Last years resolutions that is. I just posted my goals for 2009 yesterday but I got to thinking how many resolutions did I actually stick to for 2008? Walk with me would you....
X1. Copy all of my VHS home videos onto DVDs (we bought the DVD burner last Christmas and still haven't done it.
Well as you can see this made me list again for 2009, so nope didn't get this one done.
*2. Get all of my pictures burned to cds off the computer, and keep up with it.
This was done for the most part. I got all of the ones that needed done and kept up with it through September. Not too bad, but not complete either. Still I give myself a * for this :)
*3. Get all of my pictures organized. They are laying all over my bedroom with all my scrapbook supplies. I want them all either scrapped or in photo albums.
Score! I got this one done! Photos are organized. I am scrapped up to December 2008 so again not complete but close enough. I got 3.5 years scrapped in 1 year so once again I get a *!!
*4. Figure out a better system for my kids school papers. I am better about throwing stuff away but I still have a ton. My current folder situation is not working anymore.
Check! This one is complete and I am still happy with my system!
*5. Overall get my house more organized. I have alot of things done already but it takes me no time to junk it up again and then I have to do it again. I have to do Kaylee's closet (the keeper of all the clothes that don't fit) every 3 months.
I guess this is accomplished. Truthfully I am not that unorganized. What I wanted to do with this was mainly the girls rooms and that is done!
X6. Keeping with the picture/video theme, I want to get more of Kaylee on video. I have truly sucked with it. I probably have at least 1000 hours of Mykenzie and I probably have 10 of Kaylee. It is really really sad. More photos too. But of both girls. I seem to only take pics when it is a special occasion anymore I need some more candid shots.
Nope. Did not do this. Now I am glad cause my video camera is broken and they would have been stuck on tape. Now I don't have a video camera so I wont be able to do this in 2009 either. I did get Kaylee on video with my camera the other day singing a Pink song, scroll down to watch :)
X*7. Learn how to work my sewing machine. I am going to go pick out a seemingly simple pattern and learn how to make something with my sewing machine. I seriously have had that thing for long enough, it is time to blow the dust off of it and learn how to use it. I have 3 pairs of pants that need hemmed and one that needs a zipper replaced and I would love if I could do it myself. Don't worry I am not going to try, I will pay someone for that. I am gonna start small people!
I did learn how to thread my sewing machine and I used it to stitch on a scrapbook page :) I didn't get a pattern though and actually make anything. What about the pants that needed hemmed and the zipper fixed you ask? Yep they are still in my closet. I am one step closer though, I found someone to do it. Now I just have to make the call.
What have I learned? Just because I make it a resolution doesn't mean I will actually do it or even think about doing it. Maybe just maybe I will be able to accomplish what I want to in 2009. Only time will tell I suppose
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Well, at least they look like girls
Both of my GIRLS today had some bizarre things come out of their mouths today. First would be Mykenzie as she is riding Kaylee's new bike through my downstairs and then turning the wheel real fast so that it skids across the floor to a stop (yes she was told to stop doing that to my floor). Then she says "Wow! Mom you should have just seen me I was just totally smoking the blades"
What? I.Don't.Know.
Then they are both upstairs doing who knows what when I hear Kaylee say "Stop! Wait, I gotta put my muscles on."
Really? Girls?
This has nothing to do with them being boys on the inside but it is something funny that Kaylee said a few minutes ago. She made a small nativity scene for us for Christmas it is Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. She is holding Joseph and says "What is name again mom?" I answer and she says "And we call him the good chef right?"
Comic relief for sure
What? I.Don't.Know.
Then they are both upstairs doing who knows what when I hear Kaylee say "Stop! Wait, I gotta put my muscles on."
Really? Girls?
This has nothing to do with them being boys on the inside but it is something funny that Kaylee said a few minutes ago. She made a small nativity scene for us for Christmas it is Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. She is holding Joseph and says "What is name again mom?" I answer and she says "And we call him the good chef right?"
Comic relief for sure
Ending 2008
2008 is almost over. What a year it has been. Nothing significant has happened in my house. We have had a pretty mellow year as far as things go. For awhile it seemed like we had something big going on every year, a move, a baby or something. This year we celebrated our children getting a year older and dreaded ourselves aging. We had several appliance malfunctions and drama that ensued with those. We got our leaky roof fixed and added some decorative details to our home. We took a trip to Ohio and one to Virgina, both to visit family. Though they were both very different they were both special. We made permanent decisions for our family and we purchased an investment property in Ohio. We celebrated the fact that we will start our new year with a new president that we believe will be a blessing for our country. We just enjoyed our lives and we are thankful for 2008 and all that it has brought us.
