Thursday, January 31, 2008

Early Birthday

We celebrated an early birthday for Tanner with Grandma Tressa and Grandpa Larry...We went to a great mexican restaurant, Moreno's...they came and sang to Tanner after dinner- he was really startled-I wish I would have gotten the look on his face when they started singing, but of course I am too slow taking pictures...

I cannot believe he will be eleven- it just seems like he grew up too fast. He now actually likes girls and tells us about them- sort of...it seems so weird to me to hear him talk about it...I find myself wanting to check his emails...I don't want to be one of "those moms".
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Scrappin'

So I found myself with a little over an hour on Sunday and I actually felt like scrapping...so I did! I got 4 layouts done, now, they are not anything to write home about but at least I did them. This was one of my favorites...I love the photo collage of pictures! Very simple (as were all of the layouts) but I like simple.

I really liked one I did of Tanner but as I was finishing it up he asked if I was going to put it on my blog- I asked "Why? do you want me to?" No he says. He is getting funny about certain things, the pictures were of him at his Invention Convention last year, nothing wrong with them. But I think he didn't like how he looked so he didn't want anyone to see the pictures!! He is growing up so fast- he will be 11 on Friday! WOW!
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Monday, January 28, 2008

*Weekend*

This weekend we all went out to Temecula. The boys went on to Ocotillo Wells with their toys and Riley, Mom and I went to a few wineries and to La Maison...(I think that is the name).

I think Riley thought she looked like a Queen with that....

I really like this princess window...it has crystal knobs on it...the only thing is I don't really like the shabby chic look to it. I would want it to look "new". I wonder if I could figure out how to make one myself....










the barn....



We had a fun weekend- Thanks Mom & Larry!

Happy Birthday Larry!
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

So I have been kind of depressed lately and during my lunch breaks at work I like to visit blogs to get inspired to be more creative, or laugh or get recipes etc...I visit my favorite scrapbook store blog www.thescrapbookoasis.com to find other scrapbooker's blogs today and link to two blogs that I haven't read before...the first one was one that linked me to the memorial blog for a girl that was killed by her husband in Utah- that was really depressing so I go to another blog and I read about her struggle with miscarriage and how depressed she was etc. So maybe God is trying to tell me to get off my pity party!!! ya think?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

History Channel

DO NOT WATCH THIS & THEN GO TO SLEEP

Decoding The Past
Episode: Doomsday 2012: The End of Days
http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=214250

or this
Life After People
http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people/

You will have horrible nightmares and then go to work and google December 21, 2012...that is some scarey stuff.....

Monday, January 21, 2008

*Love*

Isn't this the cutest thing? Caroline made it for me and I love it! :)

Caroline & Mike, Cami & Chris (and children) came over on Saturday for dinner. It was fun to hang out- we haven't done that in so long...I was so tired on Sunday, stayed up too late and probably had my fair share of red wine... ;) Thanks for the fun time guys!!!

Tanner was supposed to have a baseball game on Sunday in Garden Grove- (a tournament) at 4:00. Riley & I drove him there, dropped him at the front of the fields and went to park-it took us all of 2 minutes to park and walk to the field. We get there and I see a table set up with pictures from the previous day and I find Tanner's team and start looking at them. Then we decide we should find where their team is warming up so we walk around the fields (there are only two fields with teams on them). Cannot find them- go back to the snack bar area and stand & wait. I am thinking they will be there any minute. We walk around the fields again. We walk to the park across the way. I go to my car to get my phone and call Tanner- my phone is dead. We walk to the snack bar again and I ask where the Blue Jays are playing. A guy says, "oh, the coach cancelled the game- they didn't have enough players". (then he proceeds to tell me how mad he is at our coach). I say to him, "okay, whatever, but I dropped my son off here and parked and now I cannot find him!!" Luckily, one of the ladies let me use her phone to call him. We must have tried to call him 5-6 times- finally I get an answer. I ask him where he was- he says "at home"- What???? How did you get there? It seems that another family from the team was there as well, and he went home with them!!! I am livid. I couldn't wait to get home & talk to him. He says he didn't know I was parking the car? and that I was staying- he thought I was just dropping him off...right.....I am going to drive all the way drop him off, drive home so that I can turn around & drive back to watch the game...sure. Kids..
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Friday, January 18, 2008

*Dinner & Wii*

My mom & Larry came over for dinner last night and they brought all the food! It was nice to not have to cook- the salad was so good- I wish I had some of that right now! Thanks Mom! Good wine too! :) Didn't really feel like getting up & going to work today ;)- it kind of felt like it should be Saturday!

We played Wii - bowling- it was alot of fun! I warned them that they may be sore the next day- I wonder if they were? Riley is at pro level- that girl can bowl!

Today is my favorite day of the week- I love Fridays- especially at 4:30 when I am driving home on the 22 fwy- it is such a nice feeling!! :)

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

*Grateful*

So yesterday at work I had an employee come & ask me if his SIL still had her job. (she was taken away by undercover policewomen last week). I told him I would have to talk to her supervisor…he comes in later to find out and tell us that she was arrested for child abuse and won’t go to court until February 19th.

Later in the day, I have this woman come in & ask if her husband will still have a job if he misses some work. She says he is “in some trouble”, I told her I would let his supervisor know and that I sure he will be fine if it is only for a few days. She seemed very worried about his job & keeps repeating her story to me. Finally, she tells me that he has been arrested for beating her up and points to her eye (which I notice for the first time is all black & blue). When I tell her I will take care of it for her, she looks relieved, almost about to cry, and shakes my hand. I am sure she is worried he would get out & beat her up all over again if he has no job.

