For Allison

Hopefully these are clear enough to see!!

More to Come Soon!!

Well, life around here is rather hectic, and stressful trying to deal with a house that needs to be occupied, and moving across the country in less than a month, and all my family's other activities that wait for "no man"...moving or not...will post more soon!! ;)

An $800 Savings!!

So we have begun home renovations in an effort to move in February to Monterey California and to have our house upgraded so that someone can think it is a perfect steal for them to be in and live in while we are gone or for the unforeseen future. For some unknown reason the townhomes in this neighborhood were built without lights in two of the three bedrooms and we were quoted a $900 price to put lights in the two top bedrooms!! Mainly because the electrician would have to crawl in the attic and they are whining that they would have to be up there, wah wah poor baby electrician...it's your job!! Anyway off my tirade...my husband decided that he wanted to try to do it himself which I must admit I am never very keen on but we have a good friend that is an electrician and he walked him through one of the installs and today he did the second one all by himself...what a savings!!!! :) Can you tell he's proud of himself!!??

It can be done!!

So it almost never fails that every night when it's time for my kids to brush their teeth that a fight breaks out for what most of the time amounts to the silliest, littlest, and stupidest things..."I get to spit first, you're standing too close to me, you're breathing my air and basically existing" so when I heard what I construed to be happy sounds coming out of there...I had to document it. In the first picture you can barely see Dalin but his face is pressed up against the shower curtain on the very far right-hand side... so I took a second picture to show he was there too during this momentous occasion!! Yes we have a closed shower curtain that you can't see through in case anybody was wondering about that!!

A new find!!

So a few days ago our family traveled to Columbia... a town not too far away from us here that we have been to many times but we had to go to a different part of the city for a reason that made us all very sad but we saw something on the way home we told ourselves that we wanted to check out later we came back the next day and it was a cute small nature center... too bad we found it right before we leave!! Oh the picture of the parking signs was taken because it was special parking spots for hybrid vehicles but they were closer to the building and the ones for us gas guzzling, ozone polluting cars had to drive further away to park!! Does that make sense to anyone!!??

Drama Drama Drama

Well this holiday season Destinee and I decided to audition for a local theater company's production of Annie... well neither one of us got very good parts and it has been very very time-consuming and probably not worth our time but I've met some really good people that I should keep as friends and Destinee has made some good friends too it's almost over though!!

Still a little under the weather...

Well we've had a first this year in our family usually our family has a sickness and it goes through us one at a time and then we are over it and that is our sickness for the year... but this year unfortunately sickness has returned over and over again so Destinee is the one with the fever right now but life must go on!! So I was in charge of the activity day lesson tonight and I think it went very very well I think I even impressed my fellow leader (which is hard to do!!) Homemade Christmas bows that you can make out of all kinds of materials that you already have at home and can be used for all holidays throughout the year...instead of having the $2.00 bag o' 800,000,000 red and green bows that you have to store for the next year!! The bottom two were paper grocery bags and magazine pages!!