I am ending my year with the love different forms of art. I have found a love for crafting. I wish I could come up with ideas on my own but I am holding out hope that it will come in time. For now I enjoy seeing others ideas and trying to replicate them. I am getting back to books. I have missed them and have read few this past year, some but not many especially in comparison. Most recently the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. I never in my life would have thought that stories of vampires would interest me in any way but thought I'd read the first book to see what all the hype was about. I was instantly hooked and blew through the series in a week. My house was a wreck but it was worth it. Once you start you can't put them down and you literally get mad when you have to because of life and obligations. I made it to see the movie this weekend and I really liked it. Happy that it stayed pretty true to the book, however the book always wins out in the end. I actually came home after watching the movie and re-read the book :) Now I will be anxiously awaiting a new book. I am also currently in love with Mama Mia! I love the movie and the music was the first thing I put on my Ipod. I am getting ready to start a new book series and Lord help me, I hear it rivals Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. I will be the judge of that because I love me some Stephanie Plum :) Speaking of, I am hoping (fingers crossed) that on Jan. 7th I will be able to make it to Nashville to go to a Janet Evanovich book signing. That is also the day Mykenzie gets her braces so I am not sure if I will be able to get there in time but I plan to try anyhow.
Now for the resolutions......
* Continue scrapbooking and get caught up. I am only a year behind now so hopefully this is easily accomplished.
* Find a way to get my mini tapes from my video camera transferred to DVD. This will be harder since the video camera is toast, hoping to find someone that has one with the same tapes that I can borrow.
* Get my house stuff finished. We put crown and picture frame molding up but never finished it, so the nail holes need filled and it needs painted. I would love to add crown to a few more rooms as well
* While doing the above, I want to get all the trim in my house repainted, it needs it, badly.
* Find lots of extra time to read and craft... wish me luck since as far as I know the government has not extended the hours in a day.
* Work out. I need to get my body in shape. Losing my extra ass fat would be lovely but really I would be happy to not wake up and feel 65 because my muscles are so tight and to not be winded walking up the stairs.
* Christmas shop all year long. Well shop and craft. I would love to be done before the season even starts at least for people outside of my house.
* Pay off some debt. This one is tricky and is going to take some restraint. We will see
* Take a vacation with my mom and my sister. Just the 3 of us. Trying to work out the details.
* Enjoy family time, life and my friendships.
* Get my girl scouts to earn at least 10 try its by the end of the year (would like more though). Well they already earned 1 but I want 10 in addition to that one :) Wish me luck, this will be tough.
Here's hoping for a fabulous 2009!
I am ending my year with the love different forms of art. I have found a love for crafting. I wish I could come up with ideas on my own but I am holding out hope that it will come in time. For now I enjoy seeing others ideas and trying to replicate them. I am getting back to books. I have missed them and have read few this past year, some but not many especially in comparison. Most recently the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. I never in my life would have thought that stories of vampires would interest me in any way but thought I'd read the first book to see what all the hype was about. I was instantly hooked and blew through the series in a week. My house was a wreck but it was worth it. Once you start you can't put them down and you literally get mad when you have to because of life and obligations. I made it to see the movie this weekend and I really liked it. Happy that it stayed pretty true to the book, however the book always wins out in the end. I actually came home after watching the movie and re-read the book :) Now I will be anxiously awaiting a new book. I am also currently in love with Mama Mia! I love the movie and the music was the first thing I put on my Ipod. I am getting ready to start a new book series and Lord help me, I hear it rivals Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. I will be the judge of that because I love me some Stephanie Plum :) Speaking of, I am hoping (fingers crossed) that on Jan. 7th I will be able to make it to Nashville to go to a Janet Evanovich book signing. That is also the day Mykenzie gets her braces so I am not sure if I will be able to get there in time but I plan to try anyhow.
Now for the resolutions......
* Continue scrapbooking and get caught up. I am only a year behind now so hopefully this is easily accomplished.
* Find a way to get my mini tapes from my video camera transferred to DVD. This will be harder since the video camera is toast, hoping to find someone that has one with the same tapes that I can borrow.
* Get my house stuff finished. We put crown and picture frame molding up but never finished it, so the nail holes need filled and it needs painted. I would love to add crown to a few more rooms as well
* While doing the above, I want to get all the trim in my house repainted, it needs it, badly.
* Find lots of extra time to read and craft... wish me luck since as far as I know the government has not extended the hours in a day.
* Work out. I need to get my body in shape. Losing my extra ass fat would be lovely but really I would be happy to not wake up and feel 65 because my muscles are so tight and to not be winded walking up the stairs.
