count I will get home and find food in my teeth. 

So while cleaning my makeup brushes tonight I decided to do an experiment.  I drew a big mole on my face and waited to see how long it would take Donovan to notice.   I planned on increasing the size every 30 minutes or so and see how long it took for him to notice.  I was going to take a picture each time I increased the size. 

This is the only picture I got to take!  

As soon as I walked into the room Isabella says "eeeeew, you have a huge zit!" and I tried to hush her but then Zach chimed in "I want to see the zit!  Where's the zit?  Can I see your zit?" and by then Donovan heard about it.

So I guess I need to rely on Isabella to tell me about random things on my face from now on. 

Hell

After visiting Disneyland I now know what hell is like. 

Everyone stands too close to me.
Everyone has bad breath.
Everyone stops in the middle of WALKways.

That's what I feel a small part of hell is like.

mincing words

Do you mince your words?

I do.  ALLLLL the time. 

Today's was good, and it was only in my head.  "hmmm, if it's cold enough today I can use the seated heats."  Yep, that's how my brain works.  BACKWARDS!

My never ending wish list

Do you have a HUGE to do list?    I do!

I would like to:
replace all of the baseboards
remodel master bath
remodel the kids bathroom
replace downstairs bath tile
finish the back yard
paint living room walls, we are normally DIYers but the cathedral ceilings scare me to pieces!
paint all of the interior doors
concrete on the front porch
tile front porch
remove planter in front yard
put in mow curb in front yard
remove dead tree in front yard

We are hopefully going to get some concrete soon, so I can check one thing off my list.  Sigh...so much more to do. 

Well hello there!

It's been a long time.  As my friend Nicole loves to tell me!  We had a great weekend, yesterday we went to IKEA.  I love that place!  The only bummer was that Isabella is too tall for the kids play area.  : ( 

We have been doing homework at the kitchen table since Isabella started kindergarten and with all the papers they are given our kitchen table was often a complete mess!  So we decided to take a small area in the playroom and make it into a homework area.  

 Here is the area before.  I left it open because the kids used to sit in front of the bins and play.  Don't look at my messy closet.  That's in the schedule for this week!

 Here is my hardworking hubs putting things together.  He HATES this part!

 Hutch is helping.

 Almost done!  Putting together the bar stools.

 That bin has been sitting on my kitchen counter for 4 years.  I am so excited to have my kitchen counter back!  Now I just have to clean it out.  uggg

The kids are so happy!  They are playing school, they have played games and put together a puzzle. 

Easter love

This Easter was one of the best Easter's ever!  We had a great time as a family, and had a blast with my extended family.  My cousins and I talked make-up and nails, we looked at old pictures and best of all I beat my brother in ping pong.  Awesome.

My favorite part of the day was the church service, it was like a Broadway play.  I was truly amazed.  I also loved that my mom got my kids bibles and they loved them!  Both took them to bed with them! 

Of course I have to talk about something funny that one of the kids said.  Zach was sitting at the kids table and my mom says "Zach, will you come over here so we can say grace?" and Zach replies "I'm gonna stay here but can you bring me some grapes?"  he thought she wanted to give him some grapes!  I love this kid!

pfft

Is what I said last night during dinner.

I ate my dinner and had some left on my plate so I set it on the ground and let the dogs finish it for me. Donovan and the kids and I are chatting and Isabella and Zach can't finish their food so I took a little big off each of their plates to make it easier for them to finish. I put it on my plate. About 5 minutes later I got bored and had a bite off my plate. Than another bite. And lastly, a third. Then I remember that the dogs licked off this plate.

pfft
pfft
pfft
(how I think I sound when I spit)

do you have...

a closet or drawer where you just throw things when you get a phone call where someone says those 3 dreaded words "I'm coming over"?

As of 8:00 this morning I did. Now, at 11:45 I don't! I took everything out and put it in little piles for similar items. I threw a lot away and donated a TON!


I can't believe I am showing this:

This is the living room where I had my piles:

Here is the donate pile:

All done! I finally have a spot for the vacuum and suitcase, they both were hanging out in the hallway before.

In the back is stuff I need but I don't really access, the 2 bins are crafting boxes and our beach towels/sunscreen in the blue bin and my Hello Kitty swim bag.

On the left are little bins that are organized and labeled. Magnets, glitter, ribbon, tools, glues etc. The big bin on the bottom is gift bags that we have gotten at birthday parties that I re-use, all my wrapping paper and the tall bin is birthday ribbons and smaller gift bags. The green box is greeting cards and there is ribbon hanging on the wall with a pair of scissors all ready to go!

Now all I have to do is figure out where all the stuff I took out is going to go and keep it looking just like this!

My $7 kitchnen cabinet remodel

I love shows on the Do It Yourself Network and HGTV. I love seeing when they use beautiful open cabinets or glass doors. This is my idea of a beautiful cabinet. Everything matching and organized.



Mine look like this:



Mis-matched everything. Cheap Wal Mart dishes, Donovan's favorite Super Smurf mug, my lovely Starbucks coffee cups, wine glasses that we have never used.

I don't particularly like it so I thought about how I could make it better. Scrap book paper! I bought 6 sheets of $.99 paper and cut them up to fit. I even hid the seams behind the panes (it's so hard to type when I am patting myself on the back at the same time!) I am so happy with how they turned out and I can change them when I get tired of them or when I want to change the color of my kitchen!



here is the close up of the pattern:



What do you think?