yes,yes, yea and No, NO, NO

I finally did it, I got myself out of bed and went to the gym. So many times I have made the promise to myself that I would some how fit it in during the day. Between the kids stuff and grandma, well I am very bad at keeping promises to myself. So I made a new plan and that is to get myself out of bed at 4:00am and get to the gym before Shane leaves for work so I don't have to worry about the kids and still get it in in the morning like I like. I now have done it twice, I know it has not settled in as a habit yet, but soon. I was very disappointed in my running time. It took me 18min. to run 1 mile, are you kidding me? Shaela could pass me up! So Jen wants to do a short pre. Triathlon warm up in May, and I will still be running when they are all back home sleeping. I need to push myself harder. I tried today!
We will be having a new baby addition to our home. All that know me, know how much I want another baby! Well we have on coming! A girl on my street needs someone to watch her 3month old baby girl and I jumped to say yes! So starting on Monday, we will have this girl everyday from 6:00am to 4:00pm! Can life get any better then this? I already have plans to barrow some baby stuff from Chari, so that I have a few things and I think she may need a few cute hair bows. oh ya and a swimsuit for all the times we will be going swimming this summer. I have not been this excited since Bridget was coming! I will post pic.s of her when I get some.

busy weekend

As always I had a VERY FULL schedule this weekend and I am glad that the new week is here. Thursday night I went with some of my friends from the ward to Stake Temple night. Friday night Bailey (Jens little girl) had her birthday party at Boondocks. It was SO>>>fun. here is a pic. of my girls on one of those virtual rides were the seat shakes and you are watching a screen that looks like you are on some type of scary ride. The seats would shake so bad that the girls could barely stay on. If you notice the gray above their heads, this is were their heads should be. Look at there PRICELESS faces!!AHHHHHHHH

And here is a pic. of us three at the party.

Saturday...Shane had a lot of yard work to catch up on. All his friends showed up individually and he put them all to work, you go hunny!

Here is the kind of toys my husband lets the girls play with. I have to bite my tongue sometime, but you can bet the "I told you so" would have came out if there had been a visit to the ER.

And finally tonight Shane hung up my mirror.. What do you think? I was thinking of putting black photo albums on one side of it with something on the other.

Another snare

Ok, I am at another dilemma with my front room. I have two pieces of material that I like for the couch cushions. Here they are.. Which ones do you like? I need to purchase them tonight..

Lost a dear friend

well yesterday I lost a Very dear old friend. This friend I have known for 13 years. I have loved and hated her. She has always been dependable for me though. Who was this friend,? you ask... It was none other then my trusty old Subaru ( u r a bus spelt backwards). I bought this car 13 yrs ago while I was in college. I hated the color of it, but loved the car. I still hate the color of it. Well it was 15yrs old the day it died. It sure lasted a long time for me though. We had racked up 260,000 miles together! Shane was going to work the other day in her when she gave her last breath. He tried to resuscitate her, but to no avail she would cost way to much medical for us at this time. So we are on the hunt for a car. Not a new one, we looked on KSL and found another Subaru just like her, same year but with only 150,000 miles. the car is only $500.00. That car still has a good 100,000 miles left in it. Shane is going to go take a look at him tomorrow! I will post a pic. of our lost loved one soon! She will be donated to Kars for Kidneys.. Moment of silence for the one that forgave me the 2 times I forgot to put the oil cap on and blew oil all over the roof of her hood, the times I drove around with her leaking oil for so long, The time a dumped 2 SUPER SIZED milk shakes onto the gear shift, the times I ran her with the gas light on until she was only using fumes, and the MANY, MANY, MANY brakes I had to replace in her because of my heavy foot. Oh and the time she ran into my moms Yukon.

colored hair

Ok, maybe I should have been watching were I was driving, but I so wanted a pic. of my side mirror looking out. Here is what I was seeing, what you are not seeing is that the traffic really was crawling along, and I had plenty of time to take A LOT of pictures.

