Seriously?

Wow!  I have only been averaging about 1 to 2 post per week for the last month or so.  That is so sad.  Funny thing is that I thought when my son started school I would have SO much more free to time to craft. HAHAHAHA  It has been the opposite.  I haven't sewn hardly at all and I have made nothing for my etsy shop.  I have barely managed to do a few projects for friends or for church.

This last weekend I did a Halloween photo shoot with some friends and friends of friends.  It was lots of fun.  I made a Halloween banner just to help with decorations.  I also brought my halloween quilt that I made a LONG time ago.  A lot of the fabric matched because it was left over from when I did the quilt.  Here is a picture of my son and his friend Lillie ( who happens to be my best friend from high school's little girl )

I was planning on using the Halloween banner across my fire place but I made it SO huge that I would have to cut it in half and so far I have been way to lazy to do that.  Pathetic I know.   The main reason for the photo shoot was to take a picture for my friend.  Her little girl is almost a year old and she is so adorable.  She was looking on pinterest or somewhere and saw a picture of a baby INSIDE a pumpkin.  If you have been looking on pinterest at all you have probably seen the picture.  she sent me a copy and said, "Can we do this, please?"  I told her as long a s she carved out the pumpkin herself I would totally do it.  SO this is what we ended up with

When we first put her in it she balled!  Like big crocodile tears!  Then her momma started singing and all the kids started jumping up and down dancing and we got this little smile out of her.  She never smiled huge but that is okay.  We liked this one any ways.  What a cutie pie huh?!

So there you have it.  Some kind of a blog post from me.  And since today is Thankful Thursdays I am going to say I am thankful for friends.  My friend Lisa not only set up everything at her mom's house and bought all of the decorations for this photo of her daughter, but she then wrote a note on facebook and asked if anyone was interested in coming and paying money to get their kids picture taken!  What a trooper she was!  She worked hard all day too.  I'm so grateful for the few of my friends who are like that and support me no matter what.  Her momma raised her right.  I met her sister and she was the SAME way.  Kept asking me if I needed anything, threw my trash away for me, put my medicine in the refrigerator for me.  It was so nice!  I hope everyone who reads this can find something that they are thankful for today too!

So here's hoping I have SOMETHING crafty to show for my self soon.  I am NOT making any promises thought because we are moving into our new house in about two weeks,  I have one box packed.  YIKES!

Thankful Thursday

I know I have not been on here much lately.  I apologize.  We have been crazy here.  Last Thursday I got the flat tire on my way home from the grocery store.  My friend was coming to stay with us for the weekend so we had a couple of things planned.  We all had sore throats and the kids were coughing a lot.  We went out to dinner and then bowling Friday night.  It was fun!  We also got a call from our realtor and WE GOT OUR HOUSE!  Like, it is OURS!  I can't tell you how much of a stress relief that was.  Although we have to move now, not to mention clean the house because it has not been lived in since March, but we no longer have to sign a million papers and wait patiently for someone to let us know what is going on.  Buying a house is such a pain but totally worth it.  I have had a lot of other things going on too and with everyone not feeling well it has been a challenge.

Last night we decided to go to the doctors when my husband got home from work.  So my thankful thursday's is to say I AM THANKFUL FOR ANTIBIOTICS!  Seriously!  Although we are not feeling better YET, I am so grateful the doctor gave us drugs so we CAN get better.  Now it's only a matter of time.

So since the house is officially ours now I'll post pictures soon.  We aren't actually moving in until the 8th or so of November.  Even then our lease isn't up on our rental here until the end of December so we get to pay a mortgage payment and rent the same month as Christmas, my son's birthday, my husband's birthday and our anniversary.  Yikes!  Not to mention that we had to buy me 4 new tires last friday and have had several trips to buy little things for the new house.  The thing about buying little things is that they add up to be a lot!   Did I also mention our house hasn't sold in Texas yet?!





So for now I am busy and trying to get SOME crafts and sewing done but I am failing miserably!  Here's to hoping I can get SOMETHING made in the next week so I have something to blog about.  What are you all thankful for this week?

