helllllllllooooooooooo

Just been keeping busy. Laundry, cooking, diapers, schooling... just the usual.

Lance bought the kids a swing set. We left the one we had behind in California when we moved. Not worth taking apart, moving and putting back together a $130.00 swing set. It has taken him 4 days to put together. Well not 4 full days, just the time he has after work. The kids all helped. Now it is done and they are enjoying it. This time we went with a wooden model well above the $130.00 cost of the last one. He figured that this will be something that will have years of use so we should buy a good model.

Kids funny:
E " mommy will you make me a funny cake?"
me looking at him very perplexed, until it dawns on me that he wants a funfetti cake!

Scrapbooking:
Lots of amazing things happening right now! I was contacted by a magazine to be a contributer to an upcoming book. I was asked to be a guest designer for a monthly kit in the next month or so and I was asked to keep another thing a secret :) So good stuff.
and wouldn't you know it, I am feeling so uninspired! I guess that is the way it works. Hopefully it will pass quickly.

been awhile!

If there was a downside to having a large family it would be this: 9 kids= flu x 9! Hubby was out of town, kids flu and poison ivy. Enough said!I still have mountains of laundry. I think that may be a given until kids start moving out. and since we keep adding kidsand that includes their laundry. So I guess I need to give up on the idea that I will be caught up. That is one of my biggest faults. Perfectionism.

Been a scrapping fool. Love that! I am thinking of entering memory masters. I don't know. Still pondering it. I finished a layout that I love the other day and I am saving it just in case.

Other scrappy news. I had a layout requested for Scrapbook Trends Magazine. Been awhile, of course I hadn't submitted in a long time either. I have been trying to remember. I only submit if I have something that fits the call.

Kids funny

Molly: Ethan you want to jump on the trampoline with me?
Ethan: Oh yeah Baby!

Where on earth did he get that?

Ok, off to play cards with the neighbors. Have a great weekend!

Mountains of laundry

are calling to me. If you do not here from me in 2 days, please send help ;)

American Idol is ticking me off! This is our first season watching. Gina and Chris S. while not in my absolute top 4, did not deserve to leave before Sanjaya or Haley. did.not.deserve. Hopefully they will have opportunties regardless. Ok I said it, now time for me to move on. Yep, on to my laundry...

crabby

It does not reflect on the day to come when you wake up crabby! Blechhh. I was able to squeeze in 30 minutes at naptime to scrapbook :)

I did this for the pub AD challenge at twopeas. This is the first one I have done in years. Ok, I am off to veg in front of the TV. Hubby is gone so it's a good time to catch up on what not to wear.

getting older is NOT fun

Thank you Old Navy for making me feel old and fat. What is with the tight long tee's? Tight isn't looking so good around my middle. and long? That.is.so.not.a.good.look! That is just the tops. All I could find was low rise and extra low rise. Um yeah, I have had 9 children. and while I am not fat, I am not thin either. Kinda in the middle. low rise, yeah right! My roll hangs over. Another not so good look for me. Where am I supposed to shop? A 35 year old still needs clothes. cute but not too young. Where oh where are these clothes? I did find a shop that has jeans that I love. Forth and Towne, they are a Gap owned company, they are for the 30 and over set :) But right after I found that they have great jeans for a curvy body , I receive an email that they are closing in June. People why are you doing this to me....

Testing

Seeing if I can figure out how to load images in. This is for challenge #26 at http://hmitm.blogspot.com/ I like it. Pretty simple.

March 19th 2007

Ok, I decided to start a blog. Hopefully I will keep up so I can use this to remember all the cute(insane) things that happen in a family with 9 children. So far so good today. Just some crying because someone did something to someone else. Who knows it might sctually be true. Or it could be another example of the "not me" syndrome. You know, when you ask the children who did this? and the answer is "not me". I am not sure who not me is but boy they need to move on from my house, they are certainly causing lots of mischief! Right now I need to go because T is running through the house screaming like a fire is after him. More than likely someone told him no. Man he hates that ;)