She lives....

I keep putting off blogging because I don't have my pictures loaded or I keep thinking I need to do a catch up post. But I finally decided that a catch up post is never going to happen. So I will just start afresh.

It's been a crazy week. Jesse was sick Monday and Tuesday of last week then I got sick on Wed. night. UGH I was supposed to be doing our Teacher Dinner for the teachers on parent teacher conferance night and I had to totally call in favors. I felt so stupid. Of all the days to get sick. UGH but I wan not about to cook anything and get every teacher in the school sick. That is all they would need a bunch of puking teachers come monday. Thank goodness I had already assigned most of the food out and double thank goodness that there were so many people willing to help me out. It turned out great I hear and I guess I wasn't really needed after all.

Then by Thurs. afternoon Jaden started into it.. then Will then Saturday Garyn then by Sunday it was Samantha's turn. ICK She missed school today. So that makes a full week of someone missing something each day because of this icky bug. Finally feeling like we might be on the tail end of it. I had taken a day off to scrapbook but then ended up taking 2 days off sick plus my normal 2 days off fell in there too so I have had 5 straight days off and yet I feel like I haven't accomplised a dang thing. Just trying to clean up the messes as we go along. Now I need a burst of energy to get things caught up. Not likely to happen on 2 hrs of sleep.

Well on Friday I was feeling much better and Jesse and I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned we steam cleaned and scrubbed and really wanted that bug out of here. But seeing as we were just in the middle of it the house now looks like we are back to square one. Oh well another day another story.

But I am alive and will get back to blogging.. I hope

Saturday Toy Massacre!

Saturday Toy Massacre!
So tomorrow it is the Super Bowl and we were unanimously elected to be this years host for that family party, since we are pretty mellow, have the bonus room in the new house to use and basically because we were the only ones willing. hehehe But ok so we have lived her for almost a full yr. and we has still not organized the Toys in the Bonus Room/Toy room. So Jesse has been talking about doing it for weeks. I looked and searched for the perfect within reason organizers that I could find. AKA Cheap but effective. My favorite things. I scored big. A girl I work with directed me to the Target add and they had the cool cubies on sale this week. PERFECT! We woke up (I worked for a bit) then we ran to Target and picked them up and Jesse put them together. It was his day to go to a movie with a friend so while he was at the movie the kids and I sorted and sorted and threw and donated toys. It was actually pretty fun. Except for the part were I get to be the mean mom and keep them on task. While they are playing. ... So far things seem to be turing out nicely up there. Fingers crossed we can get the rest of the house clean before start time. UH OH! still have to prepare my primary lesson, and I work tonight at 1:30 am till 7:30 in the morning. It's 7:00 pm now so I better get a move on. YIKES!

My Super Cool Surprise! Room Makeover!!

My Super Cool Surprise! Room Makeover!!

When I got home from my Fab Family Trip to Disneyland I was welcomed by the best surprise ever! While I was out a little group of fairies (meaning my super cool, awesome, talented, creative, organized friend Nikki and her family) did an extreme makeover on my office / scrapbook room. WOOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! This was not a minor makeover by any means it took her and her hubby and 2 kids a lot of man hours to pull this off. I am talking CUSTOM MADE desks and work bench... painted my ugly file cabinets, finished up my wall projects and hung them... and organized all my loads of scrapbook crap! She worked it out with Jesse ahead that he would give them the house keys and $$ for whatever they needed. She also totally pumped me for info about how I planned on doing the room. I was clueless... the whole time I thought she was getting ideas for HER craft room. LOL Yup I am gullible. But happy!!! hehehe

I can not even begin to tell you how awesome this is. I have never had such a nice surprise. Anything that I can possibly say to describe just how lucky I feel and how thankful I am will be an understatement. So without further adieu here are the pictures, with more details.

The Finished Product

So lets start with my fabulous new custom made desk. OK for those that don't know me I work from home. I take phone calls and since my kids are LOUD I work in the middle of the night. This is my quiet room where I work. Up until now my desk consisted of 2 plastic fold down tables and piles of junk. Joe (Nikki's hubby) made me this new desk to work on at night. I feel like a queen and can't believe how spoiled I am. He even used my file cabinets and incorporated them into the desk... painted in my favorite Black of course.

Are you dying yet??? Wait it gets better!

Notice the 12x12 frames on the wall? I had bought these a few months ago and like most of my great finds they found their way onto a shelf in the corner... Nikki in her genius ways found me the perfect ribbon and hung them for me. So now I have my red frames on the wall and need to make the pages to go in them. I am doing a page of each kid.

Now look at his PERFECT wall! Which by the way all walls were naked before this. My other darling friend Amy gave me these 3 stars and I haven't found the perfect spot for them yet. Looks like Nikki found the perfect spot huh? Though she did have to hunt the house looking for them with Amy on the phone giving direction. LOL

I also already had the iron decor that is above the fabulous magnet board that she bought and painted and hung for me. I told it gets better didn't I? Well guess what we aren't done yet... We have 2 more wall to go. I am sooooooo freaking spoiled! I do not deserve such a great friend and hubby!

