Music Snob at 5

Yep, L likes to walk around the house singing and dancing all day. I should get it on video but until I convince my hubby that I need a flip video (I’m working on it S) it’s probably not going to happen. Anyway, the lyrics that she walks around singing aren’t 5 year old appropriate. Here are some examples:

“I wanna take a ride on your disco stick” Thank god she does not know what this means

“I said shush girl, shut your lips, do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips” Now she has J singing the same thing

Not only is she singing all of the inapporpriate lyrics from the radio but she is also making up her own dances. When Right Round comes on (by Flo-rida) she sits in her carseat and spins her finger around and her head. It’s quite hilarious.

If the radio is on Radio Disney or something that I would not be caught dead listening too, she requests that I change the station immediately and put on my music. Lord!!!

A music snob at 5. I am sure there are more examples but I can’t remember them right now and thanks to Erika for the blogging material. She seems to be having some musical issues with her fam right now too.

BIG News!!!

I had to wait… then I wasn’t sure how to blog about something so wonderful. It felt like it would never happen. I thought my brother would be a bachelor FOREVER!

Then he met HER. She is so wonderful. Good with my kids, good to my brother, down to earth and beautiful. She’s tons of fun and bit shy. We are so very excited about their engagement, probably no one more than me. They were engaged on 7/6/09 but my mom and I are saying 7/8/09 because it’s a way cooler date

For all the family out there that reads my blog and is crazy for info, here it is: They are getting married next Spring (date to be determined), they are going away to have a private just the two of them wedding  (possibly Jamaica) and coming back to a full-on rager, reception, party. As soon as dates are picked and places oh and I get to take their engagement pictures, so once all of that is determined and done, I will update all of you.

CONGRATS to N8 and my future sis-in-law. Now of course I have pictures.

Aren’t they cute together. Do you see a common denominator in almost every one of my pictures of them together…. L!!! She is always in the middle of them or sitting on C’s lap. I’d say she might love C a little more than us not much though.

Finally doing something I NEED to do

I am finally taking a class tonight. A photography class. I called a local photographer that has a big sign outside saying they were offering classes so I called today and tonight is the first class. It’s for 4 Tuesdays and only costs $100. WOOT! Plus he said that there will be several other D70 users. Yeah. Can’t wait to start learning.

What do you think???

I think he could possibly be the cutest baby ever.

Tonight we celebrated a special little girl’s 2nd birthday and finally got to meet the newest member of the family. He is the sweetest baby, I couldn’t keep my hands off of him.

Here’s a picture of the birthday girl

My kids had so much fun they are planning a playover and sleepover or that’s how L put it. She is very excited to have them over to play and sleep. Okay by now you know I took a whole bunch of pictures… so here’s some more.

We went on a walk to the creek, this picture cracks me up. As someone put it, it resembles Abbey Road

She was so excited to sing Happy Birthday and to blow out her candle, so cute. In fact, her mom had to relight the candle because she blew it out before we could sing. Check out the determination in this picture

Well we had a blast and now I am going to bed because it was a busy weekend and we have a super busy day tomorrow. I can’t wait to show you our newest addition in the backyard. My mom and I went and picked it up today. So cool. Thanks to my mom for everything this past week and weekend.

It’s DONE, for the most part!!!

The backyard project is almost completed, just a few finishing touches left. It looks amazing. I have to say I am so happy with the whole project. It was completed by JT, myself, Unca Na and my mom. I would go outside every morning at 9:00 am and my mom would leave around 9:45 pm every night. Today I was excited to dress in decent clothes again, not sweat, wear makeup and do my hair. We still worked outside but we went out to dinner to celebrate.

This is what the project started out as on Sunday/Monday morning… a brand new fence around the kids play area to keep the dogs out, a new shed for bikes and some new rubber mulch.

Then my mom started talking about finding a different play structure for the kids since they were outgrowing the current one. We took my grandmother shopping at Sams on Monday afternoon after the kids had their pictures taken and we found the most awesome play stuff there for a low price so my mom bought it for L and J.

Here’s what my car looked like coming home from the store on Monday afternoon, the boxes were so big that we had to take the second row of seats out. The kids and I stayed home while my mom went and picked it up (I took the old swingset apart).

So on Monday night when JT got home from work we started building L’s playhouse or Cedar Cottage as the box said. What was funny the instructions stated it would take two “moderately” skilled people 3 hours. It took the 3 of us (one moderately skilled, my mom) 5 hours. 4 that night and 1 the next day.

The kids helped out where they could… L helped me sort the boards. They were all labeled with letters and numbers

J not so much….

The next day (Tuesday) we started building the fort. Yeah, I said fort. More like the “kid mahal” as JT has appropriately named the fort. By the end of the day we at least had a structure.

Wednesday was just a BAD day. Nothing was going right, we installed everything on the wrong side we had to un-anchor the entire structure (which was very heavy), it was just a mess but this is the day that Na joined us (THANK GOD). It was such a bad day I think I took only 4 pictures that whole day.

Thursday was much better. It was a nice, cool day and things were finally going better. Na was off of work and JT was working from home so I had a ton of help that afternoon. By the end of the day we were at least in much better shape and starting to resemble something.

Hallelujah!!! Last day, Friday. We were up against the rain coming that night, so we really wanted to be done before dark. The crow’s nest (you’ll see) took 5 hours to complete or ate least that’s what it felt like.