Thankful Thursday

It has been a while since I posted Thankful Thursday's!  Today I have a GREAT one.  Today I am thankful for AAA!   I went to the grocery store to buy groceries with my two year old.  I was about a mile from our community when my tire wet flat.  DOH!  I had groceries in my trunk and so I got out of the car to take the groceries out and put them up front with us in the air conditioning.  I came back into the car and saw this

Good thing I only buy washable markers huh?  It came right off with a wipe.  So anyways I guess I am thankful for TWO things.   AAA for fixing my car and washable markers!  haha  I am having a much better day now though.  My friend is here for the weekend and he brought me food from my favorite restaurant!  WOO HOO

Today is thursday. I am having a crappy week. It makes thankful thursdays kinda hard. I am thankful for so many things. When I am having a bad day I usually miss my husband a lot. He has been having a crappy week too. Some of our reason are the same, some are different. We are both amazed lately at how many people SAY they will do something but DON'T. It amazes me when how bad the economy is, and how much people need business right now, they are not pulling their weight. We have had family members totally let us down, lawyers NOT call us back and real estate agents who ignore our calls. Seriously? Do you NOT want our business? I thought EVERYONE right now needed and wanted business but I guess not.

SOOOOOOO for today I am going to name something simple. I am thankful for my new business cards! haha I ordered some new cards for my photography since my old ones say Serving the Central Texas Area. I really liked my old cards so I did something almost exactly the same. I changed things up slightly. In stead of business cards, I got postcards! I LOVE THEM! They are so cute and I love that they are big enough to see the pictures well on them. I have seen photographers do this a couple times over the last year and every time I found one, got given one or picked one up somewhere, I just loved how big and colorful they were. So you want to see?

Sorry it's a bad picture.  It was taken with my cell phone.  SOOO who wants one?  :)

Thankful Thursdays

I am SO thankful that my sister was able to adopt this cutie pie!

Seriously could he be any cuter?  I think not!

Thankful Thursdays

Today is thursday.  I am thankful for a lot of things.  Sometimes I just feel really lucky.  I know I have already said I am thankful for my husband and so I am not saying that again, however I am SO thankful that my husband loves me today, just like he did ( well...probably better )  then he did at the beginning.

A friend and I were texting each other and he made mention something about another one of our friends not being attracted to me.  I laughed and said, "I am perfectly okay with that because I was never attracted to him either."  Then I went on to say that I was just thankful my husband loved me even though I am fatter, and get WAY crankier and I don't always clean the house and dinner is not always ready for him.  I am SO thankful that I have a husband who is understanding.  I am grateful I have a husband who no matter what I look like, he thinks I look beautiful.  I will not have make up on, not showered in two days and be wearing some random outfit and he'll come home, kiss me and say, "You look really good today!"  HAHA  Sometimes I think he is mocking me but he isn't.  He thinks I am wonderful no matter what and I am SO grateful for that.

So technically, I am grateful for my husband, AGAIN!  But really I am grateful for a best friend who loves me no matter what.

Thankful Thursdays

I am thankful for recipes!  I would be SOOOOOO lost without recipes.  I wouldn't know how to cook anything at all and I would be SO scared to try anything.  Recipes get us familiar with what ingredients are good for certain things.  For instance, who would have though that honey would be good for your skin?  I would NEVER have thought,  "Hmmmm I think if I rub sticky honey all over my face and then leave it there for a few minutes and wash it off....I bet it will make my skin nice and soft!"

Well, I got a recipe for YOU!  I haven't tried it yet.  I was cleaning just now and saw it and thought, "Oh yeah I forgot about this."  I got it at church.  The ladies had a spa night and this recipe was give to us along with a chocolate bar.  Here are the ingredients

1/3 cup of cocoa
2 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream ( sour cream will work too! )
3 tablespoons of oatmeal powder ( I just throw oat meal in the food processor )

Preparation

Mix all the ingredients until the mask is consistent.  Apply on the face, gently massaging it so that the oatmeal can start exfoliating the dead skin cell layers.  Leave it on for about 15 to 20 minutes and then rinse off with lukewarm water.  ENJOY YOUR SOFT FACE!

Vacation

We got back from vacation yesterday evening.  MAN was that a long day.  I had a UTI and it meant basically needing to stop and use the bathroom pretty much every hour.  I think it was more often then the time I was 8 months pregnant and drove from Utah to Texas.  We also didn't have the kids DVD players.  They both broke on the trip and so I was REALLY worried about that.  The kids actually did pretty good.  The last hour or so was painful but other then that it went well.