Now for wall 3. This is the work bench that they made me. WOWSER! They painted the file cabinets, hooked them together.. then he built me platforms to lift them so the drawers would open easier... then took an old salvaged door that I had in the backyard and made me the counter top. Love the rounded corners and the antiquing that they did on it. Look at how nicely they organized my stuff on top too. And the drawers are all nicely organized and full as well. And just to add a touch of class she put up my vinyl saying for me that has been sitting here since I moved in.
Wall #4 she got rid of my worn out see through drawers and brought in my cubbies from the bonus room. Reinforced them and organized all my stuff into them. This had to be a long daunting task... her final decision was that I have to much stuff. HA HA HA who would have thought it? Oh I don't know probaby everybody. I know I am such a pack rat and scrapbook collector. She also hung my red paper holder and put ribbon on my baskets and then bought me new curtain rods and red and black curtains. DANG CUTE!

Jealous Much?

I am soooooooo amazed that they did this for me. I still can not believe it. And to top it all off she just started a new job last week right in the middle of doing this room for me. Now this was one amazing family service project. She will be rewarded in heaven for sure. And I just have to mention what a bargain shopper she is. Everything she bought she used a coupon for and her hubby used wood they had extra for my desk and the total cost for my new fabulous room?? You will die! $120 Yup like I said she is AMAZING!!

The Before

I searched everywhere for a picture of how bad this room was before... can't find one... that's cuz it was not a room that I wanted to take pictures of. It has been the catch all for a few months.. But in the back ground of these photos you can get a clue at the before.

In the back ground here you can see the cluttered table with my worn out see through drawers and the 6 salvaged file cabinets that I had all in a row that were like an ugly primer gray color. I got these from a cousin of mine that clears office equipment. There were in great condition just not that cute of a color. :)

The pile on top of the file cabinets... is frames, art, decorations for the house that I haven't used yet. Nice that Nikki has way more vision than I do. She did get lots of over the phone help from Amy the 2 together had some great ideas. Don't ya think?

Behind the crying child you will see my plastic fold up table, my old kitchen table chair and more stacks of scrapbook stuff. Now aren't you glad that it looks so much better in here now? I know I am. I was actually excited to come back to work yesterday just so that I could play in my new room.

I love love love my room. My kids told me that I can't just hide in here all the time. I say that they are wrong and that I can. :)

THANKS AGAIN NIKKI!!!!!!!!

YOU ARE THE BEST!

Charity, Blissful Sleep, and Just hanging out

This past weekend seems to have gone by in a blur, again. LOL

On Friday we went swimming for a fundraiser that was for my cousins son that has cancer.

It was so good to be able to go and donate and show our love and support for them.

But I also have to admit that we had soooooo much fun swimming.

It was a pool that we haven't been to before and it was a blast. I took a few pictures but on my dad's camera.

The swimming was from 9-11 pm. The kids were exhausted by the time we got home because it was midnight.

Put them to bed and then Jesse and I stayed up for a couple hrs watching dvd's of Battle Star Galactica. I am not a real sci-fi person but I am married to a geek. Since all the guys (computer nerds) he works with have been watching it he wanted to watch it too, so, I said ok go rent them. Have to admit they are better than I expected and I really have been enjoying them. And besides he watched ever last Alias episode with me during my Alias fetish. OK so he watched them 2x with me since I had to repeat them once it went off air and I was having with drawls. LOL

Anyway we were all so tired that when we woke up on Saturday morning it was 11:30 am. NOT even kidding you. I felt like such a lazy sloth but then thought: ya know what, I stay up and work late all the time and Jesse is stuck getting up all night with whatever kid or dog needs him, so, it is high time we all got a day to sleep in! Right?

Does anyone else feel guilty for sleeping? I totally do. Beat myself up for it all the time even when I have worked until 5 am I still feel bad for sleeping in. But, I have guilt and depression issues so it's no huge shock for me to beat myself up over these thing. Anyway any one else have sleep issues?

BUT oh my, the sheer bliss of a nice long sleep! The joy the joy! I remember the day... LOL Maybe I should attend charity functions more often. LOL I can not believe my kids slept that long.

Then we got up and cleaned like there was no tomorrow. So nice to get the house picked up. With the kids home from school this place it quickly becoming more than a zombie like me can handle. Plus it's a lot more to clean than the old house.

Then Jesse's sister invited us up for dinner. So sweet of her! The kids love her to death and haven't seen her for a while and they love going to her house. Got a few pictures here are my faves. She has a beautiful yard and my kids were happy to be on some grass for a change. (I know out time will come I know) Look how funny will was when I told him to smile.

Then worked Sat. night, got my primary lesson ready, and then at church Sunday I only had one kid to teach. Hum yeah so glad I put in so much effort. LOL No actually is was nice and she is a great listener. And it's not about the number of kids and she got extra treats too.

