Mission accomplished ;)

I was a lazy girl this week! I realize it is only Wednesday but Travis is home now in effect ending any productive time I would normally have. On Monday I had Barbara and her kiddos over to play while we awaited the news that Chandra had Eli and both were doing well.

Tuesday was the Inauguration! YAY! Which I watched at the hospital while holding the sweetest baby boy ever. Good news is that holding that sweet baby boy I did not want to go home and have one of my own, I do however want to hold that one, ALOT!

Today was the laziest of them all. I hung out on the couch with my computer. Watched cartoons with Kaylee. I did do a few loads of laundry and put them away and did some minor cleaning, by that I mean dishes, picked up some toys. I did do a small craft project today as well.... Here are the photos :) I saw these in an Etsy store for $5 each mine were approx. 50 cents each!!!

Yep. They are black and red bean balls :) I need to make a couple more for my apothecary jar though

Here are our Inauguration Day Photos

Don't mind me in the photo. I look terrible and totally exhausted. I was trying to show the shirt. I suck at taking photos of myself and lets face it I am just not photogenic at all. So I gave up and just took a photo of the shirt! lol

We were all decked out for the Inauguration :) Kaylee has a red,white and blue ribbon in her hair and Mykenzie wore her USA shirt to school as well. What a fabulous day it was :)


My lovely husband brought Mykenzie's camera with him to Ohio and while there snapped some photos of the craft project I forgot to take pictures of before I put them in the mail! Yay! So below are the pictures of the photo blocks I made. You will see my kids on 2 of them and the other 2 are my 2 nephews, Neeko and Jaden and my niece Lily :) Travis told me that my MIL has them all on her mantle :) Yay! I am excited she likes them! Though the flash isn't allowing there true cuteness to shine I think they turned out quite adorable thank you very much ;)

I am done

I am totally spent. I have been busting my tail all week. I did all the decorating, painting and shopping that I mentioned in previous posts and then Saturday I did a complete overhaul of my closet. It looks so good now! It is actually functional and we don't have to step in baskets of dirty clothes in order to get to the back of the closet. I got some shoe things, a laundry organizer, brought a book shelf in from downstairs and used a rubbermaid tote to get some stuff out of there and into the attic where it needs to be. It seriously looks so much better and so freaking organized it is awesome! I would post a photo but I don't have a before so you wont get the full effect. Just know I ended up with a big box for phase 2, a bag of trash and a bag for good will. Beautiful. Because I moved the bookshelf out of my downstairs closet to upstairs I also had to rework some stuff down there and it looks so much BIGGER! Just from removing a bookshelf that honestly did not take up much room at all. Now if I could just figure out a storage solution for our games I would be extremely happy.

I managed to get about 10 badges sewn onto Mykenzie's girl scout vest. I finally found them when I cleaned out my downstairs closet Saturday. I put them in a spot that made absolute perfect sense I just forgot completely where I put them! lol don't you love when you do that!

Now I can think of a million more things to do but I think I am going to hang out and spend the next couple evenings I have alone with a good book rather than with paint and spackel. Maybe just make a list of all the millions of things I want to do around this house, big and small to see what I can do here and there. I informed Travis last night that I wanted to put wainscoting in Kaylee's room and he just rolled his eyes and gave me a whiny "why?" LOL Gotta love it :)

We had snow all day today. It looked like it was going to stick for a minute but it ended up all going. It looked so pretty coming down though. I believe if it is going to be cold I want it to snow so at least the beauty of it distracts you from the cold somewhat. I just hate cold for the sake of being cold.

Tomorrow is the big day. Ol' GW will FINALLY be out of the White House!!! Woohoo! I am thrilled to have Obama being sworn in tomorrow! I can't wait to watch it. Travis got me a coffee cup while in Baltimore last week with Obama on it, it rocks! He got himself a sweatshirt that I will certainly have on tomorrow when I walk Kaylee into her totally Republican filled school. Well I live in TN so everywhere I go will be totally Republican filled! LOL I love it! I will be going to the hospital in the morning to meet Chandra's new baby!!! She had her little miracle boy today and he is such a cutie! Congratulations to her and her family! I am so thrilled for them!

Easy, relaxing week. That is the goal. I'll let ya know how that goes as I seem to have a problem doing that when Travis is out of town. Today though, mission accomplished! lol

Take the Quiz and Share Your Results!

Who knew my house could talk? What does yours say?