Here are the boys installing the swing beam

My brother installing the floor for the crows nest, he spent most of his afternoon up there. Poor guy at 6′5 it wasn’t an easy task.

Today we finished up with more mulch, rearranged the fencing, placed L’s house in a permanent position and purchased some accessories for L’s house.

The finished project.

L in front of her house

JT and J in J’s favorite place the crow’s nest with telescope (don’t worry those wires are not even close to the house for some reason they look close enough to touch in this picture).

I am sunburned, tired and sore but I am way more proud of the fact that we built this ourselves. The smiles on my kids face is worth every bit of pain and trouble we had making the fort. Wanna come over and play?

Oh and the reason I talk about it almost being done… there were a couple boards not included, they are fedexing them to me. I’ll post more pictures when the entire thing is completely done and put together, more fun stuff to come.

A Bit Crazy This Week

I have a HUGE project going on in the backyard this week. It’s likely to eat up a lot of my time. Today we started organizing and working around 4:30 pm and ended at 9:30 pm (so tired). I thought I would just tell everyone, especially those who know me, that if you are trying to get a hold of me please patient.

The co-op is coming along so far I have 11 people interested and I only need 12 to start so YEAH for that. It’s hard right now though to get that going and finish my backyard project. To much going on at this exact moment.

Don’t worry there will be pictures of the BIG project when I am done. Can’t wait to be done.

A couple things

Before I head to my dad’s today I thought I would post about the produce co-op I am starting. Mine will take place here in the St. Louis City so if you are interested please visit this link and let me know. My friend Heather did a great comparison on her blog… what she got in her box vs. what she would pay at the grocery store. You should check it out if you are interested.

Finally I did another layout I am really proud of and thought I would share because, well, where else am I going to show off my work.

I found the sketch on the Scrapbooks and Cards website.. it’s the August one. Also excited to try some of the sketches on the So Sketchy blog, thanks to my friend MaryJo for having it on her blogroll, it’s a great blog for scrappers.

One more layout

Thank you U-Verse with your unseen, brand new to my children… movies. They are both so tired from their “sleep over” last night that they are laying around watching Are We There Yet. While they were doing that I was able to finish one more layout. I used the June 2Peas sketch and I think it turned out really cute.

Finally getting back into the swing of the creative process. Now I just need more photo paper.

Finally Scrapbooking Again

It feels like it’s been forever since I scrapbooked. I missed my class submission at 2Peas for May but it’s fine, at least I still got the sketch done. I need to get a few supplies, like photo paper and adhesive, I’ve completely run out of those things. Anyway, here is my newest layout…

Like I said I used the 2Peas May sketch and I used my May 2009 kit from Paper Posies.

More random…

Just more random stuff, like you need that in your life.

I mentioned earlier that J woke us up this morning by coming into our room and sobbing. I hate to hear him like that. It breaks my heart. When JT woke up and asked him “what’s wrong buddy” (that breaks my hear too) he was crying so hard, “I peed in my bed”. Poor guy. He wears a pull-up every night and I would say 1 day out of 12 he will wake up wet, so it’s not that often. I have no idea why he leaked outside the pull-up but it was really upsetting to him and it was upsetting to me because it’s not that big of a deal. I told him that it’s okay, we’re not mad at him and accidents happen. Poor baby.

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I swore I wasn’t going to comment but I have seen many other posts where people feel the same as myself so I will say just a few things about Jon and Kate. I was upset watching the show. I knew that they were going to announce a separation but I hadn’t been on-line Monday and had no idea they were also filing for divorce. I was sad for them but it brought back so many memories of my own parents divorce. I was sad for the kids mostly and a little for Kate. Not much sympathy for Jon. It’s not all his fault, a marriage is made of two people but I just feel like he wasn’t acting like a grown-up. But it’s really not my business and that’s what’s so sad. Now would be the time to wrap the show and move on. I actually cried when they showed them getting the kids into the car via umbrellas and Jon held the umbrella over her while she got in the car. I was crying more for my family and the things that I feel like could’ve been but it all works out for the best in the end.

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Last night the kids wanted to have a sleepover in L’s room (she has a trundle) so I agreed. I thought it could be fun for them and didn’t see any harm in letting them try it. They were up till 10:30 pm talking and laughing. JT and I had to go in there four times to get them to calm down. Finally the last time JT visited her room, J had had enough. He requested to go back to his bed and L was upset. But everyone was in their own beds and asleep by 11:00 pm. So today we are staying home. I know there are meltdowns in my future and that’s fine but at least we’ll be at home.

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There is a Lutheran club here in the city that has gymnastics, aerobics, dance lessons and the best of all… a pool. So JT and I were looking into joining. Problem is, no one will call me back. I have e-mailed them, called them and left a message and nothing. Seriously. This drives me crazy more than anything else. I believe in customer service, apparently they don’t.

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I am starting a veggie co-op here in the city. It’s going to be awesome. If you live in St. Louis and you watched the Moms Like Me show last week (my friend Heather was on there, you can visit her blog and see a clip of the show) then you will know what I am talking about. I am very excited and I think I have a friend that is going to kind of help out and be my back-up. I will have more info once the co-op gets started.

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That’s all my random stuff in my head. I feel almost cleansed.