Then after church we went to my moms and ate. YUMMY YUMMY we made our own version of this chicken stuff that we get at a local restaurant. It was Grilled Chicken Breasts topped with sauteed onion rings, and bacon and cheese and BBQ sauce then melted in the oven on broil for about 5-10 min. I was soooo de-lish and ultra fabuloso! Have to make that again.

Then back to work again last night

Then this morning when I got up I felt like a sloth. Some days, on no sleep, I do ok, and some days like today, I do not do ok. I was irritable, grumpy and didn't want to do a thing. So I didn't, I didn't get not even one single thing done all day long. I suck rocks! Big ones! And to top is off I was the meanest mom in the world. Grumpy all day about everything. Poor kids.

And now I am back at work and hope that tomorrow will be a new day and that I will be much nicer a mom and perhaps even have an ounce of energy to move a little. LOL

Grrrrr...... A fast Vent

I hate this day and I haven’t been able to get ONE thing done so what the hell ever. Being a mom is like drowing in an inch of water. It takes a while but eventually it will kill you!

It is amazing what one little boy can do with a bowl or dehydrated refried beans. UGH! only one of the 17 thousand messes he made today.

Fish Heads, Fish Heads, Rolly Polly Fish Heads! ~ My Tuesday Tell All

Isn't that like a Dr. Demento song? Well that describes my life these days. I promise if you read this you will understand why. Though it is a little gross. That is your warning.

OK so since we are in the middle of building a new house and still living in a way too small for my family (especially since mom is a pack rat) old farm house we are in a mess. When I say a mess that is putting it lightly. I swear people, we have redefined the word filth! I feel like I have to houses to keep up on and I am not any good at keeping up on one. As soon as the kids get home from school we run over to the new house and also feed the cows while there, then we usually leave in just enough time to grab some food, (don't know when I cooked last) and head home just in time for me to eat before gong into the den of solitude to "work" for the night) It is getting crazy!

I have been trying to pack during the day but with the Trollz at home with me that isn't going to swell. And as for the outside.... lets just say this: I admit it I still have Christmas lights and my Christmas wreaths on the fence. Well some of them, some have blown off and are lying on the grass. Yes we are WAY STINKING BEHIND!!!!

So with all of this more than our usual chaos dear hubby decides that he doesn't care about the fish tank any more. The freaking huge fish tank, that use to be his pride and joy, and that is consequently placed front and center when anyone comes to visit. (please try to remember that the placement of hear said tank is because it is USUALLY Beautiful!) He says "It will be too hard to move with all the water so I am going to let some evaporate before the move and then I will get it all fixed up again" hum...

It has been gradually getting uglier and uglier as time goes on. Yup sure enough the water started to evaporate and the remaining water well lets just say "pond scum" would be a great description. And then the fish start dying. These are some big fish too that have been in there for years. And once you loose one large size fish it toxins the water and then they all die in a matter of about 24 hrs. OH yummy! I need to add here that it is fully against my moral beliefs, or rather my gag reflex, to touch the dead fish even with a net, (as if a little fish net were going to do the job) So in the a.m. I hear splashing water and look over at the tank that is at this point only about 1/3 full and see them all dying. YUCKY!!! So I just decide that we aren't going into the front room until daddy can come home and bravely scoop the fish up. By the time we got home that night they already stunk. So he ever so bravely get his cup and scoops up all the stupid bodies and where does he put them?

Oh yes right on the front lawn. Thank goodness we live in the country!!! And thank goodness we have 4 cats of our own and about 4 farm cats that stock us daily for free food. I am sure they thought it was a Sea Food Buffet. So the next day, the kids go out the door to school, and what do they see?? Fish Heads, Fish Heads, Rolly Polly Fish Heads! all lined up on the porch! Gotta love how cats want to show you how wonderful they are for what they have uhm "caught" for lack of a better word.

And here is me thinking (edited here for the swearing that was really going on in my head) "You stupid lazy a$5 cats! You sit out here all day waiting for your free dang food and then you finally go hunting, and you can only come up with are already dead fish off the lawn and then you actually bring us the rotten disgusting fish heads? Great job hunting guys!" Worthless d@*n cats!!! I kicked the heads our by the field and next day they brought them back AGAIN! Stupid cats! I had Jaden put them in the trash this time. Samantha thinks she is going to die!

Seriously I don't know who is worse the Cats for their lame-O hunting skills? OR the Hubby for his lame-O fish disposal skills!? Or the wife who is still lame-O complaining when he is building her a new house? LOL

And then there is the other matter of the frozen dead bunny!? And dear hubby of mine if you don't get that one taken care of I might just take pictures and blog it too!? What is this pet cemetery? UGH UGH UGH I want a normal life back!

Sorry kids, I am SO giving up pets for a while!!

Have you ever had something get this far out of control?