* Christmas shop all year long. Well shop and craft. I would love to be done before the season even starts at least for people outside of my house.
* Pay off some debt. This one is tricky and is going to take some restraint. We will see
* Take a vacation with my mom and my sister. Just the 3 of us. Trying to work out the details.
* Enjoy family time, life and my friendships.
* Get my girl scouts to earn at least 10 try its by the end of the year (would like more though). Well they already earned 1 but I want 10 in addition to that one :) Wish me luck, this will be tough.
Here's hoping for a fabulous 2009!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Christmas Crafts 2008
This is like the 100th post in the past 3 days! Not really but it sure as heck feels like it. Anyhow,
Here they are! Now that Christmas is over I can post the things I made. Some aren't that cute but the idea behind them was. The red gingham chalkboard, I promise it matches the my step mom's kitchen ;) The cutest things I made I am a moron and didn't take pictures of. I plan to make one for myself so hopefully I get it done soon. Otherwise I may be sending my camera to Ohio with Travis in a couple of weeks and make him take a picture of the ones I sent his mom. The notebooks with the post it note holders also had clip boards that went with the gift for the girls teachers (there was another set as well) but once again... no photos of that either. Oh well. The black tray is meant to set up on a plate holder and be used as a message board. I think the others are self explanatory.
Santa Made It!
My children were out of bed at 5:30AM Christmas morning! That is very early. Oh goodness that is early. We had a few snafus, like my video camera wont work, but mostly everything went great. The girls all loved their gifts! Mykenzie got a Nintendo DS, a digital camera, a few DS games, a few Wii games, some board games and a bunch of littlest pet shop toys. Kaylee basically got My Little Pony everything, ponies, playsets, coloring pages, toothbrush, movies ect... all My Little Pony. She did get a Tinkerbell bike though. Her BIG gift was the Fur Real Pony! We got a GREAT deal on it and paid no where near the typical $300 price tag! Kaylee loves it and Mykenize has enjoyed it as well. The weight limit is 80 pounds so she can sit on it and "ride" her too, well unless Kaylee pushes her off, which has only happened once so far. lol
Travis got me the 8GB Ipod Nano in blue :) Mykenzie got the Ipod shuffle from her uncle and it is blue also so she thinks its cool that ours match. I also got a couple of shirts, some cute socks, the tape thingy to play the Ipod in my car and the perfume I have been wanting for a couple of years. From other people I picked up some cash, a couple gift cards and some new towels.
Kaylee made us a plate and a little nativity at school. Mykenzie made some gingerbread ornaments, and some sun catchers for us at her school. They are all very cute :)
Christmas Eve we did make it to see Santa as you can see by the photo below. We made some chocolate carmel cookies (so yummy!!) and we attempted to make our gingerbread house. While mixing the icing for it the motor in my mixer burnt out, smoke and all. So I couldn't finish mixing it and the icing was like putty. We tried to still put it together but it was just not happening so we ended up just pitching it. I am thinking this is our last attempt, at least for a while, at making a gingerbread house. It is not worth it. The kids just want to eat the candy anyhow. We opened gifts from other people too. I have photos below of the girls with everything they got except for the stuff from my dad. It was the first thing they opened so I guess I just didn't get ready in time? Who knows. Trust me I really wish I had a picture.
So now what? lol Now Christmas is over. All the prep for one day and then just like that it is over. Travis took all the outside lights down today. I only kinda want to take down my inside stuff. I really enjoy having it out and looking at it but I have some switch in me that is like the minute Christmas is done I am ready for spring. I know it doesn't work like that but my brain goes there. It isn't even the new year yet! lol
Speaking of the new year, time to start thinking of resolutions. Hmm. I have a couple in mind. One of the ones I made last year I didn't do. It was to get all of my VHS home movies and all the video camera mini tapes all burned to cd. It didn't happen. Now my stupid video camera is BROKE and I don't know how I am going to get the footage from my mini tapes onto DVD :( Everything since Kaylee was born is on the mini tapes! If anyone has a video camera that takes the mini tapes, smaller than a cassette tape but just about as skinny (Mini DV, DVM60) that I could borrow so I can burn the stuff to DVD I would love you forever! I don't know how many other resolutions I broke last year but I plan to go back and look what I had planned. That is for another post.
I hope that all my friends and family had a wonderful Christmas! May it continue into the new year!! I love you all!
Travis got me the 8GB Ipod Nano in blue :) Mykenzie got the Ipod shuffle from her uncle and it is blue also so she thinks its cool that ours match. I also got a couple of shirts, some cute socks, the tape thingy to play the Ipod in my car and the perfume I have been wanting for a couple of years. From other people I picked up some cash, a couple gift cards and some new towels.
