Monday, November 30, 2009

Makes My Monday

We are home!

We had a wonderful time at the desert and a great Thanksgiving dinner.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving also.

Here is a few pictures to summarize our trip to the desert.
Steve coming down a hill in the jeep.
Cody and Chase following Shane in the rhino on their "quads".
Just remembering all the things that we are Thankful for this last week and every week Makes My Monday! Check in with Cheryl too see other's Makes My Monday's!!

Magic Marker Monday

Last week at school Chase and Cody made this cute artwork. They gave it to me on Tuesday after they had their Thanksgiving party with all of their classmates. They had some yummy chicken nuggets, mash potatoes and gravy, corn, and pumpkin pie and whip cream! The lunch was a success!

Cody is thankful for...my blanket, my family, my friends and my dog Diesel!


Chase is thankful for...my mom and dad, my blanket, my friends, and my dog Diesel!


Some great artwork and I love to show it off - Here are others that are showing off their artwork...go and check it out!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Peppermint Stick Holiday Frock GROSGRAIN GIVEAWAY!!!!

Peppermint Stick Holiday Frock GROSGRAIN GIVEAWAY!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving


Thanksgiving Poems:

"Thanksgiving Feasting
When the Halloween pumpkins are gone,
And the leaves have all fallen to ground,
When the air has turned windy and cold,
Then Thanksgiving will soon be around.
Thoughts of loved ones all feasting together,
Pleasant pictures from past times appear
To dwell in each heart and each mind--
Then Thanksgiving is finally here!
The kitchen has scrumptious aromas,
The dining room looks oh, so fine,
Decorations with pilgrims and turkeys,
And now we are ready to dine!
First the napkins are placed on our laps;
Now the prayer for the meal to be blessed,
Then we stuff the good food in our tummies,
And we hope for it all to digest!
By Joanna Fuchs"
Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

To the Desert

We will be spending all weekend at the desert, including eating our Thanksgiving dinner there!!

We can't wait and look forward to these 6 days there all year!!

Hope everyone has a great week and talk to you all when we get back!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Baby Picture Sunday

This sunday's Baby Picture Sunday theme is Pretty as a Picture.

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Chase and Cody just this last October.
Any picture that they are both *kind of* looking, but still at least both facing the camera with no back shots are good enough to frame in my opinion. At this age they don't like their picture taken and I think it's just going to get worse as they get older.


Saturday, November 21, 2009

6 Word Saturday


Early Thanksgiving dinner with family today.
Everyone have a good Saturday!

Friday, November 20, 2009

Friday Foto Finish Fiesta

Since I am not working right now, I pick the boys up at noon from school. On Thursday, my grandma treated us to lunch at McDonalds.


Of course, that means the the boys can play, after they eat, on the slide. Look how happy they were. They really liked going down the blue slide. It was perfect weather and they had fun.
These picture and happy smiles finish off my week!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Christmas Agenda

Lets see what I got accomplished on my to do list this week. Anne is helping me organize my Christmas Holiday!

1.Finish purchasing all related to the thanksgiving Day (even if it is not in your house you should bring something to the place where you will meet) so buy it this week. - I am going shopping today for some food and Monday for the rest of the food.



2. Cleaning - we will have various aspects to work: A. Keep the areas completed clean and organize. B. Clean the windows at least on the inside. C. Clean the main entrance of your house (it is very unpleasant to find the front of a house dirty) and the terrace. - Completed



3. Organization: If you have not yet given away the things that were discarded before is time to donate them (we need that everything looks impeccable) - Completed



4. Begin decorating your house - already we have worked enough so is time to place our decorations and to start to feel the Christmas spirit. Do not forget to play Christmas music to get you on the mood. - This is still a Little early for me to decorate. I will start when we get back from our Thanksgiving trip!



5. Optional: But if you have some walls that you wish to change the color to give a sense of renewal, the time is now.. - No I am not a painter!!

Very, Very fun!!

I also have my Christmas cards on standby on Snapfish just have to order them which I will beginning of next week. I am working on one craft project and it's coming along quite well (towels). I have two other crafts projects in my head that I need to go and take a look at the supplies and see if I am going to do them, and get started if I am. I need to find a weekend to bake cookies and goodies in December. Still need to do some more shopping. But I think have a lot of it under control!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Way Back Wednesday

Playing along this week with Cheryl with Way back Wednesday. Click the box to play along also!



We are at the desert in this picture way back two years ago.
Chase is being held by his cousin Tyler. Look how they both have grown up in just two short years!
Chase 16 1/2 months
Tyler 11 years
November, 2007


Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Random Tuesday Thoughts

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Some of my random thoughts rolling around in my head the last couple of days.