Shaela had crazy hair day this last Friday. She had been looking forward to it all week. So I was getting as excited as her...YOu know live through you kids type thing. Anyhow we decided to take Chantell's doo.. and color it. I think she is so cute, but like my friend Amy said "she looks like a troll." don't you just want to wrap your hands around her and spin her back and forth to see if it will do the troll thing?

Bridget also wanted to color her hair so I did poca-dots for her. She did how ever lean against my wall with her freshly painted hair, so now my new painted wall just got another coat of color, but in pink!!!AHHHHHH

I forgot to post that the other week Sheena, Wyatt, me and the girls, Mom, Grandma and Brandon all went to the movie. We went and seen 'Horton Hears a Who.' This has been one of my All Time FavoriteS! I have not liked a movie this much since 'Over the Hedge.' Here is a pic. of the kids leaving the movie parked on a bench. Sheena and I had a BLAST riding home. I don't think I have laughed that long in a VERY long time. Thanks Sheena.

new layout page

ok it is 1:30am and I am still playing on the computer. I am trying to teach myself how to make my own layout pages. I am getting close, check out my new link on the left of this page called trial layouts. this is what I was finally able to do, now only if I can learn to just put it in the top header only, hmmmm I wonder..

Partners in Crime

My neighbors have a little boy that is Shaela's age. This little boy is always into something. I mean he is a real life Dennis the Mennis. I love his mom and dad, they are wonderful people. I just feel bad about all they have to put up with. This is just one day out of MANY I am telling you about. The other day the little boy decided to throw oranges over the fence to our backyard. I believe he had good intentions...He wanted to share with the girls and I think the pup. The girls brought in 6 oranges. Next Shane had to go out there and tell him to stop pulling of the metal fence dividers (you know the privacy, plastic strips), from the neighbors fence on the other side of us. not even 5 min. after that Shane had to go tell him to stop throwing rocks at his work truck. Oh..he was not trying to hit the truck, just the garbage can parked right behind the truck. AHHHHHH! He wants to come over and play almost everyday, but sometimes I just have to say "not today." Anyways these neighbors have a yellow lab that is only 6months older the ours. With a little help from this little boy the pup now crawls under the fence to come play with scooter (our pup). I don't mind, that part because he keeps scooter happy and then they play better with the girls. Here is a pick of the 2 pups. Scooter (ours) is on the right and Trek is on the left. See how big Scooter is, he already can bulldozer this pup over.

Bridget loves to play with her pup in the sandbox. She puts him to work, by having him dig the BIG holes. It is funny to watch them work together on this. Here is a pic. of them at work.

I can just hear her say "Yes Scooter, dig right there...Good Boy!"

Here is all 4 of them working together to make the best Sandcastle Ever!

As for the cat (Chopper) he has never been outside, and may never want to go out if I can help it...Every time he tries to get close to the outside of the door I try to something that will scare him so bad that he will not try again that day!

Big Dilemma

OK, I of course have been keeping myself busy. I have chosen this last week to paint my front room. I have painted the walls a tanish/taupe color and want to paint one wall a Bay leaf Green. Along with, I am thinking of buying Couch covers that look like this..

And the big pillows (the back part of the couch) I would like to make covers for them, something like this print....

Any ideas where I can get this in upholstery material? and then do the small decorative pillows in another solid color. I added the pillows onto the couch in photoshop, to see how it looks, what do you think?

OK, the thing I want to know is Vertical on the mirror above the table or Horizontal, I am going more towards the Vertical only because I am planning on putting A Horizontal rod above my couch with pic.s hanging on it. and EVERYTHING in the room seems Horizontal ( long piano, long coffee table, long couch, long rod) I just thought it would brake it up what do you think? Please vote...

And here is a kind of idea that I am going to do with my pics. but with the word FAMILY in wood letters above it., not sure what color or how I am going to decorate the letters, any ideas?

Another Picture

Here is another Picture that I have been working on....not there yet, but hopefully soon!

What do you think?