Kaylee made us a plate and a little nativity at school. Mykenzie made some gingerbread ornaments, and some sun catchers for us at her school. They are all very cute :)
Christmas Eve we did make it to see Santa as you can see by the photo below. We made some chocolate carmel cookies (so yummy!!) and we attempted to make our gingerbread house. While mixing the icing for it the motor in my mixer burnt out, smoke and all. So I couldn't finish mixing it and the icing was like putty. We tried to still put it together but it was just not happening so we ended up just pitching it. I am thinking this is our last attempt, at least for a while, at making a gingerbread house. It is not worth it. The kids just want to eat the candy anyhow. We opened gifts from other people too. I have photos below of the girls with everything they got except for the stuff from my dad. It was the first thing they opened so I guess I just didn't get ready in time? Who knows. Trust me I really wish I had a picture.
So now what? lol Now Christmas is over. All the prep for one day and then just like that it is over. Travis took all the outside lights down today. I only kinda want to take down my inside stuff. I really enjoy having it out and looking at it but I have some switch in me that is like the minute Christmas is done I am ready for spring. I know it doesn't work like that but my brain goes there. It isn't even the new year yet! lol
Speaking of the new year, time to start thinking of resolutions. Hmm. I have a couple in mind. One of the ones I made last year I didn't do. It was to get all of my VHS home movies and all the video camera mini tapes all burned to cd. It didn't happen. Now my stupid video camera is BROKE and I don't know how I am going to get the footage from my mini tapes onto DVD :( Everything since Kaylee was born is on the mini tapes! If anyone has a video camera that takes the mini tapes, smaller than a cassette tape but just about as skinny (Mini DV, DVM60) that I could borrow so I can burn the stuff to DVD I would love you forever! I don't know how many other resolutions I broke last year but I plan to go back and look what I had planned. That is for another post.
I hope that all my friends and family had a wonderful Christmas! May it continue into the new year!! I love you all!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Happy Early Christmas to me!
I guess it was meant to be a joke, but Mother Nature gave me an early Christmas gift today. My first grey hair. I am 28, shouldn't I have have a couple of years before I get these? I pulled that bad boy out and am crossing my fingers that it was just a fluke and I am not yet really going grey. I. Am. Old.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Merry Eve of Christmas Eve!
Yes I really just said that! I got out today, courtesy of Chandra, without the girls and got all the gifts that family sent money for. They still each have some money left over to get what they want with and they will also still have a gift card from their Grandma to spend after Christmas. Mykenzie is seriously getting about everything I could imagine this year. I have no idea what I will ever buy her again until she starts asking for clothes, I can't wait for those days for her. Kaylee will have an even longer line of My Little Pony's lined up through my house (she lines them all up like they are in a parade or something) and I think they are going to be quite happy this Christmas. Just wait till you see what they get! I am so excited I can't stand it!
I was going to go ahead and post the pics of the crafts I made for family members. I am so mad at myself and I didn't take a photo of the cutest thing I made! GRRR! I was thinking about making one for myself so I guess I will be for sure now so I can post it. So now I am waiting even longer to post them. Maybe I will whip one up tomorrow. Not sure how much free time I will have.
I totally suck and didn't take my kids to see Santa this year. How pathetic is that? Mykenzie saw Santa at my Mom's group Christmas party but Kaylee didn't go because she had a birthday party at the same time. She would be the one I would really want to go :( We may have to make the trek out to the mall and see the jolly ol' elf tomorrow.... on Christmas Eve. That does NOT sound fun. Travis thought he was going to have the day off and it turns out he has to work a half day so we could go do it in the morning while he is at work. We shall see how the morning goes.
Merry Eve of Christmas Eve!! 2 days left everyone!
I was going to go ahead and post the pics of the crafts I made for family members. I am so mad at myself and I didn't take a photo of the cutest thing I made! GRRR! I was thinking about making one for myself so I guess I will be for sure now so I can post it. So now I am waiting even longer to post them. Maybe I will whip one up tomorrow. Not sure how much free time I will have.
I totally suck and didn't take my kids to see Santa this year. How pathetic is that? Mykenzie saw Santa at my Mom's group Christmas party but Kaylee didn't go because she had a birthday party at the same time. She would be the one I would really want to go :( We may have to make the trek out to the mall and see the jolly ol' elf tomorrow.... on Christmas Eve. That does NOT sound fun. Travis thought he was going to have the day off and it turns out he has to work a half day so we could go do it in the morning while he is at work. We shall see how the morning goes.
Merry Eve of Christmas Eve!! 2 days left everyone!