Is there a way to rejuvenate the smelly pine cones that smell *or used too* smell like cinnamon?

I am very ready for the holiday's to get here. Ready to go and be at the desert with family and friends.
Trying to find a job is very difficult.

Two for Twos-day


The other weekend at the desert, Chase drove around Tatum in Tatum's Barbie Jeep. They are trying to find a radio station in the jeep that had country music on. Yes teh jeep has a real FM radio in it. In the desert it doesn't pick up anything but Spanish music but they love that Jeep!
Chase 3 years old
Tatum 2 years old
November, 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009

Makes My Monday

We stayed home most of the weekend, but one thing that was a highlight in our weekend was Chase and Cody singing at the church that is associated with their preschool.


That makes my Monday!!





Chase after they sang listening to the pastor.



Cody sitting on Ms. Lori's lap after singing. I couldn't see Cody that well to where I was sitting and he was standing up on stage but he seemed a little nervous or teary eyed, but once they sat down and Ms. Lori was there he was okay.


Pop and Grammy came with us to hear them sing. The preschoolers sang was quite well and the whole congression loved it with a standing ovation!


Here are the two video's of the three songs. You can see Chase in it as it's panning across the group of kids but you can't see Cody as he standing behind a tall kid :(





Muffin Tin Monday, Magic Marker Monday

A couple of my favorite things to do on Monday's are to post my Muffin Tin Meals and the boys artwork for Magic Marker!

This weeks Muffin Tin Monday's theme was: Food your Child was Thankful For!



This was Cody's lunch on Friday, everything that he was thankful for was also his favorite food! Grapes, Jalapeno chips, french fries and ketchup, string cheese and chicken.
Chase was thankful for pizza, grapes, string cheese, BBQ chips, french fries and ketchup. They each had a very favorite food which they were both very thankful for: a freshly baked M&M cookie!
This was a great time and a great theme!
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It's also time for me too brag about what the boys did over the last week in school!
Over the last week the boys letter of the week was H. Chase brought a toy horse to school and Cody his hat.
Look at these cute scarecrow men that they made. It was a pre-packaged craft that they put together. I think they turned out so cute! They actually made these a couple of weeks ago but they had been hanging up on the bulletin board for the whole school to see so I am just getting pictures of them!

Chase's is the one on top and Cody's the one on the bottom!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Baby Picture Sunday


Two boys and their dog. I took this picture of the three of them walking down our driveway going to the mailbox. It turned out very cute in a speia tone the theme for this weeks Baby Picture Sunday!

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

6 Word Saturday


Do I work or stay home?
I wish that was the question that I could really ask...It's more like where do I find a job like my last one where I was totally spoiled?
It has turned cold here now.
Maybe fall has finally arrived. Now how do I get my 3 year olds out of thier shorts and flip flops and into pants and socks and shoes?

Friday, November 13, 2009

Award, Award!!

I received from my wonderful blogging buddy, Debi, the Gorgeous Blogger Award! Go and checkout Debi's blog she is the sweetest person and has 8 kids (oops 9 kids, sorry Debi!) that are just as sweet, including twins that are super cute!

Here are the rules:
By accepting this award I am required to tell you six things about myself that you don't know and then award it to six other gorgeous bloggers.

1. I really like to do crafts and cross stitching is one of my favorites. I have completed a bunch of cross stitch pictures that I have given away to my family.

2. I am addicted to facebook games, but trying to back away a little from playing so much on the computer.

3. I get cold easily so I always have a sweatshirt with me.

4. I have a Corgi dog that is very spoiled and very overweight.

5. I like reading my horoscope and seeing what my day is going to be like.

Now 6 of the Gorgeous bloggers in my life...

Betty at a corgi in southern california
Anne at Santiago Twin Girls
Missy at Two Little Monkeys
Two for the Road
Shannon at The Jonas'
Michelle at Her Cup Overfloweth

Thank you to each of you for being such great friends!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Christmas Agenda

On my Christmas Agenda activity that I have been working on with Anne at Santiago Twin Girls this is what I should have accomplished this week...

1. Plans for the thanksgiving food (check if it will be at your house or asks what you have to bring if it is in some other place). I am preparing my list of food menu today. We go to the desert for the whole weekend from Tuesday to Sunday so I need to plan all our food and list of things for the motorhome.

2. Keep your house clean and organized (especially the areas that have been already cleaned). That is getting easier to do now that I am not working during the day.