The point of all this?

It didn’t really hit me until I was driving home from work…and then I got really sick to my stomach because you can hear about all this type of stuff on the news, but when you know someone that is actually doing this type of behavior, it just seems so different. I cannot imagine what the woman did to her children that she would be arrested! sick…and I feel so bad for the woman, this obviously wasn’t the first time for her…I wish I could have done something to help her.

I am so thankful for my life, my family, friends- that my problems seem very minor in comparison to these two…

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Birthday Parties

I have two to prepare for. Tanner's is coming up first on February 1st. He wants to have a sleep over with 10 of his friends (10 & 11 year olds) Do I really want to subject myself to a night of no sleep? NO! Last year after he had the entire football team plus 8 friends from school over for a party I told him & Riley no more parties. The time & expense is just ridiculous! Not to mention we usually take them out for dinner with grandparents ...just too expensive. I don't know what to do for Tanner. He cannot narrow down a list of friends to just 2- to maybe go to the movies or something.

Now, Riley has never had a sleepover, so I *think* we are going to let her have one- she wants 8 to 10 girls over - she wants to have hair & make up done. I have called around- it ranges from 22.50 to 27.50 per person to have this done. So I called a gal that does Princess parties (she did two parties for Riley before) and will also do Diva/Glamour parties- she is $350.00 and that is with me doing the make up while she does hair!! I don't know what to do...why can't I just say NO we are not doing big parties????

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Saturday

Guess where I am this fine SAturday morning at 6:40 am???? Work! Yuck. This is my Saturday to work. I only have to come in every 5th or 6th Saturday, but it sure stinks. Since I got here at 6:40 I can leave at 10:40...I don't know, there is something about working on a Saturday- it makes my whole weekend short and not very relaxing. I am usually trying to play catchup to the things I would normally be doing on a Saturday morning....oh well. As you can see, I need to work, my desk is a mess, my only high-point is that I usually stop at the Starbucks down the street and get a coffee, I don't usually have time during the week. Hope everyone else has a great Saturday and weekend...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

organization??

So, I am on this organization kick- I have re-arranged my scrap desk, moved stuff around and I don't really like it. I am such a creature of habit-I like things to stay the same. I will get used to something after awhile, but it takes time.

I haven't scrapped yet but I plan on this weekend tackling my stack upon stack of photos...I mean we are going back years here. And I have finally embraced the scrapping what photos "move" me at the time, but then I have the strong feeling to scrap in date order again and I will do that. Then I find that I have scrapped the same photos maybe a year before...crazy isn't it?

So a couple of weeks ago I have a bunch of photos printed out that have been sitting on my computer and I cannot wait to scrap them. But then I run across this photo today and I cannot remember if I have ever had this one printed...this is my problem with having a digital camera and regular camera...what have I developed and what haven't I - why can't I figure it out? There has got to be some simple solution. And I scrap an event that was on the digital and then find pictures from my other camera that I developed the pictures ago and they are not together in the same place. This is my organization problem. Too many photos- never going to scrap them all- what do I do with the leftovers????

Enough rambling...I am sure I lost all of you with my stupid questions....any ideas though? ;)
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Safe & Sound

So we got a call from the school saying that the kids reached their destination save & sound and last the principal heard they were all playing in the snow... (it was a pre-recorded message for all parents- I must not have been the only worried parent!! ;) )

Have you seen spell with flickr? it is a cool little thing where you put in a name or whatever you want to spell and it spells it out with cool letters. I cannot figure out how to post my name with those letters- if anyone could tell me, that would be great. In the mean time- go to this site and play with words.....http://metaatem.net/words

Monday, January 7, 2008

this boy...

Is leaving tomorrow for Outdoor Ed (science camp) for four days. I know he is really excited about it, but me not so much. I really don't want him to go for various reasons, one being that he means that he is in 5th grade, growing up way too fast. I can't seem to stop it or slow it down. I feel like he is slipping away from us....

And another reason I don't want him to go is that it is up in the local mountains that are filled with snow and they are taking a chartered bus up and I just want all of them to be safe...I cannot actually type the words that I am feeling about that since I just read a news story about a chartered bus in Utah that crashed....

I will just pray that they have a safe, fun trip....maybe anyone that reads this can say a prayer too.... thanks.
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Friday, January 4, 2008

Early Christmas


These pictures are from our early Christmas out in Temecula at Mom & Larry's. As usual we had lots of fun. We went to Keyways Winery to see their light display- very cool! I believe the lights were solar powered too. They had a horse drawn "sleigh" that looked like fun, however it was $35 per person - were they crazy?? So I settled for pictures in front of the vineyards...this picture is the only one that came out- why can't I figure out how to use my camera? Does anyone know a good class to take? I need serious help!


Look at Jake's baby blues...what a character. He is always being silly and making faces. I remember when I was looking at pictures of Mark when he was little and he was always doing goofy faces- now I know where Jake gets it...those two are so much alike....When we were motorcycle riding over New Year's Jake learned to ride the 50 motorcycle and you could not get him off of it- he would ride it until he literally fell over- and Mark is the same way on his motorcycle- he does not want to stop riding...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Happy New Year...& Resolutions...

Happy New Year- I cannot believe that it is 2008...where did 2007 go? I don't have too many resolutions for this year other than the normal..

1. get healthy by eating better & exercise
2. spend more quality time with the kids (do more fun things together)
3. have more date nights with Mark
4. get on a budget, stay on budget & pay off bills!
5. scrapbook more
6. get organized

What about you?