Your Home Says That You Feel Settled and Calm

You don't come across as very intellectual or serious. You seem like a bit of a goofball. You have amazing hygiene, and it shows. You are sparkling clean! You are a very domestic person. You enjoy decorating, cooking, and making things homey. You are not a nurturing person by nature, but you can easily take care of someone you truly love. You feel settled in your life. You have enough time to focus on little details. You are a somewhat self sufficient person. You can do fine on your own if you have to. Your friends see you as courageous, dynamic, and bright.

What Does Your Home Say About You?

Right or Left?

I came across a website a bit ago about what side of your brain you use the most, ie left brained or right brained. I have never thought about what I am and never really cared. I guess that should tell you which I am but you'd be wrong if you went by that. I just took at least 6 tests and everyone one of the with 1 exception put me as being left brained. There is one floating around out there with a ballet dancer twirling and if you see her turning clockwise you are right brained and opposite (the last link listed). I don't think it is accurate though because I tried with all my might to see her spin counter clockwise and there is no possible way to do it!!! Take a test or two and tell me if you are right or left brained :)

http://similarminds.com/cgi-bin/brain.pl

http://www.testcafe.com/lbrb/lbrb.html

http://www.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

Brain Lateralization Test Results

Right Brain (32%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (68%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain

Are You Right or Left Brained?>
personality tests by similarminds.com

Procrastination

Main Entry:
pro·cras·ti·nate
Pronunciation:
\prə-ˈkras-tə-ˌnāt, prō-\
Function:
verb
Inflected Form(s):
pro·cras·ti·nat·ed; pro·cras·ti·nat·ing

transitive verb : to put off intentionally and habitually intransitive verb : to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done
synonyms see delay
— pro·cras·ti·na·tion \-ˌkras-tə-ˈnā-shən\ noun
— pro·cras·ti·na·tor \-ˈkras-tə-ˌnā-tər\ noun


This is the definition of me right now. I have had a long day. It has gone from 9am to 7:30 pm just running from thing to thing. Now I am home and I need to clean. I say alot I need to clean but this time I REALLY NEED to clean. I am hosting Chandra's baby shower tomorrow for her sweet miracle baby and I really can't find the motivation to clean my house! They are all tired moms too they won't mind my mess, right? LOL I will clean some I promise ;)

You have got to see this.

If you already have, I am so sorry. This was just on my tv and I had to share it. You will laugh but you will never be the same. OH MY! I have always thought this show was so so so stupid. Granted it has good messages but awful delivery. This though my friends, all I can say is WOW! Keep watching, you will want to turn it off but stick it out. My favorite part comes toward the end after the line LETS GO CRAZY! Watch it. I know you will laugh out loud. There is a link to think on the sidebar in My Favorite Links as well



Seriously it takes some balls to wear that outfit and go on tv. Holy crap! I can't wait to hear what you think of this :)
OMG I just saw what the person who put it on youtube named this video! That made me laugh at loud again. I pretty much think that sums it up.

It's alive!

I put my phone back together and it is working again! I can upgrade in March so I am glad I can wait till then so I can get a new phone cheaper than I would have to pay if I got it now. I am kinda hoping that it's little swimming adventure will have fixed the other problems I was having with it! lol

Now I am sitting here waiting for the dishwasher repair man, so hopefully soon that will be fixed as well. It works, just is leaking so even if he can't fix it today at least it isn't out of commission again.

It is so nice out today, overcast and breezy. It is beginning to seem like fall, even though we are still getting temps in the 90's. I have my mulled cider candle burning and I am in the mood to go to the pumpkin patch. Still have a little over a month for that one though.

My plan after the Dishwasher dude leaves is to see if I can get the upholstery attachment on my carpet cleaner working again so we can scrub the carpets (especially the stairs) tonight. Everything else is getting fixed today hopefully that will too :)

I changed my mind..

I have decided to make my blog private. I love that people like to read it but the more I see my site meter with places that I have never even heard of let alone know people who live there it makes me a little concerned. I realize I share alot of personal information on here and lets face it my kids are pretty cute. I prefer to keep them with me. There are alot of crazies out there! Sad but true. Plus my blog is linked from other friends blogs so who knows who is reading. Jenna has family and friends who read from time to time and I honestly have no problem with that. Anyhow the point is I will be making this blog private in about a week so if you want to continue reading please email me or respond on here with your email address and I will add you.

Sorry, cause I know it is a total PITA to log in to read a blog but at least you know it will be updated often so you wont be logging on for nothing. Let me rephrase it is still nothing, but it is NEW nothing ;)

My Scrap blog (NEW) is already private, if you want access to that one as well please let me know :)