3. Cleaning and Organization: For this week we will have various works of cleaning but, do not get discourage they are small. We will work with the closet, the refrigerator, the baths and guest room. Okay so I cleaned out the refrigerator and the bathrooms. I didn't get to the guest room, but that is a project in itself, that I would like to turn into a playroom. So that will have to wait until after Christmas. It is still usable as a guest room and nice. I have my hall closet that I started working on to organize but didn't get it quite completed, that is a work in progress! So I might have failed on some of this task! Sorry Anne - obviously I am not a good student!

4. Continue purchasing gifts and clothes for the Christmas activities. Purchased a few more gifts for people but also have been working towards the towel gifts I am doing. So we are going in the correct direction!

Can't wait for this weeks tasks to do. I love getting ready for this holiday!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Way back Wednsday

Looking through pictures of way back and playing along with Cheryl on this Wednesday.

Steve and Chase pretending to ride the motorcycle. They are actaully just sitting on it, but as I was taking the picture Chase was making motorcycle sounds!

Steve and Chase
Chase 2 1/2 years old
March, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Random Tuesday Thoughts

I have a few random thoughts today:

I am no longer employed. I was laid off due to lack of work at a job that I have been at for 8+ years.

Now what do I do with my time?

How does anyone organize your kids art stuff? Like glue, scissors, coloring books, markers... Do your kids have access to that stuff all the time whenever they want to use it? Or are they put on a high shelf that when you give it to them they can use it? Just trying to get a feel on this type of stuff and how to organize.

Sorry I haven't commented on your blogs like I normally do. I was gone this weekend and would have normally caught up on it yesterday, but I was let go yesterday and was lost so I couldn't comment. I will catch up today.

Speaking of this weekend, had a great time! Chase is feeling better, thank you for the well wishes for him.

I got a jury duty letter in the mail yesterday also...yesterday just wasn't a good day.

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Two for Tuesday

Chase is riding a real quad, while Steve is chasing after him so the bike doesn't get out of control. One of the many picture I took this last weekend. We had a great time.


Monday, November 9, 2009

Muffin Tin Monday - Magic Marker Monday


I was so excited about the Muffin Tin Monday No theme day because I did a theme myself. I am not normally this creative but I really had fun thinking of this!







Chase and Cody's letter of last week was G and their is a bunch of food that starts with that letter, so I did a G letter themed dinner!

Green beans; Gummy Bears; Grilled Cheese sandwiches, cut into letter G;


Grapes; Graham crackers with chocolate frosting; and guacamole and chips;


and Gatorade to drink.




The boys seemed to love this meal and ate enough to make me happy! They really didn't like the store bought guacamole but I was lazy to make the real stuff. Chase really liked the Graham crackers and frosting and Cody really liked the grapes!




Can't wait for the next themed meal. The boys are really getting into this type of meal!




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It's also Magic Marker Monday where I show off a art project that the boys did this last week.
They made the letter G in school and traced it with yarn. Very cute!



This week at school was the G week and for sharing at school Cody brought Grapes and Chase brought a giraffe (not a real one a figurine).

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Baby Picture Sunday

I haven't played along with Debi for a couple of weeks just because I have forgot to post something, and it seems like our weekends go by pretty fast.

So when I saw that the theme was Mother's helpers in knew that I had pictures that would fit into this category!


Chase just recently helping me mop the floors. They love this and I can't mop the floors without them helping. The job doesn't get done as good if I could do it by myself, but literally I can't touch the sweeper wet mop or the dry vacuum things without them running to "help". So I let them do it and I sit and watch!!

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

6 Word Saturday

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Starting of a great Desert Season!!
We are at the desert this weekend! Our first of many too come over the next 4-5 months!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Happy Friday

I wish the above statement was true!

I have one child (Chase) who woke up at midnight with a 99.9 fever. Medicine is bringing it down and hopefully it will break soon!

I think I might have another child (Cody) that is coming down with it also! He is very lazy and no ambition which just isn't Cody.

We are planning on going camping at the desert this weekend. So maybe dad might be going by himself!

Wish us a speedy recovery!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Christmas Agenda

Anne has me started on the right track with getting organized with my Christmas stuff! I didn't post last Thursday about my to do list and Anne had her computer go down on her, but she is back up and running (and didn't loose any of her pictures- yay!!)

So anyways, last week I needed to write down the people to buy gift for; book appointments for stuff like hair, nails; I am not hosting anything at my house this year; I cleaned and organized the kitchen and kids room. Well, not really but they are both as organized as I can have them until I want to spend more money on either one and don't want to do that right now :)

So the tasks for this week are:

1. Start searching for handicrafts that need to be done for Christmas (can include cookies)
- I have bought one project for the kids to do for presents (Handprint Santa)
- Cookies for neighbors (still need a date to do this, and the ingredients)
- Towels for gifts (still need the towels and material to do this)
- I am sure there are more gifts that I plan on doing and will continue to add to this list
-Finish calendar
- Buy the photo's and frames for pictures

2. Start getting your addresses ready for Christmas cards and selecting them.
- Took the family photo's for the Christmas card this last weekend.
- Will order Christmas cards in a couple of weeks

3. Start buying materials that you need to wrap gifts when you go to the store or the mall (like tape, gift wrapping paper, gift tags)
-I have started buy gifts everytime I go somewhere and see something that I think someone will like.
-Still need to get the tape, gift paper...that stuff is just coming into the stores this week. I will start purchasing it.

4. Organize family room and closet (or walkways or hallways)
-My family room is as organized as I can have it right now. For Christmas I am asking Santa for a bookshelf for the boys books, that will help a lot and maybe a toy box and then that will help also. For now I think it is as good as it gets. We clean up nightly and put away toys. Anything that the boys haven't played with for a while I will go through and throw away after Christmas.
-My linen closets could use some help, but again I am asking for some organzation tools from santa for this. I need some photo boxes to help in the organization of old photo's. I think for now it is good!

Chase and Cody Singing

This is a song that they have learnt at school and they sing it at home. I just captured it on tape so I can use it against them when they become professional singers!!

Presenting Chase and Cody singing The Nut Nut Song

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Random Dozen

This is my first time playing along but I have been visiting Linda's blog 2nd Cup of Coffee for a little while now and she is funny and has a great writing style.

She posts a dozen questions for her audience and you are to answer them, I thought I would play along!

1. It's early morning, about 2:00 am and you're driving home. You come to a red light and sit there. There is no one in sight for miles around. Do you wait it out or run the light?
I sit there and wait until my turn I am defiantly not one to break the law!

2. If you had the chance to re-do the last 24 hours, would you change anything?
Maybe instead of telling Cody to wait a minute while I wash dishes just sit down on the couch with him. I could wash the dishes after he went to bed, but just can't leave a kitchen messy

3. When you reply to someones comment on your blog, do you reply in your comments or go to her blog and comment?
I go to that persons blog and comment. Most of the time people don't go back and look for answers to the questions they have posted in comments.

4. Your favorite Disney movie is: Cars

5. Do you recycle? Yes, just because the trash company gave us a trash can though and it's easy to throw the recycle stuff in one and the trash in another.

6. Games of strategy or games of chance? Games of Strategy

7. Do you have any recurring dreams? No.

8. What did you learn from your first real job?
That if you work your butt off you can achieve recognition.

9. Do you buy or borrow most books? Depends on the type of book, but probably buy.

10. What fashion trend of the past did you say you'd never wear again but did?
I don't know. I am not a fashionable type person, so I am always a few years behind on clothes.

11. When do you start Christmas shopping? Already have about 3 weeks ago. Feels good!

12. Have you ever been so happy that you literally jumped up and down for a few seconds? If so, what was the occasion? I was very excited that I jumped up and down when Cody just recently pooped in the potty!

Way Back Wednesday

In honor of our first desert trip this next weekend, a picture from two years ago.



Chase in red sitting on grandpa's lap and Cody in yellow "driving". We had just recently bought the Rhino and they thought (and still do) think it's pretty fun thing to do.

Chase and Cody 16 months old

November, 2007


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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Random Tuesday Thoughts

The Un-Mom hosts this fun event.


I have the following Random thoughts:

*Today my Christmas lights are being put up on my house. Yes, I have to pay someone to put up million of little lights on the eve's of my house. I love the look of the lights and always have my whole life and my husband doesn't do that type of physical labor.

*I have most of my shredding project done. My filing cabinet is feeling a huge relief from it too. The documents that I must keep according to the IRS, is now neatly stored in my organized garage.

*I still have about 5 unfinished projects to work on.

*My boys think that they can take a bath by themselves. The other night they got in turned on the bath water and made a huge mess all while I was trying to take a shower. I have to give it to them that they didn't burn themselves on hot water or drown so they did a good job.


*I have a zoo in my car the last two days, Cody has to bring into the car every morning: a stuffed dog, a huge penguin, his blue ducky blankie and his red blankie. Chase needs to bring the stuffed bear, his huge penguin and 2 blankies. All of this travel around with me during the day and the boys are so excited to see it when they load up in the car after I pick them up.

Two for Tuesday

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I took this Friday morning. Cody just waking up and Chase had been awake for 30 minutes.


Chase started bugging Cody to get out of bed. They were playing around and just shows how much they have to be around each other and how much they miss each other when they are not around.