What is it about being home that is just so nice?  The last couple of days we were in Alton Utah which is a small little town.  I had forgotten my home made deodorant at my mom's so I bought a travel size stick at walmart and I have got to tell you it was horrible!  I am NEVER going back to store bought deodorant again.  My brand new white shirt after wearing it with the storte bought stuff had yellow arm pits by the end of the day.  I wore a different brand new white shirt with my home made deodorant and it had no white pits at all.  Hmmmmmmm

ANY WAYS.  I have tons of pictures to go through and I'll pick some to post on here later.  Since today is thursday I will give you something I am thankful for.  NAPS!  haha  I am SOOOOOO thankful for naps.  Naps for me and naps for my kids.  We tried to go grocery shopping with super tired, cranky kids and it is a miracle we didn't kill one or both of them.  My daughter has decided she likes to hit.  WHERE do they learn this stuff?!  My boy went through a hitting phase as this age too.  Super frustrating.  Any suggestion on how to deal with it?  So far we have been doing time outs.

Everyone have a great Thursday and don't forget to think of something you are thankful for too!

Thankful Thursday

Last week my family was on vacation at Disneyland so I didn't get to do my thankful Thursday ( and only on the second week!  sheesh! )  So this week I guess I should do TWO things I am thankful for on this lovely Thursday afternoon.

ONE, I am thankful for my beliefs.  Whether that be spiritual, political, economical WHATEVER they may be.  I am thankful I have my own opinions and they someone doesn't have to GIVE them too me.  My husband and I were watching a movie last night and he had an entirely different view on it then I did.  That's okay.  if we all thought the same how boring would that make us all!?

TWO, I am thankful for my son, Tyler.  He is super smart and sometimes that makes it hard to be around him all of the time.  He talks NON-STOP!  Lately that has been driving me up the wall.  He literately thinks he HAS to be talking and when we ask him to be quiet and eat, brush teeth, go to the bathroom; whatever it may be, he says, "But I just can't help it"  He has SOOOO much going on in his head and I will be SO grateful when he starts kindergarten in September.  He NEEDS it so bad and I need it so bad too.  But for now, I am thankful for him and his sweet spirit.  He really is a joy to have, even if sometimes I want to rip my hair out.  I LOVE HIM!  And I am thankful he is so smart.  It gets me off of the hook a lot when doing things like reading and playing games, but it makes things harder because he WANTS to understand how everything works and sometimes there is just NO WAY of teaching a 5 year old somethings.

So what are you thankful for this week?

Thankful Thursday

I am going to TRY and start something new on my blog.  I am going to try and write something I am thankful for every Thursday.  Someone I know used to do this on their blog a while ago and recently I was thinking about it.  SO going along with the post I wrote yesterday about marriage, I am thankful for my HUSBAND!  Not only does he not complain EVER that the house is a mess or I didn't do his laundry or make him something for dinner other then pizza, he also ALWAYS asks my permission before spending money ALWAYS.  We had been talking about getting a grill.  We use a small Gorge Forman grill and it has seen better days.  Here we have a little cement patio in the back and so we knew we wanted to get one with some of our tax return money.  Well, the tax return money kinda went to a bunch of other things and we didn't get one.  My husband has been eyeing some on line.  He has been wanting to learn how to smoke.  He told his mom he wanted to learn how to smoke and she looked at him like he was crazy!  Then he explained that he meant MEAT and she laughed.  SOOOOOO after looking for a couple of months and not buying anything he finally decided to buy one.  Then he kept NOT DOING IT!  haha  I guess he is like me sometimes about spending money.  One night he had told me he was going to order it and I said "Go for it!"  Then next day I get a phone call from him.  He says, "I just wanted to be sure it was okay with you if I bought the grill?"  Um...didn't I already say yes?!  haha  Then he started to tell me he was going to use mostly amazon gift cards he had from one of his credit cards ( cash back for buying certain items ) and I just laughed at him.  I begged him to buy it and leave me alone.   He did, and I was SO happy he did.  I am SOOOOOOOO grateful for a husband who includes me in finical matters.  I know some married people have separate accounts.  We have one and I don't even know how to use it.  I don't need to really because I COMPLETELY trust him.  He has always been more then forth coming and he always says it's OUR money and gets mad when I refer to it as HIS.  I am so blessed for this and so I am GRATEFUL for my husband!