the best $10 I have ever spent!

So at our association garage sale about 6 months ago I saw this when I was driving around our neighborhood. I passed it by and thought...no...that couldn't be a tractor! I went and asked about it. The sellers wanted $10 and had no clue if it worked. We bought a charger for it and voila! It works, the kids LOVE it and fight over it constantly!

working on it


thinking about it


oh, hey I fixed it!


Here is a video of Zach on it. He is absolutely nuts, he knows how to make it slide, he knows how to do a wheelie. Crazy 3 year old!

I have been waiting for this for YEARS

A "new" song from No Doubt! I have been a No Doubt fanatic since I was 15, dang half of my life! I have seen them 4 or 5 times and I was stoked to hear they are preforming again, I tried to get tickets but I missed out on good ones and it's not worth going for crappy, expensive seats. I was so worried that they would never play together again and I wasn't a fan of Gwen alone. Too pop-ish for me.

Here is a clip of the new song, I'm not sure if the video will last long, I'm pretty sure it's illegally posted! Oh, and it's not new, it's a remake that's why I said "new".

trip photos

Trip photos! Sorry it took me so long, I've been a bit busy...I have no clue why though. lol

I LOVE the area where my family lives, the city is called Acampo, CA. Open land as far as the eye can see and I love that. We went when everything was in bloom, fields of wildflowers 4 feet high.




I love the streets, no signals! Where we live there are traffic signals every 1/2 mile so it takes forever to get anywhere!


Here are a few barn photos, I am a slightly obsessed with barns!




We visited old town Sacramento, so quaint!


We visited the capitol building, I was looking for Arnold so I could slug him for this new tax rate!





Isabella took this one:


Isabella and her cousin Lilyana:


Capitol gardens:




We found an abandoned train and I let the kids explore. Don't worry, it wasn't attached to an engine!


We visited Sutter's Fort





My favorite part was the family time, we spent lots of time visiting and relaxing with family.

here are my grandparents, my dad and his sister Karen.


Here are some of the cousins, I don't know what's going on with my face, luckily it's small.


And some of the great-grand children.


My brother Ryan and I goofing off.


Here is a photo of my grandma and I:


My cousin Dustin's little girl, she is just adorable, I want to eat her up!

Read this with a southern accent

I can finally give Zach a Mountain Dew without worrying about him spilling, awesome!!

Say hello!

This is our new friend Hutchinson! We'll call him Hutch for short, we named him that because he is from South Dakota and Hutchinson is a city in SD. Anyway, he is a Cocker Spaniel Bichon Freese and is either exhausted or the most amazing puppy ever! He has been snuggling and observing all day, he is so incredibly calm and really stinking adorable!












Here they are watching a movie! He loves being covered up.

Interesting movie playing

Hot for Dogs?

more craftings

I haven't done annnything around the house this week, I have been gluing, cutting and burning myself!

I made these clipboards, this one is for Isabella's teacher Ms. Berg.



This one is Isabella's, the paper didn't reach to the bottom, I am going to add more on the bottom...once I make my 100th trip to JoAnn this week!



This one is Zach's:



And here is mine:



Here are some that I made for my friend Sarah's daughter.



I made these for Isa:

my dinner was delish!

I made these mini cheeseburgers for dinner. YUM! Donovan and I loved them, Zach liked them, Isabella almost gagged. Story of my life!

Try them out they are easy and fun.

Do you want to be Bam Bam for Halloween?

I don't really know what else you would do with these. But they're pretty awesome!

the sort of politics I enjoy

I love these photos

Wild thing!!

Our new faucet, mostly for Carol

I know you asked for this like a month ago, sorry!

My business!

I finally had a few minutes to set this up, it's my website for Uppercase Living!

I also just created my first Expression (don't call them stickers!) and I can't wait to show it off. As soon as I get it I will post a photo of it, it's going to be amazing!

Anyway, look through the catalog and see if you want to order anything, I will bring it to you and help you